Correspondence with Michael Wardell : 1956. Case 129, File 1b. 1956 June - Nov.

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Correspondence with Michael Wardell : 1956. Case 129, File 1b. 1956 June - Nov.

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Correspondence concerning: Lord Beaverbrook's autobiography of his early years in New Brunswick to be published in installments over the first seven issues of the Atlantic Advocate; the success in sales of the first edition of the magazine; the purchase of paintings for the art gallery in Fredericton (Gainsborough's Lt. Col. Nugent, Stubbs' Hunters Out at Grass, and Sisley's Cote d'Angleterre); transcription of an article about Lord Beaverbrook written by Woodrow Wyatt, and appearing in Harper's magazine; the children of Fredericton raise funds for a statue of Lord Beaverbrook (Vincent Apap is commissioned as sculptor); Beaverbrook's recollections of his early relations with Izaak Walton Killam; O.D. Vaughan to set up an Eaton's store in Fredericton.

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University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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