(random pages from a 1970’s series of radio programs on CJRT-FM, Toronto)

(includes short stories, poem)

(short stories)

(about)

(includes poems)

(includes poems)

(includes short stories)

(includes Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, Hugh MacLennan, Mordecai Richler, Ernest Buckler, Robert Kroetsch, George Woodcock, Clark Blaise, Henry Kreisel, Morley Callaghan)

(includes correspondence re permission to use stories to and from Sinclair Ross, Mordecai Richler, Adele Wiseman, Brian Moore, Alden Nowlan, Henry Beissel, Hugh Maclennan, Henry Kreisel, Hugh Hood, Hugh Garner, Ernest Buckler, Daphne Marlatt; and re review by Al Purdy)

(includes correspondence 1995–2001, with Professor John O’Connor, who was doing research on Ross)

(includes poems)

(includes poems)

1971/correspondence with academic researcher, 2008

(includes Joe Rosenblatt, Patrick Lane, Gwendolyn Grant, Al Purdy, Gwendolyn MacEwen)

(published 1971)

(includes Earle Birney, Dorothy Livesay, Miriam Waddington, Margaret Atwood)

Two typescripts signed by Alice Munro.  Note from Earle Toppings says: "Taken from the original manuscript that came to the Ryerson Press in Toronto. I send these two stories back to Alice, asking her to sign them, which she did."

Stories are "Images", "A Real Life" and "The Jack Randa Hotel" 

• Published booklet: Alice Munro: Selected Stories - A Tribute  
• The Canadian Forum journal, Vol. LXII, No. 721, September 1982 with feature by Alice Munro "What is real?"
• Typescript of extract from Lives of Mothers and Daughters by Sheila Munro
• Newspaper clippings re Alice Munro

Newspaper clippings of Alice Munro's image, photographs on paper.  

Two typescripts of address.    

Notes are from an interview that never happened between Earle Toppings and Alice Munro.

A note about the Munro files.   

Includes "Chronicles of Cape Dorset," "Norway," "Goodbye Cheops" and articles from Inuit Art Quarterly 

Includes correspondence with Alice Munro, and her biographer Robert Thacker.  

Robert Paterson was an artist, printmaker, teacher, writer, and coach of Inuit artists and printmakers.  He died in 2013.   

Includes correspondence with Margaret Atwood, Kenneth Sherman, Mavis Gallant, artists and people working in the arts.

Includes correspondence with National Ballet of Canada Artistic Director Karen Kain, poet and novelist Dionne Brand, painter Andrew Salgado, Globe and Mail National Editor Dennis Choquette and various individuals from publishing houses and academia.

Rare mimeographed sheaf of poems by Avo Erisalu, a former student of Toppings' from when he taught at Templeton High School in Vancouver from 1958-1960, and who was later a part-time proofreader at The Ryerson Press. Signed by Erisalu.

The Fiddlehead (Summer 1997), featuring John Metcalf.

Toppings' notebook of thoughts, dedicated to his father.

Photocopy of a transcript of an interview with painter Jack Chambers conducted by Neil McGillivray, a student of Toppings' at Ryerson University. Possibly done for a course.

1 flexi disc. Recorded at the 1963 Miramichi Folksong Festival in Newcastle, New Brunswick.

Draft production scripts for a song and story performance by Barry Callaghan, Taborah Johnson and Joe Sealy. Toppings hosted the event. Also includes email correspondence and a letter of thanks to Toppings.

Toppings was the Program Director of CJRT-FM Inc.

A booklet of photographs of Canadian literary figures with short summaries written by John Reeves. Includes Margaret Atwood and Northrop Frye.

Offprint of an article written by Canadian composer John Weinzweig, originally presented during the Celebration of Canada’s Arts (1988). Toppings was a fan of Weinzweig’s music.

Handwritten note by Toppings with information about the Methodist Church and its role as the United Church of Canada’s broadcasting and film centre.

Transcriptions of Toppings’ correspondence to friends and associates. Correspondents include Aileen Braithwaite, Robert Fulford, James King, Mercedes McCambridge, William Taylor and Rodney Wright.

Transcriptions of Toppings’ correspondence to writers, artists, musicians and colleagues. Correspondents include Margaret Atwood, Douglas Bentham, Dionne Brand, Barry Callaghan, Michael Callaghan, Nina Callaghan, Richard Ford, Dr. Brian Goldman, Adam Gopnik, Anton Kuerti, Weyni Mengesha, David Olds, Paul Orenstein, Alan Posner, Michael and Vivian Powles, Joe Sealy, Paul Sloggett, Daniel Solomon, Geoff Taylor, Anna-Maria Tremonti and Sean Virgo.

Correspondence to Toppings from colleagues and associates. Correspondents include Greg Gatenby, Mary Hecht, Robert Paterson and Mary Alice Stuart.

Correspondence to Toppings from friends and colleagues. Correspondents include Robert Aitken and Jeff Kanelos.

Christmas cards, birthday cards and cards of thanks.

Email correspondence regarding Anne Urbancic’s book Literary Titans Revisited. Includes early reviews of the book, promotional material and notes for the speech Toppings gave at the book’s launch.

A chapbook of Toppings’ poetry, inspired by his youth growing up on a farm in the prairies. Includes an annotation by Toppings on the title page. Printed by Coach House Press.

Toppings graduated from Lord Tweedsmuir Senior Secondary. 

Material relating to Toppings' Honorary degree. Includes a copy of Toppings' convocation address, a copy of the citation, the convocation program, and an event invitation.

Also includes a photograph of Toppings in his convocation gown.

A list of Toppings' freelance activities from the 1950s to the present.