Letters, memos and telegrams relating to a variety of UNB affairs: Lord Beaverbrook's gift of Sommerville House (Fredericton, N.B.) for a women's residence; the UNB Building Fund Campaign with K.C. Irving acting as Honorary Chairman; proposed amendments to the UNB Act and related comments; the origins and stipulations for the awarding of the Douglas Gold Medal; the suggested hiring of Alex Colville and Stuart Trueman; the establishment of a music faculty; the proposed visiting professor's programme; U.N.B. graduate, D.G.R. Hewitt's desire to present three volumes of lumbering ballads to the library; the relocation of the Saint John Law School to Fredericton and related problems and the gift of convocation robes to Beaverbrook. (CONTINUES). (CONTINUED) The file contains reporting letters on other routine university matters as well as Beaverbrook's response to them; an invitation to the President's Dinner (May, 1959) and the background note on the pageant, "Soldiers of the Queen" performed May 1959. In addition there is discussion of the construction and opening of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and of a plan to establish a John Bassett Scholarship at Bishop's University.
