Correspondence with Michael Wardell : Feb.-Apr. 1960.

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Correspondence with Michael Wardell : Feb.-Apr. 1960.

Correspondence concerning: the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (visit from students of College Notre-Dame d'Acadie; Tom Forrestall's dismissal due to his "illness" and Wardell's intention to set him up as an artist; Board of Governors vacancies; Daily Gleaner report of students' tours of the gallery; Beaverbrook's wish to see Claude Roussel eventually take over much more responsibility at the gallery); construction of the rink at Saint John; Stuart Trueman, Cherry and Forbes Elliot considered to replace Tweedie as secretary of the art gallery and secretary of the Beaverbrook scholarship selection committee; Chignecto Canal and the K.C. Irving Empire; Ralph P. Bell's comments to The Chronicle Herald (Halifax) in support of K.C. Irving and Michael Wardell; a statue of Lord Beaverbrook for Newcastle (Apap, Alan Jarvis and Claude P. Roussel are considered as sculptors).

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