Correspondence with Miss Louise Manny : 1950. 1950 June 9 - Dec. 24.

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Correspondence with Miss Louise Manny : 1950. 1950 June 9 - Dec. 24.

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Letters and memos relating to: the proposed purchase of Beaubair's Island from James O'Brien in connection with the Wilson's Point project; The Enclosure and arboretum; Mrs. Harrison's pension; the Sinclair rink; construction of a monument for the Square (Newcastle); efforts to collect folk-songs, in particular, the "Miramichi Fire," "Hailstorm, Black Tom," Sandy Grattan's "Banks of Mullen Stream," and Joe Smith's "Winter on the Renous"; interest shown by CBC singers in the Miramichi folksongs programmes recorded by Manny and Helen Creighton for the CBC; Manny's local radio programme and her broadcast of "Scenes from an Earlier Day"; the request of financial support for Francis Chaplin, concert violinist and former Mount Allison University student and the rumor that a statue of Beaverbrook was to be erected at Newcastle. The file also contains Manny's sketches of her proposed sight of the Newcastle monument.

Correspondence : 16 (20 leaves)Technical drawings : 2 : sketches.

University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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