Finding Aid
Box G034
Scrap Book. 1907-1920. Contains: correspondence between Mrs. Gates and various members of the Toronto branch of the Dickens Fellowship with respect to organizing a branch in Hamilton; announcements of meetings; membership cards; lists of expenses of meetings; news clippings; programmes; photographs of founding members; menus of annual dinners; correspondence with Alfred Tennyson Dickens and H. Snowden Ward; programmes from other branches (Toronto, Winnipeg).
F.1 Correspondence. Letter from E.S. Williamson of the Dickens Fellowship (Toronto, Ont.) to Mrs. F.W. Gates, 1907; letter from Cora Lee Hunt of the Dickens Fellowship (Toronto, Ont.) to Albert E. Smythe, 1918; letter from Smythe inviting members to a meeting, 1931; two form letters, 1936-40.
F.2 The Mudfog News, newsletter of the Toronto branch ( vol. 2, no. 6; vol. 3, no. 5; vol. 4, no. 1). March 1928-October 1929.
F.3 The Tenth Annual Conference of the North-American Branches of the Dickens Fellowship. 17-20 June 1920. 3 copies of the programme.
F.4 Ephemera. Programmes, announcements of meetings, menus, membership card, issue of the Blunderstone Review (vol. 4, no. 2, 22 November 1933), issue of the American Dickensian (vol. 10, no. 3, March 1930), syllabus of the Brisbane branch, Official Guide to the Grand Scenic Dickens Bazaar (3-5 1911, Portsmouth, England), tickets, souvenir of the Dickens Fellowship Annual Conference, Southend-on-Sea (1934), and leaflet about the Dickens Rainbow Bazaar (31 October 1912).
