Manuscripts, scrapbook and other material [textual record, graphic material]. -- 1859-1943. - -12 cm of textual records, 4 photographs : b&w; 25.5 x 16.7 cm or smaller, 2 plate glass negatives : b&w; 6.3 x 5 cm and 1 watercolour; 20.5 x 15 cm
Scope and content: This series contains typescript or holograph poems and essays by various authors including Bliss Carman, H. Bernard Carpenter, G. Lionel Cobham, Charles G. D. Roberts, J. Elizabeth Gostwycke Roberts, Lloyd Roberts, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Duncan Campbell Scott and A. W. Also included are 2 holograph poems by Charles G. D. Roberts's father George Goodridge Roberts, Sir Charles's notebook and Edith Roberts's family scrapbook.
The notebook contains drafts of numerous poems, often with the place and date of composition noted. Scrapbook materials include a holograph poem by Bliss Carman; newspaper or magazine clippings of poems by Bliss Carman, Charles G. D. Roberts and other writers; newspaper clippings of articles about local events and family activities; photographs; original letters to May Roberts from her children and original letters to Edith Roberts from her parents and siblings.
Title based on contents of the series
File arrangement is alphabetical by author's surname
Several royalty statements and agreements between Charles G. D. Roberts and various publishers and Sir Charles's literary notebook (1925-1942) are located in MG L5 Lloyd Roberts fonds
Typescript or holograph poems by Charles G. D. Roberts are also located in MG L27a Gwendolyn Merrin Massey collection, MG L27b Margaret Creswick Newman collection, and MG L27c Lady Joan Roberts collection
Photocopies of Sir Charles's poems are located in MG L24 The Collected Poems of Sir Charles G. D. Roberts fonds
5 holograph or typescript poems by Charles G. D. Roberts and an offprint of his "Canada" (1885) are located in MG L32 Isabel St. John Bliss collection
Files:
BOX NO. 3
1. Untitled / [by] W. B. C. [Bliss Carman], March 1886
2. The twelfth night star / [by] Bliss Carman, 1908
3. In exile / [by] Bliss Carman, [18?]
4. The House of Idiedaily / [by] Bliss Carman, [19?]
5. Apollo / [by] H. Bernard Carpenter, [18?]
6. To Sir Charles G. D. Roberts / [by] G. Lionel Cobham, 25 March 1936
7. The city of Fredericton / [by] Charles G. D. Roberts, [19?]
8. The kill / [by] Charles G. D. Roberts, [19?]
9. The silver frost / by Charles G. D. Roberts, 1904
10. The kittens of the lynx / by Charles G. D. Roberts, 1904
11. On the road / [by] Charles G. D. Roberts, January 1915
12. Tabitha Blue the indiscretions of a Persian cat / [by] Charles G. D. Roberts, 27 March 1932
13. Some reminiscences of Bliss Carman in New York / [by] Charles G. D. Roberts, 8 November 1940
14. To Emma and Thy way, not mine / [by] George Goodridge Roberts,
6 October 1859
Note: 2 poems written on one
sheet of paper
15. Kathaleena / [by] J. Elizabeth Gostwycke Roberts, [18?]
16. The fortress / [by] Lloyd Roberts, 15 September 1915
17. Excerpt from "The Fireflies" / [by?] Theodore Roberts, [18?]
18. Metrical compositions / [by] Theodore Goodridge Roberts, [18?]
19. More Beef! / by Theodore Goodridge Roberts, [19?]
20. Yeoman heart / by Theodore Goodridge Roberts, 12-13 November 1939
21. Untitled / [by] Duncan Campbell Scott, [18?]
22. The Knight / [by] A. W., [19?]
Time / [by] A. W., [19?]
Beggar in Rags / [by] A. W., [19?]
Evadne / [by] A. W., [19?]
Note: File contains 4 short poems
23. Notebook of Charles G. D. Roberts, 1902-1942
24. Scrapbook compiled by Edith Roberts,
Note: Includes 4 photographs
: b&w; 25.5 x 16.7 cm or smaller.
a) Charles G. D. Roberts and Edith Roberts
on the Thames, September 1921
b) Patricia Roberts as a child, [19?]
c) Linden Hall (Fredericton), [18?]
d) George Goodridge Roberts and 2 companions
in a canoe, [18?]
25. Correspondence to Mary (May) Roberts from Edith Roberts's scrapbook, 1894-1927
26. Correspondence to Edith Roberts from Edith Roberts's scrapbook, 1899-1930
27. Material (loose) from Edith Roberts's scrapbook
Note: Includes a printed extract from
a sermon preached by the Rev. G. G. Roberts...Jan. 31, 1886, in reference
to the death of E. M. S. Fenety, M.A. as well as confirmation certificates
for Athelstan, Edith and Douglas Roberts
28. Newspaper clippings, 1864
29. Newspaper clippings about Charles G. D. Roberts and other members of the Roberts family, 1918-1943
30. Biographical information about G. E. Theodore Goodridge Roberts
31. Kingscroft clothesline [graphic material] / drawn by A. L. Prat. - 11 February 1891. - 1 watercolour; 20.5 x 15 cm. - from the library window at Kingscroft [Windsor, N.S.]
32. The Chantirleer / published by the students of the Fredericton High School, Dec.-Jan. 1922- 1923
33. Miscellaneous material
Note: Includes Christmas cards, invitations,
programmes, and pamphlets, as well as a copy of "The Voice of the People",
a reprint of the statement to the press issued by the Rt. Hon. Mackenzie
King on the night of the general elections, October 14th, 1935
34. Jammie Tupper [graphic material] : head and shoulders portrait. - 24 September 1858. - 2 plate glass negatives : b&w; 6.3 x 5 cm. - emulsion peeling on both negatives