[Correspondence with Robert A.] Tweedie : 1960. 1960 Feb. 29 - Oct. 17.

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[Correspondence with Robert A.] Tweedie : 1960. 1960 Feb. 29 - Oct. 17.

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Letters, notes and memos relating to a variety of matters. Subjects discussed include: a request by the Board of School Trustees (Campbellton, N.B.) to name the new elementary school after Lord Beaverbrook and for a photograph of Beaverbrook to be hung in the school; confusion surrounding R.A. Tweedie's resignation as Beaverbrook Art Gallery secretary and the appointment of Miss Helen Savage to the position; rumours that Beaverbrook is to obtain an Epstein; response to gallery advertising on Dali's "Santiago El Grande"; the awarding and payment of scholarships (including the new Geology scholarships at UNB) from the Sir James Dunn Foundation; the UNB nursing programme; retired Presbyterian minister's pesion fund payments and the possibility of charging UNB and other agencies for use of the Lady Beaverbrook Rink. The file also contains a sketch of a couch owned by Rev. William Henderson and accountings of various trust funds managed by Tweedie.

Correspondence : 37 (40 leaves)Technical drawings : 1 : 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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R.A. Tweedie acted variously as Agent for Lord Beaverbrook, Secretary of the Beaverbrook Foundations, Secretary to the Board of Governors of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and Director of the New Brunswick Travel Bureau. All letters are interfiled chronologically, regardless of the capacity in which Tweedie was corresponding. In late 1959, early 1960 Tweedie also became secretary of the Sir James Dunn Foundation. Letters written in this capacity are interfiled with other correspondence. ...

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