Finding Aid
Letters from Stringer to Edmonds:
July 23, 1933; October 7, 1933
January 27, 1939; February 19, 1939, post card; March 11, [1939], with news clipping;
April 17, [1939]; May 5, 1939; June 17, 1939
February 17, 1940; [December 16, 1940], card
December 19, 1942; November 9, 1942, post card
December 18, 1943, poem Christmas card with letter on verso
October 29, 1945; December 12, 1945; [December 1945?], card; [December 1945], poem Christmas card with letter on verso
April 10, 1946; May 10, 1946; May 27, 1946; July 18, 1946
March 12, [1947]; July 13, [1947], with news clipping of poem; August 12, 1947
November 15, 1947
May 3, 1948, post card; July 3, 1948; October 3, 1938; October 16, 1948
November 2, [1948]; December 17, 1948
March 16, 1949; May 13, 1949, with news clipping; June 19, 1949, with news clipping; October 1, 1949; October 18, 1949, with news clipping; October 28, 1949, with news clipping; November 3, [1949]; and November 15, 1949.
Other letters: To Stringer, n,d.; from The University of Western Ontario (Frank Stilling), July 28, 1947, with news clipping; from London Board of Education (M. Mercer), October 31, 1969; to Bob Stringer, January 6, 1970; from Bob Stringer, January 19, 1970.
Photographs:
3 b&w photos of Edmonds, Stringer and Edmonds, and Stringer and his son, Barney;
b&w photo of Stringer, used by McClelland and Stewart to publicize Red Wine of Youth: A Life of Rupert Brooke, [1948]
b&w photo of Barney Stringer’s children, [1955?]
Other items:
Farewell dinner menu of the Grenfell Labrador cruise, signed by Edmonds, Stringer, and other passengers, [1933]
2 printed poem Christmas cards, n.d. and 1941
Mimeographed advertisement of Stringer speaking at the St. Thomas Business & Professional Women’s Club, November 8, 1933
Offprint of “The Pot-Boiler”, Queen’s Quarterly 50, no. 1 (1943): 25-7; “Falcon at Innisfray”, broadside, taken Canadian Poetry Magazine, December 31, 1946; ts. of “The Teacher”, 1 p., December 20, 1944; ts. of “Here’s ‘The Last of Summer’”, 1 p., [1946?]; ts. of “The Silenced Heart”, 1 p., [1948]
Autumn convocation brochure with invitation cards, October 26, 1945; spring convocation invitation card, May 22, 1946, conferring LL.D. on Stringer
“Love & Remembrance Railway”, printed by Stringer, conveying his Christmas wishes, December 25, 1925; New York Nocturnes. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1948. The Ryerson Poetry Chapbooks; offprint of “The Questioner”, Queen’s Quarterly 56, 4 (1949)
News clippings of poems, announcements of readings, obituaries, and stories, 1933-81.
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