Typescript and carbon copy, with corrections and additions; "In Memoriam," printed facsimile of holograph manuscript

Original manuscript leaf (anon. gift) filed in typescript

See also: Box 8, Files 62, 66

Holograph; notebook containing drafts of The Witches’ Brew, The Cachalot, and The Great Feud; notebook also contains prose on a theological subject (black cover)

See also: Box 7, File 52.

Holograph notebook containing draft of The Witches' Brew; notes for and drafts of The Cachalot; draft portions of The Great Feud; draft poems; notes for poetry readings. (black cover)

Holograph; notebook containing draft of The Great Feud; prose commentary on the theme of the poem; draft poems including The Iron Door, An Ode (1927) and "The Sea-Cathedral" (red cover)

Annotated carbon copy transcript

See also: Box 8, File 66

Typescript copy; includes original letter to Viola Pratt copy was sent with

See also: Box 8, File 66

Typescript and two carbon copies of The Cachalot

See also: notes: Box 1, Files 4, 5; Box 2, File 15; printed version in The Canadian Forum, November 1925, Box 31, file 3

Annotated typescript; typescript carbon copy

Holograph; notebook containing partial draft of "The Roosevelt and the Antinoe" [and other poems]

Holograph; notebook containing draft poems later forming part of Many Moods

Draft poems in notebook including "Sea-Gulls,” “The Merry Company,” “Erosion,” “Land and Sea,” “The Haunted House,” “A Feline Silhouette,” “Frost,” “For Better or Worse,” “Spring,” “A November Landscape,” “Dreams,” “Water!,” “The Way of Cape Race,” “The 6000,” and “The Highway."

Possibly also includes introductory material for a reading of two dog poems; prose passages including “The Order of Words,” “The Meaning of Rules,” “Shipwrecks,” [Hardy], [Milton and Bunyan], and [Bacon].

Holograph; one 4x5 inch b&w negative of notes; three loose sheets of paper; notebook containing draft poems later forming part of Many Moods; prose composition "The Order of Words"

Notebook also possibly includes introductory material for a reading of two dog poems; explanation of "The Reverie upon a Dog". (lacks cover)

Holograph; notebook containing draft poems later forming Many Moods including “Time-Worn,” “A Legacy,” and “Putting Winter to Bed”; note on the poem “The Sea-Cathedral”; prose passage [Thomas Hughes], [Melville], [Literary manias], [On the Death of a Colleague], [Religion and Literature]; introductory material for a reading of “A Reverie on a Dog”; notes on the cachalot (sperm whale), kraken, whaling, seals, and sealing. (black cover)

See also: Box 4, File 29 (notebook relating to Dunkirk), File 30 (notebook relating to Still Life); Box 6, File 44 (notebook relating to Towards the Last Spike); Box 7, Files 51 and 60; Box 8, Files 63, 65

Transcript, annotated bound notebook; marked "not final"

Transcript, carbon copy, annotated bound notebook

See also: Box 8, Files 64, 65

Undated typed copy of "Sea-Gulls" by E.J. Pratt

Annotated typescript; annotated carbon copy of typescript

Mimeographed, annotated by station.

Originally filed with introductory remarks for a reading of "The Titanic" (Box 3, File 18).

Holograph; notes for and drafts of The Titanic; prose explanation of the poem; introductory material for reading of the poem; rafts of "The Fable of the Goats"; (red cover); two leaves of introductory material

Holograph; notebook containing drafts of The Titanic; possibly includes draft of an unknown poem; possibly contains lists of Canadian short stories and notes on Canadian authors; possibly contains review of a John Verner McAree [probably The Fourth Column], but unclear to archivist.

Notebook also possibly contains introductory material for a reading on the construction of the poem; prose commentary on the disaster; address on the construction of the poem to the launching dinner at Macmillan, 1935; introductory material for a reading on the plan of the poem.

Originally filed as separate records for note on Canadian authors and John Verner McAree / [The Fourth Column?].

Holograph; notes for and draft of "The Fable of the Goat"; draft of "A Prayer-Medley"; possibly with notes on Hamlet

Holograph; partial draft of "The Fable of the Goats."

See also: Box 3, File 16 (in notebook containing drafts of The Titanic).

Typescript, final draft of "The Fable of the Goats"; holograph and typescript introductory notes and draft introduction to "The Fable of the Goats"

Holograph; notes for and draft of Brébeuf and his Brethren.

Notebook possibly also contains introductory material for three C.A.A. (Canadian Authors' Association) plays, review of a volume of poems by Carol Coates, and material for a C.A.A. meeting

Corrected typescript (carbon copy)

Annotated typescript; [The plan of the poem.] Address. Possibly introductory remarks given at Lawrence Park Collegiate, Toronto.

Originally filed with a script for broadcast of The Titanic (Box 3, File 26).

One holograph; two annotated transcripts; one typescript document titled "An introduction by Dr. Pratt to an evening of a recital of Brébeuf and his Brethren. 

Memo to Prof. E.J. Pratt from C. A. Chant concerning the date of eclipses in 1635 and 1636. June 5, 1940

Corrected typescript (carbon copy). Introductory material for a reading the poem to his friends

Three typescript documents two titled "Dr. Pratt's discussion of Brébeuf and his Brethren"

Holograph; notes and drafts.

Notebook containing notes for and drafts of Dunkirk; draft poems "Come Away, Death" and "The Invaded Field"; draft of Brébeuf and his Brethren; draft of introduction to Heroic Tales in Verse

Notebook possibly also includes address on defective use of source material; notes on Tennyson and his poems; genesis of "The Depression Ends"; miscellaneous class notes.

Holograph notebooks.

Notebook containing draft poems, some later forming part of Still Life including “The Submarine,” “The Radio in the Ivory Tower,” "The Brawler in Who’s Who,” “The Dying Eagle,” and “Old Harry”; listings of authors and poems, introductions, notices of awards, etc. for issues of Canadian Poetry Magazine; obituary (A.C. Dalton); book reviews (W. Strange, H. Coleman); address on Canadian Poetry Magazine; draft letter; article “Canadian Poetry, past and present”; introductory material for a reading of “The Submarine” and “The Radio and the Ivory Tower”; introductory material for a presentation speech.

Notebook containing draft poems “Out of Step,” “Niemoeller,” “Heydrich,” “The Yeas and the Nays,” and “A Strip of Sea-coast”; draft poems, some later forming part of Still Life including "The Stoics," "Autopsy on a Sadist (After Lidice)," and "Der Fuehrer's Pot-Pourri."

Notebooks possibly also includes a draft letter; notes on George Bernard Shaw and Earle Birney; and a prose passage on our fighting men (Canadian soldiers).

See also: Box 4, File 29 (notebook relating to Dunkirk).

Annotated typescript; typescript carbon copy draft poems later forming part of Still Life including "Still Life," "The Impatient Earth," "The Stoics," "Old Harry," and "Come Away, Death."

See also: Box 4, Files 33, 34; Box 6, File 44 (notebook relating to Towards the Last Spike).

Holograph notebook containing draft of "The Truant"; draft poems, including "Father Time"; prose commentary on "The Truant"

Possibly also includes class questions and miscellaneous prose passages.

Author's proof sheets, annotated, for the Macmillan edition of Collected Poems, 1944

Holograph; notes and drafts.

Notebook containing holograph notes for and drafts of Dunkirk; introductions to the poem; miscellaneous notes.

Author's proof copy, annotated for the Macmillan edition (4th printing). Includes related correspondence from W. Eayrs at Macmillan Company of Canada, January 7, 1942.

Six copies of the printed version can be found in the E.J. Pratt Pamphlet Collection.

Holograph drafts of "Still Life"

Possibly also contains notes for a broadcast of Bréfeuf and his Brethren

Five annotated typescript drafts of "The Truant"

Holograph, introductory notes and comments on "The Truant"

Annotated typescript

Holograph notebook containing notes for and drafts of Behind the Log; prose commentary on Behind the Log; partial draft of Towards the Last Spike

Holograph notes for and drafts of They are Returning

Possibly includes notes on A.M. Klein and W. Wordsworth; and review of The Hinterland.

Holograph notes for and drafts of Behind the Log; possibly includes introductory material for a toast.

Corrected typescript (carbon copy) draft of Behind the Log, with the forward.

Annotated typescript; draft of Behind the Log

Annotated typescript, carbon copy; draft of Behind the Log

Printer's setting copy of Behind the Log; Corrected typescript and carbon copy, housed in folder marked "Dr. Pratt Behind the Log / Macmillan / Final Script"

Printer’s proof, paste-up, bound, annotated; title page signed by the illustrator Grant Macdonald.

Annotated typescript; annotated transcript (carbon copy);

Holograph; notes for and drafts of The Last Spike; introduction for a radio reading of Brébeuf and his Brethren (leaf 6-44-121)

Notebook possibly also includes introduction for radio readings of “Sea-Gulls,” “The Way of Cape Race,” “In Absentia,” “The History of John Jones,” “The Shark,” “A Woman on the Shore,” and “The Dying Eagle"; introductory material for an address on The Titanic; prose on Robert Frost; note recommending a student for a scholarship; review of A.M. Sullivan's Incident in Silver; introduction to a course; lecture notes on Beaumont and Fletcher, the decadents, Ben Jonson; draft letter, ca. 1950, to the President, reporting on expenses incurred and the state of his project on the last arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin; draft letter to a fellow poet recommending John Sutherland and Northern Review

See also: Box 10, File 70 for introductory material for a reading of The Titanic

Leafs numbered by previous archivist

Holograph; notes for and drafts of Towards the Last Spike; autobiographical note (leaf 6-43-133)

Notebook also possibly includes prose on King Lear and miscellaneous notes

Leafs numbered by previous archivist

Holograph; draft of Towards the Last Spike

Holograph; notebook containing a later draft of Towards the Last Spike

Corrected typescript and carbon copy of Towards the Last Spike

Corrected typescript (carbon copy); partial draft of Towards the Last Spike

Corrected typescript, introductory material for readings of The Last Spike; corrected typescript and carbon copy, introductory material for a reading at a banquet at the York Club hosted by Sir Ellsworth Flavelle where Pratt was guest of honour, September 19, 1952

Also includes an empty notebook titled "The Last Spike"

See also: Box 8, File 63, Notebook, containing notes on Lorne Pierce and Dr. John Short;.

Holograph draft; 2 copies of published typescript, "Lines by Dr. E.J. "Ned" Pratt on the occasion of Her Majesty's visit to Canada, 1959" (Toronto, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1959); commissioned to commemorate the visit to Canada of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip to open the St. Lawrence Seaway and to be read during a broadcast marking the Royal departure

Manuscript: Anon. gift

Annotated holograph, typescript, and photocopied notes on and drafts of both published and unpublished poetry and prose including: typescript, "Like Mother, Like Daughter" written for a 2T6 reunion (attached letter by David K Bernhardt (July 1, 1998) identifies women listed in poem; holograph, "Creation and procreation (to H.C.O.)" presentation copy for Pelham Edgar; [1929-30?]; typescript (cc), [poem for Elsie Pomeroy, Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, Mona Gould, and Annabel King to be sung to tune of God Save out King, 1943]' holograph draft, "Cycles"; photocopy of [Summit meetings] (on verso of [excavations at Saint Maire], Box 9, file 71); holograph, "Aime"; holograph, "Grace"; photocopied transcripts of  "But One Way," "Greetings to the Goggios," part of "Clay," "Today," and "Yesterday"

"Creation and procreation (to H.C.O.)" an anon. gift; poem for Elsie Pomeroy et al. gift of Mrs. V. Pratt and Miss C. Pratt; holograph of "Aime" belonged to Ethel Mulvany; photocopied typescripts and holograph emendations owned by Mrs. Viola Pratt

See Box 14, File 16 for additional photocopied letter from David K Bernhardt regarding "Like Mother, Like Daughter" and photocopy of poem

Holograph and transcript; notes on and drafts of poems, some later forming a part of The Fable of the Goats including: "The Deed," "The Human Doctor," "Carlo," "Blind from Singapore," "The Lawrence Fantasia," "Myth and Fact," "Greetings," "A Call," "The Good Earth," "The Field of Honor," [Toucan], "Old Days," [Up to This Year], "The Shell," "A Club Inventory of Hades," "Home," “The Prize Winner” ("The Prize Cat"), "The Inexpressible," "The Yeas and the Nays," "Heydrich," [The Old Organon (1225 A.D.)], "Dictator (Baritone)," "A Prayer-Medley," "The Demonstration," "This War," "The Seer," "The Illusion of Reality," "The Weather Glass," "The Decay of Romance," "Silence Under the Water"

Holograph and typescript drafts of poems, mainly unpublished, and poems without titles, including: "Only One Way," "Haile's Dream," "The Tent of the Oak," "Like Mother, Like Daughter," "The Head of the Firm," "His Last Voyage," fragment of "The Sea-Shell," "Class Reunion";

Possibly also includes [The old organon (1225 A.D.)]

Annotated typescript draft

Typescript and presentation carbon copy

Gift of the estate of Paul Wallace

Holograph draft and final presentation copy; accompanied by letter from Moffatt Woodside to Arthur Moore explaining presentation copy

Gift of M. Woodside

Holograph draft and final presentation copy; reduced facsimile of Pratt’s ms. on a Christmas card with illustration by Claire Pratt, woodcut and aquatint; accompanied by letter from Robert F. Chisolm to Dr. Arthur Moore

Gift of R.F. Chisolm

Holograph and typescript (carbon copy) drafts; press cuttings of poem from The Star Weekly

Holograph notebook containing drafts of: prose passages on Phelps, Shaw, Galsworthy, Bliss Carmen, May Adam; draft poems later forming a part of The Fable of the Goats including "The Empty Room," and "The Mirage"; explanation of the genesis of “The Depression Ends”; Introduction for a reading; draft poems "Bereft," "The Empty Room," "Mad"; miscellaneous lists and notes

Holograph and typescript comments on poems including: "Erosion," "The Fog," "The Way of Cape Race," “The Feline Silhouette,”

Holograph and typescript notes to accompany readings of poems including: "Ice Floes," "A Feline Silhouette," "The History of John Jones," "The Shark," "Old Harry," "Sea-Gulls," "On the Shore," "Erosion," "The Child and the Wren," "The Prize Cat," "Silences," "The Lee-Shore," "The Iceberg," "The Prize-Winner,"; drafts of "Under the Lens"

Corrected typescript (carbon copy).; a drama; a portion was published as "A Fragment from a Story" in Newfoundland Verse, 1923

Corrected typescript, and Xerox copy of Clay; typescript copy of Rachel: A Sea-Story of Newfoundland in Verse (published 1917); typescript draft poems of “Steep are Thy Cliffs,” “Evening,” “The Angler,” “The Great Mother,” “The Seed Must Die,” and “The Loss of The Florizel of Cape Race,” some later forming a part of Newfoundland Verse (published 1923)

The scribblings at the conclusion of the mss. are by Pratt's daughter, Claire

See also: Box 1, File 1 and File 2 for annotated typescript copies of Rachel: A Sea-Story of Newfoundland in Verse

Master of Arts thesis, University of Toronto, 1912; photocopy of transcript

Holograph notebook containing drafts of: prose passage on Lorne Pierce and Dr. John Short; essay on 1930s English literature – Eliot, Hopkins, Auden; financial and income tax information; notes on the Fraser River for Towards the Last Spike; notes on a speech at Victoria College; notes on a letter re “In Absentia”; letter to the Awards committee of the Royal Society of Canada endorsing the application of Karl Klinck; notes for a reading of some Newfoundland poems; address on “The Great Feud”; essay on Paradise Lost; letter of thanks for a book received during his recuperation from a broken arm; poem on church union; address for Class of 2T6 reunion, 1956; welcome to Northrop Frye on the occasion of his installation as principal of Victoria College, 1959; introduction for a reading of “Angelina”; note on W.O. Mitchell and Mona Gould; introduction for a reading of "Towards the Last Spike"; address on the humanities; notes on Andrea del Sarto; address on the idea of a university; toast at St. George’s Day dinner

Notebook possibly also includes introductory note on Healey Willan; comments on an essay on his own poetry; notes on student essays; letter re lecture in Houston; letter in response to his receipt of a volume of poems; address for reunion dinner – highlights, lowlights and characters;; introduction of Roy Campbell; miscellaneous notes, letters, and addresses

Holograph notebook containing drafts of: address on science as a form of poetry; notes for lecture on The Roosevelt and the Antinoe; introduction for a reading; lecture on Eugene O’Neill; introduction for a reading of poems of the sea and the land; introduction of Dr. C.T. Currelly to Senior Dinner, Victoria College; letter re. radio broadcast; course outlines; letter re. publishing new poets; poem on the occasion of Her Majesty’s visit to Canada, 1959

Holograph notebook containing drafts of: miscellaneous prose; word lists; fragments from The Roosevelt and the Antinoe; radio talk on Moby Dick; questions on Orlando; address on Herman Melville; lists of definitions; address on literature and life; essay on style and expression, science and literature; miscellaneous poems; address on fundamental principles that underlie any literary composition (thesis); essay on the book on the Brontës; poem “Legacy” (leaf 9-65-109); poem “To an Old Nurse” (leaf 9-65-114); address on the origins of The Roosevelt and the Antinoe; introductory notes for “The Nurse,” “The Haunted House,” “Putting Winter to Bed,” “The Way of Cape Race,” and “Cherries” (leaf 9-65-126); poem “The Depression Ends” (leaf 9-65-134) 

Two transcripts, annotated documents

Address, titled "The Immortal Memory" given at Burns Nicht on January 25, 1949, the 190th Anniversary at St. John's Newfoundland St. Andrew's Society

Annotated typescript

Annotated typescript addresses on Newfoundland including: [Newfoundland idioms and types], addresses at Banff (1952) and Assumption College, Windsor (1942); [Newfoundland idioms and types]; address to Canadian Authors’ Association dinner, etc.; [Newfoundland idioms and types], addresses (1952); [Newfoundland idioms and types] address; [The great seal hunt] address, manuscript title in another hand: "Ice floes"; [Call and answer on the sea], address to Women’s Canadian Club, Montreal (February 8, 1927), and unknown typescript pages; [Newfoundland dogs and their lifesaving habitats] address; [Marconi and the invention of wireless telegraphy] address

Annotated typescript addresses on university and early life including: [Reminiscences of university, highlights and lowlights. 1953]; [Highlight associations in my early life], radio broadcast in Newfoundland; [Reminiscences and reflections on university life], address at honorary degree ceremony, Queen’s University, October 19, 1949; A Personal Story [Reminiscences about publishing]; [Address at Assumption College, 1955?]; [Address to first-year students]

Annotated typescript addresses including: Ironies and Echoes [address on the relation between science and poetry, 1947?]; In Quest of the Humanities [1953?], [In Quest of a University], address given at Princeton, N.J.; The Relation of Source Material to Poetry [address at C.L.A. Conference Luncheon]; [draft addresses and address given to the Canadian Library Association]; [The Golden Mean in poetry]; [Principles of poetic art]; Pitfalls in Verse Composition [or, the relation between source material and poetry]; [Parodies]; [On human action and deeds]; manuscript of Advertising, a sample

As well, manuscript on recto of last leaf of a lecture on Parodies containing notes for a poetry reading.

Originally filed with other addresses now in Box 9, File 71.

Annotated typescript addresses including: [The loss of The Titanic], address at Corpus Christi, Texas, 1952; [Science and poetry], address at Memorial College, St. John's, January 28, 1949; [The music of language]; [Difficulties in handling technical material] [ca. 1947]; The Outlook for Poetry [early 1940's]; Address upon the North American Martyrs, given at Queen's University, January 20, 1948; [excavations at Saint Maire], holograph and corrected typescript; [Brebeuf constructing a grammar; modern interpretation of Shakespeare]; [On the rescue of The Antinoe]

Originally filed with other addresses in Box 9, File 70.

Annotated typescript addresses including: [Tribute to J.W. Macmillan, 1932]; [Introduction of Prof. Pelham Edgar]; [Tribute to Pelham Edgar, 1948]; [Expression of appreciation for E.K. Brown, 1949]; Introduction to Roy Campbell, 1953; [Introduction of Roy C. with comments on student’s essays on verso]; In Memoriam -- Charles Trick Currelly (includes program for memorial service, May 7, 1957); manuscript, [Address at Canadian Club dinner, 1958]; [Welcome to Northrop Frye on his installation as Principal of Victoria College on October 21, 1959]; On Opening of Graphic Arts exhibition [April 14, 1956], includes 3 manuscript pages

Note: numbering in lower right-hand corner corresponds with order of addresses.

Correspondence between Pratt and then President of the Canadian Authors' Association, Margaret M. Howard, regarding his radio broadcast "The Light Essay in Recent Canadian Literature"

Originally filed with essays and books reviews and annotated typescript of the radio broadcast (Box 10, File 82) in Box 10, File 78

Annotated typescript draft of a radio talk titled "The World's greatest sea story, Moby Dick"

Originally filed with notes and drafts for courses in American literature in Box 10, File 75.

Holograph notes and annotated typescript draft of a Ontario Department of Education School Broadcast on Robert Browning's "Andrea del Sarto"  for C.B.C. dated Tues. Jan. 18.

Originally filed with Paradise Lost: With Special Reference to the first three books and address on William Wordsworth given at Cornell University.

Annotated typescript for Canadian Authors' Association radio broadcast titled "The Light Essay in Recent Canadian Literature," given on December 11, 1934; typescript "Introduction" and "Closing" notes for the broadcast

Originally filed with essays and books reviews in Box 10, File 78

Annotated typescript and holograph notes and drafts on topics in English literature including: Ben Johnson (10-72-1 to 10-72-3); [Ben Johnson] (10-72-4 to 10-72-7); [Ben Johnson] (10-72-8); Jonson (10-72-10); [Ben Johnson] (10-72-12); [Beaumont and Fletcher] (10-72-13 to 10-72-14); [Beaumont and Fletcher] (10-72-16 to 10-72-17); [Duchess of Malfi] (10-72-18 to 10-72-19); [Spenser] (10-72-20); Pastoralism (10-72-21); Milton (10-72-22 to 10-72-25); Bunyan (10-72-26 to 10-72-29); Pepys (10-72-30 to 10-72-33); Fielding (10-72-34 to 10-72-37); Pope (10-72-38); [Swift] (10-72-39); Swift (10-72-40); [Swift] (10-72-42); Richardson (10-72-43); Swift (10-72-44); Boswell [Life of Jonson] (10-72-46); [Ben Johnson] (10-72-48 to 10-72-51); Burke (10-72-53 to 10-72-54); Newman (10-72-56 to 10-72-61); [Huxley] (10-72-62 to 10-72-64); Arnold and [Introduction to course work] (10-72-65); [Romanticism] (10-72-66); Hardy (10-72-67); [Pessimism] (10-72-68); [O’Casey] (10-72-70 to 10-72-82); Angry Penguins, Time. July 17, '44 (10-72-71); O'Casey's Use of Expressionistic Technique (10-72-78); [List of essay topics] (10-72-84 to 10-72-85); [The between-the-wars generation] (10-72-86 to 10-72-88); [Meaning in poetry--Symbolism, Dadaism, Poetry magazine, Gertrude Stein] (10-72-90 to 10-72-101); [holograph notes]  (10-72-96 to 10-72-97); [Outstanding movements in contemporary poetry] (10-72-102 to 10-72-109); [Eliot]  (10-72-110 to 10-72-119); Pottle on Ash Wednesday of T.S.E. (10-72-120 to 10-72-121); Murder in the Cathedral (10-72-122 to 10-72-123); Dela Mare (10-72-124 to 10-72-125); [Hopkins]  (10-72-126 to 10-72-131); Summary: Poetic Form of G.M. Hopkins (10-72-132 to 10-72-133); Gerard Manly Hopkins (10-72-134 to 10-72-135); [Influence of Auden, Spender, Lewis] (10-72-136 to 10-72-137); [Masefield] (10-72-138 to 10-72-140); Housman (10-72-142); [poem by Hugh Kingsmill with holograph notes] (10-72-142); [Tennyson] (10-72-146 to 10-72-150); [Yeats] (10-72-152 to 10-72-155); [Calendar list of contemporary poetry] (10-72-158); [fragment] (10-72-160); Contemporary Poetry, [Parodies] (10-72-162); [Introduction to a survey course on 20^th century poetry and drama] (10-72-164);

Numbers refer to individual pages within the file labelled by a previous archivist.

Originally filed with other notes and drafts for courses in English literature in Box 10, File 73.

Annotated typescript and holograph notes and drafts on topics in English literature including: [Shaw and Ibsen] (10-72-166); Two or three years ago [Shaw] (10-72-168 to 10-72-170); Extract from a Letter of Rilke --- 1906 (10-72-172); [Shaw] and [notes on The Wild Duck] (10-72-174); [analysis of Arms and the Man by Shaw] (10-72-176); [analysis of Major Barbara by Shaw] (10-72-178 to 10-72-182); [Shaw] (10-72-184 to 10-72-185); [notes on Shaw and analysis of Saint Joan by Shaw] (10-72-186 to 10-72-192); [analysis of Saint Joan by Shaw] (10-72-194 to 10-72-196); [holograph notes on Hardy] (10-72-198); [Auden] (10-72-200 to 10-72-202); [Yeats and J.M. Synge] (10-72-204 to 10-72-207); [Synge] (10-72-208 to 10-72-211); [The Plough and the Stars by O’Casey] (10-72-212); [O’Neill] (10-72-214 to 10-72-226); [Modern poets, O’Neill, Masefield, and Yeats] (10-72-228 to 10-72-233); [Maugham] (10-72-234 to 10-72-239); [D.H Lawrence’s primitivism] (10-35-7 to 10-35-8); [Lecture on contemporary English and American poetry] (10-35-9 to 10-35-12); [Introduction to course] (10-35-16); [holograph notes with press cutting of "Dream Pedlary" by T. L. Beddoes] (10-35-17 to 10-35-18); Lord Morley on Swinburne, press cutting, June 26, 1926 (10-35-19); [Domestic and naturalistic drama] (10-35-21 to 10-35-22); [The anti-Romantic in drama] (10-35-23 to 10-35-24); [Prosody in literature: Shakespeare, Milton, Masefield, Hopkins] (10-41.9-1 to 10-41.9-4); [Haiku; Essay topics, Fall 1950] (10-45-1); Style (10-46.9-7); [Realism in literature] (10-?B-3); [Fry’s A phoenix too frequent.]; [Notes; Eliot; List of essay topics]; Yeats; Hardy

Numbers refer to individual pages within the file labelled by a previous archivist, some leaves are unnumbered.

Originally filed with other notes and drafts for courses in English literature in Box 10, File 72.

Annotated typescript and holograph notes and drafts for lectures on Shakespeare, including: Drama before Shakespeare, Elizabethan stage, Shakespeare's contemporaries, Shakespeare's English, aspects of Shakespearean idioms, Tragedy, Shakespeare's transmutation of his sources; Richard III; Henry IV, part I; Falstaff's speech on honour; Twelfth Night; Hamlet; Macbeth; Coriolanus; King Lear; Antony and Cleopatra; The Tempest; and Othello

Annotated typescript and holograph notes and drafts on topics in American literature including: E.A. Robinson (10-74-1); The Pasture (10-74-2); Frost (10-74-3); Sandburg (10-74-5 to 10-74-8); Free Verse (10-74-9 to 10-74-10); [MacLeish] (10-74-11 to 10-74-12); [holograph notes including notes on Edmund Wilson] (10-74-13 to 10-74-14); [Shapiro] (10-74-15); Street Scene, Elmer Rice (10-74-17 to 10-74-20); Moby Dick by Herman Melville [draft of radio broadcast] (10-74-21 to 10-74-27); Robert Frost (10-74-29 to 10-74-33); Jeffers (10-38-1 to 10-38-7); Lindsay (10-38-9 to 10-38-10)

Annotated holograph and typescript notes for courses taught including: introduction to course; questions for classes; essay topics; comments on thesis

Annotated holograph notes and typescript lecture on Paradise Lost

Originally filed with C.B.C radio broadcast, "Andrea del Sarto" and address on William Wordsworth given at Cornell University.

Annotated holograph and typescript notes on and drafts of essays and book reviews including: Twenty Years A-Growing [review of Maurice O’Sullivan's 1933 memoir published in Canadian Comment, 3, No. 1 (Jan. 1934)]; Synge, Riders to the Sea [review]; [Note on the revival of religious books after a calamity, and note on Housman]; Paul Vincent Carroll [review of play Shadow and substance] (with pasted press clipping on an Irish actress' encounters with fairies); [Sean O’Casey]; tearsheet of Pratt’s article on Housman, "The Nature of Poetry"  Canadian Comment, 2, No. 10 (Oct. 1933); [Humour in Literature]

Annotated typescript address on William Wordsworth delivered at Cornell University (ca. 1943)

Originally filed with "Paradise Lost: With Special Reference to the first three books" and C.B.C radio broadcast, "Andrea del Sarto" .

Bound copy of the journal containing article by Pratt, "Source Material and Poetry, From an Address to the Poetry Group, Montreal Branch, CAA", pp. 15

Encapsulated annotated holograph draft of "The Application of the Binet-Simon Tests (Stanford Revision) to a Toronto Public School"; report published in the Canadian Journal of Mental Hygiene, 3, No. 1 (April 1921), 95-116.

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) received from Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1911; Master of Arts (M.A.) received from University of Toronto, 1912; Bachelor of Divinity (B.D.) received from Victoria University, 1913

Degrees in Latin

Honorary Doctorate of Letters received from University of Manitoba, 1945; Honorary Doctorate of Letters received from McGill University, 1949; Honorary Doctorate of Canon Law, Bishop’s University, 1949; Honorary Doctorate of Letters received from Queen’s University, 1949; Honorary Doctorate of Letters received from University of Toronto, 1953; Honorary Doctorate of Letters received from University of New Brunswick, 1957; Honorary Doctorate of Letters received from University of Western Ontario, 1957; Honorary Doctorate of Letters received from Memorial University, 1961

Certificate/notification of Pratt's appointment as Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George

Press cuttings of reviews of Newfoundland Verse, The Witches’ Brew, Titans, The Iron Door, The Roosevelt and the Antinoe, Many Moods, The Titanic, The Fable of the Goat, Brébeuf and His Brethren, Still Life, Collected Poems, Behind the Log, and Towards the Last Spike; articles on Pratt; news reports of awards; addresses and recitals; tearsheets of published poems; in memoriam notices; miscellany

Gift of Mrs. V. Pratt with additions from other donors

Includes scrapbook where some of the press clippings were originally housed

Photocopied correspondence

Photocopied correspondence

Photocopied correspondence

Photocopied correspondence

Photocopied correspondence

Photocopied correspondence

Includes original postcard dated August 8, 1944

Photocopied correspondence

Photocopied correspondence

Includes original telegraph from Houston, Texas, c. May 1952

Telegram phoned to Viola Pratt, regarding his return from Texas [after readings of The Titanic and Brébeuf and his Brethren at St. Thomas University, Houston

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Art [Pratt] (E.J. Pratt's brother), enclosing extracts from Liverpool newspapers with other information on the Titanic 

Holograph letter from Jim [Pratt] (E.J. Pratt's brother), congratulating him on his C.M.G. award   

Holograph and typescript; incoming correspondence from Cal [Pratt], enclosing the following letters sent in response to his distribution of complimentary copies of Towards the Last Spike: Aug. 9, 1952, Jimmie [James McIntyre]; Aug. 11, 1952, Leonard Outerbridge(?); Aug. 12, 1952, C.J.B. [Charles J Burchell]; Aug. 12, 1952, [Senator, Kinley(?)]; Aug. 13, 1952, C.D. Howe; Aug. 13, 1952, L.C. Moyers(?); Aug. 14, 1952, Louis St. Laurent; Aug. 15, 1952, F.W. Gershaw; Aug. 15, 1952, Donald, Gordon; Aug. 15, 1952, L[ester] B. Pearson; Aug. 19, 1952, Boyd Baird(?); Aug. 19, 1952, Senator W.D. Euler; Aug. 20, 1952, Allan [Fraser]; Aug. 20, 1952, E.W. Mayhew; Aug. 20, 1952, Jim [James Stewart]; Aug. 22, 1952, Lyttleton B.P. Gould; Aug. 22, 1952, John T. Haig; Aug. 22, 1952, Senator Gordon B. Isnor; Aug. 25, 1952, Senator T.A. Crerar; Aug. 25, 1952, Norman [Holland]

Holograph and typescript; incoming correspondence from C.C. Pratt, enclosing holograph letter, May 31, 1959, from Sir Patrick Renison (Governor, British Guiana) to Senator C.C. Pratt, thanking him for sending a copy of Collected Poems; with transcript of Renison letter

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Cal [Pratt]

June 19, 1962; enclosing two newspaper cuttings on Pratt, one from The Ottawa Journal and the other from The Daily News (clipping inscribed as St John's Evening Telegram)

July 5, 1962; attaching a story of the salvage of a sunken engine in Newfoundland titled "An Incident to Illustrate the Resourcefulness which is Natural to Newfoundlanders"

Aug. 21, 1962; regarding interest in two Globe and Mail articles on Pratt, and requesting a photograph for a Newfoundland writer

Aug. 25, 1962; enclosing a tape recording by Max Barbour of some of Pratt's poems and an Aug. 14, 1962 letter from Barbour; Tape recording absent

Dec. 20, 1962; regarding family and an acquaintance

See also: Box 15, File 12 and Box 17, file 1 for Globe and Mail articles mentioned

Holograph; incoming correspondence from [Jean?] Pratt, E.J. Pratt's niece, regarding her teaching, and family life

Holograph; outgoing correspondence to Mr. Bothwell, thanking him for his review of The Witches' Brew in The Canadian Bookman

Holograph; outgoing correspondence to Robertson Davies thanking him for an editorial in the Peterborough Examiner

Photocopy; outgoing correspondence to "My dear Freddie", regarding his request for volumes of Pratt's works and informing him of an upcoming autographing session at Eaton's

Photocopy of clipping of published letter to Literary Editor, Saturday Night, titled "Is Carmen Supreme?" concerning Wilson MacDonald controversy

Photocopy; outgoing correspondence to Mr. Manning detailing his church missionary work in Estevan, Sask.

Holograph; outgoing correspondence to Mrs. [Horace] Parsons, making arrangements for a meeting of the Canadian Authors Association

Holograph; outgoing correspondence with Mrs. H.Y. Russel, concerning a forthcoming address and reading to the Women's Canadian Club, Montreal

Photocopied correspondence to Pelham Edgar from E.J. Pratt

The originals of the correspondence are held in the Pelham Edgar fonds, Files 12.16

Photocopied correspondence to Pelham Edgar from E.J. Pratt

The originals of the correspondence are held in the Pelham Edgar fonds, Files 12.16 and 12.17.

Holograph and typescript; original letters from E.J. Pratt to E.K. Brown; typescript copy of "Come Away, Death"

File includes photocopies of originals

Some dates added by previous archivist may not be correct

Holograph; two outgoing correspondences to John Hagedorn (proprietor of the Doubleday, Doran Bookshop, Detroit)

May 23, 1941 concerns availability of Pratt's books from Macmillan and from the author's own stock; describes success of Brébeuf and his Brethren

January 13, 1942 concerns Dunkirk, its fourth printing and its publication in Poetry

Holograph postcard; outgoing correspondence to Mr. E. Lodge, offering to sell him 400 Newfoundland stamps 'at fifty cents a hundred as you said last year'

Holograph; two outgoing correspondences to Mr. Blackshaw (a book collector and client of John Hagedorn, proprietor of the Doubleday, Doran Bookshop, Detroit)

February 3, 1942 advises Mr. Blackshaw that the Victoria University Library has requested his manuscripts

October 21, 1943 forwards a holograph of his sonnet "Dunkirk", which has only appeared in a magazine previously

Photocopied correspondence from E.J. Pratt to M. Eugenie Perry

Sept. 2, 1936, recalling pleasant visit to Victoria, commenting on Eugenie's account of Royal party

Dec. 1, 1936, acknowledging letter and appraisals, commenting on Pelham Edgar’s enthusiasm over Victoria group, advising on the inclusion of her poem, and commending the accuracy of her observation

July 21, 1937, commenting on busy Summer School schedule, suggesting date for forthcoming meeting, mentions magazine policy

Aug. 9, 1941, acknowledging letter and article about him, regretting inability to attend C.A.A. convention because of cost

Oct. 11, 1941, acknowledging receipt of poems, one to be published in forthcoming issue

July 2, 1942, acknowledging a contribution for publication, comments on local dissatisfaction with C.A.A. leadership, indicates support for Kirkconnell

July 27, 1942, commenting on outstanding qualities in Eugenie’s and Doris’ verse, suggesting areas for further development; comments on difficulty of publishing and marketing verse

May 4, 1945, replying to Eugenie’s questions on particular poem; currently busy with exams and travel plans

Sept. 21, 1945, commenting on his admiration of John Gould Fletcher’s poetry

Original letters held by British Columbia Archives, Victoria, B.C.

Photocopy; outgoing correspondence to Ethel Allen, thanking her for help with moving

Photocopy; correspondence between E.J. Pratt and Wendy Jenks, a teacher at The London South Collegiate Institute, London, Canada, regarding his poem 'In Absentia"

Holograph; letter to a Grade 4 class taught by Viola M. Love thanking them for birthday greetings; includes accompanied holograph letter from Viola Pratt to Viola Love;

Also includes explanatory note regarding the letter written by V.M. Love, April 1982; newspaper clipping titled "Pratt Joins Octogenarians" by W.A. Deacon [1963?]

See also: Box 18, file 5, for some of the birthday greetings and drawings sent to Pratt

Holograph; outgoing correspondence to Dave [Hoeniger] giving him permission to use Pratt's name as a reference and passing on news about members of the English Dept. at Victoria University

May 16, 1951, photocopy of holograph correspondence, thanking him for a complimentary copy of The Black Huntsman, recalling earlier publication of some of the poems and listing his favourites

June 9, 1957, photocopy of holograph correspondence, thanking him for a complimentary copy of verse, congratulating him on winning a Foundation Award.

Originals held at Concordia University.

Oct. 26, 1954, holograph correspondence to M.M.H. MacKinnon accepting invitation to meet with him at Park Plaza Hotel

Feb. 29, 1958, holograph correspondence referring to Murdo's article in The Tamarack Review, issue 6, Winter 1958, pp. 71-74

March 5, 1959, holograph correspondence regarding Murdo's radio talks and colleagues in the Department of English at University of Western Ontario

Includes letter, dated Jan. 19, 1993, from Murdo MacKinnon to Victoria University Archivist explaining 1958 and 1959 letters

Holograph; one letter to Margaret and one greeting card with black and white reproduction of Claire Pratt woodcut "Gulls and the Sea (Edition 20) to Margaret and her mother

Unable to determine last name of Margaret though previous archivist attributed letters to Margaret Slater

December 9, 1942, holograph correspondence commenting on her poems and suggesting revisions to poems submitted to Canadian Poetry Magazine

July 19, 1946, holograph postcard thanking her for her congratulations

Photocopied correspondence to Desmond Pacey from E.J. Pratt; photocopied undated Christmas Greetings Card; two letters of reference written by Pratt on behalf of Desmond Pacey

Feb 18, 1938; to J.R.M. Butler (Trinity College, Cambridge University), letter of recommendation for Desmond Pacey

June 4, 1940; to R.J. Evans (Brandon College), letter of recommendation for Desmond Pacey

Photocopied correspondence to E.J. Pratt from M. Eugenie Perry

Aug. 24, 1936, describing meeting and garden party during the Tweedsmuir’s visit to Victoria; discusses her writing

Undated, [Nov. 1936?], outlining various C.A.A. activities, expressing concern over finances of Canadian Poetry Magazine; mentions forthcoming Year Book of Club

July 18, 1940, describing recent visit to U.S.A. and Americans’ attitudes to the war, referring to her interview reprinted throughout U.S.A.

Original letters held by British Columbia Archives, Victoria, B.C.

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Nat [Benson], regarding donations to Canadian Poetry Magazine

Holograph; incoming correspondence from E. Brown, quoting from a letter from C.B. Tinker on Pratt's poetical gifts

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Ralph Gustafson, thanking him for his poems for [A Little Anthology of Canadian Poets], and commenting on the book's progress

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Rod, Editor Home Bookshelf, requesting information about authorship of a particular poem with Pratt's reply; poem absent

Holograph; incoming correspondence from [William Lyon] Mackenzie King, thanking him for a copy of Brébeuf and his Brethren

Holograph; incoming correspondence from C.G.D. [Roberts], enclosing a sonnet, commenting on Dunkirk, and changing a word in a sonnet sent previously

Sonnets absent

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Charles, offering his congratulations on Brébeuf and his Brethren, postponing his reminiscences of Carman, and enclosing poem "France"

Poem absent

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Stefan Zweig, thanking him for a copy of The Titanic and kindnesses extended in Toronto, and expressing a wish to show some of the poems to London actors for recital

Photocopy typescript letter; incoming correspondence from Margaret Howard, then President of Canadian Authors' Association, informing him of itinerary for his school book talks

Holograph postcard; incoming correspondence from [Emil] Ludwig, thanking E.J. Pratt for a copy of The Titanic

Photocopy; cutting of article titled "John Masefield is a Warm Admirer of Canadian Bards", quoting excerpts from two letters to E.J. Pratt

The first letter, from 1925, suggests changes to "The Cachalot"

The second letter, from March 29, 1930, praises The Roosevelt and the Antinoe

Original cutting can be found in Scrapbook, Box 14, files 1-2

Photocopy of published letter; from Sergt. D.S. Puffer recounting his war work in Salonica and Malta; published in Acta Victoriana, vol. XL, no. 7, June 1916

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Garnett G. S., concerning his summer teaching at University of British Columbia in 1936

Typescript letter from Michael Barkway, congratulating him on his C.M.G. appointment

Typescript letter from Walter T. Brown, congratulating him on his award and commenting on newspaper strikes in Western Canada

Typescript letter from Eugene Butt, congratulating him on his award

Typescript letter from J.B. Challies, congratulating him on his inclusion in the Dominion Day Honors List

Mimeographed letters

July 4, 1946, Clarendon, Chancellor (Chancery of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George), notifying him of His Majesty's honour of his appointment to be a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

July 15, 1946, Michael Furse (Prelate), offering congratulations and the Prayer of the Order

Typescript letter from Joseph Chisholm congratulating him on his C.M.G. award and updating Pratt on recovery of Henry Munro

Holograph letter from Leo [Cox], congratulating him on his C.M.G. award and thanking for hospitality at a previous convention

Holograph letter from Carlo [Charles Trick Currelly] offering congratulations from the house of Currelly

Typescript letter from Bill [Deacon], then President of the Canadian Authors' Association, congratulating him on his C.M.G. award and requesting Pratt send a letter of advice to [Earle] Birney

Typescript letter from Ira [Dilworth] offering congratulations for inclusion on list of King's Dominion Day Honors

Holograph letter from Jack [McElson?] congratulating him on his C.M.G. award

Typescript letter from Percy Jacobson, congratulating him on his C.M.G. award

Typescript letter from Wilfred C. James, congratulating him on his C.M.G. award, and the mention of the honour at next Board of Regents meeting

Holograph letter from Margaret and Carl K., congratulating him on his C.M.G. award

Typescript letter from Ivor Lewis offering congratulations on Pratt's appointment as Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George

Typescript note from Hugh MacLennan congratulating him on his C.M.G. award

Typescript letter from secretary Lillian A. Bath, conveying the MacMillan's congratulations on his award

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Paul Martin offering congratulations for inclusion in Civil Honours List

Holograph letter from [Father Edward or Edmund J. McCorkell], congratulating him on his C.M.G. award

Unable to determine if the first name is Edward or Edmund

Typescript letter from Bill [McLaughlin], congratulating him on inclusion in Dominion Day honour list

Typescript letter from Stanley [McLean], congratulating him on his C.M.G. award

Telegraph from Henry F. Munro congratulating him on his C.M.G. award   

Telegraph from Henry F. Munro congratulating him on his C.M.G. award

Holograph note from George G. Nasmith, congratulating him on his Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George appointment

Typescript letter from C.R. Redfern, congratulating him on his inclusion in the Dominion Day Honors List

Typescript letter from Charles [Sanderson], Chief Librarian of The Public Library of Toronto, congratulating him on his C.M.G. appointment

Typescript letter from Robert H. Saunders, Mayor of Toronto, congratulating him on his C.M.G. award on behalf of the City of Toronto

Holograph note from Duncan Scott, congratulating him on his C.M.G. appointment

Transcript letters from the Secretary of the State of Canada, one signed John [?]

Mar. 24, 1947; notifying Pratt of a delay in the production and delivery of the C.M.G. insignia

Dec. 3, 1947; mimeographed letter notifying Pratt of the arrival of the insignia in January 1948 and the tentative date for an Investiture on February 10, 1948

Typescript letter from Ernie [Sirluck] offering congratulations for Order of St. Michael and St. George

Holograph letter from Arthur Smith, congratulating him on his Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George appointment

Holograph note from Sidney Smith, then President of University of Toronto, congratulating him on his Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George appointment

Typescript letter from H, Chas, Tutte, offering congratulations to him on his C.M.G. award from The Salvation Army

Holograph letter from Ted Watt congratulating him on his C.M.G. award

Holograph letter from Arthur Woodhouse, congratulating him on his Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George appointment

Photocopied correspondence from Desmond Pacey to E.J. Pratt

Holograph and typescript; incoming correspondence from Bill

Mar. 12, 1944; holograph; concerning the Wellesley College Festival of Spoken Poetry, his plans to review Still Life, and requesting a new poem for publication

July 25, 1944; typescript; regarding family matters and the progress on Collected Poems, and requesting biographical information

Sept. 8, 1944; typescript; commenting on the completion of his introduction to Collected Poems, their friendship with the Russians, family news, and praise for The Titans

Sept. 25, 1944; autograph postcard signed, thanking him for a letter and still working on his introduction

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Dorothy A. Costigan, inviting him to lecture to the Loyola Alumni Ladies' Auxiliary, Montreal

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Vice-Admiral G.C. Jones, R.C.N., thanking him for making a trip to Halifax and his complementary references to the Royal Canadian Navy

Typescript; incoming correspondence from E.C. Kyte, offering information for The Titanic on "Autumn", a supplementary song for the Anglican hymn book 

Typescript; incoming correspondence from R.M. Macdonnell (Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs), regarding the Franklin Centenary and Pratt's trip to the Coppermine and Churchill districts

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Cyrus Macmillan (Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister for Air),

July 20, 1944; concerning Pratt's proposed trip to the Coppermine and Churchill districts

July 27, 1944; notifying him that no special flights can be undertaken to the Coppermine, Keewatin, or Churchill areas

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Vin Massey, High Commissioner for Canada to Great Britain, thanking him for a copy of Collected Poems and expressing the hope of English publication for the book

Typescript; incoming correspondence from L.N. Richardson, Director of Naval Education at the Department of National Defence,

Feb. 7, 1945; regarding naval exploits he may wish to investigate

Mar. 19, 1945; concerning naval matters and his retirement from the Navy

Holograph and typescript; incoming correspondence from Theodore Spencer, thanking him for an appreciative letter and complimenting Pratt on Brébeuf and his Brethren

Holograph; incoming correspondence from C.B. Tinker, commenting on the effects that Brébeuf and his Brethren and Dunkirk had on him

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Mark Van Doren, thanking and complimenting him on the publication of Brébeuf and his Brethren

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Henry W. Wells, thanking him for a copy of Collected Poems, complimenting his verse, introducing him to Carl Klinck, and proposing a critical volume on Pratt; verso contains a short holograph note by Pratt

Typescript; incoming correspondence from W. M. Williamson, thanking him for granting permission to reprint three poems in the anthology The Eternal Sea

Typescript, incoming correspondence from W.J. Dunlop, regarding a student

Restricted for 75 years after the mentioned student's death

Typescript; incoming correspondence from W.L. Mackenzie King, thanking him for a copy of Behind the Log

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Alexander of Tunis, thanking him for copies of Dunkirk and Behind the Log

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Bill, remarking on his discontent with his work, the Pound controversy and his "Pisan Cantos", Hayden Carruth, Bob Hillyer, and a poet's dinner

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Michael Furse, thanking him for a copy of Collected Poems, and commenting on a common friend, Michael Barkway

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Harold [W.T. Grant], Chief of the Naval Staff, thanking him for a copy of Behind the Log

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Captain J.C. Hibbard, R.C.N., and Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel

Jan. 2, 1947; thanking him for his authentic recording of events in the radio presentation of Behind the Log (The world premiere of Behind the Log presented on C.B.C.'s "Stage 47" on Jan. 1, 1947 predated book publication)

May 20, 1947; suggesting a correction in the manuscript of Behind the Log, but praises the work in general

May 26, 1947; regarding a correction in the manuscript of Behind the Log, and mentioning the intended use of his Skeena photograph with the illustrations

[1947?]; Christmas card, signed Jimmy Hibbard, with mounted photograph of The Skeena, thanking him for a copy of Behind the Log

Typescript; incoming correspondence from A. L. MacDonald, Premier of Nova Scotia, thanking him for a copy of Behind the Log

Typescript, carbon copy; incoming correspondence from Chris to William Rose Benét, inscribed by Chris to Pratt, concerning rail cars and tonnages, and a limerick for Pratt

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Louis St. Laurent, thanking him for allowing a quotation from "Newfoundland Seamen" to be used in an address

Typescript; incoming correspondence from A.H. Wyse, Naval Secretary, notifying him that his manuscript for Behind the Log has been examined and approved by the Department of National Defence, Naval Service

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Louis St. Laurent, thanking him for his thoughtfulness in praising a speech given at University of Toronto

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Bob Weaver, returning the manuscripts of several poems and informing him of the two poems to be broadcast and the rate of payment

Manuscripts absent

Holograph; incoming correspondence from E. Blunder, thanking him for a copy of Collected Poems, and complimenting him

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Leonard [W. Brockington], enclosing a typed copy of a letter, Apr. 8, 1959, from Gordon Fraser to Brockington

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Bill [Deacon], requesting him to ask Lorne Pierce to discard his intention to hold a Deacon testimonial dinner, recounting the fortunate circumstances of his literary life, and his repudiation by the current C.A.A.

Typescript; incoming correspondence from J. Diefenbaker, thanking him for a holograph copy of his poem on the Royal visit

Autograph business card, remarking on his quotation from a favorite Pratt poem

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Harvey Hickey (President of the Press Gallery, House of Commons), thanking him for accepting an invitation to act as a judge for the Bowater Awards; verso contains Pratt's rough holograph draft of "Poem written for the '26 reunion"

Holograph; incoming correspondence from George Johnston

Feb. 25, 1959; introducing a visiting professor from England, listing his favorite Pratt poems, and recounting his meeting with James Reaney

June 26, 1959; thanking him for a complimentary letter sent on publication of The Cruising Auk, regarding newspaper coverage on the book, and family matters

Holograph; incoming correspondence from John Masefield, thanking him for a letter and books, inviting him to visit, and expressing his hope for Pratt's success with Collected Poems

Typescript; incoming correspondence from W.A. Mather (President, Canadian Pacific Railway Co.), congratulating him on receiving the Governor-General's Award; envelope contains Pratt's incomplete holograph draft of a letter to an unknown correspondent concerning a Newfoundland trip

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Arthur Meighen, congratulating him on all his awards

Typescript; incoming correspondence from H. O'Connor (Executive Producer, National Film Board), requesting permission to quote from Towards the Last Spike in a filmstrip on transportation by rail

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Lorne [Pierce]

Nov. 19, 1953; regarding Bill Deacon's letter (Nov. 7, 1953), publication of Deacon's books and his nomination for the Royal Society, a university dinner honouring Pratt as Professor Emeritus, and the Pelham Edgar Fund

Dec. 27, 1959; to Mrs. Pratt and Claire and Ned, thanking them for flowers, and mentioning his reply to be sent to the Telegram book editor

See also: Deacon letter, Box 14, file 20

Typescript; incoming correspondence from David G. Pitt

Feb. 8, 1958; regarding the suggested contents of Here the Tides Flows

Dec. 22, 1959; enclosing copies of his preface and introduction to Here the Tides Flows, and giving his motives in writing them; enclosures absent; verso contains a short holograph shopping list by Pratt

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Cal [Pratt], enclosing a story on marine construction during WWII that E.J. Pratt enjoyed

Typescript; incoming correspondence from O. Ross, enclosing An Excerpt from The Truant and relating the circumstances behind its printing; photocopy of leaflet attached to letter

See also: for original enclosure

Holograph; Undated; incoming correspondence from Bill Strange

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Alan Crawley, congratulating him on the Canada Council Medal

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Clarence Farrar, congratulating him on the Canada Council Medal

Typescript, incoming correspondence from R. Gushue, expressing his pleasure that Pratt will attend Memorial University of Newfoundland

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Lorne [Pierce], offering congratulations on his two recent honours

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Iris Power (Mrs. W.P. Power), thanking him for the reaffirmation of faith a radio reading of Brébeuf and his Brethren

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Call [Pratt], recounting the Memorial University of Newfoundland opening ceremonies and informing him that he is sending the hood, degree certificate, and brochure connected with Pratt's honorary degree

Typescript; incoming correspondence from John [Short], thanking him after a dinner

Typescript, incoming correspondence from J.R. Smallwood, first premier of the province of Newfoundland

June 5, 1961; inviting him to the opening ceremonies of Memorial University; contains Pratt's holograph list of departure and returning dates

July 24, 1961; expressing his bitter disappointment in Pratt's declining, and reiterating his invitation; contains Pratt's holograph list of flight dates and times, and drafts of his acceptance telegram to Smallwood, with Viola Pratt's holograph of final acceptance telegram

Typescript; incoming correspondence from (Mrs.) Marion A. Taylor, requesting permission to read The Titanic in 3 installments on the CBC's "Stories with John Drainie"

Typescript, incoming correspondence from A.W. Trueman, confirming an earlier Canada Council telegram that he had been awarded the Medal

Typescript; incoming correspondence from L.W. Brockington, asking him to inscribe a copy of Collected Poems, to William French, and quoting T.S. Eliot's wish for Pratt and Carl Sandberg to join him on a jury for a proposed poetry competition

Typescript; incoming correspondence from W.F. Butt, requesting missing issues of Methodist periodicals, a photo of Pratt and an autographed book

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Ian [P. Cameron], informing him of his election as the first Honorary Member of the Arts and Letters Club  

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Horatio Colony, thanking him for kind words on one of his poems

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Bill [Deacon],

Nov. 7, 1962; complimenting Pratt and reminiscing

March 16, 1963; thanking him for a letter containing kind comments on an Canadian Author and Bookman article, reminiscing about Pratt, recounting his visit with Arthur Phelps

Typescript; incoming correspondence from J. Diefenbaker, expressing his regret at Pratt's illness

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Bert C. Diltz, recounting his teaching of "The Shark"

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Dic Doyle (R.J. Doyle), thanking him for an inscribed copy of Collected Poems

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Sister St. Dorothy Marie C.N.D., recounting her use of Pratt poems in her English courses

Typescript; incoming correspondence from James Duncan, reminiscing about a luncheon and extending his regards

Typescript; incoming correspondence from W.J. Dwyer, C.S.B., informing him of his radio reading from Brébeuf and his Brethren, and enclosing his introduction to the reading

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Ron [Everson], mentioning the Globe's Aug. 1962 articles on him, a reference in The Nation, and J. George Johnston

See also: Box 15, File 12 for Globe article mentioned

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Norrie [Frye]

November 13, 1962; with minor news

November 18, 1962; on meeting ex-students and the effects of teaching

[June - August 1963?]; relating Victoria College staff changes, and his intention to dedicate his forthcoming collection of essays to Pratt

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Jack, expressing his wish for Pratt's recovery, and his plan to collect Wilkinson's poems

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Robert K. Hallam, sending a copy of his book of poems, and mentioning the Macmillan permission fee for quoting from a Pratt poem

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Ron Hambleton, acknowledging Pratt's letter of thanks regarding the CBC's birthday programme on Pratt

Typescript; incoming correspondence from J. Palmer Kent, informing him of his election as an Honorary Member of The Empire Club of Canada

Typescript, incoming correspondence from "Kirk", requesting a commendation on his translation of Pan Tadeusz; enclosed with letter is a Christmas, 1959 brochure from the Kirkconnells printing a portion of a translated poem

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Carl Klinck, sending his compliments

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Dick (R.G. Meech), enclosing a typed carbon copy of his Mar. 9, 1962 letter to Leonard W. Brockington congratulating him on his tribute to Pratt

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Lester Pearson, expressing his wish for Pratt's recovery

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Mr. Peter Revell, requesting material for a Pratt display in an exhibition on Canadian poetry

Typescript; incoming correspondence from C. Earle Sanborn, requesting a meeting to discuss a book on The Titanic and to include his poem

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Al [Scott], conveying his regards and sending a newspaper cutting about a new inquiry on the sinking of The Titanic, titled "Was 4th Ship in Vicinity of Sinking Titanic?" from New York Herald Tribune, Paris Edition, April 2, 1963; cutting present

Holograph; incoming correspondence from John [Short] to Ned and Viola, expressing hopes for progress in his illness, mentioning recent articles on him, thanking him for his Christmas poem

Holograph get-well card from Sterling LeR. Spicer, with a poem to Dr. E.J. Pratt

Photocopied holograph letter, enclosing poem, "Like Mother, Like Daughter," written for a 2T6 Reunion and given by Pratt to Dorothy Bernhardt

See also: Box 7, file 50 for original typescript of poem and additional letter from Bernhardt (July 1, 1998) identifying women listed in poem

Typescript letter, thanking him for an invitation, expressing regrets that he will be unable to meet old Toronto friends or have the opportunity to meet Pratt

Verso contains a short holograph list by Pratt

Holograph letter from Frederick C. Packard Jr., editor of Harvard Vocarium Records, to Margaret V. Ray, librarian at Victoria College, regarding sales of Pratt's Harvard-Vocarium recordings

Typed copy of letter, for Dr. Pratt, acknowledging receipt of a copy of Collected Poems and promising copies of any studies he may publish relating to Pratt's work

Typed copy of letter, for Dr. Pratt, congratulating them on their publication of Pratt's Collected Poems and notifying them of his intention to publish a study on Canadian poets

transcript letter, thanking him and Pratt for a copy of Brébeuf and his Brethren

[1944]; Typed copy of letter, requesting two copies of Pratt's Collected Poems

Mar. 3 [1959]; Typed copy of letter, thanking him for a letter and a copy of Pratt's Collected Poems

Typed letter (carbon copy), expressing his and Pratt's delight in the receipt of a Masefield letter, relating an intricate conceit on the Bank of Arcadia, informing him about Pratt, and gifting two copies of Collected Poems

Typed letter from L. W. Brockington to Mrs. E.J. Pratt, asking her to convey his thanks to Pratt for an inscribed volume

Typescript letter, acknowledging receipt of "Newfoundland Seamen"

Typed letter (carbon copy) of letter from [Margaret Ray] to Dr. [Lorne] Pierce, enclosing Pratt's holograph poem "Newfoundland Seamen" for frontispiece reproduction in Ewart Young's This is Newfoundland

Attribution of letter to Margaret Ray by previous archivist

Typed letter, sending her and her mother, Viola Pratt, best wishes

One typed letter; one photocopied typed letter from Norrie to Lorna; both regarding purchase of Pratt manuscripts

The original April 7, 1967 letter in Edgar Pelham collection

Typed letter from Norrie to Miss Margaret Ray, regarding purchase of Pratt manuscripts and setting up of poetry room in the New Library

Holograph letter from Vi to Norrie, concerning renaming of the library and negotiations for purchase of Pratt manuscripts

Typed copy of letter, thanking him for a copy of The Titanic and complimenting Pratt

Typed copy or letter, offering an account of his relation with and opinion of Pratt

Typed letter expressing his pleasure at opening of poetry room in commemoration of Pratt and donation of volume of poetry by Ugo Betti

Telegram, offering congratulations on the publication of The Titanic

Tearsheets and xerographic copies of published poems and prose (some uncollected in volumes) including: "Down by the Sea" by Captain David Jones [pseudonym of Pratt], Acta Victoriana, vol. 3, no. 4, Jan. 1913; "Dead on the Field of Honor", Acta Victoriana, vol. XL, no. 7, June 1916; "The Angler", The Rebel, vol. 2, no. 6, Mar. 1918; "Invocation", The University Monthly, vol. 18, no. 6, Mar. 1818; "The Dear Illusion", The Rebel, vol. 3, no. 5, Mar. 1919; "A Dialogue by a Stream", The Rebel, vol. 4, no. 3, Dec. 1919; "On the Shore", The Rebel, vol. 4 (cover), no. 6, vol. 3 (p. 229), Mar. 1920; "Comrade", The Canadian Magazine, vol. 62, no. 6, Nov. 1923 - Ap. 1924; "The Depression Ends", The Canadian Forum, vol. XIII, no. 145, Oct. 1932; "Francis Bacon", Canadian Comment, Nov. 1933; "The Nativity", Canadian Home Journal, Dec. 1949, p. 9; "A Tribute to a Poet: The Canada Council Medal for Dr. E.J. Pratt", The Atlantic Advocate, May 1962, p. 22, 24; "Erosion", Discovery, Feb. 20, 1966;  "Sea-Gulls", The London Free Press, Feb. 25, 1967

5 b&w photographs; 6 col. 35 mm slides

List of officers of the Toronto branch, Canadian Mental Health Association; n.d.; President: E.J. Pratt

2 photocopies: initial birth certificate stating: This is to certify the Edwin John Dove, son of Rev John & Fanny Pitts Pratt, was born on February 4th, 1882 at Western Bay, Nlfd, dated April 8, 1915

2 photocopies: Province of Newfoundland Canada, Certificate of Birth, No. 244056, for Edwin John Dove Pratt, date of registration: April 5, 1983

Programme of a memorial service to honour Charles Trick Currelly, Victoria College Chapel; eulogy given by E.J. Pratt

See also: Box 18, file 4 for invitation to memorial service

Programme for "Burns Nicht" dinner; "The Immortal Memory", submitted by Prof. Edwin J. Pratt

Daily Programme for the Canadian Chautauqua Muskoka Assembly, where Pratt gave a reading of his poems on July 30th [1928]

Programme for a recital by Cécile de Banke and the Toronto Verse Speaking Choir at the Harbord Collegiate Auditorium, sponsored by the Association of Teachers of Speech; Pratt's Dunkirk was one of the works performed

Two copies, one inscribed to Mrs. Pratt by Cécile de Banke

Programme for degree ceremony where Pratt received a honorary Doctor of Letters from University of Toronto

Programme for the Life and Death of Jean de Brébeuf by E.J. Pratt with music by Healy Willan, performed by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; reproduced quotations from "Brébeuf and his Brethren"; publisher's announcement of The Collected Poems; 2 copies

Dinner programme for dinner at the Library, St. Martin's House; holograph list of colleagues on verso; includes photocopy

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Programme for The Canadian Club of Toronto Sixty-First Anniversary “Salute to the Arts,” a Testimonial Dinner to A.Y. Jackson, E.J. Pratt, and Healey Willan, at Concert Hall, Royal York Hotel; includes facsimile of manuscript "Newfoundland Seamen" dated Sept. 1, 1958

2 copies

Programme for St.George's Society of Toronto's 122nd Annual Dinner, Royal York Hotel; toast, "St. George and England" by E.J. Pratt

Programme for Toronto Branch, Canadian Authors' Association Annual Dinner at St. George's Hall where Pratt wrote the menu

Photocopied programme; includes Pratt's poem "Greetings"

program, mimeographed;

Typescript; announcement for book signing for Brébeuf and His Brethren at Simpson's Book Department

Two copies

Announcement for the Queen's Summer Theatre Second Public Performance; E.J. Pratt was guest soloist; 2 copies, one with holograph note

Brochure for 9th Annual Southwest Writers Conference, May 31 - June 1, 2, 3, 1952, Corpus Christi, Texas; E.J. Pratt was on the staff

Publisher's brochure for Behind the Log; holograph note by Pratt

Anon. gift

Brochure listing portraits of Canadian writers and photographs of literary landmarks offered for sale by M.O. Hammond

Anon. gift

Brochure issued by Association of Canadian Clubs, Ottawa, for a recital tour by E.J. Pratt through Western Canada from September 11 to October 10, 1927; 2 copies

Anon. gift

Menu for Biltmore luncheon in honour of E.J. Pratt; includes holograph signatures

Menu for The Canadian Forum dinner; holograph signatures from colleagues on the back cover, including: E.K. Brown, Steven Cartwright, Charles Comfort, L.A. MacKay, Norman MacKenzie, Frank Underhill, and other persons

Victoria College Council Public Lecture series cards listing Pratt's lectures including: 1941: "Source Material for Contemporary Verse"; 1948: "Ironies and Echoes" ('Behind the Log'); 1950: "King Lear"

Two 1941 cards, one listing Rev. F. L. Barber on verso, the other listing Miss V. R. Cannom on verso; 1948 and 1950 cards list Miss V. R. Cannom on verso

Catalogue for the sixty-fifth (65th) annual exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, November 17 - December 17, 1944, Art Gallery of Toronto; includes reproduction of portrait of E.J. Pratt by Kenneth K. Forbes

Photocopied pages from The story of Methodism in Bonavista, by Charles Lench, 1919, regarding E.J. Pratt's father, Rev. John Pratt, and maternal grandfather, Rev. Richard Knight

Invitation card to Canadian Authors' Association reception celebrating Collected Poems

Typescript invitation to presentation of Civic Awards of Merit to John Keiller Mackay and Edwin John Pratt

1 b&w photograph

1 b&w photograph

Christmas card, illustrated, printed and hand-coloured by Claire Pratt, undated

Congratulations card; collaged card created by Viola Pratt for E.J. Pratt upon becoming Commander of St.Michael and St. George

typescript pamphlet of Phelp's poem Bobcaygeon with notes by Pratt; includes a holograph note by Pratt explaining acronyms used on print of poem

Holograph; poem presented to Ned at a dinner given by Frank and Lulu Stapleford on the occasion of the publication of The Iron Door. Stored in oversize folder.

Mimeographed; Book reviews of Pratt's Towards the Last Spike and the Northern Review Pratt Issue

Typescript (carbon copy); Radio broadcast of a book review of Pratt's The Titanic; Anon. gift

Typescript speech in memory of Ned [Pratt]; possibly for E.J. Pratt's 100th birthday party

Programme for the naming of the E.J. Pratt Library (3 copies); annotated typescript of reception speech given by Lorna D. Fraser, Chief Librarian of Victoria University, on the occasion of the naming of the E.J. Pratt Library; includes invitation to the ceremony celebrating the naming of the E.J. Pratt Library, with holograph inscription to Mrs. Pratt

Typescript, carbon copy, of the proceedings that took place at the opening of the E.J. Pratt Room of Contemporary Poetry, Oct. 15, 1964

Newspaper and magazine clippings on Pratt; newspaper and magazine clippings noting E.J. Pratt's death; Newspaper clippings on naming of E.J. Pratt Room and renaming of library to E.J. Pratt Library; includes "A Poet and a Legend" by Northrop Frye, Varsity Graduate, vol. 11, no. 6, June 1965; 2 copies of 1965 obituary by Northrop Frye reprinted from Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada

Typescript; contains holograph notes on verso of leafs

Annotated typescript of article published in Acta Victoriana, Mar. 1955; includes envelope with holograph presentation note to Pratt

Typescript, signed; Speech presenting E.J. Pratt for the honorary degree of D. Litt, honoris causa

Mimeographed typescripts; 2 copies; address given at Pratt's funeral service in Convocation Hall

Mimeographed typescript; script for Speaking Personally, CBC broadcast; Anon. gift

Mimeographed typescript; Resolution prepared by Northrop Frye; includes typescript covering letter from A.B.B. Moore to Mrs. E.J. Pratt

2 typescript copies; signed by Claude Bissell, President, and W.D. Foulds, Secretary; includes covering letter from W.D. Foulds to Mrs. E.J. Pratt dated June 23, 1964

Typescript; with typescript letter from R.H. Farquharson, secretary of Victoria College Council, to Mrs. E.J. Pratt

Print copy of article published in Journal of English and Foreign Languages, No. 26, December 2000, pp. 63-71

Transcript; with letter to Pratt from Reaney forwarding copy of paper delivered at Humanities Association Meeting, Winnipeg, 1955; includes envelope

Correct typescript; carbon copy drafts; undated; account of official retirement dinner for Pratt, at Burwash Hall. Victoria College, and is made Professor Emeritus

See also: Box 9, file 69 for address Pratt delivered at the dinner titled "Reminiscences of university, highlights and lowlights"

Printed article in The Canadian Author & Bookman, vol. 39, no. 2, Winter 1963, on the beginnings of the CPM and role of E.J. Pratt as founding editor

Typescript article published in the Toronto Star

Typescript article and cover story printed in The United Church Observer, pp. 10-11, 40; magazine addressed to Miss Florence Pratt; two copies of article, one with magazine cover

See also: Box 31, File 6 for additional copy of article

Typescript article and interview with E.J. Pratt

Photocopy of article from The Daily News, St. John's Nfld., printed in C.A.C.U.L. Newsletter, No. 3, 15 XII,1964

Typescript article printed in The United Church Observer, pp. 32

Typescript pamphlet on the Pratt Editorial Project; includes a facsimile of a published version of Pratt's "Newfoundland Seamen"

Printed article published in The Globe Magazine, pp. 9-11; 2 copies, 1 incomplete

See also: Box 31, File 8 for additional complete copy of magazine

Special edition of Vic Report, Vol. 7, No. 3, Summer Issue, on E.J. Pratt, includes articles by Northrop Frye, Robert C. Brandeis, and C.C. Love

See also: Box 31, File 8 for additional copy

St. Andrew's United Church programme of Morning Worship at Eleven; includes a memorial to E.J. Pratt by Mrs. Viola Pratt and Claire Pratt with excerpts from his poem "The Depression Ends"

Two copies

Programme for the opening of the E.J. Pratt Room of Contemporary Poetry; addresses from Northrop Frye, Leonard W. Brockington, and Viola L. Pratt

Two copies

Programme of "The Pratt Symposium, 1976" held at the University of Ottawa, Apeil 30 - May 2, 1976; two copies; includes a guide to the E.J. Pratt exhibit held at the same time as the symposium

Mimeographed order to service for Pratt's funeral service; 2 copies

Four first-day covers (one autographed by Claire Pratt and Viola Whitney Pratt); First Day of Issue envelope; two Commemorative Stamp Bulletin pamphlets; Colorano "Silk" Cachet portrait of Pratt; three envelopes with portraits of Pratt and Laure Conan

Broadside invitation to the E.J. Pratt's 100th birthday celebration

12 colour photographs

5 b&w photographs and 2 contact sheets of guests and speakers, including Northrop Frye, Mrs. Pratt, Leonard Brockington, and A.B.B. Moore

4 b&w photographs, 3 colour prints, and 1 contact sheet of guests and speakers, including Mrs. Pratt and A.B.B. Moore

Tearsheets with slightly abridged text of interview with E.J. Pratt conducted by Ronald Hambleton published in CBC Times, Mar. 6-12, Mar. 20-26, 1955; Anon gift

See also: Box 31, File 6, for a complete edition of the CBC Times, March 6-12 edition

Typescript; broadcast by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, June 22, 1955

Typescript and carbon copy; sung to the tune of Squid-Jigging Ground; 2 copies

Poem about Pratt published in The Village Voice, April 1967, p. 41

Typescript and holograph limericks by George Herbert Clarke and Mrs. [Richard] Cartwright; manuscript titled by Viola Pratt

Typescript poet with a note to Mrs. Brook

Typescript; corrected typescript inscribed to Ned and Vi [Pratt]

Printed cartoon described authors at a convention

Printed cartoon published in Acta Victoriana

Copy of printed drawing from the dinner programme for a honorary dinner held on the publication of The Titanic; pasted on board with typescript "Beginner's Luck" pasted underneath drawing

See also: Box 15, file 2 for the dinner programme

Pencil sketch made in class by a former student, pasted onto a board

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20 b&w photographs; 2 sepia photographs

5 b&w photographs

5 b&w photographs

3 b&w photographs; 1 sepia photograph

7 b&w photographs; 1 colour photograph

31 b&w photographs; 1 sepia photograph

16 b&w photographs; 1 colour photograph

1 b&w photograph; 1 sepia photograph

53 photographs: 35 mm b&w negatives; 11 photographs: 4x5 inch b&w negatives

Holograph letter to Pratt; includes annotated typescript draft of chapter on Pratt's poetry titled , "Between the Temple and the Cave: The Poetry of E.J. Pratt"

Carbon copy typescript letter sent to Pratt regarding the Canadian Poetry Magazine.

Telegram from Mike Pearson in 1953 conveying best wishes at a dinner; telegrams sent on Pratt's 76th birthday in 1958; telegram dated 1963 regarding Pratt's message at the Canada Council; includes holograph list of names of letters sent by Pratt acknowledging 80th birthday greetings

Excerpts of Pratt's poems including "Sea-Gulls," The Titanic, The Roosevelt and the Antinoe, "The Shark," and Brébeuf and his Brethren published in The Telegram Weekend Magazine, vol. 16, no. 33

Holograph poems; includes "The Bird of Paradise," "Erosion," and "Mother and Child"; includes 2 b&w photographs of "Erosion" holograph and 1 4x5 inch b&w negative of "Erosion" holograph
 

Published in New World Illustrated (December 10, 1941), pp. 7

Published in The Canadian Forum, 22 (December 1942), pp. 264-265

Published in Maclean's, 58 (June 15, 1945), pp. 5-6

Photocopied pages from pamphlet titled United to Serve: A Pictorial Presentation by Dezil G. Ridout, 1927, which includes lyrics for hymns by Pratt

Pratt was the Honorary President for the graduating class to 1926; includes: holograph speech and speech notes for a reunion; 2 copies of typescript speech for a reunion; Typescript of poems "MM and a Little Bit More" - Two Versions and "Like Mother, Like Daughter"; Programme for 2T6 Victoria Silver Anniversary, October 27, 1951; list of graduates of Class of 1926, dated August 1961; "Class of 2T6" by K. and D Bernhardt published in Victoria Reports, December 1966; leaf from a copy of Victoria Reports, "Twenty-Fifth Reunion, Class of 1926" by John A. Irving; Programme for 2T6 Victoria 50th Anniversary of Graduation, June 4. 1976; menu for undated reunion

Programme and menu for the Canadian Authors’ Association Annual Dinner

Programme and menu for The International Reading Association's fourth annual Luncheon at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto

Publisher's advertising announcement for The Collected Poems

Typescript card advertising poems published by The Macmillan Company

Typescript invitation for a dinner in honour of E.J. Pratt on November 9th; holograph inscription, "Professor and Mrs. E.J. Pratt"

Christmas card to Ned [Pratt] from unknown writer with a poem celebrating Pratt's literary success

Christmas card printed by Hallmark with printed poem, "Dialogue in December" by Mark Van Doren; holograph inscription possibly by Ned [Pratt]; card copyright: 1948 to Mark Van Doren

Two typescript articles by Pelham Edgar including: "Stephen Leacock," offprint from Queen's Quarterly, vol. LIII, no. 2, 1946; "The Museum Fetish," reprinted from the University of Toronto Quarterly, col. XVII, no. 2, January 1948; also includes holograph note regarding Pelham Edgar by unknown writer

Typescript poem with facsimile signature of William Rose Benét with additional signature from Marjorie Flack and William Rose Benét, Christmas 1949

Ink portrait possibly of Leonard W. Brockington

Newspaper clipping of book review of Brébeuf and his Brethren by William Arthur Deacon

Newspaper clipping of review of Many Moods by Isabel M. Jordan published in The Canadian Microscope

Photocopies of typescript and holograph letters. Includes copies of pages from diary of Winnie Rowles; copies of sketches made in Winnie Rowles’ guest book by Carl Schaefer.

File also includes copies of correspondence with Victoria University Library.

Two typescript letters to Viola Pratt, one from Norrie [Northrop H. Frye], and the other from A.B.B. Moore, regarding the opening of the Pratt Room and renaming of the E.J. Pratt Library

Published in The Atlantic Advocate, Vol. 52, No. 9, May 1962, pp. 22-23; includes sections from various poems by Pratt

See also: Box 31, File 8 for additional copy

Typescript article published in the Martyrs' Shrine Message, vol. 30, no. 4, December 1966, pp. 9-13

See also: Box 31, File 6 for additional copy

Typescript article published in Saturday Night, Vol. 73, No. 3, February 1, 1958, pp. 14-15, 35

See also: Box 31, File 8 for additional copy

Photocopy of typescript article printed in The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture, edited by David Staines, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977. pp. 46-68

Published in The Atlantic Advocate; includes sections from various poems by Pratt

See also: Box 31, File 6 duplicate copy

Biography published in the Star Weekly, pp. 8

See also: Box 31, File 8 for additional copy

Published in The Canadian Forum

Published in the Riverdale Collegiate Institute's yearbook, Reveille

Published in The Globe Magazine, pp. 15-17

Published in the E.J. Central High school paper, Pratt Herald

Newspaper and magazine clippings on Pratt, his poetry, his death, and commemorative articles and ceremonies in his honour

Published in the Canadian Library Journal, vol. 34, no. 4 (August 197), pp. 273-294; Includes 2 holograph letters to Mrs. [Viola] Pratt, one dated 27, September '76, regarding the progress on an annotated bibliography of Pratt's work and works on Pratt; Also includes an annotated typescript biography on Pratt titled, "An Annotated Bibliography of E.J. Pratt," compiled by Lila and Raymond Laakso with the assistance of Moira Allen and Marjorie Linden

Typescript leaflet of address given by Rev. John H. Morgan to The First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto

2 copies in Box 46

Birthday greetings from several Grade 4 pupils, including drawings inspired by E.J. Pratt’s poems

See also: Box 14, file 12, for Pratt's thanks for birthday greetings

Photocopies of dramatic reading of Brébeuf and his Brethren produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, broadcasted in 1948, musical accompaniment by Healey Willan

Photocopies of material held at the National Library of Canada. See description held with material.

See also: Box 33, Tape no. 10 and Box 36 for audio recordings of this production

Annotated typescript and photocopied typescript drafts of both published and unpublished poetry including: "Newfoundland Calling," "The Deed," "The Unromantic Moon," "Summit Meeting (Keep on Talking)," "The Osprey," "But One Way," "Bereft," "A Song to the Valiant," "Today," and 'Yesterday"

holograph; includes holograph notes on history of the holograph

Annotated typescript (carbon copy); Annotated printed volume (Toronto: Macmillan, 1940); includes holograph donation note; donated by Mrs. Philip N. Bridges (Marjorie hismen Bridges), June 1985

Typed transcriptions and photocopies of holograph completed and uncompleted poetry, some published and some unpublished; includes: "A Cold March," "To the Armistice on its twelfth anniversary," 'The Merry Company," "The Haunted House," "Spring," "Explorers," "All in the Day," "Courage was riding high," "The human doctor," "The Illusion of Reality," "His Last Voyage," and "Haile’s Dream"

Programme and menu for Victoria University's Centenary Dinner at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto

Typescript invitation from The Royal Ontario Museum and Victoria University for a memorial service for Charles Trick Curelly

See also: Box 15, file 2 for the memorial service programme

Pratt's membership card for The Empire Club of Canada, expired on 30th September, 1959

Decorative card with holograph inscription, possibly from E.J. Pratt to Viola Pratt

Signed print held in board frame; signature unclear

Two typescript letters regarding donations to the E.J. Pratt Ms. Collection

holograph poem possibly by Peggy [Margaret V.] Ray for Pratt's birthday; includes letter from Viola [Pratt] to Bob [Robert C. Brandeis], dated 18 Nov. '86 wanting the poem's inclusion in the Pratt manuscript collection

Typescript list of items included in an exhibition on Pratt 

Holograph birthday card to Vi [Viola Pratt] and Claire [Pratt]; undated and unsigned, though possibly from E.J. Pratt

Typescript copy of Rudyard Kipling's "Proofs of Holy Writ", originally published in Strand Magazine in April 1934, and republished in 1947, which Viola asked E.J. to send her; includes accompanying envelope but missing letter

Telegram from Ned to Mrs E.J. Pratt of his arrival in Newfoundland

2 typescript letters to Vi [Pratt] from Calvert Pratt, her nephew and younger son of E.J. Pratt's brother Calvert (Cal) Coates Pratt, regarding travel plans, family news, and school work

Holograph letter to E.J. and Viola from Jim, regarding Ned's visit to Newfoundland to deliver a lecture

Holograph letter to Vi and Ned from Ernestine [Whitney], Viola's sister-in-law, regarding Pratt's poetry reading and family news

Holograph; 3 outgoing letters to Ira [Dilworth?]; one undated

Holograph; outgoing correspondence to Helen Husband Patterson(?) thanking her for her note

Typescript; incoming correspondence from (Mrs.) Donna Lee Lyons, Literary Rights Office, Contract Office of CBC, asking permission to read one of Pratt's poems with no charge

Typescript; incoming correspondence from (Mrs.) Donna Lee Lyons, Literary Rights Office, Contract Office of CBC, asking permission to read one of Pratt's poems for a nominal fee

Typescript; incoming correspondence from (Miss) G.F. McCance, Supervisor of School Broadcasts, Provinve of Manitob Department of Education, asking Pratt for permission to print his poems in teacher manuals

Typescript; incoming correspondence from John M. Milne, Secretary of the Bowater Awards for Journalism, thanking Pratt for attending an upcoming dinner and outlining transportation

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Margaret Musselman, Director, Province of British Columbia Department of Education, asking Pratt to conduct a broadcast of his poems

Typescript; incoming correspondence from (Mrs.) Marion A. Taylor, Contact Assistant, National Script Dept. CBC, requesting permission to read Brébeuf and his Brethren

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Albert W. T congratulating Pratt on his Canada Council Medal; includes announcement notice of the creation of The Canada Council Medal and  and the first list of Canada Council Medal winners, which includes Pratt

Telegram from Claude Bissell, informing Pratt that he was selected to receive the Canada Council Medal

Typescript; incoming correspondence from D.M. Bourdais, regarding Pratt's shares in Toronto Harker Mines Limited

Typescript; incoming correspondence from L.W. Brockington, thanking for a wire

Typescript; incoming correspondence from A. Comas, notifying Pratt of his inclusion in an upcoming "Universal Literary Encyclopedia"

Typescript, incoming correspondence from Kildare Dobbs, Editor at Macmillan's, congratulating Pratt on the Canada Council Medal

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Louis Dudek regarding preparation of an anthology of Hungarian poetry

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Eleanor (Wilbur) Earing, regarding his upcoming birthday and mutual friends

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Ralph and Betty [Gustafson], regarding a trip to Vienna and an organ recital they saw; include envelope and typescript of notes taken during the recital

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Fred [C. Henderson], regarding Pratt's fire insurance policy and their friendship

Holograph; incoming correspondence from Ernie [Howse], with attached newspaper clipping of article written by Howse on Pratt titled, "The Unsilent Sea"

Typescript; incoming correspondence from W.A.H. MacBrien, notifying Pratt of the decision to elected him as an honorary member of The York Club

Typescript; incoming correspondence from W. Frank Prendergast, congratulating Pratt on Canada Council Medal

Holograph; card from Peggy [Ray], noting popularity of Pratt's portrait by Kenneth Forbes at the New Library; Holograph letter from Peggy [M.V. Ray] to Vi and Ned, detailing her trip in Ireland

Typescript; incoming correspondence from John Short, congratulating Pratt on CBC recital

Typescript; incoming correspondence from The Macmillan Company, notifying Pratt that they are sending a copy of The Blasted Pine

Typescript; incoming correspondence from Don W. Thomson, offering congratulations on Canada Council Medal

Typescript, incoming correspondence from A.W. Trueman:

October 18, 1961; congratulating Pratt on his Canada Council Medal; includes announcement notice of the creation of The Canada Council Medal and  and the first list of Canada Council Medal winners, which includes Pratt

September 27, 1961; confirming Canada Council Medal distinction

December 22, 1961; notifying Pratt on details of Canada Council Medal presentation dinner

January 9, 1962; detailing the Canada Council Medal presentation dinner

Typescript letter to Members of the Golden 'T' Class of 1911, enclosing a list of names and addresses of members of Pratt's 1T1 college class

Holograph; undated incoming correspondence from Henry W. Wells, 

Mimeographed typescript

Annotated typescript radio broadcast for Ontario School Broadcast series, Our Canadian Bookshelf, which interviewed Pratt on his poems; includes typescript letter and accompanying typescript draft of interview to Pratt from M.E. LaFountaine

Undated typescript radio interview with Pratt discussing The Titanic

Annotated typescript of Ontario School Broadcasts series, Senior English, radio interview with Pratt discussing The Titanic

Typescript drafts, some annotated, of published poems including: "Mother and Child," "Fire," "The Drowning," "The Weather Glass," "Carlo," "The Doctor in the Boat," "The Ice-Floes," "The morning plunge," 'In Absentia," "Cries Afar Off," "Ode to December, 1917," "Newfoundland Calling," "Summit Meetings," "Myth and Fact," and "The Child and The Wren" (with inscription “To Claire”); includes newspaper clipping of "Newfoundland Calling"

Holograph, annotated typescript, carbon copies, and photocopies of drafts of both published and unpublished poetry including: "Mother and Child," "Cherries," "Tatterhead," "The Deed," "The Good Earth," "Myth and Fact," "To G.B.S.," "To D.H. Lawrence," "Displaced," "Greeting to the Goggios," "The Fisher Boy," "Steep Are Thy Cliffs," "Moonlight," "First-Born of England," "The Nativity," "Lake Success," "Blind from Singapore (Our orders are to burn the city)," "To Any Astronomer," "A Call," "The Dear Illusion," "The Unromantic Moon," "The Bird of Paradise," "Summit Meetings," "Old Harry," and "A Song to the Valiant"

Holograph and typescript drafts of poem in commemoration of Queen's Elizabeth II's visit to Canada; includes newspaper clipping of poem published in The Telegram, Aug. 1, 1959

Annotated typescripts and carbon copies of drafts of Clay

Holograph notes for Towards the Last Spike; part of paper missing

Annotated typescript of a play; undated and unsigned, possibly written by E.J. Pratt

Loose holograph notes by E.J. Pratt on his writings, awards, and friends

Typescript, with holograph signatures, licence agreement allowing CBC to perform E.J. Pratt

Typescript, with holograph signatures, licence agreement allowing CBC to perform Pratt's poem The Cachalot; includes accompanying typescript letter to Pratt from (Mrs.) Marion A. Taylor, Contract Assistant, National Script Department of CBC

Typescript, with holograph signatures, licence agreement allowing CBC to perform Pratt's poem The Cachalot

Typescript, with holograph signatures, licence agreement allowing CBC to perform Pratt's poem The Titanic

Typescript and holograph licence agreement allowing CBC to perform Pratt's poem "The Deed"

Includes: Honorary Doctorate of Letters received from Assumption College (now University of Windsor), 1955; speech given during Honorary Degree ceremony at Assumption College; directions for Dr. Pratt during a Convocation ceremony; letter to Professor E.J. Pratt from T.H. Matthews, McGill University Registrar, noting date of honorary degree Convocation at McGill University; 2 programmes for Bishop's University Convocation ceremony, held on June 17, 1949, where Pratt received a Honorary Degree; programme for Assumption College Third Convocation ceremony, held on June 4, 1955, with Order of Procession leaflet, where Pratt received a Honorary Degree; and University of New Brunswick Convocation ceremony, held on May 16, 1957, where Pratt received a Honorary Degree

Originally kept in decorative black leather with cloth interior folder from Assumption College to hold honorary degree

See also: Box 11, file 5 for Honorary Degrees Pratt received

Pratt's Canadian passport issued on January 16, 1942 and expired January 16, 1944

   Programme for St. George's Day event hosted by the National Council of Education of Canada and held at Massey Hall, Toronto

Menu for the dinner in honour of the publication of The Roosevelt and the Antinoe

Menu for The Canada Council Medal Dinner held at The Country Club; includes holograph signatures on front, back, and inside of pamphlet from guests at the dinner

Typescript invitation for a dinner in honour of Canada Council medal winners, where E.J. Pratt was a winner; holograph inscription, "Dr. and Mrs. E.J. Pratt"; includes card with list of Canada Council Medal Winners, 1961

1 b&w photograph; Inscription on recto: From your very sincere admirer, Lotto McNeill

1 sepia photograph; Inscription on board surrounding photograph: Merry Christmas Happy New Year | To Dr. Mrs. Ned Pratt - A small souvenir. Thank u both

Inscription on recto identifies individuals in the photograph

Photograph possibly from public book signing for Brébeuf and His Brethren at the Simpson's Book Department

3 b&w photographs; 2 sepia photograph; 1 4x5 inch b&w negative

1 b&w photograph

Holograph Christmas card from Ned to Vi; small and delicate

Holograph; Japanese translation of  "'Twas in the moon of wintertime" (first sung in Japan at a children's Christmas part in Okayama) present to Dr. Pratt.; includes drawings of Huron Aboriginal Peoples

Typescript; undated poem by unknown author

Inscription on verso: Ned and Milton

Possibly a sketch of John Wesley and E.J. Pratt

Holograph notebook with addresses of friends and colleagues

Holograph appointment book

Newspaper clippings of articles from The Globe and Mail by Pratt's friends and colleagues, including: book reviews by William Arthur Deacon, and an article by Earle Birney

Typescript script of radio broadcast including reminisces on Pratt

Undated typescript radio script discussing Canadian poetry and the poetry of E.J. Pratt

Typescript review of Pratt's Collected Poems (1944) published in The Canadian Forum

Annotated typescript review of Pratt's Towards the Last Spike

Typescript letter asking for copyright permission to include lines of Pratt's poem "Erosion" with a music composition

2 Typescript letters and 1 holograph letter, updating Viola Pratt on the E.J. Central High School in Newfoundland

See also: Viola Leone Whitney Pratt fond, Box 1, file 1 for additional correspondence from Button to Viola Pratt on the high school

Eulogy published in Canadian Poetry, XXVIII.4 [August 1964]; Includes "Silence Upon the Earth" by Northrop Frye, an article on Pratt

Annotated typescript (original manuscript) of a talk given by Earle Birney on E.J. Pratt; includes accompanying envelope dated 18, June '82

Typescript of speech given in honour of Pratt during presentation of University of Alberta's National Fine Arts Award

Newspaper clippings including obituaries, biographies, review of a biography on Pratt, notice of unpublished poetry released by Viola and Claire Pratt, and a review of an anthology of Pratt's works

Newspaper clipping of article regarding Pratt's honorary Doctorate of Letters from University of Manitoba, including a picture of Pratt receiving the degree

Commencement programme for the North Toronto Collegiate Institute; includes The E.J. Pratt Memorial Prize for Poetry

Typescript list of items included in the Pratt Library

Original correspondence; 188 outgoing

See also: Box 12, Files 1-4 for photocopies for use

Restricted for conservation purposes

Original correspondence; 141 outgoing

See also: Box 13, Files 1-4 for photocopies for use

Restricted for conservation purposes

Black scrapbook containing birthday greetings for Pratt's birthday; E.J. Pratt's 80th birthday would have been in 1962

2 b&w photographs; 2 sepia photographs

2 scrapbooks (1 blue and 1 brown) containing newspaper clippings regarding Pratt including: Pratt as a professor, his honorary degrees and awards, reviews of his works, events attended, birthday tributes, and eulogies

Fragile: contains loose clippings and scrapbook paper fragile to handle

Advertising poster for E.J. Pratt: the truant years, 1882-1927 by David G. Pitt

Kept rolled in tissue paper inside a tube

Two ink drawings of Pratt; includes accompanying correspondence to Ms Mila Laasko from Don Evans AKA Isaac Bickerstaff, regarding the drawings

Ink illustration for cover of Newfoundland Verse

Enlarged pencil illustration for cover of The Iron Door

2 large b&w photographs; both attributed to Ashley & Crippen, though one also attributed to Randolph Macdonald elsewhere

Oil painting; inscription on reverse: J.C. Pratt was Grandfather of Christopher Pratt

Print of original drawing by Benjamin Russell; label on housing: This work hung in E.J. Pratt's den at his home as long as his daughter Claire can remember

Print; inscription on recto: This is Dr. Pratt coming down the walk so jauntily, and in the car is Wilson MacDonald waiting to take him for a ride; Under the circumstances I felt you both should see the sketch, and since you need it greatly in view of the ominous forecast contained by the picture, I will add gratio, and very heartily, my somewhat mad wishes fo a merry Christmas and a happy new year - T? Davidson

Enlarged promotional poster on wood backing for E.J. Pratt commemorative stamp depicting artwork by Claire Pratt

Coloured pencil sketch of E.J. Pratt by Grant Macdonald

http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/collections/special_collections/f20_edwin_john_pratt

Hood and gown likely from his University of Toronto PhD graduation

The academic gown was donated by the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2014.

6 honorary hoods from various institutions where Pratt received honorary degrees

2 Q.S.S.A. golf trophies, one for qualifying round winner (1940); both very fragile.

Fragile, please handle with care

Medals relating to various honours, most in original presentation boxes, including: silver medal received with Bachelor of Arts degree for for standing second in his class (1911); Sandford Gold Medal he received with his Bachelor of Divinity degree (1913); Governor-General's Annual Literary Award medal (1937); Lorne Pierce Medal for Literature  (1940); Governor-General's Annual Literary Award medal (1940); Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St George medal badge (1946); University of Alberta's National Fine Arts Award medal (1952); Governor-General's Annual Literary Award medal (1952); Corporation of the City of Toronto Civic Award Medal (1959); Canada Council Medal (1962)   

Typescript draft of biography on Pratt; with revised, amended, and additional pages (not incorporated into the manuscript) in a separate folder; undated

Typescript draft of biography on Pratt; with revised, amended, and additional pages incorporated into manuscript; includes letter of donation to Ms. Lila Laakso from Gerry, University of Toronto Press Editorial Department, dated January 7, 1988

Photocopied copy of typescript draft of the introduction to Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, edited by Peter Buitenhuis (Toronto: Macmillan, 1968); includes typescript table of contents for the book; includes accompanying typescript letter to Claire Pratt from Diane, College-Medical Books Department of Macmillan, dated May 1, 1967

Annotated typescript drafts of book regarding Pratt and his literary work; File 2 contains drafts of parts of book; draft of complete book in File 3 originally housed in duotang folder titled "E.J. Pratt | Sandra Djwa | January, 1972"

Annotated typescript draft of study of Pratt's poetry

9 microfilm rolls of Pratt's manuscripts, including drafts of poems, radio broadcasts, drama, professional materials, and other prose in Boxes 1-10

Labels on microfilm rolls and contents of rolls incorrect

12 microfilm rolls of copies of theses on E.J. Pratt;
Beckmann, Susan Alison: Pratt on Pratt: the prose commentaries of E.J. Pratt
Clark, James Murray: E.J. Pratt and the Will to Believe: an examination of his unpublished Clay and his poetry
Coles, Baxter Matthew: Man as Hero: a study of E.J. Pratt's concept of heroism
Conrad, Brother: The Dialectic of Love and Ferocity in the Shorter Poems of E.J. Pratt
Dorothy Marie, Sister: The Poetic Imagery of Edwin John Pratt
Gibbs, Robert J.: Aspects of Irony in the Poetry of E.J. Pratt
Helen Mahoney, Sister: Edwin John Pratt: Canadian poet
MacLeod, Denise Anne: The Narrative Technique of E.J. Pratt.
Mary Rosalinda, Sister: Brebeuf and his Brethren: a great Canadian poem
Mensch, Fred: Aspects of Heroism and Evolution in Some Poems by E.J. Pratt
Stonehewer, Lila Lavinia: An Interpretation of Symbols in the Work of E.J. Pratt
Thorpe, John B.: Man and Religion in the Poetry of E.J. Pratt.

For more information regarding individual microfilm rolls, see records in University of Toronto Libraries catalogue

Microfiche copy of thesis on E.J. Pratt; includes 3 microfiche sheets with 222 images

For more information see University of Toronto Libraries catalogue record: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/2051057

Two poems, "Blind" and "The Text of the Oath" published posthumously in issue of Acta Victoriana, Centennial 1878-1978, Vol. 102, No. 2, Fall 1978, pp. 55; includes interview with Northrop Frye who speaks about Pratt (pp. 53-54)

Excerpts of verses from Dunkirk, including "The Crew," "The Multipedes on the Roads," and "In the Skies"; Reproduced in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Vol. LIX, No. 1, October 1941, pp. 10-15

Published in Acta Victoriana, War Supplement, December 1919, pp. 7

Published in The Canadian Forum, Vol. VI, No. 62, November 1925, pp. 47-51

See also: notes: Box 1, Files 4, 5, 8; Box 2, File 15

Published in The Canadian Forum, Vol. II, No. 19, April 1922, pp. 591-93

Printed in The London Mercury, Vol. XVII, No. 99, January 1928, pp. 244, edited by J.C. Squire

Fragile, handle with care

Published in Douglas Library Notes, vol. XII, no. 2, Spring 1963; reproduction of verses cut from the published version of The Witches' Brew, but found in a typescript edition of the poem part of the Edith and Lorne Pierce Collection of Canadiana at Queen's University, and considered the sole extant copy of the original version of The Witches' Brew by Pratt

Clipping of reproduction the cover design for the journal World Friends, which includes Pratt's poem "The Manger Under the Star"; Reproduced and published in The Canadian Historical Review, December 1938, pp. i

Published in The Canadian Forum, Vol. XVIII, No. 215, December 1938, pp. 274-75

First publication of poem, "The Unromantic Moon," published in Canadian Author & Bookman, vol. 34, no. 1, Spring 1958, pp. 17; includes a short biography on Pratt on pp. 16

See also: Box 18, File 1 and Box 19, File 5, for drafts of the poem

Published in Acta Victoriana, Vol. 48. No. 3, December 1923, pp. 16 [Pratt served as Literary Adviser.]; Portrait of Pratt in Editorials of Acta Victoriana, October 1923, incomplete

Reprinted from the University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. VIII, No. 1, October 1938

Published in Quill & Quire, Vol. 1, No. 3, Summer 1935, pp. 11

Published in Acta Victoriana, Vol. XXXVII, No. 6, March 1913, pp. 300-304

Fragile, handle with care

Newspaper clipping from The Globe, dated Saturday, June 13, 1914, with photograph of E.J. Pratt as Mace-bearer during Convocation ceremony

Fragile, handle with care

3 issues of Acta Victoriana, one where Viola Whitney [Pratt] was part of editorial staff

Fragile, handle with care

Transcript of complete radio broadcast series, "Great Canadians," by W. Brock MacMurray, where he discusses notable Canadians; Talk No. 38 - Series No. III on E.J. Pratt, originally broadcast on June 15, 1947; originally housed in accompanying duotang

Review of the second edition of Pratt's Collected Poems (Toronto: Macmillan, 1958) and Pratt's literary works reprinted from University of Toronto Quarterly; undated; with inscription "To Dr. E.J. Pratt, with best wishes, Frank Watt"

Feature on E.J. Pratt in Acta Victoriana, Vol. 106, No. 2, Spring 1982, pp.8-29; includes: articles on Pratt by Northrop Frye, Alexandra F. Johnston, Kathleen Coburn, and Ken MacLean; reproductions of his poetry; interview with Dr. Fred Stokes on Pratt; facsimiles of his notes, and reproductions of photographs of Pratt

Published in the Martyrs' Shrine Message, vol. 30, no. 4, December 1966, pp. 9-13

See also: Box 17, File 1 for additional copy

Clippings of 2 articles on Pratt published in The Canadian Forum: "Postprandial Thanks to E.J. Pratt (on his seventy-fifth birthday)" by Earle Birney, September 1958; "Ned Pratt's Funeral" by George Johnston, June 1964

Published in University of Toronto Review, Vol. 6, Spring 1982, pp. 19-23; inscribed to Northrop Frye on pp. 19

Published in issue of Northern Review, Vol. 5, Nos. 3-4, February-March & April-May 1952, pp. 36-64, devoted to E.J. Pratt; includes Pratt's poem "The Great Feud," pp. 3-35

Published in The Atlantic Advocate, pp. 40-41; includes sections from various poems by Pratt

See also: Box 17, File 1 duplicate copy

Typescript article and cover story printed in The United Church Observer, pp. 10-11, 40

See also: Box 15, File 12 for additional copies of article

Published in The Canadian Author & Bookman, vol. 38, no. 3, Spring 1963, pp. 2, 20

Article on Canadian literature, which mentions Pratt; published in Food for Thought, Vol. 10, No. 8, May 1950, pp. 1-8

Photocopy of article mentioning Pratt, published in The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, April 7, 1982; inscription notes from Prof. C. Love)

Published in The Atlantic Advocate, pp. 13-21

Published in The Atlantic Advocate, Vol. 52, No. 9, May 1962, pp. 22-23; includes sections from various poems by Pratt

See also: Box 17, File 1 for additional copy

Typescript article published in Saturday Night, Vol. 73, No. 3, February 1, 1958, pp. 14-15, 35

See also: Box 17, File 1 for additional copy

Biography published in the Star Weekly, pp. 8

See also: Box 17, File 1 for additional copy

Article published in CBC Times, Vol. 13, No. 31, Feb. 4-10, summarizing an upcoming interview with Pratt on CBC-TV's "Close-Up"

Published in Maclean's, Vol. 57, No. 22, November 15, 1944, pp. 15, 24, 26, 28

Fragile, handle with care

Published in The Globe Magazine, pp. 9-11

See also: Box 15, File 12 for 2 additional copies, 2 incomplete

Special edition of Vic Report, Vol. 7, No. 3, Summer Issue, on E.J. Pratt, includes articles by Northrop Frye, Robert C. Brandeis, and C.C. Love

See also: Box 15, File 12 for additional copy

First half of text of interview with E.J. Pratt conducted by Ronald Hambleton published in CBC Times, Vol. 1, No. 34, Mar. 6-12

See also: Box 15, File 11 for tearsheets from CBC Times with full interview

Interview with Northrop Frye, where he discusses E.J. Pratt; published in The Strand, Vol. 20, No. 7, Wednesday, March 1, 1978, pp. 5-11

Pamphlet published by University of Toronto Press highlighting works on Atlantic Studies including the book E.J. Pratt on His Life and Poetry edited by Susan Gingell

Dramatic radio adaption of E.J. Pratt's poem, Brébeuf and His Brethren (alternative title: Life and Death of John de Brébeuf); total program (60); CBC Ref. 430926-1D

1 audio cassette; 1 audio reel

Harvard Vocarium Records P-1124-27; recorded for the Poetry Room, Harvard College Library, 1949

2 audio cassettes

Delivered at St. John’s, Newfoundland, Jan. 27, 1949 (CBC Ref. T-9915-24); and Address to St. John’ Rotary Club, 27 January 1949

2 audio cassettes

See also: Box 36 for audio discs

E.J. Pratt reading selections from his Collected Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), recorded March 1956

1 audio cassette; 1 audio reel : 19 cm/sec (3 copies, one damaged)

A sound biography for "Assignment" produced by H.J. Boyle for the CBC, Toronto; recorded May 1, 1958

1 audio cassette; 1 audio reel (31 min) : 19 cm/sec; 1 audio reel

Recorded December 15, 1960 in Old Victoria College Library

1 audio cassette; 1 audio reel : 19 cm/sec (2 copies); copy 1: original tape records on track 3 only, do not lend this copy

E.J. Pratt discusses his life and works in an interview with J. Frank Willis. Topics included are his career as a teacher, his invention of a universal lung-healer, preaching, the subjects of his M.A. and PhD. thesis (demonology and Hell), his work in psychology, his pleasure at receiving the Companion of St. Michael and St. George, the writing of Brébeuf and His Brethren, being unofficial poet laureate, and how he spends his days. CBC Ref. 730410-1

1 audio cassette; 1 audio reel

Cassette #1: Side 1 - 1 May 1976 - University of Ottawa, Biographical discussion: Fred Cogswell, Ralph Gustafson, Carl Klink.; Side 2 - Continuation of side 1; cont. onto tape 2

Cassette #5: Side 1 - Cont. from Cass. 4, side 2 30 mins; Sude 2 - Cont. from side 1 - Paper the 1920 18 mins. 3:00 p.m.-4.15 p.m. - Brebeuf its source & critics. 12 mins. Cont.

Not to be published without permission of the speakers and Ottawa University

2 audio cassettes; Cassettes #2–4 are missing

Loose audio cassette with recordings of poems by E.J. Pratt, T.S. Eliot, Robinson Jeffers, Stephen Spender, and W.B. Yeats/Speaicrht

1 audio cassette

Dramatic adaptation of E.J. Pratt’s poem The Cachalot, CBC Stage Series, 1964 (CBC Ref. 640315-10[2]); with Opening Ceremonies of E.J. Pratt Memorial Room at Victoria University (continued from Box 36, Tape No. 15)

1 audio reel; 1 audio cassette (included with Box 36, No. 15)

Music and Musicians in Canada series, Music '67 series; musical dramatic pageant by Healey Willian, with text by E.J. Pratt, conducted by the composer, with David Ouchterlony at the organ, performed at the Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, Toronto (CBC Ref. 670926-7)

1 audio cassette; 1 audio reel

See also: Box 18, File 10 for photocopies of readings from this production; Box 36 for audio disc of the production

Recorded February 6, 1963

1 audio cassette; 1 audio reel (30 min) : 19 cm/sec (2 copies)

Complimentary dinner to Dr. E.J. Pratt; speakers include: Mrs. E.J. Pratt, Prof. N. Frye, Mr. W. Brockington

1 audio cassette (2 copies); 2 audio reels (33 min) : 9.5 cm/sec (2 copies each)

Recorded by VOCM, St. John’s, Newfoundland, April 1, 1958

1 audio cassette

See also: Box 36 for audio discs

Edited and narrated by Lister Sinclair; included in the programme are: Sidney Smith, Earle Birney, David Pitt, and Northrop Frye

1 audio reel (31 min) : 19 cm/sec (2 copies)

Recorded at Convocation Hall, University of Toronto, April 28, 1964

1 audio cassette; 1 audio reel : 4.75 cm/sec; 1 audio reel (44 min) : 9.5 cm/sec

Recorded by Whitefield Laite of Trinity

1 audio reel : 19 cm/sec

Box 50. Two unidentified sound tape reels

Recording of the ceremonies opening the E.J. Pratt Memorial Room at Victoria University Library on Oct. 15, 1964. Dr. A.B.B. Moore, President of Victoria University, Dr. Northrop Frye, Dr. Leonard W. Brockington, Mrs. Viola Pratt, and Margaret Ray are all heard. (CBC Ref. 641015-4)

2 audio cassettes (includes Box 33, No. 9); 1 audio reel (continued on Box 33, Tape No. 9)

Speakers: A.B.B. Moore, R.S. Mills, Mrs. Viola Pratt, J.E. Hodgetts, J.W. Grant, Miss L.D. Fraser; recorded March 7, 1968

1 audio cassette; 1 audio reel (35 min) : 9.5 cm/sec (2 copies)

By Robert Patchell, Grace Irwin, David Knight, Christopher Love; moderated by Alexandra Johnston; recorded at the Wymilwood Music Room, Victoria University, Toronto

1 audio cassette (2 copies); gift of the Canada Week Committee

Recorded live, 12 noon - 1:00 pm, Thursday, November 25, 1982, Room 3, New Academic Building, Victoria College, Toronto

1 audio cassette (2 copies); 1 audio reel : 9.5 cm/sec

Undated

1 audio cassette; 1 audio reel (16 min) : 19 cm/sec (2 copies)

Harvard Vocarium Records P-1124-27. As originally recorded for The Poetry Room, Harvard College Library; disc 1 includes: from The Cachelot, "The Shark," "Sea-Gulls," and "The History of John Jones"; disc 2 includes: from Brébeuf and His Brethren: "His Letter to the Priests in France," "The Passion and Death of Brébeuf," and "Lalémont"

2 audio discs : analog, 78 rpm, microgroove (disc 1: 9 copies; disc 2: 8 copies)

For UTL catalogue record: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/2011487

Recorded at Toronto by a.e.

1 audio disc : analog, 78 rpm. ; 30 cm

For UTL catalogue record: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/3132193

By Dr. E.J. Pratt, Music by Dr. Healey Willan, Narration by Jean Cavall, At the organ Dr. David Ouchterlony at the organ, The combined gallery choirs of the churches of St. Mary Magdalene and Timothy Eaton Memorial; Recorded at TBC Recorded Limited

2 audio discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo ; 30 cm (2 copies)

See also: Box 18, File 10 for photocopies of readings from this production; Box 33, Tape no. 10 for an audio cassette and audio reel of production

For UTL catalogue record: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/2706463

Recorded by L.W. Brockington, K.C.

1 audio disc : analog, 78 rpm, microgroove ; 30 cm

For UTL catalogue record: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/3573524

Delivered at St. John’s, Newfoundland, Jan. 27, 1949 (CBC Ref. T-9915-24)

5 audio discs : analog, 78 rpm, mono. ; 25 cm

For UTL catalogue record: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/2872638

See also: Box 32, Tape No. 3 for audio cassette

Recorded by VOCM, St. John’s, Newfoundland, April 1, 1958

3 audio discs (54 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 30 cm (disc 1: 4 copies; disc 2: 3 copies; disc 3:  4 copies)

For UTL catalogue record: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/2838549

See also: Box 33, Tape no. 12 for audio cassette

Recorded for CBC Wednesday Night in Toronto (CBC Ref. 62341-A-LP)

1 audio disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 30 cm

For UTL catalogue record: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/3132001

Holograph, dedicated to Bill Poole. Also includes a page containing background information on the poem.

Holograph, dedicated to the Poole family.

A copy of French's Acting Edition of Journey's End by R.C. Sherriff, published in 1929. Annotated by Pratt, with notes written on the pages and included on inserts. The inserts have been removed from the book and placed in a separate envelope in the file. Page numbers where they were originally located have been identified.

Also includes a handwritten note by M.K. (Marion Kearney) describing how she obtained Pratt's copy.

Holograph and typescript: 4 outgoing letters from Pratt to Herbert Davis, principal of Smith College in Massachusetts.