- CA UVICARCH SC410
- Fonds
- 1891
The fonds consists of 3 p. manuscript of "Naval song" (Britain's navy).
Martin, W. Wilsey (William Wilsey), 1833-1913
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The fonds consists of 3 p. manuscript of "Naval song" (Britain's navy).
Martin, W. Wilsey (William Wilsey), 1833-1913
The fonds consists of Muriel Gerrard's scrapbook of greeting cards and costumes.
Gerrard, Muriel
The fonds is comprised of documents relating primarily to army officer and colonial governor Sir William Orfeur Cavenagh (1820-1891), who served as the last India-appointed Governor of the Straits Settlements (now Singapore and Malaysia). The collection also contains material relating to two of his seven siblings, Gordon Cavenagh and Matthew Cavenagh (d. 1864), and their father James Gordon Cavenagh (1766-1844), who was an army surgeon.
Correspondence, commissions, letter books, diaries, printed material, certificates and other documents provide insight into Sir William Orfeur Cavenagh's military career in India and Nepal (1837 -1858) and his tenure as Governor of the Straits Settlements (1859-1867).
Material relating to Gordon Cavenagh (who served with the Bengal Infantry) and Matthew Cavenagh (who emigrated to Canada and died in 1864) can also be found in the fonds. Correspondence from 1864 to 1867 between the Cavenagh family and various correspondents (including R. Calvert) relate to Matthew Cavenagh's estate in Canada. The fonds also includes letter books of Henry William Dent dating from 1881 to 1893.
Cavenagh (family)
The fonds consists of a bound volume of 13 carbon typescript essays and addresses by or collected by Quebec lawyer William White on various subjects such as legal, moral and ethical issues.
White, W. J. (William John), 1861-1934
The fonds consists of Wood's private diaries of daily activities and spiritual thoughts and correspondence from family members relating to family and social life.
Wood, William
The fonds consists of a handwritten letter to an unnamed cousin. In the letter, she mentions her book "Letters and Papers of Andrew Robertson" ed. Emily Robertson.
Robertson, Emily
The fonds consists of a b/w photograph of Joaquin Miller.
Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913
The fonds consists of a diary that contains the rather irregular entries made by a man of twenty-five years, employed by the Countess of Carnarvon as a tutor for her son Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneaux Herbert (1880-1923), prior to Aubrey's going up to Oxford. Aubrey later served as a Member of Parliament for South Somerset. His daughter, Gabriel, was the second wife of Evelyn Waugh. The diary commences in April at Porto Fino, Liguria, and later records trips to Wiesbaden, Cologne, and London. He then begins it again in the French countryside. The diary ends in July.
The fonds consists of a handwritten letter from William O'Brien which contains a pen and ink cartoon; together with a handwritten letter from Walter Osborne, containing two pen and ink drawings.
Purser, Sarah, 1848-1943
The fonds consists of a handwritten score of "Musique Intimes: 1. Cloitre" by Schmitt. At the end, it is signed with the place (Montreux) and date. In pencil, on the top left hand corner beside the title, is the inscription "a Maurice Ravel" (1875-1937). There is also an ink inscription on the top right hand corner (in French) signed by Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916).
Schmitt, Florent, 1870-1958