George Whalley records

George Whalley, 1915–1983, was born in Kingston, Ontario. He graduated with a B.A. in Classics from Bishop's University in 1935, earning a Rhodes scholarship that took him to Oriel College at Oxford, where he completed a B.A. (1939). After serving with distinction in the Royal Canadian Navy he taught at Bishop's, and also completed an M.A. there (1948), followed by a Ph.D. at the University of London (King's College), in 1950. That same year Whalley began a lengthy and distinguished career in the Department of English at Queen's University; when he retired in 1980 he had authored and edited many publications, as well as articles and essays. George Whalley was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and received several honorary doctorates.

Subseries consists of records created and accumulated by George Whalley in editing Marginalia volumes, predominantly vols. I and II. Includes research notes and notebooks, transcripts of letters and marginalia, and related correspondence, 1945–1982; research correspondence files to and from libraries, archives and booksellers, and Collected Works colleagues, 1946–1982; research material, including clippings, articles, photocopies and photographs of book pages, translations, publications, and related correspondence, [194–?]–1977; editing and publishing records of various volumes of Marginalia, including drafts, notes, proofs, statistics, lists, indexes, correspondence, and other records relating to the revision, layout, printing and distribution; arranged chronologically, [194–?]–1983.