Correspondence

Title: Correspondence

Dates of Material:

1962–2022, predominant 1965–1971

Extent:

25 cm of textual records
1 video cassette
1 photograph

Scope and content

Series consists of correspondence to and from Canadian writers relating to Toppings' work as an editor at Ryerson Press, as well as other literary and publishing subjects. Also included are letters and cards to and from artists, musicians, colleagues and friends on various personal matters.

Series also contains some typescripts of short stories, poems, and a video cassette of an interview with Max Braithwaite in 1975.

NOTE(S)

Source of supplied title

Title based on contents of the series.

Finding aids

File list available (see below).

Related groups of records

See also Series 3.

2009.03, Box 2
BOX	FILE	TITLE	YEAR	ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
2009.03
2	1	Acorn, Milton	1967
2	2	Birney, Earle	1965-1966
2	3	Bowering, George	1965-1966	(includes short stories, poem)
2	4	Braithwaite, Max	1971
2	5	Brandis, Marianne	1963-1964
2	6	Cameron, Silver Donald	1968
2	7	Cohen, Matt	1992-1993
2	8	Coulter, John	1967
2	9	Creighton, Helen	1968
2	10	Dudek, Louis	1967
2	11	Faessler, Shirley	1967	(short stories)
2	12	Finch, Robert	1968	(about)
2	13	Findley, Timothy	1991
2	14	Garner, Hugh	1969
2	15	Gill, Lakshmi	1966-1971
2	16	Gnarowski, Michael	1967-1970
2	17	Godfrey, Dave	1968
2	18	Hood, Hugh	1968
2	19	Knowles, Stanley	1965
2	20	Lambert, Betty	1966-1967
2	21	Lane, Patrick	1966-1967
2	22	Livesay, Dorothy	1966-1969	(includes poems)
2	23	MacEwen, Gwendolyn	1965-1967	(includes poems)
2	24	Macpherson, Jay	1967-1968
2	25	Mandel, Eli	1964
2	26	Marlatt (Buckle), Daphne	1967-1975
2	27	Marriott-McLellan, Anne	1965
2	28	Myers, Martin	1971
2	29	Newlove, John	1975
2	30	Nicol, Eric	1966-1967
2	31	Nowlan, Alden	1967	(includes short stories)
2	32	Ondaatje, Christopher	1992
2	33	Open College/Ryerson CJRT-FM–re permission to use taped interviews for educational broadcast	1975-1976	(includes Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, Hugh MacLennan, Mordecai Richler, Ernest Buckler, Robert Kroetsch, George Woodcock, Clark Blaise, Henry Kreisel, Morley Callaghan)
2	34	Rimanelli, Giose–editor of Modern Canadian stories	1962-1967	(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)
2	35	Roberts, Paul	1994
2	36	Ross, Sinclair	1970-1975, 1995-2001	(includes correspondence 1995–2001, with Professor John O’Connor, who was doing research on Ross)
2	37	St. Pierre, Paul	1966
2	38	Smith, Ray	1970
2	39	Souster, Raymond	1965-1967	(includes poems)
2	40	Spears, Heather	1966	(includes poems)
2	41	Weaver, Robert	1967-1971
2	42	Webb, Phyllis	1965-1968
2	43	Wilgress, L.D.	1966
2	44	Wiseman, Adele	1966
2	45	Woodcock, George	1963-1965
2011.04
2011.04, Box 2
2	6	Correspondence from various writers	1963-2008	(includes Earle Birney, Dorothy Livesay, Miriam Waddington, Margaret Atwood)
2	7	Metcalf, John	1966-1980
2	8	Video cassette of interview with Max Braithwaite at Ryerson polytechnical Institute	1975
2016.09
2016.09, Box 1
1	1	Munro, Alice	1964-2013	Includes correspondence with Alice Munro, and her biographer Robert Thacker.
1	9	Paterson, Robert - Letters and hand-printed greeting cards	1969-2010	Robert Paterson was an artist, printmaker, teacher, writer, and coach of Inuit artists and printmakers. He died in 2013.
1	13	Correspondence with writers and other artists	1966-2016	Includes correspondence with Margaret Atwood, Kenneth Sherman, Mavis Gallant, artists and people working in the arts. (Photos P1)
2019.07
2019.07, Box 1
1	6	Letters to and from Canadian artists and writers	1967-2018	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.
2023.06
2023.06, Box 1
1	6	General correspondence – outgoing	1991-1997	Transcriptions of Toppings’ correspondence to friends and associates. Correspondents include Aileen Braithwaite, Robert Fulford, James King, Mercedes McCambridge, William Taylor and Rodney Wright.
1	7	General correspondence – outgoing	2019-2022	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.
1	8	General correspondence – incoming	1991-1994, ca. 1999	Correspondence to Toppings from colleagues and associates. Correspondents include Greg Gatenby, Mary Hecht, Robert Paterson and Mary Alice Stuart.
1	9	General correspondence – incoming	2019	Correspondence to Toppings from friends and colleagues. Correspondents include Robert Aitken and Jeff Kanelos.
1	10	Cards	[198-], 2019, 2021	Christmas cards, birthday cards and cards of thanks.
1	11	"Literary Titans Revisited" correspondence	2017	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.

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