Special Collections

Special Collections By Appointment

If you are interested in arranging onsite visits to view archival material from Vic Libraries’ Special Collections, housed at E.J. Pratt Library, please complete our online special collections form.

For general inquiries about our special collections, please contact us through our general ASK US form (we will reply within 2-3 weekdays, Mon-Fri).

See also:

Special Collections Policy

Request to View Special Collections Items or Rare Books

Find Items in Our Special Collections

Collection of Personal Information

Permission to Publish & Associated Fees form

Photocopying & Scanning fees

Archives Holdings

Select Resources on Rare Books

Victoria University Library maintains a number of special collections in various subject areas. Included in the collections are printed books, manuscripts and papers. Many of the items are catalogued, and inventories and finding aids are available for the manuscript collections.

For inquiries about special collections (archival or manuscript items) we will respond within three weekdays (Monday through Friday, excluding holiday and other closures).

Retrievals of rare books take place 11am and 3pm daily. For same day use, please contact us by phone or in person during operating hours, at least 30 minutes prior to the retrieval time.

Special collections use is available from 9:30 am until 4:30 pm Monday to Friday.

Materials in special collections are for use in the Library only and do not circulate. 

For additional personal papers, see finding aids of Victoria University Archives (a separate repository than the E.J. Pratt Special Collections).

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Canadiana
Bader Family
Ronald Bates
Richard Lloyd Bell
John Bemrose
Ethel Mary Granger Bennett
Alice Boissonneau
Harold Bull
Lawrence Johnstone Burpee
Sandra Campbell
Canadiana
Bliss Carman
James Carscallen
Kathleen Coburn
A. E. Coleman
Arthur P. Coleman
Helena Coleman
Keith Davey
Pelham Edgar
James Evans
Helen Kemp Frye
Northrop Frye
Margaret S. Gairns
David Gilmour
Frederic Newton Gisborne
Margaret Gray
John Norman Harris
Jeffrey M. Heath
Yvonne McKague Housser
Ran Ide
Grace Irwin
Mary Rowell Jackman
Peter Jones
Raymond Knister
Jay Macpherson
Raymond Massey
Marjorie Pickthall
Edwin John Pratt
Mildred Claire Pratt
Viola Leone Whitney Pratt
Donald B. Smith
Augusta Stowe-Gullen
Kenneth D. Taylor
Cameron Tolton
Earle Toppings
Toronto Centre for the Book
Victoriana
Kenneth R. Wilson
Art
George Baxter
William Blake
Kenneth Mackenzie Clark
Helen Kemp Frye
Yvonne McKague Housser
Raymond Massey
Paris Posters
Mildred Claire Pratt
Stephen Harold Riggins
Catherine Schmid
Literary & Film Resources
Michael Bedard
Andrew James Bell
Clive Bell
Quentin Bell
John Bemrose
G. E. Bentley
William Blake
Bloomsbury Group & Hogarth Press
Alice Boissonneau
Paul Antoine Bouissac
Bliss Carman
Catharine Carrington
Kathleen Coburn
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Collected Works Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Douglas
Pelham Edgar
Helen Kemp Frye
Northrop Frye
David Gilmour
Duncan Grant
Gwendolyn Grant
Margaret Gray
Jeffrey M. Heath
F. David Hoeniger
Lewis Emerson Horning
Jennie Huie
International Virginia Woolf Society
Grace Irwin
Mary Rowell Jackman
Charles Canniff James
Norman Jewison
Raymond Knister
Eva Kushner
Millar MacLure
Jay Macpherson
Raymond Massey
Jane Millgate
Albert Frank Moritz
Michael Phillips
Marjorie Pickthall
Mario Pratesi
Edwin John Pratt
Janis Rapoport
John Reibetanz
Laure Rièse
Donald Oakley Robson
Stanford Patrick Rosenbaum
Ann Saddlemyer
David Sinclair
Francis Sparshott
Anne Tait
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Cameron Tolton
Earle Toppings
Toronto Centre for the Book
R.C. Trevelyan
Woolf, Bloomsbury Group, Hogarth Press Ephemera
Leonard Woolf
Virginia Woolf
J. Howard Woolmer
Religious Studies
Besly Family
Reuben Butchart
Ernest G. Clarke
James Evans
John Webster Grant
Peter Jones
John Maclean
Solomon Alexander Nigosian
Alfred Henry Reynar
Wesleyana
Centre for Renaissance & Reformation Studies
Erasmus
Philosophy
Peter H. Hess
Francis Sparshott
Sociology
Stephen Harold Riggins