Porter, Anna

Anna Porter fonds. – 1972-2008. – 1.29 m of textual records and graphic material.

Series 1
Correspondence. – 1976-2009. – 17 cm of textual records and graphic material. – Title based on the contents of series. Unless otherwise stated, Porter is the recipient of one letter or has exchanged a letter with each correspondent. In the case of letters from people associated with companies, the letter is listed under the individual if the letter is of a personal nature and has nothing to do with the corporation.  A few other types of documents, besides letters, are included in this series (e-mails, invitations, photographs, and typescripts).

Box 1
F.1 Unidentified (John etc.), 3 letters, 1997-2000.
Amos, Jeff. 1992.
Appeldorn, Beth and Sander, Susan. 1993.
Astral Broadcasting Group Inc. (André Bureau). 1995.
Atwood, Margaret. 1982 (exchange with Julian Porter re conversation reported by Peter Worthington).
Bank of Montreal (George Nothwell). 1995.
Bank of Nova Scotia (Peter Godsoe). 1994.
Band, Sarah. 1992.
Belt, W.H.E. (Bill). 2 letters. 2008.
Berton (?),  Patsy. 199? or 200?
Berton, Pierre and Janet. 1995.
The Book Lover’s Ball (Kim McArthur and Heather Rumball). 2007.
Brandt, Andrew S. (LCBO). 2002.
Braunschweiger, Michael. 1992.
Cameron, Anna. 1976.
The Canadian Association of Journalists (Ian Bailey). 1993. With Porter’s notes for a speech.
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (Reva Gertsein).  2 letters. 1992-3.
Canadian School of Management (George Korey). 1996.
Chrétien, Jean and Aline. Dinner invitation with the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, 1997.
CN  Investment Division (Tullio Cedraschi). 1995.
Clarkson, Adrienne. 1992.
Cohon, George A. (McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada Limited). 1993. Re Vadim Bakatin.
Cormorant Books Inc. (Marc Côté). E-mail exchange and letter. 2004-5.
Davies, Robertson. 1982.
Delaney, Catherine. A. 1997.
Demeter, Peter. 3 letters from Demeter (1 in Hungarian); 4 letters from Porter and her secretary (1 in Hungarian). 1978.
Donker, Gini. 1997.
Douglas & McIntyre (Scott McIntrye). 1995.
Doubleday Canada Limited  (Gloria Goodham). 1996.

F.2 Edmonds, J. Duncan. Ts., “Some Thoughts on Canada’s Future”, 16 pp.
Eyton, J. Trevor (Brancan Limited). 1993.
Fawcett, Anne M. (The Caldwell Partners). 1993.
Fecan, Ivan (Bell Globemedia). Re nomination of George Jonas to the Order of Canada. 2006.
Fotheringham, Allan. Card, 2 photos, and letter. 1983-91.
Fraser, John. 1994.
Fulford, Robert. 1992.
Gelgoot, Arthur. 1993.
Gibson, Debbie (Toronto Life Venture Company). 1993.
Globe and Mail (Suzanne Buhasz). 2003.
Hungarian-Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Invitation. 1993.
Guerra, Angel. 2003. With ts. entitled “Israel June 2003”.
Gunton, William John. 1995.
Harris, Marjorie. 1994.
Harris, Mike. 2004.
Hunter, Martin. 1983.
Ing America Life (Robert St. Jacques). 1994.
Jewison, Norman (Yorktown Productions Ltd.). 1991.
Kurian, Joseph (Orange Bell Inc.). 2004.
Lawson, Helen Merkley. 2000.
Leader (Barbara Fletcher). 1997. With ts., “Leaders Magazine”, 8 pp.
Legislative Assembly, Ontario (?). n.d.
Lefolii, Ken. 1990-2001. Includes reports on a manuscript by Lefolii entitled “Red Stars”.
Leroux, Janice A. 1993.
List Verlagshaus (Susanne Riki). 1997.
Little Brown (Sara Maclachlan). 1997.
Loeb, Bertram. 1995.
Lougheed, Peter. 1993.
Lukas, John. 2000.
Lynn, Arden. 2001.
Maclean’s (Kevin Doyle). 1992.
Maclehose, Koukla. 1997.
The Mandala Group Inc. (Ron Velin). 1997.
Manulife Financial (Ken Beaugrand). 1993.
Martin, Paul. 2004
MGA (Linda McKnight). 1992. Includes enclosures from Barabar Levy, Stoddart, and Virgin Publishing.
Mowat, Claire.  2 letters. 2007-8.
Munk, Peter. 3 letters and reply. 1992-3.
The National Citizens’ Coalition (David Sommerville). 1993.
New American Library (Elaine Koster). 1989.
North York Public Library (Kim Huntley and Helen Lanteigne). 1993.
O’Keeffe, John. 1996.
Ontario College and University Library Association (Pat Wilson, Lorna Rourke, Lawrence A. Moore).  3 letters and 2 replies. 1992-3.

F.3 Paeschke, Olaf. 1993.
Peterson David. 1995
Polk, James. E-mail. 1993.
Powers, Lyall H. 1992.
Profit. 2003. With issue of the magazine and news clipping.
Purdy, Al. 2 letters and a reply. 1986. Includes tss. of poems entitled “ In the Desert (For Milton Acorn)” and “A Handful of Earth to René Lévesque”
Random House, Inc. (Alberto Vitale, Scott Sellers).  Letter and e-mail exchange . 1992.
Rekai, Kati. 1993.
Reisman, Heather. 1994.
Rideau Hall (Kay Higgins). Letter an invitation. 1996.
Rogers Communication Inc. (Edward S. Rogers). 1992.
Rotkin, Shirley. 1992.
Royal Botanical Gardens (David W. Chambers). 1993.
Salutin, Rick. 1995.
Sarlos, Andy. 1993.
Sharp, Isadore (Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts). 1993.
Sharp, Rosalie. 1993.
Smith, Dorothy. 1995.
Stanfield, Robert. Letter to Julian Porter. 1982.
Stoddart (Bill  Hanna). 1994-5.
Stortini, Ray. 2006.
Swan, Susan. 2002.
Symons, Scott. 1989.
Toronto Historical Board (R. Scott James, Sandra Molyneaux). 2 letters and photograph. 1993.

Series 2
Jack McClelland. – 1972-1993. – 12.5 cm of textual records. – Title based on the contents of series. Most of this series consists of drafts of McClelland’s unpublished autobiography, “My Rose Garden: A Publishing Memoir”.

Box 2
F.1 Porter’s correspondence with authors about a festschrift in honour of McClelland, 1986: Margaret Atwood; June Callwood (and Bill Frayne); John Deyell; Robert Fulford; Margaret Laurence (“My Story of Jack McClelland”, ts., 1 p.); Dennis Lee; Jack Ludwig; Brian Moore; Farley Mowat; Al Purdy (2 letters from  Purdy, 2 replies, and carbon ts. of poem “The  Smell of Rotten Eggs”, 25 July 1986); Mordecai Richler; and Malcolm Ross.
F.2 McClelland, “My Rose Garden: A Publishing Memoir”: photocopied tss. of “A Working Outline”, [16] pp., December 1993; “Preliminary Outline”, 82 pp.
F.3 Two letters from McClelland about his memoir with ts., 82 pp., with a few brief comments by Porter.
F.4 McClelland, “Preliminary Outline, My Rose Garden: A Publishing Memoir”, photocopied tss., [89] pp.
F.5 McClelland, “Chapter Remarkable People”, ts., 10 pp.
F.6. McClelland, “Roloff Beny”, annotated ts., 27 pp.
F.7 McClelland, “Chapter Pierre Berton”, annotated ts., 13 pp.
F.8 McClelland, “Chapter re: Farley Mowat”, annotated ts., 6 pp.
F.9 McCellland, “Sheila Burnford”, annotated ts., 7 pp.
F.10 McClelland, “Earle Birney”, ts., 4 pp.
F.11 McClelland, “Mordecai Richler”, 2 tss. (one annotated), 6 pp. each.
F.12 McClelland, “Chapter ____re: Judy LaMarsh”, annotated ts., 14 pp.
F.13 McClelland, “Nearing the End”, ts., 11 pp.
F.14 McClelland, “Personal”, ts., 9 pp.
F.15 McClelland, “Story One”, ts., 5 pp.
F.16 McClelland, “My Firing”, ts., 10 pp.
F.17 McClelland, “So, You Want to Become a Book Publisher”,  3 copies of ts. (one annotated), 6 pp.
F.18 McClelland, “The Editors”, ts., 10 pp.
F.19 McClelland, “Book Design”, ts, 9 pp.
F.20 McClelland, “Chapter 6A: Marketing Books”, 2 tsss., each 10 pp, one annotated.
F.21 McClelland, “The New Canadian Library”, ts., 10 pp.
F.22 McClelland, “Walter Gordon”, ts., 4 pp.
F.23 McClelland, “Early Days”, annotated ts., 10 pp.
F.24 McClelland, “The Book Critics”, annotated ts., 9 pp.
F. 25 McClelland, untitled ts. , lacking p. 1 and beginning “the father of  Aby [Avie] Bennett…” pp. 2-5.
F.26 “McClelland and Stewart, Brief to the Royal Commission on Book Publishing”, 82 pp., [1972].
F. 27 Porter, “I’m All Right, Jack”, photocopied ts., pp. 9-11, with issue of Toronto Life (March 1990) containing the article.
F. 28. Issue of Saturday Night (November 1983) containing Elspeth Cameron’s article about McClelland, “Adventures in the Book Trade”, with references to Porter. With a news clipping about McClelland’s hiring of Porter for M&S in 1969-70.
F.29 McClelland, “Draft of Comments for October 28^th”, ts., 2 pp., with Night of One Hundred Authors, September 29, 1972, issued by the Writers’ Development Trust.
F. 30 Correspondence with McClelland, 1978-2004, with an enclosure from Ronald Dixon and a letter from McClelland to Beverly Slopen.
F.31 Seal Books, portfolio about Benny Cooperman Mystery Weekend in Niagara-on-the-Lake, 13-15 January 1984.

Series 3
News clippings and articles about Porter, including 2 files on Julian Porter. – 1982-2003. – 9 cm of textual records. – Title based on the contents of series.

Box 3
F.1-5 Material organized chronologically.1982-2003
F.6-7 Julian Porter. Newspaper articles, political flyers, 6 photographs. 1983-2003.

Series 4
Books written by Porter. – 1982-2003. – 91 cm of textual records. – Title based on the contents of series.

F.8 Mortal Sins. 2 notebooks with a chronology, information about the characters in the novel, etc. [198-].
F.9-10 The Bookfair Murders. Includes annotated ts. and photocopied ts. of chapter one, editorial correspondence, and news clippings about the book. 1996-2000.
F.11 The Storyteller: Memory, Secrets, Magic and Lies. New clippings, publishers’ catalogues, and marketing related to the book. 2000.

Boxes 4-8 Kasztner’s Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust (2007).
Box 4
F.1-2 ts., 260 pp. with comments
F.3-4 ts., 260 pp. with comments by Rosemary Shipton and John Pearce.
F.5 part one, Porter’s annotated ts., 91 pp.
F.6 part two, ts., 144 pp.
F.7 part three, Porter’s annotated ts., 118 pp.
F.8 part four, Porter’s annotated ts., 98 pp.
F.9 epilogue, introduction, and chapter 1, Porter’s annotated ts., 60 pp.
F.10 Porter’s annotated ts., pp. 11-67.
F.11 Porter’s annotated ts., pp. 5-90.
F.12 preface to chapter 4,
Porter’s annotated ts., 4 pp.

Box 5
F.1 Porter’s annotated ts., 192 pp. 2006.
F.2 “Chapter 1 The Wonderful Adventure of Peter Munk”, Porter’s annotated ts.,  [21] pp.
F.3-4 Annotated ts., Randolph Braham’s comments, 355 pp., to the end of chapter 23.
F.5 Part III, annotated ts., 112 pp.
F.6 Part IV, annotated ts., 107 pp.
F.7 Chapter 3 revised, Porter’s annotated ts., 19 pp; chapter 15, Porter’s annotated ts., pp. 134-200.
F.8-9 Research material with Porter’s notes and e-mails (Susan Rana, Ron Lustig, Scott McIntytre, 2007). Includes articles and Web print-outs by or about Raphael Vago, Memorial Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nizkor Project (Buchenwald), rescue of Jews, Kasztner Memorial.com, Train from Hell screenplay, Zeev Venia Hadari, Kurt Bechner, etc.

Box 6
F.1-5 Porter’s correspondence and e-mails related to her the research of Kasztner’s Train, 2001-8. Correspondents include: Yehuda Bauer, Peter Munk, Judy Stoffman, Bart Istvan, Michael A. Levine, Bruce Westwood, Anna Sand, Florence Rosberg, Leo Zahan, Dani Brand, Anna Morgan, Thomas Devecseri, Paul Michaels, Egon Mayer, Motti Lerner, Daniel Brand, Victor Harnik, Barbara Pratt, Mary Siklos, John Pearce, Robert Lantos, Martin Smok, Lutz AlapítváWendy Wright, Laszlo Csosz, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Alan Samson), Pali Eszter, Darren Sukonick, Istvan Deak, Ferenc Katona, Ron Lustig, Franck Azoulay, Nadia Kahan, Shira Herzog, Joseph Berg, Gil Levi, Ágnes Pap, George Gibson, Mary Siklos, Rosemary Shipton, Sheila Fennessy, Gyuri Wamker, Randolph Braham, Zsuzsi Kasztner, Margaret Schwartz, Kat Molnar, The Holocaust Centre of Toronto, Agnes Vazsonyi, Ofi Yazak Katsir, Daniel Lowy, Canada Council (Marcel Hull), Helikon Publishing House (Zsófia Bánhegyi), Canada-Hungary Educational Foundation (Judy Young Drache), Daniel Blatman, Mark Musselman, George Jonas, George Bishop, Tom Margittai, Janos Damon, Adam Heller, Wendy Fitzgibbons, and Szente Krisztián
F.6 Porter’s notes.

Box 7
F.1-17 Research material. Includes: Reszö Kasztner’s “The Report of the Jewish Rescue Committee from Budapest 1942-1945 (Vaadat Ezra Vö-Hazalah Bö-Budpest)”; Bov Dinur’s “Kasztner: New Light on the Man and His Deeds”; testimonies of Kurt Becher and Hansi Brand at the Adolf Eichmann trial; Voros Varoly’s “A budapesti zsidóság két forradalom között 1849-1918”; Theodoer Herzl’s “The Jewish State”; Tuvia Frilling’s “Nazi-Jewish Negotiations in Istanbul in mid-1944”; Salamon Mihály’s “Pesti riportregény a Nyilas Időből 1944-1945”; Peter Sz. Nagy’s Kasztner’s Quest 1944; “Kivételezettek Kimenekítése”; articles by Shoshana Barri (Ishoni); Mária Schmidt’s “Mentés Vagy Árulás”, etc.

Box 8
F.1-37 Research material. Includes: testimony of Dieter Wisliceny at the Nuremberg trial; Séan Mac Mathuna’s “The Messages the Zionists Ignored” Rabbi Weissmandel’s Plea for Help”; Zwi Heilper’s “From Bergen Belsen to Caux via Lustenau”; Walter Laquer’s “The Kasztner Case: Aftermath of the Catastrophe”;  Mária Schmidt’s “Destructiob of Slovakian Jews as Reflected in Hungarian Police Reports”; Novák Attila’s “Egy, ismeretlen a Magyar vészkorszak nyitányáról”; “Memoár a Kasztner—SS tárgyalásokról”; John S. Conway’s “The Holocaust in Hungary: Recent Controversies and Reconsiderations”; J Endrényi’s “Bad Times, part 1, The Nazi Years”; “Kasztner Bechert menti”; affidavit of Dieter Wisliceny; testimony of Hermann Krumey; “In Memory of Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandle: Torah Sage and Hidden Hero of the Holocaust”; “Kasztner Memory-Foundation of Peter Munk”; speech of Himmler; “Kasztner Rezso—hos vagy árulo?”; Várnal Pál’s Találkozásaim zsidóságommal”; Leora Bilsky’s “Judging and Understanding”; documents from Yad Vashem; “The Iraq Coup of 1941, the Mufti and the Farhud”; Karla Muller-Tupath’s “The German Reichsfuhrer’s Most Obedient/Dutiful Becher—A German Career”; Kasztner Memorial.com (list of people rescued by Kasztner); “Letter from Fulöp Freudiger to Rezső Kasztner”; Richard Breitman and Schlomo’s “The End of the ‘Final Solution’: Nazi Plans to Ransom Jews in 1944”; etc.

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