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Helwig, David 1938-2018.

Eighth accrual. – 1960-2018, predominantly 2000-2018. – 2.96 m of textual records and graphic material. Series and file titles have been supplied by the archivist based on contents. Material is organized chronologically or alphabetically, depending on the nature of the series, and the archivist has reconstructed meaningful file aggregations when appropriate.

Material is arranged within the following series:

Series 1 – Novels/Memoirs. Boxes 84 to 88.
Series 2 – Short Stories. Boxes 88 to 90.
Series 3 – Translations. Box 90.
Series 4 – Poetry. Boxes 91 to 93.
Series 5 – Radio/Television/Stage Scripts. Box 94.
Series 6 – Essays. Boxes 94 to 95.
Series 7 – Correspondence. Boxes 96 to 98.
Series 8 – Saturday Morning Chapbooks Series. Box 99.
Series 9 – Royalty Statements and Publishing Material. Box 100.
Series 10 – Clippings. Box 101.
Series 11 – Realia. Box 101.
Series 12 – Notebooks. Box 102.

Series 1
Novels and Memoirs. – 1989-2011. – 68.5 cm. Series consists of draft typescripts, edits and notes relating to the author’s long-form writing including his novels, novellas, and autobiography, The Names of Things: A Memoir.

Box 84

F.1       Black and White Pictures. Typescript. 1989. 125 p. Unedited copy.
F.2       Duet. Typescript. ca. 2004. 117 p. Unedited copy.
F.3       The Names of Things. Typescript with editing. Published in 2006. 294 p. Includes holographic notes.
F.4       The Names of Things. Later typescript with editing. 252 p.
F.5       The Names of Things. Typescript, edited by Joe Sherman. 2004. 365 p.

Box 85

F.1       The Names of Things. Typescript. [ca. 2004]. Published in 2006. Draft segments with editing. Non sequential pagination. 3.6 cm.
F.2       The Names of Things. Typescript. Draft segments with editing. Chapters 1-10. 3.5 cm.
F.3       The Names of Things. Typescript. Draft segments with editing. Chapters 3-6. 1.5 cm.
F.4       The Names of Things. Typescript. Draft segments with editing. Chapters 7-12. 0.3 cm.
F.5       The Names of Things. Typescript. Draft segments with editing. Chapters 12-15. 0.5 cm.   
F.6       The Names of Things. Typescript. Draft segments with editing. Chapters 16-20. 0.5 cm.
F.7       The Names of Things. Typescript. Draft segments with editing. Chapters 21-23. 0.6 cm.
F.8       The Names of Things. Typescript. Draft segments with editing. Chapters 26-29. 0.6 cm.
F.9       The Names of Things. Typescript. Draft segments with editing. Chapters 31-34. 1.2. cm.
F.10     The Names of Things. Notes + research. ca. 2000s. Includes 4 b&w photographs of Helwig’s parents and Don Bailey.

Box 86

F.1       Saltsea. Typescript with light edits. 2005. Published in 2007. 266 p.
F.2       Smuggling Donkeys. Draft typescript. 2006. Published in 2007. 106 p.
F.3       Smuggling Donkeys. Draft typescript. November 2006. 105 p.
F.4       Smuggling Donkeys. 2 Ts. (44 p. each) and draft segments. 2.1 cm.
F.5       Smuggling Donkeys. 1 Ts. (~101 p.) and draft segments. 2.5 cm.
F.6       Killing McGee. Notes + edits. [ca. 2008]. Published in 2011. 5 p. and holographic fragments. 0.1 cm.
F.7       Clyde’s Calling. Unedited typescript. October 2011. Published as Clyde in 2014. 353 p.

Box 87

F.1       Clyde’s Calling. Unedited typescript. ca. 2011. 389 p.
F.2       Clyde’s Calling. Typescript with edits. ca. 2002-2011. 372 p.
F.3       Clyde’s Calling. Typescript (309 p.), holographic notes, and draft segments. ca. 2002-2011. 3.8 cm.
F.4       Clyde’s Calling. Ts. drafts of Chapter 1. ca. 2002-2011. 0.4 cm.
F.5       Clyde’s Calling. Notes and visit to Ottawa. 2003. Includes holographic editing notes; a travel brochure for Parliament Hill, Ottawa; and 4 col. photographs of Ottawa exteriors.
F.6       At the Border (unpublished). Typescript. ca. 2007-2008. 130 p. Includes holographic editing notes.

Box 88
 
F.1       At the Border (unpublished). Typescript. ca. 2007-2008. 115 p. Includes holographic editing notes.
F.2       At the Border. Draft pages, edited by John Metcalfe. 2008. 0.5 cm.
F.3       Twelve Tones: Transparency (unpublished). 1 Ts. (110 p.) and draft segments. ca. 2006-2007. 3.5 cm.

Series 2
Short Stories. – ca. 2000-2010. – 34 cm. Series consists of draft typescripts of the author’s short-form fiction. Includes draft arrangements of stories published in the collections Simon Says (2012) and Mystery Stories (2010).

F.4       Simon Says, Typescript + Notes. 2009. 1 Ts. 118 p. Also includes draft segments and holographic notes. Collection includes the following stories: “In the Night”, “Paradise”, “Fog”, “Darkening”, “At Play”, and “Who Never Wrote a Book”. 2.3 cm.
F.5       Mystery Stories, draft typescript. ca. 2010. 288 p. Includes “Missing Notes”, “Red Barn, Interior”, “Prophecies for April”, “Adam on the Art of Dying”, “Wakefulness”, “The Steps”, “Stitches in Air”, “Housebound, 1969”, “An Act of Oblivion”, “Where is he Now”, “Flight”, and “The Interviews”.
F.6       Mystery Stories, draft arrangement. ca. 2000s. Ts. 125 p. Includes “Missing Notes”, “Red Barn, Interior”, “Prophecies for April”, Adam on the Art of Dying”, and “The Stand-In”.
F.7       “Flight”, drafts. ca. 2009. 2 Ts. 25 and 39 p. Also includes draft segments and holographic notes. 1 cm.
F.8       “La Rue du Chapeau Perdu”, drafts. ca. 2010. 2 Ts. 65 and 73 p. Also includes draft segments and holographic notes. 2.2 cm.

Box 89

F.1       “Stitches in Air”, drafts. ca. 2005-2010. 4 Ts. ~45 p. each. Also includes draft segments. 3 cm.
F.2       “Wakefulness” drafts. ca. 2005-2010. 4 Ts. 10 p. each. 0.7 cm.
F.3       “An Interview” drafts. ca. 2000s. 3 Ts. ~20 p. each. Also includes ts. segments and holographic notes. 1.7 cm.
F.4       “An Interview” later drafts. ca. 2000s. Ts. 20 p. Also includes ts. segments. 0.6 cm.
F.5       “The Interview”. ca. 2000s. 5 Ts. ~20 p. each. Also includes ts. segments and holographic notes. 1.5 cm.
F.6       “The Interviews” early drafts. ca. 2000s. 1 Ts. 74 p. Also includes ts. segments and holographic notes. 1.7 cm.
F.7       “The Interview” later drafts. ca. 2000s. 1 Ts. 75 p. Also includes ts. segments. 2.1 cm.
F.8       “The Interview” unedited typescript. ca. 2010. 0.9 cm. 1 Ts. 76 p.
F.9       “Aria de Capo”. ca. 2000s. Ts. on onion skin paper. 19 p.
F.10     “By the River”. ca. 2000s. Ts. 10 p. Also includes holographic notes.
F.11     “Ceremonial”. ca. 2000s. Ts. ~30 p. Also includes holographic notes. 1 cm.
F.12     “The Inevitabilities”. ca. 2000s. 2 Ts. 38 p. each. Also includes Ts. fragments and holographic notes. 1 cm.

Box 90

F.1       “Letters”, unpublished, unfinished short story. [n.d.]. Ts. 13 p. Includes holographic notes and edits.
F.2       “In The Night” / “At Night”. ca. 2000s. 4 Ts. ~33 p. each. Also includes holographic notes. 1.7 cm.
F.3       “Ten Books” / “The F.F. Interviews”. ca. 2000s. 3 Ts. 31 and 56 p. Also includes holographic notes.
F.4       “The Singing Men”. ca. 2000s. 4 Ts. ~29 p. each. Also includes holographic notes and 20 col. photographs of Renaissance art. 1.6 cm.
F.5       “A Weekend Away”, drafts. ca. 2005. 3 Ts. ~26 p. each. Also includes Ts. fragments. 1.5 cm.
F.6       “The Widower Bird”, unfinished short story. ca. 2000s. Ts. 8 p. Includes holographic notes and edits. Story was considered for inclusion in Mystery Stories, 2010. 0.1 cm.
F.7       “Witless” drafts. –ca. 2000s. 3 Ts. 12 p. each. Includes ts. and holographic segments. 0.6 cm.
F.8       Unidentified short story drafts. ca. 2000s. 0.2 cm.


Series 3
Translations. – ca. 2007-2012. – 7.2 cm. Series consists of Helwig’s translations from Russian and French and translations sent to the author by Judith Cowan and George Loewen.

F.9       A Triptych: Three Stories by Anton Chekov. Draft intro + “A Man in a Shell”. ca. 2012. 2 Ts. 46 p. each. Also includes holographic notes and draft segments. Published in 2012 as About Love: Three Stories by Anton Chekov.
F.10     “A Man in a Shell”. ca. 2007-2012. 2 Ts. 1 Ms. ~17 p. each. Also includes holographic notes and draft segments.
F.11     “Gooseberries”. ca. 2007-2012. Ms (36 p.) Ts. (13 p.)
F.12     “About Love”. ca. 2007-2012. 4 Ts. 12 p. each. Also includes holographic notes and draft segments.
F.13     Translation: “Requiem” by Anna Akhmatova (from Russian). ca. 2008. 3 Ts. 10 p. each.
F.14     Translation: “The Windows” by Rainer Maria Rilke (from French). ca. 2000s. 2 Ts. 5 p. each. Also includes holographic and ts. fragments.
F.15     This Human Day + Trois Inédits: translated. ca. 2000s. 3 Ts. 29 p. each. Consists of French translations of David Helwig’s poetry by Judith Cowan, including excerpts from This Human Day (2000), “Spring”, “October Light”, and “On the Tidal Flats”.
F.16     Rilke, Hölderlin, Brecht (by George Loewen). ca. 2000s. Ms. 9 p. Consists of English translations of German poetry sent by George Loewen. Includes photocopies of the original poems.

Series 4

Poetry. – 2002-2017. – 37.5 cm. Series consists of draft arrangements of poetry collections, which include drafts of poetry to be included in the collection, and other drafts. Series is arranged to reflect the author’s intention to publish selections of poems as collections; poems not included in these collections are arranged alphabetically.

BOX 91

F.1       The Sway of Otherwise. Unedited draft ts. (55 p.). 2008. Non-consecutively paginated poems, a selection of which were published as The Sway of Otherwise in 2008.

Dedication. Ts. 1 p.
“In Winter”. Ts. 2 p.
“Messages”. Ts. 1 p.
“March 2003”. Ts. 1 p.
“Li Bai, du Fu: The Ancients in Spring”. Ts. 1 p.
“In May”. Ts. 1 p.
“Niagara”. Ts. 2 p.
“‘Attachment Disorder’”. Ts. 1 p.
“I See an Old Photograph”. Ts. 1 p.
“At Port au Persil”. Ts. 1 p.
“Journeying”. Ts. 5 p.
“For DLS”. Ts. 1 p.
“Sandbar Walking”. Ts. 1 p.
“Waterlilies”. Ts. 1 p.
“Marysville”. Ts. 1 p.
“Gryllus”. Ts. 1 p.
“Eros”. Ts. 2 p.
“Occasion” Ts. 1 p.
“Poetry Reading”. Ts. 1 p.
“Poetics”. Ts. 1 p.
“Fred N. at the pianola”. Ts. 1 p.
“Theology” Ts. 1 p.
“Parables, Luke xv, 11-32”. Ts. 1 p.
“Matthew, xxv, 14-30”. Ts. 1 p.
“Matthew, xx, 1-16”. Ts. 1 p.
“Two Pantoums”. Ts. 2 p.
“Wakeful”. Ts. 1 p.
“Islands”. Ts. 1 p.
“Album Leaf”. 1 p.
“Leaving Venice”. Ts. 1 p.
“Monteverdi: lavage”. Ts. 1 p.
“Ghosts”. Ts. 1 p.
“Autumnal”. Ts. 1 p.
“October Light”. Ts. 1 p.
“Vespers”. Ts. 1 p.
“Postcard”. Ts. 1 p.
“Approaches to the Conclusion”. Ts. 2 p.
“Late afternoon (for Joe)”. Ts. 1 p.
“Reading Backward (for Joe)”. Ts. 1 p.
“Sentence”. Ts. 1 p.
“human remains in Louisiana”. Ts. 1 p.
“Exercise in December”. Ts. 3 p.
“In Winter Again”. Ts. 1 p.

F.2       The Sway of Otherwise. Earlier draft ts. (55 p.). ca. 2008. Includes copies of the poems listed in the above file, and additionally the following poems:

“The Air Poet (for Joe Sherman)”. Ts. 1 p.
“Musicians”. Ts. 1 p.
“Two in Autumn”. Ts. 1 p.
“Approaches to the Conclusion”. Ts. 2 p.
“Fred N. at the pianola”. Ts. 1 p.
“A Victorian Album”. Ts. 1 p.
“Broken Sonnets”. Ts. 3 p.
“Ghosts”. Ts. 1 p.
“Action Painters”. Ts. 1 p.
“Imagining Movies”. Ts. 1 p.
“Episodic as when”. Ts. 1 p.
“Golf Again”. Ts. 1 p.
“Broken sonnets for Joe”. Ts. 3 p.
“Leftovers”. Ts. 1 p.
“Dreams”. Ts. 1 p.
“Poetics”. Ts. 3 p.
“Sonnetinas”. Ts. 4 p.
“Illuminations”. Ts. 1 p.
“Saturday”. Ts. 1 p.
“Nine Holes of Golf”. Ts. 5 p.
“Another Book of Hours”. Ts. 4 p.

F.3       The Sway of Otherwise. Draft ts. arrangements. 3 Ts. (~58 p. each). ca. 2008. Three draft selections of the poems listed above, paginated, indicating the author’s various potential arrangements for The Sway of Otherwise.
F.4       The Sway of Otherwise. Page proofs (35 p.). 2008.
F.5       Keeping Late Hours. Draft ts. arrangement. 2012. [1 of 2]. Non-consecutively paginated poems, a selection of which were published as Keeping Late Hours in 2015.

“After Hafiz”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“On the Arrival of the 21^st Century”. 1 Ts. 3 Ms. 1 p. each.
“The Best Room”. 3 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“BUZZing: for Peter and Nancy”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Changes”. 6 Ts. 3 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Chessington Zoo, 1969”. 4 Ts. 2 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Evidence”. 5 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Forty Years On”. 3 Ts. 1 p. each.
“from the French of Ronsard”. 5 Ts. 3 Ms. 1 p. each.
“House, with weather”. 3 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Hymn for No Singing”. 7 Ts. 2 p. each. Also includes holograph fragments and notes.
“from I Heard God Laughing”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“In Costume”. 5 Ts. 2 Ms. 2 p. each. Also includes holograph fragments and notes.
“Impromptu for the New Year: December 31, 2010”. 7 Ts. 1 p. each. Also includes holograph note.
“In August”. 3 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Letter to a Musical Friend”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Marine City”. 5 Ts. 2 p. each.
“Mischance”. 3 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“National Gallery: Cranach, Baldung Grien”. 4 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“A New Year’s Letter”. 6 Ts. 1 p. each. Also includes holograph fragments and notes.
“Negatives”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“On the Cabot Trail”. 6 Ts. 2 p. each. Also includes holograph fragments and notes.
“Parade”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Pause”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“The Poet in States in Mind”. 3 Ts. 3 p. each. Also includes draft pages and notes.
“Prayer for the New Year (a letter to friends)”. 2011. 8 Ts. 2 p. each. Also includes draft pages and notes.
F.6       Keeping Late Hours. Draft ts. arrangement. 2012. [2 of 2].

“Prologue to an Unwritten Comedy”. 2 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“At Queen’s Park”. 8 Ts. 3 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Questioning”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Reclining Nude”. 4 Ts. 1 p. each.
“La Rentréé”. 3 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Rhubarb and Crow”. 1 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Scriptorium”. 3 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each. Also includes holograph fragments.
“Seal”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Second Letter to a Musical Friend”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Six Miniatures”. 2 Ts. 3 p. each. Also includes holograph fragments and notes and ts draft pages.
“Spring”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Squatters on Piccadilly, 1969”. 7 Ts. 2 Ms. 1 p. each. Also includes holograph fragments.
“Star”. 4 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Sunless in Venice”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Suzhou”. 4 Ts. 3 p. each. Also includes holograph fragments and notes.
“Throat Singer”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“White”. 2 Ts. 1Ms. 1 p. each.
“Why I like Brahms”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“[It’s far out of fashion, neat metric and rhyme]”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“[The last quarter moon rides / the pale blue morning sky]”. 1 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“[On this still October morning, the falling leaves]”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“[Our rooms are full of tree flowers, apple, crab, lilac]”. 1 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“[Surging this instant and beyond / unmind …]”. 3 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each. Also includes holograph notes.
“[Venice: MaryMcc]”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
Unidentified holographic and ts notes and fragments.

F.7       Seawrack. Multiple unorganized draft ts. and edits. (~46 p. each). ca. 2007. Includes holographic notes. Published in 2013.
F.8       Seawrack. Ts. and edits. 47 p. ca. 2013. Includes holographic notes.          
F.9       Seawrack. Later Ts. and minor edits. ca. 2013.
F.10     Seawrack. Unfinished proof with cover art. 2013. Sent by Caryl Peters, Frog Hollow Press.
F.11     Seawrack. Sample cover art (unused) and typeface. 2013. Sent by Caryl Peters, Frog Hollow Press.

Box 92

F.1       Sudden and Absolute Stranger: Selected Poems, 1983-2016. Final ts. 201 p. Published in 2017.
F.2       Sudden and Absolute Stranger: Selected Poems, 1983-2016. Early draft arrangement (partial). Ts. 18 p.
F.3       “Strangers” / “Strange Encounters” chapbook. 2016. Consists of a draft and final version hand-stitched chapbook, given to friends as gifts for the winter solstice. Includes the following poems: “Strangers, various”, “Messengers”, “Nausicaa Meets a Stranger”, “Alien Newcomers”, “Going Away Now”, “You, as a Stranger”, “Oedipus at the Crossroads”, “Travel Documents for All Souls”, and “Envoi”. Also includes draft ts. of the listed poems and additionally: “Snatching at your aura”, “By the Church of the Good Thief”, “The Vanished”, “Landscape”, “O Summerland”, “Macdonald Park: September, 2015”, “Walt Whitman Observes the TTC”, “Polecat Song”, “Kumin Couplets”, and “By the Clay Road”.
F.4       [Summonings] Poetry drafts. [ca. 2010s]. A collection of poems, a selection of which was likely intended for publication with the title Summonings.

“[Heedless atoms, law orders chance...]”. Ts. 1 p.
“Summer once”. Ts. 1 p.
“Midway”. Ts. 1 p.
“[In night beyond / a sodden chaotic / autumn garden...]”. Ts. 1 p.
“[Prodigious child / the fingers of your intent / span time in space...]”. Ts. 1 p.
“Written on a Brown Paper Bag”. Ts. 1 p.
“Research Project (for Kate, years later)”. Ts. 1 p.
“Scriptorium”. Ts. 1 p.
“Negatives”. Ts. 1 p.
“In Costume”. Ts. 1 p.
“The Diarist”. Ts. 2 p.
“At the Opera”. Ts. 1 p.
“Timepiece”. Ts. 2 p.
“The Wrong Side of the Park (For Tom)”. Ts. 1 p.
“After Catullus”. Ts. 1 p.
“The Plot”. Ts. 1 p.
“Summer Again”. Ts. 1 p.
“Self Portrait: As an Old House”. Ts. 1 p.
“Damage”. Ts. 1 p.
“[O light whitefire]”. Ts. 1 p.
“The Train to Murray Harbour”. Ts. 1 p.
“NYC: three vignettes (for Paul and Livia)”. Ts. 2 p.
“Poetics”. Ts. 2 p.
“Action Painters”. Ts. 1 p.
“Cold Studies”. Ts. 2 p.
“The Poet: States of Mind”. Ts. 3 p.

F.5       [Over the Border] Poetry drafts. Previously titled Islands. [ca. 2010s]. A collection of poems, a selection of which was likely intended for publication with the title Over the Border.

“Hymn for No Singing”. Ts. 2 p.
“La Rentree”. Ts. 1 p.
“On the Cabot Trail”. Ts. 2 p.
“Mischance”. Ts. 1 p.
“Marine City”. Ts. 2 p.
“Reclining Nude”. Ts. 1 p.
“In Costume”. Ts. 2 p.
“National Gallery: Cranach, Baldung Grien”. Ts. 1 p.
“Suzhou”. Ts. 3 p.
“Negatives”. Ts. 1 p.
“Scriptorium”. Ts. 1 p.
“Squatters on Piccadilly, 1969”. Ts. 1 p.
“Parade”. Ts. 1 p.
“Questioning”. Ts. 1 p.
“Stars”. Ts. 1 p.
“Attachment Disorder”. Ts. 1 p.
“Journeying”. Ts. 3 p.
“Poetry Reading (in memory of Al Purdy)”. Ts. 1 p.
“The Air Poet (for Joe Sherman)”. Ts. 1 p.
“Theology”. Ts. 1 p.
“Parables, Luke xv, 11-32”. Ts. 2 p.
“Three Pantoums”. 2 Ts. 3 p. each. Includes Ts. and holographic fragments.
“Reading Backward (for Joe)”. Ts. 2 p.
“Messages”. Ts. 1 p.
“Autumnal”. Ts. 1 p.
“Album Leaf”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Vespers”. Ts. 1 p.
“Four Pantoums”. 4 Ts. 4 p. each. Also includes ts. and holographic fragments.
“Rhubarb and Crow”. Ts. 1 p.
“April”. 5 Ts. 1 p.
“[Wang Mang / the cousin stands / in a stone courtyard…]”. Ts. 1 p.
“Elm Street Cemetery/ April”. Ms. 1 p.
“Theology”. Ts. 1 p.
“The Train to Murray Harbour”. 2 Ts. 1 p.
“Research Project (For Kate)”. 3 Ts. 1 p.
“NYC: three vignettes”. 3 Ts. 1 p. each. Includes ts. and holographic fragments.
“BUZZing for Peter and Nancy. 3 Ts. 1 Ms. Includes holographic fragments.
“Midway”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Summer Once”. 1 Ts. 1 p. Also includes a holographic fragment.
“Enduring Prophecy”. 6 Ts. 1 p. each. Also includes a holographic fragment.
“Brass Reflections”. 4 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“April Meditation” / “Sapphics” / “April, 2015”. 14 Ts. 1 Ms. 1-3 p. each.
“May 2015”. 5 Ts. 1 p. each. Also includes holographic fragments.
“Sonnet in Silence”. 6 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Midsummer”. 2 Ts. 2 p.
“On the Top Floor” / “High Up on the Top Floor”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“October Again”. 9 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Dahlias”. 1 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.

F.6       Draft poems. [2007-2016]. [1 of 8]. Drafts of unpublished and published poems, arranged alphabetically.

“Accidence”. 6 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Action Painters” / “de Kooning and co.”. 10 Ts. 2 Ms. 1 p. each. Also includes 2 ts. fragments.
“Aftersong”. 6 Ts. 4 p. each. Also includes fragments, including earlier titles “L’étude blanche” and “Étude en hiver”.
“After the ceremony”. 6 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Album Leaf”. 7 Ts. 3 Ms. 1 p. each. Also includes ts. fragments and ephemera.
“The Ancients in Spring” / “Li Po and Tu Fu”. 7 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Approaching the Strait”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“At Port au Persil”. 2 Ts. 7 Ms. 1 p. each. Also includes holographic fragments.
“At Sea” / “At Sea: February” / “Habanera”. 11 Ts. 2 p. each. Also includes “Veradero Haiku”, 1 p.
“Atom Dance”. 3 Ts. 1 p. each.
“’Attachment Disorder’”. 6 Ts. 2 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Autumn”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Autumnal”. 2 Ts. 3 p. each. Also includes holographic fragments.
“Backstage Secrets”. 3 Ts. 1 p. each.
“The Best Room”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“A Book of Hours” / “Canonical Carona” / “The Hours”. 8 ts. 4 p. each. Also includes ts. fragments and draft cover art.
“Broken sonnets” (fragments). Ts. 9 p.
“The Boys” (fragments). 6 Ts. 2 Ms.
“BUZZing: For Peter and Nancy”. 1 Ts. 1 p.

F.7       Draft poems. [2007-2016]. [2 of 8].

“Changes”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“By the Clay Road”. 3 Ts. 2 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Concertos in F minor, E flat”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Correspondence”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Country Poems after Virgil’s Georgics”. 1 Ts. 3 p. Also includes holographic notes.
“Credo”. 2 Ts. 1 p.
“Damage”. 4 Ts. 1 p. each.
“The Dancing Pig”. 3 Ts. 1 p. each.
“December 21, 2004”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“demobbed”. 2 Ts. 3 p.
“The Diarist”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Dinner with Random Gods”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“The Dream House”. 4 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Dream Sonnets”. 1 Ts. 2 p.
“During and After The”. 8 Ts. 1 p. each.
“The Empty House”. 7 Ts. 1 p. each.
“En Train de…” 2 Ts. 2 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Episodic as When”. 7 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Epithalamium for Dying Trumpet”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Eros”. 1 Ts. 2 p.
“L’étude blanche” / “Study” / “Possum Feathers”. 5 Ts. 1 p. each.
“L’étude en ciel”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Evidence”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Exercise”. 1 Ts. 2 p.
“For DLS”. 3 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“For Don (who didn’t arrive, August 18, 2005)”. 3 Ts. 6 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Fred N. at the pianola”. 9 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Full House (for Will, Luke, Ellie)”. 1 Ts. 2 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Funeral at Sturgeon”. 2 Ts. 2 Ms. 1 p. each.

F.8       Draft poems. [2007-2016]. [3 of 8].

“Gallus Absconditus”. 2 Ts. 1 p.
“Generations”. 4 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Ghost Sonnets”. 8 Ts. 2 Ms. 1-2 p. each.
“God Spends the Morning Studying Torah”. 3 Ts. 1 p. each.
“A Goddess”. 1 Ts. 3 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Golf Again” / “The Golf Sonnets” / “Golf” / “Nine Holes of Golf”. 11 Ts. 5 p. each. Includes ts. draft fragments.
“The Granddaughter’s Tale” / “Ruka”. 6 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each. Includes holographic and ts. fragments.
“Gyllus”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Hemingway in August”. 1 Ts. 5 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Highway Flight”. 2 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Homage to Virgil”. 1 Ts. 4 p. Includes a ts. fragment.
“human remains in Louisiana”. 8 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each. Includes a holographic fragment.
“I See an Old Photograph … And Another”. 15 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Illuminations”. 8 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Imagining Movies”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“An Improvisation” / “Improvisation”. 10 Ts. 2 Ms. 1 p. each.
“In County Wicklow”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“In May”. 11 Ts. 1 p. each.
“An Incidental Homage”. 3 Ts. 3 p. each.
“Invocation at Wolfe Island”. 1 Ms. 1 p.

Box 93

F.1       Draft poems. [2007-2016]. [4 of 8].

“January”. 6 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Joe in late afternoon”. 8 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Journeying” / “Journey”. 5 Ts. 2 Ms. 1-3 p. each. Includes holographic and ts. fragments.
“Kentville”. 4 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Leaving Venice”. 5 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Letter to my Child”. 1 Ts. 2 p.
“Macdonald Park: September, 2015”. 5 Ts. 1-2 p. each.
“March, 2003”. 4 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Marysville, August”. 4 Ts. 1-2 p. each.
“Mass for the Island (words from the mass and the poems of Milton Acorn)”. 1 Ts. 6 p.
“May 15, 2004: à Pascal”. 3 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Meditation on the Third Fairway”. 7 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each. Also includes holographic notes.
“Messages”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Midway”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Migration in Orange”. 4 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Monteverdi: lavage”. 8 Ts. 1 p. each.

F.2       Draft poems. [2007-2016]. [5 of 8].

“A New Year’s Letter (after W.H. Auden)”. December 2009. 1 Ts. 3 p.
“Impromptu for the New Year: December 2010)”. 1 Ts. 2 p.
“A New Year’s Rhyming (sent to friends December 31, 2013)”. 5 Ts. 2 p. each. Includes holographic and ts. notes and fragments.
“Niagara”. 5 Ts. 1 p. each.
“O Light Fire”. 5 Ts. 1 p. each.
“O Summerland”. 3 Ts. 2-3 p. each.
“Occasion”. 5 Ts. 2 Ms. 1 p. each.
“October Light”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Oedipus at the Crossroads #1”. 1 Ts. 2 p.
“Oedipus at the Crossroads #2”. 1 Ts. 2 p.
“Opera at Night”. 10 Ts. 2 p. each. Includes ts. fragments.
“Or when”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Pacific”. 3 Ts. 1 p. each.
“The Pantheon”. 3 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Parables” (fragments). Ts. 19 p.
“Perspective”. 4 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Les Petits Fils”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“The Plot”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Poem Hunter” / “All Saints”. 1 Ts. 3 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Poetics”. 11 Ts. 1-2 p. each.
“Poetry Reading”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Polecat Song”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Postcards”. 4 Ts. 3 p. each. Includes ts. and holographic fragments.
 
F.3       Draft poems. [2007-2016]. [6 of 8].

“Quatre Études” (fragments). 1 Ts. 3 p.
“Queen Anne’s Lace (homage to William Carlos Williams)”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Quotations” / “Approaches to the Conclusion”. 3 Ts. 2 p. each. Includes ts. fragments.
“Rare or only unexpected: the birds pick as I pick”. 7 Ts. 1 p. each.
 “Reading Backward (for Joe)”. 4 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Recognitions”. 6 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Recollection” / “Illumination” / “Recollection: on Ice”. 10 Ts. 1 p. each. Includes holographic fragments.
“Revelation”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Roseaceae”. 3 Ts. 2 p. each. Includes 6 ts. and 2 holographic fragments.
“La rue des Petites Maries“. 4 Ts. 2 Ms. Also includes holographic fragments.
“Sandbar Walking”. 1 Ts. 2 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Seasonal”. 1 Ts. 2 p. Also includes holographic and ts. fragments.
“Self Portrait: As an Old House” / “Autoritratto”. 9 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each. Includes holographic and ts. fragments.
“Sentence”. 5 Ts. 1. Ms. 2 p. each.
“Shore”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Sky Object”. 6 Ts. 1 p. each.
“So to Be Human”. 5 Ts. 1 p. each.
“So we all remember: May 1945” / “May 1945: remembering”. 5 Ts. 3 p. each.
“Solstice, 2004”. 3 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Sonnetina for Lost Poultry”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Sonnetina for the Thresher Poet”. 4 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Sonnetina: Gallus Absconditus“. 3 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Sonnetinas”. 3 Ts. 1 p. each. Also includes 3 ts. draft passages.
“Sonnets in Winter”. 2 Ts. 2 p. each.
“Summer Again” / “June”. 4 Ts. 2 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Summer Once”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Summer Paragraphs”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Theology”. 1 Ts. 2 p. Includes 1 ts. fragment.
 “Three lyrics” (fragment). 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Throat” / “Night Music”. 3 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Timepiece/Summer”. 7 Ts. 2-3 p. each. Includes ts. and holographic fragments.
 “To Toronto”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Travel”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Tunesmith” / “Musicians: Tunesmith”. 8 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Two in Autumn”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Two View”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.

F.4       Draft poems. [2007-2016]. [7 of 8].

“Unknowing”. 5 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Vespers”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“A Victorian Album”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Wakeful”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Walt Whitman on the TTC”. 4 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Waterlilies”. 10 Ts. 2 Ms. 1 p. each.
“What Happens, How”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each.
“White”. 2 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Winter Study” / “L’Étude en hiver”. 3 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each. Includes holographic notes.
“Without Hockey”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Words” / “Night Song for the Islands (for Steven)”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Written on a Brown Paper Bag”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“The Wrong Side of the Park (for Tom)”. 3 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Young and Old” / “Island”. 3 Ts. 3 p. each. Includes 3 p. of ts. fragments.
“Zinnias” / “Zinnias encircled” / “Zinnias Imposed”. 10 Ts. 1 p. each. 1 p. of holographic fragments.

F.5       Draft poems. [2007-2016]. [8 of 8].

Untitled/Fragments of poems, including:
“[Sunday rain, the morning poets…]”. 2 Ms. 1 p. each.
“[Wind shifts the white paper blind…]”. 3 Ts. 1 p. each.
“[The children are riding / over the sunken vessels]”. 3 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
Draft table of contents pages for poetry collections. 5 p. Ts.
Unidentified drafts and holographic notes on ephemera.

F.6       Draft poems, unpublished. [2007-2016]. Collection of unpublished poems.

“Alien Newcomers”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Approaching the Strait”. 1 Ts. 1 Ms. 1 p. each.
“Boss Fattyfoot”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Dinner with Random Gods”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Gods, Strangers” / “Gods, Strangers, Dangerous Women” (fragments). 6 Ts. 1 Ms.
“Going Away Now”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“The Granddaughter’s Tale”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“Improvisation”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“An Incidental Homage”. 3 Ts. 3 p. each.
“Landscape”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“May Rain”. 7 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Meditation”. 5 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Nausicaa Meets a Stranger” / “Nausikaa Meeting a Traveller” / “I Recall Nausikaa Meeting a Traveller” / “L’étranger / Nausikaa”. 8 Ts. 2-3 p. each.
“November”. 5 Ts. 1 p. each.
“Oedipus At the Crossroads”. 1 Ts. 2 p.
“Opera at Night”. 1 Ts. 3 p.
“O Summerland” / “Summerland”. 5 Ts. 1-2p. each.
“Short-Ass the Woodcock” / “Scolopax” / “Twilight”. 4 Ts. 1 p. each.
“A silence is the beginning”. 1 Ts. 1 p.
“A Sonnet Comes Quickly”. 2 Ts. 1 p. each. Includes a holographic fragment.
“Strangers, Various”. 3 Ts. 2-3 p. each. Includes ts. fragments.
“Stranger at the Crossroads” / “Crossroads” / “Meeting at the Crossroads: A Perfect Tragedy” (fragments). 10 p. Ts. 2 p. Ms.
“Travel documents of the unknown” / “Travel documents for All Souls”. 5 Ts. 2-3 p. each. Includes ts. fragments.
“The Vanished”. 10 Ts. 1 p. each.
“You, Stranger”. 3 Ts. 1-2 p. each. Includes ts. fragments.
Unidentified drafts and holographic notes.

F.7       Christmas / Winter Solstice Mailers. 2002-2007. Includes drafts and materials related to annual poem sent to friends. Includes: “At the Solstice”, “A Victorian Album”, “Master of Allegory”, “God Spends the Morning Studying Torah”, “In Winter” and a translation of “About Love” by Anton Chekov.
F.8       The Essential Tom Marshall. Draft. Ts. ~90 p. 2010-2012. A collection of poetry by Tom Marshall, edited by David Helwig, published in 2012.

Series 5.
Radio, Theatre and Television Scripts. – 1980-2011. – 11 cm. Series consists of scripts for CBC produced radio plays and drafts of radio plays, stage plays, and other performance-based writing.

Box 94

F.1       “Moving In” (CBC Soundstage radio play). Taped January 17-18, 1980. Debuted, February 3, 1980. Produced by William Davis. Ts. 78 p.
F.2       “Memory of Murder” (CBC Saturday Stereo Theatre). Taped March 14, 1983. Produced by Paul Mills. Ts. 80 p.
F.3       “The Bird That Never Was” (radio play). [1970s-1980s]. 2 Ts. 4 p. each. Also includes 1 p. of holographic musical notation.
F.4       “Waiting to Kill Somebody”, 1^st draft (radio play). [1980s]. Ts. 50 p.
F.5       “An Occasion” / “The Captain’s Ghost” (stage play). ca. 2005. 2 Ts. 29 p. each. Also includes ts. fragments.
F.6       “Follow the Fiddler: A Pageant” (stage play), performed at the Victoria Playhouse Festival. 2008-2011. 4 Ts. ~32 p. each. Also includes related correspondence, clippings, and brochures from the Festival. 2 cm.
F.7       “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” (stage performance). November 3, 2010. 8 Ts. 2 and 6 p. each. Also includes ts. and holographic fragments. 0.6 cm.
F.8       “The Stand-In: stage version”. ca. 2003. 2 Ts. ~30 p. each. Also includes draft segments and a marked-up copy of The Stand-In (published by The Porcupine’s Quill, 2002).
F.9       “The Argument” (unperformed play). January 17, 2014. 2 Ts. 4 p. each. Also includes holographic fragments.
F.10     “Victory (a libretto based on the novel by Joseph Conrad)”. ca. 2011. Ts. 35 p. Also includes holographic notes and a ts. fragment. 0.5 cm.
F.11     “A Day That Didn’t Happen” (television script). N.d. 2 ts. ~25 p. each.
F.12     “The Kid With Nothing In His Head” (possibly a book or play for children?). [ca. 1970s-1980s]. 3 Ts. 1 Ms. 0.6 cm.

Series 6
Essays and Lectures. – 1990-2015, predominantly 2005-2015. – 17 cm. Series consists of material relating to Helwig’s essay writing, including: draft essays, clippings of columns and book reviews published in The BUZZ (Prince Edward Island) and The Globe and Mail. Also includes drafts of lectures delivered by Helwig in his role as Poet Laureate of Prince Edward Island.

F.13     Essays, draft typescripts. 2005-2010. Includes ts. drafts of essays published in Helwig’s column, “The Other Notebook” in The BUZZ. Also includes the typescripts of an obituary of Joseph Sherman and book reviews published in The Globe and Mail. 3.5 cm.
F.14     Essays, clippings. 2005-2010. Includes clippings of the printed versions of the above material. 0.5 cm.

Box 95

F.1       Essays, draft typescripts. 2006-2008. Includes ts. drafts of essays published in Helwig’s column, “The Other Notebook” in The BUZZ. 2.5 cm.
F.2       Essays, clippings. 2006-2008. 0.5 cm.
F.3       Essays, draft typescripts. 2011-2013. Includes ts. drafts of essays published in Helwig’s column, “The Other Notebook” in The BUZZ. 1.9 cm.
F.4       Essays, clippings. 2011-2013. 0.5 cm.
F.5       Essays, draft typescripts. 2013-2015. 1.5 cm.
F.6       Essays, clippings. 2013-2015. 0.5 cm.
F.7       Unfiled essay notes. ca. 2005-2015. Includes draft sections of essays about Bertram Brooker, and Larry and Sheila Sutherland. The former essay was published on the blog site arthistoryarchive.com, titled, “Scandalous” (http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/canadian/Nudes-and-Prudes.html). 0.3 cm.
F.8       “Dreams of Transcendence” (published in online magazine Whether). July 2014. 2 Ts. 5 p. each.
F.9       “Preludes and Beyond: The Poetry of William Aide”. ca. 2015. Canadian Notes and Queries, no. 96, Summer 2016, notesandqueries.ca/issues/number 96/. 4 Ts. ~17 p. each.
F.10     Book Review: “The Same Struggles Go On” by Peter Swirski. 2006. 4 Ts. 5 p. each. Includes email from Olga Stein.
F.11     The Symons Medal and Lecture, draft speech. 2008. 5 Ts. 5 p. each. Consists of a speech introducing Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada, as an honour given by the Confederation Centre of the Arts.
F.12     The Symons Medal and Lecture, draft speech. 2009. 9 Ts. 6 p. each. Consists of a speech introducing Mary Simon, President of Tapiriit Kanatami.
F.13     The Walrus Talks, draft lecture. 2017. 16 Ts. ~4 p. each. Lecture delivered April 22, 2017 in Charlottetown, PEI, as part of “The Walrus Talks, National Tour 2017, A Canada 150 Signature Initiative”.
F.14     The Globe and Mail essays (photocopies). 1990-1992. 0.3 cm.

Series 7.
Correspondence. – 1995-2018. – 54.5 cm of textual records. Series has been arranged alphabetically. Letters and emails are incoming, addressed to David Helwig, unless otherwise noted.

Box 96

F.1       Aide, Bill. 2003-2008. (1 of 2). 90 letters, 3 emails. Includes poetry, including a ts. copy of The Aerialist and Other Poems ~15 p. 3 cm.
F.2       Aide, Bill. 2009-2017. (2 of 2). 99 letters. Includes copies of poems and a col. photograph. 2.5 cm.
F.3       Ainslie, D. to Cowan, D. 0.6 cm.

Ainslie, Donald (University College Alumni of Influence). 1 letter. June 2014.
Andrus, Donald F. Draft of story, “Be-Bop-A-Lula”, Ts. 6 p. June 2011.
Ayres, Ian (Van Gogh’s Ear). 1 letter. May 2004.
[Bailey], Don. 3 letters. 2003. Also includes 2 Ts. pages titled “The Book of Billy” and a copy of the children’s book, The Radiant Radish.
Balint, Sarah. 1 letter. Holographic. February 2003.
Barriault, Robert (New Brunswick Arts Board). 2 letters, 1 email. June-July 2005.
Barton, Jacqueline (Chancellory of Honours). 2 incoming, 1 outgoing letters. October 2009.
Bertram, Carolyn, Minister of Communities, Cultural Affairs and Labour, PEI. 3 incoming, 1 outgoing letters. 1 col. photograph.
Bettis, Paul. 1 email. September 2003.
Boylan, Crissy (ECW Press). 1 letter. May 2011.
Brinklow, Laurie (The Acorn Press). 1 letter. May 2006.
Buss, Jane (Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia). 6 letters. 2003-2009.
Calder, Patricia. Draft of story “Deadhead”. Ts. 11 p. [n.d.].
Callbeck, Catherine. 1 letter. February 2008.
Canada Council for the Arts. 1 letter. September 2005.
Canadian Who’s Who. 1 letter. August 2007.
Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention. 1 letter, encl. petition, 3 p. July 2009.
Canadian Red Cross. 1 letter. January 2010.
Carter, Barbara. 1 letter, 1 email. July 2006.
CBC-Radio Canada. 1 letter, 1 email. September 2003 and November 2005.
Celucci, Paul, United States Ambassador to Canada. 1 outgoing letter. March 2003.
Cerminara, Corrie. 1 email, encl. response. October 2008.
Clews, Brenda (University of Toronto Press). 1 letter. October 1995.
Confederation Centre of the Arts et al. 1 incoming letter, ~9 incoming emails, 2 outgoing letters, 4 outgoing emails. May to November 2005.
Confederation Centre of the Arts. 3 letters. 2008-2014.
Cooper, Allan. 1 email. May 2005. Email from Hugh Macdonald on verso, May 2005.
Copper Canyon Press. 1 outgoing letter. February 2002.
De Courcey, Paul. 1 email. July 2006.
Cowan, Doris. 1 email. May 2010.

F.4       Cowan, Judith. 2002-2006. (1 of 6). 58 letters. Also includes “Dragon’s Breath” short story, Ts. 35 p. and 1 large col. photograph of the Cowan family. 2 cm.
F.5       Cowan, Judith. 2006-2008. (2 of 6). 31 letters. Also includes col. Photographs, prints, and ts. Chapters 1 and 2 of Cowan’s memoir, Twelve Years (p. 1-46). Published as The Permanent Nature of Everything: A Memoir in 2014. 2 cm.
F.6       Cowan, Judith. 2008-2009. (3 of 6). 8 letters. Also includes Chapters 1 to 7, and 9 of Cowan’s memoir (p. 47-157, p.158-179). 2 cm.
F.7       Cowan, Judith. 2009-2010. (4 of 6). 14 letters. Also includes Chapters 10 to 17 of Cowan’s memoirs (p. 180-323). 2 cm.

Box 97

F.1       Cowan, Judith. 2010-2014. (5 of 6). 31 letters. 2 cm.
F.2       Cowan, Judith. 2014-2017. (6 of 6). 23 letters. 1 cm.
F.3       Crane, O. to Guernica. 1.5 cm.

Crane, Olivia. 1 card. [2009].
Cruickshank, John. 1 email, encl. email from Peggy Walt re: CBC cuts. April 2008.
Crean, Patrick. 1 incoming email, 1 outgoing letter. May 2005, n.d.
Crosier, Jane. 1 email. February 2003.
Cuthbertson, Ken (Queen’s Alumni Review). 1 letter. February 2005.
Dancey, Kevin J. 1 letter. July 2009.
Davis, William B. 8 emails. 2003-2007. Also includes ts. draft section of Where There’s Smoke: The Memoir of William B. Davis, 2009,12 p.
Dempster, Barry. 1 email. October 2011.
Di Santo, Michael John. 1 letter, encl. consent form re: interview for biography of George Whalley. May 2012.
Elliot, Robin. 3 emails, 1 letter. October, May 2007, November 2008. Includes a ts. draft of the article, “Barnardo Boy”, published in Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music, Vol 28, No. 1 (2007). 21 p.
English, Sharon. 1 email. November 2006.
Erskine (Victoria Playhouse). 2 emails. February 2008, July 2009.
Eso, David. 1 letter. N.d.
Evans, Peter (Saltscapes). 1 email. January 2003.
Falkner, Suki. 1 email. January 2010.
Farrow, Diana. 1 letter. February [2008].
Frankle, Rivi (University of Toronto Advancement). 1 letter. July 2009.
Gaspar, Cidália (Rideau Hall). 1 letter. July 2010.
Gaspereau Press (including Andrew Steeves, Beth Crosby, and Amanda Jernigan). 13 letters, 9 emails. 2002-2012.
Gaudet, Judy. 1 email. May 2002.
Ghiz, Robert. 2 letters. June 2006 and April 2008.
Glover, Douglas. 3 emails, 1 letter. 2003-2007.
Grady, Wayne. 1 email. February 2003.
Gray, Andrew (UBC Creative Writing Program). 1 outgoing letter, encl. correspondence with Judith Pond. 2006.
Gruman, Matthew. 1 email. October 2007.
Guernica. Request for permission consent form. 2017.
 
F.4       Haldane, S. to Kingston WritersFest. 2.5 cm.

Haldane, Sean. 2 emails. March-April 2009.
Harcourt, Joan (McGill-Queen’s University Press). 3 letters. November 2009 and August 2010.
Harcourt, Peter. 8 emails. 2003-2008.
Harper-White, Olivia. 1 email, re: Hiroshima Day of Peace. July 2009.
Harrison, Rose. 1 letter. December 2013.
Hasting, Jane (Eden Mills Writers’ Festival). 2 emails. June 2004.
Hebb, Marian (Hebb & Scheffer). 1 email, 2 incoming letters, 1 outgoing letter. 2003-2008.
Heffron, Dorris. 1 email. October 2007.
Heighton, Steven. 13 emails. 2003-2018. Includes drafts of poems, “The Phone Never Wrang” and “Swimmer in the Avalanche”, and a blurb for The Essential Tom Marshall.
Heil, Jeremy (Queen’s University Archives). 1 email. May 2004.
Helwig, Maggie. 1 email. March 2018.
Hernndorf, Peter (National Arts Centre). 2 incoming letters, 1 outgoing letter. 2008-2009.
Hickey, David. 1 email. May 2009.
Hilderley, Bob (Quarry Press). 1 letter. November 2012.
Hilliard, Wendy. 1 letter. June 2012. Includes a b&w negative ; 35 mm.
Hobbs, Catherine. 1 email. January 2010.
Hooper, Mary. 2 outgoing letters. February, May 2008. Encl. email from Ken Puley of CBC Radio Archives and a finding aid for archival material for Milton Acorn.
Holman, Harry. 2 emails. January 2008.
Huggan, Isabel. 1 email. June 2003.
Hulse, Michael (Leviathan Quarterly). 3 emails. February 2002, March 2003.
Hutchman, Mary (Writer’s Federation of New Brunswick). 1 email. March 2007.
Illingworth, Jack (Porcupine’s Quill). 8 emails. 1 letter. 2003-2004.
Inkster, Tim or Elke (Porcupine’s Quill). 6 letters. 9 emails.
Jernigan, Amanda (Porcupine’s Quill). 2 emails. 2002-2003.
Jernigan, Kim (The New Quarterly). 5 emails and 2 letters. 2002-2005.
Jonas, George. 1 email. N.d.
Joyce, Catherine. 2 letters, 1 email. 2004-2006. Enclosed writing sample for Vermont College MFA Program in Creative Writing and a draft letter of recommendation.
Kain, Karen (Canada Council for the Arts). 1 outgoing letter. N.d.
Kessler, Deirdre. 1 letter. Also includes blurb for It Is Always Summer. 2014, 2017.
King, Allan. 1 email. October 2004.
Kingston WritersFest. Includes 1 letter and related email correspondence. 2012.

F.5       Kropp, Paul. 2003-2015. 61 letters, 2 emails. Includes draft of story, “A Song About Apes” (3 p.), poetry drafts, and Chapter 2 of Homerun published in 2006 (17 p.).
F.6       Lane, P. to Lloyd, J. 0.3 cm.

Lane, Patrick. 1 email, June 2005.
Langs, Leonore (BookFest Windsor). 2 letters. May 2006.
Laperle, Anna (Rideau Hall). 4 incoming, 1 outgoing letters. June to December 2009.
Lemm, Richard. 4 emails. May 2008 to February 2009.
Levine, Abby (Albert Whitman & Company). 1 letter. August 2004.
Lee, Dennis. 1 email. January 2002.
Lloyd, Jocelyne (Journal Pioneer). 1 email. March 2007.

F.7       George Loewen. 2005-2013. 1.4 cm. 26 incoming holographic letters. 1 outgoing letter. Also includes sample cover artwork for Seawrack.
F.8       MacAulay, L. to Macklem, D. 0.2 cm.

MacAulay, Lawrence, M.P. 4 letters. 2006-2009.
MacDonald, J. Hugh. 1 email. March 2004.
Macklem, Dilshad (Oberon Press). 5 emails, 5 letters, and a holographic note. 2004-2015.

F.9       Macklem, Michael (Oberon Press). 1988, 2003-2017. 87 incoming letters, 1 outgoing letter. 1.5 cm.

F.10     Macklem, N. to McOrmand, S. 0.7 cm.

Macklem, Nick. 2 emails. September 2008, September 2011.
Margoshes, Dave. 1 email. April 2007.
Marshall, Amy. 1 email. April 2005.
Marshall, Andrew. 3 emails. March 2007, January 2010.
Mazur, Christine (Turnstone Press). 1 letter. January 2012.
McBurney, Laurie. 1 email. April 2008.
McCabe, Shauna. 2 emails. February, April 2005.
McGraw-Hill Ryerson (Sandra McTavish). 1 letter. December 2011.
McMaster University Library (Charlotte A. Stewart, Carl Spadoni, Vivian Lewis). 4 emails, 3 letters. 2003-2012.
McOrmand, Steve. 1 incoming, 1 outgoing letter, enclosed with ts. pages from Primer on the Hereafter, published in 2006. September 2005.

Box 98

F.1       Metcalf, John. 2003-2018. 48 letters. Also includes ts. of a chapter to John Metcalf’s memoir, “Goodbye To All That” (18 p.), an essay by Douglas Glover, “The Arsonist’s Revenge” (25 p.), a draft of a story, “Ceazer Salad” (17 p.), and an essay, “A Jeremiad Against Kim Jernigan” (36 p.). 2.3 cm.
F.2       Morris, B. to Sherman, J. 2.7 cm.

Morris, Barry. 2 emails. September 2003.
Mount, Nick. 1 email, 1 letter. June, November 2007.
Munroe-Blum, Heather. 1 letter. July 2009.
Munves, James. 1 email, 2 letters, 1 note. 2008-2009, 2015. Includes a clipping from The New Yorker, and a draft collection of translations of poetry by Ilse Weber (39 p.).
Naylor, David. 1 letter. July 2009.
New York Review of Books. 1 outgoing letter. February 2004.
[N.K.H.] 3 letters. 2003-2004.
Nobleman, Cathy (Rideau Hall). 3 letters. December 2009, January 2010.
Nymark, Barbara. 1 email. March 2004.
[O.], Michael. 1 email. June 2005.
O’Meara, David. 3 emails. 2004-2005.
Orbach, Marvin. 1 outgoing letter, 1 incoming letter. September, October 2011.
Ott, Robert. 2 letters. 2005, 2016.
Paris, Erna. 2 emails. April 2007.
Peace Magazine. 1 letter. May 2005.
PEI Literary Alliance. 1 letter. February 2008.
Peters, Caryl (Frog Hollow Press). 1 letter. [2013].
Pitts, Francis (The Millar Colony for the Arts). 1 letter. February 2003.
Price, Paul. 2 emails. July 2009.
Prince Edward Island Council of the Arts. 2 letters. April 2007, April 2008.
Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra. 1 letter. December 2016.
Prosser, David (Stratford Festival). 1 email, 1 outgoing letter. October 2003.
QEH Foundation. 1 letter. July 2016.
Rasminsky, Michael. 1 email. February 2007.
Reichardt, Vicki. 1 email, 1 outgoing letter. November 2007.
Richler, Noah. 2 emails, 1 email forwarded by Livia Tenzer. January, March 2007.
Robertson, Heather. 1 letter and enclosed. [2006].
Robinson, Andrea (McGowan). January 2009, December 2017. Includes 4 ts. drafts of poem, “Mariposa (For Marian and Bob Robinson)”.
Robinson, Robert. 45 letters. 2003-2016.
Rogers, Edward. 1 letter. July 2010.
Royer, Émile. 3 emails. 2017. Also includes chapbook, “Nuances”, (34 p.), ts. of a short story, “Amour Malade” (5 p.), and 3 ts. pages of poetry.
Rule, Jane. 2 letters. September 2003, September 2006.
Ruthig, Ingrid. 4 emails, 1 letter. 2007-2008, October 2012.
Rymhs, Deena. 3 emails. March 2003.
Saskatchewan Book Awards. 2 letters and enclosed material. 2013-2014.
Schabas, Ezra. 1 outgoing, 1 incoming letters. January, February 2009.
Seligman, Ellen. 1 outgoing letter, 2 incoming emails. October 2003, July 2004.
Shaw, Susan Evans (LiT LiVe). 1 letter. February 2004.
Shepherd, Jean. 1 email. December 2003.
Sherman, Joe. 4 emails. 2003-2005.

F.3       Siksay, W. to Wells, D. 1.5 cm.

Siksay, William, MP. 1 outgoing letter. May 2008.
Simonds, Merilyn (Kingston Writers Fest). 2 letters and enclosed material. 2012.
Simons, Ken. 4 emails. January-March 2008.
Simons, Mary. 1 holographic letter. July 2006.
Simpson, Jeffrey. 1 email. June 2007.
Sirman, Robert (Canada Council for the Arts). August 2009.
Smart, Carolyn. 6 emails. 2004-2005.
Soderstrom, Mary. 1 outgoing letter, 2 incoming emails. November 2003.
Stein, David and Alison. 2 letters, ca. 2005.
Stein, David. 27 emails. 2003-2009.
Stein, Olga (Books in Canada). 2 outgoing letter, 1 email. April, June 2006.
Stephenson, Sandra. 1 email. January 2007.
Stewart, Heather Grace (Queen’s Alumni Review). 1 letter. September 2004.
St. Joseph’s Training Centre – Mukono, Uganda. 3 letters. July 2004, July 2010, January 2016.
St. Theresa Buwama School of Nursing & Midwifery – Buwama, Uganda. 1 letter. October 2010.
Suvier, Art. 1 letter. n.d.
Thorne, Tim. 1 email. February 2009.
Toye, William. 1 incoming, 2 outgoing letters. October-November 2005. Includes encl. correspondence with Oxford University Press.
Trotter, Joshua. 1 email. January 2008.
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. 1 letter. January 2014.
Vogel, Rachel. 2 emails. July 2007.
Weaver, Carolyn. 1 email. April 2005.
Wells, Dan (Biblioasis). 9 letters, 6 emails. 2005-2017.
Wells, Ker. 1 email, 1 letter. [ca. 2016].

F.4       Wien, F. to Yzereef, G. 1.5 cm.

Wien, Fred and Carol Ann. 8 letters. 2003-2013.
Wiginton, Colin (City of Kingston). 1 email. September 2011.
Wilkinson, Poppy (Maisonneuve). 1 letter. May 2003.
Williams, Paul. 1 letter, 6 emails (Bunim & Bannigan). 2006-2007. Includes travel itinerary and wire transfer.
Williamson, Dave. 2 emails. July 2006, December 2007.
Windsor, Debora. 1 email, encl. material re: Danuta Gleed Literary Award. February 2005.
Winter, Tamiko (Harbourfront Reading Series). 2 letters, enclosed information package and related correspondence. 2003-2004.
Wolfe Island Historical Society, The. 1 incoming, 1 outgoing letter. February 2008.
WONK. 1 letter. January 2010.
Wood, Barry. 14 letters. 2004-2007.
Wolsak and Wynn (Noelle Allen). 2 letter. October 2006.
Writers Guild of Canada. 11 letters. 2003-2011.
Writers’ Trust of Canada, The. 1 letter. April 2008.
Writers’ Union of Canada, The. 7 letters. 1 email. 2004-2018.
Yeoman, Aisling (National Poetry Month). 1 letter. February 2005.
Yoken, Mel. 1 letter. March 2005.
Yzereef, Ginny. 1 email. February 2008.

F.5       Fan mail / mail sent via website, davidhelwig.com feedback form. 0.5 cm.
F.6       Unidentified correspondence. 0.6 cm.

F.7       Cards: general. 2000-2018. 5.5 cm. Includes personal cards from friends including Judith Cowan, Bill Haide, and Paul Kropp.
F.8       Cards: Christmas / Winter Solstice / New Years. 2000-2018. 4 cm.

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F.1       Cards: postcards, thank you, congratulations, birthday, and invitations. 2000-2018. 4.25 cm.

Series 8.

Saturday Morning Chapbooks printing material. – 2002-2014. – 10.5 cm. Series consists of material related to the printing the works of poets in Prince Edward Island. The small press was formed by David Helwig, Hugh MacDonald, and Joseph Sherman. Series is arranged by chapbook, which includes drafts of the poems, correspondence with the poet, and prototype versions of the final chapbook. Also includes correspondence regarding printing costs, legal contracts, and collected materials for use as cover art.

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F.2       First Series, #1. The Medium by Julie Dennison. 2003.
F.3       First Series, #2. Poems, you say by Judy Gaudet. 2003.       
F.4       First Series, #3. Scene, road by Shauna McCabe. 2003.
F.5       Second Series, #1. Scars by Laurie Brinklow. 2004.
F.6       Second Series, #2. Night Vanishes by Beth E. Janzen. 2004.
F.7       Second Series, #3. Fool’s Errand by Zachariah Wells. 2004.
F.8       Third Series, #1. Subtracting by Seventeen by Deirdre Kessler. 2005.
F.9       Third Series, #2. From Pushthrough to Madagascar by Lee Ellen Pottie. 2005.
F.10     Third Series, #3. Kitpu Apteket by Charlie Greg Sark. 2005.
F.11     Fourth Series, #1. On a Blue Colander by Renée Blanchette. 2014.
F.12     Fourth Series, #2. In a Burst of Yellow Blossoms by Yvette Doucette. 2014.
F.13     Fred Louder poetry. 2002-2004.
F.14     Printing costs. 2003-2014.
F.15     Correspondence. 2002-2005.
F.16     Contracts. 2003-2014.
F.17     Cover art. ca. 2003.

Series 9.
Royalty Statements and Publishing Material. – 1985-2018. – 11 cm. Series consists of: award and grant submissions sent on the author’s behalf by Tim (Elke) Inkster, Porcupine’s Quill; earning summaries sent by the Public Lending Right Commission; a contract with New Quarterly Literary Society; and royalty statements. The royalty statements have been arranged by publisher, alphabetically.

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F.1       Awards / Grants submissions. 2004-2010.
F.2       Public Lending Right Commission. 1987-2014.
F.3       New Quarterly Literary Society Inc., contract. 2010.
F.4       Biblioasis. 2007-2014.
F.5       Bunim & Bannigan Ltd. 2008-2012.
F.6       CBC. 1987-1990.
F.7       Gaspereau Press. 2004-2018.
F.8       General Publishing Co. 1982-1988.
F.9       Goose Lane Editions. 1999-2015.
F.10     McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited. 2013-2015.
F.11     Oberon Press. 1987-2014.
F.12     Penguin Books Canada Ltd. 1985-1993.
F.13     The Porcupine’s Quill Inc. 2002-2014.
F.14     Quarry Press. 1990-1995.
F.15     Stoddard. 1987-2001.

Series 10.
Clippings. –1991-2018. –9.5 cm. Series consists of clippings of reviews of Helwig’s books, arranged chronologically by book, and general clippings related to Helwig’s public appearances. Series also includes clippings of reviews, essays and other collected material by or related to Maggie Helwig.

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F.1       Last Stories of Anton Chekov. 1991.
F.2       The Beloved. 1992.
F.3       Just Say The Words. 1994.
F.4       A Random Gospel. 1996.
F.5       The Child of Someone. 1997.
F.6       Close to the Fire. 1999.
F.7       The Time of Her Life. 2000.
F.8       Living Here. 2002.
F.9       The Stand-In. 2002.
F.10     Duet. 2004.
F.11     The Year One. 2004.
F.12     The Names of Things. 2006.
F.13     Saltsea. 2006.
F.14     Smuggling Donkeys. 2007.
F.15     Coming Through. 2007.
F.16     The Sway of Otherwise. 2008.
F.17     Killing McGee. 2011.
F.18     About Love: Three Stories by Anton Chekov. 2012.
F.19     Clyde. 2014.
F.20     Best Canadian Stories. 1991-1996.
F.21     Miscellaneous Reviews. 1999-2011.
F.22     Clippings: general. 2000-2018.
F.23     Clippings: Maggie Helwig. 1993-2015.

Series 11.
Realia. – 1960-2008. – 5 cm. Series consists of miscellaneous material from Helwig’s life as a writer and public figure.

F.24     Lists of Projects. 1980-1987. 17 cue cards which list the author’s ongoing writing projects, monthly.
F.25     Biography + misc. ca. 1995. Typed CV and biographical note. Also includes unlabeled photographs of an Anglican cemetery and a printed copy of a photograph of Helwig’s Grade 6 class at Parliament Oak School, Niagara-On-The-Lake. 0.5 cm
F.26     Invitations. [1887]. Addressed to Lieutenant Colonel Bowen Van Straubenzee from the Governor General and The Canadian Society of Civil Engineers. Lt. Col. Straubenzie was the subject of the poem, “1885”, published in This Human Day, 2000. 0.2 cm.
F.27     “The Individual in Kierkegaard and Nietszche”. Undergraduate essay written for Prof. Emil Fackenheim, University of Toronto. 1960. Ts. 17 p.
F.28     “Words and Music”. July 17, 2002. Includes a programme, notes, and copies of poems which were read at a performance of poetry and music, held at the Kirk of St. James, Charlottetown, PEI. 0.2 cm.
F.29     Atlantic Book Awards and Festival. 2005. Includes the festival programme, a list of winners of the Atlantic Book Awards, a clipping, and a copy of the newsletter of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia. 0.3 cm.
F.30     Events, appearances. 2001-2012. Ephemera, including programmes and leaflets advertising events which include Helwig as a speaker. 0.75 cm.
F.31     Awards & Recognition. 2006-2016. 0.2 cm. Includes a certificate of lifetime membership from the Prince Edward Island Council of the Arts, June 2006; a certificate from the Island Literary Awards, June 2006; and The Matt Cohen Award from The Writers’ Trust of Canada, 2008. Also includes the acceptance speech for the Matt Cohen Award. A copy of the Order of Canada newsletter, September 2009; and the short list for the Prince Edward Island Book Awards, 2016. 0.5 cm.
F.32     Continuing Education: Reading Poetry for Pleasure. 2008. Includes the class list and readings for the course taught by Helwig at the Charlottetown Senior’s College. 1 cm.
F.33     Photocard, London, UK. 1990.

Series 12.
Notebooks. – 1987-2016. – 30.5 cm. Series consists of 22 personal notebooks.

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F.1       Blue notebook: Trip to China. 1987. 14.5 x 21 cm. Includes itinerary of the Canadian writers’ delegation to the People’s Republic of China, hosted by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries.
F.2       Black spiral notebook. 1989. 19.5 x 24 cm. Includes poetry and creative writing notes.
F.3       Lined black notebook. 1990. 18.5 x 23.5 cm. Includes poetry and creative writing notes.
F.4       The Writer’s Drawing Book. 1994-1995. 18 x 25 cm. Includes pen drawings, creative writing notes, and fragmentary diary entries, pastel drawings, watercolours, and photographs.
F.5       Blue notebook. 1995-1997. 18.5 x 24 cm. Includes fragmentary diary entries, creative notes.
F.6       Orange notebook. 2001-2002. 18 x 25 cm. Includes pastel drawings and watercolours.
F.7       White graphic notebook. 2005. 15 x 21cm. Includes poetry and creative writing notes.
F.8       Bateaux d’autrefois. ca. 2006-2008. 16 x 19cm. Item is a children’s book with the blank pages used as notebook.
F.9       Blue notebook. 2010-2011. 15 x 21 cm. Includes poetry, drawings including a watercolor self-portrait.
F.10     Graphic notebook. ca. 2012-2015. 15x22 cm. Includes creative notes.
F.11     Lined blue notebook. ca. 2015. Includes editing notes for poems.
F.12     Journal with marbled cover, raised bands, and deckle edge. ca. 2002-2009. Includes poetry and creative notes.
F.13     Small notebooks. ca. 2014-2016.

Nepali paper notebook. ca. 2014. 8.5 x 11.5 cm. Includes poetry.
Green drawing book. 2016. 8 x 12 cm. Includes watercolours and pastel crayon drawings.
2 paper notebooks (~20 p.). ca. 2010s. 10 x 12 cm each. Includes workaday notes and poetry.

F.14     Small notebooks. ca. 1970s-2004.

‘Cherubs’ notebook. N.d. 11 x 18cm. Includes creative writing notes and poems.
Red notebook. N.d. 9 x 14 cm. Includes creative writing notes and poems.
Black notebook. ca. 1970s. 10.5 x 16.5 cm. Includes creative writing notes and notes for future writing projects.
‘Renoir’ notebook. ca. 1997. 10.5 x 15 cm. Includes creative writing notes, poems and book call numbers.
‘Eggplant’ notebook. ca. 2002. 10 x 16 cm. Includes poems and creative writing notes.
‘Botticelli’ spiral notebook. ca. 2004. 10 x 14.5 cm. Includes poems, creative writing notes, personal notes, and pencil sketches.

F.15     6 3.5” diskettes. Digital records to be transferred.

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