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Doug Beardsley fonds
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1923 - 2020 (Creation)
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- Beardsley, Doug, 1941-
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3.66 m of textual records and other materials.
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J. Douglas (Doug) Beardsley was born in Montreal. He attended Sir George Williams (now Concordia) University and the University of Victoria, studying with Irving Layton and Robin Skelton respectively. He graduated from the University of Victoria and won the R.H. Petch Memorial Prize in Creative Writing. He received his M.A. in English from York University in 1978. His works of poetry include "Going Down Into History", "The Only Country in the World Called Canada", "Six Saanich Poems", "Play on the Water", "The Marie Poems", and "Nothing I Can Do to Stop the Sun From Sinking". In 1979, he collaborated with Theresa Kishkan on "Premonitions and Gifts" and with Charles Lillard on "Inside Passage".
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Gift of Doug Beardsley, 2015-2020.
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The fonds consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence between Beardsley and various friends, fellow writers, and acquaintances (1967-2017). Also includes manuscripts and transcripts of poems, short stories, essays, as well as handwritten brainstorming notes written on hotel paper pads and airplane bags. Includes book reviews for the Times Colonist, correspondence and work regarding the Al Purdy-Doug Beardsley Papers collaborative work. Also includes handwritten journals kept by Beardsley from approximately 1969-2017. Additionally includes brochures and ephemera collected while travelling for inspiration, and material for a manuscript about Samuel de Champlain.
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Access to Accession 2015-078, boxes 6 and 7 is restricted (Irving Layton correspondence, 1975-1984 diaries).
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Includes photographs.
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- Layton, Irving, 1912-2006 (Subject)
- Purdy, Al, 1918-2000 (Subject)
- Skelton, Robin, 1925-1997 (Subject)
- Bowering, Marilyn, 1949- (Subject)
- Burgess, Anthony (Subject)
- Crozier, Lorna, 1948- (Subject)
- Davies, Robertson (Subject)
- Dickey, James (Subject)
- Eliot, Valerie (Subject)
- Geddes, Gary, 1940- (Subject)
- Gooch,Bryan Niel Shirley (Subject)
- Jarman, Mark Anthony, 1955- (Subject)
- Lane, Patrick (Subject)
- Lessing, Doris (Subject)
- Lillard, Charles (Subject)
- Livesay, Dorothy, 1909-1996 (Subject)
- Mailer, Norman (Subject)
- McKay, Dan (Subject)
- Musgrave, Susan, 1951- (Subject)
- Newlove, John, 1938- (Subject)
- Newman, Peter (Subject)
- Nichol, B. P., 1944-1988 (Subject)
- Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- (Subject)
- Page, P. K. (Patricia Kathleen), 1916-2010 (Subject)
- Payerle, George, 1945- (Subject)
- Trudeau, Pierre Elliott (Subject)
- Webb, Phyllis, 1927- (Subject)
- Champlain, Samuel de (Subject)
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- English
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