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McClelland and Stewart Ltd. Ninth Accrual (accession 42-2010). – 2008-2009. – 64 cm of textual records.

Series Z: Douglas Gibson
See the sixth accrual for a biographical sketch of Douglas Gibson.

Box Z117
Yves Beauchemin, A Very Bold Leap (2009)
Proofs, printed 10/24/08
F.1       Pages, i-vi, 1-99
F.2       Pp. 100-199
F.3       Pp. 200-332

Harry Bruce, Page Fright (2009); note, an earlier title “Writing” is used here
F.4-5    Letter from Bruce, 31 Dec. 2008, corrected computer print, pp.1-321
F.6-8    Letter from Bruce, 31 Dec. 2008 (a different letter than above), marked up photocopy of computer print, pp. 1-399
Proofs, printed 2/24/09
F.9       Pp., i-viii, 1-119

Box Z118
F.1       Pp. 120-219
F.2       Pp. 220-341
F.3-4    Computer print, plus some photocopied pages, n.d., pp. 1-324

Mavis Gallant, Going Ashore (2009)
Corrected proofs, printed 11/25/08
F.5       Pp. i-xii, 1-100
F.6       Pp. 101-200
F.7       Pp. 201-299
F.8       Pp. 300-358
F.9       Draft Table of Contents

Mavis Gallant, Christine Evain, Christine Bertail, Mavis Gallant on Her Work (2009)
F.10     Computer print

Box Z119
Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness (2009)
F.1       Two brief letters from Munro to Gibson, one dated 8 Sept. 2008
F.2       Gibson’s notes about the book
F.3       Drafts of text for the dust-jacket
F.4       Error notes for proof, 5/14/09

Computer prints of the stories in the collection
F.5       Child’s Play, 36 pp.; photocopy from Harper’s Magazine, Feb. 2007
F.6       Deep-Holes, 22 pp.
F.7       Deep-Holes, 21 pp.
F.8       Dimensions, 29 p.
F.9       Face, 25 p.
F.10     Fiction, 30 pp., also one page from another draft dated 9 Sept. 2008
F.11     Free Radicals, 22 pp.
F.12     Some Women, 23 pp.

“Too Much Happiness” (the title story)
F.13     “In the Danish Islands” (an earlier title), 63 pp. with handwritten corrections
F.14-5  “By the Danish Islands” (an earlier title), 65 pp., 68 pp.
F.16     “Too Much Happiness”, 68 pp., 15 Jan. 2008
F.17     “Too Much Happiness”, 71 pp., 5 Aug. 2008
F.18     “Too Much Happiness”, pp. 60-72, n.d.

F.19     Wenlock Edge, 29 pp. (p. 30 is missing
F.20     Wenlock Edge, pp. 171-199
F.21     Wood, 23 p.

Proofs
F.22-4  Corrected proofs, Canadian edition, printed 5/14/09, pp. i-viii, 1-310

Box Z120
F.1-2    Proofs, U.S. edition, printed 7/13/09, pp. a-b, i-viii, 1-310

Alice Munro, Alice Munro’s Best (2006); first published by Knopf in the United States using the title Carried Away.
F.3-7    These proofs use the American title but carry the M&S imprint. The date on them is 2008 although the book was published in 2006. Pp. iii, 5-510. Atwood introduction is not printed.

Val Ross, Roberton Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic (2008)
F.8       Correspondence with Ross and Sandra Martin, 2008
F.9-12  Marked up, incomplete proofs, printed 2/5/08, pp. 1-xii, 1-371


McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Tenth Accrual.– 1988-2012; predominant 2012. – 20 cm of textual records.
Series Z: Douglas Gibson

Box Z121
Clive Doucet, Unpublished ms [c.2010].
F.1       TMS draft. 241 pp.

Terry Fallis, Up and Down (2012)
F.2       TMS with edits, 345 pp. 2012.

Alistair MacLeod
F.3       No Great Mischief. MS draft with annotations. [c.1999].
F.4       Remembrance. TMS draft, with annotations and correspondence. 2012.
F.5       Correspondence to Doug Gibson. 11 MS letters. 2003-2013.
F.6       Correspondence re: Alistair MacLeod. 7 letters. 1988-2005.
F.7       Clippings and reviews. 2003-2012.
F.8       Programmes. 2004-2012.

Alice Munro, Dear Life: Stories (2012)
F.9       TMS with annotations, 232 pp. 2011.
F.10     TMS (photocopy) with annotations, 294 pp. 2012.
F.11     TMS with annotations, 295 pp. [2012?].
F.12     Reviews. 2012.

The following book included with this accrual has been removed for cataloguing in Research Collections monograph collection:
Stories About Storytellers. Douglas Gibson [signed]. ECW Press, 2008.

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