Correspondence with R.A. Tweedie : Jan. 1958. 1957 Nov. 7 - 1958 Jan. 31 (predominant 1958 Jan.)

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Correspondence with R.A. Tweedie : Jan. 1958. 1957 Nov. 7 - 1958 Jan. 31 (predominant 1958 Jan.)

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Topics include: a record player sent as a gift to VanBuskirks in Fredericton; Beaverbrook Foundation financial accounts; Beaverbrook Art Gallery (stone shipment delays, extra insulation needed, paintings available for purchase, Maritime Art Exhibition plans, furnishings); battle honours for the Royal New Brunswick Regiment; teachers' scholarship candidates discussed (Judith Buzzell is proposed by Tweedie as a candidate for curatorship of the gallery after her application for a scholarship was unsuccessful); a letter to W. Max Aitken regarding a deed sent to him covering a piece of land purchased by Lord Beaverbrook in Northumberland County; R.J. Love's letter regarding Wayne Nightingale's request for an extension of his scholarship at UNB.

Correspondence : 83 (94 leaves)Photographs : 1 : b&w.

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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