Canada, Individual, R.A. Tweedie : Correspondence with Lord Beaverbrook regarding various New Brunswick projects, June 1953. 1951 Aug. 1 - 1953 June 30; (predominant 1953 June)

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Canada, Individual, R.A. Tweedie : Correspondence with Lord Beaverbrook regarding various New Brunswick projects, June 1953. 1951 Aug. 1 - 1953 June 30; (predominant 1953 June)

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Topics include: path, steps and extra cataloguer for Old Manse Library; the property title for the Newcastle Town Hall remaining with the town rather than being handed over to Lord Beaverbrook; final preparations for opening the Saint John Law School; Beaverbrook's interest in purchasing an old bible formerly owned by Henry Cunard; teachers' scholarships; a newspaper appeal for Old New Brunswick photographic negatives.

Correspondence : 48 (58 leaves)

University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7183520

University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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Old Manse Library (Newcastle, N.B.)

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Stewart, Neil M. (Neil McMartin), 1902-1972.

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Newcastle Town Hall & Theatre.

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Manny, Louise

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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. ...

Palmer, D. M., Mrs.

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Lynch, M. L. (Mary Louise), 1909-

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Tweedie, Robert A. (Robert Allison), 1908-

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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. ...

Garnet W. Wilson, Architect.

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Davidson, W. Harold (William Harold), d.1958.

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Roy, P. E. (Perley E.)

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