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Robin Skelton fonds

Robin Skelton fonds

  • CA UVICARCH SC114
  • Fonds
  • 1909 - 1996

The fonds consists of records produced by Skelton during the course of his life and career, documenting his activities as a poet, scholar, teacher, prose fiction writer, critic, editor and white witch. Records relate to activities including his co-founding of the University of Victoria Department of Creative Writing, his editorship of "The Malahat Review", his involvement with the Lotus Press in England and the Pharos Press and Sono Nis Press in Victoria, his collaboration with Ann Saddlemyer on the "Collected Works of J. M. Synge" and "The World of W. B. Yeats", a symposium and exhibition held in 1965 honouring the centenary of Yeats' birth, and his association with such writers as Wilfred Rowland Childe and Bonamy Dobree. Skelton's correspondents include T. S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Robert Graves, Margaret Atwood, Earle Birney, Bonamy Dobree, Paul Theroux, Kathleen Raine and many others.

Skelton, Robin, 1925-1997

Sydney Wayne Jackman fonds

  • CA UVICARCH AR071
  • Fonds
  • 1879, [19--]-2011

The fonds consists of Jackman's correspondence with friends, publishers, institutions and colleagues; diaries; material related to the Maltwood Museum; papers written by Jackman as a student, including his MA thesis; published works by Jackman; records of the University of Victoria and material related to Jackman's academic career and duties; course outlines; reading lists; notes for classes taught by Jackman; drafts of manuscripts; correspondence for books written or edited by Jackman; photographs and slides; photo albums of Peggy Abkhazi and E.T. Anfield, Jackman's uncle; and other ephemera collected by Jackman.

Jackman, Sydney Wayne, 1925-2011