Material relating to Pelham Edgar

Title: Material relating to Pelham Edgar

Dates of Material:

1897-1967, predominant 1897-1948

Extent:

39 cm of textual records
7 photographs plus 1 album: b&w
2 audio reels
1 audio cassette

Scope and content

Series consists of records pertaining to Pelham Edgar's activities as a teacher and academic. The series includes correspondence, literary material, professional material, photographs, a sound recording of Encore, a radio broadcast by Pelham Edgar for the CBC, and other material.

NOTE(S)

Source of supplied title

Title based on contents of series.

Extent

The series is stored in 3 boxes and 1 folder.

Location of originals

The Marjorie Pickthall fonds contains original letters send by Marjorie Pickthall to Pelham Edgar.
The Raymond Knister fonds contains original letters send by Raymond Knister to Pelham Edgar.

Finding aids

File list available (see below). Check Scope and Content.

Box 2
BOX	FILE	TITLE	YEAR	ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Correspondence
2	12.1	Bennett, R.B.: 2 in, 1938, 1941	1938, 1941
2	12.1	Binyon, Laurence: 1 in, 1927	1927
2	12.1	Birney, Earle: 1 in, 1935	1935
2	12.1	Brown, Audrey Alexandra: 2 in, n.d., 1942; 1 out, 1942	n.d., 1942	(fragment), [original; not sent?]
2	12.1	Brown, E.K.: 2 in, 1946, 1948	1946, 1948	Subject: Duncan Campbell Scott.
2	12.1	Bush, Douglas: 2 in, n.d., 1946	n.d., 1946
2	12.2	Carman, Bliss: 2 in, 1921, 1925	1921, 1925	Includes photograph.
2	12.2	Child, Philip: 1 in, 1943	1943
2	12.3	De la Roche, Mazo: 1 in, [1929?]	[1929?]	Addressed to Pelham and Dona Edgar.
2	12.4	Edgar family: 3 in., n.d., 1889	n.d., 1889
2	12.5	Falconer, Robert: 3 in, 1943	1943	Subject: Canadian Authors’ Foundation.
2	12.5	Macmillan Company of Canada: 1 in, 1943	1943
2	12.5a–b.	Frye, Northrop: 1 in, 1936 (original); 2 in, 1937, 1948 (photocopies); 1 out, [1948], (photocopy)	1936, 1937, 1948, 1948
2	12.6	Frechette, Louis: 7 in, 1901	1901
2	12.7	Galsworthy, John: 4 in, n.d., 1919, 1926	n.d., 1919, 1926
2	12.7	Grove, Catherine [Mrs. F.P.]: 1 in, 1947; 1 out (copy, holograph), [1947]	1947	Includes clipping. Subject: Canadian Authors’ Foundation.
2	12.7	Grove, Frederick Philip: 1 in, 1934	1934
2	12.7	Houghton Mifflin Co.: 1 in, 1942	1942
2	12.8	King, W.J.: 1 in, 1944	1944	Includes drafts of poems.
2	12.8	King, William Lyon Mackenzie: 2 in, 1939, 1942	1939, 1942
2	12.8	Knister, Raymond: 4 in, 1925–31	1925-1931	Photocopies; originals transferred to Knister collection.
2	12.9	Lee, Sidney: 4 in, 1911, 1912	1911, 1912
2	12.9	Lyttleton, Edith: 1 in, n.d.	n.d.
2	12.10	Leacock, Stephen: 3 in (to Pelham Edgar), n.d., 1916; 4 in (to Helen Edgar), n.d., 1919, 1923	n.d., 1916, n.d., 1919, 1923	Includes a leaflet (holograph) advertising a Leacock reading.
2	12.11	MacDonald, Wilson: 5 in, n.d., 1919–45	n.d., 1919-1945	Includes poems (holograph and printed).
2	12.11	Mackay, Isabel E.: 1 in, 1922	1922	Subject: Marjorie Pickthall.
2	12.11	Macphail, Andrew: 2 in, 1933, 1938	1933, 1938
2	12.11	McClung, Nellie L.: 1 in, 1948	1948	Subject: Audrey Alexandra Brown.
2	12.12	Meynell, Alice: 6 in, 1901–14	1901-1914	Addressed to Dona Edgar. Subjects: [Helena?] Coleman; Marjorie Pickthall.
2	12.13	Mann, Thomas: 1 in, 1938	1938
2	12.13	Mansfield, John: 1 in, 1914	1914
2	12.14	Newbolt, Henry: 1 in, 1924	1924
2	12.14	Nichols, Robert: 4 in, n.d., 1919, 1934	n.d., 1919, 1934	Includes annotated copy of printed poem.
2	12.15	Osler, William: 3 in, n.d., 1906, 1910	n.d., 1906, 1910	Subject: Matilda Ridout Edgar.
2	12.15	Pickthall, Marjorie: 2 in, 1903–04	1903-1904	Photocopies; originals transferred to Pickthall collection.
2	12.15.a	Perry, Martha Eugenie: 15 out, n.d., [1938]	n.d., [1938]	Photocopies; originals held in the Archives of British Columbia. Subjects: Association of Canadian Bookmen; Audrey Alexandra Brown; Canadian Poetry Magazine; Charles G.D. Roberts; Duncan Campbell Scott.
2	12.15.b.	Perry, Martha Eugenie: 31 in, 1936–48	1936-1948	Subjects: Audrey Alexandra Brown; Canadian Authors Association; Alan Crawley; Anne Marriott; Nellie McClung; Floris McLaren; E.J. (Edwin John) Pratt; C.P. (Charles Perry) Stacey [nephew of Martha Eugenie Perry].Photocopies; originals held in the Archives of British Columbia. File also contains 3 original letters from Perry to Edgar, 1942, 1943.
2	12.15.p	Peacock, E.R.: 1 in, 1946	1946
2	12.16	Pratt, E.J. (Edwin John): 20 in, [1929]–45	[1929]-1945	Subjects: Earle Birney; Canadian Poetry Magazine; Charles G.D. Roberts; Duncan Campbell Scott.
2	12.17	Pratt, E.J. (Edwin John): 6 in, 1946–48	1946-1948	Included is 1 letter to Edgar from J.C. Robertson, 1947, forwarded by Pratt. Subjects (of Pratt correspondence): Charles G.D. Roberts; Duncan Campbell Scott.
2	12.18. a	Roberts, Charles G.D.: 1 in (photocopy), 1942; 2 in (originals), 1943	1942, 1943	Includes draft of Resurgant (a song for the defeated), ts., inscribed for Pelham Edgar. Subjects: Elsie Pomeroy; Duncan Campbell Scott.
2	12.18.b	Ray, Margaret V.: 2 out (original), n.d.	n.d.
2	12.19	Stringer, Arthur: 1 in [1946]	[1946]
2	12.19	Swinnerton, Frank: 5 in, 1934, 1935	1934, 1935
2	12.21	Woolf, Virginia: 1 in, 1934	1934
2	12.22	Wrong, George M.: 1 in, 1943	1943
2	12.23a–b.	Canadian Authors Association: 14 in (photocopied; from various officials), 1921–34; 1 out (photocopied), [1933];	1921-1934
2	12.24	Ray, Margaret V.: 2 out (from Dona Edgar), n.d.	n.d.	Subject: Lorne Pierce; purchase by Victoria University Library of portait of Pelham Edgar.
2	12.25.f	Ray, Margaret V.: rom Dona Edgar and Lorne Pierce, 1948–1949	1948-1949	Subject: Pelham Edgar material at Victoria University Library.
2	12.a	Bowles, [Chancellor]: 1 out, 1921	1921	Original.
2	12.a	Burwash, Nathanael: 1 out, 1897	1897	Original; accepting appointment as Lecturer in French.
Other material -- Miscellaneous
2	12.19	Correspondence of John Sargent: 1 letter to Harris Brown, n.d.	n.d.
Box 3
Literary manuscripts -- Notes
3	17	Notebook (literary)	[ca. 1920s–30s]	Includes draft material for The Art of the Novel; and notes on: poetry; fiction; various authors; Canadian Authors’ Foundation.
3	17.1	Notebook (academic)	n.d.	Includes notes on French literature.
Literary manuscripts -- Articles, addresses and books
3	13	Famous Men and Famous Books: William Morris: poet, socialist, artist		holograph; [Author: Pelham Edgar?]
3	14.1	The Alleged Third Manner of Henry James		holograph
3	15	The Quarrels of Voltaire		holograph
3	16	John Galsworthy–artist and prophet		holograph
3	18	[Matthew Arnold as a writer of prose]		ts., cc., annotated. Incomplete.
3	19	The Poetry of Duncan Campbell Scott		holograph
3	20	[On Duncan Campbell Scott]		holograph
3	21.	[On Duncan Campbell Scott]		ts., annotated. Later draft of item in Box 3, File 20
3	22	Criticism		holograph
3	24	Fashions in Books		ts.
3	24.1	[On Canadian humourists]		ts., annotated. Incomplete.
3	24.2	C.W.F. [Canadian Writers’ Foundation]		ts., annotated. Incomplete.
3	24.3	Canadian Poetry [address for broadcast, 1934, sponsored by Canadian Authors’ Association]	1934	ts., annotated; plus photocopy. Includes opening and closing remarks of announcer (ts., cc.).
3	25	William Butler Yeats		holograph
3	25.1	Creative Criticism in Canada: Frye’s Fearful Symmetry		ts., annotated. Portion of a proposed chapter of Across My Path.
3	26	Across My Path		tss., annotated, and tss., cc., annotated. Incomplete. Includes material omitted from the final draft. Subjects: autobiography; history of Edgar family; Arnold Bennett; W.B. Yeats.
3	26.1	Across My Path		tss., cc., annotated. Subjects: autobiography; history of Edgar family; Helen Edgar; A.J. (Andrew James) Bell; G.M. Dawson. Includes material omitted from the final draft. Continuation of File 26.
Professional material
3	17.1	Notebook (academic)	n.d.	Includes notes on French literature.
Material about Edgar -- Reviews
3	14.2	Review of Henry James: Man and Author, by Raymond Knister		ts., photocopied. Original is in Knister collection.
3	23	[Material relating to reviews of The Art of the Novel]	n.d.
Other material -- Miscellaneous
3	26.2	Printed poetry		photocopied
Box 4
Correspondence
4	35	Birney, Earle: 1 in, n.d.	n.d.	Fragment.
Other material -- Photographs
4	33.1	1 group photograph	n.d.	Group includes William Deacon, Pelham Edgar, Hugh Eayrs and other persons.
4	33.1	1 portrait	n.d.	Signed by Edgar (on a separate piece of paper, formerly on back of frame).
4	33.4	Album of photographs of services held upon the death of Louis Hemon	n.d.	Included are photographs of Hugh Eayrs, Pelham Edgar and John Murray Gibbon.
Literary manuscripts -- Articles, addresses and books
4	27a	The Changing Aspects of Poetry		offprint, Queen’s Quarterly
4	27b	Sir Andrew Macphail		offprint, Queen’s Quarterly
4	27c	Sir Andrew Macphail		reprint, Proceedings, Royal Society of Canada
4	27d	The Enigma of Yeats		offprint, Queen’s Quarterly
4	27e	Matthew Arnold as Poet		Transactions, Royal Society of Canada (possibly a reprint though not explicitly stated)
4	27f	The Comedy of Shakespeare and Molière		reprint, University Magazine
4	28	The Centenary of Byron		offprint, Dalhousie Review
4	29	Duncan Campbell Scott		offprint, Dalhousie Review.
4	30	Edwin John Pratt		offprint, Gants du Ciel. Written in French.
4	31	Lawrence J. Burpee		reprint, Proceedings, Royal Society of Canada
4	32	The Royal Ontario Museum		reprint, University of Toronto Quarterly
Material about Edgar -- Notes by students
4	34	Accounts by students of literature classes conducted by Pelham Edgar: 1924, 1925	1924, 1925	tss. Subjects include: Marjorie Pickthall; Wilson MacDonald.
Material about Edgar -- Articles
4	33.1	3 articles (including 1 sketch and 1 portrait)		tear-sheets
Material about Edgar -- Bibliography
4	35b	Professor Pelham Edgar: a Chronological Bibliography of His Writings		photocopied. Student project by Sandra Campbell.
Material about Edgar -- Clippings
4	35
Material about Edgar -- Transcript of printed description of Pelham Edgar by Arnold Bennett
4	35
Other material -- Sound recording
4	35a.	Encore [radio broadcast by Pelham Edgar, for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]	1967	2 sound tape reels. Gift of Kathleen Coburn, 1967.
4	35a.1	Encore [audio cassette]	1967	Audio cassette tape of the CBC radio broadcast "Encore". Includes a letter from Kathleen Coburn, who donated the tape, to Lorna Fraser, Chief Librarian of Victoria University.
Other material -- Miscellaneous
4	33.3	Correspondence between Lorne Pierce, E.J. (Edwin John) Pratt and Margaret V. Ray and various persons (including H. Bennett and A.B.B. Moore of Victoria University): 1953, 1954	1953, 1954	Relating to contributions towards the purchase of a portrait of Pelham Edgar By Allan Barr.
4	35	Annual Report of Authors’ Club	1942-1943	Printed, 1942–43.
4	35	Letter from Northrop Frye to [Lorne Pierce]: 1967	1967	Relating to a manuscript by Pelham Edgar.
4	35	Photographs: 2 photographs, unidentified	n.d.
4	35	Poem by E.J. (Edwin John) Pratt, Creation and procreation, inscribed to Pelham Edgar		holograph, photocopied. Original is held in the Pratt collection.

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