Correspondence with Miss Louise Manny : 1949. 1949 Oct. 28 - Nov. 19.

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Correspondence with Miss Louise Manny : 1949. 1949 Oct. 28 - Nov. 19.

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Letters, telegrams and memos regarding: preparations for the Enclosure, Forest, and Arboretum; inscription for the brass plate to be displayed at the Arboretum/Enclosure; Father Dixon Centre; choice of site for a Girl Guides and Boy Scouts campground; the refurbishing of the Houlston property; the Walters place and Wilson's Point property; collection of folk songs; records for the Old Manse Library and Manny's programme of song on the local radio station. There is also some discussion of a memorial to be erected at the graveyard to great men who made the Miramichi, in particular, Edward Sinclair, Peter Mitchell and Edward Hutchison. The file contains biographical material written by Manny on Miramichi residents Peter Mitchell, Ernest Hutchison, Alexander Rankin, Bishop Rogers, James A. Pierce and John Harkins among others.

Correspondence : 13 (14 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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Manny, Louise

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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. ...