Canada, Individual, R.A. Tweedie : Correspondence with Lord Beaverbrook regarding various New Brunswick projects, May 1953. 1950 July 18 - 1953 May 30; (predominant 1953 May)

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Canada, Individual, R.A. Tweedie : Correspondence with Lord Beaverbrook regarding various New Brunswick projects, May 1953. 1950 July 18 - 1953 May 30; (predominant 1953 May)

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Topics include: expense accounts, furniture, barn at Old Manse Library; list of negatives of old New Brunswick photographs acquired by Tweedie; payment of 10,000 dollars to Northumberland Cooperative Company; architects' fees for Sinclair Rink and Newcastle Town Hall; site for skating rink in Fredericton; the conception of the road which became Beaverbrook St. in Fredericton; tax rebates; Saint John Law School furniture. Also included is a private letter expressing Tweedie's objection to Petrie as UNB's new president following Trueman's resignation {22627}

Correspondence : 107 (125 leaves)

University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7183519

University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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Louise Manny, 1890-1970, provided Beaverbrook's ongoing contact with his native Newcastle. Their correspondence spans from 1946 to his death in 1964. Beaverbrook supported her in her historical research on the Miramichi, her folk song collecting, and her work in the development of the historic burial ground at Wilson's (Beaubair's) Point into a park named The Enclosure. In the early 1950s he appointed her in charge of the Old Manse Library, his boyhood home, where she continued until her death. ...

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R.A. Tweedie acted variously as Agent for Lord Beaverbrook, Secretary of the Beaverbrook Foundations, Secretary to the Board of Governors of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and Director of the New Brunswick Travel Bureau. All letters are interfiled chronologically, regardless of the capacity in which Tweedie was corresponding. In late 1959, early 1960 Tweedie also became secretary of the Sir James Dunn Foundation. Letters written in this capacity are interfiled with other correspondence. ...

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