Canada, Individual, R.A. Tweedie : Correspondence with Lord Beaverbrook regarding various New Brunswick projects, Nov. 1953. 1952 July 24 - 1953 Nov. 30; (predominant 1953 Nov.)

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Canada, Individual, R.A. Tweedie : Correspondence with Lord Beaverbrook regarding various New Brunswick projects, Nov. 1953. 1952 July 24 - 1953 Nov. 30; (predominant 1953 Nov.)

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Letters, soundscribers concerning: Newcastle Town Hall furnishings; an inspection of St. Thomas University facilities; Miss Gandy's termination of employment at the Old Manse Library; gifts to the Miramichi Hospital; budgets and staff salaries in N.B. libraries; a floor for the Sinclair Rink in Newcastle; the monument at Newcastle Town Square; old N.B. photographs; Beaverbrook's predictions that the Saint John Law School "cannot be launched on a big career" {23182}; Beaverbrook scholarships, amounts, selection committees, conditions of scholarships.

Correspondence : 94 (112 leaves)

University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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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. ...