Correspondence with Michael Wardell : July-Dec. 1959. 1959 July 9 - Dec. 7.

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Correspondence with Michael Wardell : July-Dec. 1959. 1959 July 9 - Dec. 7.

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Correspondence concerning: New Brunswick Fishermen's Disaster Fund; Beaverbrook's account of his "unhappy relations" with the queen; Leonard O'Brien's mill burned; proposed Chignecto Canal map; election results in Newfoundland; Smallwood's request that Diefenbaker amend the Newfoundland Act {80186}; reactions to Beaverbrook's article in Atlantic Advocate entitled "How to deal with Americans"; the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (the catalogue; the official opening; Lady Dunn's statement that certain paintings were on loan during Beaverbrook's lifetime only, Wardell's later statement that they are the property of the Gallery {80140, 10163}); Atlantic Advocate article on the painting "Santiago el Grande" by Salvador Dali; Beaverbrook's suggestions for future programs and "Friends of the Beaverbrook Gallery"; prizes for Maritime Artists Exhibition; Wardell's views that Edwy Cooke is unsuited to be curator of the Gallery {80170, 80179-80}; (CONTINUES). (CONTINUED) Wardell's suggestion that Lady Dunn is competing with Lord Beaverbrook by introducing scholarships and an art gallery in Halifax {80185, 80200}

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University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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