Canada, Individual, R.A. Tweedie : Correspondence with Lord Beaverbrook regarding various New Brunswick projects, December 1954. 1954 Dec. 2 - Dec. 31.

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Canada, Individual, R.A. Tweedie : Correspondence with Lord Beaverbrook regarding various New Brunswick projects, December 1954. 1954 Dec. 2 - Dec. 31.

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Letters, soundscribers, telegrams, newspaper clippings regarding: proposed new Art Centre to house "the brilliant collection of the foremost pictures of the 20th century"; the Exhibition of the Beaverbrook Collection at the Bonar Law-Bennett Library; a steeple and organ for St. John's Presbyterian Church in Tabusintac; the retired Presbyterian ministers' pension fund; the question of storage, use and indexing of the collection of Old New Brunswick photographs when the idea of an illustrated book on N.B. history is abondoned; new steps and display case for the Old Manse Library; a draft of the application form for the Beaverbrook Scholarships in Law; selection committee members for the Beaverbrook Overseas Scholarships.

Correspondence : 53 (60 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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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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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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