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Personal files
Title: Personal files
Dates of Material:
[18–]–[19–]
Extent:
30.5 cm of textual records
88 photographs: b&w
6 photographs: 35 mm b&w negatives
3 photographs: 8x14.5 cm b&w negatives
1 photograph: 6x11 cm b&w negative
1 miniature painting (framed)
88 photographs: b&w
6 photographs: 35 mm b&w negatives
3 photographs: 8x14.5 cm b&w negatives
1 photograph: 6x11 cm b&w negative
1 miniature painting (framed)
NOTE(S)
Source of supplied title
Title based on contents of series.
Physical description
The series is stored in 7 boxes.
The notebooks in Files 155–157 in Box 7, and in Box 8 are fragile. See file list.
Finding aids
File list available (see below).
| BOX | FILE | TITLE | YEAR | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
| Box 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Autobiographical articles?] | ||||
| 1 | 8 | Brief Outline | ||
| 1 | 11 | Chipmunk Hollow | (reminiscence about Agnes Maule Machar) | |
| Box 2 | ||||
| 2 | 82 | The Three Gates | ||
| Box 6 | ||||
| 6 | 149 | List of books (Canadiana) owned by Helena Coleman: 1936 | 1936 | |
| Photographs | ||||
| 6 | 151 | Of Helena at Mt. Coleman | ||
| 6 | 152 | Of Helena and other persons, including A.P. Coleman, Albert E. Coleman, John E. Coleman, G.B. Lancaster, Agnes Maule Machar, Sara MacNaughton, Marjorie Pickthall and Ethelwyn Wetherald | ||
| 6 | 152 | Of Helena, family members and friends | ||
| 6 | 152 | Of various homes and landscapes | ||
| Box 7 | ||||
| Notebooks [in fragile condition], including | ||||
| 7 | 155 | Five books, containing literary and personal notes; list of pseudonyms, including “Hollis Cattwin,” “Mrs. R.H. Hudson,” “Hollis Hume,” and “Helen A. Saxon;” addresses; “extracts from friends’ letters;” n.d., 1897, 1913-14 | n.d., 1897, 1913-1914 | |
| 7 | 156 | Five books, containing drafts of untitled prose works, holograph; fragment of Raife Stevens, (short story), holograph; fragment of untitled story, ts., annotated; n.d., 1938 | n.d., 1938 | |
| 7 | 157 | Nine books, containing household and literary notes; drafts and fragments of titled and untitled prose and poetic works, holograph;... | n.d. | ...draft of letter-to- the-editor relating to women in the domestic sphere; [autobiographical notes?: “I was about twelve when...”]; clipping relating to Ethelwyn Wetherald; n.d. |
| Box 8 | ||||
| 8 | Twenty-one books, containing: household, literary, personal and travel notes; drafts and fragments of titled and untitled prose... | n.d. | ...and poetic works, holograph; draft of letter-to-the-editor disagreeing with a book review; business addresses of journals; n.d. | |
| Box 9 | ||||
| Paintings | ||||
| 9 | 1 | 1 miniature painting of Helena Coleman | Framed. | |
| Box 10 | ||||
| [Autobiographical articles?] | ||||
| 10 | 1 | A Camp in the Rockies | ||
| 10 | 1 | The Call of the Wild | ||
| 10 | 3 | The Entrance to our Little Bay | ||
| 10 | 5 | Last Train out of Germany, August 1, 1914 | ||
| 10 | 8 | See “At about sixteen I went to a small farm near Hamilton to keep house for my brother L.O.C.” | ||
