Correspondence with Miss Louise Manny : 1953. 1953 Jan. 2 - Mar. 21.

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Correspondence with Miss Louise Manny : 1953. 1953 Jan. 2 - Mar. 21.

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Letters, primarily related to the refurbishing of the Old Manse Library and preparations made for its opening. The file contains progress reports regarding the cataloguing and shelving of books and records also the selection of books, furnishings, equipment and supplies and the expenses incurred respecting the project. Also discussed is the Newcastle election of 1953 which saw Perley E. Roy elected Mayor and all Catholic candidates defeated. At Lord Beaverbrook's request, Manny visits Stanley Treadwell, a patient in the Newcastle hospital; she comments on the death of Theodore Roberts; on her appearance on a Saint John radio programme (folk-songs) and on the visit of Professor Brian Elliot of Australia and his interest in Miramichi folk-songs.

Correspondence : 37 (49 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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Old Manse Library (Newcastle, N.B.)

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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. ...