Correspondence with Michael Wardell : January - June 1952. 1952 Jan. 28 - July 15.

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Correspondence with Michael Wardell : January - June 1952. 1952 Jan. 28 - July 15.

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Letters, photographs, soundscriber tapes and telegrams about Roy Thompson, his papers, interest in The Gleaner and his advice; Jack Cooke buying a baseball team; information to be gathered by Francis Gammon for background on Beaverbrook's early life; cataloguing and preparing a catalogue of the UNB library holdings; renting the Waterloo Road house; obtaining housing for Gleaner employees; trust funds for Wardell's sons Timothy and Maxwell; Wardell as executor of Beaverbrook's Canadian will; the nature of the loan to Wardell; the pleasures of yachting on Saint John River and its tributaries; financial dealings with the financier Ben Smith; a Beaverbrook scholar's thanks; Amalgamated Press; and shipping of birthday fiddleheads rather than a birthday salmon.

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University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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