Letters, soundscribers, telegrams, lists, invoice and memos discussing: acquisition and shipment of paintings to UNB; care and handling of works stored at the library; Augustus John's "Head of a Young Lady" or "Irish Girl"; Joseph Hirshhorn's gift of three paintings; books acquired for the art gallery collection; acquisition of books and manuscripts for the Beaverbrook and recreational reading collections; preparation of a card index to the Beaverbrook Collection; acqusition of missing volumes of "Annual Registers" and Beaverbrook's claim that UNB "... got the most nearly complete record of the Annual Register of any university in Canada or the U.S.A."; purchase of works and manuscripts relating to Maritime and Canadian history for the proposed archives; additions to Law School library from J.H. Critchley; shipment of books and tape recordings and gramophone records of Beaverbrook's speeches to UNB; (CONTINUES). (CONTINUED) Kipling Collection at UNB and Dalhousie University; works on Lord Durham; acquisition of autographed Churchill editions; humidity and temperature control at the Bonar Law Bennett Library; Beaverbrook's request for a copy of a letter written by his grandfather, Robert Aitken dated 1874 and biographical sketch of J. Long. The file contains lists of paintings in Beaverbrook's collection (1957), of monograph and manuscripts for an archives (1958), of speeches made by Beaverbrook and a catalogue of the papers of Louis Antoine de Bougainville on early Canadian history. Mention is made of Mrs. Eaton's gift of the Sutherland portrait of herself to Lord Beaverbrook.
