Letter : Ottawa [Ont.], 56 rue Albert, to Mademoiselle [Agnes C. Laut?], 1903 March 5.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Moreau de Saint-Méry, M. L. E. (Médéric Louis Elie), 1750-1819.

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Sulte, Benjamin, 1841-1923

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Dionne, N.-E. (Narcisse-Eutrope), 1848-1917

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Historian and bibliographer. A major contributor to Canadian historical literature, N.-E. Dionne published his study on Jacques Cartier in 1889. He is also known for his Inventaire chronologique (1905-1909), a bibliography of works published in and about the province of Québec. From the description of Letter : Quebec, [Que.], to Justin Winsor, Harvard College, Cambridge, [Mass.], 1889 Nov. 9. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 36836495 ...

Marmette, Joseph, 1844-1895

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Laut, Agnes C., 1871-1936

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Agnes Laut was a Canadian born author and journalist who contributed to Canadian, American, and English magazines and periodicals, primarily writing about the outdoors. She died in New York. From the guide to the Agnes C. Laut letter to her publisher, March 16, 1911, (Ohio University) Agnes Laut was a journalist and a prolific writer of popular histories of Canada and the U.S. She was born in Stanley, Ont. and died in Wassaic, N.Y., having lived much of her life in the U.S. ...

Richard, Édouard 1844-1904

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Canadian lawyer, politician, businessman, and historian. When poor health kept him from pursuing his legal and political careers, Richard, a great-grandson of Acadian exiles, devoted himself to the study of Acadian history, and in 1895 published "Acadia, missing links of a lost chapter in American history," in which he studies the deportation of the Acadians, and criticizes the views of the historian Parkman and the archivist Akins. In 1896, he replaced Joseph Marmette a...