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Marian Engel fonds. Second accrual (20-1992). Note: Third through sixth accruals have been interfiled in this accrual.

The correspondence, which is located in the first two boxes (Box 31 & 32), is a mixture of the professional and the personal. Indeed, where Engel is concerned, it is almost impossible to separate the two, for many of her closest confidantes were also writers and literary topics share space with recipes and health reports. At the end of Box 32 are pieces about Engel and other materials received by her.
There are two boxes of manuscript material (Box 33 & 34), one consisting primarily of drafts of short stories and articles and the other of a large number of segments, in multiple drafts, of Engel's last, unfinished novel, Elizabeth and the Golden City. This last box also contains a significant series of notebooks; Engel appears to have continued to write regularly in her cahiers until her death.

Boxes 31-32 Correspondence
Most of the letters which follow are to Marian Engel - there are few copies of her replies. Letters in the miscellaneous alphabetical files have not been listed individually - there is usually just a single item written to Engel unless otherwise indicated.

Box 31 A - W
F.1 [Unidentified], 1981, From: 1 TL, incomplete
F.2 Anne [ ], [1973?], From: 1 TLs
F.3 Elizabeth, [cousin of Engel?], 1968 - 1985, From: 15 ALs & TLs
F.4 Jennifer [ ], 1982, From: 1 TLs
F.5 Maggie [ ], 1981 To: 1 TL
F.5a Margaret [Penman?], 1983 - note: the phone number written at the bottom of the letter was Penman’s at one time, hence the assumption that she wrote this letter.
F.6 Norma [ ], [1971], From: 1 ALs
F.7 Pattice [ ], 1965 - 1982, From: 15 TLs, 1 ALs - see Box 1, F.19.
F.8 Roger and Pat [ ], 1970s - 1985, From: 1 TLs, 2 ALs, 2 PCs To: 1 ALs
F.9 Sarah [ ], [aunt of Engel?], 1974 [& 1980s], From: 3 ALs
F.10 Starr [ ], 1970s, From: 1 TLs, 1 PCs F.11 P. V. 1980 - 1983, From: 2 ALs, 3 TLs

F.12 A Miscellaneous
Anansi - Royalty Statements (3) - see also Estate Correspondence, Box 32, F.12
Andreasson, Ann
Andrew, Merlin
Antigonish Review
Arenander, Britt(2)
Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies(3)
Atheneum Publishers
Ayling, Ron
F.13 Aide, William 1980s From: 1 ALs, 2 APCs
F.14 [Armour], Leslie 1969 - 1984 From: 2TLs, 1 APCs
F.15 Atwood, Margaret 1980 - 1984 To: 1 ALs From: 6 ALs, 4 TLs, 2 APCs - see also Gibson, Graeme

F.16 B Miscellaneous
BC Research(2)
Banff School of Fine Arts (by Marian Engel - testimonial)
Beatty, Ross (also reply by Marian Engel)
Benson, Eugene
Beynon, Marjorie
Body Politic
Boreal Express
Bowker, Gordon
Brain, Serena
Brown, Jamie
F.17 Bennett, W., 1970 From: 1 TLs
F.18 Brandeis, Robert 1982 & [1980s] From: 1 ALs, 1 APCs - see also Estate Correspondence, Box 33, F.12.

F.19 C Miscellaneous
Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women
Canadian Conference of the Arts
Canadian Consulate General
Canadian Literature(2)
Cannon, Marion
Concordia University
Cox, Debbie
F.20 Canada Council, 1982 - 1983 From: 5 TLs To: 1 completed application form (duplicate?)
F.21 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1983 - 1984 From: 4 TLs
F.22 Canadian Living, 1983 From: 2 TLs To: 1 TLs, 1 TL(car.), 1 invoice (car.).
F.23 Caramondanis, Christiane [c.1970] - 1974 From: 5 ALs + envelope - see Box 1, F.1
F.24 Caramondanis, S.Y., 1974 From: 3 ALs - see Box 1, F.1
F.25 Chatelaine, 1983 From: 2 TLs
F.26 Clarke, Irwin & Company Ltd., 1981 - 1983 From: 3 TLs & 1 royalty statement - see also Estate Correspondence, Box 33, F.12.
F.27 Copp Clark Pitman Ltd., 1984 From: 2 TLs To: TL (car.)
F.28 Crawford, Helen & Don [Marian Engel's sister & brother-in-law] 1970 - 1972 From: 6 TLs, 1 APCs + 1 brochure - see Box 1, F.2
F.29 Crawford, Shelley 1979 - 1983 From: 6 ALs

F.30 D Miscellaneous
Davis, Louise
Deibel, Peter
Department of External Affairs (2)
Duncan, Frances (3)
Durand, Aurelie
F.31 [Deanesly], Margaret 1973 - 1983 From: 6 ALs
F.32 E Miscellaneous The Ethos Cultural Development Foundation
F.33 Engel, Howard 1969 - 1983 From: 1 ALs, 3TLs To: 2 ALs see also Box 1, F.4
F.34 Engel, William and Charlotte 1981 - 1984 From: 1 PCs To: 1 ALs Also 1 TLs from Bud Cullen to William, 1983.
F.35 Euvrard, Michel 1967 - 1976 From: 7 ALs 1 APcs
F.36 Evans, Molly & George 1982 - 1984 [Marian Engel's aunt and uncle] From: 1 ALs, 2 APcs, 4 TLs see also Box 1, F.5

F.37 F Miscellaneous
Fanshawe College (3)
Ferguson, Alan
Fireweed Collective
Foundation J.-Louis Levesque
Frazer, Frances
F.38 Falconer, Lola [Marian Engel's aunt] [1970s & 1980s] From: 12 ALs
F.39 Findley, Timothy 1983 - 1984 From: 1 ALs, 2 APCs, 1 TLs
F.40 Frenkel, Vera [1980s] & 1983 From: 3 APCs

F.41 G Miscellaneous
Gane, Margaret(2)
Geddes, Gary
George Mason University
The Globe and Mail
Gloin, Lew (The Toronto Star)
Godine, David R.
Govier, Katherine
The Great Debate
Grosskurth, Phyllis
F.42 Gibson, Graeme 1983 - 1984 From: 5 ALs, 2 TLs, 1 APCs - see also Atwood, Margaret
F.43 Ginn and Company 1984 From: 2 TLs
F.44 Gool, Reshard 1983 - 1984 From: 6 ALs (+ attachments) To: 1 TL(car.) (to Canada Council re. R.G.)
F.44a Sixth accrual (20-2000) Grogan (Billingsley), Ruth To: 5 March 1962

F.45 H Miscellaneous
Hair, Don
Harrigan, F. Wayne
Hofsess, John
Hohnstock, Arlene
Holmebakk, Gordon (Gyldendal Norsk Forlag) (2)
Hutchison, Ann (4 items)
F.46 Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1973 - 1974 From: 3 TLs
F.47 Helwig, David [undated &] 1984 From: 3 TLs
F.48 Herrman, Barbara and Frank [undated &] 1967 - 1985 From: 19 ALs & TLs
F.49 Horwood, Harold [undated] From: 1 TL (car.) (to Writer's Union)
F.50 Hurtig Publishers, 1982 - 1984 From: 4 TLs & 2 royalty statements To: TL, photocopy (not by Marian Engel)

F.51 J Miscellaneous
Jardine, Betty
Jull, Jean
F.52 K Miscellaneous
Kanter, Ron (2)
Keenan, Margaret
Kellock, Joanne
Kids Can Press (3)
Kidston, Jocelyne
Killam, G.D.
Kwantlen College (4)

F.53 L Miscellaneous
Labreche, Julianne (2)
Landon, Richard
Lemieux, Carlotta
Lindsay, R.W.
Lister, M., J., and Marian Engel
Livesay, Dee
Longspoon Press
F.54 Laine, Michael [1981] - 1982 From: 2 TLs, 3 ALs & TLs (photocopies), 1 printed invitation
F.55 Laurence, Margaret 1982 - 1985 From: 5 ALs, 10 TLs
F.56 Lee, Dennis 1982 From: TLs
F.57 Lister, Lois & Victoria & O.J. Muller, Landscaping 1983 From: 5 TLs & ALs To: 2 TL(car.)

F.58 M Miscellaneous
Macdonald, Marilyn Buffalo
Maclean's Magazine
Mason, Bonnie
Maria, Sister (Cyprus, 1972)
Maser, Marie (3)
Masters, Susan Rowan
Matas, Marie
Matas, Mercedes
Mays, John Bentley (2)
Metropolitan Toronto Library Board (2)
Ministry of Citizenship and Culture
Ministry of Community and Social Services
Moore, Peter (2)
Munro, Bob
Murphy, Dorothy

F.59 MacLennan, Hugh 1981 - 1984 From: 3 TLs
F.60 McClelland and Stewart, 1982 - 1984 From: 12 TLs & ALs (including J.G.M.) & 6 batches of royalty statements To: 1 TL (car.)
F.61 McFarlane, Jane 1973 - 1984 From: 23 ALS & TLs
F.62 McGibbon, Pauline 1974 - 1984 From: 10 ALs + envelopes & 2 Christmas cards To: 1 ALs, 5 TLS
Fourth and fifth accruals (24-1996; 3-1997) added to this file: 1 TLS from Engel to McGibbon, encl. periodical Room of One's Own, 9, no. 2: June 1984; postcard and Christmas card from Engel, also letter and bok dedication to the McGibbons.
F.63 McGill University, 1983
From: 2 TLs
To: 1 TL (not completed, not sent)
1 TL & duplicate carbon (not sent)
1 TL(car.) (final version)
F.64 McMaster University, 1982 - 1984 From: 22 TLs To: 1 TL(car.)

F.65 Merrill, Judith 1983 - 1984 From: 3 TLs, 1 ALs (Maureen Gauthier) & 1 annotated announcement
F.66 Mowat, Claire 1981 - 1983 From: 3 TLs
F.67 Munro, Alice 1984 From: 2 ALs To: TL (not sent?) in Elizabeth and the Golden City, Box 34, F.43 below.

F.68 N Miscellaneous
Neville, Peggie
Newfoundland Writers' Guild (from/to)
NeWest Press
F.69 Nancy Colbert & Associates 1984 From: 1 TLs
F.70 Noyart, Paule 1984 From: 3 ALs, 1 TLs To: 1 TL(car.)

F.71 O Miscellaneous
Oberon Press (2)
Ogden, Archibald (2)
Ontario Grape Growers' Marketing Board
F.72 Order of Canada 1982 - 1984
From: 14 TLs & 6 brochures and newsletters, also 2 investiture admission tickets
To: 2 TL(car.)
F.73 P Miscellaneous
Paci, Frank G. (2)
Parkinson, Pat
Parrott, Jean
Patterson, Susan E.
Percy, H.R.
Phillips, Mif
Porteous, Mamie
Prentice Hall (2)
Punch, K. (Sault Ste. Marie Public Library)
F.74 [Passmore?] David [Marian Engel's cousin] [1974] - 1982 From: 2 ALs
F.75 Passmore, Mary Elizabeth 1968 - 1982 From: 4 TLs To: 1 TLs
F.76 Penguin Books 1984 From: 2 TLS - see also Box 32, F.12 & Box 33, F.1 below
F.77 Phillips, Edward O. [undated] & 1984 From: 1 ALs & 4 greeting cards

F.78 R Miscellaneous
Rapoport, Janis
Rigelhof, T.F.
[Ritter?], Erika
Rose, Bob
Rutherford, Martha (& Marian Engel's reply)
F.79 Rencontre quebecoise internationale des ecrivans, 1976
From: 4 TLs + brochures, circulars and Marian Engel's notes on the conference.
F.80 Redbook, 1977 From: 1 TLs
F.81 Robinson, Irene 1983 - 1985 From: 4 ALs, 4TLs To: 1 ALs, 1 TLs
F.82 Rodriguez, Judith 1981 - 1984 From: 15 TLs, 2 APCs
F.83 Room of Ones Own 1984 From: 3 TLs
F.84 Rowohlt Verlag GmbH 1982 - 1984 From: 2 TLs (Helmut Frielinghaus) To: 2 TL(car.)
F.85 Rule, Jane 1982 - 1984 From: 31 TLs, 3 APCs To: 1 TL
F.86 Russell & Volkening 1974 - 1984
From: 20 TLs (Timothy Seldes & Gina Maccoby) & enclosures
To: 1 TLs (& TL(car) duplicate), 6 TL(car.)
- see also Estate Correspondence, Box 32, F.12 below.

F.87 S Miscellaneous
Sack, Charney, Goldblatt & Mitchell - see also Estate Correspondence, Box 33, F.12.
Saturday Night (Robert Fulford)
Schroeder, Andreas
Scott, J. Gerald
Scott, Jean
Simcox, Monica
Simonetti, Cinzia
Solly, Bill (3)
Spencer, Elizabeth
St. Martin's Press (6) see also Estate Correspondence, Box 32, F.12 below.
Styles, Frankish R.
Such, Peter
Summers, Merna
Swan, Susan
F.88 Snowdon, Valerie [c.1976 - 1983] From: 3 TLs 1 ALs
F.89 Staines, David 1980 - 1981 From: 1 TLs To: 3 TLs 1 ALs
F.90 Stambaugh, Sara 1978 - 1985 From: 26 TLs & ALs To: 46
Also 3 letters from Margaret Attwood to Stambaugh and another from Colleen [ ] to Stambaugh

F.91 T Miscellaneous
Thacker, Sylvia
Thomas, Jenny
The Toronto Star (Lew)
Traphage [?], Kirsten
F.92 Taylor, Grace 1983 - 1984 From: 3 ALs
F.93 Thomas, Audrey 1977 - 1984 From: 3 TLs & enclosure
F.94 Thomas, Clara From: 3 TLs, with copy of student essay on Bear.
F.95 Toronto, City of 1982 - 1983 From: 20 items, including mailings from Ying Hope and Ron Kanter and minutes of meetings
F.96 Toronto General Hospital 1983 2 items
F.97 Toronto Public Library 1965 To: 1 TL (car.)

F.98 U Miscellaneous
Université Concordia
University of Alberta (6)
University of Toronto
F.99 V Miscellaneous
Vancouver Public Library
Vautour, Doreen
Verthuy, Mair
F.100 van Herk, Aritha 1981 - 1985 From: 1 ALs 2 TLs 1 APcs
F.101 Virginia Barber Literary Agency 1981 - 1985 To: 4 TLs 1 ALs From:12 TLs 2 ALs
- see also letter (not sent?) in draft of Elizabeth and the Golden City, Box 34 , F.43 below
- see also Estate Correspondence , Box 32, F. 12 below.
F.102 von Born, Heidi 1980 - 1982 From:13 TLs 4 APcs 1 ALs

F.103 W Miscellaneous
Walter, Jan
Watson, Marg and Norm (5)
Watt, June
Webb, Phyllis
Welch, Robert
Wengle, Annette
Whitehead, Carl & Fay
Wiebe, Rudy
Wiseman, Adele
Women's Press
Woodcock, George
World Authors
F.104 Who's Who 1984-5
F.105 Women and Words 1983 - 1984 To: TL(car.) & copy of article From: 11 TLs & circulars

Box 32
F.1 [Woolnough], Hilda 1983 - 1984
From: 5 ALs
F.2 Writers' Union of Canada, 1978
Material on Archives and Wills,
From: 19 items (including letters and report by Robin Skelton)
F.3 Writers' Union of Canada, 1980 - 1982
From: 17 items (circulars, newsletters, position papers, clippings)
To: 1 TL (car)
F.4 Writers' Union of Canada, 1981
Book Committee,
From: 18 items (minutes, letters and circulars)
F.5 Writers' Union of Canada, 1981
Book Publishing Conference,
From: 10 items (circulars, program - some with annotations by Engel)
F.6 Writers' Union of Canada, 1981 - 1983
Book Committee,
From: 50 items (history of the Writers' Union, agendae, minutes, circulars, statements, membership lists and correspondence)
F.7 Writers' Union of Canada, 1981
From: 20 items (correspondence, minutes, reports and circulars)
F.8 Writers' Union of Canada, 1983 - 1984
From: 31 items (reports, announcements and circulars)
F.9 Writers' Union of Canada, 1984
From: 2 items
To: 1 TLs and photocopy with attachments

F.10 Y Correspondence
York University
F.11 Unidentified Correspondence, 1972 - 1984
Letters and cards in this file are either unsigned or lacking surnames, 47 items
F.12 Estate Correspondence, 1985 - 1987
This file contains letters written after Engel's death. It includes letters from her agents (Virginia Barber and Gina Maccoby of Russell and Volkening), publishers (St. Martin's Press, Penguin, Anansi, Irwin, Press Porcepic, Queen's Quarterly) and her lawyers and literary executor (Michael Kainer of Sack, Charney, Goldblatt and Mitchell and Robert Brandeis). It has been arranged in date order. 44 items.
F.13 Christmas Cards, 1984
Cards received by Marian Engel, 27 items.

Lecture Tours and Conferences
F.14 Australia Trip, 1980
Itinerary, correspondence, circulars, clippings, receipts and Marian Engel's notes and draft [of a speech?], 31 items.
F.15 Australia Trip, 1980
Engel's report for Dept. of External Affairs and covering letter, Carbon ts., 5 pp.
F.16 Australia Trip, 1980
"notes without a notebook", ms., 5 pp.
F.17 Germany and Sweden Trip, 1981
Circulars, itineraries, pamphlets and translation of part of Bear by Marian Engel (ts., 6 pp.), 14 items.

Non-Fiction writing
F.18 Fragment of [Major Rains] play,
Ts. and carbon ts., 3 pp. & 1 duplicate.
F.19 "At Home on St. Joseph's Island June 25, 1848", [radio?] play about Major Rains, [1974], Carbon typescript, lightly annotated, 32 pp.
F.20 Research material on Rains family, includes History of Georgina Township, 26 pp.
F.21 Research material on Rains family, [c.1974], includes letters to and from Engel concerning Major Rains, pamphlets, photocopies, maps and research notes, 26 items.
F.22 Research material on Rains Family, [c.1974], includes letters to and from Engel's maps and photocopied material, 22 items.
F.23 Research material on Rains Family, [c.1974], includes transcriptions, research notes, photocopies, notes on visits to museums and descendants, cuttings and pamphlets, 25 pp.
[See also Box 31 F.94 for a student essay on Bear.]
F.24 Convent Movie, Early draft, incomplete, Ts., 4 pp. and duplicate carbon ts
F.25 Convent Movie, Later draft, incomplete, Ts. and carbon ts., 23 pp.
F.26 Convent Film Outline, Latest [final?] version, Ts., 42 pp. and duplicate.
F.27 Poetry and prose pieces, [most c. 1981], including "Crab Poems", "Crab Papers", "Elizabeth Songs" and "Frannies Song", Ms., ts. and carbon ts., 37 pp.
F.28 Flora MacDonald research file, 1975, Photocopies, clippings and a letter suggesting Engel write a play, 15 items.
F.29 Notes on novel technique, literature and narrative forms, Ts., 3 pp. and 3 clippings.
F.30 Engel's curriculum vitae, various versions, Ts., 12 pp. (includes some duplicates).

Pieces about Marian Engel
F.31 "Sidelights" column/essay about Marian Engel by D. Olendorf and J. Ross, incomplete, ts., 9 pp. and duplicate.
F.32 Articles about Marian Engel, 2 pieces by Ann Hutchinson, Ts., 23 pp., Photocopy, 5 pp.
F.33 Review of Glassy Sea by William French, Globe and Mail, August 29 1978, clipping only.
F.34 "Marian In Edmonton", Essay by Sara Stambaugh, [For Room of One's Own?], Undated, annotated carbon ts., 6 pp.
F.35 Review of Room of One's Own by Mark Abley, Globe and Mail, 1984, clipping only.
F.36 Article about Marian Engel by Joanne Strong, no publication given, [1981?], clipping only.
F.37 Clippings of articles about Marian Engel, c.1981, 3 items.
F.38 Preface to Library Research News, "The Marian Engel Archive", by Dr. L.A. Braswell, 1984, Ts. (photocopy), 4 pp.
F.39 Library Research News, "The Marian Engel Archive", [Vol. 8, no.2, Fall 1984], Complete draft typescript (photocopy) of this issue, 95 pp.
F.40 Annotated Bibliography of Marian Engel's works by Annette Wengle, Photocopied ts., 46 pp. Also 2 duplicates of the bibliography.
F.41 French translation of Bear with covering note by Paule Noyart [?], 13 February 1984, Annotated ts. (photocopy), 149 pp.

Items received
F.42 United Church of Canada, "Report of the Commission on Abortion to the Twenty-eighth General Council".
F.43 "Coping Strategies and Quality of Life in Cancer Patients", by Beth E. Meyerowitz, Photocopied ts., 23 pp.
F.44 Montana State University, Brochure containing list of Faculty and Administration, [1955?], 24 pp.
F.45 Reprint from Canadian Medical Journal, article on Joseph Workman M.D. by C.G. Stogill, October 1966.
F.46 Photograph of Marian Engel, Inscription on verso by Marian Engel: "Stockholm, Sweden 81", 2 images on strip, one of Marian Engel's head and shoulders.
F.47 Amnesty International bulletin and other printed material.

Box 33
Short Stories.
Most of the stories in this section of the archive are duplicates or revisions of those in the first accrual of Engel papers. Researchers are advised to consult the short stories section of the earlier guide (published as the Library Research News, volume 8, number 2). Where another version or copy of a story listed below can be found in the first accrual, this has been noted in brackets.
Engel's last published book, The Tattooed Woman (Penguin Books, 1985) consists of 16 stories, most of which are present singly in draft, variant or duplicate form below, as well as collected together for the book. The material received in collected form for The Tattooed Woman has been retained in this form at the beginning of this section; variants, as well as all other stories, have been listed alphabetically by title.

F.1 The Tattooed Woman, Introduction: 1st. draft, typescript, 1 p.
2nd. draft, typescript, 3 pp. and duplicate carbon typescript, 3 pp.,
Rejected pages, typescript, 3 pp. and carbon ts., 1 p
Final [?] draft, 4 pp.
Also copy of covering letter to Cynthia Good, 11 Jan. 1985, TL., 1 p.
F.2 The Tattooed Woman, Original manuscript, marked up for the printer. The introduction and stories are photocopied typescripts, typescripts, and carbon typescripts with final revisions not by Marian Engel, first half of the ms.: prelims., intro. and 6 stories:
"Tattooed Woman"
"The Life of Bernard Orge"
"Country Doctor"
"Anita's Dance"
"Feet"
"Madame Hortensia" 103 pp.
Also covering letter re the manuscript from Cynthia Good of Penguin Books, May 16 1985, TLs., 1 p.
F.3 The Tattooed Woman, Original manuscript, marked up for the printer. Second half of the ms.: 10 stories:
"Confession Tree"
"Smell of Sulphur"
"In the Sun"
"Could I Have Found a Better Love Than You?"
"Banana Flies"
"The Last Wife"
"Share and Share Alike"
"There From Here"
"Two Rosemary Road"
"Gemini Gemino" 124 pp.
F.4 The Tattooed Woman, Uncorrected galley proofs, March 4 1985, 47 pp.
F.5 The Tattooed Woman, Review of the book, Canadian Materials, January 1986, Photocopy, 1 p.
F.6 "Amaryllis", [Inside the Easter Egg], Photocopied typescript, 13 pp.
Story was published in Fourteen Stories High - see Box 20, F.5 (First Accrual).
F.7 "Anita's Dance", [Tattooed Woman], Photocopied typescript, 15 pp.
Originally published in Chatelaine, Autumn 1981, republished in The Tattooed Woman.
- see Box 20, F.22 & F.23 (First Accrual).

F.8 "Arthur and the Seven Stars". Photocopied annotated typescript, 11 pp.
[Probably published in Queen's Quarterly, 1985/6]. - see related correspondence under Hutchison
F.8a Third Accrual (51-1995), Original annotated ts. of "Arthur and the Seven Stars"
F.9 "As We Are Now: Phrases from the Commonplace Book of a Detached Observer",
A series of short fictional fragments,
- Annotated typescript, 8 pp.
- Early draft of "Cui Bono" section (lacking in above draft), annotated typescript, 1 p.
- Early drafts of "Purchased Services" section:
- carbon typescript., 1 p. [abandoned]
- typescript, 1 p.
- annotated typescript, 3 pp.
[This story is an abbreviation and adaptation of "The Weather is Improving on the Whole"]
- Final draft incorporating all of the above fragments, typescript, 11 p.
F.10 "Atlas and Gazeteer of the West China Shore", Reprint from Queen's Quarterly, Spring Issue, Vol. LXXXII, No. 1, 1975, Published version only, 3 copies.
- See Box 20, F.24 & 25.
F.11 "Banana Flies", [Tattooed Woman], [Also used for conference "Women and Words"], Annotated ts. draft, 5 pp.
2 photocopied typescripts, 4 pp. each. Also letter and contract from Harbour Publishing, Aug./Sept. 1984, photocopies, 3 pp.
F.12 "Bicycle Story", [Inside the Easter Egg], Carbon typescript., 19 pp. - See Box 20, F.19.
F.13 "Big Nothing, Little Nothing", [Children's story], Photocopied carbon typescript., 5 pp. - See Box 20, F.26.
F.14 "Blue Grass and Flowers",
Typescript, incomplete, 11 pp.
Carbon typescript, complete, 13 pp.
F.15 "Break No Hearts This Christmas", [Inside the Easter Egg],
Photocopied annotated typescript, 8 pp., also 3 more copies, 24 pp. total.
Story appears to be a later[?] version of "The/That Last Christmas" - see below.
- See Box 20, F.10.

F.16 "Calling Miss Incognito", [Inside the Easter Egg],
Photocopied typescript, 22 pp. - See Box 20, F.1.
F.17 "A Christmas Story; Mr. Arblaster's Cloud", Photocopied ts., 9 pp. - See Box 20, F.29.
F.18 "The Confession Tree", [Tattooed Woman, with title changed to "Timor Mortis Conturbat Me"], Typescript, lightly annotated by Marian Engel, 16 pp. Carbon typescript, with light annotation by Marian Engel and another, 16 pp.
F.19 "Could I Have Found a Better Love Than You?", [Tattooed Woman]. First [?] draft, entitled "Under the Hill", typescript, incomplete, pp. 1 - 12 + 18, 13 pp. total.
Second [?] draft, entitled "Under the Hill; Notes on the life of Miss Iris Terryberry with excerpts from the Terryberry Garden Perennial Catalogue",
Lightly annotated typescript, 12 pp., preceded by note by Marian Engel re the story, typescript, 1 p.
Also following section of the story, differently typed, lightly annotated, pp. 13 - 18, 6 pp.
Incomplete carbon ts. of above 2 sections, front page marked "final draught" (sic),
pp. 1-12 + p.18, 13 pp. total. Retyped version of the story, here entitled [in Marian Engel's hand] "Could I Have Found a Better Love Than You?" and dated 1984, Carbon ts., 18 pp.
F.20 "The Country Doctor", [Tattooed Woman],
Photocopied typescript with revisions taped over original, 20 pp. Also photocopy of the above with annotation "1979 commission - book fell through". An earlier version of this story was entitled "The Red Haired Man". - See Box 21, F.21.
F.21 "The Diabetic Hummingbirds" (I & II), Early draft, ts., 23 pp.
Retyped draft, lightly annotated, 23 pp.
- See Box 20, F.31. "The Diabetic Hummingbirds II", a critical dialogue where Marian Engel discusses the original story, typescript, incomplete, 8 pp. Also revised version of the story, annotated typescript, incomplete, 12 pp. Photocopied typescript, complete, 13 pp.

F.22 "Duet for Penelope", Photocopied typescript, 7 pp. With note by Marian Engel, "... never submitted".
F.23 "Examination for Discovery", Typescript, incomplete, 2 pp. ALs duplicate carbon typescript, 2 pp.
F.24 "Family Stories", Photocopied typescript, incomplete, 15 pp. - See Box 20, F.34 for complete version.
F.25 ["The fat man stands four-square ..."]. Untitled fragment, Typescript, 1 p.
F.26 "Feet", [Tattooed Woman], Photocopied typescript, 16 pp. - See Box 20, F.35 and Box 29, F.6 for previously published version.
F.27 "Flurry", Carbon typescript, 11 pp. See Box 20, F.37.
F.28 "Gemini, Gemino", [Tattooed Woman], Early draft, typescript, 13 p. Duplicate carbon typescript of above version, 13 pp. Variant pages from above version, numbered 13 - 15.
Draft typescript, 3pp. and duplicate carbon typescript, 3 pp. A single, heavily annotated variant page, numbered 16, carbon ts. Second draft, annotated ts., 16 pp. incorporating single variant page above). Retyped version of second draft, carbon typescript, 15 pp.
F.29 "Home Thought from Abroad", [Inside the Easter Egg], Photocopied annotated typescript, 15 pp. See Box 20, F.7.
F.30 "The House at Vivian", Carbon typescript, 18 pp. See Box 21, F.2.
F.31 "I See Something, It Sees Me", [Inside the Easter Egg], Annotated carbon typescript, 7 pp. See Box 20, F.2.
F.32 "In the Sun", [Tattooed Woman],
Carbon typescript, 5pp. (marked "1983"). Retyped version with address of Virginia Barber Literary Agency, 4 pp. Also blue folder with label of the agency.
F.33 "Iris", [Fragments which appear to relate to the "Could I Have Found a Better Love Than You" story for Tattooed Woman - many flower and Terryberry references. Iris is also the name of the lost mother in Marian Engel's uncompleted manuscript Vanishing Lakes which becomes part of Elizabeth and the Golden City, Marian Engel's last, unfinished novel. See Box 34 below]. Ts., 2 pp. Ts., 3 pp. Annotated ts., 5 pp.
F.34 "Life of Bernard Orge", [Tattooed Woman],
Early, heavily annotated typescript draft, 17 pp. Photocopied carbon typescript, incorporating above revisions, marked "Weaver", 15 pp.
- See Box 21, F.11.

F.35 "Listen To Those Bells", [Canadian Living, 1983], Carbon ts., 13 pp.
- See related correspondence under Canadian Living.
F.36 "Madame Hortensia, Equilibriste", [Saturday Night, Volume 92, no.7, September 1977], [Tattooed Woman], Published version only, complete issue of Saturday Night, story appears on pp.46-50, with introduction and photograph on p. 9.
F.37 "Marshallene at Work", [Inside the Easter Egg], Carbon typescript, 11 pp. - See Box 20, F.16.
F.38 "Marshallene on Rape", [Inside the Easter Egg],
Photocopied annotated typescript, 9 pp. - See Box 20, F.12.
F.39 "The Martyrdom of Aphrodite", [Draft of short play], Annotated carbon ts., 15 pp.
F.40 "The Martyrology", Typescript, 4 pp. F.41 "Meredith and the Lousy Latin Lover", [Inside the Easter Egg],
Photocopied carbon typescript, 11 pp. - See Box 20, F.13 and Box 29, F.8. F.42 "Mina and Clare", [Inside the Easter Egg],
Photocopied carbon typescript, 16 pp. See Box 20, F.3.
F.43 "Missing Persons", [Part of an uncompleted novel? Apparently connected with Vanishing Lakes - has the same Iris/Ilene character and Gunther - also one section is marked "V.L."],
Annotated typescript, pages numbered 1 - 11,
Annotated typescript, pages numbered 11 - 13,
Annotated typescript, [marked "V.L."], pages numbered i:iv - 8, 36 pp. total, and annotated file folder.
F.44 "Mount Pleasant", Typescript, incomplete, 8 pp. Duplicate carbon typescript, complete, 9 pp.
F.45 "Nationalism", [Inside the Easter Egg], Photocopied [carbon?] typescript, 8 pp. - See Box 20, F.11.
F.46 "The New Geography", Typescript, 10 pp. - See Box 21, F.16
F.47 "An Olive Branch", [1960s?], Photocopied typescript with Russell and Volkening title page, 10 pp. - See Box 21, F.18.
F.48 "Over and Out", [Perhaps Marian Engel's last completed short story. This one was found with the 1984/5 blue notebook which also had interleaved "The Steam Wheelchair"]. Annotated typescript, 6 pp.
Annotated retyped version, 8 pp. Also 2 more copies of retyped version, 8 pp. each.

F.49 "Ruth", [Inside the Easter Egg], Photocopied typescript, 3 pp. Also a duplicate, 3 pp. - See Box 20, F.18.
F.50 "Say It With Food", Photocopied typescript, incomplete, 8 pp. - See Box 20, F.27 where the story is entitled "Brown".
F.51 "Share and Share Alike", Original typescript, lightly annotated by Marian Engel, 13 pp. Duplicate carbon typescript of above version, 13 pp.
2 photocopies of above version, 13 pp. each.
F.52 "Sophie 1990", Carbon ts., 5pp., with accompanying note by Marian Engel saying that the story was written in 1980 for Chatelaine, but the projected series was cancelled, typescript, 1 p.
F.53 "The Smell of Sulphur", [Tattooed Woman], Carbon typescript, 18 pp. Photocopy of annotated retyped version, carbon ts., 17 pp. Another photocopy of above version, 17 pp.
A retyped version, incorporating above corrections, carbon typescript, 16 pp.
F.54 "The Steam Wheelchair", [Marian Engel's last story? The pages of the first typed version are numbered sequentially with the story "Over and Out"].
Handwritten draft written on pages detached from a lined notebook, 24 pp.
Annotated typescript, with pages numbered 9 - 17, 9 pp. Retyped version, 9 pp.
Photocopy of the retyped version, 9 pp.
F.55 "Sublet", [Inside the Easter Egg], Photocopied annotated typescript, 13 pp. - See Box 20, F.8.
F.56 "Sylvia in the Sun", [Tattooed Woman, where the story is entitled "In the Sun"], Early incomplete draft, pages 1 - 3 and 5, 4 pp. Also duplicate carbon typescript, 4 pp.
F.57 "Tattooed Woman", [Tattooed Woman], Carbon typescript, 10 pp.
F.58 "Tents for the Gaudy Dancers", [Inside the Easter Egg], Photocopied annotated typescript, 12 pp.
- See Box 20, F.17.

F.59 [Terryberry Story - untitled], Annotated typescript, 14 pp.
Duplicate carbon typescript, 14 pp. - See also "Iris", F.31 above.
F.60 "The Thanatologist", Incomplete fragment [Mary & Osborne Abbot series], Typescript, 1 p.
F.61 "That Last Christmas", [Inside the Easter Egg],
Photocopied typescript, 12 pp.[here entitled "The Last Christmas"].
Rewritten [?] version, incomplete typescript, 5 pp.,
Also duplicate photocopy of this version, 5 pp.
Story relates closely to [was original version of?] "Break No Hearts This Christmas".
- See Box 20, F.10.
F.62 "There From Here", [Tattooed Woman],
Early [?] incomplete draft, typescript, 3 pp.
Duplicate carbon typescript of above version, 3 pp. Later [?] draft, photocopied typescript, 6 pp., with note attached by Marian Engel.
Duplicate carbon typescript of the above draft, 6 pp.
F.63 "Two Rosemary Road Toronto", [Tattooed Woman],
Photocopied annotated typescript, 6 pp.
Also variant typescript page, annotated, 1 p.
F.64 "The Vanishing Lakes", Annotated typescript, 12 pp.
[This title and the essentials of this story were used for Marian Engel's unfinished novel of the same name which she decided to amalgamate with Elizabeth and the Golden City. She died before completing a final version. See Box 34 below].

F.65 "The Weather is Improving on the Whole", Heavily annotated typescript, with the title "Purchased Services" written at the side, 15 pp.
Duplicate carbon typescript, incomplete [the carbons of the last two pages are on the verso of the above version], 13 pp.
Fragments, inserts and revisions pertaining to above version, typescript, 5 pp. [This story was drastically abbreviated and appears as "Purchased Services", one of the segments in "As We Are Now: Phrases From the Commonplace Book of a Detached Observer"].
F.66 "What Do Lovers Do?", [Inside the Easter Egg],
Photocopied annotated typescript, 11 pp. - See Box 20, F.9.

Book Reviews
Arranged alphabetically by the name of the first author reviewed or editor.
F.67 Bonnie, Fred Displaced Persons
Rigelhoff, T.F. The Education of J.J. Pass
Wansley, David All for Margarita and Other Stories Carbon typescript, 3 pp.
F.68 Brautigan, Richard So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
Summers, Merna Calling Home
Carbon typescript, 2 pp.
F.69 Culleton, Beatrice In Search of April Raintree
Stephenson, Wendy Roxene
Carbon typescript, 3pp.
F.70 Endo, Shusaku The Samurai Carbon typescript, 3 pp.
F.71 Fisher, M.F.K. Sister Age Carbon typescript, 3 pp.
F.72 Fry, Alan How A People Die
Also first novels by M. Brandis, L. Stevenson, C. Ianora and R. Wright, reviewed in The Globe Magazine, October 31 1970.
Published version only, complete issue. - see typescript version Box 24, F.35.
F.73 Garber, Lawrence Sirens and Graces Carbon typescript, 4 pp.
F.74 Lish, Gordon Dear Mr. Capote
Dubus, Andre The Times Are Never So Bad Carbon typescript, 3 pp.
F.75 Marlatt, Daphne How To Hug A Stone
Currie, Robert Night Games Carbon typescript, 2 pp.
F.76 Metcalf, John (ed.) 82: Best Canadian Stories
Levine, Norman I Don't Want To Know Anyone Too Well
Carbon typescript, 3 pp.
F.77 Metcalf, John Kicking Against the Pricks
Metcalf, John (ed.) Third Impressions
Carbon typescript, 3 pp., with variant (rejected?) p.3, typescript.
F.78 Murdoch, Iris The Philosopher's Pupil Carbon typescript, 3 pp.
F.79 Roberts, Kevin Flash Harry and the Daughters of Divine Light
Clark, Joan From A High Thin Wire
Carbon typescript, 3 pp.
F.80 Sparkes, R.F. The Winds Softly Sigh
Young, Jim The Flare of a Match
Carbon typescript, 2 pp.
F.81 Spender, Elizabeth The Salt Line Carbon typescript, 1p., typescript, 2 pp.
F.82 Turgeon, Pierre The First Person Carbon typescript, 2 pp.
F.83 Whitelaw, Marjory [Title missing] Carbon typescript, incomplete (second page only), 1 p.

Non-Fiction
Juvenilia
F.84 "Lost and Found",
Non fiction, short essay by Marian Passmore in The Canadian Girl, January 30 1949, vol. LXIX, no.5, p. 40. Published version only, complete edition.

Published Books
The Islands of Canada, (with photographs by J.A. Kraulis), Edmonton, Hurtig, 1981.
F.85 Research material,
Manuscript notes, 8 pp., photocopies, 7 pp., and notebook.
The notebook was printed in Greece and was previously owned by N. Tsingos; it contains notes about William Kingdom Rains, 22 pp. total.
F.86 Drafts of sections of text:
- The Great Lakes, typescript, 6pp. (misnumbered as 5 pp.)
- Prince Edward Island, annotated typescript, 7 pp.
- The Magdalene Islands, annotated typescript, 10 pp.
- Cape Breton Island, typescript, 2 pp.
- St. Joseph's Island, notes, typescript, 2 pp.
- St. Joseph's Island, draft text, typescript, 5 pp.
- The West Coast, annotated typescript, 4 pp. (includes 2 pp. rejected on the Charlottes)
- Also annotated file folder.

Articles and Speeches
Since most are undated, these items have been arranged alphabetically by title.
F.87 "Arts Funding in Ontario: Publishing Particularly", [for Ministry of Citizenship and Culture], [1983], Carbon typescript, 8 pp.
F.88 "The Baby of the Family", Typescript, 3 pp.
Duplicate carbon typescript, 3 pp.
F.89 "Being There", [for Princess Margaret Hospital],
Mixture of annotated typescript and carbon typescript pages, 4 pp. total.
F.90 "Cancelling Out Sex", [for Toronto Star?],
Incomplete typescript, 2 pp.
Complete carbon typescript, 3 pp.
F.91 "Crackpot and Co.", [for C.B.C. radio "Ideas"],
Carbon typescript, 32 pp.
F.92 "Famous Last Words", [unpublished?],
Typescript, 6 pp.
Carbon typescript, 6 pp.
F.93 "Growing Up At Forty", [with prefatory note indicating that it was written for Chatelaine; c.1977?],
Carbon typescript, 13 pp.
F.94 "History Committee", [for City of Toronto History Committee],
Typescript, 1 p. Also duplicate carbon typescript, 1 p.
And another page headed "Toronto Celebration: For the History Committee", Typescript, 1 p.
Also duplicate carbon typescript, 1 p.
F.95 "Loneliness", [for Toronto Star?], Carbon typescript, 3 pp.
F.96 "The Masculinisation of Women", [for Toronto Star],
Incomplete typescript, 1 p.
F.97 "Music After Lessons", [unpublished?],
Annotated typescript, 4 pp.
Duplicate carbon typescript, 4 pp.
F.98 "Naming",
Typescript, 3 pp.
Duplicate carbon typescript, 3 pp.

F.99 "Old Times, Prophetic Times", [unpublished? Title page annotated "Rewrite - hopeless"]
Annotated typescript, 4 pp.
Duplicate carbon typescript, 4 pp.
F.100 "Ou Est La Litterature Anglo Canadienne?",
Speech at conference: Recontre quebecoise internationale des ecrivans, Montreal, 11 - 16 October 1976,
Carbon typescript, 9 pp., with original annotated typescript of page 9.
- see related notes and correspondence under "Rencontre quebecoise".
F.101 "Pornography, Eroticism, Feminism", [unpublished?], dated 31/3/81, Typescript, 3 pp.
F.102 "Public Psychologising", [for Mermaid Inn - Toronto Globe and Mail], 1984,
- "Notes for a piece on psychoanalytical criticism", typescript, 2 pp.
Also further notes [continuation of above?], typescript, 3 pp.
- Untitled draft, headed "for Mermaid Inn", lightly annotated typescript, 5 pp.
- Duplicate carbon typescript of the above draft, 5 pp.
- "Public Psychologising", [final draft?], carbon typescript, 6 pp.
- Variant pages, typescript and carbon typescript, 3 pp.
F.103 "Reaching Back to the Celtic Twilight",
Lightly annotated typescript, 12 pp.
Also variant final page, typescript, 1 p.
Duplicate carbon typescript without variant final page, 12 pp.
F.104 "Something", Jan 22 [1981?],
Typescript, 4 pp., with additional [variant final?] page, 1 p.
Duplicate carbon typescript lacking extra page, 4 pp.
F.105 "Till the Conversion of the Jews", Typescript, 4 pp.
F.106 [War], Fragment of a column, Typescript and duplicate carbon typescript, 2 pp.
F.107 "Weather", Typescript, 3 pp. Duplicate carbon typescript, 3 pp.
F.108 "Why and how and why not and what is this, about starting another novel ...", for Canadian Literature, [1982], Carbon typescript, 10 pp.
F.109 "A Woman at McGill", Typescript, 7 pp. Duplicate carbon typescript, 7 pp.
F.110 "Women Writers of Canada", Speech, [In Australia, 1980?],
Annotated typescript, 12 pp. Also annotated file folder with list of things to do/buy.
F.111 "You Are Not Alone and You Have Been Here Before: The Pleasures of Genre Fiction", Article[?], incomplete [?], Typescript, 3 pp.

Box 34
Notebooks and Elizabeth and the Golden City (unfinished final novel).
As with the earlier accrual of Engel's notebooks (see Box 6) the cahiers in this segment of the archive are a highly significant source for those who would understand the woman and her works. They are compendia of her innermost thoughts, plot outlines, drafts of letters never sent, shopping lists, and, most poignantly, accounts of her illness and treatment in the years and months preceding her death.
Although they are undated for the most part, an attempt has been made to arrange the cahiers in chronological order and to give some indication (although not a complete listing) of the contents of each. As with the earlier accrual, notebooks would be started, discontinued and then taken up again, adding to the complications of chronological arrangement.

F.1 [1946 - 1952?] Leather covered spiral notebook.
- Notes from camp Kitchikawana
- Transcriptions of poems by Donne, Brooke and others,
- Lists of records
- Colour chart
- Pasted in cut outs of women's dresses, shields and other shapes
- Lists of books
- Brief journal entries
- 2 short stories, one written Easter 1949.
Total of 65 pp. used. Also camp hymn handwritten and inserted into front cover of notebook.
F.2 1969. Date Book.
- Resolutions
- Brief and intermittent diary entries (e.g. only one entry between July 24 & October 10)
- List of 1969 writing income
F.3 [1973] Lime green notebook
- Lists of flowers and birds
- Journal type entries about her mother
- Ideas for a Marshallene story and part of story
- Dreams (through most of the notebook)
- Literary heroes
- List of books and articles about bears, 53 pp. used.
F.4 [1974?] Tan coloured notebook on psychoanalysis and Major Rains
- Opening entries concern sessions with Rich, about feelings and the creative process, 14 pp.
- Notebook then becomes "Major Rains' Diary" with lists of dates and events in his life, genealogies, research, descriptions of the family, recipes, rubbings of Rains' coat of arms interleaved, 55 pp. used.
F.5 [1974?] Slim blue cahier with notes on criticism and writing, apparently made at conference on women writers, list of August flowers on back page, 14 pp. used.
F.6 [1980] Large format green notebook including Lunatic Villas, Islands and Vanishing Lakes
- Ideas for Lunatic Villas
- Plans for house renovation
- Ideas for structure of Vanishing Lakes
- Things to think over
- Island notes: Newfoundland, Fogo Island, P.E.I., St. Pierre and Miquelon (July 1980) - some written in polished prose
- Notes on family
- Cost comparison of island versus city living
- Vanishing Lakes: interview with Ellen Selkie
- Imaginary conversation with and unsent letter to Howard Engel
- Vanishing Lakes: The Notebooks of Ivo Koomer
- "The State of Educational Publishing in Canada"
- 53 pp. used.
F.7 [1980] "In the Hospital"
Part of a piece on [Princess Margaret] hospital, Ts., 1 p.
F.8 [1980?] December 24 & 25. Notes made in hospital,
On dreams, literature, other patients, Ms., 3 pp.
F.9 1981, 1982 [and later?]. Notes on illness, dreams, Christianity, fear and death, pressure from others, brief autobiography, Ms. and ts., 9 pp.
F.10 [1981] March 25. Notes on illness and fear, Ts., 2 pp.
F.11 1982 July - 1983. Dark green notebook
- Frankfurt visit
- P.E.I.
- Mary Abbott story
- Notes on the establishment of Royal Principalities in Canada
- Satori
- Notes on illness
- Hilda's woods
- Notes on Mother's money and writing (August 1982)
- Elizabeth and the Golden City
- Quarrel with Margaret Laurence (October 1982)
- Dreams
- Timor Mortis Conturbat Me (March 1983)
- Heidi's visit
- Friends
- Realism and fantasy in literature
- Cancer
- Psychotherapist
- Genevieve's funeral
- Story of Ruth
- Letter from P.E.I. to Maggie (August 1982),
- 91 pp.
F.12 [1983] October. Raspberry Notebook.
Notes on Vanishing Lakes/Elizabeth and the Golden City (the two plots are brought together here), illness/hospital and dreams. Also:
- Sisters
- Psychoanalytical criticism
- Doctors
- 57 pp.
F.13 [1983] November. Black Plums Notebook.
- Friendships
- Dreams
- Relationships
- Montreal section of Elizabeth and the Golden City
- Narrative and the novel
- Sexism
- 64 pp. + 1 p.
F.14 [1984] February - September. Orange Notebook.
- Dreams
- Cancer (March)
- Fugitive Lakes
- plan of the novel (Sam & Clara, Tanis & Ildelorn, Iris, Ellen, Reva & Clifford).
- Plan of P.E.I. house at back and inventory of rugs and drapery fabric
- 26 pp. + 1 p.
F.15 1983 & 1984-5. Baby Blue Notebook. Book first called "Garden Book" then renamed "Paris Book - anyway, pleasure!".
- Plan of garden and list of plants and plans, 1 p. (1983)
- Paris visit, December 1984 - January 1985, includes dreams, feelings, shopping lists, memories of mother
- Notes on return home
- 18 pp.
F.16 1984 December. Paris Notes, account of arrival, lists and addresses, Ms., 3 pp.
F.17 1984 July - 1985 January. Dark blue notebook [last?],
- Autobiographical note - on her adoption and original name (Ruth) and twin (Eleanor)
- Maruspial Approaching (word play)
- List of stories for Penguin
- Progress of her illness
- Friends and flowers
- Death (August)
- Reading
- Form of the novel
- Planned structure of [Elizabeth and the Golden City]
- List of possessions and who to get them
- More novel structure - Fugitive Lakes
- "The Murder of Maugher" (December)
- Hypnosis
- Roe and Norman and Jamaica sections of novel
- Paris
- Home: visits, friends and reading
- List of drugs (January 30)
- List of possessions at back
- 79 pp.
F.18 "Elizabeth" - thoughts on dying, Ms., 3 pp.
F.19 [Undated] Lime green notebook,
Not in Marian Engel's hand - by William [and Charlotte?],
Notes on film and audio tape,
Lists of names and addresses, - 62 pp.

Engel's Last, Unpublished Novel - most frequently entitled Elizabeth and the Golden City.
The archivist has attempted to reconstruct the multiple drafts and fragments of this novel to reflect the creative process as accurately as possible. Since there is no published book from which to work backwards (from drafts which are most like the published version to those that vary most from it) nor even a final manuscript version, this reconstruction has been difficult and the arrangement which follows is tentative at best.
The process of organization was compounded by the number of strands in the book. There are two clearly separate threads: the story of Elizabeth and her sister Frances who grow up to share one man, an English Major modeled on the historical Major Rains, with much of the novel set in Toronto and Montreal, and a futuristic story of a community in which one of the dominant themes is the search for a mother through a country of lakes. Although Engel left notes about the overall structure of the book (see the first files below), her notebooks make clear that she continued to struggle with the integration of the various strands of the novel until her death. The novel had a long period of gestation: Frances and Elizabeth sprang out of Engel's Rains research in 1974 ( see F.4 above. This research also contributed to Bear). The Vanishing Lakes book was being worked on in her 1980 notebook (F.6 above) and some of the early typescript drafts date from that year. As she came closer to death herself Engel transformed many of her experiences into sections of the novel; dying Elizabeth looks back over her life and Tanis and Ildelorn inhabit a serene and beautiful place which may be the ultimate "Golden City".

F.20 The Vanishing Lakes, Segments of an unfinished novel which begins "They went to say goodbye to Em", ts., pp. 1-2, 7-12, includes some yellow sheets.
- "They must have stumbled ...", section, ts., pp. 1-6.
- "The Vanishing Lakes III" (Reva, Ellen & Iris), ts., pp. 1-42.
- "Vanishing Lakes III", variant start for above section, ts., pp. 1-3.
- "She drove steadily ..." ts., (2 yellow and one white sheet), 3 pp.
- See also the short stories "Iris" , "Missing Persons" and "Vanishing Lakes", Box 33, F.33, F.43 & F.64
- See also F.40 and F.41 below
F.21 [Vanishing Lakes?],
Two sisters (Merial & Verity) in competition for one man,
Ms., 2 pp.
F.22 "Sam and Clara",
Adoption of Elizabeth, Scanlon's and Lennox family, fantasy mother called Iris, death of Sam. Ts. and ms., 9 pp.
F.23 "Re: The Novel", A late note [1984?] on the novel's structure, Ts., 1 p.
F.24 "The Shape of This Book", Chapter headings [for Elizabeth, no apparent mention of Vanishing Lakes], 2 different drafts, Ts., 2 pp.
On the structure of the book see also F.43 below.
F.25 Drafts of historical novel set in Ontario.
Photographer (Agassiz), Elizabeth, Frances and the Major; also a concluding segment,
- "Trompe l'oeil", ts., 2 pp. + 5 pp.
- "Trompe l'Oreille", ts., 3 pp. + 4 pp.
- [Photographer and Elizabeth], ts., 6 pp.
- [August on the island], ts., 8 pp.
- "Last", ts., 2 pp.
F.26 "Early mixed-up beginning", The following segments were contained in a file folder annotated as above, and although they clearly belong to different sections of the novel they have been kept together here:
- "Reality" - Elizabeth telling the Rains story, ts., 3 pp. + carbon duplicate.
- "ECG"(Elizabeth and the Golden City) - "Once upon a time" opening of childhood section, ts., 9 pp.
- "II" - Housework, death of mother, ts., 7 pp. + 1 p.
- "Elizabeth and the Golden City"- death of mother, Major at the club, Rome, French writers, Hong Kong, ts., 6 pp.
- "The day after the funeral" - Windsor and black servant, ts., 8 pp.
F.27 [Elizabeth as a child], - thoughts, ts., 9 pp.
F.28 [Death of Mother] - "I didn't have a Betty-Jean to go to ..." to Father slapping Frances, Ts., pages numbered 20 - 49 (some gaps), 20 pp. Also duplicate carbon typescript.
F.29 "There was a reason that I did not have a boyfriend ...", Ts., 2 pp.

F.30 "Children do not seem to be aware that it costs money to live ...", Annotated ts., 3 pp.
F.31 Opening of the novel and later rewrites:
- "When my mother died, I was reading Jane Eyre. That would be a good line ...", with variants, annotated ts., 12 pp.
- Above first page rewritten, then section continued, pp.14 -28, 16 pp. (see F.35 below)
- Fragments: "The big house...", p. 12, "I peeped back out ...", p. 31, "The nights were bad ...", p. 62, "Nothing seemed to faze him ...", p. 67.
F.32 Elizabeth, Frances, Killer and Father, F9 - F14, annotated ts., 6 pp. and carbon duplicate.
F.33 Another opening: "The simple truth is for simpletons: I am not the wife of Alexander Maugher ... when my mother died, I was reading ...", incomplete, 15 pp.
- "Frances Annabella. That Killer ...", and "Frannie's Song", pp. 29-30a., ts., 3 pp.
- "Part II, Major Silliker's Song" and Montreal, ts., 3 pp. + 1 car ts. duplicate.
F.34 Another opening: "She was reading Jane Eyre ...", pp. 1-4 and 22-27, 10 pp.
- Continuation [Mother's death] and Montreal, ts., 8 pp., and duplicate carbon ts.
F.35 Another opening: "When my mother died .. ten years at Roe, Allen, Levy...", carbon ts., 14 pp.

F.36 Elizabeth and the Golden City or The Vanishing Lakes,
Outline of the Book:
- "This book is based on the history of Elizabeth and Frances, daughters of Mad Jack Doubleday of Milford Haven ...", ts., 3 pp.
Large, consecutively paginated section:
- Part I "When my mother died" - Constance- the Golden City.
- Part II "Major Silliker's Song -" I was reading... Frances made up the tray" - Major - McGill - "Mother wasn't buried in Montreal", ts., pp. 1-88.
F.37 "The Major",
Early section, ts., 7 pp. + churchgoing, 1 p.
F.38 Major's arrival - McGill,
The carbon ts. of pp. 50-88 above, with some revisions and an alternate p. 87, (some missing pages), 33 pp.
F.39 As above, pp. 50-88, Annotated ts., 44 pp. ["Coda" section was present here but has been placed later in this box]
F.40 Elizabeth and the Golden City, A Lexicon
Sections beginning "In the Golden City ..." and series of sections headed "GC", "GC1", "GC2", "GC4", "History of the Golden City", "Frances travelled in a cloud of little girls ...", "GCV", "GCVI", "Idlelorn was distressed...", "Although Tanis and Ildelorn were not ...", "The Golden City", (boatman section), also fragments on "hospital" typewriter: "Continuing locked tower", "Tanis and Ildelorn", chorus of women and 2 others.
Also file folder marked "Tanis and Ildelorn and Van Lakes".
F.41 [Elizabeth and the Golden City and Vanishing Lakes]
"Epigraph" (Sir Thomas Browne quotation),
- Part One (Framework), carbon ts., 1-13A,
- "insert beginning chapter" (Ag, Dizzy and flowers), 2 pp.
- Elizabeth and the Golden City, incorporating "The Vanishing Lakes", "The Deaths in Her Life" and "Add to How She Became An Orphan", ts., 11 pp. + 1 p. variant.
- Part I "When my mother ... Roe, Allen, Levy", carbon ts., pp. 1-37A.
- "The town had not failed to notice ...", ts., 5 pp.
- The Vanishing Lakes (introduction - search for mother section - on yellow paper), ts. 10 pp. and rewritten version, also on yellow paper, carbon ts. (dated 1980), 14 pp.
- father (after funeral section), carbon ts., 1- f24.
- "I went to bed early ...", ts., 2 pp.
- "Scanlon when we first knew it ...", ts., 2 pp. + carbon ts.
- "How She Obtained an Education", ts., 3 pp.
- "How She Obtained an Education" (another version), ts., 6 pp.
- "Belle Rivers", BR 1 - 6, ts., 6 pp.
- Variant pages which appear to belong thematically and typographically in this section, ts. and carbon ts., 6 pp.

F.42 Elizabeth and the Golden City or Vanishing Lakes
This section contains the original tss. of several of the sections in F.41 above and appears to be a selection of those parts Engel thought worth saving from earlier drafts:
- Outline of the entire novel, ts., 3 pp. and duplicate carbon ts.
- Part One (Framework) "When my mother died ... in all my years in publishing" (Constance and the doctor), pp. 1-13A, and Part II, Major Silliker's Song, 1 p.
- I was reading Jane Eyre ... Frances had made up the tray", pp. 14-39, ts. and carbon ts.
- "father" (after the funeral section), f1- f24.
- II "In my day" ( musicals and Montreal - seduction section), pp. 1-15 and p. 62 (camping)
All of the above sections together in a blue folder.
F.43 Elizabeth and the Golden City,
Letter [unsent?], January 7 [c. 1980?], to Ginger [Barber] about the structure of the novel and the attempt to work in Vanishing Lakes. Also letter [unsent?] to Alice Munro, all ts. and carbon ts., 11 pp.
- "When my mother died ... ten years at Roe, Allen", with revisions but still rejected, ts., 13 pp.
- "Love can do you in baby faster than flit" (after mother's death), ts.,4 pp.
F.44 Elizabeth, various sections,
- "She had been wanting for some time ..." (reading Major's diary), ts., 2 pp.
- "When my mother died ... bothered me", ts., 2 pp.
- "The house was tall and handsome ...", ts., 5 pp.
- "The Major put on his bowler hat ...", ts., 3 pp.
- "The Major, who had been sent to Woolwich ...", ts., 3 pp.
- "Education again", ts., 3 pp.
- "I went to bed early ...", ts., 5 pp.
F.45 [Elizabeth], II, - "In my day ..." (musicals, Montreal, seduction), pp. 1-15, (same as last section of F. 42 above).
F.46 [Major], - his war narrative (Frank Lennox) and journal in Montreal, ts., 21 pp.
F.47 [Montreal], - music and dancing section, ts., 1 p. and duplicate carbon ts.
F.48 [Montreal], - education; students at McGill.
F.49 [Montreal], Major at McGill, pp. 1-10.
F.50 [Elizabeth in hospital thinking of Montreal],
- disease, retrospection, McGill, Countess and Lalice, ts., pp. 3 - 23 (some folded to indicate rejected pages).
F.51 "Montreal, contd."
- Apartments in the city
- birth of Owen
- Moses Mendelssohn and the book trade
- Lalice and Countess
- Golden City, seduction ms., pp. 1-46
Section continues with birth of Alan and Lalice visit, ts., pp. 47-53 (originally numbered 24-30, continues F. 50 above).
F.52 [Montreal, continued],
- Major and expenses
- Roe, Levy, Catherwood and Elizabeth in hospital, ts., originally numbered 31-47 (continuing last section above) then first page renumbered p. 54.

F.53 [Elizabeth dying]
- Rains genealogy, 1 p.
- Elizabeth; "Stop it, stop it, stop it ...", ts., 5pp.
- disease and Montreal boyfriend, ts. 7 pp.
- Catherwood and Agnes fragment, ts., 1 p.
F.54 [Montreal to Toronto]
- middles of lives, friends, Toronto, ts., pp. 6-8.
F.55 Toronto,
- Toronto. "I arrived in Toronto at 11.15 ...", ts., 9 pp.
- "She Murders Maugher", ts., 12 pp.
- "Toronto II, She Joins the Firm", ts., 6 pp.
- "She Fails to Confess", ts., 11 pp.
- "Roe", ts., 1 p.
- Fragments: Toronto and Catherwood (hospital typewriter), ts., 2 pp.
F.56 Toronto,
Long section on leaving Frances and the Major, ts., 60 pp.
F.57 [Toronto], "The writers' rivalries were intense ..." (DeLesseps section), ts., 6 pp. + duplicate carbon ts.
F.58 "New Start", "She had been up betimes ...", (cancer, Catherwood, death of the Major), ts., 10 pp.
F.59 [Dinner Party],
- house cleaning
- Levy and Ag, ts., pp. 1-2, pp. 1-3.
- see also next file.
F.60 [Toronto],
- "The joys of Scadenfreude ...", ts., 4 pp.
- "Roe and Amelia", 1 p.
- "Much later", "As far as fiction goes ... I don't have such a bad time":fragment about publishing, ts., 4 pp. + duplicate carbon ts. (found in a file with other material dated March 1981).
- "If I have any usefulness as a publisher ...", 2 pp.
- "Golden City. Late in August, she invited Amelia and Frances to dinner ...", ts., 8 pp. (see last file).
- "no other woman would endure ... ", ts., 1 p.
F.61 [Late section],
"When my mother died, I was reading Jane Eyre. When the Major died I was ...", ts., 15 pp. + duplicate carbon ts.
F.62 "New Beginning" [Late section - Arthur's Funeral], ts., 10 pp + fragment, p. 2.
F.63 [Late section - Elizabeth in hospital],
"the person who visits often and gives me great pleasure now is Jo de Lesseps", ms., 1pp. (one yellow page).
F.64 [Late section - meeting with father in Jamaica],
"I was drained and confused when I got home ...", ms., 7 pp.
F.65 "Coda", [meeting with father in Jamaica],
Ts., 8 pp. + duplicate carbon ts.
F.66 "Last Chapter" [fragments in a file],
- " Consciousness". "At first I came to in the recovery room ...", ts., 2 pp.
- "Last Chapter". "There are bad days too ...", ts., 3 pp.
- "The Major was not a great hospital visitor ...", ts., 3 pp.
- "Recovery". "One morning I woke up ...", ts., 1 p.
- "Here I sit in the silence ...", ts., 1p.
- "Oh hey nonny nonny diddy droo ... silla. Eliza lies in a sunbeam in a white crib ...", ts., 3 pp.
- "Towards the end." the lights begin to glitter on the lake ..."ts., 3 pp.
- Also file folder marked "Last Chapter".

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