Ernest Fewster fonds. 1910-1940.

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Ernest Fewster fonds. 1910-1940.

The fonds consists of eleven manuscripts of poetry and two prose manuscripts. Of the poetry, Lilith is unbound and Sons of the Sun is handwritten. The two prose manuscripts are My Dream Garden and Twilight Stories.

26 cm of textual records.

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Fewster, Ernest Philip, 1868-1947.

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Ernest Fewster was a doctor and poet as well as a member of the Vagabond Club of Vancouver. Born in England, Fewster came with his family first to Manitoba in 1887, and then to Vancouver in 1888. He studied medicine at the University of Chicago and then began his practice in Vancouver as a therapeutic specialist in 1911. In 1916 he began the Vancouver Poetry Society, of which he was president. As a writer, Fewster published six books, five of poetry and one of essays and poems. From ...