Series 3 comprises galley proofs, manuscripts, typescripts, working notes and correspondence related to Pacey's major publications. Files are arranged alphabetically by the title of the publication.

Included in the series is the 1948 manuscript of an unpublished novel written by Dr. Pacey (Case 21 File 2).

Galley proofs for the children's book The Cat, the Cow, and the Kangaroo: The Collected Children's Verse of Desmond Pacey, published in 1967, is housed in Case 15 File 1. Several files in the series contain materials related to Dr. Pacey's work on Frederick Philip Grove. Case 15 File 2 contains working notes and manuscripts and typescripts of introductory material for The Collected Letters of Frederick Philip Grove, which was published in 1975. The typescript of the book is located in Case 17 Files 1-2 and Case 18 Files 1-3. Typescripts of Tales from the Margin: the Selected Short Stories of Frederick Philip Grove are located in Case 20 Files 1-2.

Typescript and manuscript versions of Creative Writing in Canada are located in Case 15 Files 3-4. Case 19 files 1-6 contain notes and memoranda, manuscript and typescript chapters and correspondence related to the Literary History of Canada, including a manuscript of the introduction with comments by Irving Layton (Case 19 File 6). Materials related to Ten Canadian Poets are housed in Case 21 File 1.

Also contained in this series are typescript and manuscript versions of Ethel Wilson (Case 16 Files 1-2) and a manuscript of the Canada section which Pacey wrote for The Literature of the Commonwealth (Case 18 File 4).

File titles are based on the file contents.

Case 15   Publications - Books A-C

File 1    The Cat, the Cow, and the Kangaroo (galley proofs). --
          [n.d.].

File 2    The Collected Letters of Frederick Philip Grove. -- 
          [1973?]

          - working notes, MSS. 32 p.; MSS. and Tps. of
          introduction 18p.

File 3    Creative Writing in Canada. -- 1951. -- Tps. 251 p.

File 4    Creative Writing in Canada. -- [1951?]. 

          - Chapter 1 - 9 p.; Chapter 2 - 36 p.; Chapter 3 - 63 p.;
          Chapter 4 - 42 p.; Chapter 5 - 10 p.; 54 p. (pp. 1-29
          discarded by mistake - Pacey); Chapter 7 - 51 p.; Chapter
          8 - 17 p.


Case 16   Publications - Books - E

File 1    Mss. of Ethel Wilson. -- [n.d.]. -- MSS. 220 p.

File 2    Tps. with corrections of Ethel Wilson. -- [n.d.]


Case 17   Publications - Books - L

File 1    The Letters of Frederick Philip Grove. -- 1975. -- Tps.
          205 p.

File 2    The Letters of Frederick Philip Grove. -- 1975. -- Tps.
          pp. 204-775.


Case 18   Publications - Books - L

File 1    The Letters of Frederick Philip Grove. -- 1975. -- Tps.
          pp. 775-1027.

File 2    The Letters of Frederick Philip Grove. -- 1975. -- Tps.
          1026-1425.
File 3    The Letters of Frederick Philip Grove. -- 1975. -- Tps.
          pp. 1428-1523, Index (53 leaves).

File 4    The Literature of the Commonwealth, "Canada section." --
          [n.d.]. 

          Chapter 1 - missing
          Chapter 2 - Literary Beginnings in the Maritimes.  MSS.
          19 p.
          Chapter 3 - The Early Literature of Lower and Upper
          Canada.  MSS. 22 p.
          Chapter 4 - Canadian Poetry, 1867-1920.  MSS. 41 p.
          Chapter 5 - Canadian Prose, 1867-1920.  MSS. 1-18, 20-48
          p.
          Chapter 6 - Canadian Prose Since 1920.  MSS 56 p.
          Chapter 7 - Canadian Fiction Since 1920. MSS. 32 p.
          Chapter 8 - Drama and Miscellaneous Prose.  MSS. 11p.
          Tps. 8 p.


Case 19   Publications - Books - L

File 1    Literary History of Canada, notes and memoranda.  --
          1957-1958.

File 2    Literary History of Canada, "The Course of Canadian
          Criticism, 1920-1974."  (chapter). -- 1974.  -- Tps. 25
          p.; MSS. & Tps. 20 p.

File 3    Literary History of Canada, correspondence 1957-1961. --
          1957-1961.

File 4    Literary History of Canada, correspondence 1962-1963. --
          1962-1963.

File 5    Literary History of Canada, correspondence 1964-1965. --
          1964-1965.

File 6    Mss. of Introduction to Literary History of Canada with
          comments by Irving Layton. -- [n.d.]. -- Part III - the
          Contemporary Period, 1920-1960, MSS. 38 p.


Case 20   Publications - Books M-T

File 1    Tales from the Margin: the selected short stories of
          Frederick Philip Grove. -- [n.d.]. -- Tps. pp. 1-213.

File 2    Tales from the Margin: the selected short stories of
          Frederick Philip Grove. -- [n.d.]. -- Tps. pp. 214-404.


Case 21   Publications - Books T-Z

File 1    Ten Canadian Poets. -- [n.d.]. 

File 2    Mss. of unpublished novel.  -- 1948.  -- MSS. 283 p.,
          [2].

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