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A Bibliography of

robertson davies Robertson Davies (1913-1995), one of Canada’s most distinguished authors of the twentieth century, was known for his work as a novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. This descriptive bibliography is dedicated to his writing career, covering all publications from his first venture into print at the age of nine to works published posthumously to 2011. Entries include each of Davies’s signed publications and those pseudonymous or anonymous writings he acknowledged having written. Included are his plays, novels, journalism, academic writing, translations, interviews, speeches, lectures, films, audio recordings, and multimedia editions. Also listed is a generous sampling of unsigned articles and editorials. Using Davies’s archives and the archives of other authors, organizations, and publishers, Carl Spadoni and Judith Skelton Grant present A Bibliography of Robertson Davies to serve the research demands of Canadian literature and book history scholars. carl spadoni is the former director of the William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections at the McMaster University Library. judith skelton grant is the biographer of Robertson Davies and the editor of Davies’s selected letters.

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A Bibliography of

robertson davies

Carl Spadoni and Judith Skelton Grant

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Spadoni, Carl, compiler  A bibliography of Robertson Davies / [compiled by]   Carl Spadoni and Judith Skelton Grant. Includes bibliographical references and index.  ISBN 978-0-8020-3938-5 (bound) 1. Davies, Robertson, 1913–1995 – Bibliography.    I. Grant, Judith Skelton, 1941–, compiler  II. Title.    III. Title: Robertson Davies. Z8218.5.S63 2014   016.813′54   C2014-902147-X

University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.

University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for its publishing activities.

Contents

Acknowledgments

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Introduction: Scope and Arrangement of the Bibliography; Descriptive Elements; Sources Consulted; Index

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Location Symbols

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Chronology

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Illustrations

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A Section: Separate Publications   A1   A2   A3   A4   A5   A6   A7   A8   A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 A14 A15 A16 A17 A18 A19 A20 A21 A22 A23 A24 A25

Shakespeare’s Boy Actors. 1939 Shakespeare for Young Players: A Junior Course. 1942 How Stupid Is Canada? [1946] The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks. 1947 Overlaid: A Comedy. 1948 Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays. 1949 Fortune, My Foe. 1949 The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks. 1949 At My Heart’s Core. 1950 Tempest-Tost. 1951 A Masque of Aesop. 1952 Leaven of Malice. 1954 A Jig for the Gypsy. [1955] A Mixture of Frailties. 1958 Battle Cry for Book Lovers. 1960 A Voice from the Attic. 1960 Literature and Medicine. 1962 A Masque of Mr Punch. 1963 In Memoriam: Lionel Vincent Massey 1916–1965. 1965 [Gaudy Night broadside. 1965] Massey College Calendar 1966–1967. 1966 [Gaudy Night broadside. 1966] At My Heart’s Core & Overlaid. 1966 Massey College Calendar 1967–1968. 1967 Marchbanks’ Almanack. 1967

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A26 [Gaudy Night broadside. 1967] A27 Massey College Head Remembers Vincent Massey. 1968 A28 In Memoriam: The Right Honourable Vincent Massey 1887–1967. [1968] A29 The Voice of the People. 1968 A30 Four Favourite Plays. 1968 A31 [Gaudy Night broadside. 1968] A32 [Gaudy Night broadside. 1969] A33 Stephen Leacock. 1970 A34 [Citation of Dora Mavor Moore for Honorary Degree]. 1970 A35 Feast of Stephen. 1970 A36 The Other Leacock [program poster]. 1970 A37 The McFiggin Fragment. 1970 A38 Fifth Business. 1970 A39 [Gaudy Night broadside. 1970] A40 The Heart of a Merry Christmas. 1970 A41 What Do You See in the Mirror? 1970 A42 [Gaudy Night broadside. 1971] A43 Hunting Stuart & Other Plays. 1972 A44 The Manticore. 1972 A44α An Evening with Ben Jonson [program poster. 1972] A45 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1972 A46 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1973 A47 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1974 A48 Question Time. 1975 A49 World of Wonders. 1975 A50 [Gaudy Night broadside. 1975] A51 [Gaudy Night broadside. 1976] A52 One Half of Robertson Davies: Provocative Pronouncements on a Wide Range of Topics. 1977 A53 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1977 A54 [Gaudy Night broadside. 1978] A55 The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies. 1979 A56 [Gaudy Night broadside. 1979] A57 [Gaudy Night broadside]. 1980 A58 The Well-Tempered Critic. 1981 A59 The Penguin Leacock. 1981 A60 Brothers in the Black Art. 1981 A61 The Rebel Angels. 1981 A62 On Being a Professional. 1981 A63 High Spirits. 1982 A64 Thirty Years at Stratford. [1983] A65 The Mirror of Nature. 1983 A66 The Deptford Trilogy. 1983 A67 Introduction to The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks. 1985 A68 What’s Bred in the Bone. 1985 A69 The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks. 1985 A70 The Salterton Trilogy. 1986 A71 The Lyre of Orpheus. 1988 A72 [Folio Society promotion leaflet. 1990?] A73 Opera and Humour. 1991 A74 Murther & Walking Spirits. 1991 A75 The Cornish Trilogy. [1992] A76 Reading and Writing. 1993

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A77 An Introduction to the Twenty-First Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair. 1993 A78 Jezebel: The Golden Tale of Naboth and His Vineyard, and of King Ahab and His Wicked Queen. 1993 A79 Revelation from a Smoky Fire. [1993] A80 Why I Do Not Intend to Write an Autobiography. 1993 A81 Two Plays: Fortune, My Foe & Eros at Breakfast. 1993 A82 A Return to Rhetoric. 1993 A83 The Cunning Man. 1994 A84 Two Plays: Hunting Stuart & The Voice of the People. 1994 A85 The Dignity of Literature. 1994 A86 A Christmas Carol Re-Harmonized. 1995 A87 A Gathering of Ghost Stories. 1995 A88 Animal U. 1995 A89 The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995. 1996 A90 Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts. 1997 A91 The Golden Ass, a Libretto. 1999 A92 For Your Eye Alone: Letters 1976-1995. 1999 A93 Discoveries: Early Letters 1938-1975. 2002 A94 The Quotable Robertson Davies: The Wit and Wisdom of the Master. 2005 A95 Selected Plays. 2008 A96 Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading. 2008 A97 Selected Works on the Art of Writing. 2008 B Section: Contributions to Books   B1 “Diary of Christmas Excitement” in Souvenir Edition Examiner for the Annual Christmas Party 1945. 1945   B2 “The Theatre: A Dialogue on the State of the Theatre in Canada” in Royal Commission Studies. 1951.   B3 Preface, “The Director,” and “The Players” in Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Shakespeare Festival in Canada 1953. 1953   B4 Statement for playbill A Jig for the Gypsy. 1954   B5 Preface, “Rehearsal—A Study in Rhythm,” “The Taming of the Shrew,” “Measure for Measure,” and “Oedipus Rex” in Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1954. 1954   B6 Introduction to B.K. Sandwell’s The Diversions of Duchesstown and Other Essays. 1955.   B7 Preface, “Julius Caesar,” “King Oedipus,” “Merchant of Venice,” and “A Note on Style in Acting” in Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1955. 1955   B8 “Sherry Trifle” in We Can Cook Too! Recipes Hot Off the Press. 1956   B9 “Stephen Leacock” in Claude T. Bissell, ed., Our Living Tradition: Seven Canadians. 1957 B10 Introduction to Stephen Leacock’s Literary Lapses. [1958] B11 “Shakespeare over the Port” in B.A.W. Jackson’s Stratford Papers on Shakespeare. 1961 B12 “The Theatre” in D.C. Williams’s The Arts as Communication. 1962

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B13 “Changing Fashions in Shakespearean Production” in B.A.W. Jackson’s Stratford Papers on Shakespeare. 1963 B14 Testimonial letter in Lulie Westfeldt’s F. Matthias Alexander: The Man and His Work. 1964 B15 Introduction to Stephen Leacock’s Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy. 1964 B16 “Stephen Leacock” in The Encyclopedia Americana. 1964 B17 “The Implacable Educator” in Great Canadians: A Century of Achievement. 1965 B18 Introduction to Horton Rhys’s A Theatrical Trip for a Wager! Through Canada and the United States. 1966 B19 Foreword to Ronald Borg’s Peterborough: Land of Shining Waters. 1966 B20 “Prologue,” “Ontario Scene,” and “Epilogue” in The Centennial Play. 1967 B21 Program note for The Centennial Play. 1967 B22 Program note for the play Caste. [1967] B23 “Letters: The Unfashionable Canadians” in John D. Harbron’s Century 1867-1967: The Canadian Saga. 1967. B24 “Note on A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream” in Peter Raby’s The Stratford Scene, 1958-1968. 1968 B25 “Some Reminiscences of W.L. Grant” in The W.L. Grant Fellowship in Adult Education. 1969 B26 “Ben Johnson and Alchemy” in B.A.W. Jackson’s Stratford Papers 1968-69. 1972 B27 Foreword to Betty Lee’s Love and Whisky: The Story of the Dominion Drama Festival. 1973 B28 “III Playwrights and Plays” in vol. VI of The Revels History of Drama in English. 1975 B29 Autobiographical essay in World Authors 1950-1970: A Companion Volume to Twentieth Century Authors. 1975 B30 Preface to Abraham Rotstein’s Beyond Industrial Growth. 1976 B31 “Massey College” in William Kilbourn’s The Toronto Book: An Anthology of Writings Past and Present. 1976 B32 Statement in advertisement flyer, Masks of Satan. 1976 B33 Program note for “Pontiac and the Green Man.” 1977 B34 Chapter Three, “Robertson Davies,” in Geraldine Anthony’s Stage Voices: Twelve Canadian Playwrights Talk about Their Lives and Work. 1978 B35 “A Note on ‘Overlaid’” in Transitions I: Short Plays, A Source Book of Canadian Literature. 1978 B36 Tribute in The Pierre Berton Celebration Dinner. 1979 B37 “The Deptford Trilogy in Retrospect” in Studies in Robertson Davies’ Deptford Trilogy. 1980 B38 Introduction to “Hope Deferred” in Anton Wagner’s Canada’s Lost Plays, vol. 3, The Developing Mosaic: English-Canadian Drama to Mid-Century. 1980 B39 Introduction to Arnold Edinborough’s The Festivals of Canada. 1981 B40 “Mixed Grill: Touring Fare in Canada, 1920-1935” in L.W. Conolly’s Theatrical Touring and Founding in North America. 1982 B41 “What the Opera Is About” in Doctor Canon’s Cure, theatre program. 1982

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B42 Foreword to Richard Perkyns’s Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984. 1984 B43 Introduction to John Cowper Powys’s Wolf Solent. 1984 B44 Introduction to Graham McInnes’s The Road to Gundagai. 1985 B45 Foreword to vol. 1 of John Pettigrew and Jamie Portman’s Stratford: The First Thirty Years. 1985 B46 “What Is Canadian about Canadian Literature” in Franz K. Stanzel and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz’s Encounters and Explorations: Canadian Writers and European Critics. 1986 B47 Letter to Nicholas Goldschmidt in The Peeled Eye: An Author in Canada, Guelph Spring Festival program. 1986 B48 “The Novel as Secular Religion” in The Encyclopedia of Religion, vol. 8. 1987. B49 Introduction to Robert Finch’s Sail-Boat and Lake. 1988 B50 “Massey, Vincent” and “Massey, Raymond Hart” in Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly’s The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre. 1989 B51 “The Only Creatures in All of Nature Who Sing Are Birds and Mankind” in The Joy of Singing: 1989 International Choral Festival. 1989 B52 Introduction to Francis Thistleton’s How I Came to Be Governor of the Island of Cacona. 1989 B53 Statement in James P. Carley’s Arthurian Poets: Edward Arlington Robinson. 1990 B54 “A Chat about Literacy” in More Than Words Can Say: Personal Perspectives on Literacy. 1990 B55 “On Macbeth” for the Stratford Festival Theatre program for Macbeth. 1990 B56 “Heartcry of an Over-Solicited Donor” in Margaret Atwood’s Barbed Lyres: Canadian Venomous Verse. 1990 B57 “On the Dangerous Edge” in Clifton Fadiman’s Living Philosophies: The Reflections of Some Eminent Men and Women of Our Time. 1990 B58 Chapter 4, “The Nineteenth-Century Repertoire” in Ann Saddlemyer’s Early Stages: Theatre in Ontario 1800-1914. 1990 B59 Untitled tribute in Christopher Bigsby’s Arthur Miller and Company. 1990 B60 Introduction to Dorothy Sennett’s Vital Signs: International Stories on Aging. 1991 B61 “Reading and Writing” in The Tanner Lectures on Human Values. 1992 B62 “Reflections from the Golden Age” in The Greek Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy: The Fifth Century B.C. 1992 B63 “A Birthday Brindisi” in Red Jade Cups: John Espey at Eighty. 1993 B64 “The Value of a Coherent Notion of Culture” in An Emerging North American Culture. [1993] B65 “A Try for Greatness” in Clare Boylan’s The Agony and the Ego: The Art and Strategy of Fiction Writing Explored. 1993 B66 Introduction to Anthony Trollope’s He Knew He Was Right. 1994 B67 “Tanya Moiseiwitsch: An Appreciation” in T.J. Edelstein’s The Stage Is All the World: The Theatrical Designs of Tanya Moiseiwitsch. 1994

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B68 Tribute in A Night in Old Vienna: A Tribute to Nicholas Goldschmidt. 1994 B69 “Getting There” in Constance Rooke’s Writing Away: The PEN Canada Travel Anthology. 1994 B70 “Leacock, Stephen (1869-1944)” in Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly’s Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. 1994 B71 Introduction to Marie Elena Korey’s Elegant Editions: Aspects of Victorian Book Design. 1995 B72 Untitled tribute to Robert Christie in Five Fond Tributes to Robert Christie. 1995. B73 Introduction to Mabel Smith, Dick Beck, and Beth McMaster’s Peterborough Theatre Guild: The First Thirty Years. 1995 B74 Afterword to Mavis Gallant’s Across the Bridge. 1996 B75 Foreword to Jerry Sontag’s Curiosity Recaptured: Exploring Ways We Think and Move. 1996 B76 Libretto to The Golden Ass: A Two Act Opera. 1999 B77 “Irving, Sir Henry” in H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison’s Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 29. 2004 B78 “Summers, (Augustus) Montague” in H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison’s Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 53. 2004

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C Section: Contributions to Periodicals (Newspapers, Journals, Magazines, and Annuals)

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D Section: Reports of Speeches, Lectures, and Public Presentations

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E Section: Speeches and Lectures Given

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F Section: Interviews

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G Section: Unsigned Articles and Editorials

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H Section: Translations (organized under each language)

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I Section: Films, Recordings by Davies, Audio Books, and Braille

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J Section: Contributions in Articles and Books by Others

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Index

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Acknowledgments

In the compilation of this descriptive bibliography of Robertson Davies, we are indebted to many individuals and institutions for assistance and encouragement. Funding, particularly in the first five years of this bibliographical work, was obtained from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and from the Bibliographical Society of America. McMaster University Library also provided a research leave of six months to Carl Spadoni in September 2003. Our funding has allowed us to make research trips to various libraries and archives. SSHRC funding also enabled us to hire Sheila Turcon as a research assistant. She verified many citations in sections C to F and J, and drafted many entries concerning Davies’s columns in C. We are grateful to Sheila for her diligence and meticulous work. We express our thanks to the following individuals who have provided access to various collections or have given us information about the publishing history of Davies’s works: Stephanie Dal Porto of the Arion Press; Joan Baillie, Canadian Opera Company Archives; staff at Kingston Collegiate Institute; Patti Harper, Carleton University Archives; Renu Barrett, McMaster University Library; Sandra Alston and Anne Dondertman, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto; Garron Wells, University of Toronto Archives; Ryan Carpenter and Suzanne Dubeau, York University Archives and Special Collections; Lyndsay Dobson for information on the Poole Hall Press imprints (A40b and A82); Jane Edmonds, Stratford Festival Archives; Ellie Ferguson, Boydell & Brewer Ltd., for Arthurian Poets: Edwin Arlington Robinson (B53); Anne Goddard and Catherine Hobbs of Library and Archives Canada; Dr. Kathryn Harvey (now Head of Archival and Special Collections, University of Guelph), Dalhousie University Archives; Amy Gillingham, Archival and Special Collections, McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph; Douglas M. Gibson of McClelland & Stewart; Richard Dionne, Fitzhenry and Whiteside; Marie Korey and P.J. Mac-

Dougall at the Massey College Library, University of Toronto; Henri Pilon at the Archives of Trinity College, University of Toronto; Dr. Ruth Panofsky for records of the Canadian branch of Oxford University Press (A Masque of Mr Punch, A18); Dr. James Channing Shaw for The Quotable Robertson Davies (A94); Dr. Jamie Syer for Revelation from a Smoky Fire (A79); Michael Bott, Reading University Library, for the records of Secker and Warburg and Chatto and Windus; Margaret Rich and AnnaLee Pauls, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library; Deborah Whiteman, Archives and Special Collections, University Library, Santa Clara University; Linda Quirk, Assistant Special Collections Librarian, University of Alberta Libraries; the staff of the Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the archives of J.M. Dent & Sons (Shakespeare’s Boy Actors, A1); the staff and resources of the Toronto Reference Library and of many local branches of the Toronto Public Library system; Nicky Drumbolis and John De Jesus for imprints of the Coach House Printing Company; Peter Greig for information about The McFiggin Fragment (A37); Warren D. Bingham of the Stinehour Press; Barbara Teatero and Vivien Taylor, W.D. Jordan Library Special Collections & Music Library, Queen’s University; Anton Wagner for Canada’s Lost Plays (B38); George Walker for On Being A Professional (A62); Marian Spence, Archivist at Upper Canada College; the Trent University Library and Archives; the main branch of the Peterborough Public Library; Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, who managed Davies’s literary files and responded to many questions; John Ryrie for his pioneering work; Heather and Robin Jackson, Jay Macpherson, and Sue Howson (all friends and professors at the University of Toronto) who checked items in UK libraries and newspapers; the Archives of Ontario; Joan Bigwood, Maya Sillaste, librarians in the Petro Jacyk Central and East European Resource Centre in the Robarts Library of the University of Toronto, all of whom supplied assistance

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with “H Section: Translations”; the Microtext section of the Robarts Library of the University of Toronto; and Dr. Richard Davis for his hospitality, friendship, and access to his excellent collection of Davies’s works and associated memorabilia. Brenda Davies and Jennifer Surridge, her daughter, represent the Robertson Davies estate (Pendragon Ink). They have given us access to Davies’s archives at Library and Archives Canada and to material and books in their own possession. Jennifer Surridge has cheerfully responded to many questions and supplied odd bits of useful information. We hope that this bibliography lives up to their expectations and that it provides accurate description and clear, historical information regarding Davies’s multi-faceted publishing career.

Preparation of this bibliography has involved much fruitful collaborative effort. Carl Spadoni prepared the A, B, and I Sections, drafted the prefatory material, compiled the index, and read and commented on Judith Skelton Grant’s sections. Grant read, commented on, and revised Spadoni’s contributions, and prepared Sections C-H and J and their headnotes. Once the manuscript was in the hands of the University of Toronto Press, it was fortunate to receive skilled attention from several individuals – our editor Frances Mundy, copy-editor Kel Pero, book designer Val Cooke, and typesetter Frank Coletta. We’re grateful to them for the way they transformed our draft into a more accurate, attractive book.

Introduction

Scope and Arrangement of the Bibliography This descriptive bibliography attempts to record the corpus of Robertson Davies’s published work from his first known venture into print (C23.1), a report written at the age of nine for his father’s newspaper the Renfrew Mercury, until the cut-off date of 2011 (with the addition of one item published in spring 2014 – J14). All his signed publications, and those that he admitted to having written either pseudonymously or anonymously, are included in the bibliography: his revised BLitt thesis on the boy actors who performed women’s roles in Shakespeare’s plays in Shakespeare’s day and for many years thereafter (A1); his introductory text on performing Shakespeare for high school students (A2); his plays and celebrated novels; his anthologies of essays and criticism; his many contributions to books, such as those about the Stratford Festival; his early writings in school publications; his book columns and arts reviews in the Peterborough Examiner, Saturday Night, and the Toronto Daily Star; his reflections on the writer’s craft, theatre, opera, and Jungian psychology; his learned disquisitions, lectures, and forays into academic subjects; his cantankerous and humorous observations about life’s ironies under the pen name of Samuel Marchbanks; editions by Davies of the works of Stephen Leacock; the broadsides, arranged by Davies and printed at the Massey College Press, announcing the college’s annual Christmas Gaudy Nights where Davies read his ghost stories; other ephemeral publications written by Davies, also printed at the Massey College Press, with the exception of mundane announcements and minutiae (for example, place cards for high tables, book plates, orders of Sunday services, concert and dinner invitations, and the like);1 his works issued by private presses; reports of interviews which contain quotations uttered by Davies; the translations of his books into many languages; films, public recordings, talking books and works in Braille; published works by

other authors which contain notes, letters, and other documents written by Davies; and the posthumous publication of his essays and letters gathered together after his death on 2 December 1995 by Pendragon Ink, the official name adopted by the Davies estate, and by Davies’s biographer Judith Skelton Grant. At this time, seven of Davies’s novels are also available in digital form. We mention them here. However, since the texts infringe copyright, we have deliberately not specified the URL or identified the website to gain access to these digital texts. Our basic criterion with respect to publication is the dissemination of a text written by Davies, usually printed in some format and issued in multiple copies to the public even when the target group of individuals may have been restricted or quite small. Citations of websites are also included by way of reference. Davies’s play scripts, which circulated to actors in a cast, directors, and theatre production staff, are regarded as pre-publication pieces of writing; they are excluded from the bibliography for that reason. The scope of coverage and the complexity of the bibliography are reflected in the table of contents. Although the primary aim of the bibliography is to capture and to describe Davies’s canon and career as a writer, it should be noted that the bibliography is limited to known published work, and does not include unpublished material or archival documents. The latter are often cited and quoted, particularly those found in Davies’s personal archives at Library and Archives Canada, but they are not given numbers or separate discussion. Also excluded is secondary literature, that is to say, commentaries by critics and others on Davies’s work, life, and times. The only exceptions to the citation of secondary literature occur when a publication reports on and quotes from a lecture given by Davies (section D), includes excerpts from an interview with him (section F), or contains something that he wrote or said (section J). In his prime, Davies wrote 12,000 words a week.

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While doing so, he worked in different, and sometimes simultaneous, roles as a journalist and newspaper editor, critic, playwright, novelist, professor, university administrator, and grand old man of letters. Davies was also a writer of diaries, although the extent and depth of that genre of writing have yet to be made public. An opponent of the minimalist approach to writing, he was a disciplined and seasoned professional – a lover of language and books, a man of surprising and divergent views, wise and tolerant but at times old-fashioned, and unswayed by popular opinion. In his use of literary themes and concepts, he was bold, imaginative, and visionary. As a correspondent, he took pleasure and much thought in writing letters to family and friends, such as Horace Davenport and Gordon Roper. But he also responded to his public who repeatedly approached him with questions and requests for various kinds of assistance. This bibliography attempts to be comprehensive and accurate. In no way, however, does it pretend to being definitive or exhaustive. Claims for bibliographical breadth and completeness are foolhardy given Davies’s prolific habits. “A complete and up-todate bibliography of my work is rather a long document,” he once told a curious reader, “and I have not that information collected.”2 Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, in fact tried to keep abreast of his many publications, but even for a conscientious secretary like Whalon, the task was almost overwhelming. Journals, newspapers, and publishers did not always comply with her requests for copies of publications in which Davies’s writing appeared. The problem for the bibliographer is exacerbated by the fact that Davies wrote continuously over many years, published widely in many places, and had his work reprinted frequently. His columns, such as “A Writer’s Diary” which he wrote for the Toronto Daily Star (published every Saturday from 3 January 1959 until 9 June 1962), were syndicated in a number of Canadian and American newspapers; for syndicated pieces of this nature, we have decided, primarily because art is long and life is brief, only to record the original publication and to note in a general way where syndication occurred elsewhere. In addition to the pseudonym Samuel Marchbanks, Davies employed several other noms de plume (Cymro, Dolly Gray, and Amyas Pilgarlic, for example). When Davies has revealed his use of these pseudonymous or unsigned publications, we have duly recorded them with appropriate justification of authorship. Unsigned articles constitute a nebulous area of Davies’s authorship. These appeared for several months in the Kingston Whig-Standard, for two years in Saturday

Night, and for twenty more in the Peterborough Examiner. At the planning stage of this bibliography, we imagined that we could attribute probable authorship to such unsigned articles on the basis of style, theme, content, and expected editorial duties. Putative authorship of this nature is fraught with difficulty and doubt, however, especially where duties are shared and authorship is anonymous. It requires the bibliographer to read a newspaper systematically and to assess authorship in each individual case, providing justification for probable authorship. Apart from the time-consuming labour of reading and assessing articles, the sheer potential number of Davies’s unsigned articles is staggering — literally thousands of entries. Moreover, the mass of unsigned items would then have distorted the known and public side of Davies’s authorship. In view of these problems, our decision, reluctantly but realistically, has been to provide a sampling of unsigned items in section G. This bibliography not only attempts to record all of Davies’s known publications, but it does so physically and intellectually by following the protocols of descriptive bibliography. This bibliographical approach makes certain assumptions. To begin with, Davies’s publications are grouped together into various traditional categories, then organized chronologically within each category — his separate publications (section A), his contributions to books and lesser separate publications (section B), his contributions to periodicals (section C), and so on. The extent of description varies according to the significance or nature of the publication. A entries, for example, are described in depth, and are accompanied by publishing history whenever available. We regard the publishing history of Davies’s distinct publications as the narrative thread of his career as a literary author of the first rank. To qualify for the A section, a publication must have appeared separately and have been distributed to the public; in a few instances, an imprint distributed to a small audience (primarily broadsides) has been included. Generally speaking, an offprint of a journal publication is not considered to constitute an A entry unless it has been repaginated, has a title page, and has been issued as a pamphlet. Some bibliographers prefer to categorize separate publications either by genre or major publications versus lesser-known miscellaneous works — that is to say, the A section is restricted to separate publications of a particular kind, and the remaining publications are then divided into other categories. Our approach in this bibliography is to group together into the A section all of Davies’s separate editions and issues chronologically regardless of genre, physi-



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cal nature, importance, or critical reception. We have provided greater description and publishing history for Davies’s more significant works in the A section, primarily his novels and plays. B entries concern Davies’s contributions to books. They are described in a manner similar to the A entries, but without a description of the book’s complete contents; our rule of thumb is to describe only what Davies wrote and published. Ephemeral items, such as playbills, and programs containing a note by Davies, fall into this category, although serialized ephemera are regarded as C entries. For C entries, description is limited to the title of the article, name of the periodical (a journal, newspaper, annual, or serial), volume and issue number, date, and pagination; in certain cases, an annotation is provided in C entries to clarify their content. Other sections of the bibliography are intended to reflect the broad range of Davies’s talents as a writer, including reports of his speeches, lectures, and public presentations, and lists of his lectures and speeches (sections D and E) and his many interviews (section F). With the exception of a few translations not available in North American locations (section H, organized under each language) and audio books and items in Braille (section I), all publications have been examined physically. Descriptive Elements Of necessity, a descriptive bibliography employs bibliographical terms and other words and phrases from the book arts. These terms, words and phrases (for example, edition, issue, state, quasi-facsimile transcription, etc.) have a precise meaning, and we have tried to be clear and consistent in our use of them. An edition of a book is all copies printed at one or later times from the same setting of type. A printing is also called an impression. An edition can have different issues. An issue is part of an edition offered for sale at one time or as a consciously planned unit. In this bibliography, one can often find issues of many of Davies’s books in which a publisher in one country (for example, an American or English publisher) uses a setting of type from a publisher from another country (for example, a Canadian publisher). For A Mixture of Frailties (A14), which was first published in the United States by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1958, there are five separate issues, all of which derive from the American edition. In lieu of a glossary of other terms (like “rule” and “short rule”), we refer the reader to Roy Stokes’s A Bibliographical Companion (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1989), John Carter and Nicolas Barker’s

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ABC for Book Collectors, 8th ed. with corrections (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: British Library, 2006), and Geoffrey Ashall Glaister’s Encyclopedia of the Book, 2nd ed. (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2001). Each entry in the bibliography is numbered. Minimally, an item number consists of a capital letter followed by a number. A10, for example, refers to Tempest-Tost, Davies’s tenth separate publication. In the A and B sections, in order to individuate and differentiate editions and issues, item numbers are often more complex, and may include a lower-case letter and a decimal number. A10a.1, for example, is the English issue of Tempest-Tost, published by Chatto and Windus in 1952, which uses sheets from the first Canadian edition (A10a) published the previous year by Clarke Irwin. Brief descriptions and, usually, a date are provided after the item number in the A and B sections for clarity — for example, A10c.2 is the second Canadian edition, American issue [1990]. Entries in the A and B sections appear in chronological order. Shakespeare’s Boy Actors (A1), first published in 1939, precedes Shakespeare for Young Players (A2), first published in 1942. When there are multiple editions of a book, the first published edition is described before later editions. In the case of simultaneous publication of two or more editions, the edition from the primary publisher who worked with Davies will appear first. Issues that derive from an edition are described under that edition in chronological order. Numbering in sections C to G and J includes the year of publication accompanied by a decimal number. For example, C28.3 means that the item in question is the third article by Davies published in 1928 — in this case, a poem entitled “The Hero Worshipper,” published in Kingston Collegiate Institute’s school magazine, the Times, in May 1928. Sections H and I use basic numbering, H or I and a number. In addition to the item number, descriptions in section A are comprised of the following fields of information: quasi-facsimile transcription of the title page; collation; pagination; foliation; measurement of the trimmed leaf in millimetres (height × width); contents; text; binding and dust jacket; notes; and copies examined. In certain cases, when issues are being described and the issue is almost the same as the edition from which it is derived, some fields of information have been eliminated or information related to these fields has been compressed. Title-page transcription, collation, pagination, foliation, and measurement conform to the bibliographical principles enunciated by Fredson Bowers and Philip Gaskell. The kind of typeface found on

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the title page is specified only if it is distinctive or unusual. Our sources for the style of typefaces are: J. Lieberman’s Type and Typefaces: A Treasury of Typography Book, 2nd ed. (New Rochelle, NY: The Myriade Press, 1978); and W. Pincus Jaspert, W. Turner Berry, and A.F. Johnson, The Encyclopaedia of Type Faces, 4th ed. (Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, 1983). The transcription of a title page may include within each line the use of large and small capitals, differentiation of type sizes, rules of various kinds, and ornaments. The CONTENTS field records each separate section or part of a book, including the half-title page, the copyright page, the table of contents, the text, advertisements, illustrations (especially when they are part of the text), and all blank leaves. The TEXT field is similar to the table of contents of a book, and refers specifically to Davies’s text. For example, if the book in question is a collection of his essays, then each essay will be listed. All BINDING variants AND DUST JACKETs are described. With respect to the type of binding and its colour, we have tried to keep our descriptions as simple as possible. We have not employed the ISCC-NBS Color-Name Charts Illustrated with Centroid Colors (which are not generally available); nor have we used G. Thomas Tanselle’s descriptions of binding patterns, since they are more appropriate to the decorative and complex patterns of nineteenth-century cloth bindings. The NOTES concern publishing history, and are based largely on primary sources – they relate to the genesis and development of each book, Davies’s interaction with his publishers, the publication of the book (the contract, cost, production, distribution, the book’s price, and sales), promotion, film and subsidiary rights, and reprintings. The extent of the notes varies considerably. When few or practically no notes are provided, the reader can assume that we have been unable to locate relevant information from primary sources. We have tried to examine multiple copies of the “ideal” book (the first printing as issued by the publisher); we also cite any variants and later printings. For copies at Canadian libraries, the location symbols have been taken primarily from Symbols and Inter­ library Loan Policies in Canada / Sigles et politiques de prêt entre bibliothèques au Canada (on CD at Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1997; also at http:// www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/illcandir-bin/illsear/ l=0/c=1). To a great extent, citations in the C, D, and F to J sections follow the fifteenth edition of The Chicago Style Manual (2003). Annotations have been provided to the entries in certain cases to provide clarity and to convey the range of subjects Davies tackled.

Sources Consulted This descriptive bibliography of Davies’s publications has been constructed from a wide variety of sources: bibliographies, reference tools, periodical and book collections, archives (fonds and collections), databases, online catalogues, biographies, and other secondary literature. A number of previous bibliographies have sought to record Davies’s publications. They include the following: Gordon Roper, “A Davies Log,” Journal of Canadian Studies 12, no. 1 (February 1977): 4–18; John Ryrie, “Robertson Davies: An Annotated Bibliography” in vol. 3 of Robert Lecker and Jack David, eds., The Annotated Bibliography of Canada’s Major Authors (Downsview, ON: ECW Press, 1981), pp. 57–289; Helen Hoy, Modern English-Canadian Prose: A Guide to Information Sources (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1983), pp. 134–46; Christopher P. Stephens, comp., A Checklist of Robertson Davies (Hastings-onHudson, NY: Ultramarine, 1991); and Allen and Pat Ahearn, Robertson Davies (Dickerson, MD: Author Price Guides, 1999; revised 2004), issued by the bookseller Quill & Brush. All of these bibliographies are checklists; some are annotated. Roper’s log, which is a chronology of Davies’s literary life up to 1976, lists major publications and events; it is supplemented by a list of Davies’s unpublished plays and selected secondary literature (books, articles, and theses). Stephens’s checklist is a pamphlet that records Davies’s books (A1 to A32 in various editions and issues) and books edited by him (B1 to B2); B1, Shakespeare for Young Players: A Junior Course, is wrongly regarded as an edited book. As the series title (Author Price Guides) clearly indicates, the checklist issued by Quill & Brush is intended for collectors of Davies’s books, with emphasis on editions, issues, variants, proof copies, pre-publication copies, and off-prints of journal articles. The checklist by Quill & Brush is largely based on the Davies collection assembled by Dr. Richard C. Davis. A similar article that focuses on Davies’s books from the point of view of the collector is John Conrad, “A Life Deeply Lived: Collecting Robertson Davies,” Firsts, The Book Collector’s Magazine 11, no. 1 (January 2001): 36–49. Although our descriptive bibliography will undoubtedly be used by antiquarian book dealers and book collectors to differentiate editions and issues, we also hope that the bibliography is a work of scholarship that serves the needs of researchers and the interested public. Davies himself was only too aware that as his popularity increased, his books were often collected. With each new novel, his publishers subjected him to a rigorous schedule of book promotion, sometimes



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at bookstores with long line-ups of people wanting individual copies suitably inscribed. These people were not usually collectors but his fans and readers. “Tedious colleagues tell me the only valuable copies of my books are the unsigned ones,” he once quipped. “To which the riposte is: ‘The only really hard-to-find copies of your books are the second editions.’”3 Divided into two parts (part I, Works by Davies; part II, Works on Davies), Ryrie’s “Robertson Davies: An Annotated Bibliography” is an extensive investigation of Davies’s publications prior to 1980–1. Part I consists of A1–A44 — Davies’s books, including manuscripts; and B1–B1469, compiled with Judith Skelton Grant — contributions to periodicals and books, including audio-visual material. Part II is devoted to secondary literature, including interviews with Davies (we interpret as primary literature interviews which record original quotations made by Davies). Although Ryrie’s bibliography was compiled with the assistance of Moira Whalon, it has certain limitations: it was compiled before Davies’s archives and the archives of his publishers were publicly accessible; the annotations are for secondary literature only; it lists no publications prior to 1941 (while writing her biography of Davies, Grant found 250 articles by Davies in the periodical literature prior to 1981 not recorded by Ryrie); articles in series, such as “Cap and Bells,” are referred to and described by Ryrie generically only; and it does not address the problem of Davies’s unsigned publications. In short, Ryrie’s bibliography is a useful checklist, much stronger in secondary literature and criticism than primary literature and limited by scope, date coverage, and circumstance. A major emphasis of our bibliography is the physical examination, verification, and description of Davies’s publications. A fundamental duty in analytical bibliography is to describe editions, issues, variants, and other publications clearly and accurately on empirical evidence. We have examined numerous book collections, including those at the following institutions: Robertson Davies Library, Massey College (otmc), and the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (otutf), University of Toronto; the W.D. Jordan Special Collections, Queen’s University (okq); Archives and Research Collections, McMaster University Library, which holds the house libraries of Clarke Irwin and Macmillan Canada and imprints of McClelland & Stewart (ohm); and the National Library of Canada, now Library and Archives Canada (lac). We have also examined large and impressive book collections in private hands, notably those of Dr. Richard Davis (davis) and Pendragon Ink (pend, housed at Massey College).

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Although we regard analytical bibliography as the foundation of our work, we have attempted to bolster the notes in the A and B sections of the bibliography with appropriate publishing history based on information culled from archives and other primary sources (newspaper reports and recollections of editors and publishers, for example). The chief archives used in the bibliography are the following: Robertson Davies fonds, MG 30 D 362, at lac; the Colbert Agency fonds, lac; the B.A.W. Jackson fonds and the publishers’ archives of Clarke Irwin, Macmillan Canada, McClelland & Stewart, and Key Porter Books at ohm; the archives of the Master of Massey College and of the Massey College Press at otmc; the theatre archives at Archival and Special Collections, McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph (ogu); the fonds of Robert Finch, Dora Mavor Moore, and the University of Toronto Press at the Thomas Fisher Rare Library, University of Toronto (otutf); the J.M. Dent & Sons fonds, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (uncch); Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. fonds, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin (tex); the Secker and Warburg fonds and the Chatto and Windus fonds, Reading University Library (read); William Kilbourn fonds, York University Archives and Special Collections (oty); Office of the President fonds, PRES-107, Carleton College (Carleton University); the fonds of Charles Scribner’s Sons, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library (prince); Davies’s contracts and royalty reports (mid-1980s to 2003) at pend; and the editorial and production files of McClelland & Stewart at the offices of McClelland & Stewart. Index A cumulative index provides access to names (authors, editors, translators, and publishers) and the titles of articles and books. To a limited extent, subject access is also given to Davies’s works of non-fiction. Citations in the index are keyed to item numbers, not pages. In addition to the index, there are see-references in the descriptions at appropriate places to link entries. See the introductory paragraph on p. 453 for further information about the index.

Notes 1 The following two testimonials, written by Davies and printed at the Massey College Press, are excluded from the bibliography on the grounds that they were not

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disseminated: a broadside given to Wilmot Hagarty Broughall (financial advisor to Vincent Massey, Senior Fellow of Massey College, and a director and member of the College’s Quadrangle Fund and the Common Room Club) on 29 November 1968 on the occasion of Broughall’s resignation of his Fellowship (otmc, four copies); and a broadside given to Norbert Iwanski, expert cabinet maker and domestic bursar at Massey College for a time, at the Fellows’ Gaudy Night on 10 April 1992 (copy at davis).

2 Davies to Clive Bygrave, 7 February 1972, file 32, vol. 43, Davies fonds, lac. 3 Valerie Grove, “Son of a Newspaper Magnate, Robertson Davies Once Planned to Become a Comedy Actor,” London Standard, 3 October 1986, p. 43. Interview a few weeks before the Booker Prize competition (nomination of What’s Bred in the Bone).

Location Symbols

acu University of Calgary Library, ab amicus online catalogue at Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, on bellevue Bellevue University Library, Bellevue, ne blackstone Blackstone Audiobooks website bnq Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec bos O’Neill Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, ma bva Vancouver Public Library, bc cnib online catalogue of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind ctstam The Ferguson Library, Stamford Public Library, Stamford, ct davis Dr. Richard Davis, Guelph, on dlc Library of Congress, Washington, dc emory R.W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, ga grant Judith Skelton Grant, Toronto, on greig Peter Greig, Ottawa, on hls Harvard College Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, ma ind Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, in lac Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, on locis Library of Congress Information System louis bibliographic database, American Printing House for the Blind, Inc. Man of Myth Judith Skelton Grant, Robertson Davies: Man of Myth (Toronto: Viking, 1994) mich Michigan University Library, Ann Arbor, mi nsdal Killam Library, Dalhousie University, ns nshdm W.K. Kellogg Health and Science Library, Dalhousie University, Halifax, ns ogu McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph, Guelph, on oh Hamilton Public Library, Hamilton, on ohm McMaster University Library, Hamilton, on okq W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library, Queen’s University Library, Kingston, on okq Archives, Queen’s University, Kingston, on olu D.B. Weldon Library, Western University, London, on omamc Markham Public Libraries (Thornhill Community Centre Branch), Thornhill, on omcn Mississauga Public Library, Central Branch, Mississauga, on oori Orillia Public Library, Orillia, on oregon University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, or ostcb Brock University, St. Catharines, on

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otb Thunder Bay Public Library oter Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, R.W.B. Jackson Library, Toronto, on otmc Robertson Davies Library, Massey College, University of Toronto, on otp Toronto Public Library otrm Royal Ontario Museum, Research Reference Library, Toronto, on otscc Vincent W. Bladen Library, University of Toronto, Scarborough College, on otu Robarts Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, on otut Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto, on otutf Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, on oty York University Library, Toronto, on pend Pendragon Ink (the estate of Robertson Davies), Massey College, University of Toronto, on prince Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, Princeton, nj q&b Allen and Pat Ahearn, Robertson Davies (Dickerson, MD: Author Price Guides, 1999; revised 2004), issued by the bookseller Quill & Brush qmmrb Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill Library, Montréal, pq qmu Bibliothèque d’éducation physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, pq read The Library, The University of Reading, Reading, England rlin bibliographic database of the Research Library Group rnib Royal National Institute for the Blind, National Library Service ryrie John Ryrie, “Robertson Davies: An Annotated Bibliography” in vol. 3 of Robert Lecker and Jack David, eds., The Annotated Bibliography of Canada’s Major Authors (Downsview, ON: ECW Press, 1981) sask University of Saskatchewan Library, Saskatoon, sk strat Stratford Festival Archives, Stratford, on svenska Swedish National Library tpb Talboks och punktskriftsbiblioteket (Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille) tex Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, tx tpb Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille uncch Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, nc wash John M. Olin Library, Washington University, Seattle, wa worldcat bibliographic database at http://www.worldcat.org/

Chronology

1913  Birth of William Robertson Davies, the third son of William Rupert and Florence Davies, on 28 August at Thamesville, on, where Rupert publishes and edits the weekly Thamesville Herald. The family is Presbyterian, an allegiance of considerable importance to Davies. 1919  The Davies family moves to Renfrew, on, where Rupert publishes and edits the weekly Renfrew Mercury. In the fall, at the age of six, Davies attends kindergarten in Renfrew’s Central School. 1921  In September, with several other children, Davies is transferred to the North Ward School in Renfrew. 1923 On 16 February, Davies’s first published article, “Mr. Radley Lectures on Shakespeare” (C23), appears in the Renfrew Mercury. He returns to Renfrew’s Central School in September. 1924  In the summer, the Davies family sails to Europe with owners and editors of Canadian weekly news­ papers and their families, tours Belgium, France, and England with them, and visits family in Great Britain. 1925  In the summer, the Davies family moves to Kingston, on. Rupert acquires ownership of the Daily British Whig, which merges with the King­ston Daily Standard as the Kingston Whig-Standard in 1926. Davies attends Victoria School. 1926–8  Davies attends Kingston Collegiate Institute. 1928–32  Davies attends Upper Canada College in Toronto. He wins the school’s literary competition in 1931 and 1932, takes an active interest in theatre, and is appointed editor of the College Times in 1931–2. 1932  In the summer, Davies travels with his father to Great Britain, seeing performances of plays at Stratford-upon-Avon, the Malvern Festival, and in London.

1932–5  Davies is a student at Queen’s University in Honours English. For the Queen’s University Journal, he writes articles and book review columns. In Kingston, he directs and acts in amateur theatre productions. 1934  In June, Davies travels with his father to Great Britain, visiting Wales and attending theatrical productions at a number of venues. 1935–8  Davies is a student at Balliol College, Oxford and graduates with a BLitt degree after completing a thesis on Shakespeare’s Boy Actors. He is a prominent member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. 1937 On 1 March, after leaving the Presbyterian Church, Davies is confirmed as an Anglican at Christ Church Cathedral by the Bishop of Oxford. 1938  After graduating, Davies pursues a theatrical career, eventually joining the Old Vic Repertory Company in London, England. 1939  Shakespeare’s Boy Actors (A1a), a revision of his BLitt thesis, is published by J.M. Dent & Sons in January. In May and June 1939, he goes back to Canada for a visit and then returns to England where he continues to act and teach with the Old Vic Company. 1940 On 2 February, at Chelsea Old Church, Davies marries Brenda Mathews, a young Australian actress and the Old Vic’s stage manager. On 1 March, the couple sails to Canada on a Canadian Pacific liner. From mid-March until early July, he works periodically for the Kingston Whig-Standard. In July he and Brenda move to Toronto. Beginning on 1 August, he writes a thrice-weekly column (“Cap and Bells”) in the Whig-Standard and the Peterborough Examiner under the pseudonym of Samuel Marchbanks. In November he is hired by B.K. Sandwell as the literary editor of Saturday Night, a post he holds until 28 February 1942. His first daughter, Miranda, is born on 24 December 1940.

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1942 On 1 March, Davies moves to Peterborough as editor of the Peterborough Examiner. His family joins him there in June. His daughter Jennifer is born on 16 October. Shakespeare for Young Players (A2), an introductory text on acting Shakespeare for high school students, is published by Clarke Irwin in late December. 1946  In May, Davies submits Overlaid to the Ottawa Drama League’s Canadian one-act play competition under the pseudonym of Cymro. He wins first prize. 1947  Davies wins the Ottawa Drama League’s prize again, this time for Eros at Breakfast. In May, with his wife, Davies founds the Peterborough Little Theatre. The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (A4a), a selection from his 1945 and 1946 Marchbanks columns, is published by Clarke Irwin in November. His daughter Rosamond is born on 6 April. 1948  In February, the Ottawa Drama League’s production of Eros at Breakfast wins the Fulford Shield at the Eastern Ontario Drama Festival. In May, at the Dominion Drama Festival, Eros at Breakfast wins the Gratien Gélinas prize for best Canadian play. Florence Davies dies in May. Overlaid (A5a) is published by Samuel French (Canada) in late September. 1949  In February, Fortune, My Foe wins the Eastern Ontario Regional Drama Festival. At the Dominion Drama Festival in late April, it is awarded the Sir Barry Jackson Challenge Trophy for best production of a Canadian play. At the Festival Davies is also awarded the Louis Jouvet prize for best direction for The Taming of the Shrew. Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays (A6) is published by Clarke Irwin on 22 April. In September Davies and his wife are in Britain for the Ottawa Drama League’s production of Eros at Breakfast at the Edinburgh Festival. Fortune, My Foe (A7) is published by Clarke Irwin in October. The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (A8), a selection of Marchbanks’s columns written by Davies between January 1947 and May 1949, is published by Clarke Irwin in November. 1950 On 18 September, Davies begins to write TempestTost (A10), the first novel of the comic Salterton trilogy. At My Heart’s Core (A9) is published by Clarke Irwin in November. 1951 On 22 May, Davies finishes writing Tempest-Tost; it (A10a) is published by Clarke Irwin in November. 1952  In March, Davies begins to write Leaven of Malice (A12), the second novel in the comic Salterton trilogy. A Masque of Aesop (A11a), a play written by Da-

vies at the request of Alan Stephen, the Headmaster of Upper Canada College Preparatory School, to celebrate the school’s jubilee year, is published by Clarke Irwin in November. 1953 On 10 January, Davies is once again the literary editor of Saturday Night (until 28 March 1959). On 11 February, Davies is named Peterborough’s “citizen of the year.” In May he is elected to the Board of Governors of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival (a position he holds until 1971). At the Eastern Ontario Drama Festival, Davies’s “King Phoenix” wins the Kingston Cup as the best Canadian play. Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada 1953 (B3) is published by Clarke Irwin in late November. 1954  In the spring, Davies finishes writing Leaven of Malice. In July, he hires Willis Kingsley Wing to act as his professional agent. Leaven of Malice (A12a) is published by Clarke Irwin on 15 September. Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1954 (B5) is published by Clarke Irwin in December. 1955  A Jig for the Gypsy (A13) is published by Clarke Irwin on 15 September. On 18 November, Leaven of Malice wins the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. The première of Davies’s play “Hunting Stuart” takes place at the Crest Theatre in Toronto on 22 November. Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1955 (B7) is published by Clarke Irwin in November. 1956  In January, Davies begins to take lessons in the Alexander Technique in New York from Lulie Westfeldt. In June he begins to write A Mixture of Frailties (A14), the third novel of the Salterton trilogy. 1957  In January, Davies finishes the writing of A Mixture of Frailties. On 17 May, he is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Alberta. 1958  A Mixture of Frailties (A14) is published by Charles Scribner’s Sons on 4 August and by Macmillan of Canada on 22 August. 1959  In January Davies begins to write a syndicated column, “A Writer’s Diary,” for the Toronto Star. In March, he resigns from his book-reviewing duties at Saturday Night. On 18 May, he is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by McMaster University. In July he flies to Ireland and works with Tyrone Guthrie on a dramatization of Leaven of Malice.



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1960 From late October until mid-December, Guthrie’s production of “Love and Libel” (based on Leaven of Malice) is on tour in Toronto, Detroit, Boston, and New York. A Voice from the Attic (A16), a book of Davies’s essays on trends in writing and literature, is published by Alfred A. Knopf on 24 October and by McClelland & Stewart on 15 October. 1961  In January, Davies is a Special Lecturer, Department of English, Trinity College, University of Toronto. In February, he is appointed Master designate of Massey College, University of Toronto. On 6 June, he is awarded the Lorne Pierce Medal by the Royal Society of Canada for his outstanding contribution to Canadian literature. On 1 July, he is appointed to the position of Professor, part-time, in the Department of English, University College, University of Toronto. In the summer Davies and his wife travel to Britain on holiday: summer travels to Britain and the continent become a regular ritual. 1962 On 19 May, Davies is awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by Queen’s University. In June he lectures for the Extension Department at the University of Toronto on plays to be performed that summer at the Stratford Festival; he continues this until 1967. In the fall, he begins regular teaching in the University of Toronto’s School of Graduate Studies. At the end of the year he resigns as editor of the Peterborough Examiner. 1963  In January and February 1963, with his brother Arthur, Davies arranges for the Peterborough Examiner to donate $25,000 to Trent University. He sells his house to T.H.B. Symons, Trent University’s founding President and Vice-Chancellor, and becomes an Honorary Sponsor of the University. On 10 June, Davies and his family move into the Master’s Lodging of Massey College. A Masque of Mr Punch (A18), written by Davies for production and performance at the Upper Canada Preparatory School, is published by Oxford University Press on 31 October. In December, Davies writes a ghost story for Gaudy Night (an evening of entertainment) at Massey College; he does this annually for eighteen years.

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On 14 January, Davies is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law by Bishop’s University. On 11 March, Rupert Davies dies. “The Centennial Spectacle,” a government-sponsored, bilingual pageant written by Davies and others, is cancelled before its performance in August. Marchbanks’ Almanack (A25a), the third collection of columns Davies wrote under the pseudonym of Samuel Marchbanks, is published by McClelland & Stewart in October. He is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. 1968  The Voice of the People (A29), originally published in Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays, is reprinted by The Book Society of Canada in March. Four Favourite Plays (A30) is published by Clarke Irwin in May. Davies visits Australia. In the autumn he begins to write Fifth Business (A38), the first volume of the Deptford trilogy. 1969  In the summer, Davies completes the first draft of Fifth Business. 1970  Stephen Leacock (A33a), Davies’s critical study of the Canadian humorist, is published by McClelland & Stewart in March. When Davies complains about typographical errors and cavalier editing, the book (A33b) is reset, restoring his original text. Feast of Stephen (A35a), an anthology of Leacock’s sketches and essays selected by Davies, is published by McClelland & Stewart in September. The McFiggin Fragment (A37), a Leacockian spoof written by Davies, is printed at the Massey College Press. Fifth Business is published by Macmillan of Canada on 30 October and by the Viking Press in the United States on 23 November. 1971 On 17 March, Davies declines an honorary degree from Muhlenberg College, Allentown, pa on the grounds of ill health and commitments. In the summer, he begins to write The Manticore (A44), the second book of the Deptford trilogy. On 23 October, he is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Windsor.

1966  At My Heart’s Core & Overlaid (A23a) is published by Clarke Irwin in December.

1972  In February, Davies finishes writing The Manticore. On 25 May, Davies is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Manitoba. Hunting Stuart & Other Plays (A43) is published by New Press on 5 October. The Manticore is published by Macmillan of Canada on 18 October and by the Viking Press on 20 November.

1967 On 11 January, The Centennial Play (B20), written by Davies and other playwrights, is staged by the Ottawa Little Theatre but has a disastrous première.

1973 On 22 February, at a reception of the Toronto Branch of the Queen’s University Alumni and Alumnae Associations, Davies is the recipient of the

1964 On 1 July, Davies is appointed Edgar Stone Lecturer in Dramatic Literature, University College, University of Toronto.

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John Orr Award. In April, The Manticore wins the Governor General’s award for fiction. Also in April, Davies is invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada. On 7 June, he is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by York University. In July, he begins to write World of Wonders (A49), the third book of the Deptford trilogy. On 19 October, he is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Mount Allison University. 1974 On 24 May, Davies is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Memorial University of Newfoundland. On 5 June 1974, he is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Western Ontario. In June, he completes the first draft of World of Wonders. On 6 June, he is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by McGill University. On 26 October, he is awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters by Trent University. 1975  Question Time (A48), his last major play, is staged at the St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto from 25 February to 22 March, and published by Macmillan of Canada on 12 September. On 6 June, Davies is awarded the degree of DUniv by the University of Calgary. World of Wonders is published by Macmillan of Canada on 3 October. 1976  In October Davies begins writing notes for the Cornish trilogy. On 15–18 November, he delivers Trinity College’s Larkin-Stuart Lectures (“Masks of Satan: Some Concepts of Evil in Literature”) at the Auditorium of the Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto. He is commissioned to write a play (“Pontiac and the Green Man”) for the University of Toronto’s Sesquicentennial in 1977. 1977  One Half of Robertson Davies (A52a), a collection of speeches delivered by Davies between 1960 and 1977, is published by Macmillan of Canada on 15 October. “Pontiac and the Green Man” has its first production at the MacMillan Theatre, University of Toronto, between 26 October and 5 November. 1978 On 9 February, Davies is awarded the title of Honorary Professor of Humanities by the University of Calgary at the official inauguration of the Faculty of Humanities. In March, he is awarded the Certificate of Military Achievement by the Royal Canadian Dragoons. 1979 On 13 April, Davies begins to write The Rebel Angels (A61), the first book of the Cornish trilogy. The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies (A55a), his selected journalism edited by Judith Skelton Grant, is published by McClelland & Stewart on 17 November.

1980 On 21 May, Davies is inducted as an Honorary Member into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. On 30 June, he completes the first draft of The Rebel Angels. On 28 July, the Canadian Booksellers Association gives him the Author Award as “one who has contributed significantly to Canadian culture as well as to the business of Canadian booksellers.” 1981 On 16 May, Davies is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Lethbridge. On the same day, The Well-Tempered Critic (A58), a volume of his selected writings on theatre and literature in Canada edited by Judith Skelton Grant, is published by McClelland & Stewart. On 28 May, he is awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Waterloo. The Penguin Leacock (A59a), Davies’s selection of Stephen Leacock’s stories and sketches, is published by Penguin Books in June. On 30 June, Davies retires from his position as Master of Massey College and Professor of English and Drama at the University of Toronto, and is appointed Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto. Brothers in the Black Art (A60), a play completed by Davies in March 1973, is published by The Alcuin Society in September. The Rebel Angels, the first book of the Cornish trilogy, is published by Macmillan of Canada on 10 October. On 27 November, he is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Toronto. 1982  Davies’s opera for children, “Dr. Canon’s Cure,” is staged at Harbourfront from 19 to 23 May. High Spirits (A63a), his Massey College ghost stories, is published by Penguin Books in the late summer. 1983 On 8 May, Davies is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by the University of Rochester. On 25 May, he is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of British Columbia. The Mirror of Nature (A65a), three lectures on nineteenth-century melodrama delivered by Davies in the Alexander Lectures series, is published by the University of Toronto Press on 30 July. The Deptford Trilogy (A66a) is published by Penguin Books on 29 September. 1984  Davies is elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature on being nominated by Philip John Stead and Hugh MacLennan. High Spirits is awarded a trophy for the best Anthology/Collection by the World Fantasy Association. 1985 On 15 June, Davies is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Santa Clara University



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in California. What’s Bred in the Bone (A68), the second book of the Cornish trilogy, is published by Viking on 26 October and by Macmillan of Canada in November. The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks (A69a), a revised, omnibus edition of all three Marchbanks books, is published by Irwin Publishing on 2 November. What’s Bred in the Bone wins the 1985 Canadian Authors’ Association Literary Award for the best work of fiction. 1986 On 6 March, What’s Bred in the Bone shares the City of Toronto Book Award with Morley Callaghan’s Our Lady of the Snows. On 14 April, Davies receives an honorary degree from Carleton University, but is unable to attend the convocation ceremony. In May he becomes an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. On 23 June, What’s Bred in the Bone is awarded the 1986 Canadian Authors Association Literary Award. On 14 August, he is the recipient of the annual Banff Centre School of Fine Arts National Award. On 25 September, he is awarded the Toronto Arts Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. In November, he is given the Author’s Award by the Periodical Distributors of Canada. Also in November, The Salterton Trilogy is published by Penguin Books. What’s Bred in the Bone is shortlisted for the Booker Prize in Fiction. Davies is a finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1987 On 24 February, Davies is awarded the Gold Medal of Honour for Literature by the National Arts Club in New York City. On 6 May, he is admitted as an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto. On 23 May, he declines an honorary degree from Georgetown University, Washington, dc. 1988 On 11 March, Davies is appointed to the Order of Ontario. On 8 May, he is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Sacred Letters by Thornloe College, Laurentian University. On 27 May, he is awarded the Neil Gunn International Fellowship by the Scottish Arts Council. In early June, Davies gives lectures in Edinburgh on Canadian literature. On 4 June, the Canadian Conference of the Arts in Ottawa awards him the Diplôme d’honneur for lifetime achievement in the arts. The Lyre of Orpheus (A71) is published by Macmillan of Canada on 7 September, by Viking on 19 September in Britain, and by The Franklin Library in the USA in November (Viking’s American trade edition appeared 16 January 1989). On 28 November, he wins the Canada Council Molson Prize in the Arts. On 18 December, he is named in the 1988 Honour Roll of Maclean’s magazine

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for his contribution to Canadian literature, one of twelve Canadians so honoured. 1989 On 27 February, The Lyre of Orpheus is short-listed for the Trillium Book Award. On 14 May, Davies is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Prince Edward Island. In early September, Davies travels to Sweden; he is scheduled to speak at the Gothenburg Book Fair, but he contracts viral pneumonia and convalesces in Stockholm and England. On 19 October in Toronto at Harbourfront’s Wang International Festival of Authors, Davies is feted with a tribute. He presents a paper entitled “Why I Do Not Intend to Write an Autobiography.” 1990 On 6 July, Davies is awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Trinity College, Dublin. In November, he wins two awards from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters in conjunction with the Periodical Marketers of Canada (“Author of the Year” and “Paperback Book, Fiction 1990” for The Lyre of Orpheus). Also in November, Davies leaves Macmillan of Canada and decides to publish Murther & Walking Spirits with McClelland & Stewart. 1991 On 20–1 February, Davies delivers the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Yale University. On 24 May, he is awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Oxford. On 11 June, he delivers The Prince of Hesse Memorial Lecture, Opera and Humour (A73), at the Aldeburgh Festival. Murther & Walking Spirits (A74), the first volume of his projected Toronto trilogy, is published simultaneously by McClelland & Stewart in Canada and The Franklin Library in the USA in September, by Viking on 20 September in the USA, and by Sinclair-Stevenson on 30 September in Britain. 1992  The Cornish Trilogy (A75a) is published by Penguin Books in January. Between 16 May and 9 August, Elliott Hayes’s theatrical adaptation of World of Wonders is performed at the Avon Theatre in Stratford, on. The Tanner Lectures on Human Values (B61), containing Davies’s two lectures “Reading” and “Writing,” is published by the University of Utah Press on 27 May. 1993  Reading and Writing (A76), Davies’s Tanner Lectures on Human Values, is published separately by the University of Utah Press in May. At the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on 28 May, Davies opens the twenty-first Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair and delivers an account of his career as a book

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collector (A77). On 3 June, Davies’s oratorio, Jezebel: The Golden Tale of Naboth and His Vineyard, and of King Ahab and His Wicked Queen (A78), has its première performance at Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto. Printed by McClelland & Stewart, it is distributed to those in attendance at the performance. Why I Do Not Intend to Write an Autobiography (A80) is published in June as a fundraiser for the Harbourfront Reading Series. Two Plays: Fortune, My Foe & Eros at Breakfast (A81) is published by Simon & Pierre in November. 1994  The Cunning Man (A83a) is published by McClelland & Stewart on 23 September. On 26 November, Davies is awarded an Honorary Fellowship (Diploma honoris causa) by the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Two Plays: Hunting Stuart & The Voice of the People (A84) is published by Simon & Pierre at the end of November. The Dignity of Literature (A85) is published in December as a fundraiser for Harbourfront’s literary activities. 1995 On 9 May, Davies is appointed Honorary Fellow of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City. A Gathering of Ghost Stories (A87), a volume consisting of an introductory essay and five of Davies’s ghost stories, is published by Penguin Books in June. On 2 December, he dies in Orangeville, on at the age of 82. Animal U. (A88) is published by Storytellers Ink on 22 December.

1996  The Merry Heart: Selections 1980–1995, a collection of reminiscences, speeches, book reviews, parodies, and essays, is published by McClelland & Stewart on 12 October. 1997  Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts (A90), edited by Jennifer Surridge and Brenda Davies, is published by McClelland & Stewart on 4 October. 1999  The Golden Ass: a Libretto (A91), completed by Davies in August 1995, is published by McClelland & Stewart in March, and has its world première at the Hummingbird Centre in Toronto on 13 April. For Your Eye Alone: Letters 1976–1995 (A92), edited by Judith Skelton Grant, is published by McClelland & Stewart on 10 September. 2002  Discoveries: Early Letters 1938–1975 (A93), edited by Judith Skelton Grant, is published by McClelland & Stewart on 20 September. 2005  The Quotable Robertson Davies: The Wit and Wisdom of the Master (A94), 800 quotations selected by James Channing Shaw, is published by McClelland & Stewart on 20 September. 2008  Selected Plays (A95), Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading (A96), and Selected Works on the Art of Writing (A97) are published by Penguin Canada on 11 March.

Shakespeare’s Boy Actors (A1a), Davies’s first book, published by J.M. Dent & Sons in 1939, the front panel of the dust jacket. Image courtesy of the Davies Collection in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College.

Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays (A6), published by Clarke, Irwin & Company in 1949, the front panel of the dust jacket. Image courtesy of the Davies Collection in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College.

Tempest-Tost (A10a), Davies’s first novel, published by Clarke, Irwin & Company in 1951, the front panel of the dust jacket. Image courtesy of the Davies Collection in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College.

Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Shakespeare Festival in Canada 1953 (B3a), published by Clarke, Irwin & Company in 1953, the front of the dust jacket. Image courtesy of the Davies Collection in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College.

Marchbanks’ Almanack (A25a), published by McClelland & Stewart in 1967, illustration for Virgo, the sign shared by Marchbanks and Davies. Davies did the drawings for the book. Image courtesy of the Davies Collection in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College.

The fifth Gaudy Night broadside (A32), printed at the Massey College Press in 1969 for the Fellows, Senior Residents, and their guests. Image courtesy of the Davies Collection in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College.

The McFiggin Fragment (A37a), printed at the Massey College Press in 1970, the opening pages of a spoof Stephen Leacock diary entry, drafted by Davies. Image courtesy of the Davies Collection in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College.

The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies (A55a), published by McClelland & Stewart in 1979, the front panel of the dust jacket. Image courtesy of the Davies Collection in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College.

The Deptford Trilogy (A66a), published by Penguin Books in 1983, cover illustration by Bascove. Image courtesy of the Davies Collection in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College.

“Reading through Jung’s Spectacles: A Consideration of Robert Browning’s Poem The Ring and the Book” (C83.4), first page of an off-print from Quadrant [New York] 16, no. 2 (Fall 1983): 5. Image courtesy of the Davies Collection in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College.

The Cunning Man (A83a.1), published by Viking in 1994, the front panel of the dust jacket, designed by Bascove. Image courtesy of the Davies Collection in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College.

The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995 (A89a), published by McClelland & Stewart in 1996, the front panel of the dust jacket, photograph by Jill Krementz. Image courtesy of the Davies Collection in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College.

The Rebel Angels (A61c), What’s Bred in the Bone (A68d), and The Lyre of Orpheus (A71d), all published by Penguin Books in 1997, front covers with a shared illustration by Sandra Dionisi. Image courtesy of the Davies Collection in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College.

For Your Eye Alone: Letters 1976-1995 (A92a), published by McClelland & Stewart in 1999, the front panel of the dust jacket, photograph by Peter Paterson. Image courtesy of the Davies Collection in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College.

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A1 shakespeare’s boy actors 1939 A1a  English edition: SHAKESPEARE’S | BOY ACTORS | W. ROBERTSON DAVIES | B.LITT. (OXON.) | Illustrated | with eight | plates | LONDON: J. M. DENT & SONS LTD A4 B-O8 [$1 signed (+O2)]. i-v, v-vii, 1, 1-164, 165-166, 167-207, 1 pp. (108 leaves). 215 × 142 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii blank; p. iii title; p. iv All rights reserved | Made in Great Britain | at The Temple Press Letchworth | for | J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd | Aldine House Bedford St London | First Published 1939; pp. v-vi table of contents; p. vii list of illustrations; p. 1 blank; pp. 1-164 text; p. 165 illustration; p. 166 blank; pp. 167-201 text; pp. 202-207 notes; p. 1 bibliography. Black-and-white illustrations on glossy paper include frontispiece and facing pp. 21, 28, 64, 81, 144, 183, and 199. text: The text consists of five chapters. Individual chapters have subject synopses as headings: chapter I   The Position of the Boy Actors in the Elizabethan Theatre ...; chapter II The Women’s Roles in Shakespeare’s Comedies discussed with reference to the Boy Actor; chapter III The Women’s Roles in Shakespeare’s Histories and Tragedies discussed with reference to the Boy Actor; chapter IV The Old Women in Shakespeare’s Plays and the Men who played them ...; chapter V Indecency of Speech among Shakespeare’s Women and its Effect on Audiences subsequent to the Restoration ... binding and dust jacket: Bound in dark-blue cloth, top edge stained dark blue. Blind-stamped on the upper board within an ornamental rectangle is Dent’s publishing device: bird with an arrow above a shield (another arrow on the diagonal cuts the shield). Stamped in gilt on the spine: SHAKESPEARE’S | BOY ACTORS | W. ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [blindstamped] DENT. The dust jacket is very pale blue with blue lettering. The front of the jacket is as follows: SHAKESPEARE’S | BOY ACTORS | [oval illustration

of a boy in Elizabethan dress wearing a medallion, with four curlicues at the top and bottom to the right and left of the illustration] | W. ROBERTSON DAVIES | Illustrated. Printed on the spine panel: SHAKE- | SPEARE’S | BOY | ACTORS | ê | W. | ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [publisher’s device] | DENT. On the back panel is an advertisement for The New Temple Shakespeare edited by M.R. Ridley. The front flap provides a summary of the work. On the back flap is a list of other books about Shakespeare published by Dent. The last two lines on the back flap are: Made in Great Britain at The Temple Press | Letchworth, Herts (Mj 1639). notes: On the recommendation of M. Roy Ridley, his chief tutor at Balliol College, Davies wrote to Ernest F. Bozman of J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. on 24 June 1938, the day after he received the BLitt from Oxford University. Davies inquired whether the publisher was interested in publishing his thesis, “The Influence of the Boy-Actor on Shakespeare’s Dramatic Technique,” in revised form. “I should not like to see it published as its stands, for as you know, academic theses make very dreary reading,” he told Bozman. Hugh R. Dent sent Davies’s manuscript to the Shakespearean scholar Harley Granville-Barker. He informed Davies on 19 July 1938 that if Granville-Barker’s opinion were favourable, he would publish the book on the assumption that no royalties would be paid to Davies until 600 copies had been sold: 10% royalty on the next 1,000 copies sold, 12½% on the next thousand, and 15% on any copies after 2,600 sold. Davies agreed to these terms on 22 July 1938. He was sent a draft agreement on 10 August 1938, and he returned the signed contract to Dent on 15 August 1938. The contract at pend is dated 16 August 1938. In his answers to the publisher’s questionnaire about A1a, Davies stated: The book attempts to clear away a mass of sentimentalism which has grown up around Shakespeare’s heroines ... I know of no other book which considers the factors of the boy-actor in the technique used in

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presenting Shakespeare’s women, and I believe this to be necessary in any honest evaluation of them. The viewpoint is wholly original and attacks certain widely held theories (item 53, catalogue 100, Ulysses, [October 2005], p. 30).

More than fifty years later, Davies recounted to Elisabeth Sifton of The Viking Press on 14 April 1989 (see p. 218 of A93): Well do I remember my first encounter with a publisher, old Mr. Dent at Dent’s in London; silvery-haired, courtly of manner, never seen except against a background of polished walnut ... he always wore a length of Liberty silk as a cravat, drawn elegantly through a ring of beaten silver which he had made himself, for he was a weekend silversmith. I stood in awe of him and worshipped him because he was actually going to put something of mine between covers.

Davies revised his manuscript and arranged to have it typed and delivered on 14 September 1938. The book was formally accepted for publication on 27 September 1938, shortly after Dent received a report from Ridley. Davies altered the typescript in minor ways to address Ridley’s criticisms, although he did not consider all of Ridley’s criticisms to be valid. Davies prepared a publicity blurb of 250 words on 1 November 1938. On 25 August 1938, his father W. Rupert Davies offered to publicize the book in Canadian newspapers. Granville-Barker declined to write a preface to the book because he was simply too busy at the time to do so. Dent sent Davies a proof of the dust jacket on 30 December 1938. Davies returned it on 1 January 1939 with a small change in the advertisement on the front flap. Davies acknowledged receipt of his author copies on 23 January 1939. “I like the format of the book very much, & I appreciate the care you have given to its production,” he told the publisher. A1a was published on 2 February 1939 in an edition of 1,500 copies. Price 10s 6d. The printing cost was £144 with an estimated profit of 2s 1d per copy. Oxford University Press, D. Appleton-Century Company, and the Macmillan Company all declined publication in the United States. (Information based on file 446, subseries 1.1 Author files, J.M. Dent & Sons fonds, uncch.) The book was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement (4 February 1939: 74) and in Saturday Night (B.K. Sandwell, “Squeaking Cleopatras,” 8 March 1939: 21). In April 1950 Dent sent Davies a royalty cheque for £1 15s 8d, covering the period 1 July 1945 to 31 December 1949. According to the royalty report, 211 copies were in stock on 1 July 1945, and 171 were in stock on 31 December 1949. Davies wrote to Dent on

27 April 1950: “I was astonished to receive a royalty statement from you which has pursued me from Wales to two addresses in Canada. To my great amazement, I read that Shakespeare’s Boy Actors has actually sold enough copies to provide me with a royalty of 1£, 15s, 8d.” He jokingly told the Canadian publisher W.H. Clarke on 3 May 1950: “What I am going to do with this sudden wealth I do not know but I am thinking of buying a small country house with it.” (file 5, box 103, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm). On 19 July 1950, Davies received another royalty cheque from Dent for £2 6s 2d (see file 20, vol. 79 and file 22, vol. 80, Davies fonds, lac). Davies looked back rather fondly in recalling the publication of his first book. In A8a (see pp. 235-6), he urged readers to “concentrate upon that Books of Books, in which wisdom, beauty, and ineffable solace are to be found — I refer, of course, to the book which I published in 1939, and which nobody bought. It appeared between the Anschluss and the outbreak of war and these trivial distractions ruined it.” He was under the impression that only a few hundred copies had really sold and that unsold copies were destroyed during the blitz or were pulped due the paper shortage in Britain during the war. He was quite surprised that during his lifetime the book had become a collector’s item. In December 1962 in discussion with the publisher, John Gray of Macmillan of Canada, he even suggested rewriting and expanding the text (see Davies to Willis Kingsley Wing, 1 December 1962, file 42, vol. 43, Davies fonds, lac). He abandoned the notion of rewriting the book in October-December 1964 when he first learned of the publication of A1a.2. copies examined: davis (proof copy with copyright date of 1938 and a flyer advertising the book; also copy in jacket); lac (no jacket); ohm (no jacket); otmc (in jacket); qmmrb (no jacket). A1a.1  English edition, first American issue: The first American issue is identical to A1a with the exception of a small rectangular white label (12 × 52 mm.) affixed to the bottom of the copyright page (p. iv). The label has the following printed on it in blue: AGENT FOR THE U. S. A. | WILLIAM SALLOCH :-: BOOKS | 344 East 17th Street New York, ny. Also, on the copy examined at lac, there was a stub after the first leaf. Number of copies of this issue not known. copies examined: lac (no jacket, dark-blue, flexible cloth). A1a.2  English edition, second American issue, photographic reprint (1964): SHAKESPEARE’S | BOY ACTORS | W. ROBERTSON



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DAVIES | Illustrated | with eight | plates | NEW YORK | RUSSELL & RUSSELL • INC | 1964 1-2 8 3–7 16 8 8 9 16. i-v, v-vii, 1, 1-20, 1-2, 21-28, 1-2, 29-64, 1-2, 65-80, 1-2, 81-144, 1-2, 145-164, 165-166, 167-182, 1-2, 183-198, 1-2, 199-207, 1-11 pp. (120 leaves). 217 × 142 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii frontispiece illustration; p. iii title; p. iv FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1939 | REISSUED, 1964, BY RUSSELL & RUSSELL, INC. | BY ARRANGEMENT WITH J. M. DENT & SONS LTD. | L. C. CATALOG CARD NO: 64-15036 | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; pp. v-vi table of contents; p. vii list of illustrations; p. 1 blank; pp. 1-20 text; p. 1 blank; p. 2 illustration; pp. 21-28 text; p. 1 illustration; p. 2 blank; pp. 29-64 text; p. 1 illustration; p.2 blank; pp. 65-80 text; p. 1 blank; p. 2 illustration; pp. 81-144 text; p. 1 illustration; p. 2 blank; pp. 145164 text; p. 165 illustration; p. 166 blank; pp. 167-182 text; p. 1 blank; p. 2 illustration; pp. 183-198 text; p. 1 blank; p. 2 illustration; pp. 199-201 text; pp. 202-207 notes; p. 1 bibliography; pp. 2-11 blank. text: Illustrations are integrated into the text (no longer on glossy paper). There are five blank leaves at the end. Signatures from A1a have been removed, but otherwise the texts of A1a and A1a.2 are identical. binding: Bound in maroon cloth with the following stamped in gilt on the spine: Shake- | SPEARE’S | Boy | Actors | DAVIES | RUSSELL | & | RUSSELL. notes: When Davies saw an advertisement for the publication of A1a.2 in the United States, he inquired about it with J.M. Dent and Sons on 26 October 1964: “It was my impression that the sheets of this book had been destroyed in the blitz; certainly I have been unable to get a copy of it myself since the war, though I would very much like to have a few.” E.C. Brown, Stock & Royalty Department at Dent, apologized to Davies on 3 November 1964 for not informing him about the American reissue. Brown sent Davies a royalty cheque (statement dated 15 August 1964) for £6 7s 10d on the publication of A1a.2. Dent took 10% of the royalty in arranging publication. Russell & Russell, a reprint publisher, had approached Dent about the reissue and had claimed that the book was out of copyright in the United States. Dent arranged a contract on Davies’s behalf for the American reissue with a royalty of 5% of the published price ($6). Davies’s agent, Willis Kingsley Wing, was of the opinion that Dent had acted inappropriately since they owned the world rights on the book but had allowed the American copyright to lapse. Davies complained to Brown

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on 16 December 1964 that in agreeing to the American issue by Russell & Russell without his consent, Dent had violated their contract. For his part, Brown pointed out to Davies on 23 December 1964 that Dent was not responsible for the book being unprotected in the United States because the Americans were not a signatory to the Berne Convention. However, in view of the firm’s failure to consult Davies, Brown agreed that Dent would forego its 10% of the royalty on the book (information based on file 44, vol. 48, Davies fonds, lac). Several years later, on 1 October 1970, Davies told the Scottish critic, David Daiches, that he shared his annoyance “at the behaviour of American publishers who take possession of books which they believe to be unprotected.” He instanced the case of A1a.2 and stated: “Through the intervention of my agent I was able to get my share of whatever money was involved in the deal but I thought that it was extremely cool of the English and American publishers to cook up something of this kind between them” (file 35, vol. 46, Davies fonds, lac). Number of copies printed not known. copies examined: davis; lac.

A2 shakespeare for young players 1942 SHAKESPEARE FOR | YOUNG PLAYERS | A JUNIOR COURSE | By | ROBERTSON DAVIES, M.A. [sic] | Illustrated by | GRANT MACDONALD | Toronto | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | 1942 1-17 8. i-iv, v-vii, viii, ix-xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, 1-3, 3-31, 3234, 35-37, 38, 39-40, 41, 42-45, 46, 47, 48, 49-63, 64, 65-81, 82, 83-88, 89-90, 91-96, 97, 98-105, 106, 107-114, 115, 116-117, 118, 119-125, 126, 127-137, 138-140, 141-142, 143, 144-155, 156, 157-169, 170, 171-186, 187, 188-194, 195-196, 197-201, 202, 203-215, 216, 217-234, 235, 236-239, 240, 241-247, 248, 249-255, 1 pp. (136 leaves). 184 × 128 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii illustration, A THEATRE IN SHAKESPEARE’S DAY; p. iii title; p. iv COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1942 | by clarke, irwin & company limited | [six lines concerning copyright] | Printed in Canada; pp. v-vii To the Teacher; p. viii blank; pp. ix-xi To the Pupil; p. xii blank; p. xiii table of contents; p. xiv blank; p. xv list of Grant Macdonald’s illustrations (on pp. 3, 41, 48, 82, 97, 115, 126, 143, 156, 170, 187, 202, 216, 235, and 248); p. 1 blank, pp. 2-3, 3-255 text (pp. 32, 34, 38, 46, 64, 90, 106, 118, 138, 140, 196, and 240 blank); p. 1 blank. text: The text consists of an introduction (Life of

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William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Work, Shakespeare’s Poetry, Shakespeare’s Theatre, and Acting Scenes Which Follow), four parts, and an appendix on music. Parts I and II have sections entitled Introduction to Poetry and Introduction to the Sonnets, respectively. But these sections, as well as parts III and IV, also have sub-sections that discuss scenes from particular plays. binding: Bound in red cloth with cream-coloured stamping. Stamped on the upper board: SHAKESPEARE | [in script] for Young Players | ROBERTSON DAVIES. Stamped on the spine: SHAKESPEARE | [next three lines in script] for | Young | Players | CLARKE | IRWIN. There are two variant shades of red binding, one slightly darker than the other. notes: On the advice of his father’s friend, Duncan McArthur, the Minister of Education in Mitchell Hepburn’s Ontario government, Davies went to see W.H. Clarke of the educational firm, Clarke Irwin. Clarke commissioned him to write an introductory text on Shakespeare for young high school students. Davies wrote to his friend, the book illustrator and theatre artist Grant Macdonald, circa 15 or 22 June 1941: “Last week I had a chat with W.H. Clarke, the president of the Oxford Press [and of Clarke Irwin], & mentioned to him that you were preparing drawings for the Shakespeare book on spec.; he was very interested & encouraging to the point where I think we may assume that some of them at least will be used ... I am extremely busy these days, as there is a rush on at the office, & Clarke wants the Shakes. book by early September” (Macdonald fonds, okq Archives). Macdonald was paid $200 for his illustrations. Davies returned the proofs of the book to Eleanor Harman of The Oxford University Press on 15 March 1942. The engravings for the illustrations were completed on 22 April 1942 at a cost of $81. J.M. Dent & Sons declined publication in September of that year. Clarke told Davies on 12 September 1942: “Regarding titles my mind is a blank. I have thought and thought, and only the most commonplace ideas come to me such as: A Beginner’s Book of Shakespeare, Shakespeare for Young Players, Your Shakespeare Book, Introducing William Shakespeare. These are, as you see, uninspired and uninspiring.” Clarke received signed copies of the contract on 18 September 1942. He sent page proofs to Davies on 14 October 1942. Clarke Irwin received the corrected page proofs and an appendix on 3 November 1942. Davies was asked by Harman to make two additional cuts that contained questionable language. He decided on the

title on 4 November 1942. He agreed to the cuts but regarded “it a pity that a fine descriptive word like ‘whoreson’ should pass out of our language.” Author’s copies were sent to Davies on 31 December 1942. The book sold for 75¢. The title page of A2 incorrectly attributes an M.A. degree to Davies (he received a BLitt from Oxford University); the degree was dropped in reprints thereafter. Davies received an initial royalty of 12½% on copies sold. On 12 October 1949, he agreed to a royalty of 9.4¢ per copy in order to keep the price to less than a dollar (at 90¢). After 1 February 1957, when the price was increased to $1.55, the original royalty rate of 12½% was reinstated. Davies told his agent, Willis Kingsley Wing, on 12 December 1963: “my little Shakespeare for Young Players, which I wrote for Clarke, Irwin in 1942, has run through eleven reprintings, and has brought in something in the neighbourhood of $850. every year since that time.” John Deyell Limited printed the book between 30 November and 30 December 1942. 2,000 copies were printed on 9 December 1942 and another 501 copies on 30 December 1942. The production cards report that 3,015 copies were delivered by 20 September 1943. 1,724 copies were delivered in 1945, 3,205 in 1946, 3,208 in 1947, 6,323 in 1948, 3,050 in 1949, 5,054 in 1950-1, 5,147 in 1953, 5,160 in 1956, 2,100 in 1958, 7,876 in 1959, 4,998 in 1961, 3,015 in 1963, 26,228 in 1964, 5,214 in 1966, 2,610 in 1969, 3,135 in 1970, and 2,010 in 1973. The book apparently went out of print thereafter. In all 93,072 copies were printed. The standing type was distributed on 28 April 1969. When Clarke Irwin arranged for a reprinting of 3,000 copies in April and May 1970, the book was filmed and printed by photo offset. The September 1961 reprint records the following on the copyright page: First published December 1942. Reprinted July 1943, April 1946, April 1947, January 1948, October 1948, February 1949, December 1950, January 1953, August 1956, March 1958, October 1959. The binding was redesigned several times, most notably in the tenth printing of August 1956. Although Davies told Clarke Irwin’s editor R.W.W. Robertson on 10 October 1956 that he was “astonished at the way in which this little book continues to sell,” he complained to Wing on 10 May 1966 “that if it had been properly managed it would have brought in much more.” In September 1950 Davies proposed to Clarke Irwin that he would write a companion volume to Shakespeare’s Young Actors concerned with the writing of English. At the time he had “worked out a plan” for the book in his head. A companion volume never materialized, however, although Clarke Irwin re-suggested the idea to Davies in December 1963.



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The section from A2 entitled “Shakespeare’s Poetry” is reprinted as “Introduction to the Poetry of Shakespeare” in Philip Penner and Edna Baxter, Life and Adventure (Toronto: Ryerson/Macmillan, 1962), pp. 462-4. Information obtained from the following sources: Man of Myth, p. 233; file 32 vol. 45, file 12 vol. 53, and file 17 vol. 78, Davies fonds, lac; files 5 and 20, box 103 and the production cards in box 79, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm. copies examined: davis (first printing in both binding variants; reprint of September 1961); lac (two copies of first printing; reprints of April 1946 and August 1956); oh (reprint of September 1961); ohm (reprints of January 1948, January 1953, and 1973 (ISBN 0 7720 0425 0)); otmc (reprint of February 1966).

A3  how stupid is canada? [1946] [cover title; the first line in black letter] The Peterborough Examiner | Reprinted from the issue of February 13 | [next two lines within a rectangle] | How Stupid Is Canada? | (By SAMUEL MARCHBANKS) | [text in two columns separated by a vertical line] Broadside, glossy white paper stock. 320 × 180 mm. notes: Written under the pseudonym of Samuel Marchbanks, A3 is a book review of John Bartlet Brebner’s Scholarship for Canada (a pamphlet published by the Canadian Social Science Research Council). A3 was reprinted, undoubtedly at Davies’s request, sometime after the column’s original appearance in the Peterborough Examiner (see C46.13), although it is not clear why he arranged for its reprinting in this format. The theme of Brebner’s pamphlet is that Canada’s best academic brains are leaving the country for the United States and Great Britain. Marchbanks agrees with Brebner’s observation, but he notes in passing that the same can be said for Canada’s writers, artists, actors, and musicians because Canada neither encourages nor celebrates its culture. This theme would permeate much of Davies’s early critical writing. Number of copies printed not known. copies examined: davis (five copies).

A4  the diary of samuel marchbanks 1947 A4a  first Canadian edition, first issue: THE DIARY OF | SAMUEL MARCHBANKS | BY | ROBERTSON DAVIES | Decorations by | CLAIR

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STEWART | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | Toronto | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | 1947 1-12 8 13 10. 1-10, 3-51, 52-54, 55-103, 104-106, 107-150, 151-152, 153-204 pp. (106 leaves). 199 × 135 mm. contents: p. 1 decorative half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1947 | by CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | Printed in Canada; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; p. 7 fly title; p. 8 blank; pp. 9-10, 3-204 text (pp. 10, 52, 54, 104, 106, and 152 blank). Black-and white illustrations by Clair Stewart on pp. 1 (half title), 9 (Winter), 53 (Spring), 105 (Summer), and 151 (Autumn). text: The text is comprised of Marchbanks’s diary entries for one year, commencing on “Sunday & New Year’s Day.” Entries are for a particular day of the week, sometimes embellished by reference to a certain feast day or occasion (for example, “Sunday and St. Fistula the Stalagmite”). There are four parts: I Winter; II Spring; III Summer; IV Autumn. Each part is subdivided by roman numerals corresponding to specific weeks of the year. binding and dust jacket: Bound in red cloth. Stamped in silver on the spine: DAVIES | [down the spine] THE DIARY OF SAMUEL MARCHBANKS | CLARKE | IRWIN. The dust jacket is grey. On the front panel of the jacket is an illustration in black and greenish black with red flecks, signed by Clair Stewart (illustration the same as the half title which is unsigned and not coloured). The illustration consists of a leafy rectangular compartment containing a row of leaves and fruit, an ornament, and the title and author’s name in different styles of decorative type (MARCHBANKS curved and Davies’s full name within a separate compartment). The spine panel, flecked in red and also designed by Stewart, is similar to the spine of the book. On the back panel is a note on the diarist along with the publisher’s name and place of publication. On the flaps of the jacket are the book’s title, the names of the author and illustrator, the price ($2.50), and two paragraphs on the merits of Marchbanks’s cantankerous musings. The last sentence on the back flap states that “... in Robertson Davies, Canada has found her most original humorist since the great Stephen Leacock laid down his pen.” notes: Davies first used the pseudonym of Samuel Marchbanks in a column entitled “Cap and Bells” that appeared three times a week from 1 August 1940 to 16 August 1941 in the Kingston Whig-Standard and the

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Peterborough Examiner (see C40.2). He continued to use the pseudonym in both papers, but it was not until 13 November 1943 that he began a diary column under Marchbanks’s name, which appeared in both papers every Saturday. It was in this column that the persona of Marchbanks developed as a critic of the foibles of society who by turns is abrasive, wise, and unaffected. According to the back panel of the dust jacket, Marchbanks was born in Skunk’s Misery, on. He worked in an editorial capacity for Wee Wisdom and the Hardrock Miner, and killed a Canadian poet in a duel. He is claimed to be the founder of the Marchbanks Humanist Party, a prebendary of the Nullifidian Church, and a former president of the Deipnosophists Club. In December 1945 Davies discussed the possibility of publishing a book of his selected diary columns with the publisher W.H. Clarke. On 4 December 1945, he reported that he had completed half the typescript and that he expected to have the book finished by the end of January 1946. Clarke had seen selected clippings of the Marchbanks columns and eagerly looked forward to reading the book in its entirety. By 14 July 1946 Davies had mapped out the book’s arrangement in terms of the seasons of the year “with 13 complete diaries in each, and a full-page drawing and seasonal title for each.” He also wanted to have the text illustrated appropriately with vignettes, and as potential illustrators, he proposed Grant Macdonald (who had illustrated A2) or Clair Stewart, the art director of Rolfe, Clarke, Stone. He now aimed to have the book finished at a length of between 52,000 and 55,000 words in September or October of the year. In the end, the book ran to 67,344 words. The copyright in A4a was registered in Canada on 7 December 1946 (serial no. 72835). Davies mailed the typescript to Clarke Irwin on 7 March 1947. Although he had informed Macdonald on 5 September 1946 that the book would need suitable illustrations, he now suggested to Clarke Irwin that Stewart “would do a beautiful job on the book.” He wanted the book published “as cheaply as possible, but with sufficient taste and discretion in the typography and paper to make sure that it was a pleasant book.” In spite of Clarke Irwin’s encouragement, he was rather anxious about the lack of a contract. In fact he had contacted the Macmillan Company of Canada as well, and Macmillan had prepared a contract for him (dated 12 May 1947, see file 7, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm). Davies’s concern that Clarke Irwin might not like the book was unfounded. Both W.H. Clarke and the editor R.W.W. Robertson were enthusiastic about it. Robertson, for example, told Davies on 31 March 1947: “I spent the week-end reading the manuscript of

the DIARY and, gaining a great deal of disfavour with my Toronto neighbours for indulging in the unchristian pastime of laughing my head off on the Sabbath day. When I read the first entries from the DIARY last year I knew that we had something special here.” By 16 May 1947 Robertson had sent Davies three copies of a standard contract (10% on the first 2,500 copies sold, 12½% from 2,500 to 4,000 copies, 15% thereafter; signed and returned by Davies on 22 May 1947). The manuscript was sent to the Maracle Printing Company, which printed it in Baskerville type, 11 point on 12, as requested by Davies, on 13 June 1947. “I now have the galleys, & like the type & format,” Davies told Robertson on 5 August 1947. He had also spoken to Stewart about the illustrations. “I should like the book to have an elegant look, in the true sense of the word.” Corrected galleys were sent to the Maracle Printing Co. on 12 August 1947 for paging. Robertson received the jacket design from Stewart on 21 August 1947. Six sets of page proofs were received on 11 September 1947. Page proofs were sent to Davies on 17 September 1947 (returned 21 September 1947). On 15 September 1947, Davies embarked on a dedication and short pieces of fake verse (Horace, A Folk Song from Lincolnshire, Crabbe, Coleridge) for the seasons of the year, but much to his annoyance, they were rejected by Robertson as being clever and funny but simply inappropriate. Corrected page proofs were sent back to the Maracle Printing Co. on 6 October 1947; corrected proofs for the jacket were returned to Maracle on 29 October 1947. Davies told Macdonald on 23 November 1947: “My book is out, after prolonged pains on the part of R.W.W. Robertson and his midwife Holy Henry Clarke. I have had an annoying time with them; they are so insufferably pretentious in theory and such botchers in practice” (file 4, box 3, Grant Macdonald fonds, okq Archives, quoted in A93, p. 45). The production card in the Clarke Irwin fonds (box 79) at ohm records the following information: Oxford Paper account Olde Vale Antique, $238.77; composition and paging by Maracle, $515.16; printing by Maracle, $308.28; printing of jackets by Maracle, $125.24;   addendum slip printed by Maracle, $15.12; folding, gatherings, and endpapers by Maracle, $115.60; binding by Maracle, $1,040.43; Reliance jacket plates, $49.55; Reliance four zinc electros, $36.71; artwork   by Stewart, $200; Reliance binder’s stamp, $10.39. Unit cost 74¢. 3,568 copies printed between 12 and   20 November 1947, although the production card also records 8 December 1947 as the date of printing. The work was carried out between 6 October and 30 December 1947, the latter date for the work on the addendum slips. For the second printing, 4,793 copies  



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were delivered between 19 December 1947 and 19 October 1949, and 4,840 copies were printed on 31 December 1947. The total cost of the second printing was $2,535.56. According to the back panel of A6, the Diary went into a second printing within ten days of publication. On 8 December 1947, Robertson sent the Maracle Printing Co. a marked-up copy of the Diary, noting typographical errors, poor inking, spacing, uneven alignment, crooked pages, and poorly lined-up opposite pages. The copyright page of the second printing has a reference to the Peterborough Examiner. On p. 6 of the second printing is A WARNING TO THE READER. It would appear that there were no further reprintings. 2,225 copies were in stock on 2 September 1948; by 26 August 1949, 971 copies were left. The American publisher Farrar and Straus considered publication in September 1948, but regarded the book as too Canadian for an American market. Davies apparently contemplated a revised edition circa 1953 (see files 41-2, vol. 85, Davies fonds, for typescripts). In an attempt to stimulate sales, A4a (second printing) and A8a appeared as a boxed set (red slipcase, $3.50) in September 1954 with a 15% royalty on the combined set (same royalty rate as A4a). Thereafter, A4a sold poorly. Between 1 February 1961 and 31 January 1962, twenty-one copies sold ($2.50 with a royalty of $.375), earning Davies the princely sum of $7.88. Information about A4a obtained from: files 11-17, vol. 11 (annotated typescripts); file 19, vol. 45; file 12 , vol. 53; file 27, vol. 78; file 36, vol. 79; and file 22, box 103, Davies fonds, lac; file 21, box 103, Clarke Irwin fonds at ohm). See also A3, A8, and A25 for other diary columns by Marchbanks. On 16 and 19 June 1956, Robertson suggested to Davies that he might write a book about the Stratford Festival as a Samuel Marchbanks Scrapbook. Davies turned down Robertson’s suggestion on the grounds that the book would have to be written quickly and that it would result in a mediocre piece of forced writing (file 19, box 103, Clarke Irwin fonds). An adaptation by Denis Johnston (A Reading of The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks) was staged by the Shaw Festival on 20 July 2000 (the program reprints one of Marchbanks’s letters to Apollo Fishborn about theatre). There was also an adaptation, written and directed by Peter Wylde, entitled “The World of Samuel Marchbanks,” staged by the Stratford Festival of Canada on 26 August 2001. Excerpts of A4a have appeared in the following: “Ten Days from ‘Samuel Marchbanks’” in George E. Nelson, ed., Northern Lights: A New Collection of Dis­ tinguished Writing by Canadian Authors (Garden City, nj: Doubleday, 1960), pp. 537-41; R.G. Harrison, The

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Critical Approach: A Guide to the Comprehension and Appreciation of Prose and Verse (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1964), pp. 12-13, (rev. ed., 1967), pp. 24-5; Earl W. Buxton, Points of View (Toronto: W.J. Gage Limited, 1967), pp. 112-15; John E. Smallbridge, Language Comes Alive II (Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons (Canada) Ltd., 1967), p. 55; “The Christmas Diary of Samuel Marchbanks” in A Canadian Yuletide Treasury (Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1982), pp. 100-3; Patrick Crean, ed., The Fitzhenry & Whiteside Fireside Book of Canadian Christmas (Markham, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1986), pp. 212-19; and David Jackel and Maurice R. Legris, eds., Essential Essays: Canadian, American & British (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 407-13. See also A69. copies examined: ohm (three copies in jacket); okq (two copies in jacket, first and second printings); otmc (second printing, wine-coloured cloth, in jacket in a red box with a copy in jacket of A7a); pend (in jacket with integral title leaf and addendum slip; second printing in jacket). A4a.1  first Canadian edition, second issue: Cancel title leaf with an addendum slip (94 × 126 mm.) tipped in to the cancel leaf. The slip has A WARNING TO THE READER about the Celtic Calendar and a note about prior publication of portions of the Dairy in the Peterborough Examiner and the permission of the Examiner in reprinting these pieces. Otherwise, A4a.1 is identical to A4a. Some copies have been found without the addendum slip, but it would appear that this was not by design but due to the slip having fallen out of the book. notes: When Davies saw copies of the book on 25 November 1947, he told Robertson that the publisher of the Peterborough Examiner was slighted and on the verge of launching a lawsuit because no mention was made that the Diary columns were first published in the Examiner. A note to this effect appeared in the manuscript and apparently in the proofs, but the copyright page neglected to mention the Examiner. Davies also pointed out to Robertson that Roman Catholics were upset with the fact that saints’ names in the book were taken from the calendar of the Celtic church. Following Davies’s complaint, Robertson asked the Maracle Printing Co. on 26 November 1947 to print an addendum slip for insertion by hand in the remaining copies. He also promised Davies that reference to the Examiner would appear in future printings. The publishers of the Peterborough Examiner sent out 300 copies of the book as a Christmas remembrance. Information based on file 5, box 103, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm.

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copies examined: ohm (in jacket without addendum slip); okq (in jacket without addendum slip, but with typescripts of the dedication and short pieces of fake verse [which were rejected by Robertson] tipped in by Davies: Grant Macdonald’s copy); otmc (two copies, both with the addendum slip, one in jacket); pend (in jacket without addendum slip). A4b second Canadian edition (1966): [rule] | THE DIARY OF | SAMUEL MARCHBANKS | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | Toronto, Vancouver 1-14, 3-50, 51-52, 53-99, 100-102, 103-144, 145-146, 147-196, 1-4 pp. (106 leaves). 190 × 107 mm. contents: pp. 1-2 blank; p. 3 half title; p. 4 blank; p. 5 title; p. 6 [rule] | The portions of this Diary which have already appeared in The | Peterborough Examiner are reprinted by permission of the | publishers. | Copyright, Canada, 1947 | by CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | First published in paperback format, 1966 | Printed in Canada; p. 7 table of contents; p. 8 blank; p. 9 preface dated SAMUEL MARCHBANKS | Peterborough, 1966; p. 10 blank; p. 11 fly title; p. 12 blank; pp. 13-14, 3-196 text (pp. 52, 100, 102, and 146 blank); pp. 1-3 blank; p. 4 list of other books in the Clarke, Irwin Canadian Paperback series, CI 1 to CI 17, CI 19 to CI 23. text: In his new preface Davies notes in light of the fact that “some of the contents have lost pertinency” in the intervening years, he has revised the book, “and a substantial portion of what appears in this book is new matter.” See the notes for an explanation of revisions to the text. binding: Paperback, orange covers, perfect bound. Printed on the front cover: A CLARKE IRWIN PAPERBACK / $1.50 [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | [rule] | THE DIARY OF | Samuel | Marchbanks | [abstract, stylized drawing of a man’s face with moustache and beard (probably Davies’s alter ego, Samuel Marchbanks)] | Robertson Davies. Printed on the spine: THE DIARY | OF | SAMUEL | MARCHBANKS | DAVIES | [down the spine] THE DIARY OF SAMUEL MARCHBANKS | [rule] CI-18 | [rule]. There are two paragraphs on the back cover, one in white about the book, and the other about Davies. Cover design by Mort Walsh. notes: The contract for A4b is dated 4 December

1964 (copies at ohm and pend): 5% royalty on all copies. Davies returned the contract to Ruth DonCarlos, Robertson’s Executive Assistant, on 1 February 1965: “At present I am revising the Marchbanks book, a substantial part of which has become out-of-date,” he told her. “I am deleting the passages to which this applies and substituting material from other, and usually later, Marchbanks columns. I think that the result will be a greatly strengthened book and it might not be amiss when it appears to call it a revised edition. If that were so, I would be happy to write a short introduction — two or three hundred words — explaining why, and it is possible that this might be helpful to sales. Brought up-to-date, I think that the book will be as fresh as ever and might gain a new audience of young people. The revision will take a little time, but I gather that you are not in a tearing hurry. I expect to get it to you within a fortnight.” Davies returned a marked-up copy of A4a to DonCarlos on 31 May 1965. He deleted thirty-seven sections that had grown stale, substituting them with thirty-seven new ones. He also made minor changes in phraseology such as deleting the description of saints’ feast days (“Fistula the Stalagmite,” “Epicoenia,” “SS. Fiacre & Hanson,” and “Metabolism of St. Pancreas,” for example). Other references were brought up to date — “Noel Coward” changed to “Peter Sellers,” “I listen to the radio” changed to “I watch TV,” “Sinatra” changed to “The Beatles,” etc. The revised text was sent to the printers on 9 December 1965. A.L. Trippett of the Editorial Department sent proofs to Davies on10 January 1966. Davies returned them on 20 January 1966 with further revisions (“on pages 137, 146 and 168, where the material that I first sent you is, for one reason and another, completely unsuitable”) and four pages of corrections. He also sent two possible cover designs to DonCarlos on 14 February 1966, only to be informed on 18 March 1966 that they were unsuitable. Twelve author copies of A4b were sent to Davies on 11 April 1986. Number of copies printed not known. Davies received the following royalty payments: $63.68 in 1967; $58.35 in 1968; $15.62 in 1969; $18 in 1970; $20.10 in 1971; $24.75 in 1972; $14.75 in 1973; and $2.03 in 1974. 240 copies sold between 1 February 1969 and 31 January 1970. Both A4a and A4b were out of print in the spring of 1973. Clarke Irwin asked Davies to be patient on 28 November 1973 because the company was considering a reprinting in 1974. On 19 September 1977, Davies proposed a revision of the book. Clarke Irwin informed Davies on 28 May 1978 that A4 had just gone out of print. Information based on file 19, vol. 11, files 24 and 27, vol. 27, file 3, vol. 46, and file 11, box 104, Davies fonds, lac.



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copies examined: ohm (two copies).

A5  overlaid 1948 A5a  first edition: OVERLAID | A COMEDY | BY | ROBERTSON   DAVIES | Copyright 1948, by Samuel French | SAMUEL FRENCH (CANADA) | LIMITED | 480 University Avenue, Toronto | [next two lines in two columns with place of publication under each branch of the company] Samuel French Inc., Samuel French, Ltd., | New York, N.Y. London, Eng. 112. 1-3, 4-24 pp. (12 leaves). 187 × 124 mm. contents: p. 1 title; p. 2 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED [twenty-three lines concerning international copyright and fees ($5 for an amateur production; professional royalty on application)] | WARNING | [three lines reminding readers that copying of the play is forbidden] | Printed in Canada on Canadian paper by | J. H. Wakely, Oakville, on; pp. 3-24 text. binding: Bound in stiff, pale-brownish, creamcoloured paper, wire-stitched. On the front cover in black and orange is a series of solid, vertical and horizontal rectangular bands with the title, author’s name, publisher, publisher’s address, the series (Canadian Playwright Series), and an orange maple leaf. Printed on the spine: OVERLAID—Price Fifty Cents. On the back cover within two rectangles are descriptions of four plays by Lynn Riggs and Tom Taggart’s Four Women Only. On the versos of the covers within two rectangles are descriptions of plays in the Canadian Playwright Series. Also examined was the “second edition” printed by Crown Services in Toronto, which in fact is not a new edition at all but a second printing done in 1952. It is also wire-stitched and bound in stiff paper. The front cover is yellow, black, and green, and the spine and back cover are yellow. On the front cover is a series of solid, vertical and horizontal rectangular bands with the title, author’s name, publisher, publisher’s address, the series, and a green maple leaf. Printed on the spine: OVERLAID—Price Sixty Cents. On the back cover within an ornamental rectangle are descriptions of three other plays published by Samuel French (Canada) Limited. notes: Set in rural Ontario, Overlaid, Davies’s most frequently performed play, is concerned with a family’s conflicting values. A seventy-year-old farmer named Pop is listening to a Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast in his kitchen in Smith township. During

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the intermission, an insurance agent arrives on the scene and announces that Pop’s policy has matured with a windfall of $1,200. Pop wishes to use the money on a wild spending spree in New York City whereas his conservative daughter, Ethel, wants to buy a granite headstone for a proper family plot in the local cemetery. Davies read the first draft, entitled “Intermission Time,” to his colleague, Tyrone Guthrie, the English stage director, during the Christmas season, 1945. On Guthrie’s advice, he expanded Ethel’s part and changed the play’s ending so that her viewpoint prevails. After failing to place the play with CBC’s radio “Stage” series, Davies submitted it under the pseudonym Cymro (Welshman) to the Ottawa Drama League Workshop’s competition for Canadian one-act plays. In May 1946 he was informed that he had won the competition and had beaten out forty-six other contenders in doing so. Thirty-five years later, Davies told Susan Blackburn-Stone, the author of Robertson Davies, Playwright (1985), on 17 February 1981: “the adjudicator, whose name was Charles Rittenhouse, wrote a report in which he said that it was ‘fit to stand beside the best of E.P. Conkle.’ Who, I wondered, was Conkle? Eventually I discovered from [Samuel] French’s Catalogue that he was a man who wrote plays especially for Boy Scouts. I was not pleased.” In 1947-8 Overlaid was performed by the Ottawa Drama League in the Eastern Drama Festival, the Peterborough Little Theatre, the Montreal Repertory Theatre, a theatre group in Kamloops, the Detroit Players, and CBC   Radio. The play’s popularity with little theatre in Canada has remained almost unabated in the ensuing years. Having been rebuffed in 1945 by Clarke Irwin’s lack of interest in publishing his plays, Davies approached the Canadian branch of Samuel French in Toronto on 24 March 1947. He told the publisher about the play’s success and inquired whether French would publish the play and take care of royalty arrangements for stage performances. Mona Coxwell, the head of Samuel French (Canada), wanted to oversee the royalty arrangements for Davies’s plays, but she could not promise that Overlaid would be published without approval of the New York office. While in New York City in September, she had read a favourable report on the play prepared by the Assistant to the Editor, Garrett Leverton. Davies had planned to send the manuscript of his play, “Eros at Breakfast,” to Samuel French (Canada), but the company’s delaying tactics greatly annoyed him. Coxwell informed him that she had the approval of the New York office on 27 November 1947. A5a’s contract at pend is dated 8 December 1947: a royalty of 10% on all copies sold and a pro-

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duction fee of $5. Davies returned three copies of the signed contract on 9 December 1947. There was also a verbal understanding between Coxwell and Davies that Samuel French would be responsible for the royalty arrangements of all of Davies’s plays. Davies complained repeatedly in 1948 about Samuel French (Canada)’s slowness in publishing Overlaid. “They have been fiddling with that play for well over a year without getting it in print,” he told Janet McPhee on 22 April 1948, who inquired about the production fee for the Montreal Repertory Theatre, “and yet they seem to think that they should collect royalties on performances which they cannot do anything to assist.” The play was finally published sometime after 25 September 1948. Number of copies printed not known. By this time, Clarke Irwin was planning to include the play in A6. In early January 1949 Davies sent copies of “Fortune, My Foe,” “The Voice of the People,” “Hope Deferred,” and “At the Gates of the Righteous” to Samuel French (Canada) for its consideration. Coxwell offered to list the plays in French’s catalogues and to take care of production rights on the same basis as Overlaid ($5 for one-act plays, $15 for “Fortune, My Foe”). Davies deferred his decision because of the publication of A5 and Clarke Irwin’s apparent interest in promoting his career as a playwright. When Coxwell suggested to Davies on 14 June 1949 that for the America market the title, Overlaid, was a poor choice as the name of a play and that the word, “overlaid,” should be completely replaced by another word, Davies finally decided on 20 June 1949 that it was much better if Clarke Irwin handled the production fees of his other plays rather than to involve Samuel French any longer. Coxwell had informed him: “we have not had as many inquiries with regard to its release [Overlaid] as we had anticipated. However, it is our experience that a play must appear in at least a second and sometimes a third catalogue before it impressed itself on Canadian producing groups.” Frustrated by his experience with Samuel French (Canada), Davies told R.W.W. Robertson of Clarke Irwin on 25 June 1949 that “the hold of Samuel French over plays in this country is not altogether a healthy one, and I think that it might be a good thing if a few plays were in other hands.” Information based on: files 20-9, vol. 1 (manuscripts), and files 2 and 14, vol. 80, Davies fonds, lac; and file 22, box 103 and file 1, box 104, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm. A5a has been reprinted in the following: A6; A23; B35; Stanley Richards, ed., Canada on Stage: A Collection of One-Act Plays (Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1960), pp. 36-57; William S. Milne, ed., Curtain Rising: Seven OneAct Plays (Toronto: Longmans, Green, 1958), pp. 137-

59, with questions about the play at pp. 190-1; Philip Penner and John McGechaen, Canadian Reflections: An Anthology of Canadian Prose (Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1964), pp. 220-38; Eugene Benson, ed., Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media (Toronto: Methuen, 1973), pp. 12-29; Andrew Parkin and John Stevens, eds., Stage One: A Canadian Scenebook (Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1973), pp. 111-20; John Stevens, ed., Ten Canadian Short Plays (New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1975), pp. 87-104; Lionel Wilson, ed., The Artist in Canadian Literature (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1976), pp. 47-67; and Edward Peck, ed., Transitions I: Short Plays: A Source Book of Canadian Literature (Vancouver: Commcept Publishing Limited, 1978), pp. 3-18. copies examined: davis (first and second printings); lac (second printing); ohm (defective copy of first printing, pp. 9 and 16 blank, rubber-stamped 50¢ on the maple leaf of the cover); okq (first printing); otmc (first printing). A5b  second edition [1981?]: [cover title:] Overlaid ROBERTSON DAVIES | [two columns consisting of the names of the three characters in the play and the setting of the play, followed by text; at the bottom of the two columns:] | Overlaid, Copyright 1948 by Robertson Davies, reprinted with the permission of Samuel | French (Canada) Ltd., 80 Richmond Street East, Toronto, Ontario M5C 1P1 | [shield containing the next five lines] BOOK | SOCIETY | SELECT | YOUR | OWN | [next two lines to the right of the shield] A Book Society SEARCHLIGHT 327 | Editor: Stanley Sparkes | No part of this publication may be photocopied or otherwise reproduced without the Publishers’ permission. [page number] 1 1-11, 1 pp. (6 leaves including covers). 274 × 211 mm. Text on pp. 1-8. Information about the author and notes on p. 9; questions on pp. 9-10; further reading on pp. 10-11. Back cover on p. 12. binding: Plain white paper stock, the same as the text, wire-stitched and punch-holed on the left-hand side. Printed on the back cover: [the next eighteen lines within a rectangle] CAUTION | All rights reserved. | Copyright 1948, by Robertson Davies. | [next fifteen lines concerning copyright and production of the play controlled by Samuel French (Canada) Ltd.] | A publication of | THE BOOK SOCIETY OF CANADA LIMITED | AGINCOURT CANADA | © THE BOOK SOCIETY OF A CANADA LIMITED, 1981 | [next three lines within a small oval with a short vertical



A6 Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays. 1949

lines at the left-hand of the oval; rounded] PRINTED | IN | [rounded] CANADA | [to the right of the previous lines: 1 2 3 4 5 85 84 83 82 81. notes: Although the copyright date suggests that A5b was published in 1981, the earliest mention of this publication in the Book Society of Canada Limited fonds is 1 April 1985. Irwin Publishing (re-named as such in 1984 after the Book Society purchased the assets of Clarke Irwin) announced publication (ISBN 0-7720-0443-0, $2.95, but the price was $1.25 in the 1990s and $2 in 2000) of A5b for distribution through the Saskatchewan Book Bureau. At the time, A5b was authorized by three provincial departments of education. 1,000 copies of A5b had sold in one year, but it was temporarily out of stock a year after publication. Irwin Publishing in fact considered publication of a number of Davies’s plays at a trade meeting on 6 May 1986. The minutes state: “Decide at Education Meeting on reprints and possible rights acquisitions. Trade to consider edition of selected plays with financial assistance, only if to secure other property.” Kate Revington prepared plot summaries of his plays and made inquiries about the relevance of Davies as a playwright. She consulted with Ron Cameron, a Sheridan College theatre instructor, and the critic Urjo Kareda. She concluded that Davies was a pioneer of the Canadian theatre, but was out of the mainstream of playwrights who had emerged since Canada’s Centennial. Davies received a royalty of 10% on all copies sold. 437 copies sold in 1987 and 232 in 1988, for example. In February 1988 Irwin Publishing merged with General Publishing. A5b sold 159 copies in 1989 (earning $14.31) and 81 copies in 1990 (earning $9.72). A5b was still in print in the 1990s and 2000. 364 copies sold between 1991 and 1995, earning a royalty of $58.49. 643 copies sold in 1996 (royalty of $136.95). 46 copies sold in 1997 (royalty of $9.89), 302 copies sold in 1999 (royalty $75.25), and 8 copies in 2000. Information on the publishing history of A5b is based on: royalty reports at pend; file 11, box 64, Book Society of Canada Limited fonds, ohm; and file 36, vol. 48, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: oregon.

A6  eros at breakfast and other plays 1949 EROS AT BREAKFAST | AND OTHER PLAYS | By | ROBERTSON DAVIES | With an Introduction by | TYRONE GUTHRIE | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript,

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all within a rounded rectangle] | Toronto | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | 1949 1-9 8. i-iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix-xiv, 1-2, 3-29, 30-32, 33-54, 5556, 57-77, 78-80, 81-101, 102-104, 105-129, 1 pp. (72 leaves). 204 × 134 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii blank; p. iii title; p. iv COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1949 | by clarke, irwin & company limited | Printed in Canada; p. v table of contents; p. vi Inquiries about the production of these plays should be | addressed to Samuel French Limited, 480 University | Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.; p. vii list of illustrations (photographs of stage productions between pp. 26 and 27, 62 and 63, and 84 and 85); p. viii blank; pp. ix-xiv Tyrone Guthrie’s introduction, dated 21 February 1949; pp. 1-129 text (pp. 30, 78, and 102 blank); p. 1 blank. text: Eros at Breakfast: A Psychosomatic Interlude; The Voice of the People; Hope Deferred; Overlaid; At the Gates of the Righteous. binding and dust jacket: Bound in black cloth, having a recessed, solid red rectangle stamped on the upper board and with the following embossed within the rectangle: [raised o] EroS · AT · BREAK~ | FAST · and other plays | [raised o] RoBERTSoN · DAVIES. Stamped in red on the spine: EROS | AT BREAK | FAST | and | other | plays | DAVIES | Clarke | Irwin. The front and spine panels of the dust jacket feature a colour illustration signed by Grant Macdonald. On the front panel are the title on a scroll and the author’s name on a shield, both on the proscenium of a stage and above the characters of a play in progress with several playgoers seated in wing seats. The spine panel has a grey background with the title in pink and white, the author’s surname in pink, an illustration within a yellow compartment of a harlequin playing a stringed instrument, and the publisher’s name in white. The back panel has a black-and-white photograph of Davies, a paragraph about Davies becoming “the triple threat man of Canadian letters” (editor of the Peterborough Examiner, author of The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, and successful playwright), and the publisher’s name in red. On the flaps in black and red are the book’s title, the names of Davies and Guthrie, the price ($2.50), a list of Davies’s other books, and four paragraphs about Marchbanks and Davies’s contribution to the theatre in Canada. notes: As early as 17 September 1944, Davies attempted to interest Clarke Irwin in publishing his plays. He told W.H. Clarke: “The theatre is my prime interest in life, and my eventual aim and hope is to be a play-

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wright.” But Clarke returned Davies’s plays to him and informed him on 26 June 1945 that it was quite unrealistic for Davies to expect publication in the foreseeable future. “Eros at Breakfast: A Psychosomatic Interlude” is a comedy that takes place in the solar plexus of Mr. P.S. (Psyche and Soma). Written in the fall of 1946 (manuscript dated 18 November 1946), Davies submitted the play to the Ottawa Drama League’s playwriting competition in May 1947 under the pseudonym of Phelim. Not only did Davies’s play win the competition, but its production by the League’s Workshop Group also won the Fulford Shield for the best one-act production at the Eastern Ontario Drama Festival in February 1948 and the Barry Jackson Challenge Trophy at the Dominion Drama Festival (DDF) in May 1948. The DDF sent the cast of the Ottawa Drama League to perform “Eros at Breakfast” at the Edinburgh Festival in September of that year. Davies and his wife attended the Festival, and he wrote reports of the play’s reception in Edinburgh (see C49.49-50). Samuel French (Canada) turned down the publication of “Eros at Breakfast” on 3 December 1947. On   1 April 1948, Clarke Irwin’s editor, R.W.W. Robertson, prepared an internal report on three plays that Davies had submitted for publication: “Eros at Breakfast,” “Hope Deferred” (manuscript sent to Dora Mavor Moore on 11 May 1945; play produced on 21 May 1945), and “Overlaid.” Robertson was uncertain of their literary or dramatic merit, but the actor John Gielgud had read them and considered them to be good theatre. Robertson returned the three plays to Davies on 5 May 1948 and told him that “if the other two plays which you plan are up to the standard of these three, then the book will be a very satisfactory one indeed.” Encouraged by Robertson’s remarks, Davies suggested that his friend, the director Tyrone Guthrie, could write an introduction to the plays instead of Gielgud. On 9 June 1948, Davies informed Robertson that he hoped to include six plays in the book. He began and abandoned a play entitled “The Man Who Had No Personality.” He then decided to complete a comedy he had begun some time earlier, “The Voice of the People” (manuscript dated 14 June 1948), about a man who attempts to write a letter to a newspaper. On 22 June 1948, Guthrie agreed to write an introduction to the plays. On 28 June 1948, Davies sent Robertson typescripts of seven plays. In addition to the three that Robertson had already seen, Davies sent “Coping with Babylon,” “A Play of Our Lord’s Nativity” (based on the traditional Coventry Nativity Play), “At the Gates of the Righteous,” and “The Voice of the People.” He was already thinking of the design

for the dust jacket and had recommended Grant Macdonald to Robertson. The final decision as to the contents of the book was made in early July 1948. Guthrie sent his introduction to Davies on 27 July 1948 (200 words were cut by Davies due to references to Davies’s family). The contract at pend is dated 13 July 1948: 10% on the first 2,500 copies sold, 12½% from 2,500 to 4,000 copies, and 15% thereafter (sent to Davies on 29 July 1948 and signed and returned by him on 17 August 1948). Robertson sent galleys 1-19 to Davies on 4 February 1949 and galleys 20 to 31 three days later. Davies returned the corrected proofs a day later. A dummy for the book was sent to Macdonald on 21 February 1949. Page proofs were sent to Davies on 23 February 1949 (returned by Davies a day later). Robertson informed Davies on 7 March that the book “went to press today exactly on schedule and since it is a comparatively short book we do not now anticipate any difficulty in having bound copies ready by the end of this month in plenty of time for the [Dominion] Drama Festival.” Davies sent Robertson a statement about the state of Canadian theatre on 14 March 1949 to be placed on the jacket, but Robertson told him on 17 March 1949 that the promotion people at Clarke Irwin had chosen other material that had reference to The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks. A proof of the jacket was sent to Macdonald on 23 March 1949 (paid $100 for his work). The first copies of the book arrived at Clarke Irwin on 30 March 1949. When Davies received his author’s copies, he told Robertson on 1 April 1949: “I am delighted with the way in which you have produced the book. It has the dash and style which I think are essential for a book of this kind ... Eros at Breakfast has plenty of zip, and Grant Macdonald’s jacket suggests that there are good things within.” Published on 22 April 1949 in Granjon 12 point. The production card in the Clarke Irwin fonds (box 79) at ohm records the following information: Colonial Text paper, $144.38; composition by Deyell, $178.20; captions by Cooper and Beatty, $5.94; setting of prelims, captions, paging, etc. by Deyell, $78.84; printing by Deyell, $194.36; printing of jackets by Deyell, $75.60; binding by Deyell, $538.90; Reliance seven half tones, $62.53; Reliance jacket plates and binder’s stamping, $183.16; artwork by Grant Macdonald $125. Unit cost $.97. 1,636 copies printed (1,500 copies on 14 March 1949 and 136 copies on 30 April 1949), delivered between 29 March and 10 May 1949. Work carried out between 7 February and 30 April 1949. $25 was paid to Samuel French (Canada) Limited in March 1949 to reprint “Overlaid.” Guthrie was paid 20 guineas for his introduction on 22 March



A7 Fortune, My Foe. 1949

1949. Net sales to 31 January of each year up to 17 October 1957 were as follows: remainder of 1949, 457 copies; 1950, 446 copies; 1951, 148 copies; 1952, 66 copies; 1953, 113 copies; 1954, 64 copies; 1955, 80 copies; 1956, 48 copies; 1957, 42 copies; remainder of 1957, 26 copies (1,490 copies sold in all). On 6 May 1949, Robertson congratulated Davies on “earning the most marvellous reviews.” Reviews in newspapers such as the Saskatoon Star Phoenix and Winnipeg Free Press were glowing. The British publisher George G. Harrap & Company Limited declined publication on 15 July 1949. When Davies complained to Robertson on 14 February 1951 that the public was confused as to whether Samuel French (Canada) or Clarke Irwin controlled the performing and production rights in the plays, Robertson informed him on 21 February 1951 that he was going to print a small sticker to place in the remaining 480 copies of A6: “Inquiries about the production of the play in this volume, with the exception of Overlaid, should be addressed to the publishers, Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited 103 St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario.” Although Robertson considered a reprint of A6 on 22 January 1954 when the stock was getting low, the book went out of print on 16 October 1957. See also A30. “Hope Deferred” is reprinted in A95 and B38. “The Voice of the People” is reprinted in: A29; D.P. McGarity, ed., Upstage and Down (Toronto: Macmillan, 1968), pp. 68-91; and Henry Beissel, ed., Cues and Entrances: Ten Canadian One-Act Plays (Toronto: Gage Educational Publishing Company, 1977), pp. 1-14. Information about the publication of A6 is based on the following archival sources: file 6, box 21, files 5, 15, 19, and 22, box 103 and files 1 and 4, box 104, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; files 3-5, 12-25, vol. 2 (manuscripts), file 12, vol. 45, file 16, vol. 78, file 1, vol. 79, and file 1, vol. 81, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm (three copies in jacket); okq (three copies, one in jacket); otmc (two copies, one in jacket).

A7  fortune, my foe 1949 FORTUNE, MY FOE | By | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | Toronto | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | 1949 1-6 8 7 4. 1-6, 3-39, 40, 41-99, 1 pp. (52 leaves). 204 × 134 mm.

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contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1949 | by clarke, irwin & company limited | Printed in Canada; p. 5 fly title; p. 6 cast of characters; pp. 3-99 text (p. 40 blank); p. 1 Idris Rowland’s Song (music and lyrics). binding and dust jacket: Bound in stiff-paper wrappers. The top part of the front cover and spine are white with lettering and illustration in red; the bottom part of the front cover and spine are red with lettering and illustration in white. Stamped on the front of the wrapper: [wavy, red rule] | [in red; swash F] Fortune, | [in red; several swash letters] My Foe | [in red] ê A PLAY ê | [wavy, red rule] | [remaining lines in white against a red background] | Robertson | Davies | [in bottom right-hand corner] WEYMAN. Printed on the spine: [wavy, red rule, extending from the front cover; in red down the spine] davies [swash F and M] Fortune, My Foe [wavy, red rule, extending from the front cover; in white down the spine] clarke irwin. The rest of the wrapper is glossy white. The front and spine panels of the dust jacket are the same as the front cover and spine of the wrapper. The remaining panels of the jacket are white with black lettering. On the back panel of the jacket are excerpts from newspaper reviews of A6 with the heading: Critics acclaim | EROS AT BREAKFAST | AND OTHER PLAYS | By | ROBERTSON DAVIES. On the flaps of the jacket are the title, the author’s name, the price ($1.50), and two paragraphs about Davies and Fortune, My Foe excerpted from Robert Speaight’s “Canadian Impressions,” Tablet (9 July 1949). notes: This play was written by Davies in a period of six to eight weeks during the summer of 1948 while he was covering the Liberal Party’s national convention for the Peterborough Examiner. He finished it rather hurriedly on 13 August 1948 in order to meet a production schedule. The action occurs in James Steele’s drinking establishment near Kingston, on (Steele is a bootlegger). The play concerns a number of themes, in particular the role of the arts in Canada, the indifference of the public to the plight of artists, and the unfortunate loss of talented young Canadians to the United States. Many of the play’s characters such as Edward Weir and Idris Rowlands were based on people whom Davies knew. The play was first performed in Kingston by Arthur Sutherland’s International Players between 31 August and 4 September 1948. Davies directed, Grant Macdonald created the sets, and Brenda Davies was the stage manager. See “‘Fortune My Foe’ Gets Premiere Before Enthusiastic Audience,” Kingston Whig Standard, 1 September 1948, p. 3. Much to Davies’s annoyance, an adaptation by Lister Sinclair

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appeared on CBC’s “Stage” series on 17 October. The play won the Eastern Ontario Regional Drama Festival in Brockville in February 1949, and at the Dominion Drama Festival finals, it was awarded the Gratien Gélinas Prize for the best Canadian play. The play was televised by the CBC in 1953. By 1967 the play had logged more than 100 productions. Clarke Irwin’s editor, R.W.W. Robertson, had read about the play’s successful staging in the Toronto Globe and Mail. He asked Davies to send him a copy of it on 9 September 1948. Robertson’s reader’s report, written on 28 October 1948, was very critical of the play, however. He considered the conflicts to be slight and unoriginal, the characters shadowy, the women unpleasant, and the love scenes terrible. In Robertson’s opinion, Davies was so caught up in satire that he lost sight of his main theme entirely. He returned the manuscript to Davies on 5 November 1948, and suggested that perhaps it could be incorporated into A6. Robertson changed his mind about the play’s potential during the 1949 Dominion Drama Festival. The Globe and Mail had once again touted Davies’s success (his production and direction of “The Taming of the Shrew”), and Robertson advised W.H. Clarke on 3 May 1949 to publish Fortune, My Foe in order to capitalize on Davies’s popularity. Davies sent the manuscript back to Robertson on 3 May 1949. He requested Robertson “to strike while the iron is hot,” and he suggested that Grant Macdonald’s design for the setting be used as an illustration. “You may take it for certain that we shall go ahead with the publication and if present plans work out it will appear in August,” Robertson assured Davies on 6 May 1949. He sent Davies’s manuscript to the printers, hoping to capture the educational market at Queen’s University and Trinity College. Davies returned the contract (copy at pend dated 2 May 1949) to Robertson on 28 May 1949: a royalty of 10% on the first 2,500 copies sold, 12½% from 2,500 to 4,000 copies, and 15% thereafter. Clarke Irwin controlled the dramatic rights with a 20% cut of permission fees for all performances. On 30 May 1949, Davies proposed to Robertson the following set of fees: $35 for each initial performance, $15 for each subsequent performance, $110 for six performances or $80 for a week. At the time, the play was being produced by Michael Sadlier’s Peterborough Summer Theatre, and eight performances were staged during the week of 24 June 1949. Robertson sent galleys (1-26) to Davies on 5 July 1949. Davies returned them two days later. He changed a few words to improve the text and made references to Don Quixote. Robertson informed Da-

vies on 11 July 1949 that the play would be bound in paper to give the appearance of a players’ and educational edition. Page proofs were sent to Davies on 29 July 1949, but the printer Deyell was closed for its annual summer holiday, and as a result the book went to press sometime after 8 August 1949. Davies’s music (Idris Rowland’s Song) was turned over to a professional copyist, John Cozens, for engraving. Davies sent Robertson a quotation about the play from Robert Speaight (“one of the best-informed critics of the theatre which has visited Canada in a long time”) on 9 August. Frederick Weyman was paid $15 for his jacket design on 24 August 1949. The production card for the book in the Clarke Irwin fonds has the following information: De Luxe Egg paper, $66.38; composition by Deyell, $140.40; corrections, prelims and paging by Deyell, $44.28; printing by Deyell, $159.84; binding, including jackets, by Deyell, $294.08; Reliance halftone, $11.70; Reliance setting of the music and the zinc engraving, $17; artwork on the jacket by Frederick Weyman, $15; Reliance jacket plate, $14.97. Unit cost 48¢. 1,590 copies were printed; they were delivered between 14 and 19 October 1949. All work on the edition was carried out between 6 July and 21 October 1949. Davies told Robertson on 26 October 1949 that he was much impressed by “the appearance of the book of Fortune, My Foe. I very much like the soft cover, as I told you, and the general form of the book seems to me to be most suitable and pleasing.” Copies were still in print as late as 1961-2 (43 copies sold between 1 February 1961 and 31 January 1962; $1.50 each with a royalty of 15¢ per copy ($6.45)). Net sales to 31 January of each year up to 17 October 1957 were as follows: 1950, 533 copies; 1951, 216 copies; 1952, 44 copies; 1953, 69 copies; 1954, 65 copies; 1955, 54 copies; 1956, 62 copies; 1957, 17 copies; remainder of 1957, 20 copies (1,080 copies sold in all). An excerpt of A7 is reprinted in Mavor Moore, ed., 4 Canadian Playwrights: Robertson Davies Gratien Gélinas James Reaney George Ryga (Toronto: Holt, Rinehart & Winston of Canada, Limited, 1973), pp. 17-31. See also A30. Information on the publishing history of A7 is based on the following sources: file 6, box 21, files 5 and 22, box 103, files 1 and 9-10, box 104, and box 79, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; files 7-11, vol. 2 (manuscripts), file 13, vol. 44, file 25, vol. 45, file 12, vol. 53, and files 6-7, vol. 79, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm (three copies in jacket); okq (two copies in jacket, one rebound); otmc (two copies, one in jacket).



A8 The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks. 1949

A8  the table talk of samuel marchbanks 1949 A8a  first Canadian edition: THE TABLE TALK OF | SAMUEL MARCHBANKS | BY | ROBERTSON DAVIES | Decorations by | CLAIR STEWART | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | Toronto | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | 1949 1-16 8. i-iv, v-vi, 1-4, 3-248 pp. (128 leaves). 197 × 135 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii list of six books by Davies, the first being The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks and the last Shakespeare’s Boy Actors; p. iii title; p. iv copyright, canada, 1949 | by clarke, irwin & company limited | Printed in Canada; pp. v-vi “The Nature and Use of this Book,” signed at the end: Samuel Marchbanks | The Deipnosophists Club | September 1, 1949.; p. 1 table of contents; p. 2 blank; p. 3 fly title; p. 4 blank; pp. 3-248 text. text: The text is comprised of seven parts corresponding to a seven-course meal: Soup; Fish; Entrée; The Remove; Sweet; Savoury; and Dessert. Within each course, Marchbanks’s dinner talk is arranged under distinct headings in italics. binding and dust jacket: Bound in red cloth (variations in colour shadings among different copies). Stamped in silver on the spine: DAVIES | [down the spine] THE TABLE TALK OF SAMUEL MARCHBANKS | CLARKE | IRWIN. The front and spine panels of the dust jacket are light yellow with the back panel and flaps in white. On the front and spine panels of the jacket is an illustration in black and green with red flecks, signed by Clair Stewart. The illustration on the front panel consists of leafy ornaments, the title and Davies’s full name in different styles of ornamental type, and a large bowl of fruit, vegetables and a lobster, flanked with a hanging duck, fish, bottles, and glasses. Printed on the spine panel: DAVIES | [rule] | THE | TABLE TALK | OF | SAMUEL | MARCHBANKS | [illustration of three lit candles on a chandelier; rule] | CLARKE IRWIN. On the back panel in red and black are excerpts from newspaper reviews (“Some Opinions of”) of A4a, the price of the A4a, the publisher’s name, and place of publication. On the flaps of the jacket in red and black are the book’s title, the names of the author and illustrator, the price ($2.75), and five paragraphs on the critical success of the Diary, its reception by the literati, and the importance of Marchbanks’s sequel, “enlightened by the gleam of wit and the play of epigram.”

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notes: Davies discussed the publication of a new Marchbanks book with Clarke Irwin’s editor R.W.W. Robertson in May 1948. Robertson informed W.H. Clarke on 27 May 1948 that Davies hoped to have the book ready by April 1949. Davies began the work on his new book on 12 January 1949. He submitted the manuscript on 12 May. Robertson “read it immediately and happily” on 17 May. He passed it on to Clarke and his wife, and he promised to make critical remarks once they had finished reading it. Davies was worried that certain parts of the book might give offence for their lewd character, but Robertson assured him on 20 May 1949 not to be worried on that account. He sent Davies a contract (dated 16 May 1949, copy at pend), pointed out that certain sections repeated parts already covered in the Diary, and requested new entries to replace the repetitive ones. At the time Davies must also have been in contact with the Macmillan Company of Canada because there is a contract for the book, dated 16 May 1949, in the company’s archives (file 7, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm). Clair Stewart was invited to do the decorations and the jacket on 26 May. Davies sent Robertson fifty-six additional entries on 30 May 1949; these were selections from his Marchbanks columns that he had written in the first five months of 1949. Robertson told Davies on 1 June 1949 that the additional entries were “a sheer delight,” and he praised their “timeliness and ... topicality.” Davies sent additional entries to Robertson as late as 2 June 1949. In all, the manuscript comprised 76,296 words. The manuscript was sent to Maracle Printing Co. for composition on 24 June 1949 (Baskerville type, 11 point on 12). Sample pages were supplied the following week. Since Davies was scheduled to fly to England on 1 September to attend the Ottawa Drama League’s production of “Eros at Breakfast” at the Edinburgh Festival, Robertson planned to have galley proofs of A8a for Davies’s scrutiny before his trip. Davies received batches of proofs between 17 and 24 August. He corrected and then returned them on 26 August. A set of galleys was also sent to Rinehart & Company (John S. Lamont) on 24 August, but the American publisher declined publication (Farrar also declined publication sometime after 29 March 1950). Having seen Stewart’s rough design of the jacket, Davies told Robertson on 29 August 1949 that it was “very handsome” and matched up well with the jacket of the Diary. Corrected galleys were sent to Maracle for paging on 30 August. Davies was sent page proofs on 28 September 1949. Robertson informed him: “The book is going to press almost immediately but I think there is time for any

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last-minute changes you wish to make.” Clarke removed one entry from the book because he foresaw that it would hurt the chances of American publication; apparently, it was the same lewd entry that had moved Davies to express concern to Robertson. The corrected page proofs went to Maracle on 7 October, and the corrected proof of the jacket was returned to Maracle on 27 October. Davies instructed Robertson on 26 October to deliver 300 copies to the Peterborough Examiner so that they could be sent out as a piece of publicity in connection with the newspaper’s diary column by Marchbanks. A few token copies were delivered to Davies on 31 October. 100 copies were sent to him on 10 November for autographing; he returned them to Clarke Irwin on 16 November. Robertson informed Davies on 13 December that book was selling very well and that many orders had been taken from Simpson’s, Tyrell’s, and Eaton’s. In celebration of the book’s publication, Clarke Irwin hosted a dinner with music and charades at the Granite Club in Toronto on 27 January 1950. Clarke told Davies about the book’s success on 3 April 1950: Let me assure you that in so far as the reception of THE TABLE TALK would give us an indication, your public is still eager for more. Within the first three months of publication we have sold approximately 3,055 copies of THE TABLE TALK, as compared with 3,078 copies of THE DIARY, and the continuing interest in THE DIARY is shown by the fact that since THE TABLE TALK appeared we have sold 445 copies of THE DIARY. We are already thinking about next Christmas, and I have in mind the possibility of offering a boxed set of two volumes, or even four volumes, at an attractive price

A boxed set of A4a (second reprint) and A8a appeared sometime after October 1954. G.I. Clarke ordered 1,000 spine labels for the set on 21 and 29 September of that year. Only a few copies of A8a sold annually between 1961 and 1973 (the book probably went out of print at that time): four copies in 1961, $1.38 royalty; $12 royalty in 1968; $4.13 royalty in 1969; $4.13 royalty, 1970; $6.60 royalty, 1971; $9.90 royalty, 1972; and $7.84 royalty, 1973. The production card in the Clarke Irwin fonds contains the following information about the book’s publication: Dovedown paper, $660.75; composition by Maracle, $835.92; printing, folding and gathering by Maracle, $1,087.65; binding by Maracle, $1,1791.42; Reliance, seven zinc illustrations, $28.58; Reliance jacket, $47.04; Reliance stamps on boards, $10.18; artwork by Stewart, $275. Printed in an edition of 5,924 copies. The work was carried out between 5 Oc-

tober and 5 December 1949. Copies were delivered to Clarke Irwin between 1 November and 13 December 1949. Information on A8a’s publishing history is based on the following sources: files 5 and 21-2, box 103, files 1 and 4, box 104 and box 79, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; file 8, vol. 46, file 12, vol. 53, file 40, vol. 79, and file 8, vol. 81, Davies fonds, lac. File 35, vol. 82 of the Davies fonds contains the edited typescript. Excerpts of A8a have been reprinted in the following: “Nursing Family” in Eric Duthie, Father’s Bedside Book (London: Heinemann, 1960), pp. 140-2; Herbert Mayes, An Editor’s Treasury (New York: Atheneum, 1968), vol. 2, p. 1232; and “Of Antisepsis,” “Of the Doughnut,” “Of Male Cooks,” and “Of Quaint and Curious Dishes” in Margaret Atwood, The Canlit Foodbook: From Pen to Palate — A Collection of Tasty Literary Fare (Toronto: Totem Books, 1987), pp. 61, 127, 129, and 143. See also A69. copies examined: ohm (three copies in jacket); okq (two copies, one in jacket); otmc (two copies in jacket, one in a red box with the second printing in jacket of A4a); pend (seven copies in jacket). A8a.1  English issue (1951): The Table Talk of | SAMUEL | MARCHBANKS | By | ROBERTSON DAVIES | With a Foreword by | SIR NORMAN BIRKETT | Illustrations by | CLAIR STEWART | 1951 | Chatto & Windus | LONDON A8 B-Q8 [$1 signed]. i-iv, v-viii, 1-248 pp. (128 leaves). 199 × 129 mm. A8a.1 was reproduced by photo-offset from the sheets of A8a. The text on pp. 3-248 is identical to A8a with the addition of the signatures on the first page of each gathering. The preliminary leaves consist of the following: p. i half title; p. ii blank; p. iii title; p. iv Published by | CHATTO & WINDUS | LONDON | PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN | BY BUTLER & TANNER, LTD. | FROME, SOMERSET | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED; pp. v-vii Birkett’s foreword; p. viii table of contents; pp. 1-2 “The Nature and Use of this Book,” signed at the end: Samuel Marchbanks | The Deipnosophists Club | September 1, 1949. binding and dust jacket: Bound in red cloth with the following stamped in gilt on the spine: THE TABLE | TALK OF | SAMUEL | MARCH- | BANKS | * | Robertson | Davies | CHATTO | & | WINDUS. The dust jacket is pale tan with printing primarily in red. The front panel is as follows: [unless stated otherwise, all lines in red within a rectangular compartment (a red rectangle on the outside; small gold squares, each containing a white asterisk, in rectangular



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formation; a red ornamental rectangle; and a gold rectangle inside] The Table Talk of | [next two lines in gold] SAMUEL | MARCHBANKS | by | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [gold diamond-shaped ornament] | With a Foreword by | The Rt. Hon. | SIR NORMAN BIRKETT | [gold illustration of a barrel of wine, grapes, a goblet, etc.]. Printed on the spine panel: [all lines in red except the ornament] THE TABLE TALK | OF | SAMUEL | MARCH- | BANKS | [gold diamond-shaped ornament] | ROBERTSON | DAVIES | CHATTO | & | WINDUS. On the back panel are advertisements for Aubrey Menen’s The Backward Bride, Elspeth Huxley’s I Don’t Mind If I Do, and Frederick Buechner’s A Long Day’s Dying. The front flap has the title of the book, Davies’s name, a paragraph about Marchbanks and his creator, a paragraph from Birkett’s foreword, and the price (10s 6d). The back flap is blank. notes: In February 1950 D.L. McCarthy, a prominent barrister in Toronto, contacted Davies and informed him that Sir Norman Birkett, the president of the British Book League, admired A8a immensely. Davies sent Birkett a copy of A4a on 10 February 1950, and Birkett told him on 13 March 1950: “I have read the Diary with the same enjoyment which the Table Talk afforded me.” Davies told his Canadian publisher W.H. Clarke on 20 March 1950 that Birkett was trying to interest various parties in England about the Marchbanks books. Davies’s English literary agent Stephen Aske had been unable to get A4a published. Clarke did not lose time in sending the Marchbanks books to Harold Raymond of Chatto & Windus. “Davies has, to some extent at least, taken [Stephen] Leacock’s place in Canadian humour,” he boasted to Raymond on 17 February 1950. Clarke also told Davies on 22 March 1950: “What remains, therefore, is the possibility of Chatto, or some other enterprising publisher, doing his own edition from the ground up, and there is a reasonably good chance of that now that we have an influential friend in the Royal Courts!” Initially, Raymond had decided to decline A8a.1 because a book of random jottings was too difficult to sell to readers. Clarke’s enthusiasm coupled with Birkett’s endorsement enhanced the possibility of publication substantially. Ian Parsons and Norah Smallwood then read out extracts of the book to Raymond. Their spontaneous laughter led to Raymond’s decision that Chatto & Windus could publish the book if A8a.1 used A8a’s setting of type to reduce the cost of composition. Chatto & Windus agreed to publication of A8a.1 on 22 March 1950. Birkett was asked to write a foreword to A8a.1 at that time (completed by Birkett on 9 July 1950). Davies signed and returned a copy of

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Chatto & Windus’s memorandum of agreement on 3 May 1950. The contract for A8a.1 at pend and read is dated 9 May 1950 with the following terms: 10% on the first 2,500 copies sold, 12½% on the next 2,500 copies sold, 15% after 5,000 copies, and 12½% on special “colonial” rates of discount of 50% or more. A8a.1 was published on 14 June 1951 in an edition of 2,870 copies; copies were delivered between 18 April and 24 May 1951. By 19 June 1951, 1,500 had been subscribed, and by 1 August 1951, almost 2,000 copies had sold. The principal production costs were as follows: dust jackets, £37 17s 5d (3¼d per copy jacket); paper, £84 6s; binding, 1s 1¼d per copy; printing by photo offset and revising prelims, £119 15s. Chatto & Windus paid Clarke Irwin £25 for the right to reproduce their setting of A8a by photo   offset. Birkett was paid £5 for his introduction. The Maracle Printing Co. was asked to correct two typos on pp. 87 (replace “Spenser’s” with “Sydney’s”) and 147 (delete second “and”). There were also a dozen press proofs. Chatto & Windus rejected the first set of Maracle’s sheets because they were considered to be inferior in quality and not up to their standards. The International Service of the CBC broadcasted excerpts to Britain and Europe on 19 June 1950 (fee of $25). Robertson informed Davies on 24 April 1951 that “Harold Raymond and his colleagues at Chatto & Windus are very keen indeed about the book, and that they have experienced no end of pleasure and satisfaction to be doing it ... Their travellers are very keen on the book, and the subscription sales have been very encouraging ... Sir Norman Birkett has done a very good Foreword.” Clarke congratulated Davies on the reviews in the British press on 13 July 1951. Six author’s copies of A8a.1 arrived at Clarke Irwin’s offices on 27 July 1951. Publicity regarding the publication of A8a.1 was put into News from 103 (Clarke Irwin’s promotional newsletter) 1, no. 3 (Fall 1951): 2-5, a special Robertson Davies number containing excerpts from Birkett’s foreword, reviews in English newspapers, and Davies’s “Marchbanks Speaks to British” (at p. 5). Up to 31 March 1954, 1,984 copies of A8a.1 had sold. Information on the publishing history of A8b is based on the following sources: file 5, box 103, files 4 and 14, box 104, and file 17, box 105, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; file 40, vol. 79, Davies fonds, lac; RUL MS 2444, Chatto & Windus fonds at read. copies examined: otmc (in jacket, lacking the front free endpaper); pend (four copies in jacket). A8b  second Canadian edition (1967): THE TABLE TALK OF | SAMUEL MARCHBANKS |

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ROBERTSON DAVIES | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | Toronto, Vancouver 1-12, 3-21, 22-24, 25-54, 55-56, 57-92, 93-94, 95-146, 147-148, 149-166, 167-168, 169-202, 203-204, 205-231, 1-3 pp. (122 leaves). 189 × 105 mm. contents: pp. 1-2 blank; p. 3 half title; p. 4 blank; p. 5 title; p. 6 Copyright, Canada, 1949 | by CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | First published in paperback format, 1967 | Printed in Canada; pp. 7-8 “The Nature and Use of this Book,” signed at the end: Samuel Marchbanks | The Deipnosophists Club; p. 9 table of contents; p. 10 blank; pp. 11-12, 3-231 text (pp. 12, 22, 24, 56, 94, 148, 168, and 204 blank); pp. 1-2 blank; p. 3 list of books in the Clarke, Irwin Canadian Paperback series, CI 1 to CI 27. text: The text is almost the same as A8a. See the notes to A8a regarding Davies’s revisions. binding: Paperback, dark-purple covers, perfect bound. Printed on the front cover in white: A CLARKE IRWIN PAPERBACK / $1.80 [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | [rule] | [for the next four lines, the lines and words at different angles] The | table talk | of Samuel | Marchbanks | [illustration of green fork] | Robertson | Davies. Printed on the spine (all horizontal lines in white): THE TABLE | TALK | OF | SAMUEL | MARCHBANKS |   DAVIES | [down the spine in green] THE TABLE TALK OF SAMUEL MARCHBANKS | [rule] C1-26 | [rule]. On the back cover in white are the publisher’s device, a rule, and two paragraphs, one about the book and the other about Davies. notes: Clarke Irwin’s Trade Editor Ruth DonCarlos wrote to Davies about a paperback edition on 9 December 1965. Davies replied to her inquiry on 13 December 1965: “I would be pleased to have the Table Talk included in the paperback series and feel that it might profit by revision, as did the Diary.” DonCarlos told Davies on 4 February 1966 that there was no great rush for a revised manuscript. She requested that Davies have it ready by the end of July. The contract, which is dated 16 December 1966 (copies at ohm and pend), was sent to Davies on 20 December. It specifies a royalty of 5% on all copies sold. Number of copies printed not known. 194 copies sold between 1 February 1969 and 31 January 1970. Davies sent DonCarlos a marked-up copy of the book on 24 January 1967. He “brought [it] up-to-date and ... deleted some materi-

al,” cutting out a few hundred words. Davies returned corrected galley proofs to Don Carlos on 29 March 1967. Twelve author’s copies were mailed to him on 24 August 1967. Davies’s annual royalties on A8b were as follows: 1967, $35.68; 1968, $58.75; 1969, $31.95; 1970, $17.46; 1971, $14.04; 1972, $113.31; 1973, $20.16; and 1974, $19.63. Clarke Irwin claimed that A8b was still in print as of 28 May 1976 (a few copies were still available at that time). Davies discussed another revision of the book with Clarke Irwin on 19 September 1977, but nothing came of this revised edition. Information about A8b is based on the following sources: file 21, box 103 and file 4, box 104, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm. copies examined: ohm (four copies); otmc; pend (two copies).

A9 at my heart’s core 1950 A9a  first Canadian edition: AT MY HEART’S CORE | By | ROBERTSON DAVIES | I canna ca’ this forest home | And in it live and dee; | Nor feel regret at my heart’s core | My native land, for thee | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | Toronto | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | 1950 1-4 8 510 6 8. i-v, v-vii, 1-2, 3-65, 66, 67-91, 1 pp. (50 leaves). 203 × 132 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii note that inquiries about production of the play should be addressed to the publisher; p. iii title; p. iv copyright, canada 1950 | by clarke, irwin & company limited | Printed in Canada; pp. v-viii preface, dated 1 October 1950; p. 1 fly title; p. 2 cast of characters and actors of the first production under the management of Michael Sadlier, by the Peterborough Summer Theatre on 28 August 1950; pp. 3-91 text (p. 66 music and lyrics to “Hot Codlings”); p. 1 blank. Photograph by Davies of Stewart and Mrs. Stewart (Brenda Davies in this role) facing p. 3. binding and dust jacket: There are two binding variants. (1) Dark-grey cloth with the following stamped down the spine in red: DAVIES ê At My Heart’s Core ê clarke irwin. (2) Stiff-paper wrappers. The top part of the front cover and spine are white with lettering and illustration in red; the bottom part of the front cover and spine are red with lettering and illustration in white. Stamped on the front of the wrapper: [wavy, red rule] | [next



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three lines in red] ê At My ê | Heart’s | ê Core ê | [wavy, red rule] | [remaining lines in white against a red background] | Robertson | Davies | [in bottom right-hand corner] WEYMAN. Printed on the spine: [wavy, red rule, extending from the front cover; in red down the spine] davies At My Heart’s Core [wavy, red rule, extending from the front cover; in white down the spine:] clarke irwin. The rest of the wrapper is glossy white. The front and spine panels of the dust jacket are the same as the front cover and spine of the wrapper. The remaining panels of the jacket are white with black lettering. On the back panel of the jacket are excerpts from newspaper reviews of A6 and A7 with the heading: Plays by Robertson Davies | Uniform with this Volume. On the flaps of the jacket are the title, the author’s name, the price (paper binding $1.50; cloth boards $2), and six paragraphs about the play and its productions with an excerpt from lines spoken by Cantwell. notes: Michael Sadlier of the Peterborough Summer Theatre asked Davies to write this play to mark the hundredth anniversary of Peterborough’s incorporation. Written by Davies between 17 January and 7 April 1950, the play had its first performance with the Niagara Falls’ Summer Theatre on 22 August 1950 and its official premiere in Peterborough on 28 August. Davies directed the play, and Brenda, his wife, played the character of Mrs. Stewart. In a letter of 9 August 1950, Davies told Lauretta Thistle, Music and Drama Editor of the Ottawa Citizen: My new play is called At My Heart’s Core and it will be seen in Niagara Falls at the Summer Theatre the week of August 22nd and will open at the Peterborough Summer Theatre on August 28th and will run for a week, and possibly longer. As you may know, this year is the centennial of Peterborough’s incorporation and the play is part of the celebration of that event. It is about the rebellion of 1837 and the main characters in the play are historical persons, all of whom were settlers in the district. They are Mrs. Susanna Moodie and Mrs. Catharine Parr Traill who both became famous writers and are naturalists ... Although the play is laid in the Peterborough district I do not think that its interest is confined to this part of Canada. The point which I am trying to bring out in the play is that the physical hardships which the pioneers suffered were very great but that many of them suffered at least equal pain from the intellectual frustration which they suffered ... Although this seems a rather sad theme the play is a comedy.

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a good deal of attention in the press, and more than 1,500 people in Niagara Falls and 2,500 people in Peterborough had gone to see it. “As always we shall be interested in seeing the manuscript,” Clarke told him. Clarke Irwin’s literary editor R.W.W. Robertson had also seen and liked the play. Davies sent a copy of the manuscript, as well as a copy of “King Phoenix,” to Clarke on 5 September 1950. “If it appeared in time for the Christmas trade it would still appear within the Peterborough centennial year and may possibly do well at the local book stores,” Davies pointed out. He suggested the addition of a preface and alterations at several places in the text. Clarke gave Davies encouraging signals on 8 September, and a week later, he sent Davies a memorandum of agreement (copy at pend dated 15 September 1950) based on the contract for A7. Davies signed and returned two copies of the contract to Clarke on 18 September, and the corrected typescript was then sent to John Deyell in Lindsay for typesetting. On 21 September Davies sent the preface both to Robertson and to Deyell. “I do not presume, of course, to teach you your business,” he told Roberston, “but it occurs to me that it would be pleasant if the jacket of At My Heart’s Core could be in a contrasting colour to the jacket on Fortune, My Foe. I like that jacket very much and it occurred to me that something in the same style in a different combination of colours would be very pleasant and the two books would look well together.” Davies’s suggestion about the contrasting colour jacket designs of A7 and A9a struck a positive response with Robertson. He informed Davies on 1 October 1950: “Mr. Weyman has executed the jacket design, which will match that of FORTUNE, MY FOE and Mr. Cosens is working on the [engraving of the] music [to “Hot Codlings”]. Robertson sent Davies corrected galleys on 5 October 1950. Davies received page proofs on 17 October. He returned them a day later with a couple of photographs (but the photos were not used). Printing of the book began on 26 October. When Davies received his author copies on 16 November 1950, he told Robertson “it was wise to stick to the same style as Fortune, My Foe. I hardly expect that much notice will be taken of it, particularly at a time when so many new books are coming on the market. However, it may be hoped that over a period of two or three years it will sell satisfactorily.” Clarke congratulated Davies on the play’s publication on 21 November 1950: “I shall be surprised and disappointed if AT MY HEART’S CORE doesn’t outsell the other plays. Of course one cannot expect it to approach the popularity of the Marchbanks books, but it will serve the most important purpose of keeping your

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name before the public for another year or less, until we are able to launch out on your first novel.” Clarke Irwin received 1,120 copies in wrappers on 14 November 1950. Net sales in wrappers to 31 January of each year up to 17 October 1957 were as follows: 1951, 356 copies; 1952, 57 copies; 1953, 46 copies; 1954, 30 copies; 1955, 8 copies; 1956, 173 copies; remainder of 1957, 19 copies (739 copies sold in all). 520 copies in cloth were received on 15 November 1950. Net sales in cloth to 31 January of each year up to 17 October 1957 were as follows: 1951, 497 copies; 1952, 87 copies; 1953, 49 copies; 1954, 27 copies; 1955, 50 copies; 1956, 28 copies; until 17 October 1957, 1 copy (739 copies sold in cloth, which would mean that Clarke Irwin received another delivery or arranged for a reprint after 15 November 1950). The script was read and turned down by Margaret Halliwell of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation in June 1950. By March 1952, the play had been staged more than fifty times, mainly by drama groups in Ontario, and in 1953 it was televised by the CBC. Robertson informed Davies on 16 October 1957 that the book was out of print. q&b lists an English edition published in 1952 (see q&b 008c) and an American edition in the same year (see q&b 008d). However, no such editions have been located. Reprinted in Russell Brown and Donna Bennett, eds., An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1982), vol. 1, pp. 595641; and B42, pp. 71-124. See also A23. Information on the publishing history of A9a is based on the following sources: file 6, box 21, files 5 and 19, box 103, file 4, box 104, file 18, box 105, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; and files 26-8, vol. 2, files 1-14, vol. 3 (manuscripts), file 21, vol. 50, and files 5-7 and 17, vol. 78, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm (one copy in cloth with jacket; three copies in wrappers); okq (two copies in cloth, one in jacket; two copies in wrappers, flaps missing from one copy); otmc (cloth with jacket). A9b  second Canadian edition [1987]: [cover title with the text in two columns; on left-hand side:] At My Heart’s Core | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [characters of the play, setting of the play, followed by text; at the bottom of the two columns of text is the logo of Irwin publishing (square with rounded corners containing an abstract design within a circle) and the following to the right on a horizontal sticker:] An Irwin SEARCHLIGHT | General Editors: T. H. Cassidy & Hugh D. McKellar | [not on the sticker and to the right] 332

1, 2-35, 1 pp. (18 leaves including covers). 261 × 217 mm. Text on pp. 1-33, notes on pp. 33-35, and questions on p. 35. binding: Plain white paper stock, the same as the text, wire-stitched and punch-holed on the left-hand side. Printed on the back cover: [rounded] PRINTED |   IN | [rounded] CANADA | [to the right of the previous lines: logo of Irwin Publishing (square with rounded corners containing an abstract design within a circle); and to the right of the logo:] IRWIN | PUBLISHING INC. | [three lines consisting of the publisher’s address in Richmond Hill, on and the telephone number] | 1 2 3 4 90 89 88 87 amhc. notes: On 2 March 1987, Michael Byron Davis of Irwin Publishing informed Davies that A23a.1 (“At My Heart’s Core” and “Overlaid”) had been selling as a combined paperback. Irwin Publishing (formerly The Book Society of Canada Limited) had acquired the rights to all of Clarke Irwin’s titles. He also told Davies and inquired: “We have also been selling OVERLAID [A5b] as a separate play in our Searchlights series. The combined edition is now out of stock and it appears, after careful study, that sales would not warrant a reprint. We would, however, like to move AT MY HEARTS CORE into Searchlight format. I am writing to request your permission to do so. A royalty of 10% of the net amount received by us would be payable to you” (file 36, vol. 48, Davies fonds, lac). Davies agreed to Davis’s suggestion on 11 March 1987. A contract was sent to Davies on 8 April 1987 (contract at pend dated 10 April 1987), and he returned it on 14 April 1987. Number of copies printed and exact date of publication not known. 646 copies sold in 1987-88 at $2.25 apiece ($145.35 in royalties). In February 1988 General Publishing acquired control of Irwin Publishing. 271 copies sold in 1989 (earning a royalty of $60.98). The price was raised in 1990 to $2.95. 27 copies sold in that year, earning $7.96. The price was raised again in 1991 to $3.15. Between 1991 and 1993, 404 copies sold, earning a royalty of $127.26. 138 copies sold in 1995, earning a royalty of $48.30; 33 copies sold in 1996, earning a royalty of $11.55. The price was $3.50 in 1997; 51 copies sold in that year, earning $17.85. 24 copies sold in 1998-99 when the price was $3.70. The price was $3.95 in 2000; 67 copies sold in that year, earning $35.35 (information based on royalty reports at pend). copies examined: lac; pend (two copies).



A10 Tempest-Tost. 1951

A10  tempest-tost 1951 A10a  first Canadian edition: TEMPEST-TOST | BY | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | Toronto | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | 1951 1-12 16. i-iv, v, 1-3, 3-376, 1-2 pp. (192 leaves). 213 × 137 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii list of eight books by Davies, the first being Tempest-Tost and the last Shakespeare’s Boy Actors; p. iii title; p. 4 copyright, canada, 1951 | by clarke, irwin & company limited | Printed in Canada; p. v statement that the characters in the novel are imaginary; p. 1 blank; p. 2 fly title; p. 3 quotation from Macbeth I. 3; pp. 3-376 text; pp. 1-2 blank. text: The text consists of eight chapters. binding and dust jacket: Bound in bluish green cloth. The following is stamped in gilt on the spine: [the first three lines in script (swash capitals) within an ornamental compartment, all against a solid black rectangle] Tempest- | Tost | Davies | [next two lines in script] Clarke | Irwin. The front and spine panels of the jacket feature a colour illustration by Grant Macdonald: a stage framed by trees against a green background; the title at the top of the front panel within a curved silver compartment with leaves, a mask, and curlicues; the author’s name within an escutcheon; actors in Shakespearean dress pulling on a lantern; silhouettes of actors; and an angel. The back panel and flaps are white with headings in red. The back panel, which concerns the critical reception of A8a.1, has the heading: Some English Reviewers and a Canadian Book. The flaps have a synopsis of the novel’s plot, the price ($3), the title, and the names of the author and jacket designer. notes: A10, the first book of the Salterton trilogy, concerns the comic misadventures of Hector Mackilwraith and the amateur actors in the community of Salterton. Several characters and incidents in the novel are based on real people and events in Davies’s own experience (see Man of Myth, pp. 326-34). First conceived as a play, Davies decided in June 1950 to transform it into a novel. He sought the advice of W.H. Clarke on 20 June 1950: “I have been thinking recently about writing a novel. I have a play worked out in considerable detail and the more I think about it the more it seems to me that it would do just as well as a novel. I have never tried to write a novel and do not know how it will work out. However, I am becom-

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ing a little discouraged with the difficulties of working with Canadian Little Theatre groups. I am actually appealing to you for advice in this matter: do you think that the success of the Marchbanks books has laid the foundation upon which a novel could be rested?” Clarke assured Davies on 22 June 1950 that he would be delighted to have a novel from him “and to pass it along for consideration to Chatto [& Windus], for whom it also ought to hold some interest.” Davies also wrote to R.W.W. Robertson, Clarke Irwin’s literary editor, for advice on 16 November 1950. He was worried about writing an excruciatingly long novel of 150,000 words. “I seem to function like Anthony Trollope,” he mused, “and if I am told that a piece of work should be a certain length, I adjust my inner machine accordingly and it appears at that length. I suppose this is because I am basically a low journalist and not an artist ... It is to be a comic novel, & one cannot go on being funny indefinitely: even Dickens couldn’t.” Robertson encouraged Davies to aim at 80,000 words. “The Scots have a saying,” Robertson told him on 22 November: “‘Guid gear gangs in sma’ bulk’ and I think this is especially applicable to comic novels.” Robertson asked Davies to send him the first section of the manuscript on 5 March 1951. Clarke informed Davies on 20 March that he and his wife Irene had enjoyed reading the first section immensely. Clarke was so sure that he had a hit on his hands that he quickly contacted Grant Macdonald to illustrate the jacket. Davies sent the rest of the manuscript between 15 and 22 May 1951, eight months after he started writing the novel on 18 September 1950. Irene Clarke objected to the incident in the book of the horse’s electrocution and the sentence: “At the instant of shock, his penis extended to its uttermost.” But the major criticisms of the manuscript came from the readers at Chatto & Windus (see the notes to A10a.1), not Clarke Irwin. The contract for A10a is dated 19 March 1951: a royalty of 10% on the first 2,500 copies sold, 12½% from 2,500 to 4,000 copies, and 15% thereafter. Davies corrected the proofs in late July while visiting his father in Wales. Clarke was much impressed by Macdonald’s jacket design. “It is incomparably the finest work of art we have ever used for such a purpose, and I shall be disappointed if Chatto and Windus do not decide to use it for their edition too,” Clarke reported on 2 August. Clarke Irwin placed an order for 3,500 copies with J.W. Printers Ltd. on 7 September 1951 and another order for 2,000 copies on 7 November 1951. The total cost for the first printing, including extra jackets, was $3,553.33: 3,633 copies, 5,500 jackets; paper, $673.75; composition, $778.31; printing, $482.90; jacket design, $138.80; jackets (5,500),

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$302.20; and binding $1,177.37. The book was still in print in 1961 since three copies sold between 1 February 1961 and 31 January 1962. Excerpts from A10a are reprinted in the following: “Portrait of a Hero” and “Portrait of a City,” in News from 103 (promotional newsletter of Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited) 1, no. 3 (fall 1951): 8-9 (special Robertson Davies number in file 17, box 105, Clarke Irwin fonds); “Small City” and “The Bequest” in William Toye, ed., A Book of Canada (London: Collins, 1962), pp. 228-30, 396-9; Alan Walker, ed., The Treasury of Great Canadian Humour (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974), pp. 160-5; “Beyond the Powers of Gush” in Mary Alice Downie and M.-A. Thompson, eds., Written in Stone: A Kingston Reader (Kingston, on: Quarry Press, 1993), pp. 104-7; and Julie Rugg and Lynda Murphy, A Book Addict’s Treasury (London: Frances Lincoln Limited, 2006), pp. 111-15. An adaptation of A10a by Richard Rose was staged at the Stratford Festival’s Tom Patterson Theatre between 10 June and 30 September 2001; the Festival paid Pendragon Ink an advance of $6,000 against the performance royalty ($600 per performance; 45 performances). See also A70 for republication of A10 in the Salterton Trilogy. Information on the publishing history of A10a is based on the following sources: file 13, box 11, files 5 and 20, box 103, and files 12 and 17, box 105, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; file 12, vol. 53, Davies fonds, lac; agreement contract with the Stratford Festival, 2 September 1998, pend. copies examined: otmc (first printing, not in jacket; two copies of second printing (November 1951) in jacket, price clipped from front flap in one copy); ohm (three copies of second printing in jacket, price clipped from front flap in all copies); okq (three copies of first printing, two in jacket; one copy of second printing in jacket); qmmrb (second printing in jacket); pend (second printing in jacket). A10a.1 English issue (1952): Tempest-Tost | A Novel by | ROBERTSON DAVIES | 1952 | Chatto and Windus | LONDON A-M16 [$1 signed (-A1); fifth leaf signed * (e.g. A*)]. 1-8, 3-375, 1-3 pp. (192 leaves). 185 × 124 mm. Although A10a.1 and A10a differ considerably in appearance (size, thickness of paper, binding, no running heads in A10a.1, dust jacket, etc.), in fact they are from the same setting of type. The copyright page (p. 6) is as follows: PUBLISHED BY | Chatto and Windus | LONDON | PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN | BY LOWE AND BRYDONE, PRINTERS LTD. | LONDON N.W. 10 | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

binding and dust jacket: Bound in green cloth with the following stamped in gilt on the spine: [the first five lines within a hexagonal compartment] TEMPEST- | TOST | ✫ | Robertson Davies | CHATTO | & | WINDUS. The front panel of the dust jacket has an illustration by B.S. Biro in green, pale yellow, white, and black of a compartment comprised of trees (rounded title at top), masks of comedy and tragedy, musical instruments, a scroll, a sword, and a plaque at the bottom (the latter containing the author’s name); inside the compartment is a group of actors and a stage crew rehearsing The Tempest. The illustration on the front panel extends to the spine panel, which has an illustration of a young woman (Griselda) standing beside a man (Hector Mackilwraith) in Elizabethan dress. The back panel (in white with some titles and the publisher’s name in green) carries an advertisement for Davies’s The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks, Compton Mackenzie’s The Rival Monster, and Aubrey Menen’s The Duke of Gallodoro. The flaps are white. The front flap has one paragraph about the book and the price, 11s 6d; the back flap is blank. notes: Cecil Day Lewis, Peter Cochrane, and Harold Raymond of Chatto & Windus read Davies’s manuscript in July 1951. Lewis and Raymond had three practical suggestions: substantially reduce Hector’s flashbacks, omit the anatomical details about the dead horse, and delete the story of Hector’s attempted suicide. Cochrane also thought that the drinking party scene and the auction scene were too long. Lewis concluded his report by saying: “In spite of these failings, the novel is amusing, sharp-edged and extremely readable; and I think we should do it.” Clarke told Davies on 23 July: “Chatto and Windus intend to publish in Britain, but those who have read it for us and the three readers on behalf of Chatto have been more or less in agreement on certain specific things we should like to have you take into very serious consideration. The last thing that I want is to delay or to postpone publication, but I can’t think that this would be necessary.” Davies was delighted by the positive response from Chatto & Windus, but at the same time, he was disappointed with their criticism. “Frankly, I think that they have underestimated the book,” he admitted to Clarke on 28 July: whether a success or failure, it is a comic book, large in conception and rooted in life; they seem to want a book full of funny incidents dealing with intestinal gas — always a very popular music-hall joke in England — and I decline to concoct such a work ... You understand, of course, that my protests against changes in the book are not simply pig-headed; I genuinely



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feel that too much tinkering would be fatal. I am too conscious of the kindness and forbearance which you, personally, have shown toward me and my work, and the efforts which you have exerted to bring it before the public, to attempt to thwart you merely as a show of personal pride ... I feel that I must get off on the right foot as a serious writer — which is not the same thing as a solemn writer.

Davies wrote to Raymond on 28 July. “Changes at this date are not easy, for I am correcting the page proofs [of the Canadian edition] at this time, and the Canadian printer wants to get to work: further, my inner manufactory has stopped work on T-T, and so far as I am concerned it is finished.” He agreed to make most of the cuts and revisions, including the reference to the penis of the electrocuted horse, but he could not delete Hector’s attempted suicide (“Why do you suppose I chose the title? Originally I wanted a subtitle: ‘The Strange Love, Tragical Death and Glorious Resurrection of Hector Mackilwraith, B.A.’”). Clarke suggested to Davies on 2 August that instead of major re-writing, he should make alterations at the proof stage. The contract at read is dated 24 August 1951 with the following terms: an advance of £50; 10% royalty on the first 2,500 copies sold; 12½% on the next 2,500 copies sold; and 15% thereafter. Biro finished the jacket design on 5 May 1952. He was paid 12 guineas for his work. Almost 1,300 copies had been subscribed before publication. The book was published on 30 June 1952 in an edition of 3,540 copies (copies delivered between 14 May and 1 December 1952). Production costs were as follows: dust jackets, £54 19s 7d; paper, £171 9s 7d; binding by James Burn & Co. at 11¾d per copy; printing and revising prelims, £160 8s; photo offset fee to Clarke Irwin, £40. Raymond informed Davies on 18 November 1952: “The account shows a total of 1,700 odd, which I cannot pretend is a very exciting record. On the other hand, many a first novel nowadays sells far fewer copies. Several of the reviews were complimentary ... Anyway, even if TEMPEST-TOST cannot be described as a success, it has been noticed by quite a few folk who are eagerly on the look-out for a new source of merriment in this melancholy world.” Davies was not upset by Raymond’s news about the sales of A10a.1. “my stuff is not tawdry enough to appeal to cheap readers, nor is it so fine in quality that it commands attention; it is better than average, but not top-notch,” he told Raymond on 24 November 1952. “Since leaving university I have had nine books published, and have in addition written several plays which are not published. To show for this work I have, at 39, a grey head, a

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score of aches and pains which I attribute to working all day and writing half the night, and about $5,000 in royalties, earned over the years.” Up to 31 March 1954, 2,685 copies of A10a.1 sold, earning a royalty of £146 8s. A10a.1 went out of print on 7 May 1975; on that date the rights reverted to Davies and Clarke Irwin. Information about A10a.1 is based on: file 5, box 103, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; RUL MS 2444, Chatto and Windus fonds at read; and file 18, vol. 78, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm (in jacket); otmc (in jacket); pend (two copies in jacket). A10b  American edition (1952): [the first two lines in open type within a rectangle with ornaments at the rectangle’s corners] TEMPEST| TOST | by | Robertson | Davies | [in open type] RINEHART & CO., INC. | NEW YORK 18 2-916 108. 1-8, 3-49, 50, 51-101, 102, 103-257, 258, 259-291, 292, 293-307, 1-7 pp. (160 leaves). 206 × 137 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 list of eight books by Davies; p. 3 title; p. 4 FIRST RELEASED IN THE U.S.A. APRIL, 1952 | [publisher’s device: stylized R within a circle] | COPYRIGHT, 1951, IN CANADA AND U.S.A. BY CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 52-5560; p. 5 statement that the story and characters described in the story are imaginary; p. 6 blank; p. 7 fly title; p. 8 quotation from Macbeth I. 3; pp. 3-307 text (pp. 50, 102, and 258 blank); pp. 1-7 blank. text: Identical to A10a. binding and dust jacket: Bound in dark-grey cloth with the following stamped on the spine: [first two lines in yellow] ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [purple ornament similar to the ornaments on the title page; seven purple rules] [next two lines in yellow] TEMPEST- | TOST | [seven purple rules; purple ornament upside down] | [in yellow] RINEHART. The front panel of the dust jacket has a green background with a drawing in white, black and pink of characters from the book, some in theatrical costume; also on the front panel within a white compartment are the title and the author’s name. The spine panel is red with printing as follows: TEMPEST- | TOST | ROBERTSON | DAVIES | RINEHART. The back panel in white has the title, author’s name, excerpts from reviews in Canadian journals and newspapers, and the name of the publisher and the publisher’s address.

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The flaps in white have a synopsis of the plot, a line about Davies, the book’s price ($3), the title, and the names of the author, publisher, and jacket designer (Edwin Schmidt). notes: Stanley Rinehart agreed to publication on 7 September 1951. He had read the proofs of A10a. The terms of the agreement (copy at pend dated 26 September 1951) were as follows: an advance of $500, $250 payable on signing the contract, and $250 on publication — the total advance being against a 10% royalty to 5,000 copies sold, and 15% thereafter. Clarke Irwin gave a cost estimate to Rinehart on 19 November of $2.17 per page, but the American publisher declined to use A10a for an American issue. When W.H. Clarke attended the Rinehart sales conference on 18 December, he informed Davies a day later that Rinehart is “not using our jacket, after all, but have rough sketches of a very amusing jacket of their own, which I think will be effective in the U.S. market.” A10b was in galleys on 9 January 1952. Rinehart was concerned about the copyright in the lyrics (two lines) from two popular songs that Davies had quoted in the book. Although Rinehart anticipated publication in April 1952, it would appear that A10b was published a couple of months later in the year. On 5 June 1952, Clarke congratulated Davies on the “remarkable press you have had for TEMPEST-TOST in the United States.” Number of copies printed not known. A few months after publication, Davies complained to R.W.W. Robertson on 15 September 1952: I thought that Rinehart’s were very careless when they advertised the book as ‘some of the merriest, maddest fun to be set down between book covers for many a day.’ This rather gushing description would certainly put me off a bit if I were a reader, and I feel that it is false to the spirit of Tempest-Tost ... I might as well add at this time, that there were some misprints in the American edition which were not simply errors, but alterations which were obviously made because I had used one or two words not familiar to Rinehart’s proofreaders.

Information on A10b is based on file 5, box 103 and file 11, box 104, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm. copies examined: davis (in jacket); pend (in jacket). A10c  second Canadian edition (1965): TEMPEST-TOST | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | Toronto, Vancouver

1-10, 3-284, 1-4 pp. (148 leaves). 188 × 108 mm. contents: pp. 1-2 blank; p. 3 half title; p. 4 blank; p. 5 title; p. 6 Copyright, Canada, 1951 | by CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | First published in paperback format, 1965 | Printed in Canada; p. 7 statement that the characters in the novel are imaginary; p. 8 blank; p. 9 fly title; p. 10 quotation from Macbeth I. 3; pp. 3-284 text; pp. 1-4 blank. text: Identical to A10a. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The covers are dark pink with an illustration of silhouettes of three actors on a stage against the background of a yellow spotlight (the title in ornamental type with lines on either side similar to a proscenium arch). The price on the front cover is $1.50. Printed on the spine: TEMPEST | -TOST | DAVIES | [down the spine in white] TEMPEST-TOST | [short rule] | CI-11 | [short rule]. On the back cover are the publisher’s device, a rule and a paragraph about the book (both in white), and a paragraph about the author. Cover design by Mort Walsh. notes: Although G.I. Clarke planned to publish a cheap edition of A10 in 1956 sometime after Davies had read a shortened version (twenty-five minutes) of chapter three on the CBC (“Wednesday Night,” 12 September 1956), nothing was published at that time. The contract for A10c is dated 4 December 1964 (copies at ohm and pend) — 5% royalty on all copies sold. Davies returned the contract on 1 February 1965. A10c was published in the spring of 1965 (Clarke Irwin Canadian Paperback, No. CI 11). Number of copies printed or sold not known. 230 copies sold between 1 February 1969 and 31 January 1970. When Davies later pointed out to Clarke Irwin that the book was out of print and that the rights should revert to him, Clarke informed him on 9 August 1973 that the book was briefly out of stock and would soon be reprinted. However, it would appear that it was not reprinted then. There was a reprint in 1977, which sold for $1.95. ryrie (A1) mistakenly dates A10c as 1955. For information about the publication of A10c, see file 21, box 103 and file 11, box 104, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm. copies examined: ohm (three copies of first printing); otmc (1977 reprint with ISBN 0-7720-0191-X on the copyright page); pend (three copies of first printing; 1977 reprint). A10c.1  second Canadian edition, Canadian issue (1980): Robertson Davies | TEMPEST-TOST | [publisher’s de-



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vice: illustration of a penguin within an oval] |   PENGUIN BOOKS This issue is from the same setting of type as A10c. Preliminary pagination differs from A10c, and the book ends on p. 284. The leaves measure 177 × 106 mm. The copyright page reads as follows: Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England | [four lines of addresses of branches of Penguin Books in the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited 1951 | Published in Penguin Books 1980 | Copyright © Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited 1951 | All rights reserved | Manufactured in Canada by | Webcom Limited | [nine lines about copyright, noting that the book is not for sale in the United States]. A10c.1 was published on 25 February 1980. According to the copyright page of the 1987 reprint, A10c.1 was reprinted in 1982, 1983 (twice), and 1985. A reprint by Gagne Printing Ltd. was probably done sometime after 1990. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. Printed on the front cover: [the first four lines in calligraphicstyle type] Robertson [publisher’s device of Penguin Books within a solid, orange oval] | Davies | [next two lines in red] Tempest- | Tost | [next three lines to the right of the previous line] An amusing look at loves, | intrigues and fantasies | behind the footlights. | [abstract, coloured illustration of two people facing each other]. The spine, which is in orange with lettering in black and white, has the author’s name, title, ISBN 0 14 00.5431 6, and the publisher’s device. The back cover, which is white (publisher’s device within a solid, orange oval), has: a paragraph about the book’s contents, a quotation from Quest Magazine, the name of the cover designer (Capon & Austin Associates Ltd.), the ISBN, and price ($2.95). In later printings the cover art is by Bascove. notes: On 5 April 1979, Clarke Irwin reached an agreement with Penguin Books Canada Limited for North American mass-market paperback rights for A10c.1. Published on 25 February 1980. This agreement was amended on 10 March 1985 ($5,500 to Irwin Publishing, Clarke Irwin’s successor). In the first six months of 1984, 2,914 copies had sold. On 10 April 1985, Penguin Books Ltd. made an agreement with Irwin Publishing for an exclusive licence for a period of eight years for publication of a paperback edition within the United Kingdom and Open Market. On 24 May 1990, Stoddart (Bill Hanna) assigned the paperback rights to Penguin instead of having them re-licensed (Irwin Publishing had been acquired by Stoddart). By the end of 2000, 75,592 copies had

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sold (35,165 copies in Canada, 38,773 copies in the United States, 1,155 in special sales, and 499 in other sales). These sales figures may include both A10c.1 and A10c.2. The total royalty earning was $36,638.17. Information based on: royalty reports at pend; file 4, box 105, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; and file 25, vol. 45 and file 40, vol. 51, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: oh (undated reprint by Gagne Printing Ltd.); otmc (first printing; 1987 printing); pend (first printing; three copies of second printing in 1985; thirteen copies of undated reprint by Gagne Printing Ltd.). A10c.2  second Canadian edition, American issue [1990]: ROBERTSON DAVIES | [in antique type] TEMPEST·TOST | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books This issue is the same setting of type as A10c.1. However, the book has been printed and manufactured in the United States. ISBN 0-14-016792-7. The leaves measure 195 × 127 mm. Perfect bound with stiff, glossy paper covers in black, grey, white, and orange. On the front cover is a colour illustration (same illustration as the 1987 reprint of A10c.1) by Bascove of a Harlequin clown juggling five masks. The front cover identifies the book as part of the Salterton Trilogy. The back cover has a quotation from the Toronto Star (“AN EXERCISE IN PUCKISH | PERSIFLAGE”) along with a paragraph about the book’s contents, excerpts from two other Canadian newspapers, the name of the cover designer, the publisher’s device, the ISBN, bar code, bar code number, and price ($10). copies examined: otmc; pend (two copies). A10d  third Canadian edition (1997): [grey swirled lines in the background] Tempest-Tost | by Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books 1-7, 2-44, 45, 46-90, 91, 92-124, 125, 126-158, 159, 160185, 186, 187-235, 236, 237-266, 267, 268-280, 1-2 pp. (144 leaves). 203 × 129 mm. contents: p. 1 half title with two paragraphs about Davies; p. 2 other books by Davies listed under the categories of novels, criticism, essays, and short stories; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, | Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 | [seven lines of addresses of branches of Penguin Books in England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published by Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1951 | Published in Penguin

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Books, 1980 | Published in this edition, 1997 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1951 | Published by arrangement with Irwin Publishing Inc. | All rights reserved | [four lines stating the book is a work of fiction] | Manufactured in Canada | [seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14-026434-5] | [six lines about copyright, noting that the book is not for sale in the United States] | [web address of Penguin Canada]; p. 5 quotation from Macbeth I. 3; p. 6 blank; pp. 7, 2-280 text; pp. 1-2 blank. text: Identical to A10a. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a green background with illustrations of grapes, masks of comedy and tragedy, a hand, a rose, and a star. Also on the front cover are the publisher’s device and the name of the trilogy within a dark-red elongated compartment. The spine is mainly black with an illustration similar to the front cover reproduced in miniature. The back cover is white with the first three lines from the Edmonton Journal: “HILARIOUS, SATIRICAL, WITTY | AND CLEVER... IT HAS TO BE READ | TO BE APPRECIATED.” Cover design by Spencer Francey Peters; cover illustration by Sandra Dionisi. Price $14.99. notes: For the contracts between Davies and Penguin Books Canada Limited, see A10c.1. On 5 June 1990, Davies signed a contract with Penguin Books Canada for the Canadian rights to A10 and A12: an advance of $40,000; a royalty of 15% on sales of the hardcover and 6% on the paperback. A10d was published on 22 September 1997. 2,565 copies sold up to the end of June 2001, earning $2,306.96 in royalties (royalty reports at pend). copies examined: otmc; pend (four copies).

A11 a masque of aesop 1952 A11a  first edition: A MASQUE OF AESOP | By | ROBERTSON DAVIES | Decorations by Grant Macdonald | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | Toronto | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | 1952 1 4 2-4 8. i-iv, v-vi, 1, 2-3, 4, 5-10, 11, 12-16, 17, 18-24, 25, 26-36, 37, 38-44, 45, 46-47, 1-3 pp. (28 leaves). 203 × 131 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii four lines concerning the production of the play and the original music; p.

iii title; p. iv copyright, canada, 1952 | by clarke, irwin & company limited | Printed in Canada; pp. v-vi introduction dated Dominion Day 1952; p. 1 fly title; pp. 2-3 dramatis personae; p. 4 blank; pp. 5-10, 12-16, 18-24, 26-36, 38-44, and 46-47 text (black-andwhite illustrations by Grant Macdonald on pp. 11, 17, 25, 37, and 45); pp. 1-3 blank. binding and dust jacket: There are two binding variants: (1) Light greenish-grey cloth with the following stamped down the spine in red: DAVIES A MASQUE OF ÆSOP CLARKE IRWIN. (2) White stiff-paper wrappers glued to the gatherings and endpapers with the following printed down the spine: DAVIES [next four words in red] A MASQUE OF ÆSOP CLARKE IRWIN. The front of the wrapper is as follows: [first line in orange rust] A MASQUE OF ÆSOP | [next line in grey] ROBERTSON DAVIES | [in the foreground an illustration in orange rust of a bust of a man (a young Aesop) with beard; in the background a sketch of a much older man (older Aesop), wearing a toga, hunched over and leaning on a stick; illustration signed GM] | [next line in grey] ILLUSTRATIONS BY GRANT MACDONALD. The back of the wrapper is blank. The jacket of both these binding variants is identical. The front and spine panels of the jacket are the same as the front and spine of the binding in stiffpaper wrappers. The remaining panels are white with black lettering. The back panel has two paragraphs about Davies by Hilda Kirkwood in the Canadian Forum, mention of his other publications, and the publisher’s name. On the front and back flaps are a synopsis of the play, the price (cloth $2, paper binding $1.50), and an acknowledgment to Macdonald for having done the decorations and illustrations of the jacket. notes: In the fall of 1951 Alan Stephen, the Headmaster of Upper Canada College Preparatory School, asked Davies if he could write a play to mark the school’s jubilee year. Davies sent Stephen the title and cast of characters in November, and on 2 January 1952, he sent Stephen the script. A Masque of Aesop was performed at Upper Canada College on 2-3 May 1952 (programs available in the Clarke Irwin fonds; also staged at the College in 1954, 1961, 1965, and 1991). Having seen the play with his wife, W.H. Clarke, the president of Clarke Irwin, told Davies on 12 May 1952: “I have no idea what demand there might be for this in published form, but it struck us as being extraordinarily bright and gay and eminently suitable for school production. We should like to read it, if you have a manuscript.” Davies exchanged letters with  



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Stephen about the publication of the play in June 1952. H.E. Atack and J.A. Dawson wrote the music for the play, and George Galt, the producer, was to provide publicity photos. The contract between Davies, G.Y. Ormsby (College trustee), and Clarke Irwin at ohm (the copy at pend does not record Ormsby as a party to the contract) is dated 13 June 1952. Davies assigned the royalties to Upper Canada College: 10% on the first 2,500 copies sold, 12½% from 2,500 to 4,000 copies, and 15% on copies sold above 4,000. Davies returned the contract on 20 June 1952. Galleys were sent to him on 27 June 1952, and he returned them on 30 June. Clarke Irwin’s editor R.W.W. Robertson contracted Grant Macdonald (he was paid $150) on 6 August 1952 for the illustrations and the jacket. Robertson told Davies on 26 September 1952: “The drawings for the illustrations have arrived in good order, and I have had the plates made. They are very delightful and the jacket design is completely smashing.” On 29 September, Robertson placed an order with Gordon V. Thompson to have 1,500 copies of the book printed (750 in cloth, 750 in paper). Robertson told Thompson: “Mr. Clarke hopes to supply the book in an envelope, possibly with the crest of Upper Canada College in blue on white, and he would appreciate from you advice on what envelopes are available in a size that would take this book.” A11a was published prior to 29 November 1952. Robertson sent a copy to Macdonald before this date, and he informed him: “The blocks for the illustrations of A Masque of Aesop are at Lindsay. The type is still standing and will be for some time, though as I think you know, we did a second printing of the book before the Christmas season.” Robertson also sent proofs of the play to Patrick Heyworth of George C. Harrap & Co. Ltd. on 15 August 1952. The production card for the book in the Clarke Irwin fonds has the following information: Colonial Text paper, $77.22; composition, $155.10; printing by Deyell, $131.45; printing of jackets by Deyell, $48.95; folding and gathering by Deyell, $33.92; cloth binding by Deyell, $170.20; paper binding, $109.54; Reliance five zinc engravings, $29.78; Reliance duotone plate cover, $116.89; artwork by Macdonald, $150; binding stamps and engravings, $40.42. 766 copies printed in paper, 776 printed in cloth, both delivered on 14 November 1952. Work carried out between 4 November and 3 December 1952. Work for a second printing: 1,196 copies (11 and 23 December 1952 in boards) at a cost of $495.70. Reprinted in A95 and James A. Stone, ed., Five New One Act Plays (London: George C. Harrap, 1954), pp. 53-90.

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Information on the publishing history of A11a is based on the following sources: file 5, box 103, file 5, box 104, file 17, box 105, and box 79, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; files 17-18, vol. 3, and files 1-2, vol. 4 (gestetnered typescripts), Davies fonds, lac. Gestetnered typescript also held separately by ohm. copies examined: ohm (two copies); okq (two copies in cloth, one in jacket); otmc (four copies in cloth, two in jacket). A11b  second edition, educational edition (1955): A MASQUE OF AESOP | By | ROBERTSON DAVIES | Decorations by Grant Macdonald | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | Toronto | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | 1955 1-4 8. i-iv, v-vi, 1, 2-3, 4, 5-12, 13, 14-20, 21, 22-26, 27, 28-44, 45, 46-50, 1-8 pp. (32 leaves). 202 × 131 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii four lines concerning the production of the play and the original music; p. iii title; p. iv copyright, canada, 1952 | by clarke, irwin & company limited | FIRST PUBLISHED, NOVEMBER 1952 | REPRINTED, DECEMBER 1952 | FIRST PUBLISHED IN AN EDUCATIONAL EDITION WITH | FOOTNOTES BY THE AUTHOR, JANUARY 1955 | Printed in Canada; pp. v-vi introduction dated Dominion Day 1952; p. 1 fly title; pp. 2-3 dramatis personae; p. 4 blank; pp. 5-12, 14-20, 22-26, 28-44, and 46-50 text (black-and-white illustrations by Grant Macdonald on pp. 13, 21, 27, 45, and 1); pp. 2-8 blank. binding: Bound in light-brown cloth with the following stamped down the spine in red: DAVIES A MASQUE OF ÆSOP CLARKE IRWIN. Stamped on the upper board in red: A MASQUE OF ÆSOP | ANNOTATED EDITION. This edition does not have   a dust jacket. q&b lists an “Educational Paperback” published in 1958 (010d); however, no copy of this printing has been located. notes: The commercial success of A11a prompted Clarke to write to Davies about a school edition on 3 December 1953: “there seems to be very good reason for publishing A MASQUE OF AESOP in a school edition, either as a single play or with one or two others. It is I think without doubt the most suitable Canadian play for use in the schools, full of allusions and well worth study as well as production as a class text.” He also asked Davies whether he wanted to assign his royalties for this new edition to Upper Canada College. In his reply on 29 December 1953, Davies stated that nothing in the agreement for A11a precluded

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him from accepting the royalties on a school edition. At the same time he noted: “Having given them the play I do not wish to seem mean and to snatch it back when it looks as though it might make a little money.” He proposed to Clarke that A Masque of Aesop could be combined with “Hope Deferred,” two plays on Canadian themes which might be acceptable to schools. Although Clarke was quite prepared in January 1954 to move ahead with a school edition, Davies suggested to Robertson 25 January 1954 that in view of his other writing commitments, the edition should be delayed. “I would much rather not interrupt my present work to make the notes which will be a fidgety and irritating job,” he told him. Robertson hoped that Davies would have the notes for an educational edition in time for school opening, and Davies assured him on 3 February: “I think once the novel [Leaven of Malice] is off my mind I could do the new work on Aesop in about a week.” Davies started on the notes on 30 November 1954. He sent the manuscript to Clarke Irwin a few days later. Proofs were available on 3 January 1955. Davies could find nothing to correct, and he returned them on 12 January. The contract for A11b at ohm and pend is dated 24 January 1955: 10% on first 2,500 copies sold; 12½% on copies sold between 2,500 and 4,000; 15% royalty on all copies sold above 4,000. The production card for A11b contains the following information: 1,935 copies printed, delivered on 4 and 30 November 1955; Offset paper, $75.42, and Yard Gray, $103.32; composition revised by Deyell, $52.75; printing by Deyell, $71; folding and gathering, $38.70; binding by Deyell, $299.92; binder’s stamp, $9.53. The work was undertaken between 8 March and 30 November 1955. A11b was still in print in 1961: between 1 February 1961 and 31 January 1962, 134 copies sold with a royalty of $12.73 (95¢ per copy). Information concerning the publishing history of A11b is based on: file 5, box 103 and box 79, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; file 12, vol. 53, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm (two copies).

A12  leaven of malice 1954 A12a  first Canadian edition: [the two first two lines in open type] LEAVEN | OF MALICE | [short thick-thin rule] | Robertson Davies | Toronto | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED A8 B-U8 [$1 signed]. 1-9, 4-52, 53-55, 56-108, 109-111, 112-167, 168-171, 172-220, 221-223, 224-278, 279-281, 282-312, 1-2 pp. (160 leaves). 196 × 130 mm.

contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 list of nine other books by Davies, the first Tempest-Tost and the last Renown at Stratford; p. 3 title; p. 4 Copyright, Canada, 1954 | by clarke, irwin & company limited | PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY | THE SHENVAL PRESS LTD | LONDON, HERTFORD AND HARLOW | BOUND BY J. W. DEYELL, PRINTERS LIMITED, | LINDSAY, ONTARIO; p. 5 fly title; p. 6 quotation from the Book of Common Prayer about putting away the leaven of malice and wickedness; pp. 7-9, 4-312 text in six parts (pp. 8, 53, 109, 168, 170, 222, and 280 blank); pp. 1-2 blank. binding and dust jacket: Bound in dark-red cloth with the following stamped in gilt on the spine: DAVIES | [down the spine in script with several swash letters] Lεavεn of Malic ε | CLARKE | IRWIN. The front and spine panels of the dust jacket (in green, orange, yellow and white with lettering in blue, red and black) consist of compartments with pen-and-ink illustrations, depicting scenes (buildings of a city, man reading a newspaper, man and woman with books, etc.), ornaments, and the title and names of the author and publisher. To a lesser extent, the colouring is also on the back panel and front flap. The back panel has a list of books by Davies and a black-and-white photo (taken by McKague, Toronto) of Davies in a jacket, smoking a cigar. The flaps provide a synopsis of the novel’s plot with the title, the names of the author, jacket designer, and publisher, and the price ($3) on the bottom of the back flap behind a broken, diagonal line. According to q&b (011a), “there are variants in height and bulking of this book with priority unknown.” notes: A12 is the second novel in the comic Salterton trilogy. It begins with a fake notice in the local Salterton newspaper that announces the forthcoming marriage of Pearl Vambrace and Solly Bridgetower on an impossible date — 31 November. An inspiration for the book was a false birth notice that appeared in the Peterborough Examiner in February 1946 (see Man of Myth, pp. 337-44). Davies contemplated writing the novel in March 1952. He began writing and sketched out the plot in May of that year with the title, “A Barber’s Chair” (from All’s Well That Ends Well). According to his notes in “Works in Progress,” he originally conceived the book to be divided into six parts: “The Barber’s Chair,” “The Pin Buttock,” “The Quatch Buttock,” “The Brawn Buttock,” “Or Any Buttock,” and “That Fits All Buttocks.” Clarke Irwin’s editor R.W.W. Robertson prepared a report on the first 31,000 words of the manuscript on 3 December 1952: “It seems to me that this book



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is going to be better plotted than Tempest-Tost ... The style is O.K. Davies; well-written and smooth ... Mr. Davies’ taste for ribaldry is reasonably well in hand. There are one or two things that I find unnecessary, but other people to whom I have read them, don’t seem to worry about them. Two things worried Mr. Davies in this book. One was that it was slow and difficult going. Another was that it didn’t see very funny.” Robertson predicted that the novel would turn out fine, and he believed that Davies “is now beginning to hit his stride.” Davies hoped to finish the book in the spring of 1953, but his writing came to a sudden halt when he took on the book page for Saturday Night and reshaped “The Correspondence of Samuel Marchbanks.” Davies returned to writing the book in January 1954. He told Robertson on 25 January that he had “completely changed the plan of it and re-written quite a lot of it and its new name is The Leaven of Malice ... The phrase The Leaven of Malice is from the Prayer Book — Collect for the 3rd Sunday after Easter & will provide a nice epigraph for the book.” Robertson thought that the new title was wonderful, and he asked Davies to send him the first half of the book. Davies informed him on 3 February that the manuscript was “... in such a horribly messy state that I could not dream of asking you to look at it until it has been retyped.” He was aiming at 90,000 words but was worried that the book would get away from him and run to 120,000 words. Robertson expressed the hope that if he received the first half of the manuscript in April, he could then put it into galleys as soon as possible for promotional purposes. Davies sent part I to Robertson on 23 March 1954. Three copies of the contract (copy at pend dated 25 March 1954) were sent to Davies on 2 April: 10% on the first 2,500 copies sold, 12½% from 2,500 to 4,000 copies, and 15% on copies sold above 4,000. Robertson told him: “I have enjoyed the two parts of LEAVEN that I have so far received. If the remainder of the book is as good as these two sections we indeed have something tremendous.” Clair Stewart was asked to prepare the illustration for the jacket on 1 April. Davies delivered the remainder of the manuscript on 7, 8, and 23 April (he revised part VI of the typescript on 2 May). Delighted by his prodigious accomplishment, he wrote to Graham and Joan McInnes on 21 April 1954: I have written another novel, to appear in the middle of August. It is called Leaven of Malice, and the publishers say it is a lot better than Tempest-Tost. It is about newspaper life in a small Canadian city, and it uses the setting and many of the people from T-T. Now T-T was

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criticised for having a thin plot; LM has enough plot for a Trollope novel. T-T introduced comic wheezes for laughs; LM is amusing too, I believe, but the wheezes are more organic ... I hope it is a better book, but really I do not give a bugger whether it is or not. I had to write it because I am a man with the writing disease — Scribblo, ergo sum, as the fella says.

Clarke Irwin acted on Davies’s behalf to secure publication in England and the United States. Indeed, the company was so confident that Chatto & Windus would publish the novel that it sought to have the book printed in England rather than in Canada. In this way Clarke Irwin would involve Chatto & Windus in major aspects of publishing, including printing and the supplying of sheets. J.F. Wickens, the production manager of Chatto & Windus, sent proofs to Clarke Irwin on 14-15 June 1954. The last batch of galleys was sent to Davies on 21 June. The proofs were returned to Chatto & Windus on 24-5 June. The corrected proofs went to the printer for correction and paging on 29 June. On 6 July, Clarke Irwin ordered 4,000 sets of folded and collated sheets. Further corrections were sent to Wickens on 7 July. A rough sketch of Clair Stewart’s design for the jacket (later printed by Rolph, Clarke, Stone) was sent to Davies on 19 July. Wickens sent a dummy of the book to Clarke Irwin on 3 August and two sets of page proofs on 6 August. Chatto & Windus arranged for Hunter & Foulis Ltd. to ship seventy-two cartons of books in sheets on the S.S. Lautentia for Canada on 23 August 1954. Although Clarke Irwin was busily arranging publication in Canada and elsewhere, Davies informed W.H. Clarke on 5 July 1954 that Willis Kingsley Wing would now act as his agent. “Respecting Leaven of Malice itself, I should like to know what you feel about asking Mr. Wing to place it with an American publisher?,” Davies asked. Formally speaking, Wing had no role at all to play since the contract for A12a empowered Clarke Irwin to act as it saw fit in practically all areas of publishing. However, the American publisher Rinehart had declined publication of A12, and other American publishers had similar reservations (see the notes to A12a.2). In the short term Wing posed no threat to Clarke Irwin’s dominance, but strains in the Canadian publisher’s relationship with Davies were beginning to show: Irene Clarke, for example, sought a romantic ending to A12 (and Davies disliked her interference); at times Clarke Irwin felt that Davies was too much of a prima donna and that he was not susceptible to editorial criticism; Clarke Irwin lost money on some of Davies’s books, and there was a difference in point of view as to which side should have been grateful to the

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other. The fact that Wing was able to place the book with Scribner’s so quickly only reinforced Davies’s opinion that Clarke Irwin did not always act in his best interest. Bad feeling resulted in 1956 when Clarke Irwin wrangled with Davies and Wing about the book’s dramatic rights. The jackets ($49 per 1,000) of A12a were completed by13 September 1954, and publication occurred two days later. On 3 December 1954, Clarke told Davies that A12a had sold almost as much as A9a. In anticipation that the initial 4,000 copies would all be sold before Christmas, Clarke requested another 1,000 copies to be shipped in sheets from England. The apparent commercial success of A12a was all the more gratifying in a season when everyone was “lamenting the sad plight of fiction.” When Davies was informed on 31 March 1955 that A12a had been awarded the Leacock Medal for Humour, he hoped that the award would boost book sales, but his initial optimism soon evaporated. He had been in Britnell’s bookstore in Toronto a week after the award’s announcement was made and not one copy of the book could be located there. The book was selling “at a slow but steady pace,” Clarke reported on 11 May 1955: “By the way of encouragement we ordered another thousand sheets, although we [do] not actually need them before fall at the earliest. This will make 6000 that we have ordered from Chatto & Windus so far.” Clarke Irwin sent Chatto & Windus a list of corrections for this reprint on 6 May 1955. Thereafter, book sales of A12a decreased substantially — 77 copies sold in the period ending 1 August 1956 ($23.94 royalty). Wing informed Davies on 13 February 1958 that according to Clarke Irwin, A12 had lost the company $900: “This even though 5,000 copies were sold in Canada and the Scribner sale produced a revenue of approximately $2,500. I don’t know of course what the British earnings were.” The production cards in the Clarke Irwin fonds contain the following information: Arbelave paper, $235.79; Rolph Clark jackets, $886.98; binding by Deyell, $1,097.92; spine stamp, $10.50; design for cover, $100. 4,946 copies printed, delivered between 11 September 1954 and 16 March 1955; cost of 4,000 sets of sheets sent by Chatto and Windus, $1,506.75 (£475); cost of 1,000 sets of sheets sent by George C. Harrap & Co. Ltd. between 21 December 1954 and 31 January 1955, $378 (£118 15d); 550 copies delivered on 22 December 1955. 231 copies were in stock on 7 June 1960; 200 copies were in stock on 21 February 1963. Excerpts from A12a are reprinted in the following: “Buildings” in William Toye, ed., A Book of Canada

(London: Collins, 1962), p. 231; “The Prisoner of a Professional Manner,” Manitoba Law School Journal 1, no. 3 (1965): 242; Everett K. Wilson, Sociology: Rules, Roles, and Relationships (Homewood, il: Dorsey Press, 1966), pp. 125-6; “Reading Between the Lines” in B.A. Roberts, The Words We Use (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1967), pp. 102-4; C.F. Klinck and R.E. Watters, eds., Canadian Anthology (Toronto: Gage Educational Publishing, 1974), 3rd ed. rev. and enl., pp. 401-9; and Ralph L. Curry, The Leacock Medal Treasury: 3 Decades of the Best of Canadian Humour (Toronto: Lester and Orpen, 1976), pp. 275-302. Davies made at least five separate attempts to stage a production of A12 — the most notable being with Joseph M. Hyman, Broadway producer, in 1956-8, with the Dramatists Theatre Guild in 1958-9, and with Sir Tyrone Guthrie in 1959-60 (“Love and Libel”). The dramatic rights were sold to Hyman in September 1955 and then to Manuel D. Herbert and Philip Langner on 18 November 1959. Fireside Entertainment Corporation purchased the motion picture, television, and allied rights for a period of one year on 1 July 1987 for $1,000; the company had an option of extend the rights for periods of six months at $500 per period. See also A95 for Davies’s adaptation of the novel. Information on the publishing history of A12a is based on the following sources: files 5 and 19, box 103, file 4, box 104, and box 79, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; file 15, vol. 45, file 7, vol. 53, file 1, vol. 80, and file 42, vol. 81, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm (three copies of first printing in jacket; second printing, 1955, no jacket); okq (three copies of first printing, two in jacket); otmc (two copies of the first printing, one in jacket; second printing in jacket; 1955 printing in paperback); otmc (four copies of 1955 printing in paperback). A12a.1  English issue (1955): [the two first two lines in open type] LEAVEN | OF MALICE | [short thick-thin rule] | Robertson Davies | 1955 | CHATTO & WINDUS | London The sheets of A12a.1 are identical to A12a with the exception of the title leaf, the verso of which reads: PUBLISHED BY | CHATTO & WINDUS LTD | LONDON | PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY | THE SHENVAL PRESS LTD | LONDON, HERTFORD AND HARLOW | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. binding and dust jacket: Bound in forest green cloth with the following stamped in gilt on the spine: LEAVEN | of | MALICE | [ornamental rule] | Robertson | Davies | CHATTO | AND | WINDUS.



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Illustration and print on the jacket are in pink and green against a white background. The front and spine panels of the jacket feature an illustration of a young woman draped over an easy chair, eating doughnuts, and listening to music from a record player. A face of a man who is scowling appears on the spine panel. On the back panel are advertisements with excerpts from reviews of Davies’s The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks and Tempest-Tost and Edward Grierson’s Far Morning. On the front flap is a synopsis of the book, the name of the jacket designer (Clarke Hutton), and the price (12s 6d). The back flap has the address of Chatto & Windus with an invitation to the reader to send a postcard to receive news about new and forthcoming books. notes: Davies informed Harold Raymond of Chatto & Windus about his writing of A12a.1 on 24 November 1952: “Idiot that I am, I am now at work on another novel about Salterton, with some of the same characters as those in Tempest-Tost and some new ones. My wife says it is better than T-T but I can’t tell, and now hate the sight of the thing, and hate myself for being such a dizzard as to work on it.” On 29 April 1954, Robertson sent a marked-up typescript of A12 to Ian Parsons at Chatto & Windus. The English publisher accepted the book on 19 May 1954 on the advice of Leonard Woolf. “I congratulate you warmly on an excellent idea for a plot,” Raymond told Davies, “which you have work[ed] out most ingeniously and which provides a convincing and natural means of presenting a very interesting picture of provincial life.” Davies was particularly pleased by Raymond’s reaction. “Canadian writers (like Mr. Rumball in my book) often strive after epic effects,” he told Raymond on 25 May 1954, “or else they try to make our Canadian life seem like life in great American cities.” Although Chatto & Windus acted on Clarke Irwin’s instructions by way of printing with the Shenval Press, there was no contract drawn up between Chatto & Windus and Davies until after the book’s publication. The contract for A12a.1 at read (copy at pend undated) is dated 24 March 1955 with the following terms: an advance of £97 12s with a royalty of 10% on the first 2,500 copies sold, 12½% on the next 2,500 copies sold, 15% after 5,000 copies, and 12½% on special “colonial” rates of discount of 50% or more. Chatto & Windus also had the option of publishing Davies’s next two novels. By 10 February 1955, 1,000 copies of A12a.1 had been subscribed. Norah Smallwood told Davies that “Fiction, alas, is still in the doldrums except for the books of the famous few so I fear I haven’t anything

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very exciting to report.” A12a.1 was published on 14 February 1955. The first printing of A12a.1 consisted of 3,245 copies (7,300 copies ordered; 4,000 copies were for Clarke Irwin). The ledger of Chatto & Windus has information about combined production costs for A12a and A12a.1. The cost of the first printing was as follows: universal wove paper, £259 5s 9d; composition (£235), author corrections (£14 5s), and printing (£164 5s), for a total of £413 10s; jackets, £45 17s 5d (including artist fee to Clarke Hutton, £15 15s; 1s ½d per copy jacket); binding by Hunter & Foulis Ltd., 1s 3⅜d per copy; rail cost and other miscellaneous charges associated with printing, £47 4s 8d. There was a second printing in September 1955. There was a surplus of dust jackets from the first printing, and they were used for the second printing. 2,250 copies were ordered on 4 September 1955 — 2,000 with the Clarke Irwin imprint (received 21 September 1955) and 250 with the Chatto & Windus imprint (252 copies received on 28 September 1955). The cost of the second printing was as follows: wireless wove paper, £79 16s; printing, folding, gathering, and endpapers, £207 14s; binding, 1s 4⅞d per copy; other miscellaneous charges, £46. By 1 April, 1,750 copies of A12a.1 had sold. Reviews in the English press had been very favourable. For April, the book was chosen by the Newcastle Journal as that newspaper’s Book of the Month. Davies wrote to Peter Calvocoressi at Chatto & Windus: “The figure that you give for the sales up to the moment certainly is not going to make a fortune for any of us but I believe it is considerably better than Tempest Tost did in a comparable time.” Information based on: files 5 and 13, box 103, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; RUL MS 2444, Chatto & Windus fonds, read; and file 15, vol. 78, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: davis (in jacket); otmc (in jacket). A12a.2  American issue (1955): [the two first two lines in open type] LEAVEN | OF MALICE | [short thick-thin rule] | Robertson Davies | CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, NEW YORK | 1955 Although this issue is from the same setting of type as A12a, the collation is as follows: 1-10 16. Also, the leaves measure 196 × 127 mm. The half title (lacking a synopsis) is on the recto of the first leaf with the verso being blank. The verso of the fly title (p. 6) is blank. The copyright page (p. 4) reads: Copyright, 1954, by | CLARKE, IRWIN & CO., LTD. | [three lines about copyright and requisite permission from the publisher] | First published in the United States in 1955 | Printed in the United States of America | Library of

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Congress Catalog No. 55-8566. binding and dust jacket: Bound in lime yellow cloth with the following stamped on the spine: DAVIES | [next three lines within a solid black rectangle] leaven | of malice | SCRIBNERS. The spine and front panels of the jacket are black with lettering in white, yellow, and blue. On the front panel is a drawing in blue of various buildings such as a church and houses; above this drawing is part of a news clipping (announcing the marriage of Solly Bridgetower and Pearl Vambrace) in the shape of a fountain pen. On the back panel are a photograph of Davies (smoking a cigar and in a dinner jacket) by McKague and an endorsement of the book by Elizabeth Bowen. The flaps of the jacket contain information about the book’s plot and Davies himself. Jacket design by Helen Borten. Price $3.50. notes: Clarke Irwin attempted to arrange the American publication of A12, but the company’s efforts proved fruitless. Four American publishers — Rinehart, Knopf, Harcourt Brace, and the Bobbs-Merrill Co. Inc. — all declined the book. When Davies informed Clarke on 5 July 1954 that Wing would represent him as his agent, Davies commented: “Rinehart have refused it, and I am not sorry, for I do not think that they are the right firm for the kind of books I write; a firm more interested in foreign books, and with a reputation for that kind of publishing, would be much better ... I should like to see my books published in the States by a firm with a long-term view.” Having failed to place the book in the United States, Clarke finally decided on 11 November 1954 to let Wing contact American publishers on Davies’s behalf. Wing succeeded immediately with Charles Scribner’s Sons on 6 December 1954. Burroughs Mitchell sent a contract (copies at pend and prince dated 17 December 1954) to Wing’s office in New York City on 27 December: $1,000 advance royalties, 10% royalty on the first 7,500 copies, and 12½% thereafter. Davies was enormously pleased by Wing’s savvy, and he hoped for a “long and a happy” association with Scribner’s. The contract did not go directly to Davies, however, since Clarke Irwin was still legally responsible for overseeing the contract. “I attach our cheque in the amount of $700, which is payable in advance under the contract,” Clarke told Davies on 14 February 1955. “You will note that I have provided for Wing as our agent, as discussed in a telephone conversation with you.” Scribner’s reproduced A12a.2 by photo offset directly from printed copies of A12a rather than page proofs. The reproduction fee was $150, split between Clarke Irwin and Chatto & Windus. Frances Her-

man, Scribner’s publicity director, asked Davies to provide a biographical sketch for A12a.2’s jacket on 25 March 1955. Davies complied with her request on 13 April. Scribner’s sent Davies his ten author copies of A12a.2 on 6 June 195. The company registered the copyright in the American issue at dlc on 21 June 1955 (A195947); Clarke Irwin had made an ad interim copyright at dlc on 4 September 1954 (Aio4880), renewed by Davies on 24 May 1982 (RE 129-448) and 8 December1983 (RE 183-157). A12a.2 was published on 11 July 1955. Reviews appeared in the New York Sunday Times and Tribune on the previous day. Davies’s acquaintance, Morris Bishop of Cornell University, predicted that 8,000 copies would sell of the American issue. Mitchell sent a batch of “remarkably good” reviews to Davies on 6 September 1955. Having sold 4,000 copies, Mitchell then arranged to print a band to wrap around the book, which carried excerpts from several of the best reviews. Mitchell was so impressed with the book’s salability that he hoped that Davies had another novel in store in the near future. Yet Davies was not convinced, at least initially, that the book would do well in the United States. He was troubled by the books on the best-seller list. At the top of the list was Robert Ruark’s Something of Value, which Davies regarded as a very bad book, “undoubtedly extremely sensational” with “a great many scenes of horror.” Davies suggested to G.I. Clarke on 21 July 1955 that if he was going to succeed in America, his next novel should be entitled The Rape in the Slaughter House. Approximately 7,000 copies of A12a.2 sold. Wing requested Scribner’s to reprint A12a.2 on 14 November 1958. A12a.2 officially went out of print by 21 November 1958. Scribner’s considered printing a cheap edition with Pocket Books in view of the production of “Love and Libel,” but when Scribner’s decided not to reprint A12a.2, the rights reverted to Davies on 13 September 1960. Information on the publishing history of A12a.2 is based on the following: file 5, box 103, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; file 11, vol. 45, files 8 and 42, vol. 53, and files 41 and 44, vol. 81, Davies fonds at lac; file 29, box 5, and files 1-2, box 18, Charles Scribner’s Sons fonds, prince. copies examined: okq (in jacket); otmc (in jacket); pend (in jacket). A12b  second Canadian edition (1964): [rule] | LEAVEN OF MALICE | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | Toronto, Vancouver



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1-10, 3-46, 47-48, 49-95, 96-98, 99-148, 149-150, 151193, 194-196, 197-245, 246-248, 249-277, 1-3 pp. (144 leaves). 191 × 108 mm. contents: pp. 1-2 blank; p. 3 half title; p. 4 blank; p. 5 title; p. 6 [rule] | Copyright, Canada, 1954 | by clarke, irwin & company limited | First published in paperback format 1964 | Printed in Canada; p. 7 fly title; p. 8 quotation from the Book of Common Prayer about putting away the leaven of malice and wickedness; pp. 9-10, 3-277 text in six parts (pp. 10, 47, 96, 98, 150, 194, 196, 246, and 248 blank); pp. 1-3 blank. text: Identical to A12a. binding: Paperback, perfect bound in orange, thick-paper covers. Printed on the front cover: A CLARKE IRWIN CANADIAN PAPERBACK / $1.25 [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | [rule] | [in white] LEAVEN of MALICE | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [pen-and-ink illustration of buildings (columns, clock tower, etc.)] | [three partial compartments, the central one similar to a newspaper column:] ENGAGEMENTS [thin-thick rule; ten lines announcing the engagement of Pearl Veronica Vambrace to Solomon Bridgetower]. Printed on the spine: LEAVEN | OF | MALICE | DAVIES | [down the spine in white] LEAVEN OF MALICE | [rule] | CI-1 | [rule]. On the back cover are the logo of Clarke Irwin, a rule, nineteen lines in white about the book, eleven lines about Davies, and a small photo by McKague of Davies smoking a cigar. notes: Planning for A12b occurred in December 1963. When McClelland & Stewart offered to publish A12 in the New Canadian Library series, Clarke Irwin refused to give permission and decided to undertake its own paperback series. A12b was the first volume in this new series. Two copies of the contract (copies at ohm and pend dated 29 January 1964) went to Davies on 31 January. He received a royalty of 5%. When Davies pointed out to Robertson on 13 February that the original contract called for a royalty of 7½% for a paperback edition, Clarke Irwin’s Trade Editor Ruth DonCarlos informed Davies on 11 March 1964 that Clarke Irwin could not afford a royalty greater than 5% on a book with a price of $1.25. “You may remember that McClelland and Stewart thought that they could do no better than 4% for a similar venture ... Stock is in but awaiting price stickers.” Davies was not pleased by Clarke Irwin’s reneging on the original contract, but in the end he decided that it was not worth putting up a fight about it. “I am returning

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the contract for the paperback edition of Leaven of Malice, signed as you request,” he told DonCarlos on 16 March 1964. “You leave me no alternative, though I still feel that the earlier contract is valid. I can only hope that if I had broken a contractual agreement with you, you would have been so easy-going about it.” Davies received his author copies on 23 March 1964. The production cards in the Clarke Irwin fonds indicate that 968 copies (paperback) were delivered on 12 February 1964. There were twelve deliveries between 15 October 1968 and 3 November 1975 with 30,237 copies printed. 6,336 copies were delivered on 21 September 1976 (7,605 copies printed at this time at $.65 per copy, $4,971.85). There were apparently thirteen reprintings in total (1966 second printing, 1969 5th printing, 13th printing [1976] with ISBN 0-7720-0190-1). Information on the publishing history of A12b has been obtained from the following sources: file 21, box 103, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; files 12 and 14, vol. 53, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: davis (first printing; 1973 printing with ISBN 0-7720-0190-1, price $2; undated printing with same ISBN but no price); ohm (four copies of first printing); pend (two copies of 1975 printing). A12c  first American edition (1973): LEAVEN | OF MALICE | by Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device, letters joined and outlined] cb] | CURTIS BOOKS | NEW YORK, N.Y. 1-8, 9-58, 59-60, 61-113, 114-116, 117-173, 174-176, 177-226, 227-228, 229-284, 285-286, 287-319, 1 pp. (160 leaves). 173 × 105 mm. contents: p. 1 UGLY RUMORS | [fourteen lines about Pearl Vambrace]; p. 2 Also by Roberston Davies | available in Curtis Books | A MIXTURE OF FRAILTIES | and soon to be published | THE MANTICORE; p. 3 title; p. 4 Copyright 1954 by Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | All Rights Reserved; p. 5 quotation from the Book of Common Prayer about putting away the leaven of malice and wickedness; p. 6 blank; pp. 7-319 text in six parts (pp. 8, 60, 114, 116, 174, 176, 228, and 286 blank); pp. 1 advertisement for A14b. text: Identical to A12a. binding: Perfect bound, white stiff-paper covers, all edges red. Printed on the front cover: A probing look into the | heart of a small town scandal | LEAVEN | OF MALICE | [colour illustration of a house, a woman, and a man, the man standing in the foreground ap-

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parently in a field of flowers] | by Robertson Davies | Author of | FIFTH BUSINESS and THE MANTICORE | [to the left of the previous lines and the illustration, positioned vertically at the top left] | $1.25 01051 CURTIS BOOKS | [publisher’s device printed horizontally]. Printed on the spine: [publisher’s device] | [down the spine] LEAVEN OF MALICE by Robertson Davies 502-01051-125. On the back cover is the heading in red: WANTON WOMAN. Under the heading are three paragraphs about the book’s contents. notes: Davies’s agent Josephine Rogers of CollinsKnowlton-Wing, Inc. informed Davies on 13 July 1972: “It took time, but eventually Dr. Clarke saw the light of day and went with us regarding the American paperback edition of LEAVEN OF MALICE.” The agreement between Curtis Books and Clarke Irwin (dated 28 December 1972) was the same as that for A13b with the Macmillan Company of Canada. There was a $5,000 advance for both books with a 6% royalty. There is an individual contract for A12c at pend dated 26 June 1972. DonCarlos sent four copies of A12c to Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc. in October 1973. Information based on files 19, 24, and 43, vol. 45, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: pend (22 copies). A12d  third Canadian edition (1980): Robertson Davies | LEAVEN OF MALICE | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS 1-4, 1-282, 1-6 pp. 177 × 97 mm. contents: p. 1 biographical information about Davies, and p. 2 quotation from the Book of Common Prayer; p. 3 title; p. 4 Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England | [four lines of addresses of branches of Penguin Books in the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited 1954 | First published in the United States of America by Charles Scribner’s Sons 1955 | Published in Penguin Books 1980 | Copyright © Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited 1954 | All rights reserved | Manufactured in Canada by | Webcom Limited | [nine lines about copyright, noting that the book is not for sale in the United States]; pp. 1-262; p. 1 ad for Penguin and Pelican books; pp. 2-6 ads for other books published by Penguin Books. text: Identical to A12a. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. Printed on the front cover: [the first four lines in calligraphic-

style type] Robertson [publisher’s device of Penguin Books within a solid, orange oval] | Davies | [next two lines in red] Leaven of | Malice | [next three lines to the right of the previous line] A practical joke sets off a | chain reaction of malicious | but amusing catastrophes. | [abstract, coloured illustration of a jester holding a sign: 31 | NOVEMBER]. The spine, which is in orange with lettering in black and white, has the author’s name, title, ISBN 0 14 00.5433 2, and the publisher’s device. The back cover, which is white (publisher’s device within a solid, orange oval), has: a paragraph about the book’s contents (Winner of the Leacock Award for Humour), a quotation from Quest Magazine, the name of cover designer (Capon & Austin Associates Ltd.), the ISBN, and price ($2.95). For later printings the cover design is by Bascove. notes: On 5 April 1979, Clarke Irwin reached an agreement with Penguin Books Limited for the North American mass-market paperback rights to A10c.1 and A12d (published on 25 February 1980). By the end of 1980, 5,000 copies of A12d had sold in Canada and 6,000 copies in United States. The agreement with Penguin Books Limited was amended on 10 March 1985 ($5,500 to Irwin Publishing, Clarke Irwin’s successor). A month later Penguin Books obtained an exclusive licence of eight years for publication of a paperback edition within the United Kingdom and Open Market. On 24 May 1990, Stoddart (Bill Hanna), having acquired Irwin Publishing, assigned the paperback rights to Penguin ($85,000 for paperback rights to A10, A12, and A16; Davies’s advance being $45,000). A12d was reprinted in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988. By the end of 30 June 2001, 99,801 copies sold (46,522 copies in Canada, 51,111 copies in the United States, 1,556 copies in special sales, and 612 sold elsewhere), earning a royalty of $49,707.38 (royalty reports at pend). Information on the publishing history of A12d has been obtained from the following files in the Davies fonds at lac: files 29 and 31, vol. 46; file 11, vol. 49; file 43, vol. 50; and file 40, vol. 51. copies examined: davis (1982 and 1987 reprints; undated reprint by Gagne Printing Ltd.); otmc (datestamped JUL 28 1980 on the copyright page); pend (two copies of first printing; two copies of 1985 printing; twelve copies of undated reprint by Gagne Printing Ltd.). A12e  fourth Canadian edition (1995): Leaven of Malice | Robertson Davies | With a foreword by D.O. Spettigue | [abstract design of a bird in flight] | Fitzhenry & Whiteside | Canadian Literary Classics | Large Print Library



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i-vi, vii-x, 1-373, 1 pp. (192 leaves). 227 × 150 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii blank; p. iii title; p. iv Leaven of Malice | @ 1954 by Robertson Davies | This edition published 1995, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, | by arrangement with Penguin Books Canada. Editorial material @ 1995, Fitzhenry & Whiteside | [five lines about copyright; ten lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 1-55041-300-7] | Printed and bound in Canada | 95 96 97 98 99 ML 6 5 4 3 2 1 | [address of the publisher in four lines] | This edition of Leaven of Malice is part of Fitzhenry & Whiteside Large | Print Library, Canadian Literary Classics Series. It has been set in 16/18 point | Plantin type and is intended for those who prefer Large Print. | [four lines about the National Library of Canada, Large Print Program] | Cover design: Darrell McCalla | Editing: Nicole Hesse | Production: Arnold Diener | Typesetting: Falcom Design & Communications Inc. | [rule; three lines concerning the reproduction of Arthur Lismer’s Rain in the North Country on the front cover]; p. v short biography of Davies; p. vi quotation from the Book of Common Prayer about putting away the leaven of malice and wickedness; pp. vii-x foreword by D.O. Spettigue (list of other books in the series and two other books in the Canadian Biography Classics on   p. x); pp. 1-373 text; p. 1 blank. text: Identical to A12a. binding: Perfect binding, orange stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a colour reproduction of Lismer’s painting (outlined in white), the title and a rule in white, and the author’s name and the series (Canadian Classics Collection, Large Print Library) in yellow. Printed on spine: [first line down the spine, the first three words in yellow, remaining words and lines in white] LEAVEN OF MALICE Robertson Davies | [abstract design of a bird in flight] | Fitzhenry | & | Whiteside. The back cover has the title and author’s name in yellow, two paragraphs about the book in white, and the name of the publisher and the publisher’s device in white. notes: Janet Turnbull Irving of Curtis Brown Canada Ltd. informed Davies on 31 January 1994 that Fitz­ henry and Whiteside had made an offer for a largeprint edition of A12. The advance against royalties was $1,500. Davies gave his assent to this edition on 1 February 1994. A12e was published in May 1995 in an edition of 750 copies (overrun of 820 copies). Price $19.95. amicus online-catalogue reports two photocopied large-print “editions” issued by the Manitoba Educational Training in Winnipeg, 1993 with a foreword by Spettigue, one reproduced from Penguin

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sheets (A12d) and the other from Clarke Irwin sheets (A12b). These are not real editions in any sense since they are photocopied texts for the visually handicapped. Information on the publishing history of A12e has been obtained from file 28, vol. 46 and box 4, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: lac; oh. A12f  fifth Canadian edition (1997): [L two lines in height] Leaven | of | Malice | [grey ornament resembling M with a sharp edges and a middle spike] | by | Robertson | Davies | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] |   Penguin Books 1-9, 4-45, 46-49, 50-94, 95-97, 98-145, 146-149, 150191, 192-195, 196-243, 244-247, 248-274, 1-8 pp. (144 leaves). 203 × 129 mm. contents: p. 1 half title with two paragraphs about Davies; p. 2 other books by Davies listed under the categories of novels, criticism, essays, and short stories; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, | Canada M4V 3B2 | [eight lines of addresses of branches of Penguin Books in England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published by Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1954 | Published in Penguin Books, 1980 | Published in this edition, 1997 | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | Copyright © Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1954 | All rights reserved. | [four lines stating the book is a work of fiction] | Manufactured in Canada | [seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14-026435-3] | [six lines about copyright, noting that the book is not for sale in the United States] | [web address of Penguin Canada]; p. 5 quotation from the Book of Common Prayer; p. 6 blank; pp. 7-9, 4-280 text (pp. 8, 46, 48, 96, 146, 148, 192, 194, 244, and 246 blank); pp. 1-8 blank. text: Identical to A12a. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a bluish background with illustrations of a heart, flames, an arrow, a church, a partial musical note, a rose, and stars. Also on the front cover are the publisher’s device and the name of the trilogy within a dark-blue elongated compartment. The spine is mainly black with an illustration similar to the front cover reproduced in miniature. The back cover is white with the first two lines from the Globe and Mail: “LEAVEN OF MALICE IS LEAVEN | OF SHEER DELIGHT.” There are also excerpts from reviews in the Toronto

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Star and the New York Times Book Review and reference to the book having received the Leacock Award for Humour. Cover design by Spencer Francey Peters; cover illustration by Sandra Dionisi. Price $14.99. notes: On 5 June 1990, Davies signed a contract with Penguin Books Canada for the Canadian rights to A10 and A12: an advance of $40,000; a royalty of 15% on sales of the hardcover and 6% on the paperback. A12f was published on 22 September 1997. 1,759 copies sold by the end of June 2001. The book earned $1,582.05 (royalty reports at pend). copies examined: oh; otmc; pend (five copies).

A13 a jig for the gypsy [1955] A JIG FOR THE GYPSY | By | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | Toronto | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | 1954 1-7 8 (75 + χ1). i-iv, v-viii, 1-2, 3-98, 1-8 pp. (57 leaves). 203 × 133 leaves. contents: p. i half title; p. ii other books by Davies, grouped under the headings of novels, plays, and in collaboration with Tyrone Guthrie and Grant Macdonald; p. iii title; p. iv copyright, canada, 1954 | by clarke, irwin & company limited | [four lines stating that inquiries about the production of the play should be addressed to Clarke Irwin] | Printed in Canada; pp. v-viii preface, dated 30 November 1954; p. 1 fly title; p. 2 cast of characters, with the names of actors for the first Canadian production at the Crest Theatre, Toronto, on 14 September 1954; pp. 3-98 text; p. 1 musical score for “Temperance Round”; pp. 2-8 blank. Black-and-white photograph on glossy paper of actors performing the play, facing p. 3. binding and dust jacket: Bound in pale-grey cloth with the following stamped in red down the spine: davies A Jíg for the Gypsy clarke irwin. The dust jacket was designed by Frederick Weyman, whose last name appears on the front panel. The jacket’s front and spine panels, divided into two sections (the top two thirds in grey and the bottom part in red), have red, wavy lines and ornamental lettering with swash letters. Lettering on the spine panel is similar to the stamping on the spine. The back panel and flaps are white. On the back panel are excerpts from reviews of A11a. The flaps provide a synopsis of the play’s plot and some information about its first productions. The price of

the book ($2), title, and author’s name are on the lower left-hand corner of the back flap below a diagonal rule. notes: Originally entitled “Benoni” after the central character Benoni Richards, a Gypsy woman who reads a Liberal politician’s teacup, A13 is a three-act play that draws upon Davies’s Welsh heritage and his father’s stories of Welshpool and the election of 1880. In his preface, Davies states that “The notion for the play which follows came to me in the Spring of 1938 when I was spending an Easter vacation in Wales, reading for some final university examinations ... At the time I had a plan to write a play based upon the popular Welsh romance called The Maid of Cefn Ydfa; a few experiments convinced me that the theme was beyond my range.” Although he wrote two brief outlines in 1938, he did not write the first draft of A13 until the period between 23 July and 30 September 1945. For several years Davies had great difficulty getting the play produced. A radio adaptation by David J. Thomas for the Welsh Home Service was broadcast on the BBC on 6 August 1952. Directed by Herbert Whittaker under the management of Murray and Donald Davis Ltd. (contract at pend dated 30 August 1954), the play premièred in Canada at the Crest Theatre in Toronto on 14 September 1954 (see B4). There was also a production by the Questors, an experimental theatre group in London, which opened on 25 September 1954 (contract at pend dated 2 July 1954, arranged by John Johnson of E.P.S. Lewin & Partners, Davies’s English literary agent). Both Davies and his wife attended the rehearsals and the opening of the play in London. On 23 September 1954, W.H. Clarke informed Davies: “We have decided to publish JIG FOR A GYPSY in a uniform format with AT MY HEART’S CORE and FORTUNE, MY FOE and should like to put it into type as quickly as possible subject to any changes you cared to make in it on your return to Canada.” Davies sent a telegram to R.W.W. Robertson on 7 October, asking him to “BORROW CREST THEATRE PROMPTBOOK OF JIG WHICH CONTAINS MY CUTS ADDITIONS NAMES ORIGINAL CAST.” In other words, Whittaker’s copy of the play’s script was used for the setting of A13’s type; in fact, some of his stage directions were incorporated into the text. The contract, dated 21 October 1954, was sent to Davies on 27 October: 10% on first 2,500 copies sold, 12½% on copies sold between 2,500 and 4,000, and 15% royalty thereafter. The only alteration that Davies made to the contract concerned Clarke Irwin’s handling of future production fees. He added the clause: “Contingent upon previously existing contracts with the Crest



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Theatre and the Questors Theatre.” Davies returned the signed contract on 30 November 1954. Galley proofs were sent to Davies on 29 October. They were returned to Clarke Irwin on 11 November for paging. Davies also enclosed a preface. “I don’t guarantee that these proofs are perfect,” he told Robertson, “since Wednesday I have been in bed, stuffed to the muzzle with what the Dr. calls ‘a wide-spectrum anti-biotic.’ But I caught quite a few things that had been missed.” In spite of the publication date of 1954 on the title page, A13 was published at the end of January 1955. On 31 January 1955, Clarke congratulated Davies on the publication of the book: “I hope that you will be pleased with A JIG FOR THE GYPSY ... I am sorry that it was not available in 1954, but we shall feature it in our Spring announcement which will be going out in the next two or three weeks.” The production card for the book in the Clarke Irwin fonds has the following information: two kinds of paper (Old Vale and Gray Arbelave), $164.58; composition by John Deyell, $172.75; printing by Deyell, $98.50; printing of jackets by Deyell, $65.50; folding and gathering by Deyell, $40; binding by Deyell, $264.24; photo engraving for the page of music and a half tone, $42.13; photo engraving of the jacket plate, $24.53; spine stamp, $10.68. 1,539 copies printed, delivered on 24 January 1955. The work was carried out between 26 November 1954 and 31 January 1955. The book was still in print between 1 February 1961 and 31 January 1962; three copies sold during that period. A13 is reprinted in A95. Information on the publishing history of A13 is based on the following sources: file 5, box 103, file 3, box 104, and box 79, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; files 5-14, vol. 4 (manuscripts), files 8-9, vol. 47, file 12, vol. 53, file 8, vol. 78, and file 1, vol. 79, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: lac (three copies, none in jacket); ohm (three copies in jacket); okq (two copies in jacket); otmc (two copies in jacket, price clipped in one copy); pend (in jacket).

A14 a mixture of frailties 1958 A14a  American edition: A MIXTURE | OF | FRAILTIES | BY | Robertson Davies | Nothing softeneth the Arrogance of our Nature like a | Mixture of some Frailties. It is by them that we are best told, | that we must not strike too hard upon others | because we ourselves do so often deserve blows. They | pull our Rage by the sleeve and whisper | Gentleness to us in our censures. halifax | New York | CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

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1-1216. 1-5, 2-25, 26, 27-55, 56, 57-84, 85, 86-109, 110, 111-133, 134, 135-196, 197, 198-260, 261, 262-313, 314, 315-379, 1 pp. (192 leaves). 209 × 140 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 BY THE SAME AUTHOR | Leaven of Malice; p. 3 title; p. 4 © 1958 Robertson Davies | A.6-58[H] | [three lines concerning copyright] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 58-10526; p. 5, 2-379 text (nine chapters, each divided into numbered sections); p. 1 blank. binding and dust jacket: Bound in cream-coloured buckram with stamping in blue on the spine as follows: DAVIES | [ornamental rule | [next four lines same colour as the boards within a solid blue rectangle] A | MIXTURE | OF | FRAILTIES | [ornamental rule | SCRIBNERS. The bottom three quarters of the front and spine panels of the jacket consist of a collage of connecting rectangular compartments, containing ovals, in white, green, and purple. Also on the front panel is a black illustration of a woman standing in front of a grand piano with a piano stool to the side. Printed above this collage on the front panel is the following: A mixture | of FRAILTIES | [next two lines in purple] a novel by | ROBERTSON DAVIES. Printed above the collage on the spine panel is the following: [first two lines in purple] ROBERTSON | DAVIES | A | MIXTURE | OF | FRAILTIES. Printed at the foot of the spine panel on the collage: SCRIBNERS. The back panel is white, featuring a black-and-white photograph by McKague of Davies (wearing in a jacket and bow tie, smoking a cigar), a paragraph about him, and the lines: Published by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS | New York. The flaps of the jacket are white with several lines on the front flap in purple. The flaps have four paragraphs about the book, the price ($3.95), the title, mention of Leaven of Malice, and the author’s name. The last three lines on the back flap record the letter A, the jacket designer (Robert Galster), and printing in the United States. notes: A14, the third novel in the comic Salterton trilogy, concerns the education of Monica Gall, a young woman from a church choir who is sent to England to pursue her training as a professional singer. Davies originally titled the book “Water Parted,” from a song by Thomas Augustine Arne that Monica Gall sings at her recital in Salterton. His provisional title on 17 October 1957 was “The Mould of Fortune,” a quotation from Francis Bacon. Davies had the conception of the book as early as 25 May 1954 when he wrote to the English publisher Harold Raymond of Chatto &

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Windus: “I hope in two or three years to write another novel which with T-T [A10] and LM [A12] will form a trilogy about Salterton. It will display another side of Canadian life, for it will be about the growth of an artist — in this case a girl who wants to be a singer — and the special difficulties which Canada puts in her way. A lot of the characters from the other two books will be in it” (RUL MS 2444, Chatto & Windus fonds, read). He prepared a plan by 5 June 1956, wrote the three opening sections between 30 September 1956 and 15 January 1957, had three-quarters written by 19 July 1957, and finished the manuscript by 6 December 1957 for submission to his agent Willis Kingsley Wing. Clause 11 in Clarke Irwin’s contract to A12 (dated 25 March 1954) apparently included the world rights to A14, but Davies and Clarke Irwin were not able to agree on terms (see A14a.1). As a result, publication in the United States of A14 was arranged by Wing prior to its publication in Canada. Burroughs Mitchell of Charles Scribner’s Sons was much impressed by A14a. He told Davies on 16 January 1958 that it surpassed A12a.2 as a novel, “and yet the larkiness is still delightfully there.” He drew up a contract (copies at pend and prince, dated 20 January 1958) with the following terms: an advance of $2,000 with 10% royalty up to 7,500 copies, 12½% on the next 10,000 copies sold, and 15% thereafter. Davies received galley proofs prior to 31 March 1958, and he sent biographical information about himself on the next day to Anne M. Jackson of Scribner’s Publicity Department. On 29 April 1958, Mitchell informed Davies that the Book-of-the-Month Club had read A14a and considered it to be an “A” book (a good contender for the Club’s selection for its members), but the Club decided against using A14a a few months later in September of that year. Page proofs were sent to Davies on 8 May; he returned them on 11 May. Davies met Mitchell in New York on 22 May. He acknowledged his author copies on 16 July 1958. “I am very happy that you have been able to put the book together without its being unusually thick,” he stated. “I know that there are people who seem to buy their books by the pound, but I always think that a bulky book is to be avoided if possible.” Published on 4 August 1958, probably in an edition of 7,500 copies. The copyright was registered at dlc’s Copyright Office on 28 July 1986 (RE-301-351, original registration number A350325). The price of A14a was reduced from $4.50 to $3.95 when the Macmillan Company of Canada decided to take part of the edition for the Canadian issue. On 4 September 1958, Mitchell reported that “On publication day we had sold about 5500 copies.” A month later on 3 October, 6,000 copies had

sold. Over 2,000 copies were still in stock on 14 April 1959. The type was distributed in April 1959. According to Scribner’s royalty report of 1 August 1963, the book earned $1,921.09 in royalties, still a bit shy of the $2,000 advance. Scribner’s relinquished the rights to the book on 7 January 1966. The motion picture, television and allied rights for A14 were licensed to TN Productions, Inc. (Jerry Tannenbaum) on 16 February 1982. TN Productions, Inc. initially paid Davies $1,500 annually for an option period up to 10 August 1988. Representing Hometown Films, Inc., Tannenbaum then assigned the rights on 16 October 1989 to Ninth Wave Productions, which paid Davies $1,500 for a twelve-month extension with options for six-month extensions. The rights reverted to Hometown Films Inc. on 27 November 1990. The company renewed its option on the rights on 3 March 1994, and paid Davies $4,000 up to 15 February 1996 (letters and agreements at pend, 11 October 1985, Curtis Brown Ltd. (Timothy Knowlton) to TN Productions (Tannenbaum); 16 October 1989, Tannenbaum to Davies; agreement, 27 November 1990; Davies to Hometown Films (Tannenbaum, 3 March 1994)). Excerpts are reprinted in: Elizabeth Waterston and Munro Beattie, Composition for Canadian Universities (Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1964), p. 288; Claude Bissell, comp., Great Canadian Writing: A Century of Imagination (Toronto: Canadian Centennial Publishing Co., 1966), pp. 66-8; A.J.M. Smith, ed., The Canadian Century: English-Canadian Writing Since Confederation (Toronto: Gage Educational Publishing Limited, 1973), pp. 443-52; and Brita Mickleburgh, ed., Canadian Literature: Two Centuries in Prose (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973), pp. 215-26. See also A70 for republication of A14 in the Salterton Trilogy. Information on the publishing history of A14a is based on the following: file 29, box 5, and files 1-2, box 18, Charles Scribner’s Sons fonds, prince; files 11 and 32, vol. 45, files 34 and 36, vol. 49, and files 7 and 12, vol. 53, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm (in jacket); okq (in jacket). A14a.1  first Canadian issue: A MIXTURE | OF | FRAILTIES | BY | Robertson   Davies | Nothing softeneth the Arrogance of our Nature like a | Mixture of some Frailties. It is by them that we are best told, | that we must not strike too hard upon others | because we ourselves do so often deserve blows. They | pull our Rage by the sleeve and whisper | Gentleness to us in our censures. halifax | Macmillan: 1958: Toronto The Canadian issue is identical to A14a with the exception of the title and copyright pages and several



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lines on the dust jacket (SCRIBNERS replaced by MACMILLAN on the spine panel; last two lines on the back panel read: Published by MACMILLAN OF   CANADA | Toronto). The copyright page of the Canadian issue is as follows: Copyright, Canada, 1958 | BY | Robertson Davies | [six lines concerning copyright] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. notes: On 16 October 1956, Davies informed R.W.W. Robertson, Clarke Irwin’s literary editor, that he was working on a new novel. Despite the fact that he was writing briskly, his progress was slow and difficult. He hoped to finish the book sometime in 1957, and he considered it to be better than its Salterton predecessor, Leaven of Malice (A12). By January 1957 he had written 30,000 words. On 18 June 1957, he was worried that the story was expanding in a way that he had not quite anticipated and that it would run to120,000 words, 30,000 words more than Leaven of Malice. Davies’s agent Willis Kingsley Wing sent the entire manuscript to Clarke Irwin on 6 December 1957. Although Davies had every intention to publish A14a.1 with Clarke Irwin, he told the company that he wanted Wing to handle publication outside of Canada. For its part Clarke Irwin was unwilling to let Wing assume responsibility in this way. There were two readers’   reports prepared by Clarke Irwin. One report, dated 31 January 1958 and written by “dc,” states that the book was interesting and enjoyable but had an uneven  pace. The second reader’s report (“NRW”), dated 27 February 1958, was ambivalent — the plot was gripping but the tone was depressing and the book contained too much ribaldry. The second report   concluded by saying that “Mr. Davies has wasted his talents and intelligence, to some extent, on a book that is not altogether worthy of him.” Notwithstanding the negative nature of the reports, Clarke Irwin sent Davies a standard contract (dated 12 March 1958, signed by Irene Clarke, and witnessed by Eveline Clarke) on 14 March 1958: 10% on the first 5,000 copies sold, 12½% on the next 5,000 copies, and 15% thereafter. But Davies wanted specific changes in Clarke Irwin’s contract to lessen the publisher’s control over his work (Canadian rights as opposed to world rights, the cost of proof alterations, dramatic, radio and TV rights, remainder stock, a thirty-day option on his next work, and recognition of Wing as his agent). Davies’s refusal to sign the contract prompted Garrick I. Clarke’s decision on 3 April 1958 to decline publication. Although Clarke’s letter and Davies’s reply (7 April 1958) were both amicable in tone, Robertson regretted the loss of “a long, pleasant and valued association.” Davies, however, felt relieved that he had

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finally broken away from Clarke Irwin’s stranglehold on his creative work. Gossip about Davies’s deteriorating relations with Clarke Irwin must have been rife in the Toronto book trade because John Gray of the Macmillan Company of Canada telephoned Davies on 22 January 1958. “I told him that he had heard more than I had and that I had no intention of changing [publishers], though matters were hanging fire over the new book,” Davies told Wing a day later. After Clarke Irwin declined publication, Wing sent the manuscript of 14a.1 to Gray on 9 April 1958. “I spent a very pleasant weekend reading Robertson Davies’ book A MIXTURE OF FRAILTIES,” Gray informed Wing on 21 April 1958. “You must have felt certain that we would offer for the book with pleasure, and we are glad to confirm this. We shall send the contracts along to you as quickly as they can be prepared. Meanwhile I am telephoning Rob Davies to let him know how enthusiastic I am about the book.” The contract (dated 23 April 1958) was the same as that of Clarke Irwin but with an advance royalty of $500. Macmillan of Canada also agreed to the specific changes that Davies had insisted upon in Clarke Irwin’s original contract. Davies was quite pleased with Macmillan’s offer. “The firm does a good job in Canada, and I know and like John Gray personally,” he told Wing on 28 April 1958. During a visit to Scribner’s in New York City, Gray read Scribner’s galleys, enclosed a list of typographical errors that he had spotted in the proofs, and requested quotations on quantities of 2,500 and 5,000 finished copies (copies cost slightly more than 78¢ apiece). George Weidenfeld had telephoned Gray and offered to supply sheets to the Macmillan Company at 4s 6d per copy on an order of 5,000 copies, but even though Weidenfeld’s quotation was better than Scribner’s, Gray declined the offer on the grounds of slow delivery and expected publication in America. Oddly enough, although Gray had already committed his company to publication, he commissioned four further readings of the book before 5 May 1958. He ordered 5,000 copies from Scribner’s on 13 May 1958. A proof of the title and copyright pages of the Canadian issue were sent to F.A. Upjohn on 3 June 1958. Davies’s secretary acknowledged receipt of six advance copies of A14a.1 on 31 July 1958. According to the copyright certificate (serial no. 128792), A14a.1 was published on 8 August 1958, but in fact A14a.1 was published on 22 August 1958 in an edition of 4,997 copies. By 15 December 1958, between 1,200 and 1,300 copies had still not sold. The Macmillan Company asked for quotations from Scribner’s at the end of the year for a further 1,000 and 2,000 copies, but 1,000 copies still remained in stock on 20 Febru-

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ary 1959. The Macmillan Company sold 149 copies of A14a.1 to the Reader’s Club of Canada on 1 October 1959 at 20% off the retail price; 750 copies were still in stock at that time. As late as 18 June 1971, a couple of hundred copies were still in stock (4,785 copies sold up to that time). Information on the publishing history of A14a.1 is based on the following sources: file 19, box 103 and file 8, box 104, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; file 4, box 28, file 5, box 90, file 49, box 219, and file 7, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; and file 18, vol. 45, and file 46, vol. 81, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm (in jacket); okq (not in jacket); otmc (two copies in jacket). A14a.2  English issue: A MIXTURE | OF | FRAILTIES | by | Robertson Davies | WEIDENFELD AND NICOLSON | 7 CORK STREET LONDON W1 A14a.2 is from the same setting of type as A14a. The collation is as follows: A-M16 [$1 signed (-A1); fifth leaf signed * (e.g. A*)]. The leaves have been trimmed, measuring 196 × 128 mm. The copyright page reads as follows: © 1958 by Robertson Davies | PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY | LOWE AND BRYDONE (PRINTERS) LTD., LONDON, N.W. 10 | N. 6692. binding and dust jacket: There are four binding variants: cream-coloured cloth; purple cloth; orange cloth; and blue paper boards. Priority of bindings not known but the copies in blue paper boards may have been remaindered. Stamped on the spine as follows: A | MIXTURE | OF | FRAILTIES | [ornamental rule] | ROBERTSON | DAVIES | WEIDENFELD | & NICOLSON. The front and spine panels of the dust jacket have a colour illustration, featuring a group of young people in the background (a bearded man who is sitting on the floor and playing the guitar; a man playing the piano; and three other people standing) and a young woman standing in the foreground. The back panel and flaps are white. On the back panel is a list of recent fiction published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson with excerpts from newspaper reviews. On the flaps are three paragraphs about the book, the name of the jacket’s designer (Eileen Walton), and the price (16s net). The last line on the back flap under the last paragraph is N.6692. notes: After Clarke Irwin offered A14a.2 on 18 January 1958, Chatto & Windus declined publication on 6 March on the grounds that the book was uneven and not funny (“it is forever changing its tune”) and that the depiction of Monica Gall and the other characters

of the book was not credible. In writing to Chatto & Windus, Irene Clarke did not help Davies’s cause. She told Norah Smallwood that the book was “disappointing” and “rather tired.” On a trip to New York City, George Weidenfeld read the manuscript, expressed great enthusiasm for it, and offered an advance of £250 for the British rights. Wing accepted Weidenfeld’s offer and arranged for the British agent A.P. Watt to negotiate a contract. “I felt in your interest it was better to take something definite than gamble on the future,” Wing told Davies on 25 April 1958. Davies was quite intrigued about the news of Weidenfeld and Nicolson’s offer. “I don’t know anything about them, except that occasionally I see their advertisements in English papers and they appear to bring out a small list but of rather good books,” he observed on 28 April 1958. At least one other English publisher wanted to publish A14a.2. Lovat Dickson of Macmillan in London told John Gray on 9 May 1958: “Our disappointment at missing it is more than made up by your success in getting hold of it. I wish I had known that Chatto had declined it. I have always thought very highly of his work, and I am sure that you will do well with him.” Wing sent Weidenfeld and Nicolson’s contract to Davies on 20 June 1958. Davies apparently met representatives from Weidenfeld and Nicolson and Watt when he travelled to England sometime in late July 1958. Weidenfeld and Nicolson paid Scribner’s an offset fee of $100 for the use of A14a in the English issue. The proof of the English jacket design was sent to Davies on 22 September 1958. Wing later remarked scornfully on 6 February 1959 that it was a disaster. Davies shared Wing’s disdain for A14a.2’s jacket. He instructed Moira Whalon, his secretary, on 23 November [1960] that he did “not want any copies with the vulgar & unsuitable jacket he [Weidenfeld] used, & against which I protested to his publicity man. I consider it a major factor in the failure of this book in England.” Ten years later, on 29 September 1969, Davies referred to A14a.2 as “an extremely cheap format with a dreadful jacket” (letter to Josephine Rogers of Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc.). According to The English Catalogue of Books, A14a.2 was published on 14 November 1958 at 16s. Number of copies printed not known. The fact that the book was printed in Britain by Lowe and Brydone (Printers) Ltd. would indicate that Weidenfeld and Nicolson either obtained plates or a film (for photo offset publication) from Scribner’s. When Davies saw Weidenfeld and Nicolson’s royalty account on 20 April 1959, he told Wing: “although they have not sold many copies of the book, I am astonished that they have sold any at all, consid-



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ering the silence with which it was received.” Wing was also disappointed by Weidenfeld and Nicolson’s promotion. He advised Davies that they should have no further dealings with the English publisher. Davies completely agreed with Wing’s advice. “I don’t know what went wrong there,” Davies noted on 14 April 1960, “but certainly they seemed to lose enthusiasm for the book somewhere in the course of publication, and I was not at all impressed by the whining and defeated attitude of their public relations man with whom I had some talks, at Mr. Weidenfeld’s suggestion.” Weidenfeld and Nicolson remaindered A14a.2 on 18 November 1960 at 2s or 2s 6d. Information on the publishing history of A14a.2 is based on the following sources: RUL MS 2444, Chatto & Windus fonds, read; file 4, box 28, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; file 33, vol. 45, files 7-8, vol. 53, file 1, vol. 80, and files 37, 38, 44, and 45, vol. 81, Davies fonds, lac; letter to Whalon, davis. copies examined: davis (a copy of each binding variant in jacket); ohm (purple cloth in jacket); otmc (cream-coloured cloth in jacket). A14a.3  second Canadian issue, photographic reprint (1968): [the title page extends across two pages; on right-hand page:] A Mixture of Frailties | Robertson Davies | [two separate rectangles (horizontally shaped rectangle to the right of a vertically shaped rectangle)] | [on lefthand page:] LAURENTIAN LIBRARY 7 | [four small, solid rectangles] Macmillan of Canada/Toronto | [two separate rectangles (horizontally shaped rectangle to the left of a vertically shaped rectangle)] This photographic reprint in Macmillan’s Laurentian Library series measures 177 × 108 mm. It has the same pagination as A14a. The preliminary leaves are as follows: p. 1 half title with quotation from Halifax; pp. 3-4 title; p. 4 © ROBERTSON DAVIES 1958 | [five lines about copyright] | First published by Macmillan of Canada 1958 | First published in the Laurentian Library 1968 | Printed in Canada by Universal Printers Ltd., | for The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, | 70 Bond Street, Toronto. The last page of the book has a paragraph about Davies, excerpts from newspapers, and a list of the Laurentian Library (eight books listed, A Mixture of Frailties no. 7 and Adele Wiseman’s The Sacrifice no. 8). Issued as a paperback. The front cover is mainly purple with an abstract colour illustration within a rectangular white compartment (rounded corners) of a bald person, apparently singing, with music notes in the background. The price on the front cover is $1.25. The spine and back covers are white

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with some lettering and illustration in purple. On the back cover within a rectangular purple compartment (rounded corners) are two paragraphs describing the book’s plot. The last line is: Cover art by David Chestnutt LITHO’D IN CANADA. notes: On 26 February 1968, Davies asked John Gray about the possibility of publishing A14 in paperback. When McClelland & Stewart wanted to include A14 in the New Canadian Library series, Gray declined on the grounds that Macmillan planned to publish their own edition in paper. Donald M. Sutherland, the manager of Macmillan’s Trade Department, sought permission to photograph A14a on 27 August 1968. Scribner’s Vice-President of Production, Geoffrey K. Mawby, informed Sutherland on 19 September 1968 that since Scribner’s contract was cancelled in 1966, Macmillan of Canada was free to photograph the edition at no cost. Several misprints were corrected: “is” was changed to “it” on line 14, p. 353, and “threat” was changed to “treat” on line 14, p. 361, for example. Davies received a royalty of 10% on all copies sold in keeping with clause 8 of Macmillan’s original contract. A14a.3 was published on 22 November 1968. Davies received his author copies on 2 December 1968. He told Gray: “I think that your production department has done a first class job and I like the cover infinitely better than the very wishy-washy jacket that appeared on the original American edition.” Macmillan’s royalty report for 1969 (dated 1 April 1970) records that 427 copies sold ($48.04 royalty) and that 14,371 copies were in stock. This would indicate that the first printing of A14a.3 was 14,798 copies. 1,726 copies had sold by 18 June 1971. A reprint of 5,000 copies (at cost of $1,309.50) was ordered on 29 June 1973; additions were made to the copyright page (“Reprinted 1973” and the ISBN number), and the price was increased from $1.25 to $1.95. A141a.3 went out of print on 10 December 1979. All back orders were cancelled at that time since the paperback rights had been sold to Penguin Books. Information on the publishing history of A14a.3 is based on: file 5, box 90, file 5, box 305, and file 7, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; and file 33, vol. 45, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm; otmc; pend (three copies). A14a.4  third Canadian issue, photographic reprint (1980): Robertson Davies | A MIXTURE OF | FRAILTIES | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS The leaves of this photographic reprint are the same size as A14a.3. The copyright page reads

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as follows: Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England | [four lines of addresses of branches of Penguin Books in the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited 1958 | First published in the United States of America by Charles Scribner’s Sons 1958 | First published in Penguin Books in Canada, 1980 | First published in Penguin Books in the United States in 1980 by arrangement with | Everest House, Publishers | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1958 | All rights reserved | Manufactured in Canada by | Webcom Limited | [nine lines about copyright, noting that the book is not for sale in the United States]. The last page of the book is an advertisement for Penguin and Pelican books. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. Printed on the front cover: [the first four lines in calligraphicstyle type] Robertson [publisher’s device of Penguin Books within a solid, orange oval] | Davies | [next two lines in red] A Mixture of | Frailties | [next four lines to the right of the previous line] A young singer’s dream | is fulfilled by an | eccentric benefactor’s | last wish. | [abstract, coloured illustration of a bearded man in a dinner jacket with opera glasses (a woman’s face in the lens of the glasses]. The spine, which is in orange with lettering in black and white, has the author’s name, title, ISBN 0 14 00.5432 4, and the publisher’s device. The back cover, which is white (publisher’s device within a solid, orange oval), has: a paragraph about the book’s contents, quotations from the New York Times and Quest Magazine, the name of the cover designer (Capon & Austin Associates Ltd.), the ISBN, and price ($2.95). In a later reprinting (circa 1990) by Gagne Printing Ltd., the cover design and illustration are by Bascove. notes: On 13 February 1979, J.W. Baker of Macmillan of Canada accepted the offer of Penguin Books Canada Limited of $3,000 as an advance royalty for the Canadian mass-market paperback rights to A14. This agreement was for a licence of five years. Penguin Books Canada renewed the agreement for a further five years at $4,000 on 10 March 1985. A14a.4 was published on 25 February 1980. 4,000 copies sold by end of 1980. By 31 December 1984, 13,097 copies had sold, and by 30 June 1991, 31,774 copies had sold. Sales continued into the 1990s: 484 copies sold in the last six months of 1993; 504 copies sold in the last six months of 1994; 326 copies sold in the last six months of 1995; 1,114 copies sold in 1996; 261 copies sold in the first six months of 1997; 55 copies in the last six month of 1998; 44 copies sold in the first six months of 2000; 17

copies sold in the first six months of 2001. Copies of A14a.4 were also sold by Penguin Books Ltd. (UK). 63 copies, for example, sold in first six months of 1998; 75 copies in the last six months of 1999. Information on the publishing history of A14a.4 is based on: file 4, box 105, file 49, box 219, and file 7, box 419, Macmillan fonds, ohm; file 43, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac; and file 12, vol. 28, and files 31 and 34, vol. 108, Colbert Agency fonds, lac; royalty reports at pend. copies examined: davis (first printing; 1982, 1985, and 1987 reprints); otmc (first printing); pend (thirteen copies of Gagne reprint). A14a.5  second American issue, photographic reprint [1995?]: [the first two lines in antique typeface] ROBERTSON DAVIES | A•MIXTURE•OF•FRAILTIES | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] |   Penguin Books The leaves of this photographic reprint measure 197 × 127 mm. The copyright page reads: PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | Penguin Books USA Inc., | 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. | [ten lines of addresses of branches of Penguin Books in England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited 1958 | First published in the United States of America by Charles Scribner’s Sons 1958 | First published in Penguin Books in the United States by arrangement with | Everest House, Publishers in 1980 | 11 13 15 14 12 10 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1958 | All rights reserved. | [five lines noting that the book is a work of fiction and that resemblance to any persons living or dead is entirely coincidental] | ISBN: 0 14 01.6791 9 | Printed in the United States of America | [nine lines about copyright]. The last page of the book is an advertisement for Penguin paperbacks, including Pelicans, Puffins, Peregrines, and Penguin Classics, in ten different countries. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front cover is framed in black with white compartments above and below a colour illustration by Bascove of a woman who appears to be eating flowers. On each side of the illustration are green vertical bands. The name of the author and title are in ornate type. The front cover also includes the name of the trilogy in capital letters. The spine has a black background. The back cover, also framed in black with green vertical bands, has excerpts from the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Times Book Review along with the publisher’s device, the ISBN, bar code, and price ($10).



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notes: The licence agreement between the American branch of Penguin Books and Everest House (the publisher of A14c) for A14a.5 is dated 24 January 1980 (copy at pend). The agreement was for a minimum period of five years and for two additional years if the advance was unearned. Penguin Books paid Everest House an advance of $1,000 with a royalty of 7½% on all copies sold. The agreement allowed Penguin Books to publish A14a.5 no earlier than May 1980 and no later than May 1982. Date of publication uncertain. According to royalty reports of Penguin USA, A14a.5 was published on 8 September 1995. 46,753 copies sold up to the end of June 1996 (the number of copies sold did not increase substantially after that date). Copies apparently also sold in the UK: 1,593 copies, for example, in the first six months of 1990 (pend royalty reports). copies examined: ctstam (reprint, price $11.95); pend (three copies). A14b  second American edition (1972): A | MIXTURE | OF | FRAILTIES | BY ROBERTSON DAVIES | [publisher’s device: solid circle with silhouette of a person’s head and shoulders] | CURTIS | BOOKS | NEW YORK, N.Y. 1-6, 7-351, 1 pp. (176 leaves). 174 × 105 mm. contents: p. 1 SHE WAS FROM | THE WRONG SIDE OF TOWN | BUT SHE HAD | ONE CHANCE AT STARDOM | [five lines in two paragraphs about Monica Gall]; p. 2 Also by Roberston Davies | LEAVEN OF MALICE | Soon to be published by Curtis Books; p. 3 title; p. 4 Copyright © 1958 by Robertson Davies | Published by arrangement with the author | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | [four lines about copyright]; p. 5 quotation from Halifax; p. 6 blank; pp. 7-351 text; p. 1 advertisement for books by Dorothy Day published by Curtis Books. text: Identical to A14a. binding: Perfect bound, white stiff-paper covers, all edges stained red. The front cover has a quotation from the New York Times: She won stardom — | but love continued | to mock her... | “A fine new book”. Also on the front cover are the following: a colour photo of a man in a tuxedo standing by a grand piano with a woman in the foreground; the title in red; the publisher’s name and the publisher’s device; the book number (09155); price (95¢); Davies’s name and mention that he is the author of Fifth Business. The back cover has a smaller reproduction in red and white of the same photo found on the front cover. Also on the back cover are a quotation from the New York Times

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and two paragraphs about Monica Gall with the heading: [several capital letters swash] A Poor Girl | Touched By | A Cinderella | Twist Of Fate. notes: Curtis Books of New York arranged with the Macmillan Company of Canada for a paperback edition prior to 7 February 1972. Curtis Books paid an advance royalty of $5,000 for the publication of A12c and A14b with a 6% royalty on all copies sold (contract of A14b at pend dated 11 April 1972, sent to Davies on 20 April 1972). When the original shipment of author copies sent to Davies’s agent, Richard Parks at Collins-Knowlton-Wing, failed to arrive, three more copies were sent by air mail on 28 July 1972. According to Moira Whalon’s notes (Whalon fonds, lac), A14b was published on 15 November 1972. Sometime prior to 1 December 1972, Curtis Books mistakenly shipped 8,000 copies of A14b to Canada (selling at 95¢), interfering with the sale of A14a.3 (selling at $1.95). Instead of recalling and returning all the books to the United States, Curtis Books agreed on 11 December 1972 to pay the Macmillan Company of Canada a royalty of 6% on any copies sold of A14b in Canada (information based on file 47, box 219, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm and file 43, vol. 45, Davies fonds, lac). copies examined: bellevue (colour insert advertisement, dated 1972, for Kent cigarettes, between pp. 176 and 177); pend (eight copies). A14c  third American edition (1979): A | MIXTURE OF | FRAILTIES | BY | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [thick-thin rule] | Nothing softeneth the Arrogance of our Nature like a | Mixture of some Frailties. It is by them that we are best told, | that we must not strike too hard upon others | because we ourselves do so often deserve blows. They | pull our Rage by the sleeve and whisper | Gentleness to us in our censures. halifax | [publisher’s device: illustration of a person standing on top of a mountain peak] | [next two lines to the right of the publisher’s device] EVEREST HOUSE | Publishers New York 1-11, 4-26, 27, 28-54, 55, 56-81, 82, 83-104, 105, 106127, 128, 129-187, 188, 189-248, 249, 250-298, 299, 300-361, 1-3 pp. (186 leaves). 204 × 130 mm. contents: pp. 1-2 blank; p. 3 half title; p. 4 blank; p. 5 title; p. 6 Copyright © 1958, 1979 by Robertson Davies | Introduction Copyright © 1979 by Robertson Davies | All Rights Reserved | Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78-74578 | ISBN: 0-89696-051-X | Published simultaneously in Canada by | Beaverbooks, Pickering, Ontario | Manufactured in the United

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States of America by | Fairfield Graphics, | Fairfield, Pennsylvania | Designed by Sam Gantt; pp. 7-8 introduction by Davies, dated November 9, 1978; p. 9 fly title; p. 10 blank; pp. 11, 4-361 text; p. 1-3 blank.

publishing history of A14c is based on files 8 and 12, vol. 46, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: pend (four copies in jacket; undated proof copy in jacket).

text: Identical to A14a. binding and dust jacket: Perfect binding. Bound in pink paper boards, quarter-bound with wine-coloured   cloth. Blind-stamped on the upper board: A | MIXTURE OF | [swash R] FRAILTIES. Stamped in gilt on the spine: [first two lines down the spine] ROBERTSON | [under the previous line] DAVIES | [two treble clefs] | [next two lines down the spine] A MIXTURE OF | [under the previous line, swash R] FRAILTIES | [publisher’s device] | Everest | House. The front and spine panels of the jacket are framed in pink and inset with solid purple rectangles with printing in white and gold. The back panel is white, featuring a black-and-white photograph of Davies by Peter Paterson and the ISBN number. The flaps in white have information about the book and Davies, the book’s title and price ($12.50), the author’s name, the name and address of the publisher, and the name of the jacket designer (Jeanyee Wong). notes: Everest House “is a small, very recently founded publisher here which seems to be showing a good deal of promise,” Walter Rieman of Curtis Brown explained to Davies on 21 August 1978. The company was founded by Lewis Gillenson, who was president of the T.Y. Crowell Company before it was taken over by Harper & Row. Everest House offered to publish A14c on 5 October 1978 with an advance of $4,000 against a royalty of 15% for all copies sold in the United States and 10% to all export markets (copy of contract at pend). Davies was asked to write a short introduction to the new edition on 12 October 1978. In his introduction he mentions that the book is the third in a trio of linked novels associated with the Canadian city of Salterton. He comments on the character of the protagonist Monica Gall. Regarding the question whether the people in the novel are drawn from life, he concludes by saying: “Yes. All of them. From my life.” The contract was sent to Davies on 31 October 1978. Moira Whalon read the proofs and submitted four pages of typographical errors, but none of these was corrected. A14c was published on 17 May 1979. The book was manufactured by Fairfield Graphics, Inc. The copyright was registered at the Copyright Office of dlc on 27 March 1981 by Everest House (TX 740-118). According to q&b (item 016e), “Despite aggressive promotion, only 1,200 copies were sold in the U.S. (Annex Books 2/96).” Information on the

A14d  first Canadian edition (1997): A Mixture | of Frailties | [grey flowery ornament] | by Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books 1-7, 2-24, 25, 26-52, 53, 54-79, 80, 81-102, 103, 104-125, 126, 127-185, 186, 187-246, 247, 248-296, 297, 298-360, 1-2 pp. (184 leaves). 203 × 128 mm. contents: p. 1 half title with two paragraphs about Davies; p. 2 other books by Davies listed under the categories of novels, criticism, essays, and short stories; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, | Canada M4V 3B2 | [six lines of addresses of branches of Penguin Books in England, the United States, Australia, and New   Zealand] | Published in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1958 | First published in the United States of America by Charles Scribner’s   Sons, 1958 | Published in Penguin Books in the United States in 1980 by arrangement with | Everest House, Publishers | First published in Penguin Books in Canada, 1980 | Published in this edition, 1997 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1958 | All rights reserved | [three lines stating the book is a work of fiction] | Manufactured in Canada | [seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14-026436-1] | [five lines about copyright, noting that the book is not for sale in the United States] | [web address of Penguin Canada];   p. 5 quotation from Halifax bearing on the book’s title; p. 6 blank; pp. 7, 2-360 text; p. 1 blank; p. 2 advertisement for other Davies books published by Penguin. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a rust background with illustrations of a woman’s face, leaves, thorns, musical notes, a metronome, and a church. Also on the front cover are the publisher’s device and the name of the trilogy within a purple elongated compartment. The spine is mainly black with an illustration similar to the front cover reproduced in miniature. The back cover is white with excerpts from reviews in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Times Book Review. Cover design by Spencer Francey Peters; cover illustration by Sandra Dionisi. Price $14.99. notes: See the notes to A14a.4 for licences prior to



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1988 sold by Macmillan of Canada to Penguin Books Canada Limited for A14. For an advance of $200,000, Penguin Books Canada Limited negotiated a licence with Macmillan of Canada on 13 May 1988 for a period of ten years to publish A14d along with eight other works by Davies (contract in file 12, vol. 28, Colbert Agency fonds, lac). In addition to A14d, the books that were published as a result of this licence are: A38e, A44e, A49c, A61c, and A68d. Penguin Books Canada also had a licence to re-publish A52 and A66, but did not exercise those rights and did not republish these books. The title of the ninth book under this licence is not known. copies examined: oh; pend (five copies).

A15  battle cry for book lovers 1960 FROM THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | ADVENTURES | OF | THE | MIND | 53• | [rule] | Battle Cry for | Book Lovers | By ROBERTSON DAVIES | © 1960 The Curtis Company Large leaflet folded twice forming three joined leaves. 355 × 270 mm. folded, 1,065 × 270 mm. unfolded. contents: The leaflet consists of a title page, a photo of Davies by Karsh, three pages of text, and a blank page. At the bottom of the first page of the text is some biographical information about Davies with two quotations by him, one concerning his birth (“in the cusp of Leo and Virgo with Mercury in the ascendant”) and the other about his newspaper editing (“I think such work good for an author; it keeps him from developing fanciful theories about people.”). text: The first chapter of A16, “A Call to the Clerisy,” in condensed form. notes: Shortly after he submitted the manuscript of A Voice from the Attic (A16) to Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Davies’s agent Willis Kingsley Wing began to think about the book’s serialization. He wrote to Davies on 4 January 1960: “I’m starting with Jack Fischer, Esquire and Playboy, but I’m not sure but a segment can’t be lifted which would fit into the Saturday Evening Post’s Adventure of the Mind series.” Wing’s best bet was the Saturday Evening Post since he had recently sold a chapter from one of Somerset Maugham’s book of essays to that magazine. Davies replied to Wing on 7 January 1960: “I would be very happy if you could interest the Saturday Evening Post in a chapter and I think that perhaps Chapter One, Chapter Four and Chapter Six are the most likely pieces to interest them. However,

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I question if any part of the book would work in their series without substantial cutting and some rewriting to bridge the cuts, and if this were wanted I would be very happy to do it. I feel that in a series called Adventures of the Mind, Chapter One, with its insistence on the necessity of more people using their heads might be most effective.” Davies hoped that extracts from A16 could be sold to Harper’s Bazaar and Esquire as well. Wing informed Davies of the good news that the Post wanted to publish 5,000 words from chapter 1 of A16 on 27 January 1960. Dick Thruelsen, one of the Post’s Adventures of the Mind editors, marked up a copy of Chapter 1 with suggested cuts. “The plan is to use this as a late Spring piece and as soon as they’ve approved the cuts I’ll have their cheque for $2,500,” Wing explained. Davies was delighted by the prospect of the Post’s serialization, and Alfred Knopf regarded it as an opportunity to publicize A16a. Davies made appropriate cuts and sent the condensed version of Chapter 1 to Wing on 10 February 1960, although in retrospect Davies felt that he “could have done a better job in cutting” (letter to Wing, 20 May 1960). A15 was published on 24 May 1960 by the Curtis Publishing Company as a separate publication and in periodical form four days later (Saturday Evening Post 232, no. 48 (28 May 1960): 25, 46-47, 49-50). “The Post presentation of the Adventures of the Mind piece #53 looks very fine indeed,” Wing proudly remarked on 26 May 1960. When Knopf advertised A16a, this leaflet was mailed to bookstores and news outlets as a form of advance publicity. Harold Strauss of Alfred A. Knopf told Davies on 9 June 1960: “We all are delighted with the Saturday Evening Post treatment of the excerpt of your book.” McClelland & Stewart received fifty copies of the leaflet on 2 August 1960. At that time the Saturday Evening Post stated that the leaflet was in limited supply. Davies registered his copyright in the leaflet with the Copyright Office at dlc on 24 May 1960 (original registration B837633, renewal registration RE-396-712 ). Reprinted in Richard Thruelsen and John Kobler, eds., Adventures of the Mind (New York: A. Knopf, 1961), 2nd series, pp. 529-41. Davies was paid $250 for the reprint. Information on the publishing history of A15 is based on: file 35, box 22, series A, and file 22, box Ca2, McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm; file 16, vol. 43, file 27, vol. 46, and file 8, vol. 53, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm (file 22, box Ca2, McClelland & Stewart fonds).

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A16 a voice from the attic 1960 A16a  American edition: ROBERTSON DAVIES | [rule] | A Voice from the | Attic | [two rules] | A book is a mirror. When a monkey | looks in, no apostle can look out. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | [two rules] | [publisher’s device: dog, abstract design in background] | ♦ ALFRED A. KNOPF ♦ NEW YORK ♦ | 1960 1-1216 . 1-7, vi-ix, 1-3, 3, 4, 5-360, i-x, 1-2 pp. (192 leaves). 213 ×144 mm. contents: p. 1 blank; p. 2 list of seven books by Davies; p. 3 half title; p. 4 blank; p. 5 title; p. 6 [publisher’s device: configuration of letters (ba joined in mirror letters in the lower portion of the letter K) above a dog] | THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK, | PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. | [thinthick-thin rules] | Copyright © by Robertson Davies, Copyright © | 1960 by The Curtis Publishing Company [remaining line and next five lines about copyright and the manufacture of the book in the United States] | FIRST EDITION | An abridgment of Chapter One appeared originally as | “Battle Cry for Book Lovers” in The Saturday Evening | Post. | L. C. catalog card number: 60-12961; pp. 7, vi-ix table of contents; p. 1 blank; p. 2 fly title; p. 3 blank; pp. 3-352 text (p. 4 blank); pp. 353-360 an informal bibliographical note; pp. i-x index; p. 1 a note about the author, dated June 1960; p. 2 a note on the printing, paper, and binding (set in Baskerville; composed, printed, and bound by Kingsport Press, Inc.; paper manufactured by S.D. Warren Co.; typography and binding by Rudolph Ruzicka). text: The text consists of eight sections: I A Call to the Clerisy; II Enjoying and Enduring; III Ovid Is Not Their Master; IV From the Well of the Past; V Making the Best of Second Best; VI The Hue and Cry after a Good Laugh; VII In Pursuit of Pornography; and VIII Spelunking on Parnassus. Each section is comprised of approximately twenty to twenty-five specific subjects pertaining to the topic of the section in question. binding and dust jacket: Bound in blue cloth. Stamped on the upper board in light blue are Davies’s initials separated by three maple leaves and two small stars. Stamped on the spine: [illustration of upsidedown maple leaf with two small stars] | [next four lines in silver] A | VOICE | FROM | THE | ATTIC | [illustration of upside-down maple leaf with two small stars] | [remaining lines in silver] Robertson | DAVIES | [rule] | [in script] Knopf | [rule]. Blind-stamped on the lower board within a rectangle is Knopf’s logo (Borzoi Books and dog). Top edge stained rusty red. The front panel of the jacket has a turquoise back-

ground with illustrations and lettering in white and purplish blue. The front panel features: illustrations of maple leaves and stars at the upper left-hand and lower right-hand corners; and a rectangular com­ partment, having a light-grey background, contain-  ing nine lines of text (Alfred A. Knopf’s signature   in facsimile at the end) in which Knopf calls Davies the best book reviewer in North America. The spine panel has a purplish blue background with lettering and illustration in white and turquoise, including the title in capital letters at an angle, an illustration of a maple leaf and two stars, the names of the author and publisher, and the publisher’s device. On the back panel are: a blue photo (taken by Ralph Greenhill) of Davies seated in front of a wall of books; a paragraph about him; and the publisher’s name and location. The flaps are white with lettering and illustration in white and purplish blue. On the front flap are the price ($4.75), information about the book (begins “An urbane, robust, and wonderfully opinionated voice from Canada”), and attribution of the typography, binding, and jacket designs to Ruzicka. The back flap has an excerpt from the Times Literary Supplement about books and reading and the publisher’s device. notes: On 31 March 1958, the American publisher Alfred A. Knopf wrote to Davies and admitted that he made a mistake in rejecting A12. Knopf proposed that perhaps a selection of Davies’s pieces from Saturday Night might make an interesting book. He also enclosed a memorandum from one of the Knopf editors suggesting a book on the present literary scene. Flattered by Knopf’s proposal, Davies replied on 3 April 1958: “it might be possible and interesting to do a book which was a plea for the return of some power in the literary world to the ordinary cultivated reader — as opposed to the university critic with an axe to grind and a reputation to make.” Davies clarified his intent on 13 May 1958. He did not want to write a survey of modern literature but rather “a book which would be lively and amusing about certain trends in writing today.” Two days later in New York City, he met and discussed the book with Knopf. He submitted a detailed plan on 15 October 1958 but warned Knopf that the plan was “as dreary as anything ever conceived by the meanest professor in a cow-college on the prairies. But I really intend to write a lively book ... As I work on this book I feel more and more like John Leland, Henry VIII’s antiquary, who said that in his catalogue of the manuscripts in the monasteries he ‘desired to be somewhat at large, and have ornature.’ What would you say to AT LARGE AND WITH ORNATURE as a title for this book?” He also sent Knopf his first draft of



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chapter 1. He considered this chapter to be critical to the book’s theme. Knopf liked the first chapter but he thought the provisional title ill-advised because it failed to convey to the reader an idea of the book’s contents. In addition to Knopf and his editor, Harold Strauss, three other readers (Herbert Weinstock, Marvin Craig, and H. Lemay) prepared reports on Davies’s manuscript. The contract, dated 15 December 1958 (copies at pend and tex), for a book entitled “A Call to the Clerisy” has the following terms: an advance of $750, 17½% royalty up to 7,500 copies sold, 21% on an additional 10,000 copies, and 23% thereafter (outside of the United States, the royalty rate was twothirds of the prevailing rate); the delivery date of the manuscript was 1 December 1959. Davies completed and returned the author’s questionnaire on 12 January 1959. He informed Strauss on 13 November 1959 that he planned to visit New York City with the manuscript in hand during the first week of December 1959: “The title which I propose is A Voice from the Attic, which is a quotation from the work of a Canadian poet [Patrick Anderson] who refers to this country as America’s attic, and I have laid some emphasis on the point that being a Canadian, my opinions about American and British writing are not entirely those of an American or English critic.” The manuscript was slightly more than 100,000 words. Knopf told Davies on 15 December 1959 that he was delighted with the book. Strauss was also enthusiastic, but he was critical of the book’s “loose constructions and stylistic lapses.” Davies replied to Strauss’s criticisms on 18 December 1959: “Of course it is possible to shorten the sentences and I am all for concision, but I doubt if in these instances brevity does not alter the meaning.” He quoted dictionaries about his usage of certain words and phrases but acknowledged that American dictionaries supported Strauss in a number of instances. On 6 January 1960, Davies enclosed a list of cuts amounting to 3,500 words from the text, said that he would get busy on the bibliography, and made inquiries about the index. On 19 January 1960, he altered the authorial note drafted by Knopf: “I have never admired the antics of the professional book lover, laughing like a department store Santa Claus and showing that he is a roistering good fellow in spite of his habit of reading.” The front panel of the jacket was sent to production on 10 February 1960, and the manuscript was edited and ready for production eight days later. Knopf sent Davies a proof of the jacket on 24 March 1960. Davies apparently read proofs in late May, and he returned a second lot of proofs on 3 June 1960. Strauss predicted on 12 October “an advance

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distribution of about 5,000 copies, which is not at all bad, in my opinion, for a belletristic book of this kind. Furthermore we expect widespread reviews, and are rather hopeful for subsequent sales.” $3,200 was spent on promotion, including 144 review copies sent out to newspapers throughout America. The first printing consisted of 6,000 copies. Published on 24 October 1960. Strauss’s prediction was shy of the actual number of advance orders, however. On 21 November 1960, Knopf informed Davies that 3,200 copies had been ordered in advance of publication and that another 600 to 700 had been ordered thereafter. Sales are “neither good nor bad,” he told Davies two days before Christmas 1960. “It’s bad only because we have spent — but this is entirely our fault — some three thousand dollars on advertising and promotion.” Knopf’s royalty report for six months, ending on 31 October 1961, showed “returns in excess of sales and an unearned advance remaining of $247.68.” When Jack McClelland related to Knopf that Davies was under the impression that the book had sold poorly, Knopf told Davies on 11 March 1965: “Well, if the figures given to me are correct we did over 7,500, which I think is very good indeed for a book of that kind, though like most publishers, no sale for a book that I have a special interest in seems to me as good as I hoped for.” A little later on 26 March 1965, Knopf clarified his sales figures: “Actually we sold some 3,600 copies in the States. Some 4,000 of those we printed went to Canada and 1,000 were remaindered in 1963.” A16a was registered at the Copyright Office of dlc on 29 September 1960 (A466466); the effective date of registration, renewed by Curtis Brown, Ltd. on Davies’s behalf, was 7 June 1988 (RE-386-567). Excerpts are reprinted in the following: A.H. Humble and T.W. Lawson, Thought and Style: An Introduction to Literary Criticism for Senior Students (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1965), p. 52; Reading Study Book Three (Toronto: Ryerson Press / Macmillan Company of Canada, 1966), pp. 107, 125-6; “A Millenary Parallel” in H. Gordon Green and Guy Sylvestre, eds., A Century of Canadian Literature / Un siècle de littèrature canadienne (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1967), pp. 574-5; W. Ross Winterowd, The Contemporary Writer (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1975), p. 129; Robert Cluett, Prose Style and Critical Reading (Cleveland: New Teachers College, 1976), pp. 232, 234, 239, 259, 291, and 304; “True Humour Uncontrollable,” “Humor a Dangerous Profession,” and “Career of a Popular Humorist” in Douglas Daymond and Leslie Monkman, eds., Literature in Canada (Toronto: Gage, 1978), vol. 2, pp. 291-4; “Experiment and the Antinovel” and “Dangers in the Avant-Garde” in Douglas Daymond and Leslie

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Monkman, eds., Canadian Novelists and the Novel (Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1981), pp. 218-22; Ruth Bauerle, ed., The James Joyce Songbook (New York: Garland, 1982), p. xviii; “The Decorums of Stupidity” in Ronald Conrad, The Act of Writing: Canadian Essays for Composition (Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1983), pp. 190-1 (3rd ed., 1990, pp. 175-6; 4th ed., 1995, pp. 190-1); “Reading Plays” in Alden R. Turner, ed., Experience & Expression: A Reader for Canadian Writers (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman Ltd., 1988), pp. 195-6; Thomas S. Kane and Karen C. Ogden, The Canadian Oxford Guide to Writing: A Rhetoric and Handbook (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 135, 306, 407, 413, 420, 565; “Books Are for Reading” in Where Books Fall Open: A Reader’s Anthology of Wit and Passion, selected by Bascove (Boston: David R. Godine, 2001), pp. 28-9. See also A96. Information on the publishing history of A16a is based on the following: files 14-16, vol. 43, file 10, vol. 53, and file 44, vol. 81, Davies fonds, lac; file 4, box 280 and files 5-6, box 1335, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. fonds, tex. copies examined: oh (in M&S dust jacket); ohm (in M&S dust jacket; copy of American jacket in file 22, box Dk12, McClelland & Stewart fonds); otmc (no jacket); pend (in jacket). A16a.1  first Canadian issue: ROBERTSON DAVIES | [rule] | A Voice from the | Attic | [two rules] | A book is a mirror. When a monkey | looks in, no apostle can look out. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | [two rules] | [publisher’s device of McClelland & Stewart: abstract sketch within an oval of a man standing on a horse-drawn chariot, taking aim with a bow and arrow] | ♦ McCLELLAND & STEWART LIMITED ♦ | Toronto • 1960 The Canadian issue differs from A16a in the fol­ lowing respects: the copyright page; the last page   (a note on the type) which has the publisher’s device of McClelland & Stewart; the book’s spine where   McClelland | & Stewart replaces Knopf; the lower board, which lacks Knopf’s logo. The copyright page reads as follows: [publisher’s device of McClelland & Stewart: abstract sketch within an oval of a man standing on a horse-drawn chariot, taking aim with a bow and arrow] | Copyright, Canada 1960 by Robertson Davies. All rights | reserved. [remaining line and next four lines about copyright and the manufacture of the book in the United States] | FIRST EDITION | An abridgment of Chapter One appeared originally as | “Battle Cry for Book Lovers” in The Saturday Evening | Post. The dust jacket of A16a.1 is similar to the jacket of A16a but differs in the following respects: the rectan-

gular compartment on the front panel contains nine lines of text (Davies’s signature in facsimile at the end) in which Davies explains his purpose in writing the book; on the spine panel Knopf’s name and its publisher’s device are replaced by that of McClelland & Stewart in turquoise (outlined in white); the paragraph about Davies on the back panel has different wording and continues on the back flap; there is no reference to Knopf as publisher on the back panel and back flap; the front flap has the title followed by two paragraphs which begin: “Everyone who loves reading should rejoice in this book.” notes: Although Macmillan of Canada had published A14a.1 and ordinarily would have been asked to publish Davies’s next book, A16a.1 went to McClelland & Stewart because McClelland & Stewart handled Knopf’s books in Canada and Knopf initially owned the North American rights to A16; Knopf relinquished the rights to Canada on 23 March 1960. A wrinkle in the assignment of the Canadian rights was the Canadian agency of Knopf’s books. In 1960 Alfred A. Knopf was sold to Random House, represented in Canada by Ambassador Books. Davies was willing to let McClelland & Stewart publish the book in Canada as long as John Gray of Macmillan of Canada was not upset by the arrangement. Harold Strauss informed Jack McClelland about A16a.1 on 1 February 1960. “I think you will be pleasantly surprised by it,” Strauss pointed out, “since it is not at all the usual collection of critical essays, but a quite cohesive book, and it certainly isn’t intended only for a small group of intellectuals, as most belletristic volumes are.” McClelland welcomed Strauss’s offer. “It sounds more promising than I had thought. The rough description is most impressive,” McClelland replied on 4 February. At the same time, McClelland was conservative in his estimate of the book’s possible sales — 1,000 to 1,500 copies for a Canadian issue. McClelland commissioned two readers’ reports. One report, dated 9 February and signed “L.T.,” states: “I have rather mixed feelings about this book. I found it entertaining reading on the whole.” This same reader regarded Davies’s headings as “pompous” but predicted a fairly good sale. The second reader’s report (15 February 1960) suggested that the manuscript needed pruning to avoid repetition and general wordiness. On the whole, however, the second reader agreed with the first reader’s assessment: “This is a very entertaining and interesting MS.” These reports apparently had little effect, if any, on the final text since Davies had already made his revisions to the book directly with Knopf.



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The contract with McClelland & Stewart is dated 11 May 1960 (copies at ohm, pend, and file 10, vol. 28, Colbert Agency fonds, lac). There was an advance royalty of $500: 10% on the first 3,000 sold, 12½% for the next 2,000 copies sold, and 15% thereafter. Davies read proofs on 11 July 1960, although it is unclear why he would have done so since the text of A16a.1 is identical to A16a. He also attended a sales conference of the company prior to 23 August 1960 where he explained the importance of his book to sales agents. Hugh Kane of McClelland & Stewart ordered 1,500 copies from Knopf on 14 July 1960 (the Kingsport Press sent the copies on 17 September 1960). McClelland & Stewart paid Knopf $1.27 per copy (sale price $4.75). Copies of A16a.1 arrived at McClelland & Stewart’s offices on 7 October. Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, acknowledged delivery of six author copies of A16a.1 on 13 October 1960, and on that date, McClelland told Davies: “As publication date occurs on Saturday this is just a brief note to tell you again how delighted we are to have your fine book on our fall list. It adds lustre and prestige to our imprint.” Published on 15 October 1960, nine days prior to the publication of A16a. There was a second printing in November 1960. On 13 January 1961, McClelland informed Davies that approximately 2,500 copies had sold and “it is still selling.” By the end of 1985, 8,393 had sold (royalty report at pend). Information on the publishing history of A16a.1 is based on the following sources: box 295, Macmillan of Canada fonds, ohm; file 35, box 22, series A, file 22, box Ca2, file 22, Dk12, and box T1, McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm; file 2, vol. 50, and file 8, vol. 53, Davies fonds, lac. ryrie (A27) also reports the following edition: Toronto: British Book Service, 1961. 268 pp. copies examined: lac (second printing, November 1960); okq (three copies of first printing, two in jacket; second printing in jacket); otmc (first printing in jacket). A16a.2  second Canadian issue, photographic reprint (1972): A Voice From the Attic | Robertson Davies | Introduction: Robert Cockburn | General Editor: Malcolm Ross | New Canadian Library No. 83 | [publisher’s device of McClelland & Stewart: abstract sketch within an oval of a man standing on a horsedrawn chariot, taking aim with a bow and arrow] | McClelland and Stewart Limited | Toronto/Montreal This is a photographic reprint of A16a. The leaves measure 182 × 107 mm. Pagination is as follows: i-vii,

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viii-xii, 1, 2-3, 4, 5-370, 1-2. The verso of the title leaf reads: © Robertson Davies 1960 | Paperback edition © Robertson Davies 1972 | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | The Canadian Publishers | McClelland and Stewart Limited | 25 Hollinger Road, Toronto 374. Cockburn’s introduction is found on pp. viii-xii. Information about Davies is on p. 2. The last leaf after the index (on pp. 361-70) is a list of books in the New Canadian Library series. binding: Perfect bound in multi-coloured, stiff-paper covers (purple, light blue, black, and white). The front cover, framed in light blue with three connecting compartments, states: An invigorating exploration of the wonderful | world of reading by one of Canada’s most | brilliant writers and critics. Down the spine in light blue are the author’s name and title followed by the logo of the New Canadian Library and the series number. There is a caricature of Davies on the back cover (against a solid purple background), two paragraphs about the book, and the series statement and the names of the publisher and editor. Price $2.95. notes: When Davies was informed on 13 August 1971 that McClelland & Stewart planned to issue A16a.2, he observed: “their New Canadian Library, though quite good, suffers from the disadvantage of always being stocked under Canadiana, a title which unfortunately many readers here pass by without a look.” McClelland & Stewart paid Davies an advance royalty of $250 with a royalty of 8% on all copies sold (letter at pend, 7 October 1971). Davies received his author copies on 17 February 1972. He congratulated Jack McClelland “on a very smart looking book.” He liked the art design by David Shaw. He was particularly pleased with “Cockburn’s introduction, as naturally I would be because it is a long paean of praise.” He also wrote and thanked Cockburn, although he corrected Cockburn’s statement about his “High Church Tory background.” Davies referred to himself as a “literary Tory” but not a Tory in politics: “... whenever I go into a polling booth I can hear my father’s voice saying, ‘May this hand wither if I ever cast a Tory vote’.” Up to the end of 1979, 6,924 copies of A16a.2 had sold: 1,337 copies in 1972, 1,058 in 1973, 1,139 in 1974, 1,050 in 1975, 951 in 1976, 624 in 1977, 425 in 1978, and 340 in 1979. 5,282 copies sold up to 1 November 1976, and between 1 January and 30 June 1976, 698 copies sold (685 copies of A16a.2 at $2.95, 13 copies of A16a.1 at $3.50, earning $16.52 royalty at 8% of the list price). In the period between July through December 1986, 26 copies sold. The rights in A16a.1 and A16a.2 reverted to Davies on 15 November 1988 be-

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cause the book was no longer in stock and McClelland & Stewart decided not to publish it again. 8,671 copies had sold up to the end of 1988, although McClelland & Stewart continued to issue royalty statements for several years thereafter in which no copies had sold. On 11 June 1990, Davies sold the Canadian rights to A16 to Penguin Books Canada Limited: an advance of $3,750 upon signature and $3,750 upon publication; a royalty of 10% on all copies sold (copy of contract at pend). It would appear that Penguin Books Canada Limited did not issue the book, but had distribution rights to A16c for copies sold in Canada. Information on the publishing history of A16a.2 has been obtained from the following sources: file on Collins Knowlton Wing Inc., box TR6, McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm; file 14, vol. 44, files 30 and 36, vol. 45, and file 5, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac; royalty reports at pend. copies examined: okq (rebound but with the covers preserved); ohm (rebound); pend (two copies). A16a.3  first American issue, photographic reprint (1972): ROBERTSON DAVIES | [rule] | A Voice from the | Attic | [two rules] | A book is a mirror. When a monkey | looks in, no apostle can look out. | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | [two rules] | The Viking Press • New York A16a.3 has the following pagination: i-vii, viii-xi, 1-5, 3, 4, 5-370. The preliminary pagination has been altered, and the index has been re-paginated with continuous numbering after the text. The leaves measure 197 ×128 mm. Davies has added a new preface (Preface to the Compass Edition, dated October 1, 1971). A16a.3 also lacks the final leaf of A16a. The copyright page is as follows: [publisher’s device of Viking Press: spokes in a semi-circle above a Viking ship] | Copyright © 1960, 1972 by Robertson Davies | Copyright © 1960 by The Curtis Publishing Company | All rights reserved | Viking Compass Edition | issued in 1972 by The Viking Press, Inc. | 625 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 | SBN 670-00337-9 | Printed in U.S.A. | An abridgment of Chapter One appeared originally as | “Battle Cry for Book Lovers” in The Saturday Evening Post. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. Printed on the front cover over a black-and-white photograph of Davies in a suit: [first two lines in red] Robertson | Davies | author of | FIFTH BUSINESS | [next four lines in red] a voice | from | the | attic | [remaining lines in white] Essays on the art of Reading | A Viking Compass Book / $2.95. The spine is dark yellow with the title in red and the Compass number C337. The back cover in black with white lettering has a paragraph about

the book, quotations from reviews, the SBN, and the address of the Viking Press. Cover photo by Peter Paterson. notes: When Davies was informed by Josephine Rogers, his agent representing the firm of CollinsKnowlton-Wing, Inc., that Viking intended to publish A16a.3, he told her on 23 July 1971: “I was delighted to get your letter telling me that Viking are going to bring out A Voice from the Attic in their Compass edition. This book has always been my lame child; I think there is some good stuff in it, but dear Alfred [Knopf] was so unwise as to send it out into the world with his signed opinion on the jacket that I was the best book reviewer in North America.” Davies inquired whether Viking would reproduce the book photographically. He wanted to add 150 words to the chapter, “In Pursuit of Pornography,” to account for developments in the public’s perception of the subject. But he left the chapter intact and added a preface instead. The contract (copy at pend dated 17 August 1971) offered an advance royalty of $1,000, 7½ % royalty on all copies sold, $2.75 price, and an expected publication in February 1972. Davies sent a new preface on 24 September 1971. Rogers related to Davies on 27 January 1972 that author copies of A16a.3 were on their way to him. On inspecting them, Davies told Corlies Smith, Viking’s editor, on 17 February 1972: “I think you have produced a book which is an admirable transformation of Alfred Knopf’s fine original edition into paperback form.” Published 29 February 1972. Number of copies printed not known. Information about A16a.3’s publishing history is based on files 36, vol. 43, and file 23, vol. 52, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: pend (seven copies). A16b  English edition (entitled The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose, 1961): THE | PERSONAL | ART | READING TO GOOD PURPOSE | Robertson | Davies | London | SECKER & | WARBURG A16 B-H16 I6 [$1 signed]. 1-5, 6, 7-9, 10-31, 32, 33-57, 58, 59-81, 82, 83-110, 111, 112-142, 143, 144-178, 179, 180202, 203, 204-247, 248-251, 252-255, 256-257, 258-268 pp. (134 leaves). 215 × 139 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 Copyright © 1961 by Robertson Davies | Printed in England by | The Camelot Press Ltd., London and Southampton | and first published 1961 | by | Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., | 7 John Street, London | WC1.; pp. 5-6 table of contents; p. 7 prologue; p. 8 blank; pp. 9- 247 text; p. 248 blank; p. 249 epilogue; p. 250 blank; pp. 251-255



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informal bibliographical note; p. 256 blank; pp. 257268 index. text: The text is the same as A16a with the exception of the prologue and the informal bibliographical note where certain sentences or a paragraph have been altered or deleted to suit a British audience. The prologue, for example, omits all references to “a voice from the attic.” The chapter titles are the same as A16a, but approximately half of the original headings within chapters have been omitted. binding and dust jacket: There are at least two binding variants in cloth, blue-grey and turquoise, with the following stamped in silver on the spine in the blue-grey cloth variant and in gilt on the turquoise cloth variant: [solid pyramid, rule] | The | Personal | Art | [rule, inverted solid pyramid] | ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [last two lines not on the turquoise cloth variant] Secker & | Warburg. The dust jacket is white with a criss-cross pattern of light-blue and red bands on the front and spine panels. The back panel has four paragraphs about Davies. On the jacket’s front flap are four paragraphs summarizing the book’s contents, along with the price (25s.). The back flap is blank. notes: Davies’s first choice for an English publisher was Jonathan Cape, at least that is what he advised his agent Willis Kingsley Wing on 7 January 1960. But Fred Warburg visited Wing in early April of that year, and he thanked Wing profusely for “that lucid, ironical and excellent book by Robertson Davies A Voice from the Attic.” Wing worked with Michael Horniman of A.P. Watt & Son to arrange a contract. The reader’s report (4 April 1960) was prepared by Angus Wilson, who was absolutely delighted with the book. He offered several criticisms: the simpler reader would be bewildered by the introduction referring to books on health, success, etc.; the sub-headings were amusing but also distracting; the book catered to an American public. Wilson’s last criticism echoed the publisher’s misgivings about the book’s title. On 6 April 1960, Martin Secker and Warburg suggested a title change, “A Quiet Call to Readers.” Davies agreed to a title change on 14 April 1960, but he preferred the title “A Call to the Clerisy.” He also thought that the number of sub-headings in the English edition might be reduced: “As the book stands, it is a Canadian talking to Americans,” Davies pointed out. “I think that for an English edition there should certainly be some additional introductory material explaining why the book is as it is, and perhaps here and there through it some re-writing would improve it for English reading. I could quickly revise the script for an eye to English

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publication if Mr. Warburg wanted it.” On 9 May 1960, Davies put forward the title “Reading, Being a Call to the Clerisy” for the English edition: “This sort of title, which is somewhat too flossy for the U.S.A., has a certain curiosity value in England.” The terms of the contract (sent to Davies on 18 May 1960) were the following: an advance royalty of £200 on account of 10% to 2,500 copies sold, 12½% to 5,000, 15% to 7,500, and 17½% thereafter. There were several titles that went back and forth between the publisher and Davies. Warburg suggested “The Art of Reading or How to Read or Reading Books” and “Reading: The Personal Art.” Davies countered with “Reading: Towards a Reader’s Revolution.” Davies sent the revised typescript to Horniman (having removed “the distinctly North American references”) on 24 June 1960. The index, done from the proofs, was sent to Horniman on 15 August 1960. Two sets of proofs plus the original typescript were sent to Davies by the publisher on 16 November 1960. Proof copies were also sent out at the end of November to various people such as J. Morpurgo of the National Book League and J.B. Priestley. Moira Whalon cor­ rected the proofs in early December 1960 because Davies had been in New York since mid-October working   on the stage production and re-writing of “Love and Libel.” The marked-up proofs were received by the publisher on 16 December 1960, and they were then sent to the printers a few days later. In January and February 1961, Davies delivered a series of three public lectures based on the book at Trinity College, University of Toronto. A16b was published on 8 May 1961 in an edition of 2,500 copies (3,000 jackets were manufactured on 14 February 1961). The copyright was registered at dlc’s Copyright Office on 15 May 1961, the effective registration date being 26 December 1989 (RE-568-900). Production (composing, machining, binding, etc.) occurred between 13 December 1960 and 23 March 1961 at a cost of approximately £665. 2,418 copies sold up to November 1965. Davies met Warburg in London around the time of A16b’s publication. “I met Mr. Warburg and liked him,” he told Wing on 26 May 1961, “though he seemed gloomy about A Voice from the Attic and on the whole I am gloomy about publication in England.” The previous day Warburg related: “So far, reviews of The Personal Art have been few and comparatively unimportant but then the book has only been published two weeks.” In Wing’s opinion, Warburg had been enthusiastic about A16b, but had overestimated the market for criticism in England. Information on the publishing history of A16b is based on file 16, vol. 43, file 39, vol. 52, files 8, 10, 11,

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and 12, vol. 53, and file 37, vol. 81, Davies fonds, lac; Secker and Warburg fonds at read. copies examined: oh (turquoise cloth in jacket); otmc (turquoise cloth in jacket); pend (two copies of turquoise cloth in jacket; two copies of blue-grey cloth in jacket). A16c  second American/English edition entitled A Voice from the Attic: Essays on the Art of Reading (1990): ROBERTSON DAVIES | A Voice from | the Attic | Essays on the Art of Reading | Revised Edition | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] |   PENGUIN BOOKS i-vi, vii-xi, xii, xiii-xiv, 1-2, 3-353, 1 pp. (184 leaves). 195 × 126 mm. contents: p. i three paragraphs about Davies; p. ii blank; p. iii title; p. iv PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Book USA Inc., | 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. | [ten lines of addresses of branches of Penguin Books in England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in the United States of America by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1960 | Published with a new preface in a Viking Compass Edition 1972 | This revised edition published in Penguin Books, 1990 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1960, 1972, 1990 | Copyright renewed Robertson Davies, 1988 | Copyright © The Curtis Publishing Company, 1960 | All rights reserved | An abridgment of Chapter 1 appeared originally as | “Battle Cry for Book Lovers” in The Saturday Evening Post. | [eight lines of Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0 14 01.2081 5] | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Sabon | [nine lines about copyright]; p. v quotation from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg; p. vi blank; pp. vii-xi table of contents; p. xii blank; pp. xiii-xiv preface; p. 1 fly title; p. 2 blank; pp. 3-4 prologue; pp. 5-333 text; p. 334 epilogue; pp. 335342 an informal bibliographical note; pp. 343-353 index; p. 1 advertisement Penguin Books (including Pelicans, Puffins, Peregrines, and Penguin Classics) with addresses throughout the world. text: Although A16c is referred to as a revised edition by the publisher, the text is the same as A16a. A16c also contains Davies’s preface of A16a.3, amended in the first sentence. binding: Paperback, perfect bound. The covers are dark blue with lettering in light pink, white, and grey. There is a black-and-white photograph of Davies

by Martin Franklin on the front cover. On the back cover are quotations from the New York Times Book Review and the San Francisco Chronicle, the ISBN, bar code, and the price in various currencies (£5.99, Aust. $14.99, N.Z. $21.95, Can $12.95, USA $9.95). Cover design by Melissa Jacoby. notes: On 16 February 1988, Viking Penguin Inc. paid Davies an advance of $200,000 for the continuing rights to nine of his books; A16 was one of the books under this agreement (copy at pend). Anne McDermid of Curtis Brown informed Davies on 1 July 1988 that Viking Penguin in New York along with the English branch of the company planned to re-issue A16. For the British rights, there was an advance of £1,500, payable half on signature and half on publication in the autumn of 1989, coinciding with the paperback publication of The Lyre of Orpheus. The royalties on copies sold was 7½% on the home edition and 6% for export sales (copy of contract at pend dated 31 August 1988). Janet Turnbull of Curtis Brown Canada Ltd. sent Davies Penguin Canada’s contract for the Canadian rights on 4 June 1990. The proof cover of the American edition was sent to Moira Whalon by Blair Fraser of Penguin USA on 16 May 1990. Christine Pevitt of Viking Penguin Inc. told Davies on 2 May 1990 that there had been a delay in the publication of A16c and that the book was being introduced to “our sales representatives this week at our sales conference.”   Whalon acknowledged receiving an advance copy of A16c on 21 August 1990. Published on 1 September 1990. The copyright was registered at dlc’s Copyright Office on 7 November 1990 (TX-2-951-230). 5,405 copies sold in the United States up to 30 April 1995; 2,696 copies sold in Canada up to the end of June 1998; 540 copies were sold by Penguin Books Ltd (England) in 1993, but only seven copies sold in 1998 (35 copies were returned in the last six months of 1995). Information about A16c’s publishing history has been obtained from file 26, vol. 46, file 31, vol. 50, and file 37, vol. 52, Davies fonds, lac; royalty reports at pend. copies examined: otmc; pend (eight copies); sask.

A17  literature and medicine 1962 [all lines within rectangle] LITERATURE AND MEDICINE | Robertson Davies, D.Litt. [sic] | Peterborough, Ont. | [ornament] | Reprinted from | THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL | 87, 701-706, September 29, 1962



A18 A Masque of Mr Punch. 1963

14. 1, 2-6, 1-2 pp. (4 leaves). 285 × 210 mm. binding: Bound in a glossy white wrapper, wirestitched. notes: A17 is the text of Davies’s address to the Academy of Medicine in Toronto delivered on 3 April 1962. His comments about the medical profession are both light-hearted and prescriptive. He says that authors are hypochondriacs by nature. He tells the story of going to two doctors for advice. One said he had a heart condition and needed vigorous exercise; another doctor, a technician, told him he was suffering from fatigue and needed rest. He followed the technician’s advice. Every doctor, Davies maintains, should be a humanist in the manner of Rabelais, Sir Thomas Browne, and Sir William Osler. Davies also describes how doctors are portrayed in literature, such as Faustus, the physician in the Canterbury Tales, doctors in Shakespeare’s plays, and Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The address concludes with a discussion of the aims and hopes of Massey College. A17 appeared as an article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (see C62.37). In this format it has been re-paginated. copies examined: davis.

A18 a masque of mr punch 1963 [all lines except the last line within an illustration of two columns and an ornamental archway] A | MASQUE | OF | MR PUNCH | by | ROBERTSON | DAVIES | Toronto | OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS | 1963 18 2 12 3-4 8. i-ix, x, xi, xii, 1-58, 1-2 pp. (36 leaves). 196 × 136 mm., hardcover; 196 × 140 mm., paperback. contents: p. i half title; p. ii blank; p. iii title; p. iv Requests for permission | to produce this play | should be directed to | OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS | 70 Wynford Drive, | Don Mills (Toronto), Ont. | © Oxford University Press 1963 | Printed in Canada by | T. H. BEST PRINTING COMPANY LIMITED; p. v dedication: FOR | THE | BOYS | OF | U.C.C. PREP.; p. vi blank; p. vii cast of characters; p. viii blank; p. ix-x first performance at Upper Canada College, Toronto, 29 November 1962 — cast of characters, list of actors, and the director (Michael Carver), and the people in charge of costumes, scenery, and music; pp. xi-xii introduction (dated 24 April 1963); pp. 1-58 text; pp. 1-2 blank. binding and dust jacket: There are two binding

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variants: (1) Orange paper boards with an illustration of a harlequin (presumably Mr. Punch) stamped on the upper board. Stamped down the spine: robertson davies A Masque of Mr Punch oxford. The front, spine, and back panels of the jacket in orange are similar to the design on the paper boards. The illustration on the front panel features a colour illustration of Mr. Punch within an ornamental archway with the following above the illustration: [first line in yellowish green] ROBERTSON DAVIES | A Masque of Mr Punch. The flaps are white. On the front flap are three paragraphs about the play (“‘Mr Punch has been an influence on me since first, as a small boy, I saw the play that bears his name.’”), the author’s name, the title, and name of the jacket designer (Barry Zaid). On the back flap is a paragraph about Davies, followed by the lines: Oxford University Press | PRINTED IN CANADA. (2) Paperback with orange covers, gatherings glued to the inner backstrip. The spine and front cover are the same as the design on the spine and front panels of the jacket. Printed on the back cover: ROBERTSON DAVIES | A Masque of Mr Punch | [three paragraphs about the play and one paragraph about Davies, the paragraphs the same as those on the flaps of the jacket] | COVER DRAWING BY BARRY ZAID | Oxford University Press. notes: A18 is the second play that Davies wrote specifically for the Upper Canada Preparatory School (see A11 for information on the first play that he wrote for the School). Several years after A18’s initial production and publication, he explained to Telford Penfold on 14 November 1967 that the play’s purpose was “simply to create a cheerful atmosphere and to give a particular kind of pleasure to its audiences ... The inspiration of the play, as you will discover from the Preface, lies in the character of Mr. Punch himself, who is an anarchist, if any sort of political label can be attached to him, but perhaps it is wiser simply to call him a cheerful, strong-minded egotist. The satire is not directed particularly at Canadian society, but at almost any sort of Western society.” In December 1957 Davies mentioned to Alan G.A. Stephen, the School’s Headmaster, that he might be able to write a Christmas masque in time for a production at the end of the School’s autumn term in 1958. When Stephen reminded Davies about the play on 28 May 1958, Davies told him on 5 June 1958 that he was simply too busy with other work. He had, however, thought about what he wanted to do with the play: “My notion is that it should be called something like Mr. Punch’s Masque of Christmas and be a lively piece about Christmas at schools, rather than something of a more solemn and religious nature.” It was not until

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13 December 1961 that Davies was able to tell Stephen with some confidence that he was almost ready to embark on the play’s writing: “I have every expectation of getting it to you by Spring so that the costume people and Mr. [Henry] Atack will not be rushed. I think of it as a Christmas play, though it need not necessarily be so. The principal characters will be Mr. Punch, Judy, Toby the Dog and all the characters from the old Punch and Judy play, as well as some modern ones. I hope that you will be pleased with it, but the older I become the more sceptical I am of my own abilities, and there is a possibility that it may turn out to be a complete mess, in which case I shall advise you strongly to have nothing to do with it.” Davies wrote A18 in April and May 1962. On 11 April 1962, he expressed to Stephen the hope that A18 would be “livelier” than A11: “There is quite a bit of music in it, but not very much singing, as I noticed that it seemed to be difficult for the boys to make themselves heard above the orchestra. It will take some time to get the play into shape, but I will definitely have it in your hands around the first of June, if that is not too late.” He sent three copies of the typescript to Stephen on 31 May 1962. Coincidentally at the time, the newspapers had reported the three hundredth anniversary of the appearance of Punch in England. Davies called the piece “a Victorian Extravaganza because its character is rather loosely constructed and jolly, and in performance it will need to be sustained by high spirits rather than by its plot, which hardly exists. I hope you will like it and that the boys will find it entertaining to work on.” He offered to come to the School to discuss the play with Stephen. He had read the script to his daughters “who thought it funny, however, the evidence of daughters is likely to be prejudiced.” On 19 September 1962, Stephen told Davies that the first performances of A18 would take place on 2930 November and 1 December of that year. Atack had written the music for the play, and the cast was being recruited. Stephen sent a copy of the mimeographed typescript to Punch in England on 27 September 1962. A few days after the play’s opening at the School, Stephen told Davies on 5 December 1962 that he had received a letter from Ivon Owen (a graduate of Upper Canada College, 1933-1941) of the Oxford University Press. Owen proposed publication of the play in the spring, but he was worried about poaching on Clarke Irwin’s territory and a possible bidding war with other publishers. Stephen in fact sent copies of the typescript to several publishers — Macmillan of Canada, the Ryerson Press, and Copp Clark. On 6 December 1962, Davies decided to assign the copyright in A18 to

Upper Canada College. At the same time, he wanted to maintain control of his text. He planned to write an introduction to the play, and he wanted to proofread it and to receive his author copies. He advised Stephen to concentrate on Oxford University Press and the Macmillans in Canada: “You have no obligation of any kind to Clarke, Irwin. They have done rather well out of Aesop, and I am anxious that if any money accrues from Punch the Prep[aratory School] should get it.” Macmillan of Canada was willing to publish A18, but on 22 January 1963, Stephen let Oxford University Press publish the play (10% royalty, 75% of the performance fees to Upper Canada College). Owen thanked Davies on 26 April 1963 for his “masterly introduction.” He enclosed a set of sample pages and promised to send galley proofs to Davies in the next while. Minor emendations were made to Davies’s play by Oxford’s editor, William Toye, on 5 July 1963; for the most part these concerned the stage directions. Oxford University Press sent 4,000 prospectuses of A18 to Upper Canada College. A18 was published on 31 October 1963 ($3 in hardcover, $2 in paper) in an edition of 3,000 copies: 1,000 copies in linson boards (tangerine, linson #32, poplin finish); 2,000 copies in paper. The total production costs were $3,087.04. Davies was very pleased with the book’s appearance. “It cheers me to see the book in so many windows around the city,” he told Owen on 21 November 1963. “I think that the cover is first-rate; in the present gloomy condition of jacket design, it is refreshing.” Stephen informed Davies on 30 June 1964 that he had received a cheque from Owen for $211.75 (royalty report ending 41 March 1964: 470 copies in hardcover sold plus 25 copies in export sales; 335 copies sold in paperback). A18 has been staged widely at various schools across Canada; the Upper Canada Preparatory School revived the play in 1967. Information on the publishing history of A18 is based on file 20, vol. 50, file 12, vol. 51, files 14-15, vol. 52, file 35, vol. 79, and file 26, vol. 80, Davies fonds, lac. Information about the print run and production costs was obtained from Dr. Ruth Panofsky who examined the records of the Canadian branch of Oxford University Press. q&b 020a records an earlier edition (“the rare privately issued true first edition”) published in 1962: “35-50 copies print run (estimated by Steven Temple Books). Wraps [Wrappers] bound into blue card folder with typed cover label; [ii], 62 leaves, 8½ × 11 inches, mimeographed on rectos only.”   In fact, this is the pre-publication mimeo typescript that was used for the play’s original production and staging. copies examined: ohm (boards not in jacket; also



A21 Massey College Calender . 1966

mimeo typescript); okq (two copies in boards, both in jacket); otmc (two copies in boards, one in jacket; two copies in paperback); pend (two copies in boards, both in jacket).

A19  in memoriam: lionel vincent massey 1916-1965 1965 [cover title: arms (shield) of Massey College] | In Memoriam | LIONEL VINCENT MASSEY | 1916-1965 | Massey College Chapel | November twenty-first | Five p.m. Leaflet folded once. 278 × 214 mm. contents: This leaflet (cream-coloured stock, patterned in chain and wire lines) consists of four unnumbered pages: the cover title; pp. 2-3, the Order of Service; and the back of the leaflet listing the names of the Minister (The Reverend John N. Buchanan), choirmaster (Gordon Wry), and the musicians playing the harpsichord (Giles Bryant) and violoncello (Mary Starr). The Order of Service includes incantations and a verse to be sung by the Massey Choir, prayers and the benediction from the Minister, music, readings from the gospels by John Barker and Robert Finch, and a eulogy of Lionel Vincent Massey delivered by Davies. notes: Lionel Vincent Massey was Vincent Massey’s elder son. Lionel had acted as his father’s secretary when Vincent Massey was Governor General. In the 1960s he was an Associate Director of the Royal   Ontario Museum. An active supporter and Senior   Fellow of Massey College, he died of a cerebral   hemorrhage, and was buried on 31 July 1965 at St. Mark’s Anglican Church, Port Hope, on. Davies designed this leaflet and wrote the entire text (manuscript, 5 pp.). The incantations are attributed to various writers (Henry Purcell, Maurice Greene, and Thomas Morley). Davies was fond of Lionel Massey. In his eulogy (unpublished typescript and carbon typescript, 4 pp., and mimeographed typescript, 2 pp., at otmc), Davies states: “He and I were friends for nearly forty years and he was, I think, the kindest man that I have ever known.” copies examined: otmc (five copies, box 4, Master’s Office files).

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sity of Toronto] | MASSEY COLLEGE | will [next word in Style script] CELEBRATE its | [Cloister black letter typeface] GAUDY NIGHT! | in the Great Hall on Wednesday, | December 15th, at 9 p.m. | [ornamental, wavy rule] | The Theme of this year’s [next word in Cloister black letter] GAUDY will be College | Christmasses from the Middle Ages | to the Present Day! | [twentyseven lines consisting of rules and text] | ?????? Massey College Press. Accurate [upside down P]rinting While You Wait - And Wait. Broadside, medium-weight paper stock. 325 × 178 mm. Deckle edge at the bottom. Blank verso. Copies were printed on different colours of paper: beige, light blue, yellow, light green, and cream. notes: This broadside served as an announcement of and invitation to Gaudy Night for the Fellows, Senior Residents, and guests of Massey College in the University of Toronto. It was printed on an Albion Press by Douglas Lochhead, the Librarian of Massey College; most of the text is in Janson 12 pt. The tradition of Gaudy Nights in the Christmas season — grand entertainments for college members and their guests — was initiated by Davies as Master of Massey College in 1963 and continued for the next seventeen years of his mastership and beyond. Each year the program featured music sung by the Massey College Singers (usually directed by Gordon Wry), often composed specially for the event, the reading of specially written poems, and the reading by Davies of a new ghost story (the series was published in A63). See also file 15, vol. 10, Davies fonds, lac. This printed announcement is the first of its kind (none were printed in 1963 or 1964). In all, sixteen broadsides were issued between 1965 and 1980. In the archives of the Massey College Press at otmc, there is a marked-up typescript of A20 with revisions in Davies’s hand and numerous proof copies. According to the broadside, the Massey College Choir sang Christmas music of the Middle Ages and other periods right through to modern times. Robert Finch and Lochhead read “A Christmas Poem,” and Davies read the third college ghost story (“The Great Queen Is Amused”). copies examined: otmc (nine copies in different colours of paper stock).

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from time to time as necess- | ary, and other events will be announced as | their dates are set. | [twenty-four lines listing the beginning and end of college term, the founder’s dinner, high table nights, college concerts, and chapel services]

new cantata written by Giles Bryant entitled “Happiness Is Impossible ...” was also performed. Earle Birney read a poem written for the occasion, and Davies read his fourth college ghost story (“The Night of the Three Kings”). See also file 16, vol. 10, Davies fonds, lac.

Broadside, white thick-paper stock. 176 × 101 mm. Verso blank.

copies examined: otmc (twelve copies).

notes: A21 is a calendar of events for the 1966-67 academic year, printed at the Massey College Press and produced for the Fellows, residents, students, and staff. It was undoubtedly printed prior to September 1966, the beginning of the academic year. The archives of the Massey College Press at otmc have Davies’s typescript of A21 with emendations in his hand, a mock-up, and numerous proof copies. Probably printed by Douglas Lochhead, the Librarian of Massey College Press, on an iron Albion Press at the Massey College Press. Number of copies printed not known but at least two to three hundred copies if not more. copies examined: otmc (thirty-six copies).

A22  [gaudy night broadside 1966] [cover title; all lines in black are within a red floral, ornamental frame which is interrupted midway across the bottom by the insertion of Vincent Massey’s crest — a bull’s head with a fleur-de-lis — also in red] | GAUDY | To mark the Feast of Christmas Massey College will | celebrate a Gaudy Night on Saturday, December 17, | at 9 o’clock p.m. in the Great Hall. | [swelled rule; twenty-three lines of text] | [below the illustration of the bull’s head and outside the frame in red] Massey College Press Broadside, medium-weight beige paper stock. 300 × 226 mm. Deckle edge at the top. Blank verso. notes: This broadside, printed by the Massey College Librarian Douglas Lochhead in Janson type, on an Albion Press, served as an announcement of and invitation to Gaudy Night for the Fellows, Senior Residents, and guests of Massey College in the University of Toronto. See A20 for further information about the Gaudy Nights. In the Massey College Press archives at otmc, there is a typescript with holograph revisions in Davies’s hand, two photocopies of the typescript marked up for printing, a mocked-up copy, and numerous proofs. Davies asked for 300 copies to be printed by 1 December 1966. 244 copies were printed, and 150 were sent to him on 3 December 1966. The Massey College Singers performed carols. A

A23 at my heart’s core & overlaid 1966 A23a  first Canadian edition: [rule] | AT MY HEART’S CORE | OVERLAID | by | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | Toronto, Vancouver 1-10, 3-86, 87-88, 89-109, 110, 111-124, 1-2 pp. (68 leaves). 189 × 106 mm. contents: pp. 1-2 blank; p. 3 half title; p. 4 blank; p. 5 title; p. 6 [rule] | © Canada, 1966 | by clarke, irwin & company limited | [six lines noting that inquiries about the production of At My Heart’s Core should be addressed to Clarke Irwin and that similar inquiries about Overlaid should be addressed to Samuel French (Canada)] | Printed in Canada; p. 7 publisher’s preface; p. 8 blank; pp. 9-10, 3-109 text; pp. 110 blank; pp. 111-116 epilogue by the author; pp. 117-124 NOTES and questions about the two plays; pp. 1-4 blank. text: At My Heart’s Core; Overlaid. binding: Perfect bound, dark-pink stiff-paper covers. Printed on the front cover: A CLARKE IRWIN EDUCATIONAL PAPERBACK [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | [white rule] | [swash A] At my | [swash s] Heart’s | [swash r] Core & | Overlaid | [abstract illustration, descending to the next line, of a man’s face with a beard] TWO PLAYS | [next line in white] by [swash R] Robertson Davies. Printed on the spine: DAVIES | [down the spine in white] AT MY HEART’S CORE & OVERLAID | [short rule] | CIE-6 | [short rule]. On the back cover are a paragraph about the book and a paragraph about the author. notes: F.E.W. Miller, Clarke Irwin’s Educational Editor, proposed publication of A23a on 11 April and 3 May 1966. He obtained cost estimates for a paperback edition with approximately ten pages of explanatory notes: 2,000 copies at $.6249 per copy or 5,000 copies at $.417 per copy. He discussed the possibility of an educational edition with Dr. W.H. Clarke (son of W.H.



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Clarke) on 2 June 1966. He advised Clarke that Davies should be informed of their plans for publication in November 1966. He pointed out to Clarke on 6 June 1966 that the contract for A9a might derail publication because the contract called for an escalating royalty rate (10% on the first 2,500 copies sold, 12½% on 2,500 to 4,000 copies sold, and 15% thereafter). Both Miller and Clarke agreed that a royalty of 10% would be feasible for an educational edition but no higher. They apparently met with Davies on 22 June 1966. A few days later, on 30 June 1966, Clarke suggested to Davies the publication of “At My Heart’s Core” with “At the Gates of the Righteous” in an educational edition. John Stevens, formerly Staff Inspector English at the Ontario Department of Education and one of Clarke Irwin’s consultants, thought that neither play was outstanding, and on 21 July 1966, he urged the replacement of “At the Gates of the Righteous” with “Hope Deferred.” Four company officials discussed the contents of the educational edition on 27 July 1966. Clarke decided to put “At My Heart’s Core” into type, but he postponed his decision to add a play or two for a composite edition. On 23 September 1966, Clarke informed Davies that he wanted to proceed with the publication of “At My Heart’s Core” and “Overlaid” (A5). Davies completed “a revised essay on the two plays [the epilogue] and, in addition, notes and questions on Overlaid, thus completing the material necessary for the book” on 30 September 1966. Miller sent Davies galley proofs of the plays on 5 October 1966. The contract (copies at ohm and pend) — 10% royalty on all copies sold with $125 to be deducted from royalties due to the Samuel French reprint fee for Overlaid — is dated 26 October 1966. But Davies refused to sign the contract and returned it to Clarke Irwin’s Trade Editor Ruth DonCarlos a day later: “You specify [in section 7 of the contract] that I am to pay half the reprint fee for Samuel French for Overlaid and I do not see why I am obligated in this way; the original proposal was that the book would contain At My Heart’s Core and At the Gates of the Righteous and I prepared both these plays for publication. It was on Dr. Clarke’s decision that Overlaid was substituted for At the Gates of the Righteous, and as this was a decision of your firm I do not see why I am obligated to share in the expense incurred.” The matter of the reprint fee was apparently resolved when Davies found that the contract for A5a had no provision in it for a fee levied against him in the case of reprinting. A23a was published on 9 or 12 December 1966 (price $1). Clarke sent twelve author copies of A23a to Davies on 16 December 1966. He thanked Davies for

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writing “the epilog[u]e and NOTES in such an excellent fashion. As you may imagine, it is always a joy to us to receive a manuscript which is beyond reproach at the very first attempt.” Davies finally returned the signed contract on 31 March 1967. When Mona H. Coxwell of Samuel French (Canada) Ltd. complained to Clarke Irwin that the statement of acting rights was not recorded as specified in the contract, Clarke apologized for the lack of caution about the copyright notice on 17 May 1967. The notice appeared in a later printing on the copyright page (“No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted”), but not in the first printing. Number of copies printed not known. 381 copies sold between 1 February 1969 and 31 January 1970. Information on the publishing history of A23a is based on the following sources: file 6, box 103 and file 42, box 104, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; file 23, vol. 45, Davies fonds, lac. Russell Brown and Donna Bennett, eds., An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1982), vol. 1, pp. 595-641 reprints “At My Heart’s Core” and pp. 642-4 reprints Davies’s epilogue. copies examined: ohm (four copies of first printing); okq (first printing, rebound); otmc (first printing; and later printing, [1977?], ISBN 0-7720-0443-9); pend (three copies). A23a.1  second issue [1984]: [rule] | AT MY HEART’S CORE | OVERLAID | by | ROBERTSON DAVIES | IRWIN PUBLISHING |   Toronto, Canada A23a.1 (180 × 106 mm.) is a reprint of A23a. It has an extra blank preliminary leaf and one less blank leaf after the text. The covers are almost the same colour. The front cover of A23a.1 lacks the name of the series and Clarke Irwin’s publisher’s device. On the spine IRWIN replaces: [short rule] | CIE-6 | [short rule]. The copyright page of A23a.1 is as follows: [rule] | © 1966 by Irwin Publishing Inc. | ISBN 0-7720-0443-9 | [six lines noting that inquiries about the production of At My Heart’s Core should be addressed to Irwin Publishing Inc. and that similar inquiries about Overlaid should be addressed to Samuel French (Canada); seven lines about copyright] | 5 6 7 8 9 10 JD 88 87 86 85 84 | Printed in Canada. notes: A23a.1 was reprinted sometime in 1984 under the imprint of Irwin Publishing when The Book Society of Canada Ltd. acquired the majority of Clarke Irwin’s business assets and re-incorporated itself along with its subsidiary companies as Irwin Publishing Inc.

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Number of copies printed and exact date of publication not known (price $3.95). 938 copies sold in 1985, earning a royalty of $370.51 (10% royalty). Michael Byron Davis of Irwin Publishing informed Davies on 2 March 1987 that no copies of A23a.1 were in stock and that the book would not be reprinted (file 36, vol. 48, Davies fonds, lac; royalty report at pend). copies examined: davis; pend. A23b  second Canadian edition entitled Two Plays: At My Heart’s Core & Overlaid (1991): [first two letters in the first two lines swash, R overlapping slightly with D] Robertson | Davies | TWO PLAYS | At My Heart’s Core | & | Overlaid | [publisher’s device; abstract design on two pages within a solid black circle outlined] Simon & Pierre 1-9, 8-10, 11, 12, 13-15, 16-44, 45, 46-68, 69, 70-88, 89, 90-92, 93-97, 98-116, 117-119, 120-121, 1-3 pp. (63 leaves). 228 × 152 mm. contents: pp. 1-2 blank; p. 3 half title; p. 4 list of plays written by Davies; p. 5 title; p. 6 [two lines expressing thanks to the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council] | Marian M. Wilson, Publisher | Copyright © 1966, 1991 by Robertson Davis. All rights reserved. | Cover and design © Simon & Pierre Publishing Co. Ltd./Les Editions Simon & | Pierre Ltée. All rights reserved. | [eighteen lines about copyright and permission regarding the production of the plays] | 1 2 3 4 5 • 5 4 3 2 1 | [seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data] | Cover design: C.P. Wilson Graphic Communication | General Editor: Marian M. Wilson | Editors: Peter Goodchild, Jean Paton | Printer: Marc Veilleux Inc. | Printed in Canada; p. 7 table of contents; p. 8 black-and-white photograph of Davies’s head; pp. 9, 8-10, introduction with Davies’s signature in facsimile; pp. 11-12 “Our Changing Speech” by Herbert Whittaker, with his signature in facsimile; pp. 13-116, 117 text (pp. 93-94 blank; pp. 89-92 and 117 explanatory notes); p. 118 blank; pp. 119-121 Biography of Robertson Davies, Playwright; pp. 1-3 blank. text: The text of the two plays and the explanatory notes to “At My Heart’s Core” are identical to those found in A23a. A23b has a new set of explanatory notes to “Overlaid,” the introduction to A23b replaces the epilogue of A23a, and there are no questions about the two plays in A23b. binding: Paperback with perfect binding, glossy, red, thick paper. Printed on the front cover: [two gold rules; next two words in white] TWO PLAYS [two gold

rules] | [next three lines in gold; first two letters in the next two lines swash, R overlapping slightly with D] Robertson | Davies | [two short rules] | [next five lines in white] At My | Heart’s | Core | & | Overlaid | [to the right of the previous six lines is an abstract sketch in gilt of Davies’s head]. Printed down the spine in gilt: Robertson Davies || At My Heart’s Core & Overlaid [publisher’s device; small abstract design on two pages within a solid circle outlined] Simon & Pierre [publisher’s device; larger abstract design on two pages within a solid circle outlined] Simon & Pierre. Printed on the back cover: [first two lines in gilt; first two letters in the first two lines swash, R overlapping slightly with D] Robertson | Davies | [two white rules] | [remaining lines, except last three, in white] At My Heart’s Core | & Overlaid | [solid, vertical rectangle in white to the right of the previous lines with N.L.C.-B.N.C. number in black] | [two rules] | [several paragraphs about Davies, Whittaker’s short essay, two rules, and the plots of the two plays] | [solid white rectangle, lettering in black, containing the ISBN, bar code, and the bar code number] | [remaining lines to the right of the solid white rectangle] ISBN 0-88924-225-9 | [publisher’s device; abstract design on two pages within a solid black circle outlined] Simon & Pierre | Toronto, Canada. notes: Janet Turnbull Irving of Curtis Brown Canada Ltd. sent the contract of A23b to Davies on 6 April 1990: an advance of $250 with a royalty of 10% on the first 5,000 copies sold, 12% on the next 5,000 copies sold, and 15% thereafter (copy at pend dated 13 March 1990). Davies was asked to submit his introduction by 15 May 1990. He signed the contract on 10 April 1990. Irving sent Davies $225 (10% for her agent’s commission fee) on 28 May 1990. “The book will be published late this spring,” she explained to Davies, “which means I should be sending you a copy mid-June.” The Publisher and Editor in Chief at Simon & Pierre, Marian M. Wilson, sent Davies the proofs of his book on 13 May 1991. She also enclosed Whittaker’s essay, and asked Davies if he wanted to retain it or wished to replace it with something else. Davies returned the corrected proofs and gave his consent to the appearance of Whittaker’s essay on 21 May 1991. Ten author copies were sent to Davies on 22 October 1991. According to Barry Jowett of Dundurn Press, A23b was published in an edition of approximately 1,500 copies. Price $14.99. Davies received further royalty payments of $44.18 on 31 May 1992 and $39.77 on 3 July 1992. Established in 1972, Simon & Pierre declared bankruptcy in June 1993 and then merged as a subsidiary of Dundurn Press on 9 August 1993. See also A81 and A84. By the end of



A25 Marchbanks’ Almanack. 1967

January 1994, 675 copies had sold; 5 copies sold between March 1995 and February 1996 (royalty reports at pend). Information based on file 30, vol. 46, and boxes 4 and 7, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac. Davies’s introduction is reprinted in A90. copies examined: lac; ohm (rebound); okq; otmc; pend (two copies).

A24  massey college calendar 1967 [cover title] MASSEY COLLEGE CALENDAR | 19671968 | The following dates for College events | have been fixed; further information will | be circulated from time to time as necess- | ary, and other events will be announced as | their dates are set. | [twenty lines listing the beginning and end of college term, the founder’s dinner, high table nights, college concerts, and chapel services] Broadside, cream thick-paper stock. 176 × 101 mm. Verso blank. notes: A24 is a list of events for the 1967-8 academic year, probably printed prior to September 1967 at Massey College for the Fellows, residents, students, and staff. See also A21. The archives of the Massey College Press at otmc have Davies’s typescript of A24, typescripts of various dates and insertions in his hand, a mock-up, and numerous proof copies. Probably printed by Douglas Lochhead, the Librarian of Massey College Press, on an iron Albion Press at the Massey College Press. Number of copies printed not known but at least two to three hundred copies if not more. A24 has several lines that are from the same setting of type as A21, but many lines of A24 have been reset, altered or deleted. copies examined: otmc (four copies).

A25  marchbanks’ almanack 1967 A25a  Canadian edition, first issue: [title page consists of two pages; zig-zag rule across both pages with dots at the top of the rule; on lefthand side of page:] Marchbanks’ [on right-hand side:] Almanack | [zig-zag rule across both pages with dots at the bottom of the rule] | [on left-hand side:] McClelland and Stewart Limited toronto/montreal [publisher’s device of McClelland & Stewart within an oval: abstract sketch of a man standing on a horsedrawn chariot, taking aim with a bow and arrow; on right-hand side:] by Robertson Davies

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1-7 16. i-xii, xiii-xiv, 1-2, 1-205, 1-3 pp. (112 leaves). contents: p. i half title with ornament; p. ii blank; p. iii illustrative title (Samuel Marchbanks’ Almanack) drawn in a calligraphic hand by Davies, surrounded by ornaments, and zig-zag (dotted) rules at top and bottom; pp. iv-v title; p. vi [row of leaves, flowers and asterisks] | © 1967 by Robertson Davies | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | The Canadian Publishers | * | McClelland and Stewart Limited | 25 Hollinger Road, Toronto 16 | * | PRINTED AND BOUND IN CANADA | BY | T. H. BEST PRINTING COMPANY LIMITED; p. vii announcement page that the book is an astrological and inspirational vade mecum; pp. viii-xi table of contents with illustrations by Davies of the signs of the zodiac; p. xii blank; pp. xiii-xiv preface, which it is unwise to skip, signed at the end: SAMUEL MARCHBANKS. | from the Horoscope-Casting Chamber | Marchbanks Towers.; p. 1 fly title with ornament; p. 2 blank; pp. 1-205 text with astrological illustrations by Davies; p. 1 MARCHBANKS’ | [ornament]; p. 2 ALMANACK | [ornament] | FINIS; p. 3 blank. text: The text is divided into twelve sections according to the signs of the Zodiac, commencing with Aries (22 March to 20 April) and ending with Pisces (20 February to 21 March). binding and dust jacket: Bound in black paper boards with stamping in white. On the upper board is a drawing by Davies of the title, Samuel Marchbanks’ Almanack, with asterisks, and an open eye in the centre of the illustration. Stamped down the spine: davies SAMUEL MARCHBANKS’ ALMANACK m&s. The dust jacket is royal blue, outlined with a white border, and lettering in white. There is a rectangular cut-out on the front panel that reveals Davies’s drawing on the upper board. Printed on the front panel: ROBERTSON DAVIES | [swirled lines above and below the rectangular cut-out]. Printing on the spine panel is similar to the printing on the spine. The flaps are white. On the front flap is information about the book (price $6.50). The last four lines on the front flap are: WARNING | THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR THE SOLEMN-MINDED, | PRAGMATICAL, SKEPTICAL BUFFOON. | HIM IT WILL ONLY ANNOY. On the back flap are three paragraphs about Davies, the publisher’s name, and a black-and-white photograph of Davies by Ashley & Crippen. notes: A25 is the third volume authored by Davies under the pseudonym of Samuel Marchbanks, the first being The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (A4) and the second The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (A8). Although A25a was published by McClelland & Stewart

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in 1967, Davies wrote the first draft of the book in the early 1950s. It was rejected for publication by Clarke Irwin at that time. Davies originally conceived of the book as “The Marchbanks Correspondence.” Three columns were sent to W.H. Clarke in the fall of 1949. R.W.W. Robertson, Clarke Irwin’s literary editor, gave Davies the approval for a third Marchbanks volume on 3 April 1950. Davies submitted “The Correspondence of Samuel Marchbanks” to Clarke Irwin in early 1952, but the firm apparently took offence at its ribaldry and disliked the weak stories, the flat characters, and repeated themes. A different Marchbanks book emerged a year later. Clarke told Davies on 20 March 1953 that he liked the title, “Marchbanks’ Almanack.” He suggested that Clair Stewart might start the illustrative work, and he sent Davies a standard contract, dated 21 March 1953 (returned by Davies on 1 April 1953): 10% on first 2,500 copies sold, 12½% from 2,500 to 4,000 copies sold, and 25% thereafter. When Davies replied a few days later, he proposed an alternative title, “The Secretary of Samuel Marchbanks.” He enclosed a sketch and added: “The contents would be divided into Drawers and Pigeon Holes, Secret Hiding Places, and Spillings (these last being fished up from behind the Drawers.” Clarke thought that Davies’s alternative title would be misunderstood by readers. He advised Davies to stick with Marchbanks’ Almanack. More importantly, he wanted to see the entire manuscript so that it could be advertised in time for the Christmas market. He was travelling to England at the end of May 1953, and he wanted to show it to Harold Raymond at Chatto & Windus. Davies finished most of the writing of A25 in time for Clarke’s trip; the last two parts were completed on 15 June 1953. There were three readers’ reports, all quite critical. Robertson’s report was the most positive. He thought that parts of A25 were equal in wit and satire to A4 and A8. However, he regarded the “hit-and-miss arrangement” undertaken for the sake of the almanac idea confusing, and he believed that some selections were dull, unfunny, and “downright corny.” The second reader’s report, dated 26 May 1953 and written by E.D.M., called A25 a potboiler: “It is marking time rather than progressing forward.” The third report, dated 17 July 1953 and written by C.D.L., stated that although A25 was “quite an amusing bedside book” and would probably have a reasonable sale, it had none of the freshness of A8. The blow to Davies came a month later on 13 August 1953. Chatto & Windus turned down the book for publication, and Clarke Irwin then backed out of the deal. In spite of his contract with Clarke Irwin, Davies decided not to pursue publication any further.

While revising A8b for publication in November 1966, Davies offered the manuscript of A25a to Malcolm Ross, the general editor of the New Canadian Library (NCL) series. On reading the manuscript, Jack McClelland told Ross on 28 November 1966 that it was “a fine piece of work, entertaining, amusing and highly original.” He proposed publication as a hardbound book for the Christmas market in the fall of 1967 and then as a photographic reprint in the NCL series somewhat later. Davies was delighted by McClelland’s decision. He revised A25a during the Christmas vacation in 1966. “I also intend to fatten up the astrological and fortune telling end of the book so that the title will have more relevance to the contents,” he informed McClelland on 8 December 1966. He submitted the manuscript on 21 February 1967. The book was copy-edited and sent to production on 19 April 1967. The design was discussed with Davies on 4 May 1967. Frank Newfeld, McClelland & Stewart’s artistic designer, was enthusiastic about Davies’s drawings. The contract for A25a is dated 12 July 1967 (signed by all parties on 25 August 1967, copies at ohm and pend) with the following terms: an advance of $1,000, 10% on the first 5,000 copies sold, 15% thereafter (to be published in the fall of 1967); for the NCL issue, 4% on the first 5,000 copies sold, 6% thereafter (to be published in the spring of 1968). Davies did not give McClelland & Stewart an option to publish his next book, however. Galley proofs (nos. 1 to 68) were sent to Davies for correction between 13 and 19 July 1967. Production work and printing was carried out between 15 August and 1 October 1967. Stock was received on 13 October 1967. McClelland told Davies on 17 January 1968 that the reviews of A25a were extremely good but the sales were not spectacular. Number of copies printed not known. In its royalty statement dated 1 November 1976, McClelland & Stewart indicated that 2,141 copies of A25a had sold at $6.95 each, and 26 more between 1 January and 30 June 1976, earning $13.53 royalty. Thereafter, few copies sold at all. No copies sold in the last six months of 1985, for example (2,189 copies sold to the end of 1985). Information on the publishing history of A25a is based on the following sources: file 7, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; files 5 and 19, box 103, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; file 43, box 22, series A, file 22, box Ca29, box T1, and file on Collins Knowlton Wing Inc., box TR6, McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm; files 15 and 32, vol. 45, files 2 and 3, vol. 50, and files 44-52, vol. 82 (contains various typescripts), Davies fonds, lac; royalty report at pend. Excerpts from A25 have been reprinted in the following: E.W. Bux-



A26 [Gaudy Night broadside. 1967]

ton, Prose for Discussion (Toronto: W.J. Gage, 1968), pp. 219-23; Theresa Ford, Canadian Humour and Satire (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1976), p. 58. See also A69. copies examined: ohm (in jacket, front flap clipped at top); okq (two copies in jacket); otmc (two copies in jacket). A25a.1  second issue, New Canadian Library series, photographic reprint (1968): [zig-zag rule with dots at the top of the rule] | Marchbanks’ | Almanack | [zig-zag rule with dots at the bottom of the rule] | Robertson Davies | introduction: Gordon Roper | general editor: Malcolm Ross | New Canadian Library No. 61 | [publisher’s device of McClelland & Stewart within an oval: abstract sketch of a man standing on a horse-drawn chariot, taking aim with a bow and arrow] | McClelland and Stewart Limited toronto/montreal This is a photographic reprint (181 × 109 mm.) of A25a in the New Canadian Library series. The copyright page reads as follows: [connected row of asterisks, leaves, and flowers] | © 1967 by Robertson Davies | Introduction © 1968 by McClelland and Stewart Limited | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | The Canadian Publishers | * | McClelland and Stewart Limited | 25 Hollinger Road, Toronto 16 | * | PRINTED AND BOUND IN GREAT BRITAIN | BY | HAZELL WATSON & VINEY LTD, AYLESBURY, BUCKS. The pagination is: i-viii, ix-xiii, xiv, xv-xvi, 1-206, 1-2. Roper’s introduction is found on pp. ix-xiii. A25a.1 lacks a half title and ornamental leaves. A note about the author has been added on p. 206, and the last leaf is a list of titles in the New Canadian Library series. binding: Paperback, perfect bound. The front cover has a brown sketch of Davies’s face and hand with an irregular, purple vertical band on the left-hand side. On the back cover are two purple bands and information about the book and Samuel Marchbanks. Cover design by Frank Newfeld. The text illustrations are mistakenly attributed to: COLIN ROBERTSON DAVIES. Price: $2.35. N61 of the New Canadian Library series. notes: Gordon Roper was paid $100 for his introduction on 11 July 1967 (submitted before 22 May of that year). The first printing consisted of 4,000 copies. Published in March 1968 (stock received on 11 April 1968). When G.T. Fielding, Executive Editor at McClelland & Stewart, sent Davies an advance copy of A25a.1 on 19 March 1968, he informed him of a printer’s error on the back cover regarding the

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text illustrations. Fielding had sent a telegram to the printer as follows: “please insert cut line text illustrations no colon Colin Robertson Davies.” As a result of this instruction, the text illustrator’s name was Colin Robertson Davies instead of Robertson Davies. Davies was not amused by the error: “I suppose there will be a number of idiots who will imagine that it is part of the general funniness of the book,” he told Fielding on 20 March 1968. “My only comment, however, is that it serves you damned well right for getting your books printed in England, where the printing business has been on the skids for twenty years ... As a final disagreeable comment, permit me to point out that your telegram, as quoted in your letter, is open to just the kind of misunderstanding that has resulted.” 8,255 copies of A25a.1 sold up to the end of 1979: 625 copies in 1968, 325 in 1969, 323 in 1970, 528 in 1971, 917 in 1972, 983 in 1973, 987 in 1974, 999 in 1975, 1,069 in 1976, 822 in 1977, 450 in 1978, and 227 in 1979. McClelland & Stewart’s royalty statement, dated 1 November 1976, records that up to that time, 6,507 copies of A25a.1 had sold at $2.75 apiece — 820 copies having sold between 1 January and 30 June 1976, earning $13.53 royalty (6% of the list price). On 2 February 1979, Linda McKnight told Davies that the book was “overstocked” and had to be remaindered. Both A25a and A25a.1 apparently went out of print on 1 January 1980 (at least for a short time). Davies was not terribly upset by the news. “I understand the situation and it seems to me that the Marchbanks Almanack has had a pretty good run,” he observed on 11 December 1979. In fact, A25a.1 remained in print for some time thereafter. McClelland & Stewart sold 96 copies for the last six months of 1985; 9,827 copies of A25a.1 had sold up to that time (royalty reports at pend). Only four copies sold between 1 July 1985 and 30 June 1990. Information on the publishing history of A25a.1 is based on the following files in the McClelland & Stewart fonds at ohm: file 43, box 22 and file 8, box 79, series A, file 22, box Ca29, box T1, and file on Collins Knowlton Wing Inc., box TR6. copies examined: okq; otmc.

A26  [gaudy night broadside 1967] [cover title; the lines of the text are printed over the word GAUDY in green; the first letter is a drop letter] To celebrate the [next letter in Cloister black letter] Feast of [next letter in Cloister black letter] Christmas Massey College will | hold a Gaudy Night on Sunday, December 17 at 9 o’clock | p.m. in the Great Hall. |

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[twelve lines of text] | [at the bottom, a continuation of the underlying word GAUDY, is an illustration of Massey’s crest in green (a bull’s head with a fleur-delys) and to the right of the bull in green] massey college press Broadside, medium-weight pale-blue paper stock. 226 × 302 mm. Deckle edge at the bottom. Blank verso. One copy is also extant with the text in red. notes: A26 is the third Gaudy Night broadside that served as an announcement of and invitation to Gaudy Night for the Fellows, Senior Residents, and guests of Massey College in the University of Toronto. The typescript in the Massey College Press archives at otmc has revisions in Davies’s hand, and is also marked up by Douglas Lochhead, the printer and Librarian at Massey College. A mocked-up copy and a number of proofs are also extant. A26 was printed by Lochhead, on an Albion Press, in an edition of 150 copies by 1 December 1967. According to the broadside, the Massey College Singers sang carols familiar in Canada a century ago. Also performed by the choir was a Centennial chorale, words by Robert Finch and music by Louis Applebaum. Finch read his new poems entitled “A Selection of Christmas Cards.” Davies then read his fifth college ghost story (“The Charlottetown Banquet”). See A20 for further information about the College’s Gaudy Nights. copies examined: otmc (nine copies).

A27  massey college head remembers vincent massey 1968 [cover title] Vincent Massey | 1887 to 1967 | [blackand-white photograph of Massey’s face] | — Karsh, Ottawa Leaflet folded once. 227 × 170 mm. contents: This leaflet (plain white paper stock) consists of four unnumbered pages: the cover title; pp. 2-3, Davies’s text, printed in three columns per page under the title in two lines, Davies’s name, and two lines in italics indicating that Davies was chosen by Massey as first Master of Massey College in 1960; on the back of the leaflet: Reprinted From | PETERBOROUGH EXAMINER | [masthead of the newspaper with leaves, N W E S each within circles at the points of a compass, and the following words on a scroll:] HUMANI NIHIL A ME ALIENUM PUTO | Friday, January 5, 1968.

notes: Vincent Massey was a diplomat, public servant, writer, and patron of the arts. He administered the Massey Foundation (incorporated as a trust from the estate of Hart A. Massey whose principal interest was the erection of buildings devoted to education). Before his association with Massey College and the appointment of Davies as Master of Massey College, Vincent Massey was the first Canadian Minister to Washington (1926 to 1930), High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom (1935 to 1946), Chancellor of the University of Toronto (1947 to 1953), Chair of the Royal Commission on the National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences (1949 to 1951, see B2), and Canada’s Governor General (1952 to 1959). He died on 30 December 1967. Davies’s text is reprinted from the Peterborough Examiner (see C68.1). The newspaper’s masthead, which appears on the back of A27, was devised by Clair Stewart, and the motto was chosen by Davies from Georg Groddeck’s The Book of It which quotes Terence (“I am interested in everything human”). Davies’s text is a warm reminiscence of his relationship with Massey and a tribute to Massey’s contribution to Canadian culture. A27 begins: “My earliest encounters with Vincent Massey took place many years ago when I was a schoolboy and he, as the brother-in-law of the head-master, W.L. Grant, was a frequent visitor to Upper Canada College.” Number of copies printed not known. copies examined: otmc (two copies, box 4, Master’s Office files).

A28  in memoriam: the right honourable vincent massey 1887-1967 [1968] [cover title: arms (shield) of Massey College] | In Memoriam | The Right Honourable | VINCENT MASSEY | 1887-1967 | Massey College Great Hall | March seventeenth | Half-past four p.m. Leaflet folded once. 278 × 214 mm. contents: This leaflet (cream-coloured stock, patterned in chain and wire lines) consists of four unnumbered pages: the cover title; pp. 2-3, the Order of Service; and the back of the leaflet, a list of the names of the chaplain (The Reverend John N. Buchanan), choirmaster (Gordon Wry), and the musicians playing the organ (Giles Bryant) and violoncello (Mary Starr). The Order of Service includes incantations, music, and a verse to be sung by the Massey Choir, prayers and the benediction from the Minister, readings from



A29 The Voice of the People. 1968

the gospels read by Ian Lancashire and Robert Finch, and the eulogy delivered by Davies. notes: This leaflet is similar to A19 that Davies designed for the memorial service of Lionel Vincent Massey. The Choir sang music by Thomas Tomkins, Matthew Locke, and Adrian Batten. For information about Vincent Massey and his relationship with Davies, see A27. In his eulogy (typescript and carbon typescript, 7 pp., and mimeographed typescript, 3 pp., at otmc), Davies states: “Vincent Massey was last seen in this Hall on October 6th; he attended the dinner with which we celebrate the founding of the College. He spoke to us on that occasion in words which those of us who heard him will long remember ... When he had finished, the Hall broke into cheers, and this was no contrived demonstration, but a spontaneous gesture of affection for a man who had opened his mind and his heart to us, and had spoken of a cherished belief [in the uniqueness and importance of Canada].” In his will, dated 4 March 1968, Massey left his books, papers, and a portrait of himself by Lilias Newton to Massey College. He also donated $500,000 to the College’s Quadrangle Fund in   memory of his son, Lionel Vincent Massey. copies examined: otmc (four copies, box 4, Master’s Office files).

A29  the voice of the people 1968 [cover title:] The Voice of the People ROBERTSON DAVIES | [two columns consisting of the characters of the play, setting of the play, followed by text; at the bottom of the two columns:] “The Voice of the People”, from Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays, by Robertson Davies, is | copyright © 1949 by Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited. Reprinted in Searchlights by permission of | the publisher. | [shield containing the following five lines] BOOK | SOCIETY | SELECT | YOUR | OWN | [to the right of the shield] A Book Society SEARCHLIGHT | General Editors: T. H. Cassidy & Hugh D. McKellar | [to the right of the last two lines] 304 1, 2-12 pp. (6 leaves including covers). 278 × 210 mm. Text on pp. 1-10, notes on p. 10, and questions and suggestions for further reading on p. 11. binding: Plain white paper stock, the same as the text, wire-stitched and punch-holed on the left-hand side. Printed on the back cover: [five lines within a rectangle] CAUTION | [four lines concerning copyright and production of the play] | [page number] 12

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A publication of | THE BOOK SOCIETY OF CANADA LIMITED | AGINCOURT CANADA | © THE BOOK SOCIETY OF CANADA LIMITED, 1968 | [next three lines within a small oval with a short vertical line at the left-hand of the oval; rounded] PRINTED | IN | [rounded] CANADA | [to the right of the previous three lines:] 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 85 84 83 82 81 80. notes: The Book Society of Canada Limited was an educational publisher, founded by John C.W. Irwin, the brother-in-law of W.H. Clarke. Clarke, his wife Irene, and Irwin had established Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited in 1930, and then Irwin left the firm in 1945 and started his own publishing house. When Clarke Irwin went into receivership in June 1983, its assets were purchased by The Book Society (renamed Irwin Publishing in 1984). The Book Society’s Searchlights series began in 1967 with forty prose selections, considered to be a “compile-your-own” anthology for teachers. Searchlights are educational booklets, each usually between 10 to 40 pages in length with textual notes and questions, designed for high schools. The Searchlights series sold in two-binder sets rather than individually, at $19.75 per set. The authors were paid a flat fee of $25 to $100, and the general editors received a general editorship royalty of 1%, 4% for editorial work on each Searchlight, and a $15 advance royalty per Searchlight published. Searchlights ’68 published eighty short stories, essays, and plays. A29 is no. 304 in the Searchlights series. Written in June 1948 and first published in A6, The Voice of the People is a one-act play concerned with Shorty Morton, an opinionated barber who reads his evening newspaper and writes a letter to the paper’s editor. John W. Irwin ordered 3,000 copies of A29 to be printed by the Maracle Press (Offset book white paper, 8½ × 11 inches, 140M, cost $222) on 1 March 1968. 820 copies sold up to 30 July 1968. In 1968 1,152 copies sold ($230.40 revenue). On 25 June 1969, Irwin ordered another 5,000 copies from General Printers Company Limited in Toronto ($225 cost estimate for 3,000 copies). The card inventory, dated 29 July 1969, indicates that 5,109 copies were in stock, at 20¢ apiece. Irwin ordered a further 3,000 copies from Twin-Offset Limited in Toronto. Ruth DonCarlos of Clarke Irwin sent Davies a copy of A29 on 3 April 1968. She told him that permission had been given the previous year to The Book Society of Canada to publish A29 in a loose-leaf anthology of English selections for use in secondary schools. The fee set by Clarke Irwin was $100 for Canada alone, $150 for distribution in Canada and the USA, and

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$200 for Canada, the USA, and the UK. Irwin Publishing took over the publication of A29 in 1984; 155 copies sold in 1987, for example, at 90¢ apiece. In February 1988 General Publishing acquired control of Irwin Publishing. 308 copies sold between 1988 and 1990. In 1991 the price of A29 was $1.25; 52 copies sold between 1991 and 1993. 31 copies sold in 1997 ($1.40 per copy). Information on the publishing history of A29 is based on: file 4, box 52, file 5, box 7, file 4, box 8, file 6, box 43, file 4, box 52, files 25-6, box 57, and file 3, box 67, Book Society of Canada Limited fonds, ohm; file 24, vol. 45, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: okq; qmm (two copies); pend.

A30  four favourite plays 1968 [rule] | FOUR FAVOURITE PLAYS | by | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | Toronto, Vancouver 1-6, v-vii, 1-5, 3-25, 26-28, 29-47, 48-50, 51-71, 72-74, 75157, 1-7 pp. (88 leaves). 191 × 107 mm. contents: pp. 1-2 blank; p. 3 half title; p. 4 four lines noting that inquiries about the production of the plays should be addressed to the publisher; p. 5 title; p. 6 [rule] | © 1949 | by Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited | Reprinted in paperback format | 1968 | Printed in Canada; pp. v-vii preface, dated 30 November 1967; p. 1 blank; p. 2 table of contents; p. 3 blank; pp. 4-5, 3-157 text (pp. 26, 48, and 72 blank); pp. 1-6 blank; p. 7 list of books in the Clarke Irwin Canadian Paperback series (CI 1 to CI 33). text: Eros at Breakfast; The Voice of the People; At the Gates of the Righteous; Fortune, My Foe. binding: Paperback, perfect bound in pale yellowishgreen, thick-paper covers. Printed on the front cover: A CLARKE IRWIN CANADIAN PAPERBACK / $2.25 [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | [rule] | four favourite | plays | [six vertical lines extending from the previous two lines down to an abstract illustration of a knight with a lance sitting on a horse] | by Robertson Davies. Printed on the spine: FOUR | FAVOURITE | PLAYS | DAVIES | [down the spine in white] FOUR FAVOURITE PLAYS | [rule] | CI-30 | [rule]. On the back cover are the logo of Clarke Irwin, a rule, thirteen lines in white about

the plays, fourteen lines about the playwright, and the name of the cover designer (Colette MacNeil). notes: When Ruth DonCarlos, the Trade Editor of Clarke Irwin, proposed the publication of A6 in paperback on 23 February 1967, Davies replied on 2 March 1967 that he was quite interested in her proposal. He suggested dropping “The Voice of the People” and “Hope Deferred” from the collection and including “Fortune, My Foe.” He also wanted to replace Tyrone Guthrie’s introduction with his own preface. DonCarlos agreed with Davies’s suggestion to drop “Hope Deferred,” but she urged him to keep “The Voice of the People.” She also preferred to drop “Overlaid” since it “is now available in paperback [A23].” Davies agreed to DonCarlos’s counter proposal on 17 April 1967. The contract, dated 23 August 1967 for “A COLLECTION OF PLAYS,” calls for a royalty of 5% on all copies sold (copies at pend and ohm). DonCarlos acknowledged the return of the signed contract on 10 October 1967. She told Davies on 5 December 1967 that his preface was “both amusing and entertaining” and struck just the right note. She came up with the title on 8 January 1968, although Davies was ambivalent about its appropriateness: “I am not greatly taken with the title but as I can think of no better one I do not feel that I have any right to interfere,” he told DonCarlos on 11 January 1968. “My concern is that the title is a somewhat question-begging one — whose favourites are these plays? Nevertheless I think that for every person who thinks along these lines there will be two who regard the word favourite as a good recommendation, so let us go ahead on that line.” DonCarlos sent Davies the first thirty-two galleys on 26 January 1968. Davies returned them with a few corrections four days later. She sent galleys nos. 33-46 on 31 January and complete page proofs on 20 February 1968. Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, returned the page proofs on 28 February 1968. DonCarlos sent twelve author copies of the book to Davies on 24 May 1968. Printed by John Deyell in an edition of 3,500 copies. 609 copies sold between 1 February 1969 and 31 January 1970. Information on the publishing history of A30 has been obtained from file 22, box 103 and file 2, box 104, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm. copies examined: ohm (four copies); okq (rebound); otmc; otutf; pend (three copies).

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College] | GAUDY NIGHT | On Saturday, December 14 | at 8:45 o’clock, | Massey College will hold | a Gaudy Night to welcome | in the Feast of Christmas. | [eighteen lines of text] | [an illustration of Massey’s crest (a bull’s head with a fleur-de-lys) and to the left of the bull are the following lines:] The Printer would have his little tyme | and offer you a tuneful rhyme | This notice for our Gaudy Night | Is set for you in Goudy Light | Massey College Press Broadside, grey thick-paper stock. 226 × 136 mm. Deckle edge at the left-hand side. Blank verso. notes: A31 is the fourth Gaudy Night broadside that served as an announcement of and invitation to Gaudy Night for the Fellows, Senior Residents, and guests of Massey College in the University of Toronto. See also A20 for further information about these broadsides. Although there is no text extant in typescript or holograph form to indicate Davies’s direct authorship of A31, it is more than likely that he wrote most of it with the exception of the last several lines about the printer (doubtless written by Douglas Lochhead, the Librarian of Massey College and a fine poet). The strong probability of Davies’s authorship of A31 is based on his writing of previous similar broadsides and his involvement in arranging the Gaudy Night festivities at Massey College. A31 was printed by Lochhead on an Albion Press at Massey College in an edition of 143 copies. The setting of type by hand and printing were carried out by 20 November 1968. There are nine proofs of A31 in the archives of the Massey College Press at otmc (some proofs printed entirely in black). The Massey College Choir, directed by Gordon Wry and accompanied by Giles Bryant, sang settings of Christmas poems by famous writers and poets, such as Thomas Hardy and James Joyce. Robert Finch and Lochhead read their specially written poems. Davies read his sixth college ghost story (“When Satan Goes Home for Christmas”). copies examined: otmc (eight copies; one copy with printing all in black).

A32  [gaudy night broadside 1969] [cover title; the lines of the text are printed on an illustration of a sheet of paper with curled edges, outlined in red; above, below, and to the left of this sheet is a red engraving (signed DEBERNY) of cats, a partial staircase, and a table laden with plates, food, drink, bottles, and a lamp] GAUDY NIGHT | [ornamental,

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swelled rule] | On Saturday December 13 | in the Hall at nine o’clock p. m. | Massey College will celebrate | the approach of Christmas | with a Gaudy Night | for which has been provided this | BILL OF FARE | [sixteen lines of text] | Printed at the Massey College Press Broadside, medium-weight white paper stock. 290 × 227 mm. Blank verso. One copy is also extant with the text in red. notes: A32 is the fifth Gaudy Night broadside produced to serve as an announcement of and invitation to Gaudy Night for the Fellows, Senior Residents, and guests of Massey College in the University of Toronto. See also A20 for further information about these broadsides. Davies’s typescript at otmc contains his holograph revisions and additional markings by Douglas Lochhead, the printer and Librarian of Massey College. A32 was printed by Lochhead, on an Albion Press, at Massey College in an edition of 149 copies on 13-14 November 1969 (numerous proof copies, contrasting red and black ink, in the Massey College Press archives at otmc). In addition to singing traditional carols, the Massey College Singers performed “The Trope of the Beasts” (composed by Giles Bryant) and a ballad opera entitled “Sweet Polly Oliver Ph.D. or A Maid in Massey” (scripted by Robert Finch). Davies read his seventh college ghost story (“Refuge of Insulted Saints”). copies examined: otmc (eight copies; one copy with text in red and illustration in black).

A33 stephen leacock 1970 A33a  first edition: STEPHEN | LEACOCK | by Robertson Davies | [rule] | Canadian Writers Number 7 | New Canadian Library | [rule] | McClelland and Stewart Limited | Toronto/ Montreal | [rule; publisher’s device of McClelland & Stewart: abstract sketch within an oval of a man standing on a horse-drawn chariot, taking aim with a bow and arrow] | [the next two lines in open, dotted type within a dotted oval] C | W 1-6, 7-9, 10, 11-17, 18, 19-47, 48, 49-63, 1 pp. (32 leaves). 185 × 113 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 [first two lines within an oval] C | W | CANADIAN WRITERS | A SUBSERIES | IN THE NEW CANADIAN LIBRARY | [eleven lines about the Canadian Writers series] | NEW CANADIAN LIBRARY | Malcolm Ross,

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Editor-in-Chief | CANADIAN WRITERS | W. David Godfrey, Editor | © 1970 by McClelland and Stewart Limited | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | [six lines about copyright] | The Canadian Publishers | McClelland and Stewart Limited | 25 Hollinger Road, Toronto 374 | Printed and bound in Canada | by Maracle Press Limited; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; pp. 7-9 introduction (dated January 1970 on p. 9); p. 10 blank; pp. 11-58 text (p. 48 blank); pp. 58-62 selected bibliography; p. 62 acknowledgements; pp. 63, 1 list of volumes in the New Canadian Library series. text: 1 The Man; 2 His Work; 3 Summing Up. binding: Paperback, perfect bound. The covers are camel brown with rectangles on the covers. The rectangle on the front cover is divided into three rectangular compartments. The top compartment is solid orange with the following inside it: [the next three lines within an oval] W | [rule] | 7 | $ .95 | CANADIAN WRITERS | NEW CANADIAN LIBRARY | ORIGINAL. The middle compartment is solid black with lettering in white as follows: Stephen Leacock | by Robertson Davies. The bottom compartment is solid white having eight black-and-white photographs of Leacock’s face on an orange eight-pointed star. Printed on the spine in white: [down the spine] STEPHEN LEACOCK/ ROBERTSON DAVIES McClelland & Stewart | W | [rule] | 7. On the back cover within a solid orange rectangle are the book’s title, the name of the subseries, paragraphs about Davies and the series, the price, and an oval (W | [rule] | 7). notes: Davies was invited by three separate publishers to write a biography or a critical appreciation of the Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock. The first invitation came from R.W.W. Robertson, Clarke Irwin’s literary editor, on 22 January 1954 for the Canadian Biographies series (40,000 words). Davies declined on 25 January 1954: “I have the greatest admiration for Leacock,” he told Robertson, “but I never met him and never met anyone who knew him intimately; I have some ideas of my own about his work but they would not be suitable for expression in the kind of book which you describe. Writing books about Canadian men of letters is something that I may wish to do when I am eighty but at present I prefer to steer clear of it.” When A12 was awarded the Leacock Medal for Humour, Davies was enormously pleased at the time. “For many years [I have] cherished the warmest admiration for Stephen Leacock and an award carrying his name is therefore especially precious to me,” he told John Gray of Macmillan of Canada on 9 May 1955. Although he would change his mind about the liter-

ary prestige of the Leacock Medal, he continued to believe that Leacock was an important author. He told C.T. Bissell on 11 November 1969 that he disapproved of the Stephen Leacock Centennial Committee and the Leacock Medal celebrations: “The notion of an annual Leacock celebration which would occupy the same place in the affections of Canadians as Burns Night does among the Scotch seems to me to be too absurd for discussion.” The second invitation to write a book about Leacock came from Malcolm Ross, the general editor of McClelland & Stewart’s New Canadian Library series. They had discussed the idea together sometime after the publication of A25a. Ross sent Davies a contract on 18 December 1967 (18,000 words by 31 December 1969). The contract at pend is dated 15 November 1967: an advance against royalties of $350 ($100 on signing the contract and $250 on delivery of an acceptable manuscript) with a royalty of 10% on all copies sold. But Davies was unable to write the book at the time. He told Ross on 20 December 1967 that he had “a portion of a new history of drama to complete by June” (B28). He had college business to attend to, and he also had to get back to writing “a novel [A38] which I have been forced to postpone, for one reason or another, for five years, and which I must either write now or perhaps abandon entirely ... I would greatly enjoy writing it [A33], but as you can see, my schedule is extremely crowded as things stand.” In spite of Davies’s protests that he was much too busy to take on a new project, Jack McClelland hoped that Davies could somehow manage to write the little book. In reply to McClelland of 18 January 1968, Davies reiterated that his commitments prevented him from writing A33. He then provided several reasons why he could not write the book. To begin with, Davies pointed out to McClelland, he had already written about Leacock in B9, and it was unlikely that he could add significantly to that critical estimate. There was also the fact that Davies regarded himself as “a Canadian writer, rather than a writer about Canadian writers. [I] ... do not want to spend time tracking down essentially uninteresting and unimportant details about his life.” Furthermore, there was a major obstacle to any potential biographer of Leacock, Davies believed — Leacock’s relatives and descendants were still alive, making it very difficult to be candid about Leacock’s faults of character: “his fits of melancholy, his heavy drinking, his relations with women, and his brutality to some people, who, God knows, invited brutality ... He was a real bag of tricks and to my mind typically Canadian in his failure to understand himself.”



A34 [Citation of Dora Mavor Moore for Honorary Degree]. 1970

Oddly enough, the day before Davies replied to McClelland’s overture to write A33, he had received “a letter from Copp Clark who are bringing out a series on Canadian writers and who wanted me to do a book about Leacock.” Davies must have had second thoughts about the project because on 17 May 1968, C.L. House of McClelland & Stewart’s Contract Department sent him a second contract. He told House on 21 June 1968 that he hoped to finish the manuscript before the end of 1969. This was overly optimistic on Davies’s part. On 3 January 1969, he told House that he would begin the book within a few weeks. He also wrote to McClelland on 10 January 1969: “I shall get on with the Leacock book and let you have it, unless something goes wrong, by the end of the summer.” Davies delivered the manuscript to McClelland & Stewart a few days prior to 23 June 1969. W. David Godfrey, the editor of McClelland & Stewart’s Canadian Writers Series, was “quite enthusiastic about the manuscript.” He told Davies that no one had ever been able to capture the “essential Leacock on paper,” but Davies had done so. Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, completed the bibliography of A33a on 8 July 1969. Published in March 1970. Number of copies printed not known, but first printings of other books in this series were 4,000 copies. When Davies examined A33a, he immediately noticed typographical errors and alterations made without his approval. He was livid with the cavalier way in which the book had gone through the press. He sent Anna Szigethy (later Anna Porter) of McClelland & Stewart’s Editorial Department a marked-up copy of the book on 2 April 1970. “The Leacock book is such a mess that I am ashamed to speak of it to my friends and could not dream of recommending it to students,” he told Szigethy. “When I was approached about writing this book I was assured that the fee [probably $300] was to be small because it was, in a sense, a contribution on my part to Canadian literary studies. I receive the impression from what you have done, however, that you regard these simply as cheap books. I assure you that I am not a cheap author and deeply resent the way in which you have dealt with my work.” Szigethy apologized to Davies on 9 April 1970. The proofreader who had manhandled Davies’s text was promptly fired. She promised to make all the corrections and to restore his text in any reprint. See A33b. Even though Davies held Leacock in the highest esteem, he was quite insistent that his own writing should not be interpreted as following in Leacock’s footsteps. In Davies’s opinion, Leacock never wrote any novels, wrote compressed pieces of humour,

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and tried to be funny. On 25 February 1970, Davies scolded one of his readers, Tim S. Urbanovitch: “I am somewhat puzzled, however, by your comment that I am a ‘humorous writer in the style of Stephen Leacock’ for I am very familiar with the works of Stephen Leacock and cannot discover any points of resemblance ... I am not particularly interested in making people laugh, although I am glad if they do, but I am keenly interested in persuading them to look at life from a point of view that may not have occurred to them before.” An excerpt of A33a (pp. 30-3) has been reprinted   in Stephen Leacock, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, D.M.R. Bentley, ed. (Ottawa: The Tecumseh Press, 2002), pp. 233-6. Information on the publishing history of A33a is based on the following sources: file 4, box 104, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; file 4, box 28, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; file 43, box 22, series A, McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm; file 30, vol. 43, file 13, vol. 44, and file 3, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm (two copies, covers detached); lac; pend (two copies) A33b  second edition (“second printing,” 1970): The quasi-facsimile is identical to A21a. The back cover states that this is the “Second Printing,” but in fact, it is a new setting of type. Pagination, foliation, and the measurement of the leaves are as follows: 1-5, 6-62, 1-2 pp. (32 leaves). 184 × 112 mm. The first paragraph on the back cover is worded differently than the paragraph on the back cover of A33a. The copyright page states that the edition was printed and bound in Canada by Web Offset Publications Ltd. Also examined was the “third printing” (being the second printing of this edition), also printed by Web Offset Publications Ltd. A33b is Davies’s corrected text; it corrects the typographical errors that Davies pointed out to Szigethy and restores his original text. According to McClelland & Stewart’s royalty report at pend, 8,382 copies of A33 sold up to the end of June 1991. See also A35. copies examined: lac; ohm (two copies of “third printing”).

A34  [citation of dora mavor moore for honorary degree] 1970 [cover title; on left-side] University of Toronto | CONVOCATION | Presentation of | DORA MAVOR MOORE | by Professor Robertson Davies, | Master, Massey College | to the Chancellor of the University

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| for the Award of the Degree | DOCTOR OF LAWS | (honoris causa) | [on the right-hand side is the citation, dated “June 3, 1970.” The first letter is a large M in red. The text consists of four paragraphs, all in capital letters.]

Pioneer of the Canadian Theatre (Toronto: ECW Press, 1995), pp. 243-5. Information on the publishing history of A34 is based on the box 74, Dora Mavor Moore fonds (Ms. Coll. 207), ututf.

Broadside, plain white thick-paper stock, verso blank, deckle edge on right-hand side. 353 × 428 mm. Folded once, 353 × 214 mm., within a dark-blue folder (name of university printed in gold) attached loosely with a gold cord.

copies examined: otmc (without blue folder, box 5, Master’s Office files); otutf (box 74, Dora Mavor Moore fonds).

notes: Dora Mavor Moore (1888-1979) was an actress and director. She founded the University of Toronto Extension Players in 1930 and the Hart House Touring Players in 1931. In 1946 Moore’s amateur Village Players (1938-46) incorporated itself into The New Play Society, thus becoming the first indigenous professional theatre company after the Second World War that produced Canadian plays on a regular basis. It is remembered for its annual satiric production, Spring Thaw. Claude Bissell, President of the University of Toronto, informed Moore on 14 February 1970 that she would be receiving the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, on 3 June 1970 in recognition of her contribution to Canadian theatre. Moore was 82 years old at the time. N.S.C. Dickinson, Assistant to the University President, told her on 20 March 1970 that Davies would present the citation to her. In his citation, Davies states: “Dora Mavor Moore has been at the centre of the theatre in Canada for three generations.” He credits her with the revival of the theatre in Canada after the Depression: “an impresario, a teacher, a director, a tour-planner, and on occasion an actress of lively and rivetting qualities,” a mother-figure known affectionately as “Ma Moore.” Dickinson sent a copy of the citation to Moore on 29 June 1970 and to Davies a day later. Moore thanked Davies for his “witty address” and for presenting her with the citation on 14 July 1970. She recalled first meeting him briefly at Upper Canada College when he was a teenager and played the role of “Malvolio” in a production of Twelfth Night. Davies’s relationship with Moore was rather shaky thereafter. He had sent her his play “Hope Deferred.” When she did not return the script to him after fourteen months, he complained “at such shabby conduct on the part of a woman of your reputation and background” (Davies to Moore, 29 June 1945, see A93, p. 23; see also Susan Stone-Blackburn, Robertson Davies, Playwright: A Search for the Self on the Canadian Stage (Vancouver, bc: University of British Columbia, 1985), p. 232 n31). A34 is reprinted in Paula Sperdakos, Dora Mavor Moore:

A35  feast of stephen 1970 A35a  first edition: Feast | of | Stephen | [the next four lines to the right of the second line] An anthology of some of the less | familiar writings of Stephen Leacock, | with a critical introduction | by Robertson Davies | McClelland and Stewart Limited | Toronto/Montreal | [publisher’s device of McClelland & Stewart within an oval to the left of the previous two lines: abstract sketch of a man standing on a horse-drawn chariot, taking aim with a bow and arrow] 1-516. 1-6, 1-49, 50, 51-154 pp. (80 leaves). 215 × 136 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 Copyright © 1970 by McClelland and Stewart Limited | Introduction copyright © 1970 by Robertson Davies | All rights reserved | 07710-2578-5 | The selections in this edition have been taken from a variety | of editions, Canadian, British, and American. | Spelling and style of the source editions have been retained. | [nine lines of acknowledgment for permission from Doubleday Inc., Dodd, Mead and Co., and the Stephen Leacock Estate] | The introduction is available in a slightly different   version in | a paperback entitled Stephen Leacock, by Robertson Davies | McClelland and Stewart Limited | The Canadian Publishers; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; pp. 1-45 Davies’s introduction in four chapters; pp. 46-49 selected bibliography; p. 50 fly title; pp. 51154 selections from Stephen Leacock’s writings. text: Davies’s introduction is identical to that in A33b but in a new setting of type. The writings of Leacock are as follows: Life on the Old Farm; The Mathematics of the Lost Chord; Hoodoo McFiggin’s Christmas; The Hero of Home Week; Mr. Chairman, I Beg to Move —; Love Me, Love My Letters; Saloonio: A Study in Shakespearean Criticism; Telling His Faults; Impervious to Women; The Apology of a Professor: An Essay on Modern Learning; My Memories and Miseries as a Schoolmaster; Education Eating Up Life; Humour as I See It; When Men Retire; L’Envoi. The Train to Mariposa.



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binding and dust jacket: Bound in green paper boards with the following stamped in gilt down the spine: Robertson Davies Feast of Stephen [publisher’s device] McClelland & Stewart. The dust jacket is multi-coloured. The front panel has an illustration of Leacock’s home in Orillia, on. Printing on the spine panel of the jacket is in black and white and is the same as the stamping on the book’s spine. The back panel has an illustration of Leacock’s head and shoulders within a series of coloured diamonds. The flaps, which are white, summarize Davies’s introduction and provide biographical information about him. The price of the book is found on the front flap ($5.95). Jacket design by David John Shaw. notes: Feast of Stephen is an anthology of sketches and essays selected by Davies from Stephen Leacock’s books (The Boy I Left Behind Me, Happy Stories Just to Laugh at, Too Much College, The Iron Man and the Tin Woman, Literary Lapses, and Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town). On 31 July 1973, Davies explained to his agent Josephine Rogers of Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc. how the publication of A35a occurred: “This book came about in a peculiar way because McClelland and Stewart asked me to write a brief critical study of Stephen Leacock [A33] for inclusion in a series that they bring out; as this was a simple job for a very small fee, and involved no complexities, I did not bother you with it; when it appeared, however, it was such a miserable botch of a job, which had an average of almost two typographical errors to every page, some of them so extensive that they meant that a number of lines had been dropped, that I made a row with them and insisted that it be re-published; the result was that they brought out an anthology of some of the lesser-known pieces by Leacock with my long essay as an introduction and I gave it the title, Feast of Stephen. In characteristic McClelland and Stewart fashion I did not receive a contract for Feast of Stephen until after the book had appeared.” Jack McClelland had originally planned A35a as a tribute to mark the Leacock centennial celebrations. He even thought of issuing A33 jointly with Gerhard R. Lomer’s Stephen Leacock: A Check-List and Index of His Writings (1954). Anna Szigethy of McClelland & Stewart’s Editorial Department broached the idea of an anthology of Leacock’s writings with Davies. He replied positively to her proposal on 27 October 1969. McClelland gave his assent to the project on 16 December 1969. He asked Szigethy to obtain cost estimates for 3,000, 4,000 and 5,000 copies from the T.H. Printing Company Ltd. It would appear that the print

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run was 4,000 copies at a cost of $1.16 per copy to McClelland & Stewart. In the Trade Advertising & Catalogue Fact Sheet that Davies completed on 10 March 1970, he wrote: “Do NOT say that I once won the discredited and utterly abject Leacock medal” (in fact mention of Davies being awarded the medal is found on the back flap of the book’s dust jacket). He informed Szigethy on 20 March 1970: “In choosing the pieces ... I have tried to cover every kind of writing in which Stephen Leacock was distinguished and I think that the selection demonstrates his breadth as this has not been done before.” However, after the fiasco in the publication of A33a, he bluntly told Szigethy on 2 April 1970: “I will not sign a contract for A Feast of Stephen, or do any further work on its preparation, until I have a letter from McClelland and Stewart guaranteeing that the whole of the material contained in Stephen Leacock will be printed as an introduction, that the text will be what I have written and not what your anonymous editor prefers.” The contract for A35a (copies at ohm and pend dated 18 May 1971) called for a royalty of 5% on the first 10,000 copies sold, 6¼% on the next 5,000 copies, and 7½% thereafter. Davies accepted Szigethy’s apology on 9 April 1970. A day later he cut 31,140 words from the selected texts; the book was still 75,000 words in length. He inspected the proposed dust jacket on 13 May 1970. He wrote to Leacock’s biographer Ralph Curry on 7 July 1970: “I have changed my own idea of Leacock since I wrote the essay about him which appears in Masks of Fiction [see B9]. I am both glad and sorry that you read the little book in the Canadian Writers Series [A33a] because it was so desperately mangled in the press that I am ashamed of it. However, this coming autumn McClelland and Stewart are bringing out a short anthology of some of Leacock’s less familiar work to which that essay, in a re-printed and corrected form, appears as an introduction. I shall be glad to have it in print in a version which does not make me blush. The book will be called Feast of Stephen.” “Congratulations on the appearance of Feast of Stephen,” Davies wrote to Szigethy on 20 September 1970. “I thought the dust jacket delightful and the quality of the printing excellent.” The success of A35a enhanced Davies’s reputation as a solid critic of Leacock’s work. On 13 September 1971, for example, he was asked by Michael Gnarowski to compile “a volume of selected critical material bearing on the work of Stephen Leacock. Such a collection would form part of the ‘Critical Views on Canadian Writers’ Series which is a continuing project under the Ryerson/McGraw-Hill imprint.” He declined this project, however. David

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McGill, Vice President of McClelland & Stewart, informed Davies on 18 August 1972 that only twentycopies of A35a remained in stock. A35a was reprinted by McClelland & Stewart as a “trade paperback” ($14.95) on 1 September 1990 with the title Feast of Stephen: A Cornucopia of Delights by Stephen Leacock. The front cover of the 1990 reprint has a caricature by Graham Pilsworth of Davies and Leacock shaking hands. Davies sent Douglas Gibson a list of typos to be corrected (p. 53 especially) on 7 May 1990. Davies examined the original introduction but decided not to revise it. 2,644 copies had sold by the end of 1998; 3,508 copies sold by the end of June 2001. Information on the publishing history of A35a is based on the following sources: file 43, box 22, series A, McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm; file 46, vol. 45, file 37, vol. 47, file 5, vol. 48, files 4 and 7, vol. 50, and file 16, vol. 52, Davies fonds, lac; royalty reports at pend. copies examined: lac (first printing in jacket and 1990 reprint); otmc (first printing in jacket); qmmrb (first printing in jacket); pend (two copies of first printing in jacket). A35a.1  New Canadian Library issue, photographic reprint (1974): Feast | of | Stephen | An anthology of some of the less | familiar writings of Stephen | Leacock, with a critical introduction by Robertson Davies | General Editor: Malcolm Ross | New Canadian Library No. 95 | [publisher’s device within an oval: abstract sketch of a man standing on a horse-drawn chariot, taking aim with a bow and arrow] | McClelland and Stewart Limited | The Canadian Publishers This is a photographic reprint (180 × 111 mm.) of A35a in the New Canadian Library series ($1.95). The copyright page reads as follows: Copyright © 1974 by McClelland and Stewart Limited | Introduction copyright © 1970 by Robertson Davies | 07710-91958 | All rights reserved | The selections in this edition have been taken from a variety | of editions, Canadian, British, and American. | Spelling and style of the source editions have been retained. | [nine lines of acknowledgment for permission from Doubleday Inc., Dodd, Mead and Co. and the Stephen Leacock Estate] | The introduction is available in a slightly different version in | a paperback entitled Stephen Leacock, by Robertson Davies | McClelland and Stewart Limited | The Canadian Publishers | 25 Hollinger Road, Toronto. binding: Perfect bound in multi-coloured stiff paper (primarily in orange and green). The front

cover states: Canada’s foremost man of letters, and a | humorist in his own right, selects and appraises | Canada’s most beloved master of mirth and | comic invention. notes: When Davies was informed that the stock of A35a was almost sold out, he agreed to have the book appear in the New Canadian Library series “because most of the inclusions from the work of Leacock are unfamiliar and I think that the introduction is useful to students of his work, as it contains some information which is not available elsewhere, and some opinions about Leacock which I think are ahead of what is usually said about him” (Davies to David McGill, 22 August 1972). Publication of A35a.1 apparently occurred in January 1974. According to Moira Whalon’s notes (Whalon fonds, lac), A35a.1 was published on 30 January 1974. The contract is dated 10 October 1973 (copies at pend and premises of M&S). Royalty of 6% for the first 10,000 copies sold and 8% thereafter. 2,228 copies sold in 1974, 780 in 1975, 758 in 1976, 434 in 1977, 397 in 1978, and 389 in 1979. Up to the end of 1979, 4,986 copies sold; up to the end of 1990, 6,601 copies sold (information based on: file 14, “New Canadian Library,” box 93, series A, McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm; and file 46, vol. 45 and file 4, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac; royalty reports at pend). copies examined: lac; pend (four copies).

A36  the other leacock [program poster] 1970 [cover title; the first ten lines in white (third line in black) printed on a solid red rectangle; the first three lines in Tuscan ornamental typeface] THE | OTHER | LEACOCK | is the theme of a Symposium | offered by the University of Toronto, | which will be held at Massey College | on Friday and Saturday, October 30 and 31, 1970. | Papers and discussion will be directed | at Leacock’s work and ideas in realms which | have not received so much attention as his humorous writing. | [all remaining lines (some lines in red) regarding the program and registration of participants in the Symposium are in two columns within a rectangle] Broadside, plain white thick-paper stock. 427 × 275 mm. Verso blank. notes: Stephen Leacock, the Canadian humorist, was born on 30 December 1869. Claude Bissell, the President of the University of Toronto, spoke to Davies on 2 February 1970 about organizing a Leacock celebration in the autumn of 1970. Davies prepared a work-



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ing plan for Bissell on 5 February 1970 in which he proposed a time for the conference, place, enrolment, title (“A New Look at Leacock,” later changed to “The Other Leacock”), program, and estimated budget, and cost. Bissell gave his approval to Davies’s working plan on 9 February 1970, informing him that the University would make up the difference of the money required after the collection of the conference fees ($15 per conference participant). Davies organized the entire conference, including the speakers and the cocktail party and dinner. Three typescript drafts of this program poster with holograph emendations in Davies’s hand are extant (box 5, Master’s Office files, otmc). See also C71.2 and A37. copies examined: otmc (five copies).

A37  the mcfiggin fragment 1970 A37a  first issue: [in brown] THE | McFIGGIN | FRAGMENT 14. 1-8 pp. (4 leaves). 178 × 126 mm. contents: p. 1 title; p. 2 [all lines in red] Specially printed for members | of the Leacock Symposium, | October 30 & 31, 1970, | in an edition limited to seventy-five, | of which this is Number | Toronto, Massey College Press, 1970; pp. 3-7 text; p. 8 blank. binding: Bound in a beige wrapper, hand sewn, with the following printed in red within a brown rectangular, leafy compartment on the front wrapper: THE | McFIGGIN | FRAGMENT. notes: On 30-1 October 1970 at Massey College in the University of Toronto, Davies partook in a symposium on “The Other Leacock” (see A36 for the conference poster). For Davies’s contribution to the symposium, see also C71.2. This pamphlet — a spoof written by Davies for presentation to those in attendance at the symposium — purports to be an excerpt from the diary of the Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock, when Leacock attended Upper Canada College in 1888 and lived in a series of Toronto student boarding-houses. Davies’s spoof is a take-off on Leacock’s humorous essay, “Boarding-House Geometry,” which appeared in Leacock’s Literary Lapses (1910). The reference to “McFiggin” comes from Leacock’s essay, “Hoodoo McFiggin’s Christmas,” also published in Literary Lapses. In his spoof (p. 7), Davies refers to the landlady of the boarding-house, Mrs. McFiggin, who “shouts Honour thy father and thy mother if you expect free board

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and room in this house.” Elsewhere in the pamphlet, “McFiggin” was printed as “McFarlane.” Douglas Loch­ head, who was Librarian at Massey College at that time, stated: “You will note that the printers (myself included, in our haste) changed McFiggin to McFarlane! No one mentioned the mistake!” In fact, the mistake originated with Davies himself. On pp. 3-4 of the pamphlet is an editorial note, which puckishly comments on the authenticity of Leacock’s diary, its provenance, and the importance of looking at manuscript sources for Leacock studies. The excerpts from the diary (Thurs. Sept. 27 to Mon. Oct. 1) occur on pp. 5-7. Davies sent copies of “this little oddity from the Massey College Press” to the Editor (Corlies M. Smith) and Publicity Director (Richard Barber) of The Viking Press on 22 February 1971. He told Barber that “The McFiggin Fragment is a cheerful production but it seemed to impose on some members of the [Leacock] Seminar and I have high hopes that it may yet appear as genuine Leacock.” In describing its production, he informed Smith: “The librarian [Lochhead] and I — he is the University professor of bibliography — have long wished to turn our hands to a piece of literary forgery and we thought that this might make an interesting trial run. We are not sure, however, that we have deceived anyone” (file 23, vol. 52, Davies fonds, lac). Two typescripts of A37 with holograph emendations (3 pp; 5 pp. with carbon typescript) are at otmc (box 5, Master’s Office files). Lochhead set the type for this pamphlet. The printing was done on an Albion iron hand press at Massey College by Lochhead and Peter E. Greig. The pamphlet was hand sewn by Greig and Pat Kennedy (Lochhead’s secretary and assistant). Seventy-five numbered copies were delivered to Moira Whalon, the College and Davies’s secretary, on 23 October 1970, and thirty unnumbered copies were put in the College’s vault. A numbered copy was given as a souvenir to those in attendance at the symposium at a tea on 31 October 1970. Reprinted in A89. Information on the publishing history of A37a is based on correspondence with Carl Spadoni: Davies to Spadoni, 11 November 1986; Desmond Neill (Librarian, Massey College) to Spadoni, 17 November 1986; Greig to Spadoni, 27 October 1987; Lochhead to Spadoni, 9 April 1991 (correspondence at lac with copies of A37a). copies examined: davis (unnumbered); greig (unnumbered); lac (two copies; no. 65, the other unnumbered); otmc (unnumbered; no. 4 in box 5, Master’s Office files); pend (no. 3).

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A37a.1  second issue entitled The McFaggin Frigment: [in red rust] THE | McFAGGIN | FRIGMENT According to Peter Greig who worked in the print shop at Massey College, this issue was printed in an edition of five copies at the same time as A37a in an attempt to fool Davies and Whalon. Printed on the front wrapper: [the first three lines in red] THE | McFAGGIN | FRIGMENT | [the next line inside a shaded square contained within a brown rectangular, leafy compartment] M. In addition to the title page and the front wrapper, A37a.1 differs from A37a in the following respects: on p. 2 “seventy” is crossed out and above the lines in red is an illustration of a jester carrying a book; on p. 3 the illustration of M within a wreath, which appears prior to the text, is upside down; at the bottom of p. 4 is an illustration of a dancing monk who is carrying a bottle in one hand and a goblet in the other. According to the inscription in the copy that Whalon gave to Dr. Richard C. Davis, a copy of A37a.1 was given to Davies, Pat Kennedy, Lochhead (in the possession of Greig), Colin Friesen (the College’s bursar), and Whalon. copies examined: davis (no. 5); greig (no. 3).

A38  fifth business 1970 A38a  first Canadian edition: [ornament apparently signifying “fifth business”: four small, separate rectangles surrounding a small, solid square] | Fifth Business | a novel by | Robertson Davies | MACMILLAN OF CANADA / TORONTO 1-10 16. 1-6, 1-314 pp. (160 leaves). 216 × 139 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 list of eighteen other books by Davies under the categories of fiction, plays, and criticism; p. 3 title; p. 4 © Robertson Davies 1970 | [six lines about copyright] | Printed in Canada | The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited | 70 Bond Street, Toronto; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 eight lines of quotation attributed to Tho. Overskou, Den Danske Skueplads, about the meaning of fifth business; pp. 1-314 text. text: 1 Mrs. Dempster; 2 I Am Born Again; 3 My FoolSaint; 4 Gyges and King Candaules; 5 Liesl; 6 The Soirée of Illusions. In some copies there is a pagination error in the table of contents with respect to chapters 3 and 4; the page numbers (172 and 122) are transposed. binding and dust jacket: Bound in gold cloth with stamping in neon blue. Stamped on the upper board

is an ornament similar to the one on the title page. Stamped down the spine: DAVIES Fifth Business Macmillan. Black endpapers. The front and spine panels of the dust jacket feature a black and grey illustration of a man dressed in a white tie and tails (top hat, monocle, and cigarette) with his shadow. Printed over this design on the front panel is the following: [the first two lines in orange Gothic-styled type] Fifth | Business | [in white] a novel by | [the next line in yellow Gothic-styled type] Robertson Davies. Printed on the spine: [down the spine in orange Gothic-styled type] Fifth Business | [in white] Macmillan | [down the spine in yellow Gothic-styled type] Robertson Davies. On the back panel is a blackand-white photograph of Davies by Paterson/Photo Design. The flaps are white. On the front flap are the author’s name, the title, the price ($6.95), and three paragraphs about the book’s plot. On the back flap are five paragraphs of biographical information about Davies and attribution to Paterson/Photo Design for the jacket photograph. There is also a variant jacket issued by the Bookof-the-Month Club. This jacket is almost the same of that of the regular trade edition. It has 1606 in white at the bottom of the spine panel. The top of the flaps indicate that the book is a selection from the Club. Printed at the bottom of the front flap: *Trade Mark of Book of the Month Club, Inc. | Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. and in Canada. notes: Narrated by Dunstan Ramsay, a retired teacher of Colborne College, A38a is the first volume of Davies’s Deptford trilogy. The opening scene recalls an incident that occurred on 27 December 1908 in which Mrs. Dempster is struck on the back of the head by an errant snowball thrown by Percy Boyd Staunton. Although he made several pages of notes for the book prior to 1960 (possibly before 21 September 1959), Davies did not write the first two sections until the fall of 1968. By 2 December he had written 25,000 words, and he completed the first draft in the summer of 1969 at Highfields, the country home of the illustrator and designer Clair Stewart, near Caledon East, on. The final typescript was prepared by Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, in the fall of 1969, and it was submitted to the Macmillan Company of Canada in December of that year. The Macmillan Company engaged three readers. One of them (KAM) reported on 18 December 1969 that the book was “beautifully constructed ... About two thirds of the way through it seemed to me to drag a little.” The editor Ramsay Derry, however, praised the book for its “splendid flowing narrative” (19 December 1969). Macmillan’s publisher John Gray



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found it “lacking in warmth and immediacy” (Man of Myth, p. 482), but on 30 December 1969, he concluded: “Given the standing of the author and the general quality of the book, there is no question of not publishing — we must sound enthusiastic.” Gray sent Davies a congratulatory telegram on the same day: “BOOK MUCH ENJOYED MAILING SCRIPT LONDON AFTER HOLIDAY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND BRENDA.” Pleased by Gray’s reaction, Davies nevertheless thought it prudent to settle the question of the book’s North American rights before considering those in England. Davies met his Canadian and English publishers at Toronto’s York Club in Toronto on 15 March 1970. At the meeting Alan Maclean, the managing director of Macmillan (London), questioned Davies about the book’s cryptic title. Davies had been warned about Maclean’s concern, and he provided him with a suitable definition from Thomas Overskou’s Den Danske Skueplads. Several years later in 1979 when the Norwegian translation (H66) of A38 was in the process of publication, Davies admitted to the hoax of fabricating the title’s definition. At the meeting in Toronto, it was agreed that Derry would coordinate the editorial work on the novel. James Wright of Macmillan (London) had already sent a list of queries to Hugh Kane on 10 March 1970. Davies made his revisions to the text in March and April 1970. Irked by Derry’s persistent queries, Davies replied to him on 20 April 1970: “If you choose to do so you could go through it in Standard Business English and it would doubtless emerge crystal-clear but effectively robbed of most of the pretence it has to be a work of art, so I leave it to you: schoolmarm my prose if you like, but in my opinion you are making a great mistake.” Josephine Rogers, Davies’s agent of Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., informed him about the contract for A38a on 25 March 1970 (copy at pend): an advance of $1,500 against royalties, 10% on the first 3,000 copies sold, 12½% to 7,500 copies, and 15% thereafter. Rogers sent copies of the Macmillan Company’s contract to Davies on 29 July 1970; the signed contract was returned to Davies on 2 September 1970. On 9 June 1970, the Toronto Star Weekly magazine expressed an interest in the serialization of the book after publication, but Davies was not keen to do so. A proof of the jacket of A38b was sent to Davies by the Macmillan Company of Canada on 13 July 1970. Although the Macmillan Company had intended to use A38b’s setting of type for the Canadian edition, only the jacket design at a cost of $45 was borrowed from Viking Press for A38a. (For an offset fee of $830 and for repros at $432, Viking offered to arrange a

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print run of 7,500 copies of the Canadian edition at $1.35 per page and a cost of $1.27 per copy.) Davies attended a promotion and sales conference at the Macmillan Company’s office on 11 August. Two sets of page proofs were received by the Macmillan Company on 11 September, and films of the jacket were sent to Macmillan ($45) on 30 September. On 14 September 1970, the book was chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club as a January club selection for its 80,000 Canadian membership. The Club hoped to sell 20,000 to 30,000 copies to its members. The Club’s minimum royalty was $8,500, divided equally between Davies (minus 10% to his agent, $425) and the Macmillan Company. A launch was held to celebrate the book’s publication on 29 October 1970 at Captain John’s Restaurant in Toronto Harbour “in keeping with the subject and tone of the novel” — the location in the novel where Staunton had drowned in his Cadillac convertible. A38a was published a day later (Canadian copyright serial number 218039). Four copies of the corrected version (pp. 172 and 122 in the table of contents corrected) were sent to Davies on that day. The Macmillan Company spent $518 promoting A38a before publication, $918 in promotion after publication (ads in newspapers, releases to literary editors, posters in bookstores, etc.), and approximately $500 on the launch at Captain John’s Restaurant. Number of copies printed of the first impression not known. It would appear that at least 20,000 copies of A38a were printed (5,000 copies for the ordinary trade edition and 15,000 copies for the Book-of-theMonth Club). The book was number 1 on the “National Bestsellers” list in the Toronto Daily Star on 9 January 1971; it remained on the chart for forty-two weeks. By 18 June 1971, 4,249 copies of the ordinary trade edition had sold. On 5 March 1973, the Book-ofthe-Month Club disposed of 7,100 copies to General Publishing; the copies were then sold to the public “in the Bonanza Books programme” at $1 per copy. At that time some of Macmillan’s own overstock sold at a reduced price to Louis Melzack of Classic Books; Davies bought fifty copies at 44¢ apiece. Derry was quite concerned that the number of remaindered copies flooding the market would harm the potential sales of Davies’s future books. He even suggested buying the Book-of-the-Month Club’s overstock at $1,000 and destroying all the copies. Although Davies told his editor Douglas M. Gibson on 9 June 1975 that “the extremely gloomy jacket worked initially against the book,” the Toronto Globe and Mail (letter to the editor of Fanfare) reported on 13 September 1977 that Fifth Business had sold 145,800 copies cumulatively to the end of 1976. On 30 May

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1980, Robert Wilkie of the Macmillan Company of Canada informed Davies that annual sales of A38a had diminished to the point where it was necessary to allow A38a to go out of print. Publication was discontinued after 1 September 1980, and after 1 December 1980, all copies in stock were remaindered. A38 has never been made into a film, but several companies have sought the film rights. On 27 August 1971, the Roger Eustis Company paid Davies $2,000 for the rights for a period of six months with an option to extend the rights ($2,000 for a further six months and $42,000 for the full rights, copy of contract at pend). Similarly, on 14 July 1976, Camp Hill Productions paid Davies $2,500 for a period of one year also with an option to extend the right ($2,500 for a further year and $50,000 for the full rights, copy of contract at pend). The Hollywood director Nicholas Meyer of Wiseblood, Inc. eventually purchased the motion picture rights of A38 on 14 July 1981 for $45,000; the contract (copy at pend) would also have given Davies a percentage of the producer’s share of net profits. Meyer’s screenplay entitled “Conjuring” was registered at the Copyright Office of dlc on 5 July 1983. Meyer tried unsuccessfully to sell his screenplay to several producers. The Canadian screenwriter Rick Butler of Tapestry Productions asked Meyer to let him write a new script, but Meyer did not like it. Butler bought the rights from Meyer for $250,000 on 1 February 1988. He also paid Davies $35,000 in transferring these rights on 29 March 1988 (copies of agreement at pend). Cineplex-Odeon Corp. apparently offered to finance the production in 1987. Davies critiqued Butler’s script on 10 January 1989, and he also attempted to get Norman Jewison to direct the film. Jewison backed out of the project on 12 April 1989. See also Maclean’s 102, no. 3 (16 January 1989): 9. Excerpts of A38 have been reprinted as follows: from chapter 2 as “It Does No Good to Be Afraid” in Robert Weaver and William Toye, The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1973), pp. 91-8 (2nd ed., 1981, pp. 84-90); “The Village of Deptford” in Texts for English and American Studies 20 (1987): 76-8; “The Snowball” in Anne Thompson, Purpose & Pattern: A Handbook for Writers of English (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 200; John Thieme, ed., The Arnold Anthology of PostColonial Literatures in English (London: Edward Arnold, 1996), pp. 376-81. Information on the publishing history of A38a is based on the following sources: file 9, box 247, file 5, box 305, and file 7, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; file 43, vol. 43, file 2, vol. 44, file 43, vol. 45, file

40, vol. 47 and files 36-8 and 41, vol. 49, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: oh (regular trade edition in jacket); ohm (regular trade edition in jacket); okq (two copies of the regular trade edition in jacket, no pagination error in table of contents, price cut from front flap in one copy); otmc (two copies of the regular trade edition in jacket; one copy with the Book of the Month Club jacket); pend (fourteen copies of regular trade edition in jacket, one copy with pagination error in table of contents). A38b  first American edition: FIFTH | BUSINESS | [ornament] | Robertson Davies | THE VIKING PRESS | New York 1-10 16. 1-13, 4-71, 72 , 73-120, 121, 122-168, 169, 170, 218, 219-262, 263, 264-308, 1-2 pp. (160 leaves). 211 × 134 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 four other books by Davies in fiction and criticism; p. 4 blank; p. 5 title; p. 6 Copyright © 1970 by Robertson Davies | All rights reserved | Published in 1970 by The Viking Press, Inc. | 625 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 | SBN 670-31213-4 | Library of Congress catalog card number: 70-128346 | Printed in U.S.A.; p. 7 quotation attributed to Tho. Overskou, Den Danske Skueplads about the meaning of fifth business; p. 8 blank; p. 9 table of contents; p. 10 blank; p. 11 fly title; p. 12 blank; pp. 13, 4-308 text; pp. 1-2 blank. text: Identical to A38a. binding and dust jacket: Bound in dark-yellow paper boards, quarter bound with dark-brown cloth. Top edge stained dark yellow with light-brown endpapers. Stamped down the spine: [first line in yellow] ROBERTSON DAVIES [ornament] VIKING | [under the previous line] FIFTH BUSINESS. The front and spine panels of the jacket of A38b have the same illustration as the one used for the jacket of A38a, except the lettering for A38b is lighter and VIKING replaces Macmillan on the spine panel. Printing on the back panel and the flaps mainly in brown with some orange. The back panel and flaps are white. On the back panel are: blurbs by Saul Bellow, John Fowles, and Arnold Edinborough; the publisher’s device of the Viking Press in orange; and the SBN number. The front flap has five paragraphs about the book, the title in orange, and the price ($6.95); on the bottom right-hand corner is 1170. On the back flap are: a black-and-white photograph of Davies by Paterson; a paragraph about Davies; and the address



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of the Viking Press. Jacket design by Mel Williamson. Illustration (photograph) on the front and spine panels by J. Bevilacqua. notes: On 5 February 1970, Burroughs Mitchell of Charles Scribner’s Sons decided not to publish A38b. “It is a deft and sometimes entertaining piece of work, as one would expect from him,” Mitchell told Josephine Rogers, Davies’s agent, “but we can’t feel confident of a satisfactory sale of the book.” The reaction of Corlies M. Smith of the Viking Press was quite different, however. He was thoroughly delighted with Fifth Business. He told Davies on 10 April 1970 that he wanted to publish A38b as soon as possible. The contract with the Viking Press, copy at pend dated 25 March 1970, gave Davies an advance royalty of $3,500 on signing the agreement, 10% royalty on the first 5,000 copies sold, 12½% for the next 2,500 copies sold, and 15% thereafter. Sample pages were sent to Davies on 1 July 1970 and the jacket design on 13 July. Both Davies and Whalon read and corrected the proofs (two sets, one date-stamped 27 July 1970, H. Wolff Book Mfg. Co.), which they returned on 10 August 1970. “If I were set the task of determining the editorship of these proofs as a bibliographical test I would come to the conclusion that the copy had been prepared for the press by two editors who were not in agreement about the use of Italic,” Davies commented. He reminded Smith that the book was intended to represent a manuscript prepared by Dunstan Ramsay as a report to his Headmaster. Being an exacting scholar, Ramsay would want certain words italicized properly. Davies also restored the Canadian usage in a number of words and phrases. “I am anxious to preserve a Canadian flavour about the book,” he told Smith. A38b was published on 23 November 1970. There were at least four impressions. The exact number of copies of each impression is not known. The copyright was registered at dlc’s Copyright Office on 30 October 1970 (AF31892, original registration number; renewed by Brenda Davies on 17 August 1998, RE-786-995). While the reviews in Canadian newspapers and journals had been mixed, the reception in America was enthusiastic. On the day of publication the review in the New York Times compared Davies’s writing to that of Thomas Mann, one of Davies’s heroes. “The Times review was particularly welcome to me because the Canadian reviews, though favourable on the whole, have tended to be a bit thin in their understanding of the book,” he told Smith on 26 November 1970. By the end of the year almost 8,000 copies of A38b had sold. Smith was a bit disappointed

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with the result. In the Toronto Daily Star (“Novelist in for a Surprise When He Returns to Toronto,” p. 28) on 22 December 1970, Peter Sypnovich reported that in America, the novel was the hit of the season. The book was still going strong a few months later. A38b was tenth place on the New York Times “Best Seller List” on 28 March and 4 April 1971, and had sold 13,210 copies (see also “Authors & Editors,” Publishers Weekly 199, no. 14 (5 April 1971): 21-3). Moreover, the Literary Guild chose the book as an alternate selection for April 1971, thereby ensuring an order for another 10,000 copies. On 11 May 1971, Rogers reported that sales of A38b were running around 100 copies a week with the total just under 14,500. Although he was enormously pleased by sales of A38b, Davies was of the opinion that the dust jacket was “repellent” and “worked against the book.” He also did not like the quotation from Saul Bellow. “While I recognize Saul Bellow’s great reputation, I think we are far apart in our opinions about almost everything,” he told Rogers on 15 February 1972. With the publication of A38c, copies of Fifth Business were in great abundance in the United States. On 22 February 1973, Elisabeth Sifton of the Viking Press suggested to Rogers that with an overstock of 8,300 copies of the book, it was prudent to dispose of 7,000 copies (probably remaindered at that time). On 16 February 1988, Viking Penguin Inc. paid Davies an advance of $200,000 for the continuing rights to nine of his books; A38 was one of the books under this agreement (copy at pend). Information on the publishing history of A38b is based on files 33, 43, 45, and 46, vol. 45 and file 23, vol. 52, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: davis (proofs; fourth printing in jacket, April 1971); okq (in jacket); otmc (third printing in jacket, April 1971, but several pages defective). A38b.1  first English issue (1971): FIFTH | BUSINESS | [ornament] | Robertson Davies | MACMILLAN A38b.1 is from the same setting of type as A38b. The collation is as follows: A-K16 [$1 signed (-A1); fifth leaf signed * (e.g. A*) except F gathering]. The leaves have been trimmed, measuring 195 × 130 mm. The copyright page reads as follows: © Robertson Davies 1970 | [three lines about copyright] | SBN Boards: 333 12011 6 | First published in the U.S.A. | by the Viking Press, Inc., 1970 | First published in Great Britain 1971 by | MACMILLAN AND CO LTD | London and Basingstoke | Associated companies in New York Toronto | Dublin Melbourne Johannesburg & Madras | Printed in Great Britain by | LOWE AND BRYDONE (PRINTERS) LTD | London.

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binding and dust jacket: Bound in black paper boards with the following stamped in silver on the spine: Fifth | Business | [rule] | DAVIES | MACMILLAN. The front panel of the dust jacket is black, and is as follows: [the first four lines in inline typeface with white inside; gold outside] FIFTH | [orange outside] BUSINESS | [purple outside] ROBERTSON | [blue outside] DAVIES | [remaining lines in white] “A good man wrote this book, an intelligent, | mature man. He taught me a thing or two.” | - Saul Bellow. | a novel. The back panel has a black-and-white photograph of Davies by Paterson. The spine panel is white with the first three lines in inline type (black outside, white inside): FIFTH | BUSINESS | DAVIES | Macmillan. The front flaps are white. On the front flap are: quotations from Bellow and John Fowles; reference to the Literary Guild and the Book of the Month Club of America; a paragraph summarizing the book’s plot; and the price (£2.10 (42s) net). The back flap has a paragraph about Davies and the SBN. notes: When he had finished writing Fifth Business, Davies made it quite clear to his agent Josephine Rogers on 29 September 1969 that the English edition should not be offered to Weidenfeld and Nicolson, the publisher of A14a.2. Davies was in England at the end of that year, and John Gray of the Macmillan Company of Canada advised Alan Maclean of Macmillan (London) on 12 December 1969 that it would be a good idea for Maclean to meet Davies during his stay. Donald M. Sutherland, the Manager of the Trade Department at Macmillan of Canada, sent the manuscript to Maclean on 19 February 1970. In his reader’s report prepared on 27 February 1970, C.H. Derrick remarked that the book would not be a best-seller. However, he thought Fifth Business was “a joyously funny book.” He added: “And he writes beautifully ... This is the real thing, a rare vintage.” James Wright of Macmillan (London) was also enthusiastic. “I have read about half of the book and am quite crazy about it,” he told Rogers on 2 March 1970. He contacted Davies’s English agent, Michael Horniman at A.P. Watt & Son, to check into the option clause of A14a.2 and Weidenfeld and Nicolson’s first rights to another novel. The contract with Macmillan (London), dated 21 April 1970 (copy at pend), was sent to Rogers on 2 June 1970. It called for an advance of £450 (half on signature of the contract and the other half on publication), a royalty of 10% up to 3,000 copies sold, 12½% to 5,000 copies sold, and 15% thereafter. In April 1970 Macmillan (London) proposed publication by offset from A38a in an issue of 2,500 or 3,000 copies. On 15 May 1970, Wright informed Sutherland that

Macmillan (London) would not manufacture A38b.1 through Macmillan of Canada. The Viking Press sent offset material to Macmillan (London) in late October (offset fee $830, $432 for repros). A38b.1 was published at the end of March 1971. Having read a few favourable reviews in English newspapers, Davies asked Maclean on 17 June 1971: “have you been able to form any opinion yet of how it is going in the U.K.?” Maclean informed him four days later that sales of A38b.2 had not been quite as they had hoped. “Its critical reception has been cordial rather than enthusiastic and it is sadly true that in general it has been reviewed at a superficial level,” he told Davies. “The resulting sales (just over 2,000 copies) are disappointing and we have not, to date, been able to get a paperback house to offer for it.” The modest reception of A38b.1 in England did not upset Davies unduly. He attributed its failure to the caprice of reviewers and to a lack of popularity in general by Canadian authors in England. A year after the book’s publication, Davies stated that A38b.1 was “a complete flop.” He told Hugh Kane of the Macmillan Company of Canada on 12 April 1972: “Considering what happened in the States and Canada, I do not think that this can have been entirely the fault of the book.” Macmillan (London) informed A.P. Watt & Son on 26 February 1974 that A38b.1 was going to be remaindered at 6p a copy. Information on the publishing history of A38b.1 is based on the following: file 11, box 247, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; and files 33 and 46-7, vol. 45 and file 1, vol. 50, file 1, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: otmc (in jacket); pend (twenty-one copies). A38b.2  Taiwanese issue, piracy [1971 or 1972]: This piracy by the Taiwanese publisher Chou, Cheng was photographically reproduced from the sheets and dust jacket of A38b. A38b.2 differs from A38b in the following respects: the leaves are much thinner, measuring 202 × 125 mm.; those responsible for the piracy are listed in Chinese characters on the page (p. 4) facing the title page; bound in green cloth with silver stamping down the spine FIFTH BUSINESS Robertson Davies; the price and 1170 are missing from the front flap of the jacket; printing on the jacket is not in brown but black; no staining on the top edge, white endpapers. notes: Davies informed Corlies M. Smith of the Viking Press about A38b.2 on 2 March 1972. One of Davies’s friends had traveled to China and had brought back a copy of A38b.2. Davies told Smith about the piracy in greater detail:



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On the page facing the title page are 10 lines of Chinese characters which I have had translated and which gives the name and address of the publisher — Chou, Cheng; home address 180 Chung Shan N. Road, Section 2, Taipei; the distributor Chung Shan Book Co. Limited; address, same as above; publishing house: Sheng Chang Publishing Company Limited, address 28 Cheng Yi, N. Road, Shan Chung, and the authorization or registration number granted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is 1415 Yeh.

Smith filed a formal protest with the Taiwanese government, but he was pessimistic about compensation for violation of copyright. “I fear that Chiang Kaishek’s boys have run the jolly roger on you,” he told Davies on 9 March 1972. When Davies’s editor at the Macmillan Company of Canada, Douglas M. Gibson, found out about the piracy, he told Davies on 31 December 1975 that following the success of A38b in the United States, A38b.2 “was rushed onto the shelves in Taiwan, where it sold very briskly ... you were the only Canadian author to be so honoured; in the absence of royalties I suppose that this must be your consolation.” For his part, Davies was quite resigned that nothing legally could be done about the piracy. A38b.2 was a “very handsome job,” he stated on 14 January 1976 in reply to Gibson. Number of copies printed and exact date of publication not known. Information on the publishing history of A38b.2 is based on the following: files 24, 43, and 46, vol. 45, Davies fonds, lac; file 6, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm. copies examined: pend (in jacket). A38b.3 second English issue (1977): FIFTH | BUSINESS | Robertson Davies | [within two circles] ê| [attached to the bottom of the circles within a rounded rectangle] STAR | A STAR BOOK | published by | the Paperback Division of | W. H. ALLEN & Co. Ltd A38b.3, which measures 180 × 110 mm., is a photographic reprint of A38b. There are five unnumbered, preliminary leaves before the text. The copyright page (p. 4) of A38b.3 is as follows: A Star Book | Published in 1977 | by the Paperback Division of W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd | A Howard and Wyndham Company | 123 King Street, London W6 9JG | First published in Great Britain by | Macmillan and Co. Ltd 1971 | First published in America by | The Viking Press Inc 1970 | Copyright © Robertson Davies 1970 | Printed in Great Britain by | Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks | ISBN 0 352 396113 | [seven lines about copyright].

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There are two unnumbered leaves after the text. These consist of lists of books under the categories of General Fiction, Thrillers, and Crime; the last page of the book has information about Wyndham Books. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has the following: a black background, the title and author’s name in yellow capital letters, a quotation from Saul Bellow in white, and a colour illustration of a man’s head (red hair and beard), an Oriental mask, and a fetus. The spine and back cover are pale greyish-blue. Printed on the spine: [within two circles] ê| [attached to the bottom of the circles within a rounded rectangle] STAR | [down the spine] ROBERTSON DAVIES [title in red] FIFTH BUSINESS. The back cover has the heading in red: OF MAN, MYTH AND MAGIC. There are two paragraphs about the book, quotations from John Fowles and the New York Times, the Howard and Wyndham publisher’s device (a shaded W resembling two books), the ISBN, and the recommended prices (95p UK, $3.45 Australia, 1.00c Malta, and $2.90 New Zealand). notes: When W.H. Allen undertook the publication of A49a.2, the English publisher also arranged for the publication of the individual volumes of the Deptford trilogy in paperback. Davies’s North American agent, Henriette Neatrour of Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., sent him a contract with Star Books (the paperback side of W.H. Allen) on 31 August 1976: £750 pounds for each title of the trilogy, 7½% royalty on UK sales and 6% on export. Davies informed his British agent, Michael Horniman of A.P. Watt & Son, on 17 August 1976 that he was jubilant that a deal had been struck with W.H. Allen for the paperback publication of the Deptford trilogy: “I am very keen about this because I have quite a number of readers in Australia and a substantial number in India, from whom I have had letters, and they have the greatest difficulty in getting my books.” A38b.3 was published on 19 May 1977. Number of copies printed not known. Davies saw a favourable review of the trilogy in the New Statesman (published 4 April 1980). Information on the publishing history of A38b.3 is based on the following files in the Davies fonds at lac: file 21, vol. 43 and files 3, 7, and 8, vol. 46. copies examined: pend (three copies). A38c  second American edition (1971): Fifth | Business | by | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: abstract S within a circle] | A SIGNET BOOK from | NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY | [rule] | TIMES MIRROR

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1-8, 9-238, 1-2 pp. (120 leaves). 172 × 106 mm. contents: p. 1 title with excerpts from three reviews in American newspapers; p. 2 advertisement for Signet bestsellers; p. 3 title; p. 4 Copyright © 1970 by Robertson Davies | All rights reserved. For information address | The Viking Press, Inc., 625 Madison Avenue, New York | New York 10022. | Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 70-128346 | This is an authorized reprint of a hardcover edition | published by The Viking Press, Inc. | [publisher’s device of Signet with three lines about its registration trademark] | Signet, Signet Classics, Signette, Mentor and Plume Books | are published by The New American Library, Inc., | 1301 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019 | First Printing, October, 1971 | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; p. 5 quotation attributed to Tho. Overskou, Den Danske Skueplads, about the meaning of fifth business; p. 6 blank; p. 7 table of contents; p. 8 blank; pp. 9-238 text; pp. 1-2 advertisements for Signet bestsellers. text: Identical to A38a. binding: Perfect bound, white stiff-paper covers. Printed on the front cover: [publisher’s device of Signet Books] A SIGNET NOVEL • Y4791 • $1.25 | THE MESMERIZING BESTSELLER | THAT [remaining line and the next three lines are a quotation from a review] | —THE NEW YORK TIMES | FIFTH | BUSINESS | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [colour collage of a man’s face, a magician taking birds out of a top hat, a naked woman, etc.]. Printed on the spine: [publisher’s device] | SIGNET | Y | 4791 | [remaining line down the spine] FIFTH BUSINESS robertson davies 451-Y4791-125. On the back cover are excerpts from reviews in American newspapers and magazines. There is a binding variant for copies sold in Canada. In the lower right-hand corner of the front cover is a maple leaf, part of a semi-circle above the leaf, and CANADIANA curved under the leaf. notes: On 18 March 1971, the Viking Press sold the paperback rights for North America to The New American Library, Inc.: an advance against royalties of $29,000 ($10,000 on signing the contact, $9,500 on publication, and $9,500 sixty days after publication); 10% on all copies sold in Canada and the United States and 4% outside of that market. The contract was sent to the Macmillan Company of Canada on 16 April 1971. Davies and his agent received half of all royalties. Up to 31 December 1971, 26,678 copies of A38c sold in Canada at a list price of $1.25. The royalty report, for July to 31 December 1974, indicates that 8,966 copies sold for that period. By end of 1976,

cumulative sales reached 145,000 copies sold. The book was still in print when A38d was published (information based on file 49, box 219, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm, and file 46, vol. 45 and file 38, vol. 49, Davies fonds, lac). copies examined: davis (both binding variants); otmc; pend. A38d  first Penguin edition (1977): Robertson Davies | FIFTH BUSINESS | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS 1-8, 9-107, 108, 109-189, 190, 191-266, 1-6 pp. (136 leaves). 179 × 109 mm. contents: p. 1 publisher’s name, title, and a paragraph about Davies; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England | [four lines of addresses of Penguin branches in the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada | by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited 1970 | First published in the United States of America | by The Viking Press 1970 | Published in Penguin Books 1977 | Copyright © Robertson Davies 1970 | All rights reserved | [nine lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0 14 00.3487 X (pbk.)] | Made and printed in Great Britain by | C. Nicholls & Company | Set in Linotype Pilgrim | [nine lines about copyright]; p. 5 quotation attributed to Tho. Overskou, Den Danske Skueplads, about the definition of fifth business; p. 6 blank; p. 7 table of contents; p. 8 blank; pp. 9-266 text (pp. 108 and 190 blank); pp. 1-6 advertisements for other books published by Penguin, including The Manticore and World of Wonders (p. 2 blank). text: Identical to A38a. binding: Perfect bound, black stiff-paper covers with the spine in orange. The front cover has Davies’s name in yellow, the title in white, and a quotation from Peter Prescott, Newsweek, in yellow. At the bottom of the front cover is an abstract illustration in black and white of a man in a top hat and a cape. The publisher’s device in orange, black, and white is located at the top right-hand corner of the front and back covers and the bottom of the spine. On the back cover in white are: a paragraph about the book; excerpts from reviews in Book World and the New York Times; the price in Canada and the U.S.A. ($1.95); and the ISBN. Cover design by Neil Stuart. notes: Although A38d was printed in England, this



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paperback was sold in the United States and Canada. Macmillan of Canada received an advance royalty of $45,000 from Penguin Books Canada Limited for the Deptford trilogy (contract dated 30 June 1976), half for Davies (10% of Davies’s share for his agent). The agreement was for a licence of five years (undoubtedly renewed). A38d was published on 4 April 1977 (copies sent to Macmillan of Canada along with the second instalment of the advance, $15,000). By 17 April, Penguin had received orders for over 6,000 copies. After October 1977, A38d also sold as part of a gift (boxed) set at $5.95 with the other two volumes of the Deptford trilogy. Up to 30 June 1977, 7,787 copies ($1,518 royalty) of A38d had sold. When Peter J. Waldock of Penguin Books Canada sent the first royalty statement on 30 August 1977, he remarked: “It is unfortunate that the Signet edition of FIFTH BUSINESS is still available, a fact that has hampered our sales of that title.” By 5 October 1977, 11,052 copies had sold, and another 4,207 copies had sold by the end of the year. Davies had an unearned advance on 30 June 1977 of $35,689.33 for the Deptford trilogy, and on 31 December 1977, the unearned balance was $31,280.18. 4,211 copies had sold of the gift set ($2,505.55 royalty) at that time. By 30 June 1978, another 6,599 copies of A38d had sold ($1,286.81 royalty). The unearned balance for the trilogy on 30 June 1978 was $28,945.26. By the end of 1980, 77,000 copies of A38d had sold; 125,458 copies sold by the end of 1984 and 140,423 copies by the end of the next year. Viking Penguin (later Penguin USA) sold 239,381 copies of A38d in the United States by 30 April 1996. Copies continued to sell after this date. 2,328 copies, for example, sold for the period ending 30 April 2000. Information on the publishing history of A38d is based on file 49, box 219, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm, and file 42, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: otmc; pend (six copies). A38d.1  Canadian Penguin issue (1980?): The title-page transcription of A38d.1 is identical to that of A38d. A38d.1 is from the same setting of type as A38d, but A38d.1 was manufactured in Canada by Webcom Limited for the Canadian market. The leaves of A38d.1 measure 175 × 110 mm. The copyright page of A38d.1 records reprintings in 1977, 1978, 1979, and 1980 (twice). Earlier reprintings of this issue not seen. The last three leaves of A38d.1 are as follows: p. 1 blank; pp. 2-5 advertisements for Davies’s other books published by Penguin with excerpts from reviews; p. 6 advertisement for Timothy Findley’s The Wars with excerpts from reviews.

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binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers with the spine in orange. The front cover in black features a quotation from Newsweek in orange and a colour abstract illustration of a man in a cape with the signs of the Zodiac above him. The back cover, which is black with white lettering (publisher’s device in orange, white, and black), has a synopsis of the book, quotations from Book World and the New York Times, the ISBN (0 14 00.4387 X), the name of the cover designer (Capon & Austin Associates Ltd.), and the price ($2.95). The cover was re-designed in the late 1980s by Bascove ($6.95, copy of cover sent to the Colbert Agency on 28 February 1989). notes: Date of publication not known. Up to 20 February 1981, 18,000 copies sold. There was a reprint of 20,000 copies on 19 March 1984. Up to the end of 30 June 1988, 193,453 copies had sold. 255,420 copies sold by the end of June 1991. According to the copyright page of the 1986 (second reprint), A38d.1 had the following reprints: 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 (twice), 1981, 1982 (twice), 1983, 1984 (twice), 1985, 1986 (twice). There were later reprints as well. Information about A38d.1 has been obtained from: royalty reports at pend; files 29 and 32, vol. 46, Davies fonds, lac; file 11, vol. 28, and file 31, vol. 108, Colbert Agency fonds, lac. copies examined: davis (second 1980 reprint; 1982 reprint; second reprint 1986; later undated reprint); otmc (two copies of the second 1980 reprint). A38d.2  American Penguin issue (1996?): The title-page transcription of A38d.2 is identical to that of A38d. The leaves of A38d.2 measure 195 × 128 mm. The last three leaves after the text consist of the following: p. 1 list of fourteen branches of Penguin Books; p. 2 blank; pp. 3-5 list of Davies’s books published by Penguin with excerpts from reviews; p. 6 blank. ISBN 0-14-016794-3. The copyright page has: 27 29 31 33 35 34 32 28 26. This probably indicates that the book is the twenty-sixth printing. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front cover is bluish grey, gold, and white with Bascove’s illustration, a quotation from Peter Prescott in Newsweek, the name of the author, the title, the series title, and the publisher’s device. The spine is white and orange. The back cover is mainly bluish grey (price $11.95). Cover design by Melissa Jacoby. notes: This issue was printed sometime after Davies’s death. On p. 1 is a biographical paragraph about Davies with a reference to an obituary in the Washington Post.

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copies examined: davis. A38e  second Canadian edition, second Penguin edition (1996): Fifth Business | [ornament] | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books 1-9, 2-61, 62-63, 64-105, 106-107, 108-148, 149, 150273, 1-7 pp. (144 leaves). 201 × 130 mm. contents: p. 1 publisher’s name, title, and two paragraphs about Davies; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [seven lines of addresses of Penguin branches in Canada, England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1970 | First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press, 1970 | Published in Penguin Books, 1977 | Published in this edition, 1996 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1970 | All rights reserved | [publisher’s note in three lines, indicating that the book is a work of fiction] | Manufactured in Canada | [eight lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14-026049-8; five lines about copyright; line about Penguin’s website]; p. 5 quotation attributed to Tho. Overskou, Den Danske Skueplads, about the definition of fifth business; p. 6 blank; p. 7 table of contents; p. 8 blank; pp. 9, 2-273 text (pp. 62 and 106 blank); pp. 1-7 blank. text: Identical to A38a. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front cover with the author’s name and title in white has a rust-coloured background and an abstract illustration by Sandra Dionisi, consisting of the sun, clouds, a black silhouette of a man’s head wearing a bowler hat, white stars, a curled tail, a stone within a hand, and fire. At the bottom of the front cover are the publisher’s device and the name of the trilogy in white. The spine is black with white lettering, having a miniature version of the illustration from the front cover. The back cover in white has quotations from the Washington Post Book World, Peter Prescott (Newsweek), and the New York Times, a paragraph about the book, and the names of the cover illustrator and cover designer (Spencer Francey Peters); also on the back cover within a rectangle are the publisher’s device, the ISBN, bar code, and price ($9.99). Also issued in a box with the two other volumes of the Deptford trilogy. notes: For an advance of $200,000, Penguin Books Canada Limited negotiated a licence with Macmillan

of Canada on 13 May 1988 for a period of ten years to publish A38e along with eight other works by Davies (contract in file 12, vol. 28, Colbert Agency fonds, lac). For details, see A14d, notes. copies examined: davis (in box); omamc; pend (six copies). A38f  third American edition, third Penguin edition (2001): FIFTH BUSINESS | [rule] | ROBERTSON DAVIES | INTRODUCTION BY GAIL GODWIN | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] |   PENGUIN BOOKS i-iv, v, vi, vii-xiii, 1-3, 1-252, 1-4 pp. (136 leaves). 196 × 128 mm. contents: p. i name of the series (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics), title, a paragraph about Davies, and a paragraph about Godwin; p. ii blank; p. iii title; p. iv PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [twelve lines of addresses of Penguin branches in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: | Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England | First published in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited 1970 | First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press, Inc. 1970 | Published in Penguin Books 1977 | This edition with an introduction by Gail Godwin published in | Penguin Books 2001 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies 1970 | Copyright renewed Brenda Davies, 1998 | Introduction copyright © Gail Godwin, 2001 | All rights reserved | [ten lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14-118615-1] | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Stempel Garamond | [five lines about copyright]; p. v table of contents; p. vi blank; pp. viixiii introduction by Godwin; p. 1 blank; p. 2 fly title; p. 3 quotation attributed to Tho. Overskou, Den Danske Skueplads, about the definition of fifth business; pp. 1-252 text; pp. 1-2 blank; p. 3 advertisement for Penguin paperbacks with addresses of Penguin branches throughout the world; p. 4 blank. text: Identical to A38a. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper glossy covers. On the front cover is a colour reproduction of A.Y. Jackson’s A Quebec Village. The spine is light turquoise. The back cover is white and light turquoise with the name of the series, author, title, a quotation from the New York Times, a paragraph about the book, a paragraph about the Deptford trilogy, the publisher’s device,



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price ($14), addresses of Penguin websites, the ISBN, bar code, and Jackson’s painting reproduced in miniature. notes: In her introduction the American novelist Gail Godwin recalls that she first read A38 shortly after the appearance of her first novel The Perfectionists (1970) while she was a student in the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Godwin provides an interpretation of A38, and concludes with “A Final Personal Note” in which she recounts meeting Davies in June 1987 at a wedding in Toronto. A38f was published on 2 January 2001. The copyright was registered at dlc on 2 March 2001 (TX-5-366-528). Number of copies printed not known. copies examined: oty; pend (thirty-one copies). A38g  third Canadian edition, fourth Penguin edition (2005): ROBERTSON DAVIES | Fifth Business | With an Introduction by M.G. Vassanji | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN | CANADA i-vi, vii, viii, ix-xvi, 1-2, 3-257, 1-7 pp. (140 leaves). 197 × 130 mm. contents: p. i name of publisher, title, and three paragraphs about Davies; p. ii list of sixteen other books by Davies (novels, short fiction, criticism, and essays); p. iii title; p. iv PENGUIN CANADA | Published by the Penguin Group | [fourteen lines of addresses of Penguin branches in Canada, the United States, England, Ireland, Australia, India, New Zealand, and South Africa] | First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press, 1970 | First published in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1970 | Published in Penguin Canada paperback by Penguin Group (Canada), | a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc, 1977, 1996 | Published in this edition, 2005 | (WEB) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1970 | Introduction copyright © M.G. Vassanji, 2005 | [five lines about copyright; three lines in italics that the work is one of fiction with no intention by the author for attribution to anything real] | Manufactured in Canada | ISBN 0-14-305138-5 | Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication data available upon request. | [five lines forbidding the re-sale and circulation of the book outside of the United States; one line about Penguin Group (Canada)’s website]; p. v quotation attributed to Tho. Overskou, Den Danske Skueplads, about the definition of fifth business; p. vi blank; p. vii table of contents; p. viii blank; pp. ix-xvi introduction by Vassanji; p. 1 fly title; p. 2 blank; pp. 3-257 text; pp. 1-7 blank.

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text: Identical to A38a. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper glossy covers. On the front cover is a colour photo of a body lying on wide-board flooring or decking, the bottom of the right shoe prominent. Below the photo against a solid white rectangle is the series title (MODERN CLASSICS) and the publisher’s device; the author’s name and the title are at the bottom of the front cover against a solid grey rectangle. The spine is grey with the author’s name, title, publisher’s device, and series title. The back cover is mainly grey with the bottom section white. It has: two small photos from the front covers of other Deptford novels in the Penguin Modern Classics series; a quotation from Vassanji’s introduction; two paragraphs about the book; an excerpt from the New York Times; the publisher’s device; series title; the ISBN and bar code; the price ($20, £8.99); two URLs; and the names of the designer of the front cover (Soapbox Design Communications Inc.), the photographer (Martin Meyer/Zefa), and the art director (Mary Opper). The quotation from Vassanji’s introduction reads: “Fifth Business | has the most | powerfully | haunting prelude | as one is ever | to find in a | modern novel.” notes: According to the Penguin Canada website, A38g was published on 26 June 2005. Number of copies printed not known. In his introduction the Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji provides biographical information about Davies and then discusses the literary and moral aspects of the Deptford trilogy. Vassanji explores Davies’s Anglo-rootedness and “the Anglo and Euro nostalgia of his books.” For Vassanji, Davies is not a quaint relic of a literary past; he belongs to “a larger, diverse mainstream of the present-day.” Vassanji’s introduction is reprinted in the other volumes of the Deptford trilogy in the Penguin Modern Classics series (see A44f and A49d). copies examined: otmc.

A39  [gaudy night broadside 1970] [cover title; printed in red; illustration of a Dickensian character (possibly a monk) pointing his finger to the right; next two lines opposite the illustration] GAUDY | NIGHT | To mark the Feast of Christmas the Master | and Fellows of Massey College will celebrate a | Gaudy Night on Sunday, December 13th at 9 | o’clock in the Great Hall, and they would be | honoured by your company | [twenty lines of text with an illustration of a merry monk holding a bottle to the right of the last

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three lines and the next line] | And, as before, this Prelude to a | happy occasion comes to you from the entire | company of the Massey College Press. All the | printing was done on our Improved Albion | Press which also happens to be observing its | centennial. | [illustration of three children, an adult, a printing press, and a compositor’s box of type] Broadside, medium-weight cream paper stock. 380 × 155 mm. Blank verso. Deckle edge on left side. notes: A39 is the sixth broadside written by Davies as an announcement of and invitation to Massey College’s Gaudy Night celebration of Christmas. See A20 for further information on these broadsides that were produced for the Fellows, Senior Residents, and their guests. The archives of the Massey College Press at otmc have a typescript of A39 revised by Davies. A39 was printed in an edition of 208 copies, probably by Douglas Lochhead, on Massey College’s Albion press. At Gaudy Night on 13 December 1970, the Massey College Singers, directed by Gordon Wry, performed carols associated with Dickens’s work. Six Christmas poems by Derrick Breach were read by W.E. Swinton. The poet and scholar Robert Finch read “his account of a recent and curious local incident.” A39 records: “The Master, under the heavy, sinister influence of | Dickens, will read the Eighth College Ghost | Story.” The ghost story was “Dickens Digested.” See also file 22, vol. 10, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: otmc (ten copies).

A40  the heart of a merry christmas 1970 A40a  first issue, first edition: [cover title; the first three lines in gold] Christmas greetings | and best wishes for | the New Year | [remaining lines in red] from | The Macmillan Company | of Canada Limited | 1970 16. 1-12 pp. (6 leaves). 200 × 138 mm. contents: pp. 1-12 text. At the top of each page in red is a border of four small semi-circles within a pattern of connected fleur-de-lis. The title of Davies’s text is on p. 1. Davies’s name appears at the end of the text on p. 12. After his name are the following two lines: “The Heart of a Merry Christmas” was prepared as an address | to The Canadian Club, Toronto, on December 14th, 1970. binding: Bound in a cream-coloured wrapper, wirestitched. There are two other binding variants: (2) The last four lines on the cover are green. (3) After

the lines in gold, there are five lines in red as follows: from the officers | and directors of | The Macmillan Company | of Canada Limited | 1970. notes: A40 was distributed by the Macmillan Company of Canada as the company’s Christmas card. On 28 August 1970, John Gray, the former head of the company who also happened to be the President of The Canadian Club in Toronto at the time, invited Davies to speak to The Canadian Club in December of that year. Initially, on 2 September 1970, Davies turned down the invitation because he and his wife planned to fly to England on 13 December to see their daughter and to travel to Switzerland for a winter vacation. Gray begged Davies on 4 September to alter his schedule since his appearance at The Canadian Club would be a very good form of publicity for A38a. Davies did as Gray requested, and the talk occurred on 14 December 1970. Davies sent a copy of his Christmas essay to Hugh Kane, the President of Macmillan of Canada, on 19 November 1970. Kane and Gray were delighted with the essay. “We will label it THE HEART OF A MERRY CHRISTMAS,” Kane told Davies on 20 November. “And we shall do an overrun of the cards for your personal use next year with the simple message: With Christmas greetings from Robertson and Brenda Davies. We are grateful to you, Rob, for allowing us to use this as our Christmas card. Nothing could be more appropriate for Macmillan’s in this season of FIFTH BUSINESS.” Davies’s agent, Josephine Rogers of Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., told Davies on 8 January 1971: “Ever since reading your Christmas essay, which comprised the Macmillan Canada Christmas card, I’d been meaning to write to you. It’s a nice piece and does make one stop and think about what Christmas has been, is and may be in the future. At any rate, I’m glad that they used it.” Number of copies printed not known. Information on the publishing history of A40a is based on the following sources: file 33, vol. 45, file 35, vol. 49, and file 11, vol. 54, Davies fonds, lac; file 14, box 391, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm. Reprinted as: “Christmas / Joy and Mystery That Can’t be Quenched,” Toronto Daily Star, 23 December 1970, p. 6 (part I) and “Christmas / It Will Survive the Age of Aquarius,” Toronto Daily Star, 24 December 1970, p. 6 (part II); “Christmas: A Changing, Yet Eternal, Celebration,” Canadian Churchman 103, no. 11 (December 1977): 5; “The Ups and Downs of Christmas: Novelist Looks at the Holiday,” Windsor Star, 17 December 1977, p. 18; and “Will Christmas Survive?” Toronto Daily Star, 23 December 1978, p. E1. Condensed as “Christmas in the Age of Aquarius,” Vancouver Sun, 24 December 1975, p. 5.



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copies examined: ohm (three copies of second variant; one catalogued, one in file 14, box 391, Macmillan Canada fonds, and the other in box 2, Nelson Ball fonds); otmc (two copies of first variant); pend (nineteen copies of third variant). A40a.1  second issue, first edition (1971): [cover title; first two lines in gold] with | Christmas Greetings | [remaining lines in red] from | Robertson & | Brenda Davies This is the Christmas card sent out by the Davies in 1971. See the note to A40a. copies examined: otutf; okq (two copies); otmc. A40b  second edition (1979): [seven separate groupings of three red bells] | Robertson | Davies | [the next line two lines in height and to the right of the previous two lines] The | Heart of a | Merry | Christmas | An address to The Canadian Club | in Toronto on December 14, 1970. | MXMLXXIX | [open book on a stand in red to the left of the next two lines] | POOLE HALL PRESS - GRIMSBY | Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli 1-5 2. 1-20 pp. (10 leaves). 237 × 145 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 black-and-white illustration of a winter scene (in the foreground a woman in nineteenth-century dress carrying packages, in the background trees, another woman walking, and houses) with the salutation in script: Hearty | Greetings; p. 3 title; p. 4 blank; pp. 5-18 text with small illustrations (a Christmas tree, a bell, a lantern, etc.) on each page; p. 19 colophon with connecting bells in red above and reindeer and a sled in red below; p. 20 blank. binding: Bound in red buckram with half of the boards covered in paper (red background, small Santas, Christmas trees, snowflakes, boughs, wrapped parcel on a sled, etc.). Deckle edges and forest green endpapers. notes: The colophon states that this Christmas keepsake was printed in an edition of 110 copies. The type was set by hand in Goudy Oldstyle for the text and Goudy Medium for the headings. Most of the printer’s flowers are from the last cast by Cornish & Winpenny, Toronto. Printed on W.S. Hopkinson cream wove paper using a 12×18 Albion hand press. Printing and binding done at the Poole Hall Press. According to Lyndsay Dobson, Bill Poole’ daughter (e-mail to Carl Spadoni, 4 June 2002), the typeface used for A40b is Goudy E-35. Davies agreed to allow the publication on a non-commercial basis. Copies were to be distributed

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to friends or donated to institutions. There is no precise date of publication. Copies were printed during the spring, summer, and fall of 1979. The wrapping paper over the boards may vary from one copy to another since Bill Poole (1923-2001) bound up copies as he required them and he used different papers. See also A62 and A82 for fine press imprints published by the Poole Hall Press or for which Poole arranged publication. For further information about the Poole Hall Press, see the website “Canadian Private Presses, Poole Hall Press” at http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/ lac-bac/presses-ef/presses/t15-560-e.html. copies examined: okq (copy no. 17).

A41  what do you see in the mirror? 1970 [cover title:] ROBERTSON DAVIES | What Do You See in the Mirror? | A Footnote to the Psychedelic Revolution | [the text in two columns] | Reprinted from the Spring, 1968, issue of the University of Toronto Graduate by permission of | the author. | [shield containing the following five lines] BOOK | SOCIETY | SELECT | YOUR | OWN | [remaining lines to the right of the shield] A Book Society SEARCHLIGHT | Editor: Brian Meeson 1, 2-7, 8 pp. (4 leaves including covers). 278 × 215 mm. Text on pp. 1-3, paragraph about Davies on p. 4, notes on pp. 4-5, questions on pp. 5-6, and for further reading on pp. 6-7. binding: Plain white paper stock, the same as the text, wire-stitched and punch-holed on the lefthand side. Printed on the back cover: A publication of | THE BOOK SOCIETY OF CANADA LIMITED | AGINCOURT CANADA | © THE BOOK SOCIETY OF CANADA LIMITED, 1970 | [next three lines within a small oval; rounded] PRINTED | IN | [rounded] CANADA | [to the right of the previous three lines:]   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 79 78 77 76 75 74 73 72 71 70. notes: For information on the Searchlights series, see A29. A41 reprints Davies essay (see C68.3) in which he discusses the search for self-transcendence through taking hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD. The title of A41 comes from the last paragraph of Davies’s essay in which he quotes the German physicist and satirist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: “When a monkey looks into a mirror, it is vain to expect an apostle to look out of it.” On 22 August 1969, in accordance with the agreement signed with Davies, Sybil Hutchinson of The

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Book Society of Canada sent him Brian Meeson’s text that was to accompany his essay. Davies returned Meeson’s text to Hutchinson three days later. He corrected a few errors in the notes regarding his educational background and the number of books he had written (twenty-one up to that date). Exact date of publication and number of copies printed not known. Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, received a copy of A41 in February 1971 (Whalon fonds, lac). Although the card inventory of The Book Society lists A41 for 29 July 1969, no copies are listed as being in stock. The earliest extant printing order is dated 29 June 1971 when James Irwin ordered 3,000 copies from TwinOffset Limited in Toronto. A41 sold for 25¢ in January 1978. The price of A41 was raised several times. It sold for 70¢ in 1987 and 1988 when 22 copies sold. A41 was still in print in the 1990s (price 95¢ in 1990 and $1 in 1991). 27 copies sold between 1990 and 1993 (information based on: royalty reports at pend; file 2, box 67, The Book Society of Canada fonds, ohm; and file 30, vol. 43, Davies fonds, lac). copies examined: davis (two copies); okq (reprint of 1971 has series 212 on the title page).

A42  [gaudy night broadside 1971] [cover title; ornamental, rectangular, horizontal border consisting of leaves, flowers, animals, birds, hunters, each with a bow and arrow, and a child on a bouquet or nest] | On Sunday, December 19, at nine o’clock Massey College | will celebrate a GAUDY NIGHT in honour of Christmas. | [thirteen lines of text] | This broadside was handset & printed at the Massey College Press with wide smiles & | wider spacing by Patricia Kennedy, Jon Moynes & The Librarian. | [leafy ornament with a bird in a nest in the centre of the ornament] Broadside, medium-weight pale-blue paper stock. 280 × 216 mm. Blank verso. Deckle edge at the bottom. One copy is extant on yellow paper stock. notes: This broadside is the seventh broadside to serve as an announcement of and invitation to Gaudy Night for the Fellows, Senior Residents, and guests of Massey College in the University of Toronto. The archives of the Massey College Press at otmc have Davies’s typescript, revised by him, and three proof copies. A42 was apparently printed in an edition of 200 copies under the supervision of Douglas Lochhead, the Librarian of Massey College. See A20 for further information about the Gaudy Nights. At the 1971 Gaudy Night, the Massey College Choir,

conducted by Gordon Wry and accompanied by Giles Bryant, sang several pieces from the time of King Henry VIII, Orlando Gibbons’s Cries of London, Keith Bissell’s setting of W.B. Yeats’s The Magi, and a new nativity carol by Derrick Breach. Robert Finch read “A Bulletin on the College Crest,” and Davies read his ninth college ghost story (“The Kiss of Khrushchev”). See also file 23, vol. 10, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: otmc (six copies).

A43  hunting stuart & other plays 1972 HUNTING | STUART | & Other Plays | ROBERTSON DAVIES | Hunting Stuart | King Phoenix | General Confession | New Drama 3 | General Editor: Brian Parker | new press Toronto 1972 1 8 2-10 16. 1-10, 3-101, 102-104, 105-193, 194-196, 197274, 1-14 pp. (148 leaves). 228 × 150 mm. contents: pp. 1-2 blank; p. 3 half title; p. 4 list of twenty-three other books by Davies, the first Shakespeare’s Boy Actors and the last Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d; p. 5 title; p. 6 Copyright © 1972 by Robertson Davies | [ten lines concerning copyright] | ISBN 0-88770-674-6 cloth | ISBN 0-88770-675-4 paper | First printing | 123456 77 76 75 74 73 72 | new press | Order Department | 553 Richmond Street West | Toronto 133, Ontario | Design, Pamela Patrick | Manufactured in Canada | Typeset by Academic, Professional & Scholarly Publishing Services Ltd. | Printed by John Deyell Co., Toronto; p. 7 table of contents; p. 8 blank; pp. 9-10, 3-274 text (pp. 10, 102, 104, 194, and 196 blank); pp. 1-2 information about the New Drama series edited by Brian Parker (six collections of plays are listed with Hunting Stuart & Other Plays being number three in the series); pp. 3-14 blank. text: Hunting Stuart; King Phoenix; and General Confession. Each play has an author’s note on the genesis of the play. “Hunting Stuart” also has a note about the première of the play (22 November 1955 by the Crest Theatre Company at the Crest Theatre, Toronto) with a list of the actors and the director. Title of each play on a separate page with a black silhouette illustration. binding and dust jacket: There are two binding variants: (1) Camel paper boards. Stamped in brown on the upper board: HUNTING STUART | AND OTHER PLAYS. Stamped in brown down the spine: davies HUNTING STUART | [under the previous line] AND OTHER PLAYS | [within a rounded rect-



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angle] newpress. Plum endpapers. The dust jacket has a purple background with lettering and illustration in orange, black, and white. The panels and flaps of the jacket feature silhouettes of characters from the three plays (Henry Benedict Stuart, King Cole, and Casanova). On the back panel in white are six lines about Davies. The flaps provide synopses of the three plays and further biographical information (with a small photo) about Davies along with the title, names of the plays, series, the ISBN, and the name of the jacket designer (Ron Pope). (2) Paperback (not seen). notes: This anthology contains three early plays written by Davies. (1) Originally entitled “The Last Chevalier: A Comedy” and written by Davies between February and August 1955, “Hunting Stuart” was directed by Robert Gill and premièred at the Crest Theatre on 22 November 1955. The play’s central character is Henry Benedict Stuart, a civil servant who comes to believe that he is Bonnie Prince Charlie. Davies rewrote the first act in the hope of having it produced on Broadway, but no major actor could be found to play the leading role. In fact he signed an agreement (copy at pend) with American Productions (Richard Charlton) in March 1957. When John Johnson of E.P.S. Lewin & Partners, Davies’s English literary agent from 1952 to 1956, expressed his dislike of Act 3 concerning Stuart’s attempted seduction by a woman scientist, Davies decided to put the play in the hands of A.P. Watt & Son and terminated his relationship with Johnson on 13 February 1956. (2) “King Phoenix,” which was written by Davies between October 1946 and February 1947, is a fantasy about King Cole. Directed by Herbert Whittaker, the play was first staged in March 1950 by the North Toronto Theatre Guild for the Central Ontario Drama Festival. R.W.W. Robertson of Clarke Irwin reported on the script on 6 October 1950 when A9 was being published. Robertson noted that Davies was very sensitive to any criticism of the play in spite of the fact that the play had received a mixed reception. (3) Written in February 1958 under the title “Phantasmata” for Donald and Murray Davis at the Crest Theatre, “General Confession” concerns the love life and musings of Casanova. The play was not staged at that time, however. On 20 January 1972, Davies sent Josephine Rogers, his agent from Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., a contract that he had received from New Press: “They want to do a book of three plays of mine and my understanding is that these are to be paperbacks, chiefly directed at students,” he told Rogers. “As you can see, the contract is absurd in terms of what they want. I certainly have no intention of letting them have any rights

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except those that relate to the publication of this one volume, for they are a small firm with no facilities to manage translations or anything else.” Founded in the summer of 1969 by Dave Godfrey, Roy MacSkimming, and James Bacque, New Press was a young, vigorous company, financially backed by Maclean-Hunter, that published a mixture of leftist, nationalist literature, novels, and occasional poetry. Rogers marked up the contract according to Davies’s instructions and returned it to the New Press. It was not until 7 September 1972 that a final contract had been prepared properly and received by Davies, although the copy at pend is dated 10 May 1972. The advance was $750 with a royalty of 10% on the first 5,000 copies sold, 12½% on the next 5,000 copies, and 15% thereafter. Davies submitted the three plays to the New Press on 24 May 1972. He doubted if there would be any interest in them outside of Canada. He worried about inquiries from theatres who would wish to stage the plays. He also pointed out that one theatre company wanted to stage “General Confession” but was put off by the production fee. The theatre critic Herbert Whittaker was asked by Godfrey to write an introduction to A43. Davies told his good friend Gordon Roper on 23 August 1972: “Shhhhh! Don’t breathe a word, but Whittaker wrote his intro. for Three Plays and it was so muddled, confused, ass-backwards and buggered up that Godfrey vowed he would not print it ... My heart sank when he [Whitakker] had been asked, but of course I couldn’t protest.” Copies of A43 were delivered from the printers in mid-September 1972. New Press had a launch and reception for the book at Trinity College, University of Toronto, on 5 October 1972. On that day, Davies wrote to Roper: “It is a nice looking book, though more for reading than actors, as it is heavy and rather extravagantly laid out on the page. Tonight I go to a party to launch it, which I dread, for I have seen the list of guests, and about twothirds of them hate me with a pure selfless hate, being very much the nouveau vague in Canadian writing; Dan [David] Godfrey is the head man, and I know Dan [David] thinks me a cumberer of the earth.” Number of copies of A43 printed not known. Copies in paper boards sold for $8.95 apiece. Approximately 500 copies of A43 sold before Christmas of that year. By 28 August 1973 less than 1,000 copies had sold. Beset by financial problems, New Press was acquired by General Publishing (Jack Stoddart Sr.) in 1974. The imprint of New Press continued for a year or two thereafter before being subsumed within the General Publishing catalogue. On 6 May 1982, Brian Sims of General Publishing informed Davies that since A43

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had been out of print for some time, the rights to A43 had reverted to Davies. Act 2 (pp. 58-65 of A43) of “Hunting Stuart” has been reprinted in Andrew Parkin, ed., Stage One: A Canadian Scenebook (Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1973), pp. 145-51. See also A84. Information on the publishing history of A43 is based on the following sources: files 5 and 19, box 103, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; file 7, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; and files 15-21, vol. 4 and files 1-6, vol. 5 (typescripts), file 20, vol. 43, files 41 and 43-5, vol. 45, file 9, vol. 47, and files 10, 16, 29, and 33, vol. 79, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: davis (in jacket); ohm (no jacket); okq ( in jacket); otmc (in jacket).

A44  the manticore 1972 A44a  first Canadian edition: THE | MANTICORE | A Novel by | Robertson Davies | MACMILLAN OF CANADA | Toronto 1-9 16. 1-8, 1-280 pp. (144 leaves). 214 × 142 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 list of twenty other books by Davies under the categories of fiction, plays, and criticism; p. 3 title; p. 4 © Robertson Davies 1972 | [six lines concerning copyright] | ISBN 0-7705-0891-X | Printed in Canada | The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited | 70 Bond Street, Toronto; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; p. 7 fly title; p. 8 blank; pp. 1-280 text. text: I Why I Went to Zürich; II David Against the Trolls; III My Sorgenfrei Diary. binding and dust jacket: Bound in orange cloth with the following stamped in gilt down the spine: davies The [next word under the previous word] Manticore macmillan. Black endpapers. The front and spine panels of the jacket are black with lettering in orange, gold and white. On the front panel is a colour illustration of a woman holding a chain attached to a manticore. The back panel, which is white, has excerpts from reviews (the Montreal Star, etc.) of Fifth Business. The flaps are also white. The front flap has three paragraphs that summarize the plot of the book. On the back flap are: a photo of Davies by Paterson; a paragraph of biographical information about Davies; the name and address of the publisher; and the ISBN. There is also a second state of the jacket issued for the Book-of-the-Month Club with 7330 on the lower corner of the back panel. notes: A44, the second book of the Deptford trilogy, is concerned with the question of Percy Boyd

Staunton’s death. The question haunts his son David who undergoes a course of Jungian therapy in Switzerland. On 15 June 1970, six months after he had submitted the manuscript of A38 to his publishers, Davies was already working on A44. On hearing that the narrative of A44 was linked to that of A38, Macmillan of Canada urged Davies to finish his new book by the end of 1971 in anticipation of continued heightened interest from his reading public. Davies started the actual writing of the novel on 5 May 1971, completed a draft of the first section on 11 June 1971, finished the first draft on 28 August 1971, and then sent the final draft entitled “Son and Stranger” to Josephine Rogers, his agent at Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., before the end of February 1972. Macmillan of Canada arranged for at least two readers’ reports. One report, prepared on 11 March 1972 possibly by Ramsay Derry, stated: “Once again Robertson Davies has written a novel of extraordinary richness — a full, complex, and beautifully crafted plot, a wide range of brilliantly depicted characters, a series of vivid and powerful dramatic scenes.” The reader criticized the book for the names of the characters, the large amounts of money tossed around, and the motives of some characters. A second report, prepared by Sarah Reid, agreed that A44a was “superbly written.” Reid also criticized the names of the characters, and she thought that the last chapter was “beginning to drag slightly.” Both John Gray and Hugh Kane were enthusiastic about A44a. “It is such a good book, of a kind that too seldom lightens our portals,” Gray told Davies on 13 March 1972. Kane’s assessment was that A44a was “truly a great achievement,” even surpassing its predecessor in terms of craftsmanship and storytelling. Macmillan of Canada and the Viking Press had conflicting views regarding the suitability of Davies’s title. When Corlies M. Smith of the Viking Press proposed The Manticore as an alternative title, Donald Sutherland, the Director of Macmillan’s Trade Division, opposed it on the grounds that Fifth Business was also an obscure title and sales had been impeded as a result. “Far too many reviewers devoted far too much of their space to explanations of the title. We can see them doing the same with THE MANTICORE,” he told Smith on 4 April 1972. Macmillan of Canada voted to retain Davies’s original title. In the end Smith’s point of view prevailed when he commissioned an innovative jacket design, which, although not wholly satisfying in its initial design, was nonetheless visually imaginative. Davies replied to all of Derry’s queries on 7 April 1972. Signed copies of the contract of A44a were re-



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turned to Rogers on 25 April 1972: an advance royalty of $2,500 ($1,500 on signing), 10% on the first 3,000 copies sold, 12½% on next 7,500 copies, and 15% after 10,500 copies sold. A44a was chosen on 2 June 1972 by Book-of-the-Month Club as a Special Fall Selection (see “Club Picks Canadian Novel as Special Fall Selection,” Toronto Star, 5 July 1972, p. 90). The Club paid an advance of $5,000 against a 10% royalty for the Canadian market (split equally between Macmillan of Canada and Davies) on 20 June. The Club ordered 15,000 copies on 25 August 1972. Macmillan of Canada had intended to use repros from Viking’s edition as the basis of its own issue to be ready for the Canadian market on 1 October 1972. But Wolff’s, Viking’s typesetter, closed their plant for vacation until 1 August. To meet Macmillan of Canada’s deadline repros would have had to be dispatched from New York no later than 18 August, but the Viking Press was unable to start converting galleys to pages on 1 August to have repros ready by 18 August. The Viking Press sent corrected galleys to Macmillan of Canada in early July 1972. Reading the galleys proved to be an odd experience, Davies told his good friend Gordon Roper on 10 July 1972: “For one thing, the editor at Viking had tidied up the grammar in a rather schoolmarmish way; I OK’d most of the corrections, but some of them I could not permit; people talking under stress do not make such classy use of the subjunctive as this editor required. But I was puzzled; is the US the last stronghold of Rigorous Grammar? I have spent thirty years trying to learn not to write like a pedant, and this editor wants to reverse it all.” Kane hoped that the T.H. Best Printing Co. Ltd. in Toronto would be able to photograph 70% of Viking’s galleys, thus avoiding the expense of complete typesetting. Macmillan of Canada paid $75 for a duplicate film of A44b’s jacket and $100 toward the artist’s design. The revised jacket was done for Macmillan of Canada on 3 August 1972. The total print run of A44a was approximately 20,000. This included an order by Sutherland on 1 September 1972 of 5,000 copies (“Text — Litho in single colour black throughout on 60lb. Hi Bulk Publishers Choice. Jackets — Litho in four colours process and cellucoat on 80 lb. No. I Coated Enamel”). The cost of Sutherland’s order was $7,317.34 (typesetting $3,114.84, printing and binding $4,202.50, $1.4635 per copy). The target date of delivery was 9 October (5,200 copies delivered). When the Book-of-the-Month Club reduced its order from 20,000 to 15,000 copies, the per unit cost rose to $1.511. A day after publication on 18 October 1972, there were advance orders of 4,100 copies and 1,100 copies in stock. In addition to selling 5,200 copies of

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A44a, Macmillan of Canada apparently ordered 1,000 copies of A44b from Viking on 27 October 1972. Rogers reported on 1 December 1972 that Macmillan of Canada had ordered 2,500 copies from the Viking Press since its own stock was exhausted at that time. Approximately one week prior to the distribution of review copies, Macmillan of Canada arranged for the release of a letter to the media in which Davies explained the significance of the Jungian aspects of his new novel. In promoting A44a, Davies spoke at several venues in Ontario and at Vancouver. He also gave interviews for the Pierre Berton Show (taped 11 October and broadcast on 20 October), for Book Beat on 19 October, and for CBC-TV Weekday along with a Jungian specialist on 3 November 1972. At the book launch on 17 October 1972 at Mackenzie House in Toronto with sixty-five guests in attendance, Macmillan of Canada gave out gingerbread bears (“Biber” bears), similar to those mentioned in the novel, and presented small stones rubber-stamped with the title and Davies’s signature. According to Patrick Scott (“Public Is Behind Robertson Davies Even If the Literary Mafia Is Not,” Toronto Star, 3 February 1973, p. 81), Canadian bookstores had sold 6,500 copies of The Manticore. The book was on the Toronto Star’s best-seller list for thirteen consecutive weeks. A44a also won the Governor General’s Award for fiction. On 19 September 1973, the Book-of-the-Month Club offered Macmillan of Canada 3,900 copies of unsold stock at 88¢ a copy. Initially, Macmillan hoped to sell these to the trade at $1.53 per copy (profit of 50¢ per copy, 15¢ royalty to Davies per copy). Macmillan of Canada purchased 3,720 copies from the Book-of-the-Month Club on 23 November 1973 and then sold them to Classic Books at $1.20 per copy. Robert Wilkie, Macmillan of Canada’s VP and General Manager, informed Davies on 30 May 1980 that annual sales of A44a had diminished to a point where it was necessary to allow the book to go out of print. Publication was discontinued after 1 September 1980, and A44a was remaindered shortly after 1 December 1980. Information on the publishing history of A44a is based on: file 46, box 219, and file 9, box 247, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; files 36 and 41, vol. 49, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm (in jacket); okq (two copies in jacket); otmc (in jacket); pend (three copies in jacket, one being the Book-of-the-Month Club jacket). A44b  first American edition: THE | MANTICORE | [ornament] | Robertson Davies | THE VIKING PRESS | New York

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1-1016. 1-11, 4-74, 75, 76-264, 265, 266-310, 1-2 pp. (160 leaves). 210 × 136 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 list of five other books by Davies (novels and criticism); p. 4 blank; p. 5 title; p. 6 Copyright © 1972 by Robertson Davies | All rights reserved | Published in 1972 by The Viking Press, Inc. | 625 Madison Avenue, New York N.Y. 10022 | SBN 670-45313-7 | Library of Congress catalog card number: 72-81120 | Printed in U.S.A. by H. Wolff Book Mfg. Co.; p. 7 table of contents; p. 8 blank; p. 9 fly title; p. 10 blank; pp. 11, 4-310 text; pp. 1-2 blank. text: Identical to A44a. binding and dust jacket: Bound in light-green paper boards, quarter-bound with dark-brown cloth, with the following stamped down the spine: [in light green] ROBERTSON DAVIES [ornament] VIKING | [under the previous line in black] THE MANTICORE. Mustard endpapers, top edge stained light green. The dust jackets of A44a and A44b are similar. The front panels are identical. VIKING replaces MACMILLAN on the spine panel. The back panel has a black background with excerpts from reviews (L.J. Davies, Book World, etc.) of Fifth Business along with the publisher’s name and address and the SBN. The flaps are white. On the front flap are: the price ($7.95); three paragraphs about the book; a definition of manticore; the name of the jacket designer (Hal Siegel); and 1172. The back flap has a photo of Davies by Paterson, a paragraph about him, and the publisher’s name and address. Viking also issued an advance reading copy in darkbrown stiff paper (not the same as bound unrevised proofs of the book which are also extant). Printed in white, the advance reading copy was undoubtedly intended as a marketing device. The back cover has quotations in praise of Fifth Business, reference to the book’s alternate selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club, the price, date of publication, and SBN. notes: On 17 February 1972, Davies informed Corlies M. Smith of the Viking Press that he would be sending the manuscript of A44b by the end of the month. Davies regarded A44b as a part of the story of Fifth Business but not a sequel to it. “it bears the same sort of relation to the first book that the parts of Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet bear to one another,” he told Smith. Davies had misgivings about the Jungian aspects of his new novel. “If I have succeeded it is a book of considerable depth but if I have failed it is very probably the damnedest mess you have ever had on your desk.” Both Smith and Viking’s Publicity Director, Richard

Barber, were delighted with A44b. Smith sent Davies a list of queries on 29 March 1972, and he advised him to dispense with the author’s note, which apologized to the reader for the book’s Jungian analysis. When Smith suggested The Manticore as the title for A44b, Davies was initially worried that people would not know what a manticore is. While Hugh Kane and others at Macmillan of Canada regarded Smith’s title as obscure to the point of hindering potential sales,   Davies thought that Smith’s title would provoke curiosity in the reading public. “While I was writing the book I myself had the dream of the maiden and the manticore and it very strongly influenced the whole final section of the writing,” he told Smith. “I therefore feel that it is a lucky and organic title and I am astonished that I did not think of it.” Davies replied to Smith’s queries on 7 April 1972. Viking’s contract, dated 30 March 1972 (copy at pend), was signed and sent to Davies on 5 May 1972: an advance royalty of $7,500, 10% royalty on the first 5,000 copies sold, and 15% thereafter. Davies liked Viking’s jacket design, but on 1 May he requested better printing and a svelte illustration of the manticore. Elisabeth Sifton, who had taken over Smith’s editorial responsibilities at the Viking Press, told Josephine Rogers on 10 July 1972 that “The beast now has sexual organs, the maiden is breastier, and her feet less blah.” Typesetting of A44b began on 12 June 1972, and galley proofs were sent to Davies on 21 July 1972. Proof copies were available by 13 September 1972. On 24 October 1972, Davies went to Chicago to promote A44b. He was interviewed by Studs Terkel on radio and Bob Cromie on TV. A44b was published on 20 November 1972. Number of copies printed not known. There was a reprint in November and December of that year. By 22 February 1973, 12,700 copies had sold, and the book was an Alternate Selection in the April 1973 issue of the Book of the Month Club News. According to Man of Myth (p. 502), the Viking Press sold 18,907 copies of A44b. On 16 February 1988, Viking Penguin Inc. paid Davies an advance of $200,000 for the continuing rights to nine of his books; A44 was one of the books under this agreement (copy at pend). Information on the publishing history of A44b is based on the following sources: file 9, box 247 Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; files 43-5, vol. 45, and file 24, vol. 52, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: davis (two copies in jacket; two copies of advance reading copy); okq (two copies in jacket); otmc (in jacket); pend (thirty copies).



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A44b.1  first English issue (1973): THE | MANTICORE | [ornament] | Robertson Davies | MACMILLAN A44b.1 is from the same setting of type as A44b. There is a minor difference with respect to the placement of preliminary leaves. The leaves of A44b.1 measure 196 × 123 mm. The copyright page (p. 4) of A44b.1 reads as follows: © Robertson Davies 1973 | [three lines about copyright] | SBN 333 14696 4 | First published in the | USA in 1972 by The | Viking Press Inc. | First published 1973 by | MACMILLAN LONDON LIMITED | London and Basingstoke | Associated companies in New York Toronto | Dublin Melbourne Johannesburg and Madras | Printed in Great Britain by | A. WHEATON & CO. | Exeter. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in purple paper boards with the following stamped in silver on the spine: [first two lines down the spine] THE MANTICORE | [below the previous line] ROBERTSON DAVIES | MACMILLAN. Grey endpapers. The front, spine, and back panels of the jacket feature an illustration in blue, pink, white, and black of a series of connected doors or compartments. Twenty-nine doors are open, revealing the manticore. One open door shows the face of a man. The flaps are white. On the front flap are two paragraphs about the book, another paragraph about the book’s relationship with Fifth Business, the SBN, and price (£2.95 net). The back flap has a paragraph about Davies and another explaining what a manticore is. notes: The typescript of A44b.1 was sent to Macmillan (London) on 28 February 1972. Alan Maclean, the editor at Macmillan (London), remarked on 10 April 1972 that A44b.1 was “a marvelous book and every bit as good as FIFTH BUSINESS.” That sentiment was echoed by James Wright who promised that Macmillan (London) would put even greater effort into publicizing A44b.1 than the promotion undertaken for A24b.1. Maclean told Donald Sutherland of Macmillan of Canada on 10 April 1972: “We shall probably go for a 3,000 printing ourselves, and we can either do this by offsetting the Viking edition, or even by taking sheets off you — if you are manufacturing separate from Viking. We certainly don’t want three separate manufacturers ... We are not disposed to risk Autumn publication here, and we want to try to get the book a fair crack in January.” On 12 April 1972, Davies told Michael Horniman, his British agent at A.P. Watt & Son, that in view of A38b.1’s failure, it was unrealistic to expect better terms for A44b.1. Maclean disliked Davies’s original title, and he was not keen at all on The Manticore. “They will expect me to come

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up with a new title and I will produce several and they will probably pout and flounce about them all,” Davies complained to Horniman. “Nothing is so difficult as to find a title once the original has been rejected. Personally I like The Manticore and I do not think people care a damn whether they know what it is or not; if, as Viking proposes, there is a stunning picture of a manticore on the cover they will know what it is at a glance.” Exasperated by the disagreement among his publishers, Davies stated that if he really had his choice about the title of A44b.1, he would call it A Recounting of the Psychological Adventures of Edward David Staunton During His Stay in Zurich, with Some Light Upon His Past, His Relatives and His Friends, and an Assurance for His Future, Faithfully Recorded by Robertson Davies. Maclean suggested “Room for Consultation” and “The Dream Prompter” as possible titles. Davies rejected both, particularly the former. “It grabs me coldly and painfully,” he told Josephine Rogers on 24 April 1972. Rogers sent the contract of A44b.1 to Davies on 1 May 1972. According to the contract at pend, Davies received an advance of £450 with a royalty of 10% on the first 3,000 copies sold, 12½% on the next 2,000 copies to 5,000 copies, and 15% thereafter. Davies went to London at the beginning of June, and during his visit he was able to convince Maclean and his colleagues that The Manticore was a fitting title for A44b.1. Wright sent a copy of A44b.1 to Davies on 26 January 1973. A44b.1 was published on 22 February 1973. “The sales are coming along slowly, but nothing approaching North America, I’m afraid,” Wright told Davies on 2 May 1973. According to Man of Myth (p. 502), 2,869 copies of A44b.1 sold. The book was remaindered at the beginning of November 1978 for 22p apiece. Information on the publishing history of A44b.1 is based on the following material in the Davies fonds, lac: file 21, vol. 43, file 44, vol. 45, files 1 and 42, vol. 50, and file 8, vol. 46. copies examined: otmc (in jacket); pend (twelve copies in jacket). A44b.2  American Penguin issue (1976): THE | MANTICORE | [rule] | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS A44b.2 was photographically reproduced from A44b. The leaves measure 179 × 109 mm. Pagination is the same as A44b. The first page of A44b.2 has the name of the publisher, the book’s title, and a paragraph about Davies. The copyright page reads: [five lines of addresses of Penguin Books in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and

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New Zealand] | First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1972 | Published in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited 1972 | Published in Penguin Books 1976 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1972 | All rights reserved | [rule; ten lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0 14 00.4388 8; rule] | Printed in the United States of America by | Offset Paperback Mfrs., Inc., Dallas, Pennsylvania | Set in Linotype Garamond No. 3 | [eight lines about copyright]. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a black background and features: the author’s name in yellow; the title in white; the publisher’s device in orange, white and black; a quotation in yellow from Peter Prescott, Newsweek; and an illustration of a manticore with a green tail. The spine is orange with the author’s name, title, ISBN, and publisher’s device. The back cover with a white background has: the publisher’s device; a definition of manticore; a paragraph about the book; an excerpt from a review in Library Journal; the price ($1.95); the name of the cover designer (Neil Stuart); and the ISBN. The covers were redesigned in the 1980s with an illustration of a manticore in a suit by Bascove. notes: According to Moira Whalon’s notes (Whalon fonds, lac), A44b.2 was published in October 1976. 1,251,654 copies sold by 30 June 1992 (royalty reports at pend). The second reprint of 1987 records annual reprints and two reprints in 1982 and 1984. Copies continued to sell after this date. 410 copies sold, for example, in the period ending 30 April 2000. copies examined: davis (second reprint 1987); otmc (first printing); oh (1987 printing with ISBN 0 14 01.67935, cover design by Melissa Jacoby, and a colour illustration by Bascove of a manticore wearing a suit); pend (nine copies). A44b.3  second English issue (1979): THE MANTICORE | Robertson Davies | [within two circles] ê| [attached to the bottom of the circles within a rounded rectangle] STAR | A STAR BOOK | published by | the Paperback Division of | W. H. ALLEN & Co. Ltd A44b.3, which measures 179 × 110 mm., is a photographic reprint of A44b. There are two unnumbered leaves after the text listing works of general fiction and information about Wyndham Books (being the last page of the book). The copyright page (p. 4) of A44b.3 is as follows: A Star Book | Published in 1979 | by the Paperback Division of | W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd |

A Howard and Wyndham Company | 44 Hill St,   London W1X 8LB | First published in Great Britain   by | Macmillan London Ltd, 1973 | Copyright ©   Robertson Davies 1973 | Printed in Great Britain by | Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd, | ISBN 0 352 39528 1 | [seven lines about copyright]. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front and back covers have a red, yellow, and blue zig-zag pattern. On the front cover is a colour illustration of a skeleton holding a scythe. Above the illustration are a quotation from the New Republic, the name of the author and the title of the book, all in white. On the back cover against a grey rectangular background are: three paragraphs about the book, quotations from the New York Times and Anthony Burgess, the Wyndham publisher’s device (a block W within a square), the ISBN, and the recommended prices (£1.25 UK, $4.50 Australia, £M1.30 Malta, and $3.90 New Zealand). The spine is blue with white lettering with Star Book’s publisher’s device at the top of the spine. notes: See the notes to A38b.3 for the contract between Davies and Star Books (the paperback side of W.H. Allen) for the paperback publication in the United Kingdom of the Deptford trilogy. The contract was sent to Davies on 31 August 1976: £750 for each title, 7½% royalty on UK sales, 6% on export sales. Publication of A44b.3 occurred on 29 March 1979. Davies read a favourable review of the trilogy in the New Statesman (issue of 4 April 1980) on 15 April 1980. Information on the publishing history of A44b.3 is based on the following material in the Davies fonds, lac: file 21, vol. 43, and files 3, 7, and 8, vol. 46. copies examined: pend (five copies). A44c  second American edition (1974): THE | MANTICORE | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: cb in bold, joined and outlined] | CURTIS BOOKS | NEW YORK, N.Y. 1-4, 5-320 pp. (160 leaves). 175 × 104 mm. contents: p. 1 definition of manticore with excerpts from reviews in the Library Journal, the New York Times, and the Boston Herald Traveler; p. 2 Other Curtis Editions by Robertson Davies | Leaven of Malice; p. 3 title; p. 4 Copyright © 1972 by Robertson Davies | Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 72-81120 | Published by arrangement with The Viking Press, Inc. and | The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited. First published | in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited. | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | All rights reserved; pp. 5-320 text. The last line on p. 320 is: 11-73.



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text: Identical to A44a. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers in purple, all edges stained red. The front cover has lettering in white and yellow and a colour illustration of a body clothed in a sports jacket with a man-lion’s face, all at an angle. The first three lines on the front cover are as follows: [first two lines in yellow] #1 | INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | [in white, the first two letters joined] cb curtis books 01065 $1.25. The front cover also has a quotation from the Boston Globe, the title in yellow capitals, and Davies’s name and his authorship of Fifth Business. The spine with white lettering has the publisher’s device, title, author’s name, and the number 502-01065-125. The first three lines on the back cover are yellow: A HAUNTING HUMAN | LABYRINTH OF | DECEPTION AND DESIRE. The remaining lines, which are in white, are rules and quotations from the Los Angeles Times and the National Observer, with the last two lines: Winner of the Governor General’s Award in Canada | Litho. in U. S. A. notes: On 22 December 1972, Curtis Books, a mass market publisher owned by Columbia Broadcasting Systems (CBS), arranged through the Viking Press for a paperback edition of A44 with a guaranteed payment of $10,000 ($4,500 for the Macmillan Company of Canada, $5,500 for Viking), half to be paid on signing, and with a royalty of 10% on all copies sold. The contract is dated 5 February 1973. A clause in the Curtis contract gave Macmillan of Canada the right to publish a quality paperback (to be listed at more than $2.50) after a period of three years after signing the contract. Allan Lang, the Director of Subsidiary Rights for the Viking Press, sent half of the advance ($2,200, it should have been $2,250) to Macmillan of Canada (half for Davies, less 10% to his agent) on 3 April 1973. The rest of the advance ($2,300) was received by the Macmillan Company on 26 February 1974. According to Moira Whalon’s notes (Whalon fonds, lac), A44c was published on 9 January 1974. There was a reprinting of 10,000 copies (10% royalty) of the Curtis edition for the Canadian market on 11 July 1975, distributed by ICD wholesaler Bardon. At that time, Popular Library in New York was in litigation with CBS for control of Curtis stocks and rights. Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc. told the Popular Library on 14 August 1975 that Curtis Books could not assign the reprint contract to the Popular Library. Number of copies printed of A44c not known, but according to Man of Myth (p. 502), Curtis Books sold 50,000 copies of A44c in Canada. Information on the publishing history of A44c has been obtained from files 46 and 49, box 219, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm.

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copies examined: ohm (white border at the top across the covers); otmc; pend (six copies). A44d second Canadian edition: (1976): Robertson Davies | THE MANTICORE | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS 1-6, 7-69, 70, 71-101, 102, 103-110, 111, 112-280, 1-8 pp. (144 leaves). 175 × 106 mm. contents: p. 1 name of publisher, title, and paragraph about Davies; p. 2 list of seven other books by Davies under the categories of novels, criticism, and essays; p. 3 title; p. 4 [five lines of addresses of Penguin Books in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | — | First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1972 | Published in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited 1972 | Published in Penguin Books 1976 | — | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1972 | All rights reserved | — | [ten lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0 14 00.4388 8] | — | Manufactured in Canada by | Webcom Limited | [nine lines about copyright]; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; pp. 7-280, 1 text; p. 2 blank; p. 3 information about Penguins, Pelicans, and Penguinews; p. 4 blank; pp. 5-8 advertisements for Davies’s Fifth Business, World of Wonders, and One Half of Robertson Davies and Timothy Findley’s The Wars. text: Identical to A44a. binding: The bindings of A44d and A44b.2 are almost the same. The back cover of A44d has a black background. The price is $2.95. In reprints the covers were re-designed by Capon & Austin Associated Ltd. and then by Bascove. notes: Although Viking Press arranged for the publication of A44 in paperback (see A44b.2), Macmillan of Canada controlled the subsidiary rights to the Deptford trilogy. On 1 June 1976, Bella Plomer, who handled Macmillan’s subsidiary rights, informed the New American Library (which increased its bid several times to at least $45,000) and Bantam Books (which offered an advance of $35,000 for the Canadian rights, plus $10,000 advance for the American rights, and another $5,000 advance for the British rights, all with a royalty of 10%) that “Davies is unshakeable in his wish to be published in paperback by Penguin.” Penguin’s ability to offer publication in Britain, the Commonwealth, and North America had considerable weight with Davies. Macmillan of Canada’s contract with Penguin Books Canada Limited for the Deptford

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trilogy is dated 30 June 1976. Penguin Books Canada paid an advance royalty of $45,000 to publish the trilogy in paperback with a royalty of 10% on all copies sold. This was a licence for five years. On 19 August 1976, Peter J. Waldock of Penguin Books Canada informed Davies that all three books of the Deptford trilogy were on schedule for publication and that he was waiting to receive the revised proofs of the covers for the three books. “Sheets and covers for THE MANTICORE are due for delivery at the binders in Winnipeg by the end of September so our October publication date in Canada still holds,” he told Davies. A44d was published on 21 October 1976 (six copies were sent by Penguin Books Canada to Macmillan of Canada on that date). When Davies received his author copies via Macmillan of Canada, he remarked on 3 November 1976 that the paperback edition “is a very handsome job, which relieves me at last of the ignominy of the earlier edition which was quite frightful.” Copies of A44d sold individually, and by October 1977 Waldock had arranged for its sale as a gift set with the two other books of the trilogy. 4,211 copies of the gift sets sold at $5.95 ($2,505.55 royalty) by the end of that year. 9,385 copies of A44d sold up to 31 December 1976, and by 31 December 1977, 22,542 copies had sold. Penguin Books Canada sold slightly more than 50,000 copies of A44d by the end of 1980 (see Man of Myth, p. 730, note 559). At the end of 1977, Davies had an unearned advance of $31,280.18 for the Deptford Trilogy. By the end of 30 June 1988, 78,311 copies had sold. The cover of A44d was re-designed by Bascove in February 1989 (price $6.95, copy of cover sent to the Colbert Agency on 28 February 1989). 94,836 copies sold in Canada up to the end of June 1991. 181,126 copies sold in the United States. Information on the publishing history of A44d is based on the following material: royalty reports at pend; file 49, box 219, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; files 29 and 38, vol. 46 and files 32 and 42, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac; files 11-12, vol. 28 and file 31, vol. 108, Colbert Agency fonds, lac. copies examined: davis (first printing, 1980 reprint and reprint circa 1995); otmc (1979 printing; 1980 printing with cover design by Capon & Austin Associates Ltd.). A44e  third Canadian edition (1996): THE | Manticore | [leafy ornament] | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books 1-7, 2-63, 64-65, 66-231, 232-233, 234-273, 1-9 pp. (144 leaves). 201 × 131 mm.

contents: p. 1 publisher’s name, title, two paragraphs about Davies; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [ten lines of addresses of Penguin Books in Canada, England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by | The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1972 | First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press, 1972 | Published in Penguin Books, 1976 | Published in this edition, 1996 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1972 | All rights reserved | [publisher’s note in four lines stating that the book is a work of fiction and that any resemblance to actual people, events, or locales is coincidental] | Manufactured in Canada | [seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14-026050-1; six lines about copyright; one line with Penguin Canada’s web address]; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; pp. 7, 2-273 text (pp. 64 and 232 blank); pp. 1-9 blank. text: Identical to A44a. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a purple background with an illustration by Sandra Dionisi of a manticore, a noose, half of a clock, scales of justice, clouds, and a heart; the name of the trilogy in white is at the bottom of the front cover within a rounded blue rectangle. The spine is black and purple and also has a very small illustration of a manticore. The back cover in white has quotations from Peter Prescott, Newsweek, and the Library Journal, a definition of a manticore, a paragraph about the book, and the names of the cover illustrator and cover designer (Spencer Francey Peters); also on the back cover within a rectangle are the publisher’s device, the ISBN, bar code, and price ($12.99). Also issued in a box with the two other volumes of the Deptford   trilogy. notes: For an advance of $200,000, Penguin Books Canada Limited negotiated a licence with Macmillan of Canada on 13 May 1988 for a period of ten years to publish A44e along with eight other works by Davies (contract in file 12, vol. 28, Colbert Agency fonds, lac). For details, see A14d, notes. copies examined: davis (in box); omamc; pend (six copies). A44f  fourth Canadian edition (2005): ROBERTSON DAVIES | The Manticore | With an Introduction by M.G. Vassanji | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN | CANADA



A44α An Evening with Ben Jonson [program poster. 1972]

i-iv, v, vi, vii-xiv, 1-2, 3-255, 1-3 pp. (136 leaves). 197 × 130 mm. contents: p. i name of publisher, title, and three paragraphs about Davies; p. ii list of sixteen other books by Davies (novels, short fiction, criticism, and essays); p. iii title; p. iv PENGUIN CANADA | Published by the Penguin Group | [fourteen lines of addresses of Penguin branches in Canada, the United States, England, Ireland, Australia, India, New Zealand, and South Africa] | First published in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1972 | First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press, 1972 | Published in Penguin Canada paperback by Penguin Group (Canada), | a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc,1976, 1996 | Published in this edition, 2005 | (WEB) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1972 | Introduction copyright © M.G. Vassanji, 2005 | [five lines about copyright; three lines in italics that the work is one of fiction with no intention by the author for attribution to anything real] | Manufactured in Canada | ISBN 0-14-3051393 | Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication data available upon request. | [five lines forbidding the re-sale and circulation of the book outside of the United States; one line about Penguin Group (Canada)’s website]; p. v table of contents; p. vi blank; pp. vii-xiv introduction by Vassanji; p. 1 fly title; p. 2 blank; pp. 3-255 text; pp. 1-3 blank.

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notes: According to the Penguin Canada website, A44f was published on 26 June 2005. Number of copies printed not known. Vassanji’s introduction is reprinted in the other volumes of the Deptford trilogy in the Penguin Modern Classics series (see A38g and A49d). copies examined: pend.

A44α  an evening with ben jonson [program poster 1972] [cover title] On Friday, October 27 | in Seeley Hall, Trinity College | an Entertainment | is offered to The Ben Jonson Conference, entitled | [swelled, ornamental rule] | AN EVENING WITH BEN JONSON | [swelled, ornamental rule] | [4 lines indicating the sources of various readings and texts from Jonson’s works, his conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden, and comments by critics] | [ornamental rule] | READERS | [six lines listing readers, from Primus to Sextus, Brenda Davies appearing as Sextus; six lines in reference to the Massey College Singers under the direction of Gordon Wry and the music and lyrics performed by them relating to Jonson; swelled, ornamental rule] | The distinguished audience is entreated | not to restrain its expression of delight | [swelled, ornamental rule] | The entertainment devised and directed by Robertson Davies

text: Identical to A44a.

Broadside. Dimensions and paper stock not known. Verso apparently blank.

binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper glossy covers. On the front cover is a colour photo of a man’s face. Below the photo against a solid white rectangle are the series title (MODERN CLASSICS) and the publisher’s device; the author’s name and the title are at the bottom of the front cover against a solid grey rectangle. The spine is grey with the author’s name, title, publisher’s device, and series title. The back cover is mainly grey with the bottom section white. It has: two small photos from the front covers of other Deptford novels in the Penguin Modern Classics series; a quotation from Vassanji’s introduction; two paragraphs about the book; a quotation from Anthony Burgess; the publisher’s device; the series title; the ISBN and bar code; the price ($20, £8.99); two URLs; and the names of the designer of the front cover (Soapbox Design Communications Inc.), the photographer (Stra Production/Zefa), and the art director (Mary Opper). The quotation from Vassanji’s introduction reads: “The Manticore | is a charming | journey of a | middle-aged | lawyer into his | own psyche.”

notes: This poster, written by Davies, is an advertisement for an entertainment of readings and music on the occasion of a conference held at the University of Toronto on Ben Jonson (1572-1637), the Renaissance actor, playwright, and poet. Davies told Gordon Roper, his friend and colleague, on 16 August 1972: “All last week I was working like a Trojan, and a nailer, and a dog, and a black, and all those traditional toilers, to complete the script of the Ben Jonson program I am preparing for the conference next October 25.” Professor William Blissett, one of the conference’s chief organizers, had asked Davies to devise an entertainment for the conference delegates after the conference banquet. “I think it might be quite a good show if we can pull it out effectively,” Davies hoped. He informed Roper that he had ambivalent feelings about Jonson. He was “put off by the dirty brutality of so much of his stuff, and by his coarse attitude toward women.” He was going to include some of his views in the program, “to pepper it up. It will be a theatrically effective thing, not too much sicklied o’er with scholarship.” Unfortunately, Davies’s entertainment

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received a lukewarm reception from the attendees at the banquet. “The Jonsonians did not arrive until 9:55,” he informed Robert Finch soon after the performance. Many of the conference participants had consumed too much liquor. “They were a poor audience. I am driven to the sad conclusion that many professors of Eng. Lit. do not care the bounce of a cracker for poetry.” (See pp. 284 and 302 of A93 for Davies’s letters). No copy of the original poster is known to be extant. A copy in reduced form in black and white is reproduced in William Blissett, Julian Patrick, and R.W. Van Fossen, eds., A Celebration of Ben Jonson: Papers Presented at the University of Toronto in October 1972 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973), p. xii. In his introduction Blissett states: “The best way to thank Professor Davies and his troupe, or tribe, is to reproduce the programme of their ingenious, easy, and elegant ‘Evening with Ben Jonson’.” copies examined: no copies found (ohm for a copy of the book).

A45  [gaudy night broadside] 1972 [cover title] The Master and Fellows | of Massey College | invite you to join with them in | celebration of the coming of | CHRISTMAS | at a | GAUDY NIGHT | in the College Hall | on Sunday, December 17 at 9 p.m. | [sixteen lines of text] | Massey College Press, 1972 Broadside, medium-weight red paper stock. 320 × 240 mm. Blank verso. Deckle edge at the bottom. notes: A45 is the eighth broadside that Davies prepared to invite the Fellows, Senior Residents, and their guests to a Gaudy Night at Massey College. See A20 for further information about these broadsides. The archives of the Massey College Press at otmc have Davies’s revised typescript and two proofs of A45 (one dated 10 November 1972). 213 copies were apparently printed by Jan Sylupid, Patricia Kennedy (secretary and assistant to the Massey Librarian), and Douglas Lochhead (the Librarian). At the 1972 Gaudy Night, the Massey College Choir performed pieces by Benjamin Britten, T.S. Eliot, Peter Warlock, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Robert Finch read a poem commemorating the birth of John Donne, and Davies read the tenth college ghost story (“The Cat That Went to Trinity”). copies examined: otmc (six copies).

A46  [gaudy night broadside] 1973 [broadside folded twice, forming six panels of an accordion leaflet; on the first panel is an illustration of an antique face of a bearded man with a musical pipe, a bell, leaves, and other small ornaments] | [on the second panel:] On Sunday, December 16th | at nine p.m. Massey College will | celebrate the coming | of Christmas with a Gaudy | Night, & we hope that you | will be able to join us for | this happy occasion. | [twenty-one lines on three separate panels] | [on last panel] Printed at the Massey College Press 1973 Medium-weight forest green paper stock. 215 × 98 mm. folded. Deckle edges. notes: A46 is the ninth broadside written by Davies and issued by the Massey College Press as an invitation to the College’s Christmas Gaudy Night. It was sent out to Fellows, Senior Residents, and their guests. Davies’s typescript with his revisions can be found in the archives of the Press at otmc. See also file 1, vol. 11, Davies fonds, lac, and A20 for further information about the Gaudy Nights. At the 1973 Gaudy Night, the Massey College Singers performed “seasonable music” (conducted by Gordon Wry and accompanied by Giles Bryant). Robert Finch read “A Poem on the Occasion of the 1000th Year of Our Monarchy.” Davies read the eleventh college ghost story (“The Ugly Spectre of Sexism”). Number of copies printed not known but probably 200 copies or slightly more. copies examined: otmc (eight copies; two copies, possibly proof copies, with the illustration pasted onto the front panel).

A47  [gaudy night broadside] 1974 [cover title; engraving, signed by George Cruikshank, of merry making in a nineteenth-century tavern] | The Master and Fellows of Massey College | invite you to a | GAUDY NIGHT | in celebration of Christmas at 8:30 pm, | Monday December 16 | [eighteen lines of text] | typ comp NA in aed Coll Mass 74 Broadside. White, smooth, thick-paper stock. 316 × 180 mm. notes: A47 is the tenth broadside written by Davies for the Gaudy Night celebrations at Massey College. See A20 for further information about these broadsides produced for the Fellows, Senior Residents, and their guests at Massey College. The archives of the Massey College Press at otmc have Davies’s typescript,



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revised by him, a proof copy, and another copy on white stock in a smaller size. At the 1974 Gaudy Night the Massey College Singers, under the direction of Gordon Wry, performed “No Tongue Can Tally” (libretto by Claude Bissell, music by Harry Somers, and directed by Donald Davis) and “The Trope of the Beasts” (composed by Giles Bryant). Davies was slated to read the twelfth college ghost story (“The Pit Whence Ye Are Digged”), but he was ill and his wife Brenda read the story in his place. A47 was hand-set and printed in an edition of 300 copies by N. Adams. copies examined: file 2, vol. 11, Davies fonds, lac; otmc (seven copies).

A48  question time: a play 1975 QUESTION TIME | a play by | ROBERTSON DAVIES | Macmillan of Canada | Toronto i-vi, vii-xiii, xiv, xv, 1-3, 1-70, 1-8 pp. (48 leaves). 214 × 131 mm. contents: p. i half title; p, ii blank; p. iii title; p. iv © ROBERTSON DAVIES 1975 | [six lines about copyright] | ISBN 0-7705-1319-0 | This play was commissioned and first produced by the | Toronto Arts Productions. | [eight lines concerning production of the play and saying that inquiries should be directed to Davies’s agent, Collins-Knowlton-Wing] | Printed in Canada for | The Macmillan Company of Canada | 70 Bond Street,   Toronto M5B 1X3; p. v table of contents; p. vi blank; p. vii-xiii A Preface in the Form of an Examination, dated 3 April 1975; p. xiv blank; p. xv cast of the original production, staged by Toronto Arts Productions on 25 February-22 March 1975; p. 1 blank; p. 2 fly title; p. 3 blank; pp. 1-70, 1 text; pp. 2-8 blank. binding: Paperback, perfect bound. The covers are black. Printed on the front cover is the title in royal blue, other lines in white, and a black-and-white reproduction of a drawing of a Shaman by Marie Day. The reproduction has white and royal blue borders. Printed on the spine: [first two words in white] QUESTION TIME [next two words in royal blue] ROBERTSON DAVIES [remaining words in white] MACMILLAN OF CANADA. The back cover has a black-and-white photograph of Davies, excerpts from newspapers about the play, two paragraphs about the play, attribution to Marie Day for the front cover drawing, and the ISBN; all lines are printed in white. notes: A48 is Davies’s last major play. It concerns Pe-

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ter Macadam, a Canadian prime minister, whose plane crashes in the Arctic. The title derives from the play’s second act when Macadam imagines that it is question time in the House of Commons. The preface consists of answers to questions that Davies received from the public (such as “How do you get your ideas for plays, and how can you tell whether an idea should be treated as the foundation for a play or novel?”). A48 was commissioned by the play’s director Leon Major for the St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto. On 25 November 1973, Davies signed an agreement with Toronto Arts Productions to write an original play that would have twenty performances in the 1974-75 season. In addition to receiving $1,000 on signing the agreement, he was paid another $1,000 on delivery of the finished play and 10% of gross box office receipts (the latter to be applied to the advance payment). Davies wrote the first draft between 1 July and 27 August 1974; he made his final revisions by the end of January 1975. Davies was interviewed by the Globe and Mail’s drama critic, Herbert Whittaker, prior to the dress rehearsals (see F75.2). For the play’s reception, see also Urjo Kareda, “Question Time Is a Grand Disaster,” Toronto Star, 26 February1975, p. E20 and letters in response. Ramsay Derry, literary editor of the Macmillan Company of Canada, expressed interest in the play on 22 May 1973 when he read a newspaper article saying that Davies was writing a new play. The Macmillan Company wanted to print the play to coincide with the play’s première. Davies suggested to Hugh Kane on 17 December 1974 that the Macmillan Company could publish Question Time along with “Leaven of Malice” (in production at the Shaw Festival in 1975) and “Brothers in the Black Art” (a television play done by the CBC in February 1974, see A60). The contract, dated 26 March 1975 (copies at ohm and pend), gave Davies an advance of $1,000, half on signing the agreement and half on 15 January 1976, 10% royalty on the first 3,000 copies sold, 12½% on the next 2,000 copies, and 15% on all copies sold in excess of 5,000 copies. The contract excluded translation and performance rights (professional, amateur, motion picture, recitation, lecturing, public reading, radio broadcasting, and television). The book was published on 12 September 1975 (at a price of $5.95), apparently in a print run of 2,500 copies. Davies was informed on 30 May 1980 that annual sales had diminished to a point where it was necessary to allow the book to go out of print. Copies were unavailable after 1 September 1980, and the book was remaindered on 1 December 1980. Information based on: file 47, vol. 45 and file 37,

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vol. 49, Davies fonds, lac; and file 50, box 219 and file 7, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm. Reprinted in A95. Davies’s preface is reprinted with revisions as “How To Be a Rich and Famous Playwright: A SelfInterview with The Master,” Toronto Life (November 1975): 135-6, 139. See also C75.6 for Davies’s note in the play program. copies examined: ohm (two copies); okq; otmc; pend (twenty-three copies).

A49  world of wonders 1975 A49a  first Canadian edition: WORLD | OF | WONDERS | Robertson Davies | MACMILLAN OF CANADA | Toronto 1-10 16 11 8 12 16. 1-11, 4-158, 159, 160-333, 334-335, 336358, 1-2 pp. (184 leaves). 215 × 132 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 © Robertson Davies 1975 | [seven lines about copyright] | ISBN 0-7705-1319-0 | Printed in Canada for | The Macmillan Company of Canada | 70 Bond Street,   Toronto M5B 1X3; p. 5 table of contents; p.6 blank; p. 7 [five lines indicating that A49 is the last novel in a trilogy]; p. 8 blank; p. 9 fly title; p. 10 blank; pp. 11, 4-358 text (p. 334 blank); pp. 1-2 blank. text: I A Bottle in the Smoke (divided into eight numbered sections); II Merlin’s Laugh (divided into seven numbered sections); III Le Lit de Justice (divided into two numbered sections). binding and dust jacket: Bound in orange cloth with the following stamped in gilt on the spine: [first two lines down the spine] ROBERTSON DAVIES | [under the previous line] World of Wonders | MACMILLAN | OF CANADA. The front panel of the jacket has a black background with blue clouds and an illustration of a mechanical bird perched above a top hat with a card (Magnus Eisengrim | lllusionist) at the side; the title in orange small caps is above the illustration, and the following lines are at the bottom of the front panel: [in white] A Novel by | [in orange] ROBERTSON DAVIES | [in white] Author of Fifth Business and The Manticore. The spine panel has a black background with lettering in two shades of orange and white similar to the stamping on the spine. The back panel has a black background with the heading (Some reviews of FIFTH BUSINESS) in orange, followed by excerpts from three reviews in white, then another heading in orange (and of THE MANTICORE), followed by excerpts from three re-

views in white. The flaps are white. On the front flap are four paragraphs summarizing the book’s plot. The back flap has a black-and-white photograph of Davies, a paragraph about him, the name and address of the publisher, the name of the jacket artist (David Craig), and a different ISBN than that found on the copyright page (0-7705-1318-2); the last line on the back flap is: Printed in Canada. notes: A49 is the third book of the Deptford trilogy. It concerns the story of the master illusionist Magnus Eisengrim, formerly known as Paul Dempster, whose mother was struck by a stone-laden snowball thrown by Percy Boyd Staunton in the first chapter of A38. Davies had the idea for the book several months prior to the publication of A44. At that time, however, the plot focused on a young Englishman who was preparing a script for an English theatrical company that was touring Canada in 1923-4. In November 1972 when a new structure for the novel emerged, Davies’s original plot was subsumed into the greater story of Eisengrim’s adventures as a magician and hypnotist. Davies told his friend Gordon Roper about the evolution of the trilogy on 6 November 1972: “It was never my intention to write a trilogy, or even to write the second book. It just happened. The story ran on, and required to be told. I have answered all enquiries about a trilogy with an assured No up to this time. But I have changed my mind.” The provisional titles of A49 were “A Bottle in the Smoke” and “Merlin’s Laugh,” but these became titles of the first two sections of the novel. Davies completed his first draft on 24 June 1974. On that day he wrote to Roper: “I finished the novel this morning, and wish I knew what to make of it. It has been uncommonly tough chewing, because as you know I never intended a trilogy, and so had made no preparation for pulling three books into a unity.” He sent the final typescript to his agent on 1 January 1975. The contract between the Macmillan Company of Canada and Davies’s agent, Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., is dated 26 March 1975: an advance royalty of $4,000 ($2,000 on signing the contract and $2,000 upon publication or 15 January 1976, whichever may be later), 10% on the first 3,000 copies sold, 12½% on the next 2,000 copies sold, and 15% thereafter. On 30 May 1975, Macmillan of Canada sold the Canadian book club rights to the Book-of-the-Month Club for five years from the date of publication. The Club paid a royalty of 10% of the Club’s list price ($2.985 per copy), and also agreed to a total royalty of $995. The Club ordered 1,500 copies plus 150 additional trimmed jackets on 11 June 1975. 665 copies



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were received by the Club on 16 December 1975, and another 828 copies were received on 22 December 1975. The Club ordered another 100 copies plus 25 additional trimmed jackets on 8 July 1976 (sold to its members at $3.585, 30% of list price, $11.95). On 9 June 1975, Davies replied to six pages of queries and criticisms from Douglas M. Gibson, the Editorial Director of Macmillan’s Trade Division. “I suggest that you get in touch with Viking Press,” Davies suggested to Gibson, “and ask what they have in mind, for they have told me by telephone that they have very few changes to put forward, and certainly I do not want the Canadian and American editions to be substantially different.” Copies of A49a were available on 19 September 1975. The book was published on 3 October 1975 (price $10.95). The first printing consisted of 7,500 copies (net sales $41,969.10, $9,203.75 royalty, net profit before tax $5,535.05). Advance orders were in such demand that a second printing was ordered before publication. In the second and third printings, the ISBN on the copyright page has been changed to 0-7705-1318-2 and is the same as the ISBN on the dust jacket. In October and November 1975, Davies went on a publicity tour arranged by Nora Clark, Macmillan’s Publicity Manager. He gave readings from A49a at the Art Gallery of Ontario (15 October), the Burlington Golf and Country Club (21 October), the Wenjack Theatre, Trent University (22 October), the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto (12 November), and at venues in Edmonton, Vancouver, and Victoria (1720 November). The Toronto Star reported on 1 November 1975 that A49a was number 5 on the Fiction National Bestsellers list. Macmillan of Canada sold 14,385 in the first year of publication. According to Josephine Rogers, Davies’s agent at Collins-KnowltonWing, Inc., 16,000 copies were in print by 11 December 1975. Davies was informed by Robert Wilkie, Macmillan of Canada’s VP and General Manager, on 30 May 1980 that annual sales of A49a had diminished to a point where it was necessary to allow the book to go out of print. Publication was discontinued after 1 September 1980. 16,250 copies had sold by 18 November 1980. After 1 December 1980, the book was remaindered. An excerpt of A49a appeared in Saturday Night 90, no. 5 (October 1975): 49-56. A short excerpt (“Willard the Geek”) is reprinted in Margaret Atwood, The Canlit Foodbook: From Pen to Palate — A Collection of Tasty Literary Fare (Toronto: Totem Books, 1987), p. 154. Wiseblood, Inc. (Nicholas Meyer) acquired the motion picture, television, and allied rights for a period of one year on 15 August 1985. Meyer paid Davies

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$12,500 for the rights with an option of extending the rights for an additional year for a similar payment. Rick Butler of Tapestry Productions made a comparable arrangement with Davies on 29 March 1988 (letters to Davies at pend). A49 was adapted for the stage by Elliott Hayes at the Stratford Festival, which had thirty-three performances between 16 May and 9 August 1992. Davies was paid an advance of $5,000 for the adaptation and $400 for each performance (contract dated 17 May 1990 at pend). For Davies’s lecture about the novel and its adaptation, see E92.3 and E92.5 and for a report about the first of the lectures, see D92.2. Information on the publishing history of A49a is based on the following sources: file 51, box 219, file 4, box 392, file 10, box 405, files 6-7, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; file 38, vol. 49, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm (first printing in jacket); okq (two copies in jacket of the second printing, October 1975); otmc (first printing in jacket; third printing, December 1975, in jacket); pend (first printing in jacket; four copies of second printing in jacket). A49a.1  American issue (1976): WORLD | OF WONDERS | Robertson Davies | THE VIKING PRESS | New York A49a.1, which measures 210 × 132 mm., is from the same setting of type as A49a. A49a.1 has six preliminary leaves before the text instead of five (the recto of the first leaf has the Viking’s publisher’s device). The copyright page reads as follows: Copyright © 1975 by Robertson Davies | All rights reserved | Published in 1976 by The Viking Press, Inc. | 625 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 | [rule; six lines of Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-670-78812-0; rule] | Printed in U.S.A. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in chestnut brown paper boards, quarter-bound with black cloth, with the following stamped down the spine: [in red] ROBERTSON DAVIES [ornament] VIKING | [beneath the previous line, in orange gilt] WORLD OF WONDERS. The panels of the jacket have a black background. On the front panel is an illustration in orange, grey, white and black of a man’s head and shoulders with the man wearing formal wear in the style of a magician’s ensemble. The illustration of the man is within a stylized compartment with lettering drawn ornamentally. The following is printed on the spine of the jacket: [first two lines in white] Robertson | Davies | [in orange down the spine] World of   Wonders | [publisher’s device in white: spokes in a

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semi-circle above a Viking skip and the number 50] | [in white] Viking. On the back flap are a blackand-white photograph of Davies by Paterson, a paragraph about Davies, the name of the publisher, and the ISBN. The flaps are white. The front flap has: the price ($8.95); a quotation (within a red zig-zag rectangle) from a review by Anthony Burgess; three paragraphs about the book; the name of the jacket designer in red (Honi Werner); and 0376 in the right-hand corner. On the back flap are excerpts from reviews in Time (Canada) and Maclean’s and the name and address of the publisher (the latter in red). Pumpkin-coloured endpapers. The Viking Press also issued advance reading copies of A49a.1 for promotion purposes. Perfect bound in orange paper (209 × 131 mm.). The typography on the front wrapper is similar to the design on the jacket of the regular trade edition but without the colour and illustration. The back of the wrapper has information on the number of copies printed and the price, has quotations from Times (Canada) and Maclean’s, gives the date of publication, and announces Davies’s author tour of major American cities. notes: On 14 February 1975, Davies was informed by his agent, Josephine Rogers at Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., that Elisabeth Sifton of the Viking Press was “absolutely ecstatic over WORLD OF WONDERS.” The contract at pend is dated 10 April 1975: an advance against royalties of $8,500, 10% on the first 5,000 copies sold and 15% thereafter. Davies returned the copy-edited typescript to Sifton on 9 August 1975. He was impressed by her style of punctuation. “I rejoice in her open-handed way with commas, and her virtuosity with the colon,” he told Rogers. Davies examined the galleys of A49a.1 in late August 1975. He commented favourably on the design of A49a.1’s dust jacket on 31 December 1975; he considered it to be vastly superior to that of A49a. Advance reading copies of A49a.1 were distributed for review and promotion purposes between late January and mid-February 1976. A49a.1 was published on 15 March 1976. The back cover of the advance reading copy states that 30,000 copies were printed. According to Man of Myth (p. 517), 7,760 copies sold. On 9-13 May 1976, Davies went on a reading tour in promotion of A49a.1. He visited New York City and Washington, dc. He gave interviews to Women’s Wear Daily, the New York Times, the New York Post, the Bergen Record, Newsday, and the Washington Post. Receptions were held for him by the Canadian Consulate General in New York and the Canadian Embassy in Washington, dc. In early June he also gave readings in

Milwaukee and Chicago. A49a.1 was remaindered on 23 August 1984. On 16 February 1988, Viking Penguin Inc. paid Davies an advance of $200,000 for the continuing rights to nine of his books; A49 was one of the books under this agreement (copy at pend). Information on the publishing history of A49a.1 is based on files 1, 20, 29, and 31, box 46, and file 26, vol. 52, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: okq (in jacket); pend (twenty-five copies in jacket; two advance reading copies). A49a.2  first English issue (1977): WORLD | OF | WONDERS | Robertson Davies | W. H. ALLEN • LONDON | A Howard & Wyndham   Company | 1977 A49a.2, which measures 214 × 132 mm., is from the same setting of type as A49a. The preliminary leaves of A49a.2 differ somewhat from A49a as follows: p. 1 half title with a plot summary in two paragraphs; p. 2 blank; p. 3 list of novels and essays by Davies, mentioning that A49 is the last of three linked novels; p. 4 blank; p. 5 title; p. 6 Copyright © 1975 Robertson Davies | First British edition, 1977 | [three lines about copyright] | Printed in Great Britain by Fletcher & Son Ltd, Norwich | for the Publishers, W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd, | 44 Hill Street, London W1X 8LB | Bound by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, | Bungay,   Suffolk | ISBN 0 491 02200 X; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; p. 7 fly title; p. 8 blank. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in darkgrey paper boards with the following stamped in gilt on the spine: [first two lines down the spine] WORLD OF WONDERS | [under the previous line] Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device similar to an open shield with initials inside the shield, WHA] | W.H.ALLEN. The front panel of the jacket has a colour illustration by Alun Hood of an Oriental mask, a fetus in a cloud above and to the left of the mask, and the head of a manticore above and to the right of the mask. The other panels are white. On the back panel within a rectangle are a photo of Davies by Paterson and a paragraph about Davies. The front flap has a quotation from a review by Anthony Burgess, three paragraphs of plot summary, the name of the jacket illustrator, and the price (£4.50 net). The back flap has excerpts from Canadian reviews, the ISBN, and mention of the book having been printed in Great Britain. notes: A few months prior to completing the first draft of A49, Davies corresponded with his British agent, Michael Horniman at A.P. Watt & Son, about the failure of Macmillan (London) to sell A38 and



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A44. “Do you think that there is any point in offering it [A49] in England to anyone at all?,” he asked Horniman on 7 March 1974. Davies remained pessimistic about the chances of success for his new novel. When Horniman approached Macmillan (London) in January 1975 about possible publication of A49, Macmillan (London) did not even read the typescript. Instead the company suggested to Horniman that it should be looked at by at least two good London publishers. The best that Macmillan (London) could promise for A49 was an issue of 1,500 copies from the Macmillan of Canada or Viking edition. A49 was first offered to Secker & Warburg, and on 2 June 1976, W.H. Allen made an offer for the book. The contract at pend is dated 7 June 1976: an advance of £600 with a royalty of 10% on the first 2,500 copies sold, 12½% on the next 2,500 copies sold, and 15% thereafter. A49a.2 was published on 23 May 1977. According to Man of Myth (p. 517), 1,200 copies sold. A49a.2 was remaindered on 1 November 1978 at £.22 per copy. Information about A49a.2 is based on file 21, vol. 43, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: otmc (in jacket); pend (eleven copies in jacket). A49a.3  second English issue (1979): WORLD | OF | WONDERS | Robertson Davies | [within two circles] ê| [attached to the bottom of the circles within a rounded rectangle] STAR | A STAR BOOK | published by | the Paperback Division of | W. H. ALLEN & Co. Ltd A49a.3, which measures 178 × 110 mm., is a photographic reprint of A49a. The copyright page (p. 4) of A49a.3 is as follows: A Star Book | Published in 1979 | by the Paperback Division of | W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd | A Howard and Wyndham Company | 44 Hill Street, London W1X 8LB | First published in Great Britain by | W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd 1977 | Copyright © 1975 Robertson Davies | Published in the United States in 1976 by the Viking Press Inc. | Printed in Great Britain by | The Anchor Press Ltd, Tiptree, Essex | ISBN 0 352 39774 8 | [six lines about copyright]. There are three unnumbered leaves after the text. These consist of two leaves of General Fiction, one page of General Non-Fiction, and information about Wyndham Books (being the last page of the book). binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front and back covers have a red, yellow, and blue zig-zag pattern. On the front cover is a colour illustration of a man (probably a magician) in a blue outfit and camel-coloured hat with a table (white table cloth and objects on the table) before him and

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white-capped mountains behind him. The first three lines are a quotation from Time. On the back cover against a grey rectangular background are: three paragraphs about the book, quotations from Alan Sillitoe and the Times Literary Supplement, the Wyndham publisher’s device (a block W within a square), the ISBN, and the recommended prices (£1.50 UK, $5.50 Australia, £M1.55 Malta, and $4.95 New Zealand). The spine is blue with white lettering with Star Book’s publisher’s device at the top of the spine. notes: For information about the contract with Star Books regarding the individual volumes of the Deptford trilogy, see A38b.3. A49a.3 was published in July 1979. Number of copies printed not known. Information on the publishing history of A49a.3 is based on the following files in the Davies fonds at lac: file 21, vol. 43 and files 3, 7, and 8, vol. 46. copies examined: ohm; pend (four copies). A49b  first Penguin edition, (second) Canadian / (first) American edition (1977): Robertson Davies | WORLD OF | WONDERS | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS 1-6, 7-142, 143, 144-294, 295, 296-315, 1-5 pp. (160 leaves). 179 × 109 mm. contents: p. 1 publisher’s name, title, and a paragraph about Davies; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 [five lines of addresses of Penguin Books in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | — | First published in Canada | by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited 1975 | First published in the United States of America | by The Viking Press 1976 | Published in Penguin Books 1977 | — | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1975 | All rights reserved | — | [nine lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0 14 00.4389 6 (pbk.)] | — | Made and printed in Great Britain | by Hazell Watson and Viney Ltd, | Aylesbury, Bucks | Set in Linotype Pilgrim | [nine lines about copyright]; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; pp. 7-315, 1 text; p. 2 [publisher’s device] | Some other books published by Penguin | are described on the following pages.; p. 3 blank; pp. 4-5 ads for Fifth Business and The Manticore. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a black background and features: the author’s name in yellow; the title in white; the publisher’s device in orange, white, and black; a quotation in yellow from Peter Prescott, Newsweek; and an illustration of playing cards. The spine is orange with

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the author’s name, title, ISBN, and publisher’s device. The back cover with a black background has: the publisher’s device; a paragraph about the book; excerpts from reviews in the New York Times Book Review and the New Republic; the price in Canada and the United States ($1.95); the name of the cover designer (Neil Stuart); and the ISBN. A49b was also manufactured in Canada by Webcom Limited with covers re-designed by Capon & Austin Associates Ltd. in 1980 and by Bascove in 1995. A49b was also printed in the 1980s in the United States by Offset Paperback Mfrs., Inc. with cover design and illustration by Bascove. notes: For information on Macmillan of Canada’s selling of the paperback rights in the Deptford trilogy, see A38d. The paperback rights in A49b were part of that deal. Macmillan of Canada turned down several offers for the Canadian paperback rights of A49b. On 16 December 1975, Collins, for example, had offered $5,000 for a paperback to be published by Totem. A49b was published on 4 April 1977. Peter J. Waldock of Penguin Books informed Davies on 19 April 1977 that Penguin had “received orders for 18,000 copies ... yet the book has only been in the stores a few days — the response appears to be tremendous.” By 30 June 1977, 23,139 copies of A49b had sold, and 28,592 copies had sold at the end of the year. Up to 20 February 1981, almost 55,000 copies of A49b had sold. Up to the end of June 1988, 75,155 copies had sold. Up to the end of June 1991, 89,217 copies sold (earning a royalty of $34,028.97). These sales were for the Canadian market. Up to 30 June 1994, 145,562 copies sold in the United States. There were reprints in 1979, 1981, 1982 (twice), 1983 (twice), 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, and in the 1990s. In October 1977 copies of A49b also sold as part of a gift set with A38d and A44d. 173,160 copies of individual volumes of the trilogy sold up 20 February 1981. Information on A49b has been obtained from: file 49, box 219, file 10, box 405, and file 6, box 419, Macmillan of Canada fonds, ohm; files 20 and 38, vol. 46, and file 42, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac; file 11, vol. 28, and file 31, vol. 108, Colbert Agency fonds, lac; royalty reports at pend. copies examined: davis (first printing; 1980 and 1995 reprints by Webcom Limited; 1987 and 1988 American reprints); oh (1980 reprint by Webcom Limited); okq (later printing, $7.99, with cover design by Bascove of a man wearing white gloves, a top hat, and a cape — he tips his hat and has a card in the other hand); otmc (first printing; 1980 reprint); pend (four copies of first printing).

A49c  second Penguin edition, third Canadian edition (1996): World of Wonders | [ornament] | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books 1-7, 2-144, 145, 146-306, 307, 308-328, 1-2 pp. (168 leaves). 202 × 19 mm. contents: p. 1 publisher’s name, title, and two paragraphs about Davies; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [eight lines of addresses of Penguin branches in Canada, England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1975 | First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press, 1976 | Published in Penguin Books, 1977 | Published in this edition, 1996 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1975 | All rights reserved | [publisher’s note in four lines, indicating that the book is a work of fiction] | Manufactured in Canada | [eight lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14-026047-1; five lines about copyright; line about Penguin’s website]; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; pp. 7, 2-328 text; pp. 1-2 blank. text: Identical to A49a. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a forest green background with an abstract colour illustration by Sandra Dionisi, consisting of an eye, an angel, a pitchfork, a top hat, dice, a heart, a club, and half a clock. The author’s name appears in cream-coloured capitals, and the title is in white at different angles. At the bottom of the front cover within a rounded green rectangle is the name of the trilogy in white, the publisher’s device to the right of the rectangle. The spine is black with white lettering and the illustration from the front cover in miniature. The back cover in white has quotations from the New York Times Book Review, Peter Prescott (Newsweek), and the Toronto Star, a paragraph about the book, and the names of the cover illustrator and cover designer (Spencer Francey Peters); also on the back cover within a rectangle are the publisher’s device, the ISBN, bar code, and price ($12.99). Also issued in a box with the two other volumes of the Deptford trilogy. notes: For an advance of $200,000, Penguin Books Canada Limited negotiated a licence with Macmillan of Canada on 13 May 1988 for a period of ten years to publish A44e along with eight other works by Davies (contract in file 12, vol. 28, Colbert Agency fonds, lac). For details, see A14d, notes.



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copies examined: davis (in box); pend (six copies). A49d fourth Canadian edition (2005): ROBERTSON DAVIES | World of Wonders | With an Introduction by M.G. Vassanji | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN | CANADA i-iv, v, vi, vii-xiv, 1-2, 3-310, 1-4 pp. (164 leaves). 197 × 130 mm. contents: p. i name of publisher, title, and three paragraphs about Davies; p. ii list of sixteen other books by Davies (novels, short fiction, criticism, and essays); p. iii title; p. iv PENGUIN CANADA | Published by the Penguin Group | [fourteen lines of addresses of Penguin branches in Canada, the United States, England, Ireland, Australia, India, New Zealand, and South Africa] | First published in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1975 | First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press, 1976 | Published in Penguin Canada paperback by Penguin Group (Canada), | a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc, 1977, 1996 | Published in this edition, 2005 | (WEB) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1975 | Introduction copyright © M.G. Vassanji, 2005 | [five lines about copyright; three lines in italics that the work is one of fiction with no intention by the author for attribution to anything real] | Manufactured in Canada | ISBN 0-14-3051407 | Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication data available upon request. | [five lines forbidding the re-sale and circulation of the book outside of the United States; one line about Penguin Group (Canada)’s website]; p. v table of contents; p. vi blank; pp. vii-xiv introduction by Vassanji; p. 1 fly title; p. 2 blank; pp. 3-310 text; pp. 1-4 blank. text: Identical to A49a. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper glossy covers. On the front cover is a colour photo of a person’s right hand placing an ace of spades onto the back of his left hand. Below the photo against a solid white rectangle are the series title (MODERN CLASSICS) and the publisher’s device; the author’s name and the title are at the bottom of the front cover against a solid grey rectangle. The spine is grey with the author’s name, title, publisher’s device, and series title. The back cover is mainly grey with the bottom section white. It has: two small photos from the front covers of other Deptford novels in the Penguin Modern Classics series; a quotation from Vassanji’s introduction; a paragraph about the book; a quotation from Malcolm Bradbury, Sunday Times; the publisher’s device; series

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title; the ISBN and bar code; the price ($20, £8.99); two URLs; and the names of the designer of the front cover (Soapbox Design Communications Inc.), the cover photographer (H. Maupin/Zefa), and the art director (Mary Opper). The quotation from Vassanji’s introduction reads: “In this | wonderfully | layered trilogy, the | impact of a single | event reverberates | throughout ...” notes: According to the Penguin Canada website, A49d was published on 24 June 2005. Number of   copies printed not known. Vassanji’s introduction is printed in the other volumes of the Deptford trilogy in the Penguin Modern Classics series (see A38g and A44f). copies examined: davis; lac.

A50  [gaudy night broadside 1975] [cover title; ornamental, rectangular, horizontal border consisting of leaves, flowers, animals, birds, hunters, each with a bow and arrow, and a child on a bouquet or nest] | TO MARK THE COMING OF THE | [in red] FEAST OF CHRISTMAS | MASSEY COLLEGE will celebrate a Gaudy Night | on Saturday, December 13, at 8:30 o’clock p.m. in the | Hall, and the Master and Fellows invite you to join them. [small ornament and start of new sentence] | fourteen lines of text] | [ornament consisting of a plaque and cornucopias of flowers, leaves, a head, and initials CGB] Broadside. Cream medium-weight paper stock. 325 × 180 mm. Deckle edge at the bottom. notes: A50 is the eleventh broadside produced for the Fellows, Senior Residents, and their guests regarding Gaudy Night at Massey College. For further information about these broadsides, see A20. The archives of the Massey College Press at otmc have Davies’s typescript, revised by him, a proof copy, and another copy on white stock in a smaller size. At the 1975 Gaudy Night, the Massey College Singers, under the direction of Gordon Wry, performed traditional Christmas music and a Homage to John Aubrey, passages selected by Davies, set to music composed by Derek Holman. Davies read the thirteenth college ghost story (“The Perils of the Double Sign”). Number of copies printed of A50 not known, but Davies’s invitation list numbers ninety-eight people and others undoubtedly attended as well. Set and printed by N. Adams. See also file 3, vol. 11, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: otmc (seven copies).

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A51  [gaudy night broadside 1976] [broadside folded in half downward; on the front panel is an illustration in the shape of a V of trees, flowers, birds, and plates of food and within the V shape is a circle with a cherub carrying a platter of food; transcription is from the verso of the front and back panels: rectangular, horizontal compartment consisting of busts of women, curlicues, leaves, and a man’s head with donkey ears] | [next three lines in red] MASSEY COLLEGE | will celebrate | THE COMING OF CHRISTMAS | with a Gaudy Night on Saturday, December | 18, at 8.30 p.m. in Hall [leafy ornament] The Master and | Fellows invite you to be present. | [eleven lines of text] | [leafy ornament] Pale-grey medium-weight paper stock. 163 × 250 mm. folded. Recto of panel blank. notes: A51 is Davies’s twelfth broadside produced for the Fellows, Senior Residents, and their guests regarding Gaudy Night at Massey College. The archives of the Massey College Press at otmc have Davies’s manuscript of A51. See A20 for further information about these broadsides. At the 1976 Gaudy Night, the Massey College Singers, under the direction of Gordon Wry, performed “Samuel Pepys and His Musick,” passages selected by Davies, music composed by Derek Holman. Davies read the fourteenth college ghost story (“Conversations with the Little Table”). A51 was printed in Goudy typeface in an edition of 176 copies (three discards). A second printing was considered, but this number of copies probably sufficed. See also files 4 and 5, vol. 11, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: otmc (fourteen copies).

A52  one half of robertson davies 1977 A52a  first Canadian edition: [the first two lines within a rectangular, leafy frame] One Half of | Robertson Davies | Provocative Pronouncements | on a Wide Range of Topics | by Robertson Davies | Macmillan of Canada/Toronto 1-8, 1-18, 19-20, 21-43, 44-45, 46-85, 86-88, 89-115, 116118, 119-176, 177-178, 179-269, 270, 271-286, 1-6 pp. (150 leaves). 216 × 140 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 list of twenty-three other books by Davies under the categories of fiction, plays, and criticism; p. 3 title; p. 4 © ROBERTSON DAVIES 1977 | [five lines about copyright; seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including

ISBN 0-7705-1579-7] | Printed in Canada for | The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited | 70 Bond Street, Toronto; pp. 5-6 table of contents; p. 7 fly title; p. 8 blank; pp. 1-4 preface, dated 20 April 1977; pp. 5-286 text (pp. 20, 44, 46, 86, 88, 116, 118, 178, and 270 blank); pp. 1-6 blank. text: There is an introductory speech, “Ham and Tongue,” and a concluding speech, “The Canada of Myth and Reality.” Otherwise, the text is comprised of five sections: section one, Garlands and Nosegays; section two, Giving Advice; section three, Jeux d’Esprit; section four, Thoughts about Writing; and section five, Masks of Satan. Section one consists of: Edward Johnson; Sir Ernest MacMillan; and The Funny Professor [on Stephen Leacock]. Section two consists of: What Every Girl Should Know; What Will the Age of Aquarius Bring?; The Deadliest of the Sins; Preaching Selfishness; and How to Design a Haunted House. Section three consists of: Lines Written in Dejection; Animal U.; The Cat That Went to Trinity; and Dickens Digested. Section four consists of: The Conscience of the Writer; What May Canada Expect from Her Writers?; Jung and the Theatre; and Insanity in Literature. Section five consists of: The Devil’s Burning Throne; Phantasmagoria and Dream Grotto; Gleams and Glooms; and Thunder without Rain. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in light yellowish-green paper boards with the following stamped on the spine: [down the spine] One Half of Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: solid M with silhouette of maple leaf] | Macmillan | of Canada. The front, spine and back panels of the dust jacket are black with printing in white. On the front panel is a colour photo by Peter Paterson of Davies’s head with the full title. Printing on the spine panel is similar to the printing on the spine. The back panel has the book’s title, two paragraphs (the second paragraph excerpted from his essay, “Insanity in Literature”), and the ISBN. The flaps are white. On the front flap are the full title and four paragraphs about the book’s contents. On the back flap are a black-and-white photo of Davies, two paragraphs about him, attribution of the photographs and jacket design (Peter Paterson and Richard Miller), and the name and address of   the publisher. The jacket was printed in the United States. notes: This anthology is comprised primarily of the texts of eighteen speeches delivered by Davies



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between 1960 and 1977 on a variety of topics at different venues. In addition to Davies’s speeches, A52a contains three of his short stories and one piece of satirical poetry; these are found in section three. The book’s title comes from the proverb that Davies quotes at the beginning of his preface: “‘The tongue is one half of a man: but the other half is the heart’ ... All my life, it seems to me, I have been making speeches, or telling stories in public, and it has always been my desire to bring tongue and heart into an equal partnership.” The origins of the book go back to the Larkin-Stuart Lectures (“Masks of Satan,” section five of A52a) on the problem of evil in literature that Davies gave at Trinity College, University of Toronto, on 15-18 November 1976. Macmillan of Canada considered publication of the lectures at the time. A reader’s report by Virgil Duff, dated 24 November 1976, called the lectures “vintage Davies,” estimated that the book might sell between 500 to 1,000 copies, and predicted that reviewers would call it a work of “charming erudition.” A second reader’s report, prepared by Beverley Beetham on 29 November 1976, was positive but qualified its praise with minor criticisms. She regarded Davies’s treatment as “a little casual,” was pleased by his assessment of John Cowper Powys, but found his analysis of the ghost genre not “as well covered as I would have expected from a man of fantastical temperament.” She concluded by saying that although she enjoyed the lectures, she would hesitate to purchase them. Davies and Douglas M. Gibson, the Editorial Director of the Macmillan Company of Canada, discussed the book over lunch on 19 January 1977. Gibson emphasized that the collection should have unpublished material readily identifiable with Davies as a writer. A number of pieces in A52 were in fact previously published: “How to Design a Haunted House” first appeared as “Robertson Davies on Architects and Architecture” (see C60.35), “The Deadliest of Sins” as “To the Class of ’62” (see C62.32), “What May Canada Expect from Her Writers?” as “Sleeping Through Our Canadian Dreams” (see C72.9); “Sir Ernest MacMillan” as “A Leader to Those of Us Who Faced the Music” (see C73.5); and “The Canada of Myth and Reality” as “A Closer Look: ‘It Is Too Late for Us to Change Our Spots Now’” (see C77.3). Davies sent Gibson a tentative table of contents on 24 January 1977. “This brings us to the title,” he stated. “You like A Davies Festival, but as a primary title it alarms me: too ostentatious and vain. Years ago I wrote a successful book called A Voice From The Attic; could this be A Voice From The Platform? Not really a good title, but something might be found. I like Pri-

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vate Thoughts Through the Public Address System, but it does not cover the plays.” On 9 March 1977, he told Gibson that he was selecting the contents of A52a thematically with “a great deal of care.” He did not want the book to be a mere “collection of speeches, which I regard as the very dullest sort of book that can be published.” The book’s title and its appearance continued to trouble Davies. He did not like Gibson’s title, One Half of Robertson Davies. “I have qualms about offering one half of anything, because it sounds like short weight,” he told Gibson on 31 March 1977. “As I suggested to you earlier, I always think it would be nice if it were a chunky, chubby little book with lovely type and lots of Italic, which I always think gives a genial and cheerful appearance to a page.” He suggested alternative titles such as Ham and Tongue and For the Mind’s Ear. On 21 April 1977, Gibson thanked Davies for “the splendid new preface and the equally splendid new College Ghost Story.” He sent both pieces for copy-editing. The contract between Macmillan of Canada and Curtis Brown, Ltd. (Davies’s agent, which had absorbed Collins, Knowlton and Wing Inc. in 1975) is also dated 21 April 1977: an advance royalty of $2,500 ($1,500 payable on signing, $1,000 on delivery of the manuscript, due 1 April 1977), 10% royalty on the first 5,000 copies sold, 12½% on 10,000 copies sold, and 15% thereafter. Copies of the contract are at ohm and pend. Composition costs were $4,080, including $1,297 for colour separation and design and $1,715 for the jacket. Macmillan of Canada projected the following expenses and profit margin for an edition of 7,500 copies: net sales, $40,569; plant, $5,165; paper, printing, and binding, $7,526; artwork, $1,374; editorial production, $1,400; royalties, $7,857 (cost of sales $23,320); gross margin, $17,247; overhead, $17,039; rights and subsidiary income, $3,956; net profit before tax, $4,164 (10.26%). Davies’s typescript was copy-edited in early May 1977. Gibson sent Davies a sample page of proof on 20 May 1977. When Davies returned the copy-edited manuscript to Gibson on 26 May 1977, he remarked: “I have made some comments and, in one or two places have taken issue with your copy editor, the Dwarf Nun, whose pernicketiness seems at times to make my prose stiffer and more Normal-School-like than I would wish it to be ... If I remember aright, the name of the Dwarf Nun is Sister Delicata, of the Order of Corrections Minor.” A52a had the following production schedule: first galley/page proofs, 20 May 1977; full-page proofs, 30 May; revised page proofs, 7 July; camera-ready pages, 21 July; vandykes, 5 July; final vandykes back to the printer, 8 July; finished books,

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29 August. In fact, finished books were ready on 7 September 1977, and publication occurred more than a month later on 15 October 1977. The book sold for $10.95. The Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc. offered A52a as a featured alternate to its members at 30% off the list price. On 26 May 1977, the Club paid an advance royalty of approximately $2,000 to $2,500 (10% royalty on each copy ordered) to Macmillan of Canada. The Club ordered 1,000 copies plus 100 additional trimmed jackets; the book was available to Club members on 24 October 1977. 4,547 copies sold by the end of 1977. Almost nine months later, on 29 August 1978, sales had not changed significantly. Davies was informed on 30 May 1980 that annual sales had diminished to a point where it was necessary to allow A52a to go out of print. Publication was discontinued after 1 September 1980, and after 1 December 1980, the book was remaindered. A52a earned $3,727 in total royalties. Information on the publishing history of A52a is based on the following sources: files 48-9, box 219, file 5, box 318, file 9, box 405, and file 6, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; file 6, vol. 46, files 40-1, vol. 49, files 21-3, vol. 52, file 20, vol. 53, Davies fonds, lac; file 16, vol. 28, Colbert Agency fonds, lac. “Ham and Tongue” is reprinted in the following: Arthur M. Eastman, ed., The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository Prose, 5th ed. (New York: Norton, 1980), pp. 623-34, 7th ed. (1988), pp. 1035-42, and in the 8th ed. (1992), pp. 1125-32 (see also A96). “The Conscience of the Writer” is reprinted as “The Writer’s Conscience,” Saturday Review 5, no. 12 (18 March 1978): 42-6; and as “A Moralist’s Novels” in Douglas Daymond and Leslie Monkman, eds., Canadian Novelists and the Novel (Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1981), pp. 222-4 (see also A97). “Animal U.” is reprinted in Toronto Life (October 1977): 54, 125 (see also A88 and A96). “The Cat That Went to Trinity” is reprinted in John Robert Colombo and Michael Richardson, eds., Not to Be Taken at Night: Thirteen Classic Canadian Tales of Mystery and Supernatural (Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1981), pp. 12-25; and in Muriel Whitaker, The Best Canadian Animal Stories: Classic Tales (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997), pp. 233-46 (see also A63 and A87). “A Tribute to Edward Johnson” is reprinted in Gloria F. Dent and Leonard Conolly, eds., Guelph and Its Spring Festival (Guelph, on.: Edward Johnson Music Foundation, 1992), pp. 53-6. “Dickens Digested” is reprinted in Ellery Queen’s Magazine 88 (mid-December 1986): 103-10; and Alberto Manguel, ed., The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 101-8 (see also A63).

copies examined: ohm (in jacket); okq (in jacket); otmc (in jacket); pend (eight copies in jacket). A52a.1 first American issue (1978): [the first two lines within a rectangular, leafy compartment] One Half of | Robertson Davies | by | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: illustration of a Viking ship with spokes in a semi-circle above the ship] | [in grey] THE VIKING PRESS NEW YORK Although A52a.1 is from the same setting of type as A52a, it has 152 leaves (208 × 136 mm.), having two additional preliminary leaves and stylistic differences in the formatting of the text (for example, the lack of ornamental rectangles framing titles of essays or stories). A52a.1 has no subtitle. The copyright page reads: Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1977 | All rights reserved | Published in 1978 by The Viking Press | 625 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 | [six lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-670-52608-8] | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Baskerville | [three lines of acknowledgment to Chatto & Windus for permission to quote Douglas LePan’s poem “Coureurs de Bois”]. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in lightcamel paper boards, quarter-bound with camel cloth, with the following stamped on the spine: [short red bar] | [the next two lines down the spine in gilt] One Half of | Robertson Davies | [short red rule; short red bar] | [in gilt] VIKING. The front, spine, and back panels of A52a.1’s dust jacket are similar to those of A52a. Instead of the subtitle on the front panel, A52a.1 has the following: Stories, | lectures, | jeux d’esprit, | and advice | on writing | and writers, | books and | literature | from the | author of | Fifth Business. At the foot of the spine panel is Viking’s name and publisher’s device in turquoise. The back panel has a paragraph in white italics taken from Davies’s essay “Insanity in Literature” (p. 162); below the paragraph in turquoise are the publisher’s name and location and the ISBN. The flaps are white with some printing in turquoise. On the front flap are the title, price ($12.95), the first paragraph from Davies’s preface within a rectangle, and two paragraphs about Davies and his anthology of writings (the second paragraph continued on the back flap with another two paragraphs, the names of the jacket designer and photographer, and Viking’s address). notes: On 29 November 1976, Davies sent Elisabeth Sifton of the Viking Press his lectures, “Masks of Satan,” on the theme of aspects of evil in literature. On 27 January 1977, he also informed Thomas Guinzburg at Viking that the lectures would be included in an



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anthology “that Macmillans want me to get together.” The Viking Press expressed an interest in joint publication on 31 May 1977, and agreed to pay Macmillan of Canada an offset fee of $1,000 (25% of the composition cost), $300 for the jacket design, and $50 for a transparency of the jacket. Viking also agreed to pay Davies an advance royalty of $3,000 on 1 June 1977. The contract for A52a.1 (copy at pend dated 15 July 1977) also stipulates a royalty of 10% on the first 5,000 copies sold, 12½% for the next 5,000 copies, and 15% thereafter. Macmillan of Canada sent galleys of A52a to the Viking Press on 8 September 1977. The Viking Press ordered 75 copies of A52a from Macmillan of Canada for publicity and offset purposes on 9 September 1977. Mary Hornby, Viking’s Publicity Director, asked Davies to provide an update on his biographical information on 18 November 1977. When Sifton, enclosed blurbs for the jacket of A52a.1 on 25 January 1978, she told Davies that Viking would not be using A52a’s subtitle. Bound books of A52a.1 were ready by 10 March 1978 (price $12.95), and publication occurred on 27 April of that year. Number of copies printed not known (possibly 4,400 copies). On 9 August 1978, when the paperback of A52 was being considered, Sifton told Davies: “Meanwhile we are doing respectably well with the hardcover edition whose sales have now reached the dizzying height of 2467 copies.” Several hundred copies were remaindered on 23 August 1984. On 16 February 1988, Viking Penguin Inc. paid Davies an advance of $200,000 for the continuing rights to nine of his books; A52 was one of the books under this agreement (copy at pend). A52a.1 had a mixed reception in the United States. In particular, Joyce Carol Oates’s review in the New Republic (15 April 1978, pp. 22-5) fiercely attacked the book. She questioned Davies’s talents as a writer and critic. In his reply (see C78.5), Davies remarked sardonically: “when Ms. Oates portrays me as a garrulous, self-delighted mountebank, and a covert undervaluer of women, I can only hang my head in shame, for when has any man known himself as well as a richly gifted observer knows him?” Oates in fact came to regret writing the review. When it was reprinted by Broadview Press in Robertson Davies: An Appreciation (1991) edited by Elspeth Cameron, Oates complained to Don LePan, Broadview’s owner, on 6 January 1992, and she told Davies on 6 January 1992 that she had not authorized its reprinting. Davies told Oates on 21 January 1992 that the essay’s reprinting had not offended him. “She [Cameron] asked me to write an introduction to the book which I declined to do because it seems to me that for an author to be asked to introduce a book of essays about his own writings

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is like asking the goose to say grace at the Cratchits’ Christmas dinner.” Information on the publishing history of A52a.1 is based on the following sources: file 9, box 405, Macmillan of Canada fonds, ohm; files 6 and 20, vol. 46, and file 27, vol. 52, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: pend (thirteen copies in jacket). A52a.2 second American issue (1978): [the first two lines within a rectangular, leafy compartment] One Half of | Robertson Davies | by | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS A52a.2 is a photographic reprint of A52a.1. The leaves measure 175 × 105 mm. There are four pre­ liminary leaves. Instead of a half title, the first un­ numbered page has the publisher’s name, the book’s title, and a paragraph about Davies. After the text, there are five leaves of advertisements for Penguin Books published in the United States or Canada. The copyright page of A52a.2 is as follows: [ten lines of addresses of Penguin Books in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in the United States of America by | The Viking Press 1978 | Published in Penguin Books 1978   | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1977 | All rights   reserved | [seven lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0 14 00.4967 3] | Printed in the United States of America by | Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee | Set in Baskerville | Acknowledgment is made to Chatto and Windus Ltd | for permission to quote “Coureurs de Bois” | from The Wounded Prince by Douglas LePan. | [nine lines about copyright]. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. A52a.2’s front cover is the same as the dust jacket of A52a.1 with the addition of Penguin’s publisher’s device. The spine of A52.2 is orange with white and black lettering. The back cover, which is white, has the publisher’s device, a paragraph about the book, excerpts of reviews from the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune, the names of the cover designer and photographer, the ISBN, and price ($4.95). notes: Both the Viking Press and Macmillan of Canada arranged with Penguin Books for a paperback edition. Viking’s agreement with Davies on 12 December 1977 allowed for a paperback to be published by either Penguin or Puffin at 6½% royalty. Marcia Burch of Penguin Books (New York) informed Davies on 14 June 1978 that A52a.2 had been published. Elisabeth Sifton told Davies on 9 August 1978: “Certainly I had

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thought that from the beginning you knew of our plans to Peguinise One Half of ..., and I’m sorry if this came as a surprise to you.” Douglas M. Gibson contemplated publication in paperback in the Laurentian Library series in August 1978 at a time when 3,000 copies of A52a still remained in stock, but then Macmillan of Canada was approached by Penguin Books Canada Limited for the Canadian paperback rights on 23 August 1978 (contract at pend dated 21 December 1978): an advance of $3,000 against a royalty of 10% with a right to remainder up to 2,500 copies of A52a. This was for a licence of eight years. Penguin Books Canada Limited also signed an agreement with Davies’s agent, Curtis Brown Canada Limited, on 30 October 1979 to sell a paperback edition for the Australasian market: 8% royalty of $3.95 (price of book) against 500 copies ordered (royalty of $158). Published on 28 September 1978. There were several reprints of A52a.2 (1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986 twice, and 1988). On 19 March 1984, for example, there was a reprint of 3,000 copies. Viking Penguin (later Penguin USA) sold 11,259 copies in the United States up to the end of 1985, 12,333 copies by 30 June 1986, 23,932 by 30 June 1994, and 24,285 copies by 31 October 1997. On 4 November 1987, Nancy Colbert of Curtis Brown Canada Limited reported that A52a.2 had earned $3,727 in royalties. 8,301 copies of A52a.2 sold in Canada up to 30 June 1988; 10,431 sold up to 30 June 1991. Information on the publishing history of A52a.2 is based on the following sources: files 6 and 8-10, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; files 7, 25, and 29, vol. 46, and file 42, vol. 50, Davies, fonds, lac; file 31, vol. 108, Colbert Agency fonds, lac; royalty reports at pend. copies examined: oh (1990 reprint, $10.95); otmc (1980 reprint); pend (twelve copies of first printing; twelve copies of 1979 reprint, $3.95).

A53  [gaudy night broadside] 1977 [broadside folded once to form two leaves; on recto of first leaf two lines in red:] GAUDY NIGHT | 1977 | [verso of first leaf blank] | [on recto of second leaf, illustration of an elf looking at a sheet of paper] | The MASTER and FELLOWS of | MASSEY COLLEGE invite you to | join them for a GAUDY NIGHT on | Saturday, December 17, at 8:30 p.m. | in Hall. | [fourteen lines of text] | [verso of second leaf blank] Cream medium-weight paper stock. 215 × 90 mm. folded.

notes: A53 is the thirteenth broadside that Davies produced for the Fellows, senior residents, and other guests at Massey College for a Gaudy Night celebration. See also A20 for further information about these broadsides. There is no extant text of the 1977 broadside to indicate Davies’s authorship of it. However, since Davies always had a direct hand in arranging these occasions and in having a broadside issued as an invitation, his authorship of A53 is very probable. At the 1977 Gaudy Night, the Massey College Singers, directed by Gordon Wry and Bruce Ubukata, sang Christmas music (“familiar and unfamiliar carols”). Robert Finch read a Sesquicentennial poem composed for the occasion. Davies read the fifteenth and Sesquicentennial college ghost story (“The King Enjoys His Own Again”). Number of copies printed not known but approximately 200. See also file 6, vol. 11, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: otmc (eight copies).

A54  [gaudy night broadside 1978] [broadside folded twice making three panels, bottom folded one third upward, top folded one third downward; illustrations in red and all printing in red black letter typeface; on the recto of the front panel is a circular, flowery illustration with the Virgin Mary and the Christ child in the centre; transcription is from the beginning of the text] | [first letter drop letter] On Saturday night, December 16, | Massey College will hold a Gaudy | Night to mark the coming of Christmas. | [fifteen lines of text] | [next two lines on a separate panel] Make ye merry both more and less | For this is the Feast of Christemas | [on the back panel is an illustration of a red bull with a fleur-delys (Massey’s crest); next three lines to the right of the bull] Massey | College | Press | wps [William P. Stoneman] White medium-weight paper stock. 110 × 125 mm. folded. notes: A54 is the fourteenth Gaudy Night broadside produced under Davies’s direction for the Fellows, Senior Residents, and their guests at Massey College. For information about these broadsides, see A20. The archives of the Massey College Press at otmc have Davies’s typescript of A54. At the 1978 Gaudy Night, the Massey College Choir, under the direction of Gordon Wry and Bruce Ubukata, performed seasonal music and “Homage to Robert Herrick” (passages selected by Davies, music composed by Derek Holman). Davies read the sixteenth



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college ghost story (“The Xerox in the Lost Room”). A54 was printed by William P. Stoneman, a junior fellow, in an edition of 250 or 275 copies. After holding a series of academic posts in Canada, Stoneman was the Sheide Librarian at Yale University and then the Florence Fearrington Librarian of the Houghton Library at Harvard University. See also file 7, vol. 11, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: otmc (five copies).

A55  the enthusiasms of robertson davies 1979 A55a  Canadian edition: The Enthusiasms of | Robertson Davies | Edited by   Judith Skelton Grant | McCLELLAND AND STEWART 1-10 16. 1-7, 8-12, 13-14, 15-109, 110-112, 113-214, 215216, 217-320 pp. (160 leaves). 212 × 139 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 Introduction copyright © 1979 by Judith Skelton Grant | Text copyright © 1979 by Robertson Davies | All rights reserved | [three lines of acknowledgements to newspapers and periodicals for previous publication] | isbn 0-7710-2565-3 | The Canadian Publishers | McClelland and Stewart Limited | 25 Hollinger Road, Toronto | Printed and bound in Canada | by John Deyell Company | [rule; seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data; rule]; pp. 5-7 table of contents; p. 8 acknowledgements to several libraries, with initials J.S.G. [Judith Skelton Grant] at the end; pp. 9-12 Grant’s introduction; pp. 13-320 text (pp. 14, 110, 112, and 216 blank). text: The text has three parts: I Characters; II Books; III Robertson Davies. Part I consists of the following: Lew Fields; Emma Calvé; Tony Sarg; Richard Harris Barham; John Martin-Harvey; Osbert Sitwell; Walt Whitman; James Agate; Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell; George Santayana; P.G. Wodehouse; Sigmund Freud; Sydney Smith; Madame de Pompadour; Sean O’Casey; Dylan Thomas and Hector Berlioz; Havelock Ellis; mehitabel; Casanova de Seingalt; Father Knox; Hans Christian Andersen; Francis Bacon; Arthur Sullivan; King John; Edward Johnston; Theodore Hook; William Hazlitt; Baron Corvo; and Nellie Melba. Part II consists of commentary on the following works: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations; Ghost Stories; The Consolation of Philosophy [Boethius]/The Imitation of Christ [Thomas à Kempis]/Religio Medici [Sir Thomas

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Browne]; A Christmas Carol [Charles Dickens]; Fairs, Circuses & Music Halls [M. Willson Disher]/Esme of Paris [Esme Davis]; Ouida’s Books; King Jesus [Robert Graves]; Ivy Compton-Burnett’s Novels; Seeing and Knowing [Bernard Berenson]/The Voices of Silence [André Malraux]; The Magicians [J.B. Priestley]/The Doors of Perception [Aldous Huxley]; Corsets and Crinolines [Norah Waugh]; Joyce Cary’s Novels; Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man [Thomas Mann]; A Christmas Garland [Sir Max Beerbohm]; The Girl with the Swansdown Seat [Cyril Pearl]/The Abode of Love [Aubrey Menen]/1848 [Raymond Postgate]; The Canterbury Tales [Chaucer]; The Painter’s Eye [John L. Sweeney]/ The Nude [Sir Kenneth Clark]; Tess of the D’Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy]; The Undiscovered Self [C.G. Jung]; Lolita [Vladimir Nabokov]; Lady Chatterley’s Lover [D.H. Lawrence]; Origins [Eric Partridge]; A Book of Characters [Daniel George]; Clean and Decent [Lawrence Wright]; The Gormenghast Trilogy [Mervyn Peake]; Centuries [Nostradamus]; Franny and Zooey [J.D. Salinger]; Mr. Olim [Ernest Raymond]/The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [Muriel Spark]; Sir Aylmer’s Heir [Evelyn Everett-Green]; John Cowper Powys’ Novels; and The Young Visiters [Daisy Ashford]. Part III consists of the following: I Remember Creatore; Three Worlds, Three Summers—But Not the Summer Just Past; A Chat with a Great Reader; The Palest Ink; The Writer’s Week; Haiku and Englyn; Love and a Cough; Elements of Style; Gems of Yester­ year; An Author’s Pleasure; Scraps and Morsels; Dangerous Jewels; Shakespeare over the Port; Forgotten Dialogues; A Curmudgeon; The Pleasures of Love; Basic Optimism; Book Collecting; Too Much, Too Fast; Confessions of an Editor; Mimesis at Massey; The Three Warning Circles; The Table Talk of Robertson Davies; A Talk with Tom Harpur. binding and dust jacket: Bound in black-mottled, red thick-paper boards. Stamped in white on the spine: [the first four lines down the spine] The Enthusiasms of | [under the previous line] Robertson Davies | [the next two lines to the right of the previous two lines] Edited by | [under the previous line] | Judith Skelton Grant | M&S. The front, spine and back panels of the jacket are red. Printed on the front panel: [in silver] THE ENTHUSIASMS | [next word raised and in silver] of [in white] ROBERTSON | [in white] DAVIES | [five identical silver-and-red photos of Davies] | [in white] Edited by Judith Skelton Grant. The spine panel is similar to the stamping on the spine except some lines are in silver and there is a photo of Davies above the imprint. The back panel has the following heading in white: Here is the doyen of Canadian letters, | Robertson Davies... Beneath

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this heading, all in silver, are Davies’s comments on five subjects (On pornography; On patriotism; On vegetarianism; On sexuality; And on the nature of his fellow man). The flaps (in white) have paragraphs about Davies himself, the variety and nature of his writing, the contents of the book, and the editor’s qualifications. Also on the flaps are the title, price ($14.95), the name of the publisher, and the ISBN. Red endpapers. notes: This volume of Davies’s selected journalism reprints essays and book reviews written by him primarily between 1941 and 1962 in the Peterborough Examiner, Saturday Night, and the Toronto Daily Star. Part III also includes essays and interviews from other magazines and newspapers up to 1974. In the course of writing her critical overview of Davies’s work, Robertson Davies (1978), published by McClelland & Stewart in the New Canadian Library’s Canadian Writers series, grant searched out Davies’s serial publications and found that he “had a long and prolific journalistic career.” Davies’s interests, grant notes in her introduction, “are and were eclectic, and surprisingly deep; and his delight in sharing his views and discoveries with an audience inspired me to collect a sampling of his columns and reviews for a new group of readers” (p. 9). grant’s initial proposal to McClelland & Stewart in May 1978 was for two books of Davies’s selected writings: Gems from Robertson Davies’ Journalism and Robertson Davies on Arts and Letters in Canada (see A58). Diana Swift of McClelland & Stewart informed Jack McClelland on 17 May 1978 that Davies did not want to discuss grant’s two proposals until financial considerations had been settled with his agent. Davies was represented by Perry Knowlton of Curtis, Brown & Company. A contract was almost negotiated at that time, but grant withdrew it when Davies expressed concern that Macmillan of Canada, the Canadian publisher of his fiction, would be upset if they were not consulted about publication. In fact, Macmillan’s editor, Douglas M. Gibson, politely inquired about Davies’s intentions as to publication, but ultimately rejected publication of A55a and A58 on 6 June 1978 on the grounds that the material submitted was not of the first class. The first draft of a contract with McClelland & Stewart for a book entitled “Three Decades of Davies” is dated 9 August 1978 with a due date for the delivery of the manuscript of 15 March 1979. New contracts were prepared in March 1979. Anna Porter, one of McClelland’s editors, supported grant’s proposals and suggested print runs of 5,000 to 10,000 copies. Davies also supported grant’s pro-

posals, but he had reservations. He told McClelland in July 1978: “I am always dubious about these volumes of hotted-up journalism, but sometimes they work, and I have half assented to her project — at least to having a try. But I have insisted to her that I must have a considerable say in what is included, and about titles.” He did not like grant’s proposed title for A55, Gems from Robertson Davies: “to me it sounds like kidney stones.” He was also a bit worried about what grant would say in her introduction: “She is convinced that I am badly FLAWED & that she alone knows where the flaw is ... My contention, of course, is that I am flawless.” McClelland assured Davies on 27 July 1978 that although “Dr. Grant is a serious and determined lady ... We will back you totally on any reservation you may have about the content ... I have also noted that you would like Malcolm Ross to comment on the content and we shall certainly arrange that.” Swift informed Walter Rieman of Curtis Brown Ltd. on 9 February 1979 that “Three Decades of Davies” would be issued in the fall of the year and that the second book, “Arts and Letters,” would appear in the spring of 1980. Swift also alluded to paperback publication. The contracts for A55a and A58 were finally drawn up on 27 June 1979: an advance royalty of $2,500 (65% to Davies, 10% to his agent, and 25% to grant), 10% royalty up to 5,000 copies sold, 15% thereafter, and 8% royalty for any copies in paperback. (The date of the final contract at pend and the M&S offices is 24 April 1979.) Published on 17 November 1979. The copyright was registered jointly by Davies and grant at dlc’s Copyright Office on 20 December 1979 (TX-390-083). Number of copies printed not known. “I have been somewhat surprised by the number of people who have mentioned Enthusiasms to me and they seem to like it very much,” Davies told McClelland on 11 December 1979. When William French reviewed A55a in the Toronto Globe and Mail, Davies remarked. “I have reached that stage of authorship where I regard a long review in which my name, and the name of the book are spelled correctly as entirely good, whatever pernickety ideas the reviewer may express.” 2,145 copies sold up to the end of June 1993 (no copies had sold for several years). The rights to A55a reverted to Davies on 23 December 1986 when A55a was no longer in print. At that time thirty-five copies remained in the warehouse. Information on the publishing history of A55a has been obtained from the following sources: file 10, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; files 7-8, box 79, series A, McClellland & Stewart fonds, ohm; file 9, vol. 45 and file 6, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac; royalty reports at pend.



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copies examined: ohm (in jacket); okq (two copies in jacket); otmc (in jacket); pend (two copies in jacket). A55a.1  Canadian issue (1988): The Enthusiasms of | Robertson Davies | Edited by Judith Skelton Grant | MACMILLAN OF CANADA | A Division of Canada Publishing Corporation | Toronto, Ontario, Canada A55a.1 is a photographic reprint of A55a. The leaves of A55a.1 measure 209 × 130 mm. The copyright page (p. 4) is as follows: Introduction copyright © 1979 by Judith Skelton Grant | Text copyright © 1979 by Robertson Davies | [five lines about copyright; eight lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data with 1988 as the date of publication and ISBN 0-7715-9525-5; three lines of acknowledgements to newspapers and periodicals for previous publication] | First published in 1979 by The Canadian Publishers, McClelland and | Stewart Limited, Toronto, under ISBN 0-7710-2565-3 | Cover design by David Montle | Printed and bound in Canada. binding: Perfect binding, white stiff-paper covers. The following is on the front cover: [in red] The Enthusiasms | [hyphens in purple, word in red] - of - | [red open type] Robertson | [colour caricature of Davies holding a top hat, wearing formal clothes, and leaning on the letter D; red open type] Davies | [in blue] EDITED BY JUDITH SKELTON GRANT. Printed on the spine: [down the spine in red] The Enthusiasms of | [under the previous line in red] Robertson Davies | [next four lines in blue] Edited by | Judith | Skelton | Grant | [publisher’s device in purple: solid M with silhouette of maple leaf] | MACMILLAN | OF CANADA. The back cover, which has excerpts from the book, the ISBN, and the cover designer’s name, has the heading in red: Spend An Evening With | Robertson Davies... notes: After McClelland & Stewart reverted the rights of A55a to Davies, Macmillan of Canada explored publication of A55a.1 on 19 February 1987. The company anticipated publication in the fall of 1987. For a print run of 3,300, it estimated the following: total cost $13,943 (manufacturing, $8,860; royalty, $5,083 — advance to Davies, $5,000); net sales, $29,000; net profit, $4,907. Linda McKnight sent four copies of the contract on 16 March 1987 to Nancy Colbert of Curtis Brown Canada Limited (copies at ohm and pend): an advance royalty of $5,000 ($2,500 on signing and $2,500 on publication), 75% to Davies and 25% to grant; a royalty of 15% on a hardcover edition, 10% on trade paperback, and 7½% on mass-market paperback. The in-house editor was Philippa Campsie,

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and the designer of the cover was David Montle. The cover design was commissioned on 13 October 1987. The rough design was completed on 26 October 1987. The cover copy was set on 9 November 1987. The prelims of the manuscript were typeset on 16 November 1987. The cover art was filmed on 7 December 1987. Finished books were in the warehouse on 18 January 1988. Price $14.95. 2,370 copies had sold up to 30 June 1990 with an unearned balance of $1,369.45. Information on the publishing history of A55a.1 is based on: file 31, box 108, Colbert Agency fonds, lac; file 32, vol. 46, Davies fonds (correspondence with Curtis Brown Canada Ltd., Janet Turnbull Irving), lac; royalty reports at pend. copies examined: otmc; pend (three copies). A55b  first American edition, revised edition (1990): THE | [first letter in script] Enthusiasms | OF | [next two lines in a decorative typeface similar to Jim Crow] ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [curving ornament] | EDITED BY | Judith Skelton Grant | VIKING 1-12 16. 1-6, v-ix, x, xi-xvi, 1-2, 3-119, 120-122, 123-241, 242-244, 245-364, 1-2 pp. (192 leaves). 212 × 140 mm. contents: p. 1 Viking’s publisher’s device (Viking ship with spokes in a semi-circle above the ship) at bottom of page; p. 2 blank; p. 3 half title; p. 4 list of twenty-five other books by Davies listed under the categories of fiction, plays, and criticism and essays; p. 5 title; p. 6 VIKING | Published by the Penguin Group | [nine lines of addresses of branches of Penguin Books in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First American Edition | Published in 1990 by Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1990 | Introduction copyright © Judith Skelton Grant, 1990 | All rights reserved | An earlier, different edition of this work was published in Canada | by McClelland and Stewart Limited. | [seven lines indicating that selections in the book first appeared in a number of newspapers and journals; ten lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-670-82994-3] | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Sabon | [six lines concerning copyright]; pp. v-viii table of contents; p. ix acknowledgements, signed with initials J.S.G. [Judith Skelton Grant]; p. x blank; pp. xi-xvi grant’s introduction, dated 3 April 1989; pp. 1-364 (pp. 2, 120, 122, 242, and 244 blank); pp. 1-2 blank. text: In this revised edition, a few of Davies’s reviews and essays in A55a have been omitted. A number of newer pieces have been added by the editor at the

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end of each section. Part I has four new essays: Edmund Wilson; Somerset Maugham; D.H. Lawrence; and Anthony Burgess. Part II omits: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, The Undiscovered Self, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover [D.H. Lawrence]. The following essays have been added to Part II: The Tale Bearers [V.S. Pritchett]; Rites of Passage [William Golding]; The Hotel New Hampshire [John Irving]; Mantissa [John Fowles]; The Essential Jung; and The Philosopher’s Pupil [Iris Murdoch]. The interview, “A Talk with Tom Harpur,” has been omitted from Part III, and the following essays have been added: The Happy Intervention of Robertson Davies; Diary of a Writer on the Escarpment; and In a Welsh Border House, the Legacy of the Victorians. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in grey paper boards, quarter-bound with black cloth. Yellowish cream-coloured endpapers. Stamped in gilt on the spine: [the first three lines down the spine] THE ENTHUSIASMS OF ROBERTSON DAVIES | [rule under the previous line] | [under the rule] Edited by Judith Skelton Grant | [rule] | VIKING | [rule]. The front of the jacket has a black-and-white photo of a smiling Davies in a suit with the following lines on the bottom part of jacket: [in light blue] THE ENTHUSIASMS OF | [the next two lines in yellow script] Robertson | Davies | [in light blue] JUDITH SKELTON GRANT, EDITOR. The jacket’s spine and back panels are black with lines in white, light blue, and yellow. Printed on the spine panel: [all lines in light blue except Davies’s name which is in white] EDITED BY | JUDITH | SKELTON | GRANT | [down the spine panel] THE ENTHUSIASMS OF | [down the spine panel under the previous line in script] Robertson Davies | [Viking’s publisher’s device; rule] | VIKING | [rule]. On the back panel are the title, a short five-line paragraph about the book, a listing of some of the pieces in the book under the titles of the book’s three parts, the ISBN, and bar code. The flaps are white. They contain information on the price of the book ($19.95), paragraphs about Davies, the book’s contents, grant, the publisher’s device and address, and the names of the jacket designer (Neil Stuart) and jacket photographer (Jerry Bauer). The last line on the front flap is: 0390 (possibly indicating that the book was published in March 1990). notes: Galley proofs of A55a were sent to Elisabeth Sifton of the Viking Press on 6 November 1979, but Viking declined publication at the time and so did Little, Brown. On 7 February 1989, grant informed Davies that she had been in touch with Elizabeth Arlen at Viking Penguin regarding publication of A55 in paperback. She told Davies that she proposed to delete

a few pieces from A55a and to add some of Davies’s more recent writings published between 1978 and 1987. grant also sent Arlen a list of typos for correction. The contract with Viking Penguin was sent to Davies on 6 March 1989 (revised amendment sent to him on 3 April 1989). The contract at pend is dated 6 February 1989: an advance of $10,000; for the hardcover, a royalty of 10% on the first 5,000 copies sold, 12½% for the next 5,000 copies, and 15% thereafter; a royalty of 7½% on the paperback. Davies received 65% of the royalties and grant 35%. Arlen told Davies on 3 April 1989 that A55b was scheduled to appear in January 1990. A proof of the cover was sent to Davies on 31 July 1989. An excerpt entitled “The Pleasures of an Ornate Style” appeared in Mirabella magazine 1, no. 10 (March 1990): 64 (Davies was paid $1,000 for the first serial rights on 4 December 1989). A55b was published on 1 March 1990. It was registered at the Copyright Office of dlc under grant’s name on 6 February 1990 (TX-2-751-102). 750 copies of A55b were also shipped to England by Viking Penguin; they were available for sale on 28 June 1990. 4,667 copies sold by the end of 1991 (royalty reports at pend). Information on the publishing history of A55b is based on the following files from the Davies fonds, lac: files 9, 28, 30, and 31, vol. 46, file 3, vol. 48, and file 37, vol. 52. copies examined: oh (in jacket); ohm (not in jacket); pend (two copies in jacket). A55b.1  American / English / Canadian issue of revised edition (1991): THE | [first letter in script] Enthusiasms | OF | [next two lines in a decorative typeface similar to Jim Crow] ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [curving ornament] | EDITED BY | Judith Skelton Grant | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS A55b.1 is a photographic reprint (196 × 126 mm.) of A55b. Although A55b.1 has the same number of leaves as A55b, it has one less preliminary leaf and two leaves of publicity information about Penguin Books after the text (verso of the first leaf after the text is blank). The copyright page reads as follows: PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [twelve lines of addresses of Penguin Books in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in the United States of America by | Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1990 | Published in Penguin Books 1991 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Judith Skelton Grant, 1990 | All rights reserved | An earlier, different edition was published in Canada | by McClelland



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and Stewart Limited. | [seven lines indicating that selections in the book first appeared in a number of newspapers and journals; eleven lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN for A55b and ISBN 0 14 012994-3] | Printed in the United States of America | [six lines concerning copyright]. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers in black, white, and copper. The top third of the front cover is black with the title in white small and large capitals. The rest of the cover is copper with a photograph of a smiling Davies, a quotation from the Washington Post Book World, the name of the editor, and Penguin’s publisher’s device. The spine is copper. The top quarter of the back cover is copper with the heading: AN URBANE AND WONDERFULLY OPINIONATED | COLLECTION OF ARTICLES IN WHICH | ROBERTSON DAVIES ADDRESSES TOPICS RANGING FROM | LOVE AFFAIRS TO BEANSNIPPING. The rest of the back cover in white has: two paragraphs about the book’s contents, excerpts from reviews, the names of the cover designer (Paul Gamarello/©Eyetooth Design) and cover photographer (Jerry Bauer), the publisher’s device, the ISBN and bar code within a rectangle, and prices (£5.99, $12.99 Can., and $9.95 USA). notes: A55b.1 was sold in the United States, England, and Canada. Maureen Donnelly of Penguin USA requested an update of Davies’s biographical information for promotion purposes on 22 January 1991. A55b.1 was published in the United States on 1 July 1991 and in England on 26 September 1991. The contract for the book was subsumed in the contract for A55b. 5,431 copies sold in the United States by the end of 1991; 2,145 copies sold in Canada by the end of 1993 (royalty reports at pend). copies examined: pend (four copies).

A56  [gaudy night broadside 1979] [cover title; all lines within a green compartment consisting of columns, plaques, curlicues, flowers, and leaves] | The Master and Fellows | of Massey College | invite you to a Gaudy Night | to celebrate the coming of Christmas | in the Hall on Saturday, December 15, | at 8:30 p.m. [new sentence] | [fifteen lines of text, including five lines of exhortation from the Bursar: Go, tak ane drink, and mak collation ...] White light-weight paper stock. 248 × 188 mm. Blank verso.

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notes: A 56 is the fifteenth broadside produced as an invitation for the Fellows, Senior Residents, and their guests to a Gaudy Night at Massey College. See A20 for further information about the production of these broadsides. The archives of the Massey College Press at otmc have Davies’s typescript of A56. At the 1979 Gaudy Night, the Massey Singers, under the direction of Giles Bryant, performed seasonal music and “An Exploration of the Twelve Days of Christmas” (composed by Robert Finch). Davies read the seventeenth college ghost story (“Einstein and the Little Lord”). Number of copies printed not known (approximately 200 copies). Printed by William P. Stoneman according to the description on the file at otmc. See also file 8, vol. 11, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: otmc (one copy; sixteen copies with text alone and no compartment).

A57  [gaudy night broadside] 1980 [cover title; rectangular, horizontal illustration of three seated angels, each holding various objects (a plant, a wreath, a book, etc.)] | MASSEY COLLEGE will celebrate | the coming of Christmas on Saturday, | December 13, 1980, at 8:30 p.m. with a | GAUDY NIGHT. [illustration of a small bell; new sentence] | [twelve lines of text followed by an ornamental rule (circle with spokes at centre)] Broadside, beige medium-weight paper stock. 328 × 170 mm. Two copies measure 328 × 156 mm. Blank verso. notes: A57 is the sixteenth (and last) broadside produced by Davies as an invitation for the Fellows, Senior Residents, and their guests to a Gaudy Night at Massey College. The archives of the Massey College Press at otmc have Davies’s typescript of A57. See A20 for further information about these broadsides. The Massey College Choir, under the direction of Giles Bryant, performed seasonal music, including “A Holly Wreath,” a collection of irreverent carols some of which were written by Davies and set to music by Louis Applebaum. See Walter Pitman, Louis Applebaum: A Passion for Culture (Toronto: Dundurn Group, 2002), pp. 370-1, 489-90 note 43, who gives the titles of some of the carols (“Wot ye, Churl,” “Cold Blows the Wind,” and “Luckless King Henry VIII”) and quotes a number of lines. Davies certainly wrote “Wot ye, Churl” and was the “Welsh Commentator” who wrote a response to “King Henry’s Love Song.” However, he did not write the other carols ascribed to him

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by Pitman. Davies read the eighteenth and last college ghost story (“Offer of Immortality”). Number of copies of A57 printed not known. Printed by M. Zeitlin according to the description on the file at otmc. See also file 7, vol. 11, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: otmc (ten copies).

A58  the well-tempered critic 1981 ROBERTSON | DAVIES | The Well-Tempered Critic: | [the next four lines in script] One Man’s View | of Theatre | and Letters | in Canada | Edited by Judith Skelton Grant | McClelland and Stewart 1-7, 8-17, 18-20, 21-137, 138-140, 141-285, 1-3 pp. (144 leaves). 212 × 141 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 Introduction copyright © 1981 by Judith Skelton Grant | Text copyright © 1981 by Robertson Davies | All rights reserved | [nine lines of acknowledgement to newspapers and periodicals (including “Party of One: The Northern Muse” in Holiday magazine and “A Dialogue on the State of Theatre in Canada” by permission of the Minister of Supply and Services Canada)] | The Canadian Publishers | McClelland and Stewart Limited | 25 Hollinger Road, Toronto | M4B 3G2 | [rule] | [eleven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data] | [rule] | Printed and bound in the United States of America; pp. 5-7 table of contents; p. 8 acknowledgements; pp. 9-17 grant’s introduction; p. 18 blank; pp. 19-285 text (pp. 20, 138, and 140 blank); pp. 1-3 blank. text: There are two parts to the book: part I Theatre and part II Letters. Part I is a selection of Davies’s columns, articles, editorials, and reviews of performances and books to do with theatre in Canada. Part II gathers together a selection of his book reviews, columns, and articles focussed on literature in Canada. Part I consists of: Looking Backward: 1940; Why Not a Canadian Drama?: 1944; Samuel Marchbanks Ruminates on Actors and Playgoers: 1948; Samuel Marchbanks’ Diary of a Drama Festival: 1949; Samuel Marchbanks Writes a Letter to Apollo Fishorn: 1950; Samuel Marchbanks Writes Another Letter to Apollo Fishorn: 1950; Directors for Canadian Theatres: 1951; A Dialogue on the State of Theatre in Canada: 1951; The Festival Idea: 1952; Are Canadians Dull?: 1953; Stratford: 1953 Richard III/All’s Well That Ends Well; Stratford: 1954 Measure for Measure/The Taming of the Shrew; Stratford: 1954 Oedipus Rex; Canada’s Great Playwright: 1956; Stratford: 1961 Coriolanus/

Henry VIII/Love’s Labour’s Lost; Stratford: 1962 Cyrano de Bergerac; Tyrone Power and Dr. Thomas Guthrie in Canada: 1963; Stratford: 1964 Richard II/Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme/King Lear; Stratford: 1965 The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny; Stratford: 1965 The Cherry Orchard; Stratford: 1966 Twelfth Night/Henry V/Henry VI; Stratford: 1967 Richard III/The Government Inspector/ The Merry Wives of Windsor; A Stage in Our Past: 1969; Touring Fare in Canada 1920-35: 1979. Part II consists of: Whiteoak Heritage : 1940; As for Me and My House: 1941; Letters in Canada: 1940/ Canadian Literature Today: 1941; Barometer Rising : 1941; Contemporary Verse : 1942; Anthology of Canadian Poetry: 1942; The Man Who Wrote “O Canada”: 1942; The Book of Small: 1942; Emily Carr: 1945; Earth and High Heaven: 1945; In Search of Myself: 1946; Who Has Seen the Wind: 1947; The Tin Flute: 1947; The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks: 1947; The Wounded Prince: 1948; A Letter from Canada: 1950; Samuel Marchbanks Writes a Letter to Haubergeon Hydra: 1950; Samuel Marchbanks Writes a Letter to Chandos Fribble: 1950; Canadian Quotations and Phrases: 1952; Book Collecting and Canadians: 1953; Light-Hearted Scholarship and Canada: 1953; Sincerity and Canadians: 1953; B.K. Sandwell: 1954; R.C. Wallace: 1955; Literature in Canada: 1955; Cousin Elva/Mortgage Manor/Shall We Join the Ladies?: 1955; The Sacrifice : 1956; Poets Wander at Large in Canada: 1959; We Charitable Critics: 1959; The Watch That Ends the Night: 1959; A Red Carpet for the Sun: 1959; Mad Shadows: 1960; Pauline Johnson: 1961; Mazo de la Roche: 1961; Canadian Literature: 1964; The Stone Angel/The Tomorrow-Tamer : 1964; O Canada: An American’s Notes on Canadian Culture: 1965; A Season in the Life of Emmanuel: 1966; Letters: The Unfashionable Canadians: 1967; Leacock as a Literary Artist: 1971; Canadian Nationalism in Arts and Science: 1975; The Manticore: 1977; The Novels of Mavis Gallant: 1978. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in beige paper boards, quarter-bound with red cloth. Stamped in gilt down the spine: ROBERTSON DAVIES | [under the previous line] The Well-Tempered Critic: | [ornament] | Edited by | [under the previous line] Judith Skelton Grant | M&S. Beige endpapers. The dust jacket is white. Printed on the front panel of the jacket: [red rule] | [the next two lines in camel brown] ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [red rule] | [in camel brown] The Well-Tempered Critic: | [the next four lines in script] One Man’s View | of Theatre | and Letters | in Canada | [in camel brown] Edited by Judith Skelton Grant. The spine panel (printed in red, black, and camel brown) is similar to the stamping on the spine.



A59 The Penguin Leacock. 1981

On the back panel in red and black are excerpts from reviews of The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies (A55a). On the front flap are the price of the book ($18.95), information on the book’s contents, and biographical information about Davies. The biographical information about Davies continues on the back flap along with brief biographical information about grant, the name of jacket’s designer (Bob Young), and the ISBN 0-7710-2567-X. notes: A58 is a volume of Davies’s selected writings on and reviews of theatre and literature in Canada, originally published between 1940 and 1979 in a variety of newspapers (primarily the Peterborough Examiner), journals, and other publications. It is the second collection of Davies’s journalistic writings edited by grant, the first being A55a. The dust jacket of A58 refers to A55a as a companion volume to A58. The original title proposed by grant was “Robertson Davies on Arts and Letters in Canada.” See the notes to A55a for the contract arrangements for A58. “I hope you will like Mrs. Grant’s collection of pieces about Canadian Literature,” Davies told Jack McClelland on 11 December 1979. “I was astonished when she showed me what she had in hand to find that I had dealt pretty much with a generation of Canadian writing and had, on the whole, said the right words about the right books.” Published on 16 May 1981. Number of copies printed not known (1,251 copies sold by the end of 1985). Davies complained to Jack McClelland three days prior to publication that the book’s title was the same as Northrop Frye’s lectures delivered at the University of Virginia in March 1961 and published by the Indiana University Press in 1963. Davies had suggested four titles to grant for consideration. When she submitted these to McClelland & Stewart, she asked the publisher to check the final title with Books in Print to make sure that it had not already been used by another author. Unfortunately, the publisher failed to carry out this check. Information on the publishing history of A58 is based on the following: file 8, box 79, series A, McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm; file 9, vol. 46, files 6-7, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac; royalty report at pend. copies examined: ohm (in jacket); okq (in jacket); otmc (in jacket); pend (two copies in jacket).

A59  the penguin stephen leacock 1981 A59a  first Canadian edition: THE PENGUIN | STEPHEN LEACOCK | Selected and Introduced by | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [Penguin

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Book’s publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS i-ix, x-xii, 1-527, 1-5 pp. (272 leaves). 196 × 125 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii blank; p. iii title; p. iv [five lines which list addresses of Penguin Books Ltd. and its branches in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published 1981 | This collection copyright © Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1981 | Introduction copyright © Robertson Davies, 1981 | All rights reserved | Permission to use the stories in this collection was | kindly granted by McClelland and Stewart Limited and The Bodley Head | Manufactured in Canada by Webcom Limited | [nine lines pertaining to copyright]; pp. v-vii table of contents; p. viii blank; pp. ix-xii Davies’s introduction, dated 5 February 1981; pp. 1-527 text; pp. 1-5 advertisements for Peguinews, books published by Penguin, Wayne Grady’s The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, books by Davies, and Hugh MacLennan’s Voices in Time. text: Davies’s selection of Stephen Leacock’s stories and sketches is divided into twenty-one numbered chapters, each containing a selection from Leacock’s published books.   1 from Literary Lapses: My Financial Career; Boarding-House Geometry; The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones; A, B, and C: The Human Element in Mathematics.   2 from Nonsense Novels: Gertrude the Governess: or Simple Seventeen; Guido the Gimlet of Ghent: A Romance of Chivalry; Hannah of the Highlands: or The Laird of Loch Aucherlocherty.   3 from Behind the Beyond: Homer and Humbug: An Academic Discussion.   4 from Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy: The Spiritual Outlook of Mr. Doomer.   5 from Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich: chapter 6 The Rival Churches of St. Asaph and St. Osoph; chapter 7 The Ministrations of the Reverend Uttermust Dumfarthing; chapter 8 The Great Fight for Clean Government.   6 from Further Foolishness: Are the Rich Happy?   7 from Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town: chapter 1 The Hostelry of Mr. Smith; chapter 3 The Marine Excursions of the Knights of Pythias; chapter 9 The Mariposa Bank Mystery; chapter 11 The Candidacy of Mr. Smith.   8 from My Discovery of England: Oxford as I See It; We Have with Us To-night.   9 from The Hohenzollerns in America: How to Introduce Two People to One Another.

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10 from Over the Footlights: Oroastus — A Greek Tragedy. 11 from The Iron Man and the Tin Woman: Further Progress in Specialization; Eddie the Bar-tender. 12 from The Dry Pickwick: The Perfect Optimist; Ho for Happiness: A Plea for Lighter and Brighter Literature. 13 from Winnowed Wisdom: Our Summer Convention as Described by One of Its Members; At the Ladies’ Culture Club: A Lecture on the Fourth Dimension. 14 from Short Circuits: Old Junk and New Money: A Little Study in the Latest Antiques; How to Borrow Money; Save Me from My Friends; The Old Men’s Page. 15 from Model Memoirs: My Victorian Childhood by Lady Nearleigh Slopover; Overworking the Alphabet. 16 from Essays and Literary Studies: Fiction and Reality: A Study of the Art of Charles Dickens. 17 from Frenzied Fiction: The New Education. 18 from Too Much College: Bass Fishing on Lake Simcoe with Jake Gaudaur. 19 The Boy I Left Behind Me (the entire book except the epilogue). 20 from My Remarkable Uncle and Other Sketches: My Remarkable Uncle. 21 from Last Leaves: Three Score and Ten: The Business of Growing Old. binding: Perfect binding in stiff paper. On the front cover is the following: The Penguin [Penguin Book’s publisher’s device] | [rule] | [the next two lines in purple] Stephen | Leacock | [partial rule] | Selected | and | Introduced by | Robertson | Davies | [to the right of the previous five lines is a colour illustration of Leacock’s head and shoulders]. Printed down the spine: The Penguin [next two words in purple] STEPHEN LEACOCK ISBN 0 14 [rest of ISBN number under the first part of the number] 00.5890 7 [Penguin Book’s publisher’s device]. The back cover has two paragraphs about Leacock and the collection of stories in The Penguin Stephen Leacock, the ISBN number, and the recommended price (blacked out). notes: A59 is the third book either written or compiled by Davies about the Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock, the others being A33 and A35. On 22 August 1980, Davies replied to a letter from Peter J. Waldock of Penguin Books Canada about a proposed anthology of Leacock’s writings: I agree with you that it would be desirable to have a Leacock collection available in a convenient paperback form, although there is already a collection published

by McClelland and Stewart [The Best of Leacock, ed. J.B. Priestley (1957); English edition entitled The Bodley Head Leacock]. If you wish me to do so I would be glad to write a new introduction to the Bodley Head collection because, although J.B. Priestley’s introduction is genial and very friendly toward Canada, there are some things which could not be said in 1957 which could fittingly be said now. As regards the collection itself, I think it is a very good one, but if you have in mind something along the lines of the Viking Portables, it lacks one essential, and that is a complete work by the author represented.

Davies favoured the inclusion of Leacock’s unfinished autobiography, The Boy I Left Behind Me (“one of the best things that Leacock ever wrote”), and he wanted to drop other essays or short stories that Priestley had included. He revised the table of contents of The Bodley Head Leacock, and on 22 October 1980, he reported to Waldock: “The book could be brought to a fine conclusion by including the very fine Three Score and Ten from Last Leaves; the excisions I have suggested above would make room for the new material without seriously enlarging the book.” Waldock thanked Davies for his introduction on 20 February 1981. Davies’s introduction was sent to the printers, and Waldock sent A59a’s cover design to Davies a week later. Davies was paid an advance of $500 for the Canadian rights. When he received a copy of A59a on 15 June 1981, Davies remarked: “The Penguin Stephen Leacock has just arrived and it is a handsome, chunky book — splendid value for the money — and just the kind of book that I think Leacock himself would have liked. I hope it finds many many thousands of new readers for him because sufficient time has elapsed since his death for the customary slump in reputation to be completed, and from now on I am sure that he will take an honoured place in the literature of the twentieth century.” Number of copies printed not known. Information on the publishing history of A59a has been obtained from the following files from the Davies fonds at lac: file 12, vol. 46 and files 42-3, vol. 50. copies examined: davis; lac. A59b  second Canadian edition (1985): [transcription identical to A59a] 1-5, 6-447, 1 pp. (224 leaves). 210 × 142 mm. contents: p. 1 half title with biographical information about Leacock; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 [five lines which list addresses of Penguin Books Ltd. and its branches in England, the United States,



A60 Brothers in the Black Art. 1981

Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published 1981 | Reprinted 1982, 1985 | This collection copyright © Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1981 | Introduction copyright © Robertson Davies, 1981 | All rights reserved | Permission to use the stories in this collection was | kindly granted by McClelland and Stewart Limited and The Bodley Head | Typeset, printed and bound in Great Britain by | Hazell Watson & Viney Limited, | Member of the BPCC Group, | Aylesbury, Bucks | Set in VIP Times | [nine lines pertaining to copyright]; pp. 5-6 table of contents; pp. 7-10 Davies’s introduction, dated 5 February 1981; pp. 11-447 text; p. 1 blank. text: Identical to A59a. binding: Perfect binding in stiff, goldish-brown paper with lettering in black and illustrations in metallic green, black, white, and orange. The front cover features a round, abstract portrait of Leacock; beneath the portrait in the left-hand corner is Penguin Book’s publisher’s device, and above the portrait within a rectangle is: A COMPENDIUM OF COMIC GEMS | The Penguin | Stephen Leacock. The spine has the title within a rectangle, the ISBN number, and the publisher’s device. On the back cover within a rectangle is the following: [publisher’s device] | DELICIOUS STORIES AND OCCASIONAL PIECES | BY THE GREAT CANADIAN HUMOURIST [sic] | Stephen Leacock. Beneath the rectangle is a paragraph on the contents of the book, a quotation from Davies’s introduction, the prices in various countries ($9.95 Canadian), and the ISBN number. Cover illustration by Leslie Howell. notes: Although the verso of the title leaf states that this is a reprint of A59a, it is in fact a new setting of type. copies examined: lac. A59c  third Canadian edition entitled The Penguin Book of Stephen Leacock: The | PENGUIN | BOOK | of | [the next two lines handwritten with the letters at different angles] Stephen | Leacock | Selected and | Introduced by | ROBERTSON | DAVIES | 25th | Anniversary | Edition | [Penguin Book’s publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN | CANADA i-vii, vii-x, 1-3, 2-10, 11, 12-32, 33, 34-38, 39, 40-42, 43, 44-98, 99, 100-103, 104, 105-161, 162, 163-195, 196, 197-199, 200, 201-212, 213, 214-218, 219, 220-241, 242, 243-248, 249, 250-262, 263, 264-274, 275, 276-290, 291, 292-296, 297, 298-305, 306, 307-458, 459, 460-464, 1-4 pp. (240 leaves). 226 × 150 mm.

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contents: p. i biographical information about Leacock; p. ii blank; p. iii title; p. iv PENGUIN CANADA | Published by the Penguin Group | [twelve lines of addresses of Penguin Books Ltd. and its branches in Canada, the United States, England, Ireland, Australia, India, New Zealand, and South Africa] | First published in a Viking Canada hardcover by Penguin Group (Canada), a division of Pearson Canada Inc., 1981 | Published in Penguin Canada paperback by Penguin Group (Canada), | a division of Pearson Canada Inc., 1982, 1985 | Published in this edition, 2006 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (RRD) | This collection copyright © Penguin Books Canada Limited, 1981 | Introduction copyright © Robertson Davies, 1981, Pendragon Ink, 2006 | Permission to use the stories in this collection was kindly granted | by McClelland and Stewart Limited and The Bodley Head | [four lines pertaining to copyright; three lines of a publisher’s note that the book is a work of fiction] | Manufactured in the U.S.A. | [rule; eight lines of Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication data; rule; seven lines concerning sale, distribution, and Penguin web addresses]; ; pp. v-vi table of contents; pp. vii, viii-xi Davies’s introduction, dated 5 February 1981; p. 1 fly title; p. 2 blank; pp. 3, 2-464 text; pp. 1-4 blank text: Identical to A59a. binding: Perfect binding in stiff white paper. The lettering on the front cover, which is similar to the title page, is brown, black, red, and purple. The publisher’s device in orange, black, and white is located on the bottom right-hand corner. To the left of the lettering is a colour drawing of Leacock’s face and shoulders. A drawing of Leacock in a fedora also appears on the spine. On the back cover in various muted colours are the title, a quotation from Davies’s introduction, two paragraphs about the book, the names of the cover illustrator (Barry Blitt) and designer (Paul Hodgson), the publisher’s device, the ISBNs (13:978-0-14-3051343; and 10: 0-14-305134-2), the bar code, Penguin Canada’s website address, and the price ($25). notes: Published on 14 May 2006 approximately twenty-five years after the publication of A59a. copies examined: bva.

A60  brothers in the black art 1981 Brothers | in the | Black Art | by | Robertson Davies | 1981 | The Alcuin Society | Vancouver, B.C. 124. 1-6, 1-41, 1 pp. (24 pp.) 216 × 139 mm.

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contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 Copyright Robertson Davies, 1974 | Produced on television by the | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | 17 February, 1974 | First published by The Alcuin Society, | September 1981 | ISBN: 0-919026-12-5; p. 5 paragraph in italics in which Davies explains the origins of his play; p. 6 blank; pp. 1-41 text; p. 1 blank. binding: Bound in white thick-paper wrappers, wire-stitched. Printed on the front of the wrapper: Brothers | in the | Black Art | by | Robertson Davies | A PLAY FOR TELEVISION. The back of the wrapper is blank, except for the inside cover which has the colophon: Brothers in the Black Art by Robertson Davies | is the first of a series of chapbooks | published by The Alcuin Society. | It has been printed by Don Atkins | in Trump Medieval on Carlyle Japan paper | in an edition of 126 copies, of which 26, lettered, | have been signed by the author and are for his own use, | and 100 have been numbered and are for sale. | Alcuin Chapbook Number One, September 1981. | First Edition. | This is copy | [illustration of books, inkwell with quill pen, and letter A, all within two small rectangles]. notes: Based on incidents in the printing trade experienced by Rupert Davies, Davies’s father, during his early days in Canada, A60 is a play with three principal characters — Jesse, Griff, and Phil, young friends who are apprentices and journeyman printers. The story of their emotional entanglements is related to a reporter by Jesse, who is nearing ninety years of age. Davies wrote A60 in March 1973 at the request of Fletcher Markle of the CBC for the TV series, “The Play’s the Thing.” Davies completed revisions to his script and sent them to Markle on 20 March 1973. The play was dramatized on a one-hour program on 14 February 1974. “I have only met one person who saw this play, and as she is my secretary this is not surprising,” Davies told Robert Allen, Executive Producer of CBC TV Drama, on 21 February 1977. “Although I think it was a good piece of work it disappeared virtually without trace and not even the newspaper television critics appear to have seen it.” Davies submitted the play for inclusion in A52a, but Macmillan of Canada sent it back to him on 10 August 1977. On 25 March 1981, Stephen Cummings of The Alcuin Society informed Davies that The Alcuin Society was planning to publish a series of chapbooks, two titles per year, of unpublished works by well-known Canadian writers. “I would be happy to have something of mine produced by the Alcuin Society, whose work I admire,” Davies replied on 1 April 1981, “and the manuscript that I propose is Brothers in the Black Art,

which might appeal to the Alcuin members because it is about three printers in Canada of the 1890’s.” He also offered Cummings an essay on nineteenthcentury theatre, prepared for the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario, but he took back the essay on 23 April 1981. Oddly enough, on the day that he replied to Cummings, Davies agreed to have the play published by Eugene Benson in Canadian Drama, but he withdrew the publishing rights from Benson on 5 May 1981 due to A60’s publication by The Alcuin Society. Peter Quartermain of The Alcuin Society told Davies on 16 June 1981 that A60 would be printed by photo offset. Published in late September 1981. Quartermain sent Davies his twenty-six lettered copies on 20 October 1981. Copies sold primarily to members of The Alcuin Society to recoup the cost of printing. The last five copies of the book were sold by The Alcuin Society in February 1984. Information on the publishing history of A60 has been obtained from correspondence found in the Davies fonds at lac: files 8 and 37, vol. 43, files 24 and 47, vol. 44, file 38, vol. 47, and file 45, vol. 51. For Davies’s earlier involvement with The Alcuin Society, see B18. A60 is reprinted in A95. copies examined: okq (two copies: one copy lettered Y; copy no. 28); otmc (copy no. 46); pend (lettered B); qmmrb (copy no. 87).

A61  the rebel angels 1981 A61a  first Canadian edition: [row of ornaments] | The Rebel Angels | ROBERTSON DAVIES | Macmillan of Canada | A Division of Gage Publishing Limited | Toronto, Canada 1-6, 1-326, 1-4 pp. (168 leaves). 228 × 145 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 © 1981 BY ROBERTSON DAVIES | All rights reserved. | [six lines about copyright; seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data] | All the characters in this book are fictitious, | and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead | is coincidental. | Macmillan of Canada | A Division of Gage Publishing Limited | Toronto, Canada | Printed in Canada; p. 5 fly title; p. 6 blank; pp. 1-326 text; pp. 1-4 blank. text: The twelve sections of the text are narrated alternately by two characters, Maria Theotoky (chapters entitled “Second Paradise”) and Simon Darcourt (chapters entitled “The New Aubrey”): Second Paradise I; The New Aubrey I; Second Paradise II; The New Aubrey II; Second Paradise III; The New Aubrey



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III; Second Paradise IV; The New Aubrey IV; Second Paradise V; The New Aubrey V; Second Paradise VI; The New Aubrey VI. Each chapter consists of numbered sections. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in greyishgreen paper boards, quarter-bound with black cloth. Stamped in gilt on the spine as follows: [first three lines in calligraphic-styled type] Davies | The | Rebel | Angels | [publisher’s device: solid M with silhouette of maple leaf] | MACMILLAN | OF CANADA. The front panel of the jacket has a photograph by Peter Paterson of the tower of Trinity College, University of Toronto, with the light of the “midsummer full moon” shining through its windows. The spine panel is black with white lettering similar to the stamping on the book’s spine. On the back panel is a black-and-white photograph of Davies’s head by Paterson. The flaps are white with the title and author’s name in orange calligraphic-styled type. The front flap has a summary of the book. On the back flap are three paragraphs about Davies, the ISBN (0-7715-9556-5), and the names of the photographer and publisher. Also on   the back flap, printed vertically, is the following: A PEPPERMINT DESIGN © RICHARD MILLER. notes: A61, the first book of the Cornish trilogy, is concerned with the complicated lives of several scholars and their acquaintances at a Canadian university: Maria Theotoky, a graduate student; Clement Hollier, her supervisor; Francis Cornish, a collector; John Parlabane, a sceptic and renegade monk; Ozias Froats, a scientist; professors such as Simon Darcourt and Urquhart McVarish; and Cornish’s nephew, the businessman Arthur Cornish. The first entry in Davies’s research notebook for A61 is dated August 1976. He began writing the book on 3 April 1979 and finished the first draft on 30 June 1980. Although his progress was steady, he was uncertain about the book’s literary merit. “I am working very hard at the new novel and, as usual, I have not the slightest idea of the quality of what I’m producing,” Davies told Douglas M. Gibson, the Publisher of Macmillan of Canada, on 9 August 1979. He added: “The background of the book is university life, and obviously the University of Toronto ... I have every expectation of having the book three-quarters completed by the end of August.” When Davies was ready to submit his manuscript to Gibson, Macmillan of Canada was in the midst of a take-over by Gage Publishing Limited, a large textbook publisher. Anxious that Davies might have second thoughts about Macmillan’s suitability as a publisher, Gibson reassured Walter Rieman, Davies’s agent at Curtis Brown Ltd., on 13 January 1981 that

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he looked forward to reading A61 with great enthusiasm and to publishing it with the same enthusiasm. Gibson was certainly enthusiastic when he read Davies’s manuscript. “It is a wonderful manuscript — rich, polished and full of marvellous things,” he told Davies on 5 February 1981. Gibson mailed Perry Knowlton of Curtis Brown Ltd. a copy of the signed contract on 17 March 1981: 10% royalty on the first 3,000 copies sold, 12½% on the next 2,000 copies, and 15% thereafter. Davies received an advance royalty of $10,000 on signing the agreement and a further $10,000 on publication. On 8 April 1981, Gibson sent Davies a long list of queries, although he stressed that nothing in his queries called for major re-writing. He also informed Davies that Eleanor Sinclair, an editor, would try to “Normal Schoolize” his prose. Gibson and Elisabeth Sifton, Davies’s American editor, together posed a total of ninety-five queries. Davies admitted on 24 April 1981 that their queries often pointed out “some manifest grammatical or syntactical felony” and that certain “suggested changes” also “sharpened the writing.” What he resisted resolutely was an “editoriallike zeal for total clarity ... I am a writer much given to light and shade, and I firmly believe that to know all is to despise all.” On 16 June 1981, Macmillan of Canada projected the following cost and profit estimates: list price, $16.95, based on co-printing with Viking Press (10,000 copies for the American issue); print run,15,000 copies, 200 for review and complimentary copies; sales, $142,968; plant cost, $4,300; paper, printing, and binding, $33,150; Davies’s royalties, $34,239; gross margin, $71,279 (49.9%); overhead, $50,039 (35%); net profit, $21,240 (14.9%). The description on the front flap of the jacket was written by Gibson on 24 June 1981 with changes suggested by Davies. For the photograph on the front of the jacket, Gibson and the photographer Peter Paterson spent an evening in midsummer when the moon was full, carrying armloads of props around Trinity College at the University of Toronto. Paterson then took the successful picture, a photograph of the full moon filtering through the windows of Trinity’s Tower. Galley proofs were sent to Davies on 2 July 1981. Davies returned the corrected proofs on 20 July 1981. The book was in page proofs by 10 August 1981. The Book of the Month Club placed an initial order for 1,000 copies and made the book an Alternate Selection for Canada. By 16 September 1981, advance orders were over 7,500 copies. Finished books were in the warehouse two days later. Davies received his author copies on 1 October 1981. A61a was published on 10 October

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1981. The copyright was registered at dlc’s Copyright Office on 9 December 1981 (TX-817-658). According to Man of Myth (p. 546), 13,595 copies of A61a sold (12,887 copies sold by 30 June 1990). There was a reprint of 3,000 copies of A61a on 9 November 1981 (corrections made to p. 246). Macmillan of Canada spent the following on A61’s publicity campaign: $2,385 on direct advertising in newspapers and journals; $3,000, co-op advertising; $4,000 for Davies’s travel and promotion (travel grant $1,500); poster, $800. On 1 December 1981, Gibson informed Sifton that of the 18,000 copies in print, only 2,000 copies remained in the warehouse. A61a was nominated for the City of Toronto Book award on 24 February 1981, but lost out to Marian Engel’s Lunatic Villas. Between 1 August and 31 December 1985, thirty-six copies sold; between 1 January and 30 June 1986, six copies sold. Macmillan of Canada remaindered 5,072 copies of A61a to York Promotional on 9 May 1986 at $2.40 apiece. Excerpts are reprinted in the following: “The Benefactor” [from “The New Aubrey I”], Saturday Night 96, no. 8 (September 1981): 58-63; “Mamusia’s Christmas Feast” in Margaret Atwood, The Canlit Foodbook: From Pen to Palate — A Collection of Tasty Literary Fare (Toronto: Totem Books, 1987), pp. 190-1. Information on the publishing history of A61a is based on the following material in the Macmillan Canada fonds at ohm: file 10, box 405 and file 6, box 419, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: davis (in jacket; reprint of October 1981 in jacket); okq (in jacket); otmc (in jacket); pend (eleven copies in jacket; one not in jacket). A61a.1  American issue (1982): [row of ornaments] | The Rebel Angels | ROBERTSON DAVIES | The Viking Press New York The sheets of A61a.1, which measure 228 × 145 mm., are almost identical to those of A61a with the following exceptions: p. 2 (opposite the title page) lists twenty-four other books written by Davies under the categories of fiction, plays, criticism and essays, and those in collaboration with Sir Tyrone Guthrie; the copyright page — Copyright © 1981 by Robertson Davies | All rights reserved | Published in 1982 by The Viking Press | 625 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10022 | Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 81-51907 | ISBN: 0-670-59063-0 | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Bembo. binding and dust jacket: Bound in dark-grey paper boards, quarter bound with wine-coloured cloth with the following stamped down the spine in gilt: Robertson Davies The Rebel Angels Viking. The

jacket is white with a colour illustration on the front panel within a rounded rectangle by Bascove of a devil with a mask partially hiding his face, the devil’s long tongue poking through the mask, the sun with rays above the devil. Above the devil and the sun is the title, and below the devil is: A novel by the author of FIFTH BUSINESS | ROBERTSON DAVIES. Printed on the spine panel: [down the spine panel] THE•REBEL•ANGELS ROBERTSON DAVIES | VIKING. The back panel has the ISBN and a blackand-white photo by Jill Krementz of Davies’s face. On the front flap are five paragraphs about the book, the price ($13.95), and 02082 in the bottom righthand corner. The back flap has two paragraphs about Davies, the name of the jacket illustrator, and the address of the publisher and publisher’s device. Creamcoloured endpapers. notes: On 23 November 1980, Davies informed Elisabeth Sifton of the Viking Press that he had just completed the revisions to A61a.1. Moira Whalon, his secretary, was in the process of typing the final version of the typescript for Sifton’s perusal. The contract for A61a.1 is dated 24 March 1981 (copy of contract at pend): an advance royalty of $12,500 (half on signing the contract, half on publication), a royalty of 10% on the first 5,000 copies sold, 12½% on the next 5,000 copies sold , and 15% thereafter. The contract also included the rights for a paperback: 7½% on the first 60,000 copies sold, 8½% on the next 60,000 copies sold, and 10% thereafter. Davies sent Gibson’s list of queries to Sifton in order to provide her with a greater understanding of the text. Sifton then submitted her own editorial queries to Davies. She acknowledged his replies to criticisms on 18 May 1981. On 5 October 1981, Sifton sent Davies copy for the flaps of the jacket. Davies acknowledged receiving the entire jacket on 22 December 1981. Author copies were mailed to him on 12 January 1982. By this time, there were over 11,400 copies in advance sales. A61a.1 was published on 15 February 1982 in an issue of 17,500 copies. Sifton informed Davies on 25 February that 13,200 of A61a.1 had sold and that the book was number nine on the Washington Post bestseller list. Altie Karper of the Viking Press sent reviews in the American press to Douglas M. Gibson on 21 April 1982; all of them were glowing. On 1 May 1984, several thousand copies were remaindered, and only a few hundred copies were kept in stock; on 23 August 1984, the few hundred copies were also remaindered at $1.356 apiece. On 16 February 1988, Viking Penguin Inc. paid Davies an advance of $200,000 for the continuing rights to nine of his books; A61 was one of the books under this agreement (copy at pend).



A61 The Rebel Angels. 1981

Information on the publishing history of A61a.1 is based on the following sources: file 10, box 405, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; files 12 and 14, vol. 46 and files 28-32 and 36, vol. 52, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: pend (twenty-one copies in jacket). A61a.2  English issue (1982): [row of ornaments] | The Rebel Angels | ROBERTSON DAVIES | ALLEN LANE A61a.2 was printed in the United States by Viking for Allen Lane. On p. 1 is the publisher’s device of Allen Lane (two solid vertical blocks, left block having a Penguin’s head); p. 2 is blank. The copyright page reads: ALLEN LANE | Penguin Books Ltd | 536 King’s Road | London SW10 0UH | First published 1982 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1981 | [five lines about copyright] | ISBN: 0 7139 1473 4 | Printed in the United States of America. The binding of A61a.2 is similar to that of A61a.1 except the Allen Lane name and publisher’s device are at the foot of the spine. The panels of the jacket of A61a.2 are also similar to those of A61a.1 (replacement of Allen Lane and the publisher’s device on the spine panel and no ISBN on the back panel). On the front flap of A61a.2 are three paragraphs about the book, the ISBN, and price (£6.50). On the back flap are a paragraph about Davies and reference to Bascove as the jacket illustrator. notes: The contract for A61a.2 at pend between Davies and the English branch of Penguin Books is dated 18 March 1982: an advance of £2,500, one third payable on signing the contract, one third on publication of the hardcover, and one third on publication of the paperback. The contract governed publication of A61a.2 (a royalty of 10% on the first 3,000 copies sold and 12½% thereafter) and A61b (7½% for home sales and 6% for export sales). A61a.2 was published in April 1982. According to Man of Myth (p. 546), 2,959 of A61a.2 copies sold. copies examined: davis (in jacket). A61a.3  Canadian Penguin issue (1982): [row of ornaments] | The Rebel Angels | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS A61a.3 is a photographic reprint of A61a. The leaves measure 228 × 147 mm. Pagination of A61a.3 is: 1-4, 1-326, 1-6. It lacks a half title, and the leaves at the end are advertisements for other books by Davies published by Penguin Books. The copyright page reads as follows: [six lines of addresses of Penguin Books in England, the United States, Australia,

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Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by Macmillan of Canada | A Division of Gage Publishing Limited, 1981 | Published in Penguin Books, 1982 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1981 | All rights reserved | All the characters in this book are fictitious, | and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead | is coincidental. | Manufactured in Canada by Webcom Limited | [nine lines about copyright]. binding: Perfect bound, black stiff-paper covers. On the front cover is the following: [publisher’s device in white: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | [next five lines in white] “One of the most learned, amusing and otherwise | accomplished novelists of our time.” J.K. Galbraith | [rule] | [swash R] Robertson Davies | [rule] | [next two lines in gold, swash T and he curved] The REBEL | [swash S extending down under and around the illustration] ANGELS | [silhouette of a devil’s head in red]. The spine has printing in white and red, including the silhouette in white and the ISBN (014 00.6270X). The back cover has: the silhouette and title in red (all other printing in white); sentences about the characters in the book; rules; the publisher’s device; excerpts from reviews; the ISBN; the price ($7.95); and the name of the cover designer (V. John Lee). notes: Penguin Books paid an advance of $15,000 for the Canadian paperback rights; this was for a license to publish the book in paperback for a period of eight years. The Canada Publishing Corporation provided Penguin Books of Canada with a sample page on 4 March 1982, and the book was published in July 1982. The typeface was 11/13 ZAPF International Medium Roman. Nancy Colbert of Curtis Brown Canada Limited reported on 4 November 1987 that A61a.3 had earned $25,500. Up to 30 June 1988, 13,042 copies of A61a.3 had sold. Penguin Canada offered an advance of $70,000 for eight years of paperback rights for A52, the Deptford Trilogy, and A61. Information on the publishing history of A61a.3 is based on the following sources: file 10, box 405 and files 8, 17, and 20, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; files 25 and 29, vol. 46, Davies fonds, lac; file 31, vol. 108, Colbert Agency fonds, lac. copies examined: otmc (two copies). A61a.4  American Penguin issue (1983): The title page of A61a.4 is identical to A61a. The leaves measure 180 × 105 mm. Pagination of A61a.4 is: 1-8, 1-326, 1-2. There is one blank leaf after the text. The preliminary leaves are comprised of the following: p. 1 publisher’s name, title, paragraph about

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Davies; p. 2 blank; p. 3 list of other books by Davies under the categories of fiction, plays, and criticism and essays, plus works done in collaboration with Tyrone Guthrie; p. 4 blank; p. 5 title; p. 6 Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, | Middlesex, England | [eight lines of addresses of Penguin Books in the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in the United States of America by | The Viking Press 1982 | First published in Great Britain by | Allen Lane 1982 | Published in Penguin Books 1983 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1981 | All rights reserved | [six lines about Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0 14 00.6271 8] | Printed in the United States of America by | Offset Paperback Mfrs., Inc., Dallas, Pennsylvania | Set in Bembo | [nine lines about copyright]; p. 7 fly title; p. 8 blank. binding: Perfect binding, white stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a colour illustration within a rounded rectangle by Bascove of a devil with a mask partially hiding its face, the devil’s long tongue poking through the mask. The last two lines under the illustration are: A magical, inventive tale from | the author of the Deptford Trilogy. On the back cover is a paragraph describing the book, followed by excerpts from reviews, the publisher’s device, the illustrator’s name, the ISBN, and the price ($3.95). notes: Penguin Books (New York) informed Davies on 30 June 1982 that plans were underway to issue A61 in paperback. A61a.4 was published on 27 January 1983 (copies sent to Davies on 4 February 1983). A61a.4 was reprinted several times with slightly different pagination; the size of the book also altered during these reprints. It was also marketed in Canada. According to the 1988 reprint, the book was reprinted in 1983, 1985, 1986 (twice), 1987, and 1988. A61a.4 was also manufactured in Canada sometime after 1994 for both the Canadian and British markets. 519 copies were sold by Penguin Books Ltd. of London for the last six months of 1999, for example. By 30 June 1986, 53,311 copies had sold in the United States; by 30 April 1996, 121,830 copies had sold. 56,179 copies of A61a.4 sold in Canada up to the end of June 1991. Copies continued to sell after this date. 844 copies sold, for example, for the period ending 30 April 2000. Information on the publishing history of A61a.4 is based on the following: royalty reports at pend; file 44, vol. 50 and file 37, vol. 52, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: davis (two copies of first printing; 1988 reprint; [1994?] reprint).

A61b  first English edition (1983): ROBERTSON DAVIES | The Rebel Angels | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | A KING PENGUIN | PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN BOOKS 1-6, 7-16, 17, 18-29, 30, 31-43, 44, 45-62, 63, 64-87, 88, 89-125, 126, 127-162, 163, 164-178, 179, 180-197, 198, 199-236, 237, 238-268, 269, 270-312, 313, 314-331, 1-5 pp. (168 leaves). 195 × 127 mm. contents: p. 1 paragraph about Davies within two rectangles; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 [five lines of addresses of Penguin Books in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane 1982 | Published in Penguin Books 1983 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1981 | All rights reserved | Made and printed in Great Britain by | Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk | Filmset in Monophoto Plantin by | Northumberland Press Ltd, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear | [nine lines about copyright]; p. 5 half title; p. 6 blank; pp. 7-331, 1 text; p. 2 more about Penguins and Pelicans with addresses in four countries; p. 3 blank; p. 4 ad for Clive Sinclair’s Bedbugs, Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills in the King Penguin series; p. 5 ad for A49. text: Identical to A61a. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a black background and uses the same illustration by Bascove used in A61a.1 (without the line “A novel by the author of FIFTH BUSINESS”). The series title KING PENGUIN appears above the illustration within a solid grey rectangle outlined in black and white. The spine and back cover are white. The spine has the publisher’s device, the title, author, and ISBN (0 14 00.6176 2). On the back cover with two rectangles are the name of the series, three paragraphs about the book, a quotation from Alan Sillitoe, a photo of Davies’s head, the ISBN, and the recommended prices (UK £2.95; Aust. $7.95; and Can. $5.95). Also examined was a reprint issued on 26 March 1987 with ISBN 0-14-0118608 and recommended prices (UK £4.99; Aust. $13.99; and NZ $18.95). The reprint is not a King Penguin and has a colour illustration by Robert Mason on the front cover of a kneeling monk with wings and a book with skull, a syringe, pins, and a scroll. notes: A61b was published on 31 March 1983. The contract was covered in the publication of A61a.2. The number of copies printed before 1990 is not known.



A62 On Being a Professional. 1981

In the first six months of 1990, 5,327 copies sold, earning £1,833.15. In 1994-95, 14,086 copies sold, earning £2,534.36. After the ISBN changed, 4,603 copies sold between 1996 and the first six months of 2001, earning £2,157.05. Information on the publishing history of A61b is based on file 44, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac and royalty reports at pend. copies examined: pend (nineteen copies; four copies of reprint). A61c  second Canadian edition (1997): The Rebel | [ornament within a square] | Angels | by Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books 1-7, 2-12, 13, 14-25, 26, 27-40, 41, 42-60, 61, 62-87, 88, 89-126, 127, 128-164, 165, 166-200, 201, 202-240, 241, 242-273, 274, 275-318, 319, 320-337, 1-9 pp. (176 leaves). 202 × 130 mm. contents: p. 1 publisher’s name, title, two paragraphs about Davies; p. 2 list of fifteen other books by Davies under the categories of novels, criticism and essays, and short stories; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [ten lines of addresses of Penguin Books in Canada, England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin 1982 | Inc. 1982 | First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane 1982 | Published in Penguin Books, 1983 | Published in this edition, 1997 | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1981 | All rights reserved | [publisher’s note in four lines stating that the book is a work of fiction and that any resemblance to actual people, events, or locales is coincidental] | Manufactured in Canada | [seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14-26431-0; six lines about copyright; one line with Penguin Canada’s web address]; p. 5 half title; p. 6 blank; pp. 7, 2-337 text; p. 1 blank; p. 2 ad for other books by Davies published by Penguin; pp. 3-9 blank. text: Identical to A61a. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has an orange background with an abstract illustration by Sandra Dionisi of a devil’s head, a crescent moon, a violin and bow, half of a sword, a plant, a curlicue, and the number XVII; the name of the Cornish trilogy in white is at the bottom of the front cover within a rounded purple rectangle. The spine is black and orange with the illustration from the front cover reproduced in miniature. The back cover in white has quotations from Newsweek and four newspapers,

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a paragraph about the book, and the names of the cover illustrator and cover designer (Spencer Francey Peters); also on the back cover within a rectangle are the publisher’s device, the ISBN, bar code, and price ($14.99). notes: For an advance of $200,000, Penguin Books Canada Limited negotiated a licence with Macmillan of Canada on 13 May 1988 for a period of ten years to publish A61c along with eight other works by Davies (contract in file 12, vol. 28, Colbert Agency fonds, lac). For details, see A14d, notes. copies examined: pend (four copies).

A62  on being a professional 1981 On Being A Professional | Robertson Davies | A Speech to | the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts | November 17, 1973 | Ontario College of Art Press | MCMLXXXI | [blind-stamped] OCAP 1-3 4. 1-4, 1-19, 1 pp. (12 leaves). 236 × 184 mm. (deckled edges). contents: p. 1 half title with four lines (in italics), taken from p. 4, on what a professional is; p. 2 frontispiece, ink drawing of Davies’s head; p. 3 title; p. 4 blank; pp. 1-19 text; p. 1 colophon. binding: There are two binding variants: (1) paper boards (cream and brown collage), quarter-bound with camel-coloured buckram, probably numbers 1 to 20; (2) purple paper boards, quarter-bound with brownish gold buckram, probably numbers 21 to 40. Cream-coloured hand-made paper with black, blue, brown and red flecks. No stamping or illustration on the boards. The text is in brown type. notes: The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts is an organization located in Toronto that recognizes the achievements and excellence of Canadian visual artists. Davies’s speech concerns those things that separate the amateur from the professional. He maintains that art is elitist and aristocratic, not democratic. He also states that he often encounters people who mistakenly think that creative writing can be taught and that with sufficient time, practically anyone can easily write a good book. Such notions, Davies believes, are naive and wrong-headed. For excerpts from Davies’s speech printed in newspapers, see C73.8. According to the colophon, this edition consists of forty numbered copies. John Jackson, Robert Murray, and George Walker “created the design, made the paper, set the type, printed and bound the book.”

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Walker did the drawing of Davies, “which he then photo etched on a copper plate.” The OCAP logo and watermark were done by Jackson. Printing and binding were carried out at the Printmaking Department of the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. Thanks are also extended to William Poole (see A40b) who oversaw the project in publication. George Walker, wood engraver and book artist who has taught at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) since 1986, has provided the following additional information (e-mail to Carl Spadoni, 3 July 2002). A62, the first imprint produced by Walker, was executed in the beginning stages of the Book Arts Program at the OCAD. Poole apparently suggested and discussed the project with Davies during an intermission at a concert. The paper in A62 contains tea leaves, a reference to Davies’s liking for tea and his years in England. Walker told Dr. Richard Davis the following on 27 October 1987: There were altogether 40 copies produced in the edition. 20 were printed on paper flecked with tea-leaves and 20 were printed on whited paper with very few tea-leaf specks. The books were divided between John Jackson, Robert Murray, Bill Poole and myself. Each of us received 10 copies, 5 large copies specked, 5 sparsely specked. Robertson Davies signed two books for each of us, one copy of each style printed. Mr. Davies received two copies of the book for himself, another two books were given to the Ontario College of Art Printmaking Department. That left each of us with 9 copies, two of which were signed by Mr. Davies. We therefore had 7 copies each to distribute among our friends after we completed binding them. (letter at davis)

Printing was done on the old iron presses at the OCAD, one of which (the Reliance) formerly belonged to Franklin Carmichael, a member of the Group of Seven. See also the website “Canadian Private Presses, George Walker Editions” (at http:// epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/presses-ef/ presses/t15-530-e.html). The precise date of publication of A62 is not known. Walker’s own copy (now in the possession of davis, no. 27) is dated 2 April 1981 by Davies himself. See also Kay Kritzwiser, “Settings Upstage the Ideas during OCA’s Open House,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 27 April 1981, p. 19: “Students used the T. Matthewson & Son press stamped 1893 to publish an edition of 40 handset books on handmade paper containing a speech made by Robertson Davies to the Royal Academy of Art in 1973. It is a proud collaboration.” copies examined: davis (no. 20, variant 1; nos. 27

and 39, variant 2); okq (no. 10, variant 1); otmc (no. 1, variant 1); otutf (no. 21, variant 2).

A63  high spirits 1982 A63a Canadian edition: [a grey band comprised of dotted, fragmentary lines, a wavy, horizontal line, and small abstract shapes] | [several letters swash with Spirits slightly below High] HighSpirits | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [publisher’s   device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] |   PENGUIN BOOKS i-ii, iii-iv, 1-2, 1-21, 22, 23-41, 42, 43-61, 62, 63-81, 82, 83-113, 114, 115-149, 150, 151-161, 162, 163-198, 1-4 pp. (104 leaves). 194 × 126 mm. contents: p. i title; p. ii [six lines of addresses of Penguin Books Ltd. and its branches in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in 1982 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1982 | All rights reserved | All the characters in this book are fictitious, | and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead | is coincidental. | Manufactured in Canada by Webcom Limited | [nine lines about copyright]; pp. iii-iv table of contents; p. 1 fly title; p. 2 blank; pp. 1-198 text; pp. 1-4 advertisements for eight books written by Davies. text: How the High Spirits Came About: A Chapter of Autobiography; Revelation from a Smoky Fire; The Ghost Who Vanished by Degrees; The Great Queen Is Amused; The Night of the Three Kings; The Charlottetown Banquet; When Satan Goes Home for Christmas; Refuge of Insulted Saints; Dickens Digested; The Kiss of Khrushchev; The Cat That Went to Trinity; The Ugly Spectre of Sexism; The Pit Whence Ye Are Digged; The Perils of the Double Sign; Conversations with the Little Table; The King Enjoys His Own Again; The Xerox in the Lost Room; Einstein and the Little Lord; Offer of Immortality. binding: Paperback, perfect bound. The covers are white with a macabre photographic image of Davies’s head with red eyes on the front cover. The lettering is in black, green, and red. The back cover has the title in green, the publisher’s device, two paragraphs on the genesis of Davies’s ghost stories, quotations from the Globe & Mail and John Kenneth Galbraith, the price ($6.95), the ISBN (014 00.65059), and the names of the cover photographer (John Reeves) and designer (V. John Lee). Also examined are the 1984 and 1986 reprints which have re-set preliminary leaves before the text,



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slightly different advertisements after the text, and new covers (Bascove’s illustration on the dust jacket of A63a.1 appears on the front cover). notes: In his introductory essay (pp. 1-2), Davies states: “Although I have read tales of ghosts and the supernatural eagerly all my life I never thought of writing one until I went to Massey College in the University of Toronto, in 1963. The college had a Christmas party for its members and their friends, and some sort of entertainment was needed ... For the eighteen years I was at the college a story was called for every Christmas, and here they are, gathered together, in the hope that other enthusiasts for this sort of tale will enjoy them.” The manuscripts of these stories in various drafts can be found in vols. 10-11, Davies fonds, lac. See also A20 for the broadsides of the Gaudy Nights that were issued as invitations to the Fellows, senior residents, and their guests at Massey College in the University of Toronto. Donald M. Sutherland, the Manager of the Trade Department at the Macmillan Company of Canada, inquired about the publication of Davies’s ghost stories on 6 February 1973. Davies assured him that when he retired from Massey College or when he had completely stopped writing ghost stories, he would gather them together and let Macmillan of Canada have a look at them. A second overture from a publisher, Penguin Books Canada Limited, occurred on 3 January 1978. Peter Waldock noted that A52 contained four ghost stories. Davies admitted that publication of the stories had been on his mind for some time. But he reiterated that he wanted to delay publication until his retirement from Massey College. He told Waldock on 11 January 1978: “When I retire, which will be within the next two or three years, it would be possible to put them together and give them a title of some sort, with a sub-title such as Ghost Stories from a College. An introduction would be necessary to say how they were written. They are unusual because they are amusing, and funny ghost stories are very uncommon. If they were presented in the right way, I think that they might find an audience.” When Waldock attended Gaudy Night at Massey College in December 1980, he praised Davies’s reading of a new ghost story (the eighteenth and last college ghost story, “Offer of Immortality”), and once again floated the idea of publication of a collection of the stories. This time Davies agreed to publication, although he was doubtful about the collection as a paying venture: “There is a way around this,” he suggested to Waldock on 5 January 1981, “and that is that I write a Preface for the book called ‘A Preface which

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is also a chapter of Biography,’ explaining how the ghost stories came about and giving some hint as to the way in which they reflected the life of the College. If I were able to do this successfully it might make it possible to find a wider audience for the book.” On 21 May 1981, Waldock proposed a publication date of Hallowe’en 1982. He asked Davies to write a preface that placed the stories into the context of Massey College and his role there. Davies informed Waldock on 26 May 1981 that in addition to writing a general preface and short introductions to each story, he would have to edit the stories in order to remove colloquialisms and one or two “inside” college jokes. On 13 October 1981, Waldock re-affirmed his commitment to publish A63a in time for Hallowe’en 1982 if the manuscript were received by March 1982. He suggested that a photograph of Davies by John Reeves could be used as the front cover. The cover artwork was sent to Davies on 6 April 1982. Waldock acknowledged receipt of Davies’s typescript on 29 April 1982. Although he liked Davies’s title, he thought that a subtitle was needed to clarify the book’s contents. Davies put forward two sub-titles: “Tales of Ghosts and the Supernatural” and “Unsought and Unnerving Encounters with the Lighter Side of the Supernatural,” but neither was used. He told Waldock on 5 May 1982 that he was “rather fearful that people may buy the book thinking that it is a serious book of ghost stories and they will be disappointed to find that it is a series of spoofs ... I am worried, however, that the people who expect bleeding nuns and screaming skulls are going to think that I have trifled with their innocence.” A year after publication, Davies told Richard Moses on 13 October 1983 that the stories were “parodies of the wholly serious and brilliantly effective ghost stories of M.R. James” and “that only committed ghost story buffs are likely to understand the parody.” “Conversations with the Little Table” was first published under the title “An Eerie Tale of a Little Table That Spoke” (see C76.10). “Dickens Digested” and “The Cat That Went to Trinity” first appeared in A52. Davies received an advance of $2,500 with a royalty of 7½% on copies sold. Curtis Brown Ltd. sent Davies a copy of the signed contract from Penguin Books Canada Limited on 26 July 1982. By the end of 1983, over 6,000 copies had sold. The book earned $3,063.23 in royalties up to 30 June 1987 with sales of 11,330 copies. By the end of 2000, 22,459 copies had sold, earning $12,752.58 in royalties. The Penguin Group also sold copies in England, Europe, and elsewhere. 131 copies sold in the last six months of 1998; 79 copies sold in the last six months of 1999; 49 copies sold in the first six months of 2001.

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Information on the publishing history of A63a is based on the following sources: file 9, box 247, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; file 15, vol. 46, files 42-6, vol. 50 and file 32, vol. 54, Davies fonds, lac; royalty reports at pend. “The Ghost Who Vanished by Degrees” is reprinted in: Larry Dark, ed., The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991), pp. 54-63; and Robert J. Sawyer and David Skene Melvin, eds., Crossing the Line: Canadian Mysteries with a Fantastic Twist (East Lawrencetown, ns: Pottersfield, 1998), pp. 59-68. “The Great Queen Is Amused” is reprinted in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine 94 (midDecember 1989): 70-8; and J.R. (Tim) Struthers, The Possibilities of Story, vol. 1 (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1992), pp. 74-82. “Night of the Three Kings” is reprinted in Reader’s Digest (Canadian ed.) 125 (October 1984): 74‑9. “The Charlottetown Banquet” is reprinted in Greg Inannou and Lynne Missen, eds., Shivers: An Anthology of Canadian Ghost Stories (Don Mills, on: Stoddart, 1995), pp. 40‑52. “When Satan Goes Home for Christmas” is reprinted with a short introduction in Toronto Life (December 1982): N20-1, N46, N48, N50, N52. “Refuge of Insulted Saints” is reprinted in Tim Heald, ed., The Best AfterDinner Stories (London: Folio Society, 2003). “The Kiss of Khrushchev” is reprinted in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine 90 (mid-December 1987): 118-27. “The Ugly Spectre of Sexism” is reprinted in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine 96 (mid‑December 1990): 34‑44. “The Xerox in the Lost Room” is reprinted in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine 100 (mid‑December 1992): 71‑81; and David Hughes, comp., The Folio Book of Comic Short Stories (London: Folio Society, 2005), pp. 257-[70]. “Einstein and the Little Lord” is reprinted in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine 92 (mid-December 1988): 56-66. “Offer of Immortality” is reprinted in David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant, eds., Northern Suns (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1999), pp. 287-98. For “Revelations from a Smoky Fire”, see also A79. See also A87, which reprints five of the ghost stories from A63. copies examined: davis (two copies of first printing; 1984 and 1986 reprints); okq (two copies of first printing; 1984 reprint); otmc (two copies of first printing; 1984 reprint); pend (four copies of first printing; 1984 reprint). A63a.1  first American issue (1983): [the first line in antique type] HIGH SPIRITS | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [publisher’s device: illustration of a Viking ship with spokes in a semicircle above the ship] | THE VIKING PRESS NEW YORK

The text (pp. 1-198 with pp. 22, 42, 62, 82, 114, 150, and 162 blank) of A63a.1 is from the same setting of type as A63a, but the prelims of this issue are different than A63 as follows: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 list of twenty-five other books by Davies in three categories (fiction, plays, and criticism and essays, including books in collaboration with Sir Tyrone Guthrie); p. 4 blank; p. 5 title; p. 6 Copyright © 1982 by Robertson Davies | All rights reserved | Published in 1983 by The Viking Press | 40 West 23rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10010 | ISBN 0-670-37154-8 | Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 83-47878 | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Linotype Century Expanded; pp. 7-8 table of contents; p. 9 fly title; p. 10 blank. 196 × 128 mm. In A63a an illustration of Davies’s head appears at various places, usually at the end of a story; these are missing from A63a.1. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in greyishcream paper boards, quarter-bound with blue cloth, with the following stamped down the spine: robertson davies [the next two words in silver] HIGH SPIRITS VIKING. The dust jacket is silver with a colour illustration on the front panel by Bascove of a skeleton and a devil (a monstrous head with an elongated tongue grows out of the devil’s backside). The subtitle on the front panel is A COLLECTION OF GHOST STORIES. Printed down the spine panel, the first four words in antique type: ROBERTSON DAVIES HIGH SPIRITS [publisher’s device] viking. On the back panel are excerpts from reviews of The Rebel Angels and the ISBN. The front panel has the ISBN, the price ($14.95), three short paragraphs about the book, a quotation from John Kenneth Galbraith, and the name of the illustrator (the last line is: 10144083). On the back panel are a blackand-white photograph of Davies by Jill Krementz, two paragraphs about Davies, the name and address of the publisher, and the publisher’s device. notes: The contract (copy at pend dated 10 September 1982) with Viking Penguin for A63a.1 was sent to Davies on 30 September 1982. He signed and returned it on 7 October 1982: an advance of $7,500; for the hardcover, a royalty of 10% on the first 5,000 copies sold, 12½% for the next 5,000 copies sold, and 15% thereafter; for the paperback, a royalty of 7½%. A63a.1 was published on 1 October 1983. The copyright was registered at dlc’s Copyright Office on 17 November 1983 (TX-1-232-707). In the first six months of publication, 6,000 copies of A63a.1 sold. On 16 February 1988, Viking Penguin Inc. paid Davies an advance of $200,000 for the continuing rights to nine of his books; A63 was one of the books under



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this agreement (copy at pend). Information on the publishing history of A63a.1 is based on the following: files 15, 18 and 20, vol. 46 and file 32, vol. 52, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: oh (in jacket); otmc (in jacket); pend (four copies in jacket). A63a.2  second American / English issue (1983): [the first line in antique type] HIGH SPIRITS | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [publisher’s device: penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS A63a.2 is a paperback that sold in the United States and England under the imprint of Penguin Books. It differs from A63a.1 in the following respects: the binding; the first page (name of publisher, title, and paragraph about Davies); and the copyright page. The latter reads: Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, | Middlesex, England | [eight lines of addresses of Penguin branches in the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by | Penguin Books Canada Limited 1982 | First published in the United States of America | in simultaneous hardcover and paperback editions by | The Viking Press and Penguin Books 1983 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1982 | All rights reserved | Printed in the United States of America by | R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Harrisonburg, Virginia | Set in Linotype Century Expanded | [nine lines about copyright]. binding: Paperback, perfect bound. The front cover and spine are almost the same as the front and spine panels of the dust jacket of A63a.1. Penguin’s publisher’s device is found on the lower right-hand corner of the front cover, the bottom of the spine, and the top right-hand corner of the back cover. Also on the spine is the ISBN (0 14 00.6505 9). The back cover, which is black with white lettering, has: two paragraphs about the book’s stories, a quotation from John Kenneth Galbraith, prices (£2.50, $5.95), the ISBN, and the names of the cover designer (Neil Stuart) and cover illustrator (Bascove). The back cover has the heading: A ghostly gathering | from a master of invention. notes: The contract for A63a.2 at pend is dated 12 October 1982: 7½% on home sales and 6% on export sales. There was no advance. The contract also states that if the book appeared in hardcover, the rate of royalty would be mutually agreed. A32a.2 was published on 27 October 1983 in the United States and on 26 January 1984 in England. By 30 June 1987, A63a.2 had sold 19,557 copies in America; by 30 April 1996, 35,261 copies had sold. 4,500 copies were sold in England, and according to Felicity Bryan, Davies’s agent

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at Curtis Brown, it was out of print by 20 November 1986. Sales in England continued in the 1990s. In the first six months of 1990, 892 copies sold. 2,252 copies sold between 1993 and 1995. In first six months of 1998, 175 copies sold. Information on the publishing history of A63a.2 is based on files 15 and 17, vol. 46, Davies fonds, lac, and royalty reports at pend. copies examined: pend. A63a.3  third American / Canadian issue (2002): A63a.3 is a reprint of A63a.2 manufactured in the United States for the American and Canadian markets. The title-page transcription, pagination, and size of A63a.3 are the same as those of A63a.2. Preliminary pages (pp. 1, 3, and 6) have been re-set. The covers feature a blurred illustration by Thomas Woodruff, mainly in blue, of a room with French windows, billowing curtains, a mirror, a fireplace, a bust on the mantle, and a cat in the foreground. The bottom part of the spine is orange. The title, in yellow script, is at an angle on the front cover, with the subtitle in white: A | Collection | of | GHOST | STORIES. The heading in yellow on the back cover within a solid black compartment is: BLOODCURDLING | TALES FROM A MASTER | STORYTELLER. Cover designer: Joseph Perez. ISBN 0-14-2002246-1. Price: $12.95 US, $19.50 Can. copies examined: pend (eight copies).

A64  thirty years at stratford [1983] [cover title; rule] Robertson Davies | THIRTY YEARS AT STRATFORD | [rule] | [black-and-white photo of Davies within a rectangle, outlined in white; at the bottom right-hand corner of the rectangle in white:] CELEBRITY | LECTURE | SERIES 1 8. 1-16 pp. (8 leaves). 217 ×139 mm. The last page, below the text, has Davies’s signature in facsimile. binding: Bound in light pinkish-purple, thick, glossy paper, wire-stitched. Lightly embossed on the back cover is an illustration of a swan on water (leaves to the left of the swan’s neck) within an oval. The inside covers are dark reddish-brown. Printed in white on the verso of the front cover: THIRTY YEARS | AT STRATFORD | A Lecture given by | Robertson Davies | for the Stratford | Shakespearean | Festival. | August 29, 1982 | Festival Theatre | Copyright © 1982 | by Robertson Davies | Michael Schonberg, | General Editor | A publication of the | Stratford Festival | John Hirsch, | Artistic Director.

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notes: Davies was paid an honorarium of $500 (plus expenses) to deliver his lecture at the Stratford Festival. He told the Festival’s Artistic Director John Hirsch on 31 August 1982: “It was a pleasure to visit Stratford over the weekend and I am glad that the speech went well. I am getting a copy away to Micha[e]l” (Schonberg, Literary Manager of the Stratford Festival, who had arranged for Davies to give his lecture). Schonberg and Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, discussed the Festival’s publication of the lecture in a telephone conversation on 10 March 1983. On the next day she conveyed Davies’s permission to publish the lecture; she also asked to examine the proofs and for author copies to be sent to her (box 8, second accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac). Copies apparently sold for $2.50 apiece. Davies’s lecture is an anecdotal discussion of the development of the Stratford Festival in the context of the history of Canadian theatre. He mentions the Dominion Drama Festival and the rise of Canadian professional theatres, and talks about the opposition to Stratford (“Deeper Oafishness”) and the role of the Festival Board. He praises Dr. Harry Showalter (first president of the Board) and Tyrone Guthrie, opposes the “Made in Canada” approach where only Canadians are allowed to run the theatre, and criticizes the accents and speech patterns of some of the actors (he advocates a form of speech that is sensitive to poetry and “variable like a violin”). copies examined: lac; otmc; qmm.

A65  the mirror of nature 1983 A65a  first edition: Robertson Davies | THE | MIRROR | OF NATURE | [ornament] | The Alexander Lectures | 1982 | University of Toronto Press | Toronto Buffalo London 1-17, 4-42, 43-45, 46-80, 81-83, 84-120, 121, 122-123, 124-125, 126-129, 1 pp. (72 leaves). 211 × 135 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 frontispiece, blackand-white photograph (reproduction of Miss Louisa Fairbrother as Aladdin in The Forty Thieves); p. 3 title; p. 4 ©University of Toronto Press 1983 | Toronto Buffalo London | Printed in Canada | isbn 0-80206536-8 | [rule] | [six lines of acknowledgements to University College, University of Toronto, the Canada Council, and the Ontario Arts Council for grants to support publication; rule; eleven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data; rule]; p. 5 Mr Principal, Ladies and Gentlemen, two paragraphs in

which Davies pays tribute to Professor William John Alexander; p. 6 blank; p. 7 table of contents; p. 8 blank; pp. 9-14 black-and-white illustrations of actors in various roles and the floor plan of the Drury Lane Theatre; pp. 15-17, 4-120 text (pp. 16, 44, and 82 blank); pp. 121-123 bibliographical note; p. 124 blank; pp. 125-129 The Alexander Lectures; p. 1 This book | was designed by | ANTJE LINGNER | of University of | Toronto | Press. text: Lecture One, Oblivion’s Balm; Lecture Two, The Lost Lady; Lecture Three, My Cue Is Villainous Melancholy. binding: Perfect binding in glossy, thick paper. On the front cover is a purplish pink photograph of Sarah Bernhardt as Mrs. Clarkson in The Stranger. Printed on the front cover: [first two lines in white] ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [next three lines in gilt with swash capitals] The | Mirror of | Nature. The spine is black. Printed on the spine: [in white] Davies [next four words in purplish pink] The Mirror of Nature [in white] Toronto. The back cover is white with the heading: THEATRE | The Mirror of Nature | ROBERTSON DAVIES. It has four paragraphs about the contents of the book, brief biographical information about Davies, information about the cover illustration, the publisher’s name, and the ISBN. notes: The Alexander Lectureship at the University of Toronto was founded in 1928 in honour of Professor W.J. Alexander, Chairman of the Department of English at University College, University of Toronto, from 1889 to 1926. On p. 5 of his introduction (entitled “Mr Principal, Ladies and Gentlemen”), Davies notes the enormous influence that Alexander’s anthology, Shorter Poems, had on high school students of his generation. Davies was invited to deliver the 1982 Alexander Lectures on 3 March 1982 by G.P. Richardson, the Principal of University College. The honorarium for the lectures was $1,500. When they had previously discussed the lectures, Davies had suggested “The Freudian Revolution: The Influence of Depth Psychology in Fiction” as a topic. But Richardson had gently dissuaded Davies from this topic and pointed him in the direction of nineteenth-century drama. In his letter Richardson mentioned that the University of Toronto Press and the Alexander Lectures Committee were already at a preliminary stage of discussion with regard to the publication of Davies’s lectures. Davies accepted Richardson’s invitation on 11 March 1982. He proposed three lectures, tentatively entitled: The Frolic Wind; The Lost Lady; Whom Shall We Uncharnel? Although he committed himself to the broad subject of the development of theatre in the nineteenth



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century, he told Richardson that the impact of Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams on the Romantic Movement would be one of his major themes. Davies gave his lectures on 9-11 November 1982. In his author information sheet (8 April 1983), he stated: “The title, The Mirror of Nature, was chosen because it is one of the phrases Hamlet uses to describe the theatre and the drama. The book develops this theme, discussing the manner in which the drama of the nineteenth century was influenced by social, and more particularly psychological changes which took place.” The contract for the book is dated 16 February 1983: 10% royalty on all casebound copies (never issued) sold and 5% on the paperback. University College paid the University of Toronto Press a subvention of $1,500 and purchased 550 copies at half price ($1,787.50) for distribution to alumni. The costs of production and promotion were as follows: artwork by Herag Sommerville, $135; typesetting by Q Comp, $1,946; printing and binding by Imprimerie Gagné Ltée (set in Baskerville, paper Courrier Bouffant), $3,713.99 (3,069 copies); other costs (design, editorial, etc.), $1,027.59; promotion budget, $1,300 ($685 for advertisements in newspapers). A65a’s editor Prudence Tracy contacted Davies about publication on 30 June 1982. Davies informed Tracy on 7 July 1982 that he had no commitment to Macmillan of Canada, his usual publisher, for A65a. “Nor do I think it the kind of thing a general publisher would handle best,” he added. He also offered Tracy two lectures on the relationship of Jungian thought to literature to “plump out the book.” The typescript of Davies’s Alexander Lectures and another lecture about The Ring and the Book were sent to Tracy on 12 January 1983. The chair of the University of Toronto’s Manuscript Review Committee John M. Robson gave his blessing to publication on 2 March 1983. He called Davies’s lectures “a good performance, not a great (or scholarly) one.” Tracy decided against the inclusion of Davies’s speech on The Ring and the Book on 10 March 1983. He submitted the illustrations of A65a to Tracy on 22 March, and she sent him the copy-edited typescript a day later. Davies returned the copy-edited typescript to Tracy on 29 March. He agreed with all of her editorial alterations as to wording, retained the capitalization of words and expressions, and supplied dates and sources. Page proofs were sent to Davies on 11 April 1983. Copies were available on 27 June 1983. When he received his author copies, Davies told Tracy on 12 July 1983: “I look at the book frequently and my buzzem (this is the correct Victorian pronunciation) swells with pride because it is bound in my favourite colour, the proper artistic term for which I do not

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know, though a low-minded friend of mine who was a theatrical lighting expert used to refer to it as ‘whorehouse pink’ when it was used on the stage.” Published on 30 July 1983. Price $6.50. A book launch was held at the University of Toronto Press, Press Building, on 29 November 1983. Davies received a royalty of $563.14 on 2,910 copies sold. The book went out of print on 29 June 1989. Information on the publishing history of A65a is based on: file 19, vol. 52, Davies fonds, lac, and Moira Whalon fonds, lac; editorial file, University of Toronto Press, otutf. copies examined: oh (binding altered); ohm; otmc; pend (two copies). A65a.1  second issue (1996): [transcription of title page identical to A65a] A65a.1 is a reprint of A65a with the addition of a preface by Ronald Bryden (pp. ix-xiv, dated April 1996 on p. xiv). The copyright page of A65a.1 has been updated with a new ISBN (0-8020-7939-3). The covers are nearly the same. The information on the back cover of A65a.1 has been re-set. The series heading (THEATRE) is missing, the information about Davies (Master Emeritus of Massey College) has been revised, and the ISBN and bar code appear at the bottom of the cover. notes: Upon receiving the University of Toronto’s 1995 catalogue, which announced a reprinting of a medieval cookery book (Pleyn Delit), Davies wrote to George Meadows, the President of the Press, on 20 June 1995 and inquired about the possibility of a reprint of A65. He pointed out that the University of Toronto Press had refused to reprint the book and even refused permission to McClelland & Stewart to re-issue it. In Davies’s opinion the Press’s policy exhibited “a somewhat dog-in-the-manger attitude” about A65. Meadows concurred with Davies’s opinion, and he referred the matter to the head of the Press’s scholarly division. Suzanne Rancourt, an editor with the Press, informed Davies on 25 October 1995 that a reprint would soon occur. Davies died before publication, and Ronald Bryden, the Director of the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto, was asked to write a preface to A65a.1. He submitted his preface to Rancourt on 15 April 1996. A set of proofs of Bryden’s preface was sent to him on 19 August 1996. In his preface Bryden states that the Alexander Lectures normally were given by international scholars. In inviting Davies to give the lectures, the intention of the lectures’ sponsors was to honour him for his contribution to the University of Toronto

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and to recognize his outstanding literary talents. Davies had retired at the end of June 1981 from teaching at the university and as Master of Massey College. A44a.1 appeared in late October 1996 in an issue of 1,200 copies ($12.95). 480 copies sold by the end of April 1997, earning a royalty of $185.10. Information on the publishing history of A65a.1 is based on the editorial file at the University of Toronto Press, otutf, and royalty reports at pend. copies examined: lac; otut.

A66  the deptford trilogy 1983 A66a  English edition: ROBERTSON DAVIES | THE DEPTFORD TRILOGY | FIFTH BUSINESS | THE MANTICORE | WORLD OF WONDERS | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | A KING PENGUIN | PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN BOOKS 1-12, 13-111, 112, 113-193, 194, 195-270, 271-274, 275337, 338, 339-369, 370, 371-378, 379, 380-507, 508, 509-548, 549-554, 555-690, 691, 692-842, 843, 844-863, 1 pp. (432 leaves). 196 × 128 mm. contents: p. 1 paragraph about Davies within two rectangles, with title THE DEPTFORD TRILOGY and the series KING PENGUIN; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 [five lines of addresses of Penguin Books in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand; fifteen lines concerning the publication of Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders by various publishers and Davies’s copyright] | Published in one volume in King Penguin as The Deptford Trilogy 1983 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1983 | All rights reserved | Made and printed in Great Britain | by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, | Bungay, Suffolk | [nine lines about copyright]; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; pp. 7-863, 1 texts of Fifth Business (pp. 7-270), The Manticore (pp. 271-549), and World of Wonders (pp. 551-863, 1) with pp. 8, 194, 272, 338, 370, 379, 508, 550, 552, and 554 blank. text: The combined texts of A28d, A44d, and A49d photographically reprinted. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a black background with colour illustrations by Bascove on three cards for each book of the trilogy (a man wearing a brown suit and a fedora and holding a cane for Fifth Business; a manticore in a light-blue suit for The Manticore; and a man in a bluish-purple cape and top hat holding a flaming card for World of

Wonders). The spine and back cover are white. On the back cover within two rectangles are: the name of the series; a paragraph about the trilogy with the heading Who Killed Boy Staunton?; quotations from reviews for each book of the trilogy (the New York Times, Anthony Burgess, and Alan Sillitoe); a small photo of Davies; the ISBN 0 14 00.6500 8; and the price (UK £4.95, Aust. $12.95, N.Z. $16.95, and Can. $10.95). Also examined was a reprint [February 1989] with ISBN 0-14011859-3. The cover of the reprint employs the same illustration by Robert Mason found on the front panel of the dust jacket of A66b. notes: Although Penguin Books Ltd. in the UK had previously published the individual volumes of the Deptford trilogy in 1976-7, it offered an advance royalty of £1,000 for the paperback rights of each volume of the trilogy on 4 November 1981, 10% royalty up to 4,000 copies sold and 12½% on an omnibus hardback. The Penguin UK contracts were sent to Davies on 1 June 1982. The copy of the contract at pend for A66a is dated 18 March 1982: £1,000 for each title; for the hardcover a royalty of 10% on the first 4,000 copies sold and 12½% thereafter; for the paperback a royalty of 7½% on home sales and 6% on export sales; for book-club rights royalties to be split evenly with Davies. The Quality Paperback Book Club also offered an advance of $1,400 against a royalty of 8% on 3,000 copies of A66a. Sarah Hodgson of Penguin Books arranged for review copies to be sent out on 28 July 1983; she was also in touch with the Canadian High Commission for promotion and contacts. The Colbert Agency sent seven author copies of A66a to Davies on 26 August 1987. A66a was published on 29 September 1983. Number of copies sold or printed for the UK not known. Penguin Books Canada Limited had a licence to sell and publish A66a for five years. Up to the end of June 1991, 61,692 copies sold in Canada. A royalty report for this period has 45,367 copies sold in Canada of A66a with ISBN 0140955119. Information on the publishing history of A66a is based on the following sources: file 31, vol. 108, Colbert Agency fonds, lac; files 3, 16, 17, 25, and 29, vol. 46, Davies fonds, lac; royalty reports at pend. copies examined: otmc; pend (ten copies of first printing; six copies of 1989 reprint). A66a.1  English and American issue (1987): [all lines within two rectangles, the outer one thick] ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [rule] THE [rule] | DEPTFORD | TRILOGY | [rule] | FIFTH BUSINESS | THE MANTICORE | WORLD OF WONDERS | [rule] VIKING [rule]



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This is a photographic reprint of A66a published in hardcover. The leaves measure 230 × 151 mm. The preliminary leaves prior to the text are as follows: p. 1 Viking’s publisher’s device (illustration of a Viking ship below a spoked semi-circle); p. 2 list of other books by Davies, including The Salterton Trilogy; p. 3 title; p. 4 VIKING | [five lines of addresses of Penguin Books Ltd., Viking Penguin Inc., and Penguin branches in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | [fifteen lines concerning the publication of Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders by various publishers and Davies’s copyright] | First published in one volume in King Penguin as The Deptford Trilogy 1983 | This hardback edition published by Viking 1987 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1983 | [six lines concerning copyright] | Printed in Great Britain by | Richard Clay Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk | [nine lines of British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-670-81790-2]. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in lightblue paper boards. Stamped in gilt on the spine: [the first two lines down the spine within two rectangles] ROBERTSON DAVIES | [below the previous line] THE DEPTFORD TRILOGY | [rule] | VIKING | [rule]. The front panel of the jacket has an illustration of a manticore, which is holding a pink egg and is standing on a black and yellow compartment (containing an animal’s jaw-bone, a bottle, and two black and red diamonds). The front panel has a blueblack-green slate pattern with the author’s name in red and the title in black within a rectangular compartment. The spine and back panels are slate grey. Printing on the spine panel is similar to the stamping on the spine, except the author’s name is in red and the publisher’s device appears above the publisher’s name. On the back panel are: excerpts about Davies’s work from three newspapers and Anthony Burgess; the ISBN and bar code on a solid pink rectangle. The flaps are white. On the front flap are: the ISBN, the price in American dollars ($19.95), the title (including titles of individual books), two paragraphs about the killing of Boy Staunton, excerpts from newspapers and writers about Davies’s work, the British price (£14.95), and 01192088. The back flap has: a small black-and-white photo of Davies by Jerry Bauer; two paragraphs about Davies; the names of the jacket illustrator (Robert Mason) and designer (Wilf Dickie); the publisher’s device; and the names of the British and American publishers and their addresses. notes: Viking Penguin Inc. agreed to pay Davies a royalty of 7½% on the omnibus paperback edition on 12 February 1986. Viking Penguin Inc. also agreed to

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pay Davies a royalty on the omnibus hardcover edition on 29 July 1986: 10% royalty on the first 5,000 copies sold, 12½% on the next 5,000 copies sold, and 15% thereafter. Both these agreements are in the form of a letter from Elisabeth Sifton at pend. Peter Mayer of Penguin Books Ltd. suggested publication in one volume on 12 May 1986, although he was worried about contractual problems in the UK and America. Davies told Mayer on 28 May 1986 that he was “greatly pleased that you would think it worthwhile to publish the Deptford Trilogy in a single hardback form and would be most happy to see it if that proves possible. I doubt if you will meet much resistance from Macmillans in Canada.” Mayer confirmed on 12 June 1986 that both sides of the Atlantic were equally committed to publishing the book in hardcover. Perry H. Knowlton, Davies’s agent at Curtis Brown Ltd., informed him on 15 April 1987 that Penguin Books Ltd. would re-issue the hardcover in the UK in September of that year. The Book Club Associates arranged to take 500 copies for their members. Finished copies of A66a.1 were available on 9 July 1987. Davies acknowledged his author copies of A66a.1 on 12 August 1987. The book was published on 4 January 1988 in the United States, just before Sifton departed from Viking Penguin for Alfred A. Knopf. Information about the number of copies printed or sold is not wholly known. 978 copies sold by the end of 1989 in the United States. 4,706 copies sold by Penguin Books Ltd. in the first six months of 1990. 119,994 copies were sold by Penguin USA to the end of June 1994, but this is for a paperback with a date of publication of 6 January 1985. Information on the publishing history of A66a.1 is based on the following sources: file 25, vol. 46, file 45, vol. 50, and file 35, vol. 52, Davies fonds, lac; royalty reports at pend. copies examined: oh (in jacket); otmc (in jacket); pend (three copies in jacket). A66a.2  Canadian issue (1987): [all lines within two rectangles, the outer one thick] ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [rule] THE [rule] | DEPTFORD | TRILOGY | [rule] | FIFTH BUSINESS | THE MANTICORE | WORLD OF WONDERS | MACMILLAN OF CANADA | [rule] A Division of Canada Publishing Corporation [rule] | Toronto Ontario Canada A66a.2 is a photographic reprint of A66a in hardcover, but in appearance it is almost the same as A66a.1. A66a.2 incorporates basic changes as to Macmillan of Canada as publisher on the spine and the spine panel and back flap of the jacket. The ISBN on the back panel of the jacket of A66a.2 is printed in

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black; there is no price on the front flap of A66a.2’s jacket. The copyright page of A66a.2 is as follows: [fifteen lines concerning the publication of Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders by various publishers and Davies’s copyright] | First published in one volume in King Penguin as The Deptford Trilogy 1983 | This hardback edition published by Macmillan of Canada, a Division | of Canada Publishing Corporation, 1987 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1983 | [six lines concerning copyright] | Printed in Great Britain by | Richard Clay Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk | [eleven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-7715-9384-8] | Macmillan of Canada | A Division of Canada Publishing Corporation | Toronto Ontario Canada. notes: On 15 December 1975, Douglas M. Gibson of Macmillan of Canada suggested publication of the Deptford trilogy either as a “very expensive edition, beautifully bound (simulated edition or some such stuff) edition” or as a boxed set of three separate quality paperbacks. The volumes of the trilogy appeared as a boxed set, and volumes of A66a were also sold in Canada. Stanley L. Colbert of the Colbert Agency, Inc. asked the Editorial Director of Penguin Books Ltd. on 9 September 1986 if the company was interested in publishing A66 in hardcover in a joint venture with Macmillan of Canada and Viking Penguin in the USA. On 20 February 1987, Penguin Books Ltd. provided Macmillan of Canada with an estimate for 2,000 copies at £3.45 apiece excluding royalty and shipping (£6,900 or $14,749.20 Can.). Macmillan of Canada projected August 1987 as a probable date of publication (price $29.95), but the company merely wanted to break even on publication. Macmillan of Canada placed an order of 2,000 copies with imprint changes on 6 March 1987. Penguin Books Ltd. sent a proof of the Macmillan of Canada jacket and prelims on 8 April 1987. Advance copies of A66a.2 were sent to Macmillan of Canada on 2 July 1987. Linda McKnight, Macmillan’s Executive Vice-President, expressed her disappointment with A66a.2 to Peter Carson Penguin Books Ltd. on 14 July 1987. She told him that it was “a solid-appearing book with a very handsome jacket,” but from a production point of view, the book was a disaster with broken type and different leading. She attributed the poor quality of A66a.2 to inadequate offset printing from the paperback (A66a). The contract between Macmillan of Canada and Davies is dated 29 July 1987 (copy at pend and file 23, vol. 23, Colbert Agency fonds, lac): an advance of $4,000, half on signing and half on publication, with a royalty of $2 per book. A66a.2 was published on 19

September 1987. Macmillan of Canada advertised A66a.2 in Quill & Quire, Books in Canada, Canadian Forum, and the Globe and Mail at a cost of $980. More than forty-five review copies were sent to journals and newspapers across Canada in the last week of August 1987. 1,614 copies sold up to 30 June 1990. Information on the publishing history of A66a.2 is based on the following sources: royalty reports at pend; file 28, vol. 45, files 8 and 11, box 405, files 6 and 7, box 419, Macmillan of Canada fonds, ohm. copies examined: pend (in jacket). A66b  American edition (1990): Robertson Davies | THE DEPTFORD TRILOGY | FIFTH BUSINESS | THE MANTICORE | WORLD OF WONDERS | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS 1-12, 7-257, 258-262, 263-515, 516-520, 521-825, 1 pp. (416 leaves). 195 × 125 mm. contents: p. 1 names of the publisher and the trilogy with five paragraphs about Davies; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [twelve lines of addresses of Penguin Books in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand; fifteen lines concerning the publication of Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders by various publishers and Davies’s copyright] | Published in one volume in King Penguin as The Deptford Trilogy 1983 | Published in one volume in Penguin Books | as The Deptford Trilogy 1990; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; pp. 7-12, 7-825 texts of Fifth Business (pp. 7-12, 7-257), The Manticore (pp. 259-515), and World of Wonders (pp. 517-825) with pp. 8, 10, 12, 258, 260, 262, 516, 518, and 520 blank; p. 1 ad for Penguin Books (including Puffins, Penguin Classics, and Arkana) and lists of addresses of Penguin Books in fourteen different countries. text: Identical to A66a binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The covers have a colour illustration of a stage with brocade curtains, a top hat on a stand, etc. Cover design by Joseph Perez and cover illustration by Thomas Woodruff. There are quotations from reviews (the New York Times, Anthony Burgess, and Allan Sillitoe) on the back cover. Reference is also made to Penguin’s web address. Price $19.95. A66b was also re-issued in 1995 (ISBN 0-14-014755-1) with cover design and illustration by Bascove ($23.99 Can; $17.95 US). notes: On 16 February 1988, Viking Penguin Inc. paid Davies an advance of $200,000 for the continuing



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rights to nine of his books. A66b was one of the books under this agreement (copy at pend). Published on 1 October 1990. 17,106 copies sold by 31 October 1997, earning a royalty of $24,272.01; 29,477 copies sold by the end of April 2001, earning a royalty of $42,455.49. It would appear that the print run was 125,717 copies. A66b was also sold by Penguin Books in Great Britain, Europe, and elsewhere. 29,037 copies sold between the start of July 1993 and the end of June 2001, earning £21,555.62 (royalty reports at pend). copies examined: davis (1995 reprint); otmc.

A67  the introduction to the papers of samuel marchbanks 1985 [all printing in dark red within a rectangle; several swash letters] The | Introduction | to the | Papers of | [S joined with p on the previous line and overlapping with M on the next line] Samuel | Marchbanks 18. 1-2, 1-12, 1-2 pp. (8 leaves). 228 × 154 mm. contents: p. 1 title; p. 2 blank; pp. 1-12 text; pp. 1-2 blank. binding: Bound in cream-coloured stiff-paper wrappers, wire-stitched. Printed in dark red on the front of the wrapper with several swash letters: The | Papers of | [S joined with p on the previous line and overlapping with M on the next line] Samuel | Marchbanks | [illustration of an inkwell, quill pen, and paper] | ROBERTSON | DAVIES. text: Entitled “Drinks with Marchbanks.” Davies’s signature is printed in facsimile on p. 12, dated: Saint David’s Day | 1985. notes: A67 is a pamphlet issued by Irwin Publishing on the occasion of Davies’s attendance at the Canadian Booksellers Association on 23 June 1985. It was intended as a promotional vehicle heralding the publication of A69. Number of copies printed not known. The text is identical to A69’s introduction, but A67 is a separate setting of type altogether. copies examined: davis.

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Anglican priest, professor, and commissioned biographer of Cornish — is unable to reconstruct the dark secrets of Cornish’s life and character, Davies introduces two members of the spirit world who unlock the mysteries of Cornish’s past for the reader. While working on the first draft of A61 in June 1980, Davies was already caught up in the story of Cornish’s life. By February 1983 he began mapping out the book’s story line. After two false starts, he was well underway a year later into the actual writing. He told Douglas M. Gibson, his editor at Macmillan of Canada, on 15 February 1984: “I am pounding on with the novel and have reached the stage where I think it is either (a) the best thing that I have ever done, or (b) garbage so repellent that you will be unable to face me when you have seen it. I confided this to my wife the other day as a painful confidence and her reply was, ‘Oh, you always say that.’” With the exception of “one more pernickety revision,” he had completed the book by the time he wrote to Gibson on 27 August 1984, and commented that it would go to Moira Whalon, his secretary, for typing. He hoped to see it published in the autumn of the next year because “the book is a cool-weather book — a book for the chimney-corner.” Although linked to A61, Davies pointed out to Gibson that A68’s story preceded A61 in terms of chronology. “I do not write trilogies, all neatly planned to follow in sequence,” he told Gibson. “I am no Henry James worker in exquisite marquetry; my stuff is often very badly shaped.” Gibson read the manuscript in a state of wonder in March 1985. On 9 April 1985, he returned it to Davies with six pages of editorial comments. He informed Davies that Elisabeth Sifton of Viking Penguin Inc. was preparing a similar list of comments. In fact, Sifton did not send Davies detailed comments. She had total confidence in Gibson’s editorial abilities. The contract with Macmillan of Canada was signed on 12 April 1985. The terms were the same as those for A36, except the advance was $30,000, $15,000 on signing and the remainder on publication, 10% for Nancy Colbert, Davies’s agent. Davies was a bit anxious about the book’s title since Grant Allen had published a book with the same title in 1891. Gibson, however, was undeterred by the coincidence of Allen’s first claim on the title. Gibson coordinated production with Viking Penguin. The book was printed by R.R. Donnelley in Chicago. Sifton sent Gibson a photocopy of a rough first draft of Bascove’s design of the jacket on 15 May 1985, calling it “very weird,” but “marvellous” if some adjustments were made to the design. Bascove was paid $2,000 for her artwork. Proofs were sent to Davies on

25 June 1985. Unbound galleys were sent to the publicist, Mary Ferguson, by Macmillan’s Production Manager, Carmel Shaffer, on 4 September 1985. Copies of the book were ready by 10 October 1985. Published on 26 October 1985 (price $22.95). The first printing consisted of 15,436 copies. Davies’s ten author copies were sent to Whalon on 24 November 1985. A joint launch for A68a and A69a, sponsored by the Macmillan of Canada and Irwin Publishing respectively, was held on 20 November 1985 at the Koffler Centre, University of Toronto. 200 invitations were sent out for the launch. Davies apparently gave two readings, one at the University of Toronto Bookroom, and after a high tea, a second at the Robert Gill Theatre (see Sid Adilman, “Tea for Two,” Toronto Star, 21 November 1985). During the month of November 1985, starting on 8 November at John Watson Hall, Queen’s University in Kingston, Davies embarked on a reading tour that took him to several venues in southern Ontario. Between 24 and 29 November 1985, he also gave readings in Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg. 21,946 copies sold by 30 January 1986. There were at least three reprintings: a second printing of 1,072 copies was delivered on 7 January 1986, $2.949 unit manufacturing cost ($3,160.84, manufacturing cost, plus freight, $420.94); a third printing of 2,482 copies was delivered on 4 February 1986, $2.445 unit manufacturing cost ($6,067.82, manufacturing cost, plus freight, $1,138.82); and a fourth printing of 2,097 copies was delivered on 27 April 1986, $3.771 unit manufacturing cost ($7,907.96, manufacturing cost, plus freight, $923.94). Nancy Colbert of the Colbert Agency sent Davies a cheque for $22,225.11 on 5 March 1986, representing royalties on A68a for the period ending 31 December 31 1985. On 15 September 1987, Ann J. Nelles told Davies that as a result of the remaindering of A68a.1 (17,000 copies), Macmillan would remainder 2,200 copies of A68a at $3.90 apiece. Denise Shon, Vice President and Publisher at Macmillan, informed Davies a month later that the excess stock of A68a would be remaindered and that the book would go out of print. Excerpts have been reprinted in the following: Louis Alexander, ed., Longman Advanced Grammar: Reference and Practice (Longman Group UK Ltd., 1992), pp. 136-9; Stuart McLean, When We Were Young: A Collection of Canadian Stories (Toronto: Viking, 1996), pp. 2-12. The National Central Library Online Catalog of Taiwan records an edition of A68 as follows: Taipei: Huang Jia, 1985. 436 p.; 21 cm. This appears to be a pirated edition. Primedia Productions and John McGreevy Productions acquired rights to the book for a television



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mini-series on 26 March 1987, but nothing apparently came of this venture (see John Haslett Cuff, “Mini-Series Bred from Davies’ Novel,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 8 April 1987, p. C7. Initially, the company paid Davies $3,000 for a two month-option, and had the right to extend the option for twenty-months ($15,000), another year ($12,000) or to acquire full rights ($180,000). The option agreement was renewed several times up to 21 July 1995 (letters of agreement at pend). On 15 January 2003, Capri Films paid Pendragon Ink $10,000 for the motion film, television, and theatrical rights of A68 and A71; the rights were for a period of eighteen months subject to renewal (copy of agreement at pend). Information on the publishing history of A68a is based on the following sources: file 19, box 391, file 1, box 392, file 11, box 405, and files 6-8, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; file 28, vol. 45 and files 30 and 49, vol. 49, Davies fonds, lac; file 32, vol. 28, Colbert Agency fonds, lac. copies examined: okq (in jacket); otmc (in jacket); pend (forty-eight copies in jacket). A68a.1  American and English issue: WHAT’S | BRED | IN THE | BONE | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device of Viking Press: Viking ship with spokes in a semi-circle above the ship] | Elisabeth Sifton Books | VIKING A68a.1 is from the same setting of type as A68a. The copyright page of A68a.1 is as follows: ELISABETH SIFTON BOOKS | VIKING | Viking Penguin Inc. | 40 West 23rd Street, | New York, New York 10010, U.S.A. | First American Edition | Published in 1985 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1985 | All rights reserved | All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to | actual persons living or dead is coincidental. | [seven lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-670-80916-0] | Printed in the United States by | R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. | Set in Bembo. binding and dust jacket: The binding of A68a.1 is the same as A68a except for the following found at the foot of the spine: [rule] | VIKING | [rule]. The front and spine panels of A68a.1 are the same as A68a, with the exception of Viking’s publisher’s device and name, which replace those of Macmillan of Canada. The back panel of the jacket is black with white lettering. It has a black-and-white photograph of Davies by Jill Krementz, three paragraphs about him, rules, and the ISBN within a solid white rectangle. The flaps are white. They have a plot summary, the ISBN, the price ($17.95, £9.95), the name of the jacket illustrator, and

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the addresses of Viking Penguin Inc. and Penguin Books Ltd. The last line on the front flap, opposite the price in pounds sterling, is: 11173085. The book also appeared in a paperback perfect binding. The covers of the paperback are similar to the book’s jacket. The back cover of the paperback lacks an ISBN and has PRINTED IN U.S.A. within a solid white rectangle. The paperback was apparently distributed to members of the Book-of-the-Month Club. notes: Circa 25 August 1984, when Davies had nearly completed A68, he told Elisabeth Sifton, Viking Penguin’s editor, that the book had been fraught with personal difficulties: “Writing WBB has been very hard work, because I have had to dig parts of it out of my own experience that I would rather not disturb. But I suppose that is what happens as one grows older.” Viking Penguin informed Macmillan of Canada on 31 May 1985 that if the companies worked together on the edition, Viking Penguin would undoubtedly order a minimum of 25,000 copies. Gibson sent Sifton three sets of galleys on 14 June 1985. Davies discussed the American publicity for the book with Victoria Meyer, Viking Penguin’s Publicity Director, in June and July 1985. His American agent, Perry Knowlton of Curtis Brown Ltd., sent Davies the contract for A68a.1 on 24 July 1985 (returned by Davies 6 August 1985). The contract for the American market, including the Philippines, at pend is dated 29 May 1985: an advance of $17,500 against royalties; for the hardcover, a royalty of 10% on the first 5,000 copies sold, 12½% on the next 7,500 copies sold, and 15% thereafter; for the paperback, 7½% on the first 60,000 copies sold, 8½% on the next 60,000 copies sold, and 10% thereafter. On 10 August 1985, Viking Penguin ordered 26,750 copies through Macmillan of Canada at $2.56 Canadian per copy; 1,750 copies of the order were for Viking UK. The total cost to Viking Penguin Inc. was $72,618; Macmillan of Canada earned a profit of $12,305 (46¢ per copy). When Viking Penguin received advance copies of A68a.1 on 8 October 1985, the book, particularly the dust jacket, was not quite up to their standards of production — the art on the front panel, for example, was not centred properly and the lamination was the wrong kind (UV lamination instead of film lamination). A68a.1 was published on 26 October 1985. The copyright in A68a.1 was registered at dlc’s Copyright Office on 7 January 1986 (TX-1-726-357). Whatever concerns Viking Penguin may have had about A68a.1’s physical appearance, its potential sales were apparently not harmed in any way. On 19 December 1985, A68a.1 was number 13 on the New

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York Times bestseller list. 55,000 copies were in print, and Viking Penguin ordered a fifth printing of 7,500 copies (see Beverley Slopen, “Davies’ Book Goes to Its Fifth printing in U.S.,” Toronto Star, 26 January 1986, p. B6). Davies began a book tour in the United States between 4 and 7 December 1985, beginning in New York City. He gave readings and had interviews with Women’s Wear Daily, the Washington Times, the Bergen Record, Publishers Weekly, the Wall Street Journal, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Kroch’s and Brentano’s book club in Chicago placed an order for 1,000 copies, all signed by Davies. 62,427 copies had sold by 30 April 1986. As early as September 1987, Viking Penguin began remaindering its stock of 17,000 copies. On 27 August 1988, all copies in stock of A68a.1 were remaindered at $1.89 apiece. W.H. Smith was selling A68a.1 in Canada on 4 March 1992 at $4.99. On 16 February 1988, Viking Penguin Inc. paid Davies an advance of $200,000 for the continuing rights to nine of his books; A68 was one of the books under this agreement (copy at pend). There was no separate English edition or issue of A68 since Viking Penguin operated in both the United States and Great Britain. Nonetheless, Davies was paid an advance of £3,000 for A68.a1’s publication in England with a royalty of 10% on the first 3,000 copies sold and 12½% thereafter (contract at pend dated 13 July 1985). Rosie Glaisher, Publicity Director of the Viking Press (UK), told Davies that A68a.1 would be published in England on 27 February 1986. Viking Press (UK) submitted A68a.1 for the 1986 Booker McConnell prize for fiction on 2 July 1986. Felicity Bryan of Curtis Brown, Davies’s agent in Great Britain, informed Davies on 5 June 1986 that in spite of the excellent reviews, only 2,000 copies had sold in Great Britain. Although Davies was quite pessimistic that A68a.1 would attract the attention of the Booker judges, A68a.1 did make it onto the Booker short list. As a result, a reprint was ordered, and 7,500 copies were in bookstores by the last week of September 1986. Even though it did not win the prize, it was number six on the bestseller list in Great Britain by 24 October 1986. Bryan told Davies on 20 November 1986 that 9,700 copies (350 copies in Australia) had sold and that 700 copies remained in the warehouse. 8,406 copies sold between 1 July 1986 and 1 December 1986, earning a royalty of £6,586. Information on the publishing history of A68a.1 is based on the following sources: file 11, box 405, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; files 21-3, vol. 46, file 46, vol. 49, and files 32-5, vol. 52, Davies fonds, lac; file 19, vol. 28, Colbert Agency fonds, lac; royalty reports at pend.

copies examined: davis (first printing in jacket and paperback; fourth printing in jacket, December 1985; fifth printing in jacket, January 1986); otmc (first printing in jacket); pend (two copies in jacket of the fourth printing, December 1985). A68a.2  second American issue (1986): WHAT’S | BRED | IN THE | BONE | Robertson Davies | [illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Elisabeth Sifton Books | PENGUIN BOOKS A68a.2 is a photographic reprint of A68a.1. The leaves measure 195 × 127 mm. The first page (p. 1) has the name of the publisher, the book’s title, and three paragraphs about Davies; the first page after the text is an advertisement for Penguin Books in the United States; the first page of the text is not numbered 2 in A68a.2 the way it was in A68a. The copyright page (p. 4) of A68a.2 reads as follows: ELISABETH SIFTON BOOKS • PENGUIN BOOKS | [ten lines of addresses of Penguin Books in the United States, England, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published by Macmillan of Canada, 1985 | First published in the United States of America by | Viking Penguin Inc. 1985 | Published in Penguin Books 1986 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1985 | All rights reserved | [two lines noting that none of the characters in the book has any resemblance to living persons; six lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0 1400.8801 6] | Printed in the United States by | R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Harrisburg, Virginia | Set in Bembo | [nine lines about copyright]. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The front cover is similar to A68a.1’s dust jacket but with the publisher’s device at the top right-hand corner and the heading NATIONAL BESTSELLER within a solid yellow rectangle. The line A NoVEL BY is missing from the cover, and two lines appear in yellow below the author’s name: “A deliciously readable story ... An altogether remarkable creation, | his most accomplished novel to date”—The New York Times. The spine and back cover are black. The back cover has printing in yellow and white: rules, excerpts from newspapers and journals, two paragraphs about the book, the name of the designer, the publisher’s device, the price ($6.95) within a solid white rectangle, and the ISBN and bar code within a solid white rectangle. notes: See above (A68a.1) for the agreement for the paperback. Published on 4 November 1986. Up to the end of 1986, 56,485 copies had sold. By 30 April 1995, 135,542 copies had sold (royalty reports at pend). copies examined: davis (1987 reprint); pend (nine copies of first printing).



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A68a.3  second English issue (1987): ROBERTSON DAVIES | [thick-thin rule] | WHAT’S BRED IN | THE BONE | [illustration of a penguin within an oval] | A KING PENGUIN | PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN BOOKS A68a.3 is a photographic reprint of A68a.1. The leaves measure 195 × 127 mm. The first page (p. 1) has the series name within two rectangles and excerpts from reviews, all within a rectangle. The next page has the title, a long paragraph about Davies, and a one-line paragraph mentioning that A68 was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The three leaves after the text list addresses of the Penguin branches, Penguin books of poetry, works in the Penguin poetry library, Penguin best-sellers, and Davies’s books published by Penguin with excerpts from reviews. The copyright page of A68a.3 is as follows: [five lines of addresses of Penguin Books in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in U.S.A. by Elisabeth Sifton Books/Viking 1985 | Published in Penguin Books 1987 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1985 | All rights reserved | Printed and bound in Great Britain by | Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading | [nine lines about copyright]. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. Printed on the front cover against a background collage in light brown and grey: King Penguin | ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [rule] | WHAT’S BRED | IN THE BONE | [two-line quotation from Malcolm Bradbury] | SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE | [colour illustration of a bearded jester, standing on one foot on a carpet (a pattern of diagonals and squares), and holding paint brushes in one hand and in the other hand a bone with a line attached to a balloon. The spine and back cover are white. The spine has the publisher’s device, the title, author, and ISBN (0 14 00.8801 6). On the back cover are the name of the series, a paragraph about the book, excerpts from reviews, a bluish photo of Davies’s head by Jerry Bauer, the name of the cover illustrator (Robert Mason), the ISBN, bar code, and the recommended prices (UK £3.95; Aust. $12.95; and NZ $14.99). notes: On 27 May 1986, Humphrey Price, Publicity Director of Penguin Books Ltd., told Davies that A68a.3 would be published in March 1987 (published 26 March 1987). The print run was a minimum of 50,000 copies according to Felicity Bryan, Davies’s agent. On 13 August 1987, Bryan stated that 30,000 copies had been sold (file 45, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac). Royalty reports at pend record the following for A68a.3 but with ISBN 014117938: 6,556 copies sold in the first six months of 1990, earning £2,287.95; 7,858

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copies sold between the beginning of July 1993 and the end of June 2000, earning £3,831.91 in royalties. copies examined: pend (seventeen copies). A68b  second Canadian edition (1986): [lettering in the first four lines is ornamental as in the Bascove jacket illustration with o raised] WHAT’S BRED IN THE BoNE | RoBERTSoN | DAVIES | [illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books 1-9, 2-22, 23, 24-71, 72-73, 74-177, 178-179, 180-250, 251-252, 253-342, 343-344, 344-435, 436-437, 438-525, 1-11 pp. (272 leaves). 172 × 107 mm. contents: p. 1 publisher’s name, title, three paragraphs about Davies; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 [five lines of addresses of Penguin Books in Canada, England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published by Macmillan of Canada, 1985, a Division of Canada Publishing Corp. | Published in Penguin Books, 1986 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1985 | All rights reserved. | Manufactured in Canada | [seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14-009682-5; six lines about copyright; two lines noting the book is a work of   fiction and that any resemblance to actual persons   is coincidental]; p. 5, proverb from Latin, 1290, English, about what’s bred in the bone; p. 6 blank; p. 7 fly title; p. 8 blank; pp. 9-525 text (pp. 72, 178, and 436 blank); p. 1 blank; pp. 2-10 ads for Davies’s books published by Penguin Books (pp. 3 and 7 blank); p. 11 blank. text: Identical to A68a except p. 254 where the word “midnight” has been changed to “9 p.m.” binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The front cover, which is gold with a black rectangular border, has the heading INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER in yellow. It features the illustration by Bascove used in A68a. The spine is black with lettering primarily in white. The back cover in yellow has quotations from newspapers and journals, two paragraphs about the book, and mention of the book’s winning of the Canadian Authors Association Library Award (1986); the publisher’s device, bar code, ISBN, and price ($5.95) are within a solid white rectangle. notes: In a memo dated 29 July 1985, John Duff of Macmillan of Canada told Douglas M. Gibson that Penguin Books Canada Limited had made an offer for the paperback reprint rights on A68: an advance of $25,000 against 10% royalty. The advance was increased to $30,000, and the royalty rate was 10% on the first 3,000 copies, 12½% up to 5,000 copies, and

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15% thereafter. The contract in the Colbert Agency fonds, lac (file 32, vol. 28), dated 28 October 1985, grants a licence to Penguin Books Canada for a period of eight years after publication (no sooner than November 1986 and no later than May 1987). The advance and royalties were split evenly between Macmillan of Canada and Davies. The Colbert Agency sent Davies cheques of $23,750 on 5 March 1986 and $6,250 on 26 November 1986. A68b was published on 25 November 1986 (price $5.95). Up to June 1987, 72,201 copies sold, earning a royalty of $43,874.14; 79,860 copies sold up to 30 June 1988. 2,064 copies were inadvertently sold to Penguin UK. The Quality Paperback Book Club paid an advance royalty of $2,500 with a royalty of 8% to sell A68b to its members. By the end of June 1991, 105,323 copies sold, earning a royalty of $66,993.93. The publishing history of A68b is based on: file 11, box 405, Macmillan Canada, ohm; file 28, vol. 45, Davies fonds, lac; file 31, vol. 108, Colbert Agency fonds, lac; royalty reports at pend. copies examined: davis (first printing, 1987 (first printing of that year), 1988, and [1989, sixth   reprint]); omamc; pend (five copies, first printing). A68c  first American edition (large print, 1987): Robertson Davies | WHAT’S BRED | IN THE BONE | G.K.HALL &CO. | Boston, Massachusetts | 1987 1-8, 3-87, 88-90, 91-218, 219-220, 221-306, 307-308, 309-418, 419-420, 421-531, 532-534, 535-641, 1 pp. (324 leaves). 234 × 156 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 Copyright © 1985 by Robertson Davies. | All rights reserved. | Published in Large Print by arrangement with | Viking Penguin Inc. | [two lines stating that the work is fiction with no relation to actual people] | British Commonwealth rights courtesy of | Penguin Books Ltd. | Canadian rights courtesy of | The Colbert Agency Inc. | G. K. Hall Large Print Book Series. | Set in 16 pt Plantin. | [rule; seven lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-8161-41339; rule]; p. 5 “What’s bred in the bone | will not out of the flesh.” | ENGLISH PROVERB FROM LATIN, 1290; p. 6 blank; pp. 7-8, 3-641 text (pp. 8, 88, 90, 220, 308, 420, 532, and 534 blank); p. 1 information about G.K. Hall Large Print Books with a note on the text. text: Identical to A68a. binding and dust jacket: Bound in black cloth with the following stamped in dark glossy pink on

the spine: LARGE | PRINT | [down the spine] What’s Bred in the Bone Robertson Davies | [within a solid rectangular oval] GKH | HALL. The front, spine, and back panels of the jacket are black. The front panel of A68c is similar to the front panel of A68a’s jacket. The front panel of A68c’s jacket has the quotation: “A deliciously readable story ... An altogether remarkable creation, | his most accomplished novel to date”—The New York Times. The back panel has excerpts from reviews, a small black-and-white photograph of Davies’s head by Peter Paterson, the ISBN, the series name, and the heading: Praise for the latest masterpiece from “The | Wizard of the North.” The flaps are white with information about the book’s plot, biographical information about Davies, the ISBN, price ($20.95), and the names of the jacket designer and illustrator (Bascove) and photographer. A68c also appeared in paperback (ISBN 0816141347, not seen). notes: Viking Penguin Inc. arranged through Curtis Brown Ltd. for the contract with G.K. Hall Publishers on 29 January 1986: an advance of $2,500; simultaneous publication of the hardcover (1,750 copies, 10% royalty) and paperback (2,000 copies, 6½% royalty). Davies signed the letter of agreement on 11 February 1986 (copy at pend). Viking Penguin and Davies split the advance evenly. G.K. Hall arranged a letter of agreement with the Colbert Agency, being a licence for five years for the Canadian large-print rights: an advance of $150 and a royalty of 10% on all copies sold (file 33, vol. 28, Colbert Agency fonds, lac). G.K. Hall paid an advance of £400 with a royalty of 10% for distribution of A68c in the UK (Davies agreed on 6 May 1986; file 23, vol. 46, Davies fonds, lac). A68c was published on February 1987. Designed by Janet Zietowski, composed on 16 pt Plantin on a Xyvision 300/Linotron 202N by Henry Elliott. copies examined: pend (in jacket). A68d  third Canadian edition (1997): [the first letter two lines in height and to the left of the next two lines] W | HAT’S | Bred | in the | Bone | [to the right of the previous two lines a circular ornament within a square with • at the corners inside the square] | by Robertson Davies | [illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books 1-8, 3-19, 20, 21-61, 62-64, 65-153, 154-156, 157-215, 216-218, 219-294, 295-296, 297-374, 375-376, 377-450, 1-8 pp. (232 leaves). 202 × 130 mm. contents: p. 1 publisher’s name, title, two paragraphs about Davies; p. 2 list of fifteen other books by Davies under the categories of novels, criticism, essays,



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and short stories; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [ten lines of addresses of Penguin Books in Canada, England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published by Macmillan of Canada, A division of Canada | Publishing Corp., 1985 | Published in Penguin Books, 1986 | Published in this edition, 1997 | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1985 | All rights reserved | [publisher’s note in four lines stating that the book is a work of fiction and that any resemblance to actual people, events, or locales is coincidental] | Manufactured in Canada | [seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14-26432-9; six lines about copyright; one line with Penguin Canada’s web address]; p. 5 What’s Bred in the Bone will not | Out of the Flesh. | English Proverb, From Latin, 1290; p. 6 blank; pp. 7-8, 3-450 text (pp. 62, 154, and 216 blank); pp. 1-8 blank. text: Identical to A68a. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a reddish rust background with an abstract illustration by Sandra Dionisi of various symbols or objects: half of a knight’s helmet; a cross on a circle; half of a sword; a crown above a glove with the title in white, all on a solid purple rectangle within a wavy, gold compartment. The name of the Cornish trilogy in white is at the bottom of the front cover within a rounded red rectangle. The spine is black with the illustration from the front cover reproduced in miniature. The back cover in white has quotations from newspapers and journals, two paragraphs about the book, and the names of the cover illustrator and cover designer (Spencer Francey Peters); also on the back cover within a rectangle are the publisher’s device, the ISBN, bar code, and price ($15.99). notes: For an advance of $200,000, Penguin Books Canada Limited negotiated a licence with Macmillan of Canada on 13 May 1988 for a period of ten years to publish A68d along with eight other works by Davies (contract in file 12, vol. 28, Colbert Agency fonds). For details, see A14d, notes. copies examined: pend (six copies).

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| comprising the Diary, the | Table Talk and | a Garland of Miscellanea | by | Samuel Marchbanks | but enlarged (to include a | Biographical Introduction and | Copious notes calculated to remove | all Difficulties caused by the | passing of Time and to offer the Wisdom, | not to speak of the Whimsicality, | of this astonishing man to the Modern Public, | in the most convenient form) | by his long-suffering friend, | Robertson Davies | [logo of Irwin Publishing (square with rounded corners containing an abstract design within a circle)] | Irwin Publishing | Toronto Canada | 1985 1-8 16 9 8 10-18 16. I-VI, VII-XVIII, 1-4, 3-54, 55-56, 57-105, 106-108, 109-150, 151-152, 153-202, 203-204, 205, 206208, 209-224, 225, 226-248, 249, 250-275, 276, 277-318, 319, 320-332, 333, 334-359, 360, 361-384, 385-387, 388540 pp. (280 leaves). 228 × 152 mm. contents: p. I half title; p. II list of twenty-nine books by Davies under the categories of criticism, fiction, and plays; p. III title; p. IV Copyright © 1985 Robertson Davies | [six lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-7725-1539-5; five lines about copyright] | Material in Parts One and Two of The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks is drawn from: | The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke Irwin 1947 | The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke Irwin 1949 | Marchbanks’ Garland is drawn from material in Samuel Marchbanks’ Almanack by Robert- | son Davies. Used by permission of The Canadian Publishers, McClelland and Stewart | Limited, Toronto. | DESIGN: Brant Cowie/Artplus Ltd. | Caricature on p. 540 by Graham Pilsworth | Typeset by Composer Typographic Services Limited | Printed in Canada by John Deyell Company | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 JD 92 91 90 89 88 87 86 85 | Published by Irwin Publishing Inc.; p. V table of contents; pp. VIXVIII introduction with Davies’s signature in facsimile on p. XVIII and dated Saint David’s Day (i.e. 1 March) 1985; pp. 1-4, 3-538 text (pp. 106 and 206 blank); pp. 539-540 L’envoi (caricature of Marchbanks and Davies on p. 540). text: The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (A4); The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (A8); Marchbanks’ Garland (A25 revised substantially and re-titled). These texts are buttressed with a scholarly apparatus (an introduction, footnotes, and an envoi). binding and dust jacket: Bound in dark-purple cloth with red signet. Stamped in gilt on the spine: [down the spine] DAVIES | [next two lines down the spine and to the right of previous line] THE PAPERS OF | [under previous line] SAMUEL MARCHBANKS | [logo of Irwin publishing (square with rounded corners containing an abstract design within a circle)] |

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IRWIN. Purple endpapers with a pattern of small, fivepetalled flowers. The front and spine panels of the jacket are purple. The title on the front panel is similar to the first four lines on the title page, and below that is the following in gilt: [illustration of an ink well, quill pen, and paper] | ROBERTSON | DAVIES. The lettering on the spine panel is white and similar to the stamping on the spine. On the back panel is a black-and-white photograph of Davies taken by Peter Paterson. The flaps are light tan with lettering on the front flap similar to the front panel. This is followed by several paragraphs, continued on the back flap, about Samuel Marchbanks and Davies. Also on the back flap are the photo credit and the cover design (Brant Cowie/Artplus Ltd.), with the lines: Printed in Canada | 0 7725 1539 5. notes: As early as 21 March 1977, Douglas M. Gibson of Macmillan of Canada attempted to obtain the rights to A4, A8 (both published by Clarke Irwin), and A25 (published by McClelland & Stewart) so that an omnibus edition of all three Marchbanks books could be published under the Macmillan of Canada imprint. In an internal memo to Bob Stuart, he pointed out that Davies’s contracts with Clarke Irwin allowed Davies to regain the rights to A4 and A8 since both books were out of print. Davies’s agent had pestered Clarke Irwin about the rights to A4 and A8 without success, however. Davies’s agent believed that unless Clarke Irwin published a new edition of A4 and A8 by June of that year, the rights to both books would revert to Davies. Gibson and Davies discussed the publication of A69a in 1982. Davies told Gibson on 16 April 1982 that he was of two minds about publication: “The problem is the old one: do you try to build a coherent reputation or do you try to squeeze the last penny out of any rubbish you can scrape out of the bottom drawer.” On the one hand Davies was tempted to revise the Marchbanks books, to explain the dated character of some of the material, and to produce “an Annotated Marchbanks with amusing foot-notes.” On the other hand he was worried that his reputation as a novelist could be impaired by “warmed over material”: “It would be very easy to wear out my welcome with the public if a book appears every year and if some of these are necessarily inferior pieces of work.” On 7 July 1982, the legal firm of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt advised Gibson that the situation with Clarke Irwin was in fact quite complicated and that it was entirely possible for Clarke Irwin to prevent Davies from publishing A4 and A8 with Macmillan of Canada. Gibson asked Davies on 5 August 1982 to approach

the publishers to release the rights. He also addressed Davies’s reservations about the book’s reception. For Gibson the key was to make a careful selection and to organize the material with a running commentary by Davies in the role of editor of the unjustly neglected Marchbanks. Gibson estimated sales at 5,000 copies. The agent Lucinda Vardey informed Gibson on 1 March 1984 that Davies had come to an agreement with Clarke Irwin (1983) to publish A69a. When Clarke Irwin went into receivership, the majority of its business assets had been purchased by The Book Society of Canada Ltd. The Book Society reconstituted Clarke Irwin as Clarke Irwin (1983), and then on 22 May 1984, The Book Society re-incorporated itself along with its subsidiary companies as Irwin Publishing Inc. John Pearce, who formerly worked for Clarke Irwin, became director of Irwin Publishing. Gibson explained the situation to the writer Bronwyn Drainie: “We approached Clarke, Irwin a couple of times after the books went out of print, but it was definitely a case of possession being nine-tenths ... I knew Clarke, Irwin wanted to re-issue, but they felt it needed a new treatment. But there was a residue of bad feeling left over from Davies’ departure, and he was uncooperative when they approached him. And obviously they were reluctant to sign the material over to anyone else” (quoted in Drainie, “The Old Master,” Books in Canada 14, no. 6 (August-September 1985): 10). In short, like Clarke Irwin, Irwin Publishing refused to admit that the rights of A4 and A8 had reverted to Davies. The contract with Clarke Irwin (1983) (copy at pend dated 15 March 1984) gave Davies an advance of $22,500, one-third payable on signature of the contract, one-third on delivery of the manuscript (due 30 April 1985), and one-third on the date of publication. The royalty rate was 10% on the first 5,000 copies sold and 12½% thereafter. Curtis Brown International controlled the translation rights (75% of the royalties to Davies and 25% to Clarke Irwin (1983)) and was authorized to sell the book in the United States and Great Britain (80% of the royalties to Davies and 20% to Clarke Irwin (1983)). Davies paid McClelland & Stewart $2,750 for the subsidiary rights which permitted Irwin Publishing to publish A25a (permissions agreement at pend dated 27 May 1985). Davies edited the Marchbanks volumes between November 1984 and the first few months of 1985. In the case of A4, he made minor emendations throughout the text and major changes in only a few entries. With respect to A8, he rearranged the placement of half a dozen entries and shortened and excised many more. He made major changes to A25, scrapping seventynine pages, and rearranging the remaining text into



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“Marchbanks’ Garland.” In his introduction Davies adopts the tongue-in-cheek tone of the long-suffering, scholarly editor who must correct and explain the wayward, inaccurate Marchbanks. For his part Marchbanks (Davies’s literary persona) claims that he and Davies are The Canadian Brothers — “You, the academic, pussyfooting brother and I the dashing, romantic brother” (p. IX). Pearce sent Perry Knowlton of Curtis Brown the manuscript of A69 on 24 April 1985, requesting that Knowlton arrange publication on Irwin Publishing’s behalf in the United States and England. Davies told the critic Ken Adachi that he was very pleased with A69a: “My American publisher, Viking Press, will reproduce this edition, which is a great compliment to Canadian publishing.” (Adachi, “Davies Shares His Sublime Sense of the Ridiculous,” Toronto Star, 17 November 1985, p. G1). Davies attended the Canadian Booksellers Association on 23 June 1985 to sign a bound introduction of A69 (see A67). He received his twelve author copies of A69a on 24 October 1985. A69a was published on 2 November 1985 (price $24.95). dlc’s Copyright Office has a date of publication of 15 October 1986 (registered on 6 October 1986, TX-1-925-031 registration no.). A joint launch for A69a and A68a, sponsored by Irwin Publishing and Macmillan of Canada respectively, was held on 20 November 1985 at the Koffler Centre, University of Toronto. 200 invitations were sent out for the launch. After a high tea, Davies gave a reading at the Robert Gill Theatre (see Sid Adilman, “Tea for Two,” Toronto Star, 21 November 1985). 4,525 copies sold by the end of the year, leaving an unearned balance of $13,432.89 (royalty report at pend). Nancy Colbert, Davies’s agent, told him on 5 March 1986 that of the first printing of 7,500 copies, almost 5,000 copies had sold. A broadside, comprising the last eight lines of p. 285 of A69 (begins “Real bibliophiles do not ...”), was issued by Patti Schneider in an edition of 250 numbered copies in 1991; the broadside is printed in scarlet and black in a calligraphicstyle script with an illustration of a dragon (two copies of the broadside at davis). General Publishing Co. Limited acquired control of Irwin Publishing in March 1988. Thereafter, Irwin’s trade titles were integrated into the publishing list of General Publishing’s subsidiary, Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited. Information on the publishing history of A69a has been obtained from the following sources: file 45, box 219, file 1, box 392 and files 6-7, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; file 28, vol. 45, file 20, vol. 46, and file 36, vol. 48, Davies fonds, lac.

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copies examined: ohm (three copies in jacket); pend (four copies in jacket). A69a.1  American and English issue (1986): [first four lines with several swash letters] The | Papers of | [S joined with p on the previous line and overlapping with M on the next line] Samuel | Marchbanks | comprising the Diary, the | Table Talk and | a Garland of Miscellanea | by | Samuel Marchbanks | but enlarged (to include a | Biographical Introduction and | Copious notes calculated to remove | all Difficulties caused by the | passing of Time and to offer the Wisdom, | not to speak of the Whimsicality, | of this astonishing man to the Modern Public, | in the most convenient form) | by his long-suffering friend, | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: Viking ship with spokes in a semi-circle above the ship] | Elisabeth Sifton Books | VIKING With the exception of the title leaf, the sheets A69a.1 are identical to A69a. The copyright page of A69a.1 is as follows: ELISABETH SIFTON BOOKS • VIKING | Viking Penguin Inc. | 40 West 23rd Street, | New York, New York 10010, U.S.A. | First American Edition | Published in 1986 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1985 | All rights reserved | Material in Parts One and Two of The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks is drawn from: | The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke Irwin 1947 | The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke Irwin 1949 | Marchbanks’ Garland is drawn from material in Samuel Marchbanks’ Almanack by | Robertson Davies. Used by permission of the Canadian Publishers, McClelland | and Stewart Limited, Toronto. | (CIP data available) | Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 85-040808 | ISBN 0-670-81145-9 | Caricature on page 540 by Graham Pilsworth. | Printed in the United States of America by | Haddon Craftsmen, Scranton, Pennsylvania | Set in Caslon 540. text: Identical to A69a. binding and dust jacket: Bound in dark-purple cloth. Stamped in gilt on the spine: [first four lines down the spine] Robertson | [under the previous line] Davies | [the next two lines to the left of the previous two lines] The Papers of | [under the previous line] Samuel Marchbanks | [rule] | VIKING | [rule]. Purple endpapers with a pattern of small, five-petalled flowers. The front, spine, and back panels of the jacket are light tan with printing in red, purple, and black. On the front panel are the author’s name in red capital letters, the title in purple capital letters, rules, and Graham Pilsworth’s caricature of Davies and Marchbanks. The back cover has two thick-thin rules, Pilsworth’s caricature, a quotation from the Vancouver

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Province, and the ISBN within a solid white rectangle. The flaps are white. On the front flap are the ISBN, prices ($22.50, £9.95), three paragraphs about the book (continued on the back flap), and 07216586 in the bottom left-hand corner. The back flap has a black-and-white photograph of Davies by Thomas Vincent, a paragraph about Davies, the publisher’s device, and the addresses of Viking Penguin Inc. in the U.S.A. and Penguin Books Ltd. in England. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. notes: Irwin Publishing owned the world rights to A69. The copy of the contract at pend between Irwin Publishing and Viking Penguin for A69a.1 is dated 29 January 1986: an advance of $7,500; for the hardcover, a royalty of 10% on the first 5,000 copies sold, 12½% for the next 5,000 copies sold, and 15% thereafter; for the paperback, a royalty of 7½%. Although Davies was entitled to half of the proceeds on this account, he received no money since the advance to A69a had not been met. A69a.1 was published in the United States on 7 July 1986. Viking Penguin issued a broadside (News from Elisabeth Sifton Books) which announced publication of the book with excerpts of Marchbanks’s opinions on various subjects. Ten author copies of A69a.1 were sent to Davies by Irwin Publishing on 2 October 1986. 6,964 copies sold by the end of April 1992 (same number at end of 30 April 2001). A69a.1 was remaindered on 30 July 1992 at $2.31 apiece. A69a.1 also sold in Great Britain. The contract at pend is dated 7 May 1986: an advance of £1,750; for the hardcover, a royalty of 10% on the first 3,000 copies sold and 12½% thereafter; for the paperback, a royalty of 7½% on home sales and 6% on export sales. Information on the publishing history of A69a.1 is based on the following sources in the Davies fonds, lac: file 20, vol. 46, file 10, vol. 49, file 46, vol. 50, and file 37, vol. 52. copies examined: pend (thirty-two copies in jacket). A69a.2  second Canadian issue (1987): [first four lines with several swash letters] The | Papers of | [S joined with p on the previous line and overlapping with M on the next line] Samuel | Marchbanks | comprising the Diary, the | Table Talk and | a Garland of Miscellanea | by | Samuel Marchbanks | but enlarged (to include a | Biographical Introduction and | Copious notes calculated to remove | all Difficulties caused by the | passing of Time and to offer the Wisdom, | not to speak of the Whimsicality, | of this astonishing man to the Modern Public, | in the most convenient form) | by his long-suffering friend, | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: open fan in a semi-circle pointing downward] | TOTEM | PRESS

A69a.2 is a photographic reprint of A69a with the same pagination. The leaves measure 196 × 130 mm. The copyright page reads: First published 1985 | by Irwin Publishing Inc. | This edition published 1987 | by TOTEM PRESS | a division of Collins Publishers | 100 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Ontario | © 1985 by Robertson Davies | [four lines about copyright] | Material in Parts One and Two of The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks is drawn | from: | The Dairy of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke Irwin 1947 | The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke Irwin 1949 | Marchbank’s Garland is drawn from material in Samuel Marchbanks’ Almanac[k] by | Robertson Davies. Used by permission of The Canadian Publishers, McClelland | and Stewart Limited, Toronto. | [seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-00-223168-9] | Design: Brant Cowie / Artplus Ltd. | Printed and bound in Canada. binding: Perfect binding in white stiff-paper covers with Graham Pilsworth’s illustration on the front cover within a solid red rectangular frame. The spine is red at the top and bottom. All lines on the back cover are within a rectangular border: the title, author’s name, two paragraphs about Marchbanks, quotations from journals and a newspaper, the illustrator’s name, the publisher’s device, the ISBN, and bar code. notes: A69a.2 was published in March 1987. Collins Publishers (later Harper Collins Publishers Ltd.) paid Irwin Publishing an advance of $15,000 for this issue with a royalty rate of 10%. After February 1988 all of Irwin’s shares were acquired by Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd. 7,415 copies sold up to the end of June 1991 (royalty reports at pend). copies examined: pend (seven copies). A69a.3  third Canadian issue (1987): [first four lines with several swash letters] The | Papers of | [S joined with p on the previous line and overlapping with M on the next line] Samuel | Marchbanks | comprising the Diary, the | Table Talk and | a Garland of Miscellanea | by | Samuel Marchbanks | but enlarged (to include a | Biographical Introduction and | Copious notes calculated to remove | all Difficulties caused by the | passing of Time and to offer the Wisdom, | not to speak of the Whimsicality, | of this astonishing man to the Modern Public, | in the most convenient form) | by his long-suffering friend, | Robertson Davies | Collins Toronto A69a.3 is a photographic reprint of A69a. Pagination is the same as A69a. The leaves measure 195 × 130 mm. The copyright page is the same as A69a.1 with “by TOTEM PRESS” replacing “by COLLINS PRESS (formerly TOTEM PRESS)”.



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binding: Perfect binding, white stiff-paper covers. All lines and illustrations on the front cover are within a rectangle, including a caricature of Marchbanks and Davies by Graham Pilsworth (also on p. 540). Also on the front cover is a quotation from Books in Canada (“A DELIGHT | AND A SUREFIRE | SUCCESS”). The following is printed down the spine: DAVIES | [next two lines in light blue and in a smaller type size] The Papers of | [under the previous line] Samuel Marchbanks | [within a solid black rectangle] COLLINS PRESS. Lines on the back cover are within a rectangle (broken at the bottom). The back cover has quotations from the Financial Post, the Toronto Star, and Books in Canada, three paragraphs about Davies and Marchbanks, the publisher’s device and name, the ISBN, bar code, price ($12.95), and the names of the caricaturist and cover designer (Scott Richardson). notes: This issue by Collins Press is a reprint of A69a.2 since Totem Press was a division of Collins Publishers. See the notes to A69a.2 for number of copies sold. copies examined: davis. A69a.4  second English issue (1989): [first four lines with several swash letters] The | Papers of | [S joined with p on the previous line and overlapping with M on the next line] Samuel | Marchbanks | COMPRISING THE DIARY, THE TABLE TALK | AND A GARLAND OF MISCELLANEA | BY SAMUEL MARCHBANKS | BUT ENLARGED TO INCLUDE A BIOGRAPHICAL | INTRODUCTION AND COPIOUS notes CALCULATED TO | REMOVE ALL DIFFICULTIES CAUSED BY THE PASSING OF | TIME, AND TO OFFER THE WISDOM, NOT TO SPEAK OF THE | WHIMSICALITY, OF THIS ASTONISHING MAN TO THE | MODERN PUBLIC, BY HIS LONG-SUFFERING FRIEND, | ROBERTSON DAVIES | PENGUIN BOOKS A69a.4 is a photographic reprint of A69a with the same pagination. The leaves measure 195 × 127 mm. The first two leaves are as follows: p. 1 name of publisher, title, a paragraph about Davies; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [six lines of addresses of Penguin branches in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First American Edition published 1986 | First published in Great Britain by Viking 1987 | Published in Penguin Books 1989 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies 1986 | All rights reserved | Material in Parts One and Two of The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks is drawn from: The Diary of | Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke Irwin 1947, The

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Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks, Clarke Irwin 1949 | Marchbanks’ Garland is drawn from material in Samuel Marchbanks’ | Almanac[k] by Robertson Davies. Used by permission of The Canadian | Publishers, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto. | [rule; eight lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-00-2231168-9; rule] | 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 WEB 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | Design: Brant Cowie / Artplus Ltd. binding: Perfect binding, white stiff-paper covers almost the same as A69a.3. Harper Collins (and the company’s publisher’s device) replace Collins on the spine and back cover. notes: This issue by Harper Collins Publishers Ltd. is in fact a reprint of A69a.2 since Totem Press was a division of Collins Publishers. 313 copies sold in 1998, and 196 copies sold in 1999. See the notes to A69a.2 for number of copies sold. copies examined: otmc; pend.

A70  the salterton trilogy 1986 A70a  first English / Canadian edition: Robertson Davies | [next line in calligraphic-style type with capitals having curled lines] The Salterton Trilogy | * | TEMPEST-TOST | LEAVEN OF MALICE | A MIXTURE OF FRAILTIES | [publisher’s device of Penguin Books: illustration of a Penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books 1-9, 10-45, 46, 47-83, 84, 85-112, 113, 114-140, 141, 142-163, 164, 165-204, 205, 206-230, 231, 232-240, 241-245, 246-280, 281, 282-319, 320, 321-396, 397, 398-438, 439, 440-462, 463-465, 466-485, 486, 487-509, 510, 511-533, 534, 535-553, 554, 555-573, 574, 575-625, 626, 627-678, 679, 680-721, 722, 723-775, 1-9 pp. (392 leaves). 195 × 125 mm. contents: p. 1 Penguin Books | The Salterton Trilogy | [one paragraph about Davies]; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England | [four lines of addresses of branches of Penguin Books in the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | Tempest-Tost first published in Canada by Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited 1951 | First published in Penguin Books 1980 | Copyright 1951 by Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited | Published by arrangement with Irwin Publishing Inc. | Leaven of Malice first published in Canada by Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited 1954 | First published in the United States of America by Charles Scribner’s Sons 1955 | Published in Penguin

Books 1980 | Copyright © Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1954 | Published by arrangement with Irwin Publishing Inc. | A Mixture of Frailties first published in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited 1958 | First published in the United States of America by Charles Scribner’s Sons 1958 | First published in Penguin Books in the United States in 1980 by arrangement with | Everest House, Publishers | Published in Penguin Books in Canada 1980 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1958 | Published in one volume as The Salterton Trilogy 1986 | All rights reserved | Made and printed in Great Britain by | Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading | Filmset in Linotron Palatino by | Rowland Phototypesetting Ltd | Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk | [nine lines concerning copyright, noting that the book is not for sale in the United States]; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; pp. 7-775 text (pp. 244 and 464 blank); p. 1 blank; p. 2 more about Penguins, Pelicans, Peregrines and Puffins; p. 3 advertisements for The Rebel Angels and The Deptford Trilogy and mention of What’s Bred in the Bone; pp. 4-8 advertisements of books in the King Penguin series; p. 9 blank. text: A10, A12, and A14. binding: Perfect binding, glossy stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a black background with colour illustrations by Bascove (taken from her artwork for each book published by Penguin). Also on the front cover is the series title (KING PENGUIN) with the last two lines in white: ‘Zest, wit and urbanity’ | — The New York Times Book Review. The spine and back cover are white. On the spine are the publisher’s device in grey, the author’s name and the title in capital letters, and the ISBN (0 14 00.8446 0). The back cover has the following information within two rectangles (the outer one thick): the series title, information about Salterton and the trilogy, a bluish photo of Davies’s face by Jerry Bauer, quotations from the New York Times and the Edmonton Journal, the ISBN, bar code, bar code number, and prices of the book in five different currencies (e.g. £5.95, $12.95 Canadian, $9.95 US). Also examined were the fourth and sixth reprints, which have a cover illustration identical to A70a.1. The 1988 reprint records printings in 1986 (twice) and 1987 (three times). notes: As early as 1 November 1977, Davies asked Bella Plomer, head of Subsidiary Rights at Macmillan of Canada, to arrange with Penguin for a paperback edition of A70. Douglas M. Gibson, Macmillan of Canada’s editor, informed Davies on 12 March 1979 that after prolonged discussion, Clarke Irwin, which controlled the rights to A10 and A12, had agreed to a



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Penguin edition of the Salterton trilogy. Both of these initiatives bore no fruit, however, and it was only after Clarke Irwin went into receivership in 1983 that publication of A70 finally materialized. Perry Knowlton, Davies’s agent at Curtis Brown Ltd., gave him the news on 16 November 1984 that Penguin UK had made an offer with Penguin Canada for a joint publication of A70: an advance of £750 pounds on each title with a royalty of 7½%. When Fanny Blake of Penguin Books Ltd. announced on 27 February 1985 that Penguin has just bought the rights to the trilogy and would publish them in a King Penguin in April 1986, Davies replied on 14 March 1985: “As a single title I can only say that they are generally known in Canada and in the United States as ‘The Salterton Trilogy’ and if you treated the cover as you did that of The Deptford Trilogy [A66a] this might work successfully.” The cover was sent to Davies on 21 May 1986, and he was sent a copy of the book on 27 June 1986. Publication was scheduled for 19 August 1986 in Canada and 28 August 1986 in Great Britain. Irwin Publishing, which took over the rights of A10 and A12 from Clarke Irwin, sent Davies ten copies of A70 on 2 October 1986. Up to the end of June 1998, 10,133 copies sold in Canada, 31,603 copies in the United States, and 1,691 copies elsewhere. The total royalty earning in Canada and the United States was $37,140.92. Between 1 July 1986 and 1 December 1986, 4,229 copies sold in Great Britain and the Commonwealth countries. 3,461 sold in the first six months of 1990. Information on the publishing history of A70a is based on the following sources: file 49, box 219, and file 7, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; files 20 and 29, vol. 46, file 36, vol. 48, and file 45, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac; file 31, vol. 108, Colbert Agency fonds, lac; royalty reports at pend. copies examined: davis (first printing; 1988 reprint); otmc (two copies: first printing date-stamped NOV 5 1986; second reprint in 1987); pend (eight copies of first printing). A70a.1  English issue [1989]: A70a.1 is essentially a reprint of A70a. The title pages, pagination and sheet size are the same. The information about Davies on p. 1 has been updated (reference is made to his “third trilogy” and the publication of A71). The copyright pages in each differ slightly. The advertisement pages after the text have also been revised. A70a.1 has a different ISBN (0-14-011861-6). binding: Perfect binding, glossy stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a collage background in green

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consisting of sheet music, Shakespeare’s portrait, and his alleged signature. Also on the cover are: the publisher’s device in orange, white and black; the author’s name, a rule, and the title in white; a quotation in white from the Guardian; and a colour illustration of a masked cherub, wearing a fig leaf, taking aim with a bow and arrow (tipped with a heart) and standing on a wooden plank (a skull, a rope with a noose, a manuscript scroll, and a bell on the plank). Printed down the spine against an orange background: ROBERTSON DAVIES • THE SALTERTON TRILOGY ISBN 0 14 [below the previous line] 01.1861 6 [publisher’s device, placed horizontally, in orange, white, and black]. The back cover, which is white, has the following: a paragraph about Salterton, extracts from reviews, the name of the cover illustrator (Robert Mason), the publisher’s device, the ISBN, bar code, and the price in various currencies (£7.50, $19.99 Australian, $24.95 N.Z., $14.95 Canadian, and $9.95 US). notes: A70a.1 was published on 7 September 1989. Curtis Brown Ltd. sent Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, ten copies of A70a.1 on 21 January 1992, received from Penguin Books the previous week. 4,397 copies of A70a.1 sold in Canada up to the end of June 1996 (578 copies sold elsewhere). 1,477 copies sold in the last six months of 1994, 3,259 copies sold in 1995, 3,383 copies in 1996, and 539 copies in 2000 by the Penguin Group (royalty reports at pend). copies examined: pend (two copies). A70b  second English / Canadian edition [1992]: ROBERTSON DAVIES | The Salterton | Trilogy | TEMPEST-TOST | LEAVEN OF MALICE | A MIXTURE OF FRAILTIES | [publisher’s device of Penguin Books: illustration of a Penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS 1-7, 2-248, 249-250, 251-478, 479-480, 481-808, 1-2 pp. (408 leaves). 197 × 129 mm. contents: p. 1 PENGUIN BOOKS | THE SALTERTON TRILOGY | [two paragraphs about Davies; A75b is said to be forthcoming in Penguin]; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [five lines of addresses of Penguin Books Ltd., Penguin Putnam Inc., and Penguin branches in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England | [sixteen lines concerning Davies’s copyright and the publication of Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice, and A Mixture of Frailties by various publishers] | Published in one volume as

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The Salterton Trilogy 1986 | 15 17 19 20 18 16 14 | All rights reserved | Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc | Filmset in Linotron Palatino | [six lines concerning copyright]; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; pp. 7, 2-808 text (pp. 250 and 480 blank); p. 1 list of addresses throughout the world where Penguin has offices, with the heading, FOR THE BEST IN PAPERBACKS, LOOK FOR THE [publisher’s device of Penguin Books]; p. 2 blank.

cover; the name of the author and the title of the book (and the titles of each book in the trilogy) are in an ornamental typeface. On the back cover within a gold rectangle are: four centered paragraphs about the trilogy; quotations from newspapers and Anthony Burgess; the publisher’s device, ISBN, bar code, and price ($14). The heading on the back cover is: A CLASSIC, UPROARIOUS ANTHOLOGY FROM | ONE OF CANADA’S BEST-LOVED AUTHORS.

text: Identical to A70a.

notes: Although the copyright page indicates a publication date of 1991, A70b.1 was probably published sometime after 1 July 1992. Review copies went out at that time.

binding: The bindings of A70b and A70a.1 are almost identical. They differ in the following respects: the ISBN (0-14-015979-7 for A70b); the bar code; and the price on the back cover. Price for A70b: £8.99, $16.95 Canadian. notes: A70b was published on 7 July 1992. By the end of June 2001, 7,023 copies sold in Canada and 20,242 copies in the United States. The number of copies sold in England is not known, although 1,308 copies sold in the first four months of 1994. The total royalty earned was $19,781.88 (royalty reports at pend). copies examined: oh; pend (three copies). A70b.1 American issue [1991?]: A70b.1 is from the same setting of type as A70b but is printed in the United States. It has the same title page, pagination, and size as A70b. The introductory page (p. 1), the copyright page (p. 4), and the list of addresses after the text are different. The copyright page reads as follows: PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [seven lines of addresses of Viking Penguin and Penguin Books in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: | Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England | [sixteen lines concerning Davies’s copyright and the publication of Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice, and A Mixture of Frailties by various publishers] | Published in one volume in King Penguin as The Salterton Trilogy 1986 | Published in one volume in Penguin Books as The Salterton Trilogy 1991 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1986 | All rights reserved | ISBN 0 14 01.5910 X | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Garamond No. 3 | [nine lines concerning copyright]. binding: Perfect binding, purple stiff-paper covers. On the front cover is a colour illustration by Bascove of an abstract motif with trees in the background, a person’s face (musical notes as hair), a stage with curtains, a mask of tragedy, a lute, a violin, and books. There are gold vertical rules on each side of the front

copies examined: pend (fourteen copies).

A71  the lyre of orpheus 1988 A71a  first Canadian edition: THE | LYRE OF | ORPHEUS | a novel | by | Robertson Davies | Macmillan of Canada | A Division of Canada Publishing Corporation | Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1-7, 2-49, 50-51, 52-102, 103,104-154, 155, 156-217, 218-219, 220-292, 293, 294-371, 372-373, 374-459, 460461, 462-472, 1-2 pp. (240 leaves). 227 × 155 mm. A proof copy in gatherings at otmc and a set of gatherings at davis have 1-1516 as collation. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 Copyright © Robertson Davies 1988 | [four lines about copyright; seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-7715-9919-6; five lines about motion picture and dramatic rights and the author’s representative (Curtis Brown (Canada))] | Design: David Montle | Macmillan of Canada | A Division of Canada Publishing Corporation | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Published simultaneously by Penguin Books in Great Britain and by Viking | Penguin in the United States. | Printed and bound in Canada by | T. H. Best Printing Company Limited; p. 5 quotation from E.T.A. Hoffman and note that the book, which explores the life and influence of Francis Cornish, is the third of a series of novels; p. 6 blank; pp. 7, 2-472 text (pp. 50, 218, 372, and 460 blank); pp. 1-2 blank. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in black paper boards with the following stamped in light silvergreen on the spine: [first three lines down the spine; E and F wavy, o raised] THE LYRE oF ORPHEUS | [under the previous line] RoBERTSoN | [under the previous line] = DAVIES = | [publisher’s device: solid M with silhouette of maple leaf] | Macmillan | of Canada.



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The front panel of the jacket has a coloured pictorial illustration (on a mauve background) by Bascove of a woman holding the snout and jaw of a lion, a wave of musical notes streaming out of the lion’s mouth. The spine panel is black with lettering in purple and orange similar to the stamping on the spine. The back panel is black with a photo of Davies by Peter Paterson, the ISBN, the bar code, and the bar code number. The flaps are white. On the front flap is a synopsis of the plot. On the back flap are: biographical information about Davies, excerpts of acclaim (Anthony Burgess and John Kenneth Galbraith), and the names of the jacket illustrator, photographer, and publisher. The paper thickness is bulkier in later bound   copies. notes: A71 is the third book of the Cornish trilogy. It is a complex novel about the first performance of E.T.A. Hoffman’s unfinished opera, Arthur of Britain, or the Magnanimous Cuckhold. Student composer Hulda Schnakenburg, priest, professor and librettist Simon Darcourt, and financier Arthur Cornish work to complete the opera. Davies had a plot outline and had started his notes for the book as early as the fall of 1984. He began writing A71 on 1 January 1987. He completed, revised, and sent two copies of the typescript to Macmillan of Canada a year later. “I am re-writing part VIII of The Lyre,” Davies told his secretary, Moira Whalon, on 28 December 1987 during the last stage of his revision. “Then — peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin.” Prior to reading the manuscript, Macmillan’s editor Linda McKnight had already made an offer on the book on 30 November 1987: an advance of $125,000 with a royalty rate of 15% and a split of 65/35 on the paperback reprint in favour of the author. McKnight told Davies on 22 January 1988 that A71 was “wonderfully humorous and engaging.” She recognized that A71a would be Macmillan’s major book of the fall season, requiring attention as to timing, production, and promotion. She also wanted to share the production costs with the American and British publishers. The co-publishers were charged 20% of typesetting costs ($2,000 each), for example. Patricia Kennedy, Managing Editor of Macmillan of Canada, coordinated the editorial and production work on the book for all editions. Davies was pleased with McKnight’s positive reaction. He told her on 2 February 1988: “I am glad that you are liking The Lyre of Orpheus and pleased that you find it funny. I had hoped that it would be a much lighter piece after the rather sombre work of What’s Bred in the Bone.” Macmillan’s proposed production schedule was the following: manuscript to be set, 24 April 1988; galleys or galley pages returned, 9 May

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1988; page proofs returned, 6 June 1988; finished books in warehouse, 1 August 1988. This schedule was revised so that the finished books would be in the warehouse by 25 July 1988. Macmillan of Canada engaged at least two readers. An internal report (Pippa), dated 3 February 1988, criticized the book for its staged beginning and the characterization of single women as lesbians. The same reader noted that although A71a lacked the richness of the other two books of the trilogy, it was still a tour de force. Ivan Owen, who prepared a reader’s report on 9 February 1988, called A71a “splendid vintage Davies.” Davies received comments on the book from Macmillan of Canada (Kennedy), The Viking Press (Christine Pevitt), and Viking Penguin Books Ltd. (Peter Carson). He sent eight pages of revisions and replies to these editors on 14 March 1988: “In this sort of work I try to steer a reasonable course and a professional one, avoiding the cringing acquiescence of the Hack, and the insulted intransigence of the Greenhorn. You bring a freshness of vision to the book which I cannot possess, and if you are bored or puzzled I pay attention. I part with the book with some sadness, for I have grown fond of the people in this trilogy.” With respect to Bascove’s dust jacket design, he commented: You like it, and you know more about jackets than I do. My only criticism, therefore, would be that the girl looks a bit weak — a hint of Lilian Gish or (God preserve us!) the jacket photographs of Joyce Carol Oates. If she is meant to be Maria, she needs a trifle more jaw and a whisper more bosom — Gypsy girl, which means Greek girl, really. But I suppose the design is now in process of manufacture, and I do not repine. I like the Singing Lion very much, but that girl would never persuade a lion to open its jaws. Bascove knows her stuff, but I think she has become just the least bit pretty.

Davies was sent the copy-edited typescript (edited by Eleanor Sinclair) on 29 March 1988. He returned it and replied to various queries on Good Friday 1988. “I have tried to be as accommodating as possible, but there are one or two proposals to which I cannot agree, because I think of the book as something heard, rather than scanned, and questions of nuance are important to me as they are not in a manuscript solely for perusal.” The contract is dated 5 May 1988. Davies received an advance of $200,000, one-third on signing the agreement, one-third on publication, and onethird by 15 January 1989. The royalty rate was 15% on all copies sold, 10% on any reprint edition. On 15 June 1988, the Book-of-the-Month Club chose the book as a fall selection, and paid an advance of $8,500 for the right of distribution to its members.

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Both Davies and Whalon provided responses to the proofs on 10-11 May 1988. The only alterations Davies made were to pages 144-5 where “the tone of the dialogue had gone wrong at that point.” Viking Penguin Inc. prepared the jacket. The mechanicals for the front of the jacket and transparency of the art were sent to Macmillan of Canada on 12 May 1988: cost of materials ($350) plus Bascove’s fee ($1,000). 30,000 copies were ordered on 29 July 1988 (30,028 copies received). Printed by T.H. Best. Plant cost (typesetting, alterations, design, artwork, film separations, text preparation and plates) was $16,354.89. Manufacturing cost (paper and litho, cover, binding) was $96,582.06. When the critic and writer George Woodcock received an advance copy of A71a, he reported to Kennedy on 9 August 1988: “The early chapters, which I have already read, are excellent Davies.” A71a was published on 10 September 1988. Price $24.95. The copyright was registered at dlc’s Copyright Office on 16 September 1988 (TX-2-416-055). A book launch was held at the Hart House Theatre at the University of Toronto on 7 September 1988. Macmillan of Canada distributed almost 110 review copies of A71a. There were at least three reprintings by the end of the year: 26 October 1988, 6,500 copies (6,821 copies received) with a manufacturing cost of $29,000 ($4.251 per book); 15 November 1988, 3,500 copies ordered (3,722 copies received) with a unit manufacturing cost of $17,491.52 ($4.6994 per book) — Classics Books ordered 1,500 copies from this reprint, having already sold 4,000 copies; and 6 December 1988, 2,000 copies ordered, (1,842 copies received) with a unit manufacturing cost of $10,112.72 ($5.49 per book). A71a was number 1 on the Maclean’s best-seller list on 17 October 1988 and number 2 on the Toronto Star’s list on 19 November1988. It remained in the top 10 in Canada for approximately eight months after publication. From 6 to 9 September 1988, Davies gave readings in Toronto and Ottawa, and from 11 to 21 September continued his promotional tour in western Canada where he gave more readings and granted more interviews. He gave further readings in southern Ontario in November 1988. As late as 18-19 January 1989, he gave a reading at the Brampton Public Library and Art Gallery. His promotion on behalf of A71 was sufficiently extensive that he gave ironic titles to its main parts in his “Travel Diary: 1988-9” – namely “Publicity Journey for The Lyre of Orpheus or: The Great Dog & Pony Show (1988)” covering the period from 5 September to 2 October. Next came “The Great Dog & Pony Resumed ... 1989” which carried him from 21 to 28 January. And finally there was “The

Last Leg of the Great Dog & Pony” covering the interval from 4 to 9 Feburary. On 22 December 1988, with only the first leg completed, Davies told McKnight that he had given twenty-one TV and radio interviews, twenty-six newspaper interviews, and forty-four readings and signings: “So, as you see, it has been a lot of publicity and it has reduced me almost to a gibbering idiot, not to speak of a wheezing wreck, and I wonder if you think it worth it?” He complained that he had signed 10,000 copies of the book, 7,000 of them for the Franklin Library (A71a.1). A71a was nominated for the Trillium Book Award, but lost out to Timothy Findley’s Stones (11 April 1989). An excerpt appeared prior to the book’s publication in the Toronto Star, 27 August 1988, p. M13. An excerpt was also published in Saturday Night 103, no. 10 (October 1988): 79-83. A short excerpt entitled “The Seven Laughters of God,” appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine, 15 January 1989, p. 47. 31,944 copies of A71a were sold up to 30 June 1990. On 30 July 1990, Denise Schon, Vice-President and Publisher of Macmillan, informed Davies that Macmillan of Canada would remainder the book. On 15 January 2003, Capri Films paid Pendragon Ink $10,000 for the motion film, television, and theatrical rights of A68 and A71; the rights were for a period of eighteen months subject to renewal (copy of agreement at pend). Information on the publishing history of A71a is based on the following sources: files 15-19, box 391, and files 6 and 9, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; files 16 and 24, vol. 28, Colbert Agency fonds, lac; letter of 28 December 1987 to Whalon, davis. copies examined: oh (in jacket); okq (in jacket); otmc (in jacket); pend (seventeen copies in jacket). A71a.1  first English issue: THE | LYRE OF | ORPHEUS | a novel | by | Robertson Davies | VIKING A71a.1 is from the same setting of type as A71a. The leaves measure 225 ×142 mm. Preliminary pagination is as follows: p. 1 Viking’s publisher’s device and name of publisher; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 VIKING | Published by the Penguin Group | [six lines of addresses of Penguin Books in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by Macmillan of Canada 1988 | First published in Great Britain by Viking 1988 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1988 | [five lines about copyright] | Filmset in Bembo | Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay, The Chaucer Press Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk | A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library | ISBN 0-670-82416-X; p. 5 quotation from E.T.A. Hoffman



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and note that the book, which explores the life and influence of Francis Cornish, is the third of a series of novels; p. 6 blank. binding: Perfect bound in grey paper boards. Stamped on the spine: [the first five lines down the spine, each line under the previous line] ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [rule] | [next word raised] the LYRE [next word raised] of | ORPHEUS | [rule] | VIKING | [rule]. The dust jacket has a purplish collage on the front, spine, and back panels with various illustrations: a cat; a border of squares and diagonals; tarot cards, a man of medieval appearance holding a walking stick and carrying a sack attached to a stick over his shoulder, an animal on his back; and a skull, a needle, and a scroll on a book. The main illustration on the front panel consists of a round table with an ornate stand having arms holding six platters. Various objects rest on the table and platters: a jester, a palette, a dog, an outstretched hand, a sword, a lyre, goblets, coins, pencils, sheet music, and a baton. On the back panel are a solid creamcoloured rectangle with excerpts from reviews and a solid white rectangle containing the ISBN and bar code. The flaps are white. The front flap has the title, a quotation from Malcolm Bradbury, three paragraphs about the book, and the price (£11.95). On the back panel are a black-and-white photograph of Davies, two paragraphs about him, and the addresses of Penguin Books Ltd. in England and Viking Penguin Inc. in the United States. Grey endpapers. notes: On 28 January 1988, Peter Carson of Penguin Books Ltd. informed Davies that the typescript of A71a.1 had arrived the previous week and that the title and the story were much to his liking. He proposed publication in September in time for a Booker Prize nomination. By April 1988, Macmillan of Canada had sent two sets of uncorrected page proofs to Penguin. The contract for A71a.1 at pend is dated 18 April 1988: an advance of £30,000; for the hardcover, a royalty of 15% within the UK and the Republic of Ireland and 7¾% elsewhere; for the paperback, a royalty of 10% in the UK and 8% on export sales. A copy of A71a.1 was sent to Davies on 18 August 1988. The book was published on 19 September 1988. On that day Penguin hosted a launch with Davies in attendance and other authors including Salman Rushdie, Ruth Rendell, and Elmore Leonard. There was a reprinting by 28 September 1988. 6,609 copies of A71a.1 sold. Penguin USA indicated in its royalty report of 13 August 2001 that 52,111 copies had sold. Information on the publishing history of A71a.1 is based on the following: royalty reports at pend; file 8, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; file 44, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac.

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copies examined: ohm (rebound, no jacket); pend (four copies in jacket). A71a.2  second English issue: This issue produced by London Limited Editions has the collation: 14 2-16 16 (242 leaves; 232 ×156 mm). The title leaf is the same as A71a.1. The initial gathering of four leaves, which includes the front endpapers, consists of the following: p. 1 half title (with reference to London Limited Editions); p. 2 blank; p. 3 One of 150 numbered copies of the | First Edition of | The Lyre of Orpheus | signed by the author and | specially bound | No.; p. 4 blank. binding: Bound in marbled (green, white, red) paper boards, quarter-bound with green cloth. A vertical gold rule separates the marbled boards and the cloth. The following is stamped in gilt on the spine within two rectangles: Robertson | Davies | * | The Lyre |   of | Orpheus | * | [rule] | LONDON | LIMITED |   EDITIONS. Issued with a glassine wrapper. notes: George Lawson of London Limited Editions contacted Davies on 17 August 1988. He sent Davies twenty sets of preliminaries by courier. Davies signed the limitation leaf in each case, and returned the sheets by courier on 22 August 1988 (file 6, vol. 44, Davies fonds, lac). Lawson must have sent Davies the remaining sheets to sign sometime later since the issue is comprised of 150 signed and numbered copies. The financial remuneration that Davies received for this issue is not known. copies examined: davis (no. 17 and no. 100); otmc (copy no. 8). A71a.3  first American issue: [all lines within a muted colour border comprised of thirty-two small illustrations (masks of comedy and tragedy, fish, a knight on horseback, a dragon, a crown, etc.); the first five lines in Augustea Open typeface] THE LYRE | OF | ORPHEUS | ROBERTSON | DAVIES | First Edition | The Franklin Library | Franklin Center, Pennsylvania | 1988 Although A71a.3 consists of 245 leaves (235 × 140 mm.), it is from the same setting of type as A71a. The collation is as follows: 1-28 8 (+π1 i.e. the first leaf of the book is glued at the beginning of the first gathering) 29 4 30-31 8. contents: p. 1 Davies’s signature; p. 2 blank; p. 3 half title; p. 4 blank; p. 5 note that this is a limited edition, privately printed and personally signed by Davies, exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society; p. 6 blank; p. 7 list of seventeen other books

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by Davies; pp. 8-9 A special message for the first edition signed: R. D. | Windhover, Albion Hills; p. 10 frontispiece illustration; p. 11 title; p. 12 The illustrations by Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh were specially | commissioned by The Franklin Library exclusively for this first | edition of The Lyre of Orpheus. The artist created the | illustrations for the title page and the part openers, which depict | symbols in the story. | [four lines noting that The Lyre of Orpheus is the third in a series of novels about Francis Cornish] | This signed limited edition has been published by special | arrangement with Viking Penguin Inc., Macmillan of Canada, | and Penguin Books Ltd. | Copyright © Robertson Davies 1988. All rights reserved. | Special contents copyright © 1988 The Franklin Library. | [four lines about the acid-free paper used in the book] | Printed in the United States of America; p. 13 quotation from E.T.A. Hoffman; p. 14 blank; p. 15 fly title; p. 16 blank; p. 17 illustration; pp. 2-472 text (pp. 50, 218, 372, and 460 blank; illustrations on pp. 51, 103, 155, 219, 293, 373, and 461); p. 1 a note on the type (Bembo with Augustea Inline for the display face), the name of the designer (Martha Phillips), reference to the artwork, the type of paper (Olde Style Cream made by S.D. Warren Paper Company), the printer (R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.), and the binder (Smyth-sewn by Cromwell Leather Company); p. 2 blank. binding and dust jacket: Bound in dark-green “topgrain leather,” all edges gilt with marbled endpapers and a green signet. The leather boards are machinetooled in gilt and white — an ornamental border on the upper and lower boards containing a design of a musical instrument (a lyre). The same kind of gilt and white illustration is found on the centre section of the spine between raised bands. Stamped in gilt above the centre section on the spine within a rectangle: THE LYRE | OF | ORPHEUS | [short rule] | ROBERTSON | DAVIES. Stamped in gilt below the centre section on the spine within a rectangle: SIGNED | FIRST | EDITION | [short rule] | THE | FRANKLIN | LIBRARY. notes: On 4 August 1988, The Franklin Library, a book club publisher of fine editions located in New York City, agreed to pay Macmillan of Canada $750 for the photographic use of A71a (payment sent to the Macmillan of Canada on 13 October 1978). The company ordered a set of camera-ready repros on 9 August 1988. Copies of A71a.3 sold for $35 or $39.95 for a signed copy. Davies was asked to sign 9,600 sheets for the sum of $9,600: first batch of sheets (6,800) due on 16 November 1988; second batch of sheets (2,800) due on 8 January 1989. The estimated print run was

8,800 copies. Davies was informed that some of his signed sheets would be spoiled in the binding process. He prepared a special message for subscribers on 2 September 1988. 300 to 400 copies were apparently distributed in Canada during November and December 1988. The contract letter for A71a.3 at pend, dated 26 July 1988, reflects these arrangements to a great extent: Davies was to write a foreword of 500 words by 29 September 1988; approximately 10,000 sheets were to be sent to him for his signature; 7,500 signed sheets were to be returned by 15 October 1988 and the remaining 2,500 by 1 March 1989; Davies was to sign no other copies of other editions except those given as personal gifts or those used for promotional use; the payment was $2 for each signed copy, $10,000 on signing the agreement and the remainder sixty days after the final shipment to subscribers. Information on the publishing history of A71a.3 is based on the following files: file 30, vol. 45, and file 20, vol. 47, Davies fonds, lac; file 25 vol. 28, Colbert Agency fonds, lac. copies examined: davis; okq. A71a.4  second American issue (trade edition, 1989): ROBERTSON DAVIES | [ornamental capitals in the next two lines] The Lyre of | Orpheus | [leafy ornament] | VIKING A71a.4 is from the same setting of type as A71a. The size of the trimmed leaf is identical to A71a. The gatherings of A71a.4 appear to consist uniformly of sixteen leaves. The first pages of the text (pp. 7-8) are unnumbered, and the numbered text begins on p. 3. Preliminary pagination includes the following: p 1 half title with Viking’s publisher’s device; p. 2 twentyfour other books by Davies under the categories of fiction, plays, criticism and essays; p. 3 title; p. 4 [four lines indicating that this book is the third of a series of novels which explore the life and influence of Francis Cornish] | VIKING | Published by the Penguin Group | [twelve lines of addresses of Viking Penguin Inc. and Penguin Books in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First American Trade Edition | Published in 1989 by Viking Penguin Inc. | 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1988 | All rights reserved | A signed first edition of this book | has been privately printed by The Franklin Library. | [six lines of Library of Congress in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-670-82416-X] | Printed in the   United States of America | Set in Bembo | [six lines about copyright]; p. 5 The lyre of Orpheus opens the door of the underworld E. T. A. HOFFMAN; p. 6 blank. binding: Perfect bound in light-purple paper boards, quarter-bound with black cloth. Stamped on the spine in gilt: ROBERTSON | DAVIES | The Lyre of | Orpheus



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| [ornament] | [rule] | VIKING | [rule]. All panels of the jacket are framed in black rectangular borders. The front and spine panels of the jacket are similar (same kind of lettering and illustration) to those of A71a. The spine panel is light blue with the name of the publisher at the bottom of the panel. The back panel in mauve features a black-and-white photograph of Davies by Jerry Bauer, three paragraphs about Davies, and the ISBN and bar code within a solid white rectangle. The flaps are white. They have the book’s title, the price ($19.95, £11.95), four paragraphs about the book, Bascove’s name as illustrator and cover designer, and the addresses of Viking Penguin Inc. and the Penguin Books branch in England. Also issued in paperback (undated and without the ISBN and bar code) with covers similar in colour and design to the dust jacket of the hardcover (but with a purple spine). notes: The contract for A71a.4 is dated 11 February 1988 (copy at pend): an advance of $200,000 ($50,000 on signing the agreement, $50,000 on publication of the hardcover (a royalty of 15%), $50,000 on publication of the paperback (a royalty of 7½%), and $50,000 six months after the publication of the paperback). The Penguin Group had a launch for the book at the Viking Penguin Sales Conference in Vermont shortly prior to 2 September 1988 (file 9, vol. 28, Colbert Agency fonds, lac). A71a.4 was published on 16 January 1989 (56,079 copies sold, earning $167,816.41 in royalties, and another $16,362.50 for copies for the Book of the Month Club and G.K. Hall). According to Publishers Weekly (14 October 1988, p. 48), the first printing was 50,000 copies. Davies went on a reading tour in the United States; the first leg of the tour took place on 22-8 January 1989 in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Milwaukee, and the second on 5-9 February 1989 in New York, Boston, and Washington. Copies of A71a.4 were also sold in England. 899 copies sold between 1995 and 2001, earning £639.85 (royalty reports at pend). copies examined: davis (hardbound in jacket and paperback); omamc (hardcover in jacket and paperback); pend (four copies, hardcover in jacket). A71a.5  second Canadian issue, photographic reprint (1989): THE | LYRE OF | ORPHEUS | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books This issue is photographically reproduced from A71a. The leaves measure 177 × 107 mm. The last leaf has a blank recto; on the verso is an advertisement

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for the two other books of the Cornish trilogy. The preliminary leaves differ in minor respects from those of A71a. The copyright page reads as follows: PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [six lines of addresses of Penguin Books in Canada, England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published by Macmillan of Canada, a division | of Canada Publishing Corporation, 1988 | Published simultaneously in Viking by Penguin Books | in Great Britain and by Viking Penguin in the | United States, 1988 | Published in Penguin Books, 1989 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1988 | All rights reserved | [four lines noting the work is one of fiction, is the product of the author’s imagination, and does not intend to depict real people, events or locales] | Manufactured in Canada | [seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14-011426-2; two lines noting that similar cataloguing information is available from the British Library and the Library of Congress; six lines about copyright]. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a gold background framed in black. It also has Bascove’s illustration as found in A71a. The first line on the cover in yellow is: NATIONAL #1 BESTSELLER [publisher’s device in orange, black, and white]. The spine is orange. The back cover, which is yellow, has quotations from reviews, a plot summary, rules, the price ($6.95), the ISBN and bar code, the publisher’s device, and the names of the cover illustrator and designer (Brian Lehen). The ISBN and bar code are also on the verso of the front cover. notes: A camera-ready copy of the back cover of A71a.5 was sent to Moira Whalon on 13 February 1989. Penguin Books allowed the Quality Book Club (for an advance of $3,500 with a royalty of 8%) to distribute A71a.5 to its members on 18 May 1988. A71a.5 was published on October 1989. Penguin Canada paid $100,000 to Macmillan of Canada in November 1989 for paperback licenses, including A71a.5 with an expiry date of 2 October 1998. Peter Carson of the Penguin Group informed Davies on 20 February 1990 that while on Doubleday’s best-seller list, A71 had sold over 70,000 copies in paperback. These figures undoubtedly included sales of A71a.5. Information on the publishing history of A71a.5 is based on the following files in the Davies fonds, lac: file 30, vol. 45 and file 28, vol. 46. copies examined: oh; otmc; pend (ten copies). A71a.6  third English issue, photographic reprint [1989?]: Title-page transcription and ISBN identical to A71a.5

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(different bar code). This issue, which was published for the English market, has leaves measuring 180 × 110 mm. The recto of the last leaf has an advertisement for Penguin Books in eleven countries; the verso is blank. The first two preliminary leaves are as follows: p. 1 name of publisher, title, and excerpts from reviews; p. 2 two paragraphs about Davies; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [six lines of addresses of Penguin branches   in England, the United States, Australia, Canada,   and New Zealand] | First published by Macmillan of Canada 1988 | First published in Great Britain by   Viking 1988 | Published in Penguin Books 1989 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1988 | All rights reserved | Made and printed in Great Britain by | Richard Clay Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk | Filmset in Bembo | [nine lines about copyright]. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The front and back covers have a black border. The front cover has purple vertical bands with Bascove’s illustration as found in A71a The spine is black. On the back cover against a white background is a paragraph about the book, excerpts from reviews, a paragraph indicating that A71 is the final volume of the Cornish Trilogy and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the publisher’s device, the ISBN, and bar code. There is no price on the cover. copies examined: pend (three copies). A71a.7  third American issue (1990): ROBERTSON DAVIES | [ornamental capitals in the next two lines] The Lyre of | Orpheus | [leafy ornament] | PENGUIN BOOKS A71a.7 has the following pagination, foliation, and leaf measurement: 1-10, 3-49, 50-52, 53-102, 103104,105-154, 155-156, 157-217, 218-220, 221-292, 293294, 295-371, 372-374, 375-459, 460-462, 463-472 pp. (240 leaves). 195 × 127 mm. The title page is similar to that of A71a.4. The copyright page reads: [four lines indicating that this book is the third of a series of novels which explore the life and influence of Francis Cornish] | PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [ten lines of addresses of Viking Penguin Inc. and Penguin Books in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by Macmillan of Canada 1988 | First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, | a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. 1989 | Published in Penguin Books 1990 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1988 | All rights reserved | A signed first edition of this book | has been privately printed by The Franklin Library.

| [nine lines of Library of Congress in Publication Data, including ISBN 0 14 01.1433 5] | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Bembo | [six lines about copyright]. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The covers are creamy tan. The front cover has Bascove’s illustration as found in A71a with the first line in red: THE ENCHANTING NEW BESTSELLER. The back cover, which has a black border, has a black-and-white photograph of Davies by Jerry Bauer, a quotation from the Washington Post Book World, three paragraphs about the book, the publisher’s device, the price ($8.95), and the ISBN and bar code (both inside a solid white rectangle). In some copies there is a post card of Davies inserted which has a black-and-white photograph of Davies by Bauer and advertises A71 and the first two books of the trilogy. notes: A71a.7 was published on 1 January 1990. According to royalty reports at pend, 52,462 copies had sold by the end of 1991. 595 copies sold from April 1996 to October 1997. A royalty report also states that 5,351 copies of 6,122 copies (perhaps a printing at that time) sold by 30 April 2001. Copies of A71a.7 were also sold in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd. 1,067 copies sold between the beginning of July 1994 and the end of June 1995, earning £719.64. 576 copies sold in 1996, earning £435.14. 186 copies sold in the first six months of 1998, earning £143.59. 116 copies sold in the last six months of 1999, earning £88.63. copies examined: pend (sixteen copies). A71b  first English edition (1989): ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [rule] | [the next word raised] the LYRE [the next word raised] of | ORPHEUS | [rule] | A NOVEL | [rule] | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS 1-6, 1-43, 44, 45-90, 91, 92-137, 138, 139-194, 195, 196261, 262, 263-332, 333, 334-412, 413, 414-422, 1-4 pp. (216 leaves). 196 × 128 mm. contents: p. 1 name of publisher, title, and excerpts from reviews; p. 2 paragraph about Davies; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [six lines of addresses of Penguin branches in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published by Viking 1988 | Published in Penguin Books 1989 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1988 | All rights reserved | Made and printed in Great Britain by | Richard Clay Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk | Filmset in 10 on 12 pt Monophoto Plantin | [nine lines about copyright];



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p. 5 quotation from E.T.A. Hoffman and note that the book, which explores the life and influence of Francis Cornish, is the third of a series of novels; p. 6 blank; pp. 1-422, 1 text; p. 2 blank; p. 3 advertisement for Penguin Books with lists of addresses of Penguin branches in eleven countries; p. 4 blank. text: Identical to A71a. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers with the same colour illustration by Robert Mason used for the dust jacket of A71a.1 but with the addition of the Penguin publisher’s device and a quotation from the Sunday Times. The spine is orange; the ISBN 0 14 01.1433 5 is at the bottom of the spine above the publisher’s device. The back cover in white has a paragraph about the book, excerpts from reviews, the name of the cover illustrator, the publisher’s device, the ISBN, bar code, and recommended prices (£4.99, $12.99 Aust., and $24.95 NZ). notes: Royalty reports at pend record the following; 826 copies sold in the last six months of 1993, earning £562.45; 236 copies sold in the first six months of 1994, earning £119.34; 589 copies sold in the first six months of 1996, earning £415.85; 293 copies sold in the last six months of 1997, earning £203.24. copies examined: pend (eighteen copies). A71c  first American edition, large print (1990): ROBERTSON DAVIES | [rule] | The Lyre of Orpheus | G.K.HALL&CO. | Boston, Massachusetts | 1990 1-10, 3-60, 61-62, 63-125, 126-128, 129-191, 192-194, 195-271, 272-274, 275-364, 365-366, 367-462, 463-464, 465-571, 572-574, 575-588, 1-2 pp. (284 leaves). 235 × 158 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1988. | All rights reserved. | A signed first edition of this book has been privately | printed by The Franklin Library. | The Lyre of Orpheus is the third of a series of novels which | explore the life and influence of Francis Cornish. It was | preceded by The Rebel Angels, 1981, and What’s Bred in the | Bone, 1985. | Published in Large Print by arrangement with | Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. | British Commonwealth rights courtesy of | Viking Penguin, Ltd. | G.K. Hall Large Print Book Series. | Set in 16 pt Plantin. | [rule] | [eight lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-8161-4839-2; rule]; p. 5 quotation from E.T.A. Hoffman; p. 6 blank; p. 7 fly title; p. 8 blank; pp. 9-10, 3-558 text (pp. 10, 62, 126, 128, 192, 194, 272, 274, 366, 464, 572, and 574

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blank); p. 1 information about G.K. Hall Large Print Books; p. 2 blank. text: Identical to A71a. binding: Perfect bound in black paper boards, quarter-bound with turquoise blue cloth with the following stamped on the spine: LARGE | PRINT | [down the spine] The Lyre of Orpheus Robertson Davies | [within a solid rounded rectangle] GK | HALL. The front and spine panels of the jacket are similar to those of A71a.4. The back panel is light purple with quotations from Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and Library Journal, the ISBN, and the series name. The flaps have: the ISBN, price ($21.95), a quotation from the Boston Globe, a paragraph about the book, a paragraph about Davies, and Bascove’s name as jacket designer and illustrator. notes: G.K. Hall made an offer for a large-print edition of A71 on 11 January 1989 (file 29, vol. 46, Davies fonds, lac). A71c was designed by Kipling West. It was composed in 16 pt Plantin on a Xyvision 300/Linotron 202N by Marilyn Ann Richards. copies examined: davis. A71d  second Canadian edition (1997): [the first letter extends to the top part of the illustration on the next line] The Lyre | of [leafy ornament inside a square] | Orpheus | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books 1-8, 3-45, 46-48, 49-95, 96-98, 99-144, 145-146, 147-203, 204-206, 207-273, 274-276, 277-347, 348-350, 351-430, 431-432, 433-441, 1 pp. (224 leaves). 202 × 130 mm. contents: p. 1 publisher’s name, title, paragraph about Davies; p. 2 list of fifteen other books by Davies under the categories of novels, criticism, essays, and short stories; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [ten lines of addresses of Penguin Books in Canada, England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published as a Douglas Gibson Book by McClelland | and Stewart, 1994 | Published in Penguin Books, 1995 | Published in this edition, 1997 | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1994 | All rights reserved | [publisher’s note in four lines stating that the book is a work of fiction and that any resemblance to actual people, events, or locales is coincidental] | Manufactured in Canada | [seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14-026433-7; six lines about copyright; one line with Penguin Canada’s web address]; p. 5 quotation from

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E.T.A. Hoffman; p. 6 blank; pp. 7-8, 3-441 text (pp. 46, 96, 204, 274, and 348 blank); p. 1 blank. The copyright page (p. 4) of A71d mistakenly states that A71 was first published by McClelland & Stewart in 1994 as a Douglas Gibson Book. It would appear that this statement was intended for The Cunning Man (A83a).

In a later printing issued in 1996, The Folio Society’s address is missing on the verso of the broadside. Also the following two lines have been added below Davies’s signature: The Folio Society regrets the passing of Robertson Davies | We appreciated his support over the last forty-five years.

text: Identical to A71a.

notes: Founded in 1947 by Charles Ede, The Folio Society is a publisher and book club that produces quality editions of the world’s great literature and history. Ede conceived of The Folio Society in the tradition of the fine press movement, “a poor man’s fine edition.” Between 1947 and 1996, The Folio Society issued approximately 900 imprints. Members of The Folio Society choose as few as four books every year from a wide-ranging list of titles in stock. Davies was a long-standing member of The Folio Society, having joined in 1949. On 5 December 1989, Sue Bradbury of The Folio Society asked him to write a testimonial to be sent to Folio members. She offered him £500 for the testimonial with a deadline of 15 December 1989. Davies received Bradbury’s letter on 12 January 1990. He replied to her request on 16 January 1990. He told her that he would write the testimonial, but he was too busy at the time writing a new book. He suggested spring 1990 as a deadline. He sent her the testimonial on 12 June 1990 (box 5, accession 2002-00652-0; annotated typescript in file 2, vol. 60, Davies fonds, lac). In his testimonial Davies recalls ordering editions of Anthony Trollope’s short stories, Madame Bovary, Nana, Cousin Pons, Gulliver’s Travels, and Grimm’s folk tales. “Folio is addictive. Every year the list contained things I knew I wanted,” Davies states. “I trusted the Folio taste.” A72 was quoted in “Noises Off,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 20 February 1992, p. E3. Reprinted as “A Lifetime’s Membership” in Paul W. Nash, comp. Folio 50: A Bibliography of the Folio Society 1947-1996 (London: The Folio Society in association with The British Library, 1997), pp. 27-8.

binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a blue background with an abstract illustration by Sandra Dionisi of various symbols or objects: half of a knight’s helmet; a jester’s hat; a musical note over a fire; an angel holding a harp. The name of the Cornish trilogy in white is at the bottom of the front cover within a rounded purple rectangle. The spine is black with the illustration from the front cover reproduced in miniature. The back cover in white has quotations from newspapers and journals, three paragraphs about the book, and the names of the cover illustrator and cover designer (Spencer Francey Peters); also on the back cover within a rectangle are the publisher’s device, the ISBN, bar code, and price ($15.99). copies examined: pend (six copies).

A72  [folio society promotion leaflet 1990?] [cover title; all lines in blue tooled type within two blue rectangles with a photo of Davies to the left of the following lines] Canada’s | leading novelist |   celebrates over 40 | years of Folio | membership Broadside, plain white paper stock. 229 × 178 mm. contents: The text appears after the cover title. On the verso, following the last sentence of the text (“The Folio Society is for the clerisy.”), are Davies’s signature reproduced in facsimile and June 1990 under his signature. To the left of the last line of text and the signature are the publisher’s device in blue (FS in swash letters similar to Dorchester script within an oval) and The Folio Society’s addresses in England, the United States, and Canada. There are at least two other issues of this broadside. In a second issue, June 1990 is not under Davies’s signature on the verso. Under the publisher’s device is the address of The Folio Society in England with the following printed in the right-hand corner: Printed in U.S.A. A third issue has addresses of The Folio Society in England and the Canadian address for Folio Books Ltd in Mississauga, on. The verso does not have “Printed in U.S.A.”

copies examined: davis (first and third issues); Moira Whalon fonds, lac (1996 printing, 2 copies); “Miscellaneous Press Clippings, 1948-1993,” box 10, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac (first and third issues).

A73  opera and humour 1991 [illustration of a fisherman in a boat] | The Prince of Hesse | Memorial Lecture | 11 June 1991 | Opera and Humour | Robertson Davies | The Prince of Hesse Memorial Lecture, Opera and Humour, | was given by Robertson Davies during the 1991 Aldeburgh | Festival at the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, on 11 June 1991. | ©



A74 Murther & Walking Spirits. 1991

1991, Robertson Davies | Published by the Aldeburgh Foundation 1 8. 1-2, 3-16 pp. (8 leaves). 210 × 149 mm. contents: p. 1 title; p. 2 blank; pp. 3-16 text. binding: Bound in a pale-green wrapper, wirestitched. The front of the wrapper has two separate rectangles, each containing a solid black rectangle outlined with a grey border. Also on the front wrapper is the name of the lecture series and the date. The back of the wrapper has the heading: HESSE MEMORIAL LECTURE. Under the heading are five paragraphs that explain the origins of the lecture series and its sponsors. The last two lines on the back of the wrapper are: Aldeburgh Foundation, High Street | Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5AX. notes: Founded in 1948 by the composer Benjamin Britten and the singer Peter Pears, the Aldeburgh International Festival is one of Europe’s most prestigious festivals. Its annual lecture series was established in 1984 through the generosity of HRH The Princess of Hesse and Rhine to celebrate the memory of her husband who died in 1968. Davies was invited to give the 1991 lecture on 30 November 1990. His lecture explores the nature of humour as understood by academics and others, discusses what Carl Gustav Jung had to say about humour, and then highlights examples in opera where tragedy and comedy produce a splendid synthesis. In the final analysis Davies contends that the highest expression of humour is to be found in serenity — an acceptance of Heraclitus’s doctrine of the eternal flow and balancing of opposing forces. Typescripts of his speech can be found in files 41-2, vol. 60, Davies fonds, lac. See also box 9, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds. Copies of this pamphlet were probably given to people who purchased a ticket to hear Davies’s lecture. See E91.3. Reprinted in A90 and A97. copies examined: davis.

A74  murther & walking spirits 1991 A74a  Canadian edition: Murther & | Walking Spirits | a novel | by | ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [enclosure on each side of the line similar to two sets of square brackets, resembling pages of a book] A DOUGLAS GIBSON BOOK | [wavy block, short wavy rule] | M&S | [rule] 1-12, 3-32, 33-34, 35-89, 90-92, 93-155, 156-158, 159218, 219-220, 221-263, 264-266, 267-318, 319-320, 321357, 1 pp. (184 leaves). 232 × 155 mm.

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contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 Copyright © 1991 by Robertson Davies | [six lines about copyright; two lines noting that the work is one of fiction and that any resemblance to actual persons and events is coincidental in nature; rule; seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-7710-2566-1; rule] | Design by K. T. Njo | Printed and bound in the United States of America | The paper used in this book is acid-free | A Douglas Gibson Book | [four lines of McClelland & Stewart’s address]; p. 5 For Brenda; p. 6 blank; p. 7 quotation from Samuel Butler about murthers and walking spirits; p. 8 blank; p. 9 table of contents; p. 10 blank; pp. 11-12, 3-357 text (pp. 12, 34, 90, 92, 156, 158, 220, 264, 266, and 320 blank); p. 1 list of other Douglas Gibson Books published by McClelland & Stewart. text: I Roughly Translated; II Cain Raised; III Of Water and the Holy Spirit; IV The Master Builder; V Scenes from a Marriage; VI The Land of Lost Content; VII ... To the Wind’s Twelve Quarters I Take My Endless Way. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in black paper boards with stamping in gold ornamental type (similar to Avenida) on the spine (DG logo and the publisher’s device at the foot of the spine). The front panel of the jacket has a purple background, ornamental lettering (similar to Avenida), and a colour illustration by Bascove of a film projector on a head (the head on a stool) radiating the image of an eye. The right side corners of the front panel are black with diagonal gold rules. At the top of the front panel is a quotation by Malcolm Ross. The spine panel is black (extending to the left side of the front panel) with ornamental lettering in white. On the back panel are: a quotation from Ross and a black-and-white photograph of Davies wearing a fedora by Karsh/Miller Comstock, both within a solid cream-coloured rectangular frame (outlined in gold, purple background outside the frame); the Canadian publisher’s name and imprint; and the ISBN and bar code within a solid white rectangle. The flaps are white with the price of $27.95, paragraphs about the book and biographical information about Davies, the names of the jacket designer and photographer, the DG logo, the publisher’s name, and publishing device. The endpapers are white with brownish flecks. notes: A74 is Davies’s tenth novel. He would later regard it as the first volume of his projected Toronto trilogy. In the opening scene Connor Gilmartin is killed by Randal Allan Going, his wife’s lover. The participants in this love triangle all work for the Colonial Advocate in Toronto. When Going attends a film

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festival in his capacity as entertainment editor of the newspaper, the ghost of Gilmartin accompanies him, but instead of seeing the films at the festival, Gilmartin watches a cinematic representation of the lives of his ancestors. As early as 3 June 1988 in his travel diary, Davies proposed writing what he called “my Three Fathers book” (Rupert Davies, Tyrone Guthrie, and Vincent Massey) concerned with a Canadian living in England who is invited to adjudicate the Dominion Drama Festival. A month later on 13 July 1988, he had expanded the concept of the three fathers to include the adjudicator’s mother. By the end of the year Davies had a provisional title, “The Revenger’s Comedy,” and entertained the idea of using a ghost as a narrator. Thereafter, Davies shifted his focus from fathers to forbears, and the plays turned into movies. After June 1989 when Alan Ayckbourn’s play, The Revengers’ Comedies, premièred in London, Davies abandoned his provisional title. He apparently contemplated nine other alternatives for A74 before finding the final title at the end of January 1991. Davies began writing the book on 20 November 1989, completing it a bit more than a year later. He sent the first section of the novel (second revision) and a long plot summary to Janet Turnbull Irving on 24 November 1990. “The title I have in mind is Afterlife In The Fun Shop, which may seem a bit facetious, but you will see why when you have the whole thing.” Although A71a was published by Macmillan of Canada, Davies told Linda McKnight on 25 February 1986 that he was disturbed that Douglas M. Gibson, his trusted editor, had left Macmillan of Canada for McClelland & Stewart. When Davies discovered that both McKnight and Arnold Gosewich had left Macmillan of Canada for the agency business, he wrote an anxious letter to the President of the company Ronald D. Besse on 5 April 1989. Denise Shon, Vice President and Publisher at Macmillan, tried to make amends with Davies on 26 July 1989. But with so many experienced editorial staff set adrift by Macmillan, it was probably much too late even at that point for Schon to keep Davies in Macmillan’s stable of authors. Davies had decided to switch publishers and to offer A74 to McClelland & Stewart in the belief that Gibson would treat his manuscript with editorial sensitivity and respect. After he learned that Davies planned to offer A74a to McClelland & Stewart, Besse unsuccessfully attempted a last ditch effort to contact Davies on 13 November 1990. Davies informed Besse on 20 November 1990 that he placed great value on his past relationship with Macmillan of Canada. However, he placed a greater value on the importance of an editor who understood the writer’s craft: “I like to work

very closely with an editor and always enjoyed a happy relationship with Douglas Gibson, who is now with McClelland and Stewart. I would have followed him there with The Lyre of Orpheus if it had not been the third volume of the trilogy which would have made such an alteration insulting to Macmillan and ridiculous in terms of a final edition of the trilogy.” See also Davies’s interview with Beverley Slopen (F91.1). Gibson intended to send Davies a combined critique from his three publishers (McClelland & Stewart, Viking, and Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd.), but he was unable to coordinate all the editorial work because he had to have a back operation for a troublesome disk. “The manuscript is so rich, so full of good things,” he told Davies on 12 March 1991. In Gibson’s opinion A74 was “a wonderful piece of work ... your meisterwerk.” Gibson managed to send Davies his own detailed comments. He told Davies that there were two areas where the pace seemed to slacken a little: the latter section of part III, showing Samuel and Walter’s slow decline, and then in the auction scenes where some of the listings could be shortened without great loss. Gibson also suggested that the end of book called for expansion. Davies returned the edited typescript to Gibson on 25 March 1991. He made most of the alterations. “Not all, for I thought some of them needless, and some inadvisable, because I sense that your notion of the novel is different from mine;” he told Gibson, “you have edited always for a rigorous clarity, and I feel that a certain fuzziness is essential to the nature of the book ... Here and there, my comments on your criticisms are a little saucy — a protest against a too-literal reading. Do not take it personally.” Gibson acknowledged receipt of Davies’s revised manuscript on 27 March 1991. He then prepared sample settings of the book for the American and British publishers. Davies returned the corrected proofs on 21 May 1991. He and his secretary Moira Whalon had read the proofs carefully. He called the layout handsome but asked for indentions of quotations. “There is a musicality about typography and it is a shame to neglect it,” he commented. He also asked for the retention of four-dot ellipses in the reveries of the four characters. “I do not punctuate casually ... As you know, I write to be heard with the inward ear; I invite the reader to perform the book, and not simply to grab it up greedily.” A74a’s contract is dated 16 January 1991 for a book initially entitled “Unauthorized Translation.” Davies was paid an advance of $200,000 ($66,667 on signing, $66,667 on publication, and $66,666 on 15 January 1992) with a royalty of 15% on all copies sold, 10% on small reprints of 1,500 copies or less, and 10% on paperback publication. A74a was published simultane-



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ously with A74a.1. The print run was 52,632 copies. Although A74a received mixed reviews, it was on the Maclean’s best-seller list for twenty-eight weeks and the Toronto Star list for twenty-two weeks. A74a was #1 on the fiction best-seller list of the Toronto Globe and Mail on 21 and 28 September 1991, #3 on 19 October 1991, and #4 in November 1991. The book launch, sponsored by McClelland & Stewart and the University of Toronto Bookstore and featuring the Brass Choir, occurred at the MacMillan Theatre in Toronto, on 28 November 1991 with the proceeds given to Amnesty International. The promotion budget was $20,000. Davies embarked on a book tour from 23 September until 5 November 1991, including Toronto (Harbourfront), Ottawa (National Library), Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver, and Victoria. By the end of 1991, 30,179 copies had sold to bookstores and 20,500 copies to book clubs. By the end of June 1996, 31,602 had sold to bookstores (royalty reports at pend). Gibson complained to Janet Turnbull Irving of the Turnbull Agency Inc., Davies’s agent, on 18 October 1993 that A74a had not earned enough to warrant the large advance. Total income from all sources was $179,969.78 with an unearned royalty of $20,030.22, including $93,801.58 in earned royalties, the Book of the Month Club (21,500 copies), the Franklin Mint (paid an advance of $16,000 in 1991), the Doubleday Book Club (paid an advance of $30,000 on 9 May 1991), and Penguin ($70,000 in 1993 for the paperback). McClelland & Stewart remaindered 7,500 copies at Coles Bookstores in July 1993 at $1.50 apiece. 1,154 copies were still in stock. An excerpt of A74a was reprinted in Saturday Night 106, no. 8 (October 1991): 77-9, 82 (photo of Davies at p. 76). Information on the publishing history of A74a is based on the following: file 49, vol. 49, and file 6, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm; file 4, vol. 80, and box 4, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac; contract at pend; and file 6, box Z5, box Z6, and file 1, box Z52, in series Z (Douglas Gibson), McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm. copies examined: okq (in jacket); otmc (two copies in jacket); pend (twelve copies in jacket). A74a.1  first American issue: FIRST EDITION | [illustration of an eye within a shaded circle] | [calligraphic-styled type] MURThER | & Walking Spirits | a novel by | Robertson Davies | 1991 | THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY | FRANKLIN CENTER, PENNSYLVANIA 1-20 8 214 22-24 8. 1-18, 3-32, 33-34, 35-89, 90-92, 93-155, 156-158, 159-218, 219-220, 221-263, 264-266, 267-318,

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production department had already completed the cover and other artwork. Lydia Driscoll, Editorial Director of the Franklin Library, sent Davies a copy of “the leather-bound edition” on 21 November 1991. Davies told Driscoll on 26 November 1991: “It is very handsome and I was particularly impressed with the way in which the decorations reflected the spirit of the book.” Franklin Library of Canada also commissioned signed copies of the book (apparently 200 copies), although it is not clear whether this was a separate edition or issue from A74a.1. Copies sold for $39.52. Forty copies were shipped between January and June 1992. Davies received an advance of $500 and a total royalty of $883.20. Information on the publishing history of A74a.1 is based on: box 4, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac; and file 6, box Z5, box Z6, and file 1, box Z52, in series Z (Douglas Gibson), McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm. copies examined: davis. A74a.2  second American issue: Murther & | Walking Spirits | [ornament] | ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [publisher’s device: illustration of a Viking ship with spokes in a semicircle above the ship] | VIKING With the exception of the last page (blank) and the preliminary leaves, A74a.2 is identical to A74a. The leaves measure 230 × 154 mm. The first two leaves of A74a.2 are as follows: p. 1 half title with publisher’s device; p. 2 list of twenty-six other books by Davies under the categories of fiction, plays, and criticism and essays; p. 3 blank; p. 4 VIKING | Published by the Penguin Group | Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., | 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. | [eight lines listing the branches and addresses of Penguin Books in England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First Viking Edition | Published in 1991 by Viking Penguin, | a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1991 | All rights reserved | A signed first edition of this book has been privately | published by The Franklin Library. | Publisher’s Note | [four lines noting that the work is one of fiction and that any resemblance to actual persons and events is coincidental in nature] | Originally published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Inc. | [eight lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-670-84189-7] | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Bembo | [five lines about copyright]. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in black paper boards, quarter-bound with cream-coloured

cloth, with the following stamped in gilt on the spine: [first two lines down the spine] ROBERTSON DAVIES | [under the previous line] Murther & Walking Spirits | [short rule] | VIKING | [short rule]. Peach coloured endpapers. The front and spine panels of the jacket are similar to those of A74a. The quotation from Malcolm Ross is missing from the top of the front panel; the lettering on the spine panel has a different configuration and Viking’s imprint and publisher’s device replace those of M&S. The back panel has a purple background, black corners with gold diagonals, and a black vertical band (extending from the spine) and a gold vertical rule. Also on the back panel are: a black-and-white photograph of Davies (same as A74a but larger); a quotation in white from John Kenneth Galbraith; and the ISBN and bar code within a solid white rectangle. The flaps are black with white lettering. The front flap has the price ($21.95), four paragraphs about the book (wording identical to A74a), and the number 1191 on the lower right-hand corner. Two further paragraphs about the book, a paragraph of biographical information about Davies, the name of the jacket designer, and the publisher’s device and address are on the back flap. notes: Although the chief editorial work on A74 was undertaken by Douglas M. Gibson at McClelland & Stewart, Davies also responded to criticisms from Christine Pevitt of Viking Penguin. She had received and read the first forty pages by 22 January 1991 when Davies was still in a quandary about the book’s title. She told Davies on 12 March 1991 that she had boundless enthusiasm for A74a.2. She suggested nevertheless that a little clarification of the family relationships was required and that a paragraph or two was needed to bridge the gap between parts I and II. Davies faxed a new ending of chapter I to her on Tuesday Holy Week 1991 (late March). He told her that many of Gibson’s criticisms were admirable but “I won’t be turned into a Scotch schoolboy.” Bascove also redid the design of the jacket at this time. The contract for A74a.2 at pend dated 21 March 1991 includes an advance of $250,000 and a royalty of 15% on the hardcover and 7½% on the paperback. A copy of the jacket proof was sent to Davies for his approval on 15 April 1991. A74a.2 was published on 20 September 1991. The copyright was registered twice at dlc’s Copyright Office on 2 October 1991 (TX-3-157-255) and 14 November 1991 (TX-3-193-795). Publishers Weekly (6 September 1991) mentions a print run of 75,000 copies. Davies went on a promotional reading tour, visiting New York, Boston, and Washington DC, on 12-17



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January 1992. A74a.2 was on the Washington Post’s best-seller list for eight weeks, but never made it onto the New York Times list. A74a.2 was nominated for the Hammett Prize sponsored by the North American branch of the International Association of Crime Writers. 52,026 copies sold by the end of April 1992. Information on the publishing history of A74a.2 is based on royalty reports at pend and file 4, vol. 80, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: okq (in jacket); pend (nineteen copies in jacket). A74a.3  first English issue: Murther & | Walking Spirits | a novel | by | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [publisher’s device: fleur-delis] | SINCLAIR~STEVENSON LTD A74a.3 (232 ×151 mm.) is from the same setting of type as A74a (okq has a proof copy of A74a.3 in which the copyright page is identical to A74a). The last page of A74a.3 is blank, and the endpapers consist of a black-and-white shaded pattern of repeating fleur-de-lis. The copyright page of A74a.3 reads: First published in Great Britain by | Sinclair-Stevenson Limited | 7/8 Kendrick Mews | London SW7 3HG, England | Copyright © 1991 by Robertson Davies | Published in Canada in 1991 by McClelland and Stewart Inc. A Douglas Gibson | Book | [five lines about copyright] | The right of Robertson Davies to be identified as author of this work has been | asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act | 1988. | [three lines of British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 1 85619 078 1] | Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc. Bound in black paper boards with cream-coloured lettering on the spine. The dust jacket of A74a.3 is similar to A74a but lacks the quotation by Ross on the front panel and Sinclair-Stevenson’s publisher’s device on the spine panel. The back panel of A74a.2 is black with a black-and-bluish photograph of Davies by Jerry Bauer (ISBN and bar code on the bottom centre). The flaps are black. The front flap has a two-line quotation from Samuel Butler, a paragraph of plot summary, a paragraph about Davies’s literary stature, and the price (£14.95 net). On the back flap are a paragraph of biographical information about Davies and the names of the jacket designer, photographer, and publisher (with the publisher’s device). notes: A71a.1 had been published by Viking in England, but Curtis Brown, Davies’s agent, decided that he could do better with another publisher with regard to A74a.3. Davies submitted a typescript to Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson and Peter Carson of

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the Penguin Group. Sinclair-Stevenson told Davies on 25 March 1991 that his novel was wonderful, surprising, and fun to read. Carson’s reaction, made on the same day, was equally glowing. He considered Davies’s plot “a wonderful conceit for telling a personal story that is also about Canada.” Carson also sent Davies a list of some trivial errors (file 4, vol. 80, Davies fonds, lac). The contract at pend is undated: world rights for the hardcover, excluding Canada, the USA, and the Philippine Islands; £25,000 to promote the work, including a promotional trip by Davies to the UK; for the UK and the Republic of Ireland, a royalty of 12½% on the first 5,000 copies sold and 15% thereafter; elsewhere (EEC and EFTA countries), a royalty of 6½% on the first 5,000 copies sold and 7½% thereafter. Number of copies printed not known. Davies went to the UK for a week-long promotional tour on 8 September 1991. A74a.3 was published on 30 September 1991. By 20 November 1991, 8,601 copies of A74a.3 had sold for the home market, 1,140 for the export market, and 4,500 to a book club. When Sinclair-Stevenson had still not paid Davies’s flight to England and the expenses incurred during his promotional tour ($8,000), Davies complained to his agent Anne McDermid at Curtis Brown circa April 1992: “I get an impression that it [Sinclair-Stevenson] is rather an amateur outfit ... They are charmers, but not fully hitched in to the main, and now that they have sold out to a large complex [Reed International, Octopus Group], I wonder what their fate will be.” A74a.3 was remaindered by Sinclair-Stevenson on 11 August 1994. Davies was offered copies at 50p. copies examined: okq (two copies: in jacket; proof copy in stiff-paper wrappers with 30 September 1991 as the date of publication); pend (eleven copies in jacket; proof copy perfect bound with flaps, 233 × 155 mm., white paper stock, copyright page identical to A74a). A74a.4  second English issue: This issue produced by London Limited Editions has the collation: 1 4 2-6 16 7-8 12 10-14 16 (188 leaves; 232 ×151 mm). The title leaf is the same as A45a.1. The initial gathering of four leaves, which includes the front endpapers, consists of the following: p. 1 half title (referring to London Limited Editions); p. 2 blank; p. 3 One of 150 numbered copies of the | First Edition of | Murther & Walking Spirits | signed by the author and | specially bound | No.; p. 4 blank. binding: Bound in marbled (yellow, grey, and red) paper boards, quarter-bound with green cloth. A vertical gold rule separates the marbled boards and cloth.

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The following is stamped in gilt on the spine within two rectangles: Robertson | Davies | * | Murther & | Walking | Spirits | * | [rule] | LONDON | LIMITED | EDITIONS. Issued with a glassine wrapper. notes: Penny Swannell of London Limited Editions told Moira Whalon on 13 September 1991: “Please pass on our thanks to Professor Davies for signing and returning the sheets to us so promptly ... The books are now being bound and we will send Professor Davies copy number 1 with our compliments and thanks, in due course.” The financial remuneration that Davies received for this issue is not known. Swannell’s letter can be found in box 7, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: davis (no. 11 and no. 12). A74a.5  third English issue (1992): ROBERTSON DAVIES | [rule] | MURTHER & WALKING SPIRITS | [publisher’s device: penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS A74a.5 is a photographic reprint of A74a (196 × 128 mm.). Pagination is the same as A74a. The last page after the text is blank. The first two preliminary leaves are as follows: p. 1 publisher’s name, title, paragraph about Davies; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [six lines of addresses of Penguin Books in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Inc. 1991 | First published in the USA by Viking Penguin, | a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1991 | Published in Penguin Books 1992 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | A signed first American edition of this book has been privately published by | The Franklin Library | The moral right of the author has been asserted | Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc | [six lines about copyright]. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has lettering in white with a colour illustration by Julek Heller of a Gothic church, evergreen trees, and statues. There is a quotation by John Kenneth Galbraith on the bottom part of the front cover (the publisher’s device on the right-hand corner). The spine is orange with the top part of the illustration of the church reproduced in miniature. The back cover is white with the heading: Connor Gilmartin is a ghost in search of vengeance ... Also on the back cover are: a paragraph about the book; excerpts from reviews; the name of the cover illustrator; the publisher’s device; the price (£5.99); the ISBN (0-14-015932-0); and the bar code.

notes: Peter Carson of the Penguin Group wrote to Davies about A74 in February 1991. He was much relieved that Davies wanted to continue his association with Penguin Books. Davies reassured him on 12 February 1991 that although he had strayed from Viking (Penguin’s hardcover publisher) due to his agent’s wishes, he had no desire to leave Penguin with regard to paperback publication: “I am always delighted to see my books offered in Penguin displays wherever I am.” The contract at pend is dated 9 May 1991: an advance of £35,000; a royalty of 10% within the UK; a royalty of 8% on export sales. A74a.5 was published on 24 September 1992. Davies received an advance of £8,750 on publication. 17,837 copies sold by the end of the year, earning a royalty of £10,082.75. At that time there was still an unearned balance of £26,949.32 with respect to Davies’s books published by Penguin Books Ltd. 3,386 copies sold in the first six months of 1992. 5,131 copies sold in 1993, and 1,273 copies sold in the first six months of 1994. 1,722 copies sold in 1995. 1,830 copies sold in 1998-99 and the first six months of 2000 (royalty reports at pend). copies examined: pend (fifteen copies). A74a.6  third American issue (1992): Murther & | Walking Spirits | [ornament] | ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS A74a.6 is comprised of 192 leaves. The leaves measure 215 × 140 mm. The text is identical to A74a. Pagination after the text is: 1, 1-10, 1-4. It consists of the following: p. 1 advertisement for Fifth Business (A24d); pp. 1-10 sections 1-3 of chapter I (Mrs. Dempster) of A38d; p. 1 list of addresses of Penguin Books in ten countries; pp. 2-4 advertisements, with excerpts from reviews, for other books by Davies published by Penguin Books. The first three leaves of A74a.6 are as follows: pp. 1-2 reviews of A74; p. 3 publisher’s name, title, paragraph about Davies; p. 4 blank; p. 5 title; p. 6 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., | 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. | [nine lines listing the branches and addresses of Penguin Books in England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Inc. 1991 | First published in the United States of America by | The Franklin Library 1991| Published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, | a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1991 | Published in Penguin Books 1992 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1991 | All rights reserved | Selection from Fifth



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Business | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1970. | [nine lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0 14 01.6884.2] | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Bembo | [six lines about copyright]. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front cover is similar to that of A74a.2 with Bascove’s illustration, gold corners, a purple background, a gold vertical band on the left side, the publisher’s device on the bottom right-hand, a quotation from the Boston Globe, and the heading NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The spine is orange. The back cover is purple with a gold vertical band on the right side. Also on the back cover are a paragraph about the book, excerpts from reviews, a black-and-white photograph of Davies by Karsh, the publisher’s device, the price ($10) within a sold white square, and the bar code and ISBN within a solid white rectangle. notes: This issue appeared sometime after 12 May 1992. Davies consented to the inclusion of an excerpt from Fifth Business prior to that date through Curtis Brown Ltd. (box 4, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac). Royalty reports of Penguin USA at pend have 1 December 1992 as the date of publication. 37,420 copies were printed. 10,612 copies sold up to 30 April 2001. copies examined: pend (four copies). A74b  first American edition, large-print edition (1992): Murther & | Walking Spirits | Robertson | Davies | G.K.HALL&CO. | Boston, Massachusetts | 1992 1-1516. 1-14, 1-413, 414-416, 417-462, 1-4 pp. (240 leaves). 235 × 155 mm. The gatherings are not sewn. contents: p. 1-4 blank; p. 5 half title; p. 6 four lines mentioning that What’s Bred in the Bone and The Lyre of Orpheus are also published in Large Print by G.K. Hall; p. 7 title; p. 8 [first two lines within a rectangle, the top line of the rectangle partially broken and intersected by two broken, diagonal lines and a solid, circular orb] This Large Print Book carries the | Seal of Approval of N.A.V.H. | Copyright © 1991 by Robertson Davies. | All rights reserved. | Published in Large Print by arrangement with | Viking Penguin. | G.K. Hall Large Print Book Series. | Printed on acid free paper in the | United States of America. | Set in 16 pt. Plantin. | [rule] | [nine lines of Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data, including two ISBNs (hardcover and paperback)] | [rule]; p. 9 For Brenda; p. 10 blank; p. 11 quotation from Samuel Butler about murthers and walking spirits; p. 12 blank;

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binding: Bound in pictorial, thick-paper hardcover. All lines on the upper board are above a colour illustration of a naked woman who is bending over a prostrate man, a bed behind them and the ghost of the man rising out of the man’s body: [in yellow ruled type] ISIS | [the next three lines in white] Murther | & | Walking Spirits | [in blue] Robertson Davies. The spine and the lower board are dark yellow. Stamped on the spine: [in ruled type] ISIS | LARGE | PRINT | [down the spine] Murther & Walking Spirits Robertson Davies. On the lower board is a light-yellow, solid rectangle (outlined in white) containing the name of the illustrator (Gordon Lawson), the ISBN number, and two short paragraphs about the protagonist of the novel, Connor (Gil) Gilmartin. notes: Isis Publishing Limited approached Davies’s agent in England, Curtis Brown Ltd., for the unabridged audio rights to A74 in September 1993. The company entered into a five-year licence agreement with Davies on 11 March 1994 to publish an audio recording: an advance of £850 with a royalty of 10%. The publisher agreed to publish the recording within one year of the signing of the contract. The contract makes no mention of a previous publication in book form, however (copy of contract at pend). copies examined: lac; oh.

Data, including ISBN 0-14-015811-1; rule; six lines about copyright]; p. 7 For Brenda; p. 8 quotation from Samuel Butler about murthers and walking spirits; p. 9 table of contents; p. 10 blank; pp. 11-13, 4-390 text (pp. 12, 36, 38, 100, 170, 172, 240, 290, 348, and 350 blank). text: Identical to A74a. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The front cover, which is similar to the dust jacket of A74a with Bascove’s illustration, has the heading in light blue: THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The spine and corners are brownish-gold. The back cover is mainly purple with a brownish-gold, vertical band extending from the spine. The heading on the back cover in white is: “GRAND SPIRITUAL FARE”. On the back cover are quotations from reviews and the name of the illustrator; the ISBN, bar code, the publisher’s device, and the price ($7.99) are on a solid white rectangle. notes: Jackie Kaiser, Editor at Penguin Books Canada, sent Davies an advance copy of the cover of A74c on 11 May 1992. Penguin Books Canada paid McClelland & Stewart $70,000 for the paperback rights. On 30 September 1993, Davies was informed by Harriet Heller, the Contracts Supervisor at Penguin Books Canada Limited, that A74c would be selling as a “Best Buy” for $2.99.

A74c  second Canadian edition (1992): [thick rule] | [next four lines in an ornamental typeface (similar to Avenida), the same as the lettering on the cover] ROBERTSON | DAVIES | MURTHER & | WALKING SPIRITS | [thick rule] | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books

copies examined: otmc; pend (eighteen copies).

1-13, 4-35, 36-39, 40-98, 99-101, 102-169, 170-173, 174238, 239-241, 242-288, 289-291, 292-347, 348-351, 352390 pp. (200 leaves). 177 × 108 mm.

1-9, 2-28, 29, 30-80, 81, 82-140, 141, 142-196, 197, 198238, 239, 240-322, 1-6 pp. (168 leaves). 202 × 130 mm.

contents: pp. 1-2 praise for the book (excerpts from reviews); p. 3 publisher’s name, title, two paragraphs about Davies; p. 4 blank; p. 5 title; p. 6 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [nine lines of addresses of Penguin Books in Canada, England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published as A Douglas Gibson Book, published by McClelland & | Stewart Inc., 1991 | Published in Penguin Books, 1992 | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1991 | All rights reserved | [three lines indicating that the book is a work of fiction not based on actual people, events, or locales] | Manufactured in Canada | [rule; seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication

A74d  third Canadian edition (1997): [M extending to the top of the next line] Murther | and | Walking Spirits | [grey ornament] | by | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books

contents: p. 1 publisher’s name, title, two paragraphs about Davies; p. 2 list of fifteen other books by Davies under the categories of novels, criticism, essays, and short stories; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [ten lines of addresses of Penguin Books in Canada, England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published as a Douglas Gibson Book, published by | McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1991 | Published in Penguin Books, 1992 | Published in this edition, 1997 | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1991 | All rights reserved | [publisher’s note in four lines indicating that the book is a work of fiction not based on actual people, events, or locales] | Manufactured in Canada | [seven lines of Canadian



A75 The Cornish Trilogy. [1992]

Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14-026430-2; six lines about copyright; Penguin Canada’s web address in one line]; p. 5 for Brenda; p. 6 quotation from Samuel Butler about murthers and walking spirits; p. 7 table of contents; p. 8 blank; pp. 9, 2-322 text; pp. 1-2 blank; p. 3 advertisement for Davies’s books published by Penguin Books; pp. 4-6 blank. text: Identical to A74a. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a multi-coloured, abstract illustration by Sandra Dionisi of a bird, the symbol ∞, hands, a cane, a reel of film, and clouds; also on the front cover is Davies’s name in blue, the title in white, and the publisher’s device (on bottom right-hand corner). The spine is black with the illustration from the front cover reproduced in miniature. The back cover is white with the following: the heading “GRAND SPIRITUAL FARE...”; a paragraph about the book; excerpts from reviews; the names of the cover designer (Spencer Francey Peters) and cover illustrator; the publisher’s device, price ($14.99), the ISBN, and bar code, all within a rectangle. copies examined: pend (six copies).

A75  the cornish trilogy [1992] A75a  English edition: ROBERTSON DAVIES | [rule] | THE CORNISH TRILOGY | THE REBEL ANGELS | WHAT’S BRED IN THE BONE | THE LYRE OF ORPHEUS | [publisher’s device: penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS 1-8, 3-12, 13, 14-25, 26, 27-39, 40, 41-58, 59, 60-83, 84, 85-121, 122, 123-158, 159, 160-174, 175, 176-193, 194, 195-232, 233, 234-264, 265, 266-308, 309, 310-327, 328331, 332-348, 349, 350-389, 390-391, 392-477, 478-479, 480-536, 537-539, 540-613, 614-615, 616-690, 691-693, 694-765, 766-768, 769-811, 812, 813-858, 859, 860-905, 906, 907-962, 963, 964-1029, 1030, 1031-1100, 1101, 1102-1180, 1181, 1182-1190, 1-4 pp. (600 leaves). 196 × 127 mm. contents: p. 1 publisher’s name, title, and biographical information about Davies; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [six lines of addresses of Penguin Books in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand; nine lines concerning the publication of The Rebel Angels, What’s Bred in the Bone, and The Lyre of Orpheus by various publishers and

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Davies’s copyright] | Published in one volume as The Cornish Trilogy 1991 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | All rights reserved | Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc | [six lines about copyright]; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; pp. 7-8, 3-1190, 1 texts of The Rebel Angels (pp. 7-8, 3-328), What’s Bred in the Bone (pp. 329-766), and The Lyre of Orpheus (pp. 767-1190, 1) with pp. 8, 330, 390, and 768 blank; p. 2 blank; p. 3 advertisement for Penguin Books (including Puffins, Penguin Classics, and Arkana) with a list of addresses of Penguin branches in twelve countries; p. 4 blank. text: The texts of A61b, A68a, and A71b, photographically reproduced. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a colour illustration by Robert Mason. It consists of a collage of various colours in antique shades with representations of the sun, faces, etc. partially hidden. The bottom half of the illustration has various objects perched on a triangular table (a lyre, a dagger, a skull inside a book, a syringe, a framed painting, a bone, etc.). Also on the front cover is a quotation by John Julius Norwich from the Sunday Times. The spine is orange, and includes a small illustration of a skull inside a book, the ISBN (0 14 01.4446 3), the titles of the trilogy and individual volumes, Davies’s name, and the publisher’s device. The back cover is white. It has the titles of the three volumes, a paragraph about the Cornish trilogy, quotations from the New York Times, the Observer, and J.K. Galbraith, the cover illustrator’s name, the publisher’s device, the ISBN, bar code, and the price (UK £9.99, N.Z. $29.95, and Can. $16.99). notes: Peter Carson of the Penguin Group suggested publication of the Cornish trilogy in paperback on 12 February 1990. The letter of agreement at pend for A75a is dated 20 August 1990: 7½% on the first 25,000 copies sold and 10% thereafter; for export sales, 6% on the first 25,000 copies sold and 8% thereafter. Perry H. Knowlton of Curtis Brown, Davies’s agent, sent Davies an amended letter of agreement on 5 September 1990 and a signed copy on 31 October 1990. But the executed agreement extending the rights for an omnibus paperback was apparently not completed until April 1992 (correspondence with Curtis Brown, Davies fonds, lac). Curtis Brown Ltd. sent Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, ten copies of A75a on 21 January 1992 (received from Penguin Books the previous week). Between July 1993 and June 2001, approximately 24,360 copies sold, earning £17,725.41. Information on the publishing history of A75a is based on file 32, vol. 46 and file 47, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac; and royalty reports at pend.

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copies examined: otmc; pend (thirteen copies). A75b  American (and Canadian) edition (1992): ROBERTSON DAVIES | The Cornish | Trilogy | THE REBEL ANGELS | WHAT’S BRED IN THE BONE | THE LYRE OF ORPHEUS | [publisher’s device: penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS 1-13, 4-13, 14, 15-25, 26, 27-39, 40, 41-57, 58, 59-82, 83, 84-118, 119, 120-153, 154, 155-186, 187, 188-222, 223, 224-252, 253, 254-293, 294, 295-311, 312-317, 318-333, 334, 335-372, 373-374, 375-457, 458-460, 461-516, 517519, 520-590, 591-593, 594-665, 666-669, 670-737, 738741, 742-781, 782, 783-826, 827, 828-869, 870, 871-922, 923, 924-985, 986, 987-1126, 1127, 1128-1136, 1-6 pp. (576 leaves). 196 × 127 mm. contents: p. 1 critical acclaim for The Rebel Angels; p. 2 critical acclaim for What’s Bred in the Bone; p. 3 critical acclaim for The Lyre of Orpheus; p. 4 blank; p. 5 publisher’s name, title, and biographical information about Davies; p. 6 blank; p. 7 title; p. 8 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [eight lines of addresses of Penguin Books in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand; ten lines concerning the publication of The Rebel Angels, What’s Bred in the Bone, and The Lyre of Orpheus by various publishers] | First published in one volume as The Cornish Trilogy in Penguin Books, 1992 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | The Rebel Angels, Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1981 | What’s Bred in the Bone, Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1985 | The Lyre of Orpheus, Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1988 | All rights reserved | [publisher’s note in four lines, indicating that the books are works of fiction with no basis in real events or actual people; nine lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0 14 01.5850 2] | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Garamond No. 3 | [five lines about copyright]; p. 9 table of contents; p. 10 blank; pp. 11-13, 4-1136 texts of The Rebel Angels (pp. 11-13, 4-311), What’s Bred in the Bone (pp. 313-737), and The Lyre of Orpheus (pp. 739-1136) with pp. 12, 312, 314, 316, 374, 458, 460, 518, 592, 666, 668, 738, and 740 blank; p. 1 list of addresses of ten branches of Penguin Books in various countries; p. 2 blank; pp. 3-5 advertisements for Penguin Books; p. 6 blank. text: The texts of A61, A68a (photographically reproduced), and A71. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper light-blue covers. On the front cover are two gold vertical rules and an abstract illustration by Bascove of a man with glasses and a moustache, a palette with paint brushes hung

around his neck, books both open and closed, and musical notes. The back cover has: the three titles of the trilogy within a gold rectangle; quotations from newspaper and magazine reviews; a paragraph about the breadth of the trilogy; the publisher’s device; prices ($19.99 Can and $16 US), and the ISBN and bar code (both within a solid white rectangle). notes: Individual volumes of the Cornish trilogy were sold together as a boxed set by Penguin Books Canada Limited (ISBN 0-14-095140-7). Plans for an omnibus edition in Canada and the United States occurred in June 1991. Lekha Menon of Viking Penguin sent Davies a proof of A75b’s cover on 24 June 1991. She told Davies that publication would occur in hardcover and paperback in November of that year. The letter of agreement with Viking Penguin at pend is dated 11 February 1992: a royalty of 7½% on copies sold in the USA and half that amount for export sales. A75b was published sometime after 1 July 1992. Review copies went out at that time. By the end of April 2001, 12,985 copies had sold, earning a royalty of $19,901.30. The print run was 14,868 copies according to royalty reports at pend. copies examined: pend (twenty-eight copies).

A76  reading and writing 1993 READING [illustration of leaves] | AND WRITING | ROBERTSON DAVIES | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS | SALT LAKE CITY 116 2 4 3 16. 1-6, 1-64, 1-2 pp. (36 leaves). 215 × 140 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 Copyright © 1992 University of Utah Press | All rights reserved | Special edition published 1993 by University of Utah Press | [thirteen lines of Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data] | Reading and Writing is composed in Intertype Goudy, with | decorative embellishments from border slides and matrices, | cast in hot metal by Donald M. Henriksen, Printed on acid- | free paper.; p. 5 fly title; p. 6 blank; pp. 1-64 text; pp. 1-2 blank. text: The text consists of two lectures, “Reading” (pp. 1-32) and “Writing” (pp. 33-64). binding: Bound in green cloth, quarter-bound with dark-brown simulated leather. Pale greyish-green endpapers. All stamping on the boards in gilt. Stamped on the upper board: READING [illustration of leaves] | AND WRITING | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [leafy vertical rule from top to bottom and to the left of the



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previous lines]. Stamped on the lower board: ISBN 0-87480-426-4 | [leafy vertical rule from top to bottom and to the right of the previous line]. Stamped down the spine: [leaf] READING AND WRITING [leaf] ROBERTSON DAVIES UTAH.

Information on the publishing history of A76 is based on: royalty reports at pend; file 9, vol. 81, and boxes 6 and 8, second accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac; and box Z10, McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm.

notes: Davies gave these two lectures — the Tanner Lectures on Human Values — at Yale University on 20-1 February 1991 with the general title, “The Mysterious Partnership” (see E91.1 and E91.2). See also B61 for their first publication. Jeffrey L. Grathwohl, the Editor of the University of Utah Press, wrote to Davies on 1 June 1992. He believed that Davies’s two lectures were important contributions to the debates on criticism and cultural legacy. He suggested that the lectures would reach a much wider audience in a small paperback. He offered Davies a royalty of 7½% on all copies sold. Davies agreed to this offer on 9 June 1992, but it is not clear why the book appeared in a “special edition” rather than as a paperback. Price $12.95. According to q&b (item 0757a), 3,000 copies were printed initially. A pre-publication review of the book appeared in Publishers Weekly 240, no. 4 (25 January 1993): 71. A76 was published in March of that year. Davies told the Marketing Manager of the Press Max Keele on 16 February 1993: “I am delighted that you are bringing out my lectures in a little book and look forward to seeing it. I know that there is some interest in Canada on the part of my publishers McClelland and Stewart, to include the lectures in a book of their own.” Keele sent Davies eighteen author copies on 18 May 1993. Davies (and, after 1995, Pendragon Ink) received royalties of: $1,022.88 on 13 August 1993; $492.90 on 5 August 1994; $792.91 on 28 August 1995; $132.95 on 30 August 1996; $530.43 on 30 August 1997; $181.01 on 1 April 1999; $93.94 on 20 July 2001. 6,357 copies sold up to the end of June 1997. McClelland & Stewart attempted to obtain the Canadian paperback rights to A76. Douglas M. Gibson, McClelland & Stewart’s publisher, informed Davies on 27 May 1993 that McClelland & Stewart had acquired the rights and planned to issue A76 in paperback after September 1994. The contract proposed by the University of Utah Press was an advance of $2,000 with a sliding royalty rate between 5% and 10% depending on the type of paperback and discount. But Keele decided against the deal on 20 July 1993, much to Gibson’s annoyance. A76 is reprinted in A89. An excerpt appeared under the title “A Reading Lesson,” Wilson Quarterly 17, no. 2 (Spring 1993): 99-105; and short excerpts appeared in Julie Rugg and Lynda Murphy, A Book Addict’s Treasury (London: Frances Lincoln Limited, 2006), pp. 50, 138-9, and 171.

copies examined: oh; m&s premises (three copies); otmc; pend.

A77 an introduction to the twenty-first toronto antiquarian book fair 1993 An Introduction | to the | Twenty-first | Toronto | Antiquarian | Book Fair | [in red] ❦ | ROBERTSON DAVIES 1 8. 1-16 pp. (8 leaves). 177 × 115 mm. contents: p. 1 title; p. 2 blank; pp. 3-13 text; p. 14 blank; p. 15 colophon; p. 16 blank. binding: Bound in cream-coloured stiff-paper wrappers, hand-sewn. The front of the wrapper is the same as the title page except ❦ is black, all within a pale greyish-green compartment of vines, leaves, and grapes. Grey endpapers. The first letter on p. 3 is a flowery C in red. The colophon has the publisher’s device of Coach House Printing (Gordon Press logo) blind-stamped under the number or letter. The non-numbered copies of A77 differ from the numbered or lettered copies in the following respects: ❦ is black on the title page and no flowery C in red on p. 3; no grey endpapers; wire-stitched; the publisher’s device is printed on the last line of the colophon. notes: The twenty-first Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair, organized by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of Canada (ABAC), was held on 28-30 May 1993 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. According to the colophon, this edition, jointly produced by letters [i.e. the Toronto bookseller] and Coach House Printing, is comprised of 2,000 copies hors de commerce, 100 numbered copies signed by Davies and donated by him in support of the fair, and twenty-six lettered copies reserved for Davies. The bookseller Hugh Anson-Cartwright thanked Davies for agreeing to open the twenty-first antiquarian book fair on 15 February 1993. He also asked Davies if he would write a few paragraphs to put into the fair’s program since notable writers, such as Philip Larkin, who had opened similar book fairs, had penned suitable mementos for attendees (box 4, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fond, lac). Davies’s essay (annotated typescripts in file 16, vol. 60, Davies fonds, lac) is a memoir and recollection of the Toronto

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bookseller Roy Britnell, and also a brief account of his own modest aspirations as a book collector. Davies read his essay at the opening of the fair. Nicky Drumbolis, the owner of letters bookshop and a pressman at Coach House Printing, discussed the production of the pamphlet with ABAC’s organizing committee (in addition to Anson-Cartwright, the committee consisted of Michael McBurnie, Janet Fetherling (later Inkster), and Steven Temple). A77 was designed by Stan Bevington, employing design elements from the Kelmscott Press with Golden type. Bevington and Drumbolis set the type, and Drumbolis printed and hand-sewed or wire-stitched the copies. Drumbolis also produced an extra 100 copies, fourteen advance copies on white paper (no wrapper, 176 × 108 mm, stamped A to M in blue on the colophon), and nine proofset copies in docket envelopes (unfolded press-sheet; folded sheet in trimmed and folded cover; untrimmed booklet; gathered sheets of the special edition, before letterpress, with two covers; untrimmed copy of the sewn edition, unsigned). Most of the work was carried out between 20 and 24 May 1993. See also Philip Marchand, “Love of Books Bred in the Bone,” Toronto Star, 29 May 1993, p. H3. Davies is quoted as saying: “I don’t call myself a real collector, because I don’t focus my collection on any particular thing. I just buy things that interest me. That makes for a sort of magpie collection. It wouldn’t be of interest to others.” copies examined: davis (advance copy lettered G, printed on 5 May 1993; copy signed with HC in red; unnumbered copy; no. 1 signed; proofset 4); lac (two copies unsigned); otmc (no. 6 and proofset 5); pend (seven copies, lettered S to Z).

A78  jezebel 1993 Commissioned by the 1993 International Choral Festival | Nicholas Goldschmidt, Artistic Director | [in calligraphic type] JEZEBEL | The Golden Tale of Naboth and his Vineyard, and of | King Ahab and his wicked Queen | * * * | AN ORATORIO | for | Chorus, Soloists and Orchestra | the Music by | Derek Holman | the Libretto by | Robertson Davies | [seven lines listing the characters in the oratorio and the voice (for example, “Jezebel — Soprano”) needed for each part] | * * * | Première performance at | Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto | June 3, 1993 | The Toronto Symphony | The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir | Conducted by | Elmer Iseler 116. 1-2, 3-31, 1 pp. (16 leaves). 216 × 141 mm.

contents: p. 1 title; p. 2 black-and-white photograph of Davies’s head; pp. 3-6 introduction; pp. 7-31 text; p. 1 blank. binding: Bound in a stiff red wrapper (verso white), wire-stitched, all printing in white. On the front of the wrapper is the following within a rectangle: [in calligraphic type] JEZEBEL | [rule] | [illustration of a woman’s face (the woman is wearing a hood)] | [rule] | [R and D in a calligraphic style] Robertson Davies. The following is on the back of the wrapper: The 1993 International Choral Festival | wishes to thank | McClelland & Stewart, The Canadian Publishers, | for its donation of the design, production | and printing of this libretto as a tribute to its author, | Robertson Davies. | [wavy block, short wavy rule] | M&S | [rule] | Designed by Stephen Kenny | Illustrations by Ron Huse | Author photo by Peter Paterson | Script by Robertson Davies. notes: Davies’s libretto of this oratorio is based on the Old Testament story found in the first two books of Kings. A78 was given to those attending the première performance of the oratorio. In his introduction to the pamphlet, Davies recounts that he “wanted to write ... an Oriental tale of passion and revenge, in the ancient manner. I have always admired those Eastern story-tellers who spread their mats in the market place of cities like Baghdad and Alexandria, and cried, ‘Give me a copper coin and I will tell you a golden tale.’ The Bible is full of such tales.” Davies had worked with both Nicholas Goldschmidt and Derek Holman on a variety of earlier projects — with Goldschmidt on The Centennial Play (see B20), for example, and with Holman on a number of entertainments (see A50, A51, and A54). The International Choral Festival Inc. paid Davies $3,000 for his work as a librettist in November 1991, and the Ontario Arts Council awarded him a further $750 (half paid on 27 March 1993). Funding for the production came from a variety of sources, such as the Laidlaw Foundation ($30,000), the Canada Council ($28,000), and the Founders Fund of Massey College, Roy Thomson Hall ($25,000). The Davies fonds (files 26-7, vol. 82) at lac contains manuscript notes, two early typescripts of the libretto (one dated 5 April 1990) with holograph emendations, and the first typescript of his introduction. Holman sent detailed notes to Davies on 16 April 1992, suggesting changes to the second part of the libretto. When Avie Bennett, the owner of McClelland & Stewart, was told by Goldschmidt that Davies had written a new libretto for an oratorio to be performed at the International Choral Festival, Bennett offered to pay for the cost of its design and printing. The Manag-



A79 Revelation from a Smoky Fire. [1993]

er of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Michael Ridout sent the libretto to Douglas M. Gibson, McClelland & Stewart’s publisher, on 4 December 1992. He pointed out to Gibson that in order to save space, the text had been rendered into prose whereas Davies wrote his original as poetry. Gibson informed Davies about the prose version of his text at the time but met with no reaction from him. Davies’s secretary Moira Whalon sent Gibson the first draft of Davies’s libretto on 26 January 1993. On comparing the two texts, Gibson discovered significant differences. He brought this to the attention of Ridout on 29 January 1993. Ridout supplied a revised text on 8 February 1993 after conferring with Holman. The new text, Ridout reckoned, was almost right since it incorporated the changes that were made by Holman as the work was in progress. Ridout cautioned that Davies should be on his guard, particularly for errors in punctuation in the new typescript. For Gibson, “almost right” was not good enough, and he quickly reported the problem to Davies. “Herewith is a copy of the libretto of Jezebel which I have gone through with great care and marked as I would like it to appear in your edition,” Davies replied to Gibson on 16 February 1993. “I was saddened by the mess that the Mendelssohn Choir made of the text but I cannot say that I was surprised because musicians are barbarians when let loose on the printed word.” A set of galley proofs was sent to Davies for his correction on 15 March 1993. A copy of A78, “hot off the press,” was sent to Davies on 27 May 1993. Gibson predicted that it would be “something of a collector’s item” in due course. Copies of A78 were distributed to those in attendance at the performance of the oratorio, inserted into an issue of the Roy Thomson Hall/ Massey Hall’s Bravo magazine 5 (May/June 1993). Information on the publishing history of A78 is based on: contract letters at pend; and files 3-5, box Z5, McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm. See also Robert Everett-Green, “A Professional Scamp Takes Aim,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 3 June 1993, p. C1. In Everett-Green’s article, Davies says: “It’s always puzzled me why oratorios have to be so deadly serious.” He discusses the complex character of Jezebel. “I would have been a musician if I had a scrap of musical talent,” he states. A78 is reprinted in A95. copies examined: davis (eight copies, three laid in an issue of Bravo magazine); m&s (four copies, Gibson’s copies); Davies fonds (file 27, vol. 82), lac; otmc; pend (four copies).

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A79  revelation from a smoky fire [1993] [cover title] ‘Revelation from a Smoky Fire’ | by Robertson Davies | [black-and-white illustration of a fire place] | [text begins] 1 6. 1-12 pp. (6 leaves). 211 × 140 mm. contents: p. 1-11 text; p. 12 colophon. binding: There is no wrapper or cover. Printed on beige paper (Sandpiper). The first letter of the text on p. 1 is a large capital A within a leafy red block. The colophon reads as follows: [small illustration in red of an hourglass] | Revelation from a Smoky Fire is reprinted | by permission of Robertson Davies, and in | celebration of his 80th year. A total of 145 | copies were printed, using a treadle-powered | Chandler & Price. The text is Caslon, cast | and hand-set at the Springbank Press, by | Jamie Syer. | [numbered copy written in pencil]. notes: A79 is the ghost story that Davies read at the first Gaudy Night at Massey College, University of Toronto (first published in A63a). In Davies’s story, a smoky fire in a fireplace at Massey College prompts the visit of an apparition who claims to be the ninth Master of Massey College. The Springbank Press, owned and operated by Jamie Syer of Calgary, ab (later at Sundre, ab), is a fine private press that began in the 1980s. It has published ephemera, such as concert invitations, programs, posters, newsletters, and poetry. In 1991, for example, the Springbank Press printed a keepsake in the Wayzgoose ’91 Anthology, which announced the establishment of the press as “existing mainly for the enjoyment & edification of the printer & his friends.” In that same year the Springbank Press also issued a broadside — a one-line quotation from The Rebel Angels (A36) — hand printed at the MacKimmie Library in honour of the twentyfifth anniversary of the University of Calgary. In addition to being a printer, Syer is a piano soloist, organist, chamber music performer, conductor, and professor. He completed his doctoral degree at Yale University’s School of Music in 1986. Syer requested permission from Davies to reprint A79 in the Wayzgoose Anthology on 18 December 1989. He informed Davies that A79 would be printed on a restored Washington press (circa 1885), formerly owned by the Calgary Herald. Davies gave his permission on 9 January 1990, and requested two copies for the Massey College Library. Syer told Davies on 24 January 1990 that it was too late to set the type and print A79 for the Wayzgoose in April of that year. He planned to produce the work primarily as a keepsake for his friends and aficionados of printing. Syer sent Davies a proof of A79 on 9 January 1993. Published

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presumably in time for Davies’s eightieth birthday on 28 August 1993. A79 was published primarily as an insert in the Wayzgoose ’93 Anthology, but Syer also gave a number of copies to his friends (e-mail to Carl Spadoni, 15 January 2003). Information on the publishing history of A79 is based on the following files in the Davies fonds at lac: file 26, vol. 53, and file 19, vol. 79. copies examined: ohm (no. 88 in Wayzgoose ’93 Anthology).

A80  why i do not intend to write an autobiography 1993 WHY I | [the next line in grey, the first letter two lines in height and extending to the beginning of the previous line] do not | INTEND TO WRITE | AN | [the next line in grey, the “b” almost two lines in height and extending to the end of the previous line] autobiography | by Robertson Davies | Thursday, October 19, 1989 | Harbourfront Reading Series Booklet 1993 | [rule] | HARBOURFRONT | [R and S two lines in height and extending to the beginning and end of the previous line respectively] Reading serieS | [heavy rule] 18. 1-6, 7-15, 1 pp. (8 leaves). 179 × 127 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 © 1993 Robertson Davies | First Edition | [grey vertical rule with bar to the left of the next nine lines] Published by: | HARBOURFRONT READING SERIES | 410 Queen’s Quay West | Toronto, Ontario | M5V 2Z3 | Why I Do Not Intend To Write An Autobiography is the text of an address | read by Robertson Davies at the conclusion of a Tribute held in his | honour at the annual International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront | on Thursday, October 19, 1989. The speakers at the Tribute were | Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph | Hancox, Marilyn Powell, Mordecai Richler, and Ann Saddlemyer. | Designed by: | Oksana Ruczenczyn, Leslie Smart & Associates Limited | Printed by: | Sunville Printco Inc.; pp. 5-6 blank; pp. 7-15 text; p. 1 This book is published in an edition of 500 copies, of which 150 are signed | and numbered by the author, and 50 are hors de commerce. | [grey vertical rule with bar to the left of the remaining lines] This is copy number____ | “Why I Do Not Intend to Write an Autobiography” © by Robertson | Davies. Harbourfront Reading Series, 1993 Booklet 2. An erratum slip is loosely inserted, noting that Dr.

Claude Bissell should have been included in the list of speakers at the Tribute, but failed to mention that Barbara Chilcott should also have been included. binding: Bound in a grey-marbled stiff-paper wrapper, wire-stitched. Printed on the front cover: WHY I | [the next line in turquoise, the first letter two lines in height and extending to the beginning of the previous line] do not | INTEND TO WRITE | AN | [the next line in turquoise, B almost two lines in height and extending to the end of the previous line] autobiography | [turquoise vertical rule with bar to the left of the remaining lines] BY | Robertson | Davies. Printed on the back cover: [rule] | HARBOURFRONT | [R and S two lines in height and extending to the beginning and end of the previous line respectively] Reading serieS | [heavy rule] | Harbourfront Reading Series Booklet 1993. notes: Although he wrote reminiscences of various episodes and encounters in his life, Davies was reluctant to write a full-scale autobiography. On 23 August 1972, for example, he told Gordon Roper, who was writing a critical and biographical appreciation of his work: Especially as I grow every year more opposed to the whole notion of autobiography. For me, that’s to say. Macmillans have hinted at it, but I won’t be drawn. For one thing, I am but a child, and my life has but begun. For another, I find the autobiogs of most other people revealing but in the wrong way. Everybody in them becomes a bit-player in the writer’s personal drama, and this is grossly unfair even when it makes good reading ... no candy-floss falsification palmed off as autobiography for me (A93, pp. 289-90).

A80 is an address that Davies gave on 19 October 1989 on the occasion of the “Roberston Davies Tribute” at the Wang International Festival of Authors in Toronto. Davies thanked the organizer of the Festival, Greg Gatenby, on 24 October 1989: “I remember that when we first talked about it [the tribute] you used the word ‘apotheosis’ in a joking sense and assured me that it was not going to be one of those tributes which are supposed to cover the last gasp of somebody who no longer has any energy left in him.” Gatenby asked Davies on 28 March 1993 if Harbourfront could publish his address. The money from the publication, Gatenby stated, would provide needed funding for the Reading Series. He requested that Davies sign 150 copies. 25 copies were originally intended for Davies himself. Davies gave his consent on 13 April 1993. Gatenby sent Davies 200 copies of the book on 15 June 1993. “You are a merciless man and God



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will punish you in the next world,” Davies replied on 22 June 1993. “Have you any idea how much time it takes to sign 150 copies of anything, to say nothing of numbering them?” (see A92, p. 286). Gatenby felt rather guilty that he had placed such an imposition on Davies’s time. He suggested that 50 numbered and signed copies would suffice, but Davies apparently signed all 150 copies. The erratum slip was printed and inserted into A80 when Davies noticed that Bissell’s and Chilcott’s names were missing from the list of speakers. See also A85 for another pamphlet in the Harbourfront Reading Series. Information on the publishing history of A80 is based on Davies’s typescript of his speech in file 33, vol. 87, and box 4, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: davis (no. 117 unsigned; five unnumbered copies, one signed); ohm (no. 52, signed).

A81  two plays: fortune, my foe & eros at breakfast 1993 [first two letters in the first two lines swash, R overlapping slightly with D] Robertson | Davies | TWO PLAYS | Fortune, My Foe | & | Eros at Breakfast | [publisher’s device; abstract design of an open book within a solid black circle outlined] Simon & Pierre 1-7, 8-9, 10-13, 14-44, 45, 46-75, 76, 77-98, 99-101, 102124, 125, 126, 1-2 pp. (64 leaves). 227 × 150 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 list of plays written by Davies; p. 3 title; p. 4 [two lines thanking the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council] | Kirk Howard, President; Marian M. Wilson, Publisher | Copyright © 1949, 1993 by Robertson Davis. All rights reserved. | Cover and design © copyright Simon & Pierre Publishing Co. Ltd./Les Edition Simon & | Pierre Ltée. All rights reserved. | [seventeen lines about copyright and permission regarding the production of the plays] | 12345 · 54321 | [seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-88924-241-0] | Cover design: C.P. Wilson Graphic Communication | General Editor: Marian M. Wilson | Printed in Canada; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; pp. 7-9 introduction with Davies’s signature in facsimile; p. 10 blank; pp. 11-124 text; pp. 125-126 Biography Robertson Davies, Playwright; pp. 1-2 blank. text: Fortune, My Foe; Eros at Breakfast. binding: Paperback glued to four gatherings; glossy, dark-green, thick paper. Printed on the front cover, first three lines in gilt: [thick-thin rule] TWO PLAYS

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[thick-thin rule] | [first two letters in the next two lines swash, R overlapping slightly with D] Robertson | Davies | [next five lines in white] Fortune, | My Foe | & | Eros at | Breakfast | [to the right of the previous five lines is an abstract sketch in gilt of Davies’s head]. Printed down the spine in gilt: Robertson Davies || Fortune, My Foe & Eros at Breakfast [publisher’s device; abstract design of an open book within a solid black circle outlined] simon & pierre. Printed on the back cover: [first two lines in gilt; first two letters in the first two lines swash, R overlapping slightly with D] Robertson | Davies | [remaining lines in white: thickthin rule] | Fortune, My Foe | & | Eros at Breakfast | [thick-thin rule; two paragraphs about Davies and the success of Fortune, My Foe] | [thick-thin rule] | [six lines describing the plots of the two plays] | [solid white rectangle containing the ISBN, bar code, and the bar code number] | [remaining lines to the right of the solid white rectangle] $14.99 | Made in Canada | [publisher’s device; abstract design of an open book within a solid white circle outlined] SIMON & PIERRE | A Subsidiary of Dundurn Press. notes: A81 reprints two plays by Davies (see A6 and A7). Davies’s introduction to A81 discusses the origins of both plays. Fortune, My Foe was produced by Arthur Sutherland’s International Players in Kingston, on. Davies and Sutherland “had been contemporaries and friends at Queen’s University, and had often worked together in the students’ Drama Guild.” The play’s underlying theme is “the supposed dullness of Canada and its poverty of artistic expression.” But Davies did want to convey A Message: “The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra.” Eros at Breakfast derives from Davies’s experiences as a small boy in rural Canada when schools were expected to present a concert at Christmas. Every concert had a “dialogue,” and one of them concerned the stomach being offered a variety of foods. Marian M. Wilson of Simon & Pierre Publishing Co. Ltd. wrote to Janet Turnbull Irving of Curtis Brown Canada Ltd. about the publication of this book and A84 on 13 April 1992. On 5 May 1992, Davies signed a contract for A81 and A84. For each book, he received an advance of $250 on signing the contract, $250 for a new introduction, and $250 on publication. The royalty rate was as follows: 10% on the first 5,000 copies sold, 12% on the next 5,000 copies, and 15% thereafter (copy of the contract at pend). Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, submitted the introduction for A81 to Jean Paton of Simon & Pierre on 15 September 1992. Proofs were sent to Whalon on 31 August 1993. She corrected and returned them on 20 September 1993.

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She also checked and revised the biographical information on the back cover. According to Barry Jowett of Dundurn Press, A81 was published in November 1993 in an edition of approximately 1,500 copies. 249 copies sold up to 31 August 1994; 122 copies sold between March 1995 and February 1996; 82 copies sold between March 1996 and February 2000 (royalty reports at pend). Davies’s introduction is reprinted in A90. copies examined: okq; otmc; pend (two copies).

A82 a return to rhetoric 1993 Robertson | Davies | [the next line to the left of the previous two lines and in a much larger typeface] A | Return | To | Rhetoric | A Lecture presented | at Queen’s University | on Monday, February 11, 1980 | MXMXCIII | [open book to the left of the next two lines] | POOLE HALL PRESS - GRIMSBY | [ornament of a leaf] Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli [ornament of a leaf] 1-6 4. 1-48 pp. (24 leaves). The measurement of the trimmed leaf varies. contents: pp. 1-2 blank; p. 3 half title; p. 4 illustration of Leonard Brockington seated and reading a book; p. 5 title; p. 6 blank; p. 7 [rule] | The Brockington Lecture | [rule]; pp. 8-46 text; p. 47 blank; p. 48 colophon. binding and dust jacket: There are several variant bindings because the printer/binder used different papers and cloth at his disposal. (1) camel-brown paper boards, quarter-bound in brown buckram, with a paper label affixed to the upper board. The trimmed leaf measures 263 × 185 mm. Printing on the label is in green as follows: [all lines within an ornamental rectangle] A | RETURN | TO | RHETORIC | [swelled rule] | ROBERTSON DAVIES. (2) camel-brown paper boards, quarter-bound in green buckram. 272 × 185 mm. Same paper label affixed to the upper board; (3) camel-brown upper board, quarter bound with green buckram. The spine and lower board are in green buckram. 282 × 204 mm. Same paper affixed to the upper board. notes: In his speech Davies pays tribute to Leonard Brockington (1888-1966), journalist, civil servant, chair of the CBC, and rector of Queen’s University. Brockington was a friend of Davies’s father. Davies calls Brockington an orator. “He was, I think, the most eloquent man I have ever heard, and a masterly rhetorician” (p. 9). Davies’s theme in this speech is the im-

portance of rhetoric: “I want to persuade some of you, perhaps some who are young and have still a style to be formed, that rhetoric has virtues we have forgotten and that it is amply worth your while to study it.” The Poole Hall Press, operated by Bill Poole (1923-2001), is a fine press. See A40b for an earlier publication by this press and A62 for Poole’s involvement in a related fine press publication. Davies apparently agreed to the publication of A82 on a non-commercial basis. The colophon (p. 48) reads as follows: This Keepsake was produced with the kind permission of Professor | Davies. Eighty copies were printed. | The types used are handset Goudy Village roman & Goudy Old | Style italic. The impressions were made on a 10x15 Chandler & | Price platen press. | The paper is Renaissance from Noranda Recycled Papers. | Printing & binding were done in Grimsby at the Poole Hall Press. Text in black type with quotations from Davies in brown and grey type. copies examined: davies (variants 2 and 3); okq (variant 1).

A83  the cunning man 1994 A83a  first Canadian edition: The Cunning Man | a novel | by | Robertson Davies | [ornamental rule, swelled at both ends] | Cunning men, wizards, and white witches, as they call | [five further lines of quotation] | robert burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) | [two sets of ornamental square brackets, similar to the pages of a book, at the beginning and the end of the line] A DOUGLAS GIBSON BOOK | [publisher’s device in two lines: wavy block] | [short, wavy rule] | M&S | [short, thick rule] 1-8, 9-114, 115-116, 117-233, 234-236, 237-368, 369370, 371-468, 1-4 pp. (236 leaves). 234 × 155 mm. text: The text consists of four parts, each subdivided into numbered sections. Part I has sixteen sections, part II thirteen sections, part III twenty-four sections, and part IV twenty-eight sections. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 Copyright © 1994 by Robertson Davies | [eight lines concerning copyright; seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-77102581-5] | Text design by Nelson Adams | Typesetting by M&S, Toronto | Printed and bound in Canada on acid-free paper | [six lines acknowledging the financial support of the Government of Ontario’s Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Recreation, the Canada Council, and the Ontario Arts Council] | A Douglas Gibson Book | [five lines of McClelland & Stewart



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Inc.’s address] | 1 2 3 4 5 98 97 96 95 94; p. 5 dedication to Davies’s wife, Brenda, and his three daughters; p. 6 author’s note; pp. 7-468, 1 text (pp. 8, 116, 234, 236, and 370 blank); pp. 2-4 other titles from Douglas Gibson Books published by McClelland & Stewart Inc. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in black paper boards. Stamped in silver on the spine: [the first four lines in an ornamental typeface (similar to Avenida) down the spine] Robertson | [below the previous line] Davies | [next two lines parallel to the first two lines] The | [below the previous line] Cunning Man | [letters on opposite facing pages of an open book] DG | [wavy block] | [short, wavy rule] | M&S | [short, thick rule]. The front panel of the jacket is mainly green (top and bottom right-hand corners in black with diagonals in gold). The front panel has a colour illustration by Bascove of a man in a suit holding a chest X-ray revealing the two snakes of the caduceus twined through the man’s ribs (a shelf of books at one side and buildings showing through a window at the other side). At the top of the panel in gold is the line: A GOOD DOCTOR LEARNS ALL THE SECRETS OF THE HUMAN HEART — EVEN HIS OWN. At the bottom within a solid light-green oval are the words A Novel. The spine panel is black with printing in cream similar to the stamping on the spine. The back panel, which is green, has a black-and-white photo of Davies by Karsh/Miller Comstock, a quotation from John Kenneth Galbraith, the series statement, the publisher’s name and logo, the ISBN, and bar code. The flaps are white. On the front flap are the author’s name, the title, the price ($29.99), and a synopsis of the book (continued on the back flap). On the back flap are three paragraphs about Davies, the names of the jacket designer and illustrator, the name of the photographer, the series statement, and the publisher’s name and logo. notes: A83a is Davies’s eleventh novel. Although he contemplated writing another novel a few months before his death in which the Bernardo Homes played a role in the plot (the third novel of what might have become “The Toronto trilogy”), A83a is Davies’s last novel. It concerns the cultural life of Toronto and various people associated with St. Aidan’s Anglican Church. A83a’s principal narrator is Dr. Jonathan Hullah, who, at an early age, develops “a high degree of cunning.” The story focuses on Hullah’s experiences, from his early years in northern Ontario, his dealings with a local doctor and native healing-woman, boarding school, medical school, his adventures with the Canadian army during World War II, and his practice of psychosomatic medicine.

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Davies jotted down ideas for the book in the fall of 1991 when he was seventy-eight years old. “Next autumn I shall begin another novel which is taking shape in my head at present,” he told Birgitta Heyman on 22 April 1992 (p. 270 of A92). He began the first draft on the last day of 1992 and finished it less than a year later on 10 December 1993. Douglas M. Gibson, McClelland & Stewart’s publisher, began preliminary negotiations with Janet Turnbull Irving of Curtis Brown Canada, Davies’s agent, on 18 October 1993. Gibson argued that since A74a.1 had not earned enough to warrant the advance of $200,000, the advance on A83a should be $115,000. Irving informed Gibson that Davies preferred not to discuss the contract until Gibson had read the book. If Gibson had a good argument about a lower advance when the manuscript was submitted, then Davies would take this into account. A83a’s contract, dated 11 May 1994, reflected Gibson’s concerns. The advance was $115,000 ($38,340 on signing, $38,330 on publication, and $38,330 on 15 January 1995) with a royalty of 15% on all copies sold. Davies sent Gibson the typescript of A83a on 21 February 1994. He asked Gibson to read it for a general response only, not detailed criticism: “I am still in a condition where I cannot form any sensible judgement on it and as usual think the worst,” Davies confided. He told his good friend, Horace W. Davenport, on 8 February 1994 that he had been in a state of “author’s hysteria ... I have never written a book that troubled me more ... So I have written another of my Bildungsromanen and I think it will be my last novel ... I cannot do the job now as readily as I did twenty-five years ago, and there is no great mystery in that” (p. 295 of A92). Gibson allayed Davies’s fears about A83a on 2 March 1994. It is “another triumph which will delight your readers,” he told Davies. His only criticism was directed to Part Three, in which the epistolary style of the letters to Dearest Barbara was too abrupt. Davies was much relieved by Gibson’s reaction. Gibson’s sympathetic reading was corroborated by Janet Turnbull Irving, Perry Knowlton, and Felicity Bryan (respectively, Davies’s Canadian, American, and British agents at Curtis Brown). Comments and suggestions for revision from Davies’s American and British publishers were funnelled through Gibson. The copy-edited typescript (copy-edited by Eleanor Sinclair) with Gibson’s comments was returned to Davies on 25 April 1994. Gibson wrote the information for A83a’s jacket flaps, and he also arranged for Bascove (paid $3,000 US) to prepare the jacket’s cover illustration. Davies told Gibson on 10 May 1994 that revising the typescript was “slow work.” He disliked the fact

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that the proposals made by Gibson and Mrs. Sinclair “flatten out the prose of the book, making it more explanatory than is really necessary.” What would Mrs. Sinclair do, Davies asked, if she were confronted with the manuscript of Finnegans Wake? On completing his revisions on 21 May 1994, Davies observed that he had not always agreed with the criticisms: “The problem is one of voice,” he explained to Gibson. “I write to be heard, and many words that make tidy prose do not listen well ... Also I want a certain individuality of vocabulary and syntax, and Miss Sinclair is professionally and rightly the sworn enemy of such things.” The experience of re-reading A83 gave Davies the uneasy feeling that A83 “was quite the worst novel ever written by anyone” (letter to Davenport, 22 May 1994, A92, p. 301). Davies’s typescript was ready for typesetting on 25 May 1994. Set in 15-point Bembo 12. On the same day, Gibson asked Bascove to make alterations to her artwork — the snakes should be more realistic, the hero’s face craggier, and the background colours as different as possible from those of A74. Davies spoke about A83a at McClelland & Stewart’s sales conference on 6 June 1994. Page proofs were sent to him on 9 June 1994. Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, returned the corrected proofs on 20 June 1994. They were read by her, Davies, and Davies’s daughter Jennifer Surridge (who had assumed the role of his assistant earlier in the year). The Book-of-the-Month Club chose A83a as its main selection on 14 July 1994 (10,000 copies ordered). The book was available on 12 September 1994; Davies was sent a copy on that date. A83a was published on 23 September 1994. The copyright was registered at dlc’s Copyright Office on 20 January 1995 (TX-3-983-923). There was discussion with the Franklin Mint on 3 October 1994 for a special American edition, but nothing concrete eventuated. Davies embarked on a promotional tour of A83a from 7 to 24 October, giving readings in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, Victoria, Vancouver, and Edmonton. By 29 November 1994, 30,000 copies of A83a had sold. By 11 January 1995, 42,459 copies had sold, and only 455 copies remained in stock. By the end of June 1999, 44,616 copies had sold. An excerpt was reprinted in the British Medical Journal, 311, no. 6696 (1995): 69. John McGreevy Productions paid Davies $6,000 in July 1994 for the motion picture, television, and theatrical rights to A83a for a period of one year. Information on the publishing history of A83a is based on royalty reports at pend and editorial and production files in box Z4 and file 1, box Z5 of the McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm (copy of the contract also at pend).

copies examined: oh (in jacket); okq (in jacket); otmc (in jacket); pend (twelve copies in jacket). A83a.1  first American issue (1995): The Cunning Man | a novel | by | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: Viking ship with spokes in a semi-circle above the ship] | VIKING A83a.1 is from the same setting of type as A83a (same sheet size). There are five blank pages after the final page of the text (p. 469). There are six preliminary leaves before the text: p. 1 Viking’s publisher’s device; p. 2 blank; p. 3 half title; p. 4 list of twenty-seven books by Davies under the categories of fiction, plays, and criticism and essays; p. 5 title; p. 6 VIKING | Published by the Penguin Group | [seven lines of addresses of Penguin branches in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First American edition | Published in 1995 by Viking Penguin, | a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. | 5 7 9 10 8 6 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1994 | All rights reserved | Originally published in Canada by McClelland and Stewart Inc. | [publisher’s note in five lines indicating that the book is one of fiction with no resemblance to actual events and real people; ten lines of Library of Congress Catalogingin-Publication Data, including ISBN 0-670-85911-7] | This book is printed on acid-free paper. | [∞ within a circle] | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Galliard | [six lines about copyright]; p. 7 dedication; p. 8 blank; p. 9 author’s note; p. 10 blank; p. 11 quotation from Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy about cunning men; p. 12 blank. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in darkgreen paper boards, quarter-bound with black cloth. Stamped on the spine in gilt: [first four lines down the spine] Robertson | [under the previous line] Davies | The | [under the previous line] Cunning Man | [rule] | VIKING | [rule]. The jacket of A83a.1 is similar to the jacket of A83a but the shade of green on the front and back panels is darker. The front panel of A83a.1 is lacking the line at the top of the panel and the oval at the bottom. The spine panel is black with lettering in cream and two gold rules. On the back panel are a black-and-white photograph by Jill Krementz, one sentence from John Kenneth Galbraith, and the bar code and ISBN within a solid white rectangle. The flaps are black with white lettering. The front flap has several paragraphs about the book (last paragraph continued on the back flap), the price ($23.95), and 0295 in the bottom right-hand corner. The back flap has a paragraph about Davies, the names of the photographer and jacket designer, and Viking’s publisher’s device and address. Dark-green endpapers.



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notes: When he read A83, Al Silverman of Viking Penguin told Davies on 22 March 1994 how deeply impressed he was with it: “It’s like sniffing and sipping a splendid wine.” The contract at pend is dated 13 April 1994: an advance of $125,000, half to be paid for the hardcover publication (a royalty of 15%) no later than 1 May 1995 and half to be paid for the paperback publication (a royalty of 7½%) no later than 1 May 1996. Viking Penguin informed Douglas M. Gibson on 9 May 1994 that A83a.1 would use repros from A83a for the American issue but that publication would be delayed until March 1995. The glossy proof of the Bascove’s revised artwork was sent to Davies on 25 August 1994. He told Silverman on 20 September 1994 that the illustration was “first-rate”: “I have always liked Bascove’s work because (a) she obviously reads the book before making her design, and (b) on a tableful of books in a book shop you can see one of her jackets right across the room.” From 12 to 18 January 1995, Davies went on a promotional book tour and gave readings in New York, Boston, and Washington. He returned to Washington during 16-23 February 1995, went to the west coast of the United States, and then went to Pittsburgh where he gave a final reading between 5-7 March 1995. A83a.1 was published on 1 February 1995. Tired but rejuvenated by the public reception to A83a.1, Davies reported to Gibson on 28 February 1995: As you may have seen, the book appears to be doing well in the States and has been very generously reviewed. I have been talking there to large audiences — 2,800 in Portland, Oregon — and the enthusiasm that they express is strong. I hope some of this is reflecting itself in Canadian sales and, although the reviews were not, on the whole, exciting, I have had many letters and personal chats with people who have enjoyed the book greatly (editorial and production files in box Z4 and file 1, box Z5, McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm).

By 26 July 1995, 65,000 copies of A83a.1 had sold. By the end of the year, 81,569 copies had sold; sales diminished considerably thereafter (pend royalty reports). copies examined: pend (nine copies in jacket). A83a.2  first English issue (1995): ROBERTSON DAVIES | The Cunning Man | VIKING A83a.2 is from the same setting of type as A83a. The leaves measure 232 × 150 mm. Pagination is the same as A83a except that there is one less leaf after the text. The pages after the text are advertisements for six other books by Davies published by Viking in England. The copyright page is as follows: VIKING | Published

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by the Penguin Group | [six lines of addresses of Penguin branches in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by McClelland and Stewart Inc. 1994 | First published in Great Britain by Viking 1995 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1994 | The moral right of the author has been asserted | [six lines about copyright] | Printed in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc | A CIP catalogue record is available from the British Library | ISBN 0-670-85911-7. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in black paper boards. Stamped in silver on the spine: [the first two lines down the spine, the second under the first] ROBERTSON DAVIES | THE CUNNING MAN | [rule] | VIKING | [rule]. The dust jacket is white. Printed on the front panel: [first two lines in red] ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [heavy rule] | THE CUNNING | MAN | [illustration of a variation of the caduceus, the physicians’ symbol; the staff of the caduceus is on top of a wigwam (a cross and skull at either side) which rests on stone tiles (some letters on the tiles); a bird, perched on the tip of the staff, holds a white disk in its beak]. The illustration of the bird is at the top of the spine as well. On the back cover are a black-and-white photograph of Davies by Paddy Cook, a quotation from the Observer, the ISBN, and the bar code. The front flap has six paragraphs about the book and the price (£15.50). The back flap has two paragraphs about Davies, the names of the cover illustrator (Robert Mason) and photographer, and Viking’s publisher’s device and name. notes: Felicity Bryan, Davies’s English agent, told him on 9 December 1993 that she had lunched with Clare Alexander of Viking, who was very excited about A83a.2 and promised great fanfare in its promotion. Davies informed Bryan about his progress on 4 January 1994: “I have been working very hard on the book which is now almost completed. As is usual with me I have no idea whatever what to think about it and am sometimes troubled by feelings that it is a total mess ... I am glad that you like the proposed title for the book. Brenda [Davies] suggested The Black Opal which suits the story pretty well but rather suggests one of those old-fashioned stories in which somebody steals the jewel from the idol, so I have abandoned it.” “Wise, witty and full of pleasures” was the verdict of Peter Carson of Penguin Books on 21 March 1994. He oversaw A83a.2’s design and production. The jacket, he stated, would feature a version of the “Hippocratic staff.” The contract at pend is dated 13 April 1994: an advance of £70,000; for the hardcover, a home royalty of 15% on all copies sold and an export royalty of 7¾%; for the paperback, a royalty of 7½% on all copies sold.

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Davies returned a proof of the jacket to Carson on 20 September 1994. “I have added words of explanation about the two artists — The Ladies — describing them as English lesbians in exile ... the back cover copy is first-rate. The cover design is admirable.” On 11 November 1994, Bryan told Davies that the anticipated print-run of A83a.2 was 10,000 copies. Viking was already organizing a reprint in paperback. Davies asked Bryan on 22 November 1994 about the exact date of publication because he was supposed to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Wales on 7-9 April 1995. “I have been so rushed here that I have not had much time to think about English engagements.” In the previous two months he had given readings in eleven Canadian cities. The book launch for A83a.2 occurred on 3 April 1995, and the book was published on 6 April 1995 (a review appeared in the Times on 30 March 1995). Davies signed over 100 copies at the Hatchards bookstore in London. He embarked on a publicity tour of Great Britain in April and May 1995. The schedule of readings proved too much for him, however. He was forced to cancel his appearance at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. He told the Festival’s organizer Humphrey Carpenter on 18 April 1995: “I was gratified by the warm reception the book received, but the exertion has been extremely exhausting and I returned from London last Thursday very ill.” 1,076 copies sold in the first week, making A83a.2 number 7 on the London Daily Telegraph best-seller list. By the end of Davies’s stay in England on 24 April 1995, A83a.2 was number one on the Sunday Times best-seller list. Returning to Canada, Davies had recovered sufficiently that he told Bryan on 2 May 1995: “I am already getting to work on a novel to complete the present trilogy and I have rather optimistic feelings about it at present.” Shortly after A83a.2 was nominated for the Booker prize, Davies informed Bryan on 3 October 1995 that he was working to complete the trilogy: “It looks as though those books were going to form a loosely linked trilogy and I have begun work on the third and am enjoying it very much. At the moment I am puzzled to determine whether it has no plot at all or more plot than the Bible ... I attribute my present excellent health to having avoided all games, sports and energetic pastimes and obeying Mark Twain’s advice, never to stand when I could sit and never to sit when I could lie down.” His humour about life’s ironies and the failings of old age had not deserted him. He was taking pills for his heart and feeling well enough to write, but the pills made him ill. The third volume of the trilogy — the Toronto trilogy — remained unfinished at his death.

Information on the publishing history of A83a.2 is based on box 4, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: pend (three copies, all in jacket). A83a.3  second English issue (1995): ROBERTSON DAVIES | The Cunning Man | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS This is a photographic reprint of A83a. The leaves measure 196 × 128 mm. The recto of the first leaf has the publisher’s name, the title, and excerpts from reviews. The verso of this leaf has two paragraphs about Davies; the second paragraph refers to his death in December 1995. There are five leaves of ads after the text, the last page being ads for six other books by Davies published by Penguin Books. The verso of the title leaf reads as follows: PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [six lines of addresses of Penguin Books in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Inc. 1994 | First published in Great Britain by Viking 1995 | Published in Penguin Books 1995 | 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1994 | All rights reserved | Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc | [six lines about copyright]. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front cover is black and grey with a colour illustration by Robert Mason (the same as A83a.2). Ghostly apparitions (a man in eighteenth-century dress, for example) are in the background of the illustration. Also on the front cover is a quotation from the Sunday Times. The spine in orange has an illustration of a disk on a bird (the top of the caduceus) along with the author’s name, title, the ISBN, and the publisher’s device. The back cover is white. It has excerpts from reviews, the name of the cover illustrator, the ISBN (0-14-0243437), the bar code, the publisher’s device, and the recommended price (UK £6.99, Aust. $16.95). notes: 57,085 copies of A83a.3 sold to the end of June 1997. 4,294 copies sold from the beginning of 1998 until the end of June 2000. A83a.3 was also sold by Penguin USA: 81,569 copies sold by 30 April 2001 according to royalty reports at pend. copies examined: otmc; pend (ten copies). A83a.4  second American issue (1996): The Cunning Man | a novel | by | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS



A83 The Cunning Man. 1994

Pagination, foliation, and size for this issue are as follows: 1-14, 9-114, 115-116, 117-233, 234-236, 237368, 369-370, 371-469, 1-5 pp. (240 leaves). 195 × 127 mm. The pages after the text are blank except for p. 2, which is an advertisement for Penguin Books with addresses of fourteen branches of the company. The preliminary pagination is as follows: p. 1 Praise for The Cunning Man (excerpts from reviews); p. 2 blank; p. 3 name of publisher, title, paragraph about Davies; p. 4 titles of twenty-seven books by Davies under the categories of fiction, plays, and criticism and essays; p. 5 title; p. 6 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [six lines of addresses of Penguin Books in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1994 | First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, | a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1995 | Published in Penguin Books, 1996 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1994 | All rights reserved | [publisher’s note in four lines saying that the book is a work of fiction with no intended basis in actual events or real persons; eleven lines of Library of Congress Cataloguing Data with ISBN for the hardcover and the paperback (0 14 02.4830 7)] | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Galliard | [five lines about copyright]. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front and back covers of A83a.4 are dark green; the corners are black with a gold diagonal; there is a black vertical band and a gold vertical rule on the left side of the front cover and on the right side of the back cover. The top half of the spine is white; the bottom half is orange. The front cover has the same illustration by Bascove as A83a with the heading in gold: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Also on the bottom of the front cover is a quotation from the Boston Sunday Globe. The back cover has: excerpts from reviews; a paragraph about the novel; a black-and-white photograph of Davies by Jill Krementz; the name of the cover illustrator; the publisher’s device; the price ($12.95) within a solid white square; and the ISBN and bar code within a solid white rectangle. notes: Al Silverman of Penguin USA told Davies on 26 July 1995 (box 8, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac) that A83a.4 was to be published in February 1996. 40,796 copies sold by the end of April 1996; 53,724 sold by the end of April 1998; 59,375 copies sold by the end of April 2001 (royalty reports at pend). copies examined: pend (five copies).

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A83b  second Canadian edition (1995): The Cunning Man | a novel | by | Robertson Davies | Cunning men, wizards, and white witches, as they | [six further lines of quotation] | Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books 1-11, 4-120, 121-123, 124-252, 253-255, 256-404, 405407, 408-514, 1-6 pp. (264 leaves). 178 × 108 mm. contents: p. 1 excerpts from reviews; p. 2 blank; p. 3 publisher’s name, title, and two paragraphs about Davies; p. 4 blank; p. 5 title; p. 6 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [eight lines of addresses of Penguin Books in Canada, England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published as a Douglas Gibson Book by McClelland and Stewart, 1994 | Published in Penguin Books, 1995 | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1994 | All rights reserved | [four lines indicating that the book is a work is fiction and that any resemblance to any actual people, events, or locales is coincidental] | Manufactured in Canada | [seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14024550-3; five lines about copyright]; p. 7 dedication to Davies’s wife, Brenda, and his three daughters; p. 8 author’s note; pp. 9-11, 4-514 text (pp. 10, 122, 254, and 406 blank); pp. 1-2 ads for the boxed set of the Cornish trilogy and Man of Myth; pp. 3-6 blank. text: Identical to A83a. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front and back covers are dark green; the right hand corners and spine are gold. On the front cover are a quotation from the New York Times Book Review and the same illustration by Bascove as A83a. The back cover has a paragraph about the novel and excerpts from reviews; also on the back cover within a solid white rectangle are the name of the cover illustrator, the ISBN, the bar code, the publisher’s device, and the price ($8.99). notes: Janet Turnbull Irving of Curtis Brown Canada Ltd. informed Douglas M. Gibson on 30 March 1994 that she had arranged the terms for the paperback rights of A83a (anticipated publication in the fall of 1995). The contract at pend is dated 26 July 1994: an advance of $80,000 with a royalty of 10% on all copies sold. The advance cover of A83b was sent to Gibson on 31 March 1995. 63,472 copies sold by the end of June 1998. A83b also sold in the United States. 7,698 copies sold by 31 October 1997 (apparently of a print

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run of 37,420 copies for the American market). Information based on editorial and production files in box Z4 and file 1, box Z5 of the McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm. copies examined: oh; pend (eight copies). A83c  first American edition, large print (1995): Robertson Davies | THE CUNNING | MAN | [illustration of a sailing ship to the left of the next three lines] WheeleR | PUBLISHING, INC. | ROCKLAND, MA | [thick rule] | ê AN AMERICAN COMPANY ê 1-16 16 17 8 18-19 16. 1-12, 3-133, 134-136, 137-280, 281282, 283-453, 454-456, 457-578, 1-4 pp. (296 leaves). 240 × 163 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1994 | All rights   reserved | Published in Large Print by arrangement with | Viking, a division of The Penguin Group | in the United States and Canada | Wheeler Large Print Book Series. | Set in 16 pt. Plantin | [rule; eleven lines of Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data, including ISBN 1-56895-230-9; rule]; p. 5 dedication to Davies’s wife, Brenda, and his three daughters; p. 6 blank; p. 7 author’s note; p. 8 blank; p. 9 quotation from Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy about cunning men; p. 10 blank; pp. 11-12, 3-578 text (pp. 12, 134, 136, 282, 454, and 456 blank); p. 1 nine lines referring to Wheeler Publishing’s large-print books; pp. 2-4 blank. text: Identical to A83a. binding: Bound in dark-green stiff-paper covers, sewn gatherings glued to the inside of the backstrip. On the front cover is: Bascove’s colour illustration, the title and author’s name in yellow, orange rules, and a rectangular notice of the book as a large-print edition in soft cover. The spine has: the publisher’s device and the letter W; the title, author’s name, and pink rules down the spine; and the rectangular notice in light pink. The publisher’s device and the letter W are on the back cover centred at the top of a yellow rectangular frame. Within the frame is the title and the author’s name in yellow, orange rules, a paragraph about the book in white, and the ISBN and bar code within a solid white rectangular frame. copies examined: lac. A83d  third Canadian edition (1996): The Cunning Man | [ornament] | a novel by | Robertson Davies | [next eleven lines within a rectangle] Cunning men, wizards, and | [eight further lines of quotation]

| Robert Burton, The Anatomy | of Melancholy (1621) | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books 1-11, 4-102, 103-105, 106-214, 215-217, 218-341, 342345, 346-437, 1-3 pp. (224 leaves). 202 × 130 mm. contents: p. 1 publisher’s name, title, and two paragraphs about Davies; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [eight lines of addresses of Penguin Books in Canada, England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published as a Douglas Gibson Book by McClelland and Stewart, 1994 | Published in Penguin Books, 1995 | Published in this edition, 1996 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1994 | All rights reserved | [four lines indicating that the book is a work is fiction and that any resemblance to any actual people, events, or locales is coincidental] | Manufactured in Canada | [seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14-024550-2; six lines about copyright; one line of Penguin Canada’s web address]; p. 5 dedication to Davies’s wife, Brenda, and his three daughters; p. 6 blank; p. 7 author’s note; p. 8 blank; pp. 9-11, 4-437 text (pp. 10, 104, 216, 342, and 344 blank); pp. 1-3 blank. text: Identical to A83a. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a blackish-blue background with lettering in white and Penguin’s publisher’s device in the lower right-hand corner. Also on the front cover is an abstract illustration by Sandra Dionisi of a black silhouette of a man’s head and shoulders, two snakes intertwined on a cross (a flaming heart at the top of the cross), and a hand on the man’s chest over a clock. The spine is black with white lettering, with the publisher’s device and the illustration from the front cover reproduced in miniature. The back cover is white with: excerpts from reviews; the names of the cover illustrator and designer (Spencer Francey Peters); and the publisher’s device, price ($15.99), ISBN (0-14-026048-X), and bar code within a rectangle. notes: Cynthia Good of Penguin Canada sent proofs of A83d to Douglas M. Gibson on 5 September 1996. She told Gibson that Janet Turnbull Irving of Curtis Brown Canada Ltd. and Jennifer Surridge, Davies’s daughter, had seen and approved the front cover (letter in the editorial files of box Z4, McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm). copies examined: pend (ten copies).



A85 The Dignity of Literature. 1994

A84  two plays: hunting stuart & the voice of the people 1994 [first two letters in the first two lines swash, R overlapping slightly with D] Robertson | Davies | TWO PLAYS | Hunting Stuart | & | The Voice | of the People | [publisher’s device; abstract design on two pages within a solid black circle outlined] Simon & Pierre 1-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-38, 39, 40-67, 68, 69-97, 98-101, 102-122, 123-125, 126, 1-2 pp. (64 leaves). 228 × 152 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 list of plays written by Davies; p. 3 title; p. 4 Copyright © 1949, 1972, 1994 by Robertson Davies. All rights reserved. | [sixteen lines about copyright and permission regarding the production of the plays] | General Editor: Marian M. Wilson | Copy Editor: Jean Paton | Printed and Bound in Canada | [five lines acknowledging financial support from several funding sources such as the Canada Council] | J. Kirk Howard, President | 12345•97865 | [eight lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-88924-259-3] | Order from Simon & Pierre Publishing Co. Ltd. | [four lines of addresses in Toronto, Headington, Oxford, and Niagara Falls, N.Y.]; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; p. 7-10, introduction with Davies’s signature in facsimile; pp. 11-122 text (p. 98 blank); pp. 123124 blank; pp. 125-126 Biography Robertson Davies, Playwright; pp. 1-2 blank. text: Hunting Stuart; The Voice of the People. binding: Paperback glued to four gatherings; glossy, thick, dark-teal paper. Printed on the front cover, first three lines in gilt: [thick-thin rule] TWO PLAYS [thick-thin rule] | [first two letters in the next two lines swash, R overlapping slightly with D] Robertson | Davies | [next five lines in white] Hunting | Stuart | & | The Voice | of the People | [to the right of the previous five lines is an abstract sketch in gilt of Davies’s head]. Printed down the spine in gilt: Robertson Davies // Hunting Stuart & The Voice of the People [publisher’s device; abstract design on two pages within a solid circle outlined] simon & pierre. Printed on the back cover: [first three lines in gilt; first two letters in the first two lines swash, R overlapping slightly with D] Robertson | Davies | [thick-thin rule] | [remaining lines in white] Hunting Stuart | & | The Voice of the People | [five paragraphs about the plots of the two plays and Davies] | [solid white rectangle containing the ISBN, bar code, and the bar code number] | [remaining lines to the right of the solid white rectangle] $14.99 | Made in Canada | [publisher’s device; abstract design on two pages within a solid white circle outlined] SIMON & PIERRE | A Subsidiary of Dundurn Press.

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notes: A84 reprints two of Davies’s plays: “Hunting Stuart,” first published in A43; and “The Voice of the People,” first published in A6. In his introduction Davies comments on both plays. “Hunting Stuart,” he states, is a play about Canadian snobbery, intended as “a reflection on the nature of kingship, and the strong likelihood that royal blood may turn up in unexpected places.” He refers to “The Voice of the People” as a jeu d’esprit. Marian M. Wilson of Simon & Pierre Publishing Co. Ltd. wrote to Curtis Brown Canada Ltd. (Janet Turnbull Irving) about the publication of A84 and A81 on 13 April 1992. Initially, A84 was to include “Love and Libel,” but Davies suggested to Irving on 21 April 1992 that Simon & Pierre should publish “Hunting Stuart” instead. “The play [‘Love and Libel’] is a botch, which resulted from endless re-writing in the pre-New York tour and I have no pride in it at all and do not wish it to be perpetuated.” Davies signed a contract for this book and A81 on 5 May 1992. For each book, he received an advance of $250 on signing the contract, $250 for a new introduction, and $250 on publication. The royalty rates are as follows: 10% on the first 5,000 copies sold, 12% on the next 5,000 copies, and 15% thereafter (copy of the contract at pend). Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, submitted the introduction for A84 to Jean Paton of Simon & Pierre on 15 September 1992. Paton sent her the proofs of the book on 17 October 1994, and she returned them on 24 October 1994. A sticker on the back cover of the copy at pend has “30/11/94,” which may be the date of publication. According to Barry Jowett of Dundurn Press, A84 was published in an edition of approximately 1,500 copies. Simon & Pierre had a lunch at the Arts & Letters Club in Toronto to celebrate the book launch of A84 on 5 December 1984. Davies’s introduction is reprinted in A90. 1,019 copies sold up to 29 February 1996. Fiftyone copies sold between March 1999 and the end of February 2000. Information on the publishing history of A84 is based on: boxes 4 and 8, accession 200200652-0, Davies fonds, lac; royalty reports at pend. copies examined: ohm; okq; otmc; otutf; pend.

A85  the dignity of literature 1994 The Dignity | of | Literature | By Robertson Davies | Harbourfront Reading Series Booklet 1994 1 6. 1-6, 7-11, 1 pp. (6 leaves). 177 × 127 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 © 1994 Robertson Davies | First Edition | “The

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Dignity of Literature” is the text of | Robertson Davies’ acceptance speech for the | 1986 Banff Centre School of Fine Arts National | Award. | Published by: | Harbourfront Reading Series | 410 Queens Quay West | Toronto, Ontario | M5V 2Z3 | Designed by: Alan Siu | Printed by: Sunville Printco Inc.; pp. 5-6 blank; pp. 7-11 text; p. 1 This book is published in an edition of 450 copies | of which 50 are signed and numbered by the | author, and 50 are hors de commerce. | This is copy number____ | [rule above which Davies writes his signature] | © by Robertson Davies. Harbourfront Reading | Series, 1994 Booklet 5. binding: Bound in a pale-grey stiff-paper wrapper, wire-stitched. The front of the wrapper has four diamond shapes, two solid grey rectangles, and six grey Vs. Printed on the front cover in blue: [the next three lines within a solid grey rectangle] The Dignity | of | Literature | [the next line within a solid grey rectangle] By Robertson Davies. Two diamond shapes (and part of one from the front cover) are on the back cover. Printed on the back cover: [rule] | HARBOURFRONT | Reading series | [heavy rule]. notes: According to Moira Whalon’s notes, A85 was a speech originally given by Davies at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts when he accepted their National Award in the summer 1986 (see E86.5). Printed by the Harbourfront Reading Series in December 1994. Signed copies sold for $150 apiece. Profits from the sales of A85 were used to fund Harbourfront literary activities. See A80 for another pamphlet written by Davies issued by Harbourfront copies examined: davis (two copies unsigned; no. 3 signed).

A86 a christmas carol re-harmonized 1995 A Christmas Carol | Re-harmonized | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS 1-4, 1-19, 20, 21-25, 1-3 pp. (16 leaves). 144 × 102 mm. contents: p. 1 half title with a paragraph about Davies; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [six lines of addresses of Penguin Books in England, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published 1995 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1995 | All rights reserved | The moral right of the author has been asserted | Set

in 8.25/11.5 pt Monotype Sabon | Typeset by Datix International Limited, Bungay, Suffolk | Printed and bound by Page Bros., Norwich | [six lines about copyright]; pp. 1-25, 1 text; pp. 2-3 blank. text: A Christmas Carol Re-harmonized; Dickens and Music: A Coda to “A Christmas Carol Re-harmonized.” binding: Perfect bound, black stiff-paper covers, orange on the versos of the covers. There are four orange bars overlapping the centre of the spine. Printed on the front cover: [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within a solid orange oval;   all lines in white] A Christmas | Carol | Re-harmonized | ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [large, embossed V, the bottom of the V cut, and extending from the bottom of the front cover beyond the last two lines]. On the back cover in white within a rectangle is the following: 60 [the top of the 6 outside the rectangle; the 0 containing a penguin] | Penguin Years. notes: A86 and A87 belong to a commemorative series of sixty small books, published in celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of Penguin Books. Many of the titles in the series are from major authors such as Louisa May Alcott, Shakespeare, H.G. Wells, and Oscar Wilde. Each book in the series is 64 or 94 pages in length. Price $1.49 Can, 95¢ US, or 60p. Davies was the only Canadian author with books in the series. The first ten titles, including A86 and A87, were issued in July 1995. See Val Ross, “Wee Books Big Hit for Penguin; Small-format Reprint Marks 60th Birthday,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 21 September 1995, p. B5. “A Christmas Carol Re-harmonized” — a tale about Dr. Fred Scrooge, a museum director who tries unsuccessfully to make his staff of museologists happy at Christmas — was originally written by Davies between 9 June 1982 and November 1982 for the Washington Post Book World (see C82.12). He also arranged to have his typescript (15 pp.) photocopied, and he sent it out as “a special edition” of twenty-five numbered copies as a Christmas keepsake to his friends (no. 24 in files 8-10, vol. 10, Davies fonds, lac; no. 21 at ohm). “Dickens and Music: A Coda to ‘A Christmas Carol Re-harmonized’” was written by Davies at the invitation of Peter Carson of Penguin Books. Carson told Davies that he wanted to have 5,500 words to make up a little book of thirty-two pages. “I am complimented to be asked to contribute to your little book to mark Penguin’s 60th Anniversary,” Davies replied to Carson on 10 January 1995. “I have a story [“A Christmas Carol Re-harmonized”] of the right length which I hope might interest you ... As it stands it needs a little tinkering.” Davies sent his coda to Carson on 3 March



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1995. “I hope it is the sort of thing that you were looking for. I have tried to squash quite a lot into a reasonable compass and if you want anything changed let me know.” In his letter Davies complained that literary people and biographers say nothing about Dickens and music. Two sets of page proofs of A86 were sent to Jennifer Surridge, Davies’s daughter, on 5 April 1995. She corrected and returned them on 12 April 1995. A86 was published on 6 July 1995. Davies was paid a fee of £750 plus a royalty of 7½% on home sales and 6% on export sales. A86 sold separately and also in a boxed set with similar small editions by other authors. According to royalty reports at pend, six copies sold in the first six months of 1999 (price £1.46); two copies were returned to the publisher in the first six months of 2001. “A Christmas Carol Re-harmonized” is reprinted in A89 and A96. The single paragraph ending (consisting of ten lines) of the version sent to friends and published in the Washington Post Book World becomes four paragraphs in A89 and in A96. The publishing history of A86 is based on: file 3, vol. 87, and box 9, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac, containing typescripts of both pieces and a set of the proofs, lac. copies examined: bos; otrm.

A87 a gathering of ghost stories 1995 ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [rule] | A GATHERING OF | GHOST STORIES | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | penguin books 1-8, 1-84, 1-4 pp. (48 leaves). 135 ×105 mm. contents: p. 1 half title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [twelve lines of addresses of Penguin Books in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | Published in Penguin Books 1995 | Copyright © Robertson Davies, 1982 | All rights reserved | The six selections in this book appear in Mr. Davies’s High Spirits, | published by Penguin Books. | ISBN 0 14 60.0112 5 | Printed in the United States of America | [six lines about copyright]; p. 5 table of contents; p. 6 blank; p. 7 fly title; p. 8 blank; pp. 1-84 text; p. 1 blank; pp. 2-3 list of titles in the Penguin 60s series; p. 4 advertisement for Penguin Books, including Puffins, Penguin Classics, and Arkana, with addresses of Penguin branches in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. text: How the High Spirits Came About: A Chapter

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of Autobiography; Revelation from a Smoky Fire; The Ghost Who Vanished by Degrees; The Cat That Went to Trinity; The King Enjoys His Own Again; The Ugly Spectre of Sexism. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The front and back covers are white, the spine orange. The front cover is as follows: ROBERTSON | DAVIES | A GATHERING OF | GHOST STORIES | [colour reproduction of Frans Hals’s painting, Jester with the Lute] | penguin 60s [publisher’s device in orange, white, and black] | [thick rule]. The back cover records the series title (published on the occasion of Penguin’s 60th anniversary), the title (From a master of prose, various hauntings | “emanating from high spirits”), a paragraph about Davies, identification of the cover illustration, the ISBN, the bar code, publisher’s device, and the book’s prices ($1.49 Can., 95¢ US). The prices are in a solid black rectangle. notes: A87 contains six of Davies’s ghost stories originally published in A63. The agreement for A87 at pend is in the form of a letter from Kathryn Court, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Penguin USA, sent to Davies on 5 May 1995. Davies was paid a flat fee of $250. He was told that there would be an initial print run of 75,000 copies of each volume in the series with a shipment of the books to stores in June 1995. Al Silverman of Penguin USA informed Davies on 26 July 1995 that he would send him author copies in a week. See A86 for information about this series. copies examined: davis; otmc.

A88 animal u. 1995 Animal U. | [rectangular colour illustration: in the foreground are animals and birds, some hanging from a branch above an archway and others walking on a sidewalk; in the background is a building with columns and a portico] | Robertson Davies | Illustrated by Malcolm Wells 1-4, 1-32 pp. (18 leaves). 232 × 178 mm. contents: p. 1 title; p. 2 Copyright © 1995 | Storytellers Ink | All Rights Reserved | [four lines concerning reproduction and copyright] | ISBN 1-880812-23-1 | 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 | “Animal U,” from ONE HALF OF ROBERTSON DAVIES | by Robertson Davies | Copyright © 1977 by Robertson Davies | Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. | Reprinted by permission of Macmillan Canada | Published by Storytellers

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Ink | Seattle, Washington | Printed in Mexico; p. 3 two paragraphs by Davies in which he explains the origins of his children’s story (in 1963 when his family moved into Massey College, the building was inhabited by animals — “It seemed almost as if they were determined to join the College community, and if they had done so, the consequence might well have been like this.”); p. 4 blank; pp. 1-5, 7-14, 16-25, 27-32 text (colour illustrations on pp. 1-32 accompanying the text). binding: Perfect bound, glossy, thick paper. The front cover is similar to the title page, except the illustration is much larger and occupies the entire front cover; also on the front cover is a gold circular sticker (concentric circles, with jagged design, and faces of children) which advertises the Light up the Mind of a Child Series. Printed down the spine: ANIMAL U. Davies Storytellers Ink ISBN 1-880812-23-1. The back cover is glossy white with a bar code and the ISBN number. notes: First published in A52 and Toronto Life in October 1977, “Animal U.” is a children’s story, originally written by Davies in January 1965 at the request of McClelland & Stewart. He told Josephine Rogers, his agent at Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., on 10 September 1970: “I wrote it in 1965 because Jack McClelland got a notion that he would print a whole series of children’s stories by Canadian writers and market them in groceterias. Like so many of Jack’s ideas he failed to check the economics before blowing his whistle and it was long after I had written my story that I found out that the plan was too expensive to be tried.” Davies sent the story to Anne McDermot of McClelland & Stewart on 25 January 1965. She acknowledged receipt of it on 1 February 1965 and then passed it to McClelland. Davies complained to McClelland on 25 May 1965. He had heard nothing from McClelland   & Stewart, and interpreted silence as rejection: “May   I add, very gently and without any suggestion of   reproach, that a middle-aged author who is widely, if mistakenly, regarded as a satirist, is not the most likely person to produce a story suitable for children — though I seem to remember that Jonathan Swift did so inadvertently.” McClelland apologized to Davies on 28 May 1965. He explained to Davies that “Animal U.” was unfortunately too sophisticated to be a children’s story: “we wanted your book to serve as the prototype for the series. As it turned out the manuscript wasn’t quite the prototype we were looking for. In fact it baffled us then and still baffles us. It has a great deal of charm ... In other words the academic humour would not be understandable to children of the age level for which the book has been written.” Davies demanded

the return of his manuscript from McClelland on 16 September 1966. He expressed his displeasure to McClelland in unequivocal terms: “It is now eighteen months since a young woman in your employ came to me with a passionate plea for a children’s story; she represented it to me that she must have the story within a week, and having always been idiotic [enough] to believe what publishers say, I believed her and sent it off. As it is now amply clear that you are now not going to do anything with it.” Rogers in fact agreed with McClelland’s assessment that the story fell between two stools, being too sophisticated for the average child but without sufficient bite for an adult’s reading habits. Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, sent the story to Ramsay Derry, the editor at the Macmillan Company of Canada, on 9 July 1970, but the story remained unpublished until October 1977. Davies met the publisher of A88 during his book promotion tour for A83a.1. He told Janet Turnbull Irving, his agent, on 14 March 1995: “When I was in Seattle in January a Mr. Stamper, who publishes children’s books, asked me if I had anything that might fit into his program and I sent him that story, Animal U, which has been published in One Half of Robertson Davies, but I am sure that the rights remain with me.” Irving referred Davies’s request to Perry Knowlton, Davies’s American agent at Curtis Brown Ltd. Storytellers Ink paid Macmillan Canada a fee of $750 on 6 October 1995 (half to Davies) for the rights to A88. Proofs were sent to Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, on 25 September 1995. A88 was published on 22 December 1995. Price $9.95 US ($11.95 Can). The copyright was registered by Storytellers Ink at dlc’s Copyright Office on 19 July 1996 (TX-4-345-499). Douglas M. Gibson of McClelland & Stewart attempted to arrange a Canadian edition with Tundra Books, but Kathy Lowinger, the President of Tundra Books, turned down publication on 2 October 1996. Information on the publishing history of A88 is based on the following sources: file 6, vol. 10, files 2, 34, and 35, vol. 46, files 17 and 18, vol. 49, file 6, vol. 52, and box 4, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac; royalty reports at pend; and editorial files at the premises of McClelland & Stewart. Reprinted in A96. copies examined: lac; otmc (two copies); pend (three copies).

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nament; rule] | Robertson Davies | [two sets of ornamental square brackets, similar to the pages of a book, at the beginning and the end of the line] A DOUGLAS GIBSON BOOK | [publisher’s device in two lines: wavy block] | [short, wavy rule] | M&S | [short, thick rule] i-viii, ix-xii, 1-385, 1-3 pp. (200 leaves). 227 × 151 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii blank; p. iii title; p. iv Copyright © 1996 by Pendragon Ink | Introductions © 1996 by Douglas M. Gibson | [five lines about copyright; seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-7710-2584-x] | Typesetting by M&S, Toronto | Printed and bound in Canada | [ten lines acknowledging permission from magazines and publishers for the previous publication of essays]   | A Douglas Gibson Book | McClelland & Stewart Inc.  | The Canadian Publishers | 481 University Avenue | Toronto, Ontario | M5G 2E9 | 1 2 3 4 5 00 99 98 97 96; p. v A merry heart doeth good like a medicine but a broken spirit | drieth the bones. | PROVERBS 17:22; p. vi blank; p. vii table of contents; p. viii blank; pp. ix-xii introduction by Douglas Gibson, dated Toronto, April 1996; pp. 1-385 text; pp. 1-3 other titles from Douglas Gibson Books. text: 1 A Rake at Reading; 2 A Chapter of Autobiography; 3 Literature in a Country without a Mythology; 4 Painting, Fiction, and Faking; 5 Can a Doctor Be a Humanist? 6 Reviewing Graham Greene; 7 The Novelist and Magic; 8 My Early Literary Life; 9 Literature and Technology; 10 A Canadian Author; 11 Literature and Moral Purpose; 12 The McFiggin Fragment; 13 Reading; 14 Writing; 15 Christmas Books; 16 World of Wonders; 17 Convocation Address; 18 The Peeled Eye; 19 A View in Winter: Creativity in Old Age; 20 Honouring Mavis Gallant; 21 An Unlikely Masterpiece; 22 A Christmas Carol Re-harmonized; 23 Fiction of the Future; 24 A Ghost Story. binding and jacket: Perfect bound in dark-brown paper boards with the following stamped in gilt on the spine: ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [ornament] | [next two lines down the spine] THE MERRY HEART | [under the previous line] Selections 1980-1995 | [illustration of an open book with an initial on each page] D G | [wavy block] | [short, wavy rule] | M&S | [short, thick rule]. The front, spine, and back panels of the jacket are creamy grey with black and brown flecks. The following is on the front panel: ROBERTSON | [small maroon ornament] DAVIES [small maroon ornament] | [in maroon] THE MERRY HEART | [rectangular black-and-white photograph (outlined in maroon) by Jill Krementz of a smiling Davies in 1984] | [in white within a solid maroon rectangle at the bot-

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tom of the photograph] Selections 1980-1995. The photograph on the front panel is reproduced in smaller size on the spine panel; otherwise, the spine panel in black and maroon is similar to the stamping on the spine. The back panel has a solid cream-coloured rectangle (outlined in maroon), containing the table of contents, the publisher’s devices, and a paragraph indicating that Davies had planned the book before his death; at the bottom of the rectangle is a solid white rectangle with the ISBN and bar code. The flaps are white with paragraphs about the book’s contents and Davies, the price ($32.50), the publisher, and the names of the cover photographer and jacket designer (Sari Ginsberg). notes: A89a contains a collection of reminiscences, speeches, book reviews, parodies, and essays written by Davies between 1980 and 1995 with a general introduction and shorter introductions to each piece by Douglas M. Gibson, McClelland & Stewart’s publisher. Almost half of the pieces (numbers 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 14, 18, and 22) were previously published. Other pieces, such as “Fiction of the Future” (see E94.3), are published in A89 for the first time. When Gibson proposed a collection in the summer of 1995, Davies was quite receptive to the idea. “Your suggestion of a book of ‘pieces’ surprised me, for I did not think there was anything lying around,” he told Gibson on 30 July 1995. “But my daughter Jennifer [Surridge] assures me she has quite a bundle of stuff, and I know Moira [Whalon, Davies’s secretary] has some things, so it may be possible ... What I should really like to do is to include one or two new additions, such as Being Biographed, Questions Most Often Asked About Being a Writer.” In his notes Gibson recorded that there was “a happy precedent” since they had worked together on a similar book (A52a) in 1977. According to Gibson, “a letter from me with a post-script aimed at advancing our planning for publication in Canada in the fall of 1996 lay on his desk unanswered at the time of his death.” Gibson in fact mapped out the contents of A89a and A90a, its successor volume. Gibson’s short introductions contain excerpts from Davies’s unpublished diaries and quotations from several letters; the introduction to “Literature in a Country without a Mythology” includes an extract from Davies’s essay, “Remembering Walter Cairns” (written in August 1995). On 19 April 1996, Gibson proposed an advance royalty of $15,000 to Janet Turnbull Irving of Curtis Brown Canada, Pendragon Ink’s agent, for the rights to A89a. The contract at pend and the premises of McClelland & Stewart is dated 25 July 1996: an advance of $25,650 against royalties ($13,150 on signing, $12,500 on publication) with a royalty of 10% on the

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first 5,000 copies sold, $12½% to 10,000 copies, 15% thereafter, and 10% on the paperback. A89a was typeset in-house and printed by Friesens in an edition of 20,000 copies at a total manufacturing cost of $62,847. The book launch for A89a (along with John Fraser’s Stolen China) occurred on 10 October 1996 in the Common Room of Massey College in the University of Toronto. A89a was published two days later. Both Gibson and Pendragon Ink separately registered A89a at dlc’s Copyright Office on 6 November 1996 (TX4-393-217 and TX-4-393-218). A89a sold 12,863 copies by the end of 1996. A boxed set of A89a and A90a (no jackets, in a matching brown box with Davies’s signature printed in gold in facsimile) was available in November 1997 for $45. 13,213 copies sold by the end of 1997; 19,566 copies by the end of 2000. “Can a Doctor Be a Humanist?” is reprinted in part as “A Short History of Cures,” Harper’s 295, no. 1766 (July 1997): 28-30; and in full as “An Unlikely Masterpiece” in Janice MacDonald, True North: Canadian Essays for Composition (Don Mills, on: Addison-Wesley, 1999), pp. 357-70. “The Fiction of the Future” is reprinted in New England Review 18, no. 3 (Summer 1997): 5 ff. See also A96 and A97. Information on the publishing history of A89a is based on the royalty reports at pend and files 3-7, box Z8, McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm. copies examined: otmc (in jacket); pend (six copies in jacket). A89a.1  American / English issue (1997): The Merry Heart | Reflections on Reading, Writing, | and the World of Books | [rule with a small ornament in the centre] | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: illustration of a Viking ship with spokes in a semi-circle above the ship] With the exception of the title leaf and the pages after the text (which are blank), the sheets of the American / English issue are identical to A89a. The copyright page is as follows: VIKING | Published by the Penguin Group | [seven lines of addresses of Penguin Books in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First American edition | Published in 1997 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | Copyright © Pendragon Ink, 1996 | Introductions copyright © Douglas M. Gibson, 1996 | All rights reserved | Originally published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Inc. | [thirteen lines acknowledging permission from magazines and publishers for the previous publication of essays; nine lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication

Data, including ISBN 0-670-87366-7] | This book is printed on acid-free paper. | [within a circle] ∞ | Printed in the United States of America | [five lines about copyright]. binding: Bound in black paper boards, quarter-bound with purple paper boards. The following is stamped in silver on the spine: [down the spine] Robertson Davies [horizontal rule with a small ornament in the centre] The Merry Heart | Viking. Blue endpapers. There are two different dust jackets, one for the American market and the other for Great Britain. The front and back panels of the American dust jacket have a floral collage in dark blue and black with asterisks in yellow and red, red rules, and lettering in yellow and white. The front panel has a photograph of Davies’s face within an octagon. The same photograph but fuller in extent (Davies sitting on a sofa with a cigar in his hand) is on the back panel within an octagon. Also on the back panel within a solid yellow rectangle are the ISBN and bar code. The spine panel is chiefly red, top of the panel yellow. The flaps are black with white lettering. On the front flap are: the price ($27.95); a quotation from Proverbs about the merry heart; and three paragraphs about the book’s contents. The last line at the bottom of the front flap is: 0797. The back flap has: four paragraphs about Davies; a paragraph that mentions that his wife and daughter are preparing a new volume of Davies’s writings on the theatre; the names of the jacket designer (Paul Buckley) and photographer (Jill Krementz © 1984); the publisher’s device; and the addresses of the publisher in New York and on the web. For copies that sold in Great Britain, the dust jacket is camel coloured with an illustration in red and black on the front and spine panels of a dragon on a ladder. The back panel has the ISBN and bar code and quotations about Davies from Malcolm Bradbury, the Observer, and J.K. Galbraith. On the front flap are four paragraphs about A89a.1 and the price (£20). The back flap has: a black-and-white photograph of Davies by Paddy Cook; three paragraphs about Davies; the publisher’s device and the name of the publisher with reference to the place of publication (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England). notes: A89a.1 was produced for the American and British markets. The American contract at pend is undated: an advance royalty of $25,000; a royalty of 15% on the hardcover; a royalty of 7½% on the trade paperback; a royalty of 8% on the mass-market paperback up to 150,000 copies sold and 10% thereafter. The English contract, also at pend, is dated 29 August



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1996: an advance of £6,000; for the hardcover, a royalty of 15% on home sales and 7¾% on export sales; for a mass-market paperback, a home royalty of 10% and 8% on export sales. Douglas M. Gibson of McClelland & Stewart issued a memo to his sales force on 7 February 1997 that A89a.1 would be published in May 1997 in the UK and in June 1997 in the USA. Jariya Wanapun of Viking Penguin told Gail Stewart of McClelland & Stewart on 7 October 1997 that A89a.1 had received good reviews and that 17,000 copies had sold. The royalty report of Penguin USA indicates that 14,874 copies sold up to 30 November 1999 and that 6,562 copies had been returned. Viking Penguin planned to publish the paperback in July 1997. pend also has six copies of bound advance uncorrected proofs (not for sale on front cover, July 1997 as date of publication on back cover, 225 × 150 mm.). The front cover has a floral collage in blue similar to the American jacket but with a drawing of Davies instead of a photograph. The spine and back cover have a white background. The copyright page reads: Copyright © Pendragon Ink, 1996 | Introduction © Douglas M. Gibson, 1996. copies examined: otmc (two copies, American jacket and English jacket); pend (six copies with the American jacket; four copies with the English jacket). A89a.2  American issue (1998): The Merry Heart | Reflections on Reading, Writing, | and the World of Books | [rule with a small ornament in the centre] | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS This issue is a photographic reproduction of A89a.1. The leaves measure 195 × 125 mm. The first page of A89a.2 has the heading Praise for The Merry Heart, followed by excerpts from reviews. The text ends at p. 385 (the verso of this leaf has a list of Penguin branches in fourteen countries). The copyright page of A89a.2 is as follows: PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [seven lines of addresses of Penguin Books in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Inc. 1996 | First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, | a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. 1997 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Pendragon Ink, 1996 | Introductions copyright © Douglas M. Gibson, 1996 | All rights reserved | [twelve lines acknowledging permission to magazines and publishers for the previous publication of essays; ten lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication

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Data, including ISBN 0-670-87366-7 (hc.) and ISBN 0 14 02.7586 X (pbk.)] | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Bembo | [five lines about copyright]. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The cover of A89a.2 is similar in design to the panels of the American dust jacket of A89a.1. In addition to the photo of Davies by Krementz, the front cover of A89a.2 has the Penguin publisher’s device, a quotation from the Boston Globe, and the following line within a solid orange rectangle at the bottom of the cover — A New York Times Notable Book. The spine is chiefly orange, top of the panel yellow. The back cover of A89a.2 lacks the photograph by Krementz. It has: quotations from the New York Times Book Review and the Spectator; a paragraph about the contents of the book; the publisher’s device; the ISBN and bar code within a solid white rectangle; the names of the photographer and cover designer (Paul Buckley); the web address of the publisher; and the recommended price (£8.99, Aust. $19.95, Can. $20.99, and US $14.95). notes: Although A89a.2 was manufactured in the United States, it was also sold in Great Britain, Australia, and Canada. 4,075 copies were sold by Penguin Books Ltd. from 1998 until end of June 2000. Penguin USA sold 6,253 copies up to the end of May 2000 (royalty reports at pend). copies examined: otmc; pend (twelve copies). A89b  second Canadian edition (1998): THE | MERRY HEART | [ornament with curlicues] | SELECTIONS 1980-1995 | Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books i-ix, x-xii, 1-4, 3-26, 27, 28-39, 40, 41-63, 64, 65-89, 90, 91-110, 111, 112-116, 117, 118-143, 144-145, 146-154, 155, 156-176, 177, 178-185, 186, 187-207, 208, 209, 210, 211-212, 213, 214-234, 235, 236-256, 257, 258-262, 263, 264-284, 285-286, 287-290, 291, 292-300, 301-302, 303-315, 316, 317-322, 323-324, 325-339, 340, 341-352, 353, 354-371, 372, 373-385, 1 pp. (200 leaves). 202 × 130 mm. contents: p. i publisher’s name, title, two paragraphs about Davies; p. ii list of fifteen other books by Davies under the categories of novels, criticism, essays, and short stories; p. iii title; p. iv PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [seven lines of addresses of Penguin Books in Canada, England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published as a Douglas Gibson Book by McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1996 | Published in Penguin Books,

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1998 | 10 8 6 4 2 1 3 5 7 9 | Copyright © Pendragon Ink, 1996 | Introductions © Douglas M. Gibson, 1996 | All rights reserved. | Manufactured in Canada | [seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14-026577-5; five lines about copyright; nine lines acknowledging permission to magazines and publishers for the previous publication of essays 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 14, 18, and 22; one line of Penguin’s web address]; p. v A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: | but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Proverbs 17:22; p. vi blank; p. vii table of contents; p. viii blank; pp. ix-xii introduction by Douglas Gibson, dated Toronto, April 1996; p. 1 fly title; p. 2 blank; pp. 3-4, 3-385 text; p. 1 blank. text: Identical to A89a. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers with flaps. The front cover has a black-and-white photograph of a smiling Davies by Erik Christensen. Printed on the photo of the front cover is the following: [first two lines in red] ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [remaining lines in white] SELECTIONS 1980-1995 | THE | MERRY | HEART [Penguin’s publisher’s device in orange, white, and black within an oval]. A portion of the front cover’s photo is reproduced in a smaller size on the spine. The back cover and flaps are white. On the back cover are excerpts from reviews, the ISBN, and the bar code. The front flap has: the price ($19.99), a quotation from Proverbs about a merry heart, and two paragraphs about the book. The back flap has: four paragraphs about Davies, credits to the photographer and cover designer (Spencer Francey Peters), the address of Penguin Books Canada Limited, and the publisher’s device. notes: The contract at pend is dated 11 December 1996. Publication was no earlier than 2 January 1998. There was an advance royalty of $20,000, half on 2 January 1997 and the other half on publication, with a royalty of 10% on all copies sold. 4,610 copies of A89b sold by the end of June 1998 (royalty reports at pend). copies examined: otmc; pend (eight copies).

A90  happy alchemy 1997 A90a  first Canadian edition: Happy Alchemy | Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts | [rule; ornament; rule] | Robertson Davies | Edited by Jennifer Surridge and Brenda Davies | [two sets of ornamental square brackets, similar to the pages of a book, at the beginning and the end of the line] A DOUGLAS GIBSON BOOK | [[publisher’s device

in two lines: wavy block] | [short, wavy rule] | M&S | [short, thick rule] i-viii, ix-xii, 1-384, 1-4 pp. (200 leaves). 227 × 151 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii blank; p. iii title; p. iv Copyright © 1997 by Pendragon Ink | Introductions © 1997 by Jennifer Surridge and Brenda Davies | [five lines about copyright; seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-77103541-1] | Typesetting by M&S, Toronto | Printed and bound in Canada | [ten lines acknowledging permissions from magazines and publishers for the previous publication of Davies’s essays (1, 10, 13-16, 27, and 31) and for permissions in the case of quotations from two other books by others] | A Douglas Gibson Book | McClelland & Stewart Inc. | The Canadian Publishers | 481 University Avenue | Toronto, Ontario | M5G 2E9 | 1 2 3 4 5 01 00 99 98 97; p. v By happy alchemy of mind | They turn to pleasure all they find. | MATTHEW GREEN (1696-1737); p. vi list of thirty-two other books by Davies under the categories of criticism/belles lettres, fiction, and plays; p. vii-viii table of contents; pp. ix-xii introduction by Jennifer Surridge and Brenda Davies, dated Pendragon Ink, April 1997; pp. 1-384 text; pp. 1-4 other titles of Douglas Gibson Books. text: 1 Alchemy in the Theatre; 2 The Noble Greeks; 3 Look at the Clock!; 4 On Seeing Plays; 5 Laurence Olivier; 6 Prologue to The Good Natur’d Man; 7 Lewis Carroll in the Theatre; 8 An Allegory of the Physician; 9 The Lure of Fantasy; 10 Tanya Moiseiwitsch; 11 A Letter from Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; 12 Stratford Forty Years Ago; 13 Introduction to an Anthology of Canadian Plays; 14 Introduction to At My Heart’s Core and Overlaid; 15 Introduction to Fortune, My Foe and Eros at Breakfast; 16 Introduction to Hunting Stuart and The Voice of the People; 17 A Prologue to The Critic; 18 Melodrama: The Silver King; 19 Some Reflections on Rigoletto; 20 Opera for the Man Who Reads Hamlet; 21 Opera and Humour; 22 A Conversation about Dr. Canon’s Cure; 23 Children of the Moon; 24 When Is Opera Really Grand? 25 Scottish Folklore and Opera; 26 My Musical Career; 27 Dickens and Music; 28 Folk-Song: A Lost World of Archetypes; 29 Harper of the Stones; 30 Jung and the Writer; 31 The Value of a Coherent Notion of Culture; 32 How I Write a Book; 33 How to Be a Collector. binding and jacket: Perfect bound in dark-brown paper boards with the following stamped in gilt on the spine: ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [ornament] | [next three lines down the spine] HAPPY ALCHEMY | [under the previous line] Writings on the Theatre | [under the previous line] and Other Lively Arts | [illustration



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of an open book with an initial on each page] D G | [publisher’s device in two lines: wavy block] | [short, wavy rule] | M&S | [short, thick rule]. The front, spine, and back panels of the jacket are reddish-brown with black flecks. The following is on the front panel: [cream-coloured] ROBERTSON | [small white ornament; next word cream coloured] DAVIES [small white ornament] | [in white] HAPPY ALCHEMY | [rectangular black-and-white photograph (outlined in cream) by Jürgen Vogt of a seated Davies in 1984] | [in black within a solid cream-coloured rectangle at the bottom of the photograph] Writings on the Theatre | and Other Lively Arts. The photograph on the front panel is reproduced in smaller size on the spine panel; otherwise, the spine panel in white lettering is similar to the stamping on the spine. The back panel has a solid cream-coloured rectangle (outlined in black), containing excerpts on various topics and the publisher’s devices; below the rectangle is a solid white rectangle with the ISBN and bar code. The flaps are white with paragraphs about the book’s contents and Davies, the publisher, the price ($32.50), and the names of the cover photographer and jacket designer (Sari Ginsberg). notes: A90’s title, which is derived from a quotation by Matthew Green, was suggested by Davies himself in the first essay of A90a: “What alchemy really means is something which has attained to such excellence, such nearness to perfection, that it offers a glory, an expansion of life and understanding, to those who have been brought into contact with it” (pp. 3-4). A90a, compiled by Davies’s second daughter and his widow, is a companion volume to A89. It consists of thirty-three pieces, most of which were written by Davies in the last decade of his life; eighteen deal with the theatre and seven with opera. Most of the introductions to the individual essays contain excerpts from Davies’s diaries. Douglas M. Gibson of McClelland & Stewart entertained a print run of 15,000 copies, expecting sales of 12,000 copies, and then once sales had dried up, he decided to market a boxed set of A89a with A90a. Jennifer Surridge of Pendragon Ink sent the table of contents and essays to Gibson on 7 February 1997 (149,856 words). She revised the contents several times — on 7 and 22 March 1997, on 29 April 1997, and then finally on 18 May 1997 (128,264 words). Gibson scrutinized the editorial work and sent suggestions for revisions on 12 May 1997. He then wrote the promotional information for the book flaps. Gibson proposed to Janet Turnbull Irving of Curtis Brown Canada, Pendragon Ink’s agent, the same initial terms as A89a: an advance of $15,000 ($10,000

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on signing, $5,000 on publication) with a sliding scale of royalties of 10% on first 5,000 copies sold, $12½% to 10,000 copies, and 15% thereafter. The contract with Pendragon Ink at pend is dated 30 May 1997: the royalty rate was the same as that proposed by Gibson but the advance was $25,000 ($12,500 on signing the contract, $12,500 on publication). Surridge returned the corrected proofs of A90a to Gibson on 24 June 1997. Gibson sent John Fraser, the Master of Massey College, and Moira Whalon, Davies’s former secretary, each a copy of A90a on 25 September 1997. A90a was published on 4 October 1997. Pendragon Ink registered the copyright in A90a twice at dlc’s Copyright Office on 18 February 1998 (TX-4-700-645 and TX-4-700-646). The boxed set of A89a and A90a (no jackets, in a dark-brown box with Davies’s signature printed in gold in facsimile) was available for sale in November 1997 for $45. Theatre Books in Toronto celebrated the launch of A90a with readings by Brenda Davies and the actor Albert   Schultz on 9 December 1997. 3,778 copies sold by the end of 1997; 9,397 copies sold by the end of 2001. Information on the publishing history of A90a is based on royalty reports at pend and box Z7 and files 1-2, box Z8 of the McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm . See also A96 and A97. copies examined: davis (in jacket); otmc (in jacket). A90a.1  first American / English issue (1998): Happy Alchemy | On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre | [rule with a small ornament in the centre] | Robertson Davies | Edited by Jennifer Surridge and Brenda Davies | VIKING The pagination of A90a.1 is: i-x, xi-xiv, 1-2, 1-384. There are no leaves of advertisements after the text. The arrangement of the preliminary leaves differs slightly from A90a, and a fly-title leaf has been added just before the text. In other respects the sheets of A90a.1 are identical to A90a. The copyright page is as follows: VIKING | Published by the Penguin Group | [thirteen lines of addresses of Penguin Books in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First American edition | Published in 1998 by Viking Penguin, | a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Pendragon Ink, 1997 | Introductions copyright © Jennifer   Surridge and Brenda Davies, 1997 | All rights reserved | Originally published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Inc. | [thirteen lines acknowledging permissions from magazines and publishers for the previous publication of essays and for permissions for the use of two quotations from books by others; ten lines of

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data, including ISBN 0-670-88019-1] | This book is printed on acid-free paper. | [within a circle] ∞ | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Bembo OS | [four lines about copyright]. binding: Bound in red paper boards, quarter-bound with reddish-brown paper boards. The following is stamped in gilt on the spine: [down the spine]   Robertson Davies [horizontal rule with a small ornament in the centre] Happy Alchemy | Viking. The dust jacket is red, with a floral collage in reddish-brown within compartments on the front and back panels. The front panel has a photograph of Davies’s face within a curved octagon (outlined in cream). The back panel has a quotation in white from Davies about alchemy in the theatre. Also on the back panel within a solid white rectangle are the ISBN and bar code. Lettering on the flaps is mainly white with several lines cream-coloured. On the front flap are: the price ($27.95, UK £25); a quotation from Matthew Green about happy alchemy; and three paragraphs about the book’s contents. On the bottom right-hand corner of the front flap is: 0798. The back flap has: four paragraphs about Davies; a paragraph about the editors; the names of the jacket designer (Jennifer Heisey) and photographer (Jill Krementz); the publisher’s device; and the addresses of the publisher in New York and on the web. notes: Manufactured in the United States for the American and British markets, A90a.1 has a different subtitle than A90a. Jariya Wanapun of Viking Penguin informed Gail Stewart of McClelland & Stewart on 7 October 1997 that Viking Penguin planned to publish A90a.1 in July 1998. The contract at pend is dated 14 October 1997: an advance of $15,000; a royalty of 15% on all hardcover copies sold; 7½% on the trade paperback; and 8% on the mass-market up to 150,000 copies sold and 10% thereafter. The contract at pend for publication in England is undated: an advance of £2,500; for the hardcover, a home royalty of 15% on all copies sold and 7¾% on export sales; as a massmarket paperback, a home royalty of 10% and 8% on export sales. Jennifer Surridge told Douglas M. Gibson at McClelland & Stewart on 6 December 1998 that the book had just been published in England. She had read a review of the book in the London Daily Telegraph. Information on the publishing history of A90a.1 is based on box Z7 and on files 1-2, box Z8 of the McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm. According to royalty reports at pend, Penguin USA sold 8,673 copies by 30 November 1998 (2,037 copies were returned and 2,700 copies were held in reserve). Penguin Books Ltd. sold 2,166 copies up to the end of June 2000.

copies examined: otmc (in jacket); pend (seventeen copies in jacket). A90a.2  second American issue (1999): Happy Alchemy | On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre | [rule with a small ornament in the centre] | Robertson Davies | Edited by Jennifer Surridge and Brenda Davies | [publishers device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS This issue is a photographic reproduction of A90a.1. The leaves measure 195 × 125 mm. The first page of A90a.2 has the heading Praise for Happy Alchemy with excerpts from reviews. The copyright page of A90a.2 is as follows: PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [six lines of addresses of Penguin Books in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | First published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Inc. 1997 | First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, | a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. 1998 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Pendragon Ink, 1997 | Introductions copyright © Jennifer Surridge and Brenda Davies, 1997 | All rights reserved | [eighteen lines acknowledging permissions from magazines and publishers for the previous publication of essays and permissions for the use of quotations from two books written by others; eleven lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-67088019-1 (hc.) and ISBN 0 14 02.7562 2 (pbk.)] |   Printed in the United States of America | Set in   Bembo OS | [five lines about copyright]. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers with a red floral collage and a black border on the front and back covers similar to the design of A90a.1’s dust jacket. The black-and-white photograph of Davies’s face on the front cover is within a curved octagon (outlined in orange). The spine is orange. The back cover with white lettering has a quotation from Davies about the theatre, excerpts from reviews, the publisher’s device, Penguin Book’s web address, the names of the cover photographer and designer, the price within a solid white square ($14.95 US, $20.99 Can), and the ISBN and bar code within a solid white rectangle. notes: A90a.2 was published on 1 July 1999. 2,953 copies sold by 30 November 2000 (royalty reports at pend). copies examined: otmc; pend (fifteen copies; eighteen copies with a sticker on the bottom of the back cover with the ISBN, bar code, and prices in the UK (£9.99), Australia ($19.95), and the USA).



A91 The Golden Ass, a Libretto. 1999

A90b  second Canadian edition (1998): HAPPY ALCHEMY | [ornament] | Writings on the Theatre | and Other Lively Arts | Robertson Davies | Edited by Jennifer Surridge | and Brenda Davies | [illustration of a penguin within an oval] | Penguin Books i-ix, x-xii, 1, 2-6, 7, 8-27, 28, 29-47, 48, 49-71, 72, 73-76, 77, 78, 79, 80-101, 102, 103-112, 113, 114-117, 118, 119-123, 124, 125-127, 128, 129-133, 134, 135-137, 138, 139-143, 144, 145-148, 149, 150-154, 155, 156-158, 159, 160-178, 179, 180-183, 184, 185-198, 199, 200-218, 219, 220-225, 226, 227-254, 255, 256-258, 259, 260-278, 279, 280-282, 283, 284-287, 288, 289-309, 310, 311-318, 319, 320-339, 340, 341-351, 352, 353-356, 357, 358-371, 1 pp. (192 leaves). 202 × 130 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii list of sixteen other books written by Davies under the categories of novels, criticism, essays, and short stories; p. iii title; p. iv PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [seven lines of addresses of Penguin Books in Canada, England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand] | First published as a Douglas Gibson Book by McClelland and Stewart Inc., 1997 | Published in Penguin Books, 1998 | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 | Copyright © Pendragon Ink, 1997 | Introductions © Jennifer Surridge and Brenda Davies, 1997 | All rights reserved. | Manufactured in Canada. | [seven lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-14-027638-6; five lines about copyright; thirteen lines acknowledging permissions from magazines and publishers for the previous publication of Davies’s essays (1, 10, 13-16, 27, and 31) and for permissions for the use of quotations from two books by others; one line of Penguin Canada’s web address]; p. v By happy alchemy of mind | They turn to pleasure all they find. | MATTHEW GREEN (1696-1737); p. vi blank; pp. vii-viii table of contents; pp. ix, x-xii introduction by Jennifer Surridge and Brenda Davies, dated Pendragon Ink, April 1997; pp. 1-371 text; p. 1 blank. text: Identical to A90a. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers with flaps. The front cover has a black-and-white photograph of a smiling Davies by Erik Christensen. Printed on the photo of the front cover is the following: [first two lines in red] ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [remaining lines in white] HAPPY | Alchemy | Writings on the Theatre and | Other Lively Arts | [Penguin Books’s publisher’s device in orange, white, and black within an oval]. A portion of the front cover’s photo is reproduced in a smaller size on the spine. The back cover and flaps are white. On the back cover are excerpts

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from reviews, the ISBN, and bar code. The front flap has: the price ($21.99), a quotation from Matthew Green about happy alchemy, and three paragraphs about the book. The back flap has: four paragraphs about Davies, credits to the photographer and cover designer (Spencer Francey Peters), the address of Penguin Books Canada Limited, and the publisher’s device. notes: Penguin Canada sent the cover of A90b to Surridge and Gibson on 8 June 1998. Gibson pointed out to Michael Schellenberg on 23 June 1998 that the information on the cover was written by him, not Penguin Canada. Schellenberg revised the cover on 25 June 1998. The contract at pend is dated 9 February 1998: an advance of $20,000 against a royalty of 10%. copies examined: otmc; pend.

A91  the golden ass 1999 [rule] The [rule] | Golden Ass | [rule] | [black-andwhite illustration of a man with a donkey’s head (hands on its snout) with three women in the background] | [rule] | A LIBRETTO BY | [letters in small caps at the top of the line] Robertson davieS | THIS IS A LIMITED EDITION CONSISTING OF | 500 COPIES, OF WHICH THIS IS NO. 128. 1-4, 5-54, 1-2 pp. (28 leaves). 214 × 136 mm. contents: p. 1 title; p. 2 black-and-white photo of Davies’s head; p. 3 list of people (music by Randolph Peters, libretto by Davies, etc.) involved in the world première of the opera, 13 April 1999, at the Hummingbird Centre, Toronto, commissioned by the Canadian Opera Company under the artistic direction of Richard Bradshaw; p. 4 © Pendragon Ink, 1999 | Introduction © Colin Eatock, 1999 | Editor: Jennifer Surridge | Design: Ingrid Paulson | Illustration: Harvey Chan/Shelley Brown & Associates | [seven lines in which Pendragon Ink thanks Eatock for allowing the republication of an adaptation of his article and McClelland & Stewart for help in the production of the libretto]; pp. 5-8 introduction by Eatock; pp. 9-54 text of libretto in two acts; p. 1 black-and-white illustration of a woman’s head and shoulders (detail from the cover illustration); p. 2 blank. binding: Bound in a thick, gold-paper wrapper, wire-stitched. On the front of the wrapper within a black, rectangular compartment is a black-and-gold illustration similar to the illustration on the title   page (the illustration is much larger and features a man, standing, in a loin cloth, with the head of a  

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donkey, his hands on the donkey’s snout, and five women behind him). Lettering on the front of the wrapper is similar to that of the title page (lacking the last two lines of the title page). On the back of the wrapper is a detail from the cover illustration, namely a rectangular illustration of a woman (her head thrust in the air), the illustration outlined within a thick black rectangle. notes: A91, which reveals Davies’s love of classical mythology, has its source in the moral fable by the Roman writer Lucius Apuleius about a traveller who dabbles in magic and inadvertently turns himself into an ass. Davies began the writing of the libretto circa October 1994 when he was involved in the tour promoting The Cunning Man. But his desire to write such a libretto came to him many years earlier. In his introduction Colin Eatock mentions that Davies wrote about an opera based on Apuleius’s work in A14. When he was the recipient of the National Award at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts in August 1986, Davies may have discussed the possibility of writing such a libretto with Colin Graham, who was responsible for the stage direction, editing, and dramaturgy of A78. Graham recalled: “I met Rob Davies when I was working at Banff. He sat in on my rehearsals and then he and his wife Brenda started coming every year to St. Louis [where Graham was Artistic Director of the Opera Theatre]. Just before he died [2 December 1995], before he made final revisions to The Golden Ass, he said to Brenda [Davies], ‘if anyone is going to muck around with my work it had better be Colin’” (see William Littler, “Director Values Homework,” Toronto Star, 18 November 2002, p. E3). Davies broached the idea of A91 to Richard Bradshaw, conductor of the Canadian Opera Company, on 21 June 1994. “The story has considerable modern relevance,” he told Bradshaw. “[It] has a hint of Women’s Lib about it, and is sufficiently dirty for modern taste without being gross.” In Davies’s opinion the opera had the potential to be “both funny and profound, which for me is the ideal recipe for any work of art” (quoted on p. 302 of A92a). Davies wrote the first act and then read it to Bradshaw who “received it with considerable enthusiasm.” He also sent the plot of the opera to Bradshaw on 5 August 1994. He complained to Janet Turnbull Irving, his agent, on 14 March 1995 that Bradshaw had not said anything about the opera thereafter. Irving was instructed to ask Bradshaw “what the financial arrangements would be.” Bradshaw told Davies on 24 March 1995 that he was still keen on producing the opera. The problem was to find a composer who would write the

accompanying music. Davies completed his libretto sometime before 27 August 1995. On that date he wrote to his good friend Horace W. Davenport: “to my great relief the opera people and the composer like it very much, and a first-rate director, Colin Graham (he did Ghost of Versailles at the Met and is a specialist in Benjamin Britten), is eager to direct it. But nothing will happen till 1998. Can I hang on till 1998?” (quoted on p. 327 of A92a). In an interview conducted a little while before his death, Davies spoke of his collaboration with the composer of A91: “I have written the libretto for an opera which is being composed for the Canadian Opera Company by Randolph Peters, a western Canadian. He’s a very cultivated, able chap. I’ve heard some of the music that he’s writing and it’s witty and charming” (quoted at http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/rguiges/ us/cunning_man.html). Peters also commented on his relationship with Davies: “When I met Professor Davies to discuss the shape of the opera, we found that we had an uncanny agreement on how to proceed, so I’m sure that completing this piece will be a very exciting experience for me” (see Prelude: The Voice of the Canadian Opera Company (January 1997): 6). Davies died before Peters had completed the score. Pendragon Ink (the Robertson Davies Estate) gave approval for the project to continue. The Canadian Opera Company paid Pendragon Ink $1,500 on 18 August 1997 for the use of the libretto. See also Robert Crew, “Opera’s Golden Asset? The Canadian Opera Company Gambles on a $1.8 Million Production of The Golden Ass,” Toronto Star, 10 April 1999, pp. J1, J6. Jennifer Surridge, Davies’s daughter, arranged for the printing of A91 with McClelland & Stewart. Douglas M. Gibson, McClelland & Stewart’s publisher, ordered 500 copies of A91 on 4 February 1999, and modelled it on A78. Rudi Mezzetta of McClelland & Stewart oversaw A91’s printing and design. Pendragon Ink paid McClelland & Stewart $3 a copy. The Canadian Opera Company presented a series of readings of Davies’s works on 3-4 March 1999 at the Chapters bookstore on Bloor Street West in Toronto in preparation for the world première production of A91. Surridge and Brenda Davies thanked Gibson for printing A91 on 19 March 1999: “The rehearsals for The Golden Ass are going extremely well,” Surridge told Gibson, “and the Company is all very happy about the new opera and are enjoying working on it.” An excerpt of nine lines from A91 was printed by the Massey College press on an invitation card for the Feast for the Founding Master on 21 November 1998. For further information about A91, see: Martin Dewey, “Reaching



A92 Four Your Eye Along: Letters 1976-1995. 1999

Across Centuries: The Making of the Golden Ass” in the Canadian Opera Company’s program, MarchMay 1999, pp. 11-12, 14, 16, 19; the web site of Opera, Encore Magazine at http://www.operaam.org/encore/ goldenass.htm, which contains selected newspaper reviews of the production. CBC Radio also paid Pendragon Ink $1,500 on 13 May 1999 to broadcast the opera (contract at pend). Information on the publishing history of A91 is based on A91’s editorial file at the premises of McClelland & Stewart. Reprinted in A95. copies examined: davis (nos. 455, 458-460); m&s (Gibson’s copy, no. 11, signed by Surridge and Brenda Davies, 19 March 1999); otutf (no. 392).

A92  for your eye alone 1999 A92a  Canadian edition: ROBERTSON DAVIES | [the next two lines in semicalligraphic script] For Your Eye Alone | Letters 19761995 | Selected and Edited by JUDITH SKELTON GRANT | [enclosure on each side of the line similar to two sets of square brackets, resembling pages of a book] A DOUGLAS GIBSON BOOK | [publisher’s device in two lines: wavy block, short wavy rule] | M&S | [rule] i-ix, x-xiii, 1, 1-37, 38, 39-76, 77-78, 79-119, 120, 121169, 170, 171-211, 212, 213-254, 255-256, 257-289, 290, 291-337, 338, 339-402 pp. (208 leaves). 229 × 153 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii blank; p. iii title; p. iv Robertson Davies’ letters copyright © 1999 by Pendragon Ink | Introduction and notes copyright © 1999 by Judith Skelton Grant | [six lines about copyright; ten lines of Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data, including ISBN 0-7710-3541-1; four lines acknowledging financial assistance towards publication from governmental agencies; four lines acknowledging permission to reproduce words to “My Sin”] | Typeset in Bembo by M&S, Toronto | Printed and bound in Canada | Text design by Sari Ginsberg | A Douglas Gibson Book | McClelland and Stewart Inc. | The Canadian Publishers | 481 University Avenue | Toronto, Ontario | M5G 2E9 | 1 2 3 4 5 03 02 01 00 99; p. v dedication (“In memory of my mother”); p. vi blank; p. vii table of contents; p. viii blank ; pp. ix-xiii preface; p. 1 facsimile of letter from Samuel Marchbanks to [Nicholas] Pashley; pp. 1-334 text (facsimiles of letters on pp. 38, 78, 120, 170, 212, 256, and 290; pp. 77 and 255 blank); pp. 335-336 editorial note; p. 337 works by Davies mentioned in the text; p. 338 blank; pp. 339-380 notes; pp. 381-384 acknowledgements; pp. 385-402 index.

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text: section I January 1976-March 1979 The Rebel Angels planned; section II April 1979-January 1982 The Rebel Angels written and published; section III February 1982-July 1984 What’s Bred in the Bone planned and written; section IV August 1984-December 1986 What’s Bred in the Bone revised and published — “keel laid” for The Lyre of Orpheus; section V January 1987-December 1988 The Lyre of Orpheus written and published — some notes made for Murther & Walking Spirits; section VI January 1989-September 1991 Murther & Walking Spirits planned, written and published; section VII October 1991-December 1993 The Cunning Man planned and written; section VIII January 1994-October 1995 The Cunning Man published — planning of the next novel begun. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in black paper boards. Stamped in gilt on the spine: ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [the next two lines, down the spine, in semi-calligraphic script] For Your Eye Alone | [below the previous line] Letters 1976-1995 | [illustration of an open book with initials D and G on the pages] | [publisher’s device in two lines: wavy block, short wavy rule] | M&S | [rule]. The front, spine, and back panels of the dust jacket are mainly black. On the front panel: [in pale greyishbrown] ROBERTSON DAVIES | [black-and-white, rectangular photo (outlined in pale greyish-brown) of Davies in the early 1990s; the following line at the bottom of the photograph in white, semi-calligraphic script] For Your Eye Alone | [below the photograph, in pale greyish-brown, semi-calligraphic script] Letters 1976-1995 | [in white] Selected and Edited by Judith Skelton Grant. Printing on the spine panel is the same as the printing on the spine, all lines in pale greyishbrown except M&S in white. On the back panel is a solid white rectangle, outlined in pale greyish-brown, containing information about the book and an excerpt from Davies’s letter to a woman in Manitoba who accused him of writing “Barn Yard pornography”; below the rectangle is the ISBN number (0-7710-354110) and the book’s bar code. On the flaps are the price of the book ($37.50), information about Davies and his talents as a letter writer, information about the editor and publisher, and the names of the jacket designer (Sari Ginsberg) and photographer (Peter Paterson). The endpapers feature facsimiles of letters written by Davies. notes: After Pendragon Ink agreed to let grant prepare an edition of Davies’s selected letters, grant made a selection and sent them to her agent, Linda McKnight (Westwood Creative Artists), for inspection on 19 September 1996. She had discussed the project with Davies before he had fallen ill in the au-

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tumn of 1995. Davies was enthusiastic about grant’s proposal, and they had prepared a list of correspondents who should be contacted. grant suggested to McKnight that there was room for an edition in two volumes and that 1975 was a good year of demarcation, especially since Pendragon Ink at the time only consented to allow an edition of Davies’s later letters. Jennifer Surridge of Pendragon Ink sent grant’s first rough selection of letters (which included those that eventually appeared in both A92 and A93) to Douglas M. Gibson, McClelland & Stewart’s publisher, on 23 October 1996. Preliminary discussion about the contract between Janet Turnbull Irving, the agent of Pendragon Ink, and Gibson occurred on 13 February 1997. The contract for “The Selected Letters of Robertson Davies” is dated 7 April 1997: an advance of $20,000 against royalties, split between Pendragon Ink and grant ($5,000 on signing, $5,000 on delivery of an acceptable manuscript, $5,000 on completion of copy-editing, $5,000 on publication), with a royalty of 10% to 5,000 copies sold, 12½% to 10,000 copies sold, and 15% thereafter. McClelland & Stewart paid a further advance of $6,000 for the paperback with a 10% royalty on all copies sold. grant drafted a set of editorial procedures on 10 July 1997 and then met with Gibson. McKnight submitted grant’s typescript of A92a on 4 December 1998. Exchanges between grant and Gibson occurred in December 1998 about copyright acknowledgments and supplementing the text with further information about correspondents. The title of the book, which originated with Gibson on 16 February 1999, is drawn from a letter that Davies sent to the publisher, Jack   McClelland, on 6 January 1976 about Marian Engel’s Bear (see pp. 3-5). Davies ended the letter with a postscript: “Of course this letter is for your eye alone.” Gibson set out a memo about the copy-editing and design of A92a on 12 March 1999. Corrected page proofs were returned by grant to Gibson on 29 June 1999. A92a was printed by Friesens on 55 lb. cream white Hibulk Offset paper. Clarity did the printing of the cover and jacket. Linda Ross did the calligraphy for the cover. The conversion of word processing was done by Softprobe. The manufacturing cost for the hardcover was $27,515.50. 7,165 copies were printed ($3.84 per copy). A92a was published on 10 September 1999 (the copyright form, dated 29 November 1999, registration no. 481151, at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office has 2 October 1999 as the date of publication). The book launch for A92a occurred on 21 October 1999 in the Common Room of Massey College at the University of Toronto at the invitation of John Fraser, Master of Massey College, and Brenda Davies.

Gibson informed Pendragon Ink on 5 June 2000 that almost 5,000 copies of the hardcover had sold. 1,564 copies were in stock at that time. The paperback of A92a was printed on 28 August 2000 by Transcontinental Printing Inc. on 50 lb book cream Hibulk paper in an impression of 3,255 copies. Clarity did the film and artwork. The manufacturing cost of the paperback was $10,067.80 ($3.09 per copy; price $24.99). A line in white has been added to the top of the front cover: “His private letters are as beautifully written as his novels.”-National Post. A small version of the cover photograph of Davies was added to the spine. Excerpts from reviews of the book appear on the back cover. From September to December 2000, 1,446 copies of the paperback sold. In retrospect Gibson confided to Deane Cooke of Livingston Cooke, Inc., Pendragon Ink’s agent, on 30 January 2001 that McClelland & Stewart’s advance for A92a was too high. At that time the hardcover had earned $18,221.25. “To compound the error we then stepped into the breach when Penguin chose not to offer for the paperback,” Gibson admitted, and “[we] paid a further advance of $6,000.00 for those rights.” Information on the publishing history of A92a is based on files 8-9, box Z8 and files 1-7, box Z9 of the McClelland & Stewart fonds (copy of the contract also at pend). Excerpts of A92a are reprinted as: “Sincerely Rob,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 2 October 1999, pp. D1, D4; “Yours, Writhing in Deserved Ignominy ... Robertson Davies on Critics, Photographers, Canada Council Grants and Much Else,” Canadian Forum 78, no. 883 (November 1999): 20-2; Charlotte Gray, Canada: A Portrait in Letters 1800-2000 (Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2003), pp. 462-4; Christine Evain, Douglas Gibson Unedited: On Editing Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, W.O. Mitchell, Mavis Gallant, Jack Hodgins, Alistair MacLeod, etc. (Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang S.A., 2007), pp. 94-6 (letters to Douglas Gibson, 29 May 1987 and 25 March 1991); John Shoesmith, “Arthur Hailey,” Halcyon no. 45 (June 2010): 3-4 (excerpt of letter to Hailey, 10 April 1973); and Douglas Gibson, Stories about Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Roberston Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau and Others (Toronto: ECW Press, 2011), pp. 137-8 (letter to Gibson, 25 March 1991). copies examined: lac (hardcover in jacket and paperback); otmc (hardcover in jacket); pend (four copies of paperback). A92a.1  first American issue (2001): ROBERTSON DAVIES | [the next line in semicalligraphic script resembling Davies’s handwriting] For Your Eye Alone | [illustration of a fountain pen] |



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Selected and Edited by JUDITH SKELTON GRANT | VIKING The sheets of the American issue (234 × 155 mm.) are identical to the Canadian edition with the exception of the title leaf, the half title (Viking’s publisher’s device at the bottom of the page), and the endpapers (blank in the American issue). The verso of the title leaf is as follows: VIKING | Published by the Penguin Group | Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, | New York 10014, U.S.A. | [eight lines of addresses of branches of Penguin in England, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand] | Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: | Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England | First American Edition | Published in 2001 by Viking Penguin, | a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | Robertson Davies’ letters copyright © Pendragon Ink, 1999 | Introduction and notes copyright © Judith Skelton Grant, 1999 | All rights reserved | Originally published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Ltd. | [ten lines of Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data] | This book is printed on acid-free paper. [within a circle] ∞ | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Bembo | [five lines about copyright]. binding and dust jacket: Bound in black paper boards (pebble grain surface on spine, left-hand side of upper board, and right-hand side of lower board). Stamped in gilt on the spine: [first three lines down the spine] ROBERTSON | [below previous line]   DAVIES | [next line in semi-calligraphic script] For Your Eye Alone | [rule] | VIKING | [rule]. The front panel of the jacket has a colour photograph by Karsh of Davies sitting in a chair, wearing a broad-brimmed black hat and dressed in a brown suit and tie. Printed on the front panel: [in white] For Your Eye Alone | [the next two lines within a solid gold octagonal, elongated compartment, three gold rules extending to the compartment on each side, capital letters swash] The Letters of Robertson Davies | [ornamental rule, line in maroon] Edited by Judith Skelton Grant [ornamental rule] | [next two lines in white] Robertson Davies | Author of [swash capitals] Fifth Business. The spine and back panels are black. Printed on the spine panel: [first three lines down the spine, first line in gold] For Your Eye Alone | [the next two lines in white, capital letters swash] The Letters of Robertson Davies | [ornamental rule] Edited by Judith Skelton Grant [ornamental rule] | [solid gold octagon, outlined in gold, with three gold rules on each side, extending to the front and back panels] | [down the spine in white] Robertson Davies | [publisher’s device in gold: Viking ship with

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spokes above it in a semi-circle] | [in gold] VIKING. On the back panel within a solid cream-coloured rectangle, outlined in gold, is an excerpt from a letter accusing Davies of writing “Barn Yard pornography” (also includes ISBN 0-670-89291-2 and bar code). The flaps are white and contain almost the same information as the Canadian edition (price $29.95, jacket design by Joseph Perez, and Viking addresses and publisher’s device). The last line on the front flap is 0101. notes: The contract at pend is dated 6 March 2000: an advance of $20,000 with a royalty of 15% on all copies sold of the hardcover and 8% on the massmarket paperback on the first 150,000 copies sold and 10% thereafter. Published in January 2001. copies examined: lac (hardcover in jacket); otmc (hardcover in jacket); pend (eight copies in jacket). A92a.2  second American issue (2001): ROBERTSON DAVIES | [the next line in semicalligraphic script resembling Davies’s handwriting] For Your Eye Alone | [illustration of a fountain pen] | Selected and Edited by JUDITH SKELTON GRANT | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS This is the paperback version of A92a.1 under the imprint of Penguin Books. The sheets have been photographed from the same setting of type as A92a.1 and reduced to 202 × 134 mm. in size. Preliminary pagination prior to the dedication page is as follows: p. 1 name of publisher, title, three paragraphs about Davies, and one line about the editor; p. 2 blank; p. 3 title; p. 4 PENGUIN BOOKS | Published by the Penguin Group | [fifteen lines of addresses of Penguin Books in the United States, England, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and South Africa] | First published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Ltd. 1999 | First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, | a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. 2001 | Published in Penguin Books 2002 | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | Robertson Davies’ letters copyright © Pendragon Ink, 1999 | Introduction and notes copyright © Judith Skelton Grant, 1999 | All rights reserved | [twelve lines of Library of Congress Cataloging Data, including ISBN 0 14 20.0029 9] | Printed in the United States of America | Set in Bembo | [five lines about copyright]. binding: Bound in stiff-paper covers. The front cover employs the same photograph by Karsh as A92a.1; Penguin’s publisher’s device has been added to the front cover, and mention of Fifth Business has been

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replaced by a quotation from the Washington Post. The spine is orange with a solid gold octagon in the centre, separating the author’s name from the title, editor’s name and publisher’s device. The back cover is black with all lines within two gold rectangles: two paragraphs about Davies and his letters; a gold rule; mention that the book was chosen as best book of the year by the Washington Post; name of the photographer and cover designer (Joseph Perez); publisher’s device; price ($16); web address; and the ISBN and bar code within a solid white rectangle. copies examined: pend.

A93  discoveries 2002 ROBERTSON DAVIES | [the next two lines in semicalligraphic script] Discoveries | Early Letters 1938-1975 | Selected and Edited by JUDITH SKELTON GRANT | [enclosure on each side of the line similar to two sets of square brackets, resembling pages of a book] A DOUGLAS GIBSON BOOK | [publisher’s device in two lines: wavy block, short wavy rule] | M&S | [rule] i-viii, ix-xiv, 1-2, 1-45, 46, 47-91, 92, 93-137, 138, 139174, 175-176, 177-217, 218, 219-259, 260, 261-302, 303304, 305-413, 1-3 pp. (216 leaves). 229 × 151 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii blank; p. iii title; p. iv Robertson Davies’ letters copyright © 2002 by Pendragon Ink | Introduction and notes copyright © 2002 by Judith Skelton Grant | [six lines about copyright; eleven lines of National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication data, including ISBN 0-7710-3540-3; four lines acknowledging financial assistance towards publication from governmental agencies] | Typeset in Bembo by M&S, Toronto | Printed and bound in Canada | [two lines noting that the paper in the book is acid-free and recycled] | A Douglas Gibson Book | McClelland and Stewart Ltd. | The Canadian Publishers | 481 University Avenue | Toronto, Ontario | M5G 2E9 | www.mcclelland. com | 1 2 3 4 5 06 05 04 03 02; p. v dedication (“For John”); p. vi blank; p. vii-viii table of contents; pp. ixxiv preface; p. 1 facsimile of a letter addressed “Dear Madam” [Joan McInnes] and signed “One of the Seventy Times Seven | Sleepers of Peterborough”; pp. 1-352 text (facsimiles of letters on pp. 46, 92, 138, 176, 218, 260, and 304; pp. 175 and 303 blank); pp. 353-355 editorial note; p. 356 works by Davies mentioned in the text; pp. 357-392 notes; pp. 393-396 acknowledgements; pp. 397-413 index; pp. 1-3 list of other titles from Douglas Gibson Books. text: section I June 1938-November 1947; section

II January 1948-March 1952; section III October 1952-January 1959; section IV February 1959-July 1963; section V Fall 1963-July 1969; section VI July 1969-May 1972; section VII July 1972-October 1972; section VIII November 1972-December 1975. There are descriptions provided under each section related to developments in Davies’s literary life. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in black paper boards. Stamped in gilt on the spine: ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [the next two lines, down the spine, in semi-calligraphic script] Discoveries | [below the previous line] Early Letters 1938-1975 | [illustration of an open book with initials D and G on the pages] | [publisher’s device in two lines: wavy block, short wavy rule] | M&S | [rule]. The front, spine, and back panels of the dust jacket are mainly gold. On the front panel: ROBERTSON DAVIES | [black-and-white, rectangular photo of Davies (taken by McKague) of Davies in a dinner jacket, smoking a cigar, circa 1954]; the following line at the bottom of the photograph in white, semi-calligraphic script] Discoveries | Early Letters 1938-1975 | Selected and Edited by Judith Skelton Grant | “HIS PRIVATE LETTERS ARE AS BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN AS HIS NOVELS.” —NATIONAL POST. Printing on the spine panel is the same as the printing on the spine, all lines in black except M&S in white. On the back panel is a solid white rectangle, outlined in black, containing information about the publisher and quotations from reviews about A92a and two excerpts from A93 on writing his first novel and on his sense of failure; below the rectangle is the book’s bar code in a solid white rectangle. On the flaps are the price of the book ($37.99), information about Davies and his talents as a letter writer, information about the editor and publisher, and the names of the jacket designer (Cindy Reichle) and photographer. Cream endpapers feature facsimiles of letters written by Davies. notes: A93, a companion volume to A92a, is a selection of letters written by Davies from his 25th to his 62nd year — from the late 1930s when he sought publication of A1 with J.M. Dent & Sons to the mid-1970s when he completed the Deptford trilogy. Although A92a met with critical success from reviewers and the reading public, Pendragon Ink cautiously opposed publication of a volume of Davies’s earlier letters at a meeting with grant on 10 November 1999. But grant asked Pendragon Ink on 8 December 1999 to reconsider their decision. A volume of earlier letters, she believed, would “contribute an important new element to the public’s understanding of Rob and his work.” Douglas M. Gibson, McClelland & Stewart’s



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publisher, agreed with grant’s point of view, and was quite willing to publish A93. Contract negotiations between Gibson and Dean Cooke of Livingston Cooke, Inc., Pendragon Ink’s agent, began on 30 January 2001. Notwithstanding Gibson’s claim that McClelland & Stewart had paid too high an advance for A92a, the terms of A93’s contract (dated 5 July 2001) were the same as its predecessor with the exception of paperback rights: an advance of $20,000 against royalties, split evenly between Pendragon Ink and grant ($5,000 on signing, $5,000 on an acceptable manuscript, $5,000 on completion of copy-editing, and $5,000 on publication), with a sliding royalty scale, 10% on the first 10,000 copies sold, 12½% to 15,000 copies sold, and 15% thereafter. The contract also called for a royalty of 10% on sales of the paperback in the United States or Canada and a royalty of 10% for publication of the hardcover in the United States. grant submitted her typescript of A93 on 13 February 2001. Gibson suggested cuts on 12 March 2002 so that the word counts of A92a and A93a matched and the volumes would have a similar look. grant submitted a revised typescript on 19 March 2002, and addressed discrepancies in style between the two books on 11 April 2002. She returned corrected proofs to Gibson on 22 May 2002. Final page proofs were ready on 17 June 2002. The copyright form, dated 20 November 2002 (registration no. 1007592), at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office has 20 September 2002 as the date of publication. Review copies were mailed out on 11 October 2002. A93 was printed by Friesens in an edition of 5,114 copies on 55lb. New Leaf Eco paper. The manufacturing costs were $22,046.10. The conversion of word processing was done by Softprobe. Linda Ross did the calligraphy for the cover. The book launch for A93 took place on 19 November 2002 in the Common Room of Massey College in the University of Toronto at the invitation of the Master and Fellows. Excerpted as “Yours Sincerely, Rob: Man of Letters Revealed in Letters to the Great and Not-So-Great,” Ottawa Citizen, 17 November 2002, (“Citizen’s Weekly: A Broadsheet Magazine” sec.), p. C12. The letter from Leonard Greymalkin of “Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay” and addressed to Tanya Moiseiwitsch (pp. 169-72) is reprinted in A90 and A97. Information on the publishing history of A93 is based on files 4-7, box Z10 and file 7, box Z15,   McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm (contract also at pend). copies examined: ohm; otmc; pend (all in jacket).

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A94  the quotable robertson davies 2005 THE QUOTABLE | ROBERTSON DAVIES | The Wit and Wisdom of the Master | [caricature of Davies] | Selected by | JAMES CHANNING SHAW | [enclosure on each side of the line similar to two sets of square brackets, resembling pages of a book] A DOUGLAS GIBSON BOOK | [publisher’s device in two lines: wavy block, short wavy rule] | M&S | [rule] i-viii, ix-x, 1-148, 1-2 pp. (80 leaves). 177 × 134 mm. contents: p. i half title; p. ii blank; p. iii title; p. iv Copyright © 2005 by James Channing Shaw | [six lines about copyright; nine lines of Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication data, including ISBN 0-7710-8088-3; five lines acknowledging financial assistance towards publication from governmental agencies] | Typeset in Garamond by M&S, Toronto | Printed and bound in Canada | [two lines noting that the paper in the book is printed on acid-free and recycled paper] | A Douglas Gibson Book | McClelland & Stewart Ltd. | The Canadian Publishers | 481 University Avenue | Toronto, Ontario | M5G 2E9 | www.mcclelland.com | 1 2 3 4 5 09 08 07 06 05; pp. v-viii table of contents; pp. ix-x preface by James Channing Shaw; pp. 1-148 text; pp. 1-2 blank. text: Quotations from Davies’s writings are gathered together under eighty-four subjects in alphabetical arrangement. The first subject is Academic/University Life and the last is Youth. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in red paper boards. Stamped on the spine: [down the spine] JAMES CHANNING SHAW | [ornamental rule] | [down the spine] THE QUOTABLE ROBERTSON DAVIES | [illustration of an open book with initials D and G on the pages] | [publisher’s device in two lines: wavy block, short wavy rule] | M&S | [rule]. Scarlet endpapers. The dust jacket is cream coloured (glossy on the verso). Printed on the front panel of the jacket: [within two red rectangles, small squares at the corners between the rectangles] THE QUOTABLE | ROBERTSON | DAVIES | [caricature of Davies] | [in calligraphic script] The Wit and Wisdom of the Master | [outside of the rectangles] Selected by JAMES CHANNING SHAW. The spine panel is similar to the stamping on the spine. On the back panel are the ISBN, bar code, the imprint, website URL, and a few sentences about the book (“WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF WONDERS.”). On the flaps are the price of the book ($24.99), three quotations by Davies (in red), two paragraphs about his ability in the use of witty, memorable phrases, information about Davies,

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a reference to James Channing Shaw (“a lifelong admirer of the works of Robertson Davies”), the name of the publisher and URL address, and the names of the jacket designer (Kong) and jacket illustrator (Tony Jenkins). notes: A94 is a collection of 800 quotations drawn from Davies’s works. James Channing Shaw, the book’s compiler and editor, is a dermatologist, a clinical educator, and a member of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. In addition to writing articles on medical issues for the popular press, Shaw is the author of many peer-reviewed articles, contributions to books, and reviews. He received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1978, completing his residency at the Oregon Health Sciences University in 1985. Before moving to Toronto in 2001, he was the head of the Dermatology Division and the program director of the residency program at the University of Chicago. On the recommendation of Arnold Edinburgh, Shaw wrote to Douglas M. Gibson of McClelland & Stewart on 16 September 2000. Professing his admiration for Davies’s writing, he told Gibson that he had “identified and compiled quotations from all of Davies’ novels beginning with Tempest-Tost.” He had “over 800 quotations in approximately 60 pages of manuscript.” He included a sample quotation taken from What’s Bred in the Bone. “The completed collection of quotations could number 1200 to 1600,” he added. Gibson replied by e-mail on 17 October 2000. He encouraged Shaw to continue with his compilation and to provide a much fuller sampling of quotations from Davies’s work. Gibson asked a number of pertinent questions as to the size and layout of the book, its title, and any extra ingredients that Shaw might include in it. But then on 30 January 2001, Gibson informed Shaw that the Davies family was not interested in his compilation, though he held open the possibility of a change of decision. In the fall of 2001 Shaw completed a manuscript of 1,200 quotations. Edinburgh commented on it and advised him to infuse more of the quintessence of Davies into it. On 8 July 2003, Shaw requested a meeting with Brenda Davies and Jennifer Surridge. Their meeting at Massey College on 10 September was very congenial. Surridge said that if the book went forward, they would split the royalties. In November 2003 the Davies family suggested a shortening of the manuscript and a subject arrangement rather than a string of quotations indexed by subject. Shaw revised his manuscript and submitted it to Dean Cooke, Pendragon Ink’s agent, by the end of the year. Cooke and the family read and approved the manuscript in February 2004. At a meet-

ing on 10 March 2004, Shaw showed a small mock-up version of the book. Cooke said that he would present the manuscript to publishers after he returned from a book fair in Munich. In September 2004, Cooke reported that he had two offers for the book: one from McClelland & Stewart with an advance of $12,000; and the other from Penguin with an advance of $3,000 or $4,000. Between October 2004 and January 2005, Cooke discussed the details of the contract with Shaw and then arranged for a contract with McClelland & Stewart. Shaw met Gibson on 24 February 2005. Although Gibson could not recall their initial contact in 2000, they had a very positive meeting in which they discussed their mutual interest in Davies, the quotations, the layout, the book’s design, and cover art. Gibson mentioned that he had received an overture for a similar book from another admirer of Davies (Ian Hunter). Shaw received a mock-up of the cover in March, galley proofs in May, and ten copies of A94 on 31 August 2005. The book was published on 20 September 2005. Further information about A94 with excerpts from reviews is available at the websites for The Cooke Agency and McClelland & Stewart. Information on the publishing history of A94 was obtained from Dr. Shaw by e-mail in May 2007. Galley proofs of A94 are located in files 1-4, box Z61, McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm. copies examined: oh; ohm; otmc (all in jacket).

A95 selected plays 2008 ROBERTSON DAVIES | Selected Plays | Edited and with an Introduction by Jennifer Surridge | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN | CANADA i-vi, vii, viii, ix-xiv, 1-4, 5-287, 288-291, 292-319, 320337, 338-386, 387, 388-393, 394-395, 396-455, 1-3 pp. (236 leaves). 210 × 133 mm. contents: p. i the name of the publisher, title, three paragraphs about Davies, and one paragraph about Surridge; p. ii list of seventeen other books by Davies (novels, short fiction, criticism, and essays); p. iii title; p. iv PENGUIN CANADA | Published by the Penguin Group | [fourteen lines of addresses of Penguin branches in Canada, the United States, England, Ireland, Australia, India, New Zealand, and South Africa] | First published in this edition 2008 | (WEB) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | Copyright © Pendragon Ink, 2008 | Introductions copyright © Jennifer Surridge, 2008 | [two lines regarding the copyright in Dean Burry’s



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music on pp. 320-337 (pagination erroneously cited as pp. 291-308); three lines pertaining to inquiries for performance of the plays; four lines about copyright; a publisher’s note (three lines in italics) stating that the book is a work of fiction and that names and other incidentals are not based on fact and real life] | Manufactured in Canada | Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication data available upon request. | ISBN-13: 978-0-14-305565-5 | ISBN-10: 0-14-305565-8 | [five lines, with the exception of the USA, forbidding the re-sale, hiring out, or circulation of the book without the publisher’s prior consent; one line about Penguin Group (Canada)’s website; two lines about special and corporate bulk purchase rates]; p. v For | Brenda Davies | with love; p. vi blank; p. vii table of contents; p. viii blank; pp. ix-xiv Surridge’s introduction; p. 1 fly title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 Plays; p. 4 blank; pp. 5-287 text; p. 288 blank; p. 289 Plays for Young Players; p. 290 blank; pp. 291-319 text; pp. 320337 music from “Children of the Moon” (“Fillpail, Mavoureen” and “The Cow Cabaletta”), the libretto by Davies and music by Burry; pp. 338-393 text; p. 394 blank; p. 395 Libretti; pp. 396-455 text; pp. 1-3 blank. text: A95 contains ten plays written by Davies. They are grouped together in three sections. The section entitled “Plays” contains: “Question Time”; “A Jig for the Gypsy”; “Leaven of Malice”; “Hope Deferred”; and “Brothers in the Black Art”. The section entitled “Plays for Young Players” contains: “Children of the Moon”; “A Masque of Aesop”; and “Dr. Canon’s Cure”. The section entitled “Libretti” contains: “Jezebel” and “The Golden Ass”. In addition to a general introduction, Jennifer Surridge has written short introductions to each play, often with reflections, reminiscences, historical context, and quotations from Davies’s diaries and other sources. “Children of the Moon” and “Dr. Canon’s Cure” are published in A95 for the first time. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper glossy covers. On the front cover is a colour photo of red curtains that are opened. Below the photo against a solid white rectangle are the series title (MODERN CLASSICS) and the publisher’s device; the author’s name and the title (in white) are at the bottom of the front cover against a solid grey rectangle. The spine is grey with the author’s name, title, publisher’s device, and series title. The back cover is mainly grey with the bottom section white. It has: a small photo from the front cover; a quotation from Surridge’s introduction; a paragraph about the book; a quotation from the Globe and Mail; the publisher’s device; series title; the ISBNs and bar code; the price ($20); the URL for the series; and the names of the designer of the front cover (Soapbox Design Communications Inc.), the cover

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photographer (FirstLight), and the art director (Mary Opper). The quotation from Surridge’s introduction reads: “Davies’s theatre | diary entries | bring his voice | to the reader.” notes: Born on 16 October 1942, Jennifer Surridge is the second daughter of Robertson and Brenda Davies. She assisted her father in various writing projects towards the end of his life. After his death in 1995, she and her mother, as the literary executors of the Davies estate, formed the company of Pendragon Ink. In 1997 she co-edited A90 with her mother. In her introduction Surridge states that some of her earliest memories are about plays, and that her father loved writing plays and attending theatrical performances. She remarks that selecting the plays for inclusion in A95 was difficult. “He wrote nine full-length plays, seven one-act plays (two of which were for children), three opera libretti, an oratorio libretto, Victory Loan Campaign and Victorian Order of Nurses radio plays during the Second World War, adaptations, and a film script. A definitive collection of Davies’s plays would require several volumes” (p. xii). There are two contracts between Pendragon Ink and Penguin Canada for “Robertson Davies Selected Works I and II” (16 September 2005 for I and 26 August 2005 for II). The royalty rate for a trade paperback was 5% on all copies sold. According to the websites of Penguin Canada and Indigo, A95 was published on 11 March 2008. 361 copies sold as of 30 June 2009. Number of copies printed not known. Information about A95’s contract and the number of copies sold was obtained from Surridge (e-mail to Carl Spadoni, 8 December 2009). copies examined: ohm; otmc.

A96 selected works on the pleasures of reading 2008 ROBERTSON DAVIES | Selected Works on the | Pleasures of Reading | Edited and with an Introduction by Jennifer Surridge | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN | CANADA i-viii, ix-xiv, 1-3, 4-99, 100-101, 102-168, 169, 170-194, 195, 196-230, 231, 232-321, 322-323, 324-354, 355, 356381, 1-5 pp. (200 leaves). 210 × 133 mm. contents: p. i the name of the publisher, title, three paragraphs about Davies, and one paragraph about Surridge; p. ii list of seventeen other books by Davies (novels, short fiction, criticism, and essays); p. iii title; p. iv PENGUIN CANADA | Published by the Penguin Group | [thirteen lines of addresses of Penguin

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branches in Canada, the United States, England, Ireland, Australia, India, New Zealand, and South Africa] | First published 2008 | (WEB) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | Copyright © Pendragon Ink, 2008 | Introduction copyright © Jennifer Surridge, 2008 | Some of the pieces in this collection were originally published in the following books by Robertson | Davies: A Voice from the Attic, [The] Merry Heart, Happy Alchemy, and One Half of Robertson Davies | [four lines about copyright] | Manufactured in Canada | ISBN-13: 978-0-14-3055662 | ISBN-10: 0-14-305566-6 | Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication data available upon request. | [five lines, with the exception of the USA, forbidding the re-sale, hiring out, or circulation of the book without the publisher’s prior consent; one line about Penguin Group (Canada)’s website; two lines about special and corporate bulk purchase rates]; p. v For | Miranda Davies | with love; p. vi blank; pp. vii-viii table of contents; pp. ix-xiv Surridge’s introduction; p. 1 fly title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 Reading; pp. 4-99 text; p. 100 blank; p. 101 Collecting; pp. 102168 text; p. 169 Ghost Stories; pp. 170-194 text; p. 195 Dickens; pp. 196-230 text; p. 231 Masks of Satan; pp. 232-321 text; p. 322 blank; p. 323 Physicians; pp. 324354 text; p. 355 Unusual Treatments; pp. 356-381 text; pp. 1-5 blank. text: A96 contains twenty-three numbered essays and stories written by Davies. These are grouped together into seven different sections. The pieces are organized chronologically within sections. The section entitled “Reading” contains: 1 “A Call to the Clerisy”; 2 “A Rake at Reading”; 3 “Literature and Technology”; and 4 “Literature and Moral Purpose”. The section entitled “Collecting” contains: 5 “In Pursuit of Pornography”; 6 “Painting, Fiction, and Faking”; and 7 “How to Be a Collector”. The section entitled “Ghost Stories” contains: 8 “Harper of the Stones”; 9 “A Ghost Story”; and 10 “Ghost Story Fragment” (“Ghost Story Begun for Massey College, Gaudy, December 9, 1995”). The section entitled “Dickens” contains: 11 “A Christmas Carol Re-harmonized”; 12 “An Unlikely Masterpiece”; and 13 “Dickens and Music”. The section entitled “Masks of Satan” contains: 14 “The Devil’s Burning Throne”; 15 “Phantasmagoria and Dream Grotto”; 16 “Gleams and Glooms”; and 17 “Thunder without Rain”. The section entitled “Physicians” contains: 18 “An Allegory of the Physician”; and 19 “Can a Doctor Be a Humanist?”. The section entitled “Unusual Treatments” contains: 20 “Prologue to the Good Natur’d Man”; 21 “Animal U.”; 22 “The Fourth Wiseman 1974”; and 23 “Look at the Clock!” Published in A96 for the first time are 10 (an unfinished ghost story written by Davies at the request of John Fraser, Master

of Massey College) and 22 (a short story, written 24-7 July 1974, taken from Davies’s diary. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper glossy covers. On the front cover is a colour photo of a pile of six books; the top book on the pile is opened. Below the photo against a solid white rectangle is the series title (MODERN CLASSICS) and the publisher’s device; the author’s name and the title (in white) are at the bottom of the front cover against a solid grey rectangle. The spine is grey with the author’s name, title, publisher’s device, and series title. The back cover is mainly grey with the bottom section white. It has: a small version of the photo from the front cover; a quotation from Surridge’s introduction; a paragraph about the book; a quotation from M.G. Vassanji; the publisher’s device; series title; the ISBNs and bar code; the price ($20); the URL for the series; and the names of the designer of the front cover (Soapbox Design Communications Inc.), the cover photographer (NonStock/FirstLight), and the art director (Mary Opper). The quotation from Surridge’s introduction reads: “Davies was | an avid book| collector... | and was a great | fan of Dickens.” notes: A96 is an anthology of Davies’s essays, speeches, and stories on the pleasures of reading. Edited by Surridge, Davies’s daughter, they were written by Davies over the course of several decades, from the late 1950s (see A16) to the mid-1990s. the introductions to these particular pieces, originally contained in A52 (written by Davies), A89 (written by Douglas M. Gibson), and A90 (written by Surridge herself), are reprinted in A96. Surridge has written new introductions to a number of pieces; often these introductions contain excerpts from Davies’s diaries. For the contract of A96, see A95. According to the websites of Penguin Canada and Indigo, A96 was published on 11 March 2008. 312 copies sold up to 30 June 2009. Number of copies printed not known. Information about A96’s contract and the number of copies sold was obtained from Surridge (e-mail to Carl Spadoni, 8 December 2009). copies examined: ohm; otmc.

A97 selected works on the art of writing 2008 ROBERTSON DAVIES | Selected Works on the | Art of Writing | Edited and with an Introduction by Jennifer Surridge | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN | CANADA



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i-viii, ix-xiv, 1-3, 4-90, 91, 92-151, 152-169, 170-214, 215, 216-269, 270-271, 272-300, 301, 302-343, 344-345, 346360, 361, 362-429, 1-5 pp. (224 leaves). 210 × 133 mm. contents: p. i the name of the publisher, title, three paragraphs about Davies, and one paragraph about Surridge; p. ii list of seventeen other books by Davies (novels, short fiction, criticism, and essays); p. iii title; p. iv PENGUIN CANADA | Published by the Penguin Group | [thirteen lines of addresses of Penguin branches in Canada, the United States, England, Ireland, Australia, India, New Zealand, and South Africa] | First published 2008 | (WEB) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | Copyright © Pendragon Ink, 2008 | Introduction copyright © Jennifer Surridge, 2008 | [two lines regarding the copyright in Dean Burry’s music on pp. 152-169] | Some of the pieces in this collection were originally published in the following books by Robertson | Davies: [The] Merry Heart, Happy Alchemy, and One Half of Robertson Davies | [four lines about copyright] | Manufactured in Canada | ISBN-13: 978-0-14-305567-9 | ISBN-10: 0-14-305567-4 | Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication data available upon request. | [five lines, with exception of the USA, forbidding the re-sale, hiring out, or circulation of the book without the publisher’s prior consent; one line about Penguin Group (Canada)’s website; two lines about special and corporate bulk purchase rates]; p. v For | Rosamond and David Bailey | with love; p. vi blank; pp. vii-viii table of contents; pp. ix-xiv Surridge’s introduction; p. 1 fly title; p. 2 blank; p. 3 Writing; pp. 4-90 text; p. Theatre; pp. 92-151 text; p. 152-169 music from “Children of the Moon” (“Fillpail, Mavoureen” and “The Cow Cabaletta”), the libretto by Davies and music by Burry; pp. 170-214 text; p. 215 Stratford; pp. 216-269 text; p. 270 blank; p. 271 Making Speeches; pp. 272-300 text; p. 301 Youth; pp. 302-343 text; p. 344 blank; p. 345 Age; pp. 346-360 text; p. 361 Canada; pp. 362-429 text; pp. 1-5 blank. text: A97 contains twenty-nine numbered pieces written by Davies. These are grouped into seven different sections and arranged chronologically within each section. The section entitled “Writing” contains: 1 “The Conscience of a Writer”; 2 “How I Write a Book”; 3 “Jung and the Writer”; 4 “The Novelist and Magic”; and 5 “Fiction of the Future”. The section entitled “Theatre” contains: 6 “How to Design a Haunted House”; 7 “Lines Written in Dejection after Seeing a Performance of Hair on Epiphany, 1970”; 8 “Jung and the Theatre”; 9 “Children of the Moon”; 10 “Opera and Humour”; 11 “Melodrama: The Silver King”; and 12 “Alchemy in the Theatre”. The section entitled “Stratford” contains: 13 “A Letter from Friar Bacon

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& Friar Bungay”; 14 “Stratford Forty Years Ago”; 15 “World of Wonders”; and 16 “Lewis Carroll in the Theatre”. The section entitled “Making Speeches” contains: 17 “The Deadliest of the Sins”; 18 “What Every Girl Should Know”; and 19 “Insanity in Literature”. The section entitled “Youth” contains: 20 “Ham and Tongue”; 21 “A Chapter of Autobiography”; 22 “My Early Literary Life”; and 23 “My Musical Career”. The section entitled “Age” contains 24 “A View in Winter: Creativity in Old Age”. The section entitled “Canada” contains: 25 “What May Canada Expect from Her Writers?”; 26 “The Canada of Myth and Reality”; 27 “A Canadian Author”; 28 “Literature in a Country without a Mythology”; and 29 “The Value of a Coherent Notion of Culture”. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper glossy covers. On the front cover is a colour photo of a typewriter. Below the photo against a solid white rectangle is the series title (MODERN CLASSICS) and the publisher’s device; the author’s name and the title (in white) are at the bottom of the front cover against a solid grey rectangle. The spine is grey with the author’s name, title, publisher’s device, and series title. The back cover is mainly grey with the bottom section white. It has: a small photo from the front cover; a quotation from Surridge’s introduction; a paragraph about the book; a quotation from M.G. Vassanji; the publisher’s device; series title; the ISBNs and bar code; the price ($20); the URL for the series; and the names of the designer of the front cover (Soapbox Design Communications Inc.), the cover photographer (PNC/Getty Images), and the art director (Mary Opper). The quotation from Surridge’s introduction reads: “A popular |   lecturer and | speechmaker [with] | more invitations | than he could | possibly accept.” notes: A97 is primarily an anthology of Davies’s speeches. In addition, Surridge has included a poem, a hoax, and three articles. These pieces of Davies’s writing have been selected by Surridge from A52, A89, and A90 with accompanying, individual introductions respectively written by Davies, Douglas M. Gibson, and Surridge. Surridge’s general introduction to A97 quotes most of Davies’s preface to A52 on the writing and delivery of speeches. For the contract to A97, see A95. According to the websites of Penguin Canada and Indigo, A97 was published on 11 March 2008. 393 copies sold up to 30 June 2009. Number of copies printed not known. Information about A95’s contract and the number of copies sold was obtained from Surridge (e-mail to Carl Spadoni, 8 December 2009). copies examined: ohm; otmc.

B Section Contributions to Books

B1 souvenir edition examiner for the annual christmas party 1945 [cover title, printed in red; all lines within a rectangle; illustration of a small bell] | Souvenir Edition | Examiner | for the Annual | Christmas Party | 1945 | [illustration of a small bell]

banks discovers that H.L. Garner, the newspaper’s general manager, will sing at the Wayzgoose, he is quite jealous. When no place card has been put out for Marchbanks, he is incensed, pours scotch into the temperance punch, and leaves the party. copies examined: davis.

1 10. 1, 2-20 pp. (10 leaves). 195 × 130 mm. text: “Diary of Christmas Excitement,” signed Samuel Marchbanks, pp. 4, 19. Davies probably also wrote the unsigned editorial entitled “This Is Your Wayzgoose” (p. 4) and possibly other short pieces. binding: Bound in a light-green wrapper, held together by a red paper clip. The leaves are wire-stitched. notes: This pamphlet was issued by and for the staff of the Peterborough Examiner as a souvenir of its Christmas celebration in 1945. (Davies joined the newspaper as editor on 1 March 1942.) The first page has the newspaper’s title in black letter with the date Saturday, 8 December 1945, no. 2. An article on that page states that this is the second Examiner staff party (the first was held when the Quarter-Century Club was formed the previous year). On pp. 10-11 are the lyrics of songs sung by the staff, the menu, the program (W. Rupert Davies, Davies’s father, made remarks), entertainment, and the list of the members of the entertainment and executive committees that organized the party. A photo of the editorial department (with Davies listed as editor) is on p. 5. “Diary of Christmas Excitement” is a piece written specially by Davies for this souvenir publication. He wrote other pieces with a Christmas theme under the Marchbanks pseudonym at this time, but this piece is unique and does not appear to have been printed elsewhere. Marchbanks is asked to carve the ham at the Wayzgoose (the celebration of printers). The entertainment committee also asks him to lead a spirited song (he is insulted by such a request), and they ask what he will wear at the event. When March-

B2  royal commission studies 1951 ROYAL COMMISSION | STUDIES | A SELECTION OF ESSAYS PREPARED | FOR THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON | NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN | THE ARTS, LETTERS | AND SCIENCES | Ottawa: EDMOND CLOUTIER, c.m.g., o.a., d.s.p., | Printer to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty | 1951 110 2-3 12 4 10 5 14 6 10 7 12 8 10 9 12 10 10 11 1412 8 13 16 14 8 15 14 16 6 17 16 18 6 19 12 20 8. i-iv, v-vii, 1-3, 1-11, 12, 13-53, 54, 55-97, 98, 99-133, 134, 135-143, 144, 145-163, 164, 165-177, 178, 179-189, 190, 191-203, 204, 205-259, 260, 261-367, 368, 369-405, 406, 407-430 pp. (220 leaves). Cloth 246 × 166 mm. Stiff paper 242 × 157 mm. text: “The Theatre: A Dialogue on the State of the Theatre in Canada,” pp. 369-92. binding: There are two binding variants: (1) rustcoloured cloth with the following stamped in gilt down the spine: ROYAL COMMISSION STUDIES 1949-1951; (2) black, thick stiff paper with the following printed on the front cover: [in white] ROYAL COMMISSION STUDIES | [white rule] | [remaining lines in light brown, the next three lines in script] selected from the special studies | prepared for the Royal Commission | on national development in the | ARTS, LETTERS | & SCIENCES | 1949 · 1951 | PRICE $300. On the back cover are a white rule and two paragraphs in light brown about the Royal Commission. notes: On 8 April 1949, the Canadian government appointed five citizens to The Royal Commission on



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National Development in the Arts, Letters and Science, the purpose of which was to examine Canada’s cultural life and to make recommendations for its improvement and enrichment. The Report of the Royal Commission, popularly known as the Massey Report after the Chairman of the Commission the Honourable Vincent Massey, was made public in June 1951. The Commission heard or received 1,200 individual submissions from 462 different organizations. The Massey Report made 146 recommendations pertaining to radio broadcasting, television, the National Film Board, galleries, museums, libraries, archives, historic sites and monuments, universities, scholarships, scientific research, Canada abroad, and the Canada Council. The section of the Massey Report devoted to theatre begins with a letter from Samuel Marchbanks, 4 March 1950, to Apollo Fishborn about the “physical conditions of the Canadian theatre” (p. 192, reprinted from the Ottawa Evening Citizen). Davies gave his permission for this reprinting on 6 April 1950. On 12 April 1950, Archibald A. Day, the Commission’s Secretary, asked Davies to write a 10,000-word essay by the end of May about the state of theatre in Canada. Davies agreed two days later, but he pointed out that “I cannot possibly regard anything that I say as a final pronouncement on the subject.” He had it almost finished in early May 1950 before he went to the Dominion Drama Festival (DDF) in Calgary. He revised his submission after talking to Michael SaintDenis, co-director of the drama school at the Old Vic and adjudicator of the DDF finals. Davies sent two copies of his submission by registered post on 30 May 1950. He told Day: “I debated with myself for some time before adopting the dialogue form and eventually decided upon it because I found that it was possible to say a great deal more in that way and to say it with greater freedom than would have been the case in an essay.” Day informed Davies on 2 June 1950 that he and Massey had “read your acute observations with great pleasure, a pleasure which was enhanced by the witty and appropriate form in which you cast them.” Davies was paid an honorarium for his submission of $250 on 7 June 1950. His submission is in the form of a dialogue between Lovewit and Trueman, two characters from a 1699 pamphlet about the English theatre. Although Davies recommended that the government establish a training centre for the arts and give some money to travelling companies and playwrights, he opposed a state-supported national theatre. Day told Davies on 6 December1950 that Massey and his colleagues on the Commission had decided to publish twenty-eight of the submissions. Day asked Davies to shorten his contribution to 5,000 words or

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less. Davies complied, but told Day on 29 December 1950 that he “had to cut a good deal which I feel is necessary to the argument.” On 9 January 1951, Day informed Davies that the Commission would be publishing Davies’s submission in full. The galley proofs that were sent to Davies on 23 April 1951, however, were the shortened version of his article. Moreover, the proofs were a mess. Day apologized to Davies for the mix-up on 1 May 1951. He reassured Davies that the original version would indeed be printed. Davies asked Day not to delay publication and to proofread the galleys of the original version. A copy of the report, a copy of the volume of Studies, and twenty-five offprints of his essay were sent to Davies on 26 August 1951. Davies’s dialogue about the theatre was dramatized at the Stratford Festival of Canada on 19 August 2001. B2 is reprinted in: A58; Canadian Theatre Review 5 (winter 1975): 16-36; Blair Fraser, The Search for Identity: Canada, 1945-1967 (Toronto: Doubleday, 1967), pp. 107-8; and http://www.uoguelph.ca/shakespeare/ multimedia/pdf/davies_2.pdf. See also “Robertson Davies and the Massey Report on the Theatre” at http://www.uoguelph.ca/shakespeare/essays/massey .cfm which discusses Davies’s contribution and reprints associated documents, correspondence, and drafts of Davies’s submission. Information on the publishing history of B2 is based on the following: file 40, vol. 79 and file 29, vol. 86, Davies fonds, lac; and vol. 53, RG33, lac. copies examined: davis (stiff paper; offprint); ohm (two copies in stiff paper); otmc (cloth; offprint, wirestitched).

B3  renown at stratford 1953 B3a  first edition: [first seven lines apparently hand-drawn resembling an antique typeface] RENOWN AT | STRATFORD | A Record of the Shakespeare Festival in Canada | 1953 | TYRONE GUTHRIE | ROBERTSON DAVIES | GRANT MACDONALD | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY, TORONTO 1-8 8 9 4. i-iv, v-viii, 1-2, 3-33, 34-36, 37-40, 41-42, 43, 44, 45-47, 48, 49-52, 53, 54-55, 56, 57-60, 61, 62-63, 64-65, 66-67, 68, 69-72, 73, 74-75, 76, 77-78, 79, 80-82, 83, 84, 85, 86-87, 88, 89-90, 91, 92, 93, 94-96, 97, 98-99, 100, 101-102, 103, 104-107, 108, 109, 110, 111-113, 114, 115-116, 117-118, 119-121, 122, 123-127, 1 pp. (68 leaves). 227 × 151 mm.

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text: preface (pp. vii-viii); The Director (pp. 37-40); The Players (pp. 43, 45-47, 49-52, 54-55, 57-60, 62-63, 66-67, 69-72, 74-75, 77-78, 80-82, 84, 86-87, 89-90, 92, 94-96, 98-99, 101-102, 104-107, 109, 111-113, 115-116, 119-121). binding and dust jacket: Bound in brown cloth. Stamped in gilt on the upper board: RENOWN AT | STRATFORD. Stamped in gilt down the spine: RENOWN AT STRATFORD CLARKE IRWIN. The front panel of the dust jacket in yellow, grey, and white (top half mainly yellow and bottom half mainly grey) has silhouettes of a king, queen, and men in Elizabethan dress. The colour pattern on the front panel extends to the spine. Printed on the spine panel: [down the spine] RENOWN AT STRATFORD | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin] | CLARKE | IRWIN. The back panel in white has an excerpt from Davies’s preface. The flaps of the jacket in white recount how the Stratford Festival Theatre came into being on 13 July 1953. Also on the flaps are the book’s title, the names of the authors, and the price ($3.50). notes: The title of B3 comes from “All’s well that ends well: still the fine’s the crown; / Whate’er the course, the end is the renown.” W.H. Clarke sent Davies five copies of B3a’s contract for his signature on 22 September 1953 (copy at pend dated 21 September 1953): a royalty of 5% on the first 5,000 copies sold and 10% thereafter. The illustrator Grant Macdonald received 50% of the royalties, and Tyrone Guthrie and Davies split the remainder. When Davies mailed Clarke the preface a day later, he commented: “It has the virtue, in my eyes, of explaining a little bit about the form of the book, which would not go too easily into the commentary.” When Clarke Irwin’s editorial director R.W.W. Robertson reported on the manuscript on 2 October 1953, he called it “first rate stuff” and suggested sending it to the printer immediately. On 8 October 1953, H.A. Showalter, President of the Shakespearean Festival Foundation, asked Clarke to send him the manuscript for the Festival Board’s approval (Davies was a member of the Board of Directors at the time). The jacket design and drawing of the Stage and Coronation scene were done by Macdonald on 9 October 1953. Robertson sent Davies proofs of his and Guthrie’s sections on 14 October. Davies returned the corrected proofs to Robertson on 17 October. The contract, signed by all parties, was sent to Davies on 30 October 1953. The book’s production card records the following: composition by Cooper and Beatty, $1,074.14; Litho Print, including jackets, $5,676.70; folding, cutting and gatherings by J.W. Deyell Limited, $297.75; bind-

ing by Deyell, $2,397.73; title page by Margot Lovejoy, $30; Reliance for Tyrone Guthrie, $25; Reliance negative and print for Alec Guinness, $3.50; Reliance binder’s stamp, $43.20; Litho Print, 30,000 leaflets, $360. The books were at the bindery on 18 November 1953. 9,357 copies were delivered between 19 November 1953 and 4 February 1954. The work was carried out between 27 October 1953 and 4 February 1954. The book was ready for distribution by 25 November 1953. Composition costs and corrections amounted to $1,367.30; Clarke Irwin disputed Cooper and Beatty’s bill and settled in court at $904.28. According to the colophon (last page of the book), this is the first book produced in Canada without type; in other words, Litho Print produced the book by photo offset. The text was composed in 11 point Baskerville on a 13 point body. Cooper & Beatty inquired about a second edition on 8 December 1953. Although the American Encyclopedia in its annual supplement for 1953 referred to B3a as the Canadian book of the year, the Sydney A. Sanders Literary Agency informed Clarke on 16 July 1954 that it could not find an American publisher for the book; copies had been sent to Random House, Harcourt, Brace, and Rinehart in February and March 1954. When Irene Clarke read Davies’s preface and his chapter on Guthrie as director, she told her son G.I. Clarke on 14 September 1954: “he has done a superlatively good job ... I think Davies really should be congratulated. He is a remarkable person.” Information on the publishing history of B3a is based on the following records of the Clarke Irwin fonds at ohm: box 79; file 5, box 103; and files 4, 6, and 13, box 104. copies examined: ohm (three copies in jacket); lac (in jacket); otmc (two copies in jacket). B3a.1  second issue (“Special memorial edition,” 1971): The title page transcription is identical to B3a. The collation is 1-8 9 (72 leaves), and preliminary pagination is 1-18. Otherwise B3a.1 is the same as B3a — that is to say, with the exception of the preliminary leaves, B3a.1 is a photographic reprint of B3a. text: The same as B3a with the addition of an introduction, dated “October 21, 1971,” on pp. 7-12; the preface is on pp. 15-16. binding and dust jacket: Bound in dark-brown cloth with stamping in gilt on the boards identical to B3a. The front and spine panels in gold, dark brown, and white are similar in design to the panels of B3a. The back panel in white has two paragraphs about the



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book and the publisher’s name. The flaps of B3a.1 lack a price, but are the same as the flaps of B3a in other respects. notes: Clarke Irwin planned a re-issue of B3 in the summer of 1971. William T. Wylie, the General Manager of the Stratford Festival, told Dr. W.H. Clarke (W.H. Clarke’s other son) on 19 July 1971 that the Festival was willing to publicize the book. Davies sent Clarke the introduction on 21 October 1971. Clarke congratulated Davies on 1 November 1971 and told him that he was touched by Davies’s references to his father. Davies replied on 6 January 1972 that he greatly admired W.H. Clarke: “I recall his extremely important role in bringing forth the three early books of Stratford commentary in detail and have frequently wished that some other Canadian publisher had his degree of enterprise and insight in promoting the writing of books about theatre at present.” In his introduction Davies does indeed praise W.H. Clarke’s foresight in publishing B3a. In addition, he examines the role played by Guthrie in the formative years of the Stratford Festival. ISBN 0-7720-0518-4. Price $9.50. On 27 October 1971, Litho Print Limited quoted a price of $2.35 per copy for a print run of 2,000 copies (8 pages with a black-and-white photo by Peter Smith of Guthrie facing the title page). The production card records that 2,250 copies were printed by Litho Print on 22 December 1971. 2,166 copies were bound and delivered by John Deyell Limited (2,149 copies bound on 31 December 1971; seventeen copies bound on 14 February 1972; binding cost, $1,030 and jacketing (trim, fold, apply jackets) 3¢ per copy). The total production cost was $7,260.96. The work was carried out between 26 November 1971 and 23 December 1971 with the exception of seventeen copies bound on 14 February 1972. Dr. W.H. Clarke sent a copy of B3a.1 to Macdonald and Lady Guthrie on 23 February 1972. Eighty-seven copies were sold at the Stratford Festival up to 6 September 1972. B3a.1 was still in print in the late 1980s. Twelve copies sold in 1987, for example. Information on the publishing history of B3a.1 is based on the royalty reports at pend and the following records of the Clarke Irwin fonds at ohm: box 79; and file 7, box 103; and file 9, box 105. copies examined: ohm (three copies in jacket); pend (four copies).

B4  [playbill for a jig for the gypsy] 1954 [cover title; all lines within a rectangle; a white D with ornaments is at the top of the rectangle within a solid red square] MURRAY AND DONALD DAVIS

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LIMITED | PRESENT | A JIG FOR THE GYPSY | BY ROBERTSON DAVIES | [small ornament] | SEPTEMBER 14th - 25th - 1954 | THE CREST THEATRE 16. 1-12 pp. (6 leaves). 223 × 150 mm. text: Statement consisting of four paragraphs in which Davies tells the audience about the origins of the play and its setting. binding: Bound in glossy paper, wire-stitched. notes: Murray and Donald Davis Limited renovated an old movie house on Mount Pleasant Road in Toronto and founded the Crest Theatre there in 1953. The Crest Theatre was the venue of 90 plays in the course of thirteen seasons prior to its closing in 1966. The Davis brothers had been involved in several previous productions of Davies’s plays, particularly with their summer stock company, the Straw Hat Players (see Man of Myth, p. 381). The brothers asked Davies for a play to lead off their second season, and Davies offered them A Jig for the Gypsy. Donald Davis played Jack the Skinner, his sister Barbara Chilcott played Benoni, and Herbert Whittaker directed (see p. 6 of B4 for the list of players and stage crew). The play was performed in the evenings and on matinees on Wednesday and Saturday. In his statement about the play, Davies writes: “This play is a comedy, not in the sense that it makes everybody laugh all the time, or that its plot is an elaborate joke, or that it ignores what is disagreeable in human nature, but in the sense that it looks at life from a comic point of view ... Those who demand a Message in the play are requested to bring their own favourite Message with them.” B4 has an advertisement for Leaven of Malice and Davies’s other books published by Clarke Irwin on p. 11. See A13 for the play’s publication by Clarke Irwin. See also Whittaker’s commentary as director of the play, “Premiere of New Play, A Jig for the Gypsy,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 11 September 1954, p. 12. copies examined: davis.

B5  twice have the trumpets sounded 1954 B5a  first edition: TWICE | HAVE THE | TRUMPETS SOUNDED | A Record of | the Stratford Shakespearean Festival | in Canada | 1954 | TYRONE GUTHRIE | ROBERTSON DAVIES | GRANT MACDONALD | [publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY, TORONTO

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110 2 83-4 105-6 8 7 4 8 8 9-11 412-13 814 10. i-vii, viii-xiv, 1-2, 3-18, 19-20, 21-22, 23, 24, 25, 26-27, 28-29, 30-32, 33, 34-35, 36-37, 38-39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45-46, 47, 48-50, 51, 52-54, 55, 56-58, 59, 60, 61-62, 63-64, 65, 66-68, 69, 70-72, 73, 74-76, 77, 78, 79, 80-82, 83, 84-86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92-93, 94, 95, 96-97, 98, 99, 100-101, 102, 103-105, 106-108, 109-126, 127, 128-130, 131, 132, 133, 134-135, 136-137, 138-141, 142-144, 145-192, 1-2 pp. (104 leaves). 229 × 153 mm. There are two issues. In the first issue p. 191 begins: “Not only is the Theatre in general a chancy and un-”. Two lines are also missing from p. 191: “kind to himself; and thereby to show to man God’s | Image.” In the second issue the line “Not only is the Theatre in general a chancy and un-” is found at the bottom of p. 190. No lines are missing from p. 191. In the copies examined, the first issue is in cloth and the second issue in stiff-paper wrappers (see the binding variants described below). text: preface (pp. ix-xi); Rehearsal — A Study in Rhythm (pp. 3-18); The Taming of the Shrew (pp. 212, 24, 26-7, 30-2, 34-5, 38-9, 41, 43, 45-6, 48-50, 52-4, 56-8, 60); Measure for Measure (pp. 63-4, 66-8, 70-2, 74-6, 78, 80-2, 84-6, 88, 90, 92-3, 95, 98, 100-1, 103-5); Oedipus Rex (pp. 109-26, 128-30, 132, 134-5, 138-41). binding and dust jacket: There are two binding variants. (1) Brown cloth with the following stamped in gilt on the upper board: TWICE HAVE THE | TRUMPETS SOUNDED. Stamped in gilt on the spine: [down the spine] TWICE HAVE THE TRUMPETS SOUNDED | CLARKE | IRWIN. (2) White stiff-paper wrappers. Both variants have the same dust jacket; however, for the second variant, the lower section on the back flap (title, authors, publisher, and price $4) has been cut off diagonally. The front panel of the jacket is salmon and brown (upper left-hand compartment mainly salmon, lower compartment and adjoining right-hand side mainly brown, title in black, and silhouettes of a Shakespearean character and man in a toga in white). The colour pattern on the front panel extends to the spine. Printed on the spine panel: [down the spine] TWICE HAVE THE TRUMPETS SOUNDED | CLARKE | IRWIN. The back panel in white has the title: What the Critics Said About | RENOWN AT STRATFORD; this is followed by a paragraph about Renown at Stratford taken from six newspapers. The flaps provide information about the Stratford Festival’s second season in relation to Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded, its predecessor Renown at Stratford, and the work and life of the authors. notes: A few months after the publication of B3a,

W.H. Clarke told Davies on 19 February 1954 that he and his wife, Irene, had spoken to Grant Macdonald about a second volume on the Stratford Festival Theatre, to be uniform in appearance with B3a: “RENOWN AT STRATFORD has already sold enough copies to encourage us to believe that we can get home with the second volume next fall,” Clarke reported, “particularly if by planning ahead we are able to vary it as you and Grant suggest from the first.” R.W.W. Robertson, the editorial director at Clarke Irwin, agreed wholeheartedly with Clarke’s point of view. “Davies has some extraordinarily interesting ideas about it which I shall give you at first hand at the next opportunity,” he told Clarke on 8 March 1954. Tyrone Guthrie assented to the project in March 1954. Davies and Macdonald came up with the apt title from a quotation found in Measure for Measure. Five copies of the contract were sent to Davies on 19 March 1954 (copy at pend) for his signature (returned by Davies on 25 March 1954). He received one third of the 10% royalties on all copies sold. He was sent a signed copy of the contract on 24 June 1955, several months after publication. The previous copy of the contract in his possession apparently was neither signed nor did it have the company’s seal affixed. The previous copy was returned to Eveline Clarke on 27 July 1955. Macdonald never signed the contract. Publication of B5 was fraught by a major disagreement between Clarke and Macdonald over artistic control. A week after the first proofs were available, Clarke sent a telegram to Davies on 27 September 1954, asking him to write to Guthrie about his break with Macdonald. Clarke wanted Davies to intercede on his behalf, but Davies refused to do so. He told Clarke on 10 October 1954: “I supported Macdonald in his contention that he should have the final word about the reproduction of his work. I sent you a letter to this effect ... I have done my work & Guthrie has done his ... and no book, or a book with no drawings by Macdonald, will be a disappointment to us, & probably a failure ... But I do not want to be a party to a quarrel which is not my making.” Clarke told Davies on 13 October 1954 that he had held onto the proofs until 7 October, but then, having heard nothing from Macdonald, had them corrected. He returned them to the compositor at the University of Toronto Press on 14 October 1954. Margot Lovejoy was asked by G.I. Clarke on 20 October 1954 to design the title page (with a typeface as close as possible to Garamond Bold) and jacket. Proofs were also sent to the secretary of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival on 21 October 1954 (returned 26 October 1954). The jacket was ready on 22 October 1954, and a revised proof of



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it was sent back to the printer on 5 November 1954. B5a was published on 4 December 1954. “Everyone — or almost everyone [a reference to Macdonald’s decision to abandon the book] — has done everything he could to expedite the production of TRUMPETS, and the first copies will be delivered tomorrow,” Clarke told Davies on 3 December 1954. “I shall see that you get one of these as speedily as possible. I hope you are pleased with it. It is certainly lavish and an absurd value for the list price, but let us hope that the public will gobble it up even more voraciously on that account. From all indications it should sell out more quickly than RENOWN.” Clarke Irwin had estimated that B5a would cost $16,513.40 (composition, printing, and binding at $14,281 and royalties at $2,232.4). The production card for the book records the following: paper from Wilson Munroe, $691.22; University of Toronto Press, typesetting including make-up and proofs, Baskerville 12 on 13 point, $1,020; Litho-print by J.W. Deyell, $11,218.21; Deyell fold and gatherings, $630; binding by Deyell, $2,113.37; photostats, $10.25; photo engraving, $27.50. 11,281 copies were delivered in all (8,033 copies delivered between 4 and 15 December 1954 and 3,248 copies delivered on 14 June and 6 July 1955). Up to 31 January 1955, 5,581 copies had sold. On 14 April 1955, after a visit from Guthrie and his wife, W.H. Clarke was still fuming about Macdonald’s decision to quit the project at the time of publication. Sales were disappointing in view of the company’s investment in the book. Undeterred by the slowness of sales, Clarke was planning a campaign to sell the book at a brisker pace for the upcoming season of the Stratford Festival. It was at this time that unbound sheets were bound in paper covers at a reduced price ($2.50). 2,503 copies remained in stock on 16 June 1955. Davies complained to Clarke on 10 May 1955 about non-payment of royalties: “When your last group of royalty statements reached me there was none for Twice Have The Trumpets Sounded and although I cannot find it I seem to remember a note which said that no statement could be made on that subject until you finally had the contract from Grant Macdonald.” Clarke acted to rectify the problem immediately. B5a was still in print in 1961. Between 1 February 1961 and 31 January 1962, seventy-nine copies sold in cloth and nine copies in paper. Clarke Irwin contemplated a re-issue of 2,000 with Litho-Print on 7 July 1971, but the company did not complete the order. Information on the publishing history of B5a is based on the following records: box 79, files 5 and 9, box 103, files 4-5 and 13, box 104, and files 9, 13-14,

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box 105, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; file 12, vol. 53, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm (eleven copies in cloth with jacket; three copies in paper); otmc (cloth, two copies in jacket); pend (two copies in cloth with jacket). B5a.1  first English issue (1955): TWICE | HAVE THE | TRUMPETS SOUNDED | A Record of | the Stratford Shakespearean Festival | in Canada | 1954 | TYRONE GUTHRIE | ROBERTSON DAVIES | GRANT MACDONALD | LONDON | J. GARNET MILLER LTD. | 54 Victoria Street, S.W.1 With the exception of the title leaf, the sheets of B5a.1 are identical to the second Canadian issue of B5a (sheets bound in stiff-paper wrappers with no lines missing on p. 191). The copyright page of B5a.1 reads: Copyright, Canada, 1954 | by CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | English Edition first published 1955 | by J. GARNET MILLER LTD. | Printed in Canada | Litho-print Ltd. | Toronto. q&b 014c also records an issue published in London by Blackie & Sons in 1955. A copy of this issue in dust jacket sold in the spring of 1999 on eBay. binding: Bound in olive-green cloth with the following stamped in gilt on the spine: [down the spine] TWICE HAVE THE TRUMPETS SOUNDED | J.GARNET | MILLER. The dust jacket of B5a.1 is almost the same as that of B5a. On the back of the jacket the final five lines read: [in red] in Toronto | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED | [remaining lines in red] and in London | J. GARNET MILLER LIMITED | 54 Victoria Street, S.W.i. On the bottom right-hand corner of the front flap in red is the price: 27/6 | NET. The bottom-left side of the back flap has been cut, excising the title, the names of the authors and Clarke Irwin, and the price in Canadian dollars. copies examined: davis (in jacket); pend (in jacket).

B6  the diversions of duchesstown and other essays 1955 B. K. SANDWELL | The Diversions of Duchesstown | and Other Essays | With an Introduction by Robertson Davies | B | [swash and overlapping with the previous line] K | J. M. DENT & SONS (CANADA) LIMITED | TORONTO VANCOUVER 1-6 8. i-iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix-xii, 1-84 pp. (48 leaves). 204 × 139 mm. text: Introduction, pp. ix-xii.

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binding and dust jacket: Bound in light-blue paper boards with the following stamped on the upper board: [illustration of an ornate leaf] | [in light blue inside a solid black triangle pointing to the left] The Diversions | and other essays by B·K·Sandwell | [in light blue inside a solid black triangle pointing to the left] of Duchesstown | [illustration of ornate leaf]. Stamped on the spine as follows: [down the spine] THE DIVERSIONS of DUCHESSTOWN and other essays by B. K. Sandwell | DENT. Stamped on the lower board: B | [swash and overlapping with the previous line] K. The jacket is also light blue. Printing on the front, spine, and back panels is identical to the stamping on the front board, spine, and lower board. On the front flap are the title, the names of the author, publisher, and cover designer (Vivash-Smith Studio), and two paragraphs about the book (including a line from Davies’s introduction). The back flap has a black-andwhite photograph of Sandwell by McKague and a paragraph of biographical information about Sandwell. notes: Renowned as a journalist, critic, and professor, B.K. Sandwell (1876-1954) edited Canada’s weekly magazine, Saturday Night, from 1932 to 1951. As early as 1931, Sandwell had written Davies a complimentary letter about his prize-winning poem, “Scholasticum,” which had appeared in Upper Canada College’s In Between Times (see C31.2). Davies worked for Sandwell as Saturday Night’s literary editor from 1940 to 1942 (see C54.57 and C88.3 for Davies’s recollections). In his introduction Davies states: “when first I met him he was a leading figure in Canadian letters and I was a schoolboy; later I worked for him and was, I believe, a useful and trusted assistant ... He was a man for whom it was easy to work. He created an atmosphere in which good work was warmly appreciated …” (p. ix). This posthumous collection of Sandwell’s writings contains three essays about Duchesstown (“a pleasant place, situated on one of the Great Lakes,” p. 1), eight other essays, and two poems. Pamela I. Partridge of J.M. Dent & Sons (Canada) Limited thanked Davies for his introduction on 16 September 1955 (file 44, vol. 48, Davies fonds, lac): “It is, indeed, more than satisfactory,” she told him. “The two points you raise in your letter with reference to the text of the essays are being dealt with, and there certainly can be no doubt about the inaccuracy of the Pope quotation, or the fact that Dr. Sandwell would have wished it to be correct.” According to the copyright page, B6 was published in October 1955. Printed and bound by T.H. Best Printing Company Limited (11 on 13 Caledonia and Benedictine types). Number of copies printed not known. Excerpts from Davies’s introduction have

been reprinted in Fraser Sutherland’s Monthly Epic: A History of Canadian Magazines, 1789-1989 (Markham, on: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1989), pp. 171, 176-7. copies examined: ohm (two copies, one in jacket); otmc (in jacket); pend (in jacket).

B7  thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d 1955 [The title page consists of two pages: on the righthand page:] ROBERTSON | DAVIES | TYRONE | GUTHRIE | [the next line twice the height of the previous two lines and on the left-hand page:] THRICE | THE BRINDED CAT [on right-hand page:] HATH MEW’D | [on left-hand-page:] A Record of the Stratford [on right-hand page:] Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1955 | BOYD | NEEL | TANYA | MOISEIWITSCH | [on the left-hand page is the publisher’s device of Clarke Irwin: monk seated at a desk inscribing a manuscript, all within a rounded rectangle] | CLARKE, IRWIN & COMPANY LIMITED, TORONTO 1-4 85 46-10 8 11 10 12 4 8 8 13 6. i-vi, vii-xii, 1-2, 3-9, 10-11, 12-14, 15, 16-17, 18-19, 20-29, 30-32, 33-43, 44-46, 4756, 57, 58-67, 68-69, 70-80, 81-82, 83-91, 92-94, 95-110, 110-111, 113-141, 142, 143-158, 159, 160, 161, 162-168, 169, 170-178, 1-2 pp. (96 leaves). 229 × 151 mm. text: preface, dated 1 October 1955 (pp. ix-xii); Julius Caesar (pp. 1-9, 12-14, 16-17, 20-29); King Oedipus (pp. 31-43); The Merchant of Venice (pp. 45-56, 58-67, 70-80); A Note on Style in Acting (pp. 81-91). binding and dust jacket: Bound in dark-brown cloth with the following stamped in gilt on the upper board: THRICE THE | BRINDED CAT | HATH MEW’D. Stamped on the spine in gilt: [down the spine] THRICE THE BRINDED CAT HATH MEW’D | CLARKE | IRWIN. The front and spine panels of the jacket are green and dark brown; the names of the authors are in green with illustrations in white of a mask of Greek tragedy, silhouettes of a person in a toga and a person wearing a hat and a cloak, and musical instruments within an oval. The back panel consists of several paragraphs taken from Davies’s preface with the heading, A NOTE ON THE TITLE. The flaps provide information about the Stratford Festival’s 1955 season in relation to Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d, its predecessors (Renown at Stratford and Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded), and the work and life of the authors; in the lower left-hand corner of the back flap are the title, the authors’ last names, the publisher’s name, and the book’s price ($5).



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notes: As the title of B7 indicates, this is the third book on the Stratford Shakespearean Festival published by Clarke Irwin in which Davies played a principal part. The other contributors to B7 were Boyd Neel, Dean of Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music, Tanya Moiseiwitsch, in charge of costume design at the Festival, and Tyrone Guthrie, the Festival’s Artistic Director. W.H. Clarke, R.W.W. Robertson (Clarke Irwin’s editorial director), and Davies discussed the book and the potential contributors in May 1955. Moiseiwitsch agreed to the use of her costume sketches on 30 May 1955, and Neel agreed to collaborate on the project on 1 June 1955. The contributors, the publisher, editor, and Mrs. Guthrie met in Stratford on 16 June 1955. Clarke’s notes of the meeting record: “Mr. Davies will contribute three essays. The first will deal with styles in interpretation of characters and will probably start with a discussion of Douglas Campbell’s interpretation of Oedipus and that of James Mason. The other two essays will deal with a critical study of ‘Macbeth’ [Davies wrote about The Merchant of Venice instead] and ‘Julius Caesar’.” The deadline for submissions was 1 September 1955 with a projected publication date of 15 October 1955. At their meeting in Stratford, Davies suggested the book’s title (taken from Act IV of Macbeth) as a joke, but Guthrie and Moiseiwitsch liked it and Neel “maintained a sphinx-like reserve.” Clarke sent Davies four copies of the contract on 12 July 1955, signed by Moiseiwitsch and Guthrie. The final contract (copy at pend dated 17 July 1955), signed by all parties, was sent to Davies on 22 July 1955: a royalty of 10% to the contributors. Moiseiwitsch informed G.I. Clarke about her plans for the jacket on 14 July 1955: “an outline figure from each play and some symbol to indicate the Music.” Unfortunately, the publisher W.H. Clarke died on 31 July 1955 of a coronary thrombosis. “The late W.H. Clarke was a wise and experienced publisher,” Davies commented in his preface. “These books about the Stratford Festival were very near to his heart ... His death on July 31 was a deprivation to many artistic causes” (p. xi). Robertson told Davies on 12 September 1955 that his essays were “first-class criticism, informative without being didactic, in a style pitched exactly right.” With respect to his preface to B7, sent to Robertson on 16 September 1955, Davies remarked. “I could have written at greater length about Mr. Clarke’s interest in the Festival and his desire to help it but I felt that in a book published by his firm there might be a hint of immodesty in any elaboration and so I kept it all rather dry in tone.” G.I. Clarke was grateful to Davies for his sympathetic words about his father: “I think it gives a warm and personal sidelight on Father’s char-

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acter and activity,” he told Davies on 29 September 1955. Clarke Irwin obtained typesetting and printing estimates in August and September 1955 from several companies, including the University of Toronto Press, McCorquodale & Blades, Maracle Press, T.H. Best Printing Company Limited, and the Hunter Rose Co. Limited. Davies was sent galleys 9-12 on 3 October 1955 and the balance of the galleys of his section on 7 October 1955. On 17 October 1955, Robertson told Davies: “The book goes on the press this week. It must, if we are to keep the 1st of November publication date.” Davies returned the page proofs a day later. They are “pretty clean,” he pointed out, except for “bad proof printing” and the width of the pages of the postscripts of each section. “The book is being printed both by letterpress and by offset and we cannot rush the offset process for fear of damaging reproduction,” Robertson reported on 24 October. Author copies went to the contributors on 18 November 1955. Moiseiwitsch told Robertson on 28 November that she was somewhat disappointed with the book because she did not get to see the proofs. In her opinion, for example, the lettering for the naming of the costume sketches was too heavy. According to the book’s production card, the costs were as follows: Plainfield Opaque Offset paper, $1,466.17; Garbe-Collins positives and proofs, $3,300; McCorquodale setting and alterations, $632.80; Ashton-Potter Litho forms for colour $1,050; McCorquodale & Blades (Canada) Limited, printing $588; McCorquodale & Blades (Canada) Limited, printing jackets $216.25; J.W. Deyell Printers, folding and gathering $375; Deyell, binding $1,023.20; photo engraving for jacket plates, $288.98. 7,500 copies were printed, and delivered between 11 and 30 November 1955. The work was carried out between 31 October and 30 November 1955. Set in Linotype Baskerville 11 on 13 for text, 10 point on 11 for poetry and program. Colour separations of Moiseiwitsch’s sketches by Garbe-Collins Limited, Toronto, and lithographed by Ashton-Potter, Limited, Toronto. Title page done by Nancy Caudle. Copies were still in print as late as 1961; seventy copies sold between 1 February1961 and 31 January 1962. Information on the publishing history of B7 has been obtained from the following sources: box 79, file 5, box 103, file 12, box 104, and file 13, box 105, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm; file 16, vol. 45 and file 12, vol. 53, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm (in jacket); otmc (in jacket); pend (two copies in jacket).

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B8  we can cook, too! recipes hot off the press 1956 [in script] We Can Cook, Too! | RECIPES HOT OFF THE PRESS | Compiled by the Montreal Branch of the Canadian Women’s Press Club | [illustration of a quill pen and ink pot] | General Manager: LENA NEWMAN | Editor: HELEN GOUGEON SCHULL | Art Director: DOYLE KLYN | [seven lines listing members of the editorial committee, and details about page design and press liaison, advertising, sales management, and publicity] | Our Special Thanks | [eight lines thanking various companies, institutions, P.J. Blackwell for his verses, and artists for their illustrations] 1-6, 1-16, 1-2, 17-30, 1-2, 31-44, 1-2, 45-50, 1-2, 51-56, 1-2, 57-62, 1-2, 63-88, 1-2, 89-110, 1-2, 111-128, 1-4 pp. (77 leaves, including 9 unnumbered leaves on blue paper). 227 × 147 mm. text: “Sherry Trifle,” p. 71, opposite a caricature of Davies by Dick Hersey on p. 70. binding: Black cerlox binding, thick glossy paper covers (versos white). The front cover has an illustration in orange, black, blue and white by Oscar Cahen (dated ’56) of a microphone, a pot, a spoon, pencil, and a salt shaker. The back cover is white with an illustration by Leo Henry of a sink filled with dishes and the number 30 circled. notes: Founded in 1904 and merged into the Media Club of Canada in the 1990s, the Canadian Women’s Press Club has had many branches in various cities across Canada. The Montreal Branch had its first meeting in 1914, and in 1954 membership consisted of six associates and 73 active members (see Kay Rex, No Daughter of Mine: The Women and History of the Canadian Women’s Press Club 1904-1971 (1995)). According to the foreword by Doyle Klyn, President of the Montreal Branch, B8 was initially conceived as a vehicle to raise money in order to purchase quarters for the Montreal Branch. It was later decided that proceeds from the sales of B8 would establish university scholarships for women journalists instead. B8 has sections on particular types of food and drink, and it also has recipes from the Montreal Men’s Press Club and recipes from Canadian celebrities. Recipes from authors, such as Mazo de la Roche, Mavis Gallant, and Davies, are included in the latter section. Davies’s recipe not only has instructions and a list of ingredients but commentary as well: “Bad trifle is disgusting ... Men are exceedingly fond of this dish, and it is a potent mantrap.” B8 was printed by The Herald-Woodward Press. Price $2. Number of copies printed not known. The deposit copy at lac was received on 11 June 1956.

See also A93, pp. 244-5, where Davies again shares his recipe for English trifle with Dorothy McCulloch (letter dated 21 April 1971). copies examined: davis; lac.

B9  our living tradition: seven canadians 1957 OUR LIVING TRADITION | SEVEN CANADIANS | Edited by Claude T. Bissell | Published in association with | Carleton University by | University of Toronto Press 1-5 16. i-iv, v, vi, vii-x, 1-3, 4-149, 1 pp. (80 leaves). 216 × 140 mm. text: “Stephen Leacock,” pp. 128-49. The table of contents wrongly gives the beginning pagination as 138. binding: Bound in yellow cloth. Stamped on the upper board is a solid black oval-like compartment with the following outlined in yellow: OUR LIVING TRADITION | EDITED BY C. T. BISSELL. Stamped down the spine: OUR LIVING TRADITION edited by c. t. bissell toronto. The front, back, and spine panels of the jacket are orange with a pattern of thick black lines, some crossing and at different angles. A solid black compartment similar to the shape stamped on the upper board is printed on the front panel of the jacket with lettering in white. Printed on the spine panel: OUR LIVING TRADITION | [under the previous line] C. T. BISSELL | TORONTO. On the front and back flaps are paragraphs providing information about the seven contributors to this book and their essays along with a line identifying Bissell and the sponsorship of Carleton University. notes: B9 contains the text of the first Carleton College Lecture Series, Our Living Tradition. The seven public lectures of this series were delivered at the Carlton University Library. The University President C.T. Bissell invited Davies to speak about Stephen Leacock on 27 July 1956. He offered Davies a small honorarium ($100) plus travel expenses. Davies agreed to give the lecture on 31 July 1956, although he expressed some hesitation in expressing his opinions in an academic forum. “A great number of them are simply hunches and I would have great difficulty in justifying them in an argument,” he told Bissell. “I have been reading Leacock and thinking about him over a good many years and I cannot escape the feeling that in spite of his great worldly success, he came to the end of his life a disappointed and disillusioned man.”



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The lecture series was advertised in the Ottawa Journal on 24 January 1957 (p. 4). When Bissell informed Davies that the lectures might be published, Davies told him on 30 January 1957: “I have always spoken from notes and if you want a full record of the speech I shall have to prepare one.” Davies delivered his lecture on 9 March 1957. Approximately 700 people came to hear him. Bissell told him on 11 March 1957 that his speech was “the finest public lecture” he had ever heard. “I took pains with the Leacock lecture,” Davies replied on 12 March 1957. “I have notions about public lecturing which are somewhat different from those of a great many people who practise it: it seems to me that there is no point in standing before an audience to read aloud to them what they could very well read for themselves, unless the lecturer adds to it a considerable amount of special emphasis and perhaps even histrionic quality. This was precisely the kind of thing Leacock did.” The memorandum of agreement between Bissell and the University of Toronto Press is dated 27 June 1957. The University of Toronto Press agreed to pay a royalty of 10% on all copies sold after the full costs of production had been recovered. Bissell sent the manuscript of B9 to Marsh Jeanneret at the Press on 4 June 1957 and his introduction on 13 August 1957. Proofs of B9 were mailed to Bissell on 27 August 1957. He returned them on 4 September 1957. B9 was published on 16 November 1957. Three copies of the book were sent to Bissell on 7 November 1957 by Harald Bohne, the Supervisor of Publication at the University of Toronto Press. Forty copies of B9 were sent to all university presidents in Canada. When he received his own copy of B9 and re-read his essay, Davies told Bissell on 19 November 1957 that he “was impressed once again in connection with my own by the fact that what seems to be suitable for delivery as a speech is too often thin and facetious when read.” Bissell complimented Davies on his contribution to B9 on 22 November 1957, telling him that his charming and perceptive essay was destined to become a classic account of Leacock’s achievement. B9 was advertised in the Toronto Globe and Mail on 10 December 1957 (p. 28). The book cost $3.50. According to Frances G. Halpenny at the University of Toronto Press, the first printing was comprised of 1,000 copies. 950 sold by 29 January 1958 (excluding free copies). There was a reprint in 1958 and another reprint (printed in the United States) in 1962 in paper covers (price $1.75). Reprinted in A.J.M. Smith, ed., Masks of Fiction: Canadian Critics on Canadian Prose (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1961), pp. 93-114; excerpted in Alan Dawe,

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Four Approaches to Prose (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1971), pp. 237-41. Information on the publishing history of B9 has been obtained from the following sources: file 35, vol. 49, Davies fonds, lac; Our Living Tradition: Office of the President fonds, PRES-107, Carleton College (Carleton University). copies examined: davis (1958 reprint in jacket); lac (first printing in cloth and jacket; 1962 reprint).

B10  literary lapses [1958] B10a  first edition: Stephen Leacock | LITERARY | Introduction by Robertson Davies | LAPSES | General Editor • Malcolm Ross | New Canadian Library • No. 3 | McCLELLAND & STEWART LIMITED | Toronto i-v, vi, vii, viii-xi, 1-2, 2-15, 16, 17-21, 22, 23-25, 26, 2729, 30, 31-41, 42, 43-53, 54, 55-75, 76, 77-83, 84, 85-86, 87, 88-107, 108, 109-113, 114, 115-127, 128, 129-131, 132, 133-146, 1-2 pp. (80 leaves). 183 × 112 mm. text: Introduction dated May, 1957, pp. vii, viii-xi. binding: Paperback, perfect bound. The front cover has a black-and-white sketch of Stephen Leacock’s face with an irregular, brown vertical band on the left side. On the back cover are two brown bands and information about the book. Cover design by Frank Newfeld. Price: $1.00. N3 of the New Canadian Library series. notes: Although the copyright page has 1957 as the date of publication, this edition of Leacock’s Literary Lapses was published on 17 January 1958. The first impression, printed and bound in England by Hazell Watson and Viney Ltd., consisted of 5,000 copies. By the end of the spring 1958, 3,921 copies had sold; 5,883 copies sold by the end of the year. By the end of 1979, 51,563 copies had sold (information based on file 14, “New Canadian Library,” box 93, and file 7, box Ca2, series A, part I, McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm). Excerpt reprinted in Elizabeth Waterston and Munro Beattie, Composition for Canadian Universities (Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1964), pp. 256-7. copies examined: lac (1960, 1982, 1989); oori (first printing); qmmrb (first printing, 1965). B10a.1  second issue (1989): STEPHEN LEACOCK | Literary Lapses | With an afterword by Robertson Davies | [wavy block, short wavy rule] | M&S | [rule]

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Although the pagination for this issue differs considerably from B10a, the text is in fact from the same setting of type. The preliminary pages and the table of contents have been reset. Davies’s introduction appears as an afterword at pp. 153-7. The latter is followed by a list of Leacock’s books. Paperback, perfect bound. A reproduction of David B. Milne’s “Billboards” is on the front cover. Price $4.95. ISBN 0-7710-9983-5. The ISBN and bar code appear on the back cover and on the verso of the front cover. Series design by T.M. Craan. notes: David Staines, Malcolm Ross’s successor as editor of the New Canadian Library series, informed Davies on 7 July 1988 that B10 was scheduled to be reprinted. Praising Davies’s introduction as being as timely and perfect as when the book first appeared in the NCL series, Staines asked Davies whether he wanted to revise it in any way. Davies told Staines on 22 August 1988 that he had no additions or deletions to make to his introduction and that he looked forward to seeing B10 reprinted. B10a.1 was published on 1 April 1989 in a print run of 7,875 copies. There was a reprinting of 3,850 copies on 2 May 1991. By the end of 1996 11,196 copies had sold. Information on the publishing history of B10a.1 is based on the following: file 36, vol. 51, Davies fonds, lac; production files at McClelland & Stewart. copies examined: lac; pend (two copies).

B11 stratford papers on shakespeare 1961 B11a  first edition: [title page consists of two pages: on right-hand page:] STRATFORD PAPERS | on [the next word in calligraphic-style type] Shakespeare | delivered at the 1960 | Shakespeare Seminar | sponsored by the Universities | of Canada in co-operation | with the Stratford Festival | Theatre through the offices | of the Department of | Extension of McMaster | University | W. J. GAGE LIMITED, TORONTO | [on left-hand page:] C. J. SISSON, JOHN COOK, | R. A. HUBER, AND | ROBERTSON DAVIES | [illustration of a flower] | edited by b. a. w. jackson, d.phil. (oxon.) | DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH | McMASTER UNIVERSITY 1-2 12 3 8 4 4 5 12 6 16. i-vi, vii, viii, ix-xvi, 1, 2, 3-19, 20, 21, 22, 23-49, 50, 51, 52, 53-77, 78, 79-95, 96, 97-107, 108, 109-112 pp. (64 leaves). 223 × 125 mm. 4 leaves of illustrations between pp. 52 and 53. text: “Shakespeare over the Port,” pp. 96-107.

binding: Issued in stiff paper, the covers resembling an old manuscript. There are two binding variants: grey collage with orange lettering; olive collage with red lettering (versos of covers are grey). Printed on the front cover: [in red or orange] Stratford papers on | [Shakespeare’s apparent signature] | [remaining lines in red or orange] 1960 | C.J. Sisson | R.A. Huber | John Cook | Robertson Davies. Printed on the back cover is an illustration of a flower. Printed down the spine in red or orange: Stratford Papers on Shakespeare 1960 Gage. notes: This anthology contains the contributions of four individuals who made presentations at the first Shakespeare Seminar held at the Stratford Festival in July 1960. The Seminar was organized by the Department of Extension at McMaster University and sponsored by a consortium of Canadian universities. Approximately 125 people attended the Seminar; their names are printed on pp. 109-12. Davies’s contribution is an after-dinner speech in which he talks about the effect that Shakespeare has had on his life and career. In his introduction, dated 2 February 1961, the director of the Seminar, Professor B.A.W. Jackson, speaks of Davies’s presentation in the following way: “Nor can the reader see Robertson Davies, flown with eloquence and wine, resounding over the port, across the noble ruins of a banquet, and above the laughter that applauded him” (p. xiv). Professor of English at McMaster University from 1956 to 1981, Jackson edited The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1964, rev. ed. 1980) for the Pelican Shakespeare series and Antony and Cleopatra (1968) for the Shakespeare Series published by Macmillan of Canada. “I have been working on the speech which you have asked me to make at your banquet on July 20th,” Davies informed Jackson on 31 May 1960. Davies wanted his talk to be entertaining and to strike an appropriate chord with his audience. He was paid $40 to cover travel and incidental expenses, but he paid $50 for the wine and port out of his own pocket. “I favour a port for after dinner,” he told Jackson on 24 June 1960, “and for the price I think Delaforce’s Royal Palace is very good. It is a ruby port and has lots of socko ... My wife and I look forward greatly to the Seminar and are very happy that you feel able to accept our small tribute to it.” Jackson greatly appreciated Davies’s contribution: “The subject of our gratitude is so large a one that I am likely to become ponderous if I attempt to do it justice ... Still, you contributed the wine, exactly the right after-dinner talk, and your company for the week” (letter to Davies, 9 October 1960). Jackson had approached Gage about publication of the Seminar presentations before the Seminar took



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place. In addition, Richard H. Lee, the president of Gage, attended the Seminar and was much impressed by what he heard. Lee wrote to Davies on 28 July 1960: “I feel that this first Seminar was a complete success and that if the publication of these papers will aid in the continuance of this project we will be making a useful contribution to both the study of Shakespeare and the Stage in Canada ... If you are agreeable to the inclusion of your paper in this volume ... I would be in favour of having it last in the book to act as a strong finish to the highlights of the Seminar.” Davies sent his paper to Lee in mid-August 1960. Gage paid a royalty of 15% on the number of copies sold (placed into a special fund to assist in financing the second Seminar held the next year). Contributors to the volume received ten complimentary copies. Published in early May 1961. Price $2.50. At least 1,500 copies were printed by Gage because the McMaster University Bookstore guaranteed to sell a minimum of that number of copies. By 13 December 1965, Gage still had 547 copies in stock; by 15 January 1970, Gage had 283 in stock. Although there was a seconding printing of the book (see B11a.1), Gwyn C. Ace of Gage complained to Jean Sutherland of the McMaster University Book Store on 29 April 1965: “The situation is not encouraging [about the Seminar publications]. In fact, I must be frank and say that unless a most significant increase can be made in the sales figures, there seems to be little point in continuing publication. Even if a subsidy were to be obtained, it seems a folly to underwrite the cost of a book in which only a few people are interested.” Information based on: file 37, vol. 48 and file 10, vol. 51, Davies fonds, lac; and the B.A.W. Jackson fonds, ohm. See also Jackson, “McMaster at Stratford: The Anniversary Year,” McMaster News 34, no. 3 (Fall 1964): 5, 21-2. copies examined: davis (both binding variants; two copies in grey, one in olive); ohm; otmc (two copies); pend. B11a.1  second issue [1970?]: The second issue is a reprinting of B11a done sometime after 1970 when W.J. Gage Limited changed its name to Gage Educational Publishing Limited. It differs from B11a in the following respects: the paper stock is whiter and thinner; the illustrations are positioned between pp. 76 and 77; the leaves measure 222 × 128 mm.; the inner margin of p. 112 has the numbering, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 GL 76 75 74 73 72-075836. The book is perfect bound with no discernible gatherings. The binding is stiff white paper having a blue illustration by Eric Fraser of an Elizabethan stage on the front cover with buildings in the back-

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ground and people in costume (a woman playing a lute, a shepherd, an actor wearing a ruff and reading a manuscript, a woman wearing a crown and holding a quill pen) at the sides, and masks of tragedy and comedy at the front of the stage. Printing on the illustration is in red within three separate compartments: [the first two lines within a shield on the roof of the stage] Edited by | B. A. W. JACKSON | [the next four lines on the blank stage curtain] Stratford papers | on | Shakespeare | 1960 | [the next two lines on the floor of the stage] GAGE EDUCATIONAL | PUBLISHING LIMITED. copies examined: ohm.

B12  the arts as communication 1962 The | ARTS | as Communication | ALBERT TRUEMAN | ROBERTSON DAVIES | PIERRE BERTON | Edited by D. C. Williams | [heavy rule] | UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS 1- 4 8. i-v, vi, vi, vii, 1-5, 4-15, 16-19, 20-31, 32-35, 36-54 pp. (32 leaves). 217 × 140 mm. text: “The Theatre,” pp. 19, 20-31. binding: Bound in dark-green cloth with the following stamped in gilt down the spine: The [the next word in green against a solid gilt rectangle] ARTS as Communication / Williams | [stamped horizontally] TORONTO. Cream-coloured endpapers. The dust jacket is white with lettering and illustration in forest green. The front panel of the jacket has the names of the three contributors on the top right-hand corner and the names of the editor and publisher on the bottom right-hand corner. The title on the front panel is within a solid, horizontal rectangle, and there is a pattern of lines, grouped together, cutting across the word ARTS at various angles. The spine panel is similar to the lettering on the spine. On the back panel are ads for the University of Toronto Quarterly and the Canadian Historical Review. The flaps provide a synopsis of the book’s contents along with the price ($2.50) and brief information about the editor. notes: This volume brings together three essays that were originally given as the President’s Lectures in the summer of 1961. At the time, Davies was Master Designate of Massey College at the University of Toronto. His essay on the theatre takes an historical approach in illuminating the modern theatre in Canada. On 27 September 1961, D.C. Williams, Director of University Extension (and Professor of Psychology) at the University of Toronto, asked Davies to submit his essay by

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mid-October. Davies sent his speech to Williams on 6 October 1961. The contract between Williams and the University of Toronto Press is dated 5 December 1961. The Division of University Extension, University of Toronto, gave the publisher $475 to underwrite the cost of production. Estimated production costs amounted to $1,417.10 (compilation, including editorial costs, composition, and proofing $465; lock-up and makeready $119.06; paper, presswork, and bindery $186.05; casing-in $404.70; and jackets $241.83). The manuscript was edited by Eleanor Cook on 29 January 1962. Proofs were sent to Williams on 21 March 1962. He returned them to Cook on 26 March 1962, and he also sent out proofs to the contributors at that time. B12 was published on 12 May 1962 in an edition of 1,000 copies. Information on the publishing history of B12 is based on the following: accession B1999-0015, box 44, University of Toronto Press fonds, otutf; file 14, vol. 52, Davies fonds, lac copies examined: ohm; otmc (in jacket); pend (in jacket).

B13 stratford papers on shakespeare 1963 [title page consists of two pages: on right-hand page:] STRATFORD PAPERS | on [the next word in calligraphic-style type] Shakespeare | delivered at the 1962 | Shakespeare Seminar | sponsored by the Universities | of Canada in co-operation | with the Stratford Festival | Theatre through the offices | of the Department of | Extension of McMaster | University | PUBLISHED FOR | McMASTER UNIVERSITY BY | W. J. GAGE LIMITED, TORONTO | [on left-hand page:] NEVILL COGHILL, G. B. HARRISON, | ROBERTSON DAVIES, PERCY SMITH, | R. A. FOAKES, AND FRANK JESSUP | [illustration of a flower] | edited by b. a. w. jackson, d.phil. (oxon.) | DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH | McMASTER UNIVERSITY 1-8 16. i-vi, vii, viii, ix-xiii, 1, 1, 2, 3-35, 36, 37-63, 64, 65, 66, 67-117, 118, 119-147, 148, 149, 150, 151-174, 175, 176-199, 200, 201, 202, 203-211, 212, 213-238, 1-4 pp. (128 leaves). 222 × 126 mm. text: “Changing Fashions in Shakespearean Production,” pp. 66-116. binding: Issued in stiff cream-coloured paper having an illustration by Eric Fraser of an Elizabethan stage on the front cover with buildings in the background and people in costume (a woman playing a lute, a shepherd, an actor wearing a ruff collar reading a manuscript, a woman wearing a crown and holding a

quill pen) at the sides and masks of tragedy and comedy at the front of the stage. Printing on the illustration is in red within three separate compartments: [the first two lines within a shield on the roof of the stage] Edited by | B.A.W. JACKSON | [the next four lines on a blank curtain of the stage] Stratford papers | on | Shakespeare | 1962 | [the next line on the floor of the stage] W. J. GAGE LIMITED. Printed in red down the spine: Stratford papers 1962/Gage. Designed by Arnold Rockman. notes: For information on the origins of the Shakespeare Seminar held at the Stratford Festival Theatre, see B11. The essays published in this volume were presented at the Seminar in the summer of 1962. Professor B.A.W. Jackson, the director of the Seminar, asked Davies if he would participate in the 1962 Seminar on 21 April 1961. He told Davies that it had been difficult to obtain commitments from speakers and that he especially needed a speaker for the second banquet. Davies replied to Jackson on 26 May 1961. Davies’s daughter, Miranda, was an apprentice with the Festival company that summer, and Davies and his wife planned to travel to Stratford to visit her. Davies also stated: “I should very much like to be a member of the Seminar in 1962, particularly as I did some of my work at Oxford with Professor Nevill Coghill and would be honoured to be associated with him again. In the autumn of 1962 I shall be beginning a graduate course in Drama at the University of Toronto and expect to work up some rather interesting stuff about changes of taste in the presentation of Shakespearian plays. I wonder if anything along this line would be of interest to the Seminar?” For Herbert Whittaker’s report on Davies’s contribution to the Seminar, see D62.2. Jackson’s introduction is dated April 1963. B13 was published in early September 1963 in an edition of at least 1,500 copies (price $2.50). On 13 December 1965, W.J. Gage Limited informed Jackson that 663 copies were in stock; by 15 January 1970, 422 copies were still in stock. Information on the publishing history of B13 is based on: file 37, vol. 48, Davies fonds, lac; and B.A.W. Jackson fonds, ohm. copies examined: ohm; otmc (three copies); pend (four copies).

B14  f. matthias alexander: the man and his work 1964 B14a  first English edition: F. MATTHIAS | ALEXANDER | THE MAN AND HIS WORK | BY LULIE WESTFELDT | London | GEORGE



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A8 B-K8 L4 ($1 signed). 1-15, 16-18, 19-21, 22-33, 34, 3545, 46, 47-53, 54, 55-65, 66, 67-71, 72, 73-77, 78, 79-83, 84, 85-88, 89, 90-94, 95, 96-100, 101, 102-121, 122-125, 126-132, 133, 134-141, 142, 143-146, 147, 148-151, 152, 153-155, 156-160, 161-163, 1-5 pp. (84 leaves). 216 × 137 mm.

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text: A testimonial, pp. 118-20, extracted from a letter [27 October 1958], which concludes: With every best wish, I am, | Yours sincerely, | R.D. binding: Bound in maroon paper boards with the following stamped in silver on the spine: [rule] | F. | Matthias | Alexander | The Man | and his Work | [rule] | LULIE | WESTFELDT | GEORGE | ALLEN | AND | UNWIN. Dust jacket not seen. notes: Lulie Westfeldt (1896-1965), an American raised in New Orleans, was severely handicapped as a result of childhood polio. In 1929 she read F. Matthias Alexander’s Man’s Supreme Inheritance, which contains an explanation of the Alexander Technique, a method of bodily alignment and muscular coordination based on the relationship of the head, neck, and back. B14 is a memoir and an introduction to the principles of the Alexander Technique. In 1955 Davies complained of constant numbness in his left leg. A physician advised him to have a back operation, but instead he and his wife Brenda found a solution through treatment in the Alexander Technique from Lulie Westfeldt. Davies and his wife visited Westfeldt every six months until her death. They were very fond of her. Davies read and commented on earlier drafts of B14, and in 1959 he asked Willis Kingsley Wing, his agent, to place the book with a publisher. Davies and his wife wrote testimonials for B14. Brenda Davies’s testimonial appears on pp. 117-18. Westfeldt thanked Davies and his wife on p. 9 of the acknowledgments. For further information about Davies’s relationship with Westfeldt, see Man of Myth, pp. 344-6. In his testimonial Davies states that he first became aware of the Alexander Technique through references to it in Aldous Huxley’s Ends and Means. However, when he read Alexander’s The Universal Constant in Living in 1941, he found the book to be clumsily written. In the remainder of his testimonial Davies tells the story of his interaction with Westfeldt and the physical and psychological improvements that occurred in his well-being after taking lessons from her in the Alexander Technique. According to The English Catalogue of Books, B14a was published on 19 March 1964. Printed in 11 point Bell

B14a.1  first American issue : F. MATTHIAS | ALEXANDER | THE MAN AND HIS WORK | BY | LULIE WESTFELDT | ASSOCIATED BOOKSELLERS | WESTPORT CONN B14a.1 is from the same setting of type as B14a. The last five pages of B14a are advertisements for books published by George Allen and Unwin, while B14a.1 has blank pages after the text. The copyright pages differ slightly, and Associated Booksellers replaces the English publisher on the spine of B14a.1. Otherwise, B14a.1 is identical to B14a. Dust jacket not seen. copies examined: ostcb. B14a.2 second American issue (1986): F. MATTHIAS | ALEXANDER | THE MAN AND HIS WORK | BY | LULIE WESTFELDT | [a line extends from the middle of C to P with enterline above the line and ress below the line] Centerline Press 1-13, ii-viii, 1, 16-18, 19-21, 22-33, 34, 35-45, 46, 47-53, 54, 55-65, 66, 67-71, 72, 73-77, 78, 79-83, 84, 85-88, 89, 90-94, 95, 96-100, 101, 102-121, 122-125, 126-132, 133, 134-141, 142, 143-146, 147, 148-151, 152, 153-155, 156160, 161-163, 1 pp. (86 leaves). 215 × 139 mm. B14a.2 appears to be have been photo-offset from the same setting of type as B14a.1. B14a.2 contains a “forward” (“foreword”) written by Troup Matthews dated September 1986 and an introduction written by Alice Westfeldt Matthews, Lulie Westfeldt’s niece, dated June 1986. Published in October 1986. ISBN 0-913111-15-1. Price $13.95. binding: Stiff white paper covers, perfect bound. Printed on the front cover: F. MATTHIAS ALEXANDER | THE MAN AND HIS WORK | LULIE WESTFELDT. The spine has the title, author’s name, and the logo of the press (CP with a line through the middle of the letters). The back cover has the price, information about the proponents of the Alexander Technique, biographical information about Westfeldt, the address of the publisher, and ISBN. copies examined: qmu.

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[open swelled rule] | Introduction: Robertson Davies | General Editor: Malcolm Ross | New Canadian Library No. 43 | [publisher’s device: abstract design within an oval of a person on a horse-drawn chariot, taking aim with a bow and arrow] | MCCLELLAND AND STEWART LIMITED i-iv, v-x, 11-137, 138, 139, 140, 141-142, 1-2 pp. (72 leaves). 184 × 112 mm. text: Introduction, pp. vii-x. binding: Paperback, perfect bound. The covers are white with the design and lettering in green, brown, and red. A drawing of Stephen Leacock’s face and shoulders in brown is on the front cover with an irregular, green vertical band on the left side. On the back cover are two green bands, information about the book in brown type, and the book’s price ($1.25). Covers designed by Donald Grant and John Zehethofer. notes: On 26 November 1963, Davies sent a copy of the first English edition (1916) of Leacock’s book of comic sketches Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy to McClelland & Stewart for photocopying and the setting of type. B15 was published on 5 September 1964. Printed and bound by Hazell Watson and Viney Ltd. S.J. Totton of McClelland & Stewart complimented Davies on his introduction on 16 September 1964: “Seldom does one encounter in a few brief pages so profound and sympathetic an introduction to an author’s work.” By the end of that year, 1,360 copies had sold. By the end of 1979, 14,740 had sold (information based on the following in the McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm: file 14, “New Canadian Library,” box 93, series A; file 34, box Ca6; and file 13, box Cae12). Reprinted by T.H. Best Printing Company Limited in 1971. Number of copies of each impression not known. copies examined: lac (two copies of the first printing; one copy of second printing).

B16  the encyclopedia americana 1964 [title page is white on the left side and pale blue on the right side; the first three lines in white] THE | ENCYCLOPEDIA | AMERICANA | INTERNATIONAL EDITION | [next three lines pale blue] FIRST | PUBLISHED | IN 1829 | [illustration of genie’s lamp in black, pale blue, and white] | [in white] COMPLETE IN THIRTY VOLUMES | AMERICANA CORPORATION | International Headquarters | 575 Lexington Avenue | New York 22, New York

1-5, 2-289, 289a-289d, 290-434, 435-445 [being one page], 446-495, 495a-495b, 496-575, 575a-575h, 576774, 774a-774d, 775-834, 834a-834b, 835-894, 1-2 pp. 250 × 182 mm. Unsigned gatherings, format not known. binding: Bound in dark-blue leatherette. A series of gold rules, the name of the encyclopedia in capital letters, volume number 17, and the coverage (LATIN | AMERICA | TO LYTTON) are stamped on the spine. The endpapers feature Donald T. Pitcher’s Americana World Map. text: “Stephen Leacock,” pp. 135-6. notes: Davies’s contribution to The Encyclopedia Americana was reprinted by Americana Corporation every year up to 1980 and then from 1981 by Grolier Incorporated. There were undoubtedly several new settings of type. Davies’s article on Leacock, for example, appears on pp. 95-6 in vol. 17 of the 1989 edition. copies examined: mich (first printing); ohm (1989).

B17  great canadians 1965 [title page is comprised of two pages; on right-hand page:] A | CENTURY | OF | ACHIEVEMENT | [the next line in brown, filigreed type; on left-hand page:] Great [on right-hand page:] Canadians | selected by The Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey | George Ferguson | Maurice Lebel | W. Kaye Lamb | Hilda Neatby | illustrated by Franklin Arbuckle | THE | CANADIAN CENTENNIAL | LIBRARY 1-8 8. 1-6, 7-13, 14, 15, 16, 17-18, 19-22, 23, 24-25, 26-27, 28-29, 30-31, 32-33, 34-35, 36-37, 38-39, 40-41, 42-43, 44-45, 46-47, 48-49, 50-51, 52-53, 54-55, 56-57, 58-59, 60-61, 62-63, 64-65, 66-67, 68-69, 70-71, 72-73, 74-75, 76-77, 78-79, 80-81, 82-83, 84-85, 86-87, 88-89, 90-91, 92-93, 94-95, 96-97, 98-99, 100-101, 102-103, 104-105, 106-107, 108-109, 110-111, 112-113, 114-115, 116-117, 118-119, 120-121, 122, 123-128 pp. (64 leaves). 280 × 210 mm. text: “The Implacable Educator,” pp. 72, 74. Summary paragraph on p. 71 and colour illustration of George Munro Grant on p. 73. binding and dust jacket: There are at least two binding variants. (1) Pictorial paper boards with both boards having a pattern of silhouettes representing the twenty-five Canadians selected for inclusion in B17; and the title in white and black stamped vertically at the sides. Down the spine are the title, the series (Weekend Magazine Edition), and the name of the



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publisher. Dust jacket not seen. (2) Red paper boards with the following on the upper board; small leaves blind-stamped; a wavy circle in gold with a series of leaves and periods and the following within the circle: [ornamental] 1867 | CANADA | [ornamental] 1967. The dust jacket of (2) is similar to the binding of (1) but with black flaps. Gold endpapers. notes: In October 1964 Pierre Berton, the Editor-inChief of The Canadian Centennial Publishing Company Limited, assembled a team of five distinguished scholars. They met in Toronto and selected twenty-five notable Canadians for inclusion in B17. Berton wrote to Davies on 10 November 1964. He requested a piece about George Munro Grant, the principal of Queen’s University. “We need a thousand words and the fee is $200.00,” Berton stated. “This is not an encyclopediatype essay, but something quite different.” Davies agreed to write the essay on 12 November 1964, but he expressed the hope that the deadline would be flexible as he was very busy with other work. He sent the article to Berton on 21 January 1965. The contract at pend is dated April 1965. Berton thanked Davies on 29 July 1965 for the “excellent” article. Number of copies printed and date of publication not known. The text set is 11 point Pilgrim, composed by T.H. Best Printing Company Limited, and printed on Webcoat paper by Litho-Print Limited. The pictorial paper boards are printed by Sampson Matthews Limited, and bound by T.H. Best Printing Company Limited. Information on the publishing history of B17 is based on files 26, 27, 30, and 35, vol. 43, Davies fonds, lac. See also B25. copies examined: ohm (both binding variants).

B18  a theatrical trip for a wager! 1966 [the first two lines in red] A Theatrical Trip | For a Wager! | Through Canada and the United States | By Captain Horton Rhys, | Otherwise Known As “Morton Price”; | Comprising A Narrative of the Unique | Adventures of an English Officer and | Amateur Thespian in uncivilised lands; | including his Travels, Tribulations, and | several Encounters, as originally publish- | ed in 1861 ❦ This Edition is Illustrated by | the line drawings of Sam Black, and is | Introduced by Robertson Davies | [the next line in turquoise blue] Limited Edition | The Alcuin Society-Vancouver 1966 18 2 10 3-5 8 6 12 7 8 8 6 9-17 8 18 6 19 2 20 4. 1-8, 9-12, 13-16, 17, 18-20, 21-22, 23-24, 25-28, 29-30, 31-33, 34-36, 37-48, 49-50, 51-52, 53-56, 57-60, 61-64, 65-76, 77-80,

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this time half of the book had been “printed, and type had been set for the remainder” (notes from The Alcuin Society, Spring 1966, p. 2). Sam Black had completed his initial illustrations, and he had a few more in preparation. Spencer sent Davies a copy of the book on 13 September 1966. “At the last minute we decided to bind a few ‘Specials’ in leather,” Spencer remarked, “& it is one of these that we are sending you. It has been a long, long haul, but we are all pleased with the outcome.” The 1966 fall issue of the Society’s notes records: “Our First Book IS OUT! After an eighteen month obstacle race, compared with which shepherding a herd of sick elephants over the Hindu Kush would be child’s play, the first copy of the book was reverently fingered at precisely 5.15 p.m. on the afternoon of FRIDAY, September 9th, 1966.” According to B18’s colophon, the edition consists of 500 numbered copies published by The Alcuin Society for its members. B18 is printed in Kennerly type, with Lombardic capitals used for the chapter initials; the titles are set in Verona, and various nineteenth-century typefaces have also been used at various places. The paper is Victorian Text. Designed and printed by Wil Hudson and Nick Schwabe, pen drawings by Sam Black, and bound by Hans Strohhacker — all of whom have signed the colophon. A “Special” cost $30. An “Ordinary” cost $20. Writing on behalf of The Alcuin Society, the University Librarian of the University of British Columbia Basil Stuart-Stubbs, informed John Gray of the Macmillan Company of Canada on 5 October 1966: “We have just finished our first book, Horton Rhys’ Theatrical Trip for a Wager, and on this publication we will either stand or fall. It’s a choice item for any collector of Canadiana or books on Canadian theatre. Our difficulty is the obvious one of promotion. No budget for advertising, and too poor to give any review copies like candy” (file 3, box 23, Macmillan of Canada fonds, ohm). See also The Alcuin Society: A Compilation of Its Publications (1999, pp. 3, 75). copies examined: davis (“Ordinary,” no. 375); ohm (third variant, no. 410); lac (“Ordinary,” no. 108); otmc (“Special,” no. 8, with letter from Spencer to Davies, 13 September 1966).

B19  peterborough: land of shining waters 1966 PETERBOROUGH | LAND OF SHINING WATERS | An Anthology | A Centennial Volume | Published by the City and County of Peterborough [to the right of the previous two lines] 1967

18 2-18 16 19 10. i-vii, viii, ix, x, xi, xii-xiii, 1-4, 4-7, 8, 9-15, 16, 17-22, 23, 24-27, 28, 29-40, 41, 42-47, 48, 49-55, 56, 57-60, 61, 62-65, 66, 67-75, 76-79, 80-85, 86, 87-91, 92, 93-125, 126-130, 131-139, 140, 141-144, 145, 146-151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159-164, 165-166, 167-168, 169, 170-173, 174, 175-181, 182, 183, 184-187, 188-194, 195, 196-200, 201, 202-204, 205, 206-207, 208, 209-226, 227, 228, 229, 230-232, 233, 234-235, 236, 237-238, 239, 240-241, 242-245, 246-252, 253, 254-262, 263, 264-269, 270, 271-282, 283, 284-291, 292, 293-295, 296-299, 300-303, 304, 305-306, 307, 308-313, 314, 315-316, 317, 318-321, 322, 323-326, 327-329, 330-336, 337, 338-340, 341, 342-345, 346, 347-353, 354, 355-357, 358, 359, 360, 361, 362-365, 366, 367, 368-370, 371, 372-378, 379, 380-383, 384, 385-390, 391, 392-398, 399, 400-404, 405, 406-416, 417-419, 420-430, 431, 432-436, 437, 438-439, 440-444, 445-448, 449, 450-451, 452, 453-454, 455, 456-458, 459-460, 461-464, 465, 466-467, 468-472, 473-486, 487, 488-490, 491, 492, 493, 494-509, 510-513, 514, 515, 516-520, 521, 522-523, 1-3 pp. (270 leaves + 20 leaves of photographs integral to the text inserted between pp. 296 and 297). 235 × 150 mm. text: Foreword, pp. vii-viii, dated 12 May 1966. binding and dust jacket: Bound in blue cloth with the following stamped in silver on the upper board: PETERBOROUGH | LAND OF SHINING WATERS. Stamped in silver on the spine: [first two lines down the spine] PETERBOROUGH | [under the previous line] LAND OF SHINING WATERS | 1967. The front panel of the jacket has a colour photograph of lakes and forest with the title printed in blue. The other panels of the jacket are white. Printing on the spine panel is in blue, similar to the stamping on the spine. On the back panel are the coats of arms of Peterborough County and the University of Toronto Press (the printer), three lines about this centennial volume, and a paragraph within a blue rectangle about the Peterborough area in 1833 written by George Arundel Hill, First Warden of Peterborough County. The front flaps have five paragraphs about the book’s contents, a list of the contributors, and the price ($5). The endpapers consist of a blue map of Peterborough with vignettes overlaying a larger map of Ontario, Quebec, and part of the United States. Pen drawings by Lesley Bradshaw. notes: Prepared on the occasion of Canada’s centennial, B19 contains more than seventy-five short essays in twelve chapters, written by different people on various aspects of the history and settlement of Peterborough, on. Ronald J. Borg, B19’s editor, was a technical writer in the aircraft industry, having immigrated to



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Canada after his discharge from the Royal Air Force in 1949. In his foreword to B18, Davies recalls the period of his life from 1942 to 1963 when he lived in Peterborough. At the time, the city was a close-knit community, and there was a hierarchy based on families and groups. “During all my days in Peterborough I led a double life of a dangerous kind,” Davies states. He was the editor of the Peterborough Examiner, served on committees and boards, and was involved in local theatre. At night he wrote plays and novels. According to Davies, the only time when he mixed fact and fiction about Peterborough occurred when he wrote At My Heart’s Core (A9), his play about Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Davies was asked to write a preface to B19 in September 1965. Ralph Honey told him on 21 March 1966: “Ten of the twelve sections are in the hands of the University of Toronto Press and the remaining two sections will be forwarded within the next two weeks.” Honey estimated that B18 would be in bookstores in October 1966. Bookstores sold the book on a 10% commission basis. Borg sent Davies a dummy of the book on 22 April 1966 when he had received galleys for the first three sections of B18. He sent Davies the complete manuscript a bit later. Davies told Honey on 10 May 1966: “The book is remarkable in the range of subjects it covers and should be of very great help to any future historians of Peterborough. Because of its comprehensiveness I think you are likely to have a substantial sale.” He sent the typescript of his foreword on 13 May 1966: “I have kept it short,” Davies explained, “as the book itself is clearly going to be of substantial length and I felt that an introduction should not attempt to rival the contributions in the amount of space it occupied.” The copyright page of the second printing reads: First Edition—Oct. 1966 | Second Edition—Jan. 1967. Information on the publishing history of B19 is based on: file 29, vol. 43, and file 2, vol. 79, Davies, fonds, lac. copies examined: davis (first printing in jacket); lac (“second edition,” rebound).

B20  the centennial play 1967 ‘CENTENNIAL PLAY’ | by | Robertson Davies, W.O. Mitchell, Arthur L. Murphy | Eric Nicol, Yves Thériault | with music | by | Keith Bissell | commissioned by the Centennial Commission on the occasion of | the celebrations of the Centennial of Canadian Confederation | All rights reserved except for | amateur production in 1967.

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Canadian writers who deal with particular aspects of our country. It is a queer sort of collaboration but I have great hopes that it will work and the result will be a play that can be performed by about twelve actors taking a very large number of parts, and having the air of an improvisation. We are avoiding Canadian heroes and the commonplaces of history and concentrating on the people of Canada and the land itself.

Davies sent Goldschmidt the six central episodes on 30 December 1965. Although he and others were pleased with the play, Davies told Goldschmidt that Thériault had been the least cooperative of the playwrights and that playgoers in Quebec would be offended by Thériault’s section. There was a trial performance of the play by the Academy Theatre Foundation, produced and directed by Leon Major and Frank Canino, in Lindsay, on on 6 October 1966. The official première of B20 occurred at the Ottawa Little Theatre on 11 January 1967, the anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald’s birth, in association with the Canadian Festival of the Arts. All the authors and dignitaries including the Prime Minister and the Governor General were invited to attend the play. Davies was severely critical of the production, however. He expressed his dissatisfaction with the production’s wanton disregard for the text. Alterations had been made to the text to make the play more palatable to a French-speaking audience. Davies left the reception without speaking to Peter Boretski, the director (see “Frank Daley Reviews Centennial ‘Play’ ‘It Was a Crashing Bore,’” Ottawa Journal, 12 January 1967, p. 5). See also B21 and H28. The publishing history of B20 is based on the following files in the Davies fonds at lac: files 7-10 and 32, vol. 45; file 2, vol. 50. copies examined: lac (dated-stamped 24 January 1967; front cover glossy light green; back cover glossy white); ohm (Bissell’s piano score precedes the play).

B21  the centennial play program 1967 [cover title: rule] | [the next three lines within three ovals, the middle oval thick and green] THE | CENTENNIAL | PLAY | [rule] | [gold abstract design of the Centennial Commission: maple leaf with 1867 and 1967 at each side of the stem of the leaf] | [rule] | A CENTENNIAL COMMISSION PROGRAM [cover title: rule] | [the next three lines within three ovals, the middle oval thick and green] LE | JEU DU | CENTENAIRE | [rule] | [gold abstract design of the Centennial Commission: maple leaf with 1867 and 1967 at each side of the stem of the leaf] | [rule]

| UN PROGRAMME DE LA COMMISSION DU CENTENAIRE 18. 1-16 pp. (8 leaves). Half in English, other half in French. 229 x 154 mm. text: On p. 1, two paragraphs by Davies, noting that the play is being performed on the anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald’s birth. binding: Glossy white paper covers, wire-stitched. notes: This pamphlet was the program for B20 when the play was produced by the Ottawa Little Theatre in association with the Canadian Festival of the Arts on 11 January 1967. See B20 for Davies’s contribution to the play. copies examined: lac.

B22  [playbill for caste 1967] [cover title] Centre for the Study of Drama University of Toronto | [a red rectangular frame with a leafy scroll design at the top and a circular opening; next two lines within the opening] Hart House | Theatre | [remaining lines within the frame] PRESENTS | CASTE | by Tom Robertson | Guest Director | BRIAN MEESON | Settings and Costumes Designed by | MARTHA MANN | October 20 to 8 | First Production | Season 1967-78 1 4. 1-4 pp. (leaflet folded once). 239 × 164 mm. text: Program note, p. 4. binding: Cream-coloured paper. notes: T.W. Robertson (1829-1871), an Anglo-Irish actor, playwright, stage manager, and critic, is best known for a series of realistic or naturalistic plays staged in London during the 1860s. First produced at the Prince of Wales’s Theatre on 16 April 1867, Caste concerns the social disparities between a husband (George, the son of a Marchioness) and his wife (Esther, an actress). In his program note, Davies discusses changing notions of realism and the contrasting points of view of the characters in the play. He poses various unresolved questions and observes: “it is the warmth and humanity of the people in Caste that save the play from being merely quaint today.” Brian Meeson, the play’s guest director, was Chair of the Theatre School at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and the co-founding director of the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. See also Herbert Whittaker, “Hart House Series, Style Is Tentative in Centre’s Caste,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 21 October 1967, p. 28.



B24 The Stratford Scene 1958-1968. 1968

copies examined: Hart House Theatre programs, Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama, G006.004, otutf.

B23  century 1867 1967: the canadian saga 1967 [cover title:] CENTURY 1867 [under the previous date] 1967 | The Canadian Saga | [colour illustration of eleven rows of maple leaves] | [vertically on the lefthand side] HANS KLEEFELD 1-2 16. 1-7, 8, 9-14, 15, 16-19, 20-21, 22-26, 27, 28, 29, 30-35, 36, 37, 38, 39-44, 45, 46, 47-48, 49-50, 51, 52-56, 57, 58-59, 60, 61-68, 69, 70-71, 72 pp. (36 leaves). 327 × 266 mm. text: “Letters: The Unfashionable Canadians,” pp. 54-5. binding: Cream-coloured paper wrapper (glossy on verso), stab stitched. (Copies issued with the Toronto Daily Star are on thick paper.) On the back cover is the following: [long rule] | I AM A CANADIAN | [ten paragraphs in two columns, each with a small colour illustration; the paragraphs all begin “I am ...,” “I have walked ...,” or “I came from ...,” and chronologically describe people who have inhabited Canada throughout the ages] | [long rule] | Copyright A Centennial tribute by ROTHMANS. notes: B23 was distributed with twenty Canadian newspapers as a separate, supplement publication during the week of 13 February 1967. Editorial design consultants Stewart & Morrison Ltd. The contract at pend is dated 28 July 1965. Davies agreed to deliver the manuscript of his contribution by 15 February 1966. The fee was $750. B23 contains thirty essays with advertisements for various regions and cities of Canada, aspects of culture, sport and science, native animals (the buffalo), and individuals (C.D. Howe). The contributors include Hugh MacLennan on “The Meaning of Canada,” Roger Lemelin on “Quebec, My City,” and Ruth Buck on “The Making of a Doctor.” Davies’s contribution to B23 emphasizes the emergence of a national literature and the need for a community of sensitive, appreciative readers: “Our demand for a national literature is like an outcry for portrait painters in a country where nobody wants to be a sitter,” he states. “Canada has had writers, and has them now, and they have not been trivial in their achievement. What Canada needs is serious, demanding readers. Before a nation demands masterworks it must be certain that it really wants them. Strong demand brings rich supply.”

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The masthead of one of the participating newspapers is printed at the top of p. 1. Among the copies examined were those issued by the Hamilton Spectator, the Toronto Evening Telegram, the Montreal Star, and the Toronto Daily Star. John D. Harbron, the editor of B23, worked at several business and daily newspapers. There was also a French edition of B23 (not seen), edited by Jean-Marie Poirier, entitled Un siècle. Reprinted in A58. copies examined: davis (five copies of four city dailies).

B24  the stratford scene 1958-1968 1968 [swash T] The | Stratford | Scene | 1958-1968 | compiled and edited by Peter Raby | with an introduction by Michael Langham | Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, | Toronto, Vancouver 1-168. 1-5, 6-34, 35, 36-38, 39, 40, 41, 42-46, 47, 48, 49, 50-75, 76-77, 78-88, 89, 90, 91, 92-103, 104, 105-121, 122, 123, 124, 125-133, 134-135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140-150, 151, 152-155, 156, 157, 158-159, 160-170, 171, 172-189, 190-191, 192-200, 201, 202-204, 205, 206-214, 215, 216-226, 227, 228-237, 238, 239-256 pp. (128 leaves). 243 × 243 mm. text: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” pp. 180-2. binding and dust jacket: Bound in cream-coloured cloth with a stylized S resembling the shape of a swan blind-stamped on the upper board. Stamped on the spine: [down the spine] The Stratford Scene 1958-1968 | CLARKE | IRWIN. Purple endpapers. The panels of the dust jacket are black. On the front panel is the title in dark pink, a black-and-white photograph of Alan Bates and Ann Firbank in Richard III, and the following line in white below the photograph: with an introduction by Michael Langham. On the back panel is a black-and-white photograph of Tony van Bridge in The Government Inspector. The spine panel, like the stamping on the spine, has the title in dark pink and the name of the publisher in white. The flaps in white have the title in pink, the price ($15), the publisher’s name, and paragraphs about Langham’s introduction, the productions at the Stratford Festival in 1967 and 1968 and the contributors who discuss the productions, and information about the editor Peter Raby. The book was sold in a cardboard box with STRATFORD SCENE stamped on the flap of the box. notes: Peter Raby, the editor of this coffee-table book on the Stratford Festival, was appointed the Festival’s dramaturge in 1966. He visited the offices of Clarke

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Irwin on 17 August 1967 with the proposal of a book on the 1967 productions at the Stratford Festival. Clarke Irwin’s editorial board was interested in Raby’s proposal but favoured a book that took a retrospective view of the Stratford Festival that extended to the 1967 season. Davies was suggested as a likely candidate to write an article on the years of the Festival for 195866 (suggested fee $500). With the exception of Michael Langham’s introduction which is a personal reflection on his twelve years as the Festival’s Artistic Director, Berners Jackson’s survey of the Festival’s productions from 1958 to 1968, and Louis Applebaum’s essay on the music festivals at Stratford, the contributions to this anthology concern stage productions at the Stratford Festival in the 1967 and 1968 seasons. Each play has a note by the director, playwright, or actor and then an accompanying piece by a critic or academic. Much of the book consists of 175 black-and-white photographs of the productions. Raby sent Davies’s “piece on the Dream” (1,800 words) to Elizabeth Avison of Clarke Irwin’s Editorial Department on 9 July 1968. His essay on John Hirsch’s 1968 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream describes performances of the play from the seventeenth century to the present. He also recalls seeing the play performed in 1932 by Bridges-Adams at Stratford-onAvon, and his own participation as Snout in Tyrone Guthrie’s production in 1938 at the Old Vic. Galley proofs of the book were ready on 12 August 1968. Davies was sent a fee of $180 and a copy of the book on 13 November 1968. The book sold for $12 to members of the Stratford Festival who purchased a copy before 25 November 1968. A brochure about the book was sent to 5,000 people associated with the Festival, and another 4,000 copies of the brochure were available at the Box Office. The production card for this book indicates that 5,100 copies (5,600 dust jackets and 5,425 cardboard boxes) were printed. 1,722 copies were delivered on 7 November 1968, 210 copies on 26 November 1968, 1,106 copies on 6 December 1968, and 1,767 copies on 4 February 1968. An internal memo states that, of the first binding of 2,828 copies, 698 copies were still in stock on 10 January 1969. Of the second binding of 1,787 copies completed on 24 February 1969, 1,000 copies were sold to Hill & Wang, Inc. on 19 December 1968 for distribution to the United States at $5,250. In addition to authors’ fees which amounted to $4,490, the major costs of production included: composition by J.W. Deyell, $1,731.90; Cuttell Bros., cardboard cartons, $308.68; M.M. & I, printing, $8,987.75; Deyell, folding of sheets, $563.91; and Deyell, binding, $4,048.03.

Clarke Irwin apparently received a subsidy from the Canada Council for B24’s publication. Information on the publishing history of B24 has been obtained from the following material in the Clarke Irwin fonds at ohm: box 79; file 20, box 6; file 8, box 36; file 52, box 74; and file 4, box 97. copies examined: ohm (two copies in jacket and box).

B25  the w.l. grant fellowship in adult education 1969 The W.L. Grant Fellowship in Adult Education 1 16. 1-6, 1-3, 4, 5-22, 1-4 pp. (16 leaves). 235 × 157 mm. binding: Dull-gold thick-paper wrapper with flaps, wire-stitched, with printing in brown. Printed on the front of the wrapper within a rectangle: The W.L. Grant | Fellowship in | Adult Education | [logo: abstract circle design with separations and ovals] | THE ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN EDUCATION. On the back of the wrapper is a rectangle. text: “Some Reminiscences of W.L. Grant,” pp. 5-8. notes: In the 1960s the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education offered one or two fellowships annually to scholars. The fellowship program was named after W.L. Grant (1872-1935), who taught at Upper Canada College between 1898 and 1904 and returned there in 1917 as Headmaster. This pamphlet was intended to provide information to candidates applying for the fellowship. It also contains a personal essay by Davies and a biographical essay on Grant by D.P. Armstrong. Grant was the Headmaster at Upper Canada College when Davies attended the school between 1928 and 1932. He begins his essay by asking why Grant was called “Choppy” and stating that no one to his knowledge has been able to explain this nickname. After recalling several interactions with Grant, he concludes by saying: “It would be no praise to say that he was the best Headmaster I ever knew, for he was the only one I ever knew ... I have often regretted that he did not live long enough for me to realize what an enlarging influence he had been in my life, and to gain the grace and self-confidence to thank him for it.” Cream-coloured paper with printing in brown. Designed by Leslie Smart & Associates and printed by Macdonald-Downie Limited. B25 is set in Times Roman with display lines in Cartier Roman. Reprinted as “Earliest Times: W.L. Grant,” Old Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) (winter 1977): 20-2. See also B17.



B27 Love and Whisky. 1973

copies examined: otu.

B26 stratford papers on shakespeare 1972 STRATFORD | PAPERS | 1968-69 | edited by B. A. W. Jackson | McMaster University Library Press | [illustration of a shamrock] | Irish University Press 1-416 58. 1-10, 1-161, 1-5 pp. (88 leaves). 212 × 135 mm. text: “Ben Johnson and Alchemy,” pp. 40-60. binding: Bound in dark-blue buckram with the following stamped in silver down the spine: Stratford Papers 1968-1969 McMaster / IUP. notes: This volume contains a selection of papers delivered at the 1968 and 1969 sessions of the Shakespeare Seminar in Stratford, on. See B11 and B12 for the origins of the Shakespeare Seminar and Davies’s first contributions to it. Davies and Professor B.A.W. Jackson exchanged letters about his proposed talk at the Shakespeare Seminar between November 1968 and May 1969. Davies told Jackson on 15 May 1969: “I want to talk a little bit about Jonson and the play [The Alchemist], but chiefly about the background of alchemy, for I think that some knowledge of what serious alchemists were really trying to do, and what a greedy society was trying to do to them, gives additional edge to Jonson’s satire.” The talk occurred on the morning of 30 July 1969 in the Festival Theatre Auditorium; those in attendance at the Seminar saw a performance of the play in the afternoon. Davies was paid an honorarium of $200 for his lecture plus his accommodation at the Windsor Hotel in Stratford, Ontario, meals, and theatre tickets. Davies sent Jackson a copy of his lecture on 8 August 1969. The entire manuscript for B26 was in hands of the Irish University Press prior to October 1970. Lelia Hanratty of the Press raised queries about a number of the papers on 13 May 1971. Page proofs of B26 were received by Graham R. Hill, the Administrative Assistant to the McMaster University Librarian William Ready, on 29 August 1972. Hill corrected them and returned one set of page proofs and corrected galleys on 3 September 1972. Jackson told Hanratty on 8 September 1972 to remove “Shakespeare in the New World” as a sub-title. She acknowledged receipt of galleys and page proofs on 14 September 1972 and told Hill: “I hope that everything has now been cleared up and that I will be in a position to give you news of the finished book before long.” Information based on file 10, vol. 54 of the Davies fonds, lac, and the Berners A.W. Jackson fonds at ohm.

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ISBN 0 7165 002 7 (IUP), ISBN 0-9690270-1-X (McMaster). Filmset and printed in the Republic of Ireland at Shannon by Robert Hogg, printer to the Irish University Press. copies examined: ohm; otmc.

B27  love and whisky 1973 B27a  first edition: Betty Lee | Love and Whisky | The Story of the Dominion Drama Festival | [publisher’s device: abstract design within an oval of a person on a horsedrawn chariot, taking aim with a bow and arrow] McClelland and Stewart Limited 1-8 16 9 8 10-1116. i-viii, ix-xiii, xiv, 15-41, 42, 43-129, 130, 131-335, 1 pp. (168 leaves). 213 × 142 mm. text: Foreword, dated 31 January 1973, pp. ix-xi. binding: Bound in dark-brown cloth with the following stamped in silver down the spine: Lεε•LOVE AND WHISKY•M&S. Flecked, light-brown endpapers. On the panels of the dust jacket is a colour drawing of a crowd of standing people. Printed above the illustration on the front panel: [in brownish-orange] LOVE AND WHISKY | The Story of the Dominion Drama Festival | [in brownish-orange] Betty Lee | Foreword by Robertson Davies. Printed above the illustration on the spine panel: Lεε | • | [next three lines in brownishorange] LOVE | AND | WHISKY | • | M&S. On the front flap are four paragraphs about the book along with the price ($8.95), the author’s name, the title, and the name of the publisher. On the back flap of the jacket are a black-and-white photograph of Lee, a paragraph about her, the ISBN number (0-7710-52219), the name of the jacket’s designer (David Shaw), and the name of the publisher. notes: When Betty Lee wrote her history of the development of theatre in Canada with an emphasis on the Dominion Drama Festival (DDF), she was an experienced journalist with the Toronto Globe and Mail and a Southam Fellow in 1972-3. As a result of her fellowship, she was invited to work during the academic year at Massey College in the University of Toronto, where Davies presided as Master. Davies had been asked by Jack McClelland to write the history of the DDF, but had declined the project on 17 January 1972 because he was too busy completing The Manticore (see file 5, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac). The contract for B27a is dated 5 May 1972. Lee received a fee of $10,000 for writing the book. In addition, there was a royalty of 10% up to 5,000 copies

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sold and a 12½% royalty thereafter (2½% royalty for Theatre Canada). The Canada Council gave McClelland & Stewart a publication subsidy of $8,000. Although Lee interviewed Davies about the DDF in June 1972, she hesitated to ask him to write a foreword to B28a. On 4 September 1972, she asked McClelland to approach Davies on her behalf. McClelland wrote to Davies on 26 January 1973 and offered him an honorarium of $100 for a foreword. Davies received Lee’s typescript on 29 January 1973. He sent the foreword to McClelland on 1 February and told him that Lee had written “a book of permanent value” and that her account “was an extremely capable and tactful handling of a difficult subject.” (file 5, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac). In his foreword Davies states: “I was for many years a keen supporter of the Festival and was even for a time one of its Governors, but I never knew that it was so rich and strange as this admirable book shows it to have been” (p. ix). B27a was typeset by the Qualitype Company and printed by the Bryant Press Ltd. in an edition of 3,000 copies. Published in April 1973. (Information based on file 43, box 22, series A, and files in boxes CC68 and JV4-5, McClelland & Stewart fonds, ohm.) copies examined: davis (in jacket); oh (in jacket); ohm (no jacket); omcn (in jacket). B27a.1 second issue (1982): Canadian Theatre History No. 1 | Love | and | Whisky | by Betty Lee | Foreword by Robertson Davies | The Story of the Dominion Drama Festival | and the Early Years of Theatre in Canada | 1606-1972 | [publisher’s device; abstract design on two pages within a solid black circle outlined] Simon & Pierre | Toronto, Canada. This issue, which has a slightly longer subtitle than that of B27a, was undoubtedly printed by photo offset from the sheets of B27a. B27a.1 measures 227 × 151 mm. Printed by Imprimerie Gagné Ltée. B27 is dedicated “To Marian M. Wilson | archivist of the Dominion Drama Festival and Theatre of Canada.” Wilson was the publisher of Simon & Pierre. Perfect bound in pinkish-purple thick paper. Printing on the front cover is similar to the title page without the publisher’s device and name and with the addition of three abstract masks of tragedy and comedy in white. The series number, title, author’s name, and S&P are printed on the spine. On the back cover are three paragraphs about the book, a paragraph of biographical information about Lee, excerpts from reviews, the ISBN (088934-131-7), price ($9.95), and the publisher’s name, device, and address. Number of copies printed and exact date of publication not known.

copies examined: lac.

B28  the revels history of drama in english 1975 The [swash R] Revels | History of Drama | in English | VOLUME VI 1750-1880 | Michael R. Booth, Richard Southern, | Frederick & Lise-Lone Marker | & Robertson Davies | Methuen & Co Ltd | London 1-11 16 12 8. i-v, vi, vii, viii-xi, xii-xv, xvi-xlix, l, li-lxii, 1-3, 4-28, 29, 30-57, 58-61, 62-94, 95, 96-143, 144-147, 148149, 150, 151-157, 158, 159-165, 166, 167-174, 175, 176-182, 183, 184-191, 192, 193-202, 203, 204-208, 209, 210-212, 213, 214-220, 221, 222-230, 231, 232-240, 241, 242-248, 249, 250-256, 257, 258-263, 264, 265-269, 270271, 272-286, 287, 288-304, 1-2 pp. (184 leaves). 232 × 155 mm. There are also three gatherings of eight leaves of illustrations (forty-eight half-tone plates) found at pp. 34–35, 130-131, and 226-227. text: “III Playwrights and Plays,” pp. 147-269 and 2836 (the latter pages consisting of bibliography). binding: There are two binding variants. (1) Red cloth, top edge stained red. The upper board has been blind-stamped as follows: The [next word in gilt, swash R] Revels | History of Drama | in English | [roman letters in gilt] vi 1750-1880. Stamped on the spine in gilt: [thick-thin rule] | The [swash R] Revels | History of | Drama in | English | VOLUME VI | 17501880 | Michael R. Booth | Richard Southern | Frederick & Lise- | Lone Marker | Robertson Davies | [thin-thick rule]. The front, spine, and back panels of the dust jacket are black with white lettering. There is a colour illustration of Garrick as Don Juan (from an oil painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg) on the front panel. The back panel has a list of the volumes of The Revels History of Drama in English (Clifford Leech and T.W. Craik, editors), published and forthcoming. The flaps are white. The front flap has a paragraph on the contents of vol. VI, a couple of paragraphs on the five contributors, and the price (£10.50). On the back flap is a list of Revels Plays published by Methuen. (2) Perfect binding, black, glossy, thick paper. The front cover is the same as the front panel of the jacket. Lettering on the spine is in white as follows: UP 536 | [remaining lines down the spine] The [swash R] Revels History of Drama in English | Volume VI | [under the previous line] 1750-1880. Information on the back cover is similar to the text on the front flap of the jacket. Price £4.90. The price of the book was increased in the 1980s to £9.95 (£10.50 export).



B28 The Revels History of Drama in English. 1975

The endpapers consist of a city map of London (in light brown, brown lettering and illustration, red lettering for names of theatres). ISBN 0 416 13070 4 (cloth). ISBN 0416 81380 1 (paperback). notes: The Revels History of Drama in English consists of seven volumes of critical commentary on drama in English from medieval times to the twentieth century. In his preface (p. xiii), Clifford Leech states that he is responsible as editor for vols. III and VI. He thanks “all the contributors who have worked with me in the most friendly and cooperative way.” Leech joined the faculty of English at University College, University of Toronto, in 1963, and became Chairman in 1964. On 12 November 1968, Davies wrote a citation for Leech’s membership in the Royal Society of Canada, calling him “one of the foremost editors of Elizabethan and Jacobean play texts of our time.” Davies told his agent Willis Kingsley Wing of Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc. on 10 May 1966 that he was contributing to the Revels History: “I am doing the chunk of drama between 1750 and 1880 [an examination of more than 300 plays]. I gather that this is quite a large publishing undertaking and I am pleased to be included with what looks like an all-star cast of scholars in this field. As the contract is a standard one I have not troubled you about it.” Peter Wait of Methuen & Co. sent Davies a contract for his contribution on 28 October 1966: £150 to be paid on delivery of the manuscript with a deadline of 1 July 1968 and a further £150 on publication. Davies returned and signed the contract on 14 November 1966 (copy at pend so dated). Davies also owned a one-half share of the royalties on B28: 10% on the first 3,000 copies sold, 12½% to 7,500 copies, and 15% thereafter. He told J. Alan White on 20 September 1967 that he was “enjoying the work greatly; indeed I hope to put forward some ideas about the despised melodrama of the nineteenth century that will show it in a different and, I think, truer light.” He was still absorbed in the work in February 1968. He sent the typescript to Leech on 27 June 1968. When Leech sent him five pages of dense comments, Davies replied to him on 30 September 1968: “I now realize how you have gained your enviable reputation as an editor of scholarly works: it is by means that would have brought a blush to the cheek of Simon Legree ... You know jolly well that they [Leech’s requests for revision and additional information] would take a full week of the most drudging work, if I had a full week to devote to it ... However, I have groaned beneath the lash of editors for the past thirty years and have never yet failed to lick the hand that was raised to strike me, so I shall do what I can to

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get all this stuff ready for you as soon as possible.” Almost a year later on 16 September 1969 with no news from Leech or Methuen about publication, Davies asked Michael R. Booth, a fellow contributor, if he knew what was happening with the volume. “I am becoming rather annoyed,” Davies complained, “because I re-arranged some quite important affairs in order to have my work in his hands in time for the deadline he had set. Since then I have heard nothing from his publishers.” Davies found out and informed Booth on 29 September 1969 that the apparent delay in publication was due to Alan Downer’s failure to complete his contribution to the volume. Downer in fact died in January 1970. Davies urged Leech to find a substitute contributor as quickly as possible. At the same time Davies told Booth on 29 January 1970: “One of the curious results of this delay is that I have found out some new things about my own section that I would like to include into it, and threatened Leech with wanting to re-write it entirely, taking at least a year to do so. He turned quite white.” Davies resubmitted his contribution (entitled “Playwrights and Plays 1750-1880”) to Leech on 11 May 1970 “with revisions and corrections.” He had re-checked the dates of all the plays and enclosed a list of possible illustrations from his own library. More than a year later on 4 July 1971, Leech informed Davies that he was going to resign as editor of the Revels History. On 6 January 1972, Davies wrote a letter of complaint to Peter Wait. He had not been paid and knew nothing about publication. He asked Wait to return his typescript at the earliest opportunity if Methuen did not intend to publish the volume in the near future: “If the tone of this letter seems sharp I think that you will agree that some sharpness is justified,” Davies stated. Wait sent Davies a telegram, informing him that payment would be arranged quickly. Davies apparently received £150 from Methuen sometime in April 1972, following some prodding by his agent, A.P. Watt. On 10 October 1972, Leech was still on the project. He asked Davies to supply information for an appendix (first performances of notable British plays and the birth and death dates of notable British playwrights). Davies complied on 27 October 1972. On 27 July 1973, Helen Fraser of Methuen’s Editorial Department told Davies that vol. VI of the Revels History was in production. She sent Davies a list of queries. Davies replied to them on 7 August 1973, but Fraser was puzzled by his references to additional notes. Fraser’s puzzlement unleashed a storm of outrage from Davies. He told her on 23 August 1973: “I am astonished that you have not received the additional material from Professor Leech; he extorted

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it from me under threat of extreme pressure almost two years ago. Hound him! Seek him out and menace him! There is much that is valuable and explanatory and helpful in those notes and I for one do not want it to be lost, and I am sure the other contributors feel the same. Indeed, we had despaired of ever seeing this volume in print at all.” Specimen pages for vols. III and VI were sent to Davies on 15 October 1973. Both Davies and his secretary, Moira Whalon, proofread his contribution. The proofs were returned to Leech on 12 December 1973. Davies was not alone in his dissatisfaction with Methuen’s delay in publication. Frederick J. Marker and Lise-Lone Marker wrote a letter of complaint to Methuen on 28 February 1974. “I too am fed up with the needless delay in the production of this volume,” he told the Markers on 5 March 1974. “I was warned by my agent a few years ago, when this project was new, that Methuen’s had a bad reputation for their dealings with authors, and I understand now how it was achieved.” But the delay in publication was not entirely Methuen’s fault. Fraser informed Davies on 19 March 1974 that Leech had not returned the proofs of the book. She asked Davies to intercede on her behalf. When Frederick J. Marker heard that Leech had failed to return the proofs, he was so incensed by Leech’s behaviour that he threatened to sue him. Leech wanted his name removed entirely from the volume. On 1 April 1974, Davies told Fraser: “A tense situation has developed about Volume VI of the Revels History of Drama and both Professor Leech and Professor Marker are deeply disturbed by it.” Davies wanted Leech to remain as editor of the volume and tried to act as a peacemaker, “a role which I have been playing with varying success during the past week.” Leech returned the proofs to Methuen uncorrected. Further editorial on the volume was apparently done by T.W. Craik. To make things worse, Leech lost the bibliographies to the volume. Davies re-sent his bibliography to Methuen, and then Leech finally found the bibliographies. Davies received page proofs in early November 1974; he returned them to Methuen on 20 November 1974. Methuen mailed Davies the second payment of £150 for his contribution on 6 June 1975. He also received royalty payments on the book every six months. He was paid £4.90, for example, on 1 November 1986 for the first six months of 1986 when twenty-four copies sold. B28 was printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk, and was distributed in the USA by Harper and Row Publishers, Barnes and Noble Import Division. Information on

the publishing history of B28 is based on the following information in the Davies fonds, lac: files 30-2, vol. 43; files 32-3, vol, 45; file 8, vol. 50; and file 35, vol. 79. copies examined: davis (perfect binding); otmc (both binding variants, cloth in jacket).

B29  world authors 1975 WORLD AUTHORS | 1950-1970 | [short swelled rule] | A Companion Volume to Twentieth Century Authors | [short swelled rule] | Edited by | JOHN WAKEMAN | Editorial Consultant | STANLEY J. KUNITZ | THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY | New York • 1975 1-10, 1594, 1-4 pp. (804 leaves). 252 × 172 mm. Unsigned gatherings consist of 16 leaves. text: Autobiographical essay in “Davies, (William) Robertson,” pp. 359-60. Supplementary biographical information and commentary about Davies written by an anonymous critic is on pp. 360-2. binding and dust jacket: Bound in rust brown cloth with the following stamped in gilt on the upper board: WORLD AUTHORS | 1950-1970 | [short swelled rule] | WAKEMAN. Stamped in gilt on the spine: [two rules] | WORLD | AUTHORS | 1950-1970 | [two rules] | WAKEMAN | [two rules; two rules] | THE H. W. WILSON | COMPANY | [two rules]. Dust jacket not seen. notes: B29 is a companion volume to Twentieth Century Authors (1942) edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft and the First Supplement (1955) to that volume edited by Kunitz and Vineta Colby. Intended for students and educated readers, Twentieth Century Authors and the First Supplement contain 2,500 articles with unsigned editorial notes on the authors and their works. Approximately half of the authors in this biographical reference tool have provided autobiographical information for their entries. In his succinct essay Davies provides information about his parents (“my father was ... a newspaperman and a demon grammarian.”), his education (“I was a fool at mathematics.”), his life as an actor in England (“I played idiots, drunkards, pedants and the fathers of more important characters, principally in Shakespeare.”), his work as a playwright (“My success has been variable.”), and his dislike of being labeled as a humorist (“I am in fact a very serious man.”). In the last paragraph Davies states that since being appointed as the Master of Massey College, he has had little time for serious writing projects. He mentions



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that he is “at work on a novel ... markedly different from anything I have done before.” The commentary about Davies was written after he had completed The Manticore. Alphabetically arranged, B29 contains 959 entries about authors, most of whom came to prominence between 1950 and 1970. A necrology at the end of B29 lists eighteen authors whose deaths were reported too late for inclusion in the entries; the latest date reported is 21 November 1974. Price $60; ISBN 0-82420419-0. B29 was published prior to July 1975 (it was reviewed in Library Journal in that month). Number of copies printed not known. copies examined: ohm.

B30 beyond industrial growth 1976 Beyond industrial growth | Edited by | ABRAHAM ROTSTEIN | Preface by | ROBERTSON DAVIES | Master, Massey College | University of Toronto Press | Toronto and Buffalo 1-4 16 5 8 6 2. i-ix, x-xii, 1-3, 2-21, 22-23, 24-45, 46-47, 4870, 71-73, 74-97, 98-99, 100-114, 115-117, 118-131, 1-3 pp. (74 leaves). 229 × 142 mm. text: Preface dated June 1974, p. v. binding: Bound in pale greenish-brown cloth with the following stamped on the upper board: Beyond Industrial Growth | EDITED BY ABRAHAM ROTSTEIN | [the next three lines within a brownishgold rectangle] Maurice Lamontagne, A. W. Johnson | Charles Taylor, Claude Castonguay | Vivian Rakoff, George Grant | [illustration within the rectangle in brownish-gold of a medieval scene (buildings in the background, person playing the organ, person reading a book, two people seated at a table eating a meal, etc.)]. Dust jacket not seen. notes: This anthology, edited by Abraham Rotstein, Senior Fellow of Massey College and associate professor in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, contains the six Massey College Lectures delivered in the academic year 1974-5. The first lecture (Charles Taylor, “The Politics of the Steady State”) was given on 16 October 1975, and the last (A.W. Johnson, “Economic Horizons”) on 14 March 1975. Rotstein sent Davies a list of the lectures on 16 May 1974. He also drew up a list of 100 people who were invited to hear the lecture series (see box 5, Master’s Office files, otmc). The central theme of the six contributors, inspired

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by discussions at the Club of Rome, concerns the implications of a zero-growth or steady-state economy in Canada for social progress and lifestyles. In his preface Davies thanks the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for making the lectures available to a national audience (the CBC paid Massey College a fee of $300 per lecture), the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation for their financial sponsorship, and Rotstein who organized the lecture series and oversaw the book’s publication. Rotstein submitted the manuscript of the book to R.I.K. Davidson, editor of the University of Toronto Press, on 5 March 1975. The contract, dated 24 September 1975, between Massey College and the University of Toronto Press specified that failing a subsidy of not less than $3,500 by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in aid of publication, Massey College would provide this amount or the difference if the subsidy were less than $3,500. Massey College was to receive a royalty of 10% on all copies sold plus 200 complimentary copies in paperback. The costs of production amounted to $10,040 (in-house work $2,250; manufacturing $4,425; selling $3,265). Expected income was $6,925. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada engaged three readers. They decided against a subvention, however, on the grounds that B30 was not a sufficiently scholarly publication. Massey College paid the University of Toronto Press $3,100 towards the publication of B30. Davidson completed the editing of B30 on 23 October 1975. He sent Rotstein a proof copy of the prelims on that date. When Davidson saw the design of the jacket on 14 January 1976, he remarked that the design exemplified “industrial growth” and appeared contrary to the book’s theme. The text was printed by Hunter Rose in IBM Press Roman. B30 was published on 22 May 1976 in an edition of 1,325 copies (425 copies in cloth, 900 copies in paper). Price $12.50 cloth (ISBN 0-8020-2228-6); $4.95 paper (ISBN 0-8020-6286-5). By the end of 1976 most of the edition had been sold out or disposed of. Massey College sent out complimentary copies to over 100 libraries in various countries of the world. 133 copies in cloth and 71 copies in paper remained in the warehouse. A reprinting in paperback was contemplated at that time but apparently never materialized. Information on the publishing history of B30 is based on the following: accession B1999-0015, box 30, University of Toronto Press fonds, otutf. copies examined: oh (cloth, no jacket).

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B31  the toronto book 1976 THE | TORONTO | BOOK | An Anthology of Writings | Past and Present Edited by | WILLIAM KILBOURN | Macmillan of Canada / Toronto

William French on 12 June 1976 (p. 34). Information based on file 36, box 19, and file 2, box 52, William Kilbourn fonds at oty Archives and Special Collections. copies examined: davis (in jacket); ohm (in jacket).

1-9 16. 1-2, 5, 6, 7-9, 10-12, 13-82, 83-84, 85-109, 110-112, 113-176, 177-178, 179-218, 219-220, 221-244, 245-246, 247-290 pp. (144 leaves). 229 × 151 mm. text: “Massey College,” pp. 239-41. binding and dust jacket: Bound in dark-brown paper boards with the following stamped in gilt down the spine: the TORONTO BOOK kilbourn MACMILLAN [next line under the previous line] OF CANADA. Endpapers in gold reproduce a plan of the city of Toronto drawn by Charles Unwin. The dust jacket is camel coloured with lettering and illustrations primarily in dark brown. The front panel has the title, the editor’s name, and names of contributors to the anthology. The contributors’ names are continued on the back of the jacket, which includes a photo of Kilbourn, biographical information about him, the name of the jacket designer (Don Fernley), and the ISBN (0-7705-1322-0). The flaps describe the contents and purpose of the book and provide the address of the publisher. notes: Born and educated in Toronto, William Kilbourn (1926-1995) spent much of his writing and teaching career commemorating the city of Toronto. In addition to being a university professor, he served as a member of Toronto’s city council and worked in film, television, and radio as a writer and host. The Macmillan Company of Canada considered publication of The Toronto Book in 1972. Apparently most of the manuscript was ready at that time, but the anonymous reader’s report suggested reshaping the manuscript into a smoother, livelier, more unified collection. Kilbourn agreed with this criticism. In his reply to the report, Kilbourn noted that Davies’s essay could be “shifted around and shortened.” In his correspondence with Kilbourn, Donald M. Sutherland, the Director of Macmillan’s Trade Division, stated that the target date for B31’s publication was 21 September 1973. Sutherland also pointed out that soliciting the permissions for contributions and paying for them would cost between $1,500 and $2,000. Kilbourn was expected to take care of the cost of permission fees, and it was probably for that reason that publication was delayed. Plans for publication re-commenced on 23 July 1975 when Douglas M. Gibson, Macmillan’s Editorial Director, wrote to Kilbourn. Exact date of publication and number of copies printed (probably 5,000) not known. The copyright date is 1976; the book was reviewed in the Toronto Globe and Mail by

B32  masks of satan, flyer advertisING lectures 1976 [cover title; red thick rule] | Larkin-Stuart Lectures 1976. [in red and at a lower line level] Masks of Satan: | some concepts of evil in literature. | [red thick rule] | November 15, 16, 17, 18 | Seeley Hall, Trinity College | 8:30 p.m. | Tickets free. | [next three lines to the right of the previous four lines; next line in red] Robertson Davies | Master, Massey College | Professor of English, University of Toronto | [red rule; below the rule on the left side is a list of the titles of Davies’s four lectures and a paragraph announcing the sponsorship of the lectureship and Davies’s explanation of the choice of his lecture topics; on the right side is a black-and-white photograph of Davies and an order form for tickets] Broadside, glossy white paper stock. 275 × 215 mm. text: Twenty-two lines which begin: “I have chosen the general subject and the individual lectures because I have been, for some time, keenly interested in the way in which writers deal with the problems of evil, and the marked contrast between nineteenth and twentieth-century writers in this respect.” notes: Founded to honour Canon Cecil Stuart and Gerald Larkin, the Larkin-Stuart Lectures are jointly hosted annually by St. Thomas’s Church and Trinity College in the University of Toronto. The lectures are given by an outstanding individual on some aspect of theology in the broadest sense. The titles of Davies’s four lectures on the flyer (see E76.7-10) are: “The Devil’s Burning Throne: Melodrama as NineteenthCentury Genre”; “Phantasmagoria and Dream Grotto: Nineteenth-Century Fiction”; “Gleams and Glooms: The Ghost Story, a Neglected Literary Form”; and “Thunder without Rain: Twentieth-Century Fiction.” See also A52 and A96 for the publication of these lectures. copies examined: davis; otmc.

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the right of the first eight lines:] The Graduate Centre | for Study of Drama | and the Faculty of Music | present | [to the right of the letter S in the next line] The | Sesqui | Season | Robertson Davies’ | Pontiac | and | the Green | Man | [seven lines with the names of those responsible for the music, acting, direction, stage design, conducting, lighting design, and choreography] | MacMillan Theatre, University of Toronto | October 26 to November 5, 1977 Leaflet folded twice to form six unnumbered pages. 217 × 118 mm. text: “Program note” in two paragraphs on the last page of the theatre program. binding: With the exception of the cover title, each connected page of the leaflet has a green border with a solid white rectangle (corners rounded). The rectangles are outlined in green. Printing within the rectangles is in green. notes: Davies wrote “Pontiac and the Green Man” at the request of the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto to celebrate the university’s sesquicentennial in 1977. Several years after the British conquest of North America and the fall of New France, Pontiac (1720-1769), a Native American war chief, led an alliance of tribes in a series of raids and sieges against British forts and settlements. The Drama Centre had considered staging Major Robert Rogers’s Ponteach: or, The Savages of America, a Tragedy (1766), but Ronald Bryden, a visiting professor at the Drama Centre, believed that Rogers’s play was too unwieldy and could not be successfully dramatized. Bryden suggested to Ann Saddlemyer, the Centre’s director, that Davies should write a new play based on Ponteach with an emphasis on the play’s author who was a member of the Rogers’ Rangers and an admirer of Pontiac. Davies completed the first draft of “Pontiac and the Green Man” in the summer and fall of 1976. On 19 May 1976, Davies told Saddlemyer that he was “moving rapidly and in my opinion, in an exciting style.” He asked her about the fee for the composer Derek Holman. “Martin [Hunter, the play’s director], Ron Bryden and I are now working in quite close collaboration,” he reported, “but the time draws near when I shall have to creep into some hermit’s cell and get the piece on paper.” Saddlemyer and John Beckwith (on behalf of the Faculty of Music) confirmed on 1 June 1976 that Davies’s play and the accompanying music needed to be ready by 30 April 1977. Davies was paid a token fee of $1 for writing the play. Hunter requested many revisions to Davies’s script, and apparently there

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were disagreements among the cast and production crew as to how the play was to be presented. (Bryden and Brenda Davies were among the cast.) Newspaper critics “fell upon it with whips and scorpions,” Davies regretfully told his friend Horace Davenport on 10 November 1977 (see Bryan Johnson, “Pontiac Gets Lost in a Hopeless Muddle,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 27 October 1977, p. 15; and Gina Mallet, “The Letdowns at Hart House Are Hurting,” Toronto Star, 7 November, 1977, p. D6). There have been no subsequent productions of “Pontiac and the Green Man.” It remains unpublished. Davies’s program note in B33 comments on the roots of his play in Ponteach and the character of Rogers. Set in a military barracks in Montreal at Rogers’s court martial for treason, “Pontiac and the Green Man treats history light-heartedly,” Davies wrote in his note, “offering Rogers and his Indian hero as the principal characters in what is, in effect, an extended ballad, taking the ballad’s liberty of showing possibilities, rather than historical facts.” Information on B33 is based on files 10–17, vol. 9, files 1-4, vol. 10, and file 39, vol. 78, Davies fonds, lac which includes background material, typescripts, theatre programs, publicity material, and news clippings. copies examined: davis; ohm (file 22, box 391, Macmillan Canada fonds); otmc; pend.

B34 stage voices 1978 STAGE | VOICES | Twelve Canadian Playwrights | Talk about Their Lives and Work | EDITED BY | Geraldine Anthony | Doubleday Canada Limited | TORONTO, ONTARIO | Doubleday & Company, Inc. | GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK | 1978 1-11 8. i-vi, vii-viii, ix-x, xi-xxxiii, 1-2, 2-26, 27, 28-54, 55, 56-84, 85, 86-110, 111, 112-137, 138-139, 140-164, 165, 166-206, 207, 208-232, 233, 234-250, 251, 252-274, 275, 276-290, 291, 292-318 pp. (176 leaves). 208 × 136 mm. text: Chapter Three, “Robertson Davies,” pp. 61-79. binding: There are two binding variants. (1) Yellow paper boards with the following stamped down the spine: STAGE VOICES | edited by | [next two lines under the previous line] GERALDINE | ANTHONY | Doubleday. The front, spine, and back panels of the dust jacket are dark yellow; the flaps are white. The front panel has the title, sub-title, the name of the editor, the names of the playwrights, and four ornamental rules. Lettering on the spine panel is identical to the stamping on the spine. The back panel has blackand-white photographs of the playwrights and quota-

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tions from Mavor Moore and Gratien Gélinas. The flaps contain information on the contents of the book and the editor along with the title, price ($12.50), the ISBN (0-385-12643-3), and the name of the jacket designer (Robert Burgess Garbutt). (2) Dark-yellow stiff-paper boards, perfect binding. The front cover and spine are identical to the front and spine panels of the jacket. The back cover is almost the same as the back panel of the jacket; two additional lines on the back cover list the designer, price ($7.95), and ISBN (0-385-13540-8). notes: B34 consists of twelve chapters, each written by a Canadian playwright, with a preface, a chronology, and a selected bibliography compiled by Sister Geraldine Anthony. In addition, Sister Geraldine (a professor of English at Mount Saint Vincent University) has provided an author’s note, an introduction with a brief history of Canadian theatre and a commentary on the present state of Canadian drama, and an appendix listing drama awards and information on Canada Council awards. The anthology grew out of Sister Geraldine’s experiences in 1973-4 when she met and talked with actors, directors, and playwrights at Canadian theatres. Sister Geraldine wrote to Davies on 28 August 1973. She requested his permission to reprint “A Jig for the Gypsy,” and asked him not to charge her an exorbitant fee. Davies told her on 7 September 1973: “You wish to be rewarded for your work and I know that you will forgive me for pointing out that the work of an anthologist is not taxing in comparison with that of the playwright ... Have you considered that if you got your way you would make it exceedingly difficult for any playwright in future to receive a recompense for the publication of his play in an anthology?” It would appear that Davies’s play was not reprinted at that time and that Sister Geraldine then revised her conception of the contents of her anthology. Davies’s contribution is in the form of a personal letter addressed to Sister Geraldine. He replies to fifteen questions which she sent to him, such as “Why did I begin to write drama?” and “What is your conception of a good play?” Sister Geraldine asked Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, on 5 October 1977, for assistance in compiling the chronology about Davies. B34 was published on 17 February 1978. Number of copies printed not known. The copyright was registered by Sister Geraldine at dlc’s Copyright Office on 27 February 1978 (TX-5-654). On the day of publication, Urjo Kareda took the book to task in a review in the Toronto Globe and Mail. Sister Geraldine asked Davies his opinion of the book on 19 April 1978. He was not impressed by John Herbert’s contribution. “Since last I wrote to you,” Davies informed her on

25 April 1978, “I have read the book and I think it is of value and interest.” He added: “I notice that several of the critics comment that few of your people answered all your questions, and although I know that you wished to give your contributors the greatest freedom it might have been more effective if they had stuck rather more closely to the point.” Several years later Davies was more candid in his assessment of B34. When Ann Saddlemyer was asked to interview Davies for Canadian Drama, she suggested to Davies on 23 June 1981 that perhaps Canadian Drama might want to reprint Davies’s replies to Sister Geraldine’s questions instead. Davies told Saddlemyer on 25 June 1981: “As you know, the secret of a good interview is asking evocative questions and that is something Sister Anthony knows nothing about.” B34 was printed in Canada by The Bryant Press Limited. Design by Robert Garbutt Productions. Photo of Davies on p. 55 by Ashley & Crippen. Information on the publishing history of B34 is based on file 27, vol. 41, and files 6 and 7, vol. 43, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: davis (both binding variants, paper boards in jacket); ohm (paper boards, not in jacket); otmc (paper boards in jacket); pend (paper boards in jacket).

B35  transitions i: short plays 1978 TRANSITIONS I: SHORT PLAYS | A Source Book of Canadian Literature | Commcept Publications Ltd. | Vancouver 1978 1-12, 3-18, 19-20, 21-47, 48, 49-72, 73-74, 75-85, 86, 8794, 95-96, 97-100, 101-102, 103-122, 123-124, 125-144, 145-146, 147-160, 161-162, 163-173, 174, 175-189, 190, 191-205, 206, 207-219, 220, 221-240, 241-242, 243245, 246, 247, 248, 249-251, 252, 253, 254, 255-257, 258, 259-261, 262, 263, 264, 265-267, 268, 269-271, 272, 273-275, 276, 277, 278, 279-281, 282, 283-287, 288, 289-291, 292, 293, 294-295, 296-306, 1-2 pp. (309 leaves). 224 × 169 mm. contents: “A Note on ‘Overlaid’,” pp. 249-50 (with a black-and-white photograph of Davies on p. 248). The play is reprinted on pp. 3-18. binding: Perfect bound. Glossy, cream-coloured stiff-paper covers. On the front cover: transitions i: SHORT PLAYS | A Source Book of Canadian Literature | [a gold, rose, and grey photograph by Bill Cupit of a wasteland with a small black horse and rider on the horizon]. The title and the name of the publisher are printed on the spine.



B36 The Pierre Berton Celebration Dinner. 1979

notes: B35 consists of two parts. Part I (“Short Plays”) reprints fifteen plays by Canadian authors. Part II (“Abstracts”) contains short explanations from the playwrights about their plays. In the foreword Pamela Hawthorn, Managing Director of Vancouver’s New Play Centre, states that the editor has selected the plays for a number of reasons: “The scripts give not only a historic and geographic look at indigenous drama, but also cover a variety of theatrical forms from television to mime” (p. 9). For information on the first publication of Overlaid, see A5. Davies completed his note to the play on 9 January 1978 (first draft of typescript and revised draft of carbon typescript in file 2, vol. 2, Davies fonds, lac). In his note Davies recalls: “It is more than thirty years since this little play was written and it has been performed more times in Canada and elsewhere than I can now remember.” He maintains that the reason for the play’s popularity is the subject matter of love. Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, records that B35 was “a new English 11 prescribed textbook for the 1980-81 school year, for Ministry of Education Province of British Columbia” (Whalon fonds, lac). Editor: Edward Peck. Design: Patricia Ellis. Cover Photo: Bill Cupit. Illustrator: Carole Gaudin. ISBN 0-88829-022-5. Printed by Morris Printers, Victoria, bc. copies examined: ohm (rebound); okq (rebound); oter; otutf.

B36  the pierre berton celebration dinner 1979 [heavy rule] | [the next four lines in calligraphic-style type with several swash letters] The | Pierre Berton | Celebration | Dinner | [rule] | AN AFFECTIONATE TRIBUTE BY HIS FRIENDS | [heavy rule] | TORONTO, ROYAL YORK HOTEL, 28TH FEBRUARY, 1979 1 16. 1-32 pp. (16 leaves). 278 × 210 mm. text: Untitled tribute which begins, “When I was a green youth” on p. 6. binding: Issued in a glossy gold wrapper, wirestitched, with a pencil drawing of Berton on the front of the wrapper, signed and dated by Harold Town on the top right-hand corner (“Feb.879”). On the back of the wrapper is a black-and-white photograph of Berton sitting on the engine of a train. notes: Davies first encountered the newspaper columnist, author, and radio and television celebrity Pierre Berton (1920-2004) in 1949 when Berton worked

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as the managing editor of Maclean’s magazine. On that occasion Berton wrote to Davies and asked him whether Maclean’s could publish an excerpt from one of Davies’s forthcoming books. Davies, however, was not impressed by this offer. He informed R.W.W. Robertson, the editor of Clarke Irwin, on 12 February 1949: “My personal instinct is to tell Mr. Berton to go to hell, as I do not see any reason why he should publish something from a book of mine before it appears, and the airs and graces which the Maclean’s staff affect pain me very much when I compare them with their low intellectual wattage” (file 22, box 103, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm). In time Davies came to admire Berton for his seemingly boundless energy and his devotion to popular history and culture. Interviewed at the time of Davies’s death, Berton praised Davies as “a consummate writer in every field ... one of the giants of the Canadian literary scene, a man with an international literary reputation. His novels are very carefully crafted, beautifully and sensually written, and shed light on a Canada that was both unique and identifiable ... a great supporter of Canadian writing, and of Canadian authors ... He often helped out individual writers — but he did his best to remain an anonymous benefactor [of the Writers’ Development Trust]” (quoted in Nicolaas van Rijn, “Literary Giant, Robertson Davies Dies,” Toronto Star, 4 December 1995, pp. A1, A6). In his tribute Davies says that in his youth he came under the influence of Dr. R.D. Gillespie who warned him to be wary of men with “a fixed, accusing gaze who may bamboozle you into making dangerous admissions or unwelcome commitments.” Berton, Davies claims, is such a man, although he “is as gentle as a lamb.” According to Davies, Berton once asked him to delete the word “excrementitious” from an article. Davies not only complied, he never used the word again. The typescript of Davies’s tribute, dated 30 January 1979, can be found in: box 203, Pierre Berton fonds, ohm; file 6, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac (corrected first typescript and carbon of final draft). This souvenir booklet, which was published by the Writers’ Development Trust, contains twenty-seven tributes (some of which are cartoons) in honour of Berton. Established in 1975, the Writers’ Development Trust is a charitable organization whose main objective is the appreciation and advancement of Canadian literature. Besides that of Davies, B36 includes tributes written by Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, Charles Templeton, Farley Mowat, and Peter C. Newman. B36 was apparently distributed to approximately 750 people who paid $50 each to attend the dinner in honour of Berton at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. Printed by Bickerton Litho with the assistance of Inland Publishing Company Ltd.

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The publisher Jack McClelland invited Davies to write a short comment or anecdote about Berton on 24 January 1979. Davies replied on 30 January 1979: “I am happy to contribute to the booklet about Pierre Berton and enclose a piece on a separate sheet. I am sorry that I will not be able to be at the dinner and I hope it is a great success” (file 6, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac). copies examined: ohm (file 19, box 25, Jack McClelland fonds); otmc.

B37 studies in robertson davies’ deptford trilogy 1980 Studies in | Robertson Davies’ | Deptford Trilogy | Edited by Robert G. Lawrence and Samuel L. Macey | With an Introductory Essay by Robertson Davies | [in calligraphic, swash letters] ELS | English Literary Studies | University of Victoria | 1980 1-4 8 5 6 6-8 8. 1-4, 5, 6, 7-123, 1 pp. (62 leaves). 227 × 152 mm. text: “The Deptford Trilogy in Retrospect,” pp. 7-12. binding: Bound in a beige thick-paper wrapper glued to the gatherings. Printed on the front of the wrapper: Studies in | Robertson Davies’ | Deptford Trilogy | Edited by Robert G. Lawrence and | Samuel L. Macey | With an Introductory Essay by | Robertson Davies | [oval black-and-white photo of Davies’s head] | No. 20 [in calligraphic, swash letters] ELS Monograph Series. Printed down the spine: LAWRENCE/MACEY ROBERTSON DAVIES’ DEPTFORD TRILOGY ELS. On the back cover are ten lines listing the contributors to the volume and their university affiliations. On the inside of the back cover is a list of the volumes in the English Literary Studies Monograph Series, beginning in 1975 (no. 1, Donald Greene, Samuel Johnson’s Library: An Annotated Guide) and ending in 1981 (no. 21, Franklin E. Court, Pater and His Early Critics). notes: This anthology contains ten essays about the Deptford trilogy by F.L. Radford, Terry Goldie, Samuel L. Lacey, David Monahan, Patricia Merivale, Peter Brigg, Patricia Monk, and Robert G. Lawrence. In their preface the editors state: “In September 1978 we cast a large net into the Canadian academic sea, hoping to make a substantial Deptford catch.” Davies begins his introductory essay by saying: “It was not my intention to write three novels about the story that forms the basis for what people now call the Deptford trilogy.” He quotes from some notes on the genesis

of the trilogy that he made not later than 1960. He contrasts the reception of the novels in Canada with that in the United States. American critics were more favourable than Canadian ones, Davies maintains. He discusses the allegorical element in the trilogy and tries to answer the question of “whether the books are meant to present an interpretation of life in Canada.” B37 was published at the University of Victoria. ISBN 0-920604-38-2. Lawrence acknowledged receipt of Davies’s essay on 12 November 1979. He sent Davies galley proofs of his contribution on 16 January 1980. When he returned the proofs, Davies remarked: “I notice that you have removed the whole passage about my work on the Centennial Spectacle; this is a story which I hope to tell some time at length because it was both amusing and infuriating.” According to Macey (email to Carl Spadoni, 12 October 2001), publication of B37 would normally have occurred in September 1980 with a print run of 750 copies. Price probably $9.50 postpaid US or Canadian. “Robertson Davies kindly agreed to write the introduction once we had gathered our list of contributors, and I recall a lunch with him at the UVic faculty [Club] at about the time of publication.” Macey sent Davies six author copies of B37 on 26 August 1980. copies examined: okq; ostcb; otmc.

B38  canada’s lost plays 1980 [all lines within a rectangle, with broken lines at the sides, and ornaments at the top-left and bottom-right corners] | Canada’s Lost Plays | Volume Three | The Developing Mosaic: | English-Canadian Drama | to MidCentury | Edited by Anton Wagner | Canadian Theatre Review Publications | 1980 1-6 16 7 4. 1-3, 4-39, 40-41, 42-60, 61, 62-83, 84, 85-97, 98-99, 100-117, 118-119, 120-144, 145, 146-173, 174, 175-200 pp. (100 leaves). 228 × 153 mm. text: Introduction written by Davies for the re-publication of his play, “Hope Deferred,” dated May 1980, pp. 175-6. In his introduction to this volume, Wagner also quotes from an unpublished interview of Davies by Don Rubin. Photo of the original production of the play on p. 174. bindings and dust jacket: There are two binding variants. (1) Dark-blue paper boards. Stamped in gilt on the upper board: Canada’s Lost Plays | Volume Three | The Developing Mosaic | [publisher’s device: each letter consisting of four or five lines with the letters joined together] ctr. Stamped in gilt down the spine:



B39 The Festivals of Canada. 1981

[publisher’s device: each letter consisting of four or five lines with the letters joined together] ctr Canada’s Lost Plays Volume Three York [under the previous line] University. The dust jacket is black with white lettering. On the front panel is a reproduction of a 1911 design for a tapestry (woman angel surrounded by flowers and leaves) by John Coulter. The printing on the spine panel is similar to the stamping on the spine except that ctr is replaced by CTR | Publications. The back panel is blank. On the front flap are the title, price ($14.95), three paragraphs about the book and the editor, and attribution to Coulter for the front panel illustration. On the back flap are excerpts of critical acclaim for the Canada’s Lost Plays series and the ISBN. (2) Paperback. $6.95. Not seen. notes: First produced by the Montreal Repertory Theatre on 19, 20 and 22 March 1948, “Hope Deferred” is based on the suppression of a production of Molière’s Tartuffe by Bishop Laval of Quebec in January 1694. In his introduction to the play in B38, Davies recalls that “Hope Deferred” was one of five one-act plays that he wrote before 1950. “The play is not an angry tract,” he maintains. It was written in the hope that Canadian actors, designers, and playwrights would be able to be fulfilled at home rather than plying their talents outside of Canada. The editor Anton Wagner is an academic, television producer, director, writer, and teacher. One of Davies’s former students, he was going to write a doctoral thesis entitled “The Themes of Community and Survival in the Dramatic Works of Herman Voaden, Robertson Davies, Gwen Pharis Ringwood, George Ryga, Michael Cook and David Fennario.” Volume 3 of Canada’s Lost Plays was published in November 1980 in an edition of 2,000 copies (750 copies in hardcover and 1,250 copies in softcover). Davies was paid a flat fee of $300. On 12 November 1980, Wagner informed Davies that Canadian Theatre Review Publications had sent out the author copies of The Developing Mosaic. He thanked Davies for “writing the very illuminating introduction to the play.” Davies acknowledged receipt of his author copies on 10 February 1981. Wagner also sent Davies a complimentary copy of volume 4 of Canada’s Lost Plays on 7 June 1983. Information based on: files 46-7, vol. 52, Davies fonds, lac; e-mails from Wagner and Don Rubin to Carl Spadoni, 21 June 2001. Printed in Canada by Garden City Press. Typesetting, layout, and design by Page Publications Limited, Toronto. ISBN 0-920644-54-6 (hardcover); 0-92064456-2 (softcover). copies examined: oh (first variant in jacket); ohm (first variant, no jacket); otmc (first variant in jacket).

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B39  the festivals of canada 1981 [all lines within a rectangle; the first three lines in script with swash capitals] The | Festivals of | Canada | [rule] | ARNOLD EDINBOROUGH | [rule] | [short rule] | LESTER | &ORPEN | DENNYS | [short rule] | PUBLISHERS 1-8 12 9 4 10 12. 1-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-17, 18, 19-33, 34, 35-44, 45-47, 48-54, 55, 56-61, 62, 63-75, 76, 77-83, 84, 85-89, 90, 91-97, 98, 99-126, 127, 128-131, 132, 133-137, 138, 139-155, 156, 157-163, 164, 165-169, 170, 171-179, 180, 181-185, 186-187, 188-199, 200, 201-204, 205-206, 207217, 218, 219-221, 222, 223, 1 pp. (112 leaves). 252 × 189 mm. text: Introduction, dated “July 26, 1980 | and the 124th anniversary of | the birth of Bernard Shaw, | tutelary spirit of one of | our festivals | [to the right of the first line] ROBERTSON DAVIES”, pp. 7-8. binding and dust jacket: Bound in pale-green paper boards with the following stamped in silver on the spine: [down the spine] EDINBOROUGH THE FESTIVALS OF CANADA | [short rule] | LESTER | &ORPEN | DENNYS | [short rule] | PUBLISHERS. Purple endpapers. The dust jacket is purple with lettering in silver and white. In addition to the author’s name and title (in lettering similar to that of the title page), the front panel of the jacket has five photos of various actors — William Hutt as King Lear, Susan Cuthbert as Anne of Green Gables, etc. On the back panel within a solid white rectangle are two paragraphs from Davies’s introduction. The spine panel is similar to the stamping on the spine. On the front flap of the jacket are a summary of the book’s contents and the price ($19.95). The back flap has a black-and-white photograph of Edinborough, biographical information about him, the name of the book’s designer (Jack Steiner Graphic Design), the ISBN (0-919630-33-2), and the address of the publisher. notes: Arnold Edinborough (1922-2006) taught at Queen’s University until 1954, and worked in an editorial capacity at a variety of newspapers and magazines, including the Kingston Whig-Standard (owned by Davies’s father, Rupert) and Saturday Night (purchased by Edinborough in 1959 and sold by him in 1970). Edinborough first met Davies through their association with little theatre groups, and they developed a strong friendship thereafter. Davies wrote to his friends, Graham and Joan McInnes, on 21 April 1954: “The Kingston Whig has hired a Queen’s professor of English, Arnold Edinborough, as its new editor. A delightful fellow” (file 1, vol. 80, Davies fonds, lac). B39 is a pictorial history of seven Canadian festivals

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of drama and music: the Guelph Spring Festival; the Stratford Festival; the Shaw Festival; the Charlottetown Festival; the National Arts Centre Festival; Festival Lennoxville; and the Banff Festival of Arts. Although Malcolm Lester discussed the publication of B39 with Edinborough as early as 21 December 1973, the contract is dated 5 October 1979: 10% royalty on the first 5,000 copies sold, 12% royalty on the next 5,000 copies sold, 15% thereafter, with an advance against royalties of $2,000. The Ontario Arts Council gave Lester & Orpen Dennys a subsidy of $1,000 towards publication. Edinborough was sent advance copies of the book on 15 December 1980, but copies of this printing were withdrawn from publication because the printing of the halftones by Metropole Litho. Inc. was poorly done due to improper screening procedures. B39 was finally published on 17 July 1981. Up to 31 July 1981, 1,744 copies sold, and another 500 copies were sold through the Book-of-the-Month Club. Only a few copies sold in subsequent years. Besides the 500 copies sold through the Book-of-the-Month Club, 1,807 copies sold up to 31 January 1988. Copies were available from Penguin in July 1983 at $5 a copy, and in 1986 the book was advertised in the Fitzhenry & Whiteside educational catalogue. Information based on files 17-21, box 16, Arnold Edinborough fonds, ohm. copies examined: davis (in jacket); oh (in jacket).

B40  theatrical touring and founding in north america 1982 THEATRICAL | TOURING | AND FOUNDING | IN | NORTH AMERICA | Edited by L. W. CONOLLY | Foreword by MICHAEL SIDNELL | Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies, Number 5 | [oval containing letters G and P] | GREENWOOD PRESS | Westport, Connecticut • London, England 1-2165 24 6 8 7 24 8 8 9 24 10 8 11 4. i-ix, x, xi-xiv, 1-3, 4-7, 8, 9-15, 16-17, 18, 19, 20-29, 30-31, 32-40, 41, 42-56, 57, 58-76, 77, 78-88, 89, 90-96, 97, 98-100, 101, 102-112, 113, 114-133, 134-135, 136-152, 153, 154–158, 159, 160-171, 172-173, 174-191, 192-193, 194-211, 212213, 214-222, 223, 224-240, 241, 242-245, 5 pp. (132 leaves). 234 × 152 mm. text: 4. “Mixed Grill: Touring Fare in Canada, 19201935,” pp. 41-56. binding: Bound in reddish-brown cloth. Stamped on the upper board: THEATRICAL | | TOURING | AND FOUNDING | IN | NORTH AMERICA | Edited by L. W. CONOLLY. Stamped on the spine: CONOLLY | [next two lines down the spine] THEATRICAL

TOURING AND | [under the previous line] FOUNDING IN NORTH AMERICA | [oval containing letters G and P] | Greenwood. notes: A long excerpt from Davies’s essay first appeared in A58 (pp. 124-34) under the title, “Touring Fare in Canada, 1920-1935.” In B40 on pp. 50-6, Davies discusses Martin-Harvey’s melodramas and his romantic style of acting; these pages are lacking in A58. Davies’s paper was delivered on 2 August 1979 at a conference at the University of Toronto, sponsored by the International Federation for Theatre Research and the Association for Canadian Theatre History (see E79.4). On that occasion, in addition to Davies’s paper, there were six other conference papers. L.W. Conolly, the editor of this book, recalled that “no fees were paid to speakers, and I suspect that some of the arrangements with speakers were made by telephone, not correspondence” (e-mail to Carl Spadoni, 2 August 2001). Davies signed a contract with Greenwood Press on 23 April 1980 for the publication of his article. In lieu of payment he received a copy of B40 and twenty-five offprints of his contribution. Conolly told Davies on 16 June 1981 that the series editor Joseph Donohue had given his approval to the volume’s appearance and that the final manuscript would soon be going to Greenwood Press’s production department. Conolly anticipated publication in the spring of 1982. B40 was published on 15 November 1982. The copyright was registered at the Copyright Office on 10 January 1983 (TX-1-087-281). Number of copies printed not known. ISBN 0-313-22595-8; ISSN 0163-3821 no. 5. copies examined: ohm; otmc.

B41  doctor canon’s cure, theatre program 1982 [cover title:] Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus | presents | Doctor Canon’s Cure | An opera for young people | Music by | Derek Holman | Libretto by | Robertson Davies | The Studio Theatre, Harbourfront | 7:30 PM | [five lines of dates from Wednesday, May 19, 1982 to Sunday, May 23, 1982] | [to the left of these lines is a drawing by Davies of a man, presumably Dr. Canon, in a long coat, top hat, and umbrella with an Uroboros over his head, and the following in Davies’s hand in facsimile] Il | Virtuoso | Ingegnoso Leaflet folded once to form four unnumbered pages. 216 × 166 mm. Inserted into the program is a leaf about donors who supported the production financially.



B42 Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984. 1984

text: “What the Opera Is About” on p. 3. binding: Cream-coloured thick paper. notes: In 1982-4 Davies wrote two librettos for the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus, “Dr. Canon’s Cure” and “Children of the Moon.” His chief collaborator on these productions was Derek Holman. Set in northern Italy in 1820, “Doctor Canon’s Cure” is an opera about a company of operatic singers who have their instruments confiscated and are thrown out of an inn because they cannot pay their bill. Dr. Canon shows them how they can make music without actual instruments. “Dr. Canon’s Cure” was first staged at Harbourfront in Toronto on 19-23 May 1982. Productions of the opera also occurred at Hamilton Place on 21-4 February1983 (Davies was paid between $400 and $500 performance fees), at Uxbridge Music Hall on 23 February 1985, and at the First Baptist Church in Simcoe, on on 28 February 1985, and again at Harbourfront in June 1996 (Davies received $643.10; he and Holman shared 10% of the box office receipts; 30% of that share went to Davies). The opera also aired on 1 September 1984 on CHCH-TV; Davies was paid $400 for the television broadcast. This theatre program with Davies’s statement was distributed to those in attendance at the première of the opera at Harbourfront. When Davies was interviewed about the opera by William Littler (see F82.3), he stated: “a librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera ... You know what authors do at rehearsals of their work? They shrink at the back of the hall with their rubbers on.” See also C82.3, reprinted in A55b and as “A Conversation about Dr. Canon’s Cure” in A90. Information on the publishing history of B41 is based on file 3, vol. 45, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: davis.

B42  major plays of the canadian theatre 1934-1984 1984 [rule] | MAJOR PLAYS | OF THE | CANADIAN | THEATRE | 1934-1984 | [rule] | Selected and Edited by | RICHARD PERKYNS | Foreword by Robertson Davies | IRWIN PUBLISHING | Toronto Ontario 1-10 16 11 8 12-24 16. i-vii, viii, ix, x, 1, 2-17, 18-19, 20-24, 25-26, 27-63, 64, 65-69, 70-71, 72-124, 125, 126-131, 132-133, 134-216, 217-218, 219-274, 275, 276-281, 282, 283, 284, 285-327, 328, 329-334, 335, 336, 337, 338-383, 384, 385-390, 391-392, 393-442, 443, 444-448, 449-450, 451-477, 478, 479-483, 484-485, 486-529, 530,

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531-535, 536-537, 538-603, 604, 605-608, 609, 610, 611, 612-655, 656, 657-663, 664-666, 667-725, 726, 727-742 pp. (376 leaves). 223 × 146 mm. text: Foreword, pp. vii-viii, dated May 1984. B42 also reprints “At My Heart’s Core,” pp. 71-131. binding: Issued in paperback with yellow covers. Printed on the front cover: [two thick rules, masks of comedy and tragedy, two thick rules] | MAJOR PLAYS | OF THE | CANADIAN | THEATRE | 19341984 | [two thick rules, masks of comedy and tragedy, two thick rules] | Selected and Edited | by | Richard Perkyns. Printed on the spine: [two thick rules] MAJOR | PLAYS | OF THE | CANADIAN | THEATRE | 1934-1984 | [two thick rules] | Perkyns | IRWIN. The back cover has biographical information about the editor and a listing in point form of the contents of the anthology (twelve plays, general introduction, biographies of the dramatists, critical introductions to each play, etc.). Cover design by Robert Garbutt Productions. ISBN 0-7725-1501-8. notes: When Richard Perkyns edited this anthology of twelve Canadian plays, he had participated extensively in community theatre in Halifax, ns and had taught at Saint Mary’s University in the Department of English. Perkyns was paid a royalty of 5% on the first printing (probably 3,000 copies), and was to be paid a royalty of 8% on subsequent printings. On 9 April 1984, Norma L. Pettit of Clarke Irwin (1983) Inc. — later re-incorporated with The Book Society of Canada as Irwin Publishing — sent Davies galley proofs of the table of contents of B42, Perkyns’s introduction, and biographical notes about the contributors. She reminded Davies that he was to write a foreword of 600 to 1,200 words. Pettit acknowledged Davies’s foreword on 30 May 1984. There was a short delay in publication because B42 was larger than anticipated. On 12 July 1984, Pettit asked Davies to cut nine to ten lines from his foreword. Davies indicated the lines to cut by telephone on 23 July. He was paid $500 for his foreword. B42 was published in mid-September 1984. 561 copies sold in 1986, and 201 copies in 1987. By 26 November 1993, 2,650 copies had sold (Perkyns recorded 2,853 copies sold on this royalty report). In his introduction to B42, Davies states: “It never occurred to me when I began writing plays that I was contributing to the growth of a Canadian drama; my self-esteem did not extend so far” (p. vii). There was “limited confidence” in Canadian writing and acting at the time. He notes the public’s changing attitude toward Canadian theatre and a corresponding growth and maturity in Canadian writing. Reprinted in A90

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as “Introduction to an Anthology of Canadian Plays.” Information on the publishing history of B42 is based on: file 27, vol. 45 and file 35, vol. 48, Davies fonds, lac; and files 5 and 18, Richard J.H. Perkyns fonds (MS-3-27), nsdal. copies examined: davis; ohm (Irwin library, two copies).

B43  wolf solent 1984 B43a  first edition: WOLF SOLENT | [ornament] | JOHN COWPER POWYS | [ornament] | HARPER COLOPHON BOOKS | Harper & Row, Publishers | New York, Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco, | London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney i-iv, v-vii, 1-3, 1-613, 1 pp. (312 leaves). 202 × 133 mm.

Powys’s Wolf Solent and Weymouth Sands in September of that year. He offered Davies an honorarium of $600 for an introductory essay of two thousand words. Davies agreed to write an introduction to B43 on 7 March 1984. “Because of my enthusiasm for his work I am very much inclined to say yes,” he told Bejger. Davies suggested an introduction of 1,200 words. Bejger replied to Davies on 13 March 1984 proposing a deadline of 15 June 1984. The agreement between Davies and Harper & Row at pend is dated 24 April 1984 (sent to Davies on 4 May 1984; signed and returned on 5 June 1984). Davies mailed his introduction to Bejger on 3 May 1984. B43’s text of Wolf Solent was photocomposed from the English edition of 1961 published by Macdonald & Co. Number of copies printed of B43 not known. Information on the publishing history of B43 is based on file 18, vol. 48, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: davis; ohm.

text: “Introduction,” pp. v-vii, 1, dated 1 May 1984. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The covers have a background colour illustration of a thatched cottage, other houses, and a fence in a rural or village setting, presumably in Dorset. Printed on the front cover: [first two lines in dark red] WOLF | Solent | JOHN COWPER POWYS | With an introduction by Robertson Davies | [three lines of quotation from the New York Times] | CN 1163/$9.95. Down the spine are the title in red, and then, in black, the author’s name, an ornament, the publisher’s name, and series. The back cover has the following within a red rectangle (solid white within the rectangle): a paragraph about the book; quotations from V.S. Pritchett, the Saturday Review of Literature, and Theodore Dreiser; the price, ISBN (0-06-0911638), the bar code, and name of the cover designer (Susan Krause). notes: First published in 1929, Wolf Solent is the meditative narrative of a young man who leaves London, returns to his roots in the town of Ramsgard in Dorset, and becomes romantically involved with two vastly different women. Davies considered John Cowper Powys to be one of the most neglected masters of the English novel (see his essay on Powys in A55). In his introduction Davies urges readers to savour the novel’s linguistic subtleties and nuances: “Powys is not for the speed-reader, the rapist of the printed page, the person who does not much like reading a book but wishes to say that he has read it” (p. vii). Peter Bejger of Harper & Row’s Paperback Department informed Davies on 24 February 1984 that Harper & Row would be publishing paperback editions of

B43a.1  second issue (1998): Wolf | Solent | John Cowper Powys | VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL | Vintage Books | A Division of Random House, Inc. | New York i-x, xi-xiii, 1-5, 1-613, 5 pp. (318 leaves). 202 × 133 mm. text: “Introduction,” pp. xi-xiii. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers in antique yellow. The front cover features a colour reproduction of Stanley Spencer’s Bellrope Meadow, Cookham and a quotation from George Steiner. The back cover has two paragraphs about Powys’s novel, quotations from newspapers, information about the cover illustration, and the price ($15 US, $21 Can). Also on the back cover are the ISBN (0-375-70307-1) and bar code, both within a solid white rectangle. Cover designer Megan Wilson. notes: B43a.1 is the “first Vintage international edition,” published simultaneously by Random House of Canada Limited in December 1998. The preliminaries of B43a.1 have been reset. A list of books available from Vintage Books has been added at the end. copies examined: ohm.

B44  the road to gundagai 1985 [first four lines within a square with an abstract illustration of a fox’s head at the middle of the square’s top line] THE | ROAD TO | GUNDAGAI | Graham McInnes | New Introduction by | Robertson Davies | THE HOGARTH PRESS | LONDON



B45 Stratford: The First Thirty Years. 1985

1-14, 13-285, 1 pp. (144 leaves). 196 × 128 mm. text: Introduction, pp. 5-8. Last line: Robertson Davies, Toronto 1984. binding: Perfect bound in thick paper covers. The front cover has a white border and within the border is a solid yellow rectangle. Against this background is a black-and-white drawing of a woman and two boys (Angela Thirkell and her sons Graham and Colin) with a house, trees, and a windmill behind them. Also on the front cover are an abstract illustration of a fox’s head, the series title (Lives & Letters), the title in blue, the author’s name in red, and mention of a new introduction to the book by Davies. The spine and back cover (white border) are purple with printing in white. The back cover has the illustration of the fox’s head, the publisher’s name, three paragraphs about McInnes’s memoir, three lines about him, reference to Davies’s introduction, the price (£3.95), the ISBN (0701205938), and the cover illustrator’s name (Amy Burch). notes: Graham McInnes (1912-70), journalist, film director, novelist, and Canadian diplomat, was born in London and died in Paris. His mother Angela Mackail (later famous as the novelist Angela Thirkell) remarried an Australian, and the family moved to Australia shortly after the First World War. First published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. in 1965, B44 describes McInnes’s childhood in Melbourne before he immigrated to Canada in the 1930s. It is the first of four volumes of his memoirs. Davies met McInnes in 1940. “He was writing criticism of pictures and sculpture for Saturday Night, and I was their book critic,” Davies explained to Donna Walton on 22 March 1965. “He was an admirable conversationalist — eloquent, ready and witty — and his sense of humour agreed with my own ... His choice of theme in his novels, Lost Island, Sushila etc., is romantic, almost in the vein of Rider Haggard, but the description, character drawing, especially in some of his short stories, has a very sharp edge” (A93, pp. 182-3). The two men read Babbit aloud to each other. Later, Davies carried on an active correspondence with McInnes and his wife Joan. Shortly after McInnes’s death, Davies wrote in sympathy to Joan McInnes on 20 March 1970, saying that he was “one of the very small number of men I have known who really took the trouble to look deeply and clearly into personal relationships, and if it was sometimes disillusioning and costly to him, it gave him insights very few people achieve ... A good life — a very good life. Unhappily, a life robbed of its Third Act” (A93, pp. 232-3).

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At the suggestion of Joan McInnes, Christine Carswell of Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press wrote to Davies on 20 March 1984 about the paperback publication of The Road to Gundagai. She asked if he would write an introduction of 2,500 words for a fee of £300 by October 1984, emphasizing the city of Melbourne and the family’s connection to Angela Thirkell. Davies agreed to write the introduction on 28 March 1984, but he pointed out to Carswell: “It appears that both you and Mrs. McInnes are under the impression that I will be writing a great deal about the city of Melbourne and I will certainly make reference to it, but my preference would be to write a brief sketch of Graham McInnes as a man because he was a complex and interesting person who sacrificed what I think might have been a successful literary career in order to be a diplomat.” In acknowledging Davies’s letter on 6 April 1984, Carswell hoped that Davies was amenable to allowing Carmen Callil, the managing director of Hogarth Press and a native of Melbourne, to add pertinent information about Melbourne to the introduction. She also raised the possibility that Davies might write introductions to the other books of McInnes’s memoirs (Humping My Bluey, Finding Father, and Goodbye Melbourne Town). Davies sent his introduction to Carswell on 28 August 1984. His fee was mailed to him on 25 September 1984. Davies’s introduction is a fond recollection of his friendship with McInnes. It discusses the complex relationship of McInnes with his mother and their family life in Melbourne. He quotes letters that McInnes wrote to him about his mother. B44 was printed by Cox & Wyman Ltd. Number of copies printed and exact date of publication not known. Information on the publishing history of B44 is based on the following files in the Davies fonds at lac: file 25, vol. 44, file 40, vol. 52, and file 1, vol. 80. copies examined: lac.

B45 stratford: the first thirty years 1985 [the first two lines in calligraphic-style type] Stratford | The First Thirty Years | JOHN PETTIGREW AND | JAMIE PORTMAN | Foreword by Robertson Davies | [remaining lines in blue] VOLUME I: | 1953-1967 | Macmillan of Canada | A Division of Canada Publishing Corporation | Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1-7 16. i-xii, xiii-xv, xvi, xvii-xix, 1, 1-198, 1-6 pp. (112 leaves). 234 × 171 mm.

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text: Foreword, pp. xiii-xv, with Davies’s signature in blue facsimile and dated “March 1 St. David’s Day 1985.”

and European Critics | Franz K. Stanzel – Waldemar Zacharasiewicz | (Eds.) | Königshausen + Neumann | 1986

binding: Bound in light-blue paper boards, quarterbound with dark-blue cloth, with the following stamped in silver on the spine: Pettigrew | Portman | [down the spine with rules at the top and bottom of the next word] STRATFORD VOLUME I [under the previous two words] 1953-1967 | [publisher’s device: solid M with a maple leaf outlined at the bottom of the letter] | MACMILLAN | OF CANADA. Endpapers feature illustrations of costumes from various plays produced at the Stratford Festival. Vols. 1 and 2 were issued without jackets in a turquoise box: silver stamping on the box; an illustration of a swan within a darkblue oval on one side of the box; a dark-blue oval on the other side also, with a swan motif and the heading, “A Book | for All Seasons”, with the claim that “This limited edition is sure to | become a collector’s item.”

1-6, 7-8, 9, 10-28, 29, 30-55, 56-57, 58-109, 110-111, 112-152, 153, 154-155, 156, 157, 1-3 pp. (80 leaves). 209 × 45 mm. Gatherings appear to be in eight leaves.

notes: Douglas M. Gibson, Editorial Director at Macmillan of Canada, asked Davies on 27 November 1984 to “write a Foreword to the Stratford history that we are to publish in the spring. To be more precise, we plan to print the books in the spring, make them available to ‘the Stratford world’ throughout the season and then publish them formally to the bookstore trade in the fall. The book is Stratford: The First Thirty Years by the late John Pettigrew and the happily extant Jamie Portman. It is a hefty piece of work, so hefty, in fact, that we plan to publish it in two volumes, in an elegant slip-cased edition.” (file 7, box 419, Macmillan Canada fonds, ohm). In his foreword Davies pays tribute to the vision of Tom Patterson, the artistic and moral leadership of Tyrone Guthrie, the faith of Harry Showalter and his colleagues, and to those Canadians who loyally supported the Stratford Festival over the years. These two volumes were edited by Patricia Kennedy, copy-edited by Eleanor Sinclair, and designed by Newton Frank Arthur. ISBN for the set 0-7715-9809-2. Price $60. Number of copies printed not known. Macmillan of Canada held a book launch for B45 on 28 November 1985 at the Canadian Music Centre in Toronto. Davies’s foreword is reprinted in the Stratford Festival’s newsletter Fanfares 19, no. 2 (May 1985): [10]. copies examined: davis (in box); ohm (without the box); lac (in box).

text: “What Is Canadian about Canadian Literature?” pp. 128‑31. binding: Thick white paper covers with plastic covers, the gatherings held together with black vertical plastic strips along the edges of the spine. Printed on the front cover: Encounters and Explorations | Canadian Writers and European Critics | [red leaf and lines of different lengths] | Edited by | Franz K. Stanzel and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz | Königshausen + Neumann. Printed on the back cover: k & n | ISBN 3-88479-242-3. notes: B46 contains essays and literary pieces related to the “International Symposium of Contemporary Anglo-Canadian Literature,” which took place at Tulbingerkogel, Lower Austria, on 31 May to 3 June 1984. The symposium featured a panel discussion on “The Canadianness of Canadian Literature.” Davies gave a reading from A61. A number of Canadian authors, including Rudy Wiebe, Margaret Atwood, and Davies contributed papers to B46 on aspects of Canadian literature. Other Canadian writers, such as Jack Hodgins, Graeme Gibson, Douglas Barbour, and Stephen Scobie submitted short stories or poems. B46 also contains papers written by German and Austrian academics. In his paper, Davies discusses the distinctive aspects of Canadian literature. He contrasts American approaches to literature with Canadian ones. Americans are extroverted, but Canadians are introverted, he maintains. He concludes by saying: “Climate and the feel of the land; these are the Canadian factors present in our writing.” The editors of B46 requested a typescript of Davies’s paper on 24 October 1984. He sent the paper to them on 18 December 1984 along with a letter in which he stated: “It touches a theme — In what way does Canadian literature differ from that of Britain or the U.S. — which I think is important and which has never, to my knowledge, been discussed before in psychological terms.” There are two extant typescripts, the second one dated 29 December 1984. Zacharasiewicz sent Davies a galley proof of his contribution on 31 October 1985. Davies returned the proof on 12 November 1985. Information on the publishing history of B46 is based on file 17, vol. 53, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: olu.

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B47  the peeled eye 1986 [all printing in green, cover title] Guelph Spring Festival | [illustration of a tuba and flowers] | ROBERTSON DAVIES | THE PEELED EYE: AN AUTHOR IN CANADA | 8:00 p.m., SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1986 | WAR MEMORIAL HALL | UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH 1 2. 1-4 pp. (2 leaves). 216 × 140 mm. text: Undated letter [29 July 1985] to Nicholas Goldschmidt, Artistic Director of the Guelph Spring Festival, on p. 2, with heading “MASSEY COLLEGE | in the University of Toronto”, “Dear Nicholas” in Davies’s hand printed in facsimile, and “Rob” in facsimile at the bottom of the page. binding: Leaflet folded once to form four unnumbered pages. Plain white paper stock. Distributed with the 19th Annual Guelph Spring Festival (25 April-14 May 1986) brochure. notes: This souvenir program reproduces three paragraphs of a four-paragraph letter that Davies sent to Goldschmidt about his talk (“The Peeled Eye,” 11 May 1986) at the Guelph Spring Festival. Davies says that he will talk about “what an author does and how he does it in Canada.” The talk’s title derives from Davies’s childhood when he sometimes broke things and was told by adults to keep his eyes peeled. Not understanding this comment, he went to a witch and asked her to peel his eyes: “I have been an author ever since, and being an author means seeing things that most people do not see, or seeing them differently.” The paragraph missing from Davies’s original letter concerns his suggestion that the program be split into two parts with an interval filled up with appropriate music, such as Schumann’s Scenes from Childhood. Davies signed a memorandum of agreement with the Edward Johnson Music Foundation on 27 June 1985. The fee for his talk was $1,500. Information on the publishing history of B47 has been obtained from file XZ1 MS A718689, Guelph Spring Festival fonds, ogu. copies examined: davis (three copies); ogu (two copies).

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1-16 16 17 8 18-19 16. i-iv, v-vi, 1-223, 224, 225-583, 1-3 pp. (296 leaves). 280 × 215 mm. text: “The Novel as Secular Literature,” pp. 575-80. binding: Bound in dark-maroon cloth. Stamped on the upper board: [within a silver, ornamental oval; next three lines in gold]: The | Encyclopedia | of Religion | [thick silver rule]. Stamped on the spine in gilt and silver are the title, the editor’s name, rules, the volume number, alphabetical extent of entries (Jere to Litu), and the names of the publishers (Macmillan and Free Press). Pale-purple endpapers illustrated with a repeating pattern of small flowers. notes: Written by 1,357 contributors, The Encyclopedia of Religion consists of fifteen volumes of articles, alphabetically arranged. An index volume was published in 1988. Claude Conyers, the Senior Project Editor, invited Davies to contribute to B48 on 11 March 1983. Davies agreed to write a piece on the novel and religion on 5 May 1983. He explained that he wanted to take a particular approach to the subject: there are certain books which are landmarks in the history of the novel in which religious concerns are of the first importance, and certainly they must be dealt with, but it is absurd to suppose that these are the only books in which religion plays a part; in a vast range of popular literature religion appears sometimes in sentimentalized and sometimes in distorted forms, but it is still obviously religion, and as many books in this category sell in millions they must be considered as reflections of popular religious attitudes; I should like to feel free to deal with this aspect of the subject, and also to give attention to the detective novel which, although not overtly religious, displays extremely strong Calvinist or Jansenist tendencies. What I should like to do, in fact, is to deal with the novel in some of its ephemeral aspects as well as in terms of its classics.

The agreement between Davies and the Free Press, a Division of the Macmillan Publishing Co., is dated 5 May 1983. Davies agreed to write 4,000 words by 1 December 1983. Although he was offered an honorarium of $400, he opted to receive 150% of the honorarium as a credit toward the purchase of the encyclopedia at a special price of $600 ($200 off the regular price). Conyers was receptive to Davies’s approach on 19 May 1983 with the caveat that Davies should construe religion in the broadest sense possible. On 25 February 1986, Davies agreed to most of the minor changes in his article made by the copy editor, although he resisted several others (for example, “‘an historical’ because, like most people I write for the ear, not the

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eye”). The first fifteen volumes of B48 were published on 21 January 1987. The copyright in B48 was registered at dlc on 11 January 1988 (TX-2-214-342). ISBN 0-02-909790-9 (vol. 8), ISBN 0-02-909480-1 (set). Information on the publishing history of B48 is based on file 60, vol. 59, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm.

B49 sail-boat and lake 1988 ROBERT FINCH | Sail-boat and Lake | [colour reproduction of a painting by Franklin Arbuckle] | The Porcupine’s Quill, Inc. 1-6 8. 1-10, 9-26, 27-28, 29-39, 40-42, 43-49, 50-52, 53-57, 58-60, 61-80, 81-82, 83-90, 1-4 pp. (48 leaves). 222 × 142 mm. text: Introduction, dated 20 July 1988, pp. 6-7. binding: Issued in paperback (white stiff covers glued to sewn gatherings) with printing in blue. Mauve flecked endpapers. On the front cover are the author’s name, the book’s title, and a colour reproduction of Franklin Arbuckle’s “The Breeze.” On the back cover are a colour photograph of Finch in a sail-boat, the first paragraph of Davies’s introduction, the ISBN (0-88984-124-1), and the price ($8.95). Printed on the spine: [down the spine] Robert Finch Sail-boat and Lake | [publisher’s device: Druckfehlerteufel (imp seated on a roll of paper, quill in hand, inserting errors into a text)]. notes: Poet, painter, harpsichordist, and scholar in the field of seventeenth and eighteenth-century French poetry, Robert Finch (1900-1995) was a member of the Department of French, University College, at the University of Toronto from 1928 until his retirement in1968. He received an LLD from the University of Toronto in 1968 and a DLitt from York University in 1976. Davies put forward Finch’s nomination to the Honorary Degree Committee at the University of Toronto. On 24 July 1979, he also wrote a letter of reference for Finch’s application to The Rockefeller Foundation for a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy. In his reference letter Davies wrote: “it is as a poet that his achievement has been the greatest and will last the longest. He is a reflective poet whose work never fails to reveal some unnoticed or ill-understood aspect in the common life of things. His poetry is philosophical, ironic and witty and, like a proper Canadian, he writes with

equal facility in both the languages of our country. I recommend him without reservation knowing that he is a man of charming personality who would be an admirable addition to any scholarly society, not only as a scholar but as a companion.” Davies puckishly referred to Finch as the first Master of Massey College in his ghost story, “Revelation from a Smoky Fire.” Upon receiving a copy of Finch’s A Letter to Several Poets on 9 January 1990, Davies told Finch: “I shall treasure it on the shelf which contains, I think, all, or almost all, of your books, many of which you have been kind enough to inscribe to me and Brenda.” Davies also wrote a memorial tribute to Finch for the service held on 7 November 1995 in East Hall, University College, University of Toronto. See E95.5. Finch informed his agent, Sybil Alexandra Hutchinson, on 18 April 1988 that Davies had agreed to write a blurb for B49. Finch and Hutchinson corrected proofs and returned them to Tim Inkster of The Porcupine’s Quill on 10 June 1988. Hutchinson sent Davies’s introduction to Inkster on 27 July 1988. Both Finch and Hutchinson were surprised but grateful that instead of a blurb, Davies had “written a short, but very perceptive, essay on Finch’s approach to poetry.” B49 was printed and bound by The Porcupine’s Quill in October 1988 in an edition of 558 copies. The paper stock is Zephyr laid, and the type is Cartier. Distribution by the University of Toronto Press. Finch received his author copies prior to 17 October 1988. A book launch was held at Massey College on 12 November 1988. The contract for the book is dated 7 October 1988 (royalty of 5% with an advance of $100 on publication). 41 copies were sent out for review. Sales were as follows: 231 in 1988; 176 in 1989; 27 in 1990 (52 copies on hand on 31 December 1990). Information based on: file 22, vol. 47, file 52, vol. 50, file 20, vol. 51, and file 7, vol. 88, Davies fonds, lac; box 21 (with typescript of Davies’s introduction), Finch fonds, otutf. copies examined: davis (2 copies); ohm.

B50  the oxford companion to canadian theatre 1989 [all lines within two rectangles, the outer one thick] THE OXFORD COMPANION TO | Canadian | THEATRE | Edited by | Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly | TORONTO OXFORD NEW YORK | Oxford University Press | 1989 1-19 16 20 20 21 16. i-iv, v-xviii, 1-662 pp. (340 leaves). 230 × 151 mm.



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text: “Massey, Vincent,” pp. 333-4; “Massey, Raymond Hart,” pp. 334-5.

Information about the publishing history of B50 is based on files 22 and 24, vol. 50, Davies fonds, lac.

binding and dust jacket: Bound in blue paper boards with the following stamped in gilt on the spine: THE OXFORD | COMPANION | TO | CANADIAN | THEATRE | Benson | & | Conolly | [crest of Oxford University Press] | OXFORD. The panels of the jacket have a red background. Printed on the front panel: [in white] THE OXFORD COMPANION TO | [next two lines in orange] Canadian | THEATRE | [colour illustration by Karen Patkau within two white rectangles of the interior (audience, actors on stage) of Montreal’s New Academy of Music (reproduced from the Canadian Illustrated News, 4 December 1874)] | [in orange] Edited by Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly. The spine panel has information similar to that of the front panel with a small segment of the illustration reproduced above the publisher’s name. On the back panel is the bar code within a solid white rectangle. The flaps are white. On the front flap are the book’s title, the names of the editors, two paragraphs about the book, a reference to the illustrations, and the publisher’s name. The back flap has biographical information about the editors, attribution of the illustration used on the front panel, and the ISBN (0-19-540672-9).

copies examined: davis (in jacket); otmc (in jacket).

notes: B50 contains 703 entries written by 160 contributors about Canadian theatre. The editors are Eugene Benson (professor of English at University of Guelph, novelist, playwright, librettist of three operas, and former Chairman of the Writers’ Union of Canada) and L.W. Conolly (formerly Chairman of the Department of Drama at University of Guelph, then Associate Vice-President Academic at Guelph, author and editor of numerous books and articles about the theatre). On 18 July 1986, William Toye, Editorial Director of Oxford University Press (Canada), acknowledged that Davies was to write entries on Raymond Massey and Vincent Massey for B50. He was paid $50 per 750 words (sent to Davies on 8 December 1989). Benson and Conolly sent him the entries “edited slightly to conform to Oxford house style” for his approval on 11 June 1988. They noted that “the Raymond Massey entry has been altered slightly to follow his career chronologically. We have taken great pains not to block your own voice in these entries which we regard as very fine.” Davies told the editors on 28 June 1988 that “The revision of my pieces about the Masseys is perfectly satisfactory to me.” He corrected a line regarding Raymond Massey’s children. B50 was published in January 1989. Printed by T.H. Best Printing Company. Price $59.95.

B51  the joy of singing 1989 [cream-coloured and green marbled paper; eight lines in English and French acknowledging the patronage of Her Excellency The Right Honourable Jeanne Sauvé, Governor General of Canada] | [next five lines within a solid black rectangle, outlined in yellow, the first line in white] THE | [in white and purple] JOY | [in white] OF | [in white and yellow] SINGING | [white wavy line] | 1989 INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL | [three wavy lines in green, yellow, and purple] | FESTIVAL CHORAL INTERNATIONAL 1989 | Nicholas Goldschmidt, O.C., Artistic Director | [in green] TORONTO | CANADA | JUNE 1989 | [silhouette of a horse or unicorn within a circle and partial dotted square; next two lines to the right of the silhouette] Lloyds Bank | Canada 1, 2-3, 4-6, 7-8, 9, 10-15, 16, 17-19, 20, 21-22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28-33, 34, 35-37, 38, 39-43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51-55, 56, 57-59, 60-61, 62-64 pp. (32 leaves). 304 × 226 mm. Apparently in four gatherings of eight leaves. text: “The Only Creatures in All of Nature Who Sing Are Birds and Mankind,” pp. 12-13. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper covers. The front cover has a colour illustration with a medieval design featuring birds, griffins, angels, leaves, and ornate flowers. The title of the program, the name of the festival, and its principal sponsor are located within compartments on the front cover. The spine is black, extending to the left-hand side of the front cover in a curved vertical band. The back cover has an advertisement for Lloyds Bank Canada. notes: B51 is a souvenir program issued by the International Choral Festival for its festivities in Toronto in June 1989 when 4,000 artists performed in over seventy concerts. Davies’s contribution to this program is a paean of praise to the practice of music and song. copies examined: lac.

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ISLAND OF | [in green shadowed type] CACONA | by | THE HON. FRANCIS THISTLETON | [William Henry Fleet] | Introduction by | ROBERTSON DAVIES | THE ARION PRESS | San Francisco | 1989 1-14 8. 1-9, viii-xiii, 1-4, 4-12, 13, 14-24, 25, 26-30, 31, 32-38, 39, 40-44, 45, 46-59, 60, 61-67, 68, 69-73, 74, 7578, 79, 80-86, 87, 88-94, 95, 96-103, 104, 105-112, 113, 114-120, 121, 122-128, 129, 130-134, 135, 136-140, 141, 142-149, 150, 151-153, 154, 155-157, 158, 159-166, 167, 168-170, 171, 172-178, 179, 180-183, 184, 185-186, 187, 188-189, 190, 192, 193, 194-201, 202, 203-204, 1-4 pp. (112 leaves). 204 × 140 mm. text: Introduction on pp. 9, viii-xiii, dated “July 12, 1989.” binding: Bound in dark-camel paper boards, quarterbound with dark-green cloth. Stamped on the upper board is a map, outlined in green, showing the principal harbour and towns of the island of Cacona. A dark-camel paper label is affixed to the top of the backstrip with the following printed on the label: [two rules] | THE | GOVERNOR | OF | CACONA | [two rules]. notes: Named after the Greek poet who was saved from the sea by a dolphin, the Arion Press of San Francisco is a fine press that can trace its roots back to the Grabhorn Press and the Auerhahn Press. The Arion Press was established by Andrew Hoyem in 1974. According to the colophon and the Arion Press website, this edition is its twenty-eighth imprint. B52 was published in November 1989 in an edition of 325 copies (300 copies for sale, twenty-five copies sent to participants in the project). Printed in Monotype Bell (with larger sizes of type in handset Bell, Bodoni Bold and Thorne Shaded for display) on Mohawk Letterpress Text paper; composed by M&H Type with photoengravings plated by Harms Graphics. Designed by Hoyem with the assistance of G.B. Carson, Antonio Damian, Peggy Gotthold, Gerald Reddan, Glenn Todd, and Lawrence Van Velzer. Twenty-two vignettes drawn by Hoyem. Price $135. How I Came to Be Governor of the Island of Cacona was first published in 1852 by H. Ramsay in Montreal. In his introduction Davies notes that the book is a satire of the political administration of Francis Bond Head, who was Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada from 1835 to 1838. Davies credits Dr. Mary Lu MacDonald for providing him with historical information about the book and its author. In March 1988 Hoyem contacted Dr. Joyce Banks, the Rare Books and Conservation Librarian at the National Library of Canada, about the book’s author-

ship and rarity. In turn Banks referred Hoyem to MacDonald who supplied him with information about Head and placed Fleet’s satire in the context of nineteenth-century fiction. MacDonald pointed out that the attribution to Fleet was far from certain, though a section of the book’s manuscript was donated by a son of Fleet to the McGill University Library. Hoyem asked Davies to write the introduction to B52 in November 1988, and the two men met in San Francisco in February 1989 during one of Davies’s publicity tours. Hoyem promised to send Davies any information that MacDonald had gathered — “a hefty package containing a complete photo-copy of the novel and other background material.” Davies agreed to submit the introduction in August of that year. In reply to Hoyem’s inquiry about the newspaper editor in the book who was maimed by those who held opposing political views, Davies responded: I do not know who the editor was who lost his ears. During the nineteenth century there was the usual custom of the time of challenging editors to duels and threatening to horse-whip them. Dr. Barker, of the Kingston British Whig, fought at least one duel with a man of whom he had spoken contemptuously in his paper; neither suffered injury but honour was satisfied. It may interest you to know that since 1926 my family has published the Whig, which has now been combined with the Kingston Standard as the Whig-Standard and I am signing this letter to you on the desk which was made for Dr. Barker and which he used and which was used by every succeeding editor of the Whig, including my late father.

Shortly after B52’s publication, Hoyem wrote to Davies on 17 December 1989. He asked Davies about possible journals and newspapers that might review the book on a loan basis. Davies suggested Saturday Night and the Toronto Globe and Mail on 9 January 1990. He advised Hoyem to get in touch with the antiquarian dealer Hugh Anson-Cartwright, as “the appearance of the book,” Davies stated, “... is extremely handsome and restores a rarity of Canadian writing to circulation.” MacDonald informed Hoyem on 4 January 1990 that she was not entirely pleased with Davies’s introduction. Davies maintained that Fleet’s text was a satire of Head’s administration when it also referred to events that occurred during the administrations of Lord Elgin and other Lieutenant-Governors and Governors-General who served between 1835 and 1851. Information on the publishing history of B52 is based on the following sources: Hoyem’s pamphlet, How I Came to Publish How I Came to Be Governor of the Island of Cacona, [1989]; e-mail messages from MacDon-



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ald to Carl Spadoni, 24-6 May 2000; file 12, vol. 43, file 23, vol. 48, and file 32, vol. 49, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: ohm; otmc (inscribed by Davies on the title page: “The discovery in 1989 of a third of the text of this book in the MS collection of McGill University, in Fleet’s hand, finally establishes his authorship beyond doubt. R.D.”).

B53  edwin arlington robinson 1990 Arthurian Poets | EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON | Introduced by | JAMES P. CARLEY | THE BOYDELL PRESS 1-9, 2-11, 12-15, 16-94, 95, 96-179, 180-181, 182-382, 383, 384-387, 1-5 pp. (200 leaves). 215 × 136 mm. text: Statement by Davies, extracted from a letter, about Robinson’s importance as a poet, p. 7. binding: Paperback, perfect bound. The front cover has a colour illustration of C.E. Butler’s painting King Arthur. The series title, a swelled rule, and the name of the poet are in gilt against a dark-brown background above the illustration. The spine and back cover are dark brown with lettering in white. Stamped on the spine: Arthurian Poets ROBINSON boydell. On the back cover are the series title, the name of the poet, reference to the introduction, three paragraphs about Robinson’s poems, a quotation from Davies’s statement, information about the cover illustration, the price (£10.95), the publisher’s address, and the ISBN (0-8115-545-6) and bar code within a solid white rectangle. notes: B53 reprints in facsimile a trilogy of booklength poems written by the New England poet Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935). Based on the Arthurian legends, Robinson’s poems are: Merlin (1917), Lancelot (1920), and Tristam (1927). James P. Carley, Professor of English at York University, who wrote the introduction to B53 and other volumes of the Arthurian Poets series, is a Senior Fellow of Massey College. Helen Barber of the Boydell Press wrote to Davies on 12 February 1990. She thanked him for writing about Robinson and informed him that the statement in his letter would appear at the beginning of B53. She enclosed a copy of his printed text. “We are expecting to pass for press on 26 February [1990],” she told him (file 4, vol. 44, Davies fonds, lac). In Davies’s opinion, Robinson’s poetry is “a fine correction to the nineteenth century romanticism of Tennyson and the arch whimsy of T.H. White.” B53 was printed by the

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B54  more than words can say 1990 MORE | THAN | WORDS | CAN | SAY | PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES ON LITERACY | [wavy block] | [short, wavy rule] | M&S | [short, thick rule] 1-10, 1-3, 4-6, 7-13, 14, 15-19, 20, 21-24, 25-26, 27-31, 32, 33-40, 41-42, 43-47, 48, 49-55, 56, 57-62, 63-64, 6568, 69-70, 71-74, 75-76, 77-82, 83-84, 85-93, 94, 95-102, 103-104, 105-113, 114, 115-121, 122, 123-125, 126, 127-131, 132, 133-135, 136, 137-140, 141-144, 145-149, 1 pp. (80 leaves). 215 × 140 mm. There appear to be five gatherings, each comprising sixteen leaves. text: “A Chat about Literacy,” pp. 49-55. Black-andwhite photo of Davies, his signature in facsimile, and a biographical note about him on p. 48. binding: Perfect binding, stiff-paper glossy covers. The front cover is dark grey on the left side and a marbled paper design in orange, yellow, and grey on the right side. There is a list of the contributors in a column on the right side. The back cover is dark grey. It has information about the book’s purpose, namely that this collection of personal perspectives on literacy was put together to support literacy and education programs in the developing world. (1990 was International Literacy Year.) Also on the back cover are the bar code and ISBN 0-7710-2166-6, both within a solid white rectangle. Cover design by Lorraine Tuson. notes: Knowlton Nash, the Honorary Chairman of CODE (Canadian Organization for Development through Education), who wrote the foreword to B54, informed Davies on 15 August 1989 that McClelland & Stewart would publish B54 as a non-profit venture. The expected print run of B54 was 25,000 copies, and the proceeds from the sales were to be used for the work of CODE. The Coles bookstore chain had agreed to sell B54 at its 219 outlets in Canada. Nash stated that a reception for the contributors, to be hosted by the Governor General at Rideau Hall, would be held early in 1990 to coincide with the launching of the publication. Nash asked Davies to write 1,500 words of a personal nature by 15 September 1989 on the themes of books or reading. Davies signed an agreement to write an essay for

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B54 on 1 November 1989. B54’s editor was Ellen Seligman of McClelland & Stewart. Printing and binding were carried out by Friesen Printing. Price $9.95. B54 was published in early April 1990. Nash thanked Davies for his contribution on 2 May 1990. The Canadian Club in Toronto gave a special luncheon for B54’s contributors, and the book launch was held at Harbourfront. Reprinted in the Toronto Star, 8 September 1990, p. M10. Davies’s contribution to B54 is in the form of a chat between a student and a writer. He distinguishes three types of literacy: (1) being able to recognize and understand simple verbal or visual signs; (2) being able to read and write “medicine bottles or books of directions ... [and] technical work of some complexity”; (3) having an appreciation of books and the beauty of language. Information on the publishing history of B54 is based on files 34-5, vol. 44, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: otmc (two copies); pend.

B55  [stratford festival program for macbeth] 1990 [cover title featuring a colour illustration of water and trees with a head (above the water) wearing a flower wreath; a vertical, rectangular column in solid brownish-cream on the right side has the following: solid blue rectangle] | STRATFORD | FESTIVAL | David William | Artistic Director | MACBETH | by | William | Shakespeare | May 5 to | November 11 | 1990 | [logo of the Stratford Festival Theatre: swan-like S on a black background within an oval] | Sponsored by | [logo] Bank of Montreal | FESTIVAL | THEATRE | [solid blue rectangle] 116. 1-3, 4, 5-8, 9, 10, 11-13, 14, 15, 16-22, 23-24, 25-32 pp. Foliation and pagination includes the covers. 277 × 215 mm. text: “On Macbeth,” pp. 11-13, 15. binding: Issued in glossy paper, same weight and texture as the paper for the contents, wire-stitched. On the back cover is a colour advertisement for the National Trust. notes: Davies’s discussion of Shakespeare’s Macbeth focuses on the historical Macbeth and King James I of England (1566-1625). Davies maintains that Shakespeare wrote the play very much with King James in mind since prior to ascending the throne in 1603, the King had been James VI of Scotland. According to Davies, the King was an intellectual who would have ap-

preciated the intrigue and the thematic subtleties of the play with regard to witchcraft, human corruption, and the consequences of evil. B55 was distributed to members of the audience who attended performances of this play. copies examined: strat.

B56 barbed lyres 1990 [all lines, except the last one, in open type] BARBED | L°Y°R°E°S | [illustration, signed by Aislin (i.e. Terry Mosher), of a cherub taking aim with a bow (in the shape of a lyre) and arrow (the tip of the arrow in the shape of a maple leaf] | CANADIAN | VENOMOUS | V°E°R°S°E | KEY [P and O overlapping] PORTER [tiny leaf; Os overlapping] BOOKS i-xii, xiii-xv, 1, 1-112 pp. (64 leaves). 216 × 140 mm. There appear to be four unsewn gatherings, each consisting of sixteen leaves. text: Poem entitled “Heartcry of an Over-Solicited Donor,” p. 14. binding and dust jacket: Bound in black, pebblegrain paper boards with stamping in gilt on the spine as follows: [down the spine] atwood [the next two words in open type] BARBED L°Y°R°E°S | [remaining lines within a rectangle] KEY [tiny leaf] | [P and O overlapping] POR- | TER | [Os overlapping] BOOKS. The front, spine and spine panels of the jacket are brown with solid flesh-tone rectangles on the front and back panels. Lettering on the spine panel is in white similar to the stamping on the spine. On the front panel inside the solid rectangle and within two white, wavy-lined rectangles is the following: ° Foreword by Margaret Atwood ° | [rule] | [the next two lines in grey open type] BARBED | L°Y°R°E°S | [rule; colour illustration of a cherub similar to the illustration on the title page; rule] | [the next three lines in grey open type] CANADIAN | VENOMOUS | V°E°R°S°E | [rule] | ° Illustrations by Aislin °. On the back panel inside the solid rectangle and within two white, wavy-lined rectangles are: a paragraph explaining the origin of the book; the names of four contest winners whose poems are included in the book; a list of twenty-four people who were invited to submit their poems; an illustration of a cherub; and the ISBN (1-55013-252-0). On the flaps are the title, price ($16.95), an explanation of the book’s origin and contents, a line about Atwood, a paragraph about This Magazine, and the name of the publisher and jacket designer (Scott Richardson).



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notes: Like its predecessor, The Blasted Pine: An Anthology of Satire, Invective and Disrespectful Verse (1957), B56 is an anthology of satiric verse aimed at Canadian traditions, culture, institutions, and personages of the day. B56 originated at This Magazine, which ran a nationwide contest for satiric verse. The submissions were judged by Margaret Atwood (who came up with the idea of the contest), the columnist Allan Fotheringham, and the songwriter Nancy White. Over 100 of the best entries are included in B56 along with poems from invited celebrities. Davies sent his poem to Atwood on 3 April 1990 (annotated typescript of Davies’s poem in file 5, vol. 60 and file 68, vol. 86, and a carbon typescript in file 12, vol. 43, Davies fonds, lac). “Davies shreds — eek! — charities who send more than one begging letter,” Atwood comments in her foreword (p. xv). The contract for B56 is dated 9 January 1990. Key Porter Books Limited paid This Magazine an advance of $20,000 for the book ($8,000 on signing the contract, $7,000 upon delivery of the manuscript, and $5,000 on publication). The royalty rate was 8% of the list price up to 10,000 copies sold, 10% to 25,000 copies, and 15% thereafter. Key Porter Books planned a promotion campaign with ads in newspapers, flyers, and radio spots. The due date for the manuscript was 8 June 1990 (the manuscript without Atwood’s introduction was received by Key Porter Books on 27 June 1990). Although B56 was not published until 21 October 1990, the book launch occurred at the Canadian Booksellers Association on 6-10 July 1990 with Atwood in attendance. Terry Mosher was paid $1,650 for the cover illustration and interior vignettes. Typesetting by Images ’N Type Ltd. Printed in an edition of approximately 7,000 copies. 5,105 copies were sold in the trade, and 1,414 copies sold at a discount of 50%. Davies’s poem is reprinted in “Venomous Verses from Barbed Lyres,” Saturday Night 105, no. 9 (November 1990): 63. Information on the publishing history of B56 is based on file 2, box 20, Key Porter Books fonds, ohm. copies examined: davis (in jacket); oh (in jacket).

B57  living philosophies 1990 [two vertical rules on the left- and right-hand side of the page extending down to the second line] Living | Philosophies | [two vertical rules on the left and right-hand side of the page extending down to the second last line] THE | REFLECTIONS OF | SOME EMINENT | MEN AND WOMEN | OF OUR TIME |

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Edited by Clifton Fadiman | [publisher’s device: a dolphin curled around an anchor] | DOUBLEDAY |  New York London Toronto Sydney Aukland  i-vii, viii-ix, x-xi, xii, 1-3, 4-6, 7, 8-15, 16, 17-22, 23, 2429, 30, 31-39, 40, 41-46, 47, 48-55, 56, 57-62, 63, 64-75, 76, 77-80, 81, 82-88, 89, 90-95, 96, 97-109, 110, 111116, 117, 118-123, 124, 125-129, 130, 131-137, 138, 139-144, 145, 146-151, 152, 153-160, 161, 162-164, 165, 166-176, 177, 178-182, 183, 184-186, 187, 188-192, 193, 194-199, 200, 201-212, 213, 214-222, 223, 224-229, 230, 231-237, 238, 239-244, 245, 246-263, 264, 265-270, 271, 272-277, 278, 279-284, 285, 286-290, 1-2 pp. (152 leaves). 235 ×156 mm. text: “On the Dangerous Edge,” pp. 131-7. Photo of Davies with a biographical note about him on pp. 1301. binding and dust jacket: Perfect bound in creamcoloured cloth, half bound in purple paper boards. Stamped on the spine in silver down the spine: Living [under the previous line] Philosophies | Clifton Fadiman [publisher’s device: a dolphin curled around an anchor] DOUBLEDAY. The front, spine, and back panels of the dust jacket are purple with compartments in silver, yellow, green, white, and black. There are lists of the contributors on the front and back panels. Also on the back panel are the ISBN 0-385-24880-6, the bar code, and bar code number. The flaps are white with a sentence or a couple of words in green. On the front flap is the price (US $22.50, Can $27.50) and two paragraphs about the contents of the book. On the back flap is a paragraph about Fadiman. Design by Mario J. Pulice. The last line on the back flap is 0990. notes: Clifton Fadiman (1902-1999), the editor of this volume of thirty-six essays, was a writer, critic, anthologist, and moderator of the radio quiz show, “Information Please.” Davies consented to contribute an essay to B57 about his own personal beliefs on 29 August 1988. The deadline was flexible, Fadiman assured Davies, although Fadiman required the essay shortly after Davies had signed the agreement with Doubleday (copy at pend dated 15 December 1988): a payment of $2,000 and a deadline of 15 March 1989. In his essay Davies disdains philosophy and dogma. He has “the Shakespearean inclination,” espouses Anglicanism, and claims to have a literary temperament. Sometimes described as a moralist, Davies states that if he is a moralist, he is so “with many and deep reservations,” and, moreover, above all else, he is a writer. When he received Davies’s essay on 13 February 1989, Fadiman told him: “Your testament is both

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wise (as you say, you have not confused wisdom with philosophy) and witty (which is welcome but not unsurprising). I was particularly struck by the trenchant observation that, while men may be known by their works, they may be known even better by their wives.” Information about B57 has been obtained from files 20 and 21, vol. 47, Davies fonds, lac. Book designed by Chris Welch. Printed in Caledonia typeface and bound by Berryville Graphics. B57 was published on 1 September 1990. Davies registered the copyright in this essay at dlc’s Copyright Office on 4 October 1990 (TX-2-942-014). Fadiman also registered the copyright in this volume at dlc on the same date (TX-2-926429). The copyright page has October 1990 as the date of publication. copies examined: oh (rebound in jacket); otmc (in jacket); otu (no jacket).

B58  early stages: theatre in ontario, 1800-1914 1990 Edited by ANN SADDLEMYER | Early Stages: | Theatre in Ontario | 1800-1914 | A project of the | Ontario Historical Studies Series | for the Government of Ontario | Published by University of Toronto Press | Toronto Buffalo London 1 8 2-13 16 14-15 8. i-vii, viii, ix-xi, xii-xiii, 1-4, 4-6, 7, 8-17, 18, 19-30, 31, 32-51, 52, 53-89, 90, 91-122, 123, 124165, 166, 167-213, 214, 215-287, 288, 289-346, 347, 348-354, 355, 356, 357, 358-412, 1-6 pp. (216 leaves). 228 × 152 mm. text: Chapter 4, “The Nineteenth-Century Repertoire,” pp. 90-122. binding: There are two binding variants: (1) Bound in red cloth with the coat of arms (motto: VT INCEPIT FIDELIS SIC PERMANET) of Ontario between two rules stamped in gilt on the upper board. Stamped in gilt down the spine: Saddlemyer, ed. EARLY STAGES: THEATRE IN ONTARIO, 1800-1914. (2) Paperback in maroon and gold, perfect bound. On the front cover are: the title in white, a black-andwhite photograph of actors on stage, and under the photograph, Edited by | Ann Saddlemyer. Printed down the spine: [first two words in gold] Saddlemyer, ed. [title in white] EARLY STAGES: THEATRE IN ONTARIO, 1800-1914 [remaining words in gold] OHSS [under the previous word] Toronto. On the back cover are: a black-and-white photograph of a theatre; the names of the essayists in white; and a solid white rectangle containing the ISBN, bar code, and

bar code numbers. ISBN 0-8020-2738-5 (cloth); ISBN 0-8020-6779-4 (paper). notes: Ann Saddlemyer was a professor of English and drama at the University of Toronto. She was a senior fellow at Massey College from 1971 to 1988 and the third Master of the College from 1988 to 1995. At the International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront on 19 October 1989, she participated in the Robertson Davies Tribute and read an essay entitled “The Master Creator.” Davies was paid $500 and a royalty of ½% for his contribution to B58. He was paid $100, the first instalment of his honorarium, on 1 April 1980. The deadline for his submission was 31 March 1981 for 10,000 words. He told Saddlemyer on 22 April 1980 that “it would not take me too long to do a 10,000 word article on the material that emerges [from the research group on the plays performed in Ontario theatres]. Saddlemyer informed Davies on 17 January 1983 that she was delighted with his chapter. She assured him that although she would not cut a sentence from his contribution there was bound to be overlapping discussion with other chapters. She advised Davies to add some judicious footnotes. Davies told Saddlemyer on 20 January 1983 that he would insert notes once he saw the other contributions: “I began my chapter with a note that the plays that were seen in Canada during the nineteenth century were imported and it is with the overwhelming preponderance of imported matter that I have dealt.” At a Massey High Table Davies also mentioned to Saddlemyer that he planned to expand his contribution. He added a note about minstrel songs after talking with Professor George Ford of Rochester University, for example. On 3 March 1987, Saddlemyer informed Davies that she had finally received all the chapters of B58. She added five footnotes and a few phrases to his contribution. She raised minor queries and inserted crossreferences to other chapters. Davies agreed to her changes on 31 March 1987. “It was strange to return to this article which I wrote in 1982,” Davies told her. “Since that time I have published four books and have completely forgotten my contribution to this one.” The manuscript of B58 was submitted to the general editors of the series for their approval on 24 September 1987. Davies was requested to supply biographical information about himself on 13 October 1987. Saddlemyer told Davies on 30 November 1990 that she had seen an advance copy of the paperback “resplendent in gold and deep red.” She promised to send him a copy in the next while. The price of the paperback was $17.95. Advance copies of B58 were



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sent out for review at that time, although the official book launch, hosted by the Board of Trustees of the Ontario Historical Society and the University of Toronto Press, did not occur until 6 February 1991 at Massey College. There are two typescripts of Davies’s contribution in file 69, vol. 86, Davies fonds, lac (annotated first draft and a photocopy of a later typescript with a few editorial insertions by Saddlemyer). According to royalty reports at pend, 777 copies sold in cloth and 847 in paper by the end of April 1992. Information on the publishing history of B58 has been obtained from file 6, vol. 45, file 33, vol. 51, and file 34, vol. 87, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: davis (paper); ohm (cloth); lac (paper).

B59  arthur miller and company 1990 ARTHUR MILLER | AND COMPANY | Arthur Miller talks about his work | in the company of | Actors, Designers, Directors | Reviewers and Writers | Edited by christopher bigsby | methuen drama in association with | THE ARTHUR MILLER CENTRE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES 1-8 16. i-vi, vii-xv, 1, 1-9, 10, 11-31, 32, 33-38, 39-40, 4142, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50-53, 54, 55-61, 62, 6378, 79, 80-83, 84, 85-106, 107, 108-121, 122, 123-125, 126, 127-128, 129, 130-145, 146, 147-148, 149, 150-161, 162, 163-164, 165, 166-174, 175, 176-182, 183, 184-192, 193, 194-206, 207, 208-211, 212, 213-221, 222, 223-232, 233-234, 235-240 pp. (128 leaves). 233 × 155 mm. text: Untitled tribute to Arthur Miller, p. 63. binding: Bound in blue cloth. Stamped down the spine in gilt: ARTHUR MILLER AND COMPANY Edited by Christopher Bigsby. Dust jacket not seen, but a digital scan of the jacket’s front panel features a black-and-white photograph of Miller with the title in blue and names of the contributors in yellow. notes: Compiled on the occasion of Arthur Miller’s seventy-fifth birthday (17 October 1990), B59 contains approximately eighty tributes and recollections, interspersed with interviews of Miller conducted by Christopher Bigsby. Literary analyst and novelist, Bigsby is Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich (the location of the Arthur Miller Centre for American Studies). In June 1989 he met and interviewed Davies at Massey College (see F89.11). Shortly thereafter, he invited Davies to comment on Miller’s career as a writer. In his tribute

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Davies says that when critics hailed Miller’s Death of a Salesman, he was slow in recognizing Miller’s talent and genius for tragedy. But “time and better judgement changed” his mind. In his opinion, Miller was not only “the true successor to Eugene O’Neill,” he surpassed O’Neill as a dramatist on account of his “perception of the tragic downfall of people.” David Watson of Methuen sent Davies a copy of B59 at the time of publication. Price £17.50. Printed by Clays Ltd. St. Ives plc. ISBN 0 413 64220 8. Number of copies printed not known. In July 1995, Bigsby invited Davies to attend a dinner to celebrate Miller’s eightieth birthday in Norwich. He also sent Davies complimentary tickets to a gala event honoring Miller. Davies wrote back on 2 August 1995: “I would like to express my great admiration for Mr. Miller, which I hope some one will be able to convey to him. He is our finest living dramatist and a moralist of Ibsen-like stature.” Information on the publishing history of B59 is based on: file 33, vol. 49, Davies fonds, lac; e-mail from Bigsby to Carl Spadoni, 6 April 2006. copies examined: ohm (no jacket).

B60  vital signs: international stories on aging 1991 [in script] Vital Signs | International Stories on Aging | ❇ ❇ ❇ ❇ ❇ | EDITED BY DOROTHY SENNETT | WITH ANNE CZARNIECKI | INTRODUCTION BY | ROBERTSON DAVIES | GRAYWOLF PRESS / SAINT PAUL 1-9, viii-ix, x-xi, xii-xviii, 1-5, 4-6, 7, 8-12, 13, 14-18, 1921, 22-26, 27, 28-34, 35, 36-42, 43-45, 46-66, 67, 68-71, 72, 73-86, 87-89, 90-103, 104, 105-127, 128, 129-131, 132-135, 136-143, 144, 145-153, 154-157, 158-166, 167, 168-180, 181, 182-189, 190, 191-201, 202-205, 206-210, 211, 212-216, 217, 218-227, 1-7 pp. (128 leaves). 230 × 154 mm. text: Introduction, pp. xi-xviii. binding: Perfect binding in stiff paper. The covers are purple with solid cream rectangles on the front and back covers. On the lower half of the front cover is a reproduction of Helen Byers’s pastel, Harvest (1990). On the back cover is information about the book and its predecessor, Full Measure: International Stories on Aging, with excerpts from reviews (Alida Becker, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Academic Library Book Review) and the ISBN (1-55597-143-1). Printed on the spine in white: Dorothy | Sennett, | EDITOR | [down the spine, the first

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two words in script] Vital Signs International Stories on Aging | Graywolf | Press. notes: B60 is a sequel to an earlier publication entitled Full Measure: International Stories on Aging (1988). Both books are anthologies of stories selected from different countries in which the protagonist is a contemporary old man or old woman. Catherine MizellNelson of the Graywolf Press expressed her delight to Davies on 23 August 1990 when he agreed to write an introduction to B60. He was paid $500 for six to eight pages with a deadline of 1 November 1990. She told Davies that copies of particular stories or the entire book could be sent to him. Davies sent his introduction to Mizell-Nelson on 2 October 1990 (annotated typescript in file 4, vol. 60, Davies fonds, lac). Scott Walker, the Editorial Director of Graywolf Press, thanked Davies on 15 October 1990: “It is just the thing we wanted, to set the tone for the book, a tone of openness and understanding and adventure.” In his discussion of the changing nature of the passions in old age, Davies refers to Thomas Hardy, Cicero, John Cowper Powys, and C.G. Jung. The exact date of publication and the number of copies printed of B60 are not known. B60 appeared in the Graywolf Short Fiction Series. Price $12.95. Davies’s introduction to B60 is adapted as “You’re Not Getting Older, You’re Getting Nosier,” New York Times, 12 May 1991, sec. 7 (“Book Review”), pp. 1, 35-6. See files 5-6, vol. 48, Davies fonds at lac for Davies’s correspondence about B60. copies examined: davis; oh.

B61  the tanner lectures on human values 1992 THE TANNER LECTURES | ON HUMAN VALUES | [in grey] 13 | [in grey] 1992 | Richard Rorty, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Robertson Davies, | Annette C. Baier, David Montgomery, G. A. Cohen | Grethe B. Peterson, Editor | University of Utah Press | Salt Lake City 1-10 16 11 8 12 16. i-v, vi, 1-6, 3-35, 36-38, 39-57, 58-60, 61106, 107-108, 109-174, 175-176, 177-259, 260-262, 263329, 330, 331-358 pp. (184 leaves). 233 × 156 mm. text: “Reading and Writing” (I. “Reading,” pp. 61-83; II. “Writing,” pp. 84-106). binding and jacket: Bound in brown cloth, quarterbound with glossy dark-brown buckram. On the end papers is a repeating pattern of the insignias of nine

institutions: Clare Hall, Cambridge University; Harvard University; Brasenose College, Oxford University; Princeton University; Stanford University; the University of California; the University of Michigan; the University of Utah; and Yale University. Stamped on the upper board in gilt: The | Tanner | Lectures | On | Human | Values | [vertical rule from top to bottom to the right of the previous lines]. On the lower board from top to bottom is a vertical rule in gilt. Stamped in gilt on the spine: 13 | [down the spine] The Tanner Lectures on Human Values 1992 | Utah. The bottom two-thirds of the front, spine, and back panels of the jacket are dark brown, the top third in light brown. There are also two dark-brown rules separating the coloured sections across the panels. Printing on the panels alternates between light brown and dark brown, depending on the colour of the panel in question. The title, volume number, and names of the contributors and editor are on the front panel. The volume number, year, title, and name of the publisher are on the spine panel. Printed at the bottom of the back panel in light brown: ISBN 0-87480-606-X | ISSN 0275-7656. The flaps in light brown record the title, volume number and year, the editor’s name, information about the purpose of the Tanner Lectures and the contributors, and the address of the publisher. notes: Named after Obert Clark Tanner (1904-1993), the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist, the Tanner Lectures on Human Values were formally founded on 1 July 1978 and are concerned with the advancement of “scholarly and scientific learning” in relation “to the entire range of human values and valuation” (p. v). Lectureships are held at nine institutions (see the binding note for the list of institutions) and at other institutions selected by the Board of Trustees. B61 includes lectures delivered during the 1990-1 academic year. Davies’s two lectures (general title, “The Mysterious Partnership”) were given at Yale University on 20-1 February 1991. He was invited to give the lectures on 5 March 1990. The publication agreement between Davies and the Tanner Trustees is dated 23 January 1991. Davies was paid $7,500 on receipt of his manuscript, and an honorarium of $5,000 for delivering the lectures at Yale. Davies submitted the text of his lectures to the University of Utah Press on 11 March 1991. The editor of this book Joanne S. Ainsworth sent Davies a copy of her edited text on 11 September 1991. She requested that Davies return the edited lectures to her by the end of the month. Davies returned the lectures on 24 September 1991, but he was not impressed with her “work as a critic of



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style.” He could not agree with her use of pronouns, her modernizations, and her explanatory notes about Thackeray, Trollope, and Browning (see files 38-40, vol. 60 (annotated typescripts, 20-1 February 1991, and correspondence) and file 9, vol. 81, Davies fonds, lac). According to the copyright notice (TX-3-363-197) at the Copyright Office of dlc, this volume of the Tanner Lectures was published on 27 May 1992. The copyright was registered on 6 July 1992. Composed by Donald M. Henriksen in Intertype Garamond with Garamond Foundry display type. Number of copies printed not known. See also A76, A89, and E91.1-2. copies examined: davis (in jacket); oh; otmc (in jacket).

B62  the greek miracle 1992 [title consists of two pages; on left-hand page:] THE GREEK [on right-hand page:] MIRACLE | CLASSICAL SCULPTURE FROM THE DAWN OF | DEMOCRACY • THE FIFTH CENTURY B.C. | [on left-hand page: colour photograph of a marble statue of a running girl, the arms of the sculpture broken off] DIANA BUITRON-OLIVER [on righthand page:] With contributions by Nicholas Gage | Olga Palagia | Jerome J. Pollitt | Olga Tzachou-Alexandri | Vassilis Lambrinoudakis | Angelos Delivorrias | Peter G. Calligas | Daniil I. Iakov | Robertson Davies | NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON 1-4 852 6-11 8. 1-8, 9-20, 21, 22-59, 60, 61-76, 77-78, 79, 80-82, 83-86, 87-89, 90, 91-100, 101, 102, 103-104, 105, 106-107, 108-109, 110, 111-112, 113-114, 115, 116-122, 123, 124-126, 127-129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135137, 138, 139-140, 141, 142-143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151-153, 154-157, 158, 159-164 pp. (82 leaves). 320 × 237 mm. text: “Reflections from the Golden Age,” pp. 69-76. binding: There are two binding variants. (1) Black cloth with the following stamped on the upper board: THE GREEK MIRACLE | CLASSICAL SCULPTURE FROM THE DAWN OF DEMOCRACY • THE FIFTH CENTURY B.C. Stamped in gilt on the spine: [down the spine] THE GREEK MIRACLE | NATIONAL | GALLERY | OF ART. Dark-green endpapers. The front panel of the jacket has a colour photograph of a relief of the contemplative Athena; the back panel has a dark-green background with a colour photograph of the back of the statue of a running girl. The flaps are cream-coloured with the texts in green. On the front

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flap are four paragraphs about the book. The back flap has information about the contributors, the number of illustrations and plates, and the name of the distributor (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.). (2) Paperback not seen. notes: Organized to commemorate the 2,500th anniversary of democracy, B62 concerns an exhibition of thirty-four original works of Greek sculpture. The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art (Washington, dc, exhibited on 22 November 1992-7 February 1993) in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art (exhibited 11 March-23 May 1993) and the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Greece. In addition to being a catalogue to the exhibited works, B62 contains essays from experts and critics on the significance of these works. Davies was asked “to address the question of how these classical works of art speak to us today” (p. 15). The guest curator of the exhibition Diana Buitron-Oliver wrote to Davies on 30 January 1992. She asked him to write an essay that would “address the problem of putting classical art and the achievements of fifth century BC Athens into a meaningful perspective for the non-classicist of today’s world.” Buitron-Oliver chose Davies to write the essay after she had read the discussions of art in What’s Bred in the Bone. He was paid $2,000 for the essay. Proofs of his essay were sent to him on 15 July 1992. B62 was produced by the Editors Office, National Gallery of Art. Editor-in-Chief, Frances P. Smyth; editor, Jane Sweeney; designer, Cynthia Hotvedt. Typeset in Meridien by Arctech Graphics II, Inc. Printed by Peake Printers, Inc. Hardbound edition distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York. A Times Mirror Company. ISBN (paper) 0-89468-186-9; ISBN (hardbound) 0-8109-3371-3. Reprinted in Art & Antiques 9, no. 9 (November 1992): [62]‑8. copies examined: oh (cloth in jacket); ohm (cloth, no jacket).

B63  red jade cups: john espey at eighty 1993 RED JADE CUPS: | JOHN ESPEY AT EIGHTY | Editorial Board: | Charles Gullans | Carolyn See | Timothy Steele | Clara Sturak | Los Angeles: The Symposium Press | 1993 1-36 pp. (18 leaves). 278 × 220 mm. text: “A Birthday Brindisi,” pp. 13-14. Dated “November 17, 1992” on p. 14.

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binding: Bound in flesh cream-coloured thick paper with a red tape adhesive along the spine. Printed on the front cover in red: RED JADE CUPS: | JOHN ESPEY AT EIGHTY. notes: Born in China, John Espey (1913-2000), professor of English, novelist, essayist, and bibliographer of decorative bindings, was a Rhodes scholar at Merton College, Oxford between 1935 and 1938. He and Davies were close friends at Oxford. They carried on a sporadic and spirited correspondence throughout their lives (see, for example, A93, pp. 35-7). Carolyn See, Espey’s companion, informed Davies on 20 October 1992 that she was arranging for a festschrift of poems to mark Espey’s eightieth birthday on 15 January 1993. She invited Davies to the birthday party and asked him to write a piece for the festschrift. Moira Whalon, Davies’s secretary, sent the piece to See on 17 November 1992. Davies’s birthday tribute, which makes reference to their college days at Oxford, consists of several stanzas, including three choruses and a mock critical apparatus of explanatory notes. In his first note Davies states that “brindisi” is “Italian for ‘a toast’: a song pretty much confined to opera.” There are two copies of B63 at okq in Davies’s library; one copy contains a letter from Espey to Davies dated 16 February 1993. copies examined: emory.

B64  an emerging north american culture [1993] THE | WALTER GORDON SERIES | IN PUBLIC POLICY | THIRD LECTURES | An Emerging | North American | Culture | Carlos Fuentes | Robertson Davies | MASSEY COLLEGE | IN THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO | 23 SEPTEMBER 1992 | [to the left of the three previous lines a rule and the shield of Massey College] 1-6, 7-13, 14, 15-26, 1-6 pp. (16 leaves). 225 × 151 mm. text: “The Value of a Coherent Notion of Culture,” pp. 15-26. binding: Perfect binding, brown- and cream-coloured stiff-paper covers having a blurred collage of archeological artifacts (Indian masks, carvings, etc.). On the front cover is a reproduction in white of Da Vinci’s drawing of a man with outstretched arms and legs within a circle. Printed in brown on the front cover: THE WALTER GORDON SERIES | IN PUBLIC POLICY | THIRD LECTURES | AN | EMERGING |

NORTH | AMERICAN | CULTURE | Carlos Fuentes | Robertson Davies | Massey College in the University of Toronto. The title in white capital letters is printed down the spine. On the back cover in brown are the name of the college, its shield, and the symbol for recycled paper. notes: B64 contains the text of Davies’s speech about North American culture at the third annual Walter Gordon memorial lectures, delivered on 23 September 1992 under the auspices of Massey College at the University of Toronto’s Hart House. Lorna Marsden, then a Senior Fellow of Massey College, invited Davies to give this lecture on 21 October 1991. He agreed to her invitation on 30 October 1991. He wrote to Ann Saddlemyer, the Master of Massey College, on 25 August 1992: “The plan you suggest for the Walter Gordon forum sounds first-rate to me ... I look forward very much to meeting Mr. Fuentes, whose writing I admire, and I am glad to learn that Mr. [Pierre] Trudeau will also be present.” In his speech Davies maintains that Canadian culture is in decline, notwithstanding indications of occasional brilliance and renaissance in the literature and the arts. He lambastes Canadian politicians for their constitutional wrangling and their appeasement of Quebec nationalists. He questions the tendency to emulate American life style and values, and he stresses the need to take education seriously. For a reception of the speech in the press, see D92.3. See also E92.6. Reprinted in A90. The Board of Trustees of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Charitable Foundation gave a one-time grant of $100,000 to Massey College in January 1993 in support of the Walter Gordon Forum on Public Policy. Saddlemyer requested a copy of Davies’s lecture on 14 January 1993, only to find that he had submitted it to Pat Kennedy, the Bursar’s Secretary, the previous week. The following information is recorded in the colophon (the last page): series editor, Ian Montaignes; cover illustration, design, and typography, William Hart; set in 11/13 Adobe New Baskerville; printed by Coach House Printing. According to the production database at Coach House Printing, the work on B64 began on 20 January 1993 and was finished in early February of that year. Printed in an edition of 500 copies at a production cost of approximately $1,400. copies examined: davis; pend.

B65  the agony and the ego 1993 THE AGONY | AND | THE EGO | The Art and Strategy



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of Fiction Writing Explored | Clare Boylan | [publisher’s device: illustration of a penguin within an oval] | PENGUIN BOOKS i-vi, vii, viii, ix-xiv, 1-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-18, 19-22, 23-24, 25-28, 29-33, 34-36, 37-45, 46-48, 49-53, 54-56, 57-62, 63-66, 67-71, 72-74, 75-78, 79-82, 83-93, 94-96, 97-103, 104-106, 107-111, 112-114, 115-121, 122-124, 125-128, 129-132, 133-139, 140-142, 143-149, 150-152, 153-155, 156-158, 159-161, 162-164, 165-174, 175-178, 179-180, 181, 182-193, 194-196, 197-205, 206-208, 209-210, 211-214, 215-220, 221-224, 225-229, 230-232, 233-234, 235-238, 239-242, 243-246, 247-248, 249, 250-253, 254, 255-257, 1 pp. (136 leaves). 190 × 118 mm. text: “A Try for Greatness,” pp. 215-221. binding: Perfect bound, stiff-paper covers. The front and back covers are dark green, and the spine is orange. Lettering is white, black, and pale green. On the front cover are the title, a list of the contributors of original essays, the editor’s name, the publisher’s device in orange, black, and white, and a reproduction of Honoré Daumier’s A Female Author Neglecting Her Home and Child. On the back covers are four paragraphs about the book’s contents and a solid white rectangle containing the ISBN (0-14-016975-X), the bar code, publisher’s device, and price (£6.99, $12.99 Can). notes: Clare Boylan is an Irish journalist, short story writer, and novelist. On 12 November 1991, she invited Davies to contribute a short essay of 1,500 to 2,000 words to a “writers’ workshop.” B65 was to contain twenty to thirty essays from leading British, American, and Canadian fiction writers. The essays would focus on an author’s specialized interest — analysis, reflection, anecdote, wit, and even literary tips. The deadline was the end of February 1992 with payment of £100 per 1,000 words. Davies completed his first draft (corrected typescript entitled “Man of Letters vs. Author” in file 72, vol. 86, Davies fonds, lac) on 29 January 1992. He sent the final draft to Boylan on 4 February 1992, and he returned the contract for the essay to her on 19 February 1992. According to the undated contract with the Penguin Group at pend, Davies was paid £200 for his contribution. Boylan told Davies on 22 July 1992 that B65 was scheduled for publication in April 1993 (box 4, accession 200200652-0, Davies fonds). Filmset in 10/13 pt Monophoto Sabon. Typeset by Datix International Limited. Printed by Clay Ltd., St. Ives plc. B65 was published on 13 April 1993. In his essay, Davies discusses whether the term “Man of Letters” has any relevance in the contemporary

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age. He notes that a Man of Letters is often equated with a Travelling Showman. The essay reflects Davies’s participation in exhausting book tours organized by his publishers. In the final analysis he hopes that the term Man of Letters implies a kind of literary heroism, and he instances authors like Nadine Gordimer who write for a greater purpose and rebuke “the Travelling Showman side of authorship.” copies examined: otscc.

B66  he knew he was right 1994 Anthony Trollope | HE KNEW | HE WAS RIGHT | INTRODUCTION BY | Robertson Davies | [logo of The Trollope Society: ornamental S wrapped around ornamental T, both letters within an oval] | The Trollope Society | LONDON 1-27 16 28 4 29 16. i-iv, v-xvi, 1-6, 1-2, 7-42, 1-2, 43-76, 1-2, 77-98, 1-2, 99-114, 1-2, 115-134, 1-2, 135-178, 1-2, 179-206, 1-2, 207-220, 1-2, 221-256, 1-2, 257-276, 1-2, 277-302, 1-2, 303-328, 1-2, 329-344, 1-2, 345-372, 1-2, 373-400, 1-2, 401-432, 1-2, 433-446, 1-2, 447-478, 1-2, 479-494, 1-2, 495-534, 1-2, 535-562, 1-2, 563-584, 1-2, 585-610, 1-2, 611-634, 1-2, 635-658, 1-2, 659-682, 1-2, 683-700, 1-2, 701-734, 1-2, 735-752, 1-2, 753-794, 1-2, 795-802, 1-2, 803-823, 1 pp. (452 leaves). 221 × 141 mm. text: Introduction, pp. xi-xiv. binding: Bound in dark-brown cloth with the logo of The Trollope Society blind-stamped on the upper board. Stamped in gold on the spine: [row of ornaments] | [remaining lines, except for the last line, stamped on a solid black rectangle; ornamental rule] | HE KNEW | HE WAS | RIGHT | [rule] | ANTHONY | TROLLOPE | [ornamental rule] | [row of ornaments]. Top edge stained in dark brown, matching the cloth. Price $59.95 to Society members. notes: He Knew He Was Right was published in two volumes by Strahan and Company in May 1869. The Trollope Society edition, which corrects some errors of this first edition and reproduces the original illustrations by Marcus Stone, is edited by David Skilton, Literary Adviser to the Society. Set in Monotype Bell by Speedspools, Edinburgh. Printed and bound by Bath Press, Avon. Published by Omnium Publishing for The Trollope Society. ISBN 1-870587-33-2. See also Paul W. Nash, comp., Folio 50: A Bibliography of the Folio Society 1947-1996 (London: Folio Society in association with The British Library, 1997), entry 776 (at p. 267).

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The description provided by Nash states that B66 was issued in “cream paper boards with the border in dark red; cream end-leaves. Dark red slip case.” Davies became a Foundation Member of The Trollope Society on 6 January 1988. On that date he told John Letts that he was “interested in the proposal that the Society should produce, in so far as possible, a complete edition of Trollope. I most sincerely hope that you will succeed in this aim for I have seen two ventures of this kind collapse, one made by the faint-hearted Oxford University Press and one by the late Alfred Knopf, who produced three or four very handsome Trollope volumes at a time when there was no enthusiasm for them in the United States. May you be more successful” (A92, p. 195). Several weeks later Davies wrote to his friend, the bookseller John Saumarez Smith, who was a member of the Trollope Society’s committee: “I would be delighted to write an introduction to one of the volumes but I cannot, at the moment, think of a special one that I might ask for. For many years I have been interested in Trollope’s women — his young women that is to say — who so frequently have no career open to them but marriage but who fight like tigers against entirely suitable young men who would like to open that career to them” (A92, p. 197). The formal invitation to write an introduction to one of Trollope’s novels came from Sue Bradbury of The Folio Society Limited on 8 August 1988. She told Davies that The Folio Society, in conjunction with The Trollope Society, would be publishing the “first uniform edition of Trollope’s novels” beginning in 1989. She asked him to write 2,500 to 3,000 words for £600. Davies gave his consent on 17 August 1988: “I would be glad to write an introduction to He Knew He Was Right. It is a story which seems to me to mark Trollope as a psychologist of extraordinary penetration which is not a reputation that is generally accorded to him” (file 21, vol. 47). He sent the introduction on 22 June 1989. But the book did not appear until much later. Sophie Thornton of The Folio Society finally sent Davies a proof of his introduction in September 1993. Davies returned the proof on 14 September 1993, and the book was published the following year. Number of copies printed and exact date of publication not known. copies examined: hls; okq.

B67  the stage is all the world 1994 [the first line in script] The Stage Is All the World | THE THEATRICAL DESIGNS OF TANYA

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know that I first saw Tanya when she was sixteen or seventeen and was a stunningly beautiful girl,” Davies recalled. “I was dying to meet her but as she was with such grandees as her parents, and Bernard Shaw and Barry Jackson I hadn’t a hope, but I used to follow her around and gape at her.” The formal offer for Davies’s contribution to the catalogue ($1,000 for an essay of 3,000 words) came from Terri J. Edelstein of the Smart Museum on 31 March 1992. The carbon typescript of Davies’s essay (“Introduction to Catalogue of Tanya Moiseiwitsch’s Designs”) is dated 1 October 1992. He had asked Moiseiwitsch to read his first draft and to correct any errors of fact or omission. He then revised and submitted his essay on 22 December 1992. Sue Taylor of the Smart Museum sent Davies the edited copy of his revised essay on 3 August 1993. She americanized his spelling and supplied the first names of musicians and playwrights. Davies returned the edited copy to her and replied to her queries on 17 August 1993. B67 was produced by Stephanie D’Alessandro and designed by Joan Sommers Design. Photographs, unless otherwise stated, were taken by Jerry Kobylecky Museum Photography. Printed by The Stinehour Press on Mohawk Superfine. Text set in Sabon roman, Display in Linoscript and Franklin Gothic. ISBN 0-935573-14-3. B67 was published on 1 April 1994 in an edition of 3,100 copies. The copyright was registered at the Copyright Office of dlc on 28 June 1994 (copyright number TX-3-833-823). Price $29.95. Reprinted in A90 as “Tanya Moiseiwitsch.” Information on the publishing history of B67 is based on file 48, vol. 43, file 15, vol. 86, and boxes 5 and 8, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: pend.

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a statue (monument of a person on a horse) and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto] 110. 1-20 pp. (10 leaves). 279 × 216 mm. text: Untitled tribute to Nicholas Goldschmidt, p. 1, with Davies’s signature in facsimile at the bottom of the page. binding: Thick-paper gold covers (versos white), wire-stitched. Printed on the back cover: [musical notes in grey] | Gala Sponsors: | Henry N. R. Jackman Foundation | Joey and Toby Tanenbaum | HUZIAK Graphic Design Studio. notes: Nicholas Goldschmidt (1908-2004) was a pianist, baritone, conductor, director of opera, and festival organizer. In 1993 he was artistic director of the International Choral Festival Inc. He was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Toronto Arts Awards on 27 October 1991 at which Davies made a short presentation speech. See also B20. A Night in Old Vienna, a gala benefit concert honouring Goldschmidt and in support of a number of causes associated with music in Toronto, was held at Roy Thompson Hall. Davies wrote his tribute in March 1994, but he was overseas on the night of the concert. Mary Alice Stuart, one of the co-chairs of the organizing committee, informed Davies on 28 November 1994 that the concert had been a huge success — the International Choral Festival emerged debt-free, the Toronto Symphony Youth and Education Programs received a generous donation, and the Goldschmidt Chair was established at the Royal Conservatory of Music. This souvenir program, printed by Grand Fair Printing Inc., was given to members of the audience at the concert. Information about B68 is based on file 2, vol. 88, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: davis; Davies fonds, lac.

B68  a night in old vienna 1994 [cover title, gold covers, the first line curved with letters spaced and at different angles:] A NIGHT IN | [in script, O and V swash] Old [curved] Vienna | [musical notes in grey] | A tribute to | Nicholas Goldschmidt, cc., mus. d. | Sunday, April 10, 1994 | A gala evening to benefit | The establishment of a Royal Conservatory of Music | Nicholas Goldschmidt Chair for Vocal Studies | The International Choral Festival | The Toronto Symphony | Youth and Education Programs | Major sponsor: | [four solid black rectangles connected together in the shape of a hexagon] | Hongkong Bank of Canada | [to the left of the previous nine lines is a black-and-white photograph of

B69  writing away 1994 [the first two lines within a rectangle, the top twothirds of the rectangle solid black with the first line in white] WRITING AWAY | The PEN Canada Travel Anthology | Edited by | CONSTANCE ROOKE | [wavy block, short wavy rule] | M&S | [rule] i-vi, vii-xiii, 1, 1-220, 221-226, 227-347, 348, 349-365, 1-5 pp. (192 leaves). 215 × 139 mm. text: “Getting There,” pp. 56-60. binding: Paperback, perfect bound. On the front

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cover is a colour photograph of a tropical setting (large tree trunks and a black woman in a sari). The spine and back cover are white. On the back cover are: a list of the contributors; a colour photograph of yellow and pink flowers and a small bowl against a blue background; a paragraph on the contents of the book; a paragraph about PEN and PEN Canada; the ISBN (0-7710-6956-1), bar code and bar code number; the names of the cover designer (Kong) and cover photographer (Michael Ondaatje); the name of the publisher (McClelland & Stewart) and its logo; the distributors of the book in the United States (St. Martin’s Press) and the United Kingdom (Fourth Estate Ltd.); and the price of the book (Can $19.99, US $14.95, UK £9.99). The front endpaper and the leaf prior to the back endpaper consist of signatures of the contributors. In addition to the above, there is a special issue of fifty copies of this book covered with English marbled paper, quarter-bound in olive-green linen cloth, and contained in an olive-green linen-covered, linen-lined presentation box (colour photo of a woman in a sari pasted to the front of the box). Original signatures of the authors on a tip-in sheet were bound into the book. McClelland & Stewart had a group signing of the contributors in their boardroom on 18 May 1994. notes: Constance Rooke was a critic, editor, shortstory writer, and academic. When this anthology was published she was the Associate Vice President (Academic) of the University of Guelph. In her introduction to this gathering of writings by Canadian authors about their travels, she explains that the purpose of B69 was to raise money for PEN Canada to support free speech and human rights for writers throughout the world. The first essay in B69 is by Salman Rushdie, the only non-Canadian contributor, whose travails are discussed in Rooke’s introduction. Davies completed his essay on 27 October 1993 (first draft and a photocopy of a typescript with various lines underlined by him in file 19, vol. 60 and file 77, vol. 86, Davies fonds, lac). Rooke requested biographical information and a photograph on 22 November 1993 (both sent by Davies’s secretary on 30 November 1993). The first line of his essay begins: “I dislike travel.” His essay is filled with anecdotes of his travel experiences, beginning in his eleventh year when he was seasick on his first ocean voyage. B69 was published prior to 30 July 1994; it was reviewed on that date in the Toronto Globe and Mail. copies examined: davis (paperback and special issue); lac (paperback).

B70  encyclopedia of post-colonial literatures in english 1994 [all lines within two rectangles, the outer one thick] ENCYCLOPEDIA | of | POST-COLONIAL | LITERATURES | in English | [rule] | Volume 1 | EDITED BY | Eugene Benson | University of Guelph, Canada | and | L.W. Conolly | Trent University, Canada | [publisher’s device: R shape with ROUTLEDGE printed vertically opposite a human face and torso] | ROUTLEDGE | LONDON and NEW YORK 1-15 16 16 8 17-31 16. i-iv, v, vi, vii-li, 1, 1-923, 1 pp. (488 leaves). 245 × 285 mm. text: “Leacock, Stephen (1869-1944),” pp. 829-30. binding: Bound in dark-green thick-paper boards, grey-white patterned endpapers. The front board has a background, faintly printed, of names of postcolonial countries. Also on the front board are the publisher’s device (noting that this is a reference work), the title in orange letters, and the names of the editors and volume number in white. On the spine are the publisher’s device and the title, names of the editors, and volume numbers in yellow. The back cover, printed in white, has the following: a quotation from Margaret Atwood endorsing this work; four paragraphs about the contents; three lines identifying the editors; the publisher’s device and the address of the publisher; and the ISBN (0-415-11344-X) and bar code. notes: Published in two volumes, this encyclopedia features some 2,000 entries written by 600 scholars and critics. Benson and Conolly were colleagues at the University of Guelph when B70 was at the planning stage (see B50 for information about the editors). The contract for Davies’s contribution at pend is dated 10 July 1991. He agreed to complete an article of 700 words about Stephen Leacock no later than 1 October 1991. The fee was £35. Davies was paid £24.10 after taxes. Benson and Conolly sent him the edited version of his essay in February 1993. The editors’ introduction to B70 is dated April 1994. B70 was printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc. Davies was informed of B70’s publication on 19 September 1994. He purchased a copy of B70 at 25% off the list price of £150 and donated his copy to the Massey College Library in December 1994. Information on the publishing history of B70 is based on box 7, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac. copies examined: otmc.



B72 Five Fond Tributes to Robert Christie. 1995

B71  elegant editions 1995 [decorative initial letter in grey, taken from Henry Shaw’s Alphabets Numerals and Devices of the Middle Ages, to the left of the next two lines and extending above and slightly below those lines] E | LEGANT | DITIONS | ASPECTS OF VICTORIAN BOOK DESIGN | [illustration of a small shell] | An exhibition of books selected from the | Ruari McLean Collection of | Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing | in the Robertson Davies Library at Massey College | by Marie Elena Korey | Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library | University of Toronto | Massey College | 19 January ~ 31 March 1995 1-9, 10-11, 12-13, 14-16, 17-19, 20-21, 22, 23-24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29-30, 31-32, 33-36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41-42, 43-44, 45, 46, 47, 48-50, 51-52, 53-55, 56-57, 58-60 pp. (30 leaves). 248 × 177 mm. text: “Foreword,” p. 6. binding: Perfect binding. The stiff-paper covers have a creamy pale-beige background. The front cover has the full title with a decorative E in orange similar to the one on the title page. Below the title is a reproduction in orange and black of a Grolier nineteenth-century binding. On the back cover is a reproduction of a multi-coloured binding of abstract flamingos (price $20, below the illustration). Versos of the covers are white. The verso of the back cover has information on those responsible for the writing and production of the catalogue and on those who mounted the exhibition. notes: This exhibition catalogue written by Marie Korey focuses on the developments in printing techniques, book design, and binding in the nineteenth century. In particular, it draws on the rich resources of the Ruari McLean Collection of Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, acquired by Massey College in 1970, and the subsequent additions to that collection. Prior to her appointment at Massey College (initially as a contract employee, in 1997 as librarian), Korey served as Curator of Printed Books of The Library Company of Philadelphia and Head of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Davies was especially pleased by her performance at the College. He wrote, for example, to Richard Landon (Korey’s husband), the Director of Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, on 11 January 1993: “May I say before closing how very much I admire the work that your wife is doing in the library here at Massey College? She has brought it back into full activity in a way which I can only describe as brilliant.” In his foreword to B71, Davies recounts how Massey College decided to spe-

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cialize in bibliographical activity and “the history and nature of printing, binding, and book-making.” He also praises the work of Douglas Lochhead, the College’s first librarian. Davies’s typescript with a few holograph changes, signed by him, is dated 6 December 1994. Korey wrote and thanked him for his foreword on 15 December 1994. The official opening of the exhibition occurred on 19 January 1995. Davies’s own copy of B71 in his library at okq contains a letter from Korey dated 20 January 1995. Information on the publishing history of B71 is based on file 5, vol. 87 and box 6, accession 2002-00652-0, Davies fonds, lac. The exhibition was installed by Emrys Evans and Linda Joy of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. The catalogue was designed by Veronica Fisher. Photographs by Philip Ower. B71 was printed by Fisher Litho Arts Ltd in an edition of 1,000 copies. ISBN 0-7727-6014-4. Select images from the catalogue are reproduced at the website http://www.utoronto.ca/ massey/ee/ee.html copies examined: davis; ohm; pend.

B72  five fond tributes to robert christie 1995 FIVE FOND TRIBUTES | TO | [in blue] ROBERT CHRISTIE | [dark-pink stylized lion] | PRESENTED TO HIS FRIENDS | AT A DINNER IN HIS HONOUR | The ARTS and LETTERS CLUB OF TORONTO | Monday 30 October 1995 | [smaller dark-pink stylized lion] 1 6. 1-12 pp. 280 × 215 mm. text: Untitled tribute on pp. 7-8. There is a green ornament on either side of Davies’s name, which is in blue italicized caps. The first three words of the first paragraph are in dark-pink capitals. binding: White light-card wrapper, wire-stitched. The cover is as follows: FIVE FOND TRIBUTES | [black-and-white picture of Robert Christie] | TO | ROBERT CHRISTIE | FROM | ROBERTSON DAVIES | DONALD HARRON | TANYA MOISEIWITSCH | MAVOR MOORE | HERBERT WHITTAKER. According to B72’s colophon (on p. 12), the text of B72 was designed and produced by Barbara Howard and Richard Outram (the owners of the Gauntlet Press) for the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto in October 1995 in an edition of 110 numbered copies. On the back cover is the logo of the Club with the note that B72 was presented at the Club on 30 October 1995. Handmade paper. The print is stylized in various ways and sometimes coloured.

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notes: Davies’s tribute to Robert Christie (1913-96), the actor, drama instructor, and director, was written on 15 August 1994 (typescript, 2 pages). Christie moved to England in 1936. Davies first met him in 1939 when they were both members of the Old Vic Company. Davies recounts that they were once together on a bus back to central London. Christie told Davies that he wanted to return to Canada to establish a theatre commune in western Canada. Christie’s scheme never came to pass, however. “Of my own fitness for such a life,” Davies states, “I had misgivings. An unworthy aversion to pigs, perhaps, stood between me and participation.” Davies met Christie many times thereafter in the course of various theatrical ventures (for example, the failed production in 1960 of Davies’s “Love and Libel” under the direction of Sir Tyrone Guthrie). Reprinted in Lynda Mason Green and Tedde Moore, comps. and eds., Standing Naked in the Wings: Anecdotes from Canadian Actors (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 318-19.

much involved in productions of the Peterborough Little Theatre and other theatre groups in Peterborough. In his introduction Davies recalls “the afternoon when Colonel R.J. Bolton [principal of one of the public schools] came to see me in my office at the Peterborough Examiner and asked if my wife and I would be willing to give some advice to the city’s association of teachers about forming a drama group.” B73 was printed by Lazer Graphics. Number of copies printed and exact date of publication not known.

copies examined: Davies fonds, file 31, box 107, lac (copy number 3).

text: Afterword, pp. 207-11.

B73  peterborough theatre guild 1995 [logo of the Guild resembling a shield to the right of the first two lines] PETERBOROUGH | THEATRE GUILD | The First Thirty Years | [drawing by Chuck Vollmar of the Peterborough Theatre Guild’s building (formerly St. Luke’s Anglican Church), with the Guild’s name on the building’s side] | by | Mabel Smith | Dick Beck & Beth McMaster 1-3, 4-154, 1-6 pp. (80 leaves). 214 × 138 mm. text: Introduction, pp. 13-14. binding: Perfect bound in glossy purple thick-paper covers with printing in white. Across the covers are a series of photographs of actors and theatre production staff. The back cover has several paragraphs about the book and its contents and information about the authors. notes: The authors of this history of the Peterborough Theatre Guild are Mabel Smith, the Theatre Guild’s archivist and former music critic for the Peterborough Examiner, and Dick Beck and Beth McMaster, active participants in the Guild’s activities who have collaborated on many plays for children. Incorporated on 2 May 1965, the Peterborough Theatre Guild grew out of a number of little theatre organizations that began in the late 1940s. Davies and his wife were

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B74  across the bridge 1996 Mavis Gallant | ACROSS | THE BRIDGE | With an Afterword by Robertson Davies | [wavy block, short wavy rule] | M&S | [rule] 1-8, 9-211, 1-5 pp. (108 leaves). 179 × 107 mm. binding: Paperback, perfect bound. The front cover is cream-coloured, featuring a colour reproduction of Edwin Holgate’s painting, Ludivine (1930). Printed above the reproduction: [in green script] Mavis | [G extending to the previous line] Gallant. Printed below the reproduction: Across the Bridge | Afterword by ROBERTSON DAVIES | [green horizontal bar]. Printed on the left-hand side of the front cover, from bottom to top, are: N C L in white within separate, small, solid black squares; the ISBN (0-7710-3459-8); and the price ($8.95). The back cover is cream-coloured on the left-hand side with a rectangular white compartment extending to the spine. Included in the compartment are four paragraphs about Gallant and her book, information about Holgate’s painting, the publisher’s logo, the ISBN, bar code, and a green horizontal bar at the bottom extending to the spine. notes: This collection of short stories by Mavis Gallant, four of which concern the Carette family in Montreal, was first published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart in 1993. In October 1993 Davies and David Staines, the general editor of the New Canadian Library series, had lunch together to celebrate Gallant’s visit to Toronto and the publication of her book. Davies sent Staines a copy of the speech that he gave at a tribute to Gallant at Harbourfront (14 October 1993). Staines invited Davies to write the afterword (1,500 to 2,000 words) to the NCL edition of After the Bridge on 9 September 1994. Davies’s deadline was summer 1995 with an honorarium of $400. He signed an agreement



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to this effect on 8 November 1994 (blank contract at pend). The first draft of his afterword, dated 15 June 1995 (annotated typescript in file 88, vol. 86, Davies fonds, lac), was submitted to Staines five days later. His afterword begins: “How pleasant to be asked for an Afterword, instead of a Preface. A Preface always suggests criticism, and I do not want to criticize Mavis Gallant’s book, but to celebrate it, and, in so far as I can, express my own enjoyment of it.” In Davies’s opinion, Gallant “is a great mistress of the art of implication. Her writing is beautifully economical.” Davies wrote to his publisher Douglas M. Gibson on 30 July 1995: “I’m glad you liked the piece about Mavis; I am not at all a good critic and I find assessing the work even of an author I admire very uphill writing. In the case of Mavis, whose flavour is so elusive and whose irony is so light it is the devil’s own work to convey what one means without gush or falling into the juiceless pemmican of academic criticism” (letter at the premises of McClelland & Stewart). copies examined: lac; pend (three copies).

B75  curiosity recaptured 1996 B75a  first edition: [grey leafy ornament] Curiosity | Recaptured | Exploring Ways We | Think and Move | Edited by Jerry Sontag | With a Foreword by Robertson Davies | Mornum Time Press 1-7 16 8 8 9 16. 1-11, x-xv, xvi-xxiii, xxiv, 1-3, 4-19, 20-21, 22-41, 42-43, 44-58, 59-61, 62-73, 74-75, 76-85, 86-87, 88-103, 104-105, 106-119, 120-121, 122-133, 134-135, 136-162, 163-165, 166-178, 179-181, 182-193, 194-195, 196-213, 214-215, 216-221, 222-223, 224-228, 1-18 pp. (136 leaves). 213 × 137 mm. binding and dust jacket: Bound in black paper boards, quarter-bound with yellow cloth. Stamped on the spine: [down the spine] Curiosity Recaptured | Mornum | Time | Press. Dust jacket not seen. text: Foreword, pp. 11, x-xv. notes: Founded in 1993, the Mornum Time Press is a small press specializing in books on education, particularly the work of F.M. Alexander and his technique, a method for releasing tension through bodily alignment and muscular coordination. B75a contains fourteen essays and an introduction by the editor. The dedication page reads: To Robertson Davies, and to all | the contributors who wrote about | what they know and what they want to know. In his foreword Davies recalls that

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in 1955 he began to have serious trouble with his left leg. He and his wife met Lulie Westfeldt, a teacher of the technique, in January 1956 in New York City. They took daily lessons from her for a week, and then visited her twice a year for a week’s refresher. These visits continued until her death in 1965. The Davies fonds at lac has an annotated typescript (5 pp.) of his foreword, one page of notes, and a final typescript (7 pp.) dated 24 June 1995. Davies mailed the foreword to Jerry Sontag, the editor and publisher of the Mornum Time Press, on 28 June 1995. Sontag informed him on 1 August 1995 that he liked the foreword but he wanted to cut four paragraphs dealing with Westfeldt and Alexander’s foibles. Davies replied negatively to Sontag on 14 August 1995: “If my introduction to the Alexander book does not suit you, please return it to me immediately as I cannot agree to its appearance in truncated form.” Sontag apologized for offending Davies on 21 August 1995. He asked if he could delete one word (“Alexander’s compulsive betting”) and the final paragraph. Davies said no again on 1 September 1995. Sontag returned the piece to Davies on 11 September 1995, apologized once again, and asked Davies if he had an alternative solution that would satisfy them both. On 22 September 1995, Davies told Sontag that he had cut “all the parts which deal with Alexander personally, which I believe were those you found objectionable.” He gave Sontag permission to publish the foreword, and added: “My aim in the original article was to give some hint of the living man as he has been described to me by several people but I can write of that somewhere else.” 1,571 copies of B75a were printed in hardcover in 1996. Price $25, including postage. Book cover and interior design by Marianne Ackerman; illustrations and cover artwork by Ginger Tate Beringer. By the end of the 1996, 1,098 copies had sold, including review and contributor copies. The total net sales at that time were $16,579.33. Davies was paid $200 for his contribution plus 20% of the contributors’ royalties. Pendragon Ink received royalties of $76.32 on 31 December 1996 and $45.96 on 28 August 1997. The hardcover print run was virtually sold out by August 1997. Information on the publishing history of B75a is based on: file 2, vol. 87, Davies fonds, lac; and correspondence at pend. copies examined: acu. B75a.1  second issue (1998): This is the paperback (ISBN 0-9644352-2-5, price $16

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or £11) that was published in January 1998. The quasifacsimile transcription is identical to B75a. Typos were corrected, the bibliography was re-organized, and a resources section was added. Davies’s foreword appears on pp. vii-xiii (no dedication leaf). There are 11 unnumbered leaves after the text. Perfect bound. The covers are multicoloured but mainly in blue. An excerpt in yellow (capital T in red) from Davies’s foreword appears on the back cover. 147 copies were sold in 1999 ($35.97 in royalties paid to Pendragon Ink) and 164 copies sold in 2000 ($34.19 to Pendragon Ink).

1-32 16. i-v, vi-xv, 1, 1-1001, 1002-1003, 1004, 1-4 pp. (512 leaves). 243 × 185 mm.

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notes: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, a successor to the Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1901), was published to great fanfare in sixty volumes on 23 September 2004. Comprising 50,000 biographies written by 10,000 contributors, 10,000 illustrations, and 60 million words, this reference work sold for £7,500 with an introductory price of £6,500 for an order made before 30 September 2004. In addition to the printed volumes, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online is available by annual subscription ($295 US or £195 for individuals). Wanting to update the article on Sir Henry Irving, Davies wrote to Colin Matthew, the first editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He noted that although the original article by H.H. Child was excellent and factually correct, its reverential tone was not altogether acceptable. Davies pointed out that “the facts about Irving are unchanged but the opinion almost ninety years after his death is markedly altered.” Davies told Denis Salter on 6 December 1994: “I am finding the piece about Irving an extraordinary amount of work for the 5,000 words it is supposed to fill because cramming in necessary detail and verifying it makes for a very tight squeeze.” His article, he stated, would be quite different from its predecessor since he was trying to put a human face on Irving. Davies was paid £300 on 19 June 1995 for his contribution (royalty report at pend). Information on the publishing history of B77 is based on the file in the Davies fonds (MG30-D362 BAN no. 2002-00652-0), lac.

B76  the golden ass: a two act opera 1999 The Golden Ass | A Two Act Opera | music by Randolph Peters | libretto by Robertson Davies | Piano/Vocal Score | Commissioned by the Canadian Opera Company. | [ten lines to the left of the previous line] Songlines | New Music by | Randolph Peters | [address of Peters in three lines; three lines listing his telephone number, fax, and e-mail] 1-9, 2-219, 1-4, 2-153, 1 pp. (192 leaves). 370 × 215 mm. text: Davies’s libretto (cast of characters, stage directions, words to music) is found throughout the score. binding: Cerlox binding. No covers. notes: For the publishing history of this opera, see A91. B76, the complete score of this opera, was produced by Randolph Peters the composer. Number of copies printed not known but probably limited to a select number of people who staged the opera. B76 was printed at fourteen different intervals between 1 April 1998 and 26 February 1999 (dates of printing are at the bottom of the pages). A number of pages also have the following at the bottom: © 1999, Randolph Peters and Pendragon Ink. All Rights Reserved. copies examined: davis.

text: “Irving, Sir Henry,” pp. 383-9. binding: Bound in dark-blue cloth. A dark-blue square is blind-stamped on the upper board, and within the square is stamped: Oxford | DNB. Stamped in gilt on the spine: [thick rule, thin rule] | Oxford | Dictionary | of | National | Biography | 29 | Hutchins | — | Jennens | [Oxford University crest: an escutcheon with an oval containing an open book with a motto and three crowns] | OXFORD.

copies examined: ohm. B77  oxford dictionary of national biography, vol. 29 2004 Oxford Dictionary of | National Biography | IN ASSOCIATION WITH | The British Academy | [rule] | From the earliest times to the year 2000 | Edited by | H. C. G. Matthew | and | Brian Harrison | Volume 29 | HutchinsJennens | OXFORD | UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Matthew | and | Brian Harrison | Volume 53 | Strang-Taylor | OXFORD | UNIVERSITY PRESS 1-32 16. i-v, vi-xv, 1, 1-1003, 1004-1005, 1006, 1-2 pp. (512 leaves). 243 × 185 mm. text: “Summers, (Augustus) Montague,” pp. 320-1. binding: Bound in dark-blue cloth. A dark-blue square is blind-stamped on the upper board, and within the square is stamped: Oxford | DNB. Stamped in gilt on the spine: [thick rule, thin rule] | Oxford | Dictionary | of | National | Biography | 53 | Strang | — | Taylor | [Oxford University crest: an escutcheon with an oval containing an open book with a motto and three crowns] | OXFORD. notes: B78 is the second contribution written by Davies for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. For general information about the publication of this reference work, see B77. Davies inquired about the inclusion of Summers in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography on 23 March 1993. The matter was referred to Colin Matthew, who asked Davies to com-

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plete a questionnaire about Summers. In his account of his interview with Davies that was published on 17 June 1993 (see F93.4), Ben Macintyre commented: “Davies’s current campaign is to persuade the editors of the new Dictionary of National Biography to include Montague Summers, a scholar of Restoration drama and a man of uniquely peculiar habits who died in 1948.” Davies faxed a letter to Matthew on 17 July 1995, agreeing to write the article. Four typescripts of his contribution can found in the file in the Davies fonds (MG30-D362 BAN no. 2002-00652-0), lac. Davies’s article was sent to Matthew on 18 September 1995. Summers (1880-1948) was a literary scholar, a founder of the Phoenix Theatre, an occultist, and a Roman Catholic priest of a kind. Davies concludes his article by saying: “All his life Summers was a notable eccentric, and legends about him, benign and malign, are numerous.” copies examined: ohm.

C Section Contributions to Periodicals (Newspapers, Journals, Magazines, and Annuals)

1923-1939 Davies’s usual by-line as a professional adult was “Robertson Davies.” Departures from that usage are noted throughout the C Section. In the period from 1923 to 1939, Davies had articles, poems, reviews, and editorials published in his father’s newspapers and in high school and university journals. While at Upper Canada College, he edited the College Times from Christmas 1931 to summer 1932 and while at Queen’s University in Kingston, on, he was the chief (though not the only) contributor from 2 October 1934 to 12 March 1935 to a column in the Queen’s University Journal headed “The Bookshelf.” The column usually appeared on Tuesdays and Fridays. C23  “Mr. Radley Lectures on Shakespeare,” Renfrew Mercury, 16 February 1923, p. 1. Unsigned. Reprinted in Man of Myth, pp. 75-6. C27  “1G Boys,” Times (Kingston Collegiate Institute) (May 1927): 19-20. C28.1  “2B Boys,” Times (Kingston Collegiate Institute) (May 1928): 21. C28.2  “The Bedeviled Curate,” Times (Kingston Collegiate Institute) (May 1928): 60. Poem. Signed W. Robertson Davies. C28.3  “The Hero Worshipper,” Times (Kingston Collegiate Institute) (May 1928): 59. Poem. Excerpted in Man of Myth, p. 108. C28.4  “Peculiar,” Times (Kingston Collegiate Institute) (May 1928): 59. Poem. Signed W. Robertson Davies. C29  “Modern Advertisement,” College Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) (Christmas 1929): 49. Signed W.R.D. C30  “The Children’s Hour,” College Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) (Easter 1930): 58. Poem. Signed W.R.D. C31.1  “I,” In Between Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) (1931): 27-8. Signed W. Robertson Davies.

C31.2  “Scholasticum,” In Between Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) (1931): 5-10. Poem. Signed W. Robertson Davies. Excerpted in Old Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) (Summer 1996): 18 and in Man of Myth, pp. 117-18. C31.3  “[Letter to the editor],” College Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) (Easter 1931): 47-8. Signed Aequus Quadratusque. Re grades. C31.4  “[Editorial],” College Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) (Christmas 1931): [3]-6. Re changes in the College Times, and about College ties, religious discussions, clubs, yells etc. C32.1  “Editorial,” In Between Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) (1932): 1-2. Re the character of In Between Times, the literary supplement to the College Times. C32.2  “Saltatiuncula,” In Between Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) (1932): 7-11. Poem. C32.3  “[Editorial],” College Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) (Easter 1932): [1]-4. Re changes in reports of various school activities, and about several other college matters. C32.4  “[Editorial],” College Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) (Summer 1932): [1]-3. Re the Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, the singing of hymns in the school, and the Herbert Mason Medals.



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C32.5  “The Shakespeare Festival,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 22 August 1932, p. 2. C32.6  “Malvern Dramatic Festival,” Kingston WhigStandard, 10 September 1932, p. 2. Signed W. Robertson Davies. C32.7  “The London Theatre,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 24 September 1932, p. 2. C34.1  “The Ludlow Pageant,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 20 July 1934, p. 12. C34.2  “Shakespeare Festival,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 17 August 1934, p. 12. Signed W. Robertson Davies. C34.3  “New John Drinkwater Play ‘A Man’s House’ Is a Flop,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 31 August 1934, pp. 2, 10. Signed W. Robertson Davies.

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C34.13  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 11 (6 November 1934): 5. Re how freshmen should read. Signed W.R.D. C34.14  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 12 (9 November 1934): 5. Re a twopiano recital. Signed W.R.D. C34.15  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 13 (13 November 1934): 5. Book review of G.B. Shaw, Our Theatre in the ‘Nineties.’ Signed W.R.D. C34.16  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 17 (27 November 1934): 5. Book review of Maurice Baring, Sarah Bernhardt. Signed W.R.D.

C34.4  “The London Theatre,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 22 September 1934, p. 2.

C34.17  “The Bookshelf.” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 20 (7 December 1934): 7. Re Christmas reading. Signed W.R.D.

C34.5  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 1 (2 October 1934): 5. Re what freshmen should read. Signed W.R.D.

C35.1  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 21 (8 January 1935): 7. Book review of Alun Llewellyn, The Deacon. Signed W.R.D.

C34.6  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 2 (5 October 1934): 5. Book review of A.H. Fox Strangways and Maud Karpeles, Cecil Sharp. Signed W.R.D.

C35.2  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 22 (11 January 1935): 7. Book review of James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips. Signed W.R.D.

C34.7  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 3 (10 October 1934): 5. Book review of A.P. Herbert, Holy Deadlock. Signed W.R.D.

C35.3  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 23 (15 January 1935): 6-7. Book review of Daphne du Maurier, Gerald: A Portrait. Signed W.R.D.

C34.8  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 4 (12 October 1934): 5. Book review of Eiluned Lewis, Dew on the Grass. Signed W.R.D. C34.9  “The Theatre: At the Capitol: Cleopatra with Claudette Colbert, Henry Wilcoxon and Warren William,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 5 (16 October 1934): 5. Signed W.R.D. C34.10  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 6 (19 October 1934): 5. Book review of Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales. Signed W.R.D. C34.11  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 8 (26 October 1934): 5. Book review of Hilda Vaughn, The Soldier and the Gentlewoman. Signed W.R.D. C34.12  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 9 (30 October 1934): 5. Review of the writings of J.B. Priestley. Signed W.R.D.

C35.4  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 24 (18 January 1935): 6-7. Re song translation. Signed W.R.D. C35.5  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 26 (25 January 1935): 7. Re singer’s diction. Signed W.R.D. C35.6  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 28 (1 February 1935): 7. Re Old English literature. Signed W.R.D. C35.7  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 36 (1 March 1935): 4. Book review of Sacheverell Sitwell, Liszt. Signed W.R.D. C35.8  “The Bookshelf,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 37 (5 March 1935): 4. Book review of Patrick Slater, The Yellow Briar: A Story of the Irish on the Canadian Countryside. Signed W.R.D. C35.9  “The Bookshelf: Peter Warlock,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 38 (8 March 1935): 4.

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Book review of Cecil Gray, Peter Warlock. Signed W.R.D. Part i of the review. C35.10  “The Bookshelf: Peter Warlock,” Queen’s University Journal (Kingston) 61, no. 39 (12 March 1935): 7. Book review of Cecil Gray, Peter Warlock. Signed W.R.D. Part ii of the review. C36  “A Kingstonian Views the Crowning,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 26 May 1936, p. 4. C37  “Dramatic Suicide,” Light and Dark (Oxford University) 2, no. 2 (December 1937): 7, 9. Signed W. Robertson Davies. C38  “An Open Letter to Leslie French, Esq.,” Isis (9 February 1938): 11. In C37, Davies had argued that

the work of amateur acting groups is unimportant in the art of the theatre — particularly the work done in Oxford. French had defended the Oxford University Dramatic Society (he was then rehearsing the o.u.d.s. in Much Ado About Nothing with Davies as Dogberry) in a spirited letter to the Isis. In the same issue, Davies, then capitulated graciously in his “Open Letter”: “The o.u.d.s. at times in the wicked past have been bad; this year I know as well as you do they are damn good,” bringing to a conclusion this mock dispute which was designed to publicize the upcoming o.u.d.s. production. Signed W. Robertson Davies. C39  “The Old Vic Company,” Streatham Hill Theatre Magazine Programme no. 1282 [October 1939: 9].

1940-1944 At the beginning of August 1940, Davies began to write a column under the pseudonym Samuel Marchbanks for the Kingston Whig-Standard and the Peterborough Examiner, papers owned by his father Rupert Davies. This column is usually cited as it appeared in the Peterborough Examiner, but where microfilm of a particular issue is missing for the Examiner but available for the Whig-Standard, the latter is used. The column changed its content, focus, and nature several times before it finally came to an end in June of 1953. Such defining moments are noted in the following entries: C40.2, C41.221, C42.175, C43.85, C48.69, G49.14, C49.48, C49.53, C51.2, and C52.21. From 23 November 1940 until 28 February 1942, Davies served as Literary Editor of Saturday Night, writing the lead review article each week for “The Bookshelf” and generally managing the paper’s book review section (see C40.53). In addition, he contributed occasional articles elsewhere in the paper under his own name or silently (see C40.50). Where reviews and articles appear under pseudonyms, these are noted. Then, at the beginning of March 1942, Davies became editor of the Peterborough Examiner, and for the next 20 years much of his journalistic writing appeared there. C40.1  “Merry-Go-Round,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 4 July 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the unpretentious gaiety of the music of merry-go-rounds. Attribution based on a grant interview with Davies. C40.2  “Caps and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 August 1940, p. 4. Re the column’s name, and its purpose (“to amuse and entertain” and “to rail against the World, the Flesh and the Devil”). Also re war, prophecy, and the birth rate. The mistaken plural — “Caps” — was corrected in subsequent columns to the intended heading “Cap and Bells.” Signed Samuel Marchbanks. This is Davies’s first use of the Samuel Marchbanks by-line. This particular version of the Marchbanks column ran from 1 August 1940 to 16 August 1941 and usually appeared three times a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. It appeared simultaneously in the Kingston Whig-Standard, also on page 4.

C40.3  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 August 1940, p. 4. Re women and smoking, Punch, and Penguin Parade. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.4  “Cap and Bells,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 6 August 1940, p. 4. Re gifts given to Queen Elizabeth on her 40th birthday, the choir and choir school of All Saints, Margaret Street, London, the choir at St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto, and a book review of Edward Streeter, Dere Mable — Love Letters of a Rookie. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.5  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 August 1940, p. 4. Re the Barnum House at Grafton, on and the work of the Architectural Conservatory of Ontario. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.6  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 August 1940, p. 4. Re the movie, All This and Heaven Too and the murder of the Duchess de Praslin in 1847. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.



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C40.7  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 August 1940, p. 4. Re John Henry Newman and Florence Nightingale. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.8  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 August 1940, p. 4. Re politics and non-alcoholic beer in Germany. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.9  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 August 1940, p. 4. Book review of [Egon Caesar, Conte] Corti, The Rise of the House of Rothschild. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.10  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 August 1940, p. 4. Re the character of Canadians. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.11  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 August 1940, p. 4. Re Alexander Knox (Canadian actor), Hollywood and the Communist Party, George Arliss, and Noel Coward. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.12  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 August 1940, p. 4. A St. Bartholomew’s Day column. Includes references to Catherine de Medici, Ambrose Pare and childbirth, “curious tale” of a boy refusing to bathe, Premier Mitch Hepburn of Ontario, and farmers. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.13  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 August 1940, p. 4. Re volunteering to help with National Registration and Ontario schoolrooms. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.14  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 August 1940, p. 4. Re Ontario schoolrooms. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.15  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 August 1940, p. 4. Re volunteering to help with National Registration and also re women having new careers after their children are raised. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.16  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 September 1940, p. 4. Review of the movie Pride and Prejudice. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.17  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 September 1940, p. 4. Re an art display at the Canadian National Exhibition including Salvador Dali’s painting, Enigmatic Elements in a Landscape. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.18  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 September 1940, p. 4. Re the Grandstand Spectacle at the Canadian National Exhibition. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C40.19  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 September 1940, p. 4. Re Francis Lederer, C.L. Anthony, Autumn Crocus, and Gracie Fields. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “Looking Backward: 1940” in A58. C40.20  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 September 1940, p. 4. Re Richard Wagner and the influence of his humourless music on modern Germany and the Nazis. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.21  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 September 1940, p. 4. Re German music and the Nazis. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.22  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 September 1940, p. 4. Re the impact of the Nazis on German education. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.23  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 September 1940, p. 4. Re James Fenimore Cooper and the speech of Newfoundlanders. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.24  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 September 1940, p 4. Book review of Ramsay Muir, Civilization and Liberty. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.25  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 September 1940, p. 4. Re Italian men wearing shorts as a national duty (given the blockade on cloth) and men’s fashion in general. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.26  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 September 1940, p. 4. Re Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier, and the order itself. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.27  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 September 1940, p. 4. Re Michaelmas and a review of the movie Pastor Hall. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.28  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 October 1940, p. 4. Re lack of work for hangmen, Wendell Willkie, Nazi propaganda, W.H. Davies, music and patriotic zeal. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.29  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 October 1940, p. 4. Re toy soldiers and Joseph McWilliams, leader of the American Destiny Party. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.30  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 October 1940, p. 4. Book review of E.J. Pratt, Brébeuf and His Brethren and Cecil Roberts, And So to Bath. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C40.31  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 October 1940, p. 4. Quotes from a letter from a friend in London, England about conditions there. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.32  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 October 1940, p. 4. Re Alfred Roberts, chosen as a typical American boy in a contest at the World’s Fair in New York, and learning to play the piano. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.33  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 October 1940, p. 4. Book review of Ernest Raymond, A Song of the Tide; Roger Vercel, Troubled Waters (trans. Warre Bradley Wells); and Rafael Sabatini, Master-atArms. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.34  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 October 1940, p. 4. Re Battle of Hastings, photograph of Premier Mitch Hepburn with Minister of Mines Robert Laurier, Sir Wilfred Laurier and Sir John A. MacDonald, Albert Einstein and God, King Leopold of Belgium, and the Venus de Milo. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

You Can’t Go Home Again. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.43  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 November 1940, p. 4. Review of Toronto Symphony Orchestra concert. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.44  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 November 1940, p. 4. Re waiting for Madeleine Carroll to appear, signs of primitive life on Venus, and songs. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Note that the Peterborough Examiner misprints Miss Carroll’s name as Carrol. C40.45  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 November 1940, p. 4. Book review of Margaret Armstrong, Trelawny. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.46  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 November 1940, p. 4. Re the bombing of Kensington Palace, the Royal Hospital Chelsea, and St. Paul’s Cathedral. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.47  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 November 1940, p. 4. Re Fleet Street, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, and snuff. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.35  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 October 1940, p. 4. Re blood donations, transfusions, and bleeding as a surgical treatment. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.48  “The Bookshelf: Childe Hemingway in Spain,” Saturday Night 56, no. 10 (16 November 1940): 23. Book review of Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

C40.36  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 October 1940, p. 4. Book review of Percy Marks, No Steeper Wall and Elizabeth Seifert, Hill-Billy Doctor. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.49  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 November 1940, p. 4. Book review of Henry Alexander, The Story of Our Language and Stephen Leacock, Stephen Leacock’s Laugh Parade. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.37  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 October 1940, p. 4. Re the Battle of Trafalgar, Horatio Nelson, and epitaphs. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.38  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 October 1940, p. 4. Re epitaphs. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.39  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 October 1940, p. 4. Re Sir John Price of Newton Hall. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.40  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 October 1940, p. 4. Re Halloween and witch-hunts. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.50  “The Passing Show,” Saturday Night, 56, no. 10 (16 November 1940) to 57, no. 25 (28 February 1942). Parts of this column were written by Davies until the end of February 1942. Attribution based on a grant interview with Davies. C40.51  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 November 1940, p. 4. Re Robert Sherwood and a performance of the play There Shall Be No Night in Toronto (part of the Red Cross fund-raising campaign). Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.41  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 October 1940, p. 4. Re Halloween, casting spells, and belief in witches. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.52  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 November 1940, p. 4. A St. Cecilia’s Day column re the saint, music, moose, borrowing books, error in a Reuter’s story, Big Ben in London, and November. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.42  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 November 1940, p. 4. Book review of Thomas Wolfe,

C40.53  “The Bookshelf: The Canadian Peasant,” Saturday Night 56, no. 11 (23 November 1940): 19.



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Book review of Ringuet, Thirty Acres (trans. Felix and Dorothea Walter). This is Davies’s first issue as literary editor of Saturday Night. All unsigned reviews are attributed to him. “Gallimaufry,” a sub-heading of “The Bookshelf” under which Davies often gathered brief book reviews and which ran from this issue to 57, no. 25 (28 February 1942), is not listed individually. C40.54  “The Bookshelf: Golden Trashery of Ogden Nashery,” Saturday Night 56, no. 11 (23 November 1940): 18. Book review of The Face Is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash. Excerpted in C88.3, p. 37. C40.55  “The Bookshelf: Homespun Humor,” Saturday Night 56, no. 11 (23 November 1940): 19. Book review of Herman Fetzer, Jacoby’s Corners; Warren Hunting Smith, The Misses Elliot of Geneva; and Hartzell Spence, One Foot in Heaven. C40.56  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 November 1940, p. 4. Book review of Charles Morgan, The Voyage; Ringuet (pseudonym of Philippe Panneton), Thirty Acres (trans. Felix and Dorothea Walter); Warwick Deeping, The Man Who Went Back; and Muriel Denison, Susannah Rides Again. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.57  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 November 1940, p. 4. Re St. Nicholas and Santa Claus. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.58  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 November 1940, p. 4. St. Andrew’s Day column, re the saint and Scotland. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.59  “The Bookshelf: Elizabethan Herries,” Saturday Night 56, no. 12 (30 November 1940): 18. Book review of Hugh Walpole, The Bright Pavilions. C40.60  “The Bookshelf: Fiddle-Dee-Dee,” Saturday Night 56, no. 12 (30 November 1940): 21. Book review of Manuel Komroff, The Magic Bow. C40.61  “The Bookshelf: Four Professionals,” Saturday Night 56, no. 12 (30 November 1940): 18. Book review of J.M.T. Finney, A Surgeon’s Life; I.A.R. Wylie, My Life with George; Ethyl Smyth, What Happened Next; and E. Berry Wall, Neither Pest nor Puritan. C40.62  “The Bookshelf: Funny Book,” Saturday Night 56, no. 12 (30 November 1940): 21. Book review of Isabel Scott Rorick, Mr. and Mrs. Cugat. C40.63  “The Bookshelf: Funny Fellows,” Saturday Night 56, no. 12 (30 November 1940): 21. Book review of Gluyas Williams, Fellow Citizens; George Price, Good Humor Man; and The Pick of Punch.

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C40.64  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 November 1940, p. 4. Book review of Hugh Walpole, The Bright Pavilions and Mazo de la Roche, Whiteoak Heritage. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Excerpted as “Whiteoak Heritage: 1940” in A58. C40.65  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 December 1940, p. 4. Review of Toronto Symphony Orchestra concert with visiting conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.66  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 December 1940, p. 4. Re John Bull and the anthem, God Save the King. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.67  “The Bookshelf: Bloody Jeffreys,” Saturday Night 56, no. 13 (7 December 1940): 29. Book review of H. Montgomery Hyde, Judge Jeffreys. C40.68  “The Bookshelf: Chinese Conjuror,” Saturday Night 56, no. 13 (7 December 1940): 26. Book review of Lin Yutang, With Love and Irony. C40.69  “The Bookshelf: For the Young in Heart,” Saturday Night 56, no. 13 (7 December 1940): 28. Signed Amyas Pilgarlic. C40.70  “The Bookshelf: Handsome Gift Books,” Saturday Night 56, no. 13 (7 December 1940): 29. Book review of William Shakespeare, Under the Greenwood Tree (printed and decorated by Leonard Weisgard); and of Mrs. Gaskell, Cranford (wood engravings by Joan Hassall). C40.71  “The Bookshelf: How Dead Are You?” Saturday Night 56, no. 13 (7 December 1940): 29. Book review of William Seabrook, Witchcraft and Chas. A. Ward, ed., Oracles of Nostradamus. C40.72  “The Bookshelf: Verses for our Times,” Saturday Night 56, no. 13 (7 December 1940): 27. Book review of John Masefield, Some Verses to Some Germans; A.A. Milne, Behind the Lines; and Alice Duer Miller, The White Cliffs. C40.73  “The Christmas Bookshelf: Inglorious Fourth,” Saturday Night 56, no. 13 (7 December 1940): 19. Book review of Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell. C40.74  “The Christmas Bookshelf: Rich Repast for Ribald Readers,” Saturday Night 56, no. 13 (7 December 1940): 20. Book review of Osbert Sitwell, Two Generations. C40.75  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 December 1940, p. 4. Book review of Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell and Lin Yutang, With Love and Irony. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C40.76  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 December 1940, p. 4. Re Jean Sibelius. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.90  “The Bookshelf: Hormones for the Muse,” Saturday Night 56, no. 15 (21 December 1940): 18. Book review of Watson Kirkconnell, The Flying Bull.

C40.77  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 December 1940, p. 4. Re longevity and Thomas Parr. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.91  “The Bookshelf: Last Words and Hard Knocks,” Saturday Night 56, no. 15 (21 December 1940): 19. Brief book review of Carl Crow, Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom; Arnold Lunn, Come What May; Faith Compton Mackenzie, More Than I Should; Rockwell Kent, This Is My Own; Max Miller, Harbour of the Sun; James Gray, The Illinois; Edwin Francis Edgett, I Speak for Myself; and Members of the Overseas Press Club of America, Eye Witness.

C40.78  “The Bookshelf: British Carryings-on,” Saturday Night 56, no. 14 (14 December 1940): 18. Book review of “Pont” of Punch [Graham Laidler], The British Carry on. C40.79  “The Bookshelf: Cape Cod Mystery,” Saturday Night 56, no. 14 (14 December 1940): 20b. Book review of Joseph C. Lincoln, Out of the Fog. C40.80  “The Bookshelf: Inclement Clemens,” Saturday Night 56, no. 14 (14 December 1940): 18. Book review of Bernard De Voto, ed., Mark Twain in Eruption. C40.81  “The Bookshelf: Myth and Martyr,” Saturday Night 56, no. 14 (14 December 1940): 18. Book review of George S. Bryan, The Great American Myth.

C40.92  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 December 1940, p. 4. Book review of a series of Christmas books. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C40.93  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 December 1940, p. 4. Re the feast day of St. Stephen the Martyr, Boxing Day, St. Nicholas, and Santa Claus. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.82  “The Bookshelf: Salvation is Not Free,” Saturday Night 56, no. 14 (14 December 1940): 20 a. Book review of Franz Werfel, Embezzled Heaven.

C40.94  “The Bookshelf: Great Hoax from Little Acorns,” Saturday Night 56, no. 16 (28 December 1940): 14. Book review of Curtis D. MacDougall, Hoaxes.

C40.83  “Concerning Wine: The Wassail Bowl,” Saturday Night 56, no. 14 (14 December 1940): 31. Signed Elynour Rummyng. Davies used a variant of this pseudonym in C41.139 and C59.26.

C40.95  “The Bookshelf: Songsters in the Grove,” Saturday Night 56, no. 16 (28 December 1940): 14. Book review of a supplementary volume of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

C40.84  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 December 1940, p. 4. Re longevity and Henry Jenkins. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.96  “The Bookshelf: Traveler’s Tales,” Saturday Night 56, no. 16 (28 December 1940): 14. Book review of Hassoldt Davis, Land of the Eye.

C40.85  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 December 1940, p. 4. Review of Toronto Symphony Orchestra concert with guest tenor, Joseph Victor Laderoute. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.97  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 December 1940, p. 4. Re Herod the Great and the feast day of the Holy Innocents, previously called Childermass. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.86  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 December 1940, p. 4. Re Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.98  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 December 1940, p. 4. Re New Year’s, Charles Lamb, and Janus. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.87  “The Bookshelf: Bungle,” Saturday Night 56, no. 15 (21 December 1940): 17. Book review of Philip Gibbs, Sons of the Others.

C41.1  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 January 1941, p. 4. Re New Year’s and various anniversaries that fell in 1940. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C40.88  “The Bookshelf: For Children,” Saturday Night 56, no. 15 (21 December 1940): 17. Book review of Lucy Herndon Crockett, Capitan and Heluiz Chandler Washburne, Land of the Good Shadows.

C41.2  “The Bookshelf: Hapsburg Waxworks,” Saturday Night 56, no. 17 (4 January 1941): 15. Book review of Elizabeth Sprigge, The Raven’s Wing.

C40.89  “The Bookshelf: Gold Star for Miss Cather,” Saturday Night 56, no. 15 (21 December 1940): 17. Book review of Willa Cather, Sapphira and the Slave Girl.

C41.3  “The Bookshelf: How to Make Ten Grand,” Saturday Night 56, no. 17 (4 January 1941): 14. Book review of Harlow Estes, Hildreth. Excerpted in C88.3, p. 38.



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C41.4  “The Bookshelf: A Modern Frankenstein,” Saturday Night 56, no. 17 (4 January 1941): 15. Book review of Frank Baker, Miss Hargreaves. C41.5  “The Bookshelf: New Year’s Resolutions,” Saturday Night 56, no. 17 (4 January 1941): 14. C41.6  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 January 1941, p. 4. Re Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera House radio broadcasts and opera singers. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.7  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 January 1941, p. 4. Re the Twelfth Night of Christmas, Twelfth Night, and the acting of Shakespeare by Americans. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.8  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 January 1941, p. 4. Re food, diet, and the cooking of various nations. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.9  “The Bookshelf: For the Young,” Saturday Night 56, no. 18 (11 January 1941): 14. Book review of Charles Clay, Fur Trade Apprentice. C41.10  “The Bookshelf: Perils of Pseudo-History,” Saturday Night 56, no. 18 (11 January 1941): 14. Book review of Kristmann Gudmundsson, Winged Citadel. C41.11  “The Bookshelf: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Speaks,” Saturday Night 56, no. 18 (11 January 1941): 14. Book review of Theodor Reik, From Thirty Years with Freud. C41.12  “The Bookshelf: Speak Sternly to Your Little Boy,” Saturday Night 56, no. 18 (11 January 1941): 14. Book review of Florence Powdermaker and Louise Ireland Grimes, Children in the Family. C41.13  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 January 1941, p. 4. Book review of Hugh Plat, Delightes for Ladies. Part i of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.14  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 January 1941, p. 4. Book review of Hugh Plat, Delightes for Ladies. Part ii of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.15  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 January 1941, p. 4. Re Walt Disney’s movies. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.16  “The Bookshelf: Plain Jane, Please,” Saturday Night 56, no. 19 (18 January 1941): 20. Book review of Naomi Royde-Smith, Jane Fairfax. C41.17  “The Bookshelf: Quick Watson, the SpasmRoot!” Saturday Night 56, no. 19 (18 January 1941): 20. Book review of Maurine Whipple, The Giant Joshua.

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C41.18  “The Bookshelf: Testament for Poets from W.B. Yeats,” Saturday Night 56, no. 19 (18 January 1941): 20. Book review of Letters on Poetry, from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley. C41.19  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 January 1941, p. 4. Re Charlie Chaplin, his movie The Great Dictator, and Joe Penner. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.20  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 January 1941, p. 4. Re St. Agnes and her feast day. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.21  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 January 1941, p. 4. Book review of James Joyce, Ulysses. Part i of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.22  “The Bookshelf: A Model for Biographers,” Saturday Night 56, no. 20 (25 January 1941): 28. Book review of Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry. C41.23  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 January 1941, p. 4. Book review of James Joyce, Ulysses. Part ii of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.24  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 January 1941, p. 4. Re Toronto Symphony Orchestra concert, designed as a Salute to Britain. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.25  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 January 1941, p. 4. Re two American plays, George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, The Man Who Came to Dinner and William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.26  “The Bookshelf: Excellent Entertainment,” Saturday Night 56, no. 21 (1 February 1941): 17. Book review of Robert Hitchens, The Million. C41.27  “The Bookshelf: Simple Annals,” Saturday Night 56, no. 21 (1 February 1941): 17. Book review of A.S.M. Hutchison, He Looked for a City. C41.28  “The Bookshelf: Theatre of the Mind,” Saturday Night 56, no. 21 (1 February 1941): 16. Book review of Alexander Knox, Old Master and Sean O’Casey, Purple Dust. C41.29  “The Bookshelf: To Bed at Noon, Mr. Aldington?” Saturday Night 56, no. 21 (1 February 1941): 16. Book review of Richard Aldington, Life for Life’s Sake. C41.30  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 February 1941, p. 4. A Candlemas Day column, which includes quotations from Robert Herrick’s poetry. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C41.31  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 February 1941, p. 4. Book review of Ralph Ingersoll, Report on England. Part i of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.45  “The Bookshelf: Hardy Centenary Edition,” Saturday Night 56, no. 24 (22 February 1941): 18. Book review of Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree. Wood engravings by Clare Leighton.

C41.32  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 February 1941, p. 4. Book review of Ralph Ingersoll, Report on England. Part ii of the review. Also re Bernard Shaw on Ireland. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.46  “The Bookshelf: The Prescription As Usual,” Saturday Night 56, no. 24 (22 February 1941): 18. Book review of P.G. Wodehouse, Quick Service.

C41.33  “The Bookshelf: Air of Yester-Year,” Saturday Night 56, no. 22 (8 February 1941): 17. Book review of Max Wylie, ed., The Best Broadcasts of 1939-40.

C41.47  “The Bookshelf: Short Stories,” Saturday Night 56, no. 24 (22 February 1941): 19. Book review of Stella Gibbons, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm, and Other Stories.

C41.34  “The Bookshelf: Anti-Left Levity,” Saturday Night 56, no. 22 (8 February 1941): 16. Book review of Angela Thirkell, Cheerfulness Breaks In.

C41.48  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 February 1941, p. 4. Re the Ballet Russe and ballet. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.35  “The Bookshelf: Clio and Caduceus,” Saturday Night 56, no. 22 (8 February 1941): 16. Book review of Arturo Castiglioni, A History of Medicine.

C41.49  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 February 1941, p. 4. A Shrove Tuesday column. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.36  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 February 1941, p. 4. Book review of Jan Valtin, Out of the Night and E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Milan Grill Room. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.50  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 February 1941, p. 4. Re the growth of pulp magazines in Canada and Fantastic Comics. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.37  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 February 1941, p. 4. Re musical taste and radio programs. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.51  “The Bookshelf: Scottish Anthology,” Saturday Night 56, no. 25 (1 March 1941): 18. Book review of Hugh MacDiarmid, ed., Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry.

C41.38  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 February 1941, p. 4. A St. Valentine’s Day column. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.39  “At the Theatre: Leaps and Bounds,” Saturday Night 56, no. 23 (15 February 1941): 24. C41.40  “The Bookshelf: Irregular and Wild,” Saturday Night 56, no. 23 (15 February 1941): 18. Book review of John Cowper Powys, Owen Glendower. C41.41  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 February 1941, p. 4. Re Canadian painting and Grant Macdonald. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.42  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 February 1941, p. 4. In response to the reaction to his review of Ralph Ingersoll, Report from England, with regard to education. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.43  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 February 1941, p. 4. A continuation of C41.42. Also re Lord Lloyd of Dolobran and his forebears. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.44  “The Bookshelf: For the Young,” Saturday Night 56, no. 24 (22 February 1941): 19. Book review of Ellen Simon, The Critter Book.

C41.52  “The Bookshelf: Threnody for a Dead Art,” Saturday Night 56, no. 25 (1 March 1941): 18. Book review of Douglas Gilbert, American Vaudeville. C41.53  “The Bookshelf: Tut Tut, Mr. Chips,” Saturday Night 56, no. 25 (1 March 1941): 18. Book review of James Hilton, Random Harvest. C41.54  “The Bookshelf: Young Love and Guardian Angels,” Saturday Night 56, no. 25 (1 March 1941): 19. Book review of Booth Tarkington, The Heritage of Hatcher Ide and Elswyth Thane, Remember Today. C41.55  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 March 1941, p. 4. Re St. David and War Savings Certificates. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.56  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 March 1941, p. 4. Book review of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” in A55a. C41.57  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 March 1941, p. 4. Re Uncanny Tales (Canada’s first pulp magazine), Fantastic Comics, and Superman. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.



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C41.58  “At the Theatre: Is There a Rabbit in the House?” Saturday Night 56, no. 26 (8 March 1941): 24. C41.59  “The Bookshelf: A Birching for Teachers,” Saturday Night 56, no. 26 (8 March 1941): 18. Book review of Dorothy Walworth, Feast of Reason. C41.60  “The Bookshelf: For Soldiers,” Saturday Night 56, no. 26 (8 March 1941): 18. Book review of G.D. Mitchell, Soldier in Battle. C41.61  “The Bookshelf: For the Young,” Saturday Night 56, no. 26 (8 March 1941): 18. Signed Amyas Pilgarlic. C41.62  “The Bookshelf: Life of a Ninny,” Saturday Night 56, no. 26 (8 March 1941): 18. Book review of John P. Marquand, H.M. Pulham, Esquire. C41.63  “The Bookshelf: Turn Down an Empty Stein,” Saturday Night 56, no. 26 (8 March 1941): 18. Book review of Gertrude Stein, Ida. C41.64  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 March 1941, p. 4. Re auctions. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.65  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 March 1941, p. 4. Book review of Lars Moen, Under the Iron Heel. Part i of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.66  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 March 1941, p. 4. Book review of Lars Moen, Under the Iron Heel. Part ii of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.67  “The Bookshelf: Loud and Bold,” Saturday Night 56, no. 27 (15 March 1941): 22. Book review of Winston Churchill, Blood, Sweat and Tears. C41.68  “The Bookshelf: Poems of the Super Tramp,” Saturday Night 56, no. 27 (15 March 1941): 24. Book review of W.H. Davies, The Poems of W.H. Davies. C41.69  “The Bookshelf: This Is Eire,” Saturday Night 56, no. 27 (15 March 1941): 24. Book review of Seán Ó’Faoláin, An Irish Journey. C41.70  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 March 1941, p. 4. Book review of Lars Moen, Under the Iron Heel (Part iii of the review), and of Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.71  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 March 1941, p. 4. A St. Patrick’s Day column. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.72  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 March 1941, p. 4. Book review of Harvey Klemmer,

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They’ll Never Quit. Part i of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. The Peterborough Examiner misprints the name of the book as They Never Quit. C41.73  “The Bookshelf: Canadian Author,” Saturday Night 56, no. 28 (22 March 1941): 18. Book review of Victor Lauriston, Arthur Stringer and Arthur Stringer, The King Who Loved Old Clothes. C41.74  “The Bookshelf: A Great Sea Story,” Saturday Night 56, no. 28 (22 March 1941): 18. Book review of Marcus Goodrich, Delilah. C41.75  “The Bookshelf: Not Nice to Macneice,” Saturday Night 56, no. 28 (22 March 1941): 19. Book review of Louis Macneice, Poems 1925-1940. C41.76  “The Bookshelf: Unsentimental Journey,” Saturday Night 56, no. 28 (22 March 1941): 18. Book review of Ludwig Bemelmans, The Donkey Inside. C41.77  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 March 1941, p. 4. Book review of Harvey Klemmer, They’ll Never Quit. Part ii of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.78  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 March 1941, p. 4. Re Ethiopia. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.79  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 March 1941, p. 4. Book review of Arnold Bennett, How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.80  “At the Theatre: Good and Evil Struggle for Little Joe,” Saturday Night 56, no. 29 (29 March 1941): 24. C41.81  “The Bookshelf: Look Under the Bed,” Saturday Night 56, no. 29 (29 March 1941): 18. Book review of J.C. Furnas and Ladies’ Home Journal staff, How America Lives. C41.82  “The Bookshelf: Much in Little,” Saturday Night 56, no. 29 (29 March 1941): 18. Book review of Benedict Thielen, Stevie; Henry Green, Pack My Bag; David McCord, And What’s More; Elizabeth, One Thing in Common; and Carlota [Oppenheimer], America Is O.K. by Me. C41.83  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 March 1941, p. 4. Re Reinhold Niebuhr. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.84  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 April 1941, p. 4. Re April Fool’s Day. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C41.85  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 April 1941, p. 4. Re entertainment in Britain and the current success of John Gielgud’s revival of J.M. Barrie’s play, Dear Brutus. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.86  “The Bookshelf: For Play Readers,” Saturday Night 56, no. 30 (5 April 1941): 18. Book review of Elmer Rice, Flight to the West and Eugene O’Neill, Nine Plays by Eugene O’Neill. C41.87  “The Bookshelf: Harriet the Liberator,” Saturday Night 56, no. 30 (5 April 1941): Book review of Forrest Wilson, Crusader in Crinoline. C41.88  “The Bookshelf: In Search of Self-Know­ ledge,” Saturday Night 56, no. 30 (5 April 1941): 19. Book review of Gontran de Poncins, Kabloona. C41.89  “The Bookshelf: Life of a Genius,” Saturday Night 56, no. 30 (5 April 1941): 18. Book review of Elliott Arnold, Finlandia, the Story of Sibelius. C41.90  “The Bookshelf: Revolution in England,” Saturday Night 56, no. 30 (5 April 1941): 19. Book review of Arthur Bryant, English Saga. C41.91  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 April 1941, p. 4. Book review of John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.92  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 April 1941, p. 4. Re Easter customs. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.93  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 April 1941, p. 4. A Maundy Thursday column. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.94  “The Bookshelf: Easter Meditation on Sholem Asch,” Saturday Night 56, no. 31 (12 April 1941): 19. Book review of Sholem Asch, What I Believe. C41.95  “The Bookshelf: For the Heart,” Saturday Night 56, no. 31 (12 April 1941): 20. Book review of Phyllis Bottome, Mansion House of Liberty. C41.96  “The Bookshelf: Last Stories,” Saturday Night 56, no. 31 (12 April 1941): 19. Book review of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Not by Strange Gods. C41.97  “The Bookshelf: Patriotism,” Saturday Night 56, no. 31 (12 April 1941): 20. Book review of Dorsha Hayes, The American Primer. C41.98  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 April 1941, p. 4. Re Easter customs and Lent. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.99  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 April 1941, p. 4. Re annual performance in Toronto

of Bach, “Passion of Our Lord According to St. Matthew”. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.100  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 April 1941, p. 4. Re acquisitiveness and William Randolph Hearst. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.101  “‘All Gaul Is Divided ...,’” Saturday Night 56, no. 32 (19 April 1941): 5. Book review of Elizabeth Morrow, comp., All Gaul is Divided ... The ellipses appear in the text. C41.102  “The Bookshelf: Noisome Domesticity,” Saturday Night 56, no. 32 (19 April 1941): 19. Book review of Rose Franken, Claudia and David. C41.103  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 April 1941, p. 4. Re window dressing and Salvador Dali. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.104  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 April 1941, p. 4. Re St. George’s Day, which is traditionally associated with William Shakespeare’s birth and death. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.105  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 April 1941, p. 4. Thoughts re letter-writing, and a book review of Diana Forbes-Robertson and Roger W. Straus, eds., War Letters from Britain. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.106  “The Bookshelf: Evaluation of Modern Music,” Saturday Night 56, no. 33 (26 April 1941): 21. Book review of John Tasker Howard, Our Contemporary Composers. C41.107  “The Bookshelf: Heard Melodies Are Sweet,” Saturday Night 56, no. 33 (26 April 1941): 20. Book review of Edmund Blunden, Poems 1930-1940. C41.108  “The Bookshelf: New Gods for Old,” Saturday Night 56, no. 33 (26 April 1941): 20. Book review of A. Eustace Haydon, Biography of the Gods. C41.109  “The Bookshelf: Shakespeare Can Take It,” Saturday Night 56, no. 33 (26 April 1941): 21. Book review of G. Wilson Knight, This Sceptered Isle. C41.110  “The Bookshelf: South American Epic,” Saturday Night 56, no. 33 (26 April 1941): 20. Book review of José Hernández, The Gaucho Martín Fierro. C41.111  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 April 1941, p. 4. Book review of Sinclair Ross, As for Me and My House. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “As for Me and My House: 1941” in A58. C41.112  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 April 1941, p. 4. Review of “Salute to Britain” festival



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concert in Toronto on St. George’s Day. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

May 1941, p. 4. Re suntans and sunbathing. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.113  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 May 1941. Re May Day. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.127  “The Bookshelf: For Aspiring Cartoonists,” Saturday Night 56, no. 36 (17 May 1941): 21. Book review of Frank F. Greene, How to Create Cartoons.

C41.114  “At the Theatre: A Ballet for Canada?” Saturday Night 56, no. 34 (3 May 1941): 24. C41.115  “The Bookshelf: A Final Adventure for Edward Leithen,” Saturday Night 56, no. 34 (3 May 1941): 16. Book review of John Buchan, Sick Heart River. C41.116  “The Bookshelf: For Musicians,” Saturday Night 56, no. 34 (3 May 1941): 17. Book review of Marion Bauer, Musical Questions and Quizzes. C41.117  “The Bookshelf: For Young Artists,” Saturday Night 56, no. 34 (3 May 1941): 17. Book review of Marion Downer, Be an Artist. C41.118  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 May 1941, p. 4. Book review of Gontran de Poncins, Kabloona and John P. Marquand, H.M. Pulham, Esquire. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.119  “Cap and Bells,” Kingston-Whig Standard, 6 May 1941, p. 4. Re the change in British public opinion toward the German people in the previous year and also in the years since World War i. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.128  “The Bookshelf: Joys of the Jungle,” Saturday Night 56, no. 36 (17 May 1941): 20. Book review of Ivan T. Sanderson, Living Treasure. C41.129  “The Bookshelf: Spring Lamb,” Saturday Night 56, no. 36 (17 May 1941): 21. Book review of Robert Graves, Proceed, Sergeant Lamb. C41.130  “The Bookshelf: Sumer Is Icumen In,” Saturday Night (17 May 1941): 20. Book review of Harry B. Logan, Jean Marie C. Putnam, and Lloyd C. Cosper, Science in the Garden and Dale Warren, The Care and Feeding of a Place in the Country. Saturday Night gives Logan’s name as Britton Logan and does not include Cosper’s name. C41.131  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 May 1941, p. 4. Re Samuel Jessup and medicinal drugs. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.132  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 May 1941, p. 4. Review of the movie That Hamilton Woman directed by Alexander Korda and the historical Emma Hamilton. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.120  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 May 1941, p. 4. Book review of Robert Vansittart, Black Record: Germans Past and Present. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.133  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 May 1941, p. 4. Book review of Pierre Van Passen, The Time Is Now. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.121  “The Bookshelf: The Amazement of Vera Brittain,” Saturday Night 56, no. 35 (10 May 1941): 19. Book review of Vera Brittain, England’s Hour.

C41.134  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 May 1941, p. 4. Re Queen Victoria, Sir Paul Harvey, and the nature of Victorians. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.122  “The Bookshelf: Echo of Dead Laughter,” Saturday Night 56, no. 35 (10 May 1941): Book review of Francis Hyde Bangs, John Kendrick Bangs. C41.123  “The Bookshelf: Great, but Uncomfortable,” Saturday Night 56, no. 35 (10 May 1941): 18. Book review of Roger Martin du Gard, Summer 1914. C41.124  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 May 1941, p. 4. Book review of John Buchan, Sick Heart River; Marcus Goodrich, Delilah; and Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.125  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 May 1941, p. 4. Re Charlie Chaplin and his movie, The Great Dictator. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.126  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 15

C41.135  “The Bookshelf: Aristotle for Board-Meetings,” Saturday Night 56, no. 37 (24 May 1941): 18. Book review of Richard Weil, Jr., The Art of Practical Thinking. C41.136  “The Bookshelf: For the Young,” Saturday Night 56, no. 37 (24 May 1941): 19. Book review of Elsie Bindrum, The Ant and the Grasshopper Sail Away and Maud Lindsay, Fun on Children’s Street. C41.137  “The Bookshelf: A Novel of Genuine Importance,” Saturday Night 56, no. 37 (24 May 1941): 18. Book review of Eric Knight, This Above All. C41.138  “The Bookshelf: The Scholars and the Bible,” Saturday Night 56, no. 37 (24 May 1941): 19. Book review of Frederic Kenyon, The Bible and Archaeology.

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C41.139  “The Bookshelf: Something to Chew on,” Saturday Night 56, no. 37 (24 May 1941): 19. Book review of Asa C. Chandler, The Eater’s Digest. Signed Eleanor Rumming. Davies used this pseudonym again in C59.26, and, earlier, with a variant spelling in C40.83. C41.140  “The Bookshelf: Yes, Too Low,” Saturday Night 56, no. 37 (24 May 1941): 19. Book review of H. Allen Smith, Low Man on a Totem Pole. C41.141  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 May 1941, p. 4. Re the movie, The Sea Wolf, with Canadian actors Gene Lockhart and Alexander Knox, based on the book by Jack London. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.142  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 May 1941, p. 4. Re Charles ii, King of England. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.143  “The Bookshelf: Chronicle Small Beer,” Saturday Night 56, no. 38 (31 May 1941): 19. Book review of C.V.R. Thompson, Trousers Will Be Worn. C41.144  “The Bookshelf: Highbrows of the World, Unite!” Saturday Night 56, no. 38 (31 May 1941): 19. Book review of Huntington Cairns, Allen Tate, and Mark Van Doren, Invitation to Learning. C41.145  “The Bookshelf: Meet the Unspeakable Veeches,” Saturday Night 56, no. 38 (31 May 1941): 18. Book review of Maritta M. Wolff, Whistle Stop. C41.146  “The Bookshelf: Our History in Miniature,” Saturday Night 56, no. 38 (31 May 1941): 18. Book review of B.K. Sandwell, The Canadian Peoples. C41.147  “Renaissance of Professional Theatre in Toronto,” Saturday Night 56, no. 38 (31 May 1941): 23. C41.148  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 May 1941, p. 4. Re the treatment of Joan of Arc in literature: Voltaire, La Pucelle; Shakespeare, Henry vi; Schiller, Die Jungfrau Von Orleans; Mark Twain, [Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc]; and Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.149  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 June 1941, p. 4. Re the attack on Superman (the comic book hero) by Clara Savage Littledale, ed., Parents’ Magazine and Sterling North, literary ed., Chicago Daily News. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.150  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 June 1941, p. 4. Re modern newspaper photographs and the steel engravings in the Illustrated London News, c.1870–1900. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.151  “At the Theatre: Mr. Shaw and the Tongue of

Shakespeare and Milton,” Saturday Night 56, no. 39 (7 June 1941): 24. C41.152  “The Bookshelf: Are We Really Fascinating?” Saturday Night 56, no. 39 (7 June 1941): 18. Book review of Dorothy Duncan, Here’s to Canada. C41.153  “The Bookshelf: Disney Again,” Saturday Night 56, no. 39 (7 June 1941): 18. Book review of Joe Grant and Dick Huemer, Baby Weems. C41.154  “The Bookshelf: For the Young,” Saturday Night 56, no. 39 (7 June 1941): 19. Review of books for children. Signed Amyas Pilgarlic. C41.155  “The Bookshelf: Physician to Head-Hunters,” Saturday Night 56, no. 39 (7 June 1941): 18. Book review of S.M. Lambert, A Yankee Doctor in Paradise. C41.156  “The Bookshelf: Survey of Italian Letters,” Saturday Night 56, no. 39 (7 June 1941): 19. Book review of Joseph Spencer Kennard, A Literary History of the Italian People. C41.157  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 June 1941, p. 4. Re hypnotism. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.158  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 June 1941, p. 4. Re democracy and the occupation of Poland. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.159  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 June 1941, p. 4. Re the fun that could be made of Adolph Hitler’s personal air raid shelter and re the death of King Wilhelm ii of Germany. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.160  “At the Theatre: Do You Want to Kill Her?” Saturday Night 56, no. 40 (14 June 1941): 36. C41.161  “The Bookshelf: Both Sides of a Genius,” Saturday Night 56, no. 40 (14 June 1941): 28. Book review of Denis Mackail, The Story of J.M.B. C41.162  “The Bookshelf: Freeze Your Marrow, Sir?” Saturday Night 56, no. 40 (14 June 1941): 26. Book review of Joseph Shearing, The Crime of Laura Savelle. C41.163  “The Bookshelf: Is By You a Leffing-Meddler, Nur?” Saturday Night 56, no. 40 (14 June 1941): 26. Book review of Arthur Kober, My Dear Bella. C41.164  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 June 1941, p. 4. Reflections inspired by the popularity of Erskine Caldwell’s play Tobacco Road, which had just completed a seven-and-a-half year run in New York. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.165  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 June 1941, p. 4. Book review of A.S.P. Woodhouse,



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ed., Letters in Canada: 1940 and of Canadian Literature Today: A Series of Broadcasts Sponsored by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “Letters in Canada: 1940 / Canadian Literature Today: 1941” in A58. C41.166  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 June 1941, p. 4. Re the Cinema column in Time magazine of 16 June which lists words which should not be used in movies according to Will Hays, President, Motion Picture Producers-Distributors of America. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.167  “The Bookshelf: Funny but Not Too Funny,” Saturday Night 56, no. 41 (21 June 1941): 26. Book review of Sally Benson, Junior Miss. C41.168  “The Bookshelf: Let Well Enough Alone,” Saturday Night 56, no. 41 (21 June 1941): 26. Book review of Thomas Mann, The Transposed Heads. C41.169  “The Bookshelf: New Books from Britain,” Saturday Night 56, no. 41 (21 June 1941): 27. C41.170  “The Bookshelf: A Victorian Adventuress,” Saturday Night 56, no. 41 (21 June 1941): 26. Book review of Jean Burton, Sir Richard Burton’s Wife. C41.171  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 June 1941, p. 4. Re Sir Ernest MacMillan, his sponsorship of music appreciation clubs, and music education. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.172  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 June 1941, p. 4. Re Emily Post’s newspaper columns including  “One Road to a Happy Marriage.” Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.173  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 June 1941, p. 4. Re the Conference of Canadian Artists held in Kingston, on, Carl Ahrens, and the making of colours. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.174  “The Bookshelf: A Century of Struggle,” Saturday Night 56, no. 42 (28 June 1941): 20. Book review of D.D. Calvin, Queen’s University at Kingston. C41.175  “The Bookshelf: A Paradise of Dainty Devices,” Saturday Night 56, no. 42 (28 June 1941): 21. Book review of Robert Edmond Jones, The Dramatic Imagination; Edmund Fuller, A Pageant of the Theatre; Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes; Joseph Kesselring, Lavender and Old Lace; Catherine Turney and Jerry Horwin, My Dear Children; Clare Booth, Kiss the Boys Good-Bye; and Moss Hart, Lady in the Dark. C41.176  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 June 1941, p. 4. Re Carl Ahrens and Elbert Hubbard. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C41.177  “Intelligence and the Old School Tie,” Old Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) (July 1941): 5-6. Signed W.R. Davies (’28-’32). C41.178  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 July 1941, p. 4. Re Reginald Stewart and his resignation as conductor of the Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra, also known as the Summer Symphony. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.179  “At the Theatre: Transfiguration in Pago Pago,” Saturday Night 56, no. 43 (5 July 1941): 24. C41.180  “The Bookshelf: Stern, but Not Stern Enough,” Saturday Night 56, no. 43 (5 July 1941): 17. Book review of G.B. Stern, Another Part of the Forest. C41.181  “The Bookshelf: Wild and Woolly and Full of Flaws,” Saturday Night 56, no. 43 (5 July 1941): 16. Book review of Burton Rascoe, Belle Starr, the Bandit Queen. C41.182  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 July 1941, p. 4. Re antiques. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.183  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 July 1941, p. 4. Re Ignacey Jan Paderewski and a review of a NBC radio memorial program. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.184  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 July 1941, p. 4. Re English grammar. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.185  “The Bookshelf: Advice on Vacation Reading,” Saturday Night 56, no. 44 (12 July 1941): 16. Book review of Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run?; T.H. White, The Ill-Made Knight; Johan Fabricius, No Return from Bali; Edward J. O’Brien, ed., The Best Short Stories of 1941; Thomas B. Morgan, Spurs on the Boot; and William Shirer, Berlin Diary. C41.186  “The Bookshelf: Picture Books for Adults,” Saturday Night 56, no. 44 (12 July 1941): 17. Book review of John Steinbeck, The Forgotten Village and Alice Duer Miller, I Have Loved England ... The ellipses appear in the text. C41.187  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 July 1941, p. 4. Re Punch and its contributors. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.188  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 July 1941, p. 4. Re Oscar Wilde, tax on cosmetics, paper shortages in Britain, and Adolf Hitler. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.189  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 July 1941, p. 4. Re news magazines, including New

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Review, a relatively recent news magazine in Britain. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.190  “The Bookshelf: Fare for the Bugaboo-Lover,” Saturday Night 56, no. 45 (19 July 1941): 22. Book review of Christina Hole, English Folklore and Haunted England. C41.191  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 July 1941, p. 4. Re a new publication, Real Heroes, and its aim of replacing existing “lurid” comics like Superman. The first hero to be featured was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.192  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 July 1941, p. 4. Re Goebbels and German culture. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.193  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 July 1941, p. 4. Re Winston Churchill and jargon, and Lord Beaverbrook and red tape. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.194  “At the Theatre: Aubrey Smith’s Youth Is a Handicap,” Saturday Night 56, no. 46 (26 July 1941): 23. C41.195  “The Bookshelf: About Insects,” Saturday Night 56, no. 46 (26 July 1941): 17. Book review of Harry Hoogstraal, Insects. C41.196  “The Bookshelf: Good Company at Any Time,” Saturday Night 56, no. 46 (26 July 1941): 17. Book review of Una Pope-Hennessy, Durham Company. C41.197  “The Bookshelf: Great Revelation of Spirit,” Saturday Night 56, no. 46 (26 July 1941): 16. Book review of Eric Gill, Autobiography. C41.198  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 July 1941, p. 4. Re Goebbels and German culture, and the vitality of English culture, though there has never been a British Ministry of Culture. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.203  “The Bookshelf: Aristocrat in Bad Taste,” Saturday Night 56, no. 47 (2 August 1941): 16. Book review of Paul Manning and Milton Bronner, Mr. England. C41.204  “The Bookshelf: He’s for a Jig, or ...,” Saturday Night 56, no. 47 (2 August 1941): 17. Book review of Thorne Smith, The Passionate Witch. Ellipses appear in text. C41.205  “The Bookshelf: How We Look to Our WarGuests,” Saturday Night 56, no. 47 (2 August 1941): 16. Book review of Caroline Bell and Eddie Bell, Thank You Twice, or How We Like America. C41.206  “The Bookshelf: Light Verse,” Saturday Night 56, no. 47 (2 August 1941): 16. Book review of A.R.T. Thompson, Hysteric Histories. C41.207  “The Bookshelf: A Tale of Good Life,” Saturday Night 56, no. 47 (2 August 1941): 16. Book review of [A.J.] Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom. C41.208  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 August 1941, p. 4. Book review of [A.J.] Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom; Thomas Mann, The Transposed Heads; Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run; Arthur Kober, My Dear Bella; and Jane Nicholson, Shelter. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.209  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 August 1941, p. 4. Re hatred of Germans, German national character, and a book review of Gottfried Leske, I Was a Nazi Flier. Part i of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.210  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 August 1941, p. 4. Book review of Gottfried Leske, I Was a Nazi Flier. Part ii of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.211  “The Bookshelf: Document from a Ruined Race,” Saturday Night 56, no. 48 (9 August 1941): 16. Book review of Gottfried Leske, I Was a Nazi Flier.

C41.199  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 July 1941, p. 4. Re vaudeville and the comedy team of Weber and Fields. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as  “Lew Fields” in A55.

C41.212  “The Bookshelf: Feminists Will Be Furious,” Saturday Night 56, no. 48 (9 August 1941): 17. Book review of Harry Lee, No Measure Danced.

C41.200  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 July 1941, p. 4. Re V campaign in Britain and Goebbels’s reaction to it. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.213  “The Bookshelf: God Loves to See Us Happy,” Saturday Night 56, no. 48 (9 August 1941): 16. Book review of Frank Schoonmaker and Tom Marvel, American Wines.

C41.201  “The Bookshelf: Adultery under Difficulties,” Saturday Night 56, no. 47 (2 August 1941): 17. Book review of Jane Nicholson, Shelter. C41.202  “At the Theatre: Barries in a Bear Market,” Saturday Night 56, no. 47 (2 August 1941): 20.

C41.214  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 August 1941, p. 4. Book review of Gottfried Leske, I Was a Nazi Flier. Part iii of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.



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C41.215  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 August 1941, p. 4. Re bible reading with references to [Ernest Sutherland Bates], The Bible, Designed to Be Read as Literature. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.216  “Cap and Bells,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 14 August 1941, p. 4. Re Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel prize-winning Indian poet, translator and political thinker. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.217  “‘The Back Page’: The Blitz and the Buskin in Britain,” Saturday Night 56, no. 49 (16 August 1941): 29. C41.218  “The Bookshelf: Sentiment and British Novels,” Saturday Night 56, no. 49 (16 August 1941): 15. Book review of Hugh Walpole, The Blind Man’s House; H.W. Freeman, Chaffinch’s; and Harold Acton, Peonies and Ponies. C41.219  “The Bookshelf: Sketch of a Poet,” Saturday Night 46, no. 49 (16 August 1941): 16. Book review of Betty Askwith, Keats. C41.220  “Cap and Bells,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 August 1941, p. 4. Book review of [Bentley Beauman, ed.], The Airmen Speak. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.221  “Cult of Exercise: Is It a Cure-All or a Passing Fad?” Peterborough Examiner, 19 August 1941, p. 4. Re Bernarr Macfadden and his magazine, Physical Culture. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. This is the first Marchbanks column where an individual title replaces the running title “Cap and Bells.” This variant of the column usually ran on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays until 21 November 1942. The column titles in the Kingston Whig-Standard were sometimes the same, sometimes different. C41.222  “Food Problem in Great Britain Is Exaggerated,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 August 1941, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.223  “Adventures in Slave-Trade a Best-Seller,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 August 1941, p. 4. Book review of Marguerite Steen, The Sun Is My Undoing. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.224  “The Bookshelf: Champlain Society,” Saturday Night 56, no. 50 (23 August 1941): 24. Book review of R. Harvey Fleming, ed., Minutes of Council, Northern Department of Rupert Land. C41.225  “The Bookshelf: A Queen Who Failed,” Saturday Night 56, no. 50 (23 August 1941): 24. Book review of Garrett Mattingly, Catherine of Aragon. C41.226  “The Bookshelf: Tale of the Slave-Trade,”

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Saturday Night 56, no. 50 (23 August 1941): 24. Book review of Marguerite Steen, The Sun Is My Undoing. C41.227  “The Bookshelf: What Airmen Say,” Saturday Night 56, no. 50 (23 August 1941): 25. Book review of Bentley Beauman, ed., The Airmen Speak. C41.228  “Telling Future Contains Lot [sic] Mere Guess Work,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 August 1941, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.229  “Nationalism Has Been Foremost German Thought,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 August 1941, p. 4. Re Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.230  “At the Theatre: Quandary of a Male Intellectual,” Saturday Night 56, no. 51 (30 August 1941): 21. C41.231  “The Bookshelf: A Frenchman Speaks of England,” Saturday Night 56, no. 51 (30 August 1941): 16. Book review of Henri de Vibraye, Old England, A French View. C41.232  “The Bookshelf: The Fun of the Fair,” Saturday Night 56, no. 51 (30 August 1941): 17. C41. Book review of Oliver Pilat and Jo Ranson, Sodom by the Sea. C41.233  “The Bookshelf: Private, and Often Disappointing,” Saturday Night 56, no. 51 (30 August 1941): 16. Book review of Judith Kelly, Marriage Is a Private Affair. C41.234  “Britons Looking Forward to Theatre Season,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 August 1941, p. 4. Book review of Noel Coward, Blithe Spirit. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.235  “An Orchestra Which Plays without Leader,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 September 1941, p. 4. Re Reginald Stewart and a review of Toronto Promenade Symphony concert with guest conductor Edwin McArthur. In C41.178, Davies wrote about Stewart’s resignation as conductor of this orchestra. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.236  “London’s Second ‘Great Fire’ Began Year Ago,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 September 1941, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.237  “The Bookshelf: The Poet in the Factory,” Saturday Night 56, no. 52 (6 September 1941): 14. Book review of John Masefield, In the Mill. C41.238  “The Bookshelf: To Correct a Wrong Impression,” Saturday Night 56, no. 52 (6 September 1941): 14. Book review of Earl of Bessborough and Arthur Aspinall, eds., Lady Bessborough and Her Family Circle.

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C41.239  “Masefield in the Mill,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 September 1941, p. 4. Book review of John Masefield, In the Mill. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

review of Alfred Henry Tyrer, And a New Earth and Henry James Forman, Have You a Religion? Saturday Night gives the title as “... And New Earth.”

C41.240  “The C.N.E. in Retrospect,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 September 1941, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.252  “Tempest in a Teapot,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 September 1941, p. 4. Book review of Caroline Bell and Eddie Bell, Thank You Twice, and the controversy it caused. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.241  “Home and Beauty,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 September 1941, p. 4. Re an exhibit at the Canadian National Exhibition called “The Canadian Homes Beautiful.” Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.242  “Aristocracy of Freaks,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 September 1941, p. 4. Re the midway and circus freaks at the Canadian National Exhibition. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.243  “The Ballet, Ladies and Gentlemen, Is for You,” Saturday Night 57, no. 1 (13 September 1941): 5. C41.244  “The Bookshelf: Bouquet and Brick-Bat,” Saturday Night 57, no. 1 (13 September 1941): 19. Book review of Thomas Kernan, France on Berlin Time and René Kraus, The Men around Churchill. C41.245  “The Bookshelf: Brilliant History,” Saturday Night 57, no. 1 (13 September 1941): 18. Book review of Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington. C41.246  “The Bookshelf: Distinguished American Novels,” Saturday Night 57, no. 1 (13 September 1941): 18. Book review of Frederic Prokosch, The Skies of Europe; Vincent Sheean, Bird of the Wilderness; and Christopher La Farge, The Wilsons. C41.247  “Education in Modern Germany,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 September 1941, p. 4. Re the changes made to German education by Hitler. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.248  “Nazis Trust to Their Blood,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 September 1941, p. 4. A continuation of the previous entry on the changes made to German education by Hitler, including a discussion of Lothar Gottlieb Tirala, Race, Mind and Soul [Rasse, Geist und Seele]. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.249  “The Bookshelf: America and Political Syphilis,” Saturday Night 57, no. 2 (20 September 1941): 14. Book review of Leland Stowe, No Other Road to Freedom. C41.250  “The Bookshelf: Espionage and Investigation,” Saturday Night 57, no. 2 (20 September 1941): 14. Book review of Somerset Maugham, Strictly Personal and Ashenden. C41.251  “The Bookshelf: The Fat in the Fire,” Saturday Night 57, no. 2 (20 September 1941): 15. Book

C41.253  “Every Man His Own Doctor,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 September 1941, p. 4. Re the common cold. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.254  “Colds and the Cure,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 September 1941, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.255  “At the Theatre: Some Reflections on the Ballet,” Saturday Night 57, no. 3 (27 September 1941): 32. C41.256  “The Ballet Strikes Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 September 1941, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.257  “The Bookshelf: Autobiography — Good and Bad,” Saturday Night 57, no. 3 (27 September 1941): 23. Book review of Eric Linklater, The Man on My Back and Stephen Longstreet, Last Man Around the World. C41.258  “The Bookshelf: For the Young,” Saturday Night 57, no. 3 (27 September 1941): 24. Brief reviews. C41.259  “The Bookshelf: For True Book-Lovers,” Saturday Night 57, no. 3 (27 September 1941): 25. Book review of The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne and the Complete Poetry of William Blake (one vol.) and The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature. C41.260  “The Bookshelf: Tales about Time,” Saturday Night 57, no. 3 (27 September 1941): 24. Book review of E.M. Delafield, No One Will Know and Dorothy Cowlin, Penny to Spend. C41.261  “Who Really Is Who in Who’s Who?” Peterborough Examiner, 30 September 1941, p. 4. Book review of Who’s Who. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.262  “And Which Kind Are You?” Peterborough Examiner, 2 October 1941, p. 4. Re extroverts and introverts. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.263  “The Bookshelf: All Skillful in the Wars,” Saturday Night 57, no. 4 (4 October 1941): 20. Book review of Margaret Kennedy, Where Stands a Winged Sentry. C41.264  “The Bookshelf: Good and Bad Psychology,” Saturday Night 57, no. 4 (4 October 1941): 21. Book



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review of Virginia Case, Your Personality, Introvert or Extrovert? and Henry C. Link, The Return to Religion. C41.265  “The Bookshelf: Something Different,” Saturday Night 57, no. 4 (4 October 1941): 21. Book review of Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp, The Incomplete Enchanter. C41.266  “Men Are Earth’s Parasites,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 October 1941, p. 4. Book review of William Shirer, Berlin Diary; André Simone, Men of Europe and The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror; and Margaret Kennedy, Where Stands a Winged Sentry. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.267  “Disappointing Disney,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 October 1941, p. 4. Re Fantasia and other movies. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.268  “The Futility of ‘Fantasia,’” Peterborough Examiner, 9 October 1941, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.269  “The Bookshelf: Disaster and a Canadian Family,” Saturday Night 57, no. 5 (11 October 1941): 20. Book review of Hugh MacLennan, Barometer Rising. Reprinted as  “Barometer Rising: 1941” in A58. C41.270  “The Bookshelf: Domestic Scene,” Saturday Night 57, no. 5 (11 October 1941): 20. Book review of Bellamy Partridge, Big Family. C41.271  “Canada’s Film Industry,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 October 1941, p. 4. Re National Film Board, John Grierson, and Gabriel Pascal. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.272  “New Translation of the Bible,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 October 1941, p. 4. Re C.K. Ogden and Basic English with a review of The New Testament in Basic English. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.273  “A Great Pattern of Real Chivalry,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 October 1941, p. 4. Re Sir Philip Sidney. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.274  “The Bookshelf: Basic English and the Bible,” Saturday Night 57, no. 6 (18 October 1941): 19. Book review of The New Testament in Basic English. C41.275  “The Bookshelf: For Theatre Lovers,” Saturday Night 57, no. 6 (18 October 1941): 18. Book review of Dayton Stoddart, Lord Broadway and Alexander Dean, Fundamentals of Play Directing. C41.276  “The Bookshelf: Pint Pot and Puncheon,” Saturday Night 57, no. 6 (18 October 1941): 18. Book review of Edmund Wilson, The Wound and the Bow and Joseph Warren Beach, American Fiction 1920-1940.

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C41.277  “Some New Books,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 October 1941, p. 4. Book review of Maurice Hindus, Hitler Cannot Conquer Russia; James D. Hart, ed., The Oxford Companion to American Literature; Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts; and Vincent Sheean, Bird of the Wilderness. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. The Peterborough Examiner misprints the last author’s name as Sheehan. C41.278  “Common Sense about Children,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 October 1941, p. 4. Re Sigmund Freud, Charles Anderson Aldrich, and the raising of children. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.279  “The Fraudulent Nazi Flier,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 October 1941, p. 4. Davies wrote a threepart review (see C41.209-10 and C41.214) of Gottfried Leske, I Was a Nazi Flier. In this column he reveals that the book is fraudulent, the work of an American journalist. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.280  “At the Theatre: Sonny Boy Defies Time,” Saturday Night 57, no. 7 (25 October 1941): 26. C41.281  “The Bookshelf: The American Companion Is Here,” Saturday Night 57, no. 7 (25 October 1941): 18. Book review of James D. Hart, The Oxford Companion to American Literature. C41.282  “The Bookshelf: A Brilliant Study in Murder,” Saturday Night 57, no. 7 (25 October 1941): 19. Book review of Frederic Wertham, Dark Legend, a Study in Murder. C41.283  “The Bookshelf: Holding Up the Mirror,” Saturday Night 57, no. 7 (25 October 1941): 18. Book review of Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts. C41.284  “The Bookshelf: Maker of Canadian Education,” Saturday Night 57, no. 7 (25 October 1941): 18. Book review of Wilhelmina Gordon, Daniel M. Gordon, His Life. C41.285  “Genius Takes Over the Movies,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 October 1941, p. 4. Review of the movie Major Barbara, directed by Gabriel Pascal from the play by Bernard Shaw, with references to Orson Welles and Citizen Kane. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.286  “The Nazi Nights Entertainment,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 October 1941, p. 4. Book review of Ernest R. Pope, Munich Playground. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.287  “Nazis Have Sown the Wind,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 October 1941, p. 4. Re the effect of the Nazis on German society. Contains brief mention of Ernest R. Pope, Munich Playground. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C41.288  “The Bookshelf: Clifton Fadiman Chooses,” Saturday Night 57, no. 8 (1 November 1941): 18. Book review of Clifton Fadiman, Reading I’ve Liked. C41.289  “The Bookshelf: Nazis After Dark,” Saturday Night 57, no. 8 (1 November 1941): 19. Book review of Ernest R. Pope, Munich Playground. C41.290  “The Bookshelf: Nine for Nine Bright Shiners,” Saturday Night 57, no. 8 (1 November 1941): 18. Book review of Eleanor Dark, The Timeless Land; Mazo de la Roche, Wakefield’s Course; Leo Walmsley, Fishermen at War; Irving Fineman, Jacob; Elissa Landi, Women and Peter; Storm Jameson, The Fort; Gertrude Carrick, Consider the Daisies; Alan Clutton-Brock, Murder at Liberty Hall; and Henry Green, et al, Folio of New Writing. C41.291  “The Bookshelf: Recommended Reprints,” Saturday Night 57, no. 8 (1 November 1941): 19. Brief book review of André Malraux, Man’s Hope; Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England; John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath; and Patrick Slater, The Yellow Briar: A Story of the Irish on the Canadian Countryside. Saturday Night does not print the sub-title of Slater’s book. C41.292  “The Druids Come to Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 November 1941, p. 4. A Hallowe’en column. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.293  “The Symphony Season Begins,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 November 1941, p. 4. Review of Toronto Symphony Orchestra concert with soprano Jeanne Dusseau. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.294  “Two Important Canadian Books,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 November 1941, p. 4. Book review of Emily Carr, Klee Wyck and E.J. Pratt, Dunkirk. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.295  “The Bookshelf: E.J. Pratt’s New Poem,” Saturday Night 57, no. 9 (8 November 1941): 18. Book review of E.J. Pratt, Dunkirk. C41.296  “The Bookshelf: The Revelation of Emily Carr,” Saturday Night 57, no. 9 (8 November 1941): 18. Book review of Emily Carr, Klee Wyck. Reprinted in C88.3, p. 39. C41.297  “Something New in Entertainment,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 November 1941, p. 4. Re adapting plays to radio and Noel Coward, Cavalcade. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.298  “Something New in Education,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 November 1941, p. 4. Re the CBS radio program, School of the Air of the Americas, now available for use in Canadian schools. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.299  “Do We Need Universities?” Peterborough Examiner, 13 November 1941, p. 4. Re Robert Hutchins, President of the University of Chicago, who opposed the lecture system of teaching. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.300  “The Bookshelf: Good Sense about Music,” Saturday Night 57, no. 10 (15 November 1941): 20. Book review of Robert E. Simon, Jr., Be Your Own Music Critic. C41.301  “The Bookshelf: Two Poets and a Puzzler,” Saturday Night 57, no. 10 (15 November 1941): 20. Book review of Robinson Jeffers, Be Angry at the Sun; George Barker, Selected Poems; and Marianne Moore, What Are Years. C41.302  “The Bookshelf: Uproarious, Wise and Sceptical,” Saturday Night 57, no. 10 (15 November 1941): 21. Book review of H.L. Mencken, Newspaper Days. C41.303  “Englishman’s Humor, Like His Courage ... Is Given a Boost in a Long, Tough Siege,” Saturday Night 57, no. 10 (15 November 1941): 4-5. Ellipses appear in text. C41.304  “Hollywood Is Now Facing a New Peril,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 November 1941, p. 4. Review of the movie Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.305  “Fires and Modern Fire-Fighting,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 November 1941, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.306  “Canada in Need of Propaganda of Right Kind,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 November 1941, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.307  “The Bookshelf: Canadian Point of View,” Saturday Night 57, no. 11 (22 November 1941): 24. Book review of William Strange, Into the Blitz. C41.308  “The Bookshelf: Much Too Modest,” Saturday Night 57, no. 11 (22 November 1941): 24. Book review of Peggy Wood, How Young You Look. C41.309  “The Bookshelf: To Be Read for Pleasure,” Saturday Night 57, no. 11 (22 November 1941): 25. Book review of John Masefield, Conquer; Thomas Wolfe, The Hills Beyond; Ciro Alegria, Broad and Alien Is the World; Maurice B. Cramer, Phoenix in East Hadley; William McFee, Spenlove in Arcady; and Edna Ferber, Saratoga Trunk. C41.310  “The Bookshelf: The Trumpets Falter in Their Sound,” Saturday Night 57, no. 11 (22 November 1941): 24. Book review of Canadian Authors Associa-



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tion, Toronto Branch, ed., Voices of Victory: Representative Poetry of Canada in Wartime.

1941): 27. Book review of Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.

C41.311  “Choosing Books for Children,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 November 1941, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.323  “The Christmas Bookshelf: For the Christmas Stocking,” Saturday Night 57, no. 13 (6 December 1941): 27. Book recommendations.

C41.312  “Revolution in Espionage,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 November 1941, p. 4. Rudolph Hess is mentioned. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.324  “The Christmas Bookshelf: We Are Happy to Recommend ...,” Saturday Night 57, no. 13 (6 December 1941): 26. Book recommendations. Ellipses appear in text.

C41.313  “Latest Theory about Flight of Rudolph Hess,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 November 1941, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.314  “The Bookshelf: A Broader Concept of Masochism,” Saturday Night 57, no. 12 (29 November 1941): 24. Book review of Theodor Reik, Masochism in Modern Man.

C41.325  “It Would Cost More to Go There,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 December 1941, p. 4. Re oil paintings and auctions. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.326  “We Don’t Want It in Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 December 1941, p. 4. Re anti-Semitism. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.315  “The Bookshelf: Journalist As Artificer,” Saturday Night 57, no. 12 (29 November 1941): 25. Book review of Ben Hecht, 1001 Afternoons in New York.

C41.327  “The C.B.C. Wins Our Gratitude,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 December 1941, p. 4. Re Gilbert and Sullivan on the CBC. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.316  “The Bookshelf: Wit and Good Cheer,” Saturday Night 57, no. 12 (29 November 1941): 25. Book review of E.B. White and Katharine White, eds., A Subtreasury of American Humor; Cornelia Otis Skinner, Soap Behind the Ears; A.A. Milne, The Pocket Milne.

C41.328  “Books Make Admirable Christmas Gifts,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 December 1941, p. 4. Book review of [A.J.] Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom; St. John Ervine, Sophia; Eleanor Dark, The Timeless Land; and [Charles] Nordhoff and [James Norman] Hall, Botany Bay. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C41.317  “Some Recent Canadian Poetry,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 November 1941, p. 4. Book review of George Herbert Clarke, Commemoration Ode; Charles Bruce, Personal Note; Canadian Authors Association, Toronto Branch, ed., Voices of Victory [: Representative Poetry of Canada in Wartime]. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.318  “Adolph Hitler Is Germany’s Witch Doctor,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 December 1941, p. 4. Book review of Robert Vansittart, The Black Record (pamphlet) and Emil Ludwig, History of the German People. C41.319  “On the Making a Few Remarks,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 December 1941, p. 4. Re public speaking. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.320  “The Christmas Bookshelf: ‘... As the Fellow Says ...,’” Saturday Night 57, no. 13 (6 December 1941): 28. Book review of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. C41.321  “The Christmas Bookshelf: The Bible in Modern Dress,” Saturday Night 57, no. 13 (6 December 1941): 27. Book review of John Stirling, ed., The Bible for Today. C41.322  “The Christmas Bookshelf: The Choice of Life or Death,” Saturday Night 57, no. 13 (6 December

C41.329  “The Christmas Bookshelf: Christmas Books for the Young in Heart,” Saturday Night 57, no. 14 (13 December 1941): 32, 35. Signed Amyas Pilgarlic. C41.330  “The Christmas Bookshelf: Five Notable Novels,” Saturday Night 57, no. 14 (13 December 1941): 34. Book review of St. John Ervine, Sophia; Robert Greenwood, Mr. Bunting; Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, Botany Bay; Dorothy Hewlett, Shocking Bad Hat; John Erskine, Mrs. Doratt; and Louis Bromfield, Wild Is the River. C41.331  “The Christmas Bookshelf: Good Sense about Modern Art,” Saturday Night 57, no. 14 (13 December 1941): 33. Book review of Sheldon Cheney, The Story of Modern Art. C41.332  “The Christmas Bookshelf: New World of Words,” Saturday Night 57, no. 14 (13 December 1941): 33. Book review of S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Action. C41.333  “Concerning Food: Twelve Days of Christmas,” Saturday Night 57, no. 14 (13 December 1941): 46. Signed Margery Maunciple. C41.334  “Christmas Books Now Available,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 December 1941, p. 4. Book review

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of Ellery Queen, ed., 101 Years’ Entertainment; Ludwig Bemelmans, Hotel Splendide; E.B. White and Katharine White, eds., A Subtreasury of American Humor; and Clifton Fadiman, Reading I’ve Liked. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. The Peterborough Examiner misprints White’s name as Katherine. C41.335  “Not Hard to Die When One Has Never Lived,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 December 1941, p. 4. Re totalitarianism. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.336  “America Sheds Sense of Doom,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 December 1941, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.337  “At the Theatre: The Student Prince Again,” Saturday Night 57, no. 15 (20 December 1941): 24. C41.338  “The Bookshelf: Four Distinguished Novels,” Saturday Night 57, no. 15 (20 December 1941): 16. Book review of Lin Yutang, A Leaf in the Storm; George Stewart, Storm; Oliver St. John Gogarty, Mad Grandeur; and Louis Aragon, The Century Was Young (trans. Hannah Josephson). C41.339  “The High Cost of Carol Singing,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 December 1941, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.340  “The Bookshelf: Damned from His Own Mouth,” Saturday Night 57, no. 16 (27 December 1941): 16. Book review of Albert Carr, Napoleon Speaks. C41.341  “The Bookshelf: Literary Detective,” Saturday Night 57, no. 16 (27 December 1941): 16. Book review of G.H. Needler, The Lone Shieling. C41.342  “The Bookshelf: Recommended Anthologies and Collected Works,” Saturday Night 57, no. 16 (27 December 1941): 16. C41.343  “The Other Page: Christmas Pantomime,” Saturday Night 57, no. 16 (27 December 1941): 25. Playlet. C41.344  “The Heel of the Year,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 December 1941, p. 4. Re Christmas and New Year’s. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C41.345  “Opera Singers Sacrifice Words for Their Voices,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 December 1941, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.1  “Approaching Extinction,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 January 1942, p. 4. Re a speech by H.G. Wells about the extinction of mankind. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C42.2  “The Bookshelf: Dogs, Talking and Otherwise,” Saturday Night 57, no. 17 (3 January 1942): 20. Book review of Anne Elizabeth Blochin, That Dog of Yours. C42.3  “The Bookshelf: New Year’s Recollection,” Saturday Night 57, no. 17 (3 January 1942): 20. C42.4  “Walt Disney Does It Again,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 January 1942, p. 4. Re Dumbo. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.5  “Was Britain Really Asleep?” Peterborough Examiner, 8 January 1942, p. 4. Book review of Gustav Stolper, This Age of Fable. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.6  “The Bookshelf: Books about Britain,” Saturday Night 57, no. 18 (10 January 1942): 17. Book review of W.O. Stevens, Forever England; Anthony Armstrong, Village at War; John Sutherland Bonnel, Britons under Fire; Ellery Queen, ed., 101 Years’ Entertainment; Manning Long, Here’s Blood in Your Eye; James Ronald, She Got What She Asked For; and Helen Reilly, The Women in Black. C42.7  “The Bookshelf: Breaths from a Gallery Catalogue,” Saturday Night 57, no. 18 (10 January 1942): 16. Book review of J.W.L. Forster, Sight and Insight. C42.8  “Let Your Mind Alone,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 January 1942, p. 4. Re Andrew Salter and autohypnosis. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.9  “Dread Associate of War Is Plague,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 January 1942, p. 4. C42.10  “Universities at War,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 January 1942, p. 4. Book review of W.E.C. Harrison, The Universities Are Dangerous. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.11  “The Bookshelf: All’s Lost by Lust,” Saturday Night 57, no. 19 (17 January 1942): 16. Book review of Charles Morgan, The Empty Room. C42.12  “The Bookshelf: Elephants in Paradise,” Saturday Night 57, no. 19 (17 January 1942): 17. Book review of Osa Johnson, Four Years in Paradise. C42.13  “The Bookshelf: Magnificence in Heights and Depths,” Saturday Night 57, no. 19 (17 January 1942): 16. Book review of F.S. Smythe, Over Welsh Hills and Diana Forbes-Robertson, The Battle of Waterloo Road with pictures by Robert Capa. C42.14  “The Bookshelf: A Modern Petronius,” Saturday Night 57, no. 19 (17 January 1942): 16. Book review of Ludwig Bemelmans, Hotel Splendide. C42.15  “Death Silenced a Fine Voice,” Peterborough Ex-



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aminer, 17 January 1942, p. 4. Re Otis Skinner. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.16  “Just What Is a Rosicrucian?” Peterborough Examiner, 20 January 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.17  “Book-Snobs Are Found Most Trying,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 January 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C42.30  “Hollywood Busy Converting Dumas’ Works,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 February 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.31  “The Movie Men Finally Discover Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 February 1942, p. 4. Re the movie 49th Parallel. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.32  “At the Theatre: Victim of Circumstances,” Saturday Night 57, no. 22 (7 February 1942): 26.

C42.18  “The Bookshelf: Fact and Fiction Mingled,” Saturday Night 57, no. 20 (24 January 1942): 19. Book review of Arthur Meeker, The Ivory Mischief.

C42.33  “Ballad Operas of the C.B.C. to Be Real Treat,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 February 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C42.19  “The Bookshelf: Shame on You, Mr. Sitwell!” Saturday Night 57, no. 20 (24 January 1942): 19. Book review of Osbert Sitwell, Open the Door.

C42.34  “The Bookshelf: Fie, Morley,” Saturday Night 57, no. 22 (7 February 1942): 16. Book review of Christopher Morley, The Trojan Horse.

C42.20  “Musical Events: British Opera on the Radio,” Saturday Night 57, no. 20 (24 January 1942): 24.

C42.35  “The Bookshelf: Minor Masefield,” Saturday Night 57, no. 22 (7 February 1942): 16. Book review of John Masefield, Gautama the Enlightened.

C42.21  “The Bookshelf: Will This Do, Mr. Sinclair?” Saturday Night 57, no. 20 (24 January 1942): 18. Book review of Upton Sinclair, Dragon’s Teeth. C42.22  “Soviet Timurites Are Given Plenty of Scope,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 January 1942, p. 4. Re impact of the story Timur and His Company by Arkady Gaidar on Russian youth and the war effort in Russia. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.23  “The Archbishop of Canterbury Is Retiring,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 January 1942, p. 4. Re Cosmo Gordon Lang. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.24  “When Women Rule World,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 January 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.25  “The Ballet Refreshes Our Spirit in Wartime,” Saturday Night 57, no. 21 (31 January 1942): 22. C42.26  “The Bookshelf: About the Island Continent,” Saturday Night 57, no. 21 (31 January 1942): 17. Book review of C. Harley Grattan, Introducing Australia. C42.27  “The Bookshelf: Historical Novel,” Saturday Night 57, no. 21 (31 January 1942): 17. Book review of Alan Sullivan, Three Came to Ville Marie. C42.28  “The Bookshelf: New Reference Works,” Saturday Night 57, no. 21 (31 January 1942): 17. Book review of Chamber’s Technical Dictionary and Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. C42.29  “Calve Acclaimed Greatest of All Carmens,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 January 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “Emma Calvé” in A55.

C42.36  “The Bookshelf: Novel of China at War,” Saturday Night 57, no. 22 (7 February 1942): 16. Book review of Pearl S. Buck, Dragon Seed. C42.37  “Sugar Rationing Is Good for Canadians,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 February 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.38  “Sir Arnold B[a]x Is King’s Master of Musick,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 February 1942, p. 4. Re Sir Arnold Bax. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.39  “At the Theatre: Ballet As It Ought to Be,” Saturday Night 57, no. 23 (14 February 1942): 37. C42.40  “The Bookshelf: Changing Loyalties,” Saturday Night 57, no. 23 (14 February 1942): 29. Book review of Martin Gumpert, First Papers. C42.41  “The Bookshelf: Don Juan in Venice,” Saturday Night 57, no. 23 (14 February 1942): 28. Book review of Peter Quennell, Byron in Italy. C42.42  “The Bookshelf: Liebling with Tomahawk,” Saturday Night 57, no. 23 (14 February 1942): 28. Book review of A.J. Liebling, The Telephone Booth Indian. C42.43  “The Bookshelf: Up the Brownies!” Saturday Night 57, no. 23 (14 February 1942): 29. Book review of Larry June, The Photographer’s Rule Book. C42.44  “Propaganda for Our Side Good and Bad,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 February 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.45  “New Directions for the Ballet?” Peterborough

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Examiner, 17 February 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

Night 57, no. 25 (28 February 1942): 25. Book review of Lowell Thomas, Pageant of Life.

C42.46  “Does the War Affect Your Stomach?” Peterborough Examiner, 19 February 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C42.60  “The Bookshelf: Love of Poetry,” Saturday Night 57, no. 25 (28 February 1942): 25. Book review of Earl Daniels, The Art of Reading Poetry.

C42.47  “The Bookshelf: Democrat’s Anthology,” Saturday Night 57, no. 24 (21 February 1942): 27. Book review of Norman Cousins, ed., A Treasury of Democracy.

C42.61  “‘Mr. Churchill Is Not Far from Chatham’ ... An Historian Evaluates a Prime Minister,” Saturday Night 57, no. 25 (28 February 1942): 4-5. Book review of Philip Guedalla, Mr. Churchill.

C42.48  “The Bookshelf: Old Ale in a Fine New Bottle,” Saturday Night 57, no. 24 (21 February 1942): 26. Book review of Bradda Field, Bride of Glory.

C42.62  “The Bookshelf: Something about Ourselves,” Saturday Night 57, no. 25 (28 February 1942): 24. Book review of Bruce Hutchison, The Unknown Country. Reprinted as  “Canada Is Seen through Canadian Eyes,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 March 1942, p. 4.

C42.49  “The Bookshelf: Something Fishy,” Saturday Night 57, no. 24 (21 February 1942): 26. Book review of Theodore Pratt, Mr. Limpet. C42.50  “The Bookshelf: Supp’d Full with Horrors,” Saturday Night 57, no. 24 (21 February 1942): 27. Book review of Robert St. John, From the Land of the Silent People. C42.51  “The Bookshelf: Wise and Witty,” Saturday Night 57, no. 24 (21 February 1942): 26. Book review of Branch Cabell, The First Gentleman of America. C42.52  “Eye Witness Tells of Agony Greece Suffers,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 February 1942, p. 4. Book review of Robert St. John, From the Land of the Silent People. C42.53  “Theatre: Ballet Again,” Saturday Night 57, no. 24 (21 February 1942): 31. C42.54  “New Biography Published on Churchill,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 February 1942, p. 4. Book review of Philip Guedalla, Mr. Churchill. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.55  “Suggestion Made for Solving Post War Times,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 February 1942, p. 4. Book review of Lionel Gelber, Peace by Power. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.56  “The Bookshelf: Chinese Art,” Saturday Night 57, no. 25 (28 February 1942): 25. Book review of William Charles White, Chinese Frescoes. C42.57  “The Bookshelf: Good Sense about Peace and War,” Saturday Night 57, no. 25 (28 February 1942): 24. Book review of Lionel Gelber, Peace by Power. C42.58  “The Bookshelf: Grey Friar and Red Cardinal,” Saturday Night 57, no. 25 (28 February 1942): 24. Book review of Aldous Huxley, Grey Eminence. C42.59  “The Bookshelf: Human Interest,” Saturday

C42.63  “Sunshine Girls Bare Legs and Victory Loan,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 February 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.64  “Great European Takes Own Life in Foreign Land,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 March 1942, p. 4. Re Stefan Zweig. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.65  “What Do We Owe to Poland?” Peterborough Examiner, 5 March 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.66  “A Mighty Novel of Today and Yesterday,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 March 1942, p. 4. Book review of Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.67  “No Philosophy for the War,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 March 1942, p. 4. Book review of Harry Scherman, The Last Best Hope of Earth. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.68  “Mental Hygiene, Army Morale,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 March 1942, p. 4. Book review of G. Brock Chisholm, A Platoon Commander’s Responsibility for the Morale of His Men. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.69  “Prize Winning Movie of 1941,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 March 1942, p. 4. Re How Green Was My Valley. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.70  “An Author for St. Patrick’s Day,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 March 1942, p. 4. Re Charles Lever. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.71  “New Venture in Canadian Verse,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 March 1942, p. 4. Review of Contemporary Verse: A Canadian Quarterly, nos. 1-2. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “Contemporary Verse: 1942” in A58.



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C42.72  “C.B.C. Ballad Operas in Retrospect,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 March 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.73  “Curious Case of Mme. Arsenault,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 March 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.74  “A World of Wooden Men,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 March 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “Tony Sarg” in A55. C42.75  “Canada Is Seen Through Canadian Eyes,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 March 1942, p. 4. Book review of Bruce Hutchinson, The Unknown Country. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.76  “New Heroes of Britain, the Commandos,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 March 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.77  “The Fascination of Maps,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 April 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.78  “Drama for Easter as Told in Medieval Play,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 April 1942, p. 4. Review of Everyman. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.79  “Mighty Fortress of Malta,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 April 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.80  “Why Not Make Your Own?” Peterborough Examiner, 9 April 1942, p. 4. Book review of Charles Cooke, Playing the Piano for Pleasure. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.81  “Steinbeck’s Little People Again,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 11 April 1942, p. 4. Book review of John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.82  “Extraordinary Miss Thompson,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 April 1942, p. 4. Book review of J.W. Drawbell, Dorothy Thompson’s English Journey. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.83  “Great Britain’s Wartime Amusements,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 April 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.84  “Have You Seen Any of These,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 April 1942, p. 4. Book review of [Bennett A. Cerf and Van H. Cartmell, eds.], Sixteen Famous American Plays. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.85  “John MacCormac Sums It Up,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 April 1942, p. 4. Book review of John MacCormac, America and World Mastery. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C42.86  “English Plays and American Playgoers,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 April 1942, p. 4. Review of Emlyn Williams, The Corn Is Green, with brief mention of other plays. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.87  “A Master of Power Politics,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 April 1942, p. 4. Book review of Aldous Huxley, Grey Eminence. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.88  “The Guerilla in Modern Warfare,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 April 1942, p. 4. Book review of Yank Levy, Guerilla Warfare. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.89  “Love of Russia Becomes Respectable,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 April 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.90  “Another Book about Queen’s,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 May 1942, p. 4. Book review of Queen’s University Centenary Volume. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.91  “Man’s Passion for Murders and Mysteries,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 May 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.92  “Comfort for Bad Spellers,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 May 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.93  “The Disease and Death of City of Paris,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 May 1942, 1942. Book review of Elliott Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.94  “Mark Centenary of Birth of Sir Arthur Sullivan,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 May 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.95  “In Defence of Idlers and Idleness,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 May 1942, p. 4. Written after re-reading Arnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.96  “The Mind of H.L. Mencken,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 May 1942, p. 4. Book review of H.L. Mencken, A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.97  “Britain Honors Musical Masterpiece.” Peterborough Examiner, 19 May 1942, p. 4. Re Handel’s Messiah. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.98  “A Notable Canadian Achievement,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 May 1942, p. 4. Book review of Leslie Roberts, Canada’s War in the Air. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.99  “Death Is Called Great Leveller,” Peterborough

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Examiner, 23 May 1942, p. 4. Re Felix Weingartner and Joe Weber. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.100  “A Hollywood History of Moses,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 May 1942, p. 4. Book review of W.G. Hardy, All the Trumpets Sounded. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.101  “A Baedeker of Britain,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 May 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.102  “‘A Dam of Truth Against Lies and Rumors’ ... Why Britain Is Winning the War of Air Waves,” Saturday Night 57, no. 38 (30 May 1942): 4-5. Ellipses are in text. C42.103  “Franz Werfel Fulfils an Early Vow,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 May 1942, p. 4. Book review of Franz Werfel, The Song of Bernadette (trans. Ludwig Lewisohn). Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.104  “John Barrymore, Great Actor Dies,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 June 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.105  “Sir Wm. Mulock Recites Poetry,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 June 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.106  “New Anthology of Poetry by Canadians,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 June 1942, p. 4. Book review of Ralph Gustafson, comp., Anthology of Canadian Poetry. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “Anthology of Canadian Poetry: 1942” in A58. C42.107  “Four Novels of Light Entertainment,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 June 1942, p. 4. Book review of Louis Bromfield, Until the Day Break; Elliott Arnold, The Commandos; Mary Roberts Rinehart, Haunted Lady; and Margaret Duley, Novelty on Earth. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.108  “‘What’s in a Name?’ Cried Juliet,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 June 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.109  “American Looks at Life Today,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 June 1942, p. 4. Book review of Van Wyck Brooks, The Opinions of Oliver Allston. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.110  “Plan for Victory in the Air,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 June 1942, p. 4. Book review of Alexander P. de Seversky, Victory through Air Power. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.111  “Anniversary of Waterloo,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 June 1942, p. 4. Re Napoleon and Hitler. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C42.112  “The Baby Who Posed as Adolf Hitler,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 June 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.113  “Three Novels by Women,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 June 1942, p. 4. Book review of Rachel Field, And Now Tomorrow; Doris Leslie, House in the Dust; and Elizabeth Delehanty, Arise from Sleep. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.114  “Language and Slanguage,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 June 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.115  “Have You Ever Visited Islandia?” Peterborough Examiner, 27 June 1942, p. 4. Book review of Austin Tappan Wright, Islandia. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.116  “The Man Who Wrote O Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 June 1942, p. 4. Re Calixa Lavallée. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “The Man Who Wrote ‘O Canada’: 1942” in A58. C42.117  “The Use and Abuse of Books,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 July 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.118  “Further notes on Holiday Reading,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 July 1942, p. 4. Book review of Granville Hicks, Only One Storm; Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier, Drivin’ Woman; Quentin Reynolds, Convoy and Only the Stars Are Neutral; and Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (intro. Clifton A. Fadiman). Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.119  “Appraisal Made of the War,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 July 1942, p. 4. Book review of Louis Fischer, Dawn of Victory. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.120  “The Path of the Conqueror,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 July 1942, p. 4. Book review of René Kraus, Europe in Revolt. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.121  “Odyssey of Sigrid Undset,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 July 1942, p. 4. Book review of Sigrid Undset, Return to the Future (trans. Henriette C.K. Naeseth). Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.122  “A Great Day in French History,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 July 1942, p 4. Bastille Day column. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.123  “Thanking Your Lucky Stars,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 July 1942, p. 4. Re astrology. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.124  “A Little Known Author Passes,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 July 1942, p. 4. Re Ernest Bramah Smith, author of the Kai Lung books. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.



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C42.125  “Thoughts on Wartime Verse,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 July 1942, p. 4. Book review of G.L. Creed, For Freedom. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.126  “When Nero Fought the Dogs,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 July 1942, p. 4. Re animal combat for human amusement. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.127  “Two Unusual War Books,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 July 1942, p. 4. Book review of H.V. Morton, I, James Blunt; Edward Carrick, illustrator, and Gerry Bradley, commentator, Meet “... The Common People ...” Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Elipses in original. C42.128  “Two Tales of Adventure,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 July 1942, p. 4. Book review of Frederick Niven, Brothers in Arms and John Brophy, Immortal Sergeant. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.129  “Canadian Historical Plays,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 July 1942, p. 4. Book review of Hilda Mary Hooke, One Act Plays from Canadian History. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.130  “Bringing It Up to Date,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 August 1942, p. 4. Book review of 1942 Britannica Book of the Year, covering the events of 1941. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.131  “‘Sir—’ Said Doctor Johnson,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 August 1942, p. 4. Re forthcoming book by Hester Thrale, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.132  “The Late Father Galvin,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 August 1942, p. 4. Editorial. Attribution based on a grant interview with Davies. C42.133  “Symphony for Beleaguered City,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 August 1942, p. 4. Re Dmitri Shostakovich, 7th Symphony. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.134  “Choosing Your Ten Favorites,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 August 1942, p. 4. Re movies. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.135  “Tenth of August Musings,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 August 1942, p. 4. Re St. Lawrence River and the Saint and penmanship. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.136  “Be on the Safe Side,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 August 1942, p. 4. Book review of Vera Knight, A.R.P. for Canada. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.137  “Lord Elton — Modern Jeremiah,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 August 1942, p. 4. Book review of

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[Godfrey Elton, Baron] Elton, St. George or the Dragon. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.138  “Ferrero — Great European Liberal,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 August 1942, p. 4. Re Guglielmo Ferrero. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.139  “Advertising As It Used to Be,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 August 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.140  “Journalism — An Ancient Art,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 August 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.141  “Our Journals in the Nineties,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 September 1942, p. 4. Re Canadian journalism. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.142  “Japan’s Secret Weapon,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 September 1942, p. 4. Re opium. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.143  “Frivolity about Farming,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 September 1942, p. 4. Book review of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek and E.B. White, One Man’s Meat. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.144  “Rural Ontario 60 Years Ago,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 September 1942, p. 4. Book review of An Illustrated Historical Atlas of the Counties of Northumberland and Durham (1878). Part i of the review. C42.145  “More about Belden’s Atlas,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 September 1942, p. 4. Book review of An Illustrated Historical Atlas of the Counties of Northumberland and Durham (1878). Part ii of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.146  “Melodrama in the Old South,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 September 1942, p. 4. Book review of James Street, Tap Roots. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.147  “T.S. Eliot Looks at Kipling,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 September 1942, p. 4. Book review of A Choice of Kipling’s Verse (intro. T.S. Eliot). Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.148  “B.C. Looks toward Ottawa,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 September 1942, p. 4. Book review of Gwen Cash, 1,000,000 Miles from Ottawa; Robert Allison Hood, The Case of Kinnear; and Lyon Sharman, Town and Forest. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.149  “H.G. Wells Views Common Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 September 1942, p. 4. Book review of H.G. Wells, You Can’t Be Too Careful. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C42.150  “Michaelmas Day 1942,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 September 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.151  “Six Commands of the R.A.F.,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 October 1942, p. 4. Book review of R.A.F. Second Year. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.152  “The Other Bavarian,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 October 1942, p. 4. Book review of Ludwig Bemelmans, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.152a:  “The Vanishing Poplin,” Saturday Night 58, no. 4 (3 October 1942): 29. Short story. C42.153  “Why Not Call It Eugenics?” Peterborough Examiner, 3 October 1942, p. 4. Editorial about birth control. Attribution based on a grant interview with Davies. C42.154  “The Deathbed at Farringford,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 October 1942, p. 4. Re Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.155  “The Shortage of Ghost Stories,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 October 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “Ghost Stories” in A55. C42.156  “A Bundle of Mixed Classics,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 October 1942, p. 4. Book review of The Collected Short Stories of Dorothy Parker; The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway; and Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Milton. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.157  “Heroism, Hokum, and Prophecy,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 October 1942, p. 4. Review of the first issues of the magazines Canadian Heroes and Predictions of Things to Come. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.158  “What Women Do in the War,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 October 1942, p. 4. Book review of Charlotte Whitton, Canadian Women in the War Effort. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.159  “A Defense of Fat Men,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 October 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.160  “Those Humorous Americans,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 October 1942, p. 4. Book review of E.B. White and Katharine White, eds., A Subtreasury of American Humor. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. The Peterborough Examiner misprints her name as Katherine. C42.161  “Where Will Superman Lead?” Peterborough Examiner, 22 October 1942, p. 4. Re comic strips. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.162  “’Twas in Trafalgar’s Bay,” Peterborough Exam-

iner, 24 October 1942, p. 4. Re Lord Nelson. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.163  “Buttermilk Is Not the Secret,”Peterborough Examiner, 27 October 1942, p. 4. Re Wilbur Glenn Voliva and longevity. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.164  “Fadiman Makes a Choice,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 October 1942, p. 4. Book review of Clifton Fadiman, ed., Reading I’ve Liked. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.165  “The Night of the Witches,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 October 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.166  “The Phoenix City of London,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 November 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.167  “Gunpowder Treason and Plot,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 November 1942, p. 4. Re Guy Fawkes. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.168  “Reading for Autumn Nights,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 November 1942, p. 4. Book review of Armstrong Perry, No Brighter Glory; John Upton Terrell, Plume Rouge; G.D.H. Cole and Margaret Cole, Toper’s End; and Storm Jameson, Then We Shall Hear Singing. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.169  “Childhood on Victoria Island,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 November 1942, p. 4. Book review of Emily Carr, The Book of Small. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “The Book of Small: 1942” in A58. C42.170  “Wavell Chooses Six Generals,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 November 1942, p. 4. Re General Sir Archibald Wavell. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.171  “A Spanish View of World Peace,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 November 1942, p. 4. Re Salvador de Madariaga. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.172  “Psychic Research in Winnipeg,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 November 1942, p. 4. Book review of J.D. Hamilton, ed., Intention and Survival. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.173  “Authors As They See Themselves,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 November 1942, p. 4. Book review of Whit Burnett, ed., This Is My Best. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.174  “Canada’s River of Romance,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 November 1942, p. 4. Book review of Henry Beston, The St. Lawrence (ill. A.Y. Jackson). Signed Samuel Marchbanks.



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C42.175  “All Sorts of Warfare,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 November 1942, p. 4. Book review of [K. Banning], Submarine: The Story of Undersea Fighters. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. From this point until 28 April 1948, the Marchbanks column usually ran on Wednesdays and Saturdays. C42.176  “The Glory That Was Greece,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 November 1942, p. 4. Book review of T.R. Glover, The Challenge of the Greek. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.177  “Christmas Books for Children,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 December 1942, p. 4. Book review of The Three Little Pigs; Robert Southey, The Three Bears; Jean de Brunhoff, Babar and His Children and Babar and Zephir; and Inez Bertail, ed., A Child’s Book of Christmas Carols. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.178  “Destiny and Cecil Brown,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 December 1942, p. 4. Book review of Cecil Brown, Suez to Singapore. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.179  “A Miscellany of New Books,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 December 1942, p. 4. Book review of André Maurois, Disraeli; Donn Byrne, Messer Marco Polo; and Ion L. Idriess, three volumes (Shoot to Kill, Sniping, and Guerilla Tactics) from the Australian Guerilla series. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.180  “The Last of Virginia Woolf,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 December 1942, p. 4. Book review of Virginia Woof, The Death of the Moth. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.181  “Last Words about Christmas Novels,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 December 1942, p. 4. Brief book reviews of seven novels: J.B. Priestley, Black-out in Gretley; G.B. Stern, The Young Matriarch; Mazo de la Roche, The Two Saplings; Mignon G. Eberhart, Wolf in Man’s Clothing; Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Harvey Girls; and Maritta Wolff, Night Shifts. Franz Werfel, The Song of Bernadette, is recommended again (see C42.103). Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.182  “In Defence of British Humour,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 December 1942, p. 4. Book review of Morris Bishop, ed., A Treasury of British Humor. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.183  “Christmas in the Olden Time,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 December 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C42.184  “Remembering Dickens,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 December 1942, p. 4. Book review of Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C42.185  “The Skirts of Departing Year,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 December 1942, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.1  “New Year’s Feast of Fools,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 January 1943, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.2  “A Rosy Dream of the Future,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 January 1943, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.3  “The Decline of the Almanac,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 January 1943, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.4  “Rationing the Liberal Arts,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 January 1943, p. 4. Editorial. Attributed to Davies by John Londerville in an interview with grant. C43.5  “The Beveridge Report Reviewed,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 January 1943, p. 4. Book review of William Beveridge, [Social Insurance and Allied Services] informally known as The Beveridge Report. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.6  “More about Universities,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 January 1943, p. 4. Editorial arguing that only those with a burning thirst for education should be allowed to attend university. Attributed to Davies by John Londerville in an interview with grant. C43.7  “Frau Bella Speaks Her Mind,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 January 1943, p. 4. Book review of Bella Fromm, Blood and Banquets. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.8  “More about Psychic Research,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 January 1943, p. 4. A follow-up to C42.172 because of reader interest. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.9  “A Brutal Action,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 January 1943, p. 4. Editorial about a man kicking a St. Bernard dog to death. Attribution: grant’s interview with Peterborough resident Gwen Brown. C43.10  “Mixed Salad of Books,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 January 1943, p. 4. Book review of Joseph C. Grew, Report from Tokyo; Louis Bromfield, Mrs. Parkington; and Paul Tabori, Epitaph for Europe. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.11  “Headhunting — with a Brush,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 January 1943, p. 4. Book review of Caroline Mytinger, Headhunting in the Solomon Islands [around the Coral Sea]. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C43.12  “Upton Sinclair Does It Again,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 January 1943, p. 4. Book review of Upton Sinclair, Wide Is the Gate. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.13  “New Life of Bernard Shaw,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 February 1943, p. 4. Book review of Hesketh Pearson, G.B.S.: A Full Length Portrait. Part i of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.14  “More about Bernard Shaw,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 February 1943, p. 4. Book review of Hesketh Pearson, G.B.S.: A Full Length Portrait. Part ii of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.15  “The Fine Art of Enquiry,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 February 1943, p. 4. Book review of Eric Linklater, The Raft and Socrates Asks Why and Sir James Jeans, Physics and Philosophy. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.16  “Siberia — Cousin to Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 February 1943, p. 4. Book review of Emil Lengyel, Siberia. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.17  “The Classics in Capsules,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 February 1943, p. 3. Book review of Mary Louise Aswell, ed., The Dickens Digest. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.18  “Ancient Wisdom,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 February 1943, p. 4. Book review of Lin Yutang, The Wisdom of China and India. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Note: Column was not published for the following month because Davies had influenza. C43.19  “Men’s Sketch Club Exhibition Presents Work of High Standard,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 March 1943, p. 9. C43.20  “We All Hang Together,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 March 1943, p. 4. Book review of Norman Angell, Let the People Know. Part i of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.21  “We All Hang Together (Part 2),” Peterborough Examiner, 20 March 1943, p. 4. Book review of Norman Angell, Let the People Know. Part ii of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.22  “Two Quills Have Fallen,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 March 1943, p. 4. Re Stephen Vincent Benet and Laurence Binyon. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.23  “A Notable Musical Find,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 March 1943, p. 4. Re the discovery of a Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach MS in Toronto. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.24  “Our Intentions Are Honourable,” Peterbor-

ough Examiner, 31 March 1943, p. 4. Book review of Robert England, Discharged; Richard Tregaskis, Guadalcanal Diary; Virginia Thompson, Post-Mortem on Malaya; and Harold Denny, Behind Both Lines. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.25  “How Real Are You?” Peterborough Examiner, 3 April 1943, p. 4. Book review of Harry Emerson Fosdick, On Being a Real Person. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.26  “A Reporter at Dieppe,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 April 1943. Book review of Quentin Reynolds, Dress Rehearsal. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.27  “In Praise of England,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 April 1943, p. 4. Book review of Christian Mawson, comp., Portrait of England. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.28  “The House of the Future,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 April 1943, p. 4. Part i of the column. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.29  “The Future of Domesticity,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 April 1943, p. 4. Part ii of the column. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.30  “Behind the Speaker’s Chair,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 April 1943, p. 4. Book review of Austin F. Cross, The People’s Mouths. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.31  “Eating in Wartime,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 April 1943, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.32  “Geo. Washington in the News,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 April 1943, p. 4. Review of the 4 January 1800 issue of Ulster County Gazette, Kingston, N.Y. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.33  “Balladry and This War,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 May 1943, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.34  “The Racket of Philanthropy,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 May 1943, p. 4. Book review of Sinclair Lewis, Gideon Planish. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.35  “Death of a Russian Artist,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 May 1943, p. 4. Re Vladimir NemirovitchDantchenko and the Moscow Art Theatre. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.36  “The Flower of Cities All,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 May 1943, p. 4. Book review of [Sidney Dark], [London], (ill. Joseph Pennell), a volume of drawings of London. Davies’s review concerns only Pennell. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.37  “Vincent Sheean Sees It Through,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 May 1943, p. 4. Book review of



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26 June 1943, p. 4. Book review of Thomas Beecham, A Mingled Chime. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C43.38  “Wendell Willkie, Circumnavigator,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 May 1943, p. 4. Book review of Wendell Willkie, One World. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C43.50  “Journalism at the Risk of Life,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 June 1943, p. 4. Re the underground press in Occupied Europe. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C43.39  “Rediscovering a Victorian Giant,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 May 1943, p. 4. Book review of Edmund Blunden, Thomas Hardy. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C43.51  “A Tale of Two Marshals,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 July 1943, p. 4. Book review of Philip Guedalla, The Two Marshals. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C43.40  “Inside Europe Once Again,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 May 1943, p. 4. Book review of John T. Whitaker, We Cannot Escape History. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C43.52  “The First of Many Romances,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 July 1943, p. 4. Book review of Hervey Allen, The Forest and the Fort. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C43.41  “Great Tales from Denmark,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 May 1943, p. 4. Book review of Isak Dinesen, Winter’s Tales. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.42  “Champion of a Dying People,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 June 1943, p. 4. Book review of Daisy Bates, [The Passing of the Aborigines: A Lifetime Spent among the Natives of Australia]. Part i of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.43  “The Lady and the Cannibals,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 June 1943, p. 4. Book review of Daisy Bates, [The Passing of the Aborigines: A Lifetime Spent among the Natives of Australia]. Part ii of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.44  “Hitler’s Flying Angel,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 June 1943, p. 4. Re Rudolf Hess. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.45  “Blackened Faces Crowded Hours,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 June 1943, p. 4. Book review of Hilary St. George Saunders, Combined Operations. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.46  “Magic in Hitler’s Regime,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 June 1943, p. 4. Book review of Lion Feuchtwanger, Double, Double, Toil and Trouble. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.47  “The Tulipomania of Holland,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 June 1943, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.48  “Summer Salad of Books,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 June 1943, p. 4. Book review of James Hilton, The Story of Dr. Wassell; Robert Benchley, Benchley beside Himself; and LaMar Warrick, Yesterday’s Children. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.49  “A Musical Buccaneer,” Peterborough Examiner,

C43.53  “A History in Pictures,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 July 1943, p. 4. Book review of Harry Peters, comp., Currier and Ives, Printmakers to the American People. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.54  “The Consort of Honest Abe,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 July 1943, p. 4. Book review of Anne Colver, Mr. Lincoln’s Wife and Dale L. Morgan, The Humboldt, [Highroad of the West]. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.55  “What Happened Last Year?” Peterborough Examiner, 17 July 1943, p. 4. Book review of 1943 Britannica Book of the Year, covering the events of 1942. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.56  “The Consolation of Philosophy,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 July 1943, p. 4. Book review of Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, all in one volume. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “The Consolation of Philosophy / The Imitation of Christ / Religio Medici” in A55. C43.57  “A Word about Frankenstein,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 July 1943, p. 4. Book review of Mary Wollstonecraft, Frankenstein. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.58  “What Britain Is Doing,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 July 1943, p. 4. Book review of J.B. Priestley, Britain at War. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.59  “A New Book about Australia,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 July 1943, p. 4. Book review of Arnold L. Haskell, The Australians; Bartimeus [Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie], Malta Invicta; and Michael Sadleir, trans., Pétain-Laval, the Conspiracy. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.60  “The German and the Jew,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 August 1943, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.61  “A Problem in Translation,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 August 1943, p. 4. Book review of Vilhelm Mo-

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berg, Ride This Night (trans. Henry Alexander). Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C43.62  “An Arraignment of America,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 August 1943, p. 4. Book review of Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers. Part i of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C43.72  “A Comic Writer’s Anniversary,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 September 1943, p. 4. Book review of Richard Harris Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “Richard Harris Barham” in A55.

C43.63  “An Epistle to the Philistines,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 August 1943, p. 4. Book review of Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers. Part ii of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.64  “The Future of Taxation,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 August 1943, p. 4. Book review of William Beveridge, [Social Insurance and Allied Services] informally known as The Beveridge Report. Part i of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.65  “The Future of Taxation No. 2,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 August 1943, p. 4. Book review of William Beveridge, [Social Insurance and Allied Services] informally known as The Beveridge Report. Part ii of the review. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.66  “Some Books about the War,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 August 1943, p. 4. Book review of George Beurling and Leslie Roberts, Malta Spitfire, the Story of a Fighter Pilot; Wallace Reyburn, Glorious Chapter, the Canadians at Dieppe; Stanley Rogers, Enemy in Sight; Edgar McInnis, The War: Third Year; and H.V. Morton, Atlantic Meeting. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.67  “Further Books about the War,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 August 1943, p. 4. Book review of [Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th] Marquess of Londonderry, Wings of Destiny; Ted. W. Lawson, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo; Pat Robinson, The Fight for New Guinea; Hillis Lory, Japan’s Military Masters; and Pearl Buck, American Unity and Asia. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.68  “The Sickness of Our World,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 September 1943, p. 4. Book review of Franz Alexander, Our Age of Unreason. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.69  “What a Poet Thinks About,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 September 1943, p. 4. Book review of Edith Sitwell, A Poet’s Notebook. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.70  “Debunking John Milton,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 September 1943, p. 4. Book review of Robert Graves, Wife to Mr. Milton. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.71  “Testament of a Great European,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 September 1943, p. 4. Book review of

C43.73  “Recent Works of Bernard Shaw,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 October 1943, p. 4. Book review of Bernard Shaw, Geneva and In Good King Charles’s Golden Days. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.74  “A Brooklyn Childhood,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 October 1943, p. 4. Book review of Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.75  “Madness in Manhattan,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 October 1943, p. 4. Book review of Vincent McHugh, I Am Thinking of My Darling and Frederic Prokosch, The Conspirators. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.76  “Two Views of the People’s War,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 October 1943, p. 4. Book review of J.B. Priestley, Daylight on Saturday and Henry Green, Caught. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.77  “The Art of Seeing,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 October 1943, p. 4. Book review of Aldous Huxley, The Art of Seeing. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.78  “A Competition in Democracy,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 October 1943, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.79  “Marquand’s Lives of Desperation,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 October 1943, p. 4. Book review of John P. Marquand, So Little Time. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.80  “The C.B.C. Gives Us Oratorio,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 October 1943, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.81  “Have We Ghosts in Canada?” Peterborough Examiner, 30 October 1943, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.82  “The Rationed Reviewer,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 November 1943, p. 4. Book review of Earl Guy, Heaven Is a Sunswept Hill; Charles Mills, The Choice; The Viking Portable Steinbeck; Philip H. Godsell, Arctic Trader; and Selwyn James, South of the Congo. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.83  “A Gallery of Fighting Men,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 November 1943, p. 4. Book review of Grant



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of Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. Reprinted as “A Christmas Carol” in A55.

C43.84  “Three Faces of Fascism,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 November 1943, p. 4. Book review of Lewis Browne, See What I Mean?; Hans Habe, Kathrine (trans. Harry Hansen); and Isabel Russell Guernsey, Free Trip to Berlin. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C43.96  “Diary of a ’Flu Case,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 December 1943, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C43.85  “About Keeping a Diary,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 November 1943, p. 4. This is Samuel Marchbanks’s first diary column, which ran on Saturdays until 29 May 1949. This first diary column established the pattern of a paragraph for each day of the week, Sunday through Saturday. C43.86  “How Grey Was My Outlook,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 November 1943, p. 4. Book review of Richard Llewellyn, None but the Lonely Heart. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.87  “Diary of a Recluse,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 November 1943, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.88  “New Books for Canadians,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 November 1943, p. 4. Book review of Maida Parlow French, Boughs Bend Over; Harvey Chalmers and Ethel Brant Monture, West to the Setting Sun; and Mary Quayle Innis, Stand on a Rainbow. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.89  “Further Idle Reflections,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 November 1943, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.90  “Anthology of War Poetry,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 December 1943, p. 4. Book review of George Herbert Clarke, ed., The New Treasury of War Poetry. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.91  “A Journalist’s Journal,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 December 1943, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.92  “Review of Christmas Books,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 December 1943, p. 4. Brief book reviews of several books. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.93  “The Peterborough of the Past,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 December 1943, p. 4. Book review of Francis Hincks Dobbin, Our Old Home Town. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.94  “Further notes by an Idler,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 December 1943, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.95  “Centenary of A Christmas Carol,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 December 1943, p. 4. Book review

C43.97  “A Harp That Once,” Queen’s Quarterly 50 (Winter 1943-44): 374-81. Book review of John R. Ramsay, The Canadian Lyre. C43.98  “A Pre-Christmas Diary,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 December 1943, p. 4. A special Wednesday diary. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C43.99  “Post-Christmas Diary,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 December 1943, p. 4. A special Wednesday diary. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.1  “Anthologies and Collections,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 January 1944, p. 4. Book review of Horace Gregory, ed., The Triumph of Life; Sally Benson, Women and Children First; 3 vols. of the Modern Library edition of Shakespeare: [The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare, The Tragedies of Shakespeare, and The Comedies of Shakespeare.] C44.2  “Diary of a Year’s End,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 January 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.3  “A Genius Inaugurates a Ministry,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 January 1944, p. 4. Book review of David Farrer, The Sky’s the Limit. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.4  “Diary of a Newspaper Reader,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 January 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.5  “A Fellow of Infinite Jest,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 January 1944, p. 4. Book review of Maisie Ward, Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.6  “Diary of a Hypercritical Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 January 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.7  “A King of Infinite Space,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 January 1944, p. 4. Book review of Gene Fowler, [Good Night, Sweet Prince: The Life and Times of John Barrymore]. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.8  “Diary of a Misunderstood Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 January 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.9  “Books — Mainly about the War,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 February 1944, p. 4. Book review of Arvid Fredborg, Behind the Steel Wall; Sylvia Townsend Warner, A Garland of Straw; and brief mentions of several other books. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C44.10  “Diary of a Happy Gourmet,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 February 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.11  “Education — but for What?” Peterborough Examiner, 9 February 1944, p. 4. Book review of Mark Van Doren, Liberal Education. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.12  “Diary of Domestic Events,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 February 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.13  “Epic of the Australian Bush,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 February 1944, p. 4. Book review of Xavier Herbert, Capricornia. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.14  “Diary of a Book-Tester,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 February 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.15  “A Problem without a Solution,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 February 1944, p. 4. Book review of Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.16  “Diary of a Lost Soul,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 February 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

Colgate, Canadian Art: 1820-1940. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.25  “Diary of a Drain-Digger,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 March 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.26  “Outbreaks of the Comic Spirit,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 March 1944, p. 4. Book review of Ludwig Bemelmans, Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep and Angela Thirkell, Growing Up. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.27  “Diary of an Owl Fancier,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 April 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.28  “Bary Ensemble Concludes Concert Association Series,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 April 1944, pp. 10, 12. C44.29  “Spring Books of Verse,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 April 1944, p. 4. Book review of E.J. Pratt, Still Life and Other Poems; Wilson MacDonald, Greater Poems of the Bible; and Robert Burns, Songs of Liberty (ed. Patrick Dollan). Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.30  “Diary of an Optimist,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 April 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C44.17  “A Publisher’s Centenary,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 March 1944, p. 4. Book review of Charles Morgan, [The House of Macmillan (1843-1943)] and Norman Nicholson, Man and Literature. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C44.31  “Cookery — The Slighted Art,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 April 1944, p. 4. Book review of M.F.K. Fisher, The Gastronomical Me; Phineas Beck (pen-name for Samuel Chamberlain), Clementine in the Kitchen; Marian Tracy and Nino Tracy, Casserole Cookery. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C44.18  “Diary of a Former Cub,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 March 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C44.32  “Diary of Winter’s End,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 April 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C44.19  “Survey of Russian History,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 March 1944, p. 4. Book review of Bernard Humphrey Sumner, A Short History of Russia. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C44.33  “A Traveller in Italy,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 April 1944, p. 4. Re Charles Dickens. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C44.20  “Diary of a Busy Man,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 11 March 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.21  “Why Not a Canadian Drama?” Peterborough Examiner, 15 March 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “Why Not a Canadian Drama?: 1944” in A58. C44.22  “Men’s Sketch Club Exhibition Is on More Ambitious Scale,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 March 1944, p. 9. C44.23  “Diary of a Likeable Old Duffer,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 March 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.24  “The Story of Canadian Art,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 March 1944, p. 4. Book review of William

C44.34  “Diary of Earliest Spring,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 April 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.35  “A Reconsideration of Belief,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 April 1944, p. 4. Book review of J.D. Smart, What Can a Man Believe? Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.36  “Capacity Audience Attends Agnes Logan Green Recital,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 April 1944, p. 10. Signed R.D. C44.37  “False Memories and Soft Watches,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 April 1944, p. 4. Book review of Salvador Dali, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.38  “Diary of Minority Opinion,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 April 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.



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C44.39  “The Battle and the Breeze,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 May 1944, p. 4. Book review of Hilary St. George Saunders, Pioneers! O Pioneers!; Leslie Kark, The Fire Was Bright; and Geoffrey Willans, One Eye on the Clock. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.40  “Diary of a New Civil Servant,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 May 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.41  “Belles Lettres in Springtime,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 May 1944, p. 4. Book review of Stefan Zweig, The Royal Game; Douglas Goldring, South Lodge; and Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Where Love and Friendship Dwelt. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.42  “Diary of Spring Observations,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 May 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.43  “The Problem of Germany,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 May 1944, p. 4. Book review of Louis Nizer, What to Do with Germany and [Robert Gilbert Vansittart, Baron] Vansittart, Lessons of My Life. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.44  “Diary of a Valetudinarian,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 May 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.45  “Enjoyable Program Given by Concert Association,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 May 1944, p. 9. C44.46  “The Last Link with Irving,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 May 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “John Martin-Harvey” in A55. C44.47  “Diary of a Novice Bowler,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 May 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.48  “The Case of Dorothy Parker,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 May 1944, p. 4. Book review of The Viking Portable Dorothy Parker (intro. W. Somerset Maugham). Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.49  “Diary of a Literal Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 June 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.50  “A Frenchman Writes about Love,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 June 1944, p. 4. Book review of André Maurois, Seven Faces of Love. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.51  “Invasion through the Soldier’s Eyes,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 June 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.52  “Diary of a Tea-Drinker,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 June 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.53  “One Man’s Meat,” Peterborough Examiner, 14

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June 1944, p. 4. Re books about the theatre. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.54  “Diary of a Sun-Burned Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 June 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.55  “Good Words for the Clerisy,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 June 1944, p. 4. Book review of Ivor Brown, Just Another Word. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.56  “Diary of a Hot Week,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 June 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.57  “Lanny Budd Rides Again,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 June 1944, p. 4. Book review of Upton Sinclair, Presidential Agent. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.58  “Diary of an Epidemic Victim,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 July 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.59  “A Great Man Writes a Novel,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 July 1944, p. 4. Book review of Salvador de Madariaga, The Heart of Jade. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.60  “Diary of a Right-Handed Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 July 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.61  “How to Be a Bore,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 July 1944, p. 4. Book review of Marie Beynon Ray, How Never to Be Tired, or Two Lifetimes in One. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.62  “Diary of a House-Painter,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 July 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.63  “The Book Banned in Boston,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 July 1944, p. 4. Book review of Lillian Smith, Strange Fruit. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.64  “Diary of a Heat-Hoarder,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 July 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.65  “For Particular Tastes,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 July 1944, p. 4. Book review of Edith Sitwell, Planet and Glow-Worm, a Book for the Sleepless and Osbert Sitwell, Sing High! Sing Low! Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.66  “Diary of a Glue-Boiler,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 July 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.67  “What Happened Last Year?” Peterborough Examiner, 2 August 1944, p. 4. Book review of 1944 Britannica Book of the Year for 1943. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.68  “Diary of a Country Bumpkin,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 August 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C44.69  “Canada’s Chief of State,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 August 1944, p. 4. Book review of Emil Ludwig, Mackenzie King. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.70  “Diary of a Work Despiser,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 August 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.71  “Three Good Things,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 August 1944, p. 4. Book review of Virginia Woolf, Haunted House; Eric Linklater, The Great Ship and Rabelais Replies; and George Biddle, Artists at War. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.72  “A Sortie in the Word War,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 August 1944, p. 4. Editorial about H.L. Mencken’s prediction made in The American Language that American usages “will supplant those of England as correct English.” Attributed to Davies in Davies’s letter to Mencken, 19 August 1944. C44.73  “Diary of a Traveller,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 August 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.74  “Canada Needs One,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 August 1944, p. 4. Re the value of a first-rate political cartoonist. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.75  “Diary of a Lopsided Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 August 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.76  “What Is Funny, and When?” Peterborough Examiner, 13 September 1944, p. 4. Book review of Bob Hope, I Never Left Home, which mentions Choice Humorous Works of Theodore Hook. C44.77  “Diary of Autumn Days,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 September 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.78  “The Best Escape Literature,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 September 1944, p. 4. Review of the Girl’s Own Paper and the Family Journal. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.79  “Diary of a Scandal Lover,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 September 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.80  “A Night at the Opera,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 September 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.81  “Diary of a Fly-Swatter,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 September 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.82  “Current Fiction in Brief,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 October 1944, p. 4. Book review of Clyde Davis, The Rebellion of Leo McGuire; Marius Barbeau, Mountain Cloud; Victoria Lincoln, Grandmother and the Comet; Frances Gaither, The Red Cock Crows; and Cecilio J. Carneiro, The Bonfire. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C44.83  “Diary of a Fuel-Miser,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 October 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.84  “Laski’s New Religion,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 October 1944, p. 4. Book review of Harold J. Laski, Faith, Reason and Civilization. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.85  “Diary of a Noisy Cougher,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 October 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.86  “Poetry and History,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 October 1944, p. 4. Book review of C.M. Bowra, ed., A Book of Russian Verse; Winston S. Churchill, Onwards to Victory; T.F. Higham and C.M. Bowra, eds., From the Greek; Ernest Jäckh, The Rising Crescent; and Dick Diespecker, Between Two Furious Oceans. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.87  “Diary of a Suspected Spy,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 October 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.88  “The Critic in a Quandary,” Kingston WhigStandard, 25 October 1944, p. 4. Book review of Kathleen Winsor, Forever Amber. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.89  “Diary of a Fire-Fighter,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 October 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.90  “You Can Live to Be 100,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 November 1944, p. 4. Book review of Martin Gumpert, You Are Younger Than You Think. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.91  “Diary of a Pumpkin-Carver,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 November 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.92  “Expert Opinion on the Enigma,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 November 1944, p. 4. Book review of Bernard Pares, Russia and the Peace. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.93  “Diary of a Sleepy Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 November 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.94  “Books for Your Christmas List,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 November 1944, p. 4. Re the eight volumes currently in the Viking Portable Library series. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.95  “Diary of a Versatile Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 November 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.96  “Mixed Bag for Christmas Gifts,” Peterborough



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Examiner, 22 November 1944, p. 4. Book review of E.J. Pratt, Collected Poems; Julian Huxley, On Living in a Revolution; Barbara Woollcott, None but a Mule; Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom; and William Temple, The Church Looks Forward. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.97  “Diary of Christmas Preparation,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 November 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.98  “A Very Mixed Christmas Bag,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 November 1944, p. 4. Book review of Norma Jorgens, six little books of nursery rhymes; Tasha Tudor, Mother Goose; Mazo de la Roche, The Building of Jalna; Judith Cape, The Sun and the Moon; Nella Gardner White, Brook Willow; Thomas H. Raddall, Roger Sudden; Laurence Binyon, The Burning of the Leaves, and Other Poems; English Association, England (intro. Harold Nicholson). Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.99  “Diary of Unimportant Matters,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 December 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.100  “Huxley’s Latest and Best,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 December 1944, p. 4. Book review of Aldous Huxley, Time Must Have a Stop. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.101  “Diary of Early Winter,” Peterborough Exam-

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iner, 9 December 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.102  “Books for Your Friends,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 December 1944, p. 4. Book review of Joseph Wood Krutch, Samuel Johnson; [Beatrice Bakrow Kaufman and Joseph Hennessey, eds.], The Letters of Alexander Woollcott; Bernard Shaw, Everybody’s Political What’s What; and Aldous Huxley, Time Must Have a Stop. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.103  “Diary of an Honest Voter,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 December 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.104  “Dickens’ Rowdy Benediction,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 December 1944, p. 4. Book review of Charles Dickens, The Chimes. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.105  “Diary for Christmas Eve,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 December 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.106  “Reflections on Keeping a Diary,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 December 1944, p. 4. A special Wednesday diary. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C44.107  “Diary of Holiday Season,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 December 1944, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

1945-1949 Beginning in October of 1948, Davies no longer carried book reviewing in the Examiner alone. Now a new column “From the Critic’s Notebook” replaced the mid-week Marchbanks column, with Davies contributing only some of the reviews over his initials. See C48.69. C45.1  “How Literate Are Canadians?” Peterborough Examiner, 3 January 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.2  “Diary of the New Year,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 January 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.3  “A Forgotten Thunderer,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 January 1945, p. 4. Re Thomas Carlyle. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.4  “Diary of a Tidy Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 January 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.5  “An Aid to Bible Reading,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 January 1945, p. 4. Book review of Mary Ellen Chase, The Bible and the Common Reader. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.6  “Diary of a Child-Lover,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 January 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.7  “New Books Briefly Noted,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 January 1945, p. 4. Book review of Members of the Eighth Army, Poems from the Desert, (foreword, Bernard Montgomery); Charles d’Ydewalle, An Interlude in Spain; Frederick Philip Grove, The Master of the Mill; and W.G. Carr, Checkmate in the North. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.8  “Diary of a Moderate Dog-Lover,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 January 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.9  “Steinbeck the Sentimentalist,” Peterborough

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Examiner, 31 January 1945, p. 4. Book review of John Steinbeck, Cannery Row. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

iner, 14 March 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as  “Emily Carr: 1945” in A58.

C45.10  “Bartlett and Robertson Heard in Brilliant Two-Piano Recital,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 February 1945, p. 9.

C45.24  “Organ Recital by Dr. Charles Peaker Is Sponsored by Music Teachers,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 March 1945, p. 9.

C45.11  “Diary of a Dull Week,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 February 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.25  “Diary of a Coffee-Drinker,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 March 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.12  “For Children and Their Parents,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 February 1945, p. 4. Book review of E. Charushin, Baby Bears (trans. Marguerita Rudolph); Kathleen Hale, Orlando, the Marmalade Cat; Beatrice Curtis Brown and Helen Arbuthnot, The Story of England; and Eric Linklater, The Wind on the Moon. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.26  “Eternal Spring and the Circus,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 March 1945, p. 4. Book review of M[aurice] Willson Disher, Fairs, Circuses & Music Halls and Esmé Davis, Esmé of Paris. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “Fairs, Circuses & Music Halls / Esmé of Paris” in A55.

C45.13  “Diary of an Ill-Informed Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 February 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.14  “Languages and the Postwar World,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 February 1945, p. 4. Book review of Lancelot Hogben and Frederick Bodmer, The Loom of Language. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.15  “Diary of a Homeless Wanderer,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 February 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.16  “Newly Illustrated Classics,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 February 1945, p. 4. Book review of volumes in the Modern Library that contain illustrations. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.17  “Diary of a Suicidal Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 February 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.18  “The Land of the Strangers,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 February 1945, p. 4. Re Wales and the Welsh people. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.19  “Diary of a Weary Traveller,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 March 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.20  “The Great Conversationalist,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 March 1945, p. 4. Book review of Joseph Wood Krutch, Samuel Johnson. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.21  “Community Concert Association’s Final of Season Is Acclaimed,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 March 1945, p. 9. C45.22  “Diary of a Measly Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 March 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.23  “The Death of Klee Wyck,” Peterborough Exam-

C45.27  “Diary of Mr. Mumbledemum,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 March 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.28  “Music for Holy Week,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 March 1945, p. 4. Re Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Handel’s Messiah. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.29  “Diary of a Good Furnace-Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 March 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.30  “Review of Spring Fiction,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 April 1945, p. 4. Book review of Jim Phelan, Banshee Harvest; Margaret Irwin, Young Bess; Edita Morris, Three Who Loved; Granville Hicks, Behold Trouble; Eric Linklater, The Wind on the Moon; and Franz Werfel, The Song of Bernadette. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.31  “Diary of a Rusty Magician,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 April 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.32  “A Notable Canadian Novel,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 April 1945, p. 4. Book review of Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “Earth and High Heaven: 1945” in A58. C45.33  “Diary of an Amateur Doctor,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 April 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.34  “A Wise Child in Shanghai,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 April 1945, p. 4. Book review of John J. Espey, Minor Heresies. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.35  “Diary of an Humiliated Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 April 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.36  “Canadian Unity and German Dissolution,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 April 1945, p. 4. Book review



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of William L. Mackenzie King, Canada and the Fight for Freedom; Lorne Pierce, A Canadian People; Harland Manchester, New World of Machines; Dale Carnegie’s Biographical Roundup; and Vladimir Grossman, The PanGermanic Web. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.37  “Diary of Changeable Weather,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 April 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.38  “Painting Exhibition Is Given by Peterboro Group of Painters,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 April 1945, p. 9. C45.39  “Two Exotic Novels,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 May 1945, p. 4. Book review of Ludwig Bemelmans, Blue Danube and Alfredo d’Escragnolle Taunay, Inocencia (trans. Henriquita Chamberlain). Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.40  “Diary of a Graduate Gardener,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 May 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.41  “A Visit to Hamlet,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 May 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C45.50  “Diary of a Political Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 June 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.51  “Swinging Gilbert and Sullivan,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 June 1945, p. 4. Re experimentation with their operas after their copyright expired. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.52  “Diary of a Circus-Goer,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 June 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.53  “The Arts in Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 June 1945, p. 4. Book review of D.G.W. McRae, The Arts and Crafts of Canada. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.54  “Diary of a Movie-Goer,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 June 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.55  “Pope, Politician and Globe-Trotter,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 June 1945, p. 4. Book review of C.H. Doyle, The Life of Pope Pius xii; Gertrude Baskine, HitchHiking the Alaska Highway; André Maurois, Franklin, the Life of an Optimist; L.A. Anderson, Hunting, Fishing, and Camping; Oscar Micheaux, The Case of Mrs. Win­ gate. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.42  “Diary of V-E Week,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 May 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.56  “Diary of an Unknown Factor,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 June 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.43  “A Bundle of Ouida,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 May 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “Ouida’s Books” in A55.

C45.57  “What Happened in 1944?” Peterborough Examiner, 4 July 1945, p. 4. Book review of the 1945 Britannica Book of the Year, covering the events of 1944.

C45.44  “Diary of a Zoo Visitor,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 May 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.58  “Diary of Summer Inconsequence,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 July 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.45  “Minority Report on a Best-Seller,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 May 1945, p. 4. Book review of Rosamond Lehmann, The Ballad and the Source. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.46  “Diary of a Weather Stoic,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 May 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.47  “The New and the Proven,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 May 1945, p. 4. Book review of Louis Kronenberger, ed., Reader’s Companion; Lester Cohen, Coming Home; Elissa Landi, The Pear Tree; Alex Comfort, The Power House; and The Portable Carl Van Doren. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.59  “The Aristocrat Explains Himself,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 July 1945, p. 4. Book review of Osbert Sitwell, Left Hand, Right Hand. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “Osbert Sitwell” in A55. C45.60  “Diary of Camp Laffalot,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 July 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.61  “Brief Books for Summer,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 July 1945, p. 4. Book review of R.C. Hutchison, Interim; Ian Finlay, Scotland; Norman Corwin, On a Note of Triumph; C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.48  “Diary of a Decorator,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 June 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.62  “Diary of a Movie Appraiser,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 July 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.49  “What Children Used to Read,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 June 1945, p. 4. Book review of The Herald of Mercy, a bound volume of a weekly magazine, given as a Sunday School Prize. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.63  “Review of Summer Fiction,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 August 1945, p. 4. Book review of Robert Fontaine, The Happy Time; Dorothy James Roberts, A Durable Fire; E.L. Voynich, Put Off Thy Shoes; Robert

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Molloy, Pride’s Way; and Manning Coles, Green Hazard. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

name as Carl Van Doren. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “Walt Whitman” in A55.

C45.64  “Diary of an Overheated Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 August 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.76  “Diary of Autumn Days,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 September 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.65  “Chills for Hot Weather,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 August 1945, p. 4. Re horror stories. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.77  “A Return to Greatness,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 October 1945, p. 4. Book review of C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters and The Abolition of Man. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.66  “Diary of a Cat Fancier,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 August 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.78  “Diary of a Sick Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 October 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.67  “The Disease of Diarizing,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 August 1945, p. 4. Book review of James Agate, Ego and Bruce Frederick Cummings, whose penname was W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C45.79  “Old Tradition of Family Choir Carried on by Trapp Family,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 October 1945, p. 9.

C45.68  “Diary of a Misunderstood Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 August 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.69  “The Profane Virtues,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 September 1945, p. 4. Book review of Peter Quennell, The Profane Virtues. The Peterborough Examiner misprints his name as Quennel. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.70  “Diary of a Criminal Type,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 September 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.71  “The Old, Old Story Once Again,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 September 1945, p. 4. Book review of Rosamond Marshall, Kitty and Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders and Roxana. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.72  “Diary of a Quick Pickler,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 September 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.73  “Distinguished Autumn Books,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 September 1945, p. 4. Book review of John Masefield, New Chum; Gerald Kersh, Sergeant Nelson of the Guards; James Hilton, So Well Remembered; Robert Henriques, Home Fires Burning; and Herbert Gorman, The Wine of San Lorenzo. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.74  “Diary of a Birthday Guest,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 September 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.75  “Extraordinary Wit and Wisdom,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 September 1945, p. 4. Book review of Mark Van Doren, ed., The Portable Walt Whitman. The Peterborough Examiner mistakenly gives the editor’s

C45.80  “Diary of a Scrambled Ego,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 October 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.81  “Books for October Days,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 October 1945, p. 4. Book review of Josephine Pinckney, Three O’Clock Dinner; Josiah E. Greene, Not in Our Stars; Marquis James, The Cherokee Strip; and John Davies, Lower Deck. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.82  “Diary of a Furnace Serf,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 October 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.83  “Most Foul Strange and Unnatural,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 October 1945, p. 4. Book review of Joseph Henry Jackson, ed., The Portable Murder Book and [Donald A. Wollheim, ed.], The Portable Novels of Science. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.84  “Diary of a Middler,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 October 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.85  “Familiar Spirits and Wizards That Peep,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 October 1945, p. 4. Book review of Christina Hole, Witchcraft in England. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.86  “Diary of Domestic Dudgeon,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 November 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.87  “Romantic Agony in Two Styles,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 November 1945, p. 4. Book review of Philip Van Doren Stern, ed., The Portable Edgar Allan Poe and [Dorothy Parker, ed.], The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.88  “Diary of November Nonsense,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 November 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.89  “Watercolors Reveal Beauty of Peterboro Dis-



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trict,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 November 1945, p. 9. C45.90  “Kipnis Performance Thrill of Community Season,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 November 1945, p. 9. C45.91  “Five Books about Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 November 1945, p. 4. Book review of Kennethe M. Haig, Brave Harvest; Viscountess Byng of Vimy, Up the Stream of Time; Lawrence J. Burpee, The Discovery of Canada; B.G. Sack, History of the Jews in Canada; and Emily Carr, Her Paintings and Sketches (National Gallery of Canada and Art Gallery of Toronto catalogue). Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.92  “Cathedral Choir Delights Capacity Crowd,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 November 1945, p. 9. C45.93  “Diary of a Wood-Piler,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 November 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.94  “Balm for Bruised Minds,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 November 1945, p. 4. Book review of Charles Morgan, Reflections in a Mirror and Palinurus [Cyril Connolly], The Unquiet Grave. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.95  “Jean Letourneau’s Operatic Arias Pleasing in Music Teachers’ Association Concert,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 November 1945, p. 9. C45.96  “Diary of an Afternoon Napper,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 November 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.97  “Everything That’s Excellent,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 November 1945, p. 4. Book review of Reginald L. Hine, Confessions of an Un-Common Attorney. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.98  “The Diary of a Stone-Skipper,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 December 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.99  “Novels for Christmas,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 December 1945, p. 4. Book review of M.B.S. StrodeJackson, Tansy Taniard; Upton Sinclair, Dragon Harvest; Tom Hanlin, Once in Every Lifetime; Donald Cowie, Tubers and Taradiddle; Halcott Glover, Both Sides of the Blanket; Nellie L. McClung, The Stream Runs Fast; and Kathleen Strange, With the West in Her Eyes. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.100  “Diary of a Lucky Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 December 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.101  “The Laughing Animal,” Peterborough Examin-

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er, 12 December 1945, p. 4. Book review of Roy Chapman Andrews, Meet Your Ancestors; Norman Cousins, Modern Man Is Obsolete; and H.G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.102  “Diary of a Christmas Shopper,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 December 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.103  “With Thackeray at Christmas,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 December 1945, p. 4. Book review of W.M. Thackeray, The Rose and the Ring. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.104  “Diary of Christmas Preparation,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 December 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.105  “Who Is Santa Claus?” Peterborough Examiner, 26 December 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C45.106  “Diary of Christmas Week,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 December 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.1  “The House That Mencken Built,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 January 1946, p. 4. Book review of H.L. Mencken, The American Language: an Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States, Supplement i. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.2  “Diary of Year’s End,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 January 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.3  “Diary of Old Christmas,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 January 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.4  “Anthology for Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 January 1946, p. 4. Book review of Ira Dilworth, ed., Twentieth Century Verse. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.5  “Diary of Winter Flood,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 January 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.6  “Books about the Orient,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 January 1946, p. 4. Book review of Thomas H. Clare, Lookin’ Eastward; John B. Powell, My Twenty-Five Years in China; Edna Booker, Flight from China; Robert O. Ballou, Shinto, the Unconquered Enemy; and Geo. C. Pidgeon, The Vicarious Life. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.7  “Diary of a Cheese-Haunted Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 January 1945, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.8  “Entertainment of a Nation,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 January 1946, p. 4. Re a National Theatre for England. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C46.9  “Diary of an Early Riser,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 February 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C46.25  “Adaskin Playing and Lecture Delight Crowd,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 April 1946, p. 11.

C46.10  “Harmonica Recital Delights Concert-Goers, Sebastian Shows Sure Touch of Virtuosoship,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 February 1946, p. 9.

C46.26  “Diary of a Barrow Owner,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 April 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C46.11  “Not for Conservative Readers,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 February 1946, p. 4. Book review of Robert Graves, Hercules, My Shipmate and Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.12  “Diary of a Coffee-Lover,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 February 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.13  “How Stupid Is Canada?” Peterborough Examiner, 13 February 1946, p. 4. Book review of John Bartlet Brebner, Scholarship for Canada. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.14  “Diary of a Toad-Charmer,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 February 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.15  “Comfortable Books for Comfortable People,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 February 1946, p. 4. Book review of Anna Buchan (who used the pen name of O. Douglas), Unforgettable, Unforgotten and A.L Rowse, West-Country Stories. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.16  “Diary of a Coffee-Chewer,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 February 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.17  “Movies of the Past,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 February 1946, p. 4. Book review of Deems Taylor, A Pictorial History of the Movies. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.18  “Diary of a Foreign Agent,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 March 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.19  “‘Carmen Jones’ an Operatic Experiment,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 March 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.20  “Diary of This and That,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 March 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.21  “Spirit of Paganini Discernible in Playing of William Penrose,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 March 1946, p. 2.

C46.27  “Diary of Easter Week,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 April 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.28  “Diary of a Taxpayer,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 April 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.29  “Logan Pearsall Smith 1866-1946,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 May 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.30  “Diary of an Embittered Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 May 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.31  “Books Inspired by the War,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 May 1946, p. 4. Book review of Grant Macdonald, Sailors; Harry Butcher, My Three Years with Eisenhower; Leslie Kirk, Red Rain; and George Greenfield, Desert Episode. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.32  “Diary of a Cat-Owner,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 May 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.33  “Reviews of Spring Fiction,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 May 1946, p. 4. Book review of Franz Werfel, Star of the Unborn; Jean Giono, Blue Boy; Clyde Brion Davis, The Stars Incline; and Rhys Davies, The Black Venus. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.34  “Diary of an Ailurophile,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 May 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.35  “Words, Words, Words,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 May 1946, p. 4. Book review of Ivor Brown, I Give You My Word. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.36  “Diary of a Reassured Loafer,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 May 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.37  “Reconsidering Oscar Wilde,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 May 1946, p. 4. Book review of Richard Aldington, ed., The Portable Oscar Wilde. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.38  “Diary of a Pyrotechnician,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 June 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C46.23  “Diary of Spring Joys,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 March 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C46.39  “A Reader’s Miscellany,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 June 1946, p. 4. Book review of Gene Fowler, A Solo in Tom-Toms; James Agate, Ego 7; Harold Nicolson, Friday Mornings 1941-1944; Donald Joseph, Straw in the South Wind; Dexter Masters and Katharine Way, eds., One World or None.

C46.24  “Diary of a Traveller,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 April 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C46.40  “Diary of a Non-Striker,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 June 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C46.22  “Diary of Indisposition,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 March 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.



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C46.41  “Finding of Magic in Atomic Age,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 June 1946, p. 4. Book review of Robert Tallant, Voodoo in New Orleans. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.42  “Diary of Foreign Travel,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 June 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.43  “The Old Vic’s New York Season,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 July 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.44  “Diary of Summer Complaints,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 July 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.45  “A Miscellany of Summer Reading,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 July 1946, p. 4. Book review of Jo Sinclair, Wasteland; G.M. Trevelyan, History and the Reader; Christopher Isherwood, Prater Violet; Richard Livingston, Plato and Modern Education; and Reginald Reynolds, Cleanliness and Godliness. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.46  “Diary of Midsummer,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 July 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.47  “The Irish Literary Genius,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 July 1946, p. 4. Book review of Diarmuid Russell, ed., The Portable Irish Reader. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.48  “Diary of a Garden Failure,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 July 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.49  “Bernard Shaw at Ninety,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 July 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.50  “Diary of a Heathen,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 July 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.51  “What about Opera in English?” Peterborough Examiner, 31 July 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.52  “Diary of a Moose Hunter,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 August 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.53  “‘Peter Grimes’ — An English Opera,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 August 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.54  “Diary of Dark Despair,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 August 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.55  “Late Summer Reading,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 August 1946, p. 4. Book review of Joyce Marshall, Presently Tomorrow; Gilbert W. Gabriel, Love from London; Helen MacInnes, Horizon; Storm Jameson, The Other Side. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C46.56  “Diary of Hay Fever,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 August 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.57  “The Death of a Revolutionary,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 August 1946, p. 4. Re H.G. Wells. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.58  “Diary of a Corn Eater,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 August 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.59  “Diary of Summer Travel,” 31 August 1946, Peterborough Examiner, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.60  “Reviewer’s Holiday,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 September 1946, p. 4. Book review of Charles Morgan, Reflections in a Mirror: Second Series; Gabriel Chevalier, Clochemerle (trans. Jocelyn Godefroi); Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy; W. Macqueen Pope, Theatre Royal Drury Lane; and G.P. Gooch, Courts and Cabinets. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.61  “Diary of Shortages,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 September 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.62  “Love among the Soap Salesman,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 September 1946, p. 4. Book review of Frederic Wakeman, The Hucksters. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.63  “Diary of Autumn Thoughts,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 September 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.64  “Connolly — A Low Swung Basset,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 September 1946, p. 4. Book review of Cyril Connolly, The Condemned Playground; further comments on the previously reviewed The Unquiet Grave (see C45.94). Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.65  “Diary of a Broken Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 September 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.66  “At Last — a Truly Great Movie,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 September 1946, p. 4. Re Henry V. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.67  “Diary of Unpiled Wood,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 September 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.68  “The Moralism of George Orwell,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 October 1946, p. 4. Book review of George Orwell, Critical Essays and Animal Farm. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.69  “Diary of a Vindictive Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 October 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C46.70  “Writers of the Counter-Revolution,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 October 1946, p. 4. Book review of C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength; Humphrey Pakington, Aston Kings; Ludwig Bemelmans, Hotel Bemelmans; Norman Douglas, An Almanac. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.71  “Diary of an Inventor,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 October 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.72  “Jean Watson’s Voice Entrances Audience, Magnificent Tone and Effortless Power Her Forte in Concert Program,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 October 1946, p. 11. C46.73  “Two Compressed Americans,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 October 1946, p. 4. Book review of Malcolm Cowley, ed., The Portable Faulkner and Maxwell Geismar, ed., The Portable Thomas Wolfe. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.74  “Diary of a Shallow Breather,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 October 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.75  “Pocket Pantagruelists,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 October 1946, p. 4. Book review of Bernard De Voto, ed., The Portable Mark Twain and Samuel Putnam, ed. and trans., The Portable Rabelais. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.76  “Diary of a Dehydrated Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 October 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.77  “An Artist’s Autobiography,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 October 1946, p. 4. Book review of Osbert Sitwell, The Scarlet Tree. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.78  “Diary of Oil Heat,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 November 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.79  “Lives Heroic and Unheroic,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 November 1946, p. 4. Book review of Frederick Philip Grove, In Search of Myself; James Agate, A Shorter Ego; and Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, The Merry Wives of Westminster. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Excerpted as “In Search of Myself: 1946” in A58. C46.80  “Diary of Autumn Reflections,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 November 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.81  “Christ as Heir of Herod,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 November 1946, p. 4. Book review of Robert Graves, King Jesus. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “King Jesus” in A55.

C46.82  “Diary of Strange Mail,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 November 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.83  “The Critic on the Hearth,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 November 1946, p. 4. Book review of George Jean Nathan, Theatre Book of the Year 1945-46. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.84  “Diary of a Tenderhorn,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 November 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.85  “Democracy,” New York Times, 24 November 1946, sec. 6 (“Magazine”), pp. 27-8. Letter to the editor in response to Helen Bryant, “Changing — Yet Unchanged — England,” New York Times, 3 November 1946, sec. 6 (“Magazine”), pp. 10, 67 on persistence of class distinctions. C46.86  “Books of Canadian Authorship,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 November 1946, p. 4. Book review of Emily Carr, Growing Pains; Grace Tomkinson, Welcome Wilderness; Mazo de la Roche, Return to Jalna; and Bing Coughlin, Herbie. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.87  “Diary of a Premature Christmas,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 November 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.88  “Highlights of Recent Fiction,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 December 1946, p. 4. Book review of Arthur Koestler, Thieves in the Night; John P. Marquand, B.F.’s Daughter; A.A. Milne, Chloe Marr; Ann Bridge, Singing Waters; and J.B. Morton, The Gascon. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.89  “Diary of a Dipper,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 December 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.90  “The Two Peterboroughs,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 December 1946, p. 4. Editorial about two kinds of response to the fire that razed the DVA hospital – generous helpfulness by many, looting by a few. Attribution based on a grant interview with Davies. C46.91  “Paintings, Poetry and Passion,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 December 1946, p. 4. Book review of Arnold Palmer, ed., Recording Britain; Robert Finch, Poems; Doris Ferne, Paschal Lamb; Frederick B. Watt, Landfall; Reba Hudson, Brief for Beauty; Mona Gould, I Run with the Fox. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.92  “Diary of a Crown-Maker,” Kingston WhigStandard, 14 December 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.93  “A Reviewer’s Christmas List,” Peterborough Ex-



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aminer, 18 December 1946, p. 4. A list of books (with brief comments) that Marchbanks plans to give as Christmas gifts. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.94  “Diary of Depressing Dreams,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 December 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.95  “The Incomparable Max,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 December 1946, p. 4. Book review of Max Beerbohm, Mainly on the Air. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C46.96  “Diary of Christmastide,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 28 December 1946, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.1  “Diary of the Festive Season,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 January 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.2  “Something New for Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 January 1947, p. 4. Re actor Donald Wolfit’s visit to Canada to perform in Ben Jonson’s play, Volpone. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.3  “Diary of a Mandarin,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 January 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.4  “Not for the Credulous,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 January 1947, p. 4. Book review of Bergen Evans, The Natural History of Nonsense and [H.N. Collins], Your Literary I.Q. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.5  “Diary of a Fowl Disemboweller,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 January 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.6  “Review of Winter Fiction,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 January 1947, p. 4. Book review of Kenneth Roberts, Lydia Bailey; Odell Shepard and Willard Shepard, Holdfast Gaines; Phyllis Bentley, The Rise of Henry Morcar; Jerome Weidman, Too Early to Tell; Frank G. Slaughter, In a Dark Garden; and Edmund Fuller, A Star Pointed North. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.7  “Diary of a Frivolous Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 January 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.8  “Volumes of Inspiration and Vision,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 January 1947, p. 4. Book review of Alfred Kazin, ed., The Portable Blake; Mark Van Doren, ed., The Portable Emerson; and [Hiram Collins Haydn, ed.], The Portable Elizabethan Reader. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.9  “Diary of a Lowbrow,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 February 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.10  “Portraits and Politicians,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 February 1947, p. 4. Book review of Yousuf

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C47.37  “Diary of an Observer,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 April 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.23  “Diary of the Big Snow,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 March 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.38  “Sir Henry Acted with Refinement; Wolfit Best in Curtain Calls,” Saturday Night 63, no. 34 (26 April 1947): p. 4. Letter to the editor re Donald Wolfit. Reprinted in A93.

C47.24  “The Proof of the Pudding,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 March 1947, p. 4. Book review of Leone Rutledge Carroll, Pressure Cookery. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.25  “Diary of a Bad Citizen,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 March 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.26  “Some Books by Doctors,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 March 1947, p. 4. Book review of Douglas M. Kelley, 22 Cells in Nuremberg; Seale Harris, Banting’s Miracle; George Lawton, Aging Successfully; and David A. Stewart, Know Yourself. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.27  “Todd Duncan Electrifies Concert-Goers,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 March 1947, p. 17. C47.28  “Diary of a Playgoer,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 March 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.29  “Three More Portables,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 April 1947, p. 4. Book review of Lewis Galantière, ed., The Portable Maupassant; Diana Trilling, ed., The Portable D.H. Lawrence; and Harry Levin, ed., The Portable James Joyce. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.30  “Diary of a Prudent Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 April 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.31  “A Novel of Good and Evil,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 April 1947, p. 4. Book review of Pierre Andrezel, The Angelic Avengers; Howard Hunt, Stranger in Town; William Hazlett Upson, How to Be Rich, Like Me; and Alva Johnston, The Case of Erle Stanley Gardner. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.32  “Diary of a Non-Puritan,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 April 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.33  “Something to Laugh At,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 April 1947, p. 4. Book review of James R. Aswell, ed., Native American Humor. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.34  “Diary of a Hospital Visitor,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 April 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.35  “U.S. Orchestra Delights Concert Crowd,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 April 1947, p. 9. C47.36  “A Victorian Diarist,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 April 1947, p. 4. Book review of William Plomer, ed., Kilvert’s Diary 1870-1879. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.39  “Five Spring Novels,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 April 1947, p. 4. Book review of Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute [trans. Hannah Josephson]; Samuel Hopkins Adams, Banner by the Wayside; Margaret Currier Boylen, Crow Field; Margaret Millar, Experiment in Springtime; and Georges Duhamel, Suzanne & Joseph Pasquier (trans. Béatrice de Holthoir). Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Excerpted as “The Tin Flute: 1947” in A58. C47.40  “Diary of Mild Misery,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 May 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.41  “Two Skeptics and a Philosopher,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 May 1947, p. 4. Book review of Irwin Edman, Philosopher’s Quest; H.L. Mencken, Treatise on the Gods; and Doris Langley Moore, The Vulgar Heart. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.42  “Diary of an Ironist,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 May 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.43  “Latest Report from Barsetshire,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 May 1947, p. 4. Book review of Angela Thirkell, Peace Breaks Out; John Fischer, Why They Behave Like Russians; Richard Mason, The Wind Cannot Read; and Louis Francis Budenz, This Is My Story. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.44  “Diary of a Drama Festival,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 May 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.45  “Reviewer’s Gallimaufry,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 May 1947, p. 4. Brief reviews of several books. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.46  “Diary of a Committeeman,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 May 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.47  “Funny Book and Funny Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 May 1947, p. 4. Book review of Robert Lewis Taylor, Adrift in a Boneyard; Fred C. Kelley, George Ade: Warm-Hearted Satirist; and Jaroslav Hašek, The Good Soldier Schweik. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.48  “Diary of Fireworks,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 May 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.49  “The Great Detective,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 June 1947, p. 4. Book review of Ngaio Marsh, Died in the Wool and Final Curtain. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.



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C47.50  “Diary of a Chunnerer,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 June 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

two months I have taken a holiday from reviewing books.” Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.51  “Vision of Heaven and Hell,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 June 1947, p. 4. Book review of Paolo Milano, ed., The Portable Dante (trans. Laurence Binyon for The Divine Comedy). Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.67  “Diary of Hay Fever,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 September 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.52  “Diary of a Shut-in,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 June 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.53  “Summer Reading,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 June 1947, p. 4. Book review of Alan Moorehead, Montgomery; Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, comp. [Anthony Swift], The Works of Smith Minor; Joseph Kessell, Sirocco (trans. Katherine Woods); Ida Bailey Allen, Pressure Cooking; and J.D. Ratcliff, ed., Science Year Book of 1947. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.68  “Weekly Book Review: Romance and the Renaissance,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 September 1947, p. 4. Book review of Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes and Thomas B. Costain, The Moneyman. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.69  “Diary of a Pollster,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 September 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.54  “Diary of a Great Thinker,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 June 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.70  “Diversions and Escapes,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 September 1947, p. 4. Book review of Sacheverell Sitwell, The Hunters and the Hunted; John Betjeman, Slick but Not Streamlined; S.J. Perelman, Acres and Pains; and Mannix Walker, The Lonely Carrot. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.55  “The Great Egoist,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 June 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “James Agate” in A55.

C47.71  “Diary of Drug Addiction,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 September 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.56  “Diary of a Disloyal Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 June 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.72  “Weekly Book Review: Good and Not Too Good,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 September 1947, p. 4. Book review of Ludwig Bemelmans, Dirty Eddie; H.R. Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler; Lion Feuchtwanger, Proud Destiny; and Upton Sinclair, Presidential Mission. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.57  “Diary of a Moronic Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 July 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.58  “Diary of a Happy Fogey,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 July 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.59  “Diary of Hay Fever,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 July 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.60  “Diary of Hot Weather,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 July 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.61  “Diary of a Re-Gruntler,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 August 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.62  “Diary of an Imperfect Typist,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 August 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.73  “Diary of an Allergic Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 September 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.74  “Weekly Book Review: The Submerged ThreeQuarters,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 October 1947, p. 4. Book review of George Orwell, The English People. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.75  “Diary of a Sandwich Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 October 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.64  “A Holiday Diary,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 August 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.76  “Weekly Book Review: The Stepfather of Don Quixote,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 October 1947, p. 4. Book review of Cervantes, The Life and Achievements of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.65  “Diary of Muggsy’s Pal,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 August 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.77  “Diary of an X-Ray Idol,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 October 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C47.66  “Weekly Book Review: Recollected in Tranquility,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 September 1947, p. 4. Book review of Elliot Paul, Linden on the Saugus Branch. Davies begins the column by noting that “for the past

C47.78  “Weekly Book Review: Autumn Mixture,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 October 1947, p. 4. Book review of John J. Espey, Tales Out of School; Norman Marshall, The Other Theatre; Gerald Kersh, Neither Man nor Dog;

C47.63  “Pre-Holiday Diary,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 August 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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Herbert Read, The Innocent Eye; Irving Stone, Adversary in the House; and A.C. Ward, ed., Specimens of English Dramatic Criticism. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.79  “Diary of a Silo Fancier,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 October 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.80  “Concert-Goers Jam Hall Beyond Capacity,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 October 1947, p. 9. C47.81  “Weekly Book Review: A Painter on His Art,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 October 1947, p. 4. Book review of Walter Richard Sickert, A Free House! or the Artist as Craftsman. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.82  “Diary of Child Life,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 October 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.83  “Weekly Book Review: Not for Ninnies,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 October 1947, p. 4. Book review of George Sampson, Seven Essays. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.84  “Diary of Winterization,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 November 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Note: On 8 November the following notice was printed in the Peterborough Examiner: “Mr. Marchbanks has been ill and unable to keep his diary up to date.” C47.85  “Diary of an Ambulatory Patient,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 November 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.86  “Weekly Book Review: Four for Your Library,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 November 1947, p. 4. Book review of H.L. Mencken, The Days of H.L. Mencken; Cyril Connolly, The Rock Pool; F.S. Boas, ed., Songs and Lyrics from the English Playbooks; and Aldous Huxley, Verses and a Comedy. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.87  “Local Poetasters on the Royal Wedding: Lines for November 20th, Anno Domini 1947,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 November 1947, p. 4. Poem. Signed Joseph Harris. One of several poems collected under the main title. Attributed to Davies based on a letter to grant from Thomas J. Allen, 15 October 1982. C47.88  “Diary of Social Rebellion,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 November 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.89  “Weekly Book Review: Books for Autumn Firesides,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 November 1947, p. 4. Book review of George Jean Nathan, The Theatre Book of the Year 1946-47; Ivor Brown, Say the Word; Edmund Wilson, Europe without Baedeker; Charles Morgan, The

Judge’s Story; and Pan books, a new addition to Canada. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.90  “Duo-Pianists Are Given Wide Acclaim,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 November 1947, p. 13. C47.91  “Diary of a Crypto-Tory,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 November 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.92  “Weekly Book Review: Delicate and Dangerous Diarists,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 December 1947, p. 4. Book review of E.M. Delafield, The Provincial Lady and Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Excerpted as “The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks: 1947” in A58. C47.93  “Diary from a Lazar House,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 December 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.94  “Weekly Book Review: Books for Christmas Stockings,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 December 1947, p. 4. Book review of Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, and several other books. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.95  “Diary of a Gum Chewer,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 December 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.96  “Christmas Books: Three Fine and One Phoney,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 December 1947, p. 4. Book review of Rebecca West, The Meaning of Treason; Susanna Moodie, Roughing It in the Bush; Eric Linklater, The Art of Adventure; and John Steinbeck, The Pearl. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.97 [Diary], Peterborough Examiner, 20 December 1947, p. 4. This Marchbanks column is mis-headed “Parliamentary Affairs by A.J. Thomas.” C47.98  “Christmas Is a Lusty Fellow,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 December 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.99  “Diary of Christmas Revels,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 December 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C47.100  “New Year’s Gifts and Tips,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 December 1947, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.1  “Diary of the New Year,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 January 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.2  “Weekly Book Review: The Plight of the Exiled Scot,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 January 1948, p. 4. Book review of James A. Roy, The Heart Is Highland and The Scot in Canada and G. Scott-Moncrieff, Edinburgh. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.



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C48.3  “Diary of Royalty,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 January 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.4  “Weekly Book Review: Four Companions for the Pocket,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 January 1948, p. 4. Book review of [Louis Kronenberger, ed.], The Portable Johnson & Boswell; [Morton Dauwen] Zabel, ed., The Portable Joseph Conrad; [Avrahm Yarmolinsky, ed.], The Portable Chekhov; and Bernard Guerney, ed. and trans., The Portable Russian Reader. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.5  “Diary of January Reflections,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 January 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.6  “Weekly Book Review: Illumination from the Amateur Theatre,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 January 1948, p. 4. Book review of Bonamy Dobrée, The Amateur and the Theatre and Norman Lee, Amateur Dramatics. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.7  “Diary of a Scientific Investigator,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 January 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.8  “Weekly Book Review: A Fresh Outlook on the Novel,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 January 1948, p. 4. Book review of V.S. Pritchett, The Living Novel. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.9  “Diary of a Siesta Advocate,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 January 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.10  “Theatre Guild Presents The Dover Road,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 February 1948, p. 11. C48.11  “Weekly Book Review: Three from England,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 February 1948, p. 4. Book review of J.B. Priestley, Jenny Villiers; Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Museum of Cheats; and Froom Tyler, The Man Who Made Music. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.12  “Diary of the Queen City,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 February 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.13  “Weekly Book Review: A New Attitude toward Illness,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 February 1948, p. 4. Book review of Flanders Dunbar, Mind and Body. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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Gwyn Thomas, The Dark Philosophers; Constance Butler, Square Pegs; P.D. Ouspensky, The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin; P.H. Newby, Agents and Witnesses; Charles Dickens, Scenes of London Life (ill. [George] Cruikshank); and George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.16  “Diary of a Drama Orgy,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 February 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.17  “Weekly Book Review: The Undying Passion,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 February 1948, p. 4. Book review of P.H. Muir, Book Collecting as a Hobby. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.18  “Diary of a Power Conserver,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 February 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.19  “Theatre Guild’s Third Play Best of Series,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 March 1948, p. 13. C48.20  “Weekly Book Review: A New Study of Sexual Behaviour,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 March 1948, p. 4. Book review of [Alfred C.] Kinsey, [Wardell B.] Pomeroy and [Clyde E.] Martin, Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Part i of the review. C48.21  “Diary of Winter Depression,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 March 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.22  “Weekly Book Review: Further Implications of the Kinsey Report,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 March 1948, p. 4. Book review of [Alfred C.] Kinsey, [Wardell B.] Pomeroy and [Clyde E.] Martin, Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Part ii of the review. C48.23  “Diary of Minority Opinions,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 March 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.24  “PCVS Students Present Annual Play,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 March 1948, p. 11. C48.25  “The Recovery of P.G. Wodehouse,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 March 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C48.14  “Diary of a Mad World,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 February 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C48.26  “Diary of a March Cold,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 March 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C48.15  “Weekly Book Review: Current and Choice,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 February 1948, p. 4. Book review of Evelyn Waugh, Scott-King’s Modern Europe;

C48.27  “Weekly Book Review: That Message to Garcia,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 March 1948, p. 4. Re the Roycroft Shops, including the Roycroft Press, of East

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Aurora, ny and the founder, Elbert Hubbard, the author of A Message to Garcia. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.28  “Diary of a Hellinist,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 March 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.29  “Weekly Book Review: Waugh, Love and Death,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 March 1948, p. 4. Book review of Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.30  “Diary of a Broken Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 April 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.31  “Appreciative Audience Attends Presentation of ‘Merrie England,’” Peterborough Examiner, 5 April 1948, p. 9. C48.32  “Weekly Book Review: Recent Fiction from Britain,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 April 1948, p. 4. Book review of Gerald Kersh, Prelude to a Certain Midnight; J.D. Scott, The Cellar; Jack Overhill, The Snob; James Hilton, Nothing So Strange; and Storm Jameson, The Black Laurel. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.33  “Violin Artist Heard in Final Program,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 April 1948, p. 17. C48.34  “Diary of a Prevaricator,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 April 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.35  “Everyman’s Handicraft,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 April 1948, p. 4. Re graphology, mentioning Leonard Russell, ed., The Saturday Book, an annual miscellany, and “Graphology in Industry,” Future [British periodical]. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.36  “Diary of a Watery Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 April 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.37  “Weekly Book Review: Novels for Spring Reading,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 April 1948, p. 4. Book review of Elizabeth Goudge, Pilgrim’s Inn; Agnes Sligh Turnbull, The Bishop’s Mantle; Josephine Pinckney, Great Mischief; George R. Stewart, Fire; and Helen MacInnes, Friends and Lovers. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.38  “Diary of Peculiar Periodicals,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 April 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.39  “Weekly Book Review: Workers in Words,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 April 1948, p. 4. Book review of Douglas LePan, The Wounded Prince and H.L. Mencken, The American Language: [an Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States:] Supplement ii. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Excerpted as “The Wounded Prince: 1948” in A58.

C48.40  “Advice to a Bride Who Wishes to Become a Perfect Wife,” Mayfair 22, no. 4 (May 1948): 68-9, 95. Illustrated with line drawings of Davies by Grant Macdonald. C48.41  “Diary of a Disgruntled Taxpayer,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 May 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.42  “Diary of the Drama Festival,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 May 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.43  “Diary of a Weary Reader,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 May 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.44  “A Link with the Past,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 June 1948, p. 4. Editorial. Attribution, Man of Myth, p. 688, note for p. 207. C48.45  “Diary of a Half-Dead Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 June 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.46  “Diary of a Phone-Whistler,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 June 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.47  “Diary of a Lodger,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 July 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.48  “Diary of a Jolly Blacksmith,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 July 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.49  “Diary of a Beach Philosopher,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 July 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.50  “Diary of a Cocktail Lounger,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 July 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.51  “Diary of a Great Moral Force,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 July 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.52  “Diary of a Political Aspirant,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 August 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.53  “Diary of the Liberal Convention,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 August 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.54  “A New Sewage Plant Could Make Money for Peterborough,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 August 1948, p. 4. Editorial. Attribution: grant’s interview with Thomas J. Allen. C48.55  “Open Window to a Woman’s Heart,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 August 1948, p. 4. Editorial. Attribution: grant’s interview with Thomas J. Allen.



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C48.56  “Some Reflections on the Nature of Marriage,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 August 1948, p. 4. Editorial. Attribution: grant’s interview with Thomas J. Allen. C48.57  “Approves Sewage Conservation,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 August 1948, p. 4. Letter to the editor in response to the Examiner’s editorial “A New Sewage Plant Could Make Money for Peterborough,” 18 August 1948, p. 4. Signed South Ender. Attribution: grant’s interview with Thomas J. Allen. C48.58  “Example of St. Thomas,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 August 1948, p. 4. Letter to the editor in response to the Examiner’s editorial “A New Sewage Plant Could Make Money for Peterborough,” 18 August 1948, p. 4. Signed Interested. Attribution: grant’s interview with Thomas J. Allen. C48.59  “Facetious,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 August 1948, p. 4. Letter to the editor in response to the Examiner’s editorial “A New Sewage Plant Could Make Money for Peterborough,” 18 August 1948, p. 4. Signed One of the Boys. Attribution: grant’s interview with Thomas J. Allen. C48.60  “The Soil Is Not Inexhaustible,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 August 1948, p. 4. Letter to the editor in response to the Examiner’s editorial “A New Sewage Plant Could Make Money for Peterborough,” 18 August 1948, p. 4. Signed Conservationist. Attribution: grant’s interview with Thomas J. Allen.

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Examiner, 11 September 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.66  “Diary of Picklemas,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 September 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Excerpted as “Samuel Marchbanks Ruminates on Actors and Playgoers: 1948” in A58. C48.67  “Diary of Snails and Cement,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 September 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.68  “Diary of an Organ Pumper,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 October 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.69  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 October 1948, p. 4. Book review of John Steinbeck, A Russian Journal. This is the third review in the column and was signed R.D. The “From the Critic’s Notebook” column ran on Thursdays until 26 May 1949, resuming 5 October 1949 until 28 June 1950. Several reviewers contributed to the column; Davies did not contribute every week. C48.70  “Diary of a Worried Woodsman,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 October 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.71  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 October 1948, p. 4. Book review of Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence and The Gioconda Smile. The only review in the column, signed R.D.

C48.61  “Diary of an Uneconomic Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 August 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C48.72  “Diary of October Meditations,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 October 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C48.62  “Diary of a Weediculturist,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 August 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C48.73  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 October 1948, p. 4. Book review of Upton Sinclair, One Clear Call and Adolphe Menjou and M.M. Musselman, It Took Nine Tailors. Second and third reviews, each signed R.D.

C48.63  “Remember Creatore: Other Boys Went to the Exhibition to See the Prince of Wales in Butter But Mr. Davies Looked for Genius on the Bandstand,” Mayfair 22, no. 8 (September 1948): 58-60. Illustrated by L.M. Norris. Note: Illustration on p. 58; text begins on p. 59. Reprinted in John D. Robins and Margaret V. Ray, A Book of Canadian Humour (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1951), pp. 287-92; and as “I Remember Creatore” in A55. Condensed as “What I Saw at the Fair,” Reader’s Digest (Canada) 140, no. 841 (May 1992): 108a, b, and d. C48.64  “Diary of a Heat Wave,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 September 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.65  “Diary [of] a Park-Bench Diner,” Peterborough

C48.74  “Diary of a Complacent Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 October 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.75  “Diary of a Pigeon Hater,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 October 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.76  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 November 1948, p. 4. Book review of Albert Camus, The Plague; Gabriel Chevalier, Sainte Colline; Jules Renard, Carrots (trans. G.W. Stonier). First, second, and third reviews, each signed R.D. C48.77  “Diary of a Gourmet,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 November 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C48.78  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 November 1948, p. 4. Book review of G.B. Stern, No Son of Mine. Second review, signed R.D. C48.79  “Diary of a Suspected Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 November 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.80  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 November 1948, p. 4. Book review of Hector Bolitho, ed., The British Empire. Second review, signed R.D. C48.81  “Diary of a Lost Soul,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 November 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.82  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 November 1948, p. 4. Book review of E.M. Butler, The Myth of the Magus; Elizabeth Hawes, Anything but Love; and Carl Van Doren, ed., The Portable Swift. First, third, and fourth reviews, each signed R.D. C48.83  “Diary of a Social Failure,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 November 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.84  “Diary of an Untattooed Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 December 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.85  “Diary of a Christmas Shopper,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 December 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.86  “A Christmas Book Review,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 December 1948, p. 4. Book review of Stephen Leacock, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town; Peter McArthur, In Pastures Green; Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle; Robert C. Ruark, Grenadine Etching, Her Life and Loves; Hope Muntz, The Golden Warrior; Margaret Irwin, Captive Princess; Henry Kreisel, The Rich Man; Humphrey Parkington, The Washbournes of Otterley; C.B. Pyer, One Thing After Another; Claude Laing Fisher, James Cardinal McGuigan; Bernard Braden, These English; Flora Thompson, Still Glides the Stream; and Robert Liddell, The Last Enchantments. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.87  “Diary of a Christmas Prophet,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 December 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.88  “Diary of a Ribald,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 December 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C48.89  “Diary of Year’s End,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 December 1948, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C49.1  “Diary of Mild Invalidism,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 January 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.2  “Diary of a Banquet Guest,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 January 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.3  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 January 1949, p. 4. Review of cheap reprint series, Penguin and Pan, Reprint Society of Canada; and book review of R.S.K. Seeley, The Function of the University. Signed R.D. C49.4  “Diary of a China Smasher,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 January 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.5  “Diary of a Poet,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 January 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.6  “Diary of a Lumpist,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 February 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.7  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 February 1949, p. 4. Book review of Max Lerner, ed., The Portable Veblen and Scott Buchanan, ed., The Portable Plato (trans. Benjamin Jowett). Last two reviews in column, signed R.D. C49.8  “Diary of a Peasant Revolutionary,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 February 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.9  “Diary of an Armchair Sleeper,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 February 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.10  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 February 1949, p. 4. Book review of M.E. Nichols, The Story of the Canadian Press and Elspeth Huxley, The Walled City. Last two reviews in column, signed R.D. C49.11  “Diary of a Dirty Shirt,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 February 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.12  “Operatic Arias Delight Large Audience,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 March 1949, p. 9. C49.13  “Diary of a Flabbergaster,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 March 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.14  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 March 1949, p. 4. Book review of Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Corner That Held Them and Horace Gregory, ed., The Portable Sherwood Anderson. First and last reviews, each signed R.D. C49.15  “Diary of a Speech-Maker,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 March 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.



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C49.16  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 March 1949, p. 4. Book review of G.B. Harrison, ed., Shakespeare, 23 Plays and the Sonnets and Edith Sitwell, A Notebook on William Shakespeare. First and third reviews, each signed R.D. C49.17  “Diary of a Man of Fashion,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 March 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.18  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 March 1949, p. 4. Book review of Evelyn Waugh, When the Going Was Good and Gerald Kersh, The Song of the Flea. First and third reviews, each signed R.D. C49.19  “Warm Reception Given Kinsmen Play,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 March 1949, p. 15. C49.20  “Diary of a Non-Gambler,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 March 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.21  “Piano Recital Highlight of Concert Series,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 March 1949, p. 9. C49.22  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 March 1949, p. 4. Book review of Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day and Sinclair Lewis, The GodSeeker. First and third reviews, each signed R.D. C49.23  “Diary of a Hoop Bowler,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 April 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.24  “Packers Play Tom Jones to Large House,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 April 1949, p. 9. C49.25  “Diary of an Ornithologist,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 April 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.26  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 April 1949, p. 4. Book review of The Good Housekeeping Cook Book. First review, signed R.D. C49.27  “Diary of a Premature Gardener,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 April 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.28  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 April 1949, p. 4. Book review of Bernard Shaw, Sixteen Self Sketches and John Mason Brown, ed., The Portable Charles Lamb. First and third reviews, each signed R.D. C49.29  “Diary of an Anarchist,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 April 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.30  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 April 1949, p. 4. Book review of Robert Graves, The White Goddess and Henry James, The

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Scenic Art (ed. Allan Wade). Entire column, signed R.D. C49.31  “Diary of a Concertina-Brow,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 April 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.32  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 May 1949, p. 4. Book review of Joyce Cary, Herself Surprised. Second review, signed R.D. C49.33  “Diary of a Hunted Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 May 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted as “Samuel Marchbanks’ Diary of a Drama Festival: 1949” in A58. C49.34  “Y’s Men’s Club Bring Play for Three Days,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 May 1949, p. 13. C49.35  “Diary of a Minor Sceptic,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 May 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.36  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 May 1949, p. 4. Book review of Robert Graves, Watch the Northwind Rise; Philip Hamburger, The Oblong Blur; and Ben Ray Redman, ed., The Portable Voltaire. First, third, and fourth reviews, each signed R.D. C49.37  “Diary of a Garden Philosopher,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 May 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C49.38  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 May 1949, p. 4. Book review of Stephen Potter, The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship. Second review, signed R.D. C49.39  “Diary of Fond Farewell,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 May 1949, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Last column in this series. C49.40  “Foreword,” College Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) 92, no. 3 (Summer 1949): [2]. C49.41  “Summer Theatre Presents Unusual Comedy,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 July 1949, p. 9. C49.42  “Summer Theatre Presents Thriller in Angel Street,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 July 1949, p. 9. C49.43  “‘Arsenic’ Makes Best Hit of All Plays,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 July 1949, p. 9. C49.44  “Summer Theatre Players Present Rebecca,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 August 1949, p. 11. C49.45  “Summer Theatre Enters Realm of American Farce,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 August 1949, p. 9.

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C49.46  “Viennese Comedy Presented by Cast of Summer Theatre,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 August 1949, p. 9. C49.47  “Three Worlds, Three Summers — but Not the Summer Just Past,” Mayfair 23, no. 9 (September 1949): 58, 86, 88, 90-2. Reprinted in A55. C49.48  “The Marchbanks Correspondence,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 September 1949, p. 4. A column of letters to and from Samuel Marchbanks. The Saturday column appeared every week on page 4, under the same heading, until 24 June 1950 comprising 43 columns in total. After a summer hiatus, it resumed on 9 September 1950 until 30 December 1950, comprising 17 more columns. C49.49  “A Few Were Shocked: Enthusiastic Edinburgh Applause Given to Canadian Play and Actors,” Toronto Globe and Mail, final ed., 6 September 1949, p. 17. Also as “Canadian Play Big Hit at Edinburgh Festival,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 September 1949, p. 5. Re Eros at Breakfast. C49.50  “Canadian Cast Anxious to Impress Edinburgh,” Toronto Globe and Mail, final ed., 10 September 1949, p. 10. Also as “Finds Men Take Real Interest in All the Arts,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 September 1949, p. 11. Re Eros at Breakfast. C49.51  “Festival Enthralls Canadian Players,” Toronto Globe and Mail, final ed., 13 September 1949, p. 9. Also as “Canadians Find Scots Also Have Drama Problems,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 September 1949, p. 9. C49.52  “Home of Irving,” Daily Telegraph (London), 20 September 1949, p. 4. Letter to the editor re disappearance of the notice at the door of 15a Grafton Street in London, telling passers-by that this was “where the actor-manager Sir Henry Irving lived during the greater part of his life.” C49.53  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 October 1949, p. 4. Book review of Helen Angeli, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Third review, signed R.D. Resumption of the book review column. It ran on Wednesdays until 28 June 1950. Davies did not contribute every week. C49.54  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 October 1949, p. 4. Book review of F.E. Loewenstein, ed., Bernard Shaw through the Camera and Lawrence Whistler, Rex Whistler, His Life and His Drawings. First and fourth reviews, each signed R.D. C49.55  “Winnipeg Ballet Plays to Enthusiastic Audience,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 October 1949, p. 15.

C49.56  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 October 1949, p. 4. Book review of Ross Parmenter, The Plant in My Window and Douglas Bush, ed., The Portable Milton. First and fourth reviews, each signed R.D. C49.57  “Melchior Charms Large Audience by Arias, Lieder,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 October 1949, p. 9. C49.58  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 October 1949, p. 4. Book review of Ivor Brown, No Idle Words. Second review, signed R.D. C49.59  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 November 1949, p. 4. Book review of Robertson Davies, Fortune, My Foe and Lionel Trilling, ed., The Portable Matthew Arnold. Second and third reviews in the column. The second review was signed S.M., i.e. Samuel Marchbanks; the third review was signed R.D. C49.60  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 November 1949, p. 4. Book review of Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook and Gerald Kersh, Clock without Hands. First and second reviews, each signed R.D. C49.61  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 November 1949, p. 4. Book review of James Agate, Ego 9 and A Shorter Ego and Walter Trier, Dandy the Donkey. First and third reviews, each signed R.D. C49.62  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 November 1949, p. 4. Book review of George Jean Nathan, The Theatre Book of the Year 194849 and Ernest Reynolds, Modern English Drama. First and fifth reviews, each signed R.D. C49.63  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 December 1949, p. 4. Book review of H. Reginald Hardy, Mackenzie King of Canada and William Irvine, The Universe of G.B.S. First and third reviews, each signed R.D. C49.64  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 December 1949, p. 4. Book review of H. Alan Skinner, The Origin of Medical Terms; Gertrude Pringle, Etiquette in Canada; Eric Linklater, The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea; Cecil Day Lewis, The Otterbury Incident; and Ward Morehouse, Matinee Tomorrow. Entire column, each review signed R.D. C49.65  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 December 1949, p. 4. Book review of Christopher Fry, The Lady’s Not for Burning and Maurice Healy, Stay Me with Flagons. Second and fourth reviews, each signed R.D.



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1950-1959 From September 1950 until June 1951, the “From the Critic’s Notebook” column was retitled “On the Margin” (see G50.37), and in October 1951, it was retitled, yet again, as “Bibliomania” (see G51.20). As with “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Davies was one of several contributors to these columns, signing his contributions with his initials R.D. In January 1953, Davies once again became literary editor of Saturday Night, a post he occupied with distinction until March 1959, though the magazine began to show signs of slow decline, shrinking from weekly to bi-weekly publication in May 1955. His lead articles appeared on a page that was headed “Books.” In January 1959 (for details see C59.3), he undertook a new column for the Toronto Star, syndicated, in due course, to newspapers across Canada, and a couple in the United States. The column gave Davies an outlet for articles on a range of subjects to do with the arts.

C50.1  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 January 1950, p. 4. Book review of David Garnett, ed., The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock. First review, signed R.D. C50.2  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 January 1950, p. 4. Book review of Jean Burton, Lydia Pinkham Is Her Name and Paul Ganz, The Drawings of Henry Fuseli. First and third reviews, each signed R.D. C50.3  “2-Piano Masters of Poetic Music,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 January 1950, pp. 9, 13. C50.4  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 February 1950, p. 4. Book review of Robert Graves, The Common Asphodel. First review, signed R.D. C50.5  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 February 1950, p. 4. Book review of H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy. First review, signed R.D. C50.6  “Her Great Voice Great Art Enthrals Host,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 March 1950, p. 9. Re Kathleen Ferrier concert. C50.7  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 March 1950, p. 4. Book review of John J. Espey, The Other City. Second review, signed R.D. C50.8  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 March 1950, p. 4. Book review of E.Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross, The Real Charlotte. First review, signed R.D. C50.9  “A Letter from Canada,” New York Times, 19 March 1950, sec. 7 (“Book Review”), p. 30. Reprinted as “A Letter from Canada: 1950” in A58. C50.10  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 March 1950, p. 4. Book review of Joyce Cary, A Fearful Joy. First review, signed R.D.

C50.11  “Gifted Students in Concert of Excellence,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 March 1950, p. 11. C50.12  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 April 1950, p. 4. Book review of Henry Morton Robinson, The Cardinal. First review, signed R.D. C50.13  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 April 1950, p. 4. Book review of John Lodwick, First Steps inside the Zoo and Norman Vincent Peale, The Art of Real Happiness. First and third reviews, each signed R.D. C50.14  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 May 1950, p. 4. Book review of The Borzoi Turgenev (trans. Harry Stevens). First review, signed R.D. C50.15  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 May 1950, p. 4. Book review of Allardyce Nicoll, World Drama and Rip Van Winkle: The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson. First and second reviews, comprising the entire column, each signed R.D. C50.16  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 May 1950, p. 4. Book review of Georg Brochmann, Humanity and Happiness. Second review, signed R.D. C50.17  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 June 1950, p. 4. Book review of H.T. LowePorter, Abdication, or All Is True. Second review, signed R.D. C50.18  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 June 1950, p. 4. Book review of Monica Baldwin, I Leap over the Wall and Harold Acton, Prince Isidore. First and third reviews, each signed R.D. C50.19  “Six-Foot Invisible Rabbit ‘Harvey’ Opens Play Season,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 June 1950, p. 11. C50.20  “From the Critic’s Notebook,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 June 1950, p. 4. Book review of Anthony

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Trollope, Orley Farm and Joseph Warner Angell, ed., The Thomas Mann Reader.

aminer, 16 November 1950, p. 4. Editorial. Attribution: Man of Myth, pp. 691-2, note for p. 248.

C50.21  “Daydreaming Girl Success, Surpasses Phantom ‘Harvey,’” Peterborough Examiner, 4 July 1950, p. 9.

C50.35  “PCVS Dramatists Present J.M. Barrie’s ‘Quality Street,’” Peterborough Examiner, 24 November 1950, p. 15.

C50.22  “‘Love or Money’ Best Play of Season,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 July 1950, p. 9. C50.23  “William Hutt’s Performance Tops Summer Theatre Bill.” Peterborough Examiner, 25 July 1950, p. 9. C50.24  “Excellent Farce Offered on Summer Theatre’s Bill,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 August 1950, p. 9. C50.25  “Challenge of ‘Private Lives’ Brightly Met on Local Stage,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 August 1950, p. 11. C50.26  “The Heiress Scores Big Hit with Summer Theatre-Goers,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 August 1950, p. 9. C50.27  “On the Margin: Mixed Bag,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 September 1950, p. 4. Book review of Beverley Nichols, Uncle Samson. First review, signed R.D. C50.28  “Marchbanks Speaks to British,” News from 103 (promotional newsletter of Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited) 1, no. 3 (Fall 1951): 5. Special Robertson Davies number.

C50.36  “On the Margin: Superior Fiction,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 November 1950, p. 4. Book review of Evelyn Waugh, Helena; J. Delves-Broughton, Officer and Gentleman; and Storm Jameson, The Writer’s Situation. First, fourth, and fifth reviews, each signed R.D. C50.37  “On the Margin: Three Notable Books of Verse,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 December 1950, p. 4. Book review of Edith Sitwell, comp., A Book of the Winter and Norman Holmes Pearson, ed., Poets of the English Language, 5 vols., introduced by W.H. Auden. First and second reviews, each signed R.D. The third review was by Thomas J. Allan. C50.38  “On the Margin: The Young Mr. Boswell,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 December 1950, p. 4. Book review of [Frederick A. Pottle, ed.], Boswell’s London Journal 1762-1763; Franz Wasner, ed., The Trapp Family Book of Christmas Songs; C.W. Jefferys, The Picture Gallery of Canadian History, Vol. 3. Entire column, each review signed R.D.

C50.29  “Healey Willan Gives Organ Master Hand,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 October 1950, p. 9. Signed R.D.

C51.1  “Directors for Canadian Theatres,” Theatre Canada 1, no. 1 (January-February 1951): 8, 10. Reprinted as  “Directors for Canadian Theatres: 1951” in A58.

C50.30  “On the Margin: Obstinacy of a Poet,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 October 1950, p. 4. Book review of Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, second edition. Entire column, signed R.D.

C51.2  “Diary of New Year’s Irresolutions,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 January 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Resumption of his diary column which ran on Saturdays until 30 June 1951.

C50.31  “On the Margin: Wit and Misery,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 October 1950, p. 4. Book review of Ivy Compton-Burnett’s writings. Entire column, signed R.D. Reprinted as “Ivy Compton-Burnett’s Novels” in A55.

C51.3  “On the Margin: For Theatre Lovers,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 January 1951, p. 4. Book review of The Masque [a theatre quarterly], nos. 1-9 and Philip John Stead, Mr. Punch. Entire column, each review signed R.D.

C50.32  “On the Margin: The Delights of Disproof,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 November 1950, p. 4. Book review of A.S.E. Ackermann, Popular Fallacies. First review, signed R.D.

C51.4  “Diary of a Turkey-Haunted Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 January 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

C50.33  “On the Margin: Mixed Bag,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 November 1950, p. 4. Book review of Robert Graves and Alan Hodge, The Long Week-End; Mary Frank and Lawrence F. Frank, How to Help Your Child in School; Ivor Brown, Having the Last Word; and Jack Woodford, The Loud Literary Lamas of New York. Signed R.D., but only at the end of the column. C50.34  “The Old Vic Shines Again,” Peterborough Ex-

C51.5  “Diary of a Masquerader,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 January 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.6  “On the Margin: Writing in the Forties,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 January 1951, p. 4. Book review of Edmund Wilson, Classics and Commercials. First review, signed R.D. C51.7  “Diary of Winter Disillusion,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 January 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.



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C51.8  “On the Margin: Superior Fiction,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 January 1951, p. 4. Book review of Anthony Trollope, The Parson’s Daughter and Other Stories. Second review, signed R.D. C51.9  “Diary of an X-Ray Object,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 February 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.10  “On the Margin: Adventures, New and Old,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 February 1951, p. 4. Book review of John Hale, ed., Settlers. Third review, signed R.D. C51.11  “Diary of a Thwarted Explorer,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 February 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.12  “Graudan Piano-Cello Recital Refreshment of the Spirit,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 February 1951, p. 9. C51.13  “Diary of a Wild Dreamer,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 February 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.14  “On the Margin: Adventure and Scholarship,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 February 1951, p. 4. Book review of Richard D. Altick, The Scholar Adventurers and I.A. Richards, ed., The Portable Coleridge. Second and fourth reviews, signed R.D. Note: The Peterborough Examiner misprints the title as Adventures. C51.15  “The Intimate Diary of Samuel Marchbanks,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 February 1951, p. 4. C51.16  “On the Margin: Amusing the Booboisie,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 February 1951, p. 4. Book review of Gilbert Seldes, The Great Audience; Harry Ballam and Roy Lewis, eds., The Visitors’ Book; and Patrick Hastings, Famous and Infamous Cases. The column is comprised of these three reviews, each signed R.D. C51.17  “The Private Diary of Samuel Marchbanks,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 March 1951, p. 4. C51.18  “Capacity Audience Hears Famous Leslie Bell Singers,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 March 1951, p. 9. Signed R.D. C51.19  “Diary of March Misery,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 March 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.20  “On the Margin: Authors Great and Small,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 March 1951, p. 4. Book review of Blanche Patch, 30 Years with G.B.S. and Fred Bason, Fred Bason’s Diary. Entire column, each review signed R.D. C51.21  “Diary of a Northerner,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 March 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks.

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C51.22  “Diary of Old Jock,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 March 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.23  “Farce Provides Rousing Entertainment,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 March 1951, p. 15. Signed R.D. C51.24  “Diary of a Sedentary Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 March 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.25  “Diary of Impetuous Animals,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 April 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.26  “Portia White’s Program Model to Singers,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 April 1951, p. 17. Signed R.D. C51.27  “Diary of Gloom and Suicide,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 April 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.28  “Diary of a Slumbering Committeeman,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 April 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.29  “Diary of a Forgetful Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 April 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.30  “Diary of Spring Musings,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 May 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.31  “Diary of a Spring Week,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 May 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.32  “On the Margin: A Remarkable Autobiography,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 May 1951, p. 4. Book review of Neville Cardus, Autobiography and Second Innings. Entire column, signed R.D. C51.33  “Diary of Horses and Babies,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 May 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.34  “On the Margin: The Terror of the Twenties,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 May 1951, p. 4. Book review of William Manchester, Disturber of the Peace; Eileen J. Garrett, The Sense and Nonsense of Prophecy; Bernard F. Farmer, The Gentle Art of Book Collecting; and Frank O’Connor, Traveller’s Samples. Signed R.D., but only at the end of the column. C51.35  “Diary of a Sentimental Journey,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 May 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.36  “Diary of a Fox-Trainer,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 June 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.37  “On the Margin: Three Notable Novels,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 June 1951, p. 4. Book review of J.B. Priestley, Festival at Farbridge; Anita Loos, A Mouse Is Born; and Lion Feuchtwanger, This Is the Hour. Signed R.D., but only at the end of the column. Note: The

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Peterborough Examiner misprints the first author’s name as Priestly. C51.38  “Diary of an Unillusioned Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 June 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.39  “Diary of a Fruit Fanatic,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 June 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.40  “On the Margin: Old Plays and Queer Birds,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 June 1951, p. 4. Book review of Seven One Act Plays by Holberg (trans. Henry Alexander) and Ian Niall, The Preacher’s Handbook. First and third reviews, each signed R.D. C51.41  “Diary of a Visionary,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 June 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. C51.42  “On the Margin: Midsummer Miscellany,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 June 1951, p. 4. Book review of H.V. Morton, In Search of London and of The Good Food Guide. First and third reviews, each signed R.D. The last column before the summer hiatus. C51.43  “Diary of a Moving Experience,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 June 1951, p. 4. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Last column before the summer hiatus. C51.44  “Canada Theatre at Its Best; Needles Excels,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 July 1951, p. 9. C51.45  “Summer Theatre Dusts Off ‘Hay Fever,’” Peterborough Examiner, 18 July 1951, p. 17. C51.46  “Concert in Modern Idiom Distinguished, Ably Done,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 September 1951, p. 9. C51.47  “Bibliomania: Novels, New and Good,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 November 1951, p. 4. Book review of Graham Greene, The End of the Affair. First review, signed R.D. The review is preceded by a paragraph on children’s book week. C51.48  “Bibliomania: The Wanderings of Mother Goose,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 November 1951, p. 4. Book review of Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds., The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Entire column, signed R.D. C51.49  “Fine Technique of Pianist Marks Community Concert,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 November 1951, p. 13. C51.50  “Bibliomania: The Old Master,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 December 1951, p. 4. Book review of The Complete Short Stories of Somerset Maugham, Vol. i. First review, signed R.D.

C51.51  “Bibliomania: Tales of War and Peace,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 December 1951, p. 4. Book review of C.P. Snow, The Masters; E.J. Oliver, The Clown; and Marion Crawford, The Queen Mother. Second, third, and fifth reviews, each signed R.D. C51.52  “Bibliomania: Last before Christmas,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 December 1951, p. 4. Book review of Par Lagerkvist, Barabbas and Colville Wemyss, English Inns Illustrated. First and fifth reviews, each signed R.D. C51.53  “Bibliomania: The Last for 1951,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 December 1951, p. 4. Book review of M.D. Zabel, ed., The Portable Henry James and Samuel Putnam, ed., The Portable Cervantes. Third review (both books reviewed together), signed R.D. C52.1  “Bibliomania: Coarse Hairs from Spanish Mane,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 January 1952, p. 4. Book review of George Woodbury, The Great Days of Piracy and Jack Hambleton, Cub Reporter. First and fifth reviews, each signed R.D. C52.2  “Dorothy Maynor Great Singer Heard in City,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 January 1952, p. 9. C52.3  “Bibliomania: Calligraphic Revolution,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 January 1952, p. 4. Book review of Aubrey West, Written by Hand and Reginald Reynolds, Beds. First and third reviews, each signed R.D. C52.4  “Bibliomania: The Knight from Nowhere,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 February 1952, p. 4. Book review of Laurence Irving, Henry Irving. Entire column, signed R.D. C52.5  “Bibliomania: A Baptist among the Reds,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 February 1952, p. 4. Book review of Agnes de Mille, Dance to the Piper. Second review, signed R.D. C52.6  “Bibliomania: In the Footsteps of James,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 March 1952, p. 4. Book review of Jay Leyda, ed., The Portable Melville. Second review, signed R.D. C52.7  “Bibliomania: Novels for Pleasure,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 March 1952, p. 4. Book review of Margaret Kennedy, Lucy Carmichael. First review, signed R.D. C52.8  “Small Orchestra Concert of Highest Rank,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 March 1952, p. 13. C52.9  “Bibliomania: Unabashed Story-Tellers,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 March 1952, p. 4. Book review of The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham, 3 vols.; W. Somerset Maugham, The Writer’s Point of View; and John Collier, Fancies and Goodnights. Entire column, each review signed R.D.



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C52.10  “Bibliomania: New Fiction, Notable Reprint,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 March 1952, p. 4. Book review of Pamela Hansford Johnson, Catherine Carter and George Saintsbury, Notes on a Cellar-Book. First and third reviews, each signed R.D. C52.11  “Bibliomania: Distinguished Writing,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 April 1952, p. 4. Book review of S.N. Behrman, Duveen and Mary O’Hara, The Son of Adam Wyngate. First and third reviews, each signed R.D. C52.12  “Bibliomania: Good Spring Fiction,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 April 1952, p. 4. Book review of Erskine Caldwell, A Lamb for Nightfall and Hugh Wheeler, The Crippled Muse. First and third reviews, each signed R.D. C52.13  “Bibliomania: Victorian Sensationalist,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 April 1952, p. 4. Book review of Kenneth Robinson, Wilkie Collins: A Biography. First review, signed R.D. C52.14  “A Canadian Said It,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 May 1952, p. 4. Editorial. Book review of Robert M. Hamilton, comp., Canadian Quotations and Phrases. Reprinted as “Canadian Quotations and Phrases: 1952” in A58. C52.15  “Bibliomania: Fine Tale of Ritual Murder,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 May 1952, p. 4. Book review of John Masters, The Deceivers. First review, signed R.D. Note: The date on page 4 is printed incorrectly as 17 May. C52.16  “Bibliomania: Johnson’s Foreboding,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 May 1952, p. 4. Book review of Augustus John, Chiaroscuro. First review, signed R.D. C52.17  “Bibliomania: James Thurber Remembers,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 June 1952, p. 4. Book review of James Thurber, The Thurber Album. First review, signed R.D. C52.18  “Bibliomania: Writer, Murderer and Liberal,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 June 1952, p. 4. Book review of Rupert Hart-Davis, Hugh Walpole; John Philip Stead, ed., The Memoirs of Lacenaire; and E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy. Signed R.D., but only at the end of the column. C52.19  “The Festival Idea,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 July 1952, p. 4. Editorial. Reprinted as “The Festival Idea: 1952” in A58. C52.20  “Bibliomania: Are You a Wolf or a Dove?” Peterborough Examiner, 17 September 1952, p. 4. Book review of Konrad Lorenz, King Solomon’s Ring. First review, signed R.D.

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C52.21  “The Journal of Samuel Marchbanks,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 September 1952, p. 4. The column appeared on Saturdays, on page 4, until 30 May 1953, and comprised 37 columns in total. C52.22  “Bibliomania: The Growth of Boswell,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 September 1952, p. 4. Book review of [Frederick A. Pottle, ed.], Boswell in Holland 1763-1764 and Sean O’Casey, Rose and Crown. Entire column, each review signed R.D. C52.23  “Bibliomania: Novel about Hockey,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 October 1952, p. 4. Book review of Richard Morenus, Crazy-White-Man. Second review, signed R.D. C52.24  “Bibliomania: The Industrious Apprentice,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 November 1952, p. 4. Book review of C.L. Burton, A Sense of Urgency. First review, signed R.D. C52.25  “Bibliomania: Bitter Fruit from Europe,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 November 1952, p. 4. Book review of Curzio Malaparte, The Skin. First review, signed R.D. C52.26  “Opera Selections of Simoneau De[l]ight Audience,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 December 1952, p. 16. Signed R.D. C52.27  “Bibliomania: Christmas Grab-Bag,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 December 1952, p. 4. Book review of Douglas Gorsline, What People Wore; Vicky [Victor Weisz], Stabs in the Back; and James Thurber, Fables for Our Times. First, fourth, and fifth reviews, each signed R.D. C53.1  “Books: The Critic Is Warned,” Saturday Night 68, no. 14 (10 January 1953): 26. Book review of Frank Swinnerton, Londoner’s Post; Edmund Wilson, The Shores of Light; and Christopher Fry et al, An Experience of Critics. C53.2  “Books: The Photographer’s Eye,” Saturday Night 68, no. 15 (17 January 1953): 30. Book review of Fosco Maraini, Secret Tibet and Tom Maloney, ed., U.S. Camera 1953. C53.3  “Books: Love Letters, Boiled in Brandy,” Saturday Night 68, no. 16 (24 January 1953): 30. Book review of Alan Dent, ed., Bernard Shaw & Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Their Correspondence. Reprinted as “Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell” in A55. C53.4  “Books: Observations on Yeats’ Plays,” Saturday Night 68, no. 17 (31 January 1953): 22. Book review of The Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats.

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C53.5  “A Literary Letter from Canada,” New York Times, 1 February 1953, sec. 7 (“Book Review”), p. 23. C53.6  “Books: Do You Eat, or Basely Feed?” Saturday Night 68, no. 18 (7 February 1953): 22. Book review of Frances Dale, The Ambitious Cook and Idwal Jones, Chef’s Holiday. C53.7  “Books: Graphy: Bio- and Autobio-,” Saturday Night 68, no. 19 (14 February 1953): 30-1. Book review of G.M. Young, Stanley Baldwin; Hesketh Pearson, The Man Whistler; Carl Sandburg, Always the Young Strangers; and August Hare, The Years with Mother (ed. Malcolm Barnes). C53.8  “Books: Toward a Long Perspective,” Saturday Night 68, no. 20 (21 February 1953): 30. Book review of Violet Alford, Introduction to English Folklore; Henry Bett, English Myths and Traditions; and Margaret Murray, The God of the Witches. C53.9  “Opera, Rarity in City, Found Welcome Guest to Audience,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 February 1953, pp. 13, 20. C53.10  “Books: Some Pills for the Press,” Saturday Night 68, no. 21 (28 February 1953): 22. Book review of Ivor Brown, ed., The Bedside Guardian; Peter Quennell, The Singular Preference; and E.S. Turner, The Shocking History of Advertising. C53.11  “Ensemble Work Big Feature in Presentation of Iolanthe,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 March 1953, p. 9. C53.12  “Books: Boadicea’s Great-Granddaughter,” Saturday Night 68, no. 22 (7 March 1953): 16. Book review of Lawrence E. Tanner, The History of the Coronation; Godfrey Winn, The Young Queen; Dennis Holman, Lady Louis; Richard J. Doyle, The Royal Story; and Will Reed, ed., Music of Britain. C53.13  “Books: Of the Human Predicament,” Saturday Night 68, no. 23 (14 March 1953): 20-1. Book review of Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas; Phillip Polatin and Ellen C. Philtine, The Well-Adjusted Personality; and Marie Beynon Ray, The Best Years of Your Life. C53.14  “Books: The Full-Armed Theatre Critics,” Saturday Night 68, no. 24 (21 March 1953): 24-5. Book review of J.C. Trewin, A Play Tonight; T.C. Worsley, The Fugitive Art; John Mason Brown, As They Appear; Raymond Williams, Drama from Ibsen to Eliot; and Bernard Shaw, Plays and Players. C53.15  “Books: The Last of Santayana,” Saturday Night 68, no. 25 (28 March 1953): 22-3. Book review of George Santayana, My Host, The World, Vol. iii of

Persons and Places. Reprinted as “George Santayana” in A55. C53.16  “Books: The Master of Absolute Comedy,” Saturday Night 68, no. 26 (4 April 1953): 17-18. Book review of Edgar Johnson, Charles Dickens, His Tragedy and Triumph, 2 vols. C53.17  “Books: Guide to the Victorian Underworld,” Saturday Night 68, no. 27 (11 April 1953): 18b-19. Re Henry Mayhew. C53.18  “Books: The Manfred of Brooklyn,” Saturday Night 68, no. 28 (18 April 1953): 27-8. Book review of Quentin Reynolds, I, Willie Sutton and F. Tennyson Jesse, Murder and Its Motives. C53.19  “Excellent Recital Given by Lowe and Whittemore,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 April 1953, p. 13. Signed R.D. C53.20  “Books: What Is Wrong with Fiction?” Saturday Night 68, no. 29 (25 April 1953): 20-1. Book review of Jay Richard Kennedy, Prince Bart. C53.21  “Books: Bouquets for the Critics,” Saturday Night 68, no. 30 (2 May 1953): 11. Book review of E.K. Brown, Willa Cather; Edith Lewis, Willa Cather Living; Philip Young, Ernest Hemingway; Gilbert Highet, People, Places and Books; V.S. Pritchett, Books in General; and Desmond MacCarthy, Memories. C53.22  “Books: Fair, Good and Rare,” Saturday Night 68, no. 31 (9 May 1953): 20-1. Book review of Daphne du Maurier, The Apple Tree; Jacobine Hichens, Noughts and Crosses; and Anne de Tourville, Jabadao. C53.23  “Books: The Itchy Foot,” Saturday Night 68, no. 32 (16 May 1953): 26-7. Book review of David Dodge, The Poor Man’s Guide to Europe; Fielding’s Travel Guide to Europe; Richard Joseph, Your Trip to Britain; and Ashley Courtenay, Let’s Halt Awhile. C53.24  “Books: In Brief,” Saturday Night 68, no. 32 (16 May 1953): 27-8. Book review of Charles Clay, Long Live the Queen; Royal Homes Illustrated; Richard Dimbleby, Elizabeth our Queen; Compton Mackenzie, The Queen’s House; Marguerite D. Peacocke, Queen Mary, Her Life and Times; and Leonard Willberley, The Coronation Book. Signed R.D. C53.25  “Books: First Steps in Fiction,” Saturday Night 68, no. 33 (23 May 1953): 21-2. Book review of Bertrand Russell, Satan in the Suburbs and Leon Uris, Battle Cry. C53.26  “Books: A Potent Brew,” Saturday Night 68, no. 34 (30 May 1953): 17-18. Book review of Sagittarius [O. Katzin], Strasbourg Geese.



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C53.27  “Books: Country Pleasures,” Saturday Night 68, no. 35 (6 June 1953): 13. Book review of Beverley Nichols, Laughter on the Stairs. Signed R.D. C53.28  “Books: Let’s Hang an Architect!” Saturday Night 68, no. 35 (6 June 1953): 11-12. Book review of Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne, The Heart of the City and John Betjeman, First and Last Loves. C53.29  “Books: Nor Hell a Fury,” Saturday Night 68, no. 36 (13 June 1953): 24-5. Book review of Mary Macfadden and Emile Gauvreau, Dumbbells and Carrot Strips, the Story of Bernarr Macfadden. C53.30  “Books: Why Not Be a Collector?” Saturday Night 68, no. 37 (20 June 1953): 22, 24. Book review of John Carter, ABC for Book Collectors. Reprinted as “Book Collecting and Canadians: 1953” in A58. C53.31  “Books: The Prisoner of Immanence,” Saturday Night 68, no. 38 (27 June 1953): 20-1. Book review of Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (trans. H.M. Parshley). C53.32  “Too Much Feeling of Wrong Kind Found in Summer Theatre’s Play,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 June 1953, p. 13. C53.33  “Are Canadians Dull?” Peterborough Examiner, 3 July 1953, p. 4. Editorial. Reprinted as “Are Canadians Dull?: 1953” in A58. C53.34  “Books: But Are They All Horrid?” Saturday Night 68, no. 39 (4 July 1953): 15. Book review of August Derleth, ed., Worlds of Tomorrow; Everett F. Bleiler and T.E. Dikty, eds., Year’s Best Science Fiction Novels; and Groff Conklin and Lucy Conklin, eds., The Supernatural Reader.

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no. 43 (1 August 1953): 15. Book review of Upton Sinclair, The Return of Lanny Budd; P.G. Wodehouse, Ring for Jeeves; Edgar Mittelholzer, The Weather in Middenshot; and Ivy Compton-Burnett, The Present and the Past. C53.40  “Books: Shroud or Levee Dress?” Saturday Night 68, no. 44 (8 August 1953): 15-16. Book review of The Oxford Trollope, Crown edition and The New Oxford Illustrated Dickens. C53.41  “Books: The Dandy in the Stalls,” Saturday Night 68, no. 45 (15 August 1953): 15-16. Book review of Max Beerbohm, Around Theatres. C53.42  “Books: Seen Through a Temperament,” Saturday Night 68, no. 46 (22 August 1953): 13-14. Book review of Émile Zola, Restless House and F.W.J. Hemmings, Émile Zola. C53.43  “Books: In Brief,” Saturday Night, 68, no. 48 (5 September 1953): 18. Book review of Carrol Camden, The Elizabethan Woman. Signed R.D. C53.44  “Books: Adventures in Indecency,” Saturday Night 69, no. 1 (10 October 1953): 17-18. Book review of Paul Dinnage, trans., Marquis de Sade, with an Essay by Simone de Beauvoir and Selections from His Writings and Matthew G. Lewis, The Monk. C53.45  “Books: Two Thomases and One Cain,” Saturday Night 69, no. 2 (17 October 1953): 26-7. Book review of Dylan Thomas, The Doctor and the Devils; Gwyn Thomas, A Frost on My Frolic; James M. Cain, Galatea. C53.46  “Books: Anthology of Talk,” Saturday Night 69, no. 3 (24 October 1953): 22-3. Book review of James Sutherland, ed., The Oxford Book of English Talk. Excerpted on the front flap of the Canadian dust jacket of this book.

C53.35  “Books: Nonesuch Gloriously Revived,” Saturday Night 68, no. 40 (11 July 1953): 16-17. Review of Herbert Farjeon, ed., The Coronation Shakespeare, 4 vols.

C53.47  “Royal Conservatory Singers Present Opera with Success,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 October 1953, p. 9. Signed R.D.

C53.36  “Books: The American World of Words,” Saturday Night 68, no. 41 (18 July 1953): 15-16. Book review of Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language and Walt Kelly, Uncle Pogo’s So-So Stories.

C53.48  “Books: Can Carlyle Be Resurrected?” Saturday Night 69, no. 4 (31 October 1953): 16-17. Book review of G.M. Trevelyan, Carlyle, an Anthology and Trudy Bliss, ed., Thomas Carlyle, Letters to His Wife.

C53.37  “Books: For the Light of Heart,” Saturday Night 68, no. 42 (25 July 1953): 15. Re Reginald Reynolds. Excerpted as “Light-Hearted Scholarship and Canada: 1953” in A58.

C53.49  “Books: What Is in the Magazines?” Saturday Night 69, no. 5 (7 November 1953): 17-18. Book review of Cyril Connolly, Ideas and Places; Rudolf Flesch, comp., Best Articles 1953; and The Scribner Treasury.

C53.38  “Through Ritual to Romance,” Saturday Night 68, no. 43 (1 August 1953): 7-8. Reprinted as “Stratford: 1953: Richard iii / All’s Well That Ends Well” in A58.

C53.50  “Books: Dr. Neatby Punches the Pedagogues,” Saturday Night 69, no. 6 (14 November 1953): 22-3. Book review of Hilda Neatby, So Little for the Mind.

C53.39  “Books: What, No Novelists?” Saturday Night 68,

C53.51  “Books: Brethren in Sincerity,” Saturday Night

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69, no. 7 (21 November 1953): 26-7. Book review of D.S.R. Welland, The Pre-Raphaelites in Literature and Art. Reprinted as “Sincerity and Canadians: 1953” in A58. C53.52  “Books: Dumb Chumbs,” Saturday Night 69, no. 8 (28 November 1953): 26. Book review of Ilse Bischoff, Drive Slowly, Six Dogs and Beth Brown, Everybody’s Dog Book. Signed R.D. C53.53  “Books: Hollywood History,” Saturday Night 69, no. 8 (28 November 1953): 25-6. Book review of Samuel Shellabarger, Lord Vanity. Signed R.D. C53.54  “Books: The Muses’ Fairest Light,” Saturday Night 69, no. 8 (28 November 1953): 19-20. Book review of Marchette Chute, Ben Jonson of Westminster and Five Plays by Ben Jonson, World’s Classics, double vol. C53.55  “Books: Small at Sunhill,” Saturday Night 69, no. 8 (28 November 1953): 26. Book review of Emily Carr, Pause, a Sketch Book. Signed R.D. C53.56  “Books: Thoughts on Fiction,” Saturday Night 69, no. 8 (28 November 1953): 29. Book review of Robert Liddell, Some Principles of Fiction. Signed R.D. C53.57  “Books: A Man Who Was,” Saturday Night 69, no. 9 (5 December 1953): 27. Book review of Kerrison Preston, ed., Letters from Graham Robertson. Signed R.D. C53.58  “Books: Two Happy Travellers,” Saturday Night 69, no. 9 (5 December 1953): 26-7. Book review of Thomas Firbank, A Country of Memorable Honour and Robert Gibbings, Coming Down the Seine. C53.59  “Cyrano de Bergerac at PCVS Earns Whirlwind Success,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 December 1953, p. 13. Signed R.D. C53.60  “Books: Albums, Keepsakes and Table-Books,” Saturday Night 69, no. 10 (12 December 1953): 19-20. Book review of John Hadfield, ed., The Saturday Book 13; William Steig, The Steig Album; John A. Kouwenhoven, The Columbia Historical Portrait of New York. C53.61  “Books: You Too May Punctuate,” Saturday Night 69, no. 10 (12 December 1953): 22. Book review of Eric Partridge, You Have a Point There: A New and Complete Guide to Punctuation. C53.62  “Books: Light and Shade,” Saturday Night 69, no. 11 (19 December 1953): 20-1. Book review of Louis Kronenberger, ed., George Bernard Shaw: A Critical Survey and C.E.M. Joad, ed., Shaw and Society: An Anthology and a Symposium. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C53.63 Books: Milton Cross Stubs His Toe,” Saturday Night 69, no. 11 (19 December 1953): 18, 20. Book

review of Milton Cross’ Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music, 2 vols. C53.64  “Books: Our Own 100 Years’ War,” Saturday Night 69, no. 12 (26 December 1953): 14. Book review of William Cole, ed., The Best Humour from Punch; The Pick of Punch; and James Thurber, Thurber Country. C54.1  “Future of the Festival,” Second Annual Festival 1954 (1954): 5. Stratford Shakespearean Festival souvenir program. C54.2  “Books: Better Worlds Than This,” Saturday Night 69, no. 13 (2 January 1954): 14. Book review of Richard Usborne, Clubland Heroes and S.C. Roberts, Holmes and Watson. C54.3  “Books: The Urge to Confession,” Saturday Night 69, no. 14 (9 January 1954): 13. Book review of Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary; Emily Lutyens, A Blessed Girl; and [Frederick A. Pottle, ed.], Boswell on the Grand Tour. C54.4  “Janis Concert Satisfactory Rather Than Rewarding,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 January 1954, p. 15. Signed R.D. C54.5  “Books: Manners Makyth Man,” Saturday Night 69, no. 15 (16 January 1954): 13-14. Book review of Esquire editors, Esquire Etiquette; Clair Wallace, Mind Your Manners; and “Censor,” Don’t! A Manual of Mistakes. C54.6  “Books: The Children of Tchekov,” Saturday Night 69, no. 16 (23 January 1954): 14-15. Book review of Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield introduced by Elizabeth Bowen; The Stories of Frank O’Connor; The Complete Stories of Erskine Caldwell; and Gerald Kersch, The Brighton Monster. C54.7  “Books: Festivum Caput and Master Craftsman,” Saturday Night 69, no. 17 (30 January 1954): 13-14. Book review of P.G. Wodehouse, Performing Flea (ed. W. Townend). Reprinted as “P.G. Wodehouse” in A55. C54.8  “Books: From the Actor’s Theatre,” Saturday Night 69, no. 18 (6 February 1954): 18. Book review of George Rowell, ed., Nineteenth Century Plays. C54.9  “Books: Advice to the Players,” Saturday Night 69, no. 19 (13 February 1954): 20-1. Book review of Michael Redgrave, The Actor’s Ways and Means; Arthur Colby Sprague, Shakespearian Players and Performances; [Toby] Cole and [Helen Krich] Chinoy, eds., Directing the Play; Bertram Joseph, Conscience and the King; M.M. Reese, Shakespeare, His World and His Work; and John Allen, ed., Three Medieval Plays.



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C54.10  “Quartet, Pianist Provide Memorable Musical Evening,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 February 1954, p. 13. C54.11  “Books: The Explorer of the Unconscious,” Saturday Night 69, no. 20 (20 February 1954): 19-20. Book review of Ernest Jones, The Young Freud, vol. i of Sigmund Freud, Life and Work. Reprinted as “Sigmund Freud” in A55. C54.12  “Books: What Shall I Read Next?” Saturday Night 69, no. 21 (27 February 1954): 16-17. Book review of F. Seymour Smith, What Shall I Read Next?; Lionel McColvin, The Personal Library; and A.C. Ward, Illustrated History of English Literature, Vol. i, Chaucer to Shakespeare. C54.13  “Books: A Kingdom of This World,” Saturday Night 69, no. 22 (6 March 1954): 15-16. Book review of The Selected Novels of Somerset Maugham, 3 vols. C54.14  “Books: The Swan of the Liffey,” Saturday Night 69, no. 23 (13 March 1954): 17-18. Book review of Oliver St. John Gogarty, It Isn’t This Time of Year at All!; G.M. Trevelyan, A Layman’s Love of Letters; and Cyril Connolly, ed., Great English Short Novels. C54.15  “Books: It’s Not Art and It Isn’t Pretty,” Saturday Night 69, no. 24 (20 March 1954): 17-19. Book review of Bernard Berenson, Seeing and Knowing and André Malraux, The Voices of Silence (trans. Stuart Gilbert). Reprinted as “Seeing and Knowing / The Voices of Silence” in A55. C54.16  “Books: A Scoffer and a Jester,” Saturday Night 69, no. 25 (27 March 1954): 15-16. Book review of Nowell C. Smith, ed., The Letters of Sydney Smith, 2 vols. Reprinted as “Sydney Smith” in A55. C54.17  “Lois Marshall Reveals Singing of Great Artist,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 March 1954, p. 9. C54.18  “The Double Life of Robertson Davies,” Liberty 31, no. 2 (April 1954): 18-19, 53-8. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Excerpted in M.C. Bradbrook, Literature in Action: Studies in Continental and Commonwealth Society (London: Chatto and Windus, 1972), pp. 162-3. Revised in Carl F. Klinck and Reginald E. Watters, eds., Canadian Anthology (Toronto: W.J. Gage, 1966), pp. 393-400. C54.19  “Books: Congenial Horrors, Hail!” Saturday Night 69, no. 26 (3 April 1954): 20-1. Book review of Philip John Stead, Vidocq, Picaroon of Crime; Lord Dunboyne, Trial of John George Haigh; Joseph Dean, Hatred, Ridicule or Contempt; and Jack Smith-Hughes, Eight Studies in Justice.

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C54.20  “Books: A Good Word for Folly’s Child,” Saturday Night 69, no. 27 (10 April 1954): 17, 20. Book review of Doris Langley Moore, The Child in Fashion; Pearl Binder, Muffs and Morals; and Hanns Ebensten, Pierced Hearts and True Love. C54.21  “Books: Terry’s Aunt,” Saturday Night 69, no. 28 (17 April 1954): 18-19. Book review of The Collected Plays of Terence Rattigan, 2 vols.; Dorothy Parker and Arnaud d’Usseau, The Ladies of the Corridor; and Jerome Chodorov, et al., Wonderful Town. C54.22  “Books: How to, How to, How to,” Saturday Night 69, no. 29 (24 April 1954): 20-1. Book review of Mrs. Dale Carnegie, Help Your Husband Get Ahead; John Chandos, A Guide to Seduction; and Harry Overstreet and Bonaro Overstreet, The Mind Alive. C54.23  “Varied Program of Braggiotti Wins Audience,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 April 1954, p. 13. Signed R.D. C54.24  “Books: The Questers,” Saturday Night 69, no. 30 (1 May 1954): 30-2. Book review of J.B. Priestley, The Magicians and Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception. Reprinted as “The Magicians / The Doors of Perception” in A55. C54.25  “Books: Patrist and Matrist Created He Them,” Saturday Night 69, no. 31 (8 May 1954): 13-14. Book review of G. Rattray Taylor, Sex in History. C54.26  “Books: Not Folly or Incapacity,” Saturday Night 69, no. 32 (15 May 1954): 26-8. Book review of Janet Adam Smith, ed., The Faber Book of Children’s Verse and Morris Bishop, A Bowl of Bishop. C54.27  “Books: Sincere and Tender Pompadour,” Saturday Night 69, no. 33 (22 May 1954): 16-18. Book review of Nancy Mitford, Madame de Pompadour. Reprinted as “Madame de Pompadour” in A55. C54.28  “Books: Greetings Humanoids! Drag Over a Cyclotron,” Saturday Night 69, no. 35 (5 June 1954): 16-17. Book review of Frederic Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent. C54.29  “Books: From the World of the Manichees,” Saturday Night 69, no. 36 (12 June 1954): 16-18. Book review of Nikos Kazantzakis, Christ Reconciled and Emmanuel Royidis, Pope Joan (trans. Lawrence Durrell). C54.30  “Books: Control Your Nostalgia,” Saturday Night 69, no. 37 (19 June 1954): 15-16. Book review of Gerald Carson, The Old Country Store and Charles L. Wallis, Stories on Stone.

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C54.31  “Summer Theatre Opens Sixth Season in City,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 June 1954, p. 13. Signed R.D. C54.32  “Books: Not for Mrs. Jones the Gas,” Saturday Night 69, no. 38 (26 June 1954): 24-5. Book review of Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood. C54.33  “Books: Canadian Satire, Symposium and Song,” Saturday Night 69, no. 39 (3 July 1954): 13-14. Book review of Ralph Allen, The Chartered Libertine; G.P. Gilmour, ed., Canada’s Tomorrow; and E.F. Fowke and Richard Johnston, Folk Songs of Canada.

C54.42  “Books: Winter and Rough Weather,” Saturday Night 69, no. 44 (7 August 1954): 13-14. Book review of Christopher Fry, The Dark Is Light Enough and Edmund Wilson, Five Plays. C54.43  “Books: Was Lewis Carroll an Enigma?” Saturday Night 69, no. 45 (14 August 1954): 11-12. Book review of Roger Lancelyn Green, ed., The Diaries of Lewis Carroll, 2 vols. C54.44  “Books: Some Light on Leacock,” Saturday Night 69, no. 46 (21 August 1954): 11-12. Book review of George Mikes, Eight Humorists.

C54.34  “Stimulating and Thrilling to Watch: ‘Come Back, Little Sheba’ Is Best Production in Past Two Years of Summer Theatre Plays,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 July 1954, p. 3. Signed R.D.

C54.45  “Books: The Old Master and the Young One,” Saturday Night 69, no. 47 (28 August 1954): 13-14. Book review of Thomas Mann, The Black Swan and Aubrey Menen, Rama Retold.

C54.35  “Books: Bouillon Cubes for the Curious,” Saturday Night 69, no. 40 (10 July 1954): 13-14. Book review of [A. Arnold Baker and A. Dent, eds.], Everyman’s Dictionary of Dates; Everyman’s Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations; William Lovelock, A Concise History of Music; and James Friskin and Irwin Freundlich, Music for the Piano.

C54.46  “Books: The Fiction Habit,” Saturday Night 69, no. 48 (4 September 1954): 11-12. Book review of Igor Gouzenko, The Fall of a Titan; Peter De Vries, The Tunnel of Love; Helen Ashton, Footman in Powder; [Winifred] Bryher, The Roman Wall; Edward Hymans, Stories and Cream; Mary Bethune, Doctor Dear; March Cost [pseud.], Invitation from Minerva; Pamela Hansford Johnson, An Impossible Marriage; and Frances Parkinson Keyes, The Royal Box.

C54.36  “Stratford: Second Year an Air of Certainty,” Saturday Night 69, no. 41 (17 July 1954): 7-9. Reprinted as “Stratford: 1954: Measure for Measure / The Taming of the Shrew” in A58. C54.37  “Books: Studies in Frustration,” Saturday Night 69, no. 41 (17 July 1954): 13-14. Book review of Ethel Mannin, Two Studies in Integrity and Noel Coward, Future Indefinite. C54.38  “Books: For Hammock and Deck Chair,” Saturday Night 69, no. 42 (24 July 1954): 13-14. Book review of John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday; Graham McInnes, Lost Island; Ngaio Marsh, Spinsters in Jeopardy; Gladys Mitchell, Faintley Speaking; E.M. Remarque, A Time to Love and a Time to Die; Richard Llewellyn, A Flame for Doubting Thomas; and Daphne du Maurier, Mary Anne. C54.39  “Summer Theatre Offers Fine Production of ‘Rain,’” Peterborough Examiner, 27 July 1954, p. 5. Signed R.D. C54.40  “Books: Rosamond and Meddlesome Mattie,” Saturday Night 69, no. 43 (31 July 1954): 13-14. Book review of Percy Muir, English Children’s Books. C54.41  “Simplicity and Artifice Combine at Stratford,” Saturday Night 69, no. 43 (31 July 1954): 9-10. Reprinted as “Stratford: 1954: Oedipus Rex” in A58.

C54.47  “Books: A Chat with a Great Reader,” Saturday Night 69, no. 49 (11 September 1954): 24, 26. Reprinted in A55, and in the Windsor Star, 20 February 1988, p. E5. C54.48  “Books: The Age of the Amateur Writer,” Saturday Night 69, no. 50 (18 September 1954): 15-16. Book review of Kate Terry Gielgud, Kate Terry Gielgud and E.H. Sothern, Julia Marlowe’s Story. C54.49  “Books: Letters of a Cheerful Adventurer,” Saturday Night 69, no. 51 (25 September 1954): 15-16. Book review of Sigmund Freud, The Origins of PsychoAnalysis: Letters to Wilhelm Fliess, Drafts and Notes: 18871902, ed. Marie Bonaparte, Anna Freud, and Ernst Kris. C54.50  “Books: The Mould of Form,” Saturday Night 69, no. 52 (2 October 1954): 13-14. Book review of Norah Waugh, Corsets and Crinolines. Reprinted as “Corsets and Crinolines” in A55. C54.51  “Books: The Pleasures of Architecture,” Saturday Night 70, no. 1 (9 October 1954): 23-4. Book review of C[lough] Williams-Ellis and A[mabel] Williams-Ellis, The Pleasures of Architecture; Rose Macaulay, Pleasure of Ruins; Barbara Jones, Follies and Grottoes; Edmund Vale, Churches; and R. Allen Brown, Castles.



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C54.52  “Books: My, My, Said the Earl of Oxford,” Saturday Night 70, no. 2 (16 October 1954): 19-20. Book review of Cothburn O’Neal, The Dark Lady. C54.53  “Young Canadian Violinist Gives Concert,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 November 1954, p. 9. Signed R.D. C54.54  “Fine Quality Musicianship, Understanding in Jan Rubes,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 November 1954, p. 9. Signed R.D. C54.55  “Christmas Supplement: Books: Humor Explained and Demonstrated,” Saturday Night 70, no. 8 (27 November 1954): 10-11. Book review of Stephen Potter, Sense of Humour; Patrick Campbell’s Omnibus, with drawings by Ronald Searle; Daniel George, Lonely Pleasures; and The Pick of Punch. C54.56  “Books: In Compliment to the Young,” Saturday Night 70, no. 9 (4 December 1954): 19-20. Book review of Laura E. Salt and Robert Sinclair, eds., Oxford Junior Encyclopedia, 12 vols. and Percy A. Scholes, The Oxford Junior Companion to Music. C54.57  “The Late B.K. Sandwell,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 December 1954, p. 4. Editorial. Reprinted as “B.K. Sandwell: 1954” in A58. C54.58  “Books: Scandal Recollected in Tranquillity,” Saturday Night 70, no. 10 (11 December 1954): 17-18. Book review of Vyvyan Holland, Son of Oscar Wilde and Robert Shaplen, Free Love and Heavenly Sinners. C54.59  “Books: ‘Twas the Night Before ...,’” Saturday Night 70, no. 11 (18 December 1954): 23-5. C54.60  “Books: A Classic at Christmas,” Saturday Night 70, no. 12 (25 December 1954): 10-11. Re E.T.A. Hoffmann. C55.1  “The Stratford Festival,” The Annual Stratford Shakespearean 1955 Festival of Drama and Music (1955): [5]-[6]. Souvenir program. C55.2  “Books: Truthful Jane in a Handsome Dress,” Saturday Night 70, no. 13 (1 January 1955): 14-15. Book review of R.W. Chapman, ed., Minor Works, Vol. vi of The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen. C55.3  “Books: Love Is Not a Potato,” Saturday Night 70, no. 14 (8 January 1955): 12-13. Book review of E.S. Turner, A History of Courting; Donald Day, The Evolution of Love; and John Langdon-Davies, Sex, Sin and Sanctity. C55.4  “Books: The Pitfalls of Scepticism,” Saturday Night 70, no. 15 (15 January 1955): 13-14. Book review of Bergen Evans, The Spoor of Spooks and Other Nonsense.

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C55.5  “Books: A Chat about Some Plays,” Saturday Night 70, no. 16 (22 January 1955): 11-12. Book review of Jean-Paul Sartre, Kean; Ronald Duncan, Don Juan; Plays by Gordon Daviot; Walter Macken, Home Is the Hero; and Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. C55.6  “Books: Pertinent and Impertinent Critics,” Saturday Night 70, no. 17 (29 January 1955): 11-12. Book review of Malcolm Cowley, The Literary Situation; Somerset Maugham, Ten Novels and Their Authors; Kathleen Tillotson, Novels of the Eighteen-Forties; Geoffrey Tillotson, Thackeray the Novelist; and Walter Allen, The English Novel. C55.7  “A Maker of Queen’s,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 February 1955, p. 4. Editorial. Reprinted as “R.C. Wallace: 1955” in A58. C55.8  “Splendid Technical Show Given by Two-Piano Artists,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 February 1955, p. 9. Signed R.D. C55.9  “Books: Portrait of the Artist at Extreme Length,” Saturday Night 70, no. 18 (5 February 1955): 12-13. Book review of Sean O’Casey, Sunset and Evening Star; Dylan Thomas, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog; and Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning. Excerpted as “Sean O’Casey” in A55. C55.10  “Society Presents Comic Opera in Fine Style,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 February 1955, p. 13. Signed R.D. C55.11  “Books: Decisions of a Constant Weeder,” Saturday Night 70, no. 19 (12 February 1955): 16, 18. C55.12  “Books: Catching Your Great Man,” Saturday Night 70, no. 20 (19 February 1955): 14-15. Book review of Nancy Cunard, Grand Man; Joan Evans, John Ruskin; Robert Sage, ed. and trans., The Private Diaries of Stendhal; and Ernest J. Lovell, His Very Self and Voice. C55.13  “Most Satisfying Program Presented by Dance Group,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 February 1955, p. 17. Signed R.D. C55.14  “Books: Fiction before the Revolution,” Saturday Night 70, no. 21 (26 February 1955): 12-13. Book review of J. Meade Falkner, The Nebuly Coat and The Lost Stradivarius; Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, The Wrong Box; and Charles Morgan, On Learning to Write. C55.15  “Books: The Delights of Despair,” Saturday Night 70, no. 22 (5 March 1955): 14-15. Book review of Simone de Beauvoir, All Men Are Mortal; Zoé Oldenbourg, The Cornerstone; H.F.M Prescott, The Unhurrying

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Chase; Alexander Baron, The Golden Princess; and Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Flint Anchor. C55.16  “Books: The Swan of Ballynahinch,” Saturday Night 70, no. 23 (12 March 1955): 14-15. Book review of Jack Loudan, O Rare Amanda! C55.17  “Books: The Couch — Ouch!” Saturday Night 70, no. 24 (19 March 1955): 14-15. Book review of Joseph Wortis, Fragments of an Analysis with Freud and Robert Lindner, The Fifty-Minute Hour. C55.18  “Books: Spite in the Service of Truth,” Saturday Night 70, no. 25 (26 March 1955): 14-15. Book review of A.W. Lawrence, ed., T.E. Lawrence by His Friends; Richard Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, A Biographical Inquiry; and T.E. Lawrence, The Mint. C55.19  “Books: For the Musical Amateur,” Saturday Night 70, no. 26 (2 April 1955): 13-14. Book review of Dom Anselm Hughes, ed., Early Mediaeval Music Up to 1300, Vol. ii of the New Oxford History of Music; Eric Blom, Everyman’s Dictionary of Music; and Ernest Newman, Seventeen Famous Operas, More Stories of Famous Operas, and The Wagner Operas. C55.20  “Philharmonic Choir Given Much Enthusiastic Applause,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 April 1955, p. 13. Signed R.D. C55.21  “Books: The Search for the Historical Jesus,” Saturday Night 70, no. 27 (9 April 1955): 14-15. Book review of Robert Graves and Joshua Podro, The Nazarene Gospel Restored. C55.22  “Books: Four Sunny Windows,” Saturday Night 70, no. 28 (16 April 1955): 14-15. Book review of John P. Marquand, Sincerely, Willis Wayde; Ludwig Bemelmans, To the One I Love the Best; John Pudney, The Smallest Room; and Cornelia Otis Skinner, Bottoms Up! C55.23  “Books: Youth Loves Strong Meat,” Saturday Night 70, no. 29 (23 April 1955): 14-15. Book review of Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse; Hugo Claus, The Duck Hunt; and Odette Joyeux, Open Arms. C55.24  “Books: The Writer in the Attic,” Saturday Night 70, no. 30 (30 April 1955): 11-12. Reprinted as “Literature in Canada: 1955” in A58. C55.25  “Books: How to Be Wise without Tears,” Saturday Night 70, no. 31 (14 May 1955): 22-3. Re proverbs. C55.26  “Books: A Week with Middlemarch,” Saturday Night 70, no. 32 (28 May 1955): 24-6. Book review of George Eliot, Middlemarch. C55.27  “Books: Shakespeare Living and Dead,” Saturday Night 70, no. 33 (11 June 1955): 21-3. Book review

of Robert Speaight, William Poel and the Elizabethan Revival; G.B. Harrison, ed., The Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar (The New Stratford Shakespeare); Ernest Marshall Howse, Spiritual Values in Shakespeare; John Garrett, ed., Talking of Shakespeare; and Allardyce Nicoll, ed., Shakespeare Survey 8. C55.28  “Books: Literature’s Twin Sister,” Saturday Night 70, no. 34 (25 June 1955): 31-2, 34. Book review of Samuel Eliot Morison, ed., The Parkman Reader; G. Huehns, ed., Clarendon; C.V. Wedgwood, The King’s Peace and [G.E. Daniel, et al], Myth or Legend. C55.29  “Players Are Well Suited to Play ‘Sabrina Fair,’” Peterborough Examiner, 5 July 1955, p. 3. Signed R.D. C55.30  “Books: An Approaching Revolution,” Saturday Night 70, no. 35 (9 July 1955): 19-20. Book review of Rupert Croft-Cooke, The Verdict of You All. C55.31  “Summer Theatre Presents ‘What the Hay,’” Peterborough Examiner, 19 July 1955, p. 9. Signed R.D. C55.32  “Books: How Not to Write a Book,” Saturday Night 70, no. 36 (23 July 1955): 25, 27-8. Book review of Walter Kerr, How Not to Write a Play. C55.33  “Stratford: Firm and Permanent Growth,” Saturday Night 70, no. 36 (23 July 1955): 7-8. C55.34  “Cast Captures Wilde Style to Give Fine Performance,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 July 1955, p. 3. Signed R.D. C55.35  “Books: A Contrast in Novelists,” Saturday Night 70, no. 37 (6 August 1955): 20-2. Book review of Joyce Cary, Not Honour More; Salvador de Madariaga, A Bunch of Errors; and Robert Ruark, Something of Value. Excerpted as “Joyce Cary’s Novels” in A55. C55.36  “Books: Pastime for Potential Criminals,” Saturday Night 70, no. 38 (20 August 1955): 18-20. Book review of Robert Crossland, Wainewright in Tasmania; Gerald MacMillan, Honours for Sale; Rebecca West, A Train of Powder; Montgomery Hyde, United in Crime; and Jack Smith-Hughes, Six Ventures in Villainy. C55.37  “Good All-Round Production This Week’s Theatre Fare,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 August 1955, p. 9. Signed R.D. C55.38  “Books: What the Novelists Are Doing,” Saturday Night 70, no. 41 (1 October 1955): 23, 25-6. Book review of Wyndham Lewis, Self Condemned; Frederic Prokosch, A Tale for Midnight; and Aldous Huxley, The Genius and the Goddess. C55.39  “Books: Elephantine Novels,” Saturday Night



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70, no. 42 (15 October 1955): 31-4. Book review of Evelyn Waugh, Officers and Gentlemen; Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar; and Thomas B. Costain, The Tontine.

Night 70, no. 50 (4 February 1956): 18, 20. Book review of Gordon N. Ray, Thackeray: The Uses of Adversity 1811-1846 and A.O.J. Cockshut, Anthony Trollope, a Critical Study.

C55.40  “Books: The Last of Fortune’s Favorite,” Saturday Night 70, no. 43 (29 October 1955): 26-8. Book review of Thomas Mann, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man. Reprinted as “Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man” in A55.

C56.5  “Books: An Old Favorite and a New One,” Saturday Night 70, no. 51 (18 February 1956): 24-5. Book review of Winter’s Tales I and Francis Meynell, ed., The Week-End Book.

C55.41  “Books: Let’s See Your Licence,” Saturday Night 70, no. 44 (12 November 1955): 39-42. Book review of Stuart Trueman, Cousin Elva; Lex Schrag, Mortgage Manor; Eric Nicol, Shall We Join the Ladies? Reprinted as “Cousin Elva / Mortgage Manor / Shall We Join the Ladies?: 1955” in A58. C55.42  “The Sound of a Voice That Is Still,” Saturday Night 70, no. 45 (26 November 1955): 11-12. Book review of Maurice B. Willson Disher, Victorian Song, or from Dive to Drawing Room and Roland Gelatt, The Fabulous Phonograph. C55.43  “How Italic Began,” Italic (Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Italic Handwriting, Toronto, on) no. 1 (December 1955): 2-3. C55.44  “What’s There to Read?” Italic (Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Italic Handwriting, Toronto, on) no. 1 (December 1955): 8. Book review of Aubrey West, Written by Hand; Alfred Fairbank, A Handwriting Manual; Philip A. Burgoyne, Cursive Handwriting. C55.45  “Books: The Reindeer’s Mouth,” Saturday Night 70, no. 46 (10 December 1955): 35-6, 39-40. Brief reviews of many books. C55.46  “Books: A Ceremony of Chortles,” Saturday Night 70, no. 47 (24 December 1955): 18-20. Book review of Max Beerbohm, A Christmas Garland. Reprinted as “A Christmas Garland” in A55. C55.47  “Books: In Brief,” Saturday Night 70, no. 47 (24 December 1955): 20. Book review of Anthony West, Heritage. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C56.1  “The Festival Grows,” 1956 Stratford Shakespearean Festival (1956): [5]-[6]. Souvenir program. C56.2  “Books: A Backward Glance,” Saturday Night 70, no. 48 (7 January 1956): 13-14. C56.3  “Books: A Forward Look,” Saturday Night 70, no. 49 (21 January 1956): 21-2. Book review of Ernest Jones, Years of Maturity, 1901-1919, vol. ii of Sigmund Freud, Life and Work. C56.4  “Books: Repairing Two Reputations,” Saturday

C56.6  “The Genius of Dr. Guthrie,” Theatre Arts 40, no. 3 (March 1956): 28-30, 90. C56.7  “Books: The Vanity of the Living,” Saturday Night 70, no. 52 (3 March 1956): 16-17. Book review of R.W. Habenstein and W.M. Lamers, The History of American Funeral Directing. C56.8  “Books: Avant-Garde and Rearguard,” Saturday Night 71, no. 1 (17 March 1956): 22, 25. Book review of Samuel Beckett, Molloy; Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge; and Kelvin Lindemann, The Red Umbrellas. C56.9  “For Your Italic Library,” Italic (Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Italic Handwriting, Toronto, on) no. 2 (Spring 1956): 6. Brief book reviews by Davies and Kenneth Hardacre. There is no indication as to which one reviewed which books. C56.10  “How Italic Began–II: The Age of Twiddling Manners,” Italic (Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Italic Handwriting, Toronto, on) no. 2 (Spring 1956): 8-9. C56.11  “Books: The Clouded Target,” Saturday Night 71, no. 2 (31 March 1956): 15-16. Book review of Winifred Bannister, James Bridie and His Theatre; Charles Rigby, Kathleen Ferrier; J.C. Trewin, Mr. Macready; Charles Carrington, Rudyard Kipling, His Life and Work; and Aileen Pippett, The Moth and the Star. C56.12  “The Palest Ink,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 April 1956, p. 4. Editorial. Reprinted in A55. C56.13  “Books: Moderate and Middlebrow,” Saturday Night 71 [misprinted as 72], no. 3 (14 April 1956): 268. Book review of Clarence L. Barnhart, ed., The New Century Handbook of English Literature and A.C. Ward, Illustrated History of English Literature, 3 vols. C56.14  “Present Macbeth on Birthday of Shakespeare,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 April 1956, p. 9. Signed R.D. C56.15  “Books: A Matter of Morality,” Saturday Night 71 [misprinted as 72], no. 4 (28 April 1956): 20-1. Book review of Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim and That Uncertain Feeling and Gwyn Thomas, Point of Order.

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C56.16  “Spring Book Reviews: Invaluable Advice to Young Writers,” Saturday Night 71 [misprinted as 72], no. 5 (12 May 1956): 13-14. Book review of Bernard Shaw, Advice to a Young Critic. C56.17  “Spring Book Reviews: Spiritual Travel,” Saturday Night 71 [misprinted as 72], no. 5 (12 May 1956): 19. Book review of Aldous Huxley, Heaven & Hell. Signed R.D. C56.18  “Spring Book Reviews: Tender Spot,” Saturday Night 71 [misprinted as 72], no. 5 (12 May 1956): 18. Book review of Graham Greene, The Quiet American. Signed R.D. C56.19  “Canada’s Great Playwright,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 May 1956, p. 4. Editorial. Reprinted as “Canada’s Great Playwright: 1956” in A58. C56.20  “Books: Fearsome Edge,” Saturday Night 71, no. 6 (26 May 1956): 24. Book review of Sylvia Townsend Warner, Winter in the Air [and Other Stories]. C56.21  “Books: The Hot Islands,” Saturday Night 71, no. 6 (26 May 1956): 24. Book review of Alec Waugh, Island in the Sun. Signed R.D. C56.22  “Books: Skittles and Champagne for Two,” Saturday Night 71, no. 6 (26 May 1956): 22-3. Book review of Cyril Pearl, The Girl with the Swansdown Seat; Aubrey Menen, The Abode of Love; Raymond Postgate, 1848. Reprinted as “The Girl with the Swansdown Seat / The Abode of Love / 1848” in A55. C56.23  “Books: The Romantic Temperament,” Saturday Night 71, no. 7 (9 June 1956): 22, 25. Book review of John Malcolm Brinnin, Dylan Thomas in America and Hector Berlioz, Evenings with the Orchestra (trans. Jacques Barzun). Reprinted as “Dylan Thomas and Hector Berlioz” in A55. C56.24  “Books: A Dissatisfaction of Critics,” Saturday Night 71, no. 8 (23 June 1956): 16-17. Book review of Alfred Harbage, Theatre for Shakespeare; Ivor Brown, et al., Theatre 1954-5; Roger Wood and Mary Clarke, Shakespeare at the Old Vic 1954-5; The Oxford Shakespeare; Sean O’Casey, The Bishop’s Bonfire; and Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot. C56.25  “Theatre Opens Season with Good Play,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 June 1956, p. 13. Signed R.D. C56.26  “A Good Word for Marriage,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 June 1956, p. 4. Editorial. Attribution: a note from Davies to grant. C56.27  “Books: The Softenings of Fancy,” Saturday Night 71, no. 9 (7 July 1956): 22-3. Book review of Peter De Vries, Comfort Me with Apples; William Saroyan,

Mama I Love You; Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins; and A.J. Cronin, A Thing of Beauty. C56.28  “Stratford’s Critical Season Opens,” Saturday Night 71, no. 9 (7 July 1956): 7-8. C56.29  “Summer Theatre Company Offers Top Entertainment,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 July 1956, p. 9. Signed R.D. C56.30  “Mystery Farce Presented Successfully as Period Piece,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 July 1956, p. 13. Signed R.D. C56.31  “Books: The Soaring Penguin,” Saturday Night 71, no. 10 (21 July 1956): 22-3. Book review of William Emrys Williams, The Penguin Story and nine novels by John Buchan. C56.32  “The Rainmaker Given Fine Production at Theatre,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 July 1956, p. 9. Signed R.D. C56.33  “‘Black Chiffon’ in Modern Vein Melodrama,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 July 1956, p. 9. Signed R.D. C56.34  “Books: The Hundred-Yard Dash,” Saturday Night 71, no. 11 (4 August 1956): 18-19. Book review of V.S. Pritchett, Collected Stories; William Sansom, A Contest of Ladies; Gwyn Jones, ed., Welsh Short Stories; and Cynthia Asquith, ed., The Third Ghost Book. C56.35  “Drama Wuthering Heights Given Excellent Production,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 August 1956, p. 9. Signed R.D. C56.36  “Books: English Jokes and Shibboleths,” Saturday Night 71, no. 12 (18 August 1956): 23-4. Book review of Harold Nicolson, The English Sense of Humour and Nancy Mitford, et al., Noblesse Oblige. C56.37  “Summer Theatre Happily Gets Seven Year Itch,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 August 1956, p. 9. Signed R.D. C56.38  “Theatre Ends Good Season with Successful Play,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 August 1956, p. 9. Signed R.D. C56.39  “Books: That Dares Not Speak Its Name,” Saturday Night 71, no. 13 (1 September 1956): 16-17. Book review of Angus Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes; Compton Mackenzie, Thin Ice; and Tudor Rees, ed., They Stand Apart. C56.40  “Stratford Revisited: Amazing Festival,” Saturday Night 71, no. 13 (1 September 1956): 14-15. C56.41  “Books: The American Critical Mind,” Saturday Night 71, no. 14 (15 September 1956): 25-6. Book



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review of H.L. Mencken, Minority Report; Mary McCarthy, Sights and Spectacles, Theatre Chronicles 1937-56; and Edmund Wilson, Red, Black, Blonde, and Olive.

C56.52  “Christmas Book Supplement: Gossiping Traveller,” Saturday Night 71, no. 19 (24 November 1956): 36. Book review of Wilfrid Blunt, Sebastiano.

C56.42  “Books: How Widely Do You Read?” Saturday Night 71, no. 15 (29 September 1956): 20-1. Book review of J.B. Priestley, All about Ourselves and Other Essays; Sheila Kaye-Smith, All the Books of My Life; John Hayward, ed., The Penguin Book of English Verse; Kenneth Muir, ed., The Pelican Book of English Prose; C. Day Lewis and John Lehmann, eds., The Chatto Book of Modern Poetry; and Brian W. Aldiss, The Brightfount Diaries.

C56.53  “Books: Dingley Dell & Commercial Hell,” Saturday Night 71, no. 20 (8 December 1956): 27-8.

C56.43  “Books: Five from Autumn Fiction,” Saturday Night 71, no. 16 (13 October 1956): 29-31. Book review of Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice; Françoise Sagan, A Certain Smile; Wallace Reyburn, Follow a Shadow; John Barth, The Floating Opera; Somerset Maugham, The Magician. Excerpted as “The Sacrifice: 1956” in A58. C56.44  “The Writer in Canada,” Publishers Weekly 170, no. 16 (15 October 1956): 1864-7. C56.45  “Books: The Age of Opulence,” Saturday Night 71, no. 17 (27 October 1956): 29-30. Book review of Virginia Cowles, Edward vii and His Circle and L.E. Jones, An Edwardian Youth. C56.46  “Drama Mailbag: Non-U,” New York Times, 28 October 1956, sec. 2, p. X3. Letter to the Drama Editor in which Davies playfully points to a “crux” in Richard ii that is apparent to followers of Nancy Mitford’s “revelations” about “U” (Upper-class) and “Non-U” speech. Reprinted in A93. C56.47  “Books: A Cranky Life of GBS,” Saturday Night 71, no. 18 (10 November 1956): 20-1. Book review of St. John Ervine, Bernard Shaw, His Life, Work and Friends. C56.48  “Madrigal Singers Approach Perfection in Performance,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 November 1956, p. 27. Signed R.D. C56.49  “Christmas Book Supplement: The Bitter Draught,” Saturday Night 71, no. 19 (24 November 1956): 37. Book review of Gustav Schenk, The Book of Poisons. Signed R.D. C56.50  “Christmas Book Supplement: Choirs of Angels,” Saturday Night 71, no. 19 (24 November 1956): 35-6. Book review of Angus Heriot, The Castrati in Opera. C56.51  “Christmas Book Supplement: Enquire within upon Everything,” Saturday Night 71, no. 19 (24 November 1956): 29-30. Book review of Alan Pryce-Jones, The New Outline of Modern Knowledge.

C56.54  “Books: Christmas with Joe Miller,” Saturday Night 71, no. 21 (22 December 1956): 19-20. Book review of Leonardo da Vinci (reprint of 1938 edition by Istituto Geografico de Agostini); Mary McCarthy, Venice Observed; and Joseph Mottley and Joe Miller, Joe Miller’s Jests. C57.1  “[Acceptance of Dedication],” Bishop’s University Yearbook (1957): 4. The dedication itself appears on page 3, below a photograph of Davies:  “This volume is respectfully dedicated to Robertson Davies, man of letters, who has enriched a small but growing Canadian culture.” C57.2  “The Permanent Theatre,” 1957 Stratford Festival (1957): [5]-[6]. Souvenir program. C57.3  “Stephen Leacock,” College Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) 100, no. 2, Centennial Issue 1857-1957 (Centenary 1957): 14-16. Reprinted as “Stephen Leacock: Editor of the College Times 1886-87,” Old Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) (Summer 1996): 9-10. C57.4  “Books: Stress as Angel and Devil,” Saturday Night 72, no. 1 (5 January 1957): 14-15. Book review of Hans Selye, The Stress of Life. C57.5  “Shakespeare Comedy Given Charming Production,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 January 1957, p. 17. Signed R.D. C57.6  “Books: Posthumous Punching of Father,” Saturday Night 72, no. 2 (19 January 1957): 15-16. Book review of Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night. C57.7  “Books: The Oak and the Mistletoe,” Saturday Night 72, no. 3 (2 February 1957): 16-17. Book review of William Golding, Pincher Martin; Frank O’Connor, The Mirror in the Roadway; Anthony Beal, ed., D.H. Lawrence, Selected Literary Criticism; and Aldous Huxley, ed., The Letters of D.H. Lawrence. C57.8  “Books: Not Really Ribald,” Saturday Night 72, no. 4 (16 February 1957): 27-8. Book review of Louis Untermeyer, ed., A Treasury of Ribaldry and J.R. Ackerley, My Dog Tulip. C57.9  “Books: Edwardian Amateur of Genius,” Saturday Night 72 no. 5 (2 March 1957): 19-20. Book review

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of Hesketh Pearson, Beerbohm Tree, His Life and Laughter and Robert Graves, Catacrok!

of E.S. Turner, Gallant Gentlemen and Ivor Brown, Dark Ladies.

C57.10  “Books: What about a Show of Courage?” Saturday Night 72, no. 6 (16 March 1957): 20-1. Book review of Albert Camus, The Fall (trans. Justin O’Brien) and Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows.

C57.21  “Books: No Rubbish,” Saturday Night 72, no. 11 (25 May 1957): 31. Book review of Gerald Stevens, The Canadian Collector. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C57.11  “Books: Drawing the Line,” Saturday Night 72, no. 7 (30 March 1957): 12-13. Book review of Low’s Autobiography; Fougasse [C.K. Bird], The Goodtempered Pencil; Sprod [Thomas Lunsford Stokes], Chips off a Shoulder; and Ronald Searle, Merry England. C57.12  “Books: Chaucer on a Bull Market,” Saturday Night 72, no. 8 (13 April 1957): 34-5. Book review of Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (trans. Neville Coghill) and John Morris, ed., From the Third Programme: A Ten Years’ Anthology. Excerpted and revised as “The Canterbury Tales” in A55. C57.13  “Books: Gruesome Game,” Saturday Night 72, no. 8 (13 April 1957): 40. Book review of Christina Hole, A Mirror of Witchcraft. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C57.14  “Books: The Tireless Spirit,” Saturday Night 72, no. 8 (13 April 1957): 41. Book review of Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C57.15  “Books: Caught Flat-Footed,” Saturday Night 72, no. 9 (27 April 1957): 32. Book review of Richard Bissell, Say, Darling. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C57.16  “Books: One of the Necessities,” Saturday Night 72, no. 9 (27 April 1957): 29-30. Book review of Henry James, The Painter’s Eye (ed. John L. Sweeney); Kenneth Clark, The Nude: a Study in Ideal Form; and Geoffrey Keynes, ed., The Letters of William Blake. Excerpted as “The Painter’s Eye / The Nude” in A55. C57.17  “Books: Peanut Gallery,” Saturday Night 72, no. 10 (11 May 1957): 28. Book review of Diana Barrymore and Gerold Frank, Too Much, Too Soon. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C57.22  “Books: Pen in Hand,” Saturday Night 72, no. 11 (25 May 1957): 30. Book review of Anthony West, Principles and Persuasions. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C57.23  “Books: Voice of France,” Saturday Night 72, no. 11 (25 May 1957): 29. Book review of John Lehmann, ed., Modern French Stories. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C57.24  “Books: Handyman in the Theatre,” Saturday Night 72, no. 12 (8 June 1957): 23-4. Book review of George Rowell, The Victorian Theatre; C.B. Purdom, ed., The Shaw-Barker Letters; Frances Donaldson, Freddy Lonsdale; and Ben Travers, Vale of Laughter. C57.25  “Books: Hardy: Twenty Years After,” Saturday Night 72, no. 13 (22 June 1957): 23-4. Book review of Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd and the first ten volumes of Macmillan’s paperback reprints of St. Martin’s Library. Excerpted as “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” in A55. C57.26  “Books: Plan for Planners,” Saturday Night 72, no. 13 (22 June 1957): 24. Book review of Nikolaus Pevsner, The Englishness of English Art. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C57.27  “Books: The Lovable Man,” Saturday Night 72, no. 14 (6 July 1957): 24. Book review of D.B. Wyndham Lewis, ed., G.K. Chesterton. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C57.28  “Books: Man of Integrity,” Saturday Night 72, no. 14 (6 July 1957): 24. Book review of Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C57.29  “Stratford, 1957: Magnificent, Masterful,” Saturday Night 72, no. 15 (20 July 1957): 8-9, 35.

C57.18  “Books: Real Thriller,” Saturday Night 72, no. 10 (11 May 1957): 28. Book review of Charles Raven, Underworld Nights. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C57.30  “Books: The Sea Around,” Saturday Night 72, no. 16 (3 August 1957): 23. Book review of James Fisher, The Wonderful World of the Sea. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C57.19  “Books: The Great Reader Learns,” Saturday Night 72, no. 10 (11 May 1957): 26-7. Book review of Hugh Williamson, Methods of Book Design: the Practice of an Industrial Craft.

C57.31  “Books: Tragic Clash,” Saturday Night 72, no. 16 (3 August 1957): 23. Book review of Zoé Oldenbourg, The Awakened. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C57.20  “Books: Gentlemen and Dark Ladies,” Saturday Night 72, no. 11 (25 May 1957): 25-7. Book review

C57.32  “Books: Writing Rector,” Saturday Night 72, no. 16 (3 August 1957): 24. Book review of W.E.



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Purcell, Onward Christian Soldier. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

Malraux, Saturn: An Essay on Goya. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C57.33  “Books: Two-Thirds,” Saturday Night 72, no. 17 (17 August 1957): 23. Book review of Ogden Nash, You Can’t Get There from Here. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C57.45  “Books: The Stream and the Creek,” Saturday Night 72, no. 22 (26 October 1957): 25-6. Book review of Bergen Evans and Cornelia Evans, A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage and Margaret Nicholson, A Dictionary of American-English Usage.

C57.34  “Large Audience Enjoys Season’s Last Production,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 August 1957, p. 13. Signed R.D.

C57.46  “First Symphony Concert Fulfills Dream for Centre,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 October 1957, p. 23.

C57.35  “Books: Background Study,” Saturday Night 72, no. 18 (31 August 1957): 25. Book review of Cecil Gould, An Introduction to Italian Renaissance Painting. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C57.47  “Autumn Book Reviews: Canada’s Story,” Saturday Night 72, no. 23 (9 November 1957): 41. Book review of Donald Creighton, Dominion of the North. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C57.36  “Books: The Regicides,” Saturday Night 72, no. 18 (31 August 1957): 25. Book review of Hugh Ross Williamson, The Day They Killed the King. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C57.48  “Autumn Book Reviews: A Delicate Art,” Saturday Night 72, no. 23 (9 November 1957): 40. Book review of Ludwig Bemelmans, The Woman of My Life. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C57.37  “Books: The Revealing Pen,” Saturday Night 72, no. 19 (14 September 1957): 24. Book review of Lois Boe Hyslop and Francis E. Hyslop, eds., Baudelaire: A Self Portrait. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C57.49  “Autumn Book Reviews: The Duty to Enjoy Oneself,” Saturday Night 72, no. 23 (9 November 1957): 33-5. Book review of David Cecil, The Fine Art of Reading and Gilbert Highet, Talents and Geniuses.

C57.38  “Dolly Gray Replies,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 September 1957, p. 5. In this column of mock advice to the lovelorn, Davies was Dolly Gray and Ralph Hancox (the Peterborough Examiner’s assistant editor) wrote the letters from people seeking advice.

C57.50  “Autumn Book Reviews: Great Man’s Tale,” Saturday Night 72, no. 23 (9 November 1957): 43. Book review of Winston S. Churchill, The Age of Revolution, Vol. 3 of A History of the English Speaking Peoples. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C57.39  “Books: Servant of the White Goddess,” Saturday Night 72, no. 20 (28 September 1957): 32-3. Book review of Robert Graves, They Hanged My Saintly Billy and The Crowning Privilege.

C57.51  “Autumn Book Reviews: Travel High Spot,” Saturday Night 72, no. 23 (9 November 1957): 44. Book review of Honor Tracy, Silk Hats and No Breakfast. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C57.40  “Books: Back to Maturity?” Saturday Night 72, no. 21 (12 October 1957): 25-7. Book review of James Gould Cozzens, By Love Possessed and Evelyn Waugh, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold.

C57.52  “Totenberg Group Opens Concert Season: Earns Enthusiasm of Capacity Audience,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 November 1957, p. 21.

C57.41  “Books: Dog of Genius,” Saturday Night 72, no. 21 (12 October 1957): 27-8. Book review of Farley Mowat, The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C57.42  “Books: Empty People,” Saturday Night 72, no. 21 (12 October 1957): 28. Book review of Floyd C. Watkins, Thomas Wolfe’s Characters. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C57.43  “Passion Play Acting Poor, Attendance Too,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 October 1957, pp. 17, 29. C57.44  “Books: Pervading Gloom,” Saturday Night 72, no. 22 (26 October 1957): 26-7. Book review of André

C57.53  “Books: Industrious Anthologists,” Saturday Night 72, no. 24 (23 November 1957): 25-6. Book review of Bennett Cerf, ed., Reading for Pleasure; Philip Dunway and Mel Evans, eds. A Treasury of the World’s Great Diaries; and Howard E. Hugo, ed., The Romantic Reader. C57.54  “Books: Tycoon Triumphant,” Saturday Night 72, no. 24 (23 November 1957): 27. Book review of Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C57.55  “Books: Fourteen for the Twenty-Fifth,” Saturday Night 72, no. 25 (7 December 1957): 25-6. C57.56  “Books: Map Happy,” Saturday Night 72, no. 25 (7 December 1957): 30. Book review of The Canadian

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Oxford Atlas of the World and Canadian Oxford Desk Atlas. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C57.57  “Books: World of Painting,” Saturday Night 72, no. 25 (7 December 1957): 30. Book review of [Georges Bernier and Rosamund Bernier], Aspects of Modern Art, selected from L’Oeil, the European art magazine, and [Hans Konrad Röethel], Modern German Painting. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C57.58  “Vienna Boys’ Choir Delights Overflow Concert Audience,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 December 1957, p. 13. Signed R.D. C57.59  “Books: Doctor’s Medicine,” Saturday Night 72, no. 26 (21 December 1957): 21-2. Book review of Hamilton Johnson, The Doctor’s Signature. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C57.60  “Books: Theatre Royal, Drawing-Room,” Saturday Night 72, no. 26 (21 December 1957): 19-21. Book review of Clement Scott, ed., Drawing-Room Plays and Parlour Pantomimes. C58.1  “Books: Tales of Our Wayside Inns,” Saturday Night 73, no. 1 (4 January 1958): 22-3. Book review of Edwin C. Guillet, Pioneer Inns and Taverns, 4 vols. bound in 3. C58.2  “Books: Wisdom from an Octogenarian,” Saturday Night 73, no. 2 (18 January 1958): 22-4. Book review of Edward Gordon Craig, Index to the Story of My Days; Hugh Miller, comp., The Best One-Act Plays of 1956-57; and Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson, A Picture History of the British Theatre. C58.3  “Books: The Luxuries of Literature,” Saturday Night 73, no. 3 (1 February 1958): 22-3, 25. Book review of Daniel George, A Book of Anecdotes; Abram Chasins, Speaking of Pianists; and Nancy Mitford, Voltaire in Love. C58.4  “Books: The Incorruptible Savant,” Saturday Night 73, no. 4 (15 February 1958): 20-2. Book review of Ernest Jones, The Last Phase, Vol. iii of Sigmund Freud, Life and Work. C58.5  “Books: Victorian Renunciation,” Saturday Night 73, no. 5 (1 March 1958): 20-2. Book review of Iris Origo, A Measure of Love; Geoffrey Faber, Jowett; Arthur A. Adrian, Georgina Hogarth and the Dickens Circle; and Gordon N. Ray, Thackeray: The Age of Wisdom 18471863. C58.6  “Books: Voice of Reason,” Saturday Night 73, no. 5 (1 March 1958): 22. Book review of Ernst (“Putzi”) Hanfstaengl, Hitler: The Missing Years. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C58.7  “Books: Confused Feedin’,” Saturday Night 73, no. 6 (15 March 1958): 41-2. Book review of Kathleen Coburn, ed., The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C58.8  “Books: Light on the Past,” Saturday Night 73, no. 6 (15 March 1958): 43. Book review of Philip Carrington, The Early Christian Church. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C58.9  “Books: Sure-Footed Artist,” Saturday Night 73, no. 6 (15 March 1958): 42. Book review of John Collier, His Monkey Wife and Presenting Moonshine. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C58.10  “Books: Where’s Me? Front Row,” Saturday Night 73, no. 6 (15 March 1958): 35-7. Book review of Lawrence Durrell, Justine; Roger Peyrefitte, The Keys of St. Peter; Ralph Allen, Peace River Country; and Caroline Gordon, How to Read a Novel. C58.11  “Books: Mentor, Not Companion,” Saturday Night 73, no. 7 (29 March 1958): 24-5. Book review of F.L. Cross, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. C58.12  “Satire Often Sharp, But Pruning Knife Needed in 1958 ‘Spring Thaw’ Show,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 March 1958, p. 9. Signed R.D. C58.13  “Books: Avant-Garde: Blank File,” Saturday Night 73, no. 8 (12 April 1958): 28-30. Book review of Kingsley Amis, I Like It Here and Peter De Vries, The Mackerel Plaza. C58.14  “Twin Pianists Show — Brilliant Co-Ordination, Feeling, Taste,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 April 1958, p. 9. Signed R.D. C58.15  “Books: A Kind of Magic,” Saturday Night 73, no. 9 (26 April 1958): 25-7. Book review of Malcolm Cowley, ed., Writers at Work. C58.16  “Books: With Nathan in Mind,” Saturday Night 73, no. 10 (10 May 1958): 25-6, 30. Book review of John Osborne, Look Back in Anger; Graham Greene, The Potting Shed; Ketti Frings, Look Homeward, Angel; Samuel Beckett, All That Fall; and Oscar Wilde, Salome. C58.17  “Dolly Gray Advises,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 May 1958, p. 5. In this occasional column of mock advice to the lovelorn, Davies was Dolly Gray and Ralph Hancox (the Peterborough Examiner’s assistant editor) wrote the letters from people seeking advice. C58.18  “Books: The Individual and the Mass,” Saturday Night 73, no. 11 (24 May 1958): 26-8. Book review of C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self and Psyche and Sym-



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bol; Herbert Read, The Tenth Muse; and P.W. Martin, Experiment in Depth. Reprinted as “The Undiscovered Self” in A55a. C58.19  “Dolly Gray Advises,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 May 1958, p. 5. In this occasional column of mock advice to the lovelorn, Davies was Dolly Gray and Ralph Hancox (the Peterborough Examiner’s assistant editor) wrote the letters from people seeking advice. C58.20  “Books: Poictesme to Peyton Place,” Saturday Night 73, no. 12 (7 June 1958): 24-5. Book review of Grace Metalious, Peyton Place. C58.21  “Dolly Gray Advises,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 June 1958, p. 5. In this occasional column of mock advice to the lovelorn, Davies was Dolly Gray and Ralph Hancox (the Peterborough Examiner’s assistant editor) wrote the letters from people seeking advice. C58.22  “Dolly Gray Advises,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 June 1958, p. 5. In this occasional column of mock advice to the lovelorn, Davies was Dolly Gray and Ralph Hancox (the Peterborough Examiner’s assistant editor) wrote the letters from people seeking advice. C58.23  “Books: The Warm Red Rebel,” Saturday Night 73, no. 13 (21 June 1958): 25-7. Book review of Edmund Fuller, Man in Modern Fiction and Naomi Lewis, A Visit to Mrs. Wilcox. C58.24  “Books: Poor Mozart! Poor Verdi!” Saturday Night 73, no. 14 (5 July 1958): 21-3. Book review of Stendhal, The Life of Rossini (trans. Richard N. Coe) and Vincent Sheean, Orpheus at Eighty. C58.25  “Books: For the Record,” Saturday Night 73, no. 15 (19 July 1958): 23. Book review of The Stratford Festival 1953-1957: A Record in Pictures and Text of the Shakespearean Festival in Canada. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C58.26  “Books: The Urge to Be Rational,” Saturday Night 73, no. 15 (19 July 1958): 20-2. Book review of F.L. Lucas, The Search for Good Sense. C58.27  “The Stratford Season: A Great Poetic Theatre,” Saturday Night 73, no. 15 (19 July 1958): 14-15, 36-7. C58.28  “Dolly Gray Advises,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 July 1958, p. 5. In this occasional column of mock advice to the lovelorn, Davies was Dolly Gray and Ralph Hancox (the Peterborough Examiner’s assistant editor) wrote the letters from people seeking advice. C58.29  “Books: Moriarty in Middle Age,” Saturday Night 73, no. 16 (2 August 1958): 22-3. Book review of Philip O’Connor, Memoirs of a Public Baby.

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C58.30  “Books: Lashing Out and Cashing In,” Saturday Night 73, no. 17 (16 August 1958): 26-8. Book review of John Wain, The Contenders and Kenneth Allsop, The Angry Decade. C58.31  “Saturday Book Review: Author’s Comments,” Toronto Star, 23 August 1958, p. 26. Re A Mixture of Frailties. C58.32  “Books: Mania for Green Fruit,” Saturday Night 73, no. 21 (11 October 1958): 31-3. Book review of Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita. Reprinted as “Lolita” in A55. C58.33  “Books: The Matter of Britain,” Saturday Night 73, no. 22 (25 October 1958): 32-3. Book review of T.H. White, The Once and Future King and Eugene Vinaver, ed., The Works of Sir Thomas Malory. C58.34  “Autumn Book Reviews: Gusto versus Groucho,” Saturday Night 73, no. 23 (8 November 1958): 16-17, 33. Book review of Patrick Dennis, Around the World with Auntie Mame and Wolcott Gibbs, More in Sorrow. C58.35  “Autumn Book Reviews: No Innocent,” Saturday Night 73, no. 23 (8 November 1958): 36-7. Book review of Maurice J.E. Brown, Schubert. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C58.36  “Wide Variety of Drama Opening Night: Festival Well Received,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 November 1958, p. 13. Signed R.D. C58.37  “Adjudicator Offers Advice to Actors of Three Plays,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 November 1958, p. 13. Signed R.D. C58.38  “Books for Children: Science for the Young,” Saturday Night 73, no. 24 (22 November 1958): 37-9. C58.39  “Opening Community Concert Season: Pianist Poetic, Forceful,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 November 1958, pp. 13, 16. Signed R.D. C58.40  “Books for Christmas: Distinguished Revision,” Saturday Night 73, no. 25 (6 December 1958): 45-6. Book review of Seldon Chaney, The Story of Modern Art. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C58.41  “Books for Christmas: How to Do It,” Saturday Night 73, no. 25 (6 December 1958): 49. Book review of Colin Willock, The Man’s Book. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C58.42  “Books for Christmas: Trial by Translation,” Saturday Night 73, no. 25 (6 December 1958): 43-5. Book review of Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago; Roger Vailland, The Law; Fortunato Seminara, The Wind in the Olive Grove; and Leopold Tyrmand, Zly.

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C58.43  “Books: From a Roman Christmas,” Saturday Night 73, no. 26 (20 December 1958): 20-2. Book review of William Makepeace Thackeray, The Rose and the Ring. C58.44  “Books: Short Reviews,” Saturday Night 73, no. 26 (20 December 1958): 25-6. Book review of Ludwig Bemelmans, My Life in Art; Jerry Silverman, Folk Blues; and Brian Fothergill, The Cardinal King. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C59.8  “Books: Looking at Canada,” Saturday Night 74, no. 3 (31 January 1959): 21-2. Book review of Alan Gowans, Looking at Architecture in Canada; F. St. George Spendlove, The Face of Early Canada; and Malcolm Ross, ed., The Arts in Canada. C59.9  “Books: Short Reviews,” Saturday Night 74, no. 3 (31 January 1959): 22. Book review of Isak Dinesen, Anecdotes of Destiny. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C58.45  “The Arts in Canada: Under the Canadian Surface,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 December 1958, (“Year End Supplement: A Review of the Year”), p. 3.

C59.10  “A Writer’s Diary: Drudge Defends Writers on Blats [probably Blast],” Toronto Star, 31 January 1959, p. 28. Book review of Theodore M. Bernstein, Watch Your Language.

C59.1  “Books: Short Reviews,” Saturday Night 74, no. 1 (3 January 1959): 23. Book review of Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited and James Agee, Agee on Film. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks].

C59.11  “A Writer’s Diary: Poets Wander at Large in Canada,” Toronto Star, 7 February 1959, p. 30. Book review of Robert Graves, Steps. Excerpted as “Poets Wander at Large in Canada: 1959” in A58.

C59.2  “Books: Two Ways with a Novel,” Saturday Night 74, no. 1 (3 January 1959): 22-3. Book review of John O’Hara, From the Terrace and Honor Tracy, The Prospects Are Pleasing.

C59.12  “A Writer’s Diary: Missives Fail to Wound Writers,” Toronto Star, 14 February 1959, p. 30.

C59.3  “A Writer’s Diary: No Illness, No Malice, Journey Begins Anyway,” Toronto Star, 3 January 1959, p. 26. This is the first column under the heading “A Writer’s Diary.” It was published every Saturday from this date until 9 June 1962 and was syndicated in the following newspapers: Kingston Whig-Standard, 7 February 1959 to 16 June 1962; Peterborough Examiner, 17 January 1959 to 16 June 1962; Ottawa Journal, 10 January 1959 to 16 June 1962; Calgary Herald, 7 March 1959 to 30 June 1962; Regina Leader-Post, 21 November 1959 to 16 June 1962; Montreal Star, 3 October 1959 to 16 June 1962; Winnipeg Tribune, 21 February 1959 to 16 June 1962; and also in Vancouver Province; Victoria Daily Times; Philadelphia Bulletin; and Providence (Rhode Island) Journal. C59.4  “A Writer’s Diary: No Boloney for Johnson,” Toronto Star, 10 January 1959, p. 30. Book review of Hesketh Pearson, Everybody’s Boswell. C59.5  “Books: Short Reviews,” Saturday Night 74, no. 2 (17 January 1959): 27. Book review of John W. Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, His Life and Reign and H.L. Mencken, The Bathtub Hoax. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C59.6  “A Writer’s Diary: Lolita’s Crime: Sex Made Funny,” Toronto Star, 17 January 1959, p. 30. Book review of Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita. C59.7  “A Writer’s Diary: Burns Enjoyed Bawdy Ballads,” Toronto Star, 24 January 1959, p. 30. Book review of Cyril Pearl, Bawdy Burns, the Christian Rebel.

C59.13  “Books: Short Reviews,” Saturday Night 74, no. 4 (14 February 1959): 33. Book review of George Oppenheimer, The Passionate Playgoer and Hesketh Pearson, Johnson and Boswell. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C59.14  “A Writer’s Diary: Film Monsters Follow Mary’s,” Toronto Star, 21 February 1959, p. 32. Book review of Mary Wollstonecraft, Frankenstein and Bram Stoker, Dracula, including films created from these books. C59.15  “Books: The Wild Harp,” Saturday Night 74, no. 5 (28 February 1959): 27-8. Book review of Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy. C59.16  “A Writer’s Diary: Condemnation Can Be Kindness,” Toronto Star, 28 February 1959, p. 30. Reprinted as “We Charitable Critics: 1959” in A58. C59.17  “A Writer’s Diary: Shy Sex Expert Changed Attitudes,” Toronto Star, 7 March 1959, p. 30. Book review of Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Reprinted as “Havelock Ellis” in A55. C59.18  “A Writer’s Diary: Bard of Erin Loved England,” Toronto Star, 14 March 1959, p. 30. Re Tom Moore. C59.19  “Are They Only ‘Accomplished Versifiers?’” Canadian Author and Bookman 35, no. 1 (Spring 1959): 6-7. C59.20  “A Writer’s Diary: Born Writer Defies Chatter,” Toronto Star, 21 March 1959, p. 30. Book review of Alfred Edgar Coppard, It’s Me, O Lord.



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C59.21  “Books: MacLennan’s Rising Sun,” Saturday Night 74, no. 7 (28 March 1959): 29-31. Book review of Hugh MacLennan, The Watch That Ends the Night. Reprinted in Paul Goetsch, ed., Hugh MacLennan (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited, 1973), pp. 11922 and as “The Watch That Ends the Night: 1959” in A58. C59.22  “Books: Short Reviews,” Saturday Night 74, no. 7 (28 March 1959): 31. Book review of Ann Bruce, Why Should I Be Dismayed? and Aubrey Menen, The Fig Tree. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C59.23  “A Writer’s Diary: Hide Papers If Writers Come,” Toronto Star, 28 March 1959, p. 32. Reprinted as “The Writer’s Week” in A55. C59.24  “A Writer’s Diary: Fat-eating Bard Attacks Englyn,” Toronto Star, 4 April 1959, p. 30. Reprinted as “Haiku and Englyn” in A55. C59.25  “W. Cassel Shows Quality of True Baritone Voice,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 April 1959, p. 13. Signed R.D. C59.26  “A Writer’s Diary: From Rebel Tot to Adult Grumbler,” Toronto Star, 11 April 1959, p. 31. C59.27  “Books: The Living Jungle,” Saturday Night 74, no. 8 (11 April 1959): 42-3. Book review of Bernard Heuvelmans, On the Track of Unknown Animals. Signed Eleanor Rumming. Davies used this pseudonym in C41.139, and, with the variant spelling Elynour Rummyng, in C40.83. C59.28  “Books: Short Reviews,” Saturday Night 74, no. 8 (11 April 1959): 48. Book review of Pamela Hansford Johnson, The Unspeakable Skipton. Signed S[amuel]. M[archbanks]. C59.29  “The Man at the Keyboard,” New York Times, 12 April 1959, sec. 7 (“Book Review”), p. 28. Book review of Abram Chasins with Villa Stiles, The Van Cliburn Legend. C59.30  “A Writer’s Diary: Inspired Lies Can’t Be Killed,” Toronto Star, 18 April 1959, p. 34. C59.31  “A Writer’s Diary: Writers Robbed by Public Libraries,” Toronto Star, 25 April 1959, p. 34. C59.32  “A Writer’s Diary: Flying Saucers Foretell Change?” Toronto Star, 2 May 1959, p. 27. Re C.G. Jung’s theories. C59.33  “A Writer’s Diary: Jung’s Theories Recall Bunyan’s,” Toronto Star, 9 May 1959. Book review of M. Esther Harding, Journey into Self. C59.34  “A Writer’s Diary: She Mocks Eire with Wit and Fury,” Toronto Star, 16 May 1959, p. 36. Book review of

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Honor Tracy, The Prospects Are Pleasing; The Straight and Narrow Path; and Mind You, I’ve Said Nothing. C59.35  “Editor Receives Honorary Degree at McMaster: Know Yourself Says Davies,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 May 1959, pp. 13, 20. Substantial extracts of Davies’s address to the graduating class at the Arts and Science Convocation, McMaster University, 18 May 1959, where he received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree. In full as “Robertson Davies Says to Those Graduating ... Know Yourself,” McMaster Alumni News 29, no. 2 (22 June 1959): 6-7. Reprinted as “God Forbid I Should Utter Such Foolishness,” Waterloo Review (University of Waterloo) 2 (Winter 1960): 15-21. C59.36  “A Writer’s Diary: New Playscript Highly Quotable,” Toronto Star, 23 May 1959, p. 34. Reprinted as “Love and a Cough” in A55. C59.37  “Organized Just Six Months: Chamber Orchestra Shows Promise,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 May 1959, p. 17. Signed R.D. C59.38  “A Writer’s Diary: Library Refutes Rental Figure,” Toronto Star, 30 May 1959, p. 32. C59.39  “A Writer’s Diary: Misery Led Him towards Greatness,” Toronto Star, 6 June 1959, p. 32. Book review of Peter Green, Kenneth Grahame, a Biography. C59.40  “A Writer’s Diary: Well-Told Tale Causes Guilt,” Toronto Star, 13 June 1959, p. 32. Book review of Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Pledge. C59.41  “A Writer’s Diary: Little Food for Romantic Appetite,” Toronto Star, 20 June 1959, p. 32. C59.42  “A Writer’s Diary: First Actress Seen in Othello,” Toronto Star, 27 June 1959, p. 32. C59.43  “A Writer’s Diary: Sexual Truth Terrifies Millions,” Toronto Star, 4 July 1959, p. 28. Book review of D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Reprinted as “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” in A55a. C59.44  “A Writer’s Diary: Audiences Mad at God Not Play,” Toronto Star, 11 July 1959, p. 28. Book review of Archibald MacLeish, J.B. and C.G. Jung, Answer to Job. C59.45  “A Writer’s Diary: Poet Betjeman Piercing Realist,” Toronto Star, 18 July 1959, p. 26. Book review of John Betjeman’s Collected Poems. C59.46  “A Writer’s Diary: Spirit Groans As Scribe Travels,” Toronto Star, 25 July 1959, p. 28. C59.47  “A Writer’s Diary: Is Plain Style Always Best?” Toronto Star, 1 August 1959, p. 30. Book review of William Strunk and E.B. White, The Elements of Style; Charles Ferguson, Say It with Words; and F.L. Lucas,

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Style. Reprinted as “Elements of Style” in A55 and as “The Pleasures of an Ornate Style,” Mirabella 1, no. 10 (March 1990): 64. C59.48  “A Writer’s Diary: The Busy Life Prevents Adultery,” Toronto Star, 8 August 1959, p. 28. Book review of Richard Lewinsohn, A History of Sexual Customs. C59.49  “A Writer’s Diary: Ireland’s Wits Mostly Foreign,” Toronto Star, 15 August 1959, p. 28. C59.50  “A Writer’s Diary: Man Could Be Girl, Hag or Harlot,” Toronto Star, 22 August 1959, p. 30. Book review of Richard C. Trench, A Dictionary of Obsolete English. C59.51  “A Writer’s Diary: Dickens Novel Called Stupid,” Toronto Star, 29 August 1959, p. 30. Book review of Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit. C59.52  “A Writer’s Diary: McCay’s Advice Illumines the Week,” Toronto Star, 5 September 1959, p. 29. C59.53  “A Writer’s Diary: Layton Poems Not for Puritans,” Toronto Star, 12 September 1959, p. 31. Book review of Irving Layton, A Red Carpet for the Sun. Reprinted as “A Red Carpet for the Sun: 1959” in A58. C59.54  “A Writer’s Diary: Can Do Worse Than Try New Verse,” Toronto Star, 19 September 1959, p. 47. Book review of Edith Sitwell, The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry and David Cecil and Allen Tate, eds., Modern Verse in English. C59.55  “A Writer’s Diary: Bard’s Wisdom Surprises a Doctor,” Toronto Star, 26 September 1959, p. 30. Book review of R.R. Simpson, Shakespeare and Medicine. C59.56  “A Writer’s Diary: No New Shaw Visible on Horizon,” Toronto Star, 3 October 1959, p. 31. C59.57  “A Writer’s Diary: Memorizing Isn’t Enough,” Toronto Star, 10 October 1959, p. 32. Book review of Eric Partridge, Origins. Reprinted as “Origins” in A55. C59.58  “A Writer’s Diary: Light Verse Is Not Easy,” Toronto Star, 17 October 1959, p. 31. Book review of William Cole, ed., The Fireside Book of Humorous Poetry. C59.59  “A Writer’s Diary: Biography Not Too Long,” Toronto Star, 24 October 1959, p. 31. Book review of

Christopher Hassall, Edward Marsh, Patron of the Arts. C59.60  “A Writer’s Diary: Believe Science Why Not Witches?” Toronto Star, 31 October 1959, p. 31. Book review of Reginald Scot, The Discouerie of Witchcraft. C59.61  “TSO Program ‘Admirably Coherent,’” Peterborough Examiner, 4 November 1959, p. 17. Signed R.D. C59.62  “A Writer’s Diary: A Nostalgic Musical Memory,” Toronto Star, 7 November 1959, p. 31. Revised as “Gems of Yesteryear” in A55. C59.63  “A Writer’s Diary: Age of Reason Ideally Depicted,” Toronto Star, 14 November 1959, p. 32. Book review of F.L. Lucas, The Search for Good Sense and The Art of Living. C59.64  “First Community Concert Fine Beginning to Season,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 November 1959, p. 17. Signed R.D. C59.65  “A Writer’s Diary: Cheerio Deario It’s Week for Cats,” Toronto Star, 21 November 1959, p. 32. Reprinted as “mehitabel” in A55. C59.66  “A Writer’s Diary: ‘Life in Theatre’ Wonderfully Readable,” Toronto Star, 28 November 1959, p. 34. Book review of Tyrone Guthrie, A Life in the Theatre. C59.67  “A Writer’s Diary: Could Make Aristotle Change Mind,” Toronto Star, 5 December 1959, p. 33. Book review of Yousuf Karsh, Portraits of Greatness. C59.68  “A Writer’s Diary: Casanova Life Not Sex Alone,” Toronto Star, 12 December 1959, p. 28. Book review of The Memoirs of Casanova, Vols. i-ii. Reprinted as “Casanova de Seingalt” in A55. C59.69  “A Writer’s Diary: Figgy Pudding Charms Author,” Toronto Star, 19 December 1959, p. 28. Reprinted as “An Author’s Pleasure” in A55. C59.70  “A Writer’s Diary: Dickens’ Love Affairs Unlucky,” Toronto Star, 26 December 1959, p. 25. Book review of Felix Aylmer, Dickens Incognito. C59.71  “Canada and the Arts: Bold Approach in Literature, Music, Theatre,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 December 1959, p. 7.

1960-1969 C60.1  “A Writer’s Diary: Whodunits Not My Dish of Tea,” Toronto Star, 2 January 1960, p. 28. Book review of Michael Harrison, In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes.

C60.2  “A Writer’s Diary: Another Look at ‘Status,’” Toronto Star, 9 January 1960, p. 32. Book review of Vance Packard, The Status Seekers.



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C60.3  “A Writer’s Diary: Characters Worth Knowing,” Toronto Star, 16 January 1960, p. 30. Book review of Daniel George Bunting, A Book of Characters. Reprinted as “A Book of Characters” in A55. C60.4  “A Precedent Is Needed,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 January 1960, p. 4. Editorial about the failure of the Queen to honour Vincent Massey, first native-born Governor General of Canada, in the New Year’s Honours List. Attribution based on a grant interview with Davies. C60.5  “A Writer’s Diary: Beecham’s Tribute to Genius,” Toronto Star, 23 January 1960, p. 30. Book review of Thomas Beecham, Frederick Delius. C60.6  “A Writer’s Diary: Still Some Great Letter-Writers Around,” Toronto Star, 30 January 1960, p. 28. C60.7  “A Writer’s Diary: Give Me a Good Cookery Book, Any Day,” Toronto Star, 6 February 1960, p. 30. Book review of Joan Parry Dutton, The Good Fare and Cheer of Old England. C60.8  “A Writer’s Diary: Autobiographies Demanding Painful,” Toronto Star, 13 February 1960, p. 30. Book review of Ernest Jones, Free Associations. C60.9  “A Writer’s Diary: Priest Proud of His Mysteries,” Toronto Star, 20 February 1960, p. 30. Book review of Evelyn Waugh, The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox. Reprinted as “Father Knox” in A55. C60.10  “A Writer’s Diary: Opera Offers World of Big Emotions,” Toronto Star, 27 February 1960, p. 30. Book review of Philip Hope-Wallace, A Picture History of Opera. C60.11  “A Writer’s Diary: Laud Woman’s Russian Translations,” Toronto Star, 5 March 1960, p. 30. Re Constance Clara Garnett. C60.12  “A Writer’s Diary: H.G. Wells’ Secret Revealed,” Toronto Star, 12 March 1960, p. 30. Book review of Roy Bedichek, The Sense of Smell. C60.13  “A Writer’s Diary: Bernard Berenson: Man to Be Envied,” Toronto Star, 19 March 1960, p. 30. Book review of Bernard Berenson, One Year’s Reading for Fun. C60.14  “A Writer’s Diary: Book Catalogs Restful, Entertaining,” Toronto Star, 26 March 1960, p. 30. C60.15  “A Writer’s Diary: Where Reality Beats Legend,” Toronto Star, 2 April 1960, p. 30. Book review of a selection of Hans Christian Andersen’s tales in Oxford World’s Classics series, vol. 571 (trans. L.W. Kingsland). Reprinted as “Hans Christian Andersen” in A55.

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C60.16  “A Writer’s Diary: The Odds Are Against You,” Toronto Star, 9 April 1960, p. 32. Book review of William De Morgan, Joseph Vance. C60.17  “A Writer’s Diary: Always the Mark of a Good Book,” Toronto Star, 16 April 1960, p. 33. Book review of Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale. C60.18  “A Writer’s Diary: It’s Always Better to See Than Read Shakespeare,” Toronto Star, 23 April 1960, p. 34. C60.19  “A Writer’s Diary: History of Dress Tells Its Own Story,” Toronto Star, 30 April 1960, p. 28. Book review of C. Willett Cunnington, Phillis Cunnington, and Charles Beard, A Dictionary of English Costume 9001900. C60.20  “A Writer’s Diary: J.M. Barrie’s Genius Really Authentic,” Toronto Star, 7 May 1960, p. 34. C60.21  “A Writer’s Diary: Giant of u.s. Stage Comes to Life,” Toronto Star, 14 May 1960, p. 34. Book review of Richard Moody, Edwin Forrest. C60.22  “A Writer’s Diary: No Man Can Be Wholly Wise,” Toronto Star, 21 May 1960, p. 36. Reprinted as “Francis Bacon” in A55. C60.23  “A Writer’s Diary: Rejuvenation Efforts Many and Pitiful,” Toronto Star, 28 May 1960, p. 31. Book review of Robert S. DeRopp, Man Against Aging. C60.24  “A Writer’s Diary: ‘Jung and St. Paul’ Fascinating,” Toronto Star, 4 June 1960, p. 34. Book review of David Cox, Jung and St. Paul. C60.25  “A Writer’s Diary: Romans Set the Pace,” Toronto Star, 11 June 1960, p. 34. Book review of Lawrence Wright, Clean and Decent. Reprinted as “Clean and Decent” in A55. C60.26  “A Writer’s Diary: John Collier: Tops in Humorous Horror,” Toronto Star, 18 June 1960, p. 32. Book review of Roald Dahl, Kiss Kiss and John Collier, Fancies and Goodnights. C60.27  “A Writer’s Diary: ‘Crusoe’ a Model for Young Reporters,” Toronto Star, 25 June 1960, p. 30. Book review of Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe and Journal of the Plague Year. C60.28  “A Writer’s Diary: C.P. Snow True Craftsman in Fiction,” Toronto Star, 2 July 1960, p. 28. Book review of C.P. Snow, Strangers and Brothers. C60.29  “Stratford 1960,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 July 1960, p. 4. Includes three articles: “The Dream’s Low Comedy and Fantasy,” “King John as a Play of Char-

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acter,” and “A Triumph for Romeo’s Director: First Night Anxieties.” C60.30  “A Writer’s Diary: Bad Handwriting Is a Form of Vanity,” Toronto Star, 9 July 1960, p. 28. C60.31  “A Writer’s Diary: Sullivan Dismissed as Trifler,” Toronto Star, 16 July 1960, p. 28. Book review of Gervase Hughes, The Music of Arthur Sullivan. Reprinted as “Arthur Sullivan” in A55. C60.32  “A Writer’s Diary: A Book for Men of Good Taste,” Toronto Star, 23 July 1960, p. 26. Book review of F. St. George Spendlove, Collector’s Luck. C60.33  “Shakespeare’s Intellect,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 27 July 1960, p. 6. Letter to the editor correcting the impression created by Herbert Whittaker in “Showbusiness: Plummer May Sweep Stratford Festivals: Simplicity,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 21 July 1960, p. 27 that Davies had said that Shakespeare’s intellect was “commonplace,” when speaking to the Shakespeare Seminar at Stratford, 20 July 1960. C60.34  “A Writer’s Diary: Godless King John Not Too Bad,” Toronto Star, 30 July 1960, p. 28. Reprinted as “King John” in A55. C60.35  “Robertson Davies on Architects and Architecture,” Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Journal 37, no. 8 (August 1960): 346-9. Text of speech presented on 20 February 1960, in Toronto, at the Royal York Hotel, to the Ontario Association of Architects Convention. Reprinted as “How to Design a Haunted House,” in A52 and excerpted in Robert B. Donald et al, Models for Clear Writing (Englewood Cliffs, nj: Prentice-Hall, first ed., 1984), pp. 130-2; second ed., 1989, 171-3; and in Deanne K. Milan, Developing Reading Skills (New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 3rd ed., 1991), p. 120; and reprinted in full again in A97. Reported, with quotations, as “Secret of Elegance Lost? Writer Wants Theatre to Look like Palace,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 22 February 1960, p. 13. Also reported with one quotation, and reflected upon, as “Where Are the Attics?” Toronto Globe and Mail, 23 February 1960, p. 6. C60.36  “A Writer’s Diary: Why Do They Always Turn to Writing Fiction?” Toronto Star, 6 August 1960, p. 26. Book review of Colin Wilson, Ritual in the Dark. C60.37  “A Writer’s Diary: How to Be a Writer: Just Write, Write, Write,” Toronto Star, 13 August 1960, p. 26. C60.38  “A Writer’s Diary: Women Not People to Pornographers — or to Dickens,” Toronto Star, 20 August 1960, p. 26. Book review of Charles Dickens, David Copperfield.

C60.39  “A Writer’s Diary: Can Learn from 18th Century Novel,” Toronto Star, 27 August 1960, p. 26. Book review of Robert Bage, Hermsprong. C60.40  “A Writer’s Diary: Lewis and Lancaster: Different Gantrys,” Toronto Star, 3 September 1960, p. 30. Book review of Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry, and its film adaptation starring Burt Lancaster. C60.41  “A Writer’s Diary: Scrapbooks Make Good Reading,” Toronto Star, 10 September 1960, p. 30. Reprinted as “Scraps and Morsels” in A55. C60.42  “A Writer’s Diary: Gormenghast’s Extraordinary World,” Toronto Star, 17 September 1960, p. 23. Book review of Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone. Reprinted as “The Gormenghast Trilogy” in A55. C60.43  “A Writer’s Diary: One Man Nurtured Art of Writing,” Toronto Star, 24 September 1960, p. 30. Book review of Priscilla Johnston, Edward Johnston. Reprinted as “Edward Johnston” in A55. C60.44  “A Writer’s Diary: Quotations Splendid, Dangerous Gift,” Toronto Star, 1 October 1960, p. 30. Book review of John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations; The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations; H.L. Mencken, A New Dictionary of Quotations. Reprinted as “Dangerous Jewels” in A55. C60.45  “Success Is But One Spoke in Fortune’s Turning Wheel,” New York Times, 2 October 1960, sec. 7 (“Book Review”), p. 5. Book review of Lovat Dickson, The Ante-Room. C60.46  “World Premiere of Camelot Seen at Opening of Centre,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 October 1960, p. 9. Signed R.D. C60.47  “Enthusiastic Reception for Lois Marshall at Recital: Concert Season Opens in Peterborough,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 October 1960, p. 13. Signed R.D. C60.48  “A Writer’s Diary: Girl Has Unusual Talent but Should Moderate Prose,” Toronto Star, 8 October 1960, p. 35. Book review of Marie-Claire Blais, Mad Shadows (trans. Merloyd Lawrence). Reprinted as “Mad Shadows: 1960” in A58. C60.49  “A Writer’s Diary: Priestley Writes of What He Knows,” Toronto Star, 15 October 1960, p. 30. Book review of J.B. Priestley, Literature and Western Man. C60.50  “A Writer’s Diary: Trimming, Nipping, Tucking Playwright Tells of Art,” Toronto Star, 22 October 1960, p. 30. C60.51  “A Writer’s Diary: Mysticism in Legacy,” Toron-



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to Star, 29 October 1960, p. 30. Book review of Arthur Conan Doyle, The Mystery of Cloomber and Arthur Koest­ler, “Yoga Unexpurgated,” Encounter 15, no. 2 (August 1960): 7-26.

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C61.3  “A Writer’s Diary: Most Misunderstood Book,” Toronto Star, 14 January 1961, p. 30. Book review of John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells.

C60.52  “A Writer’s Diary: Nabokov, Mann Tell Their Own Stories,” Toronto Star, 5 November 1960, p. 30. Book review of Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory and Thomas Mann, A Sketch of My Life.

C61.4  “A Writer’s Diary: Women Writers Making Their Mark,” Toronto Star, 21 January 1961, p. 30. Book review of Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Cat’s Cradle Book; Honor Tracy, A Number of Things; and Nancy Mitford, Don’t Tell Alfred.

C60.53  “A Writer’s Diary: ‘Sot-Weed Factor’ Is for the Connoisseurs,” Toronto Star, 12 November 1960, p. 27. Book review of John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor.

C61.5  “A Writer’s Diary: Kai Lung a Joy to Discover,” Toronto Star, 28 January 1961, p. 28. Reviews of Ernest Bramah’s books about Kai Lung.

C60.54  “A Writer’s Diary: The First Night Curtain Signals Time for Tinkering,” Toronto Star, 19 November 1960, p. 30.

C61.6  “A Writer’s Diary: Tough Grind in Great Books,” Toronto Star, 4 February 1961, p. 28. Book review of William Emrys Williams, ed., The Reader’s Guide.

C60.55  “A Writer’s Diary: u.k.’s False Beards Really Old Stuff,” Toronto Star, 26 November 1960, p. 36. Book review of Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay. C60.56  “A Writer’s Diary: Heavy Book Load Jettisoned,” Toronto Star, 3 December 1960, p. 33. C60.57  “A Writer’s Diary: I Hoard Experiences,” Toronto Star, 10 December 1960, p. 23. C60.58  “A Writer’s Diary: Can’t Swallow Scripts,” Toronto Star, 17 December 1960, p. 30. Book review of Nigel Kneale, The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass ii, and Quatermass and the Pit. C60.59  “A Writer’s Diary: Books about Christmas,” Toronto Star, 24 December 1960, p. 26. Book review of Washington Irving, Old Christmas and Robert Benchley, “Christmas Afternoon, Done in the Manner, If Not the Spirit, of Dickens.” The version of this column which appeared in Peterborough Examiner, 24 December 1960, p. 5, was longer and included a review of S.J. Perelman, Waiting for Santy. C60.60  “The Arts in Canada: Progress Is Like a Glacier’s — No Kangaroo Jumps for Canadians,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 December 1960, (“Year End Supplement, The Year in Retrospect”), p. 10. C60.61  “A Writer’s Diary: A Potpourri about Drinking,” Toronto Star, 31 December 1960, p. 28. Book review of Cyril Ray, ed., The Compleat Imbiber, Vol. 3. C61.1  “Letter to a Young Opera-Goer,” Canadian Opera Company: Program 1961/62 (1961): 25-6. Souvenir program. C61.2  “A Writer’s Diary: Max Had a Fastidious Public,” Toronto Star, 7 January 1961, p. 30. Book review of S.N. Behrman, Conversation with Max. Re Max Beerbohm.

C61.7  “A Writer’s Diary: How Many Writers Bore You?” Toronto Star, 11 February 1961 p. 30. Book review of  “The Ten Dullest Authors: A Symposium,” in Cleveland Amory and Fredric Bradlee, eds., Vanity Fair: Selections from America’s Most Memorable Magazine. The Star misprints Bradlee’s first name as Fredrick. C61.8  “A Writer’s Diary: Disney True to Spirit of ‘Swiss Family,’” Toronto Star, 18 February 1961, p. 28. Book review of Johann David Wyss, The Swiss Family Robinson and its Walt Disney film adaptation. C61.9  “Players Score Success with ‘Saint Joan,’” Peterborough Examiner, 25 February 1961, p. 13. Signed R.D. C61.10  “A Writer’s Diary: Larger View for Children,” Toronto Star, 25 February 1961, p. 30. Book review of Walter de la Mare, comp., Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages and as author, Crossings: A Fairy Play. C61.11  “A Writer’s Diary: Disagree on What to Read,” Toronto Star, 4 March 1961, p. 28. A follow-up to his review of The Reader’s Guide. C61.12  “A Writer’s Diary: The Great Gifts of Angela Thirkell,” Toronto Star, 11 March 1961, p. 28. C61.13  “Beauty Contests,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 March 1961, p. 4. Editorial. Attribution to Davies based on grant’s interview with Ralph Hancox. C61.14  “A Writer’s Diary: Rabelais — A Man of Splendid Spirit,” Toronto Star, 18 March 1961, p. 29. Book review of François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel (trans. Thomas Urquhart). The Star misprints part of the title as Pantogruel. C61.15  “A Writer’s Diary: Montaigne’s Worthy Succes-

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sor,” Toronto Star, 25 March 1961, p. 29. Book review of Michel de Montaigne, Essays of Michel de Montaigne; J.B. Priestley, All about Ourselves; and Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays and On Art and Artists. Includes a brief discussion of Charles Lamb. C61.16  “Pointed Satire, Sharp Wit: ‘Spring Thaw’ Improves Greatly,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 March 1961, p. 9. Signed R.D. C61.17  “A Writer’s Diary: Revolt from Fictionalized Child Too Extreme,” Toronto Star, 1 April 1961, p. 30. Book review of Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica and William Golding, Lord of the Flies. C61.18  “A Writer’s Diary: Why Pauline Didn’t Make It,” Toronto Star, 8 April 1961, p. 28. Re Pauline Johnson and her exclusion from A.J.M. Smith, The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. Reprinted as “Pauline Johnson: 1961” in A58. C61.19  “Pianist Gives Refreshing Performance at Concert,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 April 1961, p. 17. Signed R.D. C61.20  “A Writer’s Diary: What’s All the Hurry?” Toronto Star, 15 April 1961, p. 30. C61.21  “A Writer’s Diary: Novel Caused Sensation in 1913, Out Again, Has Rare Qualities,” Toronto Star, 22 April 1961, p. 29. Book review of Compton Mackenzie, Sinister Street. C61.22  “A Writer’s Diary: Waugh’s Tourist in Africa Dull,” Toronto Star, 29 April 1961, p. 21. Book review of Evelyn Waugh, A Tourist in Africa. C61.23  “A Writer’s Diary: Word Study Dangerous,” Toronto Star, 6 May 1961, p. 29. Book review of C.S. Lewis, Studies in Words. C61.24  “A Writer’s Diary: Portuguese Notebook,” Toronto Star, 13 May 1961, p. 29. C61.25  “A Writer’s Diary: They Can’t Forget Moors,” Toronto Star, 20 May 1961, p. 35. C61.26  “London Today: A City Buoyed by Elegance,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 May 1961, p. 4. C61.27  “A Writer’s Diary: Screenplays Good Reading,” Toronto Star, 27 May 1961, p. 29. Book review of Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman (trans. Lars Malmstrom and David Kushner). The four are Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, and The Magician. Also reviewed is Ulla Isaksson, The Virgin Spring. C61.28  “A Writer’s Diary: ‘Only Child’ Magnificent,” Toronto Star, 3 June 1961, p. 29. Book review of Frank O’Connor, An Only Child.

C61.29  “A Writer’s Diary: What Book for a Journey?” Toronto Star, 10 June 1961, p. 29. Book review of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, ll.d. C61.30  “A Writer’s Diary: Do You Remember the Burial of Moses?” Toronto Star, 17 June 1961, p. 29. Book review of The Ontario Third Reader (1899). C61.31  “The Grand Design for Massey College,” Varsity Graduate (University of Toronto) 9, no. 2 (May 1961): 15-18. C61.32  “Stratford 1961,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 June 1961, p. 4. Includes three articles: “A Comedy of Noble Lunacy” on Love’s Labour’s Lost, “A Play of Heroism” on Coriolanus, and “The Tudor Spectacle” on Henry VIII. Reprinted as “Stratford: 1961: Coriolanus / Henry VIII / Love’s Labour’s Lost” in A58. C61.33  “A Writer’s Diary: The Scoffer Stayed to Preach,” Toronto Star, 24 June 1961, p. 29. Re George Borrow. C61.34  “A Writer’s Diary: Rarely Read As Poetry,” Toronto Star, 30 June 1961, p. 37. C61.35  “A Writer’s Diary: In Which Hook Is Rediscovered,” Toronto Star, 8 July 1961, p. 27. Reprinted as “Theodore Hook” in A55. C61.36  “Mazo de la Roche,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 July 1961, p. 4. Editorial. Reprinted as “Mazo de la Roche: 1961” in A58. C61.37  “A Writer’s Diary: Temperamentally Unsuited to Enjoying Whodunits,” Toronto Star, 15 July 1961, p. 24. C61.38  “A Writer’s Diary: While English ‘Invented’ Comfort, Elegance Goes to the Frenchman,” Toronto Star, 22 July 1961, p. 24. Book review of John Gloag, Victorian Comfort. C61.39  “Letters to the Editor: Canada a Cultural Backwater,” Guardian (Manchester), 29 July 1961, p. 6. Re taking up the cudgels in defence of Canadian culture, in reaction to the Guardian’s “London Letter” which characterized Canada as a cultural backwater. C61.40  “A Writer’s Diary: G.B. Shaw More Cocksure Than Any Since Aristotle,” Toronto Star, 29 July 1961, p. 24. Book review of Bernard Shaw, How to Become a Musical Critic (ed. Dan H. Laurence). The Star misprints the title as How to Become a Music Critic. C61.41  “A Writer’s Diary: A Look at ‘Trivia,’” Toronto Star, 5 August 1961, p. 28. Book review of Logan Pear­ sall Smith, More Trivia and All Trivia.



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C61.42  “A Writer’s Diary: Sinister Fellow, Watson,” Toronto Star, 12 August 1961, p. 24. Book review of Paul Zaharov, The Real Holmes. C61.43  “A Writer’s Diary: Brecht No Whiz on Capitalism,” Toronto Star, 19 August 1961, p. 28. Book review of Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera. The Star misprints the title as The Threepenny Novel. C61.44  “A Writer’s Diary: Style Is Aid to Popularity,” Toronto Star, 26 August 1961, p. 26. Book review of Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth and The Complete Ronald Firbank. C61.45  “A Writer’s Diary: The Unhappy Love Stories Turn Out to Be Best Ones,” Toronto Star, 2 September 1961, p. 31. Book review of William Hazlitt, Liber Amoris. Reprinted as “William Hazlitt” in A55. C61.46  “A Writer’s Diary: Naming Babies Real Challenge,” Toronto Star, 9 September 1961, p. 50. Book review of E.G. Withycombe, The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names. C61.47  “A Writer’s Diary: Writers, Beware of Critics,” Toronto Star, 16 September 1961, p. 45. Re Cyril Connolly and others. C61.48  “A Writer’s Diary: ‘The Demons’ Rates as Extraordinary,” Toronto Star, 23 September 1961, p. 17. Book review of Heimito von Doderer, The Demons. C61.49  “A Writer’s Diary: Friends of Nostradamus Quiet on Berlin Crisis,” Toronto Star, 30 September 1961, p. 29. Book review of Nostradamus, Centuries and James Laver, Nostradamus or the Future Foretold. The Star misprints the title as xBS Centuries. Reprinted as “Centuries” in A55. C61.50  “Gilbert and Sullivan,” Performing Arts in Canada 1, no. 2 (October 1961): 4-6. C61.51  “A Writer’s Diary: That Odd Fish Baron Corvo,” Toronto Star, 7 October 1961, p. 33. Reprinted as “Baron Corvo” in A55. C61.52  “A Writer’s Diary: Parody: A Second Rate Gift,” Toronto Star, 14 October 1961, p. 30. Book review of Dwight Macdonald, Parodies: an Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm — And After. C61.53  “A Writer’s Diary: A Spiritual Awakening,” Toronto Star, 21 October 1961, p. 30. Book review of J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey. Reprinted as “Franny and Zooey” in A55. C61.54  “A Writer’s Diary: ‘Chuzzlewit’ Real Cure,” Toronto Star, 28 October 1961, p. 31. Book review of Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit.

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C61.55  “A Writer’s Diary: Stories of Teachers Show Pupils’ Reactions,” Toronto Star, 4 November 1961, p. 28. Book review of Ernest Raymond, Mr. Olim and Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Reprinted as “Mr. Olim / The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in A55. C61.56  “A Writer’s Diary: Remember the Dialogue?” Toronto Star, 11 November 1961, p. 29. Book review of H.E. McBride, McBride’s Temperance Dialogues. Reprinted as “Forgotten Dialogues” in A55. C61.57  “A Writer’s Diary: Charles’ Relative ‘Dickens’ of a Cook in Turnabout,” Toronto Star, 18 November 1961, p. 29. Book review of Monica Dickens, One Pair of Hands. C61.58  “A Writer’s Diary: My Own Public Image,” Toronto Star, 25 November 1961, p. 30. Reprinted as “A Curmudgeon” in A55. C61.59  “A Writer’s Diary: A ‘Quality’ Christmas List,” Toronto Star, 2 December 1961, p. 30. Brief book reviews. C61.60  “A Writer’s Diary: Dickens’ Love Is Embarrassing,” Toronto Star, 9 December 1961, p. 31. Book review of C.G.L. DuCann, The Love Lives of Charles Dickens. C61.61  “A Writer’s Diary: Reading for ‘Scrooges,’” Toronto Star, 16 December 1961, p. 49. C61.62  “A Writer’s Diary: ‘Groan Along with Joan,’” Toronto Star, 23 December 1961, p. 24. Briefly re Joan Sutherland. C61.63  “The Pleasures of Love,” Saturday Night 76, no. 26 (23 December 1961): 11-12. Reprinted in A55. C61.64  “A Writer’s Diary: The Year of the Pig,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 December 1961, p. 13. C62.1  “Confessions of an Editor,” Dateline: Canada 1962 (1962): 17. Reprinted in A55. C62.2  “Ten Seasons at Stratford,” Stratford Festival: Canada 1962 (1962): [2-6]. Souvenir program. C62.3  “A Writer’s Diary: Some Discussions about Food,” Toronto Star, 6 January 1962, p. 28. Book review of Cosette Vogel de Brunhoff, Vogue’s French Cookery Book and Horace Davenport, Physiology of the Digestive Tract. C62.4  “A Writer’s Diary: They Led Primitive Life,” Toronto Star, 13 January 1962, p. 28. Book review of Morris Bishop, White Men Came to the St. Lawrence. C62.5  “Speaking of Books,” New York Times, 14 January 1962, sec. 7, part i (“Book Review”), p. 2. Book review

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of Evelyn Everett-Green, Sir Alymer’s Heir. Reprinted as “Sir Aylmer’s Heir” in A55.

fortable Words; and Bergen Evans and Cornelia Evans, A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage.

C62.6  “A Writer’s Diary: What the ‘Vapors’ Were,” Toronto Star, 20 January 1962, p. 28. Book review of John Tennant, Every Man His Own Doctor, or the Poor Planter’s Physician.

C62.19  “A Writer’s Diary: Seven Lively Virtues,” Toronto Star, 14 April 1962, p. 32.

C62.7  “A Writer’s Diary: Powys, a Genius Overlooked,” Toronto Star, 27 January 1962, p. 30. Book review of John Cowper Powys, Owen Glendower ; A Glastonbury Romance ; and In Defence of Sensuality. Reprinted as “John Cowper Powys’ Novels” in A55. C62.8  “A Writer’s Diary: Solemn Books Not All Serious,” Toronto Star, 3 February 1962, p. 30. Reprinted as “Basic Optimism” in A55. C62.9  “A Writer’s Diary: Writing Letters Has Hazards,” Toronto Star, 10 February 1962, p. 28. Book review of F. Tennyson Jesse, A Pin to See the Peepshow. C62.10  “A Writer’s Diary: Avoid Scott if You Have Cold,” Toronto Star, 17 February 1962, p. 27. Book review of Hesketh Pearson, Walter Scott. C62.11  “A Writer’s Diary: Relief of Lucknow’s New Look,” Toronto Star, 24 February 1962, p. 29. Book review of William Forbes-Mitchell, The Relief of Lucknow. C62.12  “A Writer’s Diary: Fiction and Seven Deadly Sins,” Toronto Star, 3 March 1962, p. 27. C62.13  “A Writer’s Diary: Waugh at the Top of His Form,” Toronto Star, 10 March 1962, p. 27. Book review of Evelyn Waugh trilogy, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrender. C62.14  “A Writer’s Diary: There Was Only One Daisy,” Toronto Star, 17 March 1962, p. 29. Book review of Daisy Ashford, The Young Visiters [sic]. Reprinted as “The Young Visiters [sic]” in A55. C62.15  “A Writer’s Diary: Dubious Defence for Poaching,” Toronto Star, 24 March 1962, p. 29. Book review of James Hawker, A Victorian Poacher. C62.16  “A Writer’s Diary: Science Fiction’s Elusive Line,” Toronto Star, 31 March 1962, p. 29. Brief book reviews of Bernard Wolfe, Limbo 90 and Brian Aldiss, ed., Penguin Science Fiction. C62.17  “‘Best Spring Thaw Yet’ Marked by ‘Hot Satire,’” Peterborough Examiner, 2 April 1962, p. 3. Signed R.D. C62.18  “A Writer’s Diary: Yackety-Yak on Linguistics,” Toronto Star, 7 April 1962, p. 29. Book review of Webster’s New International Dictionary; Bergen Evans, Com-

C62.20  “A Writer’s Diary: Grim Look — At Squalid World,” Toronto Star, 21 April 1962, p. 32. Book review of Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim; Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People Is Wrong; Michael Innes, Old Hall, New Hall; and G.W. Target, The Teachers. C62.21  “A Writer’s Diary: Sitwell Leftovers Sit Well,” Toronto Star, 28 April 1962, p. 63. Book review of Osbert Sitwell, Tales My Father Taught Me. C62.22  “Party of One: Book Collecting,” Holiday 31, no. 5 (May 1962): 13-17. Reprinted in Clifton Fadiman, ed., Party of Twenty (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963), pp. 97-107; also as “Book Collecting” in A55, in Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association A.B.A. Newsletter no. 190 (October 1990): 15-21, and in Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan, A Passion for Books: A Book Lover’s Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books (New York: Random House, Times Books, 1999), pp. 102-9. C62.23  “ROM Revisited: Teaching and Research Are Paramount,” Varsity Graduate (University of Toronto) 9, no. 6 (May 1962): 64-7, 92, 94, and 96. C62.24  “A Writer’s Diary: Huxley’s Philosophic ‘Island,’” Toronto Star, 5 May 1962, p. 32. Book review of Aldous Huxley, Island. C62.25  “Robertson Davies’ Address to Honor Students,” Stratford Beacon-Herald, 12 May 1962, p. 10. Text of Davies’s speech to the Honour Students Dinner hosted by the Rotary Club of Stratford on 10 May 1962 at the Victorian Inn in Stratford, on. Reported, with quotations, as “Rotary Dinner: Davies Tells SCI Honor Students — ‘Learn to Speak and Learn to Write’,” Stratford Beacon-Herald, 11 May 1962, p. 6. C62.26  “A Writer’s Diary: Notion of Love Old-Fashioned,” Toronto Star, 12 May 1962, p. 32. C62.27  “A Writer’s Diary: Rattle Those Skeletons?” Toronto Star, 19 May 1962, p. 35. Book review of Marguerite Steen, A Pride of Terrys. C62.28  “A Writer’s Diary: Think Better if Grammar Good,” Toronto Star, 26 May 1962, p. 19. Book review of Ernest Gowers, The Complete Plain Words and Ivor Brown, Chosen Words. C62.29  “A Writer’s Diary: Rebirth of a Classic,” Toronto



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Star, 2 June 1962, p. 31. Book review of two translations of Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (trans. P.W.K. Stone; trans. Richard Aldington). C62.30  “A Writer’s Diary: A Prejudice Dies,” Toronto Star, 9 June 1962, p. 23. Book review of Joseph Wechsberg, Red Plush and Black Velvet. Reprinted as “Nellie Melba” in A55. C62.31  “A Writer’s Diary: Too Much, Too Fast,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 June 1962, p. 4. Reprinted in A55. C62.32  “To the Class of ’62,” Douglas Library notes (Queen’s University) 11, no. 3 (Summer 1962): 2-5. Excerpt of Davies’s address on 19 May to Convocation at Queen’s University, Kingston, on. Printed in full as “The Deadliest of Sins” in A52 and A97. Reported, with quotations, as “Sloth Major Affliction of Humans, Davies Tells Queen’s Convocation,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 May 1962, p. 13. C62.33  “Stratford 1962,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 June 1962, p. 4. Includes articles on “Macbeth,” “The Tempest,” and “The Taming of the Shrew.” C62.34  “Letters in Canada: 1961: Drama and Music,” University of Toronto Quarterly 31, no. 4 (July 1962): 4901. Book review of Gratien Gélinas, Bousille and the Just; Eric Koch, Vincent Tovell, and John T. Saywell, Success of a Mission; and John Reeves, A Beach of Strangers: An Excursion. C62.35  “Walking,” Rotarian: An International Magazine 101, no. 1 (July 1962): 14-16, 60. Excerpted in “Culture: What We Were Thinking, A Collection of Commentary from the Past 100 Years: Walking,” Rotarian 100, no. 6 (Dec. 2011): 27-8. C62.36  “The Stratford Festival: Cyrano de Bergerac, ‘Splendid!..Such Applause Has Not Been Heard Since 1953 ...’,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 August 1962, p. 4. Ellipses are present in the text. Reprinted as “Stratford: 1962: Cyrano de Bergerac” in A58. C62.37  “Men and Books: Literature and Medicine,” Canadian Medical Association Journal 87, no. 13 (29 September 1962): 701-6. Text of Davies’s address to the Academy of Medicine, Toronto, 3 April 1962. C62.38  “New York Group Plays Pleasing Gebrauchsmusik,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 October 1962, p. 9. Signed R.D. C62.39  “New Ideas New Design – Massey College,” Varsity (University of Toronto) 82, no. 30 (28 November 1962): 4-[5]. C62.40  “A Royal Day at Massey College: Have the

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Courage to Be Wise,” Varsity Graduate (University of Toronto) 10, no. 1 (December 1962): 69-70. Text of brief address given 25 May 1962 at the laying of the foundation stone of Massey College, University of Toronto. C63.1  “The Artist Looks into Himself,” Toronto Star, 19 January 1963, p. 46. Excerpted from Davies’s speech on 14 November 1962 to the Royal Conservatory of Music Convocation in Toronto. C63.2  “The Tyrone Guthrie Repertory Theatre: A Symposium with Arthur Miller et al: Tyrone Power and Dr. Thomas Guthrie in Canada,” Drama Survey 3, no. 1 (May 1963): 91-6. Although Davies is listed as a speaker at the Symposium, which marked the opening of the Tyrone Guthrie Repertory Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 7 May 1963, he did not attend and his typescript is titled “Article for Drama Survey.” Reprinted as “Tyrone Power and Dr. Thomas Guthrie in Canada: 1963” in A58; excerpted in James Forsyth, Tyrone Guthrie (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976), p. 228. C63.3  “Stratford Festival 1963,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 June 1963, p. 4. Includes two articles “Troilus and Cressida” and “The Comedy of Errors.” C63.4  “Graduate College for Canada,” Times Educational Supplement (London) no. 2,521 (13 September 1963): 292. Reprinted as “Massey College,” Canadian Architect 8, no. 10 (October 1963): 48. C63.5  “Massey College in the University of Toronto, Canada: A New Foundation and the First Graduate College in Canada,” Illustrated London News 243, no. 6,482 (26 October 1963): 687-9. C64.1  “Murmurs from an Ivory Tower,” Varsity Graduate (University of Toronto) 11, no. 1 (March 1964): 18-23. Reprinted as “Letter from the Ivory Tower: A College Rises — Not Unlike a Phoenix,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 March 1964, p. 4. C64.2  “Party of One: The Northern Muse,” Holiday 35, no. 4 (April 1964): 10-21. Includes a list of “Fifty Canadian Books” on pp. 20-1. Reprinted as “Canadian Literature: 1964” in A58. C64.3  “A Quadricentenary — Part 1: William Shakespeare 400 Years Old Today — and Still Living!” Peterborough Examiner, 23 April 1964, p. 4. C64.4  “A Quadricentenary — Part 2: Shakespeare: All Things to All Men,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 April 1964, p. 4. C64.5  “Self-Imprisoned to Keep the World at Bay,”

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New York Times, 14 June 1964, sec. 7 (“Book Review”), pp. 4-5, 33. Book review of Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel and The Tomorrow-Tamer. Reprinted as “The Stone Angel / The Tomorrow Tamer: 1964” in A58. C64.6  “Stratford’s Festival of Man,” Saturday Night 79, no. 8 (August 1964): 21-3. Reprinted as “Stratford: 1964: Richard II / Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme / King Lear” in A58. C64.7  “Garrick’s Letters,” University of Toronto Quarterly 34, no. 1 (October 1964): 104-6. Book review of David M. Little and George M. Kahrl, eds., The Letters of David Garrick, 3 vols. C64.8  “Educating for the Future,” Atlantic Monthly 214, no. 5 (November 1964): 140-4. Article is part of “Canada: An Atlantic Supplement.” C65.1  “Mimesis at Massey,” Varsity Graduate (University of Toronto) 11, no. 5 (April 1965): 98-9, 110, 112, 114, 116. Reprinted in A55. C65.2  “More Pieces of a Fine Mind,” New York Times, 16 May 1965, sec. 7 (“Book Review”), p. 30. Book review of Edmund Wilson, O Canada: An American’s notes on Canadian Culture. Reprinted as “O Canada: An American’s notes on Canadian Culture: 1965” in A58. C65.3  “Stratford — 1965: Shakespeare’s Mighty Genius in a Show for Connoisseurs, A Passion of Kingship Unequalled in 25 Years,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 June 1965, p. 4. C65.4  “Opera at Stratford: Pungent Flavour of Brecht and Weill,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 July 1965, p. 4. Reprinted as “Stratford: 1965: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” in A58. C65.5  “The Cherry Orchard at Stratford: For Chekhov: 87 Per Cent,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 July 1965, p. 4. Reprinted as “Stratford: 1965: The Cherry Orchard” in A58. C65.6  “A Letter from Salzburg: Vitality, Beauty, and Paradox Mark Medieval Theatre,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 August 1965, p. 4. C65.7  “A Letter from Salzburg: The Marionettes Bring Mozart to Mystic Life,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 August 1965, p. 4. C65.8  “La Boheme: Oh, ma jeunesse . . .!” Opera Canada, 6, no. 3 (September 1965): 38. Revised as “Behind the Libretto and the Music,” Opera Canada 13, no. 3 (Fall 1972): 50-1. C65.9  “A Letter from Salzburg: Unbroken Action

Makes Faust Masterly Drama,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 September 1965, p. 4. C66.1  “Ibsen’s New Woman,” Toronto Telegram, 9 April 1966, (“Showcase” sec.), p. 7. C66.2  “Wasting Fertilizer,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 20 May 1966, p. 6. Letter to the editor taking issue with Metropolitan Toronto’s proposal that it burn more than 79,000 tons of the treated sewage it produces annually. C66.3  “Henry V at Stratford: A Sombre View of Success,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 June 1966, p. 4. Reprinted as part of “Stratford: 1966: Twelfth Night / Henry V / Henry VI” in A58. C66.4  “Henry VI at Stratford: An Audience Electrified by Rip-Roaring Theatre,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 June 1966, p. 4. Reprinted as part of “Stratford: 1966: Twelfth Night / Henry V / Henry VI” in A58. C66.5  “Twelfth Night: A Shakespeare Fantasy with a Gentle Touch,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 June 1966, p. 4. Reprinted as part of “Stratford: 1966: Twelfth Night / Henry V / Henry VI” in A58. C66.6  “[Book reviews],” University of Toronto Quarterly 35, no. 4 (July 1966): 414-16. Book review of Sydney Lamb, Tragedy; G.G. Falle, ed., Three Restoration Comedies; and Michael R. Booth, Eighteenth Century Tragedy, Hiss the Villain, and English Melodrama. C66.7  “The Last of the Czars,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 6 July 1966, p. 6. Letter to the editor taking issue with a damning phrase about William Kinsolving’s play The Last of the Czars in a Toronto Globe and Mail article by B.L., “Forgotten Man: Kinsolving Still Likes His Play,” 28 June 1966, p. 10. C66.8  “A Letter from London: Return to the London of Dickensian Dandies,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 July 1966, p. 4. C66.9 “A Letter from London: Keeping Pace with Old and New in London’s West End Theatres,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 August 1966, p. 4. C66.10  “Letter from Vienna: Freud: Forgotten Man in Vienna,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 August 1966, p. 4. C66.11  “Letter from Vienna: Viennese Gaiety and Offenbach’s Genius,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 August 1966, p. 4. C66.12  “Cold Comfort Farm,” New York Times, 21 August 1966, sec. 7 (“Book Review”), pp. 28-9. Book review of Marie-Claire Blais, A Season in the Life of Emmanuel (trans. Derek Coltman, intro. Edmund Wil-



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son). Reprinted as “A Season in the Life of Emmanuel: 1966” in A58. C66.13  “Letter from Salzburg: The Finest Festival Fails with Fantasy,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 August 1966, p. 4. C66.14  “The Salzburg Festival: Opera at Its Best,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 September 1966, p. 4. C67.1  “A Case of Settling Old Scores,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 February 1967, p. 4. Book review of Scott Symons, Place D’Armes. C67.2  “Elegant Egoists,” New York Times, 30 April 1967, sec. 7 (“Book Review”), pp. 4-5. Book review of Marie-Claire Blais, The Day Is Dark and Three Travelers (trans. Derek Coltman). C67.3  “Publisher’s Message: Newspaper Must Now Explain to Readers Happenings Behind the News,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 May 1967, (“Changes Completed!” sec.), p. 2a. C67.4  “Study of the Drama (ii): There Will Be No ‘Soft’ Degrees,” Varsity Graduate (University of Toronto) 13, no. 4 (June 1967): 90-6. C67.5  “Stratford — 1967,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 June 1967, p. 4. Includes three articles: “Langham’s Gogol Buried Under Extraneous Matter,” “Merry Wives Draws Fine Performances,” and “Richard — The Rich Colours of a Cathedral Window.” Reprinted as “Stratford: 1967: Richard III / The Government Inspector / The Merry Wives of Windsor” in A58. C67.6  “New Method Needed,” The Times (London), 20 July 1967, p. 9. Letter to the editor urging that “some new and practicable method must be found of rewarding [authors] for their work” in a day when books are republished in underdeveloped countries without payment of royalties, when public libraries fail to circulate their books, and when photocopy machines capable of producing inexpensive copies abound. C67.7  “Stratford — 1967: A Difficult Play Well Performed,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 August 1967, p. 4. Re Antony and Cleopatra. C67.8  “Books in Review: Of Tories and Conservatives,” Saturday Night 82, no. 11 (November 1967): 53. Book review of Donald Cameron, Faces of Leacock. C67.9  “‘A Good Education’: Education of Little Value without Gumption,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 December 1967, p. 4. Excerpts from speech at the official opening of the Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School

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and Auburn Vocational School, 30 November 1967. Reported, with many quotations, as “Students Demand a Voice, But…Education Must Be Entrusted to Experts,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 December 1967, p. 17. Ellipsis in the original. C67.10  “Read Any Good (Canadian) Books Lately?” University of Toronto Graduate 1, no. 1 (Christmas 1967): 18-19. Extract from lecture to Alumni Association of University College, 3 June 1967. Reprinted as “Read Any Canadian Books?” Peterborough Examiner, 20 December 1967, p. 4. C68.1  “Massey College Head Remembers Vincent Massey,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 January 1968, p. 4. Reprinted as “A Tough-Minded, Imaginative Canadian with a Vision of Excellence,” University of Toronto Graduate 1, no. 2 (March 1968): 33-5, 37-8. Also reprinted as A27. C68.2  “Mr. Davies Replies,” Varsity (University of Toronto) 88, no. 56 (16 February 1968): 4. Letter to the editor replying to the Varsity’s editorial “Integrity in the Backlands” (88, no. 53 (8 February 1968: 4.)) which had reproved him for selling the Peterborough Examiner and allowing Roy Thomson “to get his hands on the paper, thereby affording himself an opportunity to complete his retreat into the sedate and scholarly confines of Massey College.” Davies suggested that Peterborough, home of Trent University, would not like being referred to as “the Backlands,” noted that he was a minority shareholder in the Examiner and could not have resisted the sale had he wished to, and disputed the implication that he had retreated from an honourable to a less honourable profession. C68.3  “What Do You See in the Mirror? A Footnote to the Psychedelic Revolution,” University of Toronto Graduate 1, no. 2 (March 1968): 60-4. Reprinted as “Psychedelia: Acid-heads Are Nothing New,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 April 1968, p. 4, and also in A41. C68.4  “Hallowe’en,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 5 November 1968, p. 6. Letter to the editor re the origins of Hallowe’en, arguing that “Evil has to be met and reckoned with — even compromised with — for it will not disappear” and arguing against “the kind of psychological shallowness and immaturity that turns Hallowe’en into another Home and School Happening.” Reprinted in A93. Excerpted as “Verbatim: Screw UNICEF” in Saturday Night 120, no. 9 (November 2005): 14. C68.5  “Massey College,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 20 November 1968, p. 6. Letter to the editor. In an earlier letter “Massey College,” 16 November, p. 6, Rev. Harry

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S.D. Robinson had charged Massey College with “intellectual humanistic arrogance.” Davies defends the college by quoting the prayer under discussion in its entirety and by observing that this is just one of many prayers used at each service in the college chapel. C68.6  “Courage, Criteria and the Best of Papers,” Toronto Globe and Mail (“Magazine”), 21 December 1968, p. 20. Book review of John C. Merrill, The Elite Press: Great Newspapers of the World. C69.1  “Many Tributes Paid George Wilson Craw,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 May 1969, p. 2. Davies’s tribute is one among several that were published. Craw, the executive editor of the newspaper, died on 10 May 1969. C69.2  “[Book review],” University of Toronto Quarterly 38, no. 4 (July 1969): 402-3. Book review of Murray Edwards, A Stage in our Past: English-Language Theatre in Eastern Canada from the 1790s to 1914. Reprinted in Theatre Research (The Journal of the International Federation for Theatre Research) 11, nos. 2 &3 (1971): 183-4. Also as “A Stage in Our Past: 1969” in A58.

C69.3  “[Book review],” University of Toronto Quarterly 38, no. 4 (July 1969): 376-8. Book review of Ann Saddlemyer, ed., J.M. Synge Collected Works: Plays, 2 vols. C69.4  “English Usage,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 24 July 1969, p. 6. Letter to the editor. Part of an ongoing discussion inspired by a dispute between Professors John T. Saywell and H.R.S. Ryan, Davies points to two sorts of lexicographical practice: that which records the current use of a word and that which “defines words according to root, history, and usage by scholars and writers of repute” and explains why he prefers the latter. Reprinted in A93. C69.5  “Canada: The Elusive Lover: Repressed Feelings,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 August 1969, p. 4. Reprinted as “The Poetry of a People” in Andy Wainwright, ed., notes for a Native Land: A New Encounter with Canada ([Ottawa]: Oberon Press, [1969]), pp. 96-9. C69.6  “Leacock the Humorist: Leacock the Teacher,” Monday Morning 4, no. 3 (November 1969): 24-5.

1970-1979 C70.1  “‘How Can You Make Sure You Suffer Enough?’” University of Toronto Graduate 3, no.2 (April 1970): 25-9. Davies interviews Margaret Laurence.

4 December 1970, p. 35. Also, with a few quotations, as “Sees Too Much Prattle about Canadian Identity,” Ottawa Journal, 4 December 1970, p. 31.

C70.2  “[Book review],” University of Toronto Quarterly 39, no. 4 (July 1970): 368-9. Book review of Michael R. Booth, ed., English Plays of the Nineteenth Century: i, Drama 1800-1850; ii, Drama 1850-1900.

C71.1  “Some Thoughts on the Present State of Canadian Literature,” Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada series 4, 9 (1971): [261]-70. Speech to the Royal Society of Canada, 8 June 1971, delivered for Davies by Professor Clifford Leech. Reprinted as “Writing like Scherezade” in Alan Dawe, Copyright Canada: A Prose Rhetoric and Sampler (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1978), pp. 79-82.

C70.3  “Loud Laughter,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 9 July 1970, metro ed., p. 7. Letter to the editor in response to Herbert Whittaker, “Laughter, Silence Greet OneMan Rediscovery of Kipling,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 3 July 1970, metro ed., p.13. Re Patrick Crean’s performance at Stratford. Excerpted in C95.3 and reprinted in A93. C70.4  “‘The Books I Enjoyed the Most in 1970...,’” Financial Post, 12 December 1970, p. 13. Ellipsis appears in the text. Davies selected Angus Wilson, The World of Charles Dickens; R.H. Auden, A Certain World; and Erich Neumann, Depth Psychology and a New Ethic. C70.5  “Looking into the Mirror of Canadian Writing,” Ottawa Journal, 14 December 1970, p. 6. Excerpts from speech to the Women’s Canadian Club of Ottawa on 3 December. Reported earlier, with quotations, as “Canadian Literature: No Prize Here,” Ottawa Citizen,

C71.2  “Leacock as a Literary Artist,” University of Toronto Graduate 3, no. 4 (January 1971): 78-87. Speech to “The Other Leacock” Symposium, Massey College, University of Toronto, 31 October 1970. Excerpted as “Leacock — A Master of Humor and Still Someplace to Go for a Laugh,” Ottawa Journal, 22 February 1971, p. 6. Full text as “Leacock as a Literary Artist: 1971” in A58. C71.3  “Sure Taste, Well Below Blood Heat,” Toronto Globe and Mail (“Magazine”), 27 February 1971, p. 13. Book review of Max Beerbohm, Last Theatres, 19041910. C71.4  “[Book review],” University of Toronto Quarterly



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40, no. 4 (Summer 1971): 327-9. Book review of Norman Rosenblood, ed., Shaw: Seven Critical Essays. C71.5  “Every Man Needs Three Careers,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 28 October 1971, p. 7. Excerpts from speech at the University of Windsor, Autumn Convocation, 23 October 1971. Davies received an honorary Doctor of Letters. Also excerpted as “Whatever You Do in Life Try Not to Do It for Too Long,” Ottawa Journal, 29 October 1971, p. 6. Reported, with quotations, as “Plan a Course for the Future: Brains Not Enough, U. of W. Grads Told,” Windsor Star, 25 October 1971, p. 3. C71.6  “How Can We Have Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark?” Toronto Globe and Mail, 6 November 1971, p. 31. Book review of Ronald Hayman, John Gielgud. C72.1  “A Mess. It Just Won’t Do,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 1 January 1972, p. 23. Book review of Marion Geisinger, Plays, Players and Playwrights. C72.2  “‘Female Students Are Not Barred From Massey College’”, Toronto Star, 9 February 1972, p. 7. Response to letter written by Gwen Matheson, a former graduate student at the University of Toronto, “‘The Ugly Spectre of Sexism Lurks at Massey College,’” 1 February 1972, p. 7 in which Massey College is described as “a symbol of sexual discrimination and of class and education privilege,” a propagator of “the colonial mentality,” a bit of “Balliol baloney.” Davies observed that there was nothing preventing someone from endowing a college for female students, that women came to Massey for seminars and entertainment, that Junior Fellows were chosen for their academic merit alone, that Massey held a first-rate collection of English Canadian literature, and that he had not been called Master Davies for forty-five years. C72.3  “From Robertson Davies, Master of Massey College,” Heraldry in Canada 6, no. 1 (March 1972): 34. Tongue in cheek letter to the editor inspired by “An Heraldic Monstrosity,” Heraldry in Canada 5, no. 4 (December 1971): 12. C72.4  “40 Years Later,” College Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) 114 (Spring 1972): 56-7. C72.5  “How the Author Reaches His Public,” University of Toronto Graduate 4, no. 2 (May 1972): 16-20. Text of Davies’s speech to the Empire Club of Toronto on 2 March 1972. Reprinted in The Empire Club of Canada: Addresses 1971-1972 (Don Mills, on: Empire Club Foundation, 1972), pp. 283-95. Reported, with brief quotations, as “Public-Fund Pensions Suggested for Authors,” Toronto Star, 2 March 1972, p. 32.

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C72.6  “The Three Warning Circles,” Alumni Journal (University of Manitoba) 32, no. 4 (Summer 1972): 7-10. Text of Convocation Address at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, mb, 25 May 1972. Davies received an honorary doctor of laws degree. Reprinted in A55. Reported by Ron Kustra, with substantial quotations, as “Students Told of Magic Circles,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 May 1972, p. 6. Includes a photograph of Davies with University of Manitoba President Dr. Ernest Sirluck and Mary Elizabeth Bayer who received the university’s alumni jubilee award. C72.7  “[Book review],” Victorian Studies 15, no. 4 (June 1972): 488-90. Book review of Kenneth Richards and Peter Thomson, eds., Nineteenth-Century British Theatre and Daniel J. Watermeier, ed., Between Actor and Critic: Selected Letters of Edwin Booth and William Winter. C72.8  “His Style’s Naive, but the Truth and Pathos Seep Through,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 23 September 1972, p. 33. Book review of Cecil Beaton, The Happy Years. C72.9  “Sleeping Through Our Canadian Dreams,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 13 November 1972, p. 7. Extracts from speech to The Society of Industrial Accountants of Ontario, Toronto, 14 October 1972. Printed as “A Canadian Writer’s Manifesto,” Toronto Life (November 1977): 72-4, 76-7. Reprinted as “What May Canada Expect from Her Writers?” in A52, A97 and in Desmond Morton and Morton Weinfeld, Who Speaks for Canada? Words That Shape a Country (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1998), pp. 258-9. Condensed as “What Does Canada Expect from Writers?” Financial Post, 25 November 1972, p. 20. Briefly reported as “Nation’s Character in Danger: Author,” Toronto Star, 16 October 1972, p. 25. For critical reflections on Davies’s address, with quotations, see Charles Taylor, “Are Canadian Authors Losers Writing for Losers?” Toronto Globe and Mail, 16 December 1972, p. 7. C72.10  “Authority without Snobbery,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 2 December 1972, p. 34. Book review of George Bain, Champagne Is for Breakfast. C73.1  “Letter Dated November 28, 1972 to the Dean of Hall,” Massey College Bull 2, no. 3 (January 1973): [8]. C73.2  “[Book review],” New York Times, 25 February 1973, sec. 7 (“Book Review”), p. 31. Book review of Gerhard Adler, C.G. Jung: Letters, Vol. i 1906-1950 and Anthony Storr, C.G. Jung. C73.3  “Flatus,” Times Literary Supplement (London) no. 3,712 (27 April 1973): 473. Letter to editor in response to Ian Hamilton, “Viewpoint,” Times Literary

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Supplement (London) no. 3,706 (16 March): 294. Reprinted in A93. C73.4  “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” Washington Post, 27 May 1973, (“Book World” sec.), p. 12. Book review of Duncan Williams, Trousered Apes: Sick Literature in a Sick Society. C73.5  “A Leader to Those of Us Who Faced the Music,” Canadian Composer no. 82 (July 1973): 16-17. Davies’s address at the Memorial Service for Ernest MacMillan at Convocation Hall, University of Toronto, 15 May 1973. Reprinted as “Sir Ernest MacMillan” in A52. C73.6  “Famous Colleague Pays His Respects,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 August 1973, p. 4. Letter to the editor re H.L. Garner, general manager of the Examiner 1937-57. C73.7  “We Long for Music, but His Joyous Appetites Do Satisfy,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 18 August 1973, p. 28. Book review of Arthur Rubinstein, My Young Years. C73.8  “Art and the Cult of the Amateur,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 30 November 1973, p. 7. Excerpt of Davies’s speech to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Annual Dinner on 17 November 1973 in Toronto at the York Club. Excerpted also as “Writing and the Cult of the Amateur,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 5 December 1973, p. 6; as “Delusions of the Amateur Cult,” Vancouver Sun, 14 December 1973, p. 5; and in Sally Soames, Writers: Photographs (San Francisco: Chronicle Books; London: André Deutsch, 1995), p. 24. Condensed in Norman Smith, “Saturday Talk: Robertson Davies: A Writer’s Craft,” Ottawa Journal, 26 January 1974, p. 6. Full text in Earth and You (Toronto) 5, nos. 25-6 [1974]: 6-12 and in A62. C73.9  “[Book review],” Modern Drama 16, no. 3-4 (December 1973): 401-2. Book review of Margery M. Morgan, The Shavian Playground. C73.10  “Letters to the Editor: James Alexander Roy a Rarity among Academics,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 17 December 1973, p. 6; reprinted as “Letters: James Roy: A Rare Type,” Queen’s University Alumni Review 48, no. 2 (March-April 1974): 8. C73.11  “Daylight Saving Time,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 15 December 1973, p. 6. Letter to the editor. Reprinted in C95.3. C74.1  “The Gascon Years at Stratford,” Stratford Canada: 1974 (1974): [35]-[36]. Souvenir program. C74.2  Zena Cherry, “After a Fashion: Happy Definition of Cat-Like Mood,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 1

January 1973, p. 14. Excerpts from Davies’s speech “Happiness Is a Cat-Like Emotion” in Toronto at the Closing Exercises of Bishop Strachan School, 6 June 1973. C74.3  “‘Man and Superman,’” Times Literary Supplement no. 3,754 (15 February 1974): 158. Letter to the editor about a misprint in the Standard Edition of Bernard Shaw’s works. Reprinted in A93. C74.4  “Massey College,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 25 April 1974, p. 6. Letter to the editor taking umbrage at the tone of the editorial “Gracious,” 24 April, p. 6, and laying out the sequence of events which resulted in the admission of women to Massey College. Excerpted in C95.3. C74.5  “Convocation Address,” MUN Gazette (Memorial University, nl) 6, no. 39 (July 1974): 23-4. Text of address delivered on 24 May 1974. Davies received an honorary Doctor of Letters. Reported in “MUN to Get School of Fine Arts?” St. John’s, Newfoundland, Evening Telegram, 25 May 1974, p. 3. Accompanying this article, which includes a brief report about the previous day’s convocation ceremony at Memorial University of Newfoundland, is a photo of Davies delivering the convocation address. Two quotations from his speech appear below the photograph. C74.6  “The Bull Gives It to the Master Straight!” Massey College Bull 4, no. 1 (October 1974): 5-6. Whimsical conversation between The Bull and The Master (Davies). Signed Taffy. C74.7  “Curiosity, Work, Open the Door to Life’s Splendor,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 9 November 1974, p. 7. Excerpts from speech at Trent University, 26 October 1974, Autumn Convocation. Davies received an honorary Doctor of Letters. In full as “Work Wasn’t Always a Four Letter Word,” Trent Fortnightly 5, no. 9 (18 November 1974): 3-5. Reprinted as “Work Not Always Unpopular Says Honorary Grad,” Trent Alumnus 8, no. 1 (Winter 1975): 11-13. Also reprinted as “Work and Curiosity Yield Life’s Splendor,” Vancouver Sun, 22 January 1975, p. 5; condensed as “Curiosity — That’s the Secret,” Reader’s Digest 106, no. 635 (March 1975): 67-9 and as “Curiosity — the Open Secret: Uniting Us All, It’s the True Zest in Our Lives,” Reader’s Digest (Britain) 106, no. 638 (June 1975): 110-12. C74.8  “The Convocation Address,” Mount Allison Record (Mount Allison University, Sackville, nb) (Winter 1974): 9-11. Text of Davies’s speech after receiving the degree of Doctor of Literature, honoris causa, on 19 October 1973. The citation, by G.F.G. Stanley, is on p. 8.



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C75.1  “Canadian Nationalism in Arts and Science,” Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada series 4, 13 (1975): [15]-24. Address to the Royal Society of Canada’s Symposium on Canadian Nationalism in Arts and Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, ab, 2 June 1975. Printed as “A Closer Look: Canadian Nationalism in Arts and Science: ‘We Must Speak to All Time and All Men,’” Kingston Whig Standard, 8 July 1976, p. 7. Excerpted (two paragraphs) in John Robert Colombo, Colombo’s Book of Canada (Toronto: Colombo & Co., 1998), p. 63. Reported, with brief quotations, by Canadian Press as “Readers Expect Too Much Robertson Davies Says,” Toronto Star, 4 June 1975, p. F16. Also, with one brief quotation, as “Reader Expects Too Much, Davies Says,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 4 June 1975, p. 14. C75.2  “Play Out of Novel,” Shaw Festival: 1975 (1975): [12]-[16]. Souvenir program. Re the play adaptation of Davies’s novel Leaven of Malice, which was performed at the Shaw Festival from 29 May to 1 August 1975. C75.3  “What Happens When Aristocracy Erupts into Democracy?” Festival Lennoxville (1975): [13]. Souvenir program. Note about ideas in Davies’s play Hunting Stuart. C75.4  “Education and Literacy,” Interaction (Ontario Teachers’ Federation) (January 1975): 5. Excerpts from lecture in the Tenth Anniversary Lecture Series, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, on, 14 November 1974. C75.5  “Book Invasion,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 30 January 1975, p. 6. Letter to the editor supporting the protest by Pierre Berton and Farley Mowat “against the dumping of American surplus printings of books by Canadian writers in this country,” a subject raised in William French, “Book Invasion,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 23 January 1975, p. 14. C75.6  “My Diary Tells Me That...,” Playbill News Magazine (Toronto Arts Productions Theatre Company) no. 3 (Feb./Mar. 1975): 4. Note in program for Davies’s play Question Time staged at the St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto 25 February-22 March 1975. Re the Centre’s General Director Leon Major asking Davies on 22 February 1974 to write a play, about Davies’s wanting to write about the Prime Minister of such a country as Canada, and about the play’s theme – power. C75.7  “[Book review],” Modern Drama 18, no. 1 (March 1975): 122-3. Book review of Bernard F. Dukore, Bernard Shaw, Playwright: Aspects of Shavian Drama.

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C75.8  “[Book review],” University of Toronto Quarterly 44, no. 4 (Summer 1975): 403-4. Book review of J.L. Wisenthal, The Marriage of Contraries: Bernard Shaw’s Middle Plays. C75.9  “Appreciation of the Late Edwin C. Guillet ... Died June 26, 1975,” Ontario History 67 (June 1975): 119. Ellipsis appears in text. C75.10  “Edwin C. Guillet,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 15 July 1975, p. 6. Letter to the editor. C75.11  “[Book review],” Modern Drama 18, no. 3 (September 1975): 317-20. Book review of Allardyce Nicoll, English Drama 1900-1930: The Beginnings of the Modern Period. C75.12  “Thornton Wilder,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 12 December 1975, p. 6. Letter to the editor in response to obituary by Adlen Whitman, “Playwright, Author Won 3 Pulitzer Prizes,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 8 December 1975, p. 4. C75.13  “Christmas in the Age of Aquarius,” Vancouver Sun, 24 December 1975, p. 5. C76.1  “A Model of Its Kind,” University of Toronto Bulletin 29, no. 27 (5 March 1976): 7. Book review of James Sutherland, ed., The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes. C76.2  “Jung, in Thought and Feeling,” Parabola 1, no. 2 (Spring 1976): 88-91. Book review of Marie-Louise von Franz, C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time and Laurens Van Der Post, Jung and the Story of Our Time. C76.3  “How Do You Expect to Get Along without a Festival?” Opera Canada 17, no. 2 (May 1976): 10-11, 47. Speech to the Guelph Spring Festival, 29 March 1972. C76.4  Sandra Martin, “The Book That Changed My Life: Robertson Davies,” Saturday Night 91, no. 3 (May 1976): 32. Re Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay. Like a number of other Canadian celebrities, Davies composed this brief article in response to a request from Sandra Martin. She asked them all to reflect on their early experiences as readers, particularly a formative book. C76.5  “Letters: If We Don’t Want to Look Foolish Don’t Ban Books: Davies,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 May 1976, p. 4. Letter urging the Peterborough County Board of Education not to remove books by Margaret Laurence and Alice Munro from the reading list approved for Grade 13 students. C76.6  “Books: GBS, Why Do We Go on Reading Him, Setting up Festivals ...,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 5 June 1976, p. 35. Book review of Dan H. Laurence, ed., The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw Collected Plays with Their

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Prefaces, 7 vols. Reprinted as “Shaw’s Flaws — and His Genius,” Vancouver Sun, 25 June 1976, pp. 8A-9. Ellipsis appears in text. C76.7  “Critics Cannot Affirm Art’s Beauty in Bad Prose,” Ottawa Journal, 17 July 1976, p. 6. Excerpts from opening address to the Second Arts and Media Conference, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, 15 July 1976. Reported, with quotations, by William Johnson (along with other conference speeches) as “A Critic’s Lot Not a Happy One Says Ottawa Media Conference,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 16 July 1976, p. 17. Also reported, with quotations, by Paula Brook Saltzberg, “Robertson Davies Addresses Conference Critics,” Ottawa Citizen, 16 July 1976, p. 55. C76.8  “Massey’s Not WASP Country,” Saturday Night 91, no. 5 (July-August 1976): 4-5. Letter to the editor in response to Adele Freedman, “The Stubborn Ethnicity of Adele W.,” Saturday Night 91, no. 3 (May 1976): 23-8. C76.9  “What Can Fairy Tales Teach? Plenty!” Toronto Globe and Mail, 9 October 1976, p. 10. Book review of Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. C76.10  “An Eerie Tale of a Little Table That Spoke,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 24 December 1976, p. 7. Ghost story about a little table inhabited by the spirit of William Lyon Mackenzie King delivered at Massey College, University of Toronto, on 18 December 1976. Reprinted as “Conversations with the Little Table” in A63 and in Ted Stone, ed., 13 Canadian Ghost Stories (Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1988), pp. 17-28. C76.11  “We Celebrate Both the Son and the Sun,” Toronto Star, 24 December 1976, p. F1. C77.1  “The Goose Says Grace,” Journal of Canadian Studies 12, no. 1 (February 1977): 3. A prefatory note to the special issue on Davies. C77.2  “Kings and Cabbages,” University of Toronto Graduate 4, no. 3 (March 1977): 10-11. C77.3  “A Closer Look: ‘It Is Too Late for Us to Change Our Spots Now,’” and “A Closer Look: Canadians Must Understand–Not Tame–the Land,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 11 and 12 April 1977, p. 7. Full text of Davies’s speech at the Symposium on 20th Century Canadian Culture sponsored by the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, which took place in Washington, dc. Reprinted as “Dark Hamlet with the Features of Horatio: Canada’s Myths and Realities,” in Judith Webster, ed., Voices of Canada: An

Introduction to Canadian Culture (Burlington, vt: Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, 1977), pp. 42-7; also as “The Canada of Myth and Reality” in A52; in Paul Denham and Mary Jane Edwards, eds., Canadian Literature in the 70’s (Toronto: Holt, Rinehart & Winston of Canada Limited, 1980), pp. [1]-14; in Priscilla Galloway, ed., Timely and Timeless: Contemporary Prose (Toronto: Irwin Publishing Inc., 1983), pp. 85-99; and in A96. Briefly reported, with quotations, by Burt Heward, “Canada Undergoing Civil War — Davies,” Ottawa Citizen, 5 April 1977, p. 19. An additional report by Heward summarizes and quotes from Davies’s speech, “Books: Canada’s Search: Culture without Cabbages,” Ottawa Citizen, 5 April 1977, p. 85. C77.4  “Lawyer as Protagonist: A Star of a Particular Kind,” Advocate (Magazine of the Students’ Law Society, University of Toronto) 12, no. 1 (SeptemberOctober 1977): 3-5. C77.5  “Drama Criticism,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 29 October 1977, p. 7. Letter to the editor in response to a review by Bryan Johnson of a production of Pontiac and the Green Man, “Pontiac Gets Lost in a Hopeless Muddle,” Toronto Globe and Mail , 27 October 1977, p. 15. C77.6  “The All Hallows Horrors,” Toronto Sunday Star, 30 October 1977, (“The City: Toronto Star Sunday Magazine” sec.), pp. 10-13, 22. Abridged text of Davies’s ghost story delivered in Toronto, on at Massey College, University of Toronto, on 13 December 1969. Text begins on p. 11. Reprinted in A63 as “Refuge of Insulted Saints.” C77.7  “Books: The Canadian Imagination,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 17 December 1977, p. 37. Book review of David Staines, ed., The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture. C78.1  “The Novels of Mavis Gallant,” Canadian Fiction Magazine no. 28 (1978): 69-73. Book review of Mavis Gallant, Green Water, Green Sky; A Fairly Good Time; and The Pegnitz Junction. Reprinted in A58. C78.2  “Books: Edmund Wilson,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 21 January 1978, p. 41. Book review of Edmund Wilson, Letters on Literature and Politics 1912-1972, ed. Elena Wilson. Reprinted in A55b as “Edmund Wilson.” C78.3  “Dear Montreal: ‘Westmount Women Have the Ugliest Voices,’” Montreal Gazette, 11 March 1978, final ed., pp. 1-2. C78.4  “Robertson Davies’ Inaugural Address to the Faculty of Humanities,” CALUM (University of



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Calgary) 9, no. 4 (April 1978): 4-7. Text of keynote speech given in MacEwan Hall at the University of Calgary, Calgary, ab, 9 February 1978. Reported, with quotations, by Dave Margoshes, as “Humanities Faculty Inaugurated with Plea for ‘Revival of Honor,’” Calgary Herald, 10 February 1978, p. C1. Reprinted as “The Relevance and Importance of the Humanities in the Present Day” in John Woods and Harold G. Coward, eds., Humanities in the Present Day (Waterloo, on: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 1979), pp. 3-9. C78.5  “Mr. Davies Replies,” New Republic 178, no. 21 (27 May 1978): 3. Letter to the editor in response to the review of One Half of Robertson Davies by Joyce Carol Oates, New Republic 178, no. 15 (15 April 1978): 22-4. C78.6  “His Own Ulysses,” Canadian Forum, 58, no. 681 (June-July 1978): 24-5. Book review of William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull, eds., C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters. C78.7  “Department of the Secretary of State: Pro­ clamation by the Governor General on the Subject of Canada Week,” [English text by Robertson Davies], Canada Gazette, 24 June 1978, pp. 3778-9. Attribution: Moira Whalon. C78.8  “[Book review],” Victorian Periodicals Newsletter 11, no. 3 (Fall 1978): 110-12. Book review of T.F. Evans, ed., Shaw: The Critical Heritage. C78.9  “Delusions of Literacy: The Lahey Lecture of Concordia University,” McGill Journal of Education 13, no. 3 (Fall 1978): 238-52. The text of Davies’s Lahey Lecture of Concordia University in Montreal, pq, on 13 February 1978. Reported, with quotations, by Sheila Fischman, as “Books: Lahey Lecture: Respect Words, Davies Urges,” Montreal Star, 16 February 1978, p. B7. C78.10  “My Turn: A Few Kind Words of Superstition,” Newsweek 92, no. 21 (20 November 1978): 23. Reprinted in Arthur M. Eastman, general ed., The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository Prose (New York: W.W. Norton, 5th ed., 1980), pp. 136-8, Eastman, general ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 7th edition shorter, 1988), pp. 109-11; Harry Brent and William Lutz, Rhetorical Considerations: Essays for Analysis (Cambridge, Mass.: Winthrop, 3rd ed., 1980), pp. 305-7 (Boston: Little, Brown, 4th ed., 1984), pp. 271-3; X.J. Kennedy and Dorothy M. Kennedy, The Bedford Reader (New York, St. Martin’s Press, 3rd ed., 1988), pp. 302-5; Susan D. Hurtt and Bernadette Boylan, eds., 75 Readings: an Anthology (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2nd ed., 1989), pp. 252-5; Gerald Levin, Gerald Lynch, David

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Rampton, eds., Prose Models: Canadian, American, and British Essays for Composition (Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Canada, 1989), pp. 125-7, Levin, Rampton, Lynch, eds. (Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Canada, 1993, 2nd Canadian ed.), pp. 144-6; Lesley Denton and James R. Belser, eds., 75 Readings: an Anthology (New York: McGraw-Hill, 3rd ed., 1991), pp. 277-9; Maxine Hairston and John J. Ruszkiewicz, The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers (New York: Harper Colllins, 2nd ed., 1991), p. 117 (five sentences only); Judith Barker-Sandbrook, Essays: Patterns and Perspectives (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 82-4; Santi Buscemi and Charlotte Smith, 75 Readings Plus (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992), pp. 316-18, Buscemi and Smith (New York: McGraw Hill, 3rd ed., 1996), pp. 307-9, Buscemi and Smith (Boston: McGraw Hill, 5th ed., 2000), pp. 263-5; Lesley Denton, Laurie PiSierra, Tom Holton, eds., 75 Readings: an Anthology (New York: McGraw-Hill, 4th ed., 1993), pp. 253-6; Robert Hookey, Murray McArthur, and Joan Pilz, eds., Contest: Essays by Canadian Students (Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada, 2nd ed., 1994), pp. 110-12; Tim Julet and Tom Holton, eds. 75 Readings: an Anthology (New York: McGraw-Hill, 5th ed., 1995), pp. 280-83; Santi V. Buscemi and Charlotte Smith, 75 Readings: An Anthology (New York: McGraw Hill, 6th ed., 1997), pp. 257-60. Condensed as “I’m Not Superstitious (Touch Wood),” Reader’s Digest (Canada) 115, no. 688 (August 1979): 35-6. C78.11  “The Joy of Christmas: A Historical Ramble by Robertson Davies,” Chatelaine 51, no. 12 (December 1978): 23-5, 54, 56, 58, 60. C79.1  “Reviews: Tradition, Memory, Dreams,” Tamarack Review no. 76 (Winter 1979): 93-6. Book review of Jan Morris, ed., The Oxford Book of Oxford. C79.2  “Public Opinion Poll,” Toronto Board of Education Annual Report (January 1979): 4. Statement by Davies on the importance of grammar and vocabulary. C79.3  “Books: Once Again, Shakespeare Eludes the Experts,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 13 January 1979, p. 43. Book review of A.L. Rowse, ed., The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances Complete; and Emilia Lanier, The Poems of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (intro. A.L. Rowse). C79.4  “Guest Editorial: The Playgoing Habit Is Erratically Rewarding,” Newspaper: University of Toronto’s Independent Community Newspaper, 21 March 1979, p. 4. C79.5  “Opinion Platform,” Financial Post, 5 May 1979, (“Election Special: Campaign ’79” sec.), p. 7.

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C79.6  “Massey Exam Room ‘Not Intimidating,’” Toronto Globe and Mail, 26 May 1979, p. 7. Letter to the editor correcting misinformation in Rosemary Speirs, “Degree of Difficulty: Studying for a PhD Can Take 7 Years with No Guarantee of an Academic Job,” 22 May 1979, p. 5.

C79.8  “Past Imperfect, Future Tense,” Toronto Globe and Mail,” 18 December 1979, (“The Seventies” sec.), p. 1. C79.9  “A Chapter of Autobiography,” Old Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) Jubilee Issue [1979]: 14-17. Reprinted in A89 and A96.

C79.7  “Robertson Davies Reflects upon Hallowe’en,” Varsity (University of Toronto) 100, no. 23 (31 October 1979): 8-9.

1980-2004 C80.1  “Jung and Heraldry,” Book Forum 5, no. 2 (1980): 226-33. C80.2  “Where Does Wealth Begin?” Toronto Globe and Mail, 7 February 1980, p. 6. Letter to the editor in response to H. Wilson’s letter “Who Are the Rich?” 1 February, p. 7. Reprinted in C95.3. C80.3  “V.S. Pritchett: Fruits of Reflection,” Washington Post, 25 May 1980, (“Book World” sec.), pp. 1-2. Book review of V.S. Pritchett, The Tale Bearers: Literary Essays. Reprinted as “The Tale Bearers” in A55b. C80.4  “A Return to Rhetoric: The Brockington Lecture,” Queen’s Quarterly 87, no. 2 (Summer 1980): 183-97. Reprinted in A82. This lecture was given on 11 February 1980 in Grant Hall, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON. Excerpted as “On Identifying and Employing the Art of Rhetoric in which Master Davies Promotes Use of Words as ‘Edged Tools’ and Not as ‘Lumps of Mashed Potato,’” Kingston Whig-Standard, 12 February 1980, p. 8; also, briefly, as “The Professor Says: A Sampler of Opinion on Several Subjects Drawn from Recent Letters and Lectures: The Poetry of Hokum,” Queen’s Alumni Review 54, no. 3 (May-June 1980): 11. Reported, with quotations, as “TV Ads and Politicians Get ‘Rhetorical’ Lesson,” Kingston WhigStandard, 12 February 1980, pp. 1, 9. C80.5  “[Book review],” Chiron: Newsletter of the Analytical Psychology Society of Ontario, 1, no. 1 (August 1980): [3]-[4]. Review of Daryl Sharp, The Secret Raven: Conflict and Transformation in the Life of Franz Kafka. C80.6  “Fifty Years of Theatre in Canada,” University of Toronto Quarterly 50, no. 1 (Fall 1980): 69-80. Reprinted in W.J. Keith and B.-Z. Shek, eds., The Arts in Canada: The Last Fifty Years. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980), pp. 69-80. C80.7  “The Trouble with Students,” Canada Today / d’Aujourd’hui 11, no. 10 (November 1980): 3.

C80.8  “William Golding: Voyage to the Center of the Self,” Washington Post, 2 November 1980, (“Book World” sec.), p. 5. Book review of William Golding, Rites of Passage. Reprinted as “Rites of Passage” in A55b. C80.9  “And God Created Them Both,” Washington Post, 23 November 1980, (“Book World” sec.), pp. 1, 13. Book review of Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers. Reprinted in Manchester Guardian Weekly, 14 December 1980, p. 18. C80.10  “Books: An Enchanter Looks at Enchanters — Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Kafka, Proust, Stevenson and Joyce,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 20 December 1980, p. E13. Book review of Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature (ed. Fredson Bowers). C81.1  “Fred Emney,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 19 January 1981, p. 6. Letter to the editor. In response to an obituary, “Veteran Comic Started at 15,” 31 December 1980, p. 15. C81.2  “[Letter to the editor],” Chiron: Newsletter of the Analytical Psychology Society of Ontario 1, no. 6 (March 1981): [3]. Amusing letter re the application of the ideas of C.G. Jung to “Canada’s political soul.” Reprinted in A92. Note: with the next issue, this periodical was renamed Chiron: Newsletter of the C.G. Jung Foundation of Ontario. C81.3  “A Rake at Reading,” Mosaic 14, no. 2 (Spring 1981): 1-19. Davies’s Sidney Warhaft Memorial Lecture, delivered at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg on 20 November 1980. Reprinted in A89 and A96. C81.4  “Books: An Examination of Shakespeare’s Sexual Attitudes Fails to Come to Terms with Shakespeare the Poet; Shakespeare’s Division of Experience,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 4 April 1981, p. E18. Book review of Marilyn French, Shakespeare’s Division of Experience.



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C81.5  “Candidates’ Affiliations Should Be on Ballots,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 11 April 1981, p. 7. Letter to the editor. C81.6  “John Irving and His Traveling Menagerie,” Washington Post, 6 September 1981, (“Book World” sec.), pp. 1-2. Book review of John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire. Reprinted as “The Hotel New Hampshire” in A55b. C81.7  “Evelyn Waugh,” TV Guide (Canadian ed.) 5, no. 42, Issue 251 (17 October 1981): 41-4. C81.8  “Writers Conference,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 24 October 1981, p. 7. Letter to the editor re recent Writers and Human Rights Conference. A multiple signatory letter signed by Davies, Eugene Forsey, Northrop Frye, and three others. C81.9  “The Jovial World of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse,” Washington Post, 29 November 1981, (“Book World” sec.), pp. 1-2, 7. Book review of Benny Green, P.G. Wodehouse: A Literary Biography; David A. Jasen, P.G. Wodehouse: Portrait of a Master; D.R. Bensen, ed., Wodehouse on Crime: A Dozen Tales of Fiendish Cunning; Iain Sproat, Wodehouse at War; and James H. Heineman and Donald R. Bensen, eds., P.G. Wodehouse: A Centenary Celebration, 1881-1981. C82.1  “Diary of a Writer on the Escarpment, or the Joys of Retirement,” Cuesta: A Niagara Escarpment Commission Publication (Spring 1982): 3, 38-9. Signed Samuel Marchbanks. Reprinted in A55b. C82.2  “Forum: Robertson Davies on the Young Vincent Massey,” Theatre History in Canada 3, no. 1 (Spring 1982): 97-100. Book review of Claude Bissell, The Young Vincent Massey. C82.3  “The Happy Intervention of Robertson Davies: An Imaginary Telephone Conversation about the New CCOC Opera,” Opera Canada 23, no. 1 (Spring 1982): 18-19. Reprinted in A55b and as “A Conversation about Dr. Canon’s Cure” in A90. C82.4  “Queen’s Park,” Toronto Life (April 1982): 58-9, 81-2. C82.5  “V.S. Pritchett: Storyteller Supreme,” Washington Post, 25 April 1982, (“Book World” sec.), pp. 1-2, 15. Book review of V.S. Pritchett, Collected Stories and V.S. Pritchett and Reynolds Stone, The Turn of the Years. C82.6  “‘He Called Himself a Teller of Tales’: Somerset Maugham Took His Stories from Life, and Hinted at His Own Life within Them,” TV Guide (Canadian ed.) 6, no. 18, Issue 279 (1 May 1982): 29-31. Reprinted as “Somerset Maugham” in A55b.

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C82.7  “‘The Wind That Blows through Me’: A Good Deal of D.H. Lawrence’s Inspiration Was Mere Hot Air — But an Important Part Was Genius,” TV Guide (Canadian ed.) 6, no. 23, issue 284 (5 June 1982): 9, 11, 13. Reprinted in WHYY Selector (Philadelphia), May 1983, pp. 6-7 and as “D.H. Lawrence” in A55b. C82.8  “Nobility and Style,” Parabola: Myth and the Quest for Meaning 7, no. 3 (August 1982): 15-21. C82.9  “Is Canada Neurotic? A Country in Search of Its Soul,” Vogue 172, no. 9, whole no. 3206 (September 1982): 294, 296, 302. Reprinted in 75 Readings: A Freshman Anthology (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1987), pp. 354-7. C82.10  “How to Make Love to a Muse,” Washington Post, 19 September 1982, (“Book World” sec.), pp. 1, 8. Book review of John Fowles, Mantissa. Reprinted as “Mantissa” in A55b. C82.11  “Jung, Yeats and the Inner Journey,” Queen’s Quarterly 89, no. 3 (Autumn 1982): 471-7. Book review of James Olney, The Rhizome and the Flower: The Perennial Philosophy — Yeats and Jung and Erich Neumann, Creative Man: Five Essays. C82.12  “A Christmas Carol Reharmonized,” Washington Post, 28 November 1982, (“Book World” sec.), pp. 4-5, 21-2. Reprinted as “Dr. Scrooge Was Such a Nice Man, but Those Horrid Museologists Were Scheming Against Him. Now He Had His Own Plot, to Make Them Happy: A Christmas Cabal,” Toronto Star, 22 December 1984, pp. H1, H5. Revised as “A Christmas Carol Re-Harmonized” in A86, A89 and A96. C82.13  “Could You Die in a Theatre?” University of Toronto Quarterly 52, no. 2 (Winter 1982-3): 214-17. Book review of Jonas Barish, The Anti-Theatrical Prejudice. C83.1  “Keep Brains Functioning after Graduation, Too,” Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, 14 May 1983, p. 9A. Text of commencement address, given on 8 May 1983 at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. C83.2  “Books: A Definitive Jung in a Single Volume,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 18 June 1983, p. E15. Book review of Anthony Storr, ed., The Essential Jung. Reprinted as “The Essential Jung” in A55b. C83.3  “Iris Murdoch’s Crowded Canvas,” Washington Post, 26 June 1983, (“Book World” sec.), pp. 1-2. Book review of Iris Murdoch, The Philosopher’s Pupil. Reprinted as “The Philosopher’s Pupil” in A55b. C83.4  “Reading through Jung’s Spectacles: A Consideration of Robert Browning’s Poem The Ring and

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the Book,” Quadrant [New York] 16, no. 2 (Fall 1983): 5-22. Text of speech titled “Archetypal Patterns in Literature,” given on 19 November 1982 to the C.G. Jung Institute, San Francisco, ca, and on two subsequent occasions. C83.5  “Book Review: For God’s Sake Go, West,” Chiron: Newsletter of the C.G. Jung Foundation of Ontario 4, no. 3 (October 1983): [4]. Book review of Morris West, The World Is Made of Glass. C83.6  “‘Them or U.S.’: The Case for Being Canadian,” Town & Country 137, no. 11 (November 1983): 272-3, 330. C83.7  “Books: Sober Proof of a Literature,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 17 December 1983, p. E21. Book review of William Toye, ed., The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. C84.1  “Books: An Era under Scrutiny,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 17 March 1984, p. E19. Book review of Peter Gay, Education of the Senses, Vol. 1 of The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. C84.2  “Observations from the Edge of Childhood,” Washington Post, 15 April 1984, (“Book World” sec.), pp. 5-6. Book review of William McPherson, Testing the Current. C84.3  “In a Welsh Border House: The Legacy of the Victorians,” New York Times, 29 November 1984, pp. C1, C12. Re Leighton Hall, his father’s Welsh home from 1950 until his death in 1967. Reprinted in A55b. C84.4  “Book Questions Authority of Church,” Chiron: Newsletter of the C.G. Jung Foundation of Ontario 5, no. 2 (December 1984): [4]. Book review of John P. Dourley, The Illness That We Are: A Jungian Critique of Christianity.

Toronto Globe and Mail, 16 March 1985, p. 7. Letter to the editor. C85.4  “Exams for the Senate,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 13 April 1985, p. 7. Letter to the editor in which Davies expanded on one aspect of his suggestion in C85.3 that Senate seats be apportioned by competitive examination, namely who should set the examination. C85.5  “Read Twain, or Sir Thomas Browne, and Call Me in the Morning,” Johns Hopkins Magazine 36, no. 3 (June 1985): 28-34. The text of Davies’s Daniel Coit Gilman lecture “How Can a Physician Possibly Be a Humanist in a Society That Increasingly Tempts Him to Be a Scientist?” given on 18 November 1984 at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, md. Reprinted as “Can a Doctor Be a Humanist?” in A89 and A96. Excerpted as “A Short History of Cures,” Harper’s Magazine 295, no. 1,766 (July 1997): 28-30. Reported, with quotations, by Don Colburn, “Putting the Art Back in Medicine,” Canadian Medical Association Journal 132, no. 9 (1 May 1985): 1081-2. C86.1  “Fifty-Seven Years of the TSO: Memories of a Concert-Goer,” Toronto Symphony Magazine (1986): 2, 6-8. C86.2  “Anthony Burgess: Pieces from a Literary Virtuoso,” Washington Post, 9 March 1986, (“Book World” sec.), pp. 1-2. Book review of Anthony Burgess, But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop and Other Writings. Reprinted as “Collection of Burgess Reviews Is a Literary Treasure,” Montreal Gazette, 5 April 1986, p. B7. C86.3  “Much Ado in Ontario: The Stratford Shakespeare Festival,” National Geographic Traveler 3, no. 1 (Spring 1986): 102-7. Reprinted as “Much Ado in Ontario,” 1987 Visitors’ Guide (1987): [4-5].

C84.5  “The New Books: German Literature,” Queen’s Quarterly 91, no. 4 (Winter 1984): 1022-4. Book review of Thomas Mann, Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man. One of three reviews grouped under the same title.

C86.4  “Books: History, Freud and a ‘Symphonic Treatment’ of Sexual Life,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 17 May 1986, p. D20. Book review of Peter Gay, The Tender Passion, Vol. 2 of The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud.

C85.1  “Neither Reverence Nor Pork Pies,” Canadian Opera Company: 1985-1986 (1985): 34. Souvenir program. Re the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.

C86.5  “Unfinished Projects: ‘I’ll Write Tomorrow,’” New York Times, 1 June 1986, sec. 7 (“Book Review”), p. 38. Davies is one of eleven authors responding to a question regarding what literary project haunts him.

C85.2  “But Why Do You Call It Canadian?” Proceedings of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 2nd series, no. 36 (1985): 32-8. Text of the Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield Foundation Address given on 15 May 1985 to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, ny. C85.3  “Select Government by Competitive Exams,”

C86.6  “Are Canadians Really So Desperately Boring? Novelist Robertson Davies, Short-Listed to Win the Booker Prize, Denies the Charge: Canada Not So Dry,” Daily Telegraph (London), 11 October 1986, p. 14. C87.1  “Keeping Faith,” Saturday Night 102, no. 1 (January 1987): 187-90, 192. Reprinted in Gerald Lynch



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and David Rampton, eds., The Canadian Essay (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1991), pp. 163-71; Roberta Birks, Tomi Eng, and Julie Walchli, eds., Landmarks: A Process Reader (Scarborough, on: Prentice Hall, Allyn and Bacon, 1998), pp. 63-71. C87.2  “English Usage,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 18 February 1987, p. A6. Letter to the editor. Reprinted in C95.3. C87.3  “Confessions of a ‘Useless Man,’” New York Times, 22 February 1987, sec. 7 (“Book Review”), p. 9. Book review of Anthony Burgess, Little Wilson and Big God. Reprinted as “Burgess’s Story Going like Clockwork,” Ottawa Citizen, 14 March 1987, p. C3 and also as “Anthony Burgess” in A55b. C87.4  “Books: Oh, Those Welsh!” Kingston Whig-Standard, 28 February 1987, (“Magazine” sec.), p. 19. Book review of Peter Thomas, Strangers from a Secret Land. C87.5  “Robertson Davies — in New York: The Strange and Rewarding Life of a Writer,” Toronto Star, 21 March 1987, p. M2. Text of speech to the National Arts Club, 24 February 1987, on being presented with its gold Medal of Honor for Literature, National Arts Club, New York, New York. Reprinted as “A Canadian Author” in A89 and A96. Reported, with several quotations, by Calvin Woodward in “Robertson Davies Honored by U.S. Arts Club: ‘I Stand Here for Many Others,’” Toronto Globe and Mail, 26 February 1987, p. C5. C87.6  “No Expert in Grammar,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 8 April 1987, p. A7. Letter to the editor in response to Thomas M. Paikeday’s letter “Three Meanings” of 4 March 1987, p. A6, which was in response to C87.2. Reprinted in C95.3 and A92. C87.7  “Books: Poetry Returned to the Poet,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 1 August 1987, p. C15. Book review of Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, eds., William Shakespeare: The Complete Works: Original Spelling Edition. C87.8  “We Must Sing with the Voices God Gave Us,” Toronto Star, 19 September 1987, (“Saturday Magazine” sec.), p. M1. Reprinted as “How I Write a Book” in A90 and A97. C87.9  “Critically Speaking,” Opera Canada 28, no. 4 (Winter 1987): 49. An imaginary interview between Robertson Davies and the librettist Salvatore Cammarano. C88.1  “The Present State of the Arts in Canada,” Proceedings of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 2nd series, no. 39 (1988): 103-10.

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C88.2  “What Is the Purpose of Art?: Robertson Davies,” Grammateion: The St. Michael’s College Journal of the Arts (University of Toronto) 13 (1988): 33. C88.3  “My Early Literary Life,” Saturday Night 103, no. 8 (August 1988): 32-9. Text of speech titled “Toast to Saturday Night” given at a Gala Dinner to launch the second century of Saturday Night, 27 January 1988, King Edward Hotel, Toronto, on. Reprinted in A89 and A97. C88.4  “Canada’s Literary Ambassador,” Toronto Star, 27 August 1988, (“Saturday Magazine” sec.), pp. M1, M12. Note: Title appears on p. M12. Following is “A Reader’s Guide to Robertson Davies,” which contains a short excerpt from The Lyre of Orpheus, p. M13. C88.5  “¿Aca nada?” Times Literary Supplement no. 4,461 (30 September-6 October 1988): 1070, 1080. Excerpts from Davies’s Neil Gunn Lecture “Literature in a Country without a Mythology,” given on 27 May 1988, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Excerpted also as “Free Trade,” Kingston Whig-Standard, (“Magazine” sec.), 29 October 1988, pp. 4-6; as “How Culture Gap Eludes Free Traders,” Toronto Star, 15 November 1988, p. A16; as “Signing Away Canada’s Soul: Culture, Identity, and the Free-Trade Agreement,” Harper’s Magazine 278, no. 1,664 (January 1989): 43-7. Full text printed as “Literature in a Country without a Mythology” in A89 and reprinted in A97. C88.6  “The Making of a ‘Dublin Smartie,’” New York Times, 30 October 1988, sec. 7 (“Book Review”), pp. 1, 42-3. Book review of Michael Holroyd, The Search for Love: 1856-1898, Vol. 1 of Bernard Shaw. C89.1  “[Letter to the editor],” Salterrae (Trinity College, University of Toronto) 1, no. 6 (20 January 1989): 3. In this letter, which is reproduced in facsimile, Davies (who was unavailable for an interview because of the demands of publicity for The Lyre of Orpheus), “graciously penned some of his thoughts on Life after Death.” C89.2  “Books: The Spell of a Shakespeare Lover,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 8 April 1989, p. C17. Book review of Peter Levi, The Life and Times of William Shakespeare. Reprinted in Judith Barker-Sandbrook and Neil Graham, Thinking Through the Essay (Toronto: McGrawHill Ryerson, 2nd ed., 1993), pp. 188-92. C89.3  “Greeneland Catholicism: No Piety for the Timid,” Compass: A Jesuit Journal 7, no. 2 (May 1989): 37-9. Book review of Graham Greene, The Captain and the Enemy. Reprinted as “Reviewing Graham Green” in A89.

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C89.4  “A Giant of the Stage: ‘Olivier Must Be Accounted the Greatest,’” Maclean’s 102, no. 30 (24 July 1989): 48-9. Reprinted as “Laurence Olivier” in A90. C90.1  “The Infamous Duet,” PEN Newsletter Number 1990, p. 17. A transcript of the duet created by Davies and Margaret Atwood, and sung by them at the First Annual PEN Benefit in the Winter Garden Theatre, Toronto, on 6 December 1990, accompanied by Tomson Highway on piano. C90.2  “School Religion Desirable,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 14 February 1990, p. A6. Letter to the editor. Re Ontario Court of Appeal ruling as outlined by Orland French in “Public-School Religion Programs Likely to Halt in Wake of Ruling,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 1 February 1990, p. A4. Reprinted in C95.3. C90.3  “Quebec’s Future,” Times (London), 14 July 1990, p. 13. Letter to the editor. C90.4  “Haunted by Halloween,” New York Times, 31 October 1990, p. A25. C90.5  “Literature and Moral Purpose,” First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life no. 7 (November 1990): 15-23. Text of Fifth Annual Erasmus Lecture given on 25 April 1990 to the Institute on Religion and Public Life, New York, New York. Reprinted in A89 and A96. C90.6  “Obituaries: Hugh MacLennan.” Independent [London], 10 November 1990, p. 50. C91.1  “Graham Greene (1904-1991),” Balliol College Annual Record: 1991, pp. 33-7. C91.2  “Letter on Oath of Allegiance / Substituting the Constitution for the Queen Diminishes an Important Tradition: Loyalty to the Crown Has the Resonance of Long Association,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 23 April 1991, p. A14. Letter to the editor. C91.3  “Tributes to James M. Shaw from Two CoFounders of the Analytical Psychology Society of Ontario: Robertson Davies Writes,” Chiron: Newsletter of the C.G. Jung Foundation of Ontario 11, no. 4 (September 1991): 2. C91.4  “The Playwright of the Western World,” Washington Post, 6 October 1991, (“Book World” sec.), pp. 1-2. Book review of Michael Holroyd, The Lure of Fantasy: 1918-1950, Vol. 3 of Bernard Shaw. Reprinted as “The Lure of Fantasy” in A90. C91.5  “Chestnuts by an Open Fire: Old Books We Need at Christmas,” New York Times, 1 December 1991, sec. 7 (“Book Review”), pp. 7, 44. Reprinted as “Christ-

mas Books” in A89. Excerpted as “Just What Was Said / A Christmas Carol? Says Robertson Davies. Humbug; Why Tiny Tim’s Family Is Disgusting,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 16 December 1991, p. A15, and also as “A Jeer for A Christmas Carol,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 28 December 1991, p. 8. C92.1  “Look at the Clock (A Suggestion for a Film Scenario),” Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review (University of Dublin) (Quatercentenary Issue 1992): 131-48. Reprinted as “Look at the Clock!” in A90 and A96. C92.2  “Some Reflections on Rigoletto,” Canadian Opera Company 1992 / 93 (1992): 8-9. Souvenir program. Reprinted as “Background: Some Reflections on Rigoletto: Why Verdi’s Melodramatic Rigoletto Has Remained Popular throughout the Century and a Half Since Its Premiere,” Performance (Canadian Opera Company) (April 1996): 12, 15-16, 18, 22. Program for Rigoletto. Also reprinted as “Some Reflections on Rigoletto” in A90. C92.3  “Stratford Forty Years Ago,” Visitors’ Guide: Festive Stratford 1992 (1992): 5-6. Reprinted in A90 and A97. C92.4  “Canadians Enriched,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 21 March 1992, p. D7. Letter to the editor re Sir Ernest MacMillan in response to a letter “Dismayed by Attack on MacMillan,” by Ross A. MacMillan, 14 March 1992, p. D7. C92.5  “Affirmation of Alexander,” Country Life 186, no. 47 (19 November 1992): 80. Letter to the editor inspired by Melanie Cable-Alexander’s article on the Alexander Technique for Riders, “Benefits of Being a Package,” in the issue of 22 October. Re Lulie Westfeldt, Davies’s first Alexander teacher. C93.1  “Le Comte Ory,” Canadian Opera Company: 1993-1994 (1993): 42-3. Souvenir program. C93.2  “Noises Off: A Letter to Noises Off from a Man of Letters,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 23 February 1993, p. D4. A response to “Noises Off: Mr. Davies, I Presume,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 5 February 1993, p. C9. The letter discusses the confusion between Davies and Mr. Robert Davies of Montreal, a misdirected invitation to the Jerusalem Book Fair, and writers. Having learned late in the day about the invitation to the Fair, Davies did prepare the requested speech, though unable to attend and deliver it himself on 20-1 April. C93.3  “Incorrect Reference,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 1 May 1993, p. D7. Letter to the editor correcting Richard J. Doyle’s misapplication of a comment of Davies’s



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Davies’s speech, “Lewis Carroll in the Theatre” given on 10 July 1994 as part of the Stratford Festival’s Celebrated Writers Series. Complete text printed as “Lewis Carroll in the Theatre” in A90 and reprinted in A97. C94.7  “Figures in the Night, Rembrandt’s Dead Wife and Two Dead Children Are Immortalized in the ‘Night Watch,’” Los Angeles Times (Home Edition), 16 October 1994, (“Book Review” sec.), p. 2. Book review of Georges Boka and Bernard Corteau, Rembrandt’s Night Watch: The Mystery Revealed. C95.1  “[Book review],” Victorian Studies 38, no. 4 (Summer 1995): 636-8. Review of W.D. King, Henry Irving’s Waterloo: Theatrical Engagements with Arthur Conan Doyle, George Bernard Shaw, Ellen Terry, Edward Gordon Craig: Late-Victorian Culture, Assorted Ghosts, Old Men, War, and History. C95.2  “The Cunning Man,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 14 October 1995, p. D7. Letter to the editor. Reprinted in C95.3. C95.3  “Robertson Davies, Man of Letters,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 5 December 1995, p. A21. Reprints eight of Davies’s letters to the editor: for the six reprinted in full see C73.11, C80.2, C87.2, C87.6, C90.2, C95.2 and for the two excerpted, see C70.3 and C74.4. C96.1  “[Letter to the editor,” 21 September 1995], Old Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) (Summer 1996): 19. Davies’s letter, reproduced in facsimile, thanks the Old Times for its “friendly review” of Robertson Davies: Man of Myth, and explains why he was considered “somewhat eccentric” by his contemporaries at UCC. C96.2  “Prologue for the Opening of the Peterborough Little Theatre,” Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin 1996 (Trent University, Peterborough, on) no. 17 (Fall 1996): 5-6. C04  “[Letter to Fern Rahmel,” 13 November 1948], Trent University Archives News no. 9 (March 2004): [2]. Davies’s letter, reproduced in facsimile, congratulates Rahmel for writing radio scripts, and asks whether her radio plays could be performed in Peterborough.

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This section includes reports of adjudications, testimony at trials, responses to questions after a reading or speech, panel discussions, and press conferences, in addition to speeches and lectures. To appear in this section, reports must include one or more direct quotations of what Davies said. Only the speeches and lectures are listed in E Section. D48.1  “Canada Needs Critics — Davies,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 March 1948, p. 1. Brief Canadian Press report of Davies’s speech to the Canadian Club of Toronto that day, with one quotation. D48.2  “High School Actors Tend to ‘Butcher’ King’s English,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 March 1948, p. 9. Report of Davies’s adjudication of the first Secondary School Drama Festival on 27-8 February in Kingston, with quotations. D48.3  “Robertson Davies Tells Faults of Canadian Book Readers,” Ottawa Journal, 21 April 1948, p. 12. Report of speech to the Ottawa Branch of the Canadian Authors Association on 20 April 1948 at the Chateau Laurier Hotel; six paragraphs quoted. Davies spoke about Canadian literature and drama and the need for discerning readers and critics. Also reported as “Says Indifference of Writers Slows Arts, Drama Here,” Ottawa Citizen, 21 April 1948, p. 22; four sentences quoted. D48.4  “Dramatist ‘Embalms’ Ideas as Soon as They’re Born,” Toronto Star, 19 October 1948, p. 25. Report of speech to the Central Ontario Drama League at the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto on 18 October, with several quotations about writing plays. D48.5  “Journalist’s Life Not Hair-Raising States Publisher,” Varsity (University of Toronto) 68, no. 46 (26 November 1948): 3. Report of Davies’s address to third and fourth year men at Trinity College the previous day titled “Journalism as a Career,” with quotations about the qualities a journalist needs. D49.1  “Arts Can Reduce Insanity Rate Editor Claims,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 February 1949, p. 13. Report

of Davies’s remarks at a forum discussion on “The Development of the Arts in Canada” sponsored by the Women’s Canadian Club at Eaton’s Auditorium in Toronto. Davies is quoted on the nature of Canadians, Toronto vs. the countryside, insanity, a national theatre, and movies and radio compared to the theatre. Also, with quotations, as “Arts Reduce Insanity Rate, Canadian Club Is Informed,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 3 February 1949, p. 10; with brief quotations as “‘Desperately Dull’ Living Ups Insanity Rate — Author,” Toronto Star, 3 February 1949, p. 30. The Star’s report states that the forum title was “The Development and Importance of the Arts in Canada” and that Davies participated with Charles Comfort and Ettore Mazzoleni. D49.2  “Canadians a Gloomy People Mistrustful of Enthusiasm,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 March 1949, p. 11. Report of Davies’s speech to the Queen’s Alma Mater Society at Queen’s University, Kingston, on 4 March, titled “The Drama in Canada,” with quotations. D49.3  Molly DeProse, “Men Who Write Plays Theme of Panel Debate,” Ottawa Citizen, 29 April 1949, p. 13. Report, with quotations, of a panel discussion among Davies, Morley Callaghan, and John Coulter the previous day at the end of a four-day Canadian theatre conference held in connection with the Dominion Drama Festival. The discussion concerned the judging, writing, and producing of plays. D50  “Robertson Davies Speaks to Canadian Club Here,” Ottawa Citizen, 31 March 1950, p. 27. Report of a humorous speech on the four rules of authorship on 30 March, with several quotations.



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D51.1  “Davies Urges Support of Professional Theatre,” Ottawa Citizen, 15 January 1951, p. 2. Report of Davies’s curtain speech at the last performance of his play At My Heart’s Core by the Canadian Repertory Theatre in Ottawa, on, with quotations in which Davies affirmed that Canadian theatre was a present reality. D51.2  Ted B. Burgoyne, “St. Catharines Entry Praised As Niagara Drama Festival Opens,” Welland and Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 7 April 1951, p. 5. Detailed report of Davies’s adjudication on the first day of the third annual Niagara Peninsula Drama Festival, 5 April 1951, at the Welland High and Vocational School, with many quotations. D51.3  Peter Pylypiw, “Awards at Niagara Festival [Go t]o Garden City Drama League,” Welland and Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 9 April 1951, pp. 1, 3. Detailed report of Davies’s adjudication on the second day of the third Annual Niagara Peninsula Drama Festival, 6 April 1951, at the Welland High and Vocational School, with many quotations. Note: the microfilm cut off a bit of the title. Also reported briefly, with one quotation, as “St. Catharines Drama League Won Top Honors at Peninsula Festival,” St. Catharines Standard, 9 April 1951, p. 20. D51.4  “Little Theatre to Stage ‘Merry Wives,’” Peterborough Examiner, 27 September 1951, p. 2. This report of the previous evening’s inauguration of the new season of the Peterborough Little Theatre gave most of its attention to Davies’s after dinner speech in the Empress Hotel and included quotations. Davies presented his impressions of the theatre season in England, gained during a summer visit to England and Wales, observing that under Anthony Quayle, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon had become “a premier theatre in the English-speaking world.” He also spoke about the performances of Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivian Leigh in “Shakespeare’s and Shaw’s Antony and Cleopatra.” D52.1  “Hoarse Davies Silent – Mrs. Davies Speaks,” Varsity (University of Toronto) 71, no. 75 (4 February 1952): 3. Report of the Trinity College Centennial Debate on 31 January 1952 in Strachan Hall about the resolution “That the Canadian Environment Is Conducive to a Distinctive Culture.” Includes several quotations from Davies’s speech. D52.2  “Editor Differs with Former Chaplain and English Professor, Davies Detests Approved Reading Lists,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 October 1952, p. 1. When the National News Company Limited was charged with

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the distribution of obscene literature (Journeyman and Tragic Ground by Erskine Calder, Women’s Barracks by Tereska Torres, and Diamond Lil by Mae West), Davies was asked to give expert testimony on behalf of the defence. The article quotes several paragraphs in which Davies states his opposition to censorship before Judge A.G. McDougall on 16 October in Ottawa. The National News Company was found guilty, however. This is a Canadian Press story. Also covered, with quotations, as “‘Samuel Marchbanks’ Heard at Inquiry on Obscene Books: Finds No Shock in ‘Barracks’: Citizen Columnist Defence Witness,” Ottawa Citizen, 16 October 1952, pp. 1, 20, and as “Novel before Court Deliberately Dirty Says Emmett O’Grady,” Ottawa Journal, 16 October 1952, p. 20, and as “‘Pocket’ Chaucer Obscene,” Ottawa Journal, 17 October 1952, p. 3. D54.1  “‘Most Worthwhile Play’; St. Mike’s Entry — Davies,” Varsity (University of Toronto) 73, no. 77 (10 February 1954): 7. Report of Davies’s adjudication at the Inter-Varsity Drama Festival, 5-6 February, at Queen’s University, with several quotations. D54.2  Nancy Donnell and Cathie Breslin, “One Act Plays: Lefty Triumphant: First Night: Second Night,” Varsity (University of Toronto) 73, no. 80 (15 February 1954): 4. Reports of the University of Toronto Drama Committee’s Drama Festival at Hart House Theatre on 12-13 February, with paraphrases of and quotations from Davies’s adjudication and a warm assessment of the adjudicator. Davies’s adjudication of the first evening’s performances was also reported, with quotations, as “Three Plays Are Presented by University Drama Groups,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 13 February 1954, p. 16. D55.1  “High Quality Inspired Festival’s Success, Davies Tells Rotarians,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 July 1955, p. 3. Report of Davies’s address to the Rotary Club at the Empress Hotel in Peterborough the previous day about the founding of the Stratford Festival. The speech is summarized with an admixture of quotation. D55.2  “Leacock Medal, Davies Now Can Prove He’s Funny,” Toronto Telegram, 19 November 1955, p. 13. Report, with a few quotations, from Davies’s acceptance speech on receiving the Leacock Medal for Humour the previous evening at Orillia, on for Leaven of Malice. D56  “Priestley’s Farewell: Halfwit Is King Today: Author,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 1 May 1956, p. 5. Report of a discussion the previous evening before a packed house at the Crest Theatre in Toronto, on the subject of mass communication, involving British author J.B. Priestley, CBC executive Ira Dilworth, and Davies.

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While the report focussed on Priestley’s criticisms of many aspects of mass communication, it quotes Davies as pointing out that Priestley had dealt in dangerous half truths. D57.1  “Davies Says Leacock Master of Fun Failed as Novelist,” Ottawa Journal, 11 March 1957, p. 2. Report of lecture, which was part of “Our Living Tradition” series at Carleton College Library, on 9 March, with many quotations. Davies observed: “This is not an age when fun is much understood or valued.” Also reported as “Robertson Davies: Humorist a ‘Trifler’ by Canadian Belief,” Ottawa Citizen, 11 March 1957, p. 3, with quotations. D57.2  Eileen Straiton, “Nation Needs Critics Editor Says, Doctor of Laws Received in West by Robertson Davies,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 May 1957, pp. 13, 19. Report of the awarding of a Doctor of Laws degree to Davies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton on Friday, 17 May. Includes quotations from the citation about Davies by Dr. F.P. Scarlett, Chancellor, and quotations from Davies’s address about the value of informed, balanced, and sympathetic criticism in all aspects of national life. D57.3  “Compromise Sought by Judge: Denies Trying to Influence Examiner’s Editorial Policy Absurd to Attempt to Do So,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 July 1957, pp. 1-2, 26-7. This report about the Royal Commission inquiry into the Peterborough police department quotes Davies’s testimony about a conversation he had had with Judge John de N. Kennedy in which Kennedy asked that the Examiner change its editorial policy and support recent appointments to the police force. Davies’s testimony was also reported, with quotations, by Robert Crichton, in “Peterborough Editor Says Judge Tried to Sway Policy,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 19 July 1957, pp. 1-2. D57.4  Rose Macdonald, “How to Spot a Socko!” Toronto Telegram, 30 September 1957, p. 16. Report of speech on “Why People Write Plays and Why People Go to See Them” delivered to the Crest Theatre Club on 29 September. Davies is paraphrased by Macdonald as saying that to be in the Sock-o class a play must strike a blow for success right at the start or be a public failure. Brief quotations are given characterizing the theatre as “a harlot” and lamenting that Canadians “don’t take enough with [them] to the theatre.” D58  “What Makes Great Novel — By Editor,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 April 1958, p. 13. Report of Davies’s speech to the English Section of the Ontario Education Association in Toronto earlier that day, with quo-

tations. Also reported, with one quotation, by William Arthur Deacon in “The Fly Leaf: Robertson Davies Says —,” Globe and Mail, 12 April 1958, p. 9. Only the first part of Deacon’s column deals with Davies’s speech. D60.1  Herbert Whittaker, “Showbusiness: Plummer May Sweep Stratford Festivals: Simplicity,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 21 July 1960, p. 27. Report of Davies’s after-dinner speech “Shakespeare — What Else!” to the Stratford Seminar at the Country Club in Stratford, on the previous day, with quotations about the frame of mind one must bring to Shakespeare, about Shakespeare’s desire to make his audience feel and his commonplace mind (but see C60.33) and breadth of vision. Also reported, with quotations, as “Seminar Students Join Actors,” Stratford Beacon-Herald, 21 July 1960, p. 15 D60.2  Judy McManus, “University Theatre Productions Criticized buy [sic] Robertson Davies,” Varsity (University of Toronto) 80, no. 20 (27 October 1960): 1. Report, with quotations, of Davies’s discussion of “The Role of University Theatre” at a meeting open to all students in the Hart House Music Room, University of Toronto on the previous day. Davies urged that the dramatic societies of different colleges get together annually and coordinate their productions, that the Cross-Campus Drama Festival provide a list of worthwhile plays for participants to undertake, and that plays be chosen that reflect the character of the college. D61.1  “Davies Gives 3 Guides for Reading Enjoyment,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 January 1961, p. 13. Report of Davies’s speech the previous evening in Peterborough, on, for the YWCA series of lectures “Let’s Talk about Books,” with several brief quotations. The three guides were paraphrased as: “read less, read in a different way and read nothing you do not like.” This speech was a capsule version of the lecture series “The Personal Art” which Davies was then giving at the University of Toronto, 24 and 31 January and 7 February. D61.2  “Reading Cultivates Both Feelings, Intellect: Davies,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 February 1961, pp. 13, 23. Report of Davies’s lecture, “The Curse of Intellect,” the second of three public lectures in a series called “The Personal Art,” given at Trinity College, University of Toronto on 31 January 1961, with brief quotations. D61.3  “Masterpieces No Steady Fare for Reader: Davies,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 February 1961, p. 13. Report of Davies’s lecture “The Curse of Taste,” the



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third of three public lectures in a series called “The Personal Art,” given at Trinity College, University of Toronto on 7 February, with several quotations. Also reported, with quotations, by Sy Zysman as “Davies Attacks Tyranny of Popular Literary Fashion,” Varsity (University of Toronto) 80, no. 59 (8 February 1961): 1, 7. D61.4  “Robertson Davies on National Frailties: Put Your Pennies into Canadian Culture, Students Urged,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 10 February 1961, p. 5. After a debate by University of Toronto students on Canadian culture on 9 February, Davies’s comments — on bilingualism, music, national foods, architecture, painting, and literature — are reported and quoted. He “listed Canada’s virtues as intelligence, good will and honesty, and her weaknesses as self-doubt and intellectual laziness.” Also reported, with quotations, as “Canadian Culture ‘Mixture of Frailties,’” Peterborough Examiner, 10 February 1961, p. 13; and as “Canadians Look Abroad Too Much — Davies,” Varsity (University of Toronto) 80, no. 60 (10 February, 1961): 1. Davies’s comments were subsequently commented upon in I. Norman Smith, “Oh Canada, Or: There, There, Mordecai!” Ottawa Journal, 15 February 1961, p. [6] as “cynicism and detraction.” D61.5  “Putting Shakespeare to Music Usually Fails: Robertson Davies,” St. Catharines Standard, 1 September 1961, p. 6. Report of Davies’s speech the previous evening to the Royal Canadian College of Organists, at their convention banquet in the Queensway Hotel, St. Catharines, with extensive paraphrases and one quotation. Davies’s topic was Shakespeare and music — attempts to turn his plays into opera, music in his plays, references to music in his plays. D61.6  “One-Act Play Festival ... First Night Performances Set High Standard — Davies,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 November 1961, p. 17. Report of Davies’s remarks as adjudicator on the first evening of the 11th Annual One-Act Play Festival in Queen Mary auditorium, Peterborough, on, 16 November 1961. The ellipsis is printed in the headline. D61.7  “Play Festival Audience Sees Rare Productions,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 November 1961, pp. 13, 21. Report of Davies’s remarks as adjudicator on second evening of the 11th Annual One-Act Play Festival in Queen Mary auditorium, Peterborough, on, 17 November 1961, with brief quotations. D61.8  “City Man’s Production Sweeps Play Festival Prizes,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 November 1961, p. 13. Report of Davies’s remarks as adjudicator on the

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you are going to have to write about sex.” Davies is also quoted briefly in “Ohh, Lady C! Fanny Would’ve Been Shocked,” Toronto Telegram, 21 February 1964, p. 37; in Susan Kastner, “The Defenders — Literary Gents for Fanny Hill,” Toronto Star, 21 February 1964, pp. 1-2; in “Davies Calls Fanny Jolly,” Varsity (University of Toronto) 83, no. 56 (24 February 1964): 2; and in “Fanny Hill Obscene, Judge Orders Forfeit of 2,000 Seized Copies,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 28 February 1964, p. 1. D64.2  “Canadiana Attitude Criticized by Davies” and “Bard’s Works at College,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 5 March 1964, p. 14. Reports of a speech given the previous day in Cartwright Hall, Trinity College, to the St. Hilda’s College Alumnae Association, with quotations about Davies’s hope that the collection of Canadian fiction being amassed at Massey College would one day be comprehensive and his expectation that the current exhibition in the College of works by Shakespeare would be the first of a series of such displays. D64.3  “Festival Moliere Play Least Popular: Davies,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 5 June 1964, p. 9. Report, with a few quotations, about the second of Davies’s University of Toronto Extension Lectures on the Stratford Festival season at Hart House, the previous evening, to an audience of 250. Re Molière’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. D64.4  Robin Green, “Festival Comedy Called Indecent But Not Filthy,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 10 June 1964, p. 10. Report, with two quotations, about the third of Davies’s University of Toronto Extension Lectures on the Stratford Festival season at Hart House, the previous evening, to an audience of 300. Re Wycherley’s The Country Wife. D64.5  Robin Green, “Davies Warns Against Dangers of Symbolism,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 12 June 1964, p. 9. Report, with several quotations, of the fourth and last of Davies’s University of Toronto Extension Lectures about the Stratford Festival season, the previous evening. Re King Lear. D65  “Literary World Not Interested in Canadians Claims Publisher,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 September 1965, p. 5. Report of speech on “Canadian Writing” given to 200 members of the Port Hope-Cobourg Canadian Club the previous evening in Port Hope at Dr. Powers School. With quotations about the world’s lack of interest in Canada, the Canadian temperament, and the need for a strong demand if there is to be a “rich supply” of Canadian books. D66.1  “He Wants to Help but Can’t Find Vice,” To-

ronto Star, 20 May 1966, p. 21. Report, with quotations, from Davies’s address to the annual conference of the Ontario Welfare Council the previous day at Hart House, University of Toronto. The quoted comments concern his lack of contact with those who need welfare. Also reported, with quotations, as “Life on Campus ‘Serene,’” Montreal Star, 21 May 1966, p. 11. D66.2  Herbert Whittaker, “Theatre: Dr. Davi[e]s Examines Shakespeare’s Plays,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 1 June 1966, p. 15. Report on the third of Davies’s popular annual University Extension Department lectures on the Stratford Festival plays, the previous evening, with one quotation on homosexual love. The lecture took place in the Edward Johnson Building; the subject was Twelfth Night; and several of Davies’s remarks are paraphrased. D66.3  Lynne Rach, “Students Urged to Extend Range: Davies Plugs University College,” Calgary Herald, 27 October 1966, p. 17. Report, with quotations, of Davies’s speech to University of Calgary students on 26 October — mainly about gaining a genuine education at university and about his experiences in a small college. He is quoted on growing old, associating with people of all ages, and the importance of having a college within a university. He concludes: “What is really important in life, apart from thinking, is feeling.” D67.1  Robert Stall, “Impeccable Latin ‘Launches’ Bishop’s $1,250,000 Theatre,” Montreal Star, 16 January 1967, p. 43. Report of Davies’s address at the special convocation at Bishop’s University on 14 January, which also inaugurated its Centennial Theatre. The report contains a few quotations on bilingualism and the role of universities. D67.2  “Davies Says Canada Needs Better Readers,” Ottawa Citizen, 16 January 1967, p. 38. This brief Canadian Press article reports some of the discussion during a panel on the arts in Canada, at Bishop’s University in Lennoxville, Quebec on 15 January, which Davies chaired. Davies contended that Canadian authors need “an appreciative public” more than increased government subsidies. He commented: “In this country, there is an immense amount of criticism and a very small amount of intelligent reading of literature.” D67.3  Herbert Whittaker, “Theatre: On 2 Levels It Was a Biographical Play,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 15 March 1967, p. 13. In the course of his report of the first evening of the Central Ontario Centennial Drama Festival at Hart House Theatre, University of Toronto, a festival of original Canadian plays, Whittaker described Norman Williams’s Line of Vision, and



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to another Canadian tenor, Jon Vickers, also a prince among Canadian singers.”

D67.4  Herbert Whittaker, “Theatre: Rich in Material But Comes Out Weak,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 16 March 1967, p. 11. In this, his account of the second evening of the Central Ontario Centennial Drama Festival at Hart House Theatre, University of Toronto, Whittaker described Aviva Ravel’s folk play “The Adventures of Mendel Fish” and summarized and supplied one direct quotation from Davies’s comments as adjudicator: “‘I take this play very seriously … Virtually all plays may be considered as dream plays — and we have been told in recent times that all dreams are wish fulfilments.’”

D74  “Grads Given Glimpse into Scholar’s Gloomy Crystal Ball,” London Free Press, 6 June 1974, p. 8. Report of Davies’s Convocation address at The University of Western Ontario in London, on, the previous day, with quotations.

D67.5  Herbert Whittaker, “Theatre: The Seamier Side of Life in Rosedale,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 17 March 1967, p. 15. In his report of the third evening of the Central Ontario Centennial Drama Festival at Hart House Theatre, University of Toronto, Whittaker described Martin Hunter’s play Out Flew the Web and Floated Wide, and quoted Davies’s comments as adjudicator on the need for more broad-minded Canadian audiences, on the scope of the play’s theme, and on two of the play’s characters. D67.6  Herbert Whittaker, “Theatre: Impressions of Electronic Life Charm Audience,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 18 March 1967, p. 21. In his account of the fourth evening of the Central Ontario Centennial Drama Festival at Hart House Theatre, University of Toronto, Whittaker described Rae Davis’s Daily News from the Whole World, and paraphrased Davies’s comments as adjudicator briefly, with no quotations. D67.7  Herbert Whittaker, “Theatre: Hunter Big Winner in CODL [CODF] Finals,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 20 March 1967, p. 15. Whittaker’s report about the winners of various prizes and trophies in the Central Ontario Drama Festival includes a brief comment from Davies, as the Festival’s adjudicator. Davies found himself cast as “‘part headsman, part Santa Claus.’” D73  John Kraglund, “Music: Jon Vickers Enhances Tribute to Johnson,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 15 May 1973, p. 17. Kraglund devoted about a third of his review of Jon Vickers’s concert the previous evening at the Guelph Spring Festival to Davies’s tribute to Canadian tenor Edward Johnson, quoting several passages and commending it as “particularly appropriate, because in its warmth and humor it recalled Johnson as many of us knew him, while adding something to our knowledge of him as a singer. At the same time, Davies’ tribute to him served as an ideal introduction

D75.1  Alan Dawe, “Untaped Interviews,” Event 4, no. 1 (1975): 33-40. Recollections of encounters with Davies and four other contemporary Canadian authors (Rudy Wiebe, W.O. Mitchell, Lovat Dickson, and Al Purdy). On pages 34-5, Dawe described Davies’s handling of a question and answer session at the Langara campus of Vancouver Community College during his publicity tour for the The Manticore, with quotations. D75.2  Kathy Warden, “Only 800 Pick Up Degrees,” Calgary Herald, 7 June 1975, p. 26. Warden’s article about convocation day at the University of Calgary includes a summary report, with brief quotations, of Davies’s convocation address, presented in the Jubilee Auditorium the previous day. D77  “Backstage,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 11 June 1977, p. 33. Report, with quotations, of an episode at the Stratford Festival when Davies, arriving for the performance, had his beard pulled by a woman who emerged suddenly from the watching crowd. He is quoted as saying: “‘Stop that ... it’s extraordinarily rude and vulgar to assault someone like that you don’t even know.’” When the woman said: “‘But, you’re Robertson Davies aren’t you?’” Davies responded: “‘And you, Madam. Who the devil are you?’” D78  Ken Adachi, “Two Fine Books Share City’s $3,000 Prize,” Toronto Star, 28 February 1978, p. C2. Column which includes a report of Davies’s speech “How to Keep the Mind Alive,” at Sheraton Centre, Toronto, 23 February 1978, with brief quotations. Davies was the first Canadian guest speaker at a series of Literary Luncheons sponsored by Simpsons and the Canadian Authors Association. The report is the second part of Adachi’s column; the first part of the column concerns the book prize. D79  Catherine Black, “Grand Theatre Lounge Honors Memory of Rupert Davies,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 2 June 1979, p. 33. After his stepmother, Mrs. Rupert Davies, unveiled a plaque honouring his father, William Rupert Davies (publisher of the Kingston WhigStandard 1926-51), Davies spoke briefly to an audience of about 50 in the Grand Theatre Lounge. Black’s report includes paraphrases and one quotation. Ten members of the Davies family had donated $50,000

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toward the renovation of the Grand Theatre, and in recompense, the new upstairs lounge was named after Rupert Davies. The article includes a photograph of Davies standing beside the plaque. D80.1  “‘Don’t Talk about Draft, Talk about Ending War’ — Brockington Speaker Tells Women to Fight to End All War,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 12 February 1980, p. 1. During an hour-long press conference the previous day, Davies responded to questions on such topics as U.S. draft dodgers, war, the women’s movement, the up-coming federal election, Canadian politics, Canada’s international identity, Canadian journalism, western culture, and writing. This report of the occasion includes paraphrases and many brief quotations. D80.2  “Little Geoff Steals Spotlight from Playwright,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 September 1980, p. 3. Report of speech at the official opening of the new Public Library, Peterborough, on, the previous day, with quotations, about libraries. “Geoff” is Geoffrey Crane, a grade seven student who cut the ribbon at the ceremony. This same article reported on an interview which followed the opening, quoting Davies with regard to his years with the Peterborough Examiner, recent Canadian newspaper closings, and the British Museum Reading Room. D81  Ron Watmough, “Private Time Advised to Renew Life’s Goals,” Lethbridge Herald, 19 May 1981, p. B1. Report of Convocation Address at University of Lethbridge on 16 May 1981, with a picture and many quotations. The address focussed on the value of taking at least an hour each day “to think about your life, to come to terms with what life is pressing upon you, and to refresh and renew your spirit.” D82.1  “Robertson Davies,” Graduate (University of Toronto) 9, no. 13 (January-February 1982): 24. Report of Davies’s University of Toronto Convocation address of November 1981, with quotations on being a writer and his advice to the graduating class: “know at least one thing thoroughly, and after that know as much as you can possibly cram into your head.” D82.2  William Littler, “Sage Puts Words into Mouths of Babes,” Toronto Star, 2 March 1982, p. F3. Report of a press conference announcing a forthcoming production of Dr. Canon’s Cure (Davies wrote the libretto for this opera for children, Derek Holman composed the music), laced with amusing quotations of Davies’s comments on the occasion. D82.3  Lynda Weston, “Robertson Davies: Perfect Harmony,” Stratford Beacon Herald, 30 August 1982, p. 3.

Report with brief quotations throughout, of Davies’s speech “Thirty Years of Stratford” given the previous day in the Festival Theatre, Stratford, on. Davies spoke about the place of festivals in Canadian theatre history and the Stratford Festival’s accomplishments and coming challenges. D84  William French, “Davies Softens Up the Powers That Be,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 23 October 1984, p. M7. In the course of reporting on Davies’s reading from his novel What’s Bred in the Bone at New York University in New York City, French quoted a couple of paragraphs from Davies’s preliminary comments about the difference between Canadian and American writing. His main point was that “the climate and feel of the land provide the ground bass of Canadian writing, and it does have a certain melancholy tone.” D85  Daisy Fitch, “Canadian Robertson Davies Is a Man Worth Getting to Know,” Trenton, N.J. Times, 21 April 1985, pp. CC1 and CC8. In this report, with quotations, on Davies’s lecture in Princeton on 16 April, titled “But Why Do You Call It Canadian?” Fitch focuses on Davies’s views about the differences between Canadians and Americans. D86.1  Jack Kapica, “Davies Shines at Topsy-Turvy PEN Session,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 16 January 1986, p. C1. Report, with a few quotations, of Davies’s speech about the problems of national identity, which took place the previous day at the 48th International PEN Congress in New York. D86.2  Rhoda Koenig, “At Play in the Fields of the Word: Alienation, Imagination, Feminism, and Foolishness at PEN,” New York 19, no. 5 (3 February 1986): 40-7. In the course of her report about the week-long 1986 congress of PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists) in New York, Koenig quoted Davies’s advice to writers at the “Problems of National Identity,” panel, advice he attributed to his headmaster [W.L. Grant]: “Live in the large! Avoid sin if you can, but if you must sin, then sin nobly!” She quotes his assessment of Saul Bellow (“looks as if he was born sneering”), and gives him the concluding quotation, “A week of collegial fraternity every few years is quite enough. On Saturday – back to your ivory towers!” Includes a cartoon of Davies on p. 46. D86.3  Austin Clarkson, “Folk Songs Come Alive,” Chiron (Newsletter of the C.G. Jung Foundation of Ontario) 6, no. 3 (September 1986): 5. Report, with quotations, of Davies’s speech 5 May 1986, to the C.G. Jung Foundation of Ontario, Toronto, on. The quotations concern the passing of the era of ordinary



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people singing and the archetypal images and themes of folk songs. D86.4  Nigel Cliff, “William Empson Society Lecture: Robertson Davies,” Wykehamist (Winchester, England) no. 1328 (6 December 1986): 14. Report of Davies’s William Empson Society Lecture, given 30 September 1986, at Winchester College, and of the hour-long question and answer session that followed, with quotations. The speech concerned the Canadian nature and people. His responses to questions concerned critics, his first piece of professional writing at age 11 (actually 9), the sensitivity of artists, the centrality of story-telling to novels, Ibsen as an influence, autobiographical aspects of his writing, religion, and the value of taking a long-term view of life. D87.1  John Haslett Cuff, “Mini-Series Bred from Davies’ Novel,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 8 April 1987, p. C7. At a press conference in Davies’s office at Massey College, University of Toronto, announcing that a television mini-series was to be made of What’s Bred in the Bone, Davies is quoted about his pleasure at the prospect, his disinterest in writing the script, and his frustration that Fifth Business had not been filmed, although Nicholas Meyer had held the rights for years. D87.2  Irvin Molotsky, “Writers Joust Orally at Literary Conference,” New York Times, 27 April 1987, p. C11. A report of papers and comments made by participants at The Wheatland Foundation Conference on Literature in Washington, dc, 22-6 April 1987. Davies spoke out against the “whoredom of the lecture circuit.” In reply to Victoria Glendinning who maintained that writers love to get away from their typewriters, Davies told Molotsky that writers should write and avoid the temptations of lecturing for money. D88.1  Don MacDonald, “Robertson Davies Honored: ‘Bible’s the Basis of Western Civilization,’” Sudbury Star, 9 May 1988, p. 1. Report, with quotations and a picture, of Davies’s Convocation Address at Thorneloe College, Laurentian University, in Sudbury, on the previous evening. As the title suggests, Davies focused on the importance of the Bible to western civilization. D88.2  H.J. Kirchhoff, “A Spirited Meeting of Minds,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 13 May 1988, p. C10. Report of a press conference the previous day at the Harbour Castle West in Toronto in anticipation of Davies’s and Anthony Burgess’s reading at Massey Hall, in which Davies is quoted on the subjects of Burgess, reading at Massey Hall, living in Canada, and movie adaptations (“I say bugger the movies; I can’t be bothered to produce the low-brow lingo they think necessary”).

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D88.3  Manjusha Pawagi, “Robertson Davies: Listening to the Lure of a Well-tuned Lyre: His Latest,” Gazette (University of Western Ontario) 82, no. 24 (11 November 1988): [12-13]. After a reading from The Lyre of Orpheus at the University of Western Ontario on 7 November 1988, Davies took questions. He is quoted on several subjects including the character of lawyers, female psychology, the singer Sting being one of his readers, Jungian psychology, possible films of his novels, and reviewers. Pawagi also interviewed Davies: see F88.18. D88.4  Christopher Hume, “Robertson Davies Delighted to Win $50,000 Prize at 75,” Toronto Star, 29 November 1988, p. B8. Brief report about the presentation the previous day of the 1988 Molson Prize to Davies by Maureen Forrester, Chair of the Canada Council, at Massey College, Toronto, and of Davies’s speech of appreciation, with quotations. Also reported, with one quotation from Davies’s speech, by Rod Currie, “Robertson Davies Wins $50,000 Molson Prize,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 November 1988, p. 27. D88.5  Trevor Blair, “Head Damage at St. Jerome’s & Seagrams,” UW Sun (University of Waterloo) 11, no. 19 (4 December 1988): 25, 32. A report of Davies’s reading from The Lyre of Orpheus on 4 November 1988 at the University of Waterloo and the question and answer session that followed. Davies is quoted on his admiration for Anthony Burgess, the creative process, and his characters. D89.1  “UPEI Convocation: Fear of God, Good Books ‘Contribute to Wisdom,’” Charlottetown Guardian, 15 May 1989, p. 2. Report of Davies’s Convocation Address the previous day at the University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown, pe after receiving an honorary degree in recognition of his literary achievements, with a picture and quotations. These last were on a number of topics — graduation being a rite of passage, youth being given too much advice, wisdom, and the value of material success and of reading good books. D89.2  Tracey Tyler, “Word Processing Produces ‘Blather,’ Author Davies Says,” Toronto Star, 27 November 1989, p. A4. Report, with brief quotations, of Davies’s J. Tuzo Wilson Lecture, “Literature and Technology,” delivered at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto the previous day. Also reported at length, with many quotations, by Tamara Stark as “Davies: The Typewriter Is Mightier Than the PC,” Toronto Computes! 6, no. 2 (February 1990): 15. D90  Stephanie Levesque, “Community News: Davies

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Has High Praise for Festival’s Macbeth,” Stratford Beacon-Herald, 11 June 1990, pp. 3, 5. Report of Davies’s speech about Macbeth at the Third Stage in Stratford, on, the previous day. Includes quotations. Note that page 5 of the Beacon was not microfilmed. Davies’s speech was the first of a two-part Celebrated Writers Series hosted by the Stratford Festival. D92.1  Ingrid Abramovitch, “New York Lends an Ear to Robertson Davies,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 14 January 1992, p. C2. Report of audience reactions and Davies’s comportment, observations, and answers to questions following his reading from Murther & Walking Spirits, at the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, New York, ny, on 12 January. Davies is quoted on Canadian theatre critics, his books, his mother’s family, and female characters in his books. D92.2  Brian Shypula, “World of Wonders: Enjoy Play, Novel for Their Own Merits, Davies Advises,” Stratford Beacon-Herald, 15 June 1992, p. 3. Report of Davies’s sold-out speech about his novel World of Wonders and its Stratford Festival stage adaptation, at the Avon Theatre in Stratford, on, the previous day. Includes several paragraph-long quotations. D92.3  Val Ross, “Politicians Get Blast from Davies: Canadians Weary of ‘the Pitter-patter of Tiny Minds,’ Author Says,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 25 September 1992, p. C1. Report, with a few quotations, of Davies’s contribution to the third annual Walter Gordon memorial lecture on the “Emergence of a North American Culture,” in Hart House, University of Toronto,

23 September 1992. Carlos Fuentes, the Mexican novelist and diplomat was the other speaker. Both Pierre Trudeau and Bob Rae were in the audience. D93  Bob Feaver, “Ontario Theatre Festival Opens Here,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 May 1993, p. A1. This article about the opening of the Theatre Ontario Festival 93 at the Theatre Guild Hall in Peterborough the previous day includes a quotation from Davies’s brief remarks, which officially opened the Festival. D95  Tod Jones, “The Writer Speaks: Robertson Davies Presents Fiction of the Future,” PriceCostco Connection (Canadian edition) 8, no. 2 (March/April 1995): 31. A report, with quotations, of Davies’s speech and responses to questions from the audience who attended his lecture, “The Future of Fiction,” at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theater on 17 January 1995. The gist of the lecture (in Davies’s words) is that “Fiction of the future will seem different, but will, in reality, be no different.” Responding to questions, he says that he has no plans for posthumous writing (“My dear, I don’t think I’ll meet any publishers in the spirit world.”), never knows at the beginning of the writing process how one of his books will end, and keeps his curiosity alive by the company of people with perspectives on life different from his own. With the article is an excerpt from The Cunning Man. Revised as “In Passing: Writer Robertson Davies’ Presence Will Be Missed,” PriceCostco Connection (U.S. edition) 11, no. 2 (February 1996): BB-3.

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In this section, numbers in square brackets refer to the volume and file in the Davies fonds, lac. “[grant]” refers to Judith Skelton Grant’s private collection. E43  Tuesdays, 9 November – 14 December. Peterborough, on. YMCA. Social Education (So-Ed) Class. “How to Look at Pictures.” E44.1  10 February. Peterborough, on. Address to the Wisemen. See Davies’s diary. [130/2] E44.2  1 March. Kingston, on. Queen’s University. Address to a Shakespeare class. See Davies’s diary. [130/2] E44.3  6 May. Peterborough, on. Kawartha Club. Retirement party for Dr. Dobson. Speech. See Davies’s diary. [130/2] E44.4  [One evening a week, November - 6 December.] Peterborough, on. YMCA. Social Education (SoEd) Classes. “Talking of the Theatre” (taught with his wife Brenda Davies) and “Reading for Pleasure.” E48.1  1 March. Toronto, on. Canadian Club. “Wild Critics I Have Known.” Reported in D48.1. E48.2  20 April. Ottawa, on. Chateau Laurier. Ottawa Branch of the Canadian Authors Association. Annual Meeting. Speech. Reported in D48.3. E48.3  18 October. Toronto, on. Arts and Letters Club. Central Ontario Drama League. Speech. Reported in D48.4. Davies’s typescript: 10 pages. [87/19] E48.4  24 November. Toronto, on. Hart House, University of Toronto. Library Evening. “Does Canada Need a Drama?” Announced in Varsity (University of Toronto) 68, no. 44 (24 November 1948): 2. E48.5  25 November. Toronto, on. Trinity College, University of Toronto. Address to 3rd and 4th year men. “Journalism as a Career.” Reported in D48.5.

E49.1  4 March. Kingston, on. Queen’s University. Alma Mater Society of Queen’s University. “The Drama in Canada.” Reported in D49.2. Davies’s typescript: 9 pages. [87/20] E49.2  20 October. Toronto, on. Central Ontario Drama League. Arts and Letters Club. Speech about the reception of Davies’s play Eros at Breakfast and the Edinburgh Festival in general. Reported, with paraphrases, as “Well Received in Edinburgh, Canadian Author Reports,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 21 October 1949, p. 31. E49.3  [November?] Montreal, pq. Montreal Women’s Club. Speech. Mentioned in Davies’s letters to W.H. Clarke, 14 November 1949 and to Robert McKeown, 2 December 1949, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm. [E50?].1  Speech Regarding Newspaper Publishing. Davies’s notes: 2 pages. [87/21] E50.2  [Shortly before 22 March]. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Speech to University College graduation class. (Invited by Claude Bissell). Mentioned in letter to Davies from W.H. Clarke, 22 March 1950, Clarke Irwin fonds, ohm. E50.3  30 March. Ottawa, on. Canadian Club. Speech. Reported in D50. Davies’s notes: 2 pages. [87/22] E50.4  2 October. Toronto, on. Toronto Downtown Kiwanis Club. Speech “Why Live in Toronto.” E51.1  13 January. Ottawa, on. Canadian Repertory Theatre. Curtain Speech after last performance of At My Heart’s Core by the Canadian Repertory Theatre. Reported in D51.1.

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E51.2  26 September. Peterborough, on. Empress Hotel. Speech after a dinner inaugurating the new season of the Peterborough Little Theatre. Reported in D51.4. E52.1  31 January. Toronto, on. Trinity College, University of Toronto. Strachan Hall. Trinity College Centennial Debate about the resolution “That the Present Environment of Canada Is Conducive to a Distinctive Culture.” Davies and Dwight Fulford defended the resolution successfully; Professor Lyndon Smith and John S. Barton opposed it. As Davies had laryngitis, his wife Brenda delivered his speech and rebuttals. Reported briefly with no quotations as “Centenary Debate,” Salterrae (Trinity College, University of Toronto) 5, no. 15 (4 February 1952): 1 and as “T.C.L.I. (Trinity College Literary Institute),” Trinity University Review (Trinity College, University of Toronto) 64, no. 5 (August 1952): 8. Reported in D52.1. Davies’s typescript: 11 pages. [37/12] E52.2  21 November. Millbrook, on. Millbrook High School Graduation. Speech. Reported, with paraphrased remarks, as “Davies Offers Graduates Old Age Recipe,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 November 1952, p. 12. E53.1  11 February. Peterborough, on. Club Aragon. Remarks on being named “Citizen of the Year 1952” by the Peterborough B’nai B’rith. Briefly reported at the end of “Martin Urges Own Culture, Says Davies One of Leaders,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 February 1953, pp. 1, 23.

Davies’s typescript: 46 pages. [30/17] E57.2  17 May. Edmonton, ab. University of Alberta. Jubilee Auditorium. “Speech: University of Alberta Convocation: Upon Receiving the Honorary Degree: Doctor of Laws.” Reported in D57.2. Davies’s typescript: 9 pages. [36/32] E57.3  29 September. Toronto, on. Crest Theatre Club. “Why People Write Plays and Why People Go to See Them.” Reported in D57.4. E58  9 April. Toronto, on. Ontario Education Association. English Section. Speech. Reported in D58. Davies’s notes: 5 pages. [107/30] E59  18 May. Hamilton, on. McMaster University. “Speech: McMaster University Convocation: Upon Receiving the Degree: D.Litt.” For full text see C59.35. Revised and given a second time E74.2. Davies’s typescript: 13 pages [36/33] E60.1  20 February. Toronto, on. Royal York Hotel. “Speech: Ontario Association of Architects Convention.” The program gave the title of his speech as “Architecture: What Else? . . . Literature of Course.” Printed in C60.35 and reprinted as “How to Design a Haunted House” in A52 and A97. Davies’s typescript: Only pages 11 and 20 survive. [37/13]

E53.2  13 February. Toronto, on. Upper Canada College. Founder’s Day Dinner. Address.

E60.2  20 July. Stratford, on. Stratford Country Club. Stratford Seminar on Shakespeare Banquet. Titled “Shakespeare — What Else!” and later “Shakespeare over the Port.” Reported in D60.1, but see C60.33. Printed in B11, and reprinted in A55. Davies’s typescript: 18 pages. [31/10]

E55.1  13 May. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Great Hall, Hart House. Toronto Branch of the Canadian Authors Association. Address.

E60.3  26 October. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Music Room, Hart House. “The Role of the University Theatre.” Reported in D60.2.

E55.2  18 July. Peterborough, on. Empress Hotel. Rotary Club. Speech about the founding of the Stratford Festival. Reported in D55.1.

E61.1  24 January. Toronto, on. Trinity College, University of Toronto. “The Personal Art: A Series of Three Lectures: First Lecture: The Curse of Education.” Davies’s typescript: 44 pages. [37/17, 18]

E55.3  18 November. Orillia, on. Presentation of Leacock Medal for Humour. Acceptance Speech. Briefly reported, with no quotations and no paraphrases, as “R. Davies is Winner of Leacock Medal,” Toronto Star, 19 November 1955, p. 45. William Arthur Deacon presented Davies with the Leacock Medal for Humour for his novel Leaven of Malice; Premier Leslie M. Frost and his wife attended. Reported in D55.2. E57.1  9 March. Ottawa, on. Carlton University Library. “Our Living Tradition” lecture series. “Canadian Heritage Lecture: Stephen Leacock.” Reported in D57.1. Printed as “Stephen Leacock” in B9.

E61.2  27 January. Peterborough, on. Y.W.C.A. Lecture in “Let’s Talk about Books” Series. Reported in D61.1. E61.3  31 January. Toronto, on. Trinity College, University of Toronto. “The Personal Art: A Series of Three Lectures: Second Lecture: The Curse of Intellect.” Reported in D61.2. Davies’s typescript: 41 pages. [37/17, 18] E61.4  7 February. Toronto, on. Trinity College, University of Toronto. “The Personal Art: A Series of



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Three Lectures: Third Lecture: The Curse of Taste.” Reported in D61.3. Davies’s typescript: 43 pages. [37/17, 18] E61.5  9 February. Toronto, on. Hart House, University of Toronto. Speech after Hart House Debate on the resolution that “Canadian Culture Is a Mixture of Frailties.” Reported in D61.4. E61.6  19 July. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Convocation Hall. The President’s Lectures Series. “Communications in a Changing Society: The Theatre.” Printed as “The Theatre” in B12. Davies’s typescript: 17 pages. [37/16] E61.7  31 August. St. Catharines, on. Queensway Hotel. Convention Banquet of the Royal Canadian College of Organists. “Notes for Speech: Royal Canadian College of Organists.” Reported in D61.5. Davies’s notes: 8 pages. [37/14] E61.8  18 October. Toronto, on. King Edward Sheraton Hotel. Osgoode Hall Legal and Literary Society. “Speech.” Davies’s typescript: 8 pages. [37/15] E62.1  3 April. Toronto, on. Osler Hall, Academy of Medicine. “Literature and Medicine: A Speech to the Academy of Medicine.” Printed as “Men and Books: Literature and Medicine” in C62.37 and reprinted in A17. Davies’s typescript: 31 pages. [37/21] E62.2  10 May. Stratford, on. Victorian Inn. “Speech to Honour Students’ Banquet.” Printed as “Robertson Davies’ Address to the Honor Students” in C62.25. Davies’s typescript: 18 pages. [37/22] E62.3  19 May. Kingston, on. Queen’s University. “Speech at Queen’s University Convocation upon Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa.” Printed in A52 as “The Deadliest of Sins,” reprinted in A97 and excerpted in C62.32. Davies’s typescript: 14 pages. okq Archives E62.4  25 May. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. “Massey College, Foundation Stone Laying.” Printed in C62.40. Davies’s typescript: 2 pages. [37/19] E62.5  5 June. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. University Extension Lectures on Stratford Festival. “Macbeth.” Davies’s notes: 9 pages. [31/14] E62.6  7 June. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Convocation Hall. University Extension Lectures on Stratford Festival. “The Taming of the Shrew.” Reported briefly by Herbert Whittaker, “Showbusiness: notes

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E63.5  4 October. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Opening Ceremonies. Address. Davies’s typescript: 2 pages. otmc. E63.6  25 October. Toronto, on. Upper Canada College. “Speech for Prize Day, Upper Canada College.” Reported (no quotations) by Tom Markowitz, “Prize Day,” College Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) 106 (Summer 1964): 34. Davies’s typescript: 12 pages. [38/1] E63.7  17 December. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Gaudy Night. “A College Ghost Story.” Printed as “Revelation from a Smoky Fire” in A63 and reprinted in A79 and A87. Davies’s typescript: 13 pages. [10/12] E64.1  4 March. Toronto, on. Cartwright Hall, St. Hilda’s College, University of Toronto. St. Hilda’s College Alumnae Association. Speech about the library at Massey College. Reported in D64.2. E64.2  2 June. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Hart House Theatre. University Extension Lectures on the Stratford Festival. “First Lecture: Richard II.” Reported briefly, with no quotations, Frank Morriss, “Shakespeare’s Richard Declared Moody Man,” To­ ronto Globe and Mail, 3 June 1964, p. 8. Davies’s typescript: 25 pages. [31/19] E64.3  4 June. Toronto, on. Hart House, Hart House Theatre. University Extension Lectures on the Stratford Festival. “Second Lecture: Le Bourgeois Gentil­ homme.” Reported in D64.3. Davies’s typescript: 20 pages. [31/18] E64.4  9 June. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Hart House Theatre. University Extension Lectures on the Stratford Festival. “Third Lecture: The Country Wife.” Reported in D64.4. Davies’s typescript: 17 pages. [31/17] E64.5  11 June. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Hart House Theatre. University Extension Lectures on the Stratford Festival. “Fourth Lecture: King Lear.” Reported in D64.5. Davies’s typescript: 31 pages. [31/16] E64.6  9 September. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Edward Johnson Building. University Extension Lectures about the Canadian Opera Company season. “Lecture: La Traviata.” Davies’s typescript: 21 pages. [38/2] E64.7 6  October. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. “Speech for Dean Bladen’s Dinner [for those who stood one-one].” Davies’s typescript: 13 pages. [38/3]

E64.8  6 October. Charlottetown, pe. Fathers of Confederation Centre. Official Opening by Queen Elizabeth II. “The Charlottetown Prologue.” Written in couplets, delivered by Lorne Greene. See J94.3. Davies’s typescript: 5 pages (page 3, in French, was written by Robert Finch). E64.9  14 December. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Gaudy Night. “A College Ghost Story.” Printed as “The Ghost Who Vanished by Degrees” in A63 and A87. Davies’s typescript: 20 pages. [10/12, 13] E65.1  11 March. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Wymilwood, Victoria College. Victoria College Alumnae meeting. Mentioned in “Today’s Calendar” in To­ ronto Globe and Mail, 11 March 1965, p. W11. E65.2  17 May. Toronto, on. Trinity College, University of Toronto. Clerical Alumni Association Conference. “Parsons in Literature.” Davies’s notes: 18 pages. [38/4] E65.3  25 May. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Hart House Theatre. University Extension Stratford Festival Lectures. “First Lecture: Julius Caesar.” Davies’s typescript: 47 pages. [31/21] E65.4  27 May. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Hart House Theatre. University Extension Stratford Festival Lectures. “Second Lecture: Henry IV (1).” Davies’s typescript: 35 pages. [31/22] E65.5  1 June. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Hart House Theatre. University Extension Stratford Festival Lectures. “Third Lecture: Henry IV (2).” Davies’s typescript: 33 pages. [32/1] E65.6  3 June. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Hart House Theatre. University Extension Stratford Festival Lectures. “Fourth Lecture: The Cherry Orchard.” Davies’s typescript: 46 pages. [32/2] E65.7  7 June. Toronto, on. Toronto Western Hospital. Atkinson School of Nursing. “Speech for the Graduation Ceremony: The Atkinson School of Nursing: The Toronto Western Hospital.” Davies’s typescript: 20 pages. [38/6] E65.8  29 September. Port Hope, on. Dr. Powers School. “Canadian Writing: Speech to Port HopeCobourg Canadian Club.” Reported in D65. Davies’s notes: 17 pages. [38/5] E65.9  21 November. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Massey College Chapel. “Lionel Vincent Massey: Eulogy for Memorial Service: November 21st, 1965.” Printed in A19.



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Davies’s typescript: 4 pages. otmc. E65.10  15 December. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Gaudy Night. “The Third College Ghost Story.” Printed as “The Great Queen Is Amused” in A63. See A20. Davies’s typescript: 21 pages. [10/15] E66.1  12 February. Toronto, on. The Royal York Hotel. The Annual Dinner of the Toronto District of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation. “The Continuing Conversation.” Davies’s notes: 14 pages. [38/7] E66.2  19 May. Toronto, on. Hart House, University of Toronto. “Speech to the 1966 Annual Meeting and Conference of the Ontario Welfare Council.” Printed as “Preaching Selfishness” in A52 and reported in D66.1. Davies’s typescript: 12 pages. [38/8] E66.3  24 May. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Concert Hall, Edward Johnson Building. University Extension Stratford Festival Lectures. “First Lecture: Henry V.” Davies’s typescript: 34 pages. [32/5] E66.4  26 May. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Concert Hall, Edward Johnson Building. University Extension Stratford Festival Lectures. “Second Lecture: Henry VI.” Davies’s typescript: 32 pages. [32/6] E66.5  31 May. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Concert Hall, Edward Johnson Building. University Extension Stratford Festival Lectures. “Third Lecture: Twelfth Night.” Reported in D66.2. Davies’s typescript: 32 pages. [32/7] E66.6  2 June. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. Concert Hall, Edward Johnson Building. University Extension Stratford Festival Lectures. “Fourth Lecture: The Dance of Death.” Davies’s typescript: 31 pages. [32/8] E66.7  26 October. Calgary, ab. University of Calgary. Speech. Reported in D66.3. E66.8  17 December. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Gaudy Night. “The Fourth College Ghost Story.” Printed as “The Night of the Three Kings” in A63. See A22. Davies’s typescript: 19 pages. [10/16] E67.1  14 January. Lennoxville, pq. Bishop’s University. “Bishop’s University Convocation.” Reported in D67.1. Davies’s typescript: 4 pages. [36/35]

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Davies’s typescript: 3 pages. otmc. E68.4  17 May. Toronto, on. “Ontario College of Art: Graduation.” Davies’s notes: 7 pages. [38/12] E68.5  14 December. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Gaudy Night. “The Sixth College Ghost Story.” Printed as “When Satan Goes Home for Christmas” in A63. See A31. Davies’s typescript: 22 pages. [10/18] E69.1  28 June. Caledon East, on. Highfields Farm, Tim and Naline Stewart’s Wedding. Toast to the Bride. E69.2  30 July. Stratford, on. Festival Theatre. Stratford Festival Seminar. “Ben Jonson and Alchemy.” Printed in B26. E69.3  13 December. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Gaudy Night. “The Seventh College Ghost Story.” Printed as “The All Hallows Horrors” in C77.6 and reprinted as “Refuge of Insulted Saints” in A63. See A32. Davies’s typescript: 23 pages. [10/21] E70.1  11 February. Toronto, on. New College, University of Toronto. Speech about Astrology. Davies’s notes: 5 pages. [38/20] E70.2  25 March. Toronto, on. University Women’s Club. “Women and Stephen Leacock.” Speech written for and delivered by Davies’s wife Brenda. Given subsequently, with variations, eleven times. Davies’s draft typescripts: 7-14 pages. [87/18] E70.3  3 June. Toronto, on. Convocation Hall, University of Toronto. Convocation. Citation of Mrs. Dora Mavor Moore for Honorary Degree. Printed in A34. Davies’s typescript: 3 pages. [87/23] E70.4  5 June. Toronto, on. University College, University of Toronto. “Annual Reunion Dinner: The Alumnae Association of University College.” Davies’s typescript: 15 pages. [38/16] E70.5  28 July. Niagara-on-the-Lake, on. “Speech for Shaw Festival Seminar: Forty Years on.” Davies’s typescript: 30 pages. [38/18] E70.6  29 September. Toronto, on. York University. “Speech for York Dickens Festival.” Davies’s typescript: 25 pages. [38/17] E70.7  31 October. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. The Other Leacock Symposium. “Leacock as a Literary Artist.” Printed in C71.2. Davies’s typescript: 28 pages. [31/2]

E70.8  3 December. Ottawa, on. Women’s Canadian Club of Ottawa. “The Mirror of Canada: Some Thoughts on a National Literature.” Excerpted as “Looking into the Mirror of Canadian Writing” in C70.5. Davies’s typescript: 19 pages. [38/15] E70.9  13 December. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto, Gaudy Night. “The Eighth College Ghost Story.” Printed as “Dickens Digested” in A52 and A63. See A39. Davies’s typescript: 18 pages. [10/22] E70.10  14 December. Toronto, on. Royal York Hotel. Toronto Canadian Club. “Speech for the Toronto Canadian Club Luncheon” later titled “The Heart of a Merry Christmas.” Printed in A40. Davies’s typescript: 15 pages. [38/19] E71.1  8 March. Montreal, pq. McGill University. McGill University 150th Anniversary. “Stephen Leacock.” Printed as “The Funny Professor” in A52. Davies’s typescript: 26 pages. [31/4] E71.2  8 June. Royal Society of Canada. “Some Thoughts on Canadian Literature for the Royal Society of Canada.” Professor Clifford Leech delivered this speech for Davies. Printed as “Some Thoughts on the Present State of Canadian Literature” in C71.1. Davies’s typescript: 27 pages. [38/21] E71.3  6 October. Detroit, mi. Cobo Hall. National Convention of the Supreme Chapter P.E.O. Sisterhood. “Canadian Wits and Canadian Women.” Speech written for and delivered by Davies’s wife Brenda. Given by Brenda Davies on at least four subsequent occasions. Davies’s draft typescripts: 8-13 (plus interleaved) pages. [87/14] E71.4  23 October. Windsor, on. “University of Windsor: Convocation Address.” Excerpted as “Every Man Needs Three Careers” in C71.5. Davies’s typescript: 15 pages. [36/36] E71.5  23 October. Windsor, on. “University of Windsor Convocation Dinner.” Davies’s typescript: 14 pages. [87/11] E71.6  23 November. Port Hope, on. Osler Hall, Trinity College School. 37th Annual Dinner of the Canadian Headmasters’ Association. “Speech to Headmasters’ Conference: Port Hope, Ontario.” Davies’s typescript: 15 pages. [38/22] E71.7  19 December. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto, Gaudy Night, 19 December



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1971. “The Ninth College Ghost Story.” Printed as “The Kiss of Krushchev” in A63. See A42. Davies’s typescript: 23 pages. [10/23]

Music” in C73.5 and reprinted as “Sir Ernest MacMillan” in A52. Davies’s typescript: 10 pages. [39/3]

E72.1  2 March. Toronto, on. Royal York Hotel. Empire Club of Toronto. “How the Author Reaches His Public: A Speech to the Empire Club of Toronto.” Printed in C72.5. Davies’s typescript: 24 pages. [38/23]

E73.4  5 June. Toronto, on. Convocation Hall, University of Toronto. Convocation. Citation. “Robert Duer Claydon Finch.” See B49. Davies’s typescript: 5 pages. [39/7]

E72.2  29 March. Guelph, on. Guelph Spring Festival. “Speech for Guelph Festival Luncheon.” Printed as “How Do You Expect to Get Along without a Festival?” in C76.3. Davies’s typescript: 18 pages. [39/1] E72.3  25 May. Winnipeg, mb. University of Manitoba. “University of Manitoba: Convocation Address.” Printed as “The Three Warning Circles” in C72.6 and reprinted in A55. Davies’s typescript: 14 pages. [36/37] E72.4  14 October. Toronto, on. Royal York Hotel. Society of Industrial Accountants of Ontario. 1972 Annual Convocation Dinner. “What May Canada Expect from Her Writers?” Printed as “A Canadian Writer’s Manifesto” in C72.9, and reprinted as “What May Canada Expect from Her Writers?” in A52 and A97. Davies’s typescript: 16 pages. [38/24] E72.5  8 November. Toronto, on. Trinity College, University of Toronto. Trinity College Literary Institute Dinner. Speech. E72.6  17 December. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Gaudy Night. “The Tenth College Ghost Story.” Printed as “The Cat That Went to Trinity: A College Ghost Story” in A52 and reprinted as “The Cat That Went to Trinity” in A63 and A87. See A45. Davies’s typescript: 21 pages. [10/24] E73.1  16 April. Toronto, on. Canadian Friends House. Analytical Psychology Society of Ontario. “Jung and the Theatre.” Repeated E73.7 and E77.5. Printed in A52 and reprinted in A97. Davies’s typescript: 36 pages. [39/5] E73.2  14 May. Guelph, on. War Memorial Hall. Guelph Spring Festival. Jon Vickers Concert. “Speech for the Guelph Spring Festival: Jon Vickers Concert.” Printed as “Edward Johnson” in A52. Reported in D73. Davies’s typescript: 26 pages. [39/4] E73.3  15 May. Toronto, on. Convocation Hall, University of Toronto. “Service for Sir Ernest MacMillan.” Printed as “A Leader to Those of Us Who Faced the

E73.5  6 June. Toronto, on. Bishop Strachan School. Closing Exercises. “Speech for the Closing Exercises of Bishop Strachan School.” Printed as “What Every Girl Should Know” in A52, reprinted in A97, and excerpted in C74.2. Davies’s typescript: 4 pages. [39/6] E73.6  7 June. Downsview, on. York University. Convocation. “Speech to Convocation at York University.” Davies’s typescript: 12 pages. [36/38] E73.7  7 October. Chicago, il. Northwestern University, Evanston. Analytical Psychology Club of Chicago. “Jung and the Theatre.” A repetition of E73.1. Davies’s typescript: 36 pages. [39/5] E73.8  19 October. Sackville, nb. Mount Allison University. “Convocation Address: Mount Allison University.” Printed as “The Convocation Address” in C74.8. Davies’s typescript: 19 pages. [36/39] E73.9  17 November. Toronto, on. York Club. Annual Dinner of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. “Speech to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.” See A62, and printed as “Art and the Cult of the Amateur” in C73.8. Davies’s typescript: 25 pages. [39/2]. E73.10  16 December. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Gaudy Night. “The Eleventh College Ghost Story.” Printed as “The Ugly Spectre of Sexism” in A63 and reprinted in A87. See A46. Davies’s typescript: 24 pages. [11/1] E74.1  24 May. St. John’s, nl. Memorial University of Newfoundland. “Convocation Address: Memorial University of Newfoundland.” Given again E74.3. Printed in C74.5. Davies’s typescript: 15 pages. [37/5] E74.2  5 June. London, on. University of Western Ontario. “Convocation Address: The University of Western Ontario.” A revised version of E59. Reported in D74. Davies’s typescript: 14 pages. [37/2]. E74.3  6 June. Montreal, pq. McGill University. “Convocation Address: McGill University.” A repetition of E74.1.

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Davies’s typescript: 15 pages. [37/4] E74.4  26 October. Peterborough, on. Trent University. “Convocation Address: Trent University.” Excerpted as “Curiosity, Work, Open the Door to Life’s Splendor” and later printed in full under various titles in C74.7. Translated in H18. Davies’s typescript: 17 pages. [36/40] E74.5  14 November. Toronto, on. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Tenth Anniversary Lecture Series. “Education and Literacy.” Printed in C75.4. Davies’s typescript: 29 pages. [39/9] E74.6  16 December. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Gaudy Night. “The Twelfth College Ghost Story.” As Davies was ill, his wife Brenda read the story. Printed as “The Pit Whence Ye Are Digged” in A63. See A47. Davies’s typescript: 24 pages. [11/2] E75.1  2 June. Edmonton, ab. University of Alberta. The Royal Society of Canada. Symposium on Canadian Nationalism in Arts and Science. “Canadian Nationalism in Arts and Science.” Revised and given again in E76.3. Printed as “Canadian Nationalism in Arts and Science” in C75.1 and reprinted in A58. Davies’s typescript: 27 pages. [39/10] E75.2  6 June. Calgary, ab. University of Calgary. Jubilee Auditorium. “Convocation Address: The University of Calgary.” Printed as “What Will the Age of Aquarius Bring?” in A52 and reported in D75.2. Davies’s typescript: 17 pages. [37/6] E75.3  27 July. Stratford, on. Stratford Shakespeare Seminar. “Aspects of Comedy.” Davies’s typescript: 30 pages. [32/16] E75.4  12 November. Toronto, on. Concert Hall, Royal Conservatory of Music. “Royal Conservatory of Music Annual Convocation.” Davies’s typescript: 33 pages. [39/11, 12] E75.5  13 December. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Gaudy Night. “The Thirteenth College Ghost Story.” Printed as “The Perils of the Double Sign” in A63. See A50. Davies’s typescript: 25 pages. [11/3]

E76.3  4 June. Milwaukee, wi. University of WisconsinMilwaukee. Friends of the University of Milwaukee Library. “Canadian Nationalism in Literature.” A revision of E75.1. Davies’s typescript: 28 pages. [39/13] E76.4  21-6 June. Middletown, ct. Wesleyan-Suffield Writers Conference. Three 90-minute sessions as instructor in the fiction seminar, speaking about “What Fiction Is” on 21 June, and on aspects of fiction on 23 and 25 June. The co-instructor (who led the seminar on alternate days) was Lael Wertenbaker. Davies’s notes: 2 pages. [107/23] E76.5  15 July. Ottawa, on. National Arts Centre. Second Arts and Media Conference. Keynote speech. “Second Arts and Media Conference: National Arts Centre: Ottawa.” Excerpted in C76.7. Davies’s typescript: 17 pages. [39/18] E76.6  30 July. Niagara-on-the-Lake, on. Shaw Festival. “J.M. Barrie: The Bitter and the Sweet.” E76.7  15 November. Toronto, on. Auditorium of the Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto. Larkin-Stuart Lectures. “Masks of Satan: Some Concepts of Evil in Literature: (1) The Devil’s Burning Throne.” Printed as “The Devil’s Burning Throne” in A52, reprinted in A96, and see B32. Davies’s typescript: 44 pages. [39/15, 16] E76.8  16 November. Toronto, on. Auditorium of the Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto. Larkin-Stuart Lectures. “Masks of Satan: Some Concepts of Evil in Literature: (2) Phantasmagoria and Dream Grotto.” Printed as “Phantasmagoria and Dream Grotto” in A52, reprinted in A96, and see B32. Davies’s typescript: 46 pages. [39/15, 16] E76.9  17 November. Toronto, on. Auditorium of the Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto. Larkin-Stuart Lectures. “Masks of Satan: Some Concepts of Evil in Literature: (3) Gleams and Glooms.” Printed as “Gleams and Glooms” in A52, and reprinted in A96, and see B32. Davies’s typescript: 52 pages. [39/15, 16]

E76.1  25 February. Toronto, on. Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. “Insanity and Literature: Speech for Staff of Clarke Institute.” Repeated E77.1. Printed as “Insanity in Literature” in A52 and reprinted in A97. Davies’s typescript: 29 pages. [39/17]

E76.10  18 November. Toronto, on. Auditorium of the Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto. Larkin-Stuart Lectures. “Masks of Satan: Some Concepts of Evil in Literature: (4) Thunder without Rain.” Printed as “Thunder without Rain” in A52, reprinted in A96, and see B32. Davies’s typescript: 46 pages. [39/15, 16]

E76.2  3 June. Chicago, il. Canadian Consulate General. Speech.

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College Ghost Story.” Printed as “An Eerie Tale of a Little Table That Spoke” in C76.10 and reprinted as “Conversations with the Little Table” in A63. See A51. Davies’s typescript: 24 pages. [11/4] E77.1  22 February. Ottawa, on. Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. University Rounds of the Department of Psychiatry. “Insanity and Literature.” A repetition of E76.1. Davies’s typescript: 29 pages. [39/17] E77.2  5 April. Washington, dc. Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. 20th Century Canadian Culture: A Symposium. “Dark Hamlet with the Features of Horatio — Canada’s Myths and Realities.” For full text and reports, see C77.3. Reprinted in A52 and A97. Davies’s typescript: 32 pages. [40/2, 3] E77.3  6 April. Washington, dc. Cosmos Club. “Ham and Tongue for the Cosmos Club.” Printed as “Ham and Tongue” in A52 and reprinted in A97. Davies’s typescript: 29 pages. [40/1] E77.4  27 June - 2 July. Middletown, ct. WesleyanSuffield Writers Conference. Three 90-minute lectures as instructor in the fiction seminar, on 27 June about principles of fiction, on June 29 about style and vocabulary, on July 1 about fiction and imagination. The co-instructor (who led the seminar on alternate days) was George Garrett. E77.5  6 October. New York, ny. Community Church. C.G. Jung Foundation of New York. “Jung and the Theatre.” A repetition of E73.1. Davies’s typescript: 36 pages. [39/5] E77.6  17 December. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto, Gaudy Night. “The Fifteenth College Ghost Story.” Printed as “The King Enjoys His Own Again” in A63 and A87. See A53. Davies’s typescript: 23 pages. [11/6] E78.1  9 February. Calgary, ab. University of Calgary. MacEwan Hall. Official Inauguration of the Faculty of Humanities. “Inaugural Address: The Relevance and Importance of the Humanities in the Present Day.” Davies, Marie-Claire Blais, and four others were made honorary University of Calgary professors of humanities. Printed as “Robertson Davies’ Inaugural Address to the Faculty of Humanities” in C78.4. Davies’s typescript: 17 pages. [40/7] E78.2  13 February. Montreal, pq. Concordia University. The Lahey Lecture of Concordia University. “Delusions of Literacy.” Printed as “Delusions of Literacy: The Lahey Lecture of Concordia University” in C78.9. Recorded in I19.

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E79.4  2 August. Toronto, on. University College, University of Toronto. Association for Canadian Theatre History Symposium on Theatrical Touring and Founding in North America. “Mixed Grill: Touring Fare in Canada 1920-35.” Excerpted in A58 and printed in B40. Davies’s typescript: 49 pages. [40/9] E79.5  12 November. Toronto, on. 21 McGill. “You Too Can Be A Critic.” Davies’s typescript: 12 pages. [87/26]

Davies’s typescript: 7 pages. [40/16] E80.10  20 November. Winnipeg, mb. University of Manitoba. The Sidney Warhaft Memorial Lecture. “A Rake at Reading: The Pleasure of a Lifetime.” Printed as “A Rake at Reading” in C81.3. Reprinted in A89 and A96. Davies’s draft typescript: 23 pages. [40/13]

E79.6  15 December. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Gaudy Night. “The Seventeenth College Ghost Story.” Printed as “Einstein and the Little Lord” in A63. See A56. Davies’s typescript: 24 pages. [11/8]

E80.11  13 December. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Gaudy Night. “The Eighteenth and Last College Ghost Story.” Reported (with no quotations) by Herbert Whittaker, “Farewell Ghost Story Has a Vinegary Touch,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 24 December 1980, p. 12. Printed as “Offer of Immortaility” in A63. See A57. Davies’s typescript: 24 pages. [11/9]

E80.1  14 January. Toronto, on. Heliconian Hall. “Shamanstvo: Writing as Personal Exploration.” Repetition of E79.1. Davies’s typescript: 45 pages. [40/10]

E81.1  11 April. Toronto, on. Glendon College, York University. Victorian Studies Association of Ontario Conference. “Melodrama.” Davies’s typescript: 39 pages. [40/18]

E80.2  11 February. Kingston, on. Grant Hall, Queen’s University. The Brockington Lecture. “A Return to Rhetoric.” Printed in C80.4 and A82. Davies’s typescript: 44 pages. [40/15]

E81.2  27 April. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Annual Meeting of the School of Graduate Studies Alumni Association of the University of Toronto. Speech. Announced in School of Graduate Studies Alumni Association University of Toronto Newsletter, April 1981, p. [1].

E80.3  12 February. Kingston, on. Royal Military College. Brief speech to faculty and cadets. Noted in Davies’s Trip Timetable. [10/15] E80.4  12 February. Kingston, on. Queen’s University. Donald Gordon Centre. Faculty of Applied Science dinner. Address to dean’s scholars, graduate students, and faculty. Noted in Davies’s Trip Timetable. [10/15] E80.5  12 February. Kingston, on. Queen’s University. Canadian Literature Course 080. Address. Noted in Davies’s Trip Timetable. [10/15] E80.6  13 February. Kingston, on. Faculty Club, Queen’s University. Kingston Branch of Humanities Association. Address. Noted in Davies’s Trip Timetable. [10/15] E80.7  27 February. Toronto, on. Four Seasons Hotel Ballroom. Donald McGibbon Dinner. “Donald W. McGibbon.” Davies’s typescript: 12 pages. [40/14] E80.8  27 July. Niagara-on-the-Lake, on. Shaw Festival. York University Seminar. “Genius and the Green-Eyed Millionairess.” Davies’s typescript: 17 pages. [40/17] E80.9  17 September. Peterborough, on. “Opening of the Public Library.” Reported in D80.2.

E81.3  16 May. Lethbridge, ab. University of Lethbridge. “Convocation Address: The University of Lethbridge.” Reported in D81. Davies’s typescript: 17 pages. [37/8] E81.4  28 May. Waterloo, on. University of Waterloo. “Convocation Address: The University of Waterloo.” Davies’s typescript: 10 pages. [37/7] E81.5  6 June. Toronto, on. Albany Club. Reception after the wedding of Sarah Jane Edinborough to Stephen Fred Iley. “A Toast to Sarah Jane.” Davies’s typescript: 3 pages. E81.6  27 November. Toronto, on. Convocation Hall, University of Toronto. “University of Toronto: Convocation Speech.” Reported in D82.1. Davies’s typescript: 12 pages. [37/9] E82.1  18 June. Toronto, on. Toronto French School. Graduation. “Speech for the Toronto French School Graduation Ceremony.” Davies’s typescript: 11 pages. [41/1] E82.2  29 August. Stratford, on. Festival Theatre. Typescript titled “Speech for the Stratford Shakespearean Festival” but publicity for the lecture has “Thirty Years of Stratford.” Reported as “Thirty Years of Stratford”



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E84.6  13 April. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Speech (on the occasion of the retirement of Moira Whalon, College Secretary since 1963).

E82.3  9 November. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. West Hall, University College. Alexander Lectures. “I: Oblivion’s Balm.” Printed in A65. Davies’s typescript: 43 pages. [30/10]

E84.7  18 November. Baltimore, md. Turner Auditorium, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Humanities Symposium: Medicine in the Mirror of the Stage. “Symposium: Theatre and Medicine: Johns Hopkins” but titled “The Doctor in the Mirror of Nature” in the program. Printed as “An Allegory of the Physician” in A90 and reprinted in A96. Discussion recorded in I10. Davies’s typescript: 13 pages. [41/6]

E82.4  10 November. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. West Hall, University College. Alexander Lectures. “II: The Lost Lady.” Printed in A65. Davies’s typescript: 45 pages. [30/10] E82.5  11 November. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. West Hall, University College. Alexander Lectures. “III: My Cue Is Villainous Melancholy.” Printed in A65. Davies’s typescript: 49 pages. [30/10] E82.6  19 November. San Francisco, ca. C.G. Jung Institute. “Archetypal Patterns in Literature.” Repeated E83.1 and E83.2. Printed as “Reading through Jung’s Spectacles” in C83.4. Davies’s typescript: 51 pages. [41/2, 3] E82.7  20-21 November. San Francisco, ca. C.G. Jung Institute. Seminars about Archetypal Images in Literature: 20 November, a.m.: The Tempest (Shakespeare) and p.m.: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge), 21 November a.m.: The Old Curiosity Shop (Dickens) and p.m.: Death in Venice (Thomas Mann). Davies’s notes: 5+2, 4+2, 5, 2 pages. [87/25] E83.1  3 February. New York, ny. C.G. Jung Foundation of New York. “Archetypal Patterns in Literature.” A repetition of E82.6. Davies’s typescript: 51 pages. [41/2, 3] E83.2  7 March. Toronto, on. Academy of Medicine. C.G. Jung Foundation of the Analytical Psychology Society of Ontario. “Archetypal Images in Literature.” A repetition of E82.6. Davies’s typescript: 51 pages. [41/2, 3] E83.3  28 April. Toronto, on. Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. Symposium on Clinical Criminology. “Murder As It Looks to a Literary Man: A Talk to the Clarke Institute.” Davies’s typescript: 37 pages. [41/4]. E83.4  8 May. Rochester, ny. Eastman Theatre, University of Rochester. “University of Rochester Convocation.” Printed in C83.1. Davies’s typescript: 3 pages. [37/10] E83.5  24 May. Vancouver, bc. University of British Columbia. Department of English. “The Fiction of Fact versus the Fact of Fiction.”

E84.8 18 November. Baltimore, md. Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Humanities Symposium: Medicine in the Mirror of the Stage. The Daniel Coit Gilman Lecture. “The Daniel Coit Gilman Lecture” but titled “Can a Doctor Be a Humanist?” in the program for the Symposium. Printed as “Read Twain, or Sir Thomas Browne, and Call Me in the Morning” in C85.5 and reprinted as “Can a Doctor Be a Humanist” in A89 and A96. Recorded in I8. Davies’s typescript: 26 pages. [41/6] E85.1 20 January. Toronto, on. O’Keefe Centre. “Faust: Opera Preview.” Davies’s typescript: 7 pages. [59/62] E85.2  16 April. Princeton, nj. Princeton University. The Spencer Trask Lecture Series. “But Why Do You Call It Canadian?” This speech is different from E85.3. Reported in D85. Davies’s typescript: 45 pages. [41/8] E85.3  15 May. New York, ny. American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. “The Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield Foundation Address.” This speech is different from E85.2. Printed as “But Why Do You Call It Canadian?” in C85.2. Davies’s typescript: 13 pages. [41/7] E85.4 21 August. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Memorial Service for Gordon Wry. Eulogy. Davies’s typescript: 2 pages. [60/23, otmc] E86.1 15 January. New York, ny. The 48th International PEN Congress. “The 48th International PEN Congress: New York City: 1986.” Reported in D86.1. Davies’s typescript: 6 pages. [87/28] E86.2 5 May. Toronto, on. C.G. Jung Foundation of the Analytical Psychology Society of Ontario. “Folksong: A Lost World of Archetypes.” Repeated in E87.2. Reported in D86.3. Printed in A90. Davies’s typescript: 25 pages. [41/9] E86.3 11 May. Guelph, on. War Memorial Hall, Uni-

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versity of Guelph. Guelph Spring Festival. “The Peeled Eye.” Revised as E93.12. See B47. Davies’s draft typescript: 24 pages. [87/47] E86.4 12 May. Guelph, on. War Memorial Hall, University of Guelph. Speech to high school students. E86.5 14 August. Banff, ab. Banff Centre School of Fine Arts. National Award (the Donald Cameron Gold Medal and $5,000). “Speech of Acceptance: Banff.” Printed in A85. Davies’s typescript: 3 pages. [87/27] E86.6 15 August (mis-dated in Davies’s notes as Aug. 14). Banff, ab. Banff Centre School of Fine Arts. Publishing Workshop. “Publishers’ Group.” Davies’s notes: 5 pages. [60/22] E86.7 30 September. Winchester, England. Winchester College. William Empson Society Lecture. Reported in D86.4. E86.8 11 November. Toronto, on. Harbourfront. Spoke on behalf of PEN at a press conference, with Margaret Atwood, Rick Salutin, and Constance Beresford-Howe. Davies’s notes: 2 pages. E87.1  24 February. New York, ny. National Arts Club. Nineteenth Annual Literary Award Dinner. “Speech to the National Arts Club” (on being presented their Gold Medal of Honor for Literature). Printed as “Robertson Davies — In New York: The Strange and Rewarding Life of a Writer” in C87.5 and reprinted as “A Canadian Author” in A89 and A97. Davies’s typescript: 11 pages. [41/10] E87.2  26 February. New York, ny. C.G. Jung Foundation of New York. “Folksong: A Lost World of Archetypes.” A repetition of E86.2. Davies’s typescript: 25 pages. [41/9] E87.3  11 May. Toronto, on. Young People’s Theatre. “Ghost Story for Music,” later titled “The Harper of the Stones.” Story written and narrated by Davies at matinee and evening performances, set to music by Louis Applebaum. Printed in A90 as “Harper of the Stones” and reprinted in A96. Davies’s typescript: 10 pages. [10/11, 56/16]

Night.” Reported (with no quotations) by Martin Knelman, “Robertson Davies’s Literary Figures,” Toron­ to Life 22, no. 5 (May 1988): 18. Printed as “My Early Literary Life” in C88.3 and reprinted in A89 and A97. E88.2 27 April. New York, ny. Metropolitan Museum. “Painting, Fiction and Faking.” Printed in A89 and reprinted in A96. Davies’s typescript: 49 pages. [41/12, 13] E88.3 8 May. Sudbury, on. Thorneloe College, Laurentian University. “Convocation Address: Thorneloe College: Laurentian University.” Reported in D88.1. Davies’s typescript: 13 pages. [37/11] E88.4 27 May. Edinburgh, Scotland. Neil Gunn Lecture. “Literature in a Country without a Mythology.” Repeated in revised form E88.5. Excerpted as “¿Aca nada?”in C88.5, and printed in full as “Literature in a Country without a Mythology” in A89 and reprinted in A97. Davies’s typescript: 44 pages. [41/14] E88.5 2 June. Oxford, England. Hall, Balliol College. Adaptation of Neil Gunn Lecture, E88.4. Mentioned in Davies’s Travel Diary. [74/16, 17] E88.6 [?] September. Toronto, on. Art Gallery of Ontario. Exploring Toronto Group. Davies’s notes: 3 pages. [59/64] E88.7 28 November. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Speech after being given the Molson Prize. Reported in D88.4. E88.8 10 December. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Gaudy Night. “The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Ghost Story” or “The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Christmas Ghost Story.” Printed as “A Ghost Story” in A89 and reprinted in A96. Davies’s typescript: 22 pages. [56/17] E89.1 13 March. Toronto, on. Massey College, University of Toronto. Speech at Celebration Honoring Donors to the Robertson Davies Library Fund. Davies’s draft typescript: 4 pages. [60/26] Davies’s typescript: 3 pages. [60/26]

E87.4  29 October 1987. Toronto, on. Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. “Canadian Committee of Scientists and Scholars.” Davies’s typescript: 4 pages. [41/11]

E89.2  15 March. Toronto, on. Roy Thomson Hall. “Opera as Related to Literature.” Repeated at St. Louis Opera Festival E89.4. Printed as “Opera for the Man Who Reads Hamlet” in A90. Davies’s draft typescript: 13 pages. [60/24] Davies’s typescript: 24 pages. [grant]

E88.1 27 January. Toronto, on. King Edward Hotel. Gala Dinner launching the second century of Saturday Night, Canada’s oldest magazine. “Toast to Saturday

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E89.4  18 June. St. Louis, mo. St. Louis Opera Festival. “Opera as Related to Literature.” Repetition of E89.2.

E90.4  10 June. Stratford, on. Stratford Festival. Third Stage. Celebrated Writers Series. “Lecture for the Stratford Shakespearean Festival.” Reported in D90. Printed as “On Seeing Plays” in A90. Davies’s typescript: 43 pages. [59/45]

E89.5  26 June. Toronto, on. Canadian Authors Association Annual Dinner. “The Canadian Authors’ Association.” Davies’s typescript: 31 pages. [60/33] E89.6  7 September. Gothenburg, Sweden. Gothenburg Book Fair. “Jung and the Writer.” Given again in abridged form, E89.7. Printed in A90 and reprinted in A97. Davies’s draft typescript: 36 pages. [87/32] Davies’s typescript: 37 pages. [grant] E89.7  11 October. London, England. Society of Analytical Psychology. Abridged repetition of E89.6. E89.8  19 October. Toronto, on. Harbourfront, Premiere Dance Theatre. Wang International Festival of Authors. Robertson Davies Tribute. “Why I Do Not Intend to Write an Autobiography.” Printed in A80. Davies’s typescript: 15 pages. [87/33] E89.9  8 November. Toronto, on. Medical Sciences Auditorium, University of Toronto. “The Wiegand Lecture” and later “Magic and the Novelist.” Printed as “The Novelist and Magic” in A89 and reprinted in A97. Davies’s typescript: 49 pages. [60/30] E89.10  26 November. Toronto, on. Ontario Science Centre. Fourth Annual J. Tuzo Wilson Lecture Series. Typescript has title “Literature and Technology”; advertising for the lecture gives the title as “Art and Technology: A Novelist’s View.” Reported in D89.2. Printed as “Literature and Technology” in A89 and reprinted in A96. Davies’s typescript: 40 pages. [60/32] E90.1  2 February. Toronto, on. York Club. Speech on the occasion of his and Brenda’s 50th wedding anniversary. Excerpted in J08.1, p. 338. E90.2  29 March 1990. Toronto, on. McLean House, University of Toronto. 69th Annual Meeting of the Clinical Society of Genitourinary Surgeons. “Medicine and the Humanities.” Davies’s draft typescript: 12 pages. [60/34] E90.3  25 April. New York, ny. St. Peter’s Church, Citicorp Center. Institute on Religion and Public Life. Sixth Annual Erasmus Lecture. “Literature and Moral Purpose.” Printed in C90.5 and reprinted in A89 and A96. Recorded in I24. Davies’s draft typescript: 40 pages. [60/37]

E90.5  12 June. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. “Presenting Douglas Valentine LePan for the Degree of Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa.” Davies’s typescript: 2 pages. [87/35] E90.6  17 September. Toronto, on. Tribute to Herbert Whittaker on his 80th Birthday, in rhyming couplets. Davies’s typescript: 3 pages. [60/6] E90.7  6 December. Toronto, on. Winter Garden Theatre. First Annual PEN Benefit. Duet with Margaret Atwood, accompanied on the piano by Tomson Highway. Printed as “The Infamous Duet” in C90.1. E90.8  6 December. Toronto, on. Winter Garden Theatre. First Annual PEN Benefit. PEN Gala speech. Davies’s typescript: 4 pages. [99/3] E91.1  20 February. New Haven, ct. Yale University. The Tanner Lectures on Human Values. “The Tanner Lectures: No. 1: Reading.” Given under the general title “The Mysterious Partnership.” Printed in B61 and reprinted in A76 and A89. Davies’s draft typescript: 20 pages. [60/39] Davies’s typescript: 41 pages. [grant] E91.2  21 February. New Haven, ct. Yale University. The Tanner Lectures on Human Values. “The Tanner Lectures: No. 2: Writing.” Given under the general title “The Mysterious Partnership.” Printed in B61 and reprinted in A76 and A89. Davies’s draft typescript: 20 pages. [60/40] Davies’s typescript: 41 pages. [grant] E91.3  11 June. Aldeburgh, England. Jubilee Hall. “The Prince of Hesse Memorial Lecture” later titled “Opera and Humour.” Printed as “Opera and Humour” in A73 and reprinted in A90 and A97. Davies’s typescript: 38 pages. [60/42] E92.1  13 February. Oakdale, Long Island, ny. Dowling College. “Dowling College Address.” Printed as “Convocation Address” in A89. Davies’s draft typescript: 5 pages. [87/12] E92.2  2 June. Stratford, on. Avon Theatre. Curtain speech after first performance of Elliott Hayes’s stage adaptation of World of Wonders. E92.3  14 June. Stratford, on. Avon Theatre, Stratford

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Festival. “Stratford Festival Lecture: World of Wonders.” Reported in D92.2. Revised and given again E92.5. Printed as “World of Wonders” in A89 and reprinted in A97. Davies’s typescript: 34 pages. [87/40] E92.4  18 June. St. Louis, mo. St. Louis Opera Festival. “For the St. Louis Opera Festival.” Printed as “Scottish Folklore and Opera” in A90. Davies’s typescript: 36 pages. [87/38] E92.5  19 July. Stratford, on. Avon Theatre, Stratford Festival. “Stratford Festival Lecture: World of Wonders.” A revised version of E92.3. Davies’s typescript: 34 pages. [87/40] E92.6  23 September. Toronto, on. Hart House Theatre, University of Toronto. The Third Annual Walter Gordon Memorial Lecture. “An Emerging North American Culture.” Reported in D92.3. Printed as “The Value of a Coherent Notion of Culture” in B64 and reprinted in A90 and A97. Davies’s typescript: 23 pages. [87/36] E92.7  25 November. Oxford, England. Balliol College, Oxford University. “St. Catherine’s Night: Balliol, 1992.” Davies’s typescript: 10 pages. [60/43] E93.1  20-1 April. Jerusalem, Israel. Jerusalem International Book Fair. Aspen Institute Forum. “Writer as Conscience of the World.” Read by Charles M. Firestone. See C93.2. Davies’s typescript: 3 pages. [60/44] E93.2  19 May. Peterborough, on. Theatre Ontario Festival 93. Speech at opening of Festival. Reported in D93. E93.3  27 May. Toronto, on. Upper Canada College. A Celebration for the 75th Anniversary of UCC’s Little Theatre. Speech at the 75th Anniversary Dinner. Mentioned in Vernon T. Mould, “Seventy-Five Years of Theatre,” Old Times (Upper Canada College, Toronto) (Summer 1993): 42. E93.4  28 May. Toronto, on. Metro Toronto Convention Centre. “An Introduction to the Twenty-First Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair.” Printed in A77. E93.5  2 June. Toronto, on. Edward Johnson Building. Seminar on Jezebel. Eric Goldschmidt chaired the session. Derek Holman and Davies answered questions. E93.6  11 July. Caledon East, on. The Jewisons’ farm. Speech on the occasion of Norman and Dixie Jewison’s 40th Wedding Anniversary.

Davies’s notes: 4 pages. [116/7] E93.7  17 July. Niagara-on-the-Lake, on. Shaw Festival. 1993 Shaw Seminar. “Melodrama” (about The Silver King by Henry Arthur Jones). Printed as “Melodrama: The Silver King” in A90 and reprinted in A97. Davies’s typescript: 34 pages. [87/44] E93.8  22 August. Stratford, on. Stratford Festival. “The Noble Greeks.” Printed in A90. Davies’s draft typescript: 18 pages. [87/46] E93.9  14 October. Toronto, on. Harbourfront. Tribute to Mavis Gallant. Davies’s typescript has no title. Printed as “Honouring Mavis Gallant” in A89. Davies’s typescript: 8 pages. [115/29] E93.10  27 October. Toronto, on. Toronto Arts Awards Ceremony. Presentation of “Lifetime Award” to Nicholas Goldschmidt. “Nicholas Goldschmidt.” Davies’s draft typescript: 1 page. [87/45] E93.11  4 November. Toronto, on. York Club. First Hungerford Dinner. Speech given as Guest of Honour. Davies’s typescript: 4 pages. [87/41] E93.12  11 November. Washington, dc. Cosmos Club. “The Peeled Eye.” A revision of E86.3. Printed with one major excision in A89. Davies’s draft typescript: 24 pages. [87/47] E93.13  14 November. Baltimore, md. Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Humanities Symposium: A View in Winter: The Art of Growing Old. “A View in Winter” but titled “Creativity in Old Age” in the Symposium program. Printed as “A View in Winter: Creativity in Old Age” in A89 and reprinted in A97. Davies’s draft typescript: 14 pages. [87/50] E93.14  22 November. New York, ny. Pierpont Morgan Library. “An Unlikely Masterpiece.” Printed in A89 and reprinted A96. Davies’s typescript: 23 pages. [87/49] E94.1  14 May. Chicago, il. Loyola University Chicago. Convocation. “The Best I Have to Give.” Davies’s typescript: 9 pages. [87/13] E94.2  10 July. Stratford, on. Stratford Festival. Celebrated Writers Series. “Lewis Carroll in the Theatre.” Excerpted as “The Looking Glass Life of Lewis Carroll” in C94.6, printed as “Lewis Carroll in the Theatre” in A90, and reprinted in A97. Davies’s typescript: 33 pages. [88/1] E94.3  23 October. Vancouver, bc. The Duthie Lecture. “The Fiction of the Future.” Repeated in E95.1



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and E95.2. Reported in D95, printed as “Fiction of the Future” in A89, and reprinted in A97. Davies’s typescript: 27 pages. [87/53] E94.4  26 November. Toronto, on. Royal Conservatory of Music. Honorary Fellow. “The Royal Conservatory.” Printed as “My Musical Career” in A90 and reprinted in A97. Davies’s typescript: 3 pages. [88/3] E95.1  17 January. Seattle, wa. 5th Avenue Theater. Seattle Arts and Lectures. “The Fiction of the Future.” A repetition of E94.3. Reported in D95. Davies’s typescript: 27 pages. [87/53] E95.2  21 February. Teaneck, nj. Farley Dickinson University. “The Fiction of the Future.” A repetition of E94.3.

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E95.3  9 May. New York, ny. Pierpont Morgan Library. Honorary Fellow. “How to Be a Collector without Having the Wealth of a J.P. Morgan.” Printed as “How to Be a Collector” in A90 and reprinted in A96. Davies’s typescript: 20 pages. [88/6] E95.4  13 June. Toronto, on. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. Party. Extempore tribute to Avie Bennett who had received an Honorary Degree from the University of Toronto that afternoon. E95.5  7 November. Toronto, on. University of Toronto. East Hall, University College. Service of Thanksgiving for the Life of Robert Finch. “A Brief Memorial Tribute to Robert Finch.” Professor Ann Saddlemyer read this tribute, as Davies was ill. Davies’s typescript: 3 pages. [88/7]

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F48  “Playwright Sees Canadian Plays Akin to Russian,” Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 7 December 1948, p. 3. Interview, with quotations, that took place when Davies attended the K-W Little Theatre’s production of his play Fortune, My Foe in Kitchener on 6 December. Davies opined that the great Canadian play has not yet been written, that Canadian plays “will be more like the great plays of pre-revolutionary Russia and Sweden rather than England or the United States,” and that “Canada has a psychology of its own … We are essentially gloomy and introspective people.” F50  Hilda Kirkwood, “Robertson Davies,” Canadian Forum 30, no. 353 (June 1950): 59-60. Kirkwood describes Davies’s office but gives no details as to when her presumed interview with him took place. She provides a biographical portrait of Davies which records his opinions about the consumption of food (“I am rarely anywhere that I am not out-eaten two to one by little skinny men”), drink (“I could not possibly hold as much drink as most of the Methodist deacons and Presbyterian elders whom I meet socially”), and his civic duties (“I am in no sense in competition with the city’s larger industries, and am perfectly happy to do what the Mayor tells me”). The story of Davies enjoying frogs’ legs is presented as a “whopper.” F51  John Paterson, “Canadian Opinion Divided on Question of Theatre Need,” Ottawa Journal, 6 January 1951, p. 10. In this article, Paterson quotes responses by a number of Canadian theatrical personalities whom he interviewed about an idea floated by the New Zealand-born novelist and theatrical producer Ngaio Marsh. She had proposed the formation of a professional theatre company with actors drawn from and playing to Commonwealth countries. Davies is quoted as saying: “We shall never have theatre in Canada if we are going to wait until suitable theatres of the 19th-century type are built in every city in Canada. A British Commonwealth theatre company would have to come to this country prepared to play under

all sorts of circumstances ... and it would have to adapt itself to all sorts of conditions.” Ellipsis in the original. F52  June Callwood, “The Beard,” Maclean’s 65, no. 6 (15 March 1952): 16-17, 30-3. A biographical sketch of Davies. No place and time of an interview are given. The article contains second-hand quotations from acquaintances about why Davies lives in Canada and his direction of the Merry Wives of Windsor. Davies is also quoted about his wife and his beard (p. 33). F57  Lloyd Lockhart, “No Punches Pulled: Blasts from the Sage,” Toronto Star Weekly Magazine, 11 May 1957, pp. 2-4. This interview article includes second-hand quotations from Davies’s Marchbanks columns. The interview proper, which was presented as a series of questions and answers, produced quotations about: Canada’s need for individualists and a better system of education; his hope that Canada become an intelligent conciliator internationally; his hates and enthusiasms; the ten books he’d advise a young person to read; modern movies; television; rock’n’roll; modern writing; a pleasant social occasion; what he’d do if he had only six months to live; whether he regrets things he has written or said; the problem with modern parents; his favourite historical figures; leading personalities he admires; his philosophy of life; and the novel he is writing currently. F58  “Canada’s Bearded Bard Davies Writes for Star,” Toronto Star, 27 December 1958, pp. 1, 3. This article announces that Davies will begin a weekly column for the Star entitled “A Writer’s Diary.” Davies is quoted as being annoyed by younger writers who claim that they do not have enough time to set aside for writing. He comments on the writing of Fortune, My Foe and his plans for his next book A Voice from the Attic. He laments the pathetic nature of most books about marriage. In response to critics of A Mixture of Frailties he offers, “I’d like to have written [Nabokov’s] Lolita but I haven’t got it in me.” He also recalls receiving $50



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for having written the best poem in the College Times (Upper Canada College) and being commissioned by Michael Langham to write a scene for “The Merry Wives of Windsor” for performance at Stratford in 1956. “Nobody jumped up and shouted ‘fake! fake! fake!’ so I was quite delighted.” F59  Belief (Toronto: CBC, 1959). This pamphlet is an edited transcription of a one-hour program broadcast on the CBC Television Network, 5 March 1959, in the series Explorations. The subject of the program was religious belief. George Grant interviewed eight people separately, and their replies to questions were then meshed together for the program and the pamphlet. Davies’s comments appear on pages 5, 10-13, 16, 20-2, and 27. There is also a photograph of him and Grant on the verso of the pamphlet’s front cover. F60  Antony Ferry, “Book Out, Play Coming: 12,000 Words Every Week Robertson Davies Average,” Toronto Star, 15 October 1960, p. 21. Conducted as Davies’s essay collection A Voice from the Attic was published and his play “Love and Libel” started its pre-Broadway tryout in Toronto, the interview focused on Davies’s demanding schedule, quoting him directly on criticism, Canada, “Love and Libel,” and his work as a playwright. F61  “Examiner Editor Appointed Master of Toronto College for Learned,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 February 1961, pp. 1-2. In this interview, Davies is quoted and summarized. He reassures Examiner readers that he wouldn’t be leaving Peterborough for at least a year, the Examiner would be left in good hands, and he would then write for it whenever he was able. Speaking about his new role as Master of Massey College, he says that he sees Massey College as a place that would counter the isolation of graduate students by bringing them into contact with students and professors in other disciplines and with professionals from the community at large. He foresees little time for his own writing during his first two or three years as full-time Master. The article concludes with an account of Davies’s life to that point. F62.1  Eric Moon, “WLB Biography: Robertson Davies,” Wilson Library Bulletin 36, no. 6 (February 1962): 443. A short biographical sketch of Davies which concludes with the sentences: “Davies is a liberal, ‘loathes’ sports, hobbies and travel, and loves ‘music, theatre, food and drink.’ He says: ‘The legends that I am 1) very old, 2) very cranky, 3) very highbrow are only moderately true.’” In the article Davies is quoted: “My idols ... are all Brazen Calves for any help they have been to me.” Moon presumably interviewed Davies but he gave no details of that.

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F62.2  Leon de March, “Libraries are ‘Tyrants’ Says Canadian Author,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 December 1962, p. 5. Interviews with Davies, Pierre Berton, Robert Porter (Peterborough’s Chief Librarian) and D.J. Hynes, Superintendent for the Public Schools and Chairman of the Library Board, about the “adverse impact of the public library service on the Canadian author’s income.” Davies is quoted as saying that authors “ought to be compensated.” F63.1  Ron Poulton, “Massey College Won’t Be Rich Man’s Club,” Toronto Telegram, 19 January 1963, p. [29]. Interviewed in his office in Peterborough, Davies dispels several rumours about the purpose of Massey College — that it will be very English in character, an institution for academic snobs and the well-to-do, etc. He also discusses various aspects of education (including the limited usefulness of examinations). F63.2  Beatrice Riddell, “Massey College to Nurture Society,” Financial Post, 19 January 1963, p. 36. This article on the establishment of Massey College is based on an interview with Davies. He is quoted extensively about the function of the college in the academic life of the university and its role within the broader community. F63.3  “Q. and A. on Massey College,” University of Toronto Staff Bulletin (February 1963): 8-9. A series of questions about the building and function of Massey College with answers provided by Davies. F63.4  Ralph Hancox, “An Editor, His Newspaper, Its Community: ‘An editor’s job is not to do other people’s chores,’” Peterborough Examiner, 8 June 1963, p. 4. Interview about Peterborough and the city’s newspaper, in which Davies also spoke about Canada and Canadians. Reprinted (carelessly) as “An Editor, His Newspaper, Its Community” in F89.1. F64.1  “... Of Cabbages and Bells,” Varsity (University of Toronto) 83, no. 44 (27 January 1964): 1. Report, with quotations from an interview with Davies, about threads and sealing wax and bells, the first two installed on fire doors and the last rung to warn female visitors at Massey that the time for departure had arrived. The problem concerned the use of fire doors for late departures. Ellipsis in title. F64.2  David Cobb, “Theatre Lectureship for Robertson Davies,” Toronto Star, 20 June 1964, p. 23. Occasioned by Davies’s appointment as the University of Toronto’s Edgar Stone Lecturer in Dramatic Literature — “the first such lectureship at a Canadian university” — the interview took place at Stratford, where Davies was attending the Stratford Festival openings.

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His comments about the history of the Edgar Stone lectures and the focus of the graduate course he is to teach as the Stone lecturer are summarized and quoted. F64.3  Herbert Whittaker, “Davies’ New Drama Chair No Campus Breakthrough,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 17 October 1964, p.13. Interview in Davies’s office at Massey College on 15 October about Davies’s newly assumed post as Edgar Stone Lecturer in Dramatic Literature at the University of Toronto, with several long quotations. Davies explains what he hopes to accomplish in this new position (“‘What I am giving is a history of theatre — from the dramatic, not the literary point of view’”), and emphasizes the need for the University of Toronto to recognize the importance of theatre in a rounded education. F65  Barbara Moon, “The Massey Experiment,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 13 November 1965, (“Globe Magazine” sec.), pp. 14-16, 32-3. Article about the ideas guiding life at Massey College and about media interest in minor internal tiffs. Includes quotations by Davies culled from earlier media pieces about the college and his role in it, and from a brief interview with Moon in which he observes that “The college is evolving more rapidly than I thought it would.” F67.1  Herbert Whittaker, “What’s All This Fuss Next Week about Canadian Plays and Playwrights?” Toronto Globe and Mail, 11 March 1967, p. 24. For this article about the upcoming Central Ontario Drama Festival, a festival of original Canadian plays, Whittaker interviewed each of the playwrights, concluding with a long quotation from an interview with Davies about the nature of the plays and his role as adjudicator. F67.2  C.P. Snowland, “A Day in the Life of a University,” Maclean’s 80, no. 11 (November 1967): 16. Snowland interviews “the Master” in his office at Massey College about his activities that day and the next. Includes several quotations. The interview with Davies was one of a series that Maclean’s conducted that day with a wide range of individuals at the University of Toronto. F68  Dubarry Campau, “The Book Lovers,” Toronto Telegram, 27 January 1968, p. 51. Article on book collecting, based on interviews with four Torontonians: Hugh Morrison (public relations director of the United Appeal), Estelle Fox (employee of The Old Favourites Book Store), Mrs. H.A. Livingston (custodian of her late husband’s extensive library), and Davies. Davies spoke about his collection of plays and books about the theatre.

F69  McKenzie Porter, “I Take Dinner at Massey College,” Toronto Telegram, 11 February, 1969, p. 41. In the course of describing a high table evening at Massey College, Porter quotes Davies explaining to him, “with a mingling of defiance and apology” why Massey has such traditions: “We only put on this thing for fun. It’s a sort of hankering for tradition. Vincent Massey liked a bit of show. He never really forgot, you know, his days at Balliol.” F70.1  “Prof. Robertson Davies: Courteous Conservative,” Toronto Telegram, 24 September 1970, p. 23. Interview about Davies as author and professor, his basing himself in Canada, modern life, his avocations, his idea of a perfect holiday, his preference for pattern in daily life, his rebellion against accepted ideas, individuals he admires, and his children. Reprinted in F89.1. F70.2  Dubarry Campau, “There’s Magic in Davies’ Fifth Business,” Toronto Telegram, 28 October 1970, p. 58. This interview, which took place in Davies’s office at Massey College, concerns interests that he wove into his recently published novel Fifth Business, and other aspects of the novel. Includes quotations. F70.3  “Profile: Robertson Davies,” Quill & Quire 36, no. 17 (6 November 1970): 4. No place or time for the interview is given. The quotations may have been taken from previously published sources. Subjects include: the radio, Canadians, writers and writing, and marriage. F70.4  John Richmond, “Writer Must Ignore Critics,” Montreal Star, 10 December 1970, p. 34. Interviewed in Montreal during the promotional tour for Fifth Business, Davies is quoted about his first piece of published prose, his habits as a writer, critics, Canadian publishing, and his opposition to writers receiving Canada Council grants. F70.5  Adrian Waller, “Author Robertson Davies: An Honest Exponent of His Art,” Montreal Gazette, 12 December 1970, p. 37, Davies is interviewed at lunch in a restaurant. He is quoted on writing and writers, titles, critics, and the Canada Council. Re Fifth Business he says: “I have faith in it. I hope people will find it interesting.” Reprinted as “A Long Writing Career Began with a Paragraph,” Ottawa Journal, 26 December 1970, p. 7 and as “Robertson Davies: An Honest Exponent of His Art,” Hamilton Spectator, 9 January 1971, p. 28. F71.1  Peter Sypnowich, “The Book Page: Toronto Author: Writers Shouldn’t Write for Money,” Toronto Star, 23 January 1971, p. 59. Davies is interviewed at Massey College. The interview takes the form of questions and answers on being surprised, social change, Fifth



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Business, his novels and plays, money, poetry in Canada, Canadian newspapers, education, United States, sex in literature, guilt, evil, magic, and mystery. F71.2  John Cunningham, “College Master Looks at His World, Author Davies Finds Youth Little Changed,” Montreal Gazette, 23 March 1971, p. 7. An interview for the Canadian Press, which took place in Davies’s office at Massey College, in which Davies is quoted on women’s liberation, abortion, religion, education, sex in entertainment, and the youth of today. The quotations are presented in capsule form, followed by lengthier comments on the same topics, as well as quotations about writing. Reprinted as: “Davies Finds Best-Seller List Nice Surprise,” Winnipeg Tribune, 27 March 1971, p. 25; “Robertson Davies, ‘A Man of Tolerance and Strong Principles,’” Kingston Whig Standard, 31 March 1971, p. 11; as “Massey College Master: ‘Youth The Same–Just More Fuss,’” Saint John (New Brunswick) Evening Times-Globe, 24 March 1971, pp. 8, 12; as “Canadians Aren’t Square or Dull, Says Author,” Vancouver Province, 2 April 1971, (“Spotlight” sec.), p. 28 and in F89.1. F71.3  Bruce Cook, “Wide, Wide World of Books: Mr. Davies Makes It on – Get This – Quality,” National Observer (Silver Springs, md), 29 March 1971, p. 21. Interview over lunch in New York, with quotations, shortly after the publication of Fifth Business. The quotations concern the way he prepares to write a novel, his failure as a playwright, meeting his wife Brenda at the Old Vic, their marriage, and their involvement with Massey College. F71.4  B[arbara] A. B[annon], “Authors & Editors,” Publishers Weekly 199, no. 14 (5 April 1971): 21-3. This interview occurred after Fifth Business became a best seller. Davies is quoted on American cultural influence, Americans teaching in Canadian universities, his university teaching, American students in Canada, young Canadian writers, Morley Callaghan, the literary situation in Canada, his own roots and place in Canadian literature, and government grants to writers. On the latter subject he states: “One thing I am very proud of ... is the fact that I have never received any kind of handout or grant. Any awards I got came along after I was well and truly started. When I look at the government of my country I would rather die than accept money from it.” F71.5  Douglas Marshall, “The Merlin of Massey College,” Books in Canada Introductory edition (May 1971): 4, 28. Davies is quoted in this interview on being compared to other authors, the Canadian book world, readers, librarians, and photocopying. (Note

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that Books in Canada officially began publication with vol. 1, no. 1 in July 1971.) Reprinted in F89.1. F72.1  Alexander Ross, “The Master Who’s a Servant of His Fate,” Toronto Star, 26 January 1972, p. 45. Interviewed in his office at Massey College, Davies is quoted about destiny and fate, and about the value of a sense of form and order. Reprinted in Massey College Bull 1, no. 3 (February 1972): [3]. F72.2  “Massey College Is a Quiet Spot in Bustling Midtown Toronto,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 June 1972, p. 13. This Canadian Press article raises sexism and opulence as current criticisms of Massey College, and then quotes Davies’s rebuttal of such allegations. Reprinted as John LeBlanc, “Robertson Davies Current Master, Massey College Unique in Canada with Students from Around World,” Oshawa Times, 3 June 1972, p. 4. F72.3 Peter C. Newman, “The Master’s Voice,” Maclean’s 85, no. 9 (September 1972): 42-3. Davies is interviewed at Massey College. Following a preamble by Newman, fourteen quotations from Davies are presented concerning: the effect of the Norman invasion on women’s rights, old fogies, Canada Council authors and grants, living in Canada, happiness, architects, print vs. television / theatre, pornography, sainthood, England, America and France, and the Canadian identity. Reprinted as “The Table Talk of Robertson Davies” in A55. F72.4  Jamie Craig, “‘Good or Bad, I Can’t Be Ignored’: Davies Warns Writers of Despair,” Vancouver Sun, 24 November 1972, p. 32. Interviewed while in Vancouver to promote sales of The Manticore, Davies is quoted about his place in Canadian literature, despair as a dangerous trend in Canadian writing, Irving Layton’s libido, growing old, and Canadian nationalism. F72.5  “Davies Is Supple and Unerring,” Hamilton Spectator, 25 November 1972, p. 28. After a reading at the Burlington Central Library on a “recent Wednesday evening,” Davies was interviewed about his writing routine and the possibility of a third novel approaching the same material as Fifth Business and The Manticore from a different perspective. With regard to writing, he says that he wrote for three hours every day without fail and didn’t wait for “inspiration,” as “a professional writer is one who writes.” With regard to a third novel, he “smiled enigmatically.” F72.6  Ray Chatelin, “Personality: Failure Cult Developing Says Davies,” Vancouver Province, 1 December 1972, (“Spotlight” sec.), p. 5. Interviewed while in Vancouver promoting The Manticore, Davies is quoted on the difficulties playwrights have in getting their work produced, the happier situation for novelists in

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getting their work published, his disapproval of government grants and granting agencies, and his lack of concern about foreign control of publishing in Canada. F73.1  [Silver] Donald Cameron, “Robertson Davies: The Bizarre and Passionate Life of the Canadian People,” Conversations with Canadian Novelists: Part One (Toronto: Macmillan, 1973), pp. 30-46. Interview conducted in Davies’s study at Massey College on 9 November 1971. Davies spoke about Canadian cultural tradition and the Salterton novels, parallels between situations in Ibsen and Chekhov and Canada, his reading of Freud and Jung, the bizarre and passionate life of the Canadian people, the background of Fifth Business, and his being a man of intuition and feeling, Canadian, and an artist. Excerpted in “Robertson Davies,” Canada Today / D’Aujourd’hui (The Canadian Embassy Office of Information in Washington) 6, no. 1 (January 1975): 2-3, and as “Speaking of Identity” in James Foley ed., The Search for Identity (Toronto: Macmillan, 1976), pp. 95-6 and. Reprinted in F89.1. F73.2  Martha MacGregor, “The Week in Books,” New York Post 172, no. 42 (6 January 1973): 35. Davies is quoted on “liking all the work connected with writing,” enjoying being called “Dickensian,” how best to read books, and writing not being learned in courses. This interview occurred shortly after the American publication of The Manticore and appeared on the same page as a series of excerpts from reviews of that novel. F73.3  Zena Cherry, “After a Fashion: Wells Made Official Massey Visitor,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 30 January 1973, p. 11. In a column on several subjects, among them Chief Justice Dalton C. Wells’s five-year appointment as Visitor to Massey College, Cherry quotes Davies’s explanation of what a Visitor is at considerable length. F73.4  Patrick Scott, “Public Is Behind Robertson Davies Even if the Literary Mafia is Not,” Toronto Star, 3 February 1973, p. 81. The time and place of the interview are not given. Davies is quoted on being regarded as a dilettante and his writing schedule. F73.5  Dusty Vineberg, “Devil’s Advocate,” Montreal Star, 3 February 1973, p. C7. Davies is quoted on Dickens, Presbyterianism, succeeding as a writer, his marriage and children, women (their education and motherhood), Jung and Freud, The Manticore, and not taking government grants. F73.6  Ron Base, “He’s a Master ... of Many Things,” Windsor Star, 17 February 1973, p. 36. An interview

with Davies at Massey College shortly after the publication of The Manticore. Davies discusses, with many long quotations, the character of Boy Staunton in Fifth Business, the consequences of actions, his own childhood, his satiric comments about Canadian women, whether he is an old-fashioned novelist, his identification with Canada, writing for a newspaper, and his success as a novelist. Base portrays him as a wizard who also happens to be a snob. He cites F52, which detailed Davies’s snobbery. Note: ellipsis is in the original. F73.7  Jonathan Manthorpe, “Book Commission Wants Sales Tax on Magazines: ‘It’ll Be Useful,’ Publisher Says,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 23 February 1973, p. 15. In a long account of the fifth and final report of the Royal Commission on Book Publishing, Manthorpe, who interviewed Davies, quotes him on several points, among them that the Commission’s recommendations will not “bring forward any more good writing than there is at present.” F73.8  Renée Heatherington and Gabriel Kampf, “Acta Interviews Robertson Davies,” Acta Victoriana 97, no. 2 (April 1973): 68-87. Interview in Davies’s office at Massey College on 28 February 1973. About magic, writing, characters (their names, connection with real people, and invention of), writers he admires, his interest in drama and music and in Freud and Jung, Canadian literature, and Jung’s (and his) view of women. Reprinted in F89.1. F73.9  Herbert Whittaker, “Those Theatre Perils Are Tempting Davies Again,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 12 May 1973, p. 27. Whittaker interviews Davies, who had turned away from playwriting to the writing of novels, at a time when a number of opportunities are tempting him to give his energies to the theatre once again. He is quoted about the searing experience of the Broadway failure of his play “Love and Libel” and about the offer of a commission to write a new play for the St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto. Whittaker also includes quotations from a letter that Davies wrote to him from Detroit in fall 1960 when he was en route to New York with “Love and Libel.” F73.10  Geoffrey James, “Letters: Mystic of Massey College,” Time (Canada) 101, no. 21 (21 May 1973): 9. Article about Davies’s career, which is salted with quotations from an interview regarding productivity in maturity, the Governor General’s Award, cultural grants, misconceptions about Massey College, and being Canadian. F73.11  Herbert Whittaker, “Fresh Foray for Davies Play,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 9 October 1973, p. 15. In-



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terview, with quotations, about Davies’s play Leaven of Malice, which was in rehearsal, under the direction of Martin Hunter, at Hart House, University of Toronto. This was a version of “Love and Libel,” the adaptation of Davies’s novel Leaven of Malice that flopped on Broadway. Davies observes: “I have rewritten a lot and restored a lot that was left out of the original production … We have made it more of a newspaper story, as it was in the book.” F73.12  Urjo Kareda, “Robertson Davies Enjoying Continuous Rediscovery,” Toronto Star, 13 October 1973, p. F3. An interview with Davies after Kareda had seen the production of Leaven of Malice at the Hart House Theatre in Toronto. Davies is quoted about the various stage adaptations of his novel and about his work as a playwright. F73.13  Gordon Elliot, “A Conversation with Robertson Davies,” Massey College Bull 3, no. 1 (November 1973): [1], 4, 7. An interview focussed on Massey College — “the Founders and his own concept of it, the relationship between Junior and Senior Fellows, and the entrance of women.” F74.1  Herbert Whittaker, “A Davies Return to the Stage? No, Just a Voice Off Bit,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 15 January 1974, p. 12. Davies is quoted on his memories of his acting days in England, and about playing the Great Boyg in the upcoming production of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt at Hart House in the University of Toronto. As indicated by the title, Whittaker spoke with Davies concerning a possible return to the stage. F74.2  Tom Harpur, “Author Says the Messiah Could Be a Woman,” Toronto Star, 16 February 1974, p. F5. The article takes the form of a transcription of Harpur’s questions and Davies’s responses on his own religious beliefs, theology, evil, the devil, human sexuality, women, Jesus, the good life, meditation, and the clergy. Reprinted as “A Talk with Tom Harper” in A55a and F89.1. F74.3  Trish Crawford, “Famous Authors Suggest Good Vacation Reading,” Toronto Star, 22 June 1974, p. G7. Davies is one of seven Canadian authors Crawford interviewed. He recommends Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit (“It’s hilarious and one of his best novels ... Its anti-Americanism is just the thing for anti-American people these days as well.”) and Margaret Laurence’s Stone Angel (“one of the best Canadian novels in the past 10 years”). F74.4  “The Domicile for U of T’s Elite,” Grad Post (University of Toronto) 2, no. 3 (3 October 1974): 4. This article, which ranges over issues related to Massey

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ary 1975, p. 47. In his account of this interview, Cohen quotes Davies about his career and life, Question Time, Fifth Business, and his recurring exploration of spiritual force, among other things. This article was written for Southam News Service. Reprinted as “The Profits and Pleasures of Being Robertson Davies,” Ottawa Citizen, 1 March 1975, p. 65; condensed as “Master of Massey Comes on Strong: A Literary Lion Roars Anew,” Vancouver Province, 27 February 1975, p. 27; as “Robertson Davies: Canada’s Most Controversial Man of Letters,” Edmonton Journal, 1 March 1975, p. 21; and as “Robertson Davies: Master of the Intellect,” Windsor Star, 1 March 1975, p. 48.

career, and is enlivened with quotations from an interview with Davies about the place of sex in novels, being a Virgo, his mother, his life, editing a paper in a small city, the Governor General’s award, and his love of practical jokes. A section entitled “Conversations with Robertson Davies,” presents a series of quotations drawn from three interviews with Time, about politics, youth, education, human growth, religion, magic, the pioneer spirit, Canadian writers, and nationalism. Translated into German in H52. Note that the picture on page 11, captioned “With His Mother at Five Months,” is actually a picture of Davies’s mother and his older brother Arthur.

F75.6  David Schatzky, “Reviving the Magic of Theatre,” Quill & Quire (April 1975): 20. An interview with Davies when Question Time was in rehearsal at the St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto. He is quoted about the political aspects of the play, contemporary trends in theatre, and his support of the Writers’ Union of Canada.

F75.12  Marq de Villiers, “The Master’s World: And Those Who Cannot Sparkle Are Not Invited Again,” Toronto Globe and Mail, (“Weekend Magazine” sec.), 15 November 1975, pp. 8, 10, 12. A character study of Davies with quotations taken from an interview concerning many subjects: Clive Barnes’s review of Leaven of Malice as performed at the Shaw Festival, writing an autobiography, writing fiction, suffering fools, his wit, acting, Leo Simpson’s article in Quill & Quire, and remaking one’s character in later years.

F75.7  Sid Adilman, “Playwright Davies Enjoys a Good Year,” Toronto Star, 29 May 1975, p. E12. Interview with quotations about the revival of Davies’s play Hunting Stuart by Festival Lennoxville, the première of his new play, Question Time, at the St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto, and the Shaw Festival’s staging of Leaven of Malice. F75.8  Martin Knelman, “The Masterful Actor Who Plays Robertson Davies,” Saturday Night 90, no. 2 (June 1975): 30-5 (photo on p. 31). A portrait of Davies that includes quotations from an interview that took place in Davies’s office in Massey College. Davies comments on his schooling in Kingston and Oxford, editing the Peterborough Examiner, and his Canadian identity. He concludes the interview by saying: “People project on me their idea of what a high-toned writer should be ... Personally, I think it’s a lot of shit.” F75.9  “Trilogy Seen as Career Capper,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 October 1975, p. 3. Davies was interviewed, briefly, after reading from World of Wonders in the Wenjack Theatre, Trent University on 22 October 1975. He is quoted about several aspects of World of Wonders and Canadian literature. F75.10  Margaret Drury Gane, “Do You Use Real People in Your Fiction?” Saturday Night 90, no. 6 (November 1975): 39-43. Davies is quoted on p. 41, one of nine writers surveyed by Gane for their opinions. F75.11  [Peter Rehak and Beverley Slopen], “The Myth and the Master,” Time (Canada) 106, no. 18 (3 November 1975): 8-12. The article traces Davies’s

F75.13  Tom Harpur, “You Should Face Up to Your Death, Says Author,” Toronto Star, 15 November 1975, p. B8. This interview was conducted shortly after the publication of World of Wonders. It takes the form of a transcription of Harpur’s questions and Davies’s responses on death and immortality, with references to C.G. Jung. Reprinted in F89.1. F75.14  Lorne Parton, “[Untitled Column],” Vancouver Province, 19 November 1975, p. 31. In this account of an interview with Davies, Parton provides quotations about the difference between university students nowadays and those in the late 60s, hypocrisy, not having time to read, Canadianism, and drama. F75.15  Alek de March, “Happy Robertson Davies Grows Better with Years,” Victoria Daily Colonist, 28 November 1975, p. 30. An interview with Davies in his hotel room at The Empress, following his public reading of World of Wonders at the University of Victoria. The interviewer, who attended the reading, quotes from Davies’s introductory remarks on the “bizarre and passionate life of the Canadian people.” In the interview Davies discusses a range of issues such as socialized democracy, his contact with people, his literary recognition, and his interests (theatre-going, gardening, and tree planting). F75.16  Linda Matchan, “Davies: Wit, Wisdom and Opinion,” Winnipeg Tribune, 22 November 1975, p.



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6. An interview with Davies during his promotional tour of World of Wonders. The interview was held at the Tribune’s offices on Thursday evening, 20 November. Davies dismisses “fathead” critics and “dumb bunny” nationalists, who criticize his work for not being sufficiently Canadian. With respect to professors and writers who attempt to scrutinize his novels for an underlying meaning, he sums up their efforts as “rubbish.” F75.17  Catherine Carson, “Writing’s Always Been Part of Robertson Davies Life,” Edmonton Journal, 29 November 1975, p. 82. A rambling interview in which Davies discusses writing, his rejection when he tried to enlist during World War II, Jungian analysis, his opposition to radical feminism, and feminine and masculine qualities. F75.18  Tom Oleson, “With a Persuasive Vision of the Canadian Identity: The Master of Massey College,” Winnipeg Free Press, 6 December 1975, p. 43. Oleson introduces his account of his interview with Davies by discussing the way Davies is perceived. He paraphrases, with an admixture of quotation, Davies’s opinions about Canadians. F76.1  “Looking Ahead from ’75,” Time (Canada) 107, no. 1 (5 January 1976): 9-10. Davies was one of six prominent Canadians asked to forecast events in 1976. Davies is quoted at some length. He foresees that restraints will be imposed, that there will be turbulence, though “It may not be all bleak. A national spirit is forged in war or by social uproar and unrest. It may finally pull us together — but it won’t be next year.” He sees “no real alternative to the present Government,” but is encouraged that allocations for research in science and the humanities were not cut: “It is a sign that Canada is growing up intellectually.” F76.2  Howard Kissel, “Robertson Davies in the Age of Myths,” Women’s Wear Daily 132, no. 93 (12 May 1976): 100. After introducing Davies and the novels of the Deptford trilogy, Kissel quotes him on the difference between Jungian and Freudian analyses, about people adoring heroes and greatness, on myths, and on Canada’s lack of myths. F76.3  Louise Lague, “Making Most of Myth, Mysticism,” Vancouver Province, 29 June 1976, p. 11. Interview (copyrighted to the Washington Star) about the 20th century as an age of superstition, the yearning for marvels, the Catholic Church’s expansion of the Trinity to include the Virgin Mary, and heroes. Reprinted in F89.1. F76.4  John Barkham, “A View of Robertson Davies,”

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Ottawa Citizen, 7 July 1976, p. 31. Datelined from New York. An interview in which Davies talks about his career and Canadian literature. He states that the Deptford trilogy was not planned to be a trilogy. He remarks that critics “think I’m an absolute monster because my books reflect European and American influences. I’m what they call a colonialist writer ... they think a writer who gets published outside Canada is not really a Canadian writer. I’m not prepared to agree with them.” Barkham is listed as a special correspondent for the Citizen. F77.1  Doris Hopper, “Dear Diary, Their Innermost Secrets, They Divulge Only to You,” Toronto Star, 14 February 1977, p. D1. An article about private diaries and what they can reveal. Davies admits that he has kept a diary since the age of fourteen. He is quoted on making diary entries every morning as “a record of details to refer back to and of personal events I might like to reflect on later in life.” He advises the reader not to keep love letters and never to record such information in a diary. He thinks he will burn his diaries, which are currently kept hidden. F77.2  John Fraser, “Davies and His Revenge Therapy,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 5 March 1977, p. 37. An interview with Davies when he had finished writing his play, “Pontiac and the Green Man.” Much of the article concerns Davies’s dislike of dismissive criticism. He is quoted on the folly of writing for patriotic reasons and refers to problems connected with staging “a play for the Centennial” [i.e. the Centennial Spectacle], an event that was cancelled by “an official in the Public Works Department ... because the construction of the special stage and bleachers was going to interfere with its plans for the Queen’s arrival on Parliament Hill.” F77.3  “Canadian Writer Says Links with Great Britain ‘Now Rags,’” Edmonton Journal, 12 October 1977, p. 81. The interview, which took place while Davies was in New York to lecture to the C.G. Jung Foundation, focuses on the changing status of Quebec within Canada’s Confederation: “I am in favor of doing all that we can to preserve their language and their culture, but it’s always a delaying action. It’s not a thing which is going to work forever, and they know it.” F78.1  Tim Heald, “Literary Gent, Canadian Style,” London Daily Telegraph, 24 June 1978, p. 14. This dismissive article about Davies’s education and work as a journalist, as Master of Massey College, and as a writer is salted with many brief quotations from an interview. F78.2  “People,” Maclean’s 91, no. 26 (6 November 1978): [42]-43. Among the snippets of gossip included

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here is one concerning an encounter between Davies and the director Roderick Cook in “the master’s private chambers at the University of Toronto.” Davies signed first editions of his six novels, and when Cook said that he was the “unofficial president of the Robertson Davies fan club — New York chapter,” Davies is quoted as saying: “Only a chapter? Couldn’t you make it a volume?” F79.1  Peter Gault, “The Notorious Wit of Fifth Business, Robertson Davies: Part I,” Ontarion (Guelph and Oakville) 68, no. 6 (13 February 1979): 21; Gault, “Robertson Davies: Part II,” Ontarion (Guelph and Oakville) 68, no. 7 (20 February 1979): 21. The interview took place in Davies’s Massey College Office. In the first part of the interview Davies answers questions about his own university days, writing novels, astrology, mythology, and the Canadian climate. In the second part he discusses his views on religion, women’s equality, children, drama, the meaning of life, mysticism and superstition, and the role of the university in the development of human beings. F79.2  Judy Robinson and Bruce Meyer, “Interview with Robertson Davies,” University of Toronto Review 3 (Spring 1979): 3. In the interview Davies discusses his views on the theatre, Freud and Jung, and his writing. F79.3  Judith Finlayson, “The Master of the Unseen World,” Quest: Canada’s Urban Magazine 8, no. 4 (June/July/August 1979): T2, T4-6. This article, which is a portrait of Davies as an artist and academic, quotes Davies’s opinions on a variety of topics, among them social functions held at Massey College and the lives of writers. F80.1  Natalie Cooke and Beth McKenzie, “Homecoming for Robertson Davies,” Queen’s Journal 107, no. 39 (15 February 1980): 11. This interview by two Queen’s students took place in the Leonard Penthouse. Davies is quoted on writing, Hugh MacLennan, being Canadian, Canadians, and rhetoric. F80.2  Bill Reid, “Davies Remembers Odd Characters of His Second-Favourite City,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 15 February 1980, p. 18. About Davies’s views of Kingston when he was a boy, especially the characters he remembered. F80.3  Elina MacNiven, “Uncovering Canada’s Secrets,” Toronto Globe and Mail (“Broadcast Week Magazine” sec.), 23 February 1980, p. 11. Davies is interviewed at Massey College one winter morning. He is quoted on secrets, the nature of Canadians, the Deptford trilogy, and incest.

F80.4 Marjorie Dunsmuir, “Robertson Davies: A Conversation with the Master,” Varsity (University of Toronto) 100, no. 53 (27 February 1980): 8-9. Interview re Davies’s years as a student at Oxford and with the Old Vic, journalism, the bizarre and passionate life of the Canadian people, changes in Canadian readers since he was a boy, Canadian writers, writers in general, the board of the Stratford Festival, Freud and Jung, good and evil, and teaching. F80.5  Alan Twigg, “Canada’s Man of Letters: Robertson Davies and the World of Wonders,” Vancouver Free Press, 28 February-5 March 1980, pp. 10-11. Transcription of an interview conducted at Massey College, in which Davies responds to a series of questions concerning humour, Puritanism in our age, psychiatry, the nature of evil, Canadian education, art, theatre, and writing. Reprinted as “World of Wonders,” in Twigg, For Openers: Conversations with 24 Canadian Writers (Madiera Park, bc: Harbour Publishing, 1981), pp. 31-44; and in Twigg, Strong Voices: Conversations with 50 Canadian Authors (Madeira Park, bc: Harbour Publishing, 1988), pp. 54-60; and in F89.1. F80.6  Barbara Cansino, “Davies on Daily Papers: Former Publisher Talks of Sports, Libel, Unions and Thomson,” Winnipeg Free Press, 22 November 1980, p. 47. Interview about independent newspapers in Canada, the most-read parts of a newspaper, the effect of unions on newspapers, and the impact of Thomson on the Peterborough Examiner. F81.1  Ann Saddlemyer, “A Conversation with Robertson Davies,” Canadian Drama 7, no. 2 (1981): 110-16. Davies was interviewed at Massey College. The article takes the form of questions and answers. The questions mainly concern Davies’s plays but there are some about his novels. Davies also replies to questions on Canadians vs. Americans, the Stratford Festival, and the Dominion Drama Festival. Reprinted in F89.1. F81.2  Helen Bullock, “The Master Leaves Massey: When Robertson Davies Bows out in June He’ll Be Saying Goodbye, He Says, to a College He Invented,” Toronto Star, 22 March 1981, pp. D1-2. Davies was interviewed at Massey College. There are many quotations concerning the College and his future plans. F81.3  Catherine Ford (Southam News), “Davies Raises Act III Curtain,” Windsor Star, 9 May 1981, p. E12. Davies was interviewed in his study at Massey College. He answered questions about the College and his role as Master, his life before he came to Massey, the many projects that will occupy his “retirement.” F81.4  Ron Watmough, “Author Here for Honorary



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Degree: Many Writers ‘Grant Seekers,’” Lethbridge Herald, 16 May 1981, p. B2. Interview the previous day, with quotations about writing and grants, inadequate teaching of history and grammar in high schools, socialism in Canada, education only for those who want to learn, need to support scientific research, capital punishment for “cold-blooded” murderers, assassination attempts on world leaders, more readers per capita in U.S. than in Canada, and Charles Dickens as his favourite author. F81.5  Tom Harpur, “Author Davies Puts ‘Inner Life’ Concerns First,” Toronto Star, 2 October 1981, pp. C1C2. Interview, at Massey College, takes the form of a series of questions and answers on success, Davies’s weaknesses, optimism, on being a religious person, God, his writing, stupidity, values, death, life after death, family life, sexuality, marriage, and Davies’s advice for young people. Reprinted in F89.1. F81.6  Barbara Amiel, “Fiction’s Brightest Season: The Fall Book Season Celebrates Canadian Literature’s Triumphant Coming of Age,” Maclean’s 94, no. 40 (5 October 1981): 40-4. Interview with Davies and many other writers such as Margaret Atwood and Constance Beresford-Howe. Davies says that in past years, writing in Canada was considered to be no more than “a hobby.” He laments the segregation of Canadian books in bookstores under the heading of Canadiana: “There you are ... your novel next to a book of 25 interesting things to do with maple sugar and a collection of cartoons from Maritime newspapers. I don’t know another country in the world, including Australia, that would dream of putting its own authors in a little section away from their international peers.” F81.7  Dennis Kucherawy, “Davies’ Beard Brings Recognition and Suffering: Renowned Canadian Writer Peeved When Inconsiderate Fans Fool with His Facial Hair,” Winnipeg Free Press, 1 December 1981, p. 27. Interview took place in a hotel restaurant and contains quotations on Davies’s beard, the pursuit of wisdom, critics, and the Canadian people. F81.8  Leslie Peterson, “Robertson the Rebel,” Vancouver Sun, 4 December 1981, p. E1. Interview took place at the Hotel Vancouver on 3 December. Includes quotations on the Canadian constitution, a review of The Rebel Angels in the Queen’s University student newspaper, and his future plans. F81.9  Brian Brennan, “Robertson Davies Shifts Focus from Theatre to Novels,” Calgary Herald, 5 December 1981, p. [D1]. Interview took place in the lobby of   the Delta Inn. Includes quotations on teaching people

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to write, theatre, and the nature of Canada and Canadians. F82.1  Jean Strouse, “The Inventor of Gods,” Newsweek 99, no. 6 (8 February 1982): 78-80. An interview with Davies at the York Club, and after lunch in his Massey College office, on the anticipated publication of the American edition of The Rebel Angels. There are several quotations in the article regarding: his second-century Gnostic ring; mathematics (“I was a noodle at math”); why many people in his books are motivated by spite; whether there will be a sequel to The Rebel Angels (“I seem to work in threes”); whether real-life colleagues took umbrage at his portraits in the book; and whether Davies had spent twenty years absorbing arcana in the university library. F82.2  Catherine L. Russell, “Robertson Davies, and Carl Jung: the Compleat Scholar,” Varsity (University of Toronto) 102, no. 50 (12 February 1982): 16-17. An interview, which took place in Davies’s office in Massey College, about Jung, his influence on Davies’s work, modern times, politics, and the possibility of the Deptford trilogy being made into a film. F82.3  William Littler, “Sage Puts Words into Mouths of Babes,” Toronto Star, 2 March 1982, p. F3. Sprightly account of an interview about Dr. Canon’s Cure, Davies’s opera for children, salted with brief quotations, about being a librettist, the role of the author during rehearsals, authors as directors, encores, characters in the opera, and writing for children. Reprinted in F89.1. F82.4  Terence M. Green, “TZ Interview: Robertson Davies: Beyond the Visible World: Canada’s Literary Magician Speaks His Mind on Ghost Fiction, Evil, and the Modern Age,” Twilight Zone, July 1982, pp.19-25. The interview took place in Davies’s office at Massey College. This thoughtful interview concerned Davies’s forthcoming collection of ghost stories High Spirits, ghost stories in general, the reality of evil, people’s hunger “for some kind of contact with a greater world than the one which they can immediately perceive,” capital punishment, Poe, Mervyn Peake, sin, consequences, fantasy films, writers and discontent, and the turning point in life. Reprinted as “Robertson Davies: Beyond the Visible World” in F89.1. F82.5  Larry Scanlan, “One Man’s Kingston,” Kingston Whig-Standard, (“Magazine” sec.), 6 November 1982, p. 28. Scanlan interviewed Davies while he was in Kingston for the filming of the BBC’s Authors and Places episode on him and his selected place. Davies is quoted on many subjects, among them his reaction to

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Anthony Burgess’s saying that he was Nobel material, his assessment of Kingston, Toronto, and Peterborough, his views on universities, and about humour. Reprinted in F89.1. F82.6  Terence M. Green, “Interview: Robertson Davies on the World of the Occult: ‘The Real Superstition Is Thinking That You Can Reject Things Unexamined,’” Books in Canada 11, no. 10 (December 1982): 24-6. Davies was interviewed in his office at Massey College about Paracelsus’s views, astrology (“Reading the stars is a way of making intuition take some kind of form in your head”), the insights of a teacup reader, the film Ghost Story, and the writer’s conscience. Reprinted as “Robertson Davies on the World of the Occult” in F89.1. F83  Jan Fitzpatrick, “They’re ‘Discovering’ Davies,” Rochester (ny) Times-Union, 25 April 1983, (“Upfront” sec.), pp. C1 and C3. Davies was in Rochester to read from The Rebel Angels. Embedded in this article, which concerns people “discovering” Davies and characteristics of his fiction, are quotations from Davies about Dickens, comedy, morality, university life, and the careful observation of life. F84.1  John Milton Harvard, “Dr. Robertson Davies,” Waves 12, no. 4 (Spring 1984): 5-9. Interview conducted in Davies’s office in Massey College. A scattershot interview of brief questions on unrelated topics, prompting brief answers. Reprinted in F89.1. F84.2  Tom O’Neill, Lakes, Peaks & Prairies: Discovering the United States-Canadian Border (Washington, dc: National Geographic Magazine, 1984). O’Neill interviewed Davies during his visit to Toronto. There are two excerpts from the interview: 1. “‘What makes us different is climate,’ he told me. ‘We don’t relate to the south like Americans, but to the north; and thus we are much more aware of climate. Canada is one of the few countries where the climate is positively dangerous; one can freeze to death not far out of Toronto. All this ends up making us more morose, more inward-turning, more melancholy. It makes us more like Scandinavians in nature than like the British or Americans’” (p. 11). 2. “I think Toronto is in its young adulthood as a world-class city ... It doesn’t have the richness and cultivation yet. But its intimacy has kept us from the rot of cities where a tremendous center is deserted at night — except for figures lurking in the shadows” (p. 75). F85.1  Bronwyn Drainie, “Profile: The Old Master,” Books in Canada 14, no. 6 (August-September 1985): 8-10, 12-13. Interview with Davies prior to the publica-

tion of What’s Bred in the Bone and The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks. Davies is quoted on book promotion, the need for privacy, the origins of his Marchbanks columns (a “weekly blowing off of steam”) and Marchbanks himself (a “man of fiercely disputatious character who has few friends”), his parents (“if I’d written anything that displeased them, believe me I’d have heard about it”), his mother’s health, and the “difficulty and indeed almost impossibility” of writing a biography of a living subject. F85.2  Larry Scanlan, “Lord of the Rings,” Kingston Whig-Standard, (“Magazine” sec.), 16 November 1985, p. 23. Interview in which Davies is quoted and paraphrased on a number of topics – his rings, humour, his patience, embalming, mythology, Darwinianism, Canadian and American culture, and journalism. F85.3  Ken Adachi, “Davies Shares His Sublime Sense of the Ridiculous,” Toronto Star, 17 November 1985, pp. G1, G11. Interview with Davies just before his cross-country promotional tour for The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks and What’s Bred in the Bone. Davies expresses his pleasure with the Canadian edition of the Papers, takes exception to the view that the characters in his fiction are unnecessarily grotesque or fantastic, and finds it unsettling that grant is writing his biography. F85.4  Kenneth McGoogan, “Canadian Literature Moving to Forefront: Davies,” Calgary Herald, 28 November 1985, p. F1. Having visited Italy a few weeks earlier and having attended a conference in Vienna the previous year, Davies is quoted on Canadian literature as being appreciated and studied in Europe and South America. Canadian writers, he believes, are “the northern conscience of the western world.” He claims that Canadian critics are prejudiced “against any novel which contains ideas.” He notes the influence of Jung “whose attitude is enormously enlarging” on his own writing. His comments on his writing techniques and his revision of drafts of a novel are paraphrased. F85.5  Leslie Peterson, “The Author Adamant, Robertson Davies Has Clear Views on the Writer’s Role,” Vancouver Sun, 28 November 1985, p. D13. Davies states that he has given up writing book reviews because he dislikes the role of judge. He discusses reading reviews of his own works and says that writing is difficult for him but very satisfying, nonetheless. The authors that he reads are “Dickens, Balzac, Tolstoy and Thomas Mann — Mann very much.” F85.6  Rebecca Wigod, “Robertson Davies, Thanks to the Memories, This Master Plotter Is As Sharp As Ever.



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As He Says, ‘I Take My Readers with Absolute Seriousness ... They Must Get Their Money’s Worth,’” Victoria Times-Colonist, 29 November 1985, p. C1. The interview was conducted just before Davies’s public reading of What’s Bred in the Bone at the University of Victoria on 26 November. Davies is quoted on non-writers’ lack of memory (“seem to have leaky ears”), John Cowper Powys, taking his readers seriously, how he writes, and naming characters. Two brief quotations from What’s Bred in the Bone are set off in boxes on either side of the interview. F85.7  Paul Gray, “New Men and Old Masters,” Time (Canada) 126, no. 22 (2 December 1985): 94, 96. This review of What’s Bred in the Bone is followed by an interview conducted by Peter Stoler. Davies is quoted on the hunger for marvels, recognition in Canada, the background of What’s Bred in the Bone, his country retreat, his Jungianism, his reading, and his daily work pattern. F85.8  Susan Sutton, “Entertainment: Robertson Davies: Humorist Speaks,” Gateway (University of Alberta), 3 December 1985, p. 10. A series of questions and answers in which Davies discusses the morose nature of Canadians, appreciation of Canadian literature on the part of Europeans, immigration, Mavis Gallant, the supernatural, the non-Canadian authors whose work he reads (including John Fowles, Anthony Powell, and Isaac Singer), the gloominess of modern authors, and the phoniness of writers who espouse professional unhappiness. The interview took place prior to the reading of What’s Bred in the Bone on 28 November. F85.9  Burt Heward, “Fighting Schoolboy Who Became a Master,” Ottawa Citizen, 7 December 1985, p. G3. In this interview conducted by the Citizen’s book editor during Davies’s promotional tour of The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks and What’s Bred in the Bone, Davies is quoted about his childhood in Renfrew, on. He is also quoted on several topics including his literary habits and the origins of some of the characters in his novel, and he muses about the nature of the Nobel Prize. F85.10  Leslie Peterson, “Books and Boards: Leisure’s List of Literary Gifts for Christmas,” Vancouver Sun, 14 December 1985, pp. B1, 3. Asked to recommend certain books as Christmas presents while he was in Vancouver, Davies told Peterson that he gives “away more of my books than I sell.” F85.11  James Adams, “Davies Scales New Plateaus of Acclaim,” Edmonton Journal, 15 December 1985, p. B8.

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Bred in the Bone, being named Robertson (after an uncle who contracted TB and then died after he had saved a girl from drowning), and book tours. F86.6  Peter Kemp, “Talking to a Shaman in WellPolished Brogues,” London Independent, 9 October 1986, p. 14. A rambling interview with Davies during the Booker Prize competition, in which he discusses Canada’s relationship with the United States, his parents and childhood, writing plays in Canada (“rather like growing oranges” in Canada, never very fruitful), and his lack of recognition in Great Britain. F86.7  Larry Scanlan, “Agonizingly Close, Davies Finishes Second in Booker Prize Judging,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 23 October 1986, pp. 1-2. A telephone interview with Davies the previous evening, after the announcement that Kingsley Amis’s book The Old Devils had won the Booker Prize, with quotations. Davies tells Scanlan that it is foolish to have one’s heart set on literary prizes. He also gives his opinion of Amis as a writer (“He started out as a great revolutionary and he’s become very conservative, very cemented in his opinions.”). F86-87  MaryLynn Scott, “Canadian Literature: Robertson Davies: When We Really Come to Ourselves, We’re Going to Be a Very Formidable People,” Athabasca University Magazine 10, no. 4 (Winter 1986/87): 12-18. This interview was one that Davies had his secretary forward to inquirers. It ranged over many topics, including the psychological awakening of the Canadian people, the role literature plays in a country, being an artist in Canada, the contribution of psychology to the twentieth century, various reflections about the novel, circuses, readers, and Canadians. F87.1  William Littler, “Davies Conjures a Musical Ghost for Children,” Toronto Star, 9 May 1987, p. J12. Interview took place before a Musical Monday (part of a family concert series) at the Young People’s Theatre. Includes quotations re the writing of the musical ghost story, “The Harper of the Stones.” F87.2  Eva Seidner, “Q&A: Robertson Davies, A Master’s Sharp Eye,” Maclean’s 100, no. 42 (19 Oct. 1987): [8-9], 12. The interview, which took place at Massey College, is presented as a series of questions and answers on the genre of Davies’s books, humour, writing, television, the supernatural, national destiny, censorship, and religion. F87.3  Michael Hulse, “Robertson Davies in Conversation with Michael Hulse,” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 22, no. 1 (1987): 119-36. Hulse interviewed Davies in his office at Massey College on 6 May 1986.

A long interview in which Davies was invited to consider the difference in the reception of his novels in Britain, the United States, and Canada, gothic elements in his work, detective fiction and his work, the Devil and God, parents (including his own), sexual relationships, art fakes, the absence of ordinary people in his books, the importance of not revising too much, and contemporary authors who interest him. Reprinted in F89.1. F88.1  Bert Archer, “What Is the Purpose of Art?” Grammateion: The St. Michael’s College Journal of the Arts (University of Toronto) 13 (1988): 33-9. Davies’s quoted response, on p. 33, was one of sixteen from Canadian writers, artists, and critics to the questions “What do you think is the purpose of art?” and “Why do you create and why do we appreciate?” F88.2  Mark Abley, “Robertson Davies: At 75, He Still Keeps His Inner Self to Himself,” and “Robertson Davies Has His Say on Trade, Education and Art,” Montreal Gazette, 13 March 1988, p. D9. The interview, which took place at Massey College, includes quotations about the biography being written by grant, his childhood, not being a “mock Englishman,” living in Peterborough, writing plays and then novels, Ronald Reagan, and Vincent Massey. F88.3  Allan Massie, “Books: The Humorist as Humanist: Profile,” Edinburgh Scotsman, 21 May 1988, p. X. An interview with Davies when he was awarded the Neil Gunn Fellowship by the Scottish Arts Council. He is quoted about his days at Balliol College in Oxford, Canadian writing, and the shape of his novels. F88.4  [Nicholas Clee], “Robertson Davies — Old Fashioned Innovator,” Bookseller (UK), 1 July 1988, p. 37. Interview during Davies’s trip to Scotland and England, 14 May-18 June. F88.5  Ann Finlayson, “Books: The Golden Autumn of a Literary Giant,” Maclean’s 101, no. 38 (12 September 1988): 112, 114. An interview at Davies’s home in the Caledon Hills containing quotations on his readers, characters, mother, marriage, declining energy, and mortality. Written with David MacLean in Toronto and Noah Richler in London. Excerpted as “Canada’s Master,” World Press Review 35, no. 11 (November 1988): 59. F88.6  Donald Campbell, “Davies Advises Budding Writers to Get a Job, Successful Canadian Author Deluged with Requests for Letters of Recommendation in Support of Grants,” Winnipeg Free Press, 13 September 1988, p. 32. The chief subject of this interview concerns Davies’s belief that would-be novelists should get



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a job, preferably with newspapers, instead of applying for grants from the Canada Council. The interview took place at breakfast at a downtown hotel. F88.7  Kenneth McGoogan, “Davies Lays Trilogy, Ghost to Rest,” Calgary Herald, 14 September 1988, p. C1. In this interview, which took place the previous day, Davies notes that the Cornish trilogy has its genesis in the suicide during the 1950s of a close friend. He is quoted re a work of art: “It’s not just the Sunday School stuff they think it is.” Davies was on tour to publicize The Lyre of Orpheus. For a follow-up article, see F88.9. F88.8  H.J. Kirchhoff, “‘I Do Not Wear a Cloak.’ Robertson Davies Dispels This and Other Myths,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 17 September 1988, pp. C1, C8. Davies denies that he has ever worn a cloak, taken snuff, or drunk sherry to excess. He gets along “marvellously” with his wife and praises the genius of Greg Gatenby for organizing the Harbourfront Reading Series. He says that it is “foolish to think about [literary] prizes,” comments on the variety of his reading, and disputes the claim that he has no use for the common man. He also discusses the international interest in Canadian literature and his correspondence with readers. F88.9  Kenneth McGoogan, “Squeezing Davies Not an Easy Task,” Calgary Herald, 18 September 1988, p. F5. In a follow-up to F88.7, McGoogan prints more of what Davies had to say. Davies notes that he will not “be bound by the latest models, many of which are restrictive and diminishing, in writing fiction.” F88.10  Laurie Greenwood, “Arts & Entertainment: The World According to Robertson Davies,” Gateway (University of Alberta), 20 September 1988, p. 8. “I love praise and I loathe criticism,” Davies says in this interview conducted shortly after his reading from The Lyre of Orpheus at the University of Alberta and the Princess Theatre on 18 September. He advises budding authors to “get a job,” work for a newspaper, know why you are writing, and persevere no matter what the response might be from the public. He is also quoted on creativity. Laurie Greenwood at that time was the owner of a bookstore. F88.11  Victor Paddy, “The Master Mischief-Maker Strikes Again!” Booktalk (Coles Book Store newspaper) 3, no. 1 (Autumn 1988): 7. A rambling interview conducted during Davies’s publicity tour for The Lyre of Orpheus. He says that he was hopeless at mathematics. He denies that opera is an intellectual pursuit, believes that sex is overrated in the modern world, and advocates thinking as an admirable activity for humans.

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F88.12  David Willis McCullough, “A Talk with Robertson Davies,” Book-of-the-Month Club News (Fall 1988): 2-4. A71 was chosen as a fall selection for members of the Book-of-the-Month Club. This issue of the Club’s News features an interview with Davies and a review of the book by Mordecai Richler. Davies discusses the use of magic and mystery in his work, his fondness for trickery (for example, the attribution of the definition of “fifth business” to Tho. Overskou), and his early days as an actor. F88.13  Peter Wilson, “A ‘True’ Canadian — That’s Davies,” Vancouver Sun, 22 September 1988, pp. D8, D10. An interview with Davies, containing many quotations, on what it means to be a Canadian writer, conducted while he was in Vancouver promoting the publication of The Lyre of Orpheus. F88.14  James Adams, “Novels, Inform, Entertain, Comfort, No Guru, No Sage: Davies,” Edmonton Journal, 23 September 1988, p. D1. Report, with quotations, of an interview in the mezzanine of an Edmonton hotel early that day. Davies was “very pleased by” the popularity of his novels, but rejects the label of “guru” because “if you’re not careful you become a grand old gas-bag.” He takes issue with the view that certain events or times have been marked by a greater preponderance of evil in the world. He questions the wisdom of the free-trade agreement with the United States, and expresses his irritation at participating in promotional tours. F88.15  Trevor Lautens, “Down to Business with Robertson Davies,” Vancouver Sun, 24 September 1988, p. B5. An interview with Davies during his promotional tour for The Lyre of Orpheus. He is quoted on his daily writing schedule, recommending journalism as a career for young writers, dismissing the suggestion that he is the Grand Old Man of Canadian literature, and noting the tendency of awarding the Nobel Prize to writers from countries “where writing is a dangerous profession ... or to exiles.” Reprinted as “Journalism Spawned Literary Lion,” Ottawa Citizen, 29 September 1988, p. A8. F88.16  Judith Kellock, “Dead Haunt Davies’ New Book,” Edmonton Sun, 30 September 1988, p. 51. An interview with Davies that occurred sometime during his stay in Edmonton on 15-16 September 1988 during his promotional tour for The Lyre of Orpheus. He voices opinions on the importance of music, his daily writing, and the characters in his novels. F88.17  Trevor Lautens, “Politics Bred in Davies’ Bones?” Toronto Sun, 7 October 1988, p. 50. Interview

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in which Davies spoke about the impact of free trade on Canadian culture and about the importance of Canada’s being a socialist monarchy. F88.18  Manjusha Pawagi, “Robertson Davies: Listening to the Lure of a Well-Tuned Lyre; ‘The Most Extraordinary People That You’d Find Anywhere,’” Gazette (University of Western Ontario) 82, no. 24 (11 November 1988): [12-13]. Interview with Davies and his wife Brenda at the University of Western Ontario on 7 November 1988 after his reading from The Lyre of Orpheus. He is quoted on many subjects including: the character and diversity of Canadians, crimes in Ontario, newspaper stories and other sources for his fiction, his own “very quiet ... very ordinary life,” writing trilogies, intellect, his readers, what he is reading (Shaw’s letters, a life of Ingmar Bergman), and the demands of touring. Pawagi also reported on the question and answer session after Davies’s reading, see D88.3. Another article on page [13] under the same main heading but with the sub-title “His Life” by Nancy Jakimovska discusses Davies’s life. Students also comment on their fascination with his books under the heading “What They Had to Say ...,” pp. [12-13]. F88.19  Marlene Bergsma, “Robertson Davies, Literary Giant and Humble Recluse,” St. Catharines Standard, 18 November 1988, p. 13 An interview with Davies several days prior to his scheduled appearance at the St. Catharines Public Library to read from The Lyre of Orpheus. Davies is quoted on how he writes and then on how difficult he finds the ensuing promotion of the book. If given a choice he “wouldn’t do it.” F88.20  Brenda Large, “Notebook,” Kingston WhigStandard, (“Magazine” sec.), 3 December 1988, p. 29. Interview conducted with Davies following a reading from The Lyre of Orpheus at Queen’s University on 26 November. Davies is quoted about his days at Queen’s as a young student and the representation of Kingston and Queen’s in the Salterton trilogy. Brenda Large also reports on the question and answer session that followed the reading. F88.21  “Honor Roll, a Man of Shining Artistry on a World Stage: Robertson Davies,” Maclean’s 101, no. 53 (26 December 1988): 12. This issue of Maclean’s contains short, individual articles on major Canadian celebrities. Davies is quoted on a number of subjects: the influence of writers, whether he is elitist, Canada’s immigration policy, the lazy-mindedness of Canadians, and the importance of moral integrity. F88.22  Robert Reid, “Robertson Davies, Renowned Novelist Records ‘the Bizarre and Passionate Life

of the Canadian People,’” Kitchener-Waterloo Record, (“Thursday: The Record’s Entertainment Guide” sec.), 29 December 1988, pp. C3-C4. An interview with Davies in his hotel suite, held at the end of November 1988 as his promotional tour came to an end. Davies is quoted on the Canadian people, what it means to be a Canadian writer, the hostility of Canadian critics to Fifth Business, his Loyalist roots, the influence of Jung on his writing, and the misguided direction of churches as “social service organizations.” F88.23  Herbert Mitgang, “Robertson Davies, a Novelist of the North,” New York Times, 29 December 1988, p. C13. The interview took place in New York. It includes quotations on the Canadian novel, the affinity between Canada and Scandinavia, music, and the theme of his novels (“the growth of a life, of a spirit, from innocence to experience”). Reprinted as “Robertson Davies,” Words Still Count with Me: A Chronicle of Literary Conversations (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1995), pp. 245-8. F89.1.  J. Madison Davis, ed., Conversations with Robertson Davies (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989; Toronto: General Paperbacks, 1990). This collection of interviews reprints interviews previously published: see F63.4, F70.1, F71.2, F71.5, F73.1, F73.8, F74.2, F75.2, F75.13, F76.3, F80.5, F81.1, F81.5, F82.3, F82.5, F84.1, and F87.3. Davis also transcribed interviews not previously published. Entries about the new interviews follow. The transcriptions are careless — words misheard, names misspelled, typos uncorrected. Researchers able to listen to the original tapes should do so. Gordon Roper, “Conversations with Gordon Roper,” pp. 9-61. Transcript in Trent University Archives, Peterborough, on, reprinted with “only a few editorial changes.” Three wide-ranging, important interviews recorded on 23, 29, and 30 May 1968 about the writing of plays, journalism as the Davies family trade, theatre-going, the relationship between life and art, Davies’s theatrical experience, his marriage, his plays (especially General Confession and Love and Libel), his first three novels, his writing for the Stratford Festival, myth, newspaper work, comedy, Leacock, writing, Jung and Freud, sex, the Welsh, and art. Paul Soles, “Robertson Davies,” pp. 88-96. Interview aired on “Take 30,” CBC Television, 3 January 1972, about forces that shape life (Davies’s and life in general), about Canada, newspaper work as compared to academic work, retirement, and his thoughts on virtues, religion and happiness. Peter Gzowski and Vivian Rakoff, “‘This Country in the Morning,’” pp. 97-110. Interview aired on “This



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Country in the Morning,” CBC Radio, 23 October 1972. Davies spoke about acting, journalism, Leaven of Malice and Kingston, being a man of letters, Farley Mowat, punctuation in The Manticore, the shift from humour to seriousness in middle age, Jungian analysis and The Manticore, and the death of parents. Ramsay Cook, “Robertson Davies,” pp. 125-35. Interview aired on “Impressions,” CBC Television, 8 July 1973. Re boyhood reading, background of Fifth Business, Freud and Jung, formative influences in his life, his father, his early interest in the stage, playwriting, his education, writers, work rhythm, Canadian life, critics, Canadian readers, Massey College, and   retirement. Margaret Penman, “Sunday Supplement,” pp. 14655. Interview aired on “Sunday Supplement,” CBC Radio, 19 October 1975, about the Deptford trilogy — its main characters representing different aspects of Canadians, its background, its use of first person narrative, its self-revelation, its Jungian underpinning, its exposition of vengeance, and view of God and the Devil. Peter Gzowski, “‘Gzowski on FM,’” pp. 165-75. Interview aired on “Gzowski on FM,” CBC Radio, 9 January 1976 (Davis’s date, 5 February 1977, was a rebroadcast), about Richard Strauss and Ariadne auf Naxos and many aspects of World of Wonders. Along the way, Davies observes that “compassion has become almost a disease in our society” (but admits to being a “softy”), says that he strives for simplicity, values chivalry, is immensely curious, thinks some writers neglected and others overvalued, and wishes he were not viewed as “a kind of ultra-refined fellow.” Bronwyn Drainie, “‘Sunday Morning,’” pp. 176-81. Interview aired on “Sunday Morning,” CBC Radio, 18 March 1979. Davies was interviewed at Massey College about Canadians, the shift that occurs mid-life, the difference between men and women, the crisis with Quebec, and the passage of the old Canada. Peter Gzowski, “‘This Country in the Morning,’” pp. 182-8. An interview first aired on “This Country in the Morning,” CBC Radio, 27 September 1973, when a play version of Leaven of Malice, was in rehearsal for its 11 October opening in Hart House Theatre, University of Toronto. Davis’s date for the airing of this interview (17 August 1979) is probably a rebroadcast. The interview is about Salterton, Kingston, Leaven of Malice, editing the Peterborough Examiner, Leaven of Malice as a play, play-going, comedy, and the background of Davies’s play Question Time, which has the Prime Minister of Canada as its central character. Elizabeth Hay, “Sunday Morning,” pp. 214-19. Inter­ view aired on “Sunday Morning,” CBC Radio, 11 Octo-

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ber 1981 (Davis’s 11 July 1982 date was a rebroadcast.) Davies observes that “a novelist is a watcher” and says he jots down things that catch his attention in a little notebook he carries. He also speaks about his childhood, about the death of his parents freeing him   to write more frankly about his feelings, about the   reasons for ceremony at Massey College, and about books. Peter Gzowski, “‘Morningside,’” pp. 242-51. Interview aired on “Morningside,” CBC Radio, 28 October 1985 (Davis’s date of 20 October 1985 is erroneous). It begins with a sound clip of Anthony Burgess declaring Davies “one of the most important of living novelists” and one who should be given the Nobel Prize. This initiates a discussion of the Canadian view of Davies, the stance Davies himself takes as a critic, his view of Canadians, and fantasy. His reading of the first chapter of Part Two of the newly published What’s Bred in the Bone then shifts the discussion to things ingrained in childhood, myth and writing, the danger of taking one’s gifts as an artist too seriously, free will, astrology, Canadians, and the soon-to-be-released Papers of Samuel Marchbanks. Robert Fulford, “The Grand Old Man of Can Lit,” pp. 270-80. Interview aired on “Realities,” TVOntario, 18 February 1988 (Davis has 8 February). Davies reflected about readers and reading and education. F89.2  Herbert Denton, “Robertson Davies’ Alchemy: The Novelist, Mixing His ‘Magic Realism’ and Brooding over Canada’s Spirit,” Washington Post, 11 January 1989, pp. C1, C4. The interview took place at Massey College. It includes quotations on not driving, computers, his fan mail, belief in saints, reviews, atomic war, growing older, his childhood, and immigration. It also contains quotations from earlier interviews in the Washington Post and unidentified sources. F89.3  Alvin P. Sanoff, “The Muse of the North,” U.S. News & World Report 106, no. 2 (16 January 1989): 61. A transcription of Davies’s observations during an interview with Sanoff about Canadians – their attitude toward writing, their desire to be undisturbed, their background in immigrations of “dispossessed and unhappy people,” their dull exterior and passionate inner life, and also about his trilogies, the plots of the Cornish novels, and mythical elements in people’s lives. F89.4  Lynda Ashley, “The Write Stuff: Robertson Davies, like His Writing, Is Both Entertaining and Thought-Provoking,” Easy Living: The Home and Leisure Magazine of British Columbia 10, no. 13 (11 January-14 February 1989): 12-16. Davies is quoted about his  

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trilogies, the increasing difficulty of writing, depression, his dull life, the necessity of publicity tours and interviews, moments of revenge, the shift in Canadian assessment of his work with Fifth Business, his first trilogy, his attachment to Canada, his belief in unseen forces, and his intention to write books as long as he can. F89.5  Daniel Golden, “The Fictional Alchemist,” Boston Globe, 15 January 1989, (“The Boston Globe Magazine” sec.), pp. 16, 43-53. Golden begins by describing Davies’s reading of The Lyre of Orpheus at Upper Canada College, and supplies quotations about the curative power of dung and alchemy from the subsequent half-hour question period. This long article, much of it a biographical sketch, includes quotations about Davies by Sam Solecki, Michael Peterman, Margaret Atwood, grant, Brenda Davies, Claude Bissell, Robert Fulford, and William Keith. There are also quotations from an interview with Davies in his Massey College office, about publicity tours, a scene he wrote for Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, experiences he had as he grew up, his Broadway flop, his parents, the collector Douglas Duncan, and the city of Toronto. F89.6  Kathleen Hendrix, “The Thoroughly Contemporary Robertson Davies,” Los Angeles Times (Home Edition), 30 January 1989, sec. 5 (“View”), p. 1. In the United States to promote his novel The Lyre of Orpheus, Davies was interviewed by Hendrix after a luncheon in the Canadian Consul General’s house in Hancock Park, Los Angeles. He read from his novel that evening to a packed house in UCLA’s Dickson Auditorium. He is quoted on several aspects of Christianity – its neglect of women, its place in the future, its desire for perfection rather than wholeness. He is also quoted about Canada’s obsession with the United States in the arts and in finance and about American ignorance of Canada. F89.7  Alice Polesky, “Robertson Davies: Canada’s Powerful Voice,” San Francisco Chronicle (Sunday edition), 12 February 1989, p. 3. Polesky’s interview with Davies includes quotations, many of them about his life, and also a notable one about American and Canadian views about Russia. “Our contacts with Russia are very reasonable, very amiable. And we don’t know what the hell the quarrel’s about.” F89.8  Stevenson Swanson, “Davies: A Soaring Character Fit for His Own Novels,” Chicago Tribune, 12 February 1989, pp. C1, C7. In Chicago on 25-6 January during his publicity tour for The Lyre of Orpheus, Davies is quoted on his varied course through life, his introduction of two demi-gods to comment on the action

in Lyre, stories in The New Yorker, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and the need to accept that life ends. F89.9  M.G. Lord, “Edwardian with a Twist,” Interview 19, no. 3 (March 1989): 62-4. The interview took place in the living room of the Davieses’ condominium in Toronto. Lord (whose summaries and quotations are often slightly inaccurate) includes quotations about Davies’s life, his humble beginnings, his wife’s knowledge of Hamlet, never meeting a “common man,” Jung’s background, his biography, marriage, his wife as critic, and his optimism. The article includes quotations from Michael Davies, John Ralston Saul, Robert Fulford, grant, Brenda Davies, Miranda Davies, and John Kenneth Galbraith. F89.10  Elisabeth Sifton, “The Art of Fiction CVII: Robertson Davies,” Paris Review 31, no. 110 (Spring 1989): 34-60. The interview takes the form of questions and answers, 37 in total, regarding the British view of colonial writers, managing public engagements, current work, inspiration to begin writing, character development, process of writing, critics, early newspaper experiences, Canadian nationalism, theatre, book reviewing, influence of other writers, Jung, and religion. The interview took place in 1986 in front of an audience at the 92nd Street YMHA in New York. Excerpted in George Plimpton, ed., The Writer’s Chapbook: A Compendium of Fact, Opinion, Wit, and Advice from the 20th Century’s Preeminent Writers (New York: Viking, 1989), pp. 7, 104-5, 220, 256. Reprinted in Elspeth Cameron, ed., Robertson Davies: An Appreciation (Peterborough, on: Broadview Press, 1991), pp. 9-33. F89.11  Chris Bigsby, “Interview: Robertson Davies interviewed by Chris Bigsby,” Literature Alive 3, no. 2 (December 1989): 33-42. Transcription of an interview that aired on the “Meridian” program of BBC World Service, early June 1989. The interview took place in Davies’s office at Massey College. It takes the form of a series of 30 questions and answers, on theatre, his plays, Tempest-Tost, keeping the reader’s interest, narrative, his writing of trilogies, the rhythm and sound of his prose, Jung’s ideas about art and life, art as imitation of other art, the truth of astrology and science, man’s essential solitude, his disinterest in small emotions, his deliberate prodding of Canadians, humour, the perspective of a Canadian writer, his positive attitude, and writing as a justification for being. Reprinted as “In Conversation with Robertson Davies” in Writers in Conversation, vol. 2 (Published for the Arthur Miller Centre for American Studies by EAS Publishing with Pen&Inc, 2001), pp. [45]-55. F89.12  Interview, Contexts (Hillfield-Strathallan Col-



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lege) 3, no. 1 (Winter 1989): 1-2. A brief interview presented as a series of questions and answers. Davies’s most interesting comments concern reading and the qualities that make a good writer. F90.1  Isabel Vincent, “Canadian Buyer Sought for ‘National Treasure’: Theatrical Drawings Focus of Appeal,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 2 February 1990, p. C8. Interviewed at an exhibition of the work of artist Grant Macdonald, Davies is quoted about the value of Macdonald’s theatrical drawings from the 1940s and 1950s. F90.2  Mike Bygrave, “The Funny Man with the Beard,” Sunday Correspondent (u.k.), 13 May 1990, pp. 35-6. Interview in which Davies responds to questions about his early theatrical ambitions, writing in a way which is not modern, his wife’s critical comments on his books, his first journalistic writing, university life, and his writing. Bygrave’s understanding of Davies’s speech is often inaccurate. Includes quotations (many of them misquotations) of grant. F90.3  Jeff Danziger, “A Dictionary on the Dinner Table, Canadian Writer and Teacher Robertson Davies Talks about his Lifetime of Working with Words,” Christian Science Monitor 82, no. 130 (1 June 1990): 10. An interview conducted in May in Davies’s office at Massey College. Danziger drew on the interview for a general article about Davies’s life and work, salted with quotations from Davies about teaching, the value of secondary literary works, reviewing and being reviewed, Salman Rushdie, his journalistic family, the germs of several novels, his love of theatre, “Love and Libel,” and his popularity in Latin America. F90.4  Hap Erstein, “Literary Lion,” Washington Times, 18 June 1990, pp. E1-2. Interviewed in his office at Massey College, Davies is quoted at length about Jackie Collins’s fame, writing the missing scenes of The Merry Wives of Windsor for the Stratford Festival, his early career as an actor, editing the Peterborough Examiner, his failure as a playwright, the reception of Fifth Business, his writing, his wife as his most astute critic, and the small likelihood of his novels being adapted for film or television. F90.5  “Canada’s Man of Letters Explains Opera’s Appeal,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 9 November 1990, p. C2. Account of an interview in which Davies spoke at some length about the personal and emotional appeal of opera; his views are summarized and quoted. F91.1  Beverley Slopen, “Davies Follows Editor to a New Publisher,” Toronto Star, 17 March 1991, p. C8. Includes quotations on his move from Macmillan to

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McClelland & Stewart, the role of an editor, and the theme of Murther & Walking Spirits (“how people became Canadians”). F91.2  Kenneth McGoogan, “Davies Lauds Common Man,” Calgary Herald, 21 September 1991, pp. F1-F2. A telephone interview with Davies in which he is quoted on Canadian winters, Canadian self-reliance and temperament, his strong feelings about the characters in Murther & Walking Spirits, and “the heroism of common life.” Includes a caricature on page F1. F91.3  Marke Andrews, “Saturday Books: A Giant of Letters Has No Small Words,” Vancouver Sun, 28 September 1991, p. C17. A telephone interview with Davies the day before his reading from Murther & Walking Spirits at the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver. Davies is quoted about Canadian nationalism, the importance of music and literature, critics and reviews, and his current reading. F91.4  Val Ross, “Alchemist, Trickster ... Ugly Duckling?” Toronto Globe and Mail, 28 September 1991, p. C6. An interview with Davies at the offices of McClelland & Stewart on the occasion of the publication of Murther & Walking Spirits (includes a short excerpt from the book). Ellipsis in original. F91.5  Peter Guttridge, “Kindred Spirits: Robertson Davies Talks about Vengeance, Death and His New Novel to Peter Guttridge,” London Sunday Times, 29 September 1991, sec. 7 (“Books”), p. 12. The interview took place in England where Davies was touring to promote Murther & Walking Spirits. Includes quotations re the book, his childhood, working at the Old Vic, writing plays and then novels, Jung, Swedenborg, teaching, aging, writing an autobiography (“no”), and his first newspaper article written at age 11 [actually 9]. F91.6  Mark Lawson, “Victorian Values,” Independent Magazine no. 161 (5 October 1991): 52-[4]. Interview conducted in a hotel in London, England, on the occasion of the publication of Murther & Walking Spirits. Davies is quoted at length about the genesis of the novel, his view of England, his brief career as an actor, and his wariness of criticism. F92.1  Nancy Cobb, How They Met (New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1992), pp. 11-[14]. Quotations from an interview with Davies and his wife Brenda about their courtship. F92.2  Donal O’Connor, “Adaptation of ‘Wonders’ Captures Book’s Essence Says Robertson Davies,” Stratford Beacon Herald, (“Festival edition”), 1992, pp.

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28-30. Interview in Stratford, on, at the time of the first formal rehearsal of Elliott Hayes’s play adaptation of World of Wonders. Davies states that Hayes wrote the script on his own and that he considers it to be first class. He discusses some of the “more fantastic and improbable things” in the book, and comments on developments in Canadian theatre and the need for funding of the performing arts.

Davies’s study at Massey College, in which Davies talks about his love of the theatre and his days at Oxford and with the Old Vic where he met his wife Brenda Mathews. He is quoted about Canadians being a “rather wild people, like Scandinavians or Russians,” about taking The Times for the obituaries, and about Montague Summers, whom he wants to have included in the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

F92.3  “Novelist Robertson Davies and Playwright Elliott Hayes Discuss ‘World of Wonders,’” World of Wonders (1992): pp. 9, 11-12. In this transcribed interview in the Stratford Festival’s program for World of Wonders (adapted by Elliott Hayes, staged at Avon Theatre, 16 May-9 August 1992), Davies comments on fate, the evil of children, the devil, God, the marvelous, his character Liesl, the insights of C.G. Jung, the naming of characters, and the world of wonders, all in relation to his novel of that name.

F93.5  Bruce Blackadar, “Our Literary Lion in Winter,” Toronto Star, 7 November 1993, pp. C1, C4. The interview took place at Massey College. It includes quotations on his 80th birthday, curiosity, moving on in life, happiness, writing, spirituality, Canlit, being a sage (“it embarrasses me”), and receiving the Leacock award. Blackadar notes that their first interview took place two decades earlier.

F93.1  Ann Walmsley, “Secretaries of the Rich and Famous: Robertson Davies and Moira Whalon,” Chatelaine 66, no. 1 (January 1993): 60-2 (at 61). This article focuses on the relationship of several celebrities (Eddie Greenspan, Norman Jewison, etc.) with their secretaries. It includes a number of positive statements from an interview with Davies about his secretary Moira Whalon — for example, “Some secretaries are rather impudent or creepy-crawly, but I could see that she was a woman of great integrity.” F93.2  Susan Clairmont, “A Man of Few Words: Prolific Writer Robertson Davies Was Here to Open a Drama Festival, Not Talk to Reporters,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 May 1993, p. B1. Interviewed about the founding years of the Peterborough Little Theatre in the course of a cocktail party connected with the opening of the Theatre Ontario Festival 93 in Peterborough, Davies is quoted several times. Others associated with the early years of the Little Theatre in Peterborough — Fern Rahmel, Marilyn Mackenzie, John Hooper, and John Londerville — were quoted on Davies’s contributions to theatre in Peterborough. F93.3  Robert Everett-Green, “A Professional Scamp Takes Aim,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 3 June 1993, p. C1. The interview took place at Massey College. It concerned the oratorio Jezebel (libretto Davies, music Derek Holman), which was to be performed that evening at Roy Thomson Hall. Includes quotations on oratorios, on being a musician, and writing for music. See A78. F93.4  Ben Macintyre, “Canada’s Prophet of the Fantastic,” London Times, 17 June 1993, p. 14. Interview, in

F94.1  Hilda Kirkwood, Between the Lines (Kingston, on: Oberon Press, 1994), pp. 31-9. This collection of interviews with people in the arts includes “Robertson Davies — An Interview,” which touches on various themes in Davies’s plays and novels, among them humour in Canadian writing, the development of an artist, the effect of awards and subsidies on writers, whether he is a didactic novelist, good and evil in fiction, and modern theology. F94.2  Rae Corelli, “Over What Hill?” Maclean’s 107, no. 2 (10 January 1994): 30-3. A series of interviews with elderly Canadians. Davies discusses his writing habits and daily routine. He also reflects on his own mortality, accepting death as inevitable but not   dreadful. F94.3  Beverley Slopen, “Toronto, Through Cunning Eyes,” Toronto Star, 20 August 1994, p. H13. In this interview, Davies is quoted on the subject of his soon to be published novel The Cunning Man and the impending ordeal of promoting the book. There are also quotations in which he dispels the notion that he is resting on his laurels. F94.4  Stephen Smith, “Lives of Davies,” Quill & Quire 60, no. 9 (September 1994): 1, 59. The interview, which took place on a June morning at Massey   College, includes quotations re caricatures of Davies, Canadians who have money, The Cunning Man, his writing routine, his wife as a critic, and Man of Myth. F94.5  “Booktalk Interview: Robertson Davies,” Booktalk (Coles Book Store publication) (October 1994): 4-5. Transcription of an interview shortly before the publication of The Cunning Man but ranging over subjects beyond the novel, including his excellent



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memory, changes in perspective as one ages, fame, his opinion of Man of Myth, and his writing methods. F94.6  Michael Coren, “Books: The Indiscreet Charm of Robertson Davies,” Saturday Night 109, no. 8 (October 1994): 58-60. An interview with Davies in his Caledon home, after the appearance of Man of Myth. Although he claims not to have read the biography, he says that it is too serious and does not wholly capture him. Other subjects touched upon in the interview are: Canada’s ambivalence about great writers, whether he is an elitist, his belief in the afterlife, and the weaknesses of Edward Heath. F94.7  James FitzGerald, “Telling Tales out of School: Robertson Davies (1928-1932) Playwright and Author,” Toronto Life, October 1994, pp. 36 and 38. Reprinted as “Robertson Davies: 1928-32: Writer,” in James FitzGerald, ed., Old Boys: The Powerful Legacy of Upper Canada College (Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1994), pp. 24-8. F94.8  Hester Riches, “The Grand Old Man of Can Lit,” Vancouver Sun, 8 October 1994, pp. H1-2. An interview with Davies at Massey College concerning The Cunning Man. Davies is quoted about mythology, the practice of medicine, and the history of Toronto. The interview ends with a comment by Davies that according to Jung, writers and artists do not require psychoanalysis. F94.9  Val Ross, “In Person: Davies Casts a Cunning Spell with Mix of Pomp and Mischief,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 8 October 1994, p. C11. An interview in Davies’s home near Caledon, on, on the publication of The Cunning Man. Davies discusses the book’s chronology, its religious background in Anglo-Catholicism, and the inspiration of Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy. He is quoted on the subject of his health, Phantom of the Opera, and art (“All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and woolly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.”) F94.10  Elizabeth Payne, “Canada’s Literary Lion: With a New Book under His Belt Robertson Davies, 81, Heads out to Do His ‘Dog-and-pony Show,’” Ottawa Citizen, 9 October 1994, pp. B1-2. An interview with Davies at Massey College soon after the publication of The Cunning Man. He is quoted about the emergence of Canada from colony to nation as a recurring theme in his writing, about wanting to make his readers interested in what he has to say, his daily work rhythm, Canada not taking authors seriously, and new writing projects.

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F94.11  “Young Bob Rae Was a Pest, Davies Says,” Ottawa Citizen, 9 October 1994, p. B2. Brief interview (probably part of the interview above), with quotations. Davies, who remembers Ontario Premier Bob Rae’s student days at the University of Toronto, felt Rae was “always raising hell about something.” However, he spoke warmly about Rae’s wife, Arlene Perly Rae, one of his former students: “She’s full of interest and experience.” F94.12  Stephen Smith, “Robertson Davies on Age and Wisdom,” Montreal Gazette, 9 October 1994, pp. F1-2. An interview with Davies at the premises of McClelland & Stewart prior to the publicity tour for The Cunning Man. He explains the origin of the expression, “the cunning man.” In Wales, such a person “did a lot of queer things. He was a bone-setter and he was often an animal doctor. But he also did things which weren’t quite in that line.” He reflects on acquiring wisdom in old age, speaks about the cultural evolution of Toronto, and expresses ambivalence about Man of Myth. F94.13  Ken McGoogan, “The Cunning Man: Robertson Davies Captures Toronto in Latest Novel,” Calgary Herald, 16 October 1994, p. C1. A telephone interview in which Davies discusses his latest novel and answers general questions: whether he is a man of letters (“authors are artists and to hell with this term ‘man of letters’”), his life as a source for his fiction, the setting of the novel in Toronto, and the character of Dr. Jonathan Hullah. F94.14  David Paddon, “Promoting Latest Book, Davies Remains the Great Man of Letters,” Belleville Intelligencer, 16 October 1994, p. C2. Interviewed at Massey College just before his promotional tour for The Cunning Man, Davies talks about the ordeals of book promotion and the artistic life of Toronto. A shorter article, “Davies Has Opinions,” on the same page quotes his opinions on a variety of topics: failed screen adaptations of his novels, Canadian pride, Canadian dullness, American criticisms of the Canadian health care system, and Toronto and Montreal as cities. See also Paddon’s “Robertson Davies’s New Book, The Cunning Man, Quotable Davies,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 October 1994, p. C3. The latter article prints Davies’s opinions but without the interview. F94.15  Philip Marchand, “Robertson Davies Productive as Ever at Age 81,” Toronto Star, 22 October 1994, p. F12. A rambling, entertaining interview with Davies. He denies that the lesbian couple in The Cunning Man is based on a real couple from Toronto. He acknowledges that the work of a writer is often sheer drudgery.

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He discusses his work as a playwright, and admits to being superstitious by nature.

a writer, supernatural emanations, crime, and his lack of writer’s block.

F94.16  Gordon Morash, “A Man of Letters Sums Up,” Edmonton Journal, 24 October 1994, pp. B4-5. A telephone interview prior to Davies’s scheduled reading at the Princess Theatre in Edmonton. He is asked his opinion of Man of Myth (“I admire and respect her work ... but you see, I’ve lived that life, and so I know a few things about it that aren’t just general knowledge”), the interest of film makers in his books, and his seemingly inexhaustible energy for writing. On the same page his opinions are quoted on the time it takes to write a novel, on being Canada’s senior man of letters, on whether there is room for old-style storytelling, on the common reader, on the nature of books and readers, and on the best kind of reader. See also Gordon Morash, “Remember ‘Rob’ — He’d Like That,” Edmonton Journal, 10 December 1995, p. F7. An appreciation of Davies with quotations from his interview.

F95.2  Phyllis Grosskurth, “Running with the Wolf,” Saturday Night 110, no. 3 (April 1995): 74-6, 78, 81. In this article about the author, teacher and disciple of Jung, Marion Woodman, Grosskurth quotes Davies as saying that he was not interested in “dancing away my shadow” in one of her workshops. He also described her female audience as being “amorously solicited” by Woodman, who had put some kind of spell on them. “Enchantresses have always had their place,” he concluded philosophically.

F94.17  Douglas Todd, “The Devil in Mr. Davies: Canada’s Dean of Letters Believes We Should Be Aware of the Presence of Evil, and the Divine, in Everything,” Vancouver Weekend Sun, 29 October 1994, pp. D12-13. An interview with Davies (in Vancouver for the Writers Festival) at the Vancouver Hotel. His opinions about evil, God, Christianity, Gnosticism, agnosticism, the age of Aquarius, compassion, Jung, and death are quoted. Reprinted as “Robertson Davies” in Douglas Todd, Brave Souls: Writers and Artists Wrestle with God, Love, Death, and the Things That Matter (Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited, 1996), pp. 129-38. F94.18  Alice van Straalen, “A Talk with Robertson Davies,” Book-of-the-Month Club News (November 1994): 3. An interview primarily about The Cunning Man, although Davies also comments about the development of Canadian society. F94.19  Clyde H. Farnsworth, “Reflections from Canada’s Literary Zeus,” International Herald Tribune, 19 December 1994, p. 22. The chief subjects that Davies discusses in this interview are the differences between the United States and Canada and Quebec separatism. F95.1  Mel Gussow, “‘A Moralist Possessed by Humor’: A Conversation with Robertson Davies,” New York Times, 5 February 1995, sec. 7 (“Book Review”), pp. 24-5. Interviewed in his office at Massey College and over lunch at the York Club, Davies is quoted about the melodrama of everyday life, his one Broadway venture, imagination, his misgivings about Man of Myth, his dislike of being considered old-fashioned as

F95.3  Peter Newman, “The Nation’s Business: A Fond Farewell to ‘Rob’ Davies,” Maclean’s 108, no. 51 (18 December 1995): 40. Newman reminiscences about Davies and includes quotations from an interview he conducted with Davies in 1973 at Massey College, about Davies’s love-hate relationship with Canada, young conservatives, being a storyteller, and the supernatural. F95.4  “Robertson Davies Interviewed by Eleanor Wachtel,” Queen’s Quarterly 102, no. 4 (Winter 1995): 893-7. Wachtel interviewed Davies shortly after the publication of Murther & Walking Spirits. He responds to a series of eleven questions about life after death, destiny, being a moralist, the influence of Heraclitus on his work, and Canada as “a democracy of mediocrity.” F96.1  grant, “Time and Chance Happen to Every­ body: A Conversation with Robertson Davies,” A Penguin Reading Group Guide to The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies (New York, ny: Penguin Books, 1996?), pp. 5-9. In this interview, which took place in Davies’s office at Massey College about two months before his death on 2 December 1995, Davies spoke about the origins of The Cunning Man, the inspirations for the book’s lesbian artists, Toronto in the 1930s and 40s, Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, suicide, the change in his beliefs as he grew older, evil, writing trilogies, and books he was reading as background for his next novel. F96.2  Chuck Thompson, “Canada’s Champion of Letters,” American Way 29, no. 1 (1 January 1996): 54-5, 97-9, 101. Photos of Davies by Jill Krementz appear on pp. 52-4 and the cover. Wide ranging interview conducted in the fall of 1995 at Massey College, and presented as a series of questions and answers about Canadian writing, American attitudes toward Canada, his own writing, the loss of the Bible as a shared cultural resource, computers and writing, painful reviews,



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aging and writing, insecurity, books that interest him, and women writers. F97  Peter Gzowski, The Morningside Years (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997), pp. 50-9, 60-72. This collection from Gzowski’s CBC radio program, Morningside, contains transcriptions of two interviews with Davies: “Conversations with Writers II: Robertson Davies, Part I” (on the publication of Murther & Walking Spirits) and “Conversations with Writers II: Robertson Davies, Part II” (on the publication of The Cunning

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Man). The book is accompanied by a CD, which contains a further interview with Davies about his libretto for the oratorio Jezebel. F05  Marty Gervais, “Davies Plumbed ‘Vice, Virtue’ of Rural Ontario,” Windsor Star, 14 September 2005, p. A3. Interview conducted at Massey College at least a decade earlier. Davies is quoted about Thamesville (where he was born), small town life in general, and his father Rupert who was a supporter of the Liberal party.

G Section Unsigned Articles and Editorials

There were various reasons for unsigned material. From April until early July 1940, Davies filled in at the Kingston Whig-Standard for an editorial assistant who was ill. As was the usual practice at the Whig, and later at the Peterborough Examiner, all editorials were unsigned. Davies’s editorials on such topics as literature, drama, music, art, films, architecture, opera, psychology, and language broadened the range of the editorial page beyond its usual concern with local, provincial, and national issues and lightened its tone. During his time with the Whig, the staple editorials about the war, Canadian politics, and trade were usually written by the paper’s editor, Davies’s father Rupert. From 23 November 1940 until 28 February 1942, Davies served as literary editor of Saturday Night, then Canada’s leading weekly journal of opinion. Most of his contributions were signed with his own name or initials or with pseudonyms that he later acknowledged. These articles are listed in C Section. He also contributed regularly to “The Passing Show” but no attempt has been made to discriminate his writing under this head from that of others. On 1 March 1942 Davies took over as editor of the Peterborough Examiner, continuing in that role until the end of December 1962. Until 1946, he wrote most (though not all) editorials except when ill or on vacation. He also wrote “Note and Comment” — the brief, humorous observations used most days as fillers at the end of the editorial columns at least until the end of 1956 — and he selected the quotations that appeared below the masthead from 3 May 1944 to 13 July 1950. The unsigned writing from the Peterborough Examiner listed in this section was selected in two ways. While preparing to write Man of Myth, grant gathered editorials on subjects that particularly interested Davies, many of which are explored in his plays and novels. These are included. In addition, a week or so was selected in each year of Davies’s editorship of the Examiner and all editorials probably written by him during that period are listed. These sample intervals are introduced by the phrase “Sample Week of Editorials” and the end of the period is indicated by the phrase “End of Sample Week of Editorials.” These give a sense of the range of subject matter that Davies tackled as editor. In the early 1940s, selection was relatively easy since Davies wrote almost all the editorials. Once he acquired an assistant it was more difficult, but not impossible. Roy G. Boyd, who served as assistant editor from October 1946 until the end of July 1947, for example, often wrote about agricultural matters. His writing lacked Davies’s easy flow. It was much more difficult to distinguish Davies’s editorials from those of Thomas J. Allen, who served as assistant (and, subsequently, associate) editor from September 1947 until December 1956, as he, like Davies, had an Oxford degree, shared many of Davies’s interests, knew Peterborough well (as he had grown up there), and wrote easily and well. Once Ralph Hancox succeeded Allen in January 1957, Davies carried much less of the editorial load: he traveled more and used regular work hours for writing A Mixture of Frailties and A Voice from the Attic. In the fall of 1960 he accompanied his play “Love and Libel” on road trials en route to New York, and in January 1961 he began to teach part-time at the University of Toronto and to give much time to the planning of Massey College. His diminishing involvement can be seen in the fact that he appears to have written no editorials in the sample interval selected in 1958, nor in two sample weeks in 1959, nor in the weeks for 1960 and 1961, only two in the week selected at the end of 1962, and none in several weeks sampled in 1963. Midway through 1960, an assistant was hired for Hancox (Bob Sunter initially, and then Charles Magill). Hancox took over officially as editor at the beginning of 1963. From this point on there appears to be no unsigned material by Davies.



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G40.1  “Examination Fever,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 4 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about preparing for examinations and changing the point in the school year when students sit them. G40.2  “‘Gone with the Wind,’” Kingston Whig-Standard, 4 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the film. G40.3  “More Marriages,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 5 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial reflections prompted by the sharp increase in the number of marriages the previous year. G40.4  “Radio Panics,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 5 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about panics caused by programs like  “Men from Mars” which made people believe that the world was coming to an end. G40.5  “Havelock Ellis,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 6 April 1940, p. 4 Editorial review of My Life: Autobiography of Havelock Ellis. G40.6  “‘Miss Spiritual America,’” Kingston WhigStandard, 6 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the search in the United States for “the girl who most adequately fulfils the American spiritual ideal.” G40.7  “The Gangs and the Books,” Kingston WhigStandard, 6 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial. G40.8  “Fairy Tales in the Home,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 8 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial. G40.9  “Maurice Hutton,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 8 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial. G40.10  “Old Favorites,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 8 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about weaning congregations from bad old favourites to new hymns by Vaughan Williams and Martin Shaw. G40.11  “That Oxford Twang,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 8 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial. G40.12  “Body and Brain,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 9 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the impact of one’s mental state on physical ailments. G40.13  “Too Many Baths,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 9 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the wisdom of taking fewer baths. G40.14  “William Faversham,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 9 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the death of this fine actor. G40.15  “A Pause for Reflection,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 10 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the protest of some New Yorkers against the appointment of Bertrand Russell to teach mathematics at City College.

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G40.16  “Blackout in Halifax,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 11 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the prohibition of outdoor lights between sunset and sunrise in Halifax and other Atlantic coastal towns to prevent “small raids” that might do “big damage.” G40.17  “The Old Barnam House,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 11 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about a “fine colonial mansion ... just outside the village of Grafton.” G40.18  “An Unscrupulous Trick,” Kingston WhigStandard, 11 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the tricks of salesmen selling subscriptions of periodicals door to door. G40.19  “A Blow Struck for Purism,” Kingston WhigStandard, 12 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the value of writing grammatically. G40.20  “‘Mrs. Pat,’” Kingston Whig-Standard, 12 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. G40.21  “Children and Comic Strips,” Kingston WhigStandard, 13 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial. G40.22  “Keep Off the Grass,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 13 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the American Chemical Society’s announcement that grass is “an excellent food.” G40.23  “A Musical Centenary,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 13 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the centenary of the birth of Tchaikovsky. G40.24  “Stupidity,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 13 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial condemning the dispersal of Canadian books, music, and maps collected under the copyright act. G40.25  “Quebec Women’s Vote,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 15 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial approving the second reading of a bill that would give Quebec women the right to vote in provincial elections. G40.26  “Racial Tolerance,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 15 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the United States’s issuing a stamp “bearing the head of the celebrated negro scholar and social reformer, Booker T. Washington.” G40.27  “The ‘Doctor’ Dilemma,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 16 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the problems caused by the failure to reserve the word “doctor” for medical practitioners. G40.28  “Kings and Their Power,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 16 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about a monarch being “a living symbol of a country.”

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G40.29  “Clean Up Kingston,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 17 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial. G40.30  “Comic Relief,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 17 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the publisher of the New York Evening Enquirer suing Winston Churchill for a million dollars. G40.31  “The Diary Habit,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 17 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial. G40.32  “Don’t Revive the Marshalsea!” Kingston WhigStandard, 17 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about a proposal to revive imprisonment for debt. G40.33  “Films as Propaganda,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 19 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial. G40.34  “Benito Agonistes,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 20 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the difficult choices facing Mussolini. G40.35  “Fashions in Wartime,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 20 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial. G40.36  “Findland’s Immortal,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 20 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about Jean Sibelius. “Findland” was a standard spelling for Finland in 1940. G40.37  “Happy Birthday to You!” Kingston Whig-Standard, 20 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the birthday anniversaries of William Shakespeare and Adolph Hitler. G40.38  “Viennese Favorite Passes,” Kingston WhigStandard, 20 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the death of Kathi Schratt. G40.39  “St. George of England,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 22 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial. G40.40  “Dorothy Thompson Picks on Hitler,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 24 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial praising columnist Dorothy Thompson for doing “more than any other single person to turn American public opinion in favor of the Allies.” G40.41  “Florrie Forde and Tipperary,” Kingston WhigStandard, 24 April 1940, p. 5. Editorial occasioned by the death of the music hall singer Florrie Forde. G40.42  “Arithmetic and Intelligence,” Kingston WhigStandard, 25 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial declaring that “psychologists now agree that the faculty for reckoning is a part of the mental makeup which has no connection with general intelligence.” G40.43  “Armour for the Troops,” Kingston WhigStandard, 25 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial considering the reasons why modern troops do not wear armour.

G40.44  “Allowances for Children,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 26 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial urging a sensible approach to allowances for children. G40.45  “German Mint Tea,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 26 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about a substitute for a tea developed by the Germans as both coffee and tea were in short supply in Germany. G40.46  “Norwegian Culture in the Modern World,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 27 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial about dramatists Ibsen and Bjornstjerne Bjornson. G40.47  “Courtesy from the Indian Home-Rulers,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 29 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial approving Gandhi’s statement that he had “no wish to embarrass the British Government in India by civil disturbance during the present crisis.” G40.48  “Heil Shakespeare!” Kingston Whig-Standard, 29 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial taking issue with the German Shakespeare Society laying claim to Shakespeare as “he was out of sympathy with modern English plutocracy, and the fine work of German critics in explaining his plays has given that nation the greater claim upon him.” G40.49  “Let’s Escape If We Want To,” Kingston WhigStandard, 29 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial arguing that an obsessive, despairing focus on the war is counterproductive. G40.50  “Luisa Tetrazzini,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 30 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the death of this Italian opera star. G40.51  “The Passing of Hugh Eayrs,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 30 April 1940, p. 4. Article about the achievements of Hugh Eayrs, president of the Macmillan Company of Canada. G40.52  “The Thyssen Letters,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 30 April 1940, p. 4. Editorial regarding the letters of Fritz Thyssen published in the magazine Life. G40.53  “May Day,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 1 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial. G40.54  “The Stereopticon Comes Back,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 1 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the invention of a type of three-dimensional photography. G40.55  “Ascension Day,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 2 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial. G40.56  “The Scots’ Complaint,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 2 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about minor slights the Scots experience at the hands of the English. G40.57  “A Remarkable New Play,” Kingston Whig-Stan-



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dard, 3 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about Robert Sherwood’s successful new play There Shall Be No Night. G40.58  “A Useless Proposal,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 3 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial regarding the proposal by the president of the Carnegie Institute to kidnap Adolf Hitler and bring him to trial before a world court. G40.59  “The Death of a Happy Man,” Kingston WhigStandard, 4 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about Jaringoorli, king of the Wolmin Yowarra [Yowaroo] tribe in Western Australia. G40.60  “How to Do It,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 4 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about “How to” books and their failure to affect human behaviour.

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Whig-Standard, 13 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial rejecting the notion that Napoleon had parasites under his skin and that he “carried his right hand thrust in his breast [because] he was scratching himself.” G40.71  “Frederick, the ‘Perjured Pervert,’” Kingston Whig-Standard, 14 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about Frederick II of Prussia and his father Frederick William. G40.72  “A Personality Passes at Eleven,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 14 May 1940, p, 4. Editorial about Shirley Temple’s retirement from the screen. G40.73  “Augustus John Paints the Queen,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 16 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial.

G40.61  “Two Voices from the Last War,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 4 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial presenting quotations from Sigmund Freud and Bernard Shaw with regard to World War I.

G40.74  “A German Denounces Nazism,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 16 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about Thomas Mann’s denunciation of Nazism in his new book, The War.

G40.62  “New Honors for Hitler,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 7 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the extraordinary reverence claimed for Hitler by Robert Ley, the Nazi minister of labour.

G40.75  “Mussolini Reads a Book,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 16 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about Machiavelli’s The Prince being favourite reading of Mussolini.

G40.63  “Verne Prophesied Hitler,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 7 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about a novel written by Jules Verne that has a central character remarkably like Hitler.

G40.76  “Churchill’s Speech,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 20 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the eloquence of Winston Churchill’s broadcast speech of the day before.

G40.64  “Centenary of the Postage Stamp,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 8 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the impact of a century of inexpensive postage on letter writing.

G40.77  “Extraordinary Woman,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 20 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the power of columnist Dorothy Thompson whose suggestion of a way of giving a third term to President Roosevelt has been gaining sway.

G40.65  “Fantasy in the Want Ads,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 8 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about an advertisement that displayed the attitude “of a trusting child.”

G40.78  “The Devil Got Him,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 25 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the great violinist Nicolò Paganini.

G40.66  “Sh! Not a Word,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 8 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about “the danger of gossip about naval, military, or air force matters.”

G40.79  “How Tall Is a Good Soldier?” Kingston WhigStandard, 28 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial urging the abolition of the minimum height standard for Canadian soldiers.

G40.67  “The Pulitzer Prizes,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 9 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial review of John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath and of Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer. G40.68  “Tripe,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 10 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about tripe as one of the foods that “have become the stock-in-trade of the comedian.” G40.69  “Everyman’s Handicraft,” Kingston WhigStandard, 13 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial advocating “the revival of beauty in handwriting.” G40.70  “Why Napoleon Stood Like That,” Kingston

G40.80  “A ‘National Reference Book,’” Kingston WhigStandard, 28 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial review of the sixth edition of a National Reference Book on Canadian Men and Women. G40.81  “‘Darning Eggs’ for Surgery,” Kingston WhigStandard, 30 May 1940, p. 4. Editorial about a new method of “sewing together the delicate tissues of ruptured or severed blood vessels.” G40.82  “Some Facts on Fifth Columnists,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 10 June 1940, p. 4. Editorial.

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G40.83  “Concerning Soul-Mates,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 11 June 1940, p. 4. Editorial disputing the claim by Mussolini that the King of Italy had always wanted to join the soul of Italy to that of Germany. G40.84  “Italians in Canada,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 12 June 1940, p. 4. Editorial viewing demonstrations against Italians in Canada as “deplorable.” G40.85  “Swain in High Street,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 14 June 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the lovesick antics of an Oxford undergraduate. G40.86  “England and the Free Mind,” Kingston WhigStandard, 2 July 1940, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the death of Dr. Wilhelm Stekel, an early disciple of Freud. G40.87  “Two Literary Refugees,” Kingston WhigStandard, 2 July 1940, p. 4. Editorial about Somerset Maugham and P.G. Wodehouse. G40.88  “Some Humanistic Fog,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 3 July 1940, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by perusal of a pamphlet called Man: Spirit and Democracy published by “A Canadian Group of Humanists.” G40.89  “Has Bernard Shaw Reformed?” Kingston Whig-Standard, 4 July 1940, p. 4. Editorial saying that Shaw’s current pro-Ally stance was consistent with his attitude during World War I. G40.90  “Old Iron,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 4 July 1940, p. 4. Editorial about the iron from the last remnants of London’s Crystal Palace being pressed into service for armaments. G40.91  “France and Mother Shipton,” Kingston WhigStandard, 5 July 1940, p. 4. Editorial about fortunetelling in times of war. G40.92  “Literary Centenary,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 6 July 1940, p. 4. Editorial about Thomas Hardy. G40.93  “The Treason of Roger Casement,” Kingston Whig-Standard, 6 July 1940, p. 40. Editorial recalling the trial of Sir Roger Casement, the Irish patriot, “when there is so much talk of Fifth Columnists and death penalties for treason.” G42.1  “Medicine Marches on,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 March 1942, p. 4. Editorial about preventive medicine, including some reference to the theories of F.M. Alexander. G42.2  “What about Beards?” Peterborough Examiner, 7 April 1942, p. 4. Editorial arguing for a “return of beards to fashion.”

Sample Week of Editorials 14-19 September 1942 G42.3  “After Three Years,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial quoting a verse by A.P. Herbert as expressing the mood of the British Empire after three years of war. G42.4  “‘Canadianization,’” Peterborough Examiner, 14 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial opposing members of the Royal Canadian Air Force serving in wholly Canadian units instead of in the Royal Air Force with others from the British Empire or Commonwealth. G42.5  “Mistrust Dispelled,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial supporting the delay in establishing a second front in Europe to defend Russia until the Allies had sufficient strength to do so effectively. G42.6  “Wheat to the Hellenes,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial re Canada sending surplus wheat to the starving people of Greece. G42.7  “As Churchill Sees Him,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial in support of friendly relations among Allied leaders, particularly Churchill and Stalin. G42.8  “Publicity Tangle,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial about appointments to the Wartime Information Board. G42.9  “Rationing Ourselves,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial in support of voluntary “intelligent self-denial” in support of war needs. G42.10  “The Vanished Banana,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial about unavailability of bananas in Canada, probably for the duration of the war. G42.11  “Black Market in Peterborough,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial about stopping the “evasion of regulations governing the sale of meat.” G42.12  “Losses at Dieppe,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial. G42.13  “Release the Plebiscite Lists!” Peterborough Examiner, 16 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial re the need for accurate lists for War Bond canvassers. G42.14  “Show Us Ourselves,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial advocating the development of radio dramas of quality in Canada, and observing that “an essential of great art is self-knowledge, and we shall have no great Canadian drama, on the



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air or anywhere else, until we learn to see ourselves as we really are.”

East City Prank,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 October 1942, p. 8.

G42.15  “The Zoot Suit,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial.

G43.1  “Letters to the Editor,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 March 1943, p. 4. Editorial.

G42.16  “‘Credit’ and the British,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial about the desire of young countries like Canada to be given credit for their contributions to the war effort and emphasizing the immense contribution of the British themselves.

G43.2  “Letters to the Editor,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 July 1943, p. 4. Editorial about the requirement for writers of Letters to the Editor to sign them, though a pen-name is permissible as long as the newspaper knows who wrote it.

G42.17  “Quarter Century of Service,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial about the Canadian Press.

G43.3  “Country Makes Australians Self Reliant,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 July 1943, p. 9. Report of an address presented to the Kiwanis Club in Peterborough by Brenda Davies, Davies’s Australian-born wife, on 23 July 1943.

G42.18  “We Want a Bus Depot,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial. G42.19  “An Encouraging Sign,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial about an indication that the Croix de Feu party in France opposes the Nazis. G42.20  “Opera in Montreal,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial expressing envy of Montreal’s opera season. G42.21  “Reducing the Liquor Bill,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial gently opposing a petition asking for a reduction in the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks in Canada. G42.22  “Canute McCormick,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial about the meaning of freedom of the press, arguing that “freedom in the modern world means freedom only to do things which do not inconvenience other people.” G42.23  “‘The Incomparable Max,’” Peterborough Examiner, 19 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial about Sir Max Beerbohm. G42.24  “It Takes Organization,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial approving Campbellford’s drive for scrap rubber and advocating local drives for other commodities. G42.25  “The New Category,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial about the need to conserve petroleum for essential industries.

G42.26  “Note of Appreciation,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 September 1942, p. 4. Editorial about wartime propaganda. G42.27  “Great Hoax of Berners Street Recalled in

G43.4  “Saints for Soldiers,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial inspired by an exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Sample Week of Editorials 18-23 October 1943 G43.5  “Children and the War,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial about a report written by Anna Freud and Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham about the impact of the war on children in three London nurseries. G43.6  “The Fifth Loan Opens,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial in support of the current Victory Loan campaign. G43.7  “A Remarkable Scoundrel,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial about Ignatius Trebitsch-Lincoln. G43.8  “A Great Canadian Editor,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial re John W. Dafoe of the Winnipeg Free Press. G43.9  “Italy — Rash Gambler,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial re Italy’s unfortunate attempts at gaining international power. G43.10  “A Worker in Wax,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial re John Theodore Tussaud, great-grandson of Madame Tussaud, and Madame Tussaud’s Waxworks. G43.11  “The Canadian Merit Medal,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial about the creation of a new award “for meritorious service above and beyond the faithful performance of duty,” not to be confused with the British Order of Merit.

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G43.12  “India Needs Our Help,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial urging that wheat be sent to alleviate the severe famine in Bengal. G43.13  “Inter-Allied Squabbling,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial re squabbling between Britain and the United States after five American senators toured the battle-fronts. G43.14  “Post-War Economic Controls,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial re the need to eliminate economic controls after the war. G43.15  “Degrading Music,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial opposing the proposed installation of an organ in Toronto Union Station. G43.16  “Little Blessings in the Home,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial supporting landlords who refuse to rent to families because of the destructiveness of ill-disciplined children. G43.17  “Post-War Military Service,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial supporting the recommendation by Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times, that there be “a long post-war period during which the United Nations stand guard over Germany.” G43.18  “University Initiations,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial opposing university initiations as “relics of man’s primitive days.” G43.19  “Hockey and War,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial addressed to that “part of the public which takes little interest in sport,” arguing that hockey contributes to soldiers being fit and exploring the difference between professional and recreational sport. G43.20  “Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow Again,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 October 1943, p. 4. Amusing editorial re the exoneration of the cow reputed to have started the Great Fire in Chicago in 1871 by kicking over a lantern. G43.21  “Political Phase of the War,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial about the threepower (Russia, United States, and Britain) conference in Moscow. G43.22  “What Is ‘Profanation’?” Peterborough Examiner, 22 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial re “The prosecution of thirty-three people for ‘profanation of the Lord’s day’ by harvesting vegetables in York county.” G43.23  “Air Policies and Peace,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial advocating that Canada capitalize on post-war expansion of air travel.

G43.24  “Buying Souvenirs,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial re American soldiers in Britain buying up antique silver and sending it home to their family and friends. G43.25  “Catholicism and the C.C.F.,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial exploring whether the Catholic Church supports the CCF. G43.26  “A Red Cross Exhibition,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 October 1943, p. 4. Editorial about an exhibition in Peterborough of the Red Cross’s activities in wartime.

G43.27  “What Are a Housewife’s Wages?” Peterborough Examiner, 8 November 1943, p. 4. Editorial. G43.28  “Cut Out the Melodrama,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 November 1943, p. 4. Editorial criticizing the “extreme sentimentality of the playlets used on national radio programs supporting the recent Victory Loan.” G44.1  “Anonymous Letters,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 January 1944, p. 4. Editorial. G44.2  “Post-War Jobs for Women,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 February 1944, p. 4. Editorial. G44.3  “V.O.N. Broadcast First Radio Show to Be Presented Entirely by Local People,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 March 1944, p. 9. Re preparations for “Kaleidoscope Number One,” a short radio play written by Davies about the misery and hardship and diseases faced by Irish pioneers in the Peterborough area. Sponsored by the Victorian Order of Nurses. G44.4  “Early Nurses Drunken Lot,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 March 1944, p. 14. Re “Kaleidoscope Number Two,” a short radio play written by Davies, broadcast that evening on radio station CHEX, contrasting the nursing methods of Dickens’s drunken Sairey Gamp with those of Florence Nightingale. G44.5  “Why No Canadian Humour?” Peterborough Examiner, 22 March 1944, p. 4. Editorial. G44.6  “Third V.O.N. Broadcast Scheduled for 8:45 This Evening over CHEX,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 March 1944, p. 9. Re “Kaleidoscope Number 3,” a short radio play written by Samuel Marchbanks (i.e. Davies) and produced by Brenda Davies, about the struggle to make acceptable the relief of the pain of childbirth with anaesthetics. G44.7  “Final Broadcast of VON Tonight,” Peterborough



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Examiner, 5 April 1944, p. 2. Re “Kaleidoscope Number 4,” a short radio play written by Samuel Marchbanks (i.e. Davies) and produced by Brenda Davies, evoking the death of Little Eva from Uncle Tom’s Cabin by way of recalling local productions of the old melodrama, and also, implicitly, drawing a contrast with modern child care. G44.8  “Plan Concert Tuesday Night,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 May 1944, p. 9. Short announcement of the final Victory Loan Show the following Tuesday evening which included a play, “Begone Dull Care,” written by Davies, the third to be presented in the Sixth Victory Loan, and directed by Brenda Davies. G44.9  “A National Library,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 May 1944, p. 4. Editorial. G44.10  “The Black Camel,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 May 1944, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the deaths of the American humorist George Ade, the Cornish writer, professor, and critic Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, and the English actor Sir John Martin-Harvey. G44.11  “The Longevity of Jokes,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 July 1944, p. 4.

Sample Week of Editorials 29 July – 8 August 1944 G44.12  “Aristocracy of Talent,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 July 1944, p. 4. Editorial arguing that “An aristocracy of talent is the only sort of aristocracy which a democracy can logically support, and a democracy which has no aristocracy of talent is a poor thing.” G44.13  “Boredom, Fatigue and Absenteeism,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 July 1944, p. 4. Editorial arguing that fatigue and boredom are the chief causes of absenteeism in industry. G44.14  “Do We Need Another Cadet Corps?” Peterborough Examiner, 29 July 1944, p. 4. Editorial questioning a suggestion in the House of Commons that “the R.C.M.P. might sponsor a cadet corps, as a means of fighting juvenile delinquency” given the existence of the Boy Scouts and the cadet corps attached to each of the three services. G44.15  “Lo, the Poor Indian!” Peterborough Examiner, 29 July 1944, p. 4. Editorial reflecting on the status of Indians in Canada. G44.16  “Bring Back the Pillory?” Peterborough Examiner, 31 July1944, p. 4. Editorial opposing the rein-

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G44.42  “A Canadian National Theatre,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 October 1944, p. 4. Editorial.

G44.29  “J’Accuse, They Cried, and . . ,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 August 1944, p. 4. Editorial about an altercation between J.C. Landeryou of the Social Credit Party and Major James Coldwell of the CCF Party. Ellipsis in the original.

G44.43  “The Feast of Crispin,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 October 1944, p. 4. Editorial about the Feast of Saints Crispin and Crispinian and the anniversary of the English victory at Agincourt in 1415.

G44.30  “Mr. Churchill is Optimistic,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 August 1944, p. 4. Editorial about Churchill’s optimism about victory. G44.31  “A Chance for Pedestrians,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 August 1944, p. 4. Editorial about a London, on scheme to allow pedestrians to cross on the amber light. G44.32  “Housing for Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 August 1944, p. 4. Editorial about housing shortage in Canada. G44.33  “A Matter of Fact,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 August 1944, p. 4. Editorial reproving The Globe and Mail for errors of fact in an editorial. G44.34  “Tinkling Cymbal,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 August 1944, p. 4. Editorial about petty behaviour in the House of Commons. G44.35  “On Speaking the King’s English,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 August 1944, p. 4. Editorial about people’s speech. G44.36  “A Quarter of a Century of Leadership,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 August 1944, p. 4. Editorial about William Lyon Mackenzie King’s high international stature.

G45.1  “In the Name of Racial Purity,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 February 1945, p. 4. Editorial about the systematic extermination of the gypsy population of Germany by the Nazis.

Sample Week of Editorials 2-7 April 1945 G45.2  “Breaking the Price Ceiling,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial supporting firm action of the courts against those who disobey regulations designed to prevent inflation. G45.3  “The I.O.D.E. Book Drive,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial supporting the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire collecting books for libraries available to servicemen. G45.4  “[What the] Archbishop Really Said,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial supporting the perspective in a speech given by an Archbishop in the British House [of Lords?] advocating speedy execution of Nazi war criminals, without trial, as soon as the war was over. (Damage to the paper obliterated part of the editorial’s title, the name of the archbishop and the location of the speech.)

G44.38  “As Others See Us,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 August 1944, p. 4. Editorial assessing recent articles about Canada in periodicals abroad.

G45.5  “A City of Peace,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial considering the suggestion of Arthur Slaght (MP for Parry Sound) that a City of Peace be created in Canada as a home for the new world peace organization and suggesting that in all likelihood the organization would be based in Europe and that its success would depend on goodwill, not on location.

G44.39  “Decision in Quebec,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 August 1944, p. 4. Editorial about the provincial election in Quebec that day.

G45.6  “Dogs and Vivisection,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial supporting the use of vivisection because of scientific benefits.

G44.40  “Memorial to Stephen Leacock,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 August 1944, p. 4. Editorial about Orillia’s changing attitude toward Leacock.

G45.7  “Prelude to an Election,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial reviewing the events that led to the dissolution of the provincial House.

G44.37  “Taxing Merchant Seamen,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 August 1944, p. 4. Editorial about the iniquity of taxing merchant seamen when they are serving outside home waters.

G44.41  “Marriage As a Career,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 September 1944, p. 4.

G45.8  “The Bitter Tea of Bruce Hutchison,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial re the “billy can” tea described by Canadian journalist Bruce Hutchison.



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G45.9  “‘It’s a Long Way to Go,’” Peterborough Examiner, 4 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the death of Bert Feldman, who wrote the World War I song “Tipperary.” G45.10  “A Left-Handed Compliment,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial re the application of lines from Milton’s Paradise Lost to Winston Churchill in a British advertisement — lines originally applied to Satan. G45.11  “Reformatories Which Do Not Reform,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial. G45.12  “Control and Subsidy,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial about the need for control accompanying subsidy “for no government can give assistance to certain forms of production without imposing conditions.” G45.13  “The Germans Can Still Joke,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial. G45.14  “Grounds for Dissension,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial about the inevitability of dissension among the forty United Nations. G45.15  “A Hint for Next Easter,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial advocating the revival of the nineteenth-century habit of dying and etching eggs at Easter. G45.16  “The Clandestine General Staff,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial about the importance of destroying the German General Staff. G45.17  “The Final Campaign,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial re the final campaign of World War II in Europe. G45.18  “Mitch Hepburn Rides Again,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial approving the return of Mitchell F. Hepburn to the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party. G45.19  “Apple Juice,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by Canadian manufacturers of apple juice saying that they hope to increase the popularity of their drink after the war. G45.20  “The Comic Strip Approach,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial taking issue with criticisms of the directions sent out by the Department of National Health and Welfare explaining how to fill out applications for Family Allowances. G45.21  “Governments and ‘Public Relations,’” Peterborough Examiner, 7 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial arguing

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against the use of public relations officers by Canadian governments. G45.22  “A Potentially Dangerous Change,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 April 1945, p. 4. Editorial about the change in the Quebec Elections Act by which a voter is no longer defined as “a British subject by birth or naturalization” but rather as “of Canadian nationality.” The concern is that, for French Canadians, the word “Canadien” has a meaning different from that of the word “Canadian” in the other provinces and might be used to bar English-speaking citizens of Quebec not born in this country from voting.

G45.23  “Victory Loan Plays Planned,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 April 1945, p. 9. Announcement of a series of three 15-minute radio plays to be presented over CHEX. They were written especially for the Eighth Victory Loan Campaign by “Samuel Marchbanks” (Davies), and directed by Brenda Davies. G45.24  “On Being Quoted,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 May 1945, p. 4. Editorial about statistics on quotations of Canadian newspapers in other Canadian newspapers. G45.25  “Last Play of Loan to Be Presented,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 May 1945, p. 9. Brief notice re presentation of final play in the eighth Victory Loan Radio Shows that evening on CHEX, “produced by Brenda Davies from special scripts prepared by Samuel Marchbanks” (i.e. Davies). G45.26  “And Again — Letters,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 June 1945, p. 4. Editorial. G45.27  “Monarchy and Democracy,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 July 1945, p. 4. Editorial supporting the combination of constitutional monarchies with elected governments, occasioned by Franco’s announcement that a monarchy should succeed him in Spain, but only if it supports the Falangist movement. G45.28  “Women’s Beverage Rooms,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 July 1945, p. 4. Editorial arguing that liquor should be made available in civilized surroundings to both sexes equally. G45.29  “Bomb,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 August 1945, p. 4. Editorial reflecting on the grim implications of the discovery and use of the atomic bomb. “Having created this monster, who dares to say that we can control it?” G45.30  “A Chance for Real Temperance,” Peterborough

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Examiner, 10 August 1945, p. 4. Editorial on the occasion of the control of “the liquor traffic in Canada” passing from the federal government to the provinces. It argues against conditions that encourage people to drink solely to get drunk and in favour of civilized consumption of pleasant ales and beer and wine in social settings. G45.31  “Spreading the Name and Fame of Peterborough,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 November 1945, p. 4. Editorial re quotation of Examiner material in the U.S.A. and the U.K. G45.32  “War and ‘The Common Man,’” Peterborough Examiner, 11 December 1945, p. 4. Editorial arguing against the notion that war would be abolished if there were “a universal parliament with the Common Man as voter … The Common Man is not much of a thinker. He can be appealed to on sentimental grounds, or on a basis of prejudice, far more easily than he can be persuaded to use his reason.” G45.33  “Job-Centred Education,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 December 1945, p. 4. Editorial supporting an attack by the principal of University College, Toronto, upon “education designed to teach the student a technique by means of which he can gain livelihood, rather [than] to give him a body of wisdom which will show him how to live.” G46.1  “Hector W. Charlesworth,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 January 1946, p. 4. Editorial. G46.2  “Checking on Your Mental Health,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 May 1946, p. 4. Editorial advocating mental checkups from time to time. G46.3  “Reviving the Dominion Drama Festival,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 May 1946, p. 4. Editorial.

Sample Week of Editorials 9-16 December 1946 G46.9  “The Desire to Seem Well-Born,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 December 1946, p. 4. Editorial approving pride in family connections, which asks, “But does an admiration for tradition, for noblesse oblige, and for that which rises above popular mediocrity necessarily reflect a petty spirit?” G46.10  “Give Children the Sources,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 December 1946, p. 4. Editorial approving a book called Charters of Our Freedom containing “the documents upon which our present-day conception of democracy rests, printed in full, with explanatory comments.” G46.11  “Religious Intolerance and Its Fruits,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 December 1946, p. 4. Editorial re intolerance begetting intolerance with regard to the Jehovah’s Witness sect and the Quebec provincial government. G46.12  “Must Bridge the Gaps,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 December 1946, p. 4. Editorial suggesting that “horizons are unlimited” if we “break down the gulf between youth and age, labour and management, and between the cultural groups that exist in the country.” G46.13  “No, We Do Not Have…,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 December 1946, p. 4. Editorial about a misuse of the verb “to have.” Ellipsis in original. G46.14  “They Sound Interesting to Us,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 December 1946, p. 4. Editorial about two British films, namely Men of Two Worlds and Adventure for Two, that had been refused American showings.

G46.4  “Magna Carta Day,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 June 1946, p. 4. Editorial.

G46.15  “All Right, Kilroy; We Know,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 December 1946, p. 4. Editorial urging that the writing of “Kilroy was here” on buildings and sidewalks be given a rest.

G46.5  “Let’s Not Kid Ourselves about Little Theatres,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 June 1946, p. 4. Editorial.

G46.16  “The Defeat of John L. Lewis,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 December 1946, p. 4. Editorial about the defeat of the mining union leader.

G46.6  “Still More about Letters to the Editor,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 July 1946, p. 4. Editorial.

G46.17  “Peterborough Fires,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 December 1946, p. 4. Editorial about the destruction of the Quaker Oats factory 30 years earlier and the DVA hospital the previous week.

G46.7  “Not the last of Gertrude Stein,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 August 1946, p. 4. Editorial. G46.8  “Spreading the Name of Peterborough,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 August 1946, p. 4. Editorial re the Peterborough Examiner being one of the most quoted newspapers in Canada.

G46.18  “Always the Exception,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 December 1946, p. 4. Editorial supporting the teaching of the rules of grammar. G46.19  “The Demeanour of Dr. Shugar,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 December 1946, p. 4. Editorial about a



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scientist investigated by the Kellock-Taschereau Commission but subsequently found to be innocent.

G47.6  “Who Reads Newspapers?” Peterborough Examiner, 5 March 1947, p. 4. Editorial.

G46.20  “Increased Stature for Hecklers,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 December 1946, p. 4. Editorial inspired by Professor Harold Laski’s losing a lawsuit against a newspaper that reported his replies to a heckler.

G47.7  “For Free Exchange of Ideas,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 March 1947, p. 4. Editorial opposing a tariff protecting Canadian magazines, on the ground that “Canada does not need a tariff which may keep publications containing valuable and stimulating reading matter out of the country.”

G46.21  “A Chilling Tax Climate,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 December 1946, p. 4. Editorial about the loss of talent and ability as Canadians emigrate to the United States. G46.22  “‘Nothing Half So Sweet...,’” Peterborough Examiner, 16 December 1946, p. 4. Editorial about the death of Laurette Taylor, star of the long-running melodrama Peg O’ My Heart. Ellipsis in original. G46.23  “Sweet William and Imperious Caesar,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 December 1946, p. 4. Editorial about the head of the musicians’ union in New York declaring that a number of Shakespeare’s plays are musicals.

G47.8  “Our War Pictures,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 March 1947, p. 4. Editorial suggesting that paintings done by World War II artists be circulated in smaller centres before being stored by the National Gallery. G47.9  “What’s Dead Is Dead,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 March 1947, p. 4. Editorial regretting that the attempt to rescue Erse, the ancient language of Ireland, may have come too late. G47.10  “Caged Animals,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 March 1947, p. 4. Editorial about poor conditions in detention homes for boys. G47.11  “Orthodoxy and Absolutism,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 March 1947, p. 4. Editorial.

G47.1  “The United Church Report on Marriage and Divorce,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 February 1947, p. 4. Editorial supporting the “intelligent pragmatism” of the “Report on Christian Marriage and the Christian Home” issued by the Board of Evangelism of the United Church, and approving the view that morality is evolutionary and not static.

Sample Week of Editorials 3-8 March 1947 G47.2  “Germany without Brains,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 March 1947, p. 4. Editorial about the importance of artists in most European countries and the failure of the German artists to oppose the rise of Nazism. G47.3  “A Dangerous Precedent,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 March 1947, p. 4. Editorial opposing an action of the musicians’ union. G47.4  “Let’s Have the Facts about Bell,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 March 1947, p. 4. Editorial about the rival claims of Brantford and Boston to be the home of the invention of the telephone. G47.5  “The Salvation Army Band,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 March 1947, p. 4. Editorial about the excellence of the long-serving local Salvation Army Band occasioned by plans for a new municipal band.

G47.12  “To Teach Boys the Value of Work,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 March 1947, p. 4. Editorial. G47.13  “Germany Resists Reform,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 March 1947, p. 4. Editorial. G47.14  “The Library Report,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 March 1947, p. 4. Editorial re the expansion of the services provided by the Peterborough Public Library. G47.15  “Marked Improvement in Snow Removal,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 March 1947, p. 4. Editorial.

G47.16  “The Bartered Bride,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 May 1947, p. 4. Editorial praising the performance of The Bartered Bride given by the students of the opera school at the Toronto Conservatory of Music and recommending that the production tour major centres in Ontario. G47.17  “A Word about F. J. McCormick,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 May 1947, p. 4. Editorial arguing that if Canada is ever to have a theatre of her own, she will have to produce actors of the ilk of F.J. McCormick, “ready to work themselves to death for wages which a plumber or a carpenter would despise, but loving the theatre with all their hearts.” G47.18  “A Reformer of Church Music,” Peterborough

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Examiner, 5 June 1947, p. 4. Editorial re Sir Sydney Nicholson. G47.19  “Congreve in Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 July 1947, p. 4. Editorial re the visit of a theatrical company headed by John Gielgud presenting Congreve’s Love for Love in several Ontario cities. G47.20  “The Charm of Villainy,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 July 1947, p. 4. Editorial about Punch and Judy shows. G48.1  “Have Missed Much without a Little Theatre,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 January 1948, p. 14. G48.2  “The Film Board’s Annual Report,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 February 1948, p. 4. Editorial commending the Film Board for producing informative, stimulating, entertaining films, which serve Canada’s regions well, all well within its allotted budget.

Sample Week of Editorials 17-24 February 1948 G48.3  “Civil Marriages,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 February 1948, p. 4. Editorial advancing reasons for making provision for civil marriages. (At that time, marriages had to be performed by clergy.) G48.4  “Intellectual Malnutrition in Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 February 1948, p. 4. Editorial about the importance of the arts and of a citizenry interested in the arts. G48.5  “Pipe Dreams about the Federal Surplus,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 February 1948, p. 4. Editorial. G48.6  “Planning for the Hydro Shortage,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 February 1948, p. 4. Editorial. G48.7  “Clemency in Waterloo,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 February 1948, p. 4. Editorial about the watering of liquor by an employee of the LCBO and by the Ontario government. G48.8  “A Newspaper’s Responsibility,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 February 1948, p. 4. Editorial considering the role of a newspaper in its community. G48.9  “The Klan Again,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 February 1948, p. 4. Editorial arguing that “if white people are superior to black ones, that fact will emerge without degrading shows of terrorism” and recalling the brief excursion of the Klan into Canada in “1925 or 1928.” G48.10  “The War of the British Doctors,” Peterborough

Examiner, 20 February 1948, p. 4. Editorial about the National Health Scheme in Britain becoming law and about the opposition of doctors to the scheme. G48.11  “The De Valera Ends,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 February 1948, p. 4. Editorial about Éamon de Valera’s political career in Ireland occasioned by his failure to be re-elected president of the Dail. It quotes punsters as saying that there are “three stages in Ireland’s history – the pagan era, the Christian era and de Valera.” G48.12  “Dangerous Misconceptions about University Education,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 February 1948, p. 4. Editorial taking issue with the view that the children of the wealthy unfairly occupy most places in Canada’s universities. G48.13  “Another Newspaper Responsibility,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 February 1948, p. 4. Editorial observing that it is not surprising that newspapers don’t spend much time on opinions uncongenial to editors and publishers, as “with newsprint at $100 a ton we have to ration our broad-mindedness, without abandoning it entirely.” G48.14  “Canada — A Nation of Joiners,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 February 1948, p. 4. Editorial about the national habit of joining clubs, all of which regularly engage speakers, and urging a rebellion against the custom. G48.15  “What Is the Government’s Attitude toward Censorship?” Peterborough Examiner, 24 February 1948, p. 4. Editorial raising questions about censorship of books and publications entering this country and arguing that “Education, wide reading and a keenly critical mind are required to tell a bad book.”

G48.16  “A National Theatre for Canada?” Peterborough Examiner, 24 March 1948, p. 4. Editorial arguing that Canada will have a national theatre, in time, but that first “we must have hundreds of theatres which are not national, but which are supported by communities which want to see plays.” G48.17  “Death of a Great Singer,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 May 1948, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the death of Cuthbert Kelly, leader of the English Singers. G48.18  “Dear Sir,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 May 1948, p. 4. Editorial about why some letters to the editor can’t be published. G48.19  “Make Centennial Plans for Peterborough



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Sample week of Editorials 1-7 June 1949 G49.3  “Garbage Pick-Up,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 June 1949, p. 4.

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Peterborough Examiner, 7 June 1949, p. 4. Editorial arguing that the passing of the one-room schoolhouse is not to be lamented. G49.10  “Is German Guilt Forgotten?” Peterborough Examiner, 7 June 1949, p. 4. Editorial approving Thomas Mann’s remarks at a reception in Vienna in a library that specialized in books on National Socialism and Fascism. Mann said that Germany would do well “to begin producing books that would replace those in that chamber of horrors” and that the Germans of today “were only too ready to forget their sins.”

G49.11  “Osler Centenary,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 July 1949, p. 4. Editorial on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Sir William Osler, the great Canadian doctor. G49.12  “A Proper National Gallery,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 August 1949, p. 4. Editorial. G49.13  “One Way to Found a National Library,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 August 1949, p. 4. Editorial. G49.14  “Back to Work and the Page,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 September 1949, p. 4. Editorial about the end of holidays and the resumption of regular editorial page columns, including the Marchbanks column, now a correspondence rather than a diary.

G49.4  “Are Vegetarians Superior?” Peterborough Examiner, 2 June 1949, p. 4. Amusing editorial responding to Bernard Shaw’s advocacy of vegetarianism.

G49.15  “A New Crest for Peterborough,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 November 1949, p. 4. Editorial supporting the mayor’s decision to seek a new crest for the city.

G49.5  “Why Canada Honours Victoria,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 June 1949, p. 4. Editorial.

G49.16  “Don’t Lose Sight of St. Nicholas,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 December 1949, p. 4. Editorial.

G49.6  “The Contest for Peterborough West,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 June 1949, p. 4. Editorial considering the merits of the local candidates for election to Parliament in Ottawa and urging citizens to take an interest in the election.

G49.17  “Who Gives Peterborough Its Coat of Arms?” Peterborough Examiner, 27 December 1949, p. 4. Editorial re the College of Heralds in London.

G49.7  “Sensationalism and Bias in the Press,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 June 1949, p. 4. Editorial responding to a resolution of the Incorporated Synod of the Diocese of Toronto regarding “sensational and sordid material in the press.”

G49.18  “A Canadian Cartoon Record,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 December 1949, p. 4. Editorial comment on a book of cartoons by Ivan Glassco called These Were the ’Thirties. G50.1  “The Man Who Changed the Met,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 March 1950, p. 4. Editorial re Edward Johnson.

G49.8  “Uniforms in Public Schools,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 June 1949, p. 4. Editorial arguing for uniforms on the ground that “where all are dressed alike, there can be no distinction of wealth.”

G50.2  “A Great Daughter of Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 April 1950, p. 4. Editorial re actress Julia Arthur.

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G50.3  “The Nakedness of the Doukhobors,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 April 1950, p. 4. Editorial.

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Sample week of editorials 1-7 May 1950.

G50.15  “The Anglicans and the Manichees,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 May 1950, p. 4. Editorial.

G50.4  “Melted Fame in Wax,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 May 1950, p. 4. Editorial about changes in the exhibit at Madame Tussaud’s waxworks in London.

G50.16  “Edward Johnson’s Career,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 June 1950, p. 4. Editorial.

G50.5  “Puritanism in West Germany,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 May 1950, p. 4. Editorial considering the controversy about the nudity of Europa on German five mark banknotes. G50.6  “A Stupid Proposal,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 May 1950, p. 4. Editorial opposing an increase in radio license fees as a means of sending the CBC Times to every radio owner. G50.7  “Has the Modern Parent a Bad Conscience?” Peterborough Examiner, 2 May 1950, p. 4. Editorial arguing that parents should not accept responsibility for their children’s actions, as they cannot live their children’s lives for them. G50.8  “Hollow and Stuffed Men,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 May 1950, p. 4. Editorial about Lord Boyd Orr, Nobel Peace prize winner, who argues that the world’s surpluses must be used to alleviate poverty. G50.9  “Dr. Malan’s Varicose Balloon,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 May 1950, p. 4. Editorial protesting the Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa’s forecast of a change in the title of the King, and his claim that Canada is the agitator for the change. G50.10  “We Cherish the ’ugh,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 May 1950, p. 4. Whimsical editorial about spelling Peterborough thus and not dropping the silent letters. G50.11  “The Australian Experiment,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 May 1950, p. 4. Editorial expressing interest in Australia’s decision to outlaw Communism and commenting on why Canada has not done so. G50.12  “Who Is Reading?” Peterborough Examiner, 4 May 1950, p. 4. Editorial about a Gallop Poll on reading which argues that there is no necessary connection between education and reading. G50.13  “What Would Divorce Reform Mean?” Peterborough Examiner, 5 May 1950, p. 4. Editorial arguing that adoption of more liberal grounds for divorce of the sort in place in England would not jeopardize the sanctity of the home. G50.14  “Annie the War-Monger,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 May 1950, p. 4. Whimsical editorial about the condemnation of “Annie Get Your Gun” by the German Communists as a “war-mongering play.”

G50.17  “Toronto’s Shakespeare Festival,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 June 1950, p. 4. Editorial. G50.18  “When Is a Misquotation?” Peterborough Examiner, 20 June 1950, p. 4. Editorial about the words of the song “The Maple Leaf.”

Sample weeks of Editorials 1-15 July 1950 G50.19  “The I.O.D.E. and Queen Mary’s Rug,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial approving the securing of Queen Mary’s Rug for Canada. G50.20  “Don’t Overdo It,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial about an article in a woman’s magazine on the subject “how to bring up your boy to be masculine and your girl to be feminine.” G50.21  “Stunto,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial about a chemical that retards the growth of grass and eliminates the need for mowing. G50.22  “Chew on the Core of the Kawarthas,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 July 1950, p. 4. Light-hearted editorial about the town of Lindsay attempting to steal from Peterborough the name “Gateway of the Kawarthas.” G50.23  “Time to Change the King’s Visage,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial about the fact that Canadian folding money was designed in 1937 and needs to be updated. G50.24  “We Don’t Want to Be Merchants of Unhappiness,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial about a speech given in New York to the fashion trade advocating that advertisers make women unhappy with their current clothes and eager to buy the new season’s designs. G50.25  “We Smile Sadly,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial about the Liquor Control Board of Ontario revealing that taxes account for half the amount spent on liquor. G50.26  “American Guns for Orchestra,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial about the American Army lending the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington four cannons for a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “1812” Overture.



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G50.27  “Canada’s Most Expensive Export,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial about Canadians taking their skills, intelligence, and education and moving to the U.S. G50.28  “A Stamp for a Great Humourist,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial about the greatness of François Rabelais. Note that while the Examiner’s style usually excludes the “u” in “Humourist,” in this instance it was retained in the title and body of the editorial. G50.29  “What Do They Do in the U.S.A.?” Peterborough Examiner, 8 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial about what ought to be done when soldiers faint while on parade. G50.30  “793 Years of Imprisonment,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial reflections inspired by the sentences imposed on the Sons of Freedom, the fanatical sect of Doukhobors, in British Columbia. G50.31  “The ‘Maple Leaf’ Controversy Ended,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial about the words and musical quality of “The Maple Leaf Forever.” G50.32  “Mounties on Parade,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial applauding the moments where the Mounties appear on horses and in red tunics. G50.33  “Our Shameful Picture Postcards,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial advocating that better post card pictures of the Kawarthas and Peterborough be made available to tourists. G50.34  “Not for Children,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial reflections about the results of a contest to name the ten most boring classics. G50.35  “The Examiner’s New Heading,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial discussing the Examiner’s new heading — Peterborough Examiner (rather than Evening Peterborough Examiner) plus an ornament incorporating the phrase Humani Nihil A Me Alienum Puto by Roman playwright Terence (I am interested in everything human), in Roman, rather than Gothic, lettering. G50.36  “Fines for Speeding,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 July 1950, p. 4. Editorial advocating that speed limits be enforced on the spot rather than in mailed notices of fines.

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G50.37  “On the Margin: About Criticism,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 September 1950, p. 4. Newly titled book review column which ran weekly on Wednesdays. G50.38  “Drawn by College of Heralds City’s New Coat of Arms Insignia of Historical Import,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 October 1950, p. 18. G50.39  “No Timely Joke,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 November 1950, p. 4. Editorial about newspaper jokes. G50.40  “The Death of Julia Marlowe,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 November 1950, p. 4. Editorial. G50.41  “The Old Vic Shines Again,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 November 1950, p. 4. Editorial about the re-opening of the Old Vic theatre in London. G51.1  “Senator Davies Retires,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 January 1951, p. 4. Editorial. G51.2  “Theatre Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 January 1951, p. 4. Editorial about the first issue of the magazine Theatre Canada. G51.3  “St Valentine’s Day February 14th,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 February 1951, p. 4. Editorial about the sentimental and comic valentine cards available 50 years earlier. G51.4  “More Opera for Peterborough,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 March 1951, p. 4. Editorial approving the action of a local movie house in presenting films made from operas.

Sample Week of Editorials 9-14 April 1951 G51.5  “Disparate Court Sentences,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 April 1951, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the inequity of the sentences given to two men guilty of sexual offences. G51.6  “Against Unworthy Citizens,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 April 1951, p. 4. Editorial about amendments to the Canadian Citizenship Act. G51.7  “Only a Fool Steals Paintings,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 April 1951, p. 4. Editorial. G51.8  “Suppressing Professional Gamblers,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 April 1951, p. 4. Editorial arguing that it is wise to legalize gambling to a degree. G51.9  “Divinity Does Not Hedge MacArthur,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 April 1951, p. 4. Editorial assert-

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ing the importance of the primacy of democratically elected governments over military leaders.

10 November 1951, p 4. Editorial about the longevity of jokes.

G51.10  “Any Curb Cruising in Peterborough?” Peterborough Examiner, 13 April 1951, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by a report in the Lethbridge Herald about young men driving slowly beside young women walking on the adjacent sidewalks in the hope of striking up an acquaintanceship.

G51.22  “Coventry Singers on the Air,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 November 1951, p. 4. Editorial about the Singers and the Examiner’s sponsorship of five broadcasts by them.

G51.11  “The Disunited Kingdom,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 April 1951, p. 4. Editorial supporting Scotland’s desire for a greater share in its own government. G51.12  “The Late R.G. Trotter,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 April 1951, p. 4. Editorial tribute occasioned by the death of the head of the department of history at Queen’s University. G51.13  “Proof of Peaceful Intention,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 April 1951, p. 4. Editorial concerning the removal of General MacArthur from his Pacific commands. G51.14  “Is There Such a Thing as an Ordinary Laxative,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 April 1951, p. 4. Editorial about patent medicines and popular belief. G51.15  “Six Men on Our 4,000 Mile-Border,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 April 1951, p. 4. Editorial reflecting on Canada’s undefended border with the United States.

G51.23  “A Hex on Those Who Say ‘Ex,’” Peterborough Examiner, 21 December 1951, p. 4. Editorial taking issue with those who write “Xmas” for “Christmas.” G52.1  “Bibliomania: Brown’s World of Words,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 February 1952, p. 4. Book review of Ivor Brown, I Break My Word. G52.2  “Do You Know Canadian Authors?” Peterborough Examiner, 20 February 1952, p. 4. Editorial reflecting on the list of famous Canadians in the 1952 World Almanac. G52.3  “Why a Drama Festival in Peterborough?” Peterborough Examiner, 21 February 1952, p. 4. Editorial about the choice of Peterborough as locus of the Eastern Ontario Drama Festival. G52.4  “A National Library,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 March 1952, p. 4. Editorial about the government’s plans to establish a National Library and its value to Canada. G52.5  “The Shakespeare Industry,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 March 1952, p. 4. Editorial about the many ways Shakespeare’s legacy brings income to Stratfordupon-Avon and to booksellers.

G51.16  “The Report of the Massey Commission,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 June 1951, p. 5. Editorial.

G52.6  “Drama Festival in Deep Water,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 April 1952, p. 4. Editorial re Dominion Drama Festival needing financial assistance.

G51.17  “Good-Bye, Dear Uncle Tom,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 June 1951, p. 4. Editorial re the centenary of the appearance of the first installment of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

G52.7  “The Globe’s Music Critics,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 April 1952, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the death of Leo Smith, music critic of the Toronto Globe and Mail.

G51.18  “Walter Trier, Artist,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 July 1951, p. 4. Editorial.

G52.8  “The Ballet Festival,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 May 1952, p. 4. Editorial reflecting on the success of the “Canadian Ballet Festival” held recently in Toronto.

G51.19  “He Fed Canada’s Imagination,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 October 1951, p. 4. Editorial about the historical pictures of artist Charles W. Jefferys. G51.20  “Bibliomania,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 October 1951, p. 4. Book review of A.M. Klein, The Second Scroll and Nancy Mitford, The Blessing. Resumption of the book review column with a new title. Davies contributed to this column until December 1952. G51.21  “Old Morning Smile,” Peterborough Examiner,

G52.9  “Leg over Leg toward a National Library,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 May 1952, p. 4. Editorial. G52.10  “Something New for Toronto,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 May 1952, p. 4. Editorial about sponsorship of the arts by service clubs, and notably the Metropolitan Opera Company’s visit to Toronto under the auspices of the Toronto Rotary Club.



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G52.11  “The Success of the Summer Theatres,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 June 1952, p. 4. Editorial.

G52.23  “Letters to the Editor,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 November 1952, p. 4. Editorial.

G52.12  “About Being Quoted,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 July 1952, p. 4. Editorial observing that the frequent quotation of the Examiner in other newspapers makes the paper “the city’s most active and untiring publicity agent.”

G52.24  “Camera on the Archives,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 November 1952, p. 4. Editorial about Canada’s archival collections, their limitations and strengths.

G52.13  “A Blow to the Theatre in Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 September 1952, p. 4. Editorial about the demise of the Montreal theatre company Les Compagnons de St. Laurent.

Sample Week of Editorials 10-15 November 1952 G52.14  “General Eisenhower’s Trip to Korea,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 November 1952, p. 4. Editorial. G52.15  “Labelling the Candidates,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 November 1952, p. 4. Editorial opposing two proposed changes to the Election Act in Ontario: the extension of the election campaign period and the listing of the party affiliation of candidates on the ballot. G52.16  “A Trend toward the Right?” Peterborough Examiner, 11 November 1952, p. 4. Editorial suggesting that the swing to the right in the recent American election is no predictor of the political climate in Canada. G52.17  “Are Canadians ‘Second Bests?’” Peterborough Examiner, 12 November 1952, p. 4. Editorial about Canada’s rejection of men of exceptional ability. G52.18  “A Quaker Call,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 November 1952, p. 4. Editorial commending the Quakers’s emphasis on a personal spiritual life. G52.19  “The Serpent of Regulation,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 November 1952, p. 4. Editorial about the decline in standards of honesty in Britain. G52.20  “A Decline in the Mail Service,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 November 1952, p. 4. Editorial. G52.21  “Dr. Chaim Weizmann,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 November 1952, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the death of the first President of Israel. G52.22  “The Copper’s Nark in Quebec,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 November 1952, p. 4. Editorial about Quebec encouraging citizens to inform on those selling margarine in that province.

G52.25  “Examiner on Microfilm,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 November 1952, p. 4. Editorial announcing that the Examiner is being microfilmed. G52.26  “Our Licentious Soldiery?” Peterborough Examiner, 15 November 1952, p. 4. Editorial about the behaviour of Canadian soldiers in Germany.

G52.27  “Kawartha Literary Pioneers,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 November 1952, p. 4. Editorial to introduce publication in the Examiner of a series of excerpts from Edwin C. Guillet’s unpublished book “Canadian Literary Pioneers.” G52.28  “Durable Old Jokes,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 November 1952, p. 4. Editorial. G52.29  “The Children’s Bibliomania (A Review of Some Books Suitable for Children at Christmas),” Peterborough Examiner, 10 December 1952, p. 4. Book review of E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web; Barbara Leonie Picard, The Odyssey of Homer; Marie Neurath, Let’s Look at the Sky; Richard S. Lambert, North for Adventure; Marianne Macdonald, Black Bass Rock; Marie McPhedran, Cargoes on the Great Lakes; P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins in the Park; Walter R. Brooks, Freddy the Pilot; Lyn Cook, The Bells on Finland Street; and Charles Strong, Ranger’s Arctic Patrol. G52.30  “A Loss to Canadian Letters,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 December 1952, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the death of Dr. John D. Robins of Victoria College. G53.1  “St. David’s Day,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 February 1953, p. 4. Editorial envisioning Wales on 1 March, the festal day of St. David. G53.2  “Why Not Be Original?” Peterborough Examiner, 10 March 1953, p. 4. Editorial urging the Canadian National Exhibition to use Canadian talent in its grandstand show. G53.3  “A Matter for National Pride,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 March 1953, p. 4. Editorial celebrating the Mendelssohn Choir’s thirtieth annual performance of the St. Matthew Passion, conducted by Sir Ernest MacMillan. G53.4  “Too Good and True for Canada?” Peterborough

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Examiner, 27 March 1953, p. 4. Editorial concerning Norman McLaren’s “Neighbours” which won the Oscar for best documentary film, yet the film had never been shown publicly in Canada. G53.5  “Old Masters for the National Gallery,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 March 1953, p. 4. Editorial. G53.6  “Stratford in Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 April 1953, p. 4. Editorial re Shakespeare’s birthday and the Shakespeare Festival that is to be launched that summer in Stratford, on. G53.7  “Year Book of Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 May 1953, p. 4. Editorial. G53.8  “Wild Beasts in Toronto’s Gallery,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 May 1953, p. 4. Editorial about exhibition of Les Fauves. G53.9  “A Canadian Play Wins First Prize,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 May 1953, p. 4. Editorial about a Canadian play winning the Dominion Drama Festival. G53.10  “Welcome to ‘Canada Review,’” Peterborough Examiner, 20 May 1953, p. 4. Editorial re a new weekly, published in England by Roy Thomson. G53.11  “Mr. Guinness’s ‘A’,” Peterborough Examiner 23 May 1953, p. 4. Editorial about Guinness’s stated determination to modify his broad English “a” for Canadian ears. G53.12  “Stratford Scores Again,” Peterborough Examiner 19 June 1953, p. 4. Editorial about plans for 25 afternoon concerts in addition to the planned performances of Shakespeare’s plays in Stratford, on. G53.13  “Horton’s Ability Gives Life to Boudoir Farce,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 June 1953, pp. 9, 15. Review of the Peterborough Summer Theatre’s production of Nina by André Roussin, starring Edward Everitt Horton. G53.14  “The Ivory Tower,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 June 1953, p. 4. Editorial re a speaker at the Canadian Authors Association urging literary persons to come down from their ivory towers. G53.15  “Canada’s Stratford Festival,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 July 1953, p. 4. Editorial.

Sample Week of Editorials 20-25 July 1953 G53.16  “Ghoulish Signs?” Peterborough Examiner, 20 July 1953, p. 4. Editorial reflecting upon the decision

by the Highway Commission in Maine to remove signs marking the place of fatal traffic accidents. G53.17  “Hilaire Belloc,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 July 1953, p. 4. Editorial on the occasion of Hilaire Belloc’s death. G53.18  “End of the Strike,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 July 1953, p. 4. Editorial about the ending of a long strike at the Quaker Oats plant in Peterborough. G53.19  “Maud Adams,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 July 1953, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the death of the actress Maud Adams. G53.20  “The Carter Cracked a Sudden Whip,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 July 1953, p. 4. Editorial about Canada’s two seasons — winter and July. G53.21  “Political Hatred,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 July 1953, p. 4. Editorial opposing attacks on personal character and beliefs of candidates during political campaigns, as “the trouble with dirty politics is that it stains not only the people who are directly connected with it, but it spreads its dirt everywhere, like a drop of ink in a glass of water.” G53.22  “Him Flightful Blore,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 July 1953, p. 4. Editorial quoting a witty column by Nat Gubbins, columnist for the London (England) Express. G53.23  “Scalpel and Pen,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 July 1953, p. 4. Editorial about the illegible handwriting of doctors. G53.24  “St. Laurent Day,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 July 1953, p. 4. Editorial of reflections about the naming of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the modern French for the saint — St. Laurent — and Prime Minister St. Laurent’s choice of 10 August, his name-day, for the election. G53.25  “We Are Polled,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 July 1953, p. 4. Editorial flight of fancy about fluorine, tea, and a pollster. G53.26  “Necrology,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 July 1953, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the deaths of Jan Struther (creator of Mrs. Miniver) and Ruggero Ruggeri, the Italian actor.

G53.27  “The Meaning of 66,000,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 August 1953, p. 4. Editorial about the success of the Stratford Festival.



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G53.28  “Crazy Ontario,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 September 1953, p. 4. Editorial about the number of people in mental institutions. G53.29  “2,231 Idiots,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 September 1953, p. 4. Editorial about the Ontario Hospital School for the mentally defective in Orillia. G53.30  “Opera Comes to Peterborough,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 October 1953, p. 4. Editorial about performances given by the visiting Royal Conservatory Opera. G53.31  “We Need Our Own Critics,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 October 1953, p. 4. Editorial. G53.32  “A Voice from the Past,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 November 1953, p. 4. Editorial re Nathalia Crane, child poetess. G53.33  “Memorial to J.W. Bengough,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 November 1953, p. 4. Editorial about the political cartoonist J.W. Bengough. G53.34  “It Is Also the Negative Sex,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 November 1953, p. 4. Editorial arguing that it would be unwise to have more women in Parliament as “the place of women in public life is predominantly a negative one ... In affairs of state women are playsafers and nay-sayers. It is men who are the visionaries, the magicians who make dreams come true.” G53.35  “Canada’s Great Dissenter,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 November 1953, p. 4. Editorial re J.S. Woods­ worth occasioned by the publication of a biography by his daughter Grace MacInnis.

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G54.1  “The Penal Reform Proposals,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 March 1954, p. 4. Editorial commenting favourably on proposed reforms, especially those to do with mental patients in jail. G54.2  “The New Canadian in Story,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 March 1954, p. 4. Editorial about the appearance of cosmopolitan Canadians as characters in American and British fiction. G54.3  “Insanity in Ontario,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 April 1954, p. 4. Editorial. G54.4  “Preserving Our Sanity,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 May 1954, p. 4. Written in Mental Health Week, this editorial advanced several suggestions about remedying the mental “unbalance” that results in many being institutionalized in Ontario. G54.5  “Canada an Elongated Frieze,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 May 1954, p. 4. Editorial reflecting on an article by English art critic Eric Newton in a current issue of the magazine Canadian Art. G54.6  “The 1954 Drama Festival,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 May 1954, p. 4. Editorial. G54.7  “Stratford’s Second Festival,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 July 1954, p. 4. Editorial. G54.8  “About Being Quoted,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 July 1954, p. 4. Editorial about the Examiner being among the most frequently quoted newspapers in Canada. G54.9  “Honour to B.K. Sandwell,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 July 1954, p. 4. Editorial.

G53.36  “Death of Eugene O’Neill,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 December 1953, p. 4. Editorial. G53.37  “Peterborough’s Nativity Play,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 December 1953, p. 4. Editorial about the upcoming production of the Coventry Nativity Play. G53.38  “Centenary in Owen Sound,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 December 1953, p. 4. Editorial re centenary of the Owen Sound Sun-Times. G53.39  “Beaver in Trouble,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 December 1953, p. 4. Editorial. G53.40  “A Word about Mrs. Traill,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 December 1953, p. 4. Editorial about Catherine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide. G53.41  “A Canadian Theatre Pioneer,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 December 1953, p. 4. Editorial re death of Filmore Sadler of the theatre at Brae Manor, Knowlton, pq.

Sample Week of Editorials 2-8 September 1954 G54.10  “The Late J.S. McLean,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 September 1954, p. 4. Editorial. G54.11  “Our Religious Correspondents,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 September 1954, p. 4. Editorial explaining that the Examiner “cannot undertake to publish letters [on religious matters] which are embittered or narrowly sectarian in their outlook.” G54.12  “An Old Canadian Publishing House,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 September 1954, p. 4. Editorial about the Ryerson Press, which was founded in 1829. G54.13  “White Man’s Magic,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 September 1954, p. 4. Editorial about calories and diet.

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G54.14  “Are We Too Quick to Forget?” Peterborough Examiner, 4 September 1954, p. 4. Editorial arguing that it is unwise to be “too quick to forgive and forget the Germany of Nazi days.” G54.15  “Hypnotism Again,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 September 1954, p. 4. Editorial. G54.16  “The Last Duchess,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 September 1954, p. 4. Editorial about the scrapping of the last of the CPR’s Duchess liners. G54.17  “The Summer Theatre Season,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 September 1954, p. 4. Editorial assessing the 6th season of the Peterborough Summer Theatre.

aminer, 7 February 1955, p. 4. Editorial about the appointment of Theodore Allen Heinrich as director of the Royal Ontario Museum. G55.3  “Little Theatre Triumph,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 February 1955, p. 4. Editorial. G55.4  “Canadian Films,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 February 1955, p. 4. Editorial. G55.5  “National Library,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 March 1955, p. 4. Editorial. G55.6  “Opera in Toronto,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 March 1955, p. 4. Editorial. G55.7  “A Place for the Toothpick,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 March 1955, p. 4. Editorial.

G54.18  “The Lost World of Mutt and Jeff,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 September 1954, p. 4. Editorial affectionately recalling the comic strip “Mutt and Jeff.” G54.19  “Farewell to the Tinkers,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 September 1954, p. 4. Editorial about Hitler’s extermination of half a million European gypsies. G54.20  “Are We to Have a Canada Council?” Peterborough Examiner, 12 November 1954, p. 4. Editorial. G54.21  “Canada’s ‘Uneven’ Literature,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 November 1954, p. 4. Editorial. G54.22  “Our Autumn Broadcasts,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 November 1954, p. 4. Editorial about the Examiner’s sponsorship of a series of radio broadcasts by the Coventry Singers. G54.23  “Stratford Takes Another Forward Step,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 November 1954, p. 4. Editorial about Stratford’s decision to add music to its offerings in 1955. G54.24  “Death of a Pioneer,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 November 1954, p. 4. Editorial about Boris Hambourg. G54.25  “A Master of Hearty Humour,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 December 1954, p. 4. Re the comedian George Robey.

G55.8  “An Art Collector,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 March 1955, p. 4. Editorial about Frank P. Wood. G55.9  “Ontario Government Supports Canadian Talent,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 March 1955, p. 4. Editorial about the exemption of Canadian theatre companies from the entertainment tax. G55.10  “Finer Core of the Gallery,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 April 1955, p. 4. Editorial about Frank P. Wood’s gifts to the Toronto Art Gallery. G55.11  “Mental Illness and Treatment,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 April 1955, p. 4. Editorial. G55.12  “The Plague of Mental Illness,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 April 1955, p. 4. Editorial. G55.13  “The Success of Billy Graham,” Peterborough Examiner, 6 May 1955, p. 4. Editorial. G55.14  “Canadian Culture Costs Money,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 May 1955, p. 4. Editorial. G55.15  “The Return of the Dumbells,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 May 1955, p. 4. Editorial about a group of entertainers that performed for the troops during World War I and continued on the stage until the Depression. G55.16  “Village Treatment for the Retarded,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 May 1955, p. 4. Editorial.

G54.26  “The Last of ‘Poor Butterfly,’” Peterborough Examiner, 20 December 1954, p. 4. Editorial.

G55.17  “What Is a Good Ballad?” Peterborough Examiner, 3 June 1955, p. 4. Editorial.

G55.1  “The Light of Leacock,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 January 1955, p. 4. Editorial about Mavor Moore’s musical comedy Sunshine Town, which was based on Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.

G55.18  “The Coming of Paperbacks,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 June 1955, p. 4. Editorial.

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aminer, 6 August 1955, p. 4. Editorial arguing that any “shrine” to Leacock should be irreverent. G55.21  “Stratford and a National Theatre,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 August 1955, p. 4. Editorial. G55.22  “The Leacock Estate,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 September 1955, p. 4. Editorial expressing relief that Stephen Leacock’s home on Lake Couchiching was then “in the careful hands of Mr. V.C. Wansbrough of Toronto.” G55.23  “Pete McGillen’s Book,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 September 1955, p. 4. Editorial about Pete McGillen, who had been on the staff of the Examiner, and his book, Outdoors. G55.24  “Carleton’s Warts,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 September 1955, p. 4. Editorial about Sir Guy Carleton. G55.25  “All in the Point of View,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 September 1955, p. 4. Editorial about an amusing piece concerning Canada by P.G. Wodehouse in the British magazine Punch. G55.26  “Macbeth on Television,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 September 1955, p. 4. Editorial. G55.27  “Death of a Health Fanatic,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial about Bernarr Macfadden. G55.28  “A New Canadian Export,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial about players from the Stratford Shakespeare Festival appearing at the Edinburgh Festival in 1956 and making a film of its production of King Oedipus.

Sample Week of Editorials 20-26 October 1955 G55.29  “Hush-Hush about Fallout,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial urging the truth be told about the dangers of atomic “fallout” after a nuclear war. G55.30  “The Press Rightly Rebuked,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial about the British Press Council reproving some British papers for their tasteless handling of the story about Princess Margaret and Group Capt. Peter Townsend. G55.31  “The American Invasion,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial about Americans manning the DEW line.

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G55.32  “No Great Canadian Hero,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial about the lack of Canadian heroes. G55.33  “The Passing of the Motbok,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial about liquor rationing and temperance. G55.34  “Perfect Crimes,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial inspired by a claim that only “12 or 13 out of every 100 major crimes in the United States are ever solved.” G55.35  “Distinguished Visitors,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial about the visit of the travelling company of La Comédie-Française to Canada. G55.36  “Spelling Is Important,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial. G55.37  “Far Reaching Supreme Court Decision,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial about the Supreme Court decision that the Montreal by-law demanding observance of six religious holidays is invalid. G55.38  “An Injustice to Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial about Harry Truman’s erroneous claim in his memoirs that Canada was a beneficiary from American Lend-Lease. G55.39  “Born Too Late,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial about being born too late to enjoy the parlour organ. G55.40  “Christ’s Closed Shop,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial about a suspect interpretation of the Gospels by an official of the United Mine Workers’ union. G55.41  “Let the Alliance Use Discretion,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial about the protest of the Lord’s Day Alliance against a series of orchestral concerts scheduled to be given at Hart House in the University of Toronto. G55.42  “Canada’s Big Voice,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial about the importance of great powers acting with generosity toward middlesized powers. G55.43  “General Education Won’t Work Miracles,” Peterborough Examiner, 26 October 1955, p. 4. Editorial arguing that “It is an amiable delusion to suppose that in some ideal future everybody will be able to read intelligently, and write clearly. It takes more than teaching to achieve that; it takes learning; and learning

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takes brains; and some people have less brains than others.”

G55.44  “Virgin Births,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 November 1955, p. 4. Editorial. G55.45  “Mounting Insanity in Ontario,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 November 1955, p. 4. Editorial. G55.46  “Stratford’s New Tent,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 December 1955, p. 4. Editorial about the design for the permanent theatre in Stratford, on. G55.47  “The Positive Approach,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 December 1955, p. 4. Editorial supporting the idea of parole. G55.48  “No Roses for Spencer,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 December 1955, p. 4. Editorial about Platt Spencer, proponent of a method of handwriting based on “free-arm movement.” G56.1  “A Canadian First,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 January 1956, p. 4. Editorial about Christopher Marlowe and the Toronto production of his play Tamburlaine the Great. G56.2  “No, Not Dead,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 January 1956, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the death of H.L. Mencken. G56.3  “The Fate of ‘Tamburlaine,’” Peterborough Examiner, 3 February 1956, p. 4. Editorial about the Stratford Festival’s production of Tamburlaine closing in New York after two and a half weeks. G56.4  “The Aristocratic Virtues of a University,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 February 1956, p. 4. Editorial. G56.5  “Heine,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 February 1956, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the hundredth anniversary of the death of Heinrich Heine on 17 February 1856.

Sample Week of Editorials 19-24 March 1956 G56.6  “The Knowledge Tax,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 March 1956, p. 4. Editorial supporting UNESCO’s battle against tariff and trade restrictions on books, magazines, and newspapers on the ground that the spreading of knowledge is essential if “we are to bring the uncommitted millions of the world into the camp of democracy.”

G56.7  “Remember the Taxes,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 March 1956, p. 4. Editorial discussing per capita spending on tobacco, alcoholic drinks, and formal education in Canada, arguing the no comparisons should be made until taxes are removed from the numbers. G56.8  “Underestimating the Young,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 March 1956, p. 4. Editorial about a letter in the New York Times which expressed concern that a school board in New York State had refused to allow senior students to subscribe to the New York Times because that newspaper was “a little too lofty for the average high school student.” G56.9  “Peterborough Textbook Makers,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 March 1956, p. 4. Editorial complimenting the local authors of a text for use in Grade 7 English composition and grammar classes. G56.10  “Polite Police,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 March 1956, p. 4. Editorial taking a skeptical look at a report of excessively polite police behaviour in communist China. G56.11  “A Sign of Confidence,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 March 1956, p. 4. Editorial about the University of Western Ontario distinguishing itself by “setting up the first chair in Canadian Literature in the world.” G56.12  “Divorce Crusader,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 March 1956, p. 4. Editorial commending Senator W.M. Aseltine for his crusade to modernize divorce laws in Canada. G56.13  “Sad Relics of Time Past,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 March 1956, p. 4. Editorial about the poor quality of railway and bus stations and airports in Canada. G56.14  “Fishy Story about Mr. Massey,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 March 1956, p. 4. Editorial twitting the Canadian Press for speaking of the Governor-General’s “bouncing ride behind 155 muskies.” G56.15  “How to Beautify Ottawa,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 March 1956, p. 4. Editorial arguing that Ottawa should follow the example of Baron Georges Haussmann, who turned Paris into a beautiful city at the invitation of Napoleon III. G56.16  “Nice Nellyism in High Places,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 March 1956, p. 4. Editorial about the British press being asked not to report reactions of the Royal Family to one of the sketches in a review at the Garrick Theatre in London. G56.17  “Showing Our Flag,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 March 1956, p. 4. Editorial approving the visit of Vin-



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cent Massey, Canada’s Governor General, to the far northwest and Arctic regions of the country.

G56.18  “The Old Religion,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 March 1956, p. 4. Editorial about “the old Celtic religion which covered Northern Europe before the coming of Christianity” and its survival in fragmentary ways. G56.19  “Money for Paintings,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 March 1956, p. 4. Editorial about National Gallery acquisitions. G56.20  “Sir Ernest Macmillan,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 April 1956, p. 4. Editorial. G56.21  “Back-Chat with the Newspapers,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 April 1956, p. 4. Editorial about the state of Canadian literature. It also urges newspapers to improve their standard of writing. G56.22  “An Upsurge of Faith Healing,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 April 1956, p. 4. Editorial about the potential value of combining prayer and spiritual comfort with modern medicine. G56.23  “Is Your Poole Safe?” Peterborough Examiner, 14 May 1956, p. 4. Editorial about the current value of T.W. Poole’s A Sketch of the Early Settlement & Subsequent Progress of the Town of Peterborough. G56.24  “Drink and the Drama,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 May 1956, p. 4. Editorial about the fuss after the President of the Dominion Drama Festival urged its friends to patronize Calvert Distillers, Ltd., supporters of the Festival. G56.25  “Film Industry for Canada?” Peterborough Examiner, 23 May 1956, p. 4. Editorial. G56.26  “Stratford’s Fourth Festival,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 June 1956, p. 4. Editorial. G56.27  “The Hand-Set Days,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 June 1956, p. 4. Editorial about early newspaper offices. G56.28  “Eighty-Nine Tomorrow,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 June 1956, p. 4. Editorial about Canada’s 89th birthday. G56.29  “Summer Theatre: Theatre Group Presents Classic of This Century,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 July 1956, p. 13. Review of production of J.M. Barrie’s Dear Brutus. G56.30  “At the Forks of the Grand,” Peterborough Ex-

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aminer, 7 July 1956, p. 4. Editorial book review of Donald A. Smith’s book about Paris, on called At the Forks of the Grand. G56.31  “Canada Stirs in Her Sleep,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 August 1956, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by a conference at the Mount Allison Summer Institute concerning Canada’s intellectual and artistic situation. G56.32  “Why Shouldn’t the CBC Be Cultural?” Peterborough Examiner, 25 August 1956, p. 4. Editorial responding to criticism of “cultural” programs presented by the CBC. G56.33  “German Humiliation,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 October 1956, p. 4. Editorial primarily about Thomas Mann’s novel Dr. Faustus. G56.34  “Remembering Old Readers,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 October 1956, p. 4. Editorial. G56.35  “The Articles of His Trade,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 October 1956, p. 4. Editorial about the old apprenticeship system for printers. G56.36  “The Solid Gold Toothpick,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 November 1956, p. 4. Editorial. G56.37  “A Book with Local Interest,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 November 1956, p. 4. Editorial book review of C.T. Currelly, I Brought the Ages Home. G56.38  “National Benefit and Personal Kindness,” Peterborough Examiner, 17 December 1956, p. 4. Editorial about Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. G57.1  “They Chose the Wrong Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 March 1957, p. 4. Editorial about St. David and Pelagius. G57.2  “New Canadian Quarterly,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 March 1957, p. 4. Editorial. G57.3  “The English and the Celts,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 March 1957, p. 4. Editorial reflecting on the failure of the English to value the Celts. G57.4  “Keener Broadcasting?” Peterborough Examiner, 30 March 1957, p. 4. Editorial inspired by the Fowler Commission’s recommendation that an independent body be set up to regulate private radio and TV stations and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. G57.5  “The Last of the Dumbells,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 April 1957, p. 4. Editorial about the death of Al Plunkett. G57.6  “An Experience of Critics,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 April 1957, p. 4. Editorial about the critical acclaim meted out to the Crest Theatre’s production

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of J.B. Priestley’s The Glass Cage in London’s West End. G57.7  “Nostalgia for Culture,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 May 1957, p. 4. Editorial reflecting on the state of culture in Canada as compared to Europe. G57.8  “Touche, Miss Dynowska,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 May 1957, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by comments made by a ballerina about the conditions the National Ballet meets on tour in Ontario. G57.9  “Nobody Is Just a Parent,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 June 1957, p. 4. Editorial. G57.10  “Ever the Wide World Over,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 June 1957, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the death of Petulengro, king of Britain’s gypsies. G57.11  “Fifth Stratford Festival,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 July 1957, p. 4. Editorial. G57.12  “A Library for Stratford,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 July 1957, p. 4. Editorial about the donation of a Fourth Folio of Shakespeare’s plays by Sydney Fisher of Montreal to the Stratford Festival. G57.13  “Are You Short of Zest?” Peterborough Examiner, 17 July 1957, p. 4. Editorial about books that “promise to provide their readers with splendid secrets of life.” G57.14  “Readers without Royalties,” Peterborough Examiner, 31 July 1957, p. 4. Editorial about iniquity of the lending of books by public libraries without compensation to authors. G57.15  “Canadian Music at Stratford,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 August 1957, p. 4. Editorial. G57.16  “A Little Less Steam,” Peterborough Examiner, 9 August 1957, p. 4. Editorial about Robert Weaver’s assertions concerning the quality of Canadian journalism and writing.

Sample Week of Editorials 19-24 August 1957 G57.17  “Is This Borrowing Trouble?” Peterborough Examiner, 19 August 1957, p. 4. Editorial questioning the concern in the United States about the approach of Asiatic influenza. G57.18  “Savage Suffering,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 August 1957, p. 4. Editorial about a baby gorilla at the Riverdale Zoo that died because it was unhappy. G57.19  “A Blow for Originality,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 August 1957, p. 4. Editorial about the ruling of an Ontario Supreme Court Judge that house designs

come within the scope of the Copyright Act, “and that you may not copy somebody else’s house — not even if you make a few minor alterations.” G57.20  “H.A. Littledale, Reporter,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 August 1957, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the death of Harold A. Littledale, for many years a leading reporter with the New York Times. He got his start with the Examiner. G57.21  “The Average Woman,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 August 1957, p. 4. Editorial commenting skeptically about the setting of standardized measurements for the “off-the-hook” dressmaking trade in Britain. G57.22  “The Sons Are Staying,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 August 1957, p. 4. Editorial about the waning of the desire of the Sons of Freedom or Doukhobors to return to Russia. G57.23  “Canada Council Shows Its Hand,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 August 1957, p. 4. Editorial about the Canada Council’s decision to subsidize 300 worthy individual Canadians rather than groups or associations. G57.24  “Christian Britain,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 August 1957, p. 4. Editorial taking issue with a magazine’s characterization of Britain as no longer Christian. G57.25  “Asiatic ’Flu as a Bugaboo,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 August 1957, p. 4. Editorial. G57.26  “In-Agin, Out-Agin, Finnegan,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 August 1957, p. 4. Editorial centred on the idea that “It is sobering for us to recognize that the colonization and settlement of this country depended, to a great degree, on people who simply did not have the money to go home.” G57.27  “Liquor Laws and Common Sense,” Peterborough Examiner, 23 August 1957, p. 4. Editorial inspired by a man being convicted of the offence of drinking beer in his own back garden, when liquor could be consumed legally only in a dwelling. G57.28  “Where Does Impudence Begin?” Peterborough Examiner, 23 August 1957, p. 4. Editorial inspired by an editorial in the London Evening Standard warning the 27-year-old Princess Margaret that she would soon be an old maid. G57.29  “Great Paintings to Visit Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 24 August 1957, p. 4. Editorial relishing the news that a fine exhibition of British 18th-century paintings is soon to visit Eastern Canada.



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G57.30  “The Critics Criticised,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 September 1957, p. 4. Editorial about the demand for severity in the criticism of Stratford’s productions by the St. Thomas Times-Journal. G57.31  “Touchy Minorities,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 September 1957, p. 4. Editorial about the removal of Huckleberry Finn from the list of books approved for reading in New York schools. G57.32  “The TSO Comes to Peterborough,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 October 1957, p. 4. Editorial. G57.33  “Necessity of the CBC,” Peterborough Examiner, 4 October 1957, p. 4. Editorial. G57.34  “The New Coat of Arms,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 October 1957, p. 4. Editorial about Canada’s coat of arms. G57.35  “A One-Man Cultural Resource,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 November 1957, p. 4. Editorial about the historian Edwin C. Guillet. G57.36  “She Needed Her Furs,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 December 1957, p. 4. Editorial reflecting on poor attendance at the performances of the touring review My Fur Lady in Peterborough. G57.37  “Canada Council at Work,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 December 1957, p. 4. Editorial. G57.38  “The Canadian Flavour,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 December 1957, p. 4. Editorial about the cold reception given to Mary Jukes’s play Be My Guest in London, England. G57.39  “Guillet to Archives,” Peterborough Examiner, 16 December 1957, p. 4. Editorial about the appointment of Edwin C. Guillet to the archives branch of the Ontario Department of Education.

Sample Week of Editorials 1-7 January 1958 Probably none.

G58.3  “Death of a Wise Man,” Peterborough Examiner, 20 February 1958, p. 4. Editorial about psychoanalyst Dr. Ernest Jones. G58.4  “Maundy Thursday,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 April 1958, p. 4. Editorial. G58.5  “Brilliant Tribute to B.C.,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 May 1958, p. 4. Editorial re Reginald Eyre Watters, ed., British Columbia: A Centennial Anthology. G58.6  “The Last of George Jean Nathan,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 May 1958, p. 4. Editorial. G58.7  “Hey! A Fossil,” Peterborough Examiner, 21 June 1958, p. 4. Editorial about a proposed dictionary of Canadian English. G58.8  “A Canadian Success,” Peterborough Examiner, 30 June 1958, p. 4. Editorial about the sixth Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, on. G58.9  “Robert W. Service,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 September 1958, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the death of poet Robert W. Service. G58.10  “William Breyfogle,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 September 1958, p. 4. Editorial. G58.11  “Broadcasting and Canadian Identity,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 November 1958, p. 4. Editorial. G58.12  “Stockingful of Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 2 December 1958, p. 4. Editorial re New Canadian Library reprint series. G59.1  “Mackenzie King’s Diaries,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 January 1959, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the publication of the first volume of Mackenzie King’s official biography. Though not named in the editorial, this was doubtless Robert R. MacGregor Dawson, William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Political Biography, 18741923 (1958). G59.2  “Looking at Canada,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 January 1959, p. 4. Editorial review of F. St. George Spendlove, The Face of Early Canada. G59.3  “A Triumph on Folio,” Peterborough Examiner, 15 January 1959, p. 4. Editorial about the CBC-TV production of the opera Peter Grimes.

G58.1  “Burns’ Nicht,” Peterborough Examiner, 25 January 1958, p. 4. Editorial. G58.2  “The Seventeenth Doll and Ourselves,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 February 1958, p. 4. Editorial about the failure of the Australian play, The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, on Broadway.

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G59.4  “Making Canada Known,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 February 1959, p. 4. Editorial re Canada Council distributing 300 copies of The Arts in Canada among foreign libraries.

gium, and Japan which are meant to create marriage opportunities for spinsters.

G59.5  “Edward Johnson,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 April 1959, p. 4. Editorial.

G60.4  “Sylvia Pankhurst,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 October 1960, p. 4. Editorial about the saintliness of this activist who battled, like her mother before her, for women’s rights.

G59.6  “The Mighty Melodist,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 August 1959, p. 4. Editorial re George Frideric Handel.

G60.5  “Canadian Composer,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 October 1960, p. 4. Editorial about composer Healey Willan on his eightieth birthday.

G59.7  “Rare Canadian,” Peterborough Examiner, 1 September 1959, p. 4. Editorial re the writer and speaker Louis Blake Duff.

G61.1  “Canada’s Honours List,” Peterborough Examiner, 3 January 1961, p. 4. Editorial about Canadians of note, inspired by the Queen’s New Year’s Honours.

G59.8  “A Quiz for the Quizzers,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 September 1959, p. 4. Editorial.

G61.2  “Literary Centennials,” Peterborough Examiner, 11 January 1961, p. 4. Editorial.

G59.9  “The Man of Culture,” Peterborough Examiner, 14 October 1959, p. 4. Editorial re Bernard Berenson.

G61.3  “Dr. MacMillan,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 March 1961, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the death of the Reverend Alexander MacMillan, “the most powerful single force in revolutionizing Canada’s attitude toward hymns and hymn singing.”

Sample Week of Editorials November 1959 None. (Davies was accompanying his play “Love and Libel” en route to New York).

G59.10  “Massey College,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 December 1959, p. 4. Editorial about the Massey Foundation’s gift to the University of Toronto of Massey College, Canada’s first graduate college.

G61.4  “Kane Was Able,” Peterborough Examiner, 28 March 1961, p. 4. Editorial about Jack Kane, fine Canadian arranger and exuberant leader of big jazz bands.

Sample Week of Editorials 12-17 June 1961 Probably none.

G60.1  “Albert Camus: 1913-60,” Peterborough Examiner, 7 January 1960, p. 4. Editorial. G60.2  “Laments for Personal Journalism,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 February 1960, p. 4. Editorial partly about the bad old days of personal journalism and partly a review of W.A. Craick, A History of Canadian Journalism, vol. 2.

G61.5  “Our Composers,” Peterborough Examiner, 10 July 1961, p. 4. Editorial about the success of the Canadian Music Centre in putting “Canadian music on the repertoires of artists and orchestras around the world.” G61.6  “Printing Anniversary,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 July 1961, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the 75th anniversary of the use of Linotype machines.

Sample Weeks of Editorials May 1960 Probably none.

G60.3  “Feast of St. Antony,” Peterborough Examiner, 13 June 1960, p. 4. Editorial about rituals in Spain, Bel-

G61.7  “Pancho,” Peterborough Examiner, 12 September 1961, p. 4. Editorial about Leo Carillo. G61.8  “Lorne Pierce,” Peterborough Examiner, 29 November 1961, p. 4. Editorial. G62.1  “‘S. M.-P.,’” Peterborough Examiner, 5 June 1962, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the death of Samuel Morgan-Powell, drama critic in Montreal.



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G62.2  “At the Stratford Festival: Macbeth 356 Years Old,” Peterborough Examiner, 8 June 1962, p. 4. Editorial about historical performances of Macbeth. G62.3  “‘The Doctor,’” Peterborough Examiner, 6 July 1962, p. 4. Editorial about the popular Victorian picture “The Doctor” by Luke Fildes.

G62.8  “Legal Diagnosis,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 December 1962, p. 4. Editorial questioning whether the courts should have the power to decide whether a man is mentally ill.

G62.4  “Canadian Hand,” Peterborough Examiner, 19 July 1962, p. 4. Editorial about Canadian handwriting.

Sample Weeks of Editorials January-February 1963

G62.5  “e.e. cummings,” Peterborough Examiner, 5 September 1962, p. 4. Editorial occasioned by the death of the poet Edward Estlin Cummings.

Probably none.

G62.6  “Insanity in Law,” Peterborough Examiner, 22 October 1962, p. 4. Editorial.

Sample Week of Editorials 20-25 May 1963 Probably none.

Sample Week of Editorials 17-22 December 1962 G62.7  “Charles Laughton,” Peterborough Examiner, 18 December 1962, p. 4. Editorial.

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Bulgarian H1  Petiíà v kareto or Peti‹iŒa v kareto. (Fifth Business). Trans. Snezhana Mileva. Bezkraı˘na proza. Pleven, [Bulgaria]: Lege Artis, 2005. 316 pp. source: amicus; worldcat. Catalan H2  El cinquè en joc. (Fifth Business). Trans. Carles Miró. Intro. Valentí Puig. Libros del Asteroide, Català 1. Barcelona: Libros del Asteroide, 2007. i-ix, x-xiv, 1-7, 8-365, 1-5. source: otmc; pend. H3  Trilogia de Deptford: El cinquè en joc; La mantícora, El món dels prodigis. (The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders). Trans. Carles Miró and Ferran Ràfois. Narrativa (Empúries) 360. Barcelona: Empúries, 2009. 876 pp. source: University Union Catalogue of Catalonia. Chinese H4  Yin chê k’uang ko. (What’s Bred in the Bone). Trans. Tsung-hsuan Lu. Taipei: Huang kuan, 1986. 416 pp. source: amicus; National Central Library, Taiwan. Croatian H5  Vedri dusi--. (High Spirits). Trans. Giga Gracˇ an. Zagreb: ArTresor naklada, 2004. 192 pp. source: amicus; National Library of Croatia. Czech H6  Krev se nezaprˇe. (What’s Bred in the Bone). Trans. Alena Jindrová-Špilarová. Klub Cˇ tenárˇu˚, Svazek 697, Klub Dobrého Cˇ tení. Prague: Odeon, 1994. 1-10, 11452, 1-4 pp. source: otmc; pend. H7  Pátá postava: Deptfordská trilogie. (Fifth Business: The

Deptford Trilogy). Trans. Zuzana Kulhánková. Ostrava, [Czech Republic]: Brighton & Co. International Ltd., 1994. 1-6, 7-299, 1-5 pp. Some sources give the publishing information as Ostrava: Sfinga, 1994. source: lac (four copies); otmc; pend. H8  Vedri dusi--. (Selections from High Spirits, One Half of Robertson Davies, and The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks). Trans. Giga Grašcan. Isvan serije 3. Zagreb: ArTresor Naklada, 2004. 192 pp. source: amicus. Danish H9  Den Femte Rolle. (Fifth Business). Trans. Karen Mathiasen. [Copenhagen]: Chr. Erichsen, 1985. 300 pp. Reprinted in 1996. source: Index Translationum (1985); lac (two copies 1996); otmc (1996); otutf (1996); pend (1996); rlin (1985); Royal Library of Denmark (1985). H10  Råbet fra Balkonen. (The Manticore). Trans. Karen Mathiasen. [Copenhagen]: Chr. Erichsen, 1986. 1-6, 7-285, 1-3 pp. Reprinted in 1996. source: lac (1996); otmc (1996); otutf (1996); pend (1986 and 1996). H11  Undernes verden. (World of Wonders). Trans. Karen Mathiasen. [Hellerup]: Chr. Erichsen, 1987. 1-6, 7-336, 1-2 pp. Reprinted [Copenhagen] in 1996. source: lac (two copies 1987, 1996); otmc (1987 and 1996); otp (two copies 1987); otutf (1987 and 1996); pend (1996). H12  De oprørske Engle. (The Rebel Angels). Trans. Thomas Jørgensen and Alis Friis Caspersen. [Copenhagen]: Chr. Erichsen, 1994. 1-4, 5-296 pp. source: lac (three copies); otmc; otp; otutf; pend. H13  Hvad Man i Ungdommen nemmer. (What’s Bred in the Bone). Trans. Hans Peter Rolfsen. Copenhagen: Chr. Erichsen, 1995. 1-7, 8-399, 1 pp. source: lac (two copies); otmc; otutf; pend.



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H14  Orfeus’ Lyre. (The Lyre of Orpheus). Trans. Hans Jørgen Lassen. [Copenhagen]: Chr. Erichsen, 1996. 1-7, 8-380, 1-2 pp. source: lac (two copies); otmc; otutf; pend. H15  En klog Mand. (The Cunning Man). Trans. Charlotte Grubb. [Copenhagen]: Chr. Erichsen, 1997. 1-6, 7-338, 1-8 pp. source: lac (two copies); otmc (two copies); pend. H16  Mord og hvileløse Ånder. (Murther & Walking Spirits). Trans. Charlotte Grubb. Copenhagen: Chr. Erichsen, 1999. 1-8, 9-270, 1-2 pp. source: lac (two copies); otutf. Dutch H17 Een Lied voor Monica: Een jonge vrouw vecht voor haar carrière. (A Mixture of Frailties). Trans. C. van Eijsden. The Hague: Ad. M.C. Stok, Zuid-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1958. 1-4, 5-344 pp. Reprinted in [1963]. source: amicus ([1963]); lac (1958); otmc (1958); otutf (1958); pend (1958). H18  “Nieuwsgierigheid, dat is het geheim” (“Curiosity, That’s the Secret”), Het Beste uit (Reader’s Digest) (June 1975): 37-9. A condensation of the address Davies delivered on 26 October 1974 at convocation at Trent University in Peterborough, on. H19  Het Vijfde Plan. (Fifth Business). Trans. Paul Syrier. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, 1987. 1-6, 7-283, 1-5 pp. source: otmc; otp; pend. H20  De Manticor. (The Manticore). Trans. Paul Syrier. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, 1988. 1-4, 5-274, 1-6 pp. Some sources give the date as 1987. source: lac (two copies); otutf. H21  De Wondere Wereld. (World of Wonders). Trans. Paul Syrier. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, 1988. 1-4, 5-329, 1-7 pp. source: lac (three copies); otp; pend. Estonian H22  Viies Osaline. (Fifth Business). Trans. Mati Soomre. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1990. 1-7, 8-270, 1-2 pp. source: otmc. H23  Mässajad inglid (The Rebel Angels). Trans. Tõnis Leemets. [Tallinn]: Varrak, 1997. 1-3, 4-324, 1-4 pp. source: otmc; pend. H24  Mis on Lihas ja luus. (What’s Bred in the Bone).

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Trans. Riina Jesmin. [Tallinn]: Varrak, 1999. 455, 1 pp. source: amicus; National Library of Estonia; worldcat. Finnish H25  Viides rooli. (Fifth Business). Trans. Marja Alopaeus. Keltainen kirjasto 185. Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Tammi, 1984. 1-4, 5-328, 1-8. (pp. 5-8 “Keltainen kirjasto” list.) Some copies give the date of publication as 1985. source: lac (four copies); otp. H26  Mikä verissä on. (What’s Bred in the Bone). Trans. Marja Alopaeus. Keltainen kirjasto 211. Helsinki: Kunstannusosakeyhtiö Tammi, 1987. 1-8, 9-464, 1-8 pp. (pp. 3-7 “Keltainen kirjasto” list). source: otmc; otp; otutf; pend. H27  Velho mieheksi. (The Cunning Man). Trans. Marja Alopaeus. Keltainen kirjasto 301. Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Tammi, 1997. 1-10, 11-541, 1-11 pp. (pp. 2-8 “Keltainen kirjasto” list). source: lac (two copies); otmc; pend. French H28  Le jeu du centenaire. (The Centennial Play). With W.O. Mitchell, Arthur L. Murphy, Eric Nicol, Yves Thériault. Translator not named. Intro. Leon Major. Music by Keith Bissell. [Ottawa]: La Commission du Centenaire, [1967?]. i-vii, 1, 2-75, (a)-(h). source: otp. H29  Cinquième emploi. (Fifth Business). Trans. Arlette Francière. Collection des deux solitudes. Montreal: Le cercle du livre de France ltée, 1975. 1-8, 11-349, 1-3 pp. In some copies the final numbered page is 351, which appears not on the final page of text but on the table of contents page. Reprinted as L’objet du scandale. Roman Mazarine. [Paris]: Éditions Mazarine, 1987. Reprinted again as L’objet du scandale: La trilogie de Deptford I. (Fifth Business: The Deptford Trilogy I). Romans Payot. Paris: Éditions Payot, 1989. Reprinted again as L’objet du scandale: roman. Points R410. Paris: Éditions Payot, 1989 on title and copyright page; Seuil, [19]90 or [19]91 on back cover. Reprinted again as L’objet du scandale. Collection de littérature étrangère 02990520. Paris: Rivages, 1993. Reprinted again Rivages poche / Bibliothèque étrangère 234. Paris: Rivages, 1998. Index Translationum gives the publication date as 1997. source: lac (four copies 1975, two copies 1987, two copies Seuil [19]90 or [19]91, and two copies 1993); otmc (1989 and 1998); otp (three copies 1975 and

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two copies 1989); otutf (1989); pend (1975, 1987, 1989, Seuil , [19]90 or [19]91, and 1998). H30  Le lion avait un visage d’homme: roman. (The Maniticore). Trans. Claire Martin. Collection des deux solitudes. Montreal: Pierre Tisseyre, 1978. 1-8, 9-323, 1-5 pp. source: lac (four copies); otmc; otp (two copies); otu; otutf; pend. H31  Le monde des merveilles. (World of Wonders). Trans. Claire Martin. Collection des deux solitudes. [Montreal]: Le cercle du livre de France ltée, 1979. 1-7, 10-417, 1-7 pp. source: lac (three copies); otp; otu; otutf; pend. H32  Le manticore: La trilogie de Deptford II. (The Manticore: The Deptford Trilogy II). Trans. Lisa Rosenbaum. Romans Payot. [Paris]: Éditions Payot, 1989. 1-4, 7-355, 1-5 pp. Reprinted as Le manticore: roman. Points R442. Seuil, [19]91 on back cover. Reprinted again as Le manticore: roman, Collection de littérature étrangère 0299-0520. Paris: Rivages, 1993. Reprinted again as Le manticore. Rivages poche / Bibliothèque étrangère 260. Paris: Rivages, 1999. source: lac (two copies [19]91 and two copies 1993); otmc ([19]91 and 1999); otutf (1993); pend (1989, [19]91, and 1999). H33  Les anges rebelles. (The Rebel Angels). Trans. Lisa Rosenbaum. Romans Payot. Paris: Éditions Payot, 1990. 1-4, 7-410, 1-10 pp. Reprinted as Les anges rebelles: roman. Points R525. Seuil, [19]92 on back cover. amicus lists this as [Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1992.] Also reprinted as Les anges rebelles. Rivage poche / Bibliothèque étrangère 435. Paris: Rivages, 2003. source: amicus (2003); lac (two copies 1990); otmc (19[92]); otp ([19]92); otutf ([19]92); pend (1990 and [19]92). H34  Le monde des merveilles: La trilogie de Deptford III. (World of Wonders: The Deptford Trilogy III). Romans Payot. Trans. Lisa Rosenbaum. [Paris]: Éditions Payot, 1990. 1-4, 7-417, 1-3 pp. Reprinted as La trilogie de Deptford III: Le monde des merveilles: roman. Points R491. Seuil, [19]91 on back cover. Reprinted again as Le monde des merveilles. Collection de littérature étrangère 0299-0520. Paris: Rivages, 1994. Reprinted again as Le monde des merveilles. Rivages poche / Bibliothèque étrangère 280. Paris: Rivages, 1999. source: lac (two copies of [19]91, two copies 1994, also 1999); otmc (two copies [19]91); otutf ([19]91); pend (1990, [19]91, and 1999). H35  Un heureux canular: roman (Leaven of Malice). Trans. Colette Tonge. Collection littérature

d’Amérique traduction. Montreal: Éditions Québec / Amérique, 1991. 1-7, 8-327, 1 pp. source: lac (three copies); otp (two copies); otutf; pend. H36  Un homme remarquable. (What’s Bred in the Bone). Trans. Lisa Rosenbaum. [Paris]: Éditions de l’Olivier, 1992. 1-8, 11-475, 1-5 pp. Reprinted as Un homme remarquable: roman. Intro. John Irving. Points R665. Seuil, [19]94 or [19]97 on back cover. source: lac (two copies 1992 and two copies [19]94 or [19]97); otp (two copies 1992); otu ([19]94 or [19]97); otutf ([19]94 or [19]97); pend (1992 and [19]94 or [19]97). H37  La lyre d’Orphée. (The Lyre of Orpheus). Trans. Lisa Rosenbaum. [Paris]: Éditions de l’Olivier, 1993. 1-8, 11-445, 1-3 pp. Reprinted as La lyre d’Orphée: roman. Intro. Christine Savinel. Points P190. [Paris]: Éditions du Seuil, 1996 on copyright page. source: lac (two copies 1993); otmc (1993); otp (1993); otutf (1993 and 1996); pend (1993). H38  Fantômes et cie. (Murther & Walking Spirits). Trans. Hélène Misserly and Lisa Rosenbaum. [Paris]: Éditions de l’Olivier, 1995. 1-10, 13-376, 1-8 pp. Reprinted as Fantômes et cie: roman. Intro. Gérard Meudal. Points P332. Éditions du Seuil, 1997 on copyright page. source: lac (two copies 1995, also 1997); otmc (1995); otutf (1995); pend (1995). H39  Le maître des ruses. (The Cunning Man). Trans. Hélène Misserly. Paris: Éditions de l’Olivier, 1997. 1-10, 13-473, 1-7 pp. source: otmc; otp; otutf; pend. H40  Lire et écrire. (Reading and Writing). Trans. Dominique Issenhuth. L’écritoire. Montreal: Leméac Éditeur, 1999. 1-4, 7-79, 1-5 pp. source: lac (two copies). H41  Entre vous et moi: Lettres 1976-1995. (For Your Eye Alone: Letters 1976-1995). Ed. grant. Trans. Dominique Issenhuth. L’écritoire. Montreal: Leméac   Éditeur, 2002. 1-6, 9-549, 1-3 pp. source: lac (three copies). German H42  Glanz und Schwäche: Roman. (A Mixture of Frailties). Trans. Richard Hoffmann. Vienna: Paul Neff Verlag, 1960. 1-4, 5-465, 1-3 pp. source: lac (two copies); otmc; otutf; pend. H43  Der Fünfte im Spiel: Roman. (Fifth Business). Trans. Maria Gridling. Vienna / Hamburg: Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1984. 1-6, 7-338, 1-2 pp. Reprinted, Munich:



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Goldmann Verlag, 1986. Reprinted Berlin [West], Darmstadt, Vienna: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft; Gütersloh: Bertelsmann-Club, [1986]. source: German National Library (Berlin [1986]); lac (two copies 1984, also Munich 1986); otmc (1984 and Munich 1986); otp (two copies 1984); pend (1984 and Munich 1986).

H52  “Robertson Davies über Politick, Jugend, Erziehung und Bildung, die Entwicklung des Menschen, Religion und Zauberei” (Davies’s opinions on various topics, F75.11) in Wandelnde Schatten: Texte zur Einführung (Frankfurt: Wolfgang Krüger Verlag, 1992), pp. 51-3. No translator specified. source: pend.

H44  Das Fabelwesen: Roman. (The Manticore) Trans. Stefanie Schaffer. Vienna / Hamburg: Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1985. 1-6, 7-327, 1 pp. Reprinted, Munich: Goldmann Verlag, 1987. source: lac (two copies 1985, also 1987); otmc (1987); otp (two copies 1985); pend (1987).

H53  Engel im Kopf: Roman. (The Cunning Man). Trans. Renate Orth-Guttmann. Frankfurt am Main: Wolfgang Krüger Verlag, 1995. 1-10, 11-468, 1-4 pp. Reprinted, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2000. source: lac (two copies 1995, also 2000); otmc (1995); pend (1995 and 2000).

H45  Welt der Wunder: Roman. (World of Wonders). Trans. Stefanie Schaffer. Vienna / Hamburg: Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1986. 1-6, 7-391, 1-3 pp. Reprinted, [Munich]: Goldmann Verlag, 1988. source: lac (three copies 1986); otmc (1986 and 1988); otp (three copies 1986); otutf (1988); pend (1986 and 1988). H46  Rebellische Engel: Roman. (The Rebel Angels). Trans. Stefanie Schaffer. Vienna / Hamburg: Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1987. 1-6, 7-383, 1 pp. source: lac; otp (two copies); pend. H47  Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern: Roman. (What’s Bred in the Bone). Trans. Stefanie Schaffer. Vienna : Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1990. 1-6, 9-435, 1 pp. source: lac (two copies); otmc; otp (two copies); otu; pend. H48  “Das falsche Gespenst” (“The Xerox in the Forgotten Room”) in Kanada erzählt: 17 Erzählungen, trans. with an afterword by Stefana Sabin (Frankfurt: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1992), pp. 82-[97]. source: pend. H49  Wandelnde Schatten: Roman. (Murther & Walking Spirits). Trans. Gesine Strempel. Frankfurt am Main: Wolfgang Krüger Verlag, 1992. 1-10, 11-389, 1-3 pp. source: lac (two copies); otmc; otutf; pend. H50  “Der Autor hat das erste Wort: Das erste Kapitel” (The first section of Murther & Walking Spirits) in Wandelnde Schatten: Texte zur Einführung, trans. Gesine Strempel (Frankfurt: Wolfgang Krüger Verlag, 1992), pp. 11-[43]. source: pend. H51  “Ein Gespräch mit Peter Guttridge” (An interview with Peter Guttridge, F91.5) in Wandelnde Schatten: Texte zur Einführung, trans. Bernd Samland (Frankfurt: Wolfgang Krüger Verlag, 1992), pp. 45-50. source: pend.

Greek H54  Ekptotoi Angeloi: (E trilogia ton Kornis I). (The Rebel Angels: The Cornish Trilogy I). Trans. Kostas Theologou. Synkhrone logotekhnia - Kritike. Athens: Ekdoseis Kritike, 1992. 1-4, 7-399, 1-5 pp. source: otp; pend. H55  Bathia Rizomeno: (E trilogia ton Kornis II). (What’s Bred in the Bone: The Cornish Trilogy II). Trans. Akribe Alexiade. Series: Synkhrone logotekhnia - Kritike. Athens: Ekdoseis Kritike, 1995. 1-7, 8-453, 1-3 pp. source: otmc; pend. H56  E lyra tou Orphea: (E trilogia ton Kornis III). (The Lyre of Orpheus: The Cornish Trilogy III). Trans. Akribe Alexiade. Synkhrone logotekhnia - Kritike. Athens: Ekdoseis Kritike, 1996. 541, [4] pp. source: National Library of Greece catalogue. H57  Magoi kai Therapeutes. (The Cunning Man). Trans. Anna Papastaurou and Phane Mpoumpoule. Series: En plo 24. Athens: Ekdoseis Kritike, 2004. 606, [1] pp. source: amicus; National Library of Greece catalogue. Hungarian H58  Lázadó angyalok. (The Rebel Angels). Trans. Péter Szaffkó. Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó, 2000 (Szekszárd: Szekszárdi Ny.). 471 pp. source: amicus; National Szechenyi Library of Hungary. Italian H59  Il quinto incomodo: romanzo. (Fifth Business). Trans. Attilio Veraldi. La gaja scienza 246. Milan: Longanesi & C., 1988. 1-11, 12-278, 1-2 pp. source: otp (three copies); otutf; pend. H60  Il mondo delle meraviglie. (World of Wonders). Trans.

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Mario Biondi. Narratori della Fenice. Parma: Ugo Guanda Editore, 1991. 1-6, 9-381, 1-3 pp. source: lac; otp (two copies); otutf; pend. H61  Gli angeli ribelli. (The Rebel Angels). Trans. Franca Castellenghi Piazza. Narratori della Fenice. Parma: Ugo Guanda Editore, 1993. 1-4, 7-365, 1-3 pp. The National Central Library Florence gives the publishing information as Milan: CDE, [1993]. source: lac (two copies); otp (two copies). H62  La lira di Orfeo. (The Lyre of Orpheus). Trans. Franca Castellenghi Piazza. Narratori della Fenice. Parma: Ugo Guanda Editore, 1995. 1-8, 11-501, 1-3 pp. source: lac (two copies); otmc; otutf; pend. Japanese H63  Gobanme no otoko. (Fifth Business). Trans. Akio Namekata. Tokyo: Fukutake Shoten, 1991. 1-8, 7-342, 1-2 pp. source: lac (two copies); otmc; pend. Korean H64  Pallan u˘i ch‘oˇnsadu ˇ l. (The Rebel Angels). Trans. Kim Ki-hyo˘p and Yi So˘ng-u ˘ n. Seoul: Cho˘ngusa, 1995. 405 pp. source: worldcat. H65  Sumo˘ innu˘n namja. (The Cunning Man). Trans. Ki-ch‘an Han. 2 vols. [Seoul]: Design House Publishing Co., 1996. 1-4, 5-331, 1-5 pp. and 1-12, 13-345, 1-7 pp. source: otmc; pend. Norwegian H66  Den femte rollen. (Fifth Business). Trans. Arne Thomas Olsen. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1980. 1-8, 9-245, 1-3 pp. source: lac (two copies); otmc; pend. H67  Den gamle Adam. (What’s Bred in the Bone). Trans. Erik Næshagen. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1987. 1-6, 7-410, 1-2 pp. source: lac; otmc; otp (two copies); pend. Polish H68  Pia˛ta osoba dramatu. (Fifth Business). Trans. Maria Skibniewska. Warsaw: Panstwowy Institut Wydawniczy, 1973. 1-6, 7-293, 1-3 pp. amicus gives the publishing information as Warszawa: Pax, 1973, c1970. Reprinted, KIK series. 1990. source: otp (1990); otutf (1973); pend (1973).

H69  Mantykora. (The Manticore). Trans. Maria Skibniewska. Warsaw: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1988. 1-4, 5-293, 1-3 pp. source: otmc; otp (two copies); pend. H70 Swiat Czarów. (World of Wonders). Trans. Maria Skibniewska and Zofia Zinserling. Warsaw: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1989. 1-4, 5-327, 1-5 pp. source: otmc; otp (seven copies); pend. H71  Zbuntowane anioły. (The Rebel Angels). Trans. Konrad Majchrzak. Salamandra. Poznan : Dom Wydawniczy “Rebis,” 1999. 1-4, 5-402, 1-6 pp. source: otmc; pend. H72  Czym skorupka. (What’s Bred in the Bone). Trans. Konrad Majchrzak. Salamandra. Poznan : Don [sic] Wydawniczy “Rebis,” 2000. 477, 1 pp. source: National Library of Poland. H73  Lira Orfeusza. (The Lyre of Orpheus). Trans. Konrad Majchrzak. Salamandra. Poznan : Dom Wydawniczy “Rebis,” 2000. 1-7, 8-508, 1-4 pp. source: otmc; pend. Portuguese H74  O quinto personagem. (Fifth Business). Trans. Celina Cardim Cavalcante. Rio de Janeiro: José Olympio Editora, 1986. 1-9, 4-273, 1 pp. source: lac (three copies); otmc; otutf; pend. H75  Os anjos rebeldes. (The Rebel Angels). Trans. Ângela Lobo de Andrade. Rio de Janeiro: Ediouro, 2000. 1-7, 6-381, 1-5 pp. source: otmc; pend. Russian H76  Mantikora: roman. (The Manticore). Trans. Gri­ goriia Krylova. Biblioteka stylorum. St. Petersburg: Azbuka-klassika, 2001. 401 pp. Reprinted as Mantikora. Krasnaia Seriia 025. 2004. Includes translator’s explanatory notes. source: otmc (2004); pend (2004); worldcat (2001). H77  Piatyi personazh: roman. (Fifth Business). Trans. M. Pchelintseva. St. Petersburg: Azbuka-klassika, 2001. 416 pp. Reprinted as Piatyi personazh. (Fifth Business). Krasnaia Seriia 008. 2003. Includes translator’s explanatory notes. worldcat includes a citation for a 2004 printing that may be a separate printing or may be identical to the 2003 printing. source: otmc (two copies 2003); pend (2003); worldcat (2001 and 2004).



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H78  Mir chudes. (World of Wonders). Trans. Grigorii Krylov. Bibliotheca stylorum. St. Petersburg: Azbukaklassika, 2003. 1-4, 5-442, 1-6 pp. (pp. 423-42, 1 translator’s explanatory notes). Reprinted Krasnaia Seriia 026. 2004. source: otmc (2003 and 2004); pend (2003 and 2004). H79  Deptfordskaia trilogia: romany (The Deptford Trilogy). Trans. Mikhail Pchelintsev and Grigorii Krylov. St. Petersburg: Azbuka-klassika, 2004. Fifth Business1-6, 7-279, 280; The Manticore 281-2, 283-539, 540; World of Wonders 541-2, 543-892, 1-4 pp. (pp. 867-92, 1 translators’ explanatory notes). source: otmc; pend. Spanish H80  Mantícora. (The Manticore). Trans. Aníbal Leal. Novela contemporânea. Barcelona / Buenos Aires: Javier Vergara Editor, 1985. 1-6, 9-319, 1 pp. source: otmc; pend. H81  Mundo de maravillas. (World of Wonders). Trans Aníbal Leal. Novela contemporânea. Barcelona / Buenos Aires: Javier Vergara Editor, 1985. 1-6, 9-369, 1-7 pp. source: otmc; pend. H82  El quinto personaje. (Fifth Business). Trans. Aníbal Leal. Novela contemporânea. Barcelona / Buenos   Aires: Javier Vergara Editor, 1985. 1-8, 11-333, 1-3 pp. source: otmc; otp (two copies). H83  Angeles rebeldes. (The Rebel Angels). Trans. Aníbal Leal. Novela contemporânea. Barcelona / Buenos   Aires: Javier Vergara Editor, 1986. 1-8, 11-310, 1-2 pp. source: otmc; pend. H84  La memoria de la sangre. (What’s Bred in the Bone). Trans. Aníbal Leal. Ventana abierta. Buenos Aires / Madrid: Javier Vergara Editor, 1987. 1-8, 11-419, 1-5 pp. source: otp; pend. H85  La lira de Orfeo. (The Lyre of Orpheus). Trans. Aníbal Leal. Buenos Aires / Santiago: Javier Vergara, 1991. 426 pp. source: National Library of Argentina. H86  Asesinato y ánimas en pena. (Murther & Walking Spirits). Trans. José Luis Fernández-Villanueva. Colección Áncora y Delfín Volumen 765. Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, 1996. 1-12, 15-412, 1-4 pp. source: lac (two copies); otmc; pend. H87  Un hombre astuto. (The Cunning Man). Trans. José

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Luis Fernández-Villanueva. Colección Áncora y Delfín Volumen 749. Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, 1996. 1-12, 15-520, 1-2 pp. source: lac; otmc; pend. H88  Mantícora. (The Manticore). 1st edition. Trans. Miguel Martínez-Lage. Libros del Asteroide 15. Barcelona: Libros del Asteroide, 2006. 1-7, 10-367, 1-9 pp. Reprinted, 2007. source: otmc (2007); pend (2006). H89  El quinto en discordia. (Fifth Business). Trans. Natalia Cervera. Intro. Valentí Puig. Libros del Asteroide 7. Barcelona: Libros del Asteroide, 2006. i-vii, x-xiii, xiv, 1-7, 8-339, 1-7 pp. source: otmc; pend. H90  El mundo de los prodigios. (World of Wonders). Trans. Miguel Martínez-Lage. Libros del Asteroide 19. Barcelona: Libros del Asteroide, 2007. 1-8, 9-473, 1-7 pp. source: otmc; pend. H91  Ángeles rebeldes. (The Rebel Angels). Trans. Concha Cardeñoso Sáenz de Miera. Libros del Asteroide 30. Barcelona: Libros del Asteroide, 2008. 1-7, 10-353, 1-7 pp. Reprinted in 2009. source: otmc (2009); pend (2009). H92  La Lira de Orfeo. (The Lyre of Orpheus). Trans. Concha Cardeñoso Sáenz de Miera. Libros del Asteroide 52. Barcelona: Libros del Asteroide, 2009. 481 pp. source: University Union Catalogue of Catalonia. H93  Lo que arraiga en el hueso. (What’s Bred in the Bone). Trans. Concha Cardeñoso Sáenz de Miera. Libros del Asteroide 42. Barcelona: Libros del Asteroide, 2009. 1-9, 12-487, 1-9 pp. source: pend. H94  Trilogía de Deptford: El quinto en discordia, Mantícora, El mundo de los prodigios. (The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders). Trans. Natalia Cervera de la Torre (Fifth Business) and Miguel Martínez-Lage (The Manticore and World of Wonders). Libros del Asteroide 57. Barcelona: Libros del Asteroide, 2009. El quinto en discordia: 1-15, 18-363, 364; Mantícora: 365-9, 370-727, 728; El mundo de los prodigios: 729-33, 734-1197, 1-3 pp. source: otmc. H95  A merced de la tempestad. (Tempest-Tost). Trans. Concha Cardeñoso Sáenz de Miera. Libros del Asteroide 76. Barcelona: Libros del Asteroide, 2011. 1-11, 14-339, 1-5 pp. source: pend.

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H96  Levadura de malicia. (Leaven of Malice). Trans. Concha Cardeñoso Sáenz de Miera. Libros del Asteroide 90. Barcelona: Libros del Asteroide, 2011. 1-9, 12-312, 1-8. source: pend. Swedish H97  Femte rollen. (Fifth Business). Trans. Sonja Bergvall. [Stockholm]: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1984. 1-8, 9-263, 1 pp. Reprinted, [probably W & W Pocket]. 1986. source: lac (two copies 1984); otmc (1984); otp (two copies 1984); pend (1984); Sweden’s Regina catalogue (1986). H98  Mantikoran. (The Manticore). Trans. Sonja Bergvall. [Stockholm]: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1985. 1-6, 7-260, 1-4 pp. Reprinted, [probably W & W Pocket]. 1986. source: lac (two copies 1985); otp (two copies 1985); Sweden’s Regina catalogue (1986). H99  En undrens värld. (World of Wonders). Trans. Sonja Bergvall. [Stockholm]: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1986. 1-6, 7-323, 1 pp. Reprinted, W & W Pocket. 1987. source: lac (1986 and 1987); otp (two copies 1986). H100  De upproriska änglarna: roman. (The Rebel Angels). Trans. Rose-Marie Nielsen. [Stockholm]: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1988. 1-4, 5-370, 1-6 pp. Reprinted, W & W Pocket. 1990.

source: lac (two copies 1990); otmc (1990); otutf (two copies 1988); pend (1988 and 1990). H101  Deptford-trilogin: Femte rollen: Mantikoran: En undrens värld. (The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business: The Manticore: World of Wonders). Trans. Sonja Bergvall. [Stockholm]: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1990. Fifth Business 1-10, 9-263, 1 pp.; The Manticore 1-4, 7-260, 1-2 pp.; and World of Wonders 1-4, 7-323, 1-3 pp. Reprinted, [probably W & W Pocket]. 1998. source: lac (two copies 1990); otmc (1990); pend (1990); Sweden’s Regina catalogue (1998). H102  I köttet buret. (What’s Bred in the Bone). Trans. Rose-Marie Nielsen. [Stockholm]: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1990. 1-8, 9-440, 1-8 pp. source: lac (two copies); otmc; otp (two copies); pend. H103  Orfeus Lyra (The Lyre of Orpheus). Trans. RoseMarie Nielsen. [Stockholm]: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1992. 1-8, 9-438, 1-8 pp. source: lac (two copies); otmc; otp; pend. H104  Medicinmannen: en roman. (The Cunning Man). Trans. Rose-Marie Nielsen. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 1997. 1-12, 13-371, 1-5 pp. Reprinted, W & W Pocket. 1998. source: lac (two copies 1997); otmc (1998); otutf (1997); pend (1998).

I Section Films, Recordings by Davies, Audio Books, and Braille

Films I1  Fighting Words: Was the Bard a Bigot? CBC Digital Archives. Broadcast date: 4 September 1955 (24 minutes, 40 seconds). A discussion about whether Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice “is the most brutal and dramatic specimen of racial propaganda in the English language” (Wolcott Gibbs). Joining Davies are Toronto lawyer E.B. Jolliffe, Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg, and actor Frederick Valk. source: http://www.cbc.ca/archives/discover/ programs/f/fighting-words-sept-4-1955-was-the-bard-abigot.html I2  Fighting Words: Pity Modern Man. CBC Digital Archives. Broadcast date: 15 April 1956 (3 minutes, 51 seconds). Davies, poet Frank Scott, columnist and psychologist Dr. William Blatz, and author J.B. Priestley debate the contentious words of playwright Arthur Miller (“Modern man is powerless and insignificant in the modern world”). source: http://archives.cbc.ca/society/racism/ clips/14955 (accessed February 2011, URL no longer accessible) I3  Fighting Words: Uncle Sam Wants You ... to Like Him. CBC Digital Archives. Broadcast date: 15 April 1956 (13 minutes, 47 seconds). J.B. Priestley thinks Americans are particularly obsessed with what others think of them. Davies, Frank Scott, and Dr. William Blatz join Priestley to debate whether “the American grows up with a deep desire to be liked and when he is not, he is shocked and very angry.” Ellipsis in the original. source: http://www.cbc.ca/archives/discover/ programs/f/fighting-words-april-15-1956-uncle-samwants-you-to-like-him.html I4  Conversation with Robertson Davies. [Toronto]: Instructional Media Centre, University of Toronto, [1971]. Directed by Bill Somerville; host, John Margeson. VHS cassette (44 minutes): b&w, ½ in. Davies dis-

cusses the history and current problems of Canadian theatre as well as his own works. source: amicus. I5  Impressions of Robertson Davies. CBC Digital Archives. Broadcast date: 8 July 1973 (26 minutes, 47 seconds). An interview conducted by Toronto professor Ramsay Cook in which Davies reflects on the writing life, the complexity of his fellow citizens, and the growing sophistication of Canadian readers. An excerpt (2 minutes, 4 seconds) entitled “RetroBites: Robertson Davies (1973)” is located at http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=jXLHaMh1cDo. Transcribed in F89.1. source: http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/ theatre/clips/15281/ (accessed February 2011, URL no longer accessible) I6  3½ Cheers for Toronto. [Toronto]: CBC Television, 1974. People of Our Times series. Televised 9 September-18 November 1974. Described as an opinionated view of the city where Davies lives. source: http://www.film.queensu.ca/cbc/Pac.html/ I7  Lady Soul and the Devil’s Burning Throne: The Golden Age of Melodrama. Toronto: Instructional Media Centre, University of Toronto, 1979. Directed by Michael Edmunds; produced by Michael Edmunds and Kevin Sullivan. VHS cassette (27 minutes): col. with b&w sequences, ½ in. A discourse on melodrama in literature, in motion pictures, and on the stage. source: amicus; worldcat. I8  Can a Doctor Be a Humanist? Baltimore: Office of Cultural Affairs, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 1984. 1 video cassette (1 hour, 7 minutes): col., ½ in. Videotape from a series of lectures, seminars, and informal talks held at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and sponsored by the Office of Cultural Affairs. Participants: Richard A. Macksey, George B. Udvarhelyi. Davies answers the question “Can a doctor be a humanist in a society that increasingly tempts him to be a scientist?” Davies advises the medical com-

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munity to help educate the human spirit in addition to treating the body. source: rlin; worldcat. I9  Guardian Conversations: Robertson Davies with Edward Blishen. [London]: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1988. Also entitled Robertson Davies with Edward Blishen. Northbrook, il: ICA Video, 1989. The Anthony Roland collection of films on art; ICA Guardian conversations; Writers in conversation; Writers talk about ideas of our time. ICA Video, in conjunction with Trillion; director, Fenella Greenfield. Music, Conor Kelly and Sam Park.VHS cassette (40 minutes): col., ½ in. + 1 laser optical disc (4¾ in.) + 1 text (108 pp.: ports.; 20 cm.). Davies talks about being Canadian, the journalist’s way of looking at life, theatrical qualities of books, the nature of compassion, immigrants’ impact on culture, themes of fraud, forgery and imposture, and illusion and deception in art. source: amicus; otp; worldcat. I10  Medicine in the Mirror of the Stage. Baltimore: Office of Cultural Affairs, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 1989. VHS cassette (1 hour): col.; ½ in. Videotape of a symposium held 1984. Panel participants include: Davies, John Houseman, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Edwin Wilson, Marsha Norman, and Frank Rich. Explores the ways in which theatre and medicine share certain common origins and address a number of common concerns. Discussion ranges from the use of research on clinical aspects of addictions in preparing dramatic roles to the therapeutic value of drama and the powerful role of critics. source: worldcat. I11  The Magic Season of Robertson Davies. [Toronto]: CBC Enterprises, 1991. Rasky’s Gallery. VHS cassette (1 hour, 16 minutes): col. Produced, directed, written, and narrated by Harry Rasky. Rasky’s documentary of Davies consists of interviews, readings, and photographs. source: amicus; worldcat. I12  Adrienne Clarkson Presents: Conversations with Writers, part 3, Salman Rushdie and Davies. [Toronto]: CBC, 1993. Two programs on 1 videocassette (42 minutes): col., ½ in. source: amicus; otp. I13  Robertson Davies. [s.l.]: Distribution Access, 1995. Literati series. Host, Ariel Dorfman; producer, Nicolas Doyon; executive producer and editor, Larry Shapiro; and director, Phil Leclerc. VHS cassette (ca. 25 minutes): col., ½ in. source: worldcat.

I14  Robertson Davies. Mississauga, on: Marlin Motion Pictures, 1995. The Originals: Portraits in the First Person. A CityTV production; Moses Znaimer, executive producer; produced by Jim Hanley and Richard Nielsen; directed by Jim Hanley; music by Patricia Cullen; edited by Christopher Castelyn. VHS cassette (30 minutes): col. Interviewed in the Robertson Davies Library in 1988, Davies talks about his views of the world and of writing. He describes the influence that the work of Carl Jung has had on his thinking, and describes his belief in manifest evil and his contempt for sociological explanations of evil. source: amicus; otp (dated 1988, 24 minutes; also Sleeping Giant Productions, TVOntario); worldcat. I15  Robertson Davies in His Own Words. Toronto: John McGreevy Productions, 1996. Producer, Jennifer Puncher; director, John McGreevy; produced in association with the CBC. Written by Gilbert Reid and John McGreevy; music, Glenn Morley; narrator, John Neville. VHS cassette (44 minutes, 36 seconds); 13 mm. Re-issued in 2002 as 1 videodisc: col., 4¾ in. source: amicus (1996); otp. I16  Canlit Pioneers. [Toronto: TVOntario], 2006. VHS cassette (26 minutes, 20 seconds): col., ½ in. Originally broadcast on TVO as part of Imprint’s Writing Lessons, 26 August 2006. Host, Tina Srebotnjak. Includes a reading in 1991 by Davies from Murther & Walking Spirits. source: worldcat.

Recordings by Davies I17  The Lively Arts Drama Festival. 1948. Side no. 2. 1 sound disc (12 hours., 45 minutes): analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono, 16 in. Cataloging project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation presented to the UMKC University Libraries Marr Sound Archives. J. David Goldin collection. A look at the little theatre movement and some of the actors and directors who are a part of it through a series of interviews with actors and directors of groups at the Dominion Drama Festival in Ottawa. Davies and Robert Speaight are interviewed by Ralph Marvin. There is also an excerpt from Eros at Breakfast. Recorded 5 June 1948 by CBC Radio-Canada International Service. Broadcast on 5 August 1948 and 5 September 1948. source: worldcat. I18  The Stratford Festival Debuts. CBC Digital Archives. Broadcast date: 31 July 1953 (11 minutes, 57 seconds).



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Davies, several actors, and theatre personalities comment on the establishment of the Stratford Festival and specifically about the production of Richard III (starring Alec Guinness). Davies was thrilled both as a theatre playgoer and as a Canadian. source: http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/ theatre/clips/991/ I19  Delusions of Literacy. [Montreal: Concordia University, 1978]. 1 sound cassette (ca. 1 hour). Lahey lecture, 1978. source: worldcat. I20  Robertson Davies Reads from His Work. Ithaca, ny: Cornell University, 1983. 1 sound cassette (1 hour, 5 minutes): analog, mono. Recorded on 3 November 1983. Davies reads from The Rebel Angels and comments on the book. source: rlin; worldcat. I21  Robertson Davies Reading from His Forthcoming Novel, What’s Bred in the Bone. Washington, dc: Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, 1984. 1 sound tape reel (ca. 1 hour, 10 minutes): analog, 7½ ips, 2 track, mono, 4 pp. of program information. Recorded on 16 October 1984 in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress. Introduction by Reed Whittemore. Davies’s introductory remarks concern Canadian literature. source: amicus; rlin; worldcat. I22  Margaret Laurence’s Legacy. CBC Digital Archives. Broadcast date: 5 January 1987 (5 minutes, 52 seconds). Davies, Timothy Findley, and Alice Munro pay tribute to Margaret Laurence. Davies comments on her literary legacy and reminisces about her time as writer-in-residence at Massey College. source: http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/artsentertainment/literature/margaret-laurence-canadasdivine-writer/laurences-legacy.html I23  Robertson Davies Reads from The Lyre of Orpheus and Talks about Opera, Academia, and Rabelais. [Columbia, mo: American Audio Prose Library, 1989]. 1 sound cassette (30 minutes): analog, mono. Interview with Tom Vitale. Series: A Moveable Feast, no. 203. source: rlin; worldcat. I24  Literature and Moral Purpose. Nashville, tn: United Methodist Publishing House, 1990. 1 sound cassette (1 hour): 1 7/8 ips. From the 1990 Erasmus Lecture, Institute on Religion and Public Life, New York, April 1990. Also on the cassette is a lecture by Dr. Elise Boulding. source: worldcat. I25  Robertson Davies Reads from What’s Bred in the Bone

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and Talks About Religion and Song. New York: Moveable Feast, 1990. 1 sound cassette (30 minutes): analog, mono. Interview with Tom Vitale. Series: A Moveable Feast, no. 202. source: rlin; worldcat. I26  The Cinematic Vision of Robertson Davies. CBC Digital Archives. Broadcast date: 29 September 1991 (43 minutes, 31 seconds). An interview conducted by Eleanor Wachtel on CBC Radio’s Writers and Company in which Davies discusses life after death and other themes in Murther & Walking Spirits (see F95.4). The interview is preceded by a reading from the book done by Davies at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto. source: http://www.cbc.ca/archives/discover/ programs/w/writers-and-company/the-cinematicvision-of-robertson-davies I27  Robertson Davies. Washington, dc: National Public Radio, 1995. 1 sound cassette (30 minutes): analog, 1 7/8 ips. A segment from the radio program, Fresh Air, produced by whyy, Philadelphia, broadcast 23 February 1995 on National Public Radio. Host: Terry Gross. Davies discusses The Cunning Man and how his life has influenced his writings. source: worldcat. I28  A Celebration of Peter Gzowski. [Toronto]: CBC Audio, 2002. 2 sound discs (ca. 2 hours): digital; 4¾ in. A collection of interviews from Gzowski’s radio programs and excerpts from tributes to him broadcast after his death. Davies is one of fifteen participants. source: amicus; otp; worldcat.

Audio Books I29  Tempest-Tost. [United States]: Recording for the Blind, [19-- but after 1951]. 3 sound cassettes, C-60 (3 hours): analog, 15/16 ips, 4 track, mono. source: locis. I30  Tempest-Tost. Toronto: cnib, [197-?]. Narrator: multiple voices. 2 tape reels: 9.5 cm, 4 track, mono, 18 cm., master. source: amicus. I31  World of Wonders. Toronto: cnib, [197-]. Narrator: Desmond Scott. 2 sound tape reels, 18 cm., master, 9.5 cm, 4 track, mono; 2 sound cassettes (11 hours, 10 minutes): analog, 2.5 cm, 4 track, mono. source: amicus; locis. I32  Fifth Business. [Vancouver: Crane Library], 1972.

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1 reel (8 hours): 4.75 cm, 4 track, mono; 18 cm, master. source: worldcat. I33  The Manticore. [United States]: Recording for the Blind, [19‑‑ but after 1972]. 3 sound cassettes, C-60 (3 hours): analog, 15/16 ips, 4 track, mono. source: locis. I34  The Manticore. [Washington, dc]: DBPH, [n.d. but after 1972]. Narrator: Arnold Moss. [4?] sound discs, 8 sides, 10 inches, 8 rpm. source: locis. I35  The Manticore. Vancouver: Taped Books Project, 1973. 2 sound tape reels (12 hours): 18 cm, master, 4.75 cm, 4 track, mono. source: amicus. I36  A Voice from the Attic. Winnipeg: Central Audio Book Library, 1974. 3 reels (12 hours): 4.75 cm, 4 track, mono, 18 cm. source: amicus. I37  World of Wonders. Princeton, nj: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, [n.d. but after 1975]. 3 sound cassettes, 4 track. source: louis. I38  World of Wonders. [United States]: Recording for the Blind, [19-- but after 1975]. 3 sound cassettes, C-60 (3 hours): analog, 15/16 ips, 4 track, mono. source: locis. I39  Fifth Business. Toronto: cnib, 1976-7. Narrator: Guy Sorel. 8 cassettes (12 hours). 2 track. mono. 2 containers (16 × 12 x 5 cm.). Re-issued in 2003. 1 sound disc (9 hours, 37 minutes): digital; 4¾ in. source: amicus (1977); worldcat (1976-7, 2003). I40  The Manticore. Princeton, nj: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, [1976?]. 3 sound cassettes, 4 track. source: louis. I41  The Manticore. Vancouver: Library Development Commission, 1976. Read by Robert Adams. 9 cassettes (10 hours, 50 minutes): 1 7/8 ips, 2 track, mono, analog. source: amicus. I42  World of Wonders. Vancouver: Library Development Commission, 1976. Read by Robert Adams. 11 cassettes (13 hours, 50 minutes): 1 7/8 ips, 2 track, mono. Also Vancouver: Crane Library, 1977. 4 reels: 9.5 cm, 4 track, mono. 18 cm, master. source: amicus. I43  Fifth Business. Princeton, nj: Recording for the

Blind & Dyslexic, [1977?]. 3 sound cassettes, 4 track. source: louis. I44  The Manticore. Toronto: cnib, 1977. Narrator: Frank Herbert. 6 sound cassettes: 1 7/8 ips. (9 hours): 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono. Also described as having 7 cassettes. Remastered in 2001. 1 computer laser optical disc (8 hours, 2 minutes); 4¾ in. Also issued in 2003 as online digital audio and in 2008 as 1 computer laser optical disc (8 hours, 20 minutes). English DAISY Audio Book on CD. source: amicus (1977, 2001); cnib (2001, 2003, 2008); worldcat (1977, 2001). I45  One Half of Robertson Davies. Princeton, nj: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, [1977?]. 3 sound cassettes, 4 track. source: louis. I46  One Half of Robertson Davies. [United States]: Recording for the Blind, [19--? but after 1977]. 3 sound cassettes, C-60 (3 hours): analog, 15/16 ips, 4 track, mono. Public addresses. source: locis. I47  Samuel Marchbanks’ Almanack. [Vancouver]: Charles Crane Memorial Library, 1978. Narrator: Shan Melzak. 7 sound cassettes (10 hours, 30 minutes): analog, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono; 4 sound tape reels, 18 cm, master, 9.5 cm, 4 track, mono. source: amicus (only source for reels); locis. I48  A Mixture of Frailties. [s.l.]: Connecticut Regional Library, Connecticut Volunteer Services for the Blind and Handicapped, [1979?]. Narrator: Molly Jainchill. 6 sound cassettes, C-90 (9 hours): analog, 15/16 ips, 2 track, mono. source: locis. I49  World of Wonders. [Washington, dc]: nls, 1979. Narrator: Roy Avers. APH recording agency and distributor. [5?] sound discs, 10 sides, 10 inches, 8 rpm. Also Toronto: cnib; Washington, dc: Library of Congress, NLS/BPH; Louisville, ky: American Printing House for the Blind, 2001, 2003 (online digital audio). 1 computer laser optical disc (12 hours, 28 minutes); English DAISY Audio Book on CD, MP3 compression. source: amicus; cnib; locis. I50  A Voice from the Attic. [s.l.: Central Audio Book Library, 198?]. 12 cassettes : 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono. source: amicus. I51  Fifth Business. Toronto: CBC, 1980, 1986. Also entitled CBC Festival Theatre’s Fifth Business. Dramatized, produced, and directed by Ron Hartmann. Original



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music by Lucio Agostini. Cast: starring Zoe Caldwell, Eric House, Barry Morse, and Henry Ramer. Originally broadcast on CBC Stereo in two parts on 25 February and 3 March 1980. 4 sound cassettes (ca. 4 hours): 1 7/8 ips, stereo. See also I142. source: amicus (1980); otp (1980); worldcat. I52  Four Favourite Plays. Toronto: cnib, 1980. Narrator: Pat Moffatt. 2 sound tape reels, 18 cm., master, 9.5 cm, 4 track, mono. source: amicus; cnib; locis (list production date as [197-?]). I53  Leaven of Malice. Princeton, nj: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, [1980?]. 3 sound cassettes, C-60 (3 hours): analog, 15/16 ips, 4 track, mono. source: locis; louis. I54  Tempest‑Tost. Princeton, nj: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, [1980?]. 3 sound cassettes, 4 track. source: louis. I55  Fifth Business. Newport Beach, ca: Books on Tape, 1981. Re-issued in 1984 and 1987. Read by Dan Lazar.10 sound cassettes (10 hours): 1 7/8 ips, 2 track; mono, analog. source: bva (1981); otp (1981); worldcat. I56  The Manticore. Newport Beach, ca: Books on Tape, 1981, 1987, 1990. Read by Dan Lazar. 6 sound cassettes (9 hours): analog, 1 7/8 ips. source: bva (1990); otp (1981); worldcat. I57  The Manticore. [Peterborough, on: Ontario Audio Library Service, 1981]. 2 sound tape reels, 18 cm, master, 4.75 cm, 4 track, mono. source: amicus. I58  World of Wonders. Newport Beach, ca: Books on Tape, 1981, 1985. Read by Dan Lazar. 8 sound cassettes (12 hours): analog, in container, no. 1285 source: amicus (1985); bva (1981); rlin; worldcat (1981). I59  The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks. [Peterborough, on: Ontario Audio Library Services, 1982]. 1 sound tape reel, 18 cm, master, 4.75 cm, 4 track, mono. source: amicus. I60  Fifth Business. [Peterborough, on: Ontario Audio Library Service, 1982]. 3 tape reels: 4.75 cm, 4 track, mono. 18 cm, master. Also [Halifax, ns]: Ferguson Library for Print Handicapped Students, [1986]. source: amicus. I61  Introduction to Literary Lapses. Toronto: cnib, 1982-3. Read by Stephen Dalton. (5 hours, 5 minutes): analog, 2.5 cm, 4 track, mono; 4 sound cassettes, ana-

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18 cm master, 9.5 cm, 4 track, mono; 2 sound cassettes (8 hours, 10 or 15 minutes): 15/16 ips, 4 track, mono. Remastered in 2007-8. Computer data (40 files: 109 MB). MP3 compression. Also described as 1 computer laser optical disc (7 hours, 56 minutes). English DAISY Audio Book on CD. source: amicus (1983, 2007); cnib (cassettes 1983, 2007); locis (1983); worldcat (1985). I70  The Penguin Stephen Leacock. Vancouver: Crane Library, 1984. 15 sound cassettes, analog, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono. source: amicus. I71  Tempest-Tost. Vancouver: Library Services Branch, 1984. Read by Robert Adams. 8 sound cassettes (10 hours, 5 minutes): 1 7/8 ips, 2 track mono, analog. source: worldcat. I72  The Rebel Angels. Vancouver: Crane Library, 1985. Unknown number of cassettes, 1 7/8 ips, 2 track, mono. source: amicus. I73  The Well-Tempered Critic: One Man’s View of Theatre and Letters in Canada. [Vancouver]: Crane Library, 1985. 7 sound cassettes (10 hours, 30 minutes): 1 7/8 ips, 2 track, mono. source: amicus. I74  Fifth Business. Halifax, ns: Ferguson Library for Print Handicapped Students, [1986]. 8 sound cassettes, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono. source: amicus. I75  The Manticore. Halifax, ns: Ferguson Library for Print Handicapped Students, [1986]. 6 sound cassettes, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono. source: amicus. I76 The Manticore. Vancouver: Crane Library, 1986. Unknown number of sound cassettes, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono. source: amicus. I77  Mantikoran. (The Manticore). Enskede, Sweden: tpb, 1986. Swedish trans. Sonja Bergvall. 9 sound cassettes (13 hours, 30 minutes). Also 1 sound recording, 2006. source: svenska; tpb. I78  The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks. [Toronto]: cnib, 1986-7. Read by David Scrivens. 14 cassettes (19 hours, 35 minutes): 2.5 cm, 4 track, mono. Remastered in 2008. Computer data /online digital audio (48 files: 262 MB). MP3 compression. Also described as 1 computer laser optical disc (18 hours, 59 minutes).

source: amicus (1986-7, 2008); cnib (2008); worldcat (1987-7). I79  What’s Bred in the Bone. Toronto: cnib, 1986. Narrator: Mike Kramer. 14 sound cassettes, analog, 1 7/8 ips, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono; 4 sound cassettes (20 hours): analog, 2.5 cm, 4 track, mono. Remastered in 2006. 1 computer laser optical disc (18 hours, 57 minutes). English DAISY Audio Book on CD. source: amicus (1986, 2006). I80  A Mixture of Frailties. Halifax, ns: Community Tape Resource Library, 1986. 10 cassettes: 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono. source: amicus. I81  What’s Bred in the Bone. Vancouver: Charles Crane Memorial Library, 1986. 12 sound cassettes (18 hours): 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono. source: amicus. I82  What’s Bred in the Bone. [Washington, dc]: NLS, 1986. Narrator: John Horton. AFB, recording agency and distributor. 3 sound cassettes, C-90 (4 hours, 30 minutes): analog, 15/16 ips, 4 track, mono. source: locis. I83  A Mixture of Frailties. [Vancouver]: Library Services Branch, [1987]. Narrator: Robert Adams. 11 cassettes (14 hours, 10 minutes): analog, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono. source: amicus. I84  En undrens värld. (World of Wonders). Enskede, Sweden: tpb, 1987. Swedish trans. Sonja Bergvall. 10 sound cassettes (14 hours, 30 minutes). Also 1 sound recording, 2006. source: svenska (2006); tpb (1987). I85  A Voice from the Attic. [s.l.]: Connecticut Regional Library: Connecticut Volunteer Services for the Blind and Handicapped, 1987. Narrator: William Barry. 5 sound cassettes, C-90 (7 hours, 30 minutes): analog, 15/16 ips, 2 track, mono. source: locis. I86  Den femte rolle. (Fifth Business). Copenhagen: Statens Bibliotek og Trykkeri for Blinde, 1988. Also Ballerup: Bibliotekscentralen, 1989. Danish trans. Karen Mathiasen; recorded by Asger Rosenberg. 9 cassettes in 2 folders (ca. 12 hours, 45 minutes): mono. source: worldcat. I87  High Spirits: A Selection of Ghost Stories. Auburn, ca: Audio Partners, 1988. Read by Christopher Plummer. 6 ghost stories. 2 sound cassettes (2 hours, 22 minutes): analog. Also Old Greenwich, ct: Listening



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Library, 1988. Complete book. 6 sound cassettes (5 hours, 6 minutes): 1 7/8 ips, stereo, Dolby processed. source: otp (6 ghost stories); worldcat.

Library, 1990. 12 sound cassettes, analog, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono. source: amicus.

I88  The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies. Toronto: cnib, 1989. Narrator: Desmond Scott. 2 sound cassettes (10 hours, 57 minutes): analog, 2.5 cm, 4 track, mono. Also Toronto: cnib, 2008. Narrator: Desmond Scott. 1 computer laser optical disc (10 hours, 21 minutes). English DAISY Audio Book on CD. source: amicus; cnib; locis.

I96  Selected Shorts. New York: Symphony Space, 1990. Vol. 3, 2 sound cassettes, analog, stereo. Also entitled Tenth Anniversary Anthology: Selected Shorts from Symphony Space. [Old Greenwich, ct]: Listening Library, 1993. 6 sound cassettes, analog, no. cxl 544. Short stories recorded live at Symphony Space. Favourite stories from ten years of Selected Shorts, an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction. The works of twelve authors are read by acclaimed actors, including Davies’s “The Cat That Went to Trinity” (read by Charles Keating). source: worldcat.

I89  The Lyre of Orpheus. Toronto: cnib, 1989. Read by Desmond Scott. 3 sound cassettes, (15 hours, 10 minutes): 1 7/8 ips, analog, 4 track, mono; 11 sound cassettes (15 hours, 11 minutes): analog, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono. Also Toronto: cnib; Peterborough, England: rnib, 2008. 1 computer laser optical disc (14 hours, 45 minutes). English DAISY Audio Book on CD. MP3 compression. source: cnib; worldcat. I90  The Lyre of Orpheus. [Washington, dc]: Library of Congress, 1989. Narrator: John Horton. 3 sound cassettes, C-90 (4 hours, 30 minutes): analog, 15/16 ips, 4 track, mono; 8 flexible sound discs, analog, 16 sides, 9 inches, 8 rpm. source: locis; worldcat. I91  Råbet fra balkonen. (The Manticore). Copenhagen: Statens Bibliotek og Trykkeri for Blinde, 1988. Also Ballerup: Bibliotekscentralen, 1989. Danish trans. Karen Mathiasen; recorded by Asger Rosenberg. 9 cassettes in 2 folders (ca. 12 hours, 15 minutes): mono. source: worldcat. I92  Undernes verden. (World of Wonders). Copenhagen: Statens Bibliotek og Trykkeri for Blinde, 1988. Also Ballerup: Bibliotekscentralen, 1989. Danish trans. Karen Mathiasen; recorded by Asger Rosenberg. 11 cassettes in 2 folders (ca. 15 hours, 30 minutes): mono. source: worldcat. I93  Fifth Business. [Toronto]: cnib, [199‑]. 8 sound cassettes (ca. 12 hours): 1 7/8 ips. source: amicus. I94  Conversations with Robertson Davies. Toronto: cnib, 1990. 3 sound cassettes, 2.5 cm, 4 track, mono. Narrator: Mac Samples. A collection of 28 interviews with Davies by Peter Gzowski, Robert Fulford and others, 1963-1988. Re-issued by the cnib in 2008. 1 computer laser optical disc (12 hours, 57 minutes). source: cnib. I95  The Lyre of Orpheus. Vancouver: Crane Memorial

I97  Fifth Business. [Washington, dc]: NLS, 1991. Narrator: Roy Avers. APH recording agency and distributor. 2 sound cassettes, C-90 (3 hours): analog, 15/16 ips, 4 track, mono. source: locis. I98  Murther & Walking Spirits. Prince Frederick, md: Recorded Books, 1991; Oxford: Isis Audio Books, 1994. Narrator: George Guidall. 10 sound cassettes (14 hours): analog, 1 7/8 ips, 2 track, stereo‑mono; in container 17 × 23 cm. Also as 13 sound discs: digital; 4¾ in. Also [Solon, oh]: Playaway Digital Audio, 2009. 1 sound media player; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. source: amicus; otp (1991); worldcat. I99  Murther & Walking Spirits. Vancouver: Library Services Branch, 1991, 1996. Read by William Samples. 11 sound cassettes (13 hours, 30 minutes): 1 7/8 ips; monaural. source: worldcat. I100  Murther & Walking Spirits. Vancouver: Crane Memorial Library, 1992. 9 sound cassettes, analog, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono. source: amicus. I101  Murther & Walking Spirits. [Washington, dc]: NLS, 1992. Read by J.P. Linton. 9 cassettes (13 hours, 30 minutes): 1 7/8 ips. Includes: monaural. Toronto: cnib, 1994 from NLS production, New York: American Foundation for the Blind. 9 sound cassettes, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono; 3 sound cassettes (13 hours, 10 minutes): 2.5 cm, 4 track, mono. Also Toronto: cnib; Washington, dc: Library of Congress, NLS/BPH; New York: American Foundation for the Blind, 2008. 1 computer laser optical disc (12 hours, 44 minutes). English DAISY Audio Book on CD. source: amicus; cnib (1994, 2008); locis; worldcat (1994).

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I102  The Cunning Man. Ashland, or: Blackstone Audiobooks, 1994, 1996. Narrator: David Case. Read by Frederick Davidson. 11 sound cassettes (16 hours, 30 minutes): analog. Re-issued in 1997. 10 sound discs (ca. 12 hours): digital ; 12 cm. source: blackstone; bva (1996); otp (1997); worldcat (1994, 1996). I103  The Cunning Man. Vancouver: Library Services Branch, 1994-6. Read by Robert Adams. 13 cassettes (16 hours, 10 minutes): 1 7/8 ips, analog, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono. source: amicus; otb; worldcat. I104  Un homme remarquable. (What’s Bred in the Bone). Montréal: INCA, 1994. Narrator: Yvette Thuot. 4 cassettes (20 hours, 40 minutes): analog, 2.5 cm, 4 track, mono. Remastered in 2003. 1 sound disc. French DAISY Audio Book on CD, MP3 compression. Also Toronto: cnib, 2005. source: amicus (1994); cnib (2003, 2005). I105  En klog mand. (The Cunning Man). [Odense]: Den grimme Ælling, 1994. Danish trans. Charlotte Grubb; recorded by Søren Elung Jensen. 15 cassettes in 3 folders (21 hours, 12 minutes). source: worldcat. I106  The Manticore. [Washington, dc]: NLS, 1994. Narrator: Roy Avers. APH recording agency and distributor. 2 sound cassettes, C-90 (3 hours): analog, 15/16 ips, 4 track, mono. source: locis. I107  De oprørske engle. (The Rebel Angels). [Odense]: Den grimme Ælling, 1994. Copenhagen: Danmarks Blindebibliotek, 1995. Danish trans. Thomas Jørgensen and Ali Friis Caspersen; recorded by Fjord Trier Hansen. 11 cassettes in 2 folders (15 hours, 10 minutes). source: worldcat. I108  Orfeus’ lyre. (The Lyre of Orpheus). [Odense]: Den grimme Ælling, 1994. Copenhagen: Danmarks Blindebibliotek, 1997. Danish trans. Hans Jørgen Lassen; recorded by Fjord Trier Hansen. 13 cassettes in 3 folders (18 hours, 20 minutes). source: worldcat. I109  The Cunning Man. Prince Frederick, md: Recorded Books, 1995. Narrator: George Guidall. Maple Leaf audio series. 12 sound cassettes (17 hours): analog. Also 14 sound discs (17 hours): digital; 4¾ in. Also [Solon, oh]: Playaway Digital Audio, 2009. 1 sound media player: 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. source: amicus (discs); otp (discs); worldcat.

I110  The Cunning Man. Vancouver: Crane Library, 1995. Unknown number of cassettes, analog, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono; 11 sound tape reels, analog, 9.5 cm, 4 track, stereo. source: amicus. I111  Hvad man i ungdommen nemmer. (What’s Bred in the Bone). [Odense]: Den grimme Ælling, 1995. Also Copenhagen: Danmarks Blindebibliotek, 1996. Danish trans. Hans Peter Rolfsen; recorded by Fjord Trier Hansen. 13 cassettes in 3 boxes (19 hours, 40 minutes): mono. source: worldcat. I112  Les anges rebelles. (The Rebel Angels). Montreal: INCA, 1996. Narrator: Maryse Gagne. 3 sound cassettes (15 hours): 2.5 cm, 4 track, mono. source: amicus; cnib. I113  The Cunning Man. Princeton, nj: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, [1996?]. 5 sound cassettes, 4 track. source: louis. I114  The Cunning Man. [Washington, dc]: NLS, 1996. Potomac Talking Book Services recording agency and distributor. 3 sound cassettes, C-90 (4 hours, 30 minutes): analog, 15/16 ips, 4 track, mono. Narrator: Barrett Whitener. source: locis; worldcat. I115  The Lyre of Orpheus. Ashland, or: Blackstone Audiobooks, 1996, 2000. Narrator: David Case. Read by Frederick Davidson. 11 sound cassettes (16 hours, 30 minutes): analog. Digitally remastered in 2009-10. 12 sound discs (14 hours, 43 minutes): 4¾ in. Also 1 sound disc (MP3 CD) (ca. 16 hours): 4¾ in.; in container. source: blackstone; bva (1996, 2009); otp (200910); worldcat. I116  The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995. Toronto: cnib, 1996-7. Read by Mac Samples. 12 cassettes (17 hours, 46 minutes): 1 7/8 ips; analog. Remastered in 2008 as online digital audio. Also as 1 computer laser optical disc (17 hours, 3 minutes). English DAISY Audio Book on CD. source: cnib (2008); otp (1997); worldcat (19967). I117  Murther & Walking Spirits. [Vancouver, bc]: Library Services Branch, Province of British Columbia, [1996]. Narrator: William Samples. 11 sound cassettes (13 hours, 30 minutes): analog, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono. source: amicus.



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I118  What’s Bred in the Bone. Ashland, or: Blackstone Audio Books, 1996. Narrator: David Case. Read by Frederick Davidson. 12 sound cassettes (18 hours): analog. Digitally remastered in 2010. 13 sound discs (ca. 15 hours): 4¾ in. Also in MP3. source: blackstone; bva (1996, 2010); otp; worldcat. I119  The Cunning Man. Auckland, nz: Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind, 1997. Read by Garrick Hagon. 4 sound cassettes (17 hours, 45 minutes): 4 track, mono. Recorded on 13 tracks. Peterborough, England: rnib Talking Book Service, [200-?]. 1 disc, DAISY 2.02 full audio structured by chapter (17 hours, 30 minutes). source: rnib [200-?]; worldcat (1977). I120  The Cunning Man. [Toronto]: cnib, [1997]. Read by Mac Samples. 12 sound cassettes in 1 container: (17 hours, 54 minutes). 1 7/8 ips, 2 track, mono. Remastered in 2001, re-issued in 2003. 1 computer laser optical disc (17 hours, 33 minutes): digital; 4¾ in. English DAISY Audio Book on CD. source: amicus [1997]; cnib (2001, 2003); otp (2003); worldcat (2001). I121  Leaven of Malice. Ashland, or: Blackstone Audio Books, 1997. Re-issued in 2004. Read by Frederick Davidson. 7 sound cassettes (10 hours, 30 minutes): analog. Digitally remastered in 2007 and 2009-10. 7 sound discs (8 hours, 51 minutes); 12 cm. Also 1 sound file as The Salterton Trilogy, Book 2, Library Edition. MP3. source: blackstone; bva (1997, 2009); otp (2009; 2010, 7 sound discs); worldcat. I122  Medicinmannen. (The Cunning Man). Lund, Sweden: Btj, 1997. Swedish trans. Rose-Marie Nielsen. 1 sound recording. source: svenska. I123  The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books. Princeton, nj: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, 1997. 4 sound cassettes, 4 track. Also Audio MP3 and Audio DAISY. source: louis. I124  A Mixture of Frailties. Ashland, or: Blackstone Audiobooks, 1997. Read by Frederick Davidson. 9 sound cassettes (13 hours, 30 minutes): analog, 1 7/8 ips, no. 1958. Re-issued in 2003-4. Digitally remastered in 2009. Computer file 1 sound file. Re-issued in 2010. 11 sound discs (12 hours, 49 minutes): 4¾ in. Also in 2010 as The Salterton Trilogy, Book 3, Library Edition. MP3. source: amicus (1997 and 2003); blackstone; bva (1997, 2009); otp (2009-10); worldcat.

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I125  The Rebel Angels. Ashland, or: Blackstone Audiobooks, 1997-8, 2004. Narrated by David Case. Read by Frederick Davidson. 9 sound cassettes (13 hours, 30 minutes): analog. Digitally remastered in 2009-10. 10 sound discs (11 hours, 54 minutes): 4¾ in. Also in MP3. source: blackstone; bva (1997, 2009); otp (2009); worldcat. I126  Tempest-Tost. Ashland, or: Blackstone Audiobooks, 1997. Narrated by David Case. Read by Frederick Davidson. 7 sound cassettes (9 hours, 37 minutes; also given as 10 hours, 30 minutes): analog, in container 25 cm, no. 1873. Digitally remastered in 2009. 8 CDs. Also 1 sound disc; 4¾ in. And in 2010 as The Salterton Trilogy, Book 1, Library Edition. MP3. source: blackstone; bva (1997, 2009); otp (2009); worldcat. I127  Fifth Business. Vancouver: Crane Resource Centre, 1998. 8 sound cassettes, analog, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono; 8 sound tape reels, 9.5 cm, 4 track, mono. source: amicus. I128  Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre. [Washington, dc]: National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, [1998?]. Unknown number of sound cassettes, analog, 15/16 ips, 4 track, mono. source: locis. I129  The Manticore. Vancouver: Crane Resource Centre, 1998. 8 sound tape reels, analog, 9.5 cm, 4 track, mono. source: amicus. I130  The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books. [Washington, dc]: National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 1998. Narrator: Phil Regensdorf. Insight for the Blind, recording agency; APH, distributor. 3 sound cassettes C‑ 90, [4:30 hours], analog, 15/16 ips, 4 track, mono. source: locis. I131  The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995. Vancouver: Library Services Branch, 1998. Read by Bryon Johnsen. 11 sound cassettes (14 hours, 30 minutes): analog, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono. source: worldcat. I132  World of Wonders. Vancouver: Crane Resource Centre, 1998. 10 sound cassettes, analog, 4.75 cm, 2 track, mono; 10 sound tape reels, analog, 9.5 cm, 4 track, mono. source: amicus.

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I133  Fantômes et cie. (Murther & Walking Spirits). [Montréal]: INCA, 1999. Read by Mireille Jodoin. 3 sound cassettes (13 hours, 4 minutes): 2.5 cm, 4 track, mono. Re-issued in 2003. 1 sound file (12 hours, 46 minutes). French DAISY Audio Book on CD. Also Toronto: cnib, 2005. Online digital audio. MP3 compression. source: amicus (2005); cnib. I134  Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts. Toronto: cnib, 1999. Narrator: Peter Miller. 3 sound cassettes (13 hours, 7 minutes): 2.5 cm, 4 track, mono. Re-issued in 2008. 1 computer laser optical disc (12 hours, 37 minutes). English DAISY Audio Book on CD. Also as online digital audio. MP3 compression. source: amicus (1999); cnib. I135  Leaven of Malice. [Fredericton, nb]: Goose Lane Editions, 1999. Narrated by Earl Pennington. Abridged by Marion McCormick. Between the Covers Classics series. 3 cassettes (3 hours, 20 minutes): 1 container. source: amicus; otp; worldcat. I136  The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books. [s.l.: s.n.], 1999. 3 sound cassettes: analog, 15/16 ips. source: worldcat. I137  The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks. Toronto: CBC Radio, [200-?]. Dramatization adapted and directed by Denis Johnston. Originally broadcast on CBC Radio’s Sunday showcase program. Participants: Michael Ball, Kevin Bundy, Lynne Cormack, and George Dawson. 1 compact disc: digital; 4¾ in. source: worldcat. I138  The Lyre of Orpheus. Peterborough, England: rnib Talking Book Service, [200-?]. 1 disc, DAISY 2.02 Full audio structured by chapter (18 hours, 41 minutes). source: rnib. I139  The Rebel Angels. Peterborough, England: rnib Talking Book Service, [200?]. Narrator: Bruce Montague. 1 disc, DAISY 2.02 Full audio structured by chapter (15 hours, 2 minutes). source: rnib. I140  What’s Bred in the Bone. Peterborough, England: rnib Talking Book Service, [200-?]. Narrator: John Livesey. 1 disc, DAISY 2.02 Full audio structured by chapter (13 hours, 55 minutes). source: rnib. I141  Fifth Business. Toronto: cnib; Washington, dc: Library of Congress, NLS/BPH; Louisville, ky: American Printing House for the Blind, 2001. Narrator: Roy Avers. 1 computer laser optical disc (9 hours, 37

minutes). Also in 2003 as online digital audio, MP3 compression. source: cnib. I142  Fifth Business. Toronto: CBC, 2002. Dramatized, produced, and directed by Ron Hartmann. Participants: starring Eric House, Claire Coulter, Frank Perry, Ruth Springfield, Sandy Webster. 4 sound cassettes (4 hours): analog. source: otp; worldcat. I143  The Manticore. [Toronto]: CBC Audio, 2002-3. Cast: Eric House, Martha Henry, Douglas Rain, Henry Ramer, Barry Morse, and Zoe Caldwell. Produced, directed and adapted for radio by Roy [i.e. Ron] Hartmann. 3 sound cassettes (ca. 3 hours): analog. source: bva (2002); otp (2003); worldcat (2003). I144  The Cornish Trilogy. Princeton, nj: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, 2003. 1 sound disc: digital, mono.; 4¾ in. source: worldcat. I145  For Your Eye Alone: Letters 1976‑1995. Toronto: cnib, 2003. Read by Desmond Scott. MP3 compression. Compression rate: 32. source: amicus. I146  Tempest-Tost. Toronto: cnib, 2003. Narrator: Michael Peleschak. 1 computer laser optical disc (11 hours, 59 minutes). English DAISY Audio Book on CD. Also as online digital audio, MP3 compression. source: cnib. I147  World of Wonders. [Toronto]: CBC Audio, 2003. Cast: Barry Morse, Eric House, Zoe Caldwell, Henry Ramer, Douglas Rain, and Bob Haley. Directed by Ron Hartmann. 3 sound discs (ca. 3 hours): digital; 4¾ in. source: bva; otp. I148  “The Cat That Went to Trinity” in Not to be Taken at Night: Thirteen Classic Canadian Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural, selected by John Robert Colombo and Michael Richardson. Toronto: cnib, 2004. Read by Jim McLean. MP3 compression. Compression rate: 32. 9 files: 89.4 MB. source: amicus. I149  I köttet buret. (What’s Bred in the Bone). Enskede, Sweden: tpb, 2005. Swedish trans. Rose-Marie Nielsen. 1 sound recording. source: svenska. I150  Orfeus lyra .(The Lyre of Orpheus) Enskede, Sweden: tpb, 2005. Swedish trans. Rose-Marie Nielsen. 1 sound recording. source: svenska.



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I151  De upproriska änglarna. (The Rebel Angels). Enskede, Sweden: tpb, 2005. Swedish trans. Rose-Marie Nielsen. Read by Maria Malmquist and Sven Sjöberg. 1 CD-ROM (15 hours, 13 minutes). source: svenska; tpb. I152  Tempest-Tost. Bath, England: Oakhill Publishing, 2006. Read by Sarah Mennell. 8 sound cassettes (ca. 10 hours, 35 minutes): analog; in case. Also issued in 2007. 9 sound discs. Also available at rnib, 1 disc. source: worldcat. I153  World of Wonders. Princeton, nj: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, 2006. 1 sound disc: digital mono.; 4¾ in. source: worldcat. I154  Fifth Business. Princeton, nj: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, 2007. 1 sound disc: digital mono.; 4¾ in. source: worldcat. I155  The Manticore. Princeton, nj: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, 2008. Introduction by Michael Dirda.1 sound disc: digital mono.; 4¾ in. source: worldcat. I156  The Penguin Stephen Leacock. [Toronto]: cnib; Peterborough, England: rnib Talking Book Service, 2008. Narrator: Marvin Kane. MP3 compression. Compression rate: 32. 1 computer laser optical disc (22 hours, 3 minutes). source: cnib; rnib. I157  Femte rollen. (Fifth Business). Lund, Sweden: Btj, 2010. Swedish trans. Sonja Bergvall. Read by Sture Ström. 1 CD-ROM (12 hours 44 minutes). source: svenska; tpb. I158  Fifth Business. [Grand Haven, mi]: Brilliance Audio, 2010. Read by Marc Vietor. 9 sound discs (11 hours): digital; 4¾ in. source: otp; worldcat.

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ronto: cnib, [197-?]. 6 vols. Containing Overlaid. source: amicus. I162  Leaven of Malice. Boston: National Braille Press, 1971. 5 vols. source: amicus. I163  Four Favourite Plays. Toronto: cnib, 1973, 1980. 4 vols. source: amicus; cnib; locis. I164  Feast of Stephen: An Anthology of Some of the Less Familiar Writings of Stephen Leacock. Toronto: cnib, 1980. 4 vols., thermoform. source: amicus (with production date as [197-?]); cnib. I165  Fifth Business. Toronto: cnib, 1980. 6 vols., thermoform. source: amicus (with production date as [197-?]); cnib; locis. I166  A Mixture of Frailties. Toronto: cnib, 1980. 8 vols. source: amicus (with production date as 197-?]); cnib; locis, I167  Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Shakespeare Festival in Canada. Toronto: cnib, 1980. 2 vols. source: amicus (with production date as [197-?]); cnib; locis. I168  Samuel Marchbanks’ Almanack. Toronto: cnib, 1980. 5 vols., thermoform. source: amicus (with production date as [197-?]); cnib; locis. I169  World of Wonders. Toronto, cnib, 1980. 8 vols., thermoform. source: amicus (with production date as [197-?]); cnib; locis. I170  Leaven of Malice. Toronto: cnib, 1984. 6 vols., thermoform. source: amicus; cnib, locis.

I159  L’objet du scandale. (Fifth Business). [Montreal]: La Magnétothèque, 2010. 1 sound disc (11 hours, 16 minutes): digital; 12 cm. source: bnq.

I171  Introduction to Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock. Toronto: cnib, 1984. 3 vols., thermoform. source: amicus.

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I173  The Manticore. Toronto: cnib, 1985. 7 vols., thermoform. source: amicus; cnib; locis.

I160  Shakespeare for Young Players: A Junior Course. Vancouver: cnib, [196‑?]. 5 vols. source: amicus. I161  Canada on Stage: a Collection of One-Act Plays. To-

I172  The Rebel Angels. Toronto: cnib, 1984. 8 vols., thermoform. source: amicus; cnib; locis.

I174  What’s Bred in the Bone. Toronto: cnib, 1986. 12 vols., computer braille.

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source: amicus (with production date as 1987); cnib; locis. I175  The Lyre of Orpheus. Toronto: cnib, 1991. 10 vols., computer braille. source: amicus; cnib. I176  Tempest-Tost. Toronto: cnib, 1991. 7 vols., computer braille. source: amicus; cnib; locis. I177  “A Chat about Literacy” in More Than Words Can Say: Personal Perspectives on Literacy. Toronto: cnib, 1992 and 1997. Initiated by the Canadian Organization for Development through Education. 1 vol. (172 pp., double-sided) of computer braille; master. source: amicus. I178  Overlaid. Halifax, ns.: Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority Resource Centre for the Visually Impaired, 1994. Stanley Sparkes, ed. 1 vol. source: amicus; locis. I179  The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks. Toronto: cnib, 1994. 13 vols., thermoform. source: amicus; cnib. I180  Murther & Walking Spirits. Toronto: cnib, 1997. 5 vols., 617 pp., computer braille. source: amicus; cnib.

I181  The Cunning Man. Toronto: cnib, 1998. 6 vols., computer braille. source: amicus; cnib. I182  What’s Bred in the Bone. Peterborough, England: rnib National Library Service, [200-?]. Braille contracted (gr 2) Interline, set 2/in 8 vols. source: rnib. I183  The Lyre of Orpheus. Toronto: cnib, 2001. 2 disk­ ettes, electronic braille. source: cnib. I184  The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995. Toronto: cnib, 2001. 5 vols., 739 pp., computer / electronic braille. source: amicus; cnib. I185  Murther & Walking Spirits. Toronto: cnib, 2001. Electronic braille. source: cnib. I186  For Your Eye Alone: Letters 1976-1995. Toronto: cnib, 2002. 6 vols., computer braille. source: amicus. I187  Fifth Business. Toronto: cnib, 2008. 4 or 6 vols. Re-issued in 2009 as electronic braille. source: amicus (4 vols.); cnib (6 vols.; electronic).

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Unpublished material that appears in theses is not included. J46  James Agate, Ego 8: Continuing the Autobiography of James Agate (London: Harrap, 1946), p. 115. Agate prints a paragraph from a letter that Davies wrote to him shortly before 15 May 1945, under the heading “In a Letter from the Editor of a Canadian Weekly.” Davies rails against the cultural impoverishment of Canada, arguing that it is rooted in the aversion of the “Common Man in Canada” from “understanding anybody but his immediate associates, and them only on the most superficial level.” Reprinted in A93. J52  Percy Ghent, “In the Spotlight, Dramatist Robertson Davies Discusses Sir Henry Irving,” Toronto Telegram, 23 October 1952, p. 6. A letter Davies wrote to Ghent about Irving, n.d., is printed in the column. It was occasioned by an Irving letter in Ghent’s possession, which Davies had offered to purchase. Ghent decided to give it to him, instead. Reprinted in A93. J55  Herbert Whittaker, “Showbusiness,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 5 December 1955, p. 15. A letter Davies wrote to Whittaker denying that Hunting Stuart is an indecent play is printed in the column. Reprinted as part of “The Following Article Appeared in the Column of the Toronto Globe and Mail Critic, Herbert Whittaker …” Festival Lennoxville (1975): [13]. Souvenir program. J58  “The Arts in Canada: An Undergraduate View,” Varsity (University of Toronto) 77, no. 81 (21 February 1958): 3. This article quotes several sentences from a letter that Davies wrote to Sam Ajzenstat, Associate Editor of The Varsity, 24 January 1958. For the complete letter, see A93. J59  Tyrone Guthrie, A Life in the Theatre (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959), p. 31. The paragraph-long tribute to Tyrone Guthrie’s mentor James B. Fagan was written by Davies. Attribution, Man of Myth, p. 391.

J63.1  “Massey College Opens Its Doors: Humanists and Scientists Will Live and Work Together in Stimulating Surroundings,” Varsity News (University of Toronto) 5, no. 5 (October 1963): 7. This note briefly describes the series of occasions that marked the opening of Massey College. It includes a quotation from Davies about the purpose of the College. J63.2  “Pretty Pickets at Massey,” Toronto Telegram, 16 October 1963, p. [33]. Brief article about fourteen women picketers who objected to Massey College having no residential space for women. They were met by a friendly Robertson Davies, who is quoted as telling Rosemary Speirs, the organizer of the protest, “I’m sympathetic with your cause ... I hope some nice rich old lady gives you the money for a residence.” J63.3  “A College Is Born,” Varsity Graduate (University of Toronto) 10, no. 5 (December 1963): 13-32. In this article about the opening ceremonies at Massey College, Davies is quoted on page 24 defending the College against charges of extravagance. J73.1  “Massey’s First Decade: Whither Massey College?” Massey College Bull 2, no. 4 (May 1973): [7]-[8]. In the course of discussing Massey College’s first decade, this article quotes Davies’s views on the direction Massey College should take (away from junior and toward senior scholars), using the minutes of the Corporation of the College and a letter to the Dean of Hall. J73.2  “Massey’s First Decade: La crème du lait écrémé?” Massey College Bull 2, no. 4 (May 1973): [19]-[20]. This article quotes Davies’s opinion, as recorded in the minutes of the Corporation of Massey College, about the role and powers of Junior Fellows in Massey College. J73.3  “A Meeting of Senior and Junior Fellows on

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the Admission of Women,” Massey College Bull 2, no. 4 (May 1973): [21]-[22]. In 1972, as this article notes, the Junior Common Room met and passed a resolution calling upon the Corporation to admit women as Junior Fellows of the College. It quotes the letter of response that Davies wrote on 12 May 1972 on behalf of the Corporation. J74  “A Master in Misery” [letter dated 16 March 1973 to an unidentified relative], Arthur L. Davies, Green Pastures: A Sequel to Far-Off Fields [Kingston, on: s.n., 1974], pp. 42-3. A letter in which Davies writes about the pangs and passions of being a college administrator. J75  Scott Young, “Renfrew Folk,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 6 February 1975, p. 45. In this column, Scott Young quotes a recent letter from Davies about several Renfrew characters. The letter was reprinted in A93. J76  Marian Engel, Bear (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart; New York: Atheneum, 1976). A blurb written by Davies, which appears on the back or the front flap of the dust jacket, reads as follows: “The theme of Bear is one of the most significant and pressing in Canada in our time — the necessity for us who are newcomers to the country, with hardly four hundred years of acquaintance with it, to ally ourselves with the spirit of one of the most ancient lands in the world. In our search for this spirit, we are indeed in search of ourselves.” Reprinted (in a letter from Jack McClelland to Engel, 12 January 1976) in A92, p. 3, and Marian Engel, Life in Letters, Christl Verduyn and Kathleen Garay, eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), p. 162. J80.1  Richard B. Wright, Final Things (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1980). A blurb written by Davies appears in italics on the back of the dust jacket and reads as follows: “What impressed me most deeply was the author’s insight into an aspect of childhood which is rarely explored in fiction. Having come at last to the conclusion that women are also people with freedom of choice between good and evil, we are forced to extend this recognition to children and what we discover cannot always be in tune with old-fashioned notions of childhood.” J82.1  Martin Knelman, A Stratford Tempest (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1982), pp. 24-6. A manifesto drafted by Davies on behalf of seven Canadian theatre directors who expressed their concern about the appointment of Robin Phillips as Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival. The manifesto was presented to the Festival’s Board of Governors in April 1974 at the To-

ronto offices of the Ontario Arts Council. Reprinted in John Pettigrew and Jamie Portman, Stratford: The First Thirty Years, vol. 2 (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1985), pp. 47-8. J82.2  Patricia Monk, The Smaller Infinity: The Jungian Self in the Novels of Robertson Davies (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982). Monk paraphrases a point Davies made to her in a letter written on 9 January 1976 on page 14, and quotes two words in the midst of a brief summary of another point from the same letter on page 20. J82.3  Irvin Molotsky, “Head of Humanities Fund Assails ‘Obscure’ Studies,” New York Times, 21 November 1982, p. 32. According to Molotsky, in a speech given in Washington the previous day, William J. Bennett, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, quoted Davies as saying “The purpose of learning is to save the soul and enlarge the mind.” J83  William French, “Paying Pennies for Their Thoughts,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 15 October 1983, (“Fanfare” sec.), p. 1. In the course of this article about Payment for Public Use (i.e. payment to authors for use of their books by public libraries), Davies’s brief statement in support of PPU, which was read out at a public meeting on September 15, is quoted. J85  Susan Stone-Blackburn, Robertson Davies, Playwright: A Search for the Self on the Canadian Stage (Vancouver, bc: University of British Columbia Press, 1985). Davies responded in a series of letters to questions Stone-Blackburn posed to him between 1976 and 1982. She drew information and brief quotations about particular plays, playwriting and the theatre from these letters throughout her book. As the letters are not listed separately in her index, this material has to be discovered through a careful examination of the footnotes. J86.1  Digby Diehl, “Americans Come under PEN’s Scrutiny: Writers Accused of Insensitivity to World Problems,” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 16 January 1986, p. B7. In an article that concludes with observations about the previous day’s all-day PEN session on “National Identity,” Davies is quoted as saying: “There has been very little talk at this congress about art, but there has been a lot of bibble-babble about politics. That is because politics is easy to talk about and art is difficult to talk about.” J86.2  Samuel G. Freedman, “A Plea for Bad Manners amid Polite PEN Patter,” New York Times, 17 January 1986, p. Y19. In this gossipy article about incidents at the 48th Annual PEN Congress, Davies is quoted as say-



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ing: “I have been in a pressure chamber. This is a lady who insists passionately that I have agreed to speak at some affair in Westchester on Sunday. She keeps telling me the Reader’s Digest is supporting this. I have no knowledge of this at all. It is quite a muddle.” Reprinted as “Shop Talk, Parties and PEN Pals,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 18 January 1986, p. D18. J87  H.S. Bhabra, Gestures (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1987). A blurb written by Davies appears on the back cover: “A first novel of unusual sophistication and complexity. Here is a writer with a substantial future.” J88.1  Carol Goar, “Margaret Laurence’s Remarkable Legacy,” Toronto Star, 5 January 1988, p. A19. Goar quotes parts of a letter Davies wrote to the Honourable Flora MacDonald, Minister of Communications, on receiving his first cheque for library use of his books under the new Public Lending Rights legislation. The letter is printed in full in A92. J88.2  [Statement about John Ralston Saul’s The Paradise Eater], Toronto Globe and Mail, 2 July 1988, p. C16; reprinted 17 September 1988, p. F12. The statement reads: “It gives me the jim-jams, and that is evidence of its power. Millions of readers ask for just that – the jim-jams.” J89.1  Robert MacNeil, Wordstruck: A Memoir (New York: Viking, 1989). A blurb written by Davies, which appears on the back of the dust jacket, reads as follows: “I have read Wordstruck with something more than pleasure, for it stirred recollections in me that were poignant, for I too was a wordstruck boy. I felt as I read that I was meeting, so long after childhood, the friend for whom I longed when I was a boy, and who was nowhere to be found.” J89.2  [Statement about Robert MacNeil’s Wordstruck: A Memoir], Toronto Globe and Mail, 25 March 1989, p. C18. The statement reads: “[Wordstruck] deserves to prosper and live long.” J89.3  [Statement about Ruth Rendell’s The Bridesmaid], Toronto Globe and Mail, 16 September 1989, p. C18. The statement reads: “The Bridesmaid is by far the most successful book of its kind – the sensation novel – that I have read in many years.” J91.1  Arnold Edinborough, An Autobiography (Toronto: Stoddart, 1991), pp. 36-7. Letter from Davies to Edinborough, circa February 1949, in which Davies expresses his regret at being unable to attend the opening night of three plays (The Voice of the People,

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pp. 47-8, “Travel Diary,” 1 August 1966, about the implications of his mother’s being 43 when he was born, p. 78, “Speech,” Royal Conservatory Convocation, Toronto, 14 November 1962, about his childhood music lessons and teachers, pp. 91-2, letter to grant, 26 December 1986, about his reactions to The Story of Renfrew, pp. 130-1, “Theatre notes,” May 1964, about his theatre going in 1928-9, pp. 153-6, correspondence with Eleanor Sweezey (as transcribed by Davies), 1932, about his experiences that summer in Wales, p. 161, “A Forest of Feathers” (an early attempt at a novel), about a dining society remarkably like the one Davies himself belonged to while a student at Oxford, p. 165, correspondence with Eleanor Sweezey (as transcribed by Davies), 10 November and ca. 17 November 1935, about a fight between Oxford students (including Davies) and townies that had repercussions for Davies, pp. 189-90, “An Apostrophe to Time,” a poem presented to The Long Christmas Dinner Society, p. 199, letter to Horace Davenport, [9 June 1938], on the occasion of his successful viva examination at Oxford, p. 214, “Admonitory Lines to Pete,” a verse written in 1939 describing the Australian painter Peter Purves-Smith, pp. 215-16, letter to Vincent Massey, 2 July 1939, volunteering for National Service in the event of war, p. 238, “How to Keep the Mind Alive,” speech to Canadian Authors Association and Simpsons Literary Luncheon, 23 February 1978, a passage about E.J. Pratt, p. 252, “The Dame of Toorack,” poem created as a keepsake for Davies’s Australian mother-in-law in 1947, p. 268, proposed title page for “The Secretary of Samuel Marchbanks,” 1953, p. 327, “Proposed Play” ms. about the idea that eventually turned into the novel Tempest-Tost, p. 335, “Travel Diary,” 5 July 1967, regarding a portrait of his father as High Sheriff, p. 338, excerpt from Davies’s “Works in Progress” notebook setting out the core ideas of Leaven of Malice, p. 351, “Diary” entry, 8 December 1958, about the horoscope Hugh McCraig cast for him, p. 352, poem Davies wrote for his and Brenda’s Christmas card in 1961,

p. 410, “Diary,” 6 and 16 August 1963, about the way his trip to Oxford clarified his ideas about Massey College, pp. 426-7, “Theatre notes,” about his purpose in making such notes and a sample entry from 10 January 1963, pp. 432-3, notes written 1978-81 about David Gardner’s thesis, pp. 466-7, “Travel Diary,” 22 July 1967, a reflective passage about man’s destiny, good and evil, and religion, pp. 470-1, “Work in Progress” notebook, soon after 18 August 1964, preparatory notes for Fifth Business, p. 478, “Travel Diary,” 19-20 August 1968, observations at the shrine of the Virgin of Guadaloupe, p. 486, loose page in his “Works in Progress” notebook, estimating the time required to write The Manticore, pp. 525-38, passages from “Cornish Trilogy Notebook,” about ideas for The Rebel Angels, pp. 555-6, letter to Elisabeth Sifton, 8 July 1982, about being the subject of a biography, p. 564-5, unpublished letter to the editor of The Times of London, 1982, about Mario Praz, pp. 565-6, “Travel Diary,” 10 February 1983, passage about Bronzino’s “An Allegory” in the National Gallery in London, England, pp. 584-5, letter to grant, refusing access to the “Cornish Trilogy Notebook” and emphasizing that his “books are works of imagination,” p. 600-1, letter to Celina Cardim Cavalcante, 2 October 1985, assisting her with knotty points she encountered while translating Fifth Business into Portuguese, pp. 601-2, letter, 10 January 1989, reacting to a proposed movie script for Fifth Business. Also includes quotations from interviews with grant about all aspects of his life. J94.3  Mavor Moore, Reinventing Myself: Memoirs (Toronto: Stoddart, 1994), pp. 305-6. Includes 21 lines from Davies’s part of “The Charlottetown Prologue.” See E64.8. Also, on the back cover, there is a blurb written by Davies: “Mavor Moore’s autobiography is fit to stand with those of Emily Carr and Charles Ritchie as the best of its kind in Canadian writing. It has the charm and verve which have always been characteristic of his work, but here he adopts a manner of selfcriticism and self-exploration we have not seen before, and his combination of frankness about himself and tact about others is remarkable in a country which has never been remarkable for either characteristic.”



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J94.4  Alexander Theroux, The Primary Colors (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994). A blurb written by Davies, which appears on the back of the dust jacket, reads as follows: “An essay may be all sorts of things, ranging from the terse and apophthegmatic, as with Bacon, to the prodigal and vagarious adventures in association of Sacheverell Sitwell. Theroux is of the latter order of essayist, and The Primary Colors is a splendid set of variations on a theme in which he contrives never to stick to the point while never losing his grasp of it. This is a successful revival of a rare form of writing that has been neglected for at least two decades. It is a mental holiday of a rare sort.” J94.5  [Statement about William Kilbourn’s Intimate Grandeur: One Hundred Years at Massey Hall], Toronto Globe and Mail, 11 June 1994, p. C18. The statement reads: “A first-rate piece of history — and a great addition to its author’s stature as historian of our city.” J95.1  Shane Peacock, The Great Farini: The High-Wire Life of William Hunt (Toronto: Viking, 1995). The back panel of the dust jacket has the following blurb by Davies: “An admirable book, I enjoyed it greatly. Farini is a fine reminder that Canada is not the land of spiritless, yea-saying nonentities it has been represented as being by people who do not know it; we have our splendid oddities of whom Farini is one, and it is a pleasure to welcome this account of his astonishing career.” J95.2  “In Memoriam,” Fanfares (Stratford Festival’s newsletter for members) (Spring 1995): 2. About Nicholas Pennell who died in February 1994, this memorial piece includes a paragraph-long quotation describing the quality of Pennell’s acting, drawn from a “written statement Davies sent to the Festival Theatre.” J95.3  Felicity Bryan, “Obituary: Professor Robertson Davies,” London (England) Independent, 5 December 1995, (“Gazette” sec.) p. 16. In the course of her obituary on Davies, Bryan, who had been Davies’s literary agent in the u.k., quoted a brief passage about his next novel from “his last letter in October”: “‘I am puzzled,’ he wrote, ‘to determine whether it has no plot at all or more plot than the Bible. Certainly a lot of things happen but the characters keep talking all the time which may give a somewhat static impression. However, there’s lots of time to take care of that.’” J95.4  John Julius Norwich, “Obituary: Professor Robertson Davies,” London (England) Independent, 5 December 1995, (“Gazette” sec.). p. 16. Norwich quotes a long paragraph from a recent letter from Davies, about the hazards of being “a public monument.”

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J95.5  Philip Marchand, “Davies Recalled with Laughter and Warmth,” Toronto Star, 9 December 1995, p. A28. This is a report of a celebration of the life and works of Davies (arranged by John Fraser and Douglas M. Gibson), at Convocation Hall, University of Toronto, on 8 December 1995 where fellow writers, such as Jane Urquhart, Margaret Atwood, and others, paid tribute to Davies. In his speech, Fraser said that Davies had once told him about giving the artist Harold Towne a tour of Massey College, during which Towne expressed his disapproval of the Gothic arches in the chapel. “Robertson Davies told me that somewhere inside the chapel a booming voice said, ‘Mr. Town you are in the house of God and you defame it with your views. Get out.’ And then Davies said: ‘I was very surprised to see that the voice was coming from me.’” J96  Kenneth Garlick, “William Robertson Davies (1913-1995),” Balliol College Annual Record: 1996, pp. 19-21. This obituary quotes excerpts from letters that Davies wrote to Garlick in the 1980s, about being called a “man of letters,” about not visiting Balliol College, and about a number of Oxford contemporaries. J97  Mary Hetherington, “Miss Whalon Remembers,” Peterborough Examiner, 27 February 1997, p. D1. In this article about the role Moira Whalon played for forty years as Davies’s secretary, Hetherington quotes two dedications that Davies hand-wrote into his novels for her. It also quotes brief comments about her drawn from interviews, and a few things he said to her or in her hearing. J98.1  Sam Solecki, Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1998), pp. 70, 265. This volume of correspondence of the Canadian publisher Jack McClelland with various authors contains two letters written by Davies to McClelland: 16 April 1963 (concerning the New Canadian Library series and the state and development of Canadian literature) and 9 September 1980 (his opinion of Pierre Berton’s The Invasion of Canada). McClelland’s replies to Davies are also in the book. J98.2  Andrea Mudry, “A Deadly Duo: Guelph GP Was Author Robertson Davies’ Medical Muse,” Family Practice, The Maclean Hunter Newspaper for Family Physicians 10, no. 16 (8 June 1998): 29, 31. This article quotes from letters written by Davies to Dr. Richard Davis [davis], the family physician and book collector (particularly of Davies’s books) whom Davies consulted about medical matters, notably in the writing of The Cunning Man.

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J99  James King, Jack, A Life with Writers: The Story of Jack McClelland (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1999), pp. 164, 281-2. This biography of McClelland includes excerpts from two letters Davies wrote to McClelland. In the first, written in “March 1970,” he complains about the editing of his little critical book Stephen Leacock (a letter apparently identical to his letter of 2 April 1970 to Anna Szigethy, later Porter, which is printed in its entirety in A93). The second (6 January 1976, about Marian Engel’s novel, Bear) was printed in its entirety in A92. J00.1  Ian Alexander, “Robertson Davies,” Nuvo 3, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 135-42. An appreciation with reminiscences by one of Davies’s former graduate students after he had read A92. Alexander quotes from letters that Davies wrote to him (only one of which appeared in A92) and includes snippets from his conversation, teaching, a CBC interview, and a number of the letters in A92. In one of his letters to Alexander, Davies recounts his experiences during a promotional tour for one of his books. There is a photograph of Davies on p. 134. J00.2  “Obituaries: Edgar Andrew Collard: Wrote History Column for Half a Century: Was Editor-in-Chief of Montreal Gazette,” Toronto Globe and Mail, 13 September 2000, p. R12. This obituary quotes a letter Davies wrote to Collard to applaud “the editorials of reflective and literary tone which you publish from time to time … I follow about 25 Canadian editorial pages day by day, and I see nothing to compare with this work, either in subject or in treatment.” J01.1  Brenda Davies with the assistance of Jennifer Surridge, Beads in a String (Toronto: Pendragon Ink, 2001), pp. 4-7 (Davies’s diary entries for 25-7 July 1963), pp. 33-4 (his diary entry for 28 July 1958), pp. 81-3 (two poems written in 1939), pp. 113–5 (an excerpt from his letter to Brenda Davies, 18 March 1952), and pp. 118-19 (his diary entry for 31 December 1960). This is Brenda Davies’s autobiography. The title of the book was inspired by Davies’s statement, “You know that I have a strong feeling for the continuity of life; one is a bead in a string, and it is good to know what the other beads are like” (quoted on the title page, and drawn from his letter to Brenda, 18 March 1952). A variant twelve lines of one of the 1939 poems appears in Man of Myth, p. 214; Davies’s letter to Brenda Davies, 18 March 1952, was printed earlier in A93. J01.2  Rick Davis and Peter Brigg, “‘Medical Consultation’ for Murther & Walking Spirits and The Cunning Man” in Camille R. La Bossière and Linda M. Morra,

eds., Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2001), pp. 157-74. This article quotes from the correspondence (27 December 1989 to 3 January 1994) that Davies had with the physician Rick Davis about medical matters in two of his novels. The letters of 27 December 1989 and 27 December 1992 were printed earlier in A92. J01.3  Michael Peterman, “The Concert of His Life: Perspectives on the Masks of Robertson Davies” in Camille R. La Bossière and Linda M. Morra, eds., Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2001), pp. 13-32. Peterman quotes from Davies’s letters to Gordon Roper. They concern Davies’s account of his experiences at the National Library of Canada in 1985, and his apprehensions about and criticisms of Peterman’s Robertson Davies (1986) in Twayne’s World Author Series. The letters of 29 March 1979, December 1984, 2 September 1986, and 29 May 1987 were all printed earlier in A92. J02  Paul and Audrey Grescoe, eds., The Book of Letters: 150 Years of Private Canadian Correspondence (Toronto: Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 2002), pp, 309-12. This volume includes excerpts from a letter written to Joan McInnes on 11 August 1958 after the publication of A Mixture of Frailties, and the entirety of two letters, one written to a critic on 2 February 1959 about Dostoyevsky and about “the occurrence of sexual incident and reference in modern novels,” and the other to J.B. Priestley on 6 February 1959, largely about A Mixture of Frailties. J04.1  James Carley, The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives (London: British Library, 2004), p. 10. Carley recounts that Davies once gave him a wax impression taken from St. Dunstan’s seal. When Carley queried its authenticity, Davies fixed him with a powerful stare and replied: “That is the trouble with you academics; narrow-minded and reductionist. With all your facts you often miss the essential truth of the past.” J04.2  Marian Engel, Life in Letters, Christl Verduyn and Kathleen Garay, eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), p. 163. Includes a letter to Marian Engel, 20 January 1976, about the publication of her novel Bear. See also J76. J04.3  Pendragon Ink [Jennifer Surridge], “Remembering Robertson Davies,” MasseyNews: The Newsletter of Massey College no. 34 (January 2004): 15. For “the 40th anniversary of the College,” Jennifer Surridge recalled key points in the history of the College by means of



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quotations from Davies’s diary entries for 11 September 1961 (about the need to present the College “to the public as an institute of higher learning of a most serious kind”), 30 March 1963 (about painting a phoenix for the north wall of the chapel and his choice of words to be inscribed on the College bell), and 18 August 1963 (about the Archbishop of Canterbury being the first to sign the College’s visitors’ book). The 18 August 1963 entry was reprinted in Our College Correspondent, “College Registers Have Colourful History,” MasseyNews: The Newsletter of Massey College no. 35 (October 2004): 27. J08.1  Val Ross, Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2008). A biography largely constructed out of interviews with those who knew Davies, this book also includes statements drawn from his letters, diaries, and interviews, many of them already published, many not. The documentation of these is sketchy. The following lists those quotations published for the first time. Quotations from Davies’s unpublished letters to Horace Davenport concern: his grandfather Walter Davies, p. 5; getting his early books read, p. 115; his dread of the workhouse, p. 265; The Rebel Angels, pp. 271-4; Man of Myth, p. 307; The Cunning Man and the copy-editing thereof, pp. 346-7; promotional tours for The Cunning Man and catching the flu, p. 352. Quotations, largely from a typescript created by Davies (this is a difficult document and there are some problems with Ross’s understanding of its chronology) of his correspondence with Eleanor Sweezey, appear: on pp. 47-8 re his tutoring job at Queen’s, his home life in 1934, and himself as a young romantic; on p. 52-3 re the background of Davies’s love for Sweezey; on p. 56 re his suspicions about a strain of madness in her family; on p. 58-66 re his trip across the Atlantic to England in 1935, his rooms in Balliol College, Oxford friends and acquaintances, incidents at Oxford, his involvement in the Oxford University Dramatic Society, his sessions with the psychiatrist Dr. R.D. Gillespie, and a practical joke he helped execute; on p. 75 re his marriage and the situation with the Old Vic Company when war broke out; on p. 353 asking her advice about romances that

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Quotations from unpublished radio and television and newspaper interviews can be found: with Judy LaMarsh on pp. 12-13 re her [erroneous] conviction that Davies had expunged his Ontario origins from his personal legend; with Ann MacMillan on p. 14 re the gloomy outlook of those around him in his childhood; with Marilyn Powell on p. 16 re his interest in nineteenth-century melodrama; from “Wizards of Awe” on p. 26 re magicians; from a 1973 CBC radio interview on p. 30 re Kingston; from a 1974 CBC interview on p. 79 re Mitchell Hepburn’s pessimistic view in 1940 of the outcome of World War II; from a 1983 radio interview on p. 322 re his grandson comparing him to Darth Vader; with Peter C. Newman, on p. 333 re being Canadian; with Val Ross, on p. 336 re dedicating Murther & Walking Spirits to his wife. Quotations from unpublished diaries can be found concerning: on p. 169 an intuition about Massey College; on p. 232 his view that John Fraser assessed his character accurately; on p. 267 being knocked over by a car; on pp. 286-8 being nominated for the Booker and Nobel prizes; on p. 289 being ill when abroad; on p. 333 confronting his mother’s spirit; on p. 338 his speech at his 50th Wedding Anniversary celebration and indigestion later (quoted by Jennifer Surridge); on p. 364 his “inner music.” J08.2  Carl Spadoni, “Leacock, Davies, and Their American Publishers” in Klaus Martens and Paul Morris, eds., American and Canadian Literature and Culture: Across a Latitudinal Line, Papers from the Saarbrücken Mediation Project (Saarbrücken, Germany: Centre for

Canadian and Anglo-American Cultures/Amarant Press, 2008), pp. 151-67. Several letters written by Davies to Clarke Irwin are quoted. J09  Lindsay Osmun, “New Business: The Impact of Fifth Business on Roberston Davies’s Relationship with His Canadian Publishers” in Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing (website completed October 2010) at http://hpcanpub.mcmaster.ca/case-study/ new-business-impact-fifth-business-roberstondavies039s-relationship-his-canadian-publish. Osmun’s article is accompanied by scans of archival material from the Macmillan Canada fonds, OHM, including Davies’s letter to Douglas Gibson, 14 January 1976, about the pirated edition of Fifth Business and Davies’s letter to Linda McKnight, 22 July 1988, concerning the book’s publicity. J10  “Robertson Davies Collection” at http://library .queensu.ca/robertsondavies (6 June 2010). Brief description and announcement that the W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library at Queen’s University has acquired Davies’s personal library comprised of more than 5,000 volumes, theatre prints, and ephemera. A digital scan of Hector Charlesworth’s own copy of Candid Chronicles, which Davies owned, features a two-page note in Davies’s hand about Charlesworth. J14  John Saumarez Smith, “Robertson Davies and the Introduction Fee,” Book Collector 63, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 103-7. In the course of an article about the fee sometimes charged for customer referrals, John Saumarez Smith, manager of Heywood Hill bookshop in London, u.k., related a series of anecdotes about Robertson Davies. One brief quotation concerned Davies’s unhappy experience with a London barber, while another, much longer, passage concerned Davies’s ability to make his audience of schoolboys at Winchester comfortable enough to ask questions for an hour and a quarter after his twenty-minute lecture. For details about the Winchester lecture and a report about the occasion, see D86.4 and E86.7. .

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This index provides access to names (people, organizations, and places), titles (primarily from the A and B sections), and selected subjects that may be of research interest. With a few exceptions, when no author is cited after a title, it should be understood that the author or primary contributor to the work is Davies himself (for example, “The Cat That Went to Trinity,” The Cunning Man, A Voice from the Attic, and Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded). Many of Davies’s own works have been grouped together under various genres such as columns, convocation addresses, ghost stories, novels, plays, and speeches. His various pseudonyms (Aequus Quadratusque, Cymro, Dolly Gray, etc.) are listed under that generic term; his well-known nom de plume, Samuel Marchbanks, is listed separately, although citations are selective. Books that Davies reviewed are listed in the index by author under “book reviews by Davies”; the themes or subjects of many of these reviewed books are also indexed. The index employs categories such as “agents, literary,” “editors (professional), managerial, promotion and production staff of publishers,” “printers, binders, paper manufacturers, and typesetters,” and “translators.” The names of individuals who have worked in these capacities are listed under these categories. Names and concepts are also found under general subjects, including countries, cities, Canadian provinces (often with specific cities listed under their province), special days of note or celebration (for example, April Fool’s, Easter, and Christmas), universities, and places. Examples of these include “art,” “Canada,” “days of the year, special,” Massey College,” “Ontario,” “Toronto,” “University of Toronto,” “opera,” and “women.” Citations in the index are keyed to item numbers, not pages.

Abley, Mark, F88.2 abortion, F71.2 Abramovitch, Ingrid, D92.1 Ace, Gwyn, C. B11a acting, F91.6 Adachi, Ken, A69a.1, D78, F85.3 Adams, James, F85.11, F88.14 Adams, Maude, G53.19 Adams, Robert, I41, I42, I71, I83, I103 Ade, George, C47.47, G44.10 Adilman, Sid, A69a, F75.7 advertising, C29, C42.139, C53.10, G40.65, G50.24 Africa, C41.78, C61.22 Agate, James, A55, C47.55, J46. See also under book reviews by Davies agents, literary: A.P. Watt & Son, A14a.2, A16b, A38b.1, A38b.3, A43, A44b.1, A49a.2; Aske, Stephen, A8a.1; Colbert Agency, A14d, A44d, A66a, A66a.2, A68a, A68b; Colbert, Nancy, A55a.1, A61a.3, A68a, A69a; Colbert, Stanley, A66a.2; Collins-Knowlton-Wing Inc., A12c, A14a.2, A14b, A16a.3, A35a, A38a, A38b.3, A40a, A43, A44a, A48, A49a, A49a.1, A88; Cooke, Deane, A92a, A93; Curtis Brown Canada Ltd., A12e, A16c, A23b, A52a.2, A55a.1, A71a,

A81, A83a, A83b, A83d, A84, A89a, A90a; Curtis Brown Ltd., A14a, A14c, A16a, A16c, A52a, A55a, A61a, A61a.3, A61a.2, A68a.1, A69a, A70a, A70a.1, A74a.1, A74a.3, A74a.6, A74b.1, A75a; E.P.S. Lewin & Partners, A13, A43; Horniman, Michael, A16b, A38b.1, A38b.3, A44b.1, A49a.2; Irving, Janet Turnbull, A12e, A16c, A23b, A74a, A81, A83a, A83b, A83d, A84, A88, A89a, A90a, A91, A92a; Johnston, John, A13; Knowlton, Perry H., A55a, A61a, A66a.1, A69a, A70a, A74a.1, A75a, A83a, A88; Knowlton, Timothy, A14a; Livingston Cooke, Inc., A92a, A93; McDermid, Anne, A16c, A74a.3; Neatrour, Henriette, A38b.3; Parks, Richard, A14b; Riemann, Walter, A14c, A55a, A61a; Rogers, Josephine, A12c, A14a.2, A16a.3, A35a, A38a, A38b, A38b.1, A40a, A43, A44a, A44b, A44b.1, A49a, A49a.1, A88; Sydney A. Sanders Literary Agency, B3a; Vardey, Lucinda, A69a; Westwood Creative Artists, A92a; Wing, Willis Kingsley, A1a, A1a.2, A2, A12a, A12a.2, A14a, A14a.1, A14a.2, A15, A16b, B28 Agincourt, G44.43 aging, B60, C47.26, C60.23, F91.5, F96.2 Aitken, Max. See Beaverbrook, Lord Ajzenstat, Sam, J58 Alaska, C45.55

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alcohol, C60.61, G42.21, G45.30, G55.33, G57.27 Aldeburgh Festival, A73 Aldrich, Charles Anderson, C41.278 Alexander, F. Matthias, B75, G42.1. See also Alexander Technique Alexander, Ian, J00.1, J08.1 Alexander, Louis, A68a Alexander Technique, B14, B75, C92.5 Alexander, William John, A65 Allen, Grant, A68a Allen, Robert, A60 allergies, C47.73 almanacs, A25, A69, C43.3, C46.70, G52.2, I47, I69, I168 American Productions, A43 Americans. See U.S.A. Amiel, Barbara, F81.6 Amis, Kingsley, F86.7. See also under book reviews by Davies anarchism, C49.29 Andersen, Hans Christian, A55. See also under book reviews by Davies Anderson, Patrick, A16a Andrews, Marke, F91.3 Animal U., A52, A88, A96 animals, C42.126 “Annie Get Your Gun,” G50.14 Anson-Cartwright, Hugh, A77 Anthony, C.L., C40.19 Anthony, Sister Geraldine (Stage Voices: Twelve Canadian Playwrights Talk about Their Lives and Work), B34 Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of Canada, A77, C62.22 antiques, C41.182 anti-semitism, C41.326, C43.60 Apuleius, Lucius, A91 Archer, Bert, F88.1 architecture, C53.28, C54.51, C59.8, C60.35, D61.4, E60.1 “Are Canadians Dull?: 1953,” A58, C53.33 “aristocracy of talent,” G44.12 arithmetic, G40.42 Arliss, George, C40.11 Armstrong, D.P., B25 art, C57.57, F94.9 – amateur, A62, C73.8, E73.9 – artists: Ahrens, Carl, C41.173, C41.176; Dali, Salvador, C40.17, C41.103, C44.37; Fuseli, Henry, C50.2; Goya, Francisco, C57.44; Jackson, A.Y., A38f, C42.174; John, Augustus, G40.73, C52.16; Lismer, Arthur, A12e; Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, C53.7; Whistler, Rex, C49.54 – Canadian, A12e, A38f, C42.174 – Chinese, C42.56 – craftsmanship, C45.53, C47.81 – English, C57.26 – “How to Look at Pictures,” E43

– Institute of Contemporary Art (London), I9 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art (ny), B62, G43.4 – modern, C41.331, C58.40 – National Gallery (Canada), G47.8, G49.12, G53.5, G56.19 – National Gallery of Art (Washington, dc), B62 – nude, A55, C57.16 – paintings: exhibitions, C45.38, G57.29; faking and forgery, A89, A96, E88.2; German, modern, C57.57; Italian Renaissance, C57.35; oil paintings and auctions, C41.325; theft, G51.7 – Pre-Raphaelites, C53.51 – purpose of, F88.1 Arthur, Julia, G50.2 The Arts as Communication, B12 Aseltine, W.M., G56.12 Ashley, Lynda, F89.4 Aspen Institute Forum, E93.1 astrology, C42.123, E70.1, F79.1, F82.6, F89.1, F89.11 Atack, H.E., A11a, A18 Atwood, Margaret, A49a, A61a, A80, B46, C90.1, E86.8, E90.7, F81.6, F89.5, J95.5; The Canlit Foodbook: From Pen to Palate—A Collection of Tasty Literary Fare, A49a; and Barbed Lyres: Canadian Venomous Verse, B56 Aubrey, John, A50 auctions, C41.64 Auden, R.H., C70.4 Australia, C41.328, C41.330, C42.180; aborigines of, C43.59, C44.13, C55.36, G40.59; Botany Bay, C42.26, C43.42C43.43; Jaringoorli, G50.11 Austria, C66.10, C66.1 (Vienna) “An Author’s Pleasure,” A55, C59.69 authorship, C67.6, C72.5, C86.5, D50 autobiography, A80, B29, D86.4, F75.11, F91.5, J62 Avers, Roy, I49, I97, I106, I141 awards, fellowships, and prizes, A7, A12, A34, A44a, A68a, A85, D78, D88.4, E86.5, E87.1, E88.7, E93.10, E94.4, E95.3, F73.10, F75.11, F88.3, F88.8, F94.1; Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, National Award, A85, A91, E86.5; Barry Jackson Challenge Trophy, A6; Booker Prize (or Booker McConnell Prize), A68a.1, A68a.3, A71a.1, A71a.6, C86.6, F86.5-F86.7, J08.1; City of Toronto Book Award, A61a; Fulford Shield, A6; Governor General’s Award, A44a, F73.10; Gratien Gélinas Prize, A7; Hammett Prize, A74a.2; Leacock Medal for Humour, A12a, A33a, D55.2, F93.5; Molson Prize, D88.4, E88.7; Neil Gunn Fellowship, C88.5, E88.4, F88.3; Nobel Prize for Literature, A61a.2, F82.5, F85.9, F88.15, J08.1; Toronto Arts Awards Ceremony, E93.10; Trillium Book Award, A71a Ayckbourn, Alan, A74a Bacon, Francis, A55, C60.22, J94.4 Bacque, James, A43



Baier, Annette C., B61 Bailey Allen, Ida. See Allen, Ida Bailey under book reviews by Davies Bailey, Rosamond (daughter) and David, A97 Bakrow Kaufman, Beatrice. See Kaufman, Beatrice Bakrow under book reviews by Davies Baldwin, Stanley, C53.7 Ball, Michael, I137 ballet, C41.114, C41.243, C41.254, C41.255, C42.25, C42.39, C42.45, C42.53, G52.8, G57.8 Balliol College. See Britain, England, Oxford University, Balliol College Balzac, Honoré de, F85.5 Banff Festival of Arts, B39 Banks, Joyce, B52 Bannon, Barbara A., F71.4 Banting, Sir Frederick, C47.26 Barbour, Douglas, B46 Barker, Granville, C57.24 Barker, John, A19 Barker-Sandbrook, Judith, C89.2 Barkham, John, F76.4 Barlow, Alan, B67 Barnes, Clive, F75.11 Barnes, Malcolm, C53.7 Barrie, J.M., C60.20, E76.6, G56.29; Dear Brutus, C41.85; Quality Street, C50.35 Barrymore, John, C42.104, C44.7 Bartlet Brebner, John. See Brebner, John Bartlet under book reviews by Davies Bartlett, Ethel, C45.10 Barton, John S., E52.1 Barzun, Jacques, C56.23, J91.2 Base, Ron, F73.6 Basic English, C41.272, C41.274 “Basic Optimism,” A55, C62.8 Bates, Alan, B24 Batten, Adrian, A28 Battle Cry for Book Lovers, A15 Battle of Hastings, C40.34 Battle of Trafalgar, C40.37 Baudelaire, Charles, C57.37 Bauerle, Ruth, A16a Baxter, Edna, A2 beards, D77, F52, F81.7, G42.2 Beattie, Munro, A14a, B10 beauty contests, C61.13 Beaverbrook, Lord, C41.193 beavers, G53.39 Beck, Dick, B73 Beerbohm, Sir Max, C57.9, C61.2, C61.52, G42.23. See also under book reviews by Davies Behl, Dennis, B67

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Beissel, Henry, A29 Bell, Alexander Graham, G47.4 Belloc, Hillaire, G53.17 Bellow, Saul, A38b, A38b.1, A38b.3, D86.2 Benet, Stephen Vincent, C43.22 Bengough, J.W., G53.33 Benn, Linda, J08.1 Bennett, Donna, A9a, A23a Bennett, William, J. J82.3 Benson, Eugene, A5a, A60; Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, B70; The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre, B50 Berenson, Bernard, G59.9. See also under book reviews by Davies Beresford-Howe, Constance, E86.8, F81.6 Bergman, Ingmar, F88.18. See also under book reviews by Davies Bergsma, Marlene, F88.19 “Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell,” A55, C53.3 Bernardo Homes, A83a Bertin, Leonard, F75.1 Berton, Pierre, B12, B17, C75.5, C94.2, F62.2, J98.1; The Pierre Berton Celebration Dinner, B36; Pierre Berton Show, A44a Betts, Flora, J08.1 Beynon Ray, Marie. See Ray, Marie Beynon under book reviews by Davies Bhabra, H.S., J87 Bible, C41.321, C45.5, C55.21, D88.1, F96.2, G44.24; and archeology, C41.138; as literature, C41.215; as poetry, C44.29; The New Testament in Basic English, C41.272, C41.274 Bigsby, Christopher, B59, F89.11 Binyon, Laurence, C43.22. See also under book reviews by Davies Birkett, Sir Norman, A8a.1 Birks, Roberta, C87.1 Birney, Earle, A22 birth control, C42.153 “A Birthday Brindisi,” B63 Bishop, Morris, A12a.2. See also under book reviews by Davies Bishop’s University, C57.1, D67.1, D67.2, E67.1. See also under convocation addresses Bissell, Claude, A14a, A33a, A34, A36, A47, A80, D57.1, E50.2, F89.5; Our Living Tradition: Seven Canadians, B9. See also under book reviews by Davies Bjornson, Bjornstjerne, G40.46 Black, Susan, D79 Blackadar, Bruce, F75.3, F93.5 Blackburn-Stone, Susan, A5a Blackwell, P.J., B8 Bladen, Vincent, E64.7

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Blais, Marie-Claire, E78.1. See also under book reviews by Davies Blake, William, C41.259. See also under book reviews by Davies Blatz, William, I1, I2 Blishen, Edward, I9 Blissett, William, A44α Bolton, R.J., B73 Bonaparte, Marie, C54.49 Book Beat, A44a book clubs: Book Club Associates, A66a.1; Book-of-theMonth Club, Inc., A14a, A38a, A44a, A44b, A49a, A52a, A68a.1, A71a, A71a.4, A74a, A83a, B39; Book of the Month Club of America, A38b.1, F88.12; Doubleday Book Club, A74a; Literary Guild, A38b, A38b.1; Quality Paperback Book Club, A66a; Signed First Edition Society, A74a.1 book collecting, A77, A96, C48.17, C51.34, C51.47, C53.30, E95.3, F68 “Book Collecting,” A55, C62.22 “Book Collecting and Canadians: 1953,” A58, C53.30 book reviewing, nature of, F85.5, F89.10, F90.3. F91.3 book reviews by Davies: – Ackerley, J.R., C57.8; Ackermann, A.S.E., C50.32; Acton, Harold, C41.218, C50.18; Adams, Samuel Hopkins, C42.181, C47.39; Adler, Gerhard, C73.2; Adrian, Arthur A., C58.5; Agate, James, C45.67, C46.39, C49.61, C46.79; Agee, James, C59.1; Aldington, Richard, C41.29, C46.37, C55.18, C62.29; Aldiss, Brian W., C56.42, C62.16; Alegria, Ciro, C41.309; Alexander, Franz, C43.68; Alexander, Henry, C40.49; Allen, Hervey, C43.52; Allen, Ida Bailey, C47.53; Allen, John, C54.9; Allen, Ralph, C54.33, C58.10; Allen, Walter, C55.6; Alford, Violet, C53.8; Allsop, Kenneth, C58.30; Altick, Richard D., C51.14; Amis, Kingsley, C56.15, C58.13, C62.20; Amory, Cleveland, C61.7; Andersen, Hans Christian, C60.15; Anderson, L.A., C45.55; Anderson, Sherwood, C49.16; Andrews, Roy Chapman, C45.101; Andrezel, Pierre, C47.31; Angeli, Helen, C49.54; Angell, Joseph Warner, C50.20; Angell, Norman, C43.20C43.21; Aragon, Louis, C41.338; Arbuthnot, Helen, C45.12; Armstrong, Anthony, C42.6; Armstrong, Margaret, C40.45; Arnold, Elliott, C41.89, C42.107; Arnold, Matthew, C49.59; Asch, Sholem, C41.94; Ashford, Daisy, A55, C62.14; Ashton, Helen, C54.46; Askwith, Betty, C41.219; Aspinall, Arthur, C41.239; Asquith, Cynthia, C56.34; Aswell, James R., C47.33; Aswell, Mary Louise, C43.17; Austen, Jane, C55.2; Aylmer, Felix, C59.70; – Bage, Robert, C60.39; Bain, George, C72.10; Baker, A. Arnold, C54.35; Baker, Frank, C41.4; Baldwin, Monica, C50.18; Ballam, Harry, C51.16; Ballou, Robert O., C46.6; Bangs, Francis Hyde, C41.122; Banning, K., C42.175; Barbeau, Marius, C44.82; Barbellion, W.N.P., C45.67;

Barham, Richard Harris, A55, C43.72; Baring, Maurice, C34.16; Barker, George, C41.301; Barnhart, Clarence L., C56.13; Baron, Alexander, C55.15; Barrymore, Diana, C57.17; Barth, John, C56.43, C60.53; Bartimeus [Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie], C43.59; Bartlett’s Famous Quotations, A55a, A55a.1, C41.56, C60.44; Baskine, Gertrude, C45.55; Bason, Fred, C51.20; Bates, Daisy, C43.42-C43.43; Bates, Ernest Sutherland, C41.215; Bauer, Marion, C41.116; Beach, Warren, C41.276; Beal, Anthony, C57.7; Beard, Charles, C60.19; Beaton, Cecil, C72.8; Beauman, Bentley, C41.220, C41.226; Beck, Phineas, C44.31; Beckett, Samuel, C56.8, C56.24, C58.16; Bedichek, Roy, C60.12; Beecham, Thomas, C43.49; Beerbohm, Sir Max, A55, C46.95, C53.41, C55.46, C71.3; Behan, Brendan, C59.15; Behrman, S.N., C52.11, C61.2; Bell, Caroline, and Eddie Bell, C41.205, C41.252; Bemelmans, Ludwig, C41.76, C41.334, C42.14, C42.152, C44.26, C45.39, C46.70, C47.72, C55.22, C57.48, C58.44; Benchley, Robert, C43.48, C60.59; Bennett, Arnold, C41.79, C42.95, C60.17; Bensen, Donald R., C81.9; Benson, Sally, C41.167, C44.1; Bentley, Eric, C47.20; Bentley, Phyllis, C47.6; Berenson, Bernard, A55, C54.15, C60.13; Bergman, Ingmar, C61.27; Berlioz, Hector, A55, C56.23; Bernier, Georges, and Rosamund Bernier, C57.57; Bernstein, Theodore M., C59.10; Bertail, Inez, C42.177; Bessborough, Earl of, C41.239; Beston, Henry, C42.174; Bethune, Mary, C54.46; Betjeman, John, C47.70, C53.28, C59.45, C61.3; Bett, Henry, C53.8; Bettelheim, Bruno, C76.9; Beurling, George, C43.66; Beveridge, William, C43.5, C43.64-C43.65; Biddle, George, C44.71; Binder, Pearl, C54.20; Bindrum, Elsie, C41.136; Binyon, Laurence, C44.98, C47.51; Bischoff, Ilse, C53.52; Bishop, Morris, C42.182, C54.26, C62.4; Bissell, Claude, C82.2; Bissell, Richard, C57.15; Blais, Marie-Claire, A58, C60.48, C66.12, C67.2; Blake, William, C47.8, C57.16; Bleiler, Everett F., C53.34; Bliss, Trudy, C53.48; Blochin, Anne Elizabeth, C42.2; Blom, Eric, C55.19; Blunden, Edmund, C41.107, C43.39; Blunt, Wilfrid, C56.52; Boas, F.S., C47.86; Bodmer, Frederick, C45.14; Boethius, A55, C43.56; Bonnel, John Sutherland, C42.6; Booker, Edna, C46.6; Booth, Clare, C41.175; Booth, Michael R., C66.6, C70.2; Boswell, James, C48.4, C50.38, C52.22, C54.3, C61.29; Bottome, Phyllis, C41.95; Bowen, Elizabeth, C49.22; Bowra, C.M., C44.86, C44.86; Boylen, Margaret Currier, C47.39; Bradbury, Malcolm, C62.20; Braden, Bernard, C48.86; Bradlee, Frederic, C61.7; Bradley, Gerry, C42.127; Brebner, John Bartlet, C46.13; Brecht, Bertolt, C61.43; Bridge, Ann, C46.88; Brinnin, John Malcolm, A55, C56.2; Britannica Book of the Year, C42.130, C43.55, C44.67, C45.57; Brittain, Vera, C41.121; Brochmann, Georg, C50.16; Bromfield, Louis, C41.330, C42.107, C43.10; Bronner, Milton, C41.203; Brooks, Van Wyck, C41.291, C42.109; Brooks, Walter R.,



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G52.29; Brophy, John, C42.128; Brown, Beth, C53.52; The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror, C41.266; Brown, Cecil, C42.178; Brown, E.K., C53.21; Brown, Ivor, C44.55, C46.35, C47.89, C49.58, C50.33, C53.10, C56.24, C57.20, C62.28, G52.1; Brown, John Mason, C48.28; Brown, Maurice J.E., C58.35; Brown, R. Allen, C54.51; Browne, Lewis, C43.84; Browne, Sir Thomas, A55, C43.56; Bruce, Ann, C59.22; Bruce, Charles, C41.317; Bryan, George S., C40.81; Bryant, Arthur, C41.90; Bryher, Winifred, C54.46; Buchan, John, C41.115, C41.124; Buchanan, Scott, C49.7; Buck, Pearl S., C42.36, C43.67; Budenz, Louis Francis, C47.43; Bunting, Daniel George, A55, C60.3; Burgess, Anthony, A55b, C80.9, C86.2, C87.3; Burgoyne, Philip A., C55.44; Burnett, Whit, C42.173; Burns, Robert, C44.29; Burton, C.L., C52.24; Burton, Jean, C41.170, C50.2; Bush, Douglas, C49.56; Butcher, Harry, C46.31; Butler, Constance, C48.15; Butler, E.M., C48.82; Byng of Vimy, Viscountess, C45.91; Byrne, Donn, C42.179; – Cabell, Branch, C42.51; Cain, James M., C53.45; Cairns, Huntington, C41.144; Caldwell, Erskine, C41.164, C52.12, C54.6; Calvin, D.D., C41.174; Camden, Carrol, C53.43; Cameron, Silver Donald, C67.8; Camus, Albert, C48.76, C57.10; Canadian Authors Association, Toronto branch, C41.310, C41.317; The Canadian Oxford Atlas of the World and Canadian Oxford Desk Atlas, C57.56; Cape, Judith, C44.98; Cardus, Neville, C51.32; Carlyle, Thomas, C53.48; Carnegie, Dale, C45.36; Carnegie, Mrs. Dale, C54.22; Carneiro, Cecilio J., C44.82; Carr, Albert, C41.340; Carr, Emily, A58, C41.294, C41.295, C42.169, C45.23, C45.91, C46.86, C53.55, C88.3; Carr, W.G., C45.7; Carrick, Edward, C42.127; Carrick, Gertrude, C41.290; Carrington, Philip, C58.8; Carroll, Leone Rutledge, C47.24; Carroll, Lewis, C54.43, C94.1, C94.6; Carson, Gerald, C54.30; Carter, John, A58, C53.30; Cartmell, Van H., C42.84; Cary, Joyce, A55, C49.32, C50.10, C55.35; Casanova, Giacomo, A55, C59.68; Case, Virginia, C41.264; Cash, Gwen, C42.148; Castiglioni, Arturo, C41.35; Cather, Willa, C40.89; Cecil, David, C57.49, C59.54; “Censor,” C54.5; Cerf, Bennett A., C42.84, C57.53 ; Cervantes, Miguel de, C47.76, C51.53; Chalmers, Harvey, C43.88; Chandler, Asa C., C41.139; Chandos, John, C54.22; Chaney, Seldon, C58.40; Chapman, R.W., C55.2; Charushin, E., C45.12; Chase, Mary Ellen, C45.5; Chasins, Abram, C58.3; Chaucer, Geoffrey, A55, C57.12; Chekhov, Anton, C47.4; Cheney, Sheldon, C41.331; Chevalier, Elizabeth Pickett, C42.118; Chevalier, Gabriel, C46.60, C48.76; Chinoy, Helen Krich, C54.9; Chisholm, G. Brock, C42.68; Chodorov, Jerome, C54.21; Churchill, Sir Winston, C41.67, C44.86, C47.10; Chute, Marchette, C53.54, C57.50; Ciechanowski, Jan, C47.12; Clare, Thomas H., C46.6; Clark, Sir Kenneth, A55, C57.16; Clarke, George Herbert,

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C41.317, C43.90; Clarke, Mary, C56.24; Claus, Hugo, C55.23; Clay, Charles, C41.9; Clutton-Brock, Alan, C41.290; Coburn, Kathleen, C58.7; Cockshut, A.O.J., C56.4; Cohen, Lester, C45.47; Cole, G.D.H., C42.168; Cole, Toby, C54.9; Cole, William, C53.64, C59.58; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, C51.14, C58.7; Coles, Manning, C45.63; Colgate, William, C44.24; Collier, John, C52.9, C58.9, C60.26; Collins, H.N., C47.4; Colver, Anne, C43.54; Comfort, Alex, C45.47; Compton-Burnett, Ivy, C53.39; The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, C41.259; Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne, C53.28; Conklin, Groff, C53.34; Connolly, Cyril, C45.94, C46.64, C47.86, C53.49, C54.14; Conrad, Joseph, C48.4; Contemporary Verse, A58, C42.71; Cook, Lyn, G52.29; Cooke, Charles, C42.80; Coppard, Alfred Edgar, C59.20; Corti, C40.9; Corwin, Norman, C45.61; Costain, Thomas B., C47.68, C55.39; Coughlin, Bing, C46.86; Courtenay, Ashley, C53.23; Cousins, Norman, C42.47, C45.101; Coward, Noël, C41.234, C41.297, C50.25, C51.45, C54.37; Cowie, Donald, C45.99; Cowles, Virginia, C56.45; Cowley, Malcolm, C46.73, C55.6, C58.15; Cowlin, Dorothy, C41.260; Cox, David, C60.24; Cozzens, James Gould, C57.40; Craick, W.A., G60.2; Craig, Edward Gordon, C58.2; Cramer, Maurice B., C41.309; Crawford, Marion, C51.51; Creed, G.L., C42.125; Creighton, Donald G., C57.47; Crockett, Lucy Herndon, C40.88; Croft-Cooke, Rupert, C55.30; Cronin, A.J., C41.207, C41.208, C41.328, C56.27; Cross, Austin F., C43.30; Cross, F.L., C58.11; Cross, Milton, C53.63; Crossland, Robert, C55.36; Crow, Carl, C40.91; Cunard, Nancy, C55.12; Cunnington, C. Willett, Phillis Cunnington, and Charles Beard, C60.19; Currelly, C.T., G56.37; – Dahl, Roald, C60.26; Dali, Salvador, C44.37; Daniel, G.E., C55.28; Daniels, Earl, C42.60; Dante, D47.51; Dark, Eleanor, C41.290, C41.328; Davenport, Horace W., C62.3; Davies, John, C45.81; Davies, Rhys, C46.33; Davies, W.H., C41.68; Daviot, Gordon, C55.5; Davis, Clyde Brion, C44.82, C46.33; Davis, Esmé, A55, C45.26; Day, Donald, C55.3; Day Lewis, Cecil, C49.64, C56.42; de Beauvoir, Simone, C53.31, C55.15, C56.27; de Brunhoff, Cosette Vogel, C62.3; de Brunhoff, Jean, C42.177; de Camp, L. Sprague, C41.265; de la Mare, Walter, C61.10; de la Roche, Mazo, A58, C40.64, C41.290, C42.181, C46.86, C44.98; de Laclos, Choderlos, C62.29; de Madariaga, Salvador, C44.59, C55.35; de Maupassant, Guy, C47.29; de Mille, Agnes, C52.5; de Montaigne, Michel, C61.15; De Morgan, William, C60.16; de Poncins, Gontran, C41.88, C41.118; de Sade, Marquis, C53.44; de Seversky, Alexander P., C42.110; de Tourville, Anne, C53.22; de Vibraye, Henri, C41.231; DeVoto, Bernard, C40.80, C46.75, C47.12; De Vries, Peter, C54.46, C56.27, C58.13; Dean, Alexander, C41.275;

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Dean, Joseph, C54.19; Defoe, Daniel, C45.71, C60.27; Delafield, E.M., C41.260, C47.92; Delehanty, Elizabeth, C42.113; Deeping, Warwick, C40.56; Delves-Broughton, J., C50.36; Denison, Muriel, C40.56; Dennis, Patrick, C58.34; Denny, Harold, C43.24; Dent, A., C54.35; Derleth, August, C53.34; DeRopp, Robert S., C60.23; Dickens, Charles, A55, C42.184, C43.95, C44.104, C48.15, C53.40, C59.51, C60.38, C61.54, G56.38; Dickens, Monica, C61.57; Dickson, Lovat, C60.45; dictionaries, C40.95, C41.320, C42.28, C42.96, C47.15, C51.48, C53.36, C54.35, C55.19, C57.45, C58.11, C59.50, C60.19, C60.44, C61.46, C62.18 ; Diespecker, Dick, C44.86; Dikty, T.E., C53.34; Dilworth, Ira, C46.4; Dinesen, Isak, C34.10, C43.41, C59.9; Disher, Maurice Willson, A55, C45.26, C55.42; Dobbin, Francis Hincks, C43.93; Dobrée, Bonamy, C48.6; Dodge, David, C53.23; Donaldson, Frances, C57.24; Douglas, Norman, C46.70; Douglas, O., C46.15; Dourley, John P., C84.4; Doyle, Arthur Conan, C60.51; Doyle, C.H., C45.55; Doyle, Richard J., C53.12; Drawbell, J.W., C42.82; du Gard, Roger Martin, C41.123; du Maurier, Daphne, C35.3, C53.22, C54.38; DuCann, C.G.L., C61.60; Duhamel, Georges, C47.39; Dukore, Bernard F., C75.7; Duley, Margaret, C42.107; Dunbar, Flanders, C48.13; Dunboyne, Lord, C54.19; Duncan, Dorothy, C41.152; Duncan, Ronald, C55.5; Dunway, Philip, C57.53; Durrell, Lawrence, C58.9; Dürrenmatt, Friedrich, C59.40; d’Usseau, Arnaute, C54.21; Dutton, Joan Parry, C60.7; d’Ydewalle, Charles, C45.7; – Ebensten, Hanns, C54.20; Eberhart, Mignon G., C42.181; Edgett, Edwin Francis, C40.91; Edman, Irwin, C47.41; Edmonds, Walter D., C47.12; Edwards, Murray, A58, C69.2; Eliot, George, C55.26; Elizabeth, C41.82; Ellis, Havelock, G40.5; Elton, Lord [Godfrey Elton, Baron], C42.137; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, C47.8; encyclopedias and companions to literature and music, C41.277, C41.281, C45.47, C53.63, C54.56, C56.24, C83.7; England, Robert, C43.24; Erskine, John, C41.330; Ervine, St. John, C41.328, C41.330, C56.47; Espey, John, C45.34, C47.78, C50.7; Esquire Etiquette, C54.5; Estes, Harlow, C41.3, C88.3; Evans, Bergen, and Cornelia Evans, C47.4, C55.4, C57.45, C62.18; Evans, Joan, C55.12; Evans, Mel, C57.53; Evans, T.F., C78.8; Everett-Green, Evelyn, A55, C62.5; – Faber, Geoffrey, C58.5; Fabricius, Johan, C41.185; Fadiman, Clifton, C41.288, C41.3334, C42.164; Fairbank, Alfred, C55.44; Falkner, J. Meade, C55.14; Falle, G.G., C66.6; Family Journal, C44.78; Farjeon, Herbert, C53.35; Farjeon, Joseph Jefferson, C47.53; Farmer, Bernard F., C51.34; Farrer, David, C44.3; Faulkner, William, C46.73; Feiling, Keith, C47.10; Ferber, Edna, C41.309; Ferguson, Charles, C59.47; Ferne, Doris, C46.91; Fetzer, Herman, C40.55; Feuchtwanger, Lion, C43.46, C47.72,

C51.37; Field, Bradda, C42.48; Field, Rachel, C42.113; Fielding’s Travel Guide to Europe, C53.23; Finch, Robert, C46.91; Fineman, Irving, C41.290; Finlay, Ian, C45.61; Finney, J.M.T., C40.61; Firbank, Thomas, C53.58; Fischer, John, C47.43; Fischer, Louis, C42.119; Fisher, Claude Laing, C48.86; Fisher, James, C57.30; Fisher, M.F.K., C44.31; Fitzgerald, F. Scott, C45.87; Fleming, R. Harvey, C41.224; Flesch, Rudolf, C53.49; Fontaine, Robert, C45.63; Forbes-Mitchell, William, C62.11; Forbes-Robertson, Diana, C41.105, C42.13; Forman, Henry James, C41.251; Forster, E.M., C52.18; Forster, J.W.L., C42.7; Fosdick, Harry Emerson, C43.25; Fothergill, Brian, C58.44; Fowke, E.F., C54.33; Fowler, Gene, C44.7, C46.39; Fowles, John, A55b, A55b.1, C82.10; Fox, A.H., C34.6; Frank, Gerold, C57.17; Frank, Mary, C50.33; Franken, Rose, C41.101; Fredborg, Arvid, C44.9; Freeman, H.W., C41.218; French, Maida Parlow, C43.88; French, Marilyn, C81.4; Freud, Sigmund, C54.49; Frings, Ketti, C58.16; Friskin, James, C54.35; Fromm, Bella, C43.7; Fry, Christopher, C49.65, C53.1, C54.42; Fuller, Edmund, C41.175, C47.6, C58.23; Furnas, J., C41.81; – Gabriel, Gilbert W., C46.55; Gaither, Frances, C44.82; Galantière, Lewis, C47.29; Gallant, Mavis, C78.1; Ganz, Paul, C50.2; Garnett, David, C50.1; Garrett, Eileen J., C51.34; Garrett, John, C55.27; Garrick, David, C64.7; Gaskell, Elizabeth, C40.70; Gauvreau, Emile, C53.29; Gay, John, C41.91; Gay, Peter, C84.1; Geisinger, Marion, C72.1; Geismar, Maxwell, C46.73; Gelatt, Roland, C55.42; Gelber, Lionel, C42.55, C42.57; Gélinas, Gratien, C62.34; George, Daniel, C54.55, C58.3; Gibbings, Robert, C53.58; Gibbons, Stella, C41.47; Gibbs, Philip, C40.87; Gibbs, Wolcott, C58.34; Gielgud, Kate Terry, C54.48; Gilbert, Douglas, C41.52; Gill, Eric, C41.197; Gilmour, G.P., C54.33; Giono, Jean, C46.33; Girl’s Own Paper, C44.78; Glasgow, Ellen, C41.124; Gloag, John, C61.38; Glover, Halcott, C45.99; Glover, T.R., C42.176; Godsell, Philip H., C43.82; Gogarty, Oliver St. John, C41.338, C54.14; Golding, William, A55b, A55b.1, C57.7, C61.17, C80.8; Goldring, Douglas, C44.41; The Good Food Guide, C51.42; The Good Housekeeping Cook Book, C49.26; Goodrich, Marcus, C41.74, C41.124; Gordon, Caroline, C58.10; Gordon, Wilhelmina, C41.284; Gorman, Herbert, C45.73; Gorsline, Douglas, C52.27; Goudge, Elizabeth, C48.37; Gould, Cecil, C57.35; Gould, Mona, C46.91; Gouzenko, Igor, C54.46; Gowans, Alan, C59.8; Gowers, Ernest, C62.28; Graham, Gwethalyn, A58, C45.32; Grant, Joe, C41.153; Grattan, Harley, C42.26; Graves, Robert, A55, A58, C41.129, C43.70, C46.11, C46.81, C49.30, C49.36, C50.4, C50.33, C55.21, C57.9, C57.39, C59.11; Gray, Cecil, C35.9, C35.10; Gray, James, C40.91; Green, Benny, C81.9; Green, Henry, C41.82, C41.290, C43.76; Green, Peter, C59.39; Green,



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Roger Lancelyn, C54.43; Greene, Frank F., C41.127; Greene, Graham, A89, C51.47, C56.18, C58.16, C89.3; Greene, Josiah E., C45.81; Greenfield, George, C46.31; Greenwood, Robert, C41.330; Gregory, Horace, C44.1, C49.14; Grew, Joseph, C., C43.10; Grimes, Louise Ireland, C41.12; Grossman, Vladimir, C45.36; Grossmith, George, and Weedon Grossmith, C48.15; Grove, Frederick Philip, A58, C45.7, C46.79, C47.17; Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, C40.95; Gudmundsson, Kristmann, C41.10; Guedalla, Philip, C42.54, C43.51; Guerney, Bernard, C47.4; Guernsey, Isabel Russell, C43.84; Guillet, Edwin C., C58.1; Gumpert, Martin, C42.40, C44.90; Gustafson, Ralph, A58, C42.106; Guthrie, Tyrone, C59.66; Guy, Earl, C43.82; – Habe, Hans, C43.84; Habenstein, R.W., C56.7; Hadfield, John, C53.60; Haig, Kennethe M., C45.91; Hale, John, C51.10; Hale, Kathleen, C45.12; Hall, James Norman, C41.328, C41.330; Hamburger, Philip, C49.36; Hamilton, J.D., C42.172; Hamilton, Robert M., A58, C52.14; Hanfstaengl, Ernst (“Putzi”), C58.6; Hanlin, Tom, C45.99; Harbage, Alfred, C56.24; Harding, M. Esther, C59.33; Hardy, H. Reginald, C49.63; Hardy, Thomas, C41.45, A55, C57.25; Hardy, W.G., C42.100; Hare, August, C53.7; Harris, Seale, C47.26; Harrison, G.B., C49.16, C55.27; Harrison, Michael, C60.1; Harrison, W.E.C., C42.10; Hart, James D., C41.277, C41.281; Hart, Moss, C41.25, C41.175; Hart-Davis, Rupert, C52.18; Hasek, Jaroslav, C47.47; Haskell, Arnold L., C43.59; Hassall, Christopher, C59.59; Hastings, Patrick, C51.16; Hawes, Elizabeth, C48.82; Hawker, James, C62.15; Hayakawa, S.I., C41.332; Haydon, A. Eustace, C41.108; Hayes, Dorsha, C41.97; Hayek, Friedrich A., C44.96; Hayman, Ronald, C71.6; Hayward, John, C56.42; Hazlitt, William, A55, C61.45; Healy, Maurice, C49.65; Hecht, Ben, C41.315; Heineman, James H., C81.9; Hellman, Lillian, C41.175; Hemingway, Ernest, C40.48, C42.156; Hemmings, F.W.J., C53.42; Hennessey, Joseph, C44.102; Henriques, Robert, C45.73; The Herald of Mercy, C45.49; Herbert, A.P., C34.7; Herbert, Xavier, C44.13; Heriot, Angus, C56.50; Hernandez, Jose, C41.110; Heuvelmans, Bernard, C59.27; Hichens, Jacobine, C53.22; Hicks, Granville, C42.118, C45.30; Higham, T.F., C44.86; Highet, Gilbert, C53.21, C57.49; Hilton, James, C35.2, C41.53, C43.48, C45.73, C48.32; Hindus, Maurice, C41.277; Hine, Reginald L., C45.97; Hitchens, Robert, C41.26; Hodge, Alan, C50.33; Hogben, Lancelot, C45.14; Holberg, Ludvig, C47.20, C51.40; Hole, Christina, C41.190, C45.85, C57.13; Holland, Vyvyan, C54.58; Holman, Dennis, C53.12; Holroyd, Michael, A90, C88.6, C91.4; Hood, Robert Allison, C42.148; Hoogstraal, Harry, C41.195; Hooke, Hilda Mary, C42.129; Hope, Bob, C44.76; Hope-Wallace, Philip, C60.10; Horwin, Jerry, C41.175; Hoult, Norah,

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C47.22; Howard, John Tasker, C41.106; Howse, Ernest Marshall, C55.27; Hudson, Reba, C46.91; Huehns, G., C55.28; Huemer, Dick, C41.153; Hughes, Dom Anselm, C55.19; Hughes, Gervase, A55, C60.31; Hughes, Richard, C61.17; Hugo, Howard E., C57.53; Hull, R.F.C., C78.6; Hunt, Howard, C47.31; Hutchison, A.S.M., C41.26; Hutchison, Bruce, C42.62, C42.75; Hutchison, R.C., C45.61; Huxley, Aldous, A55, C42.58, C42.87, C43.77, C44.100, C46.60, C47.86, C48.71, C54.24, C55.38, C56.17, C57.7, C59.1, C60.55, C62.24, G40.67; Huxley, Elspeth, C49.10; Huxley, Julian, C44.96; Hyde, H. Montgomery, C40.67, C55.36; Hymans, Edward, C54.46; Hyslop, Lois Boe, and Francis E. Hyslop, C57.37; – Idriess, Ion L., C42.179; An Illustrated Historical Atlas of the Counties of Northumberland and Durham (1878), C42.144, C42.145; Ingersoll, Ralph, C41.31, C41.32, C41.42, C41.43; Innes, Michael, C62.20; Innis, Mary Quayle, C43.88; Ireland, Anthony, C47.20; Irvine, William, C49.63; Irving, John, A55b, A55b.1, C81.6, H36; Irving, Laurence, C52.4; Irving, Washington, C60.59; Irwin, Margaret, C45.30, C48.86; Isaksson, Ulla, C61.27; Isherwood, Christopher, C46.45; – Jäckh, Ernest, C44.86; Jackson, Charles, C44.15; Jackson, Joseph Henry, C45.83; James, Henry, A55, C48.30, C51.53, C57.16; James, Marquis, C45.81; James, Selwyn, C43.82; Jameson, Storm, C41.290, C42.168, C46.55, C48.32, C50.36; Jasen, David A., C81.9; Jeans, Sir James, C43.15; Jeffers, Robinson, C41.301; Jefferson, Joseph, C50.15; Jefferys, Charles W., C50.38; Jesse, F. Tennyson, C53.18, C62.9; Joad, C.E.M., C53.62; Johanson, Osa, C42.12; John, Augustus, C52.16; Johnson, Edgar, C53.16; Johnson, Hamilton, C57.59; Johnson, Pamela Hansford, C52.10, C59.28; Johnson, Samuel, C48.4; Johnston, Alva, C47.31; Johnston, Priscilla, A55, C60.43; Johnston, Richard, C54.33; Jones, Barbara, C54.51; Jones, Ernest, C54.11, C56.3, C58.4, C60.8; Jones, Gwyn, C56.34; Jones, L.E., C56.45; Jones, Robert Edmond, C41.175; Jonson, Ben, C53.54; Jorgens, Norma, C44.98; Joseph, Bertram, C54.9; Joseph, Donald, C46.39; Joseph, Richard, C53.23; Joyce, James, C41.21, C41.23, C47.29; Joyeux, Odette, C55.23; June, Larry, C42.43; Jung, Carl Gustav, A55a, A55b, A55b.1, C58.18, C59.44, C73.2, C78.6, C83.2; – Kahrl, George M., C64.7; Kark, Leslie, C44.39; Karpeles, Maud, C34.6; Karsh, Yousuf, C47.10, C59.67; Kaufman, Beatrice Bakrow, C44.102; Kaufman, George S., C41.25; Kaye-Smith, Sheila, C56.42; Kazantzakis, Nikos, C54.29; Kazin, Alfred, C47.8; Kelley, Douglas M., C47.26; Kelley, Fred C., C47.47; Kelly, Judith, C41.233; Kelly, Walt, C53.36; Kempis, Thomas à, A55, C43.56; Kennard, Joseph Spencer, C41.156; Kennedy, Jay Richard, C53.20; Kennedy, Margaret, C41.263,

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C41.266, C52.7; Kent, Rockwell, C40.91; Kenyon, Frederic, C41.138; Kernan, Thomas, C41.244; Kerr, Walter, C55. 32; Kersh, Gerald, C45.73, C47.78, C48.32, C49.18, C49.60, C54.6; Kessell, Joseph, C47.53; Kesselring, Joseph, C41.175; Keynes, Geoffrey, C57.16; Kilvert, Robert, C47.36; King, William Lyon Mackenzie, C45.36; Kinsey, Alfred, C. C48.20, C48.22; Kinsolving, William, C66.7; Kipling, Rudyard, C42.147; Kirk, Leslie, C46.31; Kirkconnell, Watson, C40.90; Klein, A.M., G51.20; Klemmer, Harvey, C41.72, C41.77; Kneale, Nigel, C60.58; Knight, Eric, C41.137; Knight, G. Wilson, C41.109; Knight, Vera, C42.136; Knox, Alexander, C41.28; Kober, Arthur, C41.163, C41.208; Koch, Eric, C62.34; Koestler, Arthur, C46.88, C60.51; Komroff, Manuel, C40.60; Kouwenhoven, John A., C53.60; Kraus, René, C41.244, C42.120; Kreisel, Henry, C48.86; Kronenberger, Louis, C45.47, C48.2, C53.62; Krutch, Joseph Wood, C44.102, C45.20; – La Farge, Christopher, C41.246; Lagerkvist, Par, C51.52; Laidler, Graham (“Pont” of Punch), C40.78; Lamb, Charles, C48.28; Lamb, Sydney, C66.6; Lambert, Richard S., G52.29; Lambert, S.M., C41.156; Lamers, W.M., C56.7; Landi, Elissa, C41.290, C45.47; LangdonDavies, John, C55.3; Lanier, Emilia, C79.3; Laski, Harold, C44.84; Laurence, Dan H., C76.6; Laurence, Margaret, A58, C64.5; Lauriston, Victor, C41.73; Laver, James, C61.49; Lawrence, A.W., C55.18; Lawrence, D.H., A55, C47.29, C57.7, C59.43; Lawrence, T.E., C55.18; Lawson, Ted W., C43.67; Lawton, George, C47.26; Layton, Irving, A58, C59.53; Leacock, Stephen, C40.49, C48.86; Lee, Harry, C41.212; Lee, Norman, C48.6; Leech, Margaret, C41.245; Lehmann, John, C56.42, C57.23; Lengyel, Emil, C43.16; LePan, Douglas, A58, C48.39; Lerner, Alan Jay, C60.46; Lerner, Max, C49.7; Leske, Gottfried, C41.209-C41.211, C41.214, C41.279; Leslie, Doris, C42.113; Levi, Peter, C89.2; Levin, Harry, C47.29; Levy, Yank, C42.88; Lewinsohn, Richard, C59.48; Lewis, C.S., C45.61, C45.77, C46.70, C61.23; Lewis, D.B. Wyndham, C55.38, C57.27; Lewis, Edith, C53.21; Lewis, Eiluned, C34.8; Lewis, Matthew G., C53.44; Lewis, Naomi, C58.23; Lewis, Roy, and Harry Ballam, C51.16; Lewis, Sinclair, C43.34, C49.22, C60.40; Leyda, Jay, C52.6; Liddell, Robert, C48.86, C53.56; Liebling, A.J., C42.24; Lincoln, Joseph C., C40.79; Lincoln, Victoria, C44.82; Lindemann, Kelvin, C56.8; Lindner, Robert, C55.17; Lindsay, Maud, C41.136; Link, Henry C., C41.264; Linklater, Eric, C41.257, C43.15, C44.71, C45.12, C45.30, C47.96, C49.64; Little, David M., C64.7; Livingston, Richard, C46.45; Llewellyn, Alun, C35.1; Llewellyn, Richard, C43.86, C54.38; Lodwick, John, C50.13; Loewenstein, F.E., C49.54; Logan, Harry B., C41.130; Long, Manning, C42.6; Longstreet, Stephen, C41.257; Loos,

Anita, C51.37; Lorenz, Konrad, C52.20; Lory, Hillis, C43.67; Loudan, Jack, C55.16; Lovell, Ernest J., C55.12; Lovelock, William, C54.35; Lowe-Porter, H.T., C50.17; Lowndes, Mrs. Belloc, C44.41, C46.79; Lucas, F.L., C58.26, C59.47, C59.63; Ludwig, Emil, C41.317, C44.69; Lunn, Arnold, C40.91; Lutyens, Emily, C54.3; – McArthur, Peter, C48.86; Macaulay, Rose, C53.51; McBride, H.E., A55, C61.56; MacCarthy, Desmond, C53.21; McCarthy, Mary, C56.41, C56.54; McClung, Nellie L., C45.99; McColvin, Lionel, C54.12; McCord, David, C41.82; MacCormac, John, C42.85; MacDiarmid, Hugh, C41.51; Macdonald, Dwight, C61.52; Macdonald, Grant, C43.83, C46.31; Macdonald, Marianne, G52.29; MacDonald, Wilson, C44.29; MacDougall, Curtis D., C40.94; Macfadden, Mary, C53.29; McFee, William, C41.309; McGuire, William, C78.6; McHugh, Vincent, C43.75; McInnes, Graham, C54.38; MacInnes, Helen, C46.55, C48.37; McInnis, Edgar, C43.66; Mackail, Denis, C41.161; Macken, Walter, C55.5; Mackenzie, Compton, C56.39, C61.21; Mackenzie, Faith Compton, C40.91; MacLeish, Archibald, C59.44; MacLennan, Hugh, A58, C41.269, C59.21; MacMillan, Gerald, C55.36; Macneice, Louis, C41.75; McPhedran, Marie, G52.29; McPherson, William, C84.2; McRae, D.G.W., C45.53; Malaparte, Curzio, C52.25; Maloney, Tom, C53.2; Malory, Sir Thomas, C58.33; Malraux, André, A55, C41.291, C54.15, C57.44; Manchester, Harland, C45.36; Manchester, William, C51.34; Mander, Raymond, C58.2; Mann, Thomas, A55, C41.168, C41.208, C50.20, C54.45, C55.40, C84.5; Mannin, Ethel, C54.37; Manning, Paul, and Milton Bronner, C41.203; Mansfield, Katherine, C54.6; Maraini, Fosco, C53.2; Marks, Percy, C40.36; Marquand, John P., C41.62, C41.118, C43.79, C48.88, C55.22; Marsh, Ngaio, C47.49, C54.38; Marshall, Joyce, C46.55; Marshall, Norman, C47.78; Marshall, Rosamond, C45.71; Martin, Clyde E., C48.20, C48.22; Martin, P.W., A55a, C58.18; Masefield, John, C40.72, C41.237, C41.309, C42.35, C45.73; Marvel, Tom, C41.213; Mason, Richard, C47.43; The Masque (theatre quarterly), C51.3; Masters, Dexter, C46.39; Masters, John, C52.15; Mattingly, Garrett, C41.225; Maugham, Somerset, C41.250, C49.60, C51.50, C52.9, C54.12, C55.6, C56.43; Maurois, André, C42.179, C44.50, C45.55; Mawson, Christian, C43.27; Meeker, Arthur, C42.18; Melville, Herman, C52.6; Mencken, H.L., C41.302, C42.96, C46.1, C46.41, C47.41, C47.86, C48.39, C50.5, C59.5, C60.44; Menen, Aubrey, A55, C54.45, C56.22, C59.22; Menjou, Adolphe, C48.73; Merrill, John C., C68.6; Merton, Thomas, C53.13; Metalious, Grace, C58.20; Meynell, Francis, C56.5; Micheaux, Oscar, C45.55; Mikes, George, C54.44; Milano, Paolo, C47.51; Millar, Margaret, C47.39; Miller, Alice Duer, C40.72, C41.186; Miller, Arthur, C56.8; Miller, Hugh, C58.2; Miller, Joe, C56.54; Miller, Max,



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C40.91; Mills, Charles, C43.82; Milne, A.A., C40.72, C41.31, C46.88; Milton, John, C42.156, C49.56; Mitchell, G.D., C41.60; Mitchell, Gladys, C53.38; Mitchell, Margaret, G40.2; Mitchell, W.O., A58, C47.22; Mitchenson, Joe, C57.2; Mitford, Nancy, A55, C54.27, C56.36, C58.3, C61.4, G51.20; Mittelholzer, Edgar, C53.39; Moberg, Vilhelm, C43.61; Moen, Lars, C41.65, C41.66, C41.70; Molloy, Robert, C45.63; Monture, Ethel Brant, C43.88; Moodie, Susanna, C47.96; Moody, Richard, C60.21; Moore, Doris Langley, C47.41, C54.20; Moore, Marianne, C41.301; Moorehead, Alan, C47.53; Morehouse, Ward, C49.64; Morenus, Richard, C52.23; Morgan, Charles, C40.56, C42.11, C44.17, C45.94, C46.60, C47.89, C55.14; Morgan, Dale L., C43.54; Morgan, Margery M., C73.9; Morgan, Thomas B., C41.185; Morison, Samuel Eliot, C55.28; Morley, Christopher, C42.34; Morris, Edita, C45.30; Morris, Jan, C79.1; Morris, John, C57.12; Morton, H.V., C42.127, C43.66, C51.42; Morton, J.B., C46.88; Morrow, Elizabeth, C41.101; Mother Goose, C44.98; Mottley, Joseph, C56.54; Mowat, Farley, C57.41; Muir, Kenneth, C56.42; Muir, P.H. (Percy), C48.17, C54.40; Muir, Ramsay, C40.25; Muntz, Hope, C48.86; Murdoch, Iris, A55b, C83.3; Murray, Margaret, C53.8; Musselman, M.M., C48.73; Mytinger, Caroline, C43.11, C47.12; – Nabokov, Vladimir, A55, C57.28, C58.32, C59.6, C60.52, C80.10; Nash, Ogden, C40.54, C57.33; Nathan, George Jean, C46.83, C47.89, C49.62; National Reference Book on Canadian Men and Women, G40.80; Neatby, Hilda, C53.50; Needler, G.H., C41.341; Neumann, Erich, C82.11; Neurath, Marie, G52.29; Newby, P.H., C48.15; Newman, Ernest, C55.19; Niall, Ian, C51.40; Nichols, Beverley, C53.26; Nichols, M.E., C49.10; Nicholson, Jane, C41.201, C41.208; Nicholson, Margaret, C57.45; Nicholson, Norman, C44.17; Nicol, Eric, A58, C55.41; Nicoll, Allardyce, C50.15, C55.27, C75.11; Nicolson, Harold, C46.39, C56.36; Niven, Frederick, C42.128; Nizer, Louis, C44.43; Nordhoff, Charles, C41.328, C41.330; Nostradamus, A55, C40.71, C61.49; – O’Brien, Edward J., C41.185; O’Casey, Sean, A55, C41.28, C47.20, C55.9, C56.24; O’Connor, Frank, C51.34, C54.6, C57.7, C61.28; O’Connor, Philip, C58.29; O’Faolain, Sean, C41.69; Ogden, C.K., C41.272, C41.274; O’Hara, John, C59.2; O’Hara, Mary, C52.11; Oldenbourg, Zoé, C55.15, C57.31; Oliver, E.J., C51.51; Olney, James, C82.11; O’Neill, Eugene, C41.86, C47.20, C57.6; The Ontario Third Reader, C61.30; Opie, Iona, C51.48; Oppenheimer, Carlota, C41.82; Oppenheimer, George, C59.13; Origo, Iris, C58.5; Orwell, George, C46.68, C47.74; Osborne, John, C58.16; Osbourne, Lloyd, C55.14; Ouspensky, P.D., C48.15; Overhill, Jack, C48.32; Overstreet, Harry, C54.22; The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, C41.320, C60.4; The Oxford Junior Compan-

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ion to Music, C54.56; Oxford Junior Encyclopedia, C54.56; The Oxford Shakespeare, C56.24; – Packard, Vance, C60.2; Pakington, Humphrey, C46.70; Palmer, Arnold, C46.91; Papashvily, George, and Helen Papashvily, C47.12; Pares, Bernard, C44.92; Parker, Dorothy, C42.156, C44.48, C45.87, C54.21; Parkington, Humphrey, C48.86; Parkman, Francis, C55.28; Parmenter, Ross, C49.56; Partridge, Bellamy, C41.270; Partridge, Eric, A55, C53.61, C59.57; Pasternak, Boris, C58.42; Patch, Blanche, C51.20; Paul, Elliott, C42.93, C47.66; Peacock, Thomas, C50.1; Peake, Mervyn, A55, C47.94, C60.42; Peale, Norman Vincent, C50.13; Pearl, Cyril, A55, C56.22, C59.7; Pearson, Hesketh, C43.13-C43.14, C53.7, C57.9, C59.4, C59.13, C62.10; Pearson, Norman Holmes, C50.37; Perelman, S.J., C47.70, C60.59; Perry, Armstrong, C42.168; Peters, Harry, C43.53; Pevsner, Nikolaus, C57.26; Peyrefitte, Roger, C58.10; Phelan, Jim, C45.30; Philtine, Ellen C., C53.13; Picard, Barbara Leonie, G52.29; Pidgeon, Geo. C., C46.6; Pierce, Lorne, C45.36; Pilat, Oliver, C41.232; Pinckney, Josephine, C45.81, C48.37; Plat, Sir Hugh, C41.13, C41.14; Plato, C49.7; Plomer, William, C47.36; Poe, Edgar Allan, C45.87; Poems from the Desert (Members of the Eighth Army), C45.7; Polatin, Phillip, C53.13; Pomeroy, Wardell B., C48.20, C48.22; Pope, Ernest R., C41.286, C41.287, C41.289; Pope, W. Macqueen, C46.60; Pope-Hennessy, Una, C41.196; Postgate, Raymond, A55, C56.22; Potter, Stephen, C49.38, C54.55; Pottle, Frederick A., C50.38, C52.22, C54.3; Powdermaker, Florence, C41.12; Powell, John B., C46.6; Powys, John Cowper, A55, C41.40, C62.7; Pratt, E.J., C40.30, C41.294, C41.295, C44.29, C44.96; Pratt, Fletcher, C41.265; Pratt, Theodore, C42.49; Prescott, H.F.M., C55.15; Preston, Kerrison, C53.57; Price, George, C40.63; Priestley, J.B., A55, C42.181, C43.58, C43.76, C48.11, C51.37, C54.24, C56.42, C60.49, C61.15; Pringle, Gertrude, C49.64; Pritchett, V.S., A55b, C48.8, C53.21, C56.34, C80.3, C82.5; Prokosch, Frederic, C41.246, C43.75, C55.38; Pryce-Jones, Alan, C56.51; Pudney, John, C55.22; Punch, C40.63, C53.64, C54.55; Purcell, W.E., C57.32; Purdom, C.B., C57.24; Putnam, Samuel, C46.75, C51.53; Pyer, C.B., C48.86; – Queen, Ellery, C41.334, C42.6; Quennell, Peter, C42.41, C45.69, C53.10; – R.A.F. Second Year, C42.151; Rabelais, François, C46.75, C61.14; Raddall, Thomas H., C44.98; Ramsay, John R., C43.97; Rand, Ayn, C57.54; Ranson, Jo, C41.232; Rascoe, Burton, C41.181; Ratcliff, J.D., C47.53; Rattigan, Terence, C54.21; Raven, Charles, C57.17; Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, C42.143; Ray, Cyril, C60.61; Ray, Gordon N., C56.4, C58.5; Ray, Marie Beynon, C44.61, C53.13; Raymond, Ernest, A55, C40.33, C61.55; Read, Herbert, A55a, C47.78, C58.18; Reade, Charles, C61.44;

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Redgrave, Michael, C54.9; Redman, Ben Ray, C49.36; Reed, Will, C53.12; Rees, Tudor, C56.39; Reese, M.M., C54.9; Reeves, John, C62.34; Reik, Theodor, C41.11, C41.314; Reilly, Helen, C42.6; Remarque, E.M., C54.38; Renard, Jules, C48.76; Reyburn, Wallace, C43.66, C56.43; Reynolds, Ernest, C49.62; Reynolds, Quentin, C42.118, C43.26, C53.18; Reynolds, Reginald, C46.45, C52.3; Rice, Elmer, C41.86; Richards, I.A., C51.14; Richards, Kenneth, C72.7; Rinehart, Mary Roberts, C42.107; Ringuet [Philippe Panneton], C40.53, C40.56; Roberts, Cecil, C40.30; Roberts, Dorothy James, C45.63; Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, C41.96; Roberts, Kenneth, C40.73, C47.6; Roberts, Leslie, C42.98, C43.66; Roberts, S.C., C54.2; Robinson, Henry Morton, C50.12; Robinson, Kenneth, C52.13; Robinson, Pat, C43.67; Röethel, Hans Konrad, C57.57; Rogers, Stanley, C43.66; Ronald, James, C42.6; Rorick, Isabel Scott, C40.62; Rosenblood, Norman, C71.4; Ross, Malcolm, C59.8; Ross, Martin, C50.8; Ross, Sinclair, A58, C41.111; Rowell, George, C54.8, C57.24; Rowse, A.L., C46.15, C79.3; Roy, Gabrielle, A58, C47.39; Roy, James A., C48.2; Royde-Smith, Naomi, C41.16; Royidis, Emmanuel, C54..29; Ruark, Robert C., C48.86, C55.35; Rubinstein, Arthur, C73.7; Russell, Bertrand, C53.25; Russell, Diarmuid, C46.47; Russell, Leonard, C48.35; – Sabatini, Rafael, C40.33; Sack, B.G., C45.91; Saddlemyer, Ann, C69.3; Sadleir, Michael, C43.59; Sagan, Françoise, C55.23, C56.43; Sage, Robert, C55.12; Sagittarius, C53.26; Saintsbury, George, C52.10; Salinger, J.D., A55, C61.53; Salt, Laura E., C54.56; Sampson, George, C47.83; Sandburg, Carl, C53.7; Sanderson, Ivan T., C41.128; Sandwell, B.K., C41.146; Sansom, William, C56.34; Santayana, George, A55, C53.15; Saroyan, William, C41.25, C56.27; Saunders, Hilary St. George, C43.45, C44.39; Saywell, John T., C62.34; Schenk, Gustav, C56.49; Scherman, Harry, C42.67; Scholes, Percy A., C54.56; Schoonmaker, Frank, C41.213; Schrag, Lex, A58, C55.41; Schulberg, Budd, C41.185; Scot, Reginald, C59.60; Scott, Clement, C57.60; Scott, J.D., C48.32; Scott-Moncrieff, G., C48.2; The Scribner Treasury, C53.49; Seabrook, William, C40.71; Seeley, R.S.K., C49.3; Seifert, Elizabeth, C40.36; Seldes, Gilbert, C51.16; Selye, Hans, C57.4; Seminara, Fortunato, C58.42; Shakespeare, William, C49.16, C53.35, C54.35, C55.27, C79.3, C87.7; Shaplen, Robert, C54.58; Sharman, Lyon, C42.148; Sharp, Daryl, C80.5; Shaw, George Bernard, A55, C34.15, C41.70, C41.148, C43.73, C44.102, C49.28, C53.3, C56.16, C61.40, C76.6; Shearing, Joseph, B41.162; Sheean, Vincent, C41.246, C41.277, C43.37, C58.24; Shellabarger, Samuel, C47.68; Shepard, Odell, and Willard Shepard, C47.6; Shirer, William, C41.185, C41.266; Sickert, Walter Richard, C47.81; Silverman, Jerry, C58.44; Simon, Ellen, C41.44; Simon, Jr., Robert

E., C41.300; Simone, André, C41.266; Simpson, R.R., C59.55; Sinclair, Jo, C46.45; Sinclair, Robert, C54.56; Sinclair, Upton, C42.21, C43.13, C44.57, C45.99, C47.72, C48.73, C53.39; Sitwell, Edith, C43.69, C44.65, C49.16, C50.37, C59.54; Sitwell, Osbert, A55, C42.19, C44.65, C45.59, C46.77, C62.21; Sitwell, Sacheverell, C35.7, C47.70; Skinner, Cornelia Otis, C41.316, C55.22; Skinner, H. Alan, C49.64; Sklar, George, C47.22; Slater, Patrick, C35.8, C41.291; Slaughter, Frank G., C47.6; Smart, J.D., C44.35; Smith, A.J.M., A58, C61.18; Smith, Betty, C43.74; Smith, Dodie, C48.86; Smith, Donald A., G56.30; Smith, F. Seymour, C54.12; Smith, H. Allen, C41.140; Smith, Janet Adam, C54.26; Smith, Lillian, C44.63; Smith, Logan Pearsall, C61.41; Smith, Sydney, A55, C54.16; Smith, Thorne, C41.204; Smith, Warren Hunting, C40.55; Smith-Hughes, Jack, C54.19, C55.36; Smyth, Ethyl, C40.61; Smythe, F.S., C42.13; Snow, C.P., C51.51, C60.28; Somerville, E.Œ., C50.8; Sothern, E.H., C54.48; Southey, Robert, C42.177; Spark, Muriel, A55, C61.55; Speaight, Robert, C55.27; Spence, Hartzell, C40.55; Spendlove, F. St. George, C59.8, C60.31, G59.2; Sprague, Arthur Colby, C54.9; Sprigge, Elizabeth, C41.2; Sproat, Iain, C81.9; St. John, Robert, C42.50, C42.52; Staines, David, C77.7; Stead, Philip John, C51.3, C52.18, C54.19; Steen, Marguerite, C41.223, C41.226, C62.27; Steig, William, C53.60; Stein, Gertrude, C41.63; Steinbeck, John, C41.186, C41.291, C42.81, C43.82, C45.9, C47.17, C47.96, C48.69, C54.38, G40.67; Stendhal [Marie-Henri Beyle], C55.12, C58.24; Stern, G.B., C41.180, C42.181, C48.78; Stevens, Gerald, C57.21; Stevens, W.O., C42.6; Stevenson, Robert Louis, C55.14; Stewart, David A., C47.26; Stewart, George R., C41.338, C48.37; Stirling, John, C41.321; Stoddart, Dayton, C41.275; Stoker, Bram, C59.14; Stolper, Gustav, C42.5; Stone, Irving, C47.78; Stone, Reynolds, C82.5; Storm, Lesley, C56.33; Storr, Anthony, A55b, C73.2, C83.2; Stowe, Leland, C41.249; Strange, Kathleen, C45.99; Strange, William, C41.307; The Stratford Festival 19531957: A Record in Pictures and Text of the Shakespearean Festival in Canada, C58.25; Straus, Roger W., C41.105; Street, James, C42.146; Streeter, Edward, C40.4; Stringer, Arthur, C41.73; Strode-Jackson, M.B.S., C45.99; Strong, Charles, G52.29; Strunk, William, A55, C59.47; Sullivan, Alan, C42.27; Sumner, Bernard Humphrey, C44.19; Sutherland, James, C53.46, C76.1; Swift, Jonathan, C48.82; Swinnerton, Frank, C53.1; Symons, Scott, C67.1; Synge, J.M., C69.3; – Tabori, Paul, C43.10; Tanner, Lawrence E., C53.12; Target, G.W., C62.20; Tarkington, Booth, C41.54, C47.22; Tate, Allen, C41.144, C59.54; Taunay, Alfredo d’Escragnolle, C45.39; Taylor, Deems, C46.17; Taylor, G. Rattray, C54.25; Taylor, Gary, C87.7; Taylor, Robert Lewis, C47.47; Temple, William, C44.96; Tennant,



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John, C62.6; Terrell, John Upton, C42.168; Thackeray, William Makepeace, C45.103, C58.43; Thane, Elswyth, C41.54; Thielen, Benedict, C41.82; Thirkell, Angela, C41.34, C44.26, C47.43; Thomas, Dylan, C53.45, C54.32, C55.9; Thomas, Gwyn, C48.15, C53.45, C56.15; Thomas, Lowell, C42.59; Thomas, Peter, C87.4; Thompson, A.R.T., C41.206; Thompson, C.V.R., C41.143; Thompson, Flora, C48.86; Thompson, Virginia, C43.24; Thomson, Peter, C72.7; Thrale, Hester, C42.131; The Three Little Pigs, C42.177; Thurber, James, C52.17, C52.27, C53.64; Tillotson, Geoffrey, C55.6; Tolstoy, Leo, C42.66, C42.118; Tomkinson, Grace, C46.86; Tovell, Vincent, C62.34; Toye, William, C83.7; Toynbee, Arnold J., C57.14; Tracy, Honor, C57.51, C59.2, C59.34, C61.4; Tracy, Marian, and Nino Tracy, C44.31; Travers, Ben, C57.24; Travers, P.L., G52.29; Tregaskis, Richard, C43.24; Trench, Richard C., C59.50; Trevelyan, G.M., C46.45, C53.48, C54.14 ; Trevor-Roper, H.R., C47.72; Trier, Walter, C49.61; Trilling, Diana, C47.29; Trilling, Lionel, C49.59; Trollope, Anthony, C50.20, C51.8, C53.40; Trueman, Stuart, A58, C55.41; Tudor, Tasha, C44.98; Turgenev, Ivan, C50.14; Turnbull, Agnes Sligh, C48.37; Turner, E.S., C53.10, C55.3, C57.20; Turney, Catherine, C41.175; Twain, Mark, C41.148, C46.75; Tyler, Froom, C48.11; Tyrer, Alfred Henry, C41.251; Tyrmand, Leopold, C58.42; – Undset, Sigrid, C42.121; Untermeyer, Louis, C57.8; Upson, William Hazlett, C47.31; Uris, Leon, C53.25; Usborne, Richard, C54.2; Ustinov, Peter, C47.20; – Vailland, Roger, C58.42; Vale, Edmund, C54.51; Van Der Post, Laurens, C76.2; Van Doren, Carl, C45.47, C48.82; Van Doren, Mark, C41.144, C44.11, C45.75, C47.8; Van Doren Stern, Philip, C45.87; Van Passen, Pierre, C41.133; Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Charles Stewart Henry, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, C43.67; Vansittart, Robert Gilbert, Baron, C41.120, C41.318, C44.43; Vaughn, Hilda, C34.11; Veblen, Thorstein, C49.7; Vercel, Roger, C40.33; Vicky C52.27; Vinaver, Eugene, C58.33; Voltaire, C49.36; von Doderer, Heimito, C61.48; von Franz, Marie-Louise, C76.2; Voynich, E.L., C45.63; – Wagner, Richard, C55.19; Wain, John, C58.30; Wakeman, Frederic, C46.62; Walker, Mannix, C47.70; Wall, E. Berry, C40.61; Wallace, Clair, C54.5; Wallis, Charles L., C54.30; Walmsley, Leo, C41.290; Walpole, Hugh, C40.59, C41.218; Walworth, Dorothy, C41.59; Ward, A.C., C47.78, C54.12, C56.13; Ward, Maisie, C44.5; Warner, Sylvia Townsend, C44.9, C48.11, C49.14, C55.15, C56.20, C61.4; Warren, Dale, C41.130; Warrick, LaMar, C43.48; Washburne, Heluiz Chandler, C40.88; Wasner, Franz, C50.38; Watermeier, Daniel J., C72.7; Watkins, Floyd C., C57.42; Watt, Frederick B., C43.37, C46.91; Waugh, Alec, C56.21; Waugh, Evelyn, A55,

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C46.11, C48.15, C48.29, C49.18, C50.36, C60.9, C61.22, C62.13; Waugh, Norah, A55, C54.50; Way, Katharine, and Dexter Masters, C46.39; Webster’s New International Dictionary, C62.18; Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, C53.36; Wechsberg, Joseph, A55, C62.30; Wedgwood, C.V., C55.28; Weidman, Jerome, C47.6; Weil, Jr., Richard, C41.135; Welland, D.S.R., C53.51; Welles, Sumner, C47.10; Wells, H.G., C42.149, C45.101; Wells, Stanley, C87.7; Wemyss, Colville, C51.52; Werfel, Franz, C40.82, C42.103, C42.181, C45.30, C46.33; Wertham, Frederic, C41.282, C54.28; West, Anthony, C55.47, C57.22; West, Aubrey, C52.3, C55.44; West, Morris, C83.5; West, Rebecca, C41.322, C47.96, C55.36, C57.10; Wheeler, Hugh, C52.12; Wheeler-Bennett, John W., C59.5; Whistler, Lawrence, C49.54; Whitaker, John T., C43.40; White, E.B., A55, C41.316, C41.334, C42.143, C42.160, C59.47, G52.29; White, Nella Gardner, C44.98; White, T.H., C41.185, C58.33; White, William Charles, C42.56; Whitman, Walt, A55, C45.75; Whitton, Charlotte, C42.158; Who’s Who C41.261; Wilde, Oscar, C46.37, C58.16; Willans, Geoffrey, C44.39; Williams, Duncan, C73.4; Williams, Emlyn, C42.86; Williams, Gluyas, C40.63; Williams, William Emrys, C56.31, C61.6, C61.11; Williams-Ellis, Clough, and Amabel Williams-Ellis, C54.51; Williamson, Hugh, C57.19; Williamson, Hugh Ross, C57.36; Willkie, Wendell, 43.38; Willock, Colin, C58.41; Wilson, Angus, C56.39, C70.4; Wilson, Colin, C60.36; Wilson, Edmund, A58, C41.276, C47.89, C51.6, C53.1, C54.42, C56.41, C65.2, C78.2; Winn, Godfrey, C53.12; Winsor, Kathleen, C44.88; Winter’s Tales I, C56.5; Wiseman, Adele, A58; Wisenthal, J.L., C75.8; Withycombe, E.G., C47.15, C61.46; Wodehouse, P.G., C41.46, C53.39, C54.7; Wolfe, Bernard, C62.16; Wolfe, Thomas, C40.42, C41.309, C46.73; Wolff, Maritta M., C41.145, 42.181; Wollheim, Donald A., C45.83; Wollstonecraft, Mary, C43.57, C59.14; Wood, Peggy, C41.308; Wood, Roger, C56.24; Woodbury, George, C52.1; Woodford, Jack, C50.33; Woodhouse, S.P., A58, C41.165; Woolf, Virginia, C41.22, C41.277, C41.283, C42.180, C44.71, C54.3; Woollcott, Alexander, C44.102; Woollcott, Barbara, C44.96; Wortis, Joseph, C55.17; Wouk, Herman, C55.5; Wright, Austin Tappan, C42.115; Wright, Lawrence, A55, C60.25; Wycherley, William, D64.4, E64.4; Wylie, I.A.R., C40.61; Wylie, Max, C41.33; Wylie, Philip, C43.62-C43.63; Wyss, Johann David, C61.8; – Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, C48.4; Yeats, W.B., C41.18, C50.30, C53.4; Young, G.M., C53.7; Young, Philip, C53.21; Yutang, Lin, C40.68, C40.75, C41.338, C43.18; – Zabel, Morton Dauwen, C48.4, C51.53; Zaharov, Paul, C61.42; Zola, Émile, C53.42; Zweig, Stefan, C43.71, C44.41 book tours, F86.5, F88.11, F88.18, F88.19, F89.4, F89.5

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books, E61.2, E67.7, G55.18; book design, C57.19; booksnobs, C42.17; British, C41.169; Canadian, C67.10; comics, C41.50, C41.149, C42.161, G40.21; for children, C41.154, C42.177, C54.40, C58.38; mysteries, C42.91; use and abuse of, C42.117 Booth, Edwin, C72.7 Booth, Michael R., B28. See also under book reviews by Davies Boretski, Peter, B20 Borg, Ronald J., B19 Borrow, George, C61.33 Borten, Elizabeth, A12a.2 Boswell, James, C59.4, C59.13. See also under book reviews by Davies Boulding, Elise, I24 Bowen, Elizabeth, A12a.2, C54.6. See also under book reviews by Davies Bowen, Lisa Balfour, J08.1 Bowers, Fredson, C80.10 Boy Scouts, G44.14 Boylan, Clare (The Agony and the Ego: The Art and Strategy of Fiction Writing Explored), B65 Bradbrook, M.C., C54.18 Bradbury, Malcolm, A68a.3, A71a.1, A89a.1. See also under book reviews by Davies Bradford, Malcolm, A49d Bramah, Ernest, C42.124, C61.5 (books about Kai Lung) Breach, Derrick, A39, A42 Breyfogle, William, G58.10 Brennan, Brian, F81.9 Breslin, Cathie, D54.2 Brigg, Peter, B37, J01.2 Britain, C42.101, C43.58, C46.91, F86.2, F86.6, F87.3, F91.6, G43.21, G52.19 – bombing, C41.217, C41.307 – books, C41.169 – British Empire, G42.3 – Celts, G56.18 – England, C43.27, C44.98, C51.52; art, C57.26; cookery, C60.7; costume, C60.19; culture, C41.198; drama, C75.11; films, G46.14; folklore and myths, C41.190, C53.8; food rationing, C41.222; humour, C42.182, C56.36; London, C40.31, C40.46 and C41.217 (bombing), G40.90 (Crystal Palace), C41.236 (fire), C42.166, C43.36, C46.55, C51.42, C61.26, C66.8; music, C53.12; National Health Scheme, G48.10; national theatre, C46.8; news magazines, C41.189; Oxford, C79.1; Oxford University, Balliol College, E88.5, E92.7, F88.3, F93.4, J96; witches, C45.85 – paper shortages, C41.188 – radio news and propaganda, C42.102 – R.A.F., C42.151 – Scotland, C40.5, C41.51 (poetry), C45.61, C47.2,

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G40.56, G51.11; Scottish Arts Council, F88.3; “Scottish Folklore and Opera,” A90, E92.4 – taxation, C43.5, C43.64-C43.65 – theatre, C58.2, C72.7 – travel, C53.23 – Wales, A55b, C45.18, C56.34 (short stories), C84.3, C87.4 – wartime amusements, C42.83 British Columbia, G58.5 Britnell, Roy, A77 Brockington, Leonard, A82 Brontë, Emily, (Wuthering Heights) C56.35 Brown, Russell, A9a, A23a Browne, Sir Thomas, A17, C85.5, E84.8. See also under book reviews by Davies Browning, Robert, A65a, B61, C83.4 (The Ring and the Book and Jung) Brundtland, Gro Harlem, B61 Bryant, Giles, A19, A22, A28, A31, A32, A42, A46, A47, A56, A57 Bryant, Helen, C46.85 Bryden, Ronald, A65a.1, B33 Buchan, Anna. See Douglas, O. under book reviews by Davies Buchan, John, C56.31. See also under book reviews by Davies Buchanan, Reverend John N., A19, A28 Buck, Ruth, B23 Buitenhuis, Elspeth Cameron. See Cameron, Elspeth Buitron-Oliver, Diana, B62 Bullock, Helen, F81.2 Bundy, Kevin, I137 Burgess, Anthony, A44b.3, A44f, A49a.1, A49a.2, A61a.2, A66b, A68a, A69a.4, A71a, C93.7, D88.2, D88.5, F82.5, F89.1. See also under book reviews by Davies Burgoyne, Ted, B. D51.2 Burlingham, Dorothy Tiffany, G43.5 Burns, Robert, C59.7, G58.1. See also under book reviews by Davies Burry, Dean, A95, A97 Burton, Robert, A83, F94.9, F96.1 Butler, Richard, A38a, A49a Butler, Rick. See under film companies and producers Butler, Samuel, A74a.3, A74c, A74d Buxton, Earl W., A4a, A25a.1 Bygrave, Mike, F90.2 Byron, Lord, C42.41 (in Italy), C47.20 (in Piccadilly) Cable-Alexander, Melanie, C92.5 Cairns, Walter (“Remembering Walter Cairns”), A89a Calder, Erskine, D52.2 Caldwell, Zoe, I51, I143, I147 Callaghan, Morley, D49.3, F71.4 Calligas, Peter, G. B62 Callwood, June, F52



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Calvé, Emma, A55, C42.29 Cameron, Donald. See Cameron, Silver Donald Cameron, Elspeth, A52a.1 (Robertson Davies: An Appreciation), F89.10, J08.1 Cameron, Ron, A5b Cameron, Silver Donald, F73.1, F88.6. See also under book reviews by Davies Campau, Dubarry, F68, F70.2 Campbell, Douglas, B7 Campbell, Kim, C93.5 Campbell, Patrick, C54.55 Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, A55, C53.3, G40.20 Camus, Albert, G60.1. See also under book reviews by Davies Canada, A52, A97, B17, C40.10, C54.33, C57.47, C82.9, C85.2, C86.6, D65, D86.4, E85.2, E85.3, F57, F63.4, F72.3, F75.17, F76.1, F80.1, F80.3, F80.4, F81.7, F81.9, F85.8, F86.5, F88.18, F88.21, F89.1, F89.3, F91.3, F94.10, F94.14, F94.18, F94.19, F95.3, G56.28, G57.26, G57.34, G59.2, G59.4, G61.1 – anthems, A58, C42.116, G50.18, G50.31 – antiques, C57.21 – anti-semitism, C41.326 – architecture, C59.8 – archives, G52.24, – art, A12e, A38f, C41.173, C42.174, C44.24, C59.70 – arts and crafts, C45.53 – bilingualism, D67.1 – books about, C41.152, C67.10 – Canada Council, A78, B24, B27a, D88.4, F70.4, F70.5, F72.3, F72.6, F73.4, F88.6, G54.20, G57.23 – Canada Post, G52.20 – Canada Week, C78.7 – CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation), G43.25, G44.29 – Charlottetown (pei), A26, A63, E64.8 E67.9 – Citizenship Act, G51.6 – climate, G53.20 – comic books, C41.50, C41.57 – Conservative Party, C93.5 – culture, C58.45, C59.8, C59.71, C60.60, C61.39, C65.2, C88.2, D52.1, D61.4, E52.1, E61.5, F73.1, F85.2, G55.14, G57.7 – currency, G50.23 – Dominion Day, C93.6 – discovery of, C45.91 – drama, A58, C44.21 – education, C64.8, C67.9 – emigration to USA, G46.21, G50.27 – etiquette, C49.64 – films, C41.271, G55.4, G56.25 – folk songs, C54.33 – ghosts, C43.81 – government: budget surplus G48.5; competitive exams

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C85.3, C85.4; public relations, G45.21; subsidies, G45.12, C94.2 – Halifax (ns), G40.16 – heroes, G55.32 – House of Commons, G44.34 – housing shortages, G44.32 – hydro shortages, G48.6 – Italian immigrants, G40.84 – Jews, C45.91 – Jung, C81.2 – libraries, G44.9, G49.13, G52.4, G52.9, G55.5 – literacy, C45.1 – literature, A58, C41.165, C50.9, C64.2, C70.5, C71.1, C77.7, C83.7, D48.3, D65, E70.8, E71.2, F71.4, F72.4, F73.8, F75.9, F81.6, F85.4, F85.8, F86.4, F86-87, F88.8, F88.13, F93.5, G54.21, G56.11, G56.21, G61.2 – maps, C57.56 – national theatre, D49.1, G44.42, G48.16, G55.21 – native people, G44.15 – Parliament, G44.34 – plays from Canadian history, C42.129 – poetry, A58, C41.310, C41.317, C42.106, C59.19, C61.18 – Prime Ministers, B20, B21, B64, C40.34, C44.69, C49.63, C93.5, D92.3, F75.2, G53.24 – propaganda, C41.306 – provinces. See names of individual provinces – quotations and phrases about, A58, C52.14 – radio dramas, G42.14 – scholarship, C46.13 – Social Credit Party, G44.29 – spending, G56.7 – sugar rationing, C42.37 – taxation, C46.28, C48.41 – theatre, A58, B27a, C59.71, C69.2, D49.2, D51.1, D92.1, E48.4, E49.1, G51.2 – transportation, G56.13 – U.S.A., relations with, C41.298 (School of the Air of the Americas), C83.6, C88.5, D84, D85, F81.1, F84.2, F85.2, F86.6, F88.14, F88.17, F89.6, F94.14, F94.19, G51.15, G52.16, G55.38 – war effort and women, C42.158 – war in the air, C42.98 – writers, A52, A97, C56.44, C72.9, E72.4 “Canada’s Great Playwright,” A58, C56.19 Canadian Ballet Festival, G52.8 Canadian Booksellers Association, A67, A69a, B56 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. See CBC Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus, B41 Canadian Consulate General, A49a.1, E76.2 Canadian Embassy (Washington, dc), A49a.1 Canadian English, dictionary of, G58.7 Canadian Festival of the Arts, B20, B21 Canadian Headmasters’ Association, E71.6

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“Canadian Literature: 1964,” A58, C64.2 Canadian Music Centre, B45, G61.5 Canadian National Exhibition, C40.17, C40.18, C41.240, C41.241, C48.63, G53.2 Canadian Organization for Development through Education, B54 Canadian Pacific Railway, G54.16 Canadian Press, G42.17 Canadian Radio-Television Commission, G57.4 Canadian Studies in the United States, Association for, C77.3, E77.2 Canadian Theatre History, B27a.1 Canadian Theatre History, Association for, E79.4 Canadian Theatre Review Publications, B38 Canino, Frank, B20 Canlit Pioneers, I16 Cansino, Barbara, F80.6 capital punishment, F81.4, F82.4 Careless, J.M.S., B20 Carillo, Leo, G61.7 Carleton, Sir Guy, G55.24 Carley, James P., B53, J04.1 Carlyle, Thomas, C45.3. See also under book reviews by Davies Carmichael, Franklin, A62 Carr, Emily, J94.3. See also under book reviews by Davies Carroll, Lewis, A90, A97, E94.2. See also under book reviews by Davies Carroll, Madeleine, C40.44 cars, speeding, G50.36 Carson, Catherine, F75.17 cartoons, C41.127, C44.74, C53.60, G54.18 Carver, Michael, A18 Case, David, I102, I115, I118, I125, I126 Casement, Sir Roger, G40.93 Cassel, Walter, C59.25 Cassidy, T.H., A9b, A29 Castelyn, Christopher, I14 Cather, Willa, C53.21. See also under book reviews by Davies cats, C45.66, C46.32, C59.65 Caudle, Nancy, B7 CBC, C40.86, G56.32, G57.4, G57.33, G58.11; audio, I28, I143, I147; Canadian Literature Today broadcasts, A58, C41.165; digital archives, I1-I3, I5, I18, I22, I26; enterprises, I11; Festival Theatre’s Fifth Business, I51; Gilbert and Sullivan, C41.327; international service, A8a.1; opera, C42.33, C43.80; radio, A5a, A10c, A48, A91, F89.1, I17, I137, I142; Writers and Company (radio show), I26; television, A9a, A44a, A60, F89.1, G59.3, I6, I12; Times, G50.6 censorship, C41.166 (films), C54.5, C76.5, D52.2, D64.1, F87.2, G48.15, G57.31 Century 1867-1967: The Canadian Saga, B23 Chamberlain, Neville, C47.10

Chamberlain, Samuel. See Beck, Phineas under book reviews by Davies Chandler Washburne Heluiz. See Washburne, Heluiz Chandler under book reviews by Davies Chaplin, Charlie, C41.19, C41.125 “A Chapter of Autobiography,” A89, A97, C79.9 Charlesworth, Hector, G46.1, J10 Charlton, Richard, A43 Charyn, Jerome, E78.7 Chase, Mary (Harvey), C50.19, C50.21 “A Chat about Literacy,” B54, I177 (Braille) “A Chat with a Great Reader,” A55, C54.47 Chatelin, Ray, F72.6 Chaucer, Geoffrey, C54.12, C61.52. See also under book reviews by Davies Chekhov, Anton, F73.1; The Cherry Orchard, A58, C65.5, E65.6. See also under book reviews by Davies Cherry, Zena, F73.3 Chesterton, G.K., C44.5, C57.27 Chilcott, Barbara, A80, B4 Child, H.H., B77 children, C45.6, C50.33, C61.10, F73.5, F79.1, F92.3, G40.44, G43.5, G43.16, G44.19, G44.20, G46.10, G47.10, G50.7, G50.20, G50.34; books for, C41.154, C41.311, C42.177, C58.38; English books for, C54.40; Freud on, C41.278; nursery rhymes for, C51.48; verse for, C54.26 China, C46.6, C49.3, G56.10 Christie, Robert (Five Fond Tributes to Robert Christie), B72 churches and faiths: Anglican Church, F94.9, G49.7, G50.15; Christianity, C41.98 (Lent), C44.96, C54.29, C54.51, C58.8, C58.11, C84.4, F94.17, G55.40, G56.18, G57.24, G55.44 (virgin births); First Baptist Church, Simcoe (on), B41; Jehovah’s Witnesses, G46.11; Presbyterianism, F73.5; Puritanism, F80.5; Quakers, G52.18; Roman Catholics, A4a.1, C45.55, C89.3 (Graham Greene), F76.3, F94.9, G43.25; Rosicrucianism, C42.16; United Church of Canada, G47.1. See also under Religion Churchill, Sir Winston, C41.193 (and jargon), C41.244, C42.54 and C42.61 (biography), G40.30, G40.76, G42.7, G44.17, G44.30, G45.10. See also under book reviews by Davies Cicero, B60 The Cinematic Vision of Robertson Davies, I26 circus going, C45.52 Clairmont, Susan, F93.2 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, First Earl of, C55.28 Clarkson, Adrienne, I12 Clarkson, Austin, D86.3 classic books, A38a, A44a, A71a Classics, G50.34 Clee, Nicholas, F88.4 Cleland, John (Fanny Hill), D64.1 Cliff, Nigel, D86.4



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Club of Rome, B30 clubs, joining, G48.18 Cluett, Robert, A16a Cobb, David, F64.2 Cobb, Nancy, F92.1 Cockburn, Robert, A16a.2 coffee, C45.25, C46.12, C46.16 Coghill, Nevill, B13 Cohen, Bob, F75.5 Cohen, G.A., B61 Colburn, Don, C85.5 Colby, Vineta, B29 Coldwell, James, G44.29 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, E82.7. See also under book reviews by Davies Coles Bookstore, A61a.1, D64.1, B54 Collard, Edgar Andrew, J00.2 College Times (Upper Canada College) (first article in this periodical written by Davies), C29 Collins, Jackie, F90.4 Collins, Wilkie, C52.13 Colombo, John Robert, A52a, I148 Columbia Broadcasting System, A44c columns, written by Davies or to which he contributed, first appearance cited: “The Bookshelf,” C34.5; “Cap and Bells,” C40.2 (see also A4a and see the note at the head of C Section: 1940-1944 re various Marchbanks columns); “The Bookshelf,” C40.48; “The Passing Show,” C40.50; “From the Critic’s Notebook,” C48.69; “The Marchbanks Correspondence,” C49.48, G49.14; “On the Margin,” C50.27, G50.37; “Bibliomania,” G51.20; “The Journal of Samuel Marchbanks,” C52.21; “Books,” C53.1; “A Writer’s Diary,” C59.3, F58 comedy, A5, A6, B4, C41.199, C47.86, C49.41, C49.46, C3.16, C57.5, C60.28, C61.32, D64.4, E75.3, F83, F86.5, J94.1 Comfort, Charles, D49.1 common cold, C41.253. See also influenza companions to literature. See encyclopedias and companions to literature Compton-Burnett, Ivy, A55, C50.31. See also under book reviews by Davies computers, D89.2, F89.2, F96.2 “Confessions of an Editor,” A55, C62.1 Congreve, William, G47.19 “Conjuring,” A38a Conkle, E.P., A5a Connolly, Cyril, C61.47. See also under book reviews by Davies Conolly, Gloria, A52a Conolly, L.W., A52a; Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, B70; The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre, B50; Theatrical Touring and Founding in North America, B40 Conrad, Ronald, A16a

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Conversation with Robertson Davies, I4 Conversations with Robertson Davies, F89.1, I94 (audio book) convocation addresses: Bishop’s University, D67, E67.1; “Convocation Address” (Dowling College), A89, E92.1; “The Deadliest of Sins” (Queen’s University), A52, A97, C62.32, E62.3; “Every Man Needs Three Careers” (University of Windsor), C71.5, E71.4; Laurentian University, Thorneloe College, D88.1, E88.3; Loyola University, E94.1; McGill University, E74.3; McMaster University, C59.35, E59; Memorial University, C74.5, E74.1; Mount Allison University, C74.8, E73.8; Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, C63.1, E62.11, J94.2; “The Three Warning Circles” (University of Manitoba), A55, C72.6, E72.3; Trent University, C74.7, E74.4, H18; University of Alberta, D57.2; University of Lethbridge, D81, E81.3; University of Prince Edward Island, D89.1, E89.3; University of Rochester, E83.4; University of Toronto, D82.1; University of Waterloo, E81.4; University of Western Ontario, D74, E74.2; “What Will the Age of Aquarius Bring?” (University of Calgary), A52, D75.2, E75.2; York University, E73.6 Conyers, Claude, B48 Cook, Bruce, F71.3 Cook, John, B11 Cook, Ramsay, F89.1, I5 Cook, Roderick, F78.2 Cooke, Natalie, F80.1 cookery, C44.10, C44.31, C47.24, C47.53. C49.26, C51.42, C59.41, C60.7 (English), C62.3 (French); We Can Cook, Too! Recipes Hot Off the Press (“Sherry Trifle,” Davies’s recipe), B8 Cooper, James Fenimore, C40.23 Cooper-Clark, Diana, F86.1 copyright, F62.2, G57.14, G57.19 Corelli, Rae, F94.2 Coren, Michael, F94.6 Cormack, Lynne, I137 corporal punishment, G44.16 Corvo, Baron, A55, C61.51 Cosper, Lloyd C. See Logan, Harry B. under book reviews by Davies Coulter, Claire, I142 Coulter, John, D49.3, G48.21 “Cousin Elva / Mortgage Manor / Shall We Join the Ladies?: 1955,” A58, C55.41 Coward, Noël, C40.11. See also under book reviews by Davies Craig, Jamie, F72.4 Craik, T.W., B28 Crane, Geoffrey, D80.2 Crane, Nathalia, G53.32 Craw, John Wilson, C69.1 Crawford, Trish, F74.3 Crean, Patrick, A4a, C70.3 creativity, F88.10

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Creighton, Donald G., B20. See also under book reviews by Davies Crew, Robert, A91 crimes, in U.S.A., G55.34 criminals, C45.70 criticism, C76.7, D48.1, E48.1, E79.5, F70.4, F70.5, F75.16, F81.7, F85.4, F88.10, F89.1, F89.10, F91.3, F91.6, F96.2, G50.37, G53.31 Cromie, Bob, A44b Cuff, John Haslett, A68a, D87.1 Cullen, Patricia, I14 Cummings, Bruce Frederick. See Barbellion, W.N.P. under book reviews by Davies cummings, e.e., G62.5 Cummings, Stephen, A60 Cunningham, John, F71.2 Curiosity Recaptured: Exploring Ways We Think and Move, B75 “A Curmudgeon,” A55, C59 Currie, Rod, D88.4 Currier and Ives, C43.53 Currier Boylen, Margaret. See Boylen, Margaret Currier under book reviews by Davies Curry, Ralph L., A12a, A35a Czarniecki, Anne, B60 da Vinci, Leonardo, C56.54 Dafoe, John W., G43.8 Daiches, David, A1a.2 Daley, Frank, B20 Dalton, Stephen, I61 “Dangerous Jewels,” A55, C60.44 Danziger, Jeff, F90.3 Dark, Larry, A63a Darwinianism, F85.2 Davenport, Horace W., A83a, A91, B33, J94.2, J08.1. See also under book reviews by Davies Davidson, Frederick, I102, I115, I118, I121, I124, I125, I126 Davies, Arthur L. (brother), J74 Davies, Brenda (wife), A7, A9a, A38b, A40a, A40a.1, A47, A83a.2, A90, A91, A92a, A95, B14a, B33, D52.1, E44.4, E52.1, E70.2, E71.3, F71.3, E74.6, E90.1, F89.5, F89.9, F90.2, F90.4, F92.1, F93.4, F94.4, G43.3, G44.6-G44.8, G45.23, G45.25, J01.1 Davies, L.J., A44b Davies, Michael (nephew), F89.9 Davies, Miranda (daughter), B13, F89.9 Davies, Robert, C93.2 Davies, Robertson: biographical information, C83.3, F50, F52, F62.1, F75.8, F85.1, F88.1; childhood F73.6, F85.9, F86.6, F88.2, F89.1, F89.2, F91.5; “Davies, (William) Robertson” B29 Davies, Rupert (father), A60, A74a, B1, D79, E79.3, F86.1, F86.5, F89.1, F05, G51.1, J08.1

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Davies, W.H., C40.28. See also under book reviews by Davies Davies, Walter (grandfather), J08.1 Davis, J. Madison, F89.1 Davis, Rae, D67.6 Davis, Richard, A62, J98.2, J01.1 Dawe, Alan, B9, D75.1 Dawson, George, I137 Dawson, J.A., A11a Dawson, Robert R. MacGregor, G59.1 Day, Archibald, A. B2 Daymond, Douglas, A16a days of the year, special – April Fool’s, C41.84 – Ascension, G40.55 – Bastille, C42.122 – Boxing, C40.93 – Candlemas, C41.30 – Christmas, A86, B1, C34.17, C40.57, C41.344, C43.98C43.99, C44.97, C45.104, C45.106, C46.87, C46.96, C47.98-C47.99, C48.87, C60.59, C75.13, C78.11, F85.10, G49.16, G51.23 books, A89, C40.92, C43.92, C61.59, C91.5; book recommendations, C41.323-C41.324; for young people, C41.329; as gifts, C46.93 carols: singing, C41.339; for children, C42.177 Eve, C44.105, C54.59 food, C41.333 novels, C42.181 olden times, C42.183, C46.3 pantomime, playlets, C41.343 Santa Claus, C40.57, C40.93, C45.105 shopping, C45.102, C48.85 writings by Davies: “Christmas: A Changing, Yet Eternal, Celebration,” A40a; A Christmas Carol Re-harmonized, A86, A89, A96; “A Christmas Garland,” A55, C55.46; “Christmas in the Age of Aquarius,” A40a, C75.13; “Christmas / It Will Survive the Age of Aquarius,” A40a; “Christmas / Joy and Mystery That Can’t Be Quenched,” A40a; “Diary of Christmas Excitement,” B1; The Heart of a Merry Christmas, A40, E70.10; Souvenir Edition Examiner for the Annual Christmas Party, B1; “The Ups and Downs of Christmas: Novelist Looks at the Holiday,” A40a; “Will Christmas Survive?” A40a – Dominion, C93.6 – Easter, C46.27; customs, C41.92, C41.98; eggs, G45.15; Everyman (medieval play), C42.78 – Halloween, C40.40, C40.41, C41.292, C42.165, C68.4, C79.7, C90.4 – Holy Innocents, C40.97, C41.344 – Lord’s Day Act, G43.22 – Magna Carta, G46.4 – Maundy Thursday, C41.93, G58.4



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– May, C41.113, G40.53 – Michaelmas, C42.150 – New Year’s, C40.98, C41.1, C41.5 (resolutions), C41.344, C42.3, C43.1, C45.2, C47.100, C48.1, C51.2 – Saint Crispin’s, G44.43 – St. Agnes’s, C41.20 – St. Andrew’s, C40.58 – St. Bartholomew’s, C40.12 – St. Cecilia’s, C40.52 – St. David’s, C41.55, G53.1 – St. George’s, C41.104, C41.112 – St. Laurent, G53.24 – St. Patrick’s, C41.71, C42.70 – St. Stephen’s, C40.93 – St. Valentine’s, C41.38, G51.3 – Shrove Tuesday, C41.49 – Twelfth Night, C41.7 de Beauvoir, Simone, C53.44. See also under book reviews by Davies de la Ramé, Marie Louise. See Ouida de la Roche, Mazo, B8, C61.36. See also under book reviews by Davies de Loutherbourg, Philip James, B28 de Madariaga, Salvador, C42.171. See also under book reviews by Davies de March, Alek, F75.15 de March, Leon, F62.2 de Medici, Catherine, C40.12 de Pompadour, Madame, A55, C54.27 de Valera, Éamon, G48.11 de Villiers, Marq, F75.12 Deacon, William Arthur, D58 death and old age, A89, A97, C89.1, E93.13, F75.13, F81.5, F86.1, F88.5, F89.1, F89.8, F94.2, F94.6, F94.17, F95.4, I26. See also immortality, longevity, youth, aging Delivorrias, Angelos, B62 democracy, C42.47, C43.78, C46.85, C52.18, G44.12, G46.10 Denham, Paul, C77.3 Dent, Alan, A55, C53.3 Denton, Herbert, F89.2 DeProse, Molly, D49.3 “The Deptford Trilogy in Retrospect,” B37 d’Escragnolle Taunay, Alfredo. See Taunay, Alfredo d’Escragnolle under book reviews by Davies The Devil, F74.2, F87.3, F89.1, F92.3 Dewey, Martin, A91 diaries, C47.36, C51.20, C54.3, C54.43, C55.12, C56.42, C57.53, F77.1, G40.31. See also Marchbanks, Samuel “Diary of a Writer on the Escarpment,” A55b, A55b.1, C82.1 Dickens, Charles, A10a, A39, C43.17, C44.33, C53.16, C58.5, C59.70, C61.60 (love life), E70.6, E82.7, F73.2, F73.5, F74.3, F81.4, F85.5, G44.4, G56.38; “Dickens and Music,” A90, A96; “Dickens and Music: A Coda to ‘A Christmas

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Carol Re-harmonized’,” A86; “An Unlikely Masterpiece,” A89, A96, E93.14. See also under book reviews by Davies Dickinson, N.S.C., A34 Dickson, Lovat, A14a.2, D75.1. See also under book reviews by Davies Diehl, Digby, J86.1 diet and calories, C41.8, G54.13 Dilworth, Ira, D56. See also under book reviews by Davies Dirda, Michael, I155 Discoveries: Early Letters 1938-1975, A93 Disraeli, Benjamin, C42.179 divorce, G47.1, G50.13, G56.12 Dobson, Lyndsay, A40b doctors. See physicians dogs, C42.2, C43.9, C45.8, C53.52 Donne, John, A45, C41.259 Donnell, Nancy, D54.2 Dorfman, Ariel, I13 Doukhobors, G50.3, G50.30, G57.22 Downer, Alan, B28 Downie, Mary Alice, A10a Doyle, Arthur Conan. C54.2. See also under book reviews by Davies Doyle, Richard J., C93.3 See also under book reviews by Davies Doyon, Nicolas, I13 draft dodgers, D80.1 Drainie, Bronwyn, A69a, F85.1, F89.1 dreams, C46.94, C51.13 Drinkwater, John, C34.3 Duchess de Praslin, C40.6 Duff, Louis Blake, G59.7 Dumas, Alexandre, C42.30 Duncan, Douglas, F89.5 Duncan, Todd, C47.27 Dunsmuir, Marjorie, F80.4 Durrell, Lawrence, A44b, C54.29. See also under book reviews by Davies Duveen, Joseph, 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank, C52.11 Dynowska, Oldyna, G57.8 Eastman, Arthur M., A52a economics, B30, C48.61, G43.14 Ede, Charles, A72 Edelstein, T.J., B67 Edinborough, Arnold, A38b, J91.1; The Festivals of Canada, B39 Edinborough, Sarah Jane, E81.5 editors (professional), managerial, promotion and production staff of publishers: – Ainsworth, Joanne S., B61; Alexander, Clare, A83a.2; Arlen, Elizabeth, A55b; Avison, Elizabeth, B24; – Bacque, James, A43; Baker, J.W., A14a.4; Barber, Helen, B53; Barber, Richard, A37a, A44b; Beetham, Beverley,

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A52a; Bejger, Peter, B43a; Bennett, Avie, A78, E95.4; Besse, Ronald D., A74a; Blake, Fanny, A70a; Bozman, Ernest F., A1a; Bradbury, Sue, A70, B66; Brown, E.C., A1a.2; Bryan, Felicity, A63a.2, A68a.1, A68a.3, A83a, A83a.2, J95.3; Burch, Marcia, A52a.2; – Callil, Carmen, B44; Calvocoressi, Peter, A12a.1; Campsie, Philippa, A55a.1; Carson, Peter, A71a, A71a.1, A74a.3, A74a.5, A75a, A83a.2, A86; Carswell, Christine, B44; Clark, Nora, A49a; Clarke, Eveline, A14a.1, B5a; Clarke, Garrick I., A8a, A10c, A14a.1, B3a, B5a, B7; Clarke, Irene, A8, A12a, A14a.1, A14a.2, A29, B3a, B5a; Clarke, W.H., A2, A4a, A6, A7, A8a, A8a.1, A9a, A10a, A11, A12a, A12a.2, A12c, A13, A25a, A29, A33a, B5a, B7; Clarke, Dr. W.H., A23a, B3a.1; Cochrane, Peter, A10a.1; Cook, Eleanor, B12; Court, Kathryn, A87; Coxwell, Mona, A5a, A23a; Craig, Marvin, A16a; – Davidson, R.I.K., B30; Davis, Michael Byron, A9b, A23a.1; Day Lewis, Cecil, A10a.1; Dent, Hugh R., A1a; Derrick, C.H., A38b.1; Derry, Ramsay, A38a, A44a, A48, A88; DonCarlos, Ruth, A4b, A8b, A12b, A12c, A23a, A29, A30; Donnelly, Maureen, A55b.1; Donoghue, Joseph, B40; Driscoll, Lydia, A74a.1; Duff, John, A68b; Duff, Virgil, A52a; – Eayrs, Hugh, G40.51; – Ferguson, Mary, A68a; Fielding, G.T., A25a.1; Fraser, Blair, A16c; Fraser, Helen, B28; – Gibson, Douglas M., A35a, A38b.2, A49a, A52a, A52a.2, A55a, A61a, A61a.1, A66a.2, A68a, A68a.1, A68b, A69a, A70a, A74a, A74a.2, A76, A78, A83a, A83a.1, A83b, A83d, A88, A89a, A89a.1, A89b, A90a, A90a.1, A90b, A91, A92a, A93, A94, A97, B31, B45, B74, J95.5, J08.1, J09; Gillenson, Lewis, A14c; Glaisher, Rosie, A68a.1; Godfrey, W. David, A33, A43; Good, Cynthia, A83d; Goodchild, Peter, A23b; Gosewich, Arnold, A74a; Grathwohl, Jeffrey L., A76; Gray, John, A1a, A14a.1, A14a.3, A16a.1, A33a, A38a, A38b.1, A40a, A44a, B18; Guinzburg, Thomas, A52a.1; – Halpenny, Frances G., B9; Hanna, Bill, A10c.1, A12d; Hanratty, Lelia, B26; Harman, Eleanor, A2; Heller, Harriet, A74c; Herman, Frances, A12a.2; Hesse, Nicole, A12e; Heyworth, Patrick, A11a; Hodgson, Sarah, A66a; Honey, Ralph, B19; House, C.L., A33a; Howard, Kirk, A81, A84; Hoyem, Andrew, B52; Hutchinson, Sybil, A41, B49; – Inkster, Tim, B49; Irwin, John C.W., A29; Irwin, John W., A29; – Jackson, Anne M., A14a; Jowett, Barry, A81, A84; – Kaiser, Jackie, A74c; Kane, Hugh, A16a.1, A38a, A38b.1, A40a, A44a, A44b; Karper, Altie, A61a.1; Keele, Max, A76; Kennedy, Patricia, A71a, B45; Knopf, Alfred, A15, A16a; – Lamont, John S., A8a; Lang, Allan, A44c; Lawson, George, A71a.2; Lee, Richard H., B11a; LePan, Don,

A52a.1; Lester, Malcolm, B39; Leverton, Garrett, A5a; Lowinger, Kathy, A88; – McClelland, Jack, A16a, A25a, A33a, A35a, A55a, A58, A88, A90a, B27a, B36, J98.1, J99; McDermot, Anne, A88; McGill, David, A35; McKnight, Linda, A25a.1, A55a.1, A66a.2, A71a, A74a, A92a, J09; Maclean, Alan, A38a, A38b.1, A44b.1; MacSkimming, Roy, A43; Mawby, Geoffrey K., A14a.3; Mayer, Peter, A66a.1; Meadows, George, A65a.1; Menon, Lekhia, A75b; Meyer, Victoria, A68a.1; Mezzetta, Rudi, A91; Miller, F.E.W., A23a; Mitchell, Burroughs, A12a.2, A14a, A38b; Mizell-Nelson, Catherine, B60; – Nelles, Ann J., A68a; – Owen, Ivan, A71a; Owen, Ivon, A18; – Parsons, Ian, A8a.1, A12a.1; Partridge, Pamela I., B6; Paton, Jean, A23b, A81, A84; Pearce, John, A69a; Peck, Edward, B35; Peterson, Grethe, B61; Pettit, Norma L., B42; Pevitt, Christine, A16c, A71a, A74a.2, J08.1; Plomer, Bella, A44d, A70a; Poole, William, A40b, A62, A82; Porter, Anna, A33, A35a, A55a, J99; Price, Humphrey, A68a.3; – Rancourt, Suzanne, A65a.1; Raymond, Harold, A8a.1, A10a.1, A12a.1, A14a, A25a; Reid, Sarah, A44a; Rinehart, Stanley, A10b; Robertson, R.W.W., A2, A4a, A4a.1, A5a, A6, A7, A8a, A9a, A10a, A10b, A11, A12a, A12b, A13, A14a.1, A25a, A33a, A43, B3a, B5a, B7, B36; – Schellenberg, Michael, A90b; Schonberg, Michael, A64; Seligman, Ellen, B54; Shaffer, Carmel, A68a; Shon, Denise, A68, A71a, A74a; Sifton, Elisabeth, A1a, A38b, A44b, A49a.1, A52a.1, A52a.2, A55b, A61a, A61a.1, A66a.1, A68a, A68a.1, A69a.1, F89.10; Silverman, Al, A83a.1, A83a.4, A87; Sims, Brian, A43; Sinclair, Eleanor, A61a, A71a, A83a, B45; SinclairStevenson, Christopher, A74a.3; Smallwood, Norah, A8a.1, A12a.1, A14a.2; Smith, Corlies M., A37a, A38b, A38b.1, A44a, A44b; Smyth, Frances P., B62; Sontag, Jerry, B75; Sparkes, Stanley, A5b, I178; Stewart, Gail, A89a.1, A90a.1; Stoddart, Jack Sr., A43; Strauss, Harold, A15, A16a, A16a.1; Stuart, Bob, A69a; Sutherland, Donald M., A14a.3, A38b.1, A44a, A44b.1, A63a, B31; Swanwell, Penny, A74a.4; Sweeney, Jane, B62; Swift, Diana, A55a; Syer, Jamie, A79; Szigethy, Anna, see Porter, Anna; – Taylor, Sue, B67; Thornton, Sophie, B66; Thruelsen, Richard (Dick), A15; Totton, S.J., B15; Toye, William, A10a, A12a, A18, A38a, B50; Tracy, Prudence, A65a; Trippett, A.L., A4b; Turner, Beth, A74a.1; – Upjohn, F.A., A14a.1; – Wait, Peter, B28; Waldock, Peter, A38d, A44d, A49b, A59a, A63; Walker, Scott, A60; Wanapun, Jariya, A89a.1, A90a.1; Warburg, Frederick, A16b; Weidenfeld, George, A14a.1, A14a.2; Wickens, J.F., A12a.1; Wienstok, Herbert, A16a; Wilkie, Robert, A38a, A44a, A49a; Wilson,



Marian M., A23b, A81, A84, B27a.1; Wright, James, A38a, A38b.1, A44b.1 Edmunds, Michael, I7 Edwards, Mary Jane, C77.3 Einstein, Albert, C40.34 Eisenhower, General Dwight, C46.31, D. G52.14 elections, C44.103, C79.5, C81.5, D80.1, G45.7, G45.22, G49.6, G52.15, G53.21, G53.24 Eliot, T.S., A45, C42.147 Elliot, Gordon, F73.13 Ellis, Havelock, A55. See also under book reviews by Davies Emney, Fred, C81.1 Encounters and Explorations: Canadian Writers and European Critics, B46 encyclopedias and companions to literature: Encyclopedia Americana (“Stephen Leacock”), B16; Encyclopedia of PostColonial Literatures in English, B70; The Encyclopedia of Religion, B48; The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre, B50; World Authors 1950-1970: A Companion Volume to Twentieth Century Authors, B29. See also under book reviews by Davies Eng, Tomi, C87.1 Engel, Marian, A61a, A92a, J76, J99, J04.2 England. See under Britain The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies, A55, I88 (audio book) Erstein, Hap, F90.4 Espey, John, B63 (Red Jade Cups: John Espey at Eighty), J94.1. See also under book reviews by Davies espionage, C41.312, C44.87 etiquette, C49.64, C54.5 eugenics, C42.153 Europe: travel, C53.23; underground press, C43.50 Evans, Emrys, B71 An Evening with Ben Jonson, A44α Everett-Green, Robert, A78, F93.3 evil, problem of, A52a, B32, F80.4, F80.5, F82.4, F94.1, F94.17, F96.1 exercise, C41.221 exploration, C51.11 Fadiman, Clifton, B56, C42.118, C62.22. See also under book reviews by Davies Fagan, James B., J59 fairy tales, C76.9 Family Allowance, G44.20, G45.20 Farnsworth, Clyde, H. F94.19 fashion, C40.25, G40.35, G50.24 Les Fauves, G53.8 Faversham, William, G40.14 Fawkes, Guy, C42.167 Feaver, Bob, D93 Feinberg, Rabbi Abraham L., I1 Feldman, Bert, G45.9 fellowships. See awards, fellowships, and prizes

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Ferguson, George, B17 Fernley, Don, B31 Ferrero, Guglielmo, C42.138 Ferrier, Kathleen, C50.6 Ferry, Antony, F60 Fetherling, Janet, A77 fiction, A65a, A89, A97, C53.34 (science), C61.37 (crime), C62.12, C62.16 (science), D95, E76.4, E77.4, E78.7, E83.5, E94.3, E95.1, E95.2 Fields, Lew, A55, C41.199 Fighting Words: Pity Modern Man, I2; Uncle Sam Wants You ... to Like Him, I3; Was the Bard a Bigot? I1 Fildes, Luke, G62.3 film companies and producers: Camp Hill Productions, A38a; Capri Films, A68a, A71a; Cineplex-Odeon Corp., A38a; Jewison, Norman, A38a, E93.5 (and Dixie), F93.1; John McGreevy Productions, A68a, I15; Hometown Films, Inc., A14a; McLaren, Norman, G53.4; Ninth Wave Productions, A14a; Primedia Productions, A68a; Roger Eustis Company, A38a; Tapestry Productions (Rick Butler), A38a, A49a; TN Productions, Inc., A14a; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, A9a; Wiseblood, Inc. (Nicholas Meyer), A38a, A49a, D87.1 films, C42.134, C45.54, C45.62, C46.17; 49th Parallel, C42.31; All This and Heaven Too, C40.6; censorship, C41.132; Citizen Kane, C41.285, C41.304; Cleopatra, C34.9; Dracula, C59.14; Elmer Gantry, C60.40; Frankenstein, C59.14; Gone with the Wind, G40.2; The Great Dictator, C41.19, C41.125; Henry v, C46.66; How Green Was My Valley, C42.69; Major Barbara, C41.285; Oscar for documentary film, G53.4; Pastor Hall, C40.27; Pride and Prejudice, C40.16; The Swiss Family Robinson, C61.8; The Sea Wolf, C41.141; That Hamilton Woman, C41.132; Walt Disney, C41.15, C41.267- C41.268 (Fantasia), C42.4 (Dumbo), C61.8 Finch, Robert, A19, A20, A26, A28, A31, A32, A39, A42, A45, A46, A53, A56, E64.8, E73.4, E95.5, J08.1; Sail-boat and Lake, B49. See also under book reviews by Davies Findley, Timothy, A71a, A80, I22 Finlayson, Ann, F88.5 Firbank, Anne, B24 Firbank, Ronald, C61.44 Firestone, Charles M., E93.1 Fischer, Jack, A15 Fischman, Sheila, C78.9 Fisher, Sydney, G57.12 Fitzgerald, Geraldine, I10 FitzGerald, James, F94.7 Fitzpatrick, Jan, F83 Fleet, William Henry, B52 Foakes, R.A., B13 For Your Eye Alone, A92a, A92a.1, A92a.2, H41 (French), I145 (audio book), I186 (Braille) Ford, Catherine, F81.3

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Ford, George, B58 Ford, Theresa, A25a Forrest, Edwin, C60.21 Forsey, Eugene, C81.8 “The Fourth Wiseman 1974,” A96 Fowler Commission. See Canadian Radio-Television Commission Fowles, John, A38b, A38b.1, A38b.3, F85.8. See also under book reviews by Davies Fox, Estelle, F68 France, C42.122 (Bastille Day), G40.91, G42.19; Paris, C42.93, G56.15 Franco, Francisco, G45.27 Fraser, Eric, B11a.1, B13 Fraser, John. See under Massey College, staff Freedman, Adele, C76.8 Freedman, Samuel G., J86.2 freedom of the press, G42.22 French, Orland, C90.2 French, William, A55a, C75.5, D84, J83 Freud, Anna, C54.49, G43.5 Freud, Sigmund, F73.1, F73.5, F73.8, F76.2, F79.2, F80.4, F89.1, G40.61, G40.86; books about Freud and his theories, C41.11, C41.314, C54.11, C54.49, C C55.17, 56.3, C56.34, C58.4, C60.8, C84.1; child-raising, C41.278; extroverts and introverts, C41.262, C41.264; “The Freudian Revolution: The Influence of Depth Psychology in Fiction,” A65a; “Sigmund Freud,” A55, C54.11 Fry, Roger, C41.22 Frye, Northrop, A58, C81.8 Fulford, Dwight, E52.1 Fulford, Robert, F89.1, F89.5, F89.9, I94 Fuentes, Carlos, B64, D92.3 funerals, C56.7 future (in time), A89, A97, C43.2, C43.28-C43.29, D95, E94.3, E95.1, E95.2 Gage, Nicholas, B62 Gagne, Maryse, I112 Gaidar, Arkady (Timur and His Company, impact on Russian youth), C42.33 Galbraith, John Kenneth, A63a, A63a.1, A63a.2, A68a, A71a, A74a.2, A75a, A80, A83a, A83a.1, A89a.1, F89.9 Gallant, Mavis, A89, B8, E93.9, F85.8; Across the Bridge, B74; “Honouring Mavis Gallant,” A89, E93.9; “The Novels of Mavis Gallant,” A58, C78.1. See also under book reviews by Davies Galt, George, A11a Galvin, Father Patrick, C42.132 gambling, G51.8 Gandhi, Mahatma, G40.47 Gane, Margaret Drury, F75.10 gardening, C45.40, C46.48, C48.62, C49.27, C49.37, C55.11

Gardner, Erle Stanley, C47.31 Garlick, Kenneth, J96 Garner, H.L., B1, C73.6 Garrett, George, E77.4 Garrick, David, B28. See also under book reviews by Davies Gascon, Jean, C74.1 Gatenby, Greg, A80, F88.8 Gaudy Nights at Massey College, broadsides, A20 (1965), A22 (1966), A26 (1967), A31 (1968), A32 (1969), A39 (1970), A42 (1971), A45 (1972), A46 (1973), A47 (1974), A50 (1975), A51 (1976), A53 (1977), A54 (1978), A56 (1979), A57 (1980) Gault, Peter, F79.1 “Gems of Yesteryear,” A55, C59.62 George, Daniel, A55. See also under book reviews by Davies Germany, C44.43, G40.45, C45.36, G40.83, G43.17, G45.13, G47.2, G47.13, G49.10, G50.5, G50.14, G54.14, G56.33; British opinion of, C41.119; culture of, C41.192, C41.198; education, C41.247, C241.248; hatred of, C41.209; history of, C41.317; Jews in, C43.59; nationalism, C41.C229; politics and non-alcoholic beer, C40.8; Wilhelm ii (Kaiser), C41.159 Gervais, Marty, F05 Ghent, Percy, J52 ghost stories, written by Davies: “The All Hallows Horrors,” E69.3; “The Cat That Went to Trinity,” A45, A52, A63, A87, E72.6, I96, I148 (audio book); “The Charlottetown Banquet,” A26, A63, E67.9; “Conversations with the Little Table,” A51, A63, C76.10, E76.11; “Dickens Digested,” A39, A52, A63, E70.9; “Einstein and the Little Lord,” A56, A63, E79.6; A Gathering of Ghost Stories, A87; “Ghost Stories,” A55, C42.155; “A Ghost Story,” A89, A96, E88.8; “Ghost Story Fragment” (“Ghost Story Begun for Massey College, Gaudy, December 9, 1995”), A96; “The Ghost Who Vanished by Degrees,” A63, A87, E64.9; “The Great Queen Is Amused,” A20, A63, E65.10; “Harper of the Stones,” A90, A96, E87.3, F87.1; High Spirits, A63, F82.4, H5 (Croatian), H8 (Czech, selections), I87 (audio book); “How the High Spirits Came About: A Chapter of Autobiography,” A63, A87; “The King Enjoys His Own Again,” A53, A63, A87, E77.6; “The Kiss of Khrushchev,” A42, A63, E71.7; “Night of the Three Kings,” A22, A63, E66.8; “Offer of Immortality,” A57, A63, E80.11; “The Perils of the Double Sign,” A50, A63, E75.5; “The Pit Whence Ye Are Digged,” A47, A63, E74.6; “Refuge of Insulted Saints,” A32, A63, C77.6, E69.3; Revelation from a Smoky Fire, A63, A79 (Wayzgoose Anthology), A87, B49, E63.7; “The Ugly Spectre of Sexism,” A46, A63, A87, E73.10; “When Satan Goes Home for Christmas,” A31, A48, A63, E68.5; “The Xerox in the Lost Room,” A54, A63, E78.9, H48 (German) Gibson, Graeme, B46 Gielgud, John, A6, C41.85, C71.6, G47.19



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Gill, Robert, A43 Gillespie, R.D., B36, J08.1 “The Girl with the Swansdown Seat / The Abode of Love / 1848,” A55, C56.22 Gish, Lilian, A71a Glassco, Ivan, G49.18 Glendinning, Victoria, D87.2 Gnarowski, Michael, A35a God, F81.5, F87.3, F89.1, F92.3, F94.17 Godwin, Gail, A38f Goebbels, Joseph, C41.192, C41.198, C41.200. See also under Nazis Goetsch, Paul, C59.21 Goetz, Ruth and Augustus (The Heiress), C50.26 Gogol, Nikolai (The Inspector General), E67.5 The Golden Ass: A Libretto, A91, A95, B76, J08.1 Goldie, Terry, B37 Goldschmidt, Eric, E93.5 Goldschmidt, Nicholas, A78, B20, B47, B51, B68 (A Night in Old Vienna), E93.10 Goldsmith, Oliver, C40.47; “Prologue to The Good Natur’d Man,” A90, A96 “The Goose Says Grace,” C77.1 Gordimer, Nadine, B65 Gotthold. Peggy, B52 gourmet, C44.10, C48.77 Graham, Billy, G55.13 Graham, Colin, A91 Graham, Neil, C89.2 Grahame, Kenneth, C59.39 grammar, A55, C41.184, C59.47, C62.28, C79.2 (vocabulary), C87.6, E78.7, F81.4, G40.19, G46.13, G46.18, G56.9 Grant, George, F59 Grant, George Munro. See “The Implacable Educator” Grant, Glenn, A63a Grant, Judith Skelton, C40.1, C40.50, C42.132, C42.153, C43.4, C43.6, C43.9, C46.90, C47.87, C48.54-C48.60, C56.26, C60.4, C61.13, E78.6, E89.2, E89.6, E90.3, E91.1E91.2, F89.5, F89.9, F90.2, F96.1; Davies’s books edited by, A55, A58, A92, A93, H41; Man of Myth, A83b, F85.3, F88.2, F94.4-F94.6, F94.12, F94.16, F95.1, J94.2, J08.1 Grant, W.L., A27, D86.2; The W.L. Grant Fellowship in Adult Education (“Some Reminiscences of W.L. Grant”), B25 Granville-Barker, Harley, A1a Gray, Charlotte, A92a Gray, Paul, F85.7 Great Canadians: A Century of Achievement, B17 Great Farini. See Hunt, William Leonard Greece, B62, G42.6, C42.176 The Greek Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy: The Fifth Century B.C., B62 Green, Agnes Logan, C44.36 Green, H. Gordon, A16a

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Green, Lynda Mason, B72 Green, Matthew, A90 Green, Robin, D64.4, D64.5 Green, Terence, M. F82.4, F82.6 Greene, Graham, A89, C91.1. See also under book reviews by Davies Greene, Lorne, E64.8 Greenfield, Fenella, I9 Greenspan, Eddie, F93.1 Greenwood, Laurie, F88.10 Grescoe, Paul and Audrey, J02 Grierson, John, C41.271 Groddeck, Georg, A27 Gross, Terry, I27 Grosskurth, Phyllis, F95.2 Grove, Valerie, F86.5 Guardian Conversations: Robertson Davies with Edward Blishen, I9 Gubbins, Nat, G53.22 Guedalla, Philip, C42.61. See also under book reviews by Davies Guelph Spring Festival, B39, B47, C76.3, D73, E72.2, E73.2, E86.3 Guidall, George, I98, I109 Guillet, Edwin C., C75.9, G52.27, G57.35, G57.39. See also under book reviews by Davies Guinness, Alec, B3a, G53.11, I18 Gullans, Charles, B63 Gussow, Mel, F95.1 Guthrie, Thomas, A58, C63.2 Guthrie, Tyrone, A5a, A6, A12a, A64, A74a, B3, B5, B7, B20, B24, B45, B72, C56.6, F75.4, J59. See also under book reviews by Davies Guttridge, Peter, F91.5, H51 Gypsies, A13, A71a, B4, G45.1, G54.19, G57.10 Gzowski, Peter, F89.1, F97, I28, I94 Hagon, Garrick, I119 “Haiku and Englyn,” A55, C59.24 Haley, Bob, I147 Halliwell, Margaret, A9a Hamilton, Ian, C73.3 Hancox, Ralph, A80, C57.38, C58.17, C58.19, C58.21, C58.28, C58.22, F63.4 handwriting. See penmanship Hanley, Jim, I14 Hansen, Fjord Trier, I107, I108, I111 Hansford Johnson, Pamela. See Johnson, Pamela Hansford under book reviews by Davies happiness, C50.13, C50.16, C74.2 Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre, A90a.1, A90a.2, I128 (audio book) Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts, A90a, A90b, I134 (audio book)

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Harbourfront, B41, B54, B58, B74, E86.6, E89.8, E93.9. See also International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront Harbron, John, D. B23 Hardy, Thomas, A31, B60, C43.39, G40.92. See also under book reviews by Davies Harpur, Tom, A55a and A55a.1 (“A Talk with Tom Harpur”), F74.2, F75.13, F81.5 Harrison, Brian, B77, B78 Harrison, G.B., B13. See also under book reviews by Davies Harron, Donald, B72 Harrs, Norma, I64 Hartmann, Ron, I51, I142, I143, I147 Hartwell, David G., A63a Harvard, John Milton, F84.1 Harvey, Sir Paul, C41.134 Haslett Cuff, John. See Cuff, John Haslett Haussmann, Baron Georges, G56.15 Hawthorn, Pamela, B35 Hay, Elizabeth, F89.1 hay fever, C46.55, C47.59, C47.67 Haycraft, Howard, B29 Hayes, Elliott, A49a, B67, E92.2, F92.2, F92.3 Hazlett Upson, William. See Upson, William Hazlett under book reviews by Davies headhunting, C43.11, C47.12 Heald, Tim, F78.1 Hearst, William Randolph, C41.100 The Heart of a Merry Christmas, A40, E70.10 “Heartcry of an Over-Solicited Donor,” B56 Heath, Edward, F94.6 Heine, Heinrich, G56.5 Heinrich, Theodore Allen, G55.2 Heller, Julek, A74a Hemingway, Ernest, C53.21. See also under book reviews by Davies Hendrix, Kathleen, F89.6 Henry, Martha, I143 Hepburn, Mitchell F., C40.12, C40.34, G45.18, J08.1 Heraclitus, A73, F95.4 heraldry, C72.3, C80.1 (Jung) Herbert, A.P., G42.3. See also under book reviews by Davies Herbert, F. Hugh (Love or Money), C50.22 Herbert, Frank, I44, I68 Herbert, Manuel D., A12a Herbert-Jones, Dora, J08.1 Herndon Crockett, Lucy. See Crockett, Lucy Herndon under book reviews by Davies Herod the Great, C40.97 Herrick, Robert, A54, C41.30 Hess, Rudolph, C41.312, C41.313, C43.44 Hetherington, Mary, J97 Heward, Burt, C77.3, F85.9

Heyman, Birgitta, A83a Highway, Tomson, C90.1, E90.7 Hill, Heather, F86.4 Hill, Graham, R. B26 Hincks Dobbin, Francis. See Dobbin, Francis Hincks under book reviews by Davies Hirsch, John, A64, B24 Hitler, C41.158, C41.188, C41.247, C41.248, C41.266, C41.277 (Russia), C42.111 (and Napoleon), C42.112, C47.72, C58.6, G40.37, G40.40, G40.58, G40.62, G40.63, G44.17, G54.19. See also under Nazis hoaxes, C40.94, G44.21 Hodgins, Jack, B46 Hogarth, Georgina, C58.5 Hoggart, Simon, F86.2 Holland. See Netherlands “A Holly Wreath,” A57 Hollywood, C40.11, C42.30 (Alexandre Dumas’s works) Holmes Pearson, Norman. See Pearson, Norman Holmes under book reviews by Davies Holroyd, Michael, J92.2. See also under book reviews by Davies homosexuality, F85.11 honorary degrees. See convocation addresses Hook, Theodore, A55, C44.76, C61.35 Hooper, John, F93.2 Hopper, Doris, F77.1 Hopkins Adams, Samuel. See Adams, Samuel Hopkins under book reviews by Davies Horner, Harry, B20 Horton, Edward Everitt, G53.13 Horton, John, I82, I90 Hotvedt, Cynthia, B62 House, Eric, I51, I142, I143, I147 Houseman, John, I10 “How I Write a Book,” A90, A97, C87.8 How Stupid Is Canada? A3 “How to Be a Collector,” A90, A96, E95.3 Hubbard, Elbert, C41.176, C48.27 Huber, R.A., B11 Huggan, Isabel, J93.1 Hulse, Michael, F87.3 humanism, G40.88 humanities, C43.4, C78.4, C85.5, E78.1, E90.2 Humble, A.H., A16a Hume, Christopher, D88.4 humour, C41.303 (English), C41.316 and C41.334 (American), C42.182 (British), C47.33 (American), C54.44, C54.55, C56.36 (English), C59.58 (poetry), F80.5, F82.5, F85.2, F86.1, F87.2, F88.3, F89.11, F94.1, G44.5 Hunt, William Leonard, J95.1 Hunter, Martin, B33, D67.5, F73.11 Hutchins, Robert, C41.299



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Hutchison, Bruce, G45.8. See also under book reviews by Davies Hutt, William, C50.23 Hutton, Maurice, G40.9 Huxley, Aldous, A55, B14a. See also under book reviews by Davies Hyman, Joseph, M. A12a Hynes, D.J., F62.2 hypnotism, C41.157, C42.8, G54.15 “I Remember Creatore,” A55, C48.63 Iakov, Daniil, I. B62 Ibsen, Henrik, C66.1, D86.4, F73.1, F74.1, G40.46. Iley, Stephen Fred, E81.5 Illustrated London News, C4.150 illustrators, designers, engravers, and photographers of Davies’s books: – Ackerman, Marianne, B75a; Aislin, B56; Arbuckle, Franklin, B17; Arthur, Newton Frank, B45; Ashley & Crippen, A25a, B34; – Bascove, A10c.1, A10c.2, A12d, A14a.4, A14a.5, A16a, A38d.1, A38d.2, A44d, A49b, A61a.1, A61a.2, A61a.4, A61b, A63a, A63a.1, A66b, A68a, A68b, A71a, A71c, A71d, A74a, A74a.2, A74a.6, A74c, A83a, A83a.1, A83b, A83c; Bauer, Jerry, A55b, A55b.1, A66a.1, A68a.3, A70a, A71a.4, A71a.7, A74a.3; Beringer, Ginger Tate, B75a; Bevilacqua, J., A38b; Bevington, Stan, A77; Black, Sam, B18; Blitt, Barry, A59c; Bradshaw, Lesley, B19; Brant Cowie/Artplus Ltd., A69a, A69a.2, A69a.5; Buckley, Paul, A89a.1, A89a.2; Burch, Amy, B44; – C.P. Wilson Graphic Communication, A23b, A81; Cahen, Oscar, B8; Capon & Austin Associates Ltd., A10c.1, A12d, A14a.4, A38d.1, A44d, A49b; Carson, G.B., B52; Chestnutt, David, A14a.3; Christensen, Erik, A89b, A90b; Cook, Paddy, A83a.2, A89a.1; Craan, T.M., B10a.1; Craig, David, A49a; Cruikshank, George, C48.15; Cupit, Bill, B35; – Damian, Antonio, B52; Day, Marie, A48; Dickie, Wilf, A66a.1; Dionisi, Sandra, A10c, A12f, A14d, A38e, A44e, A49c, A61c, A68d, A71d, A74d, A83d; – Ellis, Patricia, B35; Eyetooth Design, A55b.1; – FirstLight, A95, A96; Fisher, Veronica, B71; Franklin, Martin, A16c; – Galster, Robert, A14a; Gamarello, Paul, A55b.1; Gantt, Sam, A14c; Gaudin, Carole, B35; Gilson, Matthew, B67; Ginsberg, Sari, A89a, A90a, A92a; Grant, Donald, B15; Greenhill, Ralph, A16a; – Harvey Chan/Shelley Brown & Associates, A91; Heisey, Jennifer, A90a.1; Hersey, Dick, B8; Hodgson, Paul, A59c; Hood, Alun, A49a.2; Howard, Barbara, B72; Howard, John, A74a.1; Howell, Leslie, A59b; Hudson, Wil, B18; Huse, Ron, A78; Hutton, Clarke, A12a.1; Huziak Graphic Design Studio, B68;

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– Jack Steiner Graphic Design, B39; Jackson, John, A62; Jacoby, Melissa, A16c, A38d.2, A44b.2; Jenkins, Tony, A94; Jerry Kobylecky Museum Photography, B67; Joan Sommers Design, B67; – Karsh/Miller Comstock, A74a, A83a; Karsh, Yousuf, A15, A27, A74a.6, A92a.2 (see also under book reviews by Davies); Kenny, Stephen, A78; Kleefeld, Hans, B23; Klyn, Doyle, B8; Kong, A94; Krause, Susan, B43; Krementz, Jill, A63a.1, A68a.1, A83a.1, A83a.4, A89a, A89a.1, A89a.2, A90a.1, F96.2; – Lee, V. John, A61a.3, A63a; Leslie Smart & Associates Limited, A80, B25; Lingner, Antje, A65a; Lovejoy, Margot, B3a, B5a; – McCalla, Darrell, A12e; Macdonald, Grant, A2, A4a, A6, A7, A10a, A11a, B3, B5, C41.41, C48.40, F90.1 (see also under book reviews by Davies); McKague, A12a, A12a.2, A13a, A93, B6; MacNeil, Colette, A30; Maupin/Zefa, H., A49d; Meyer/Zefa, Martin, A38g; Miller, Richard, A52a, A61a; Montle, David, A55a.1, A71a; – Newfeld, Frank, A25a; Njo, K.T., A74a; Norris, L.M., C48.63; – Opper, Mary, A38g, A44f, A49d, A95, A96, A97; Outram, Richard, B72; Ower, Philip, B71; – Paterson, Peter, A14c, A16a.3, A38a, A38b, A44a, A44b, A49a.1, A49a.2, A61a, A68c, A69a, A71a; Patrick, Pamela, A43; Perez, Joseph, A63a.3, A63b, A92a.1, A92a.2; Peters, Spencer Francey, A10c, A12f, A14d, A38e, A44e, A49c, A61c, A68d, A71d, A74d, A83d, A89b, A90b; Phillips, Martha, A71a.3, A74a.1; Pilsworth, Graham, A35a, A69a, A69a.1, A69a.2, A69a.3; Pitcher, Donald T., B16; Pope, Ron, A43; Pulice, Mario J., B57; – Reeves, John, A63a; Reichle, Cindy, A93; Reliance, B3a; Richardson, Scott, A69a.3, B56; Robert Garbutt Productions, B34, B42; Rockman, Arnold, B13; Rolfe, Clarke, Stone, A4a, A12a; Ross, Linda, A92a, A93; – Schmidt, Edwin, A10b; Schwabe, Nick, B18; Shaw, David, A16a.2, A35a, B27a; Siegel, Hal, A44b; Siu, Alan, A85; Soapbox Design Communications Inc., A38g, A44f, A49d, A95, A96, A97; Smith, Peter, B3a.1; Sommerville, Herag, A65a; Stewart & Morrison Ltd., B23; Stewart, Clair, A4a, A8a, A8a.1, A12a, A25a, A38a; Stone, Marcus, B66; Stra Production/Zefa, A44f; Stuart, Neil, A38d, A44b.2, A49b, A55b, A63a.2, A69a.1; – Todd, Glenn, B52; Tuson, Lorraine, B54; – Van Velzer, Lawrence, B52; Vincent, Thomas, A69a.1; Vivash-Smith Studio, B6; Vogt, Jürgen, A90a; Vollmar, Chuck, B73; – Walsh, Mort, A4b; Walker, George, A62; Walton, Eileen, A14a.2; Welch, Chris, B57; Wells, Malcolm, A88; Werner, Honi, A49a.1; Weyman, Frederick, A7, A9a, A13; Wilson, Megan, B43a.1; Woodruff, Thomas, A66b; – Young, Bob, A58;

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– Zaid, Barry, A18; Zehethofer, John, B15; Zietowski, Janet, A68c immortality, A57, A63, E80.11, F75.13, F81.5 Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, G45.3, G50.19 “The Implacable Educator,” B17 Impressions of Robertson Davies, I5 “In a Welsh Border House, the Legacy of the Victorians,” A55b, A55b.1, C84.3 “In Pursuit of Pornography,” A96 Inannou, Greg, A63a incest, F80.3 India, C62.11 (Lucknow), G40.47, G43.12 influenza, G57.17, G57.25 Inkster, Janet. See Fetherling, Janet insanity. See mental health and illness International Federation for Theatre Research and the Association for Canadian Theatre History, B40 International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront, A80, B58, E89.8 An Introduction to the Twenty-first Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair, A77 Ireland, C41.69, C46.47 (literature), C59.49, G47.9, G48.11 Irving, Sir Henry, B77, C52.4, C49.52, J52 Italy, G40.83, G43.9; literary history of, C41.156; and men’s fashion, G40.25 Jackson, B.A.W., B11, B13, B24, B26 Jainchill, Molly, I48 Jakimovska, Nancy, F88.18 James, Geoffrey, F73.10 James, Henry, A68a. See also under book reviews by Davies James, M.R., A63a Janus, C40.98 Japan, C42.142 (opium), C43.67 (military) Jefferys, Charles W., G51.19. See also under book reviews by Davies Jenkins, Henry, C40.84 Jensen, Søren Elung, I105 Jerusalem International Book Fair, C93.2, E93.1 Jessup, Frank, B13 Jessup, Samuel, C41.131 Jesuits, C40.26 Jewison, Norman. See under film companies and producers Jews, C43.60 (treatment in Germany), C45.91 (history in Canada) Jezebel: The Golden Tale of Naboth and His Vineyard, and of King Ahab and His Wicked Queen, A78, A95, E93.5, F93.3, F97 Jodoin, Mireille, I133 Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, C85.5, E84.7, E47.8, E93.13, I8, I10 Johnsen, Bryon, I131 Johnson, A.W., B30 Johnson, Bryan, B33, C77.5

Johnson, E. Pauline, A58, C61.18 Johnson, Edward. See under opera Johnson, Samuel, C40.47, C42.131, C44.102, C45.20, C59.13. See also under book reviews by Davies Johnson, William, C76.7 Johnston, Denis, A4a, I137 jokes, G51.21, G52.28 Jolliffe, E.B., I1 Jones, Ernest, G58.3. See also under book reviews by Davies Jones, Henry Arthur, E93.7 Jones, Tod, D95 Jonson, Ben, A44α, B26, C47.2, C53.54, E69.2. See also under book reviews by Davies journalism. See newspapers Jowett, Benjamin, C58.5 Joy, Linda, B71 Joyce, James, A31. See also under book reviews by Davies Jukes, Mary, G57.38 Jung, Carl Gustav, A44, A65a A73, B60, C59.32, C76.2, C80.1 (heraldry), C81.2, C82.11 (W.B. Yeats), C83.4 (Robert Browning), C84.4 (Christianity), C93.4, D86.3, D88.3, E73.1, F73.1, E79.1, E79.2, E82.6, E83.1, E83.2, E86.2, E87.2, F73.5, F73.8, F75.13, F75.17, F76.2, F77.3, F79.2, F80.4, F82.2, F85.4, F85.7, F88.22, F89.1, F89.9-F89.11, F91.5, F92.3, F94.8, F94.17, F95.2, I14, J82.2; books about Jung or Jungian analysis, C59.33, C60.24, C73.2, C76.2, C78.6, C84.4; “Folk-Song: A Lost World of Archetypes,” A90; “Jung and the Theatre,” A52, A97, E73.1, E73.7, E77.5; “Jung and the Writer,” A90, A97, E89.6. See also under book reviews by Davies Jungian societies: Analytical Psychology Club of Chicago, E73.7; Analytical Psychology Society of Ontario, C91.3, E73.1, E86.2; C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, E77.5, E83.1, E87.2; C.G. Jung Foundation of the Analytical Psychology Society of Ontario, D86.3, E83.2; C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, E79.1, E79.2, E82.6, E82.7; Society of Analytical Psychology, London, England, E89.7 Kafka, Franz, C80.5 Kampf, Gabriel, F73.8 Kane, Jack, G61.4 Kane, Marvin, I156 Kane, Thomas S., A16a, A48 Kapica, Jack, D86.1 Kareda, Urjo, A5b, A48, B34, F73.12 Kastner, Susan, D64.1 Katzin, O. See Sagittarius under book reviews by Davies Keating, Charles, I96 Keats, John, C41.218 Keith, William, F89.5 Kellock, Judith, F88.16 Kellock-Taschereau Commission, G46.19 Kelly, Conor, I9



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Kelly, Cuthbert, G48.17 Kemp, Peter, F86.6 Kennedy, Judge John de N., D57.3 Kilbourn, William, B31 (The Toronto Book: An Anthology of Writings Past and Present), J94.5 King, William Lyon Mackenzie, C44.69, C49.63, C76.10, F75.4, G44.36, G59.1. See also under book reviews by Davies King, James, J99 Kipling, Rudyard, C70.3. See also under book reviews by Davies Kipnis, Alexander, C45.90 Kirchhoff, H.J., D88.2, F88.8 Kirkwood, Hilda, A11a, F50, F94.1 Kissel. Howard, F76.2 Klinck, Carl F., A12a, C54.18 Klu Klux Klan, G48.9 Knelman, Martin, E88.1, F75.8, J82.1 Knox, Alexander, C40.11, C41.141. See also under book reviews by Davies Kobler, John, A15 Koenig, Rhoda, D86.2 Korda, Alexander, C41.132 Korea, G52.14 Korey, Marie Elena. See under Massey College, staff Kraglund, John, D73 Kramer, Mike, I79 Krich Chinoy, Helen. See Chinoy, Helen Krich under book reviews by Davies Kris, Ernst, C54.49 Kritzwiser, Kay, A62, D63.3 Kucherawy, Dennis, F81.7 Kulhánková, Zuzana, B7 Kunitz, Stanley J., B29 labour, G44.13, G46.12, G47.12 Lacenaire, Pierre François, C52.18 Lacey, Samuel L., B37 Lague, Louise, F76.3 Laing Fisher, Claude. See Fisher, Claude Laing under book reviews by Davies Lakefield Preparatory School, D62.1, E62.7 Lamarsh, Judy, J08.1 Lamb, Charles. C40.98, C61.15. See also under book reviews by Davies Lamb, W. Kaye, B17 Lambrinoudakis, Vassilis, B62 Lamontagne, Maurice, B30 Lancashire, Ian, A28 Lancaster, Burt, C60.40 Landeryou, J.C., G44.29 Landon, Richard, B71 Lang, Cosmo Gordon, retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury, C42.23

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Langer, Philip, A12a Langham, Michael, B24, C67.5, F58 Langley, Alicia, C47.14 Langley Moore, Doris. See Moore, Doris Langley under book reviews by Davies language, C40.39, C41.332 (slang), C42.114, C45.14, C46.1, C48.39, C57.45 (American usage), C59.10, C59.50, C62.18 (American usage), C69.4, C87.2 (English usage). See also under grammar, spelling Large, Brenda, F88.20 Larkin, Philip, A77 Laski, Harold, G46.20. See also under book reviews by Davies Laughton, Charles, G62.7 Laurence, Dan H., C61.40. See also under book reviews by Davies Laurence, Margaret, C70.1, C76.5, F74.3, I22, J88.1. See also under book reviews by Davies Laurentian University, Thorneloe College, D88.1, E88.3 Laurier, Sir Wilfred, C40.34 Lautens, Trevor, F88.15, F88.17 Lawrence, D.H., A55b, C82.7. See also under book reviews by Davies Lawrence, Robert G. (Studies in Robertson Davies’ Deptford Trilogy), B37 Lawson, Gordon, A74b.1 Lawson, Mark, F91.6 Lawson, T.W., A16a lawyers, C77.4 Layton, Irving, F72.4. See also under book reviews by Davies Lazar, Dan, I55, I56, I58 Leacock, Stephen, A4a, A8a.1, A52, A58, A59, B9, B16, C54.44, C57.3, C67.8, C69.6, C71.2 D57.1, E57.1, E70.2, E70.7, E71.1, F89.1, G44.40, G55.1, G55.20, G55.22, J08.2; Feast of Stephen: A Cornucopia of Delights by Stephen Leacock, A35a; Feast of Stephen: An Anthology of Some of the Less Familiar Writings of Stephen Leacock, A35, I164 (Braille); Leacock Centennial Committee, A33; “Leacock, Stephen (18691944),” B70; Literary Lapses, B10, I61 (audio book), I171 (Braille); The McFaggin Frigment (spoof by Davies), A37b; The McFiggin Fragment (spoof by Davies), A37a, A89; Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy, B15; “The Other Leacock,” A36, A37, E70.3; The Penguin Book of Stephen Leacock, A59c; The Penguin Stephen Leacock, A59a, A59b, I63 (audio book), I70 (audio book), I156 (audio book); Stephen Leacock, A33, J99; “Stephen Leacock,” B9, B16, E57.1. See also under book reviews by Davies Lebel, Maurice, B17 LeBlanc, John, F72.3 Leclerc, Phil, I13 lectureships: Carleton College Lecture Series, Our Living Tradition, B9, D57.1, E57.1; Concordia University, Lahey Lecture, C78.9, E78.2, I19; Cosmos Club, Washington, dc, E77.3, E99.12; Duthie Lecture, Vancouver, E94.3; Insti-

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tute on Religion and Public Life, Erasmus Lecture, C90.5, E90.3, I23; Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Daniel Coit Gilman Lecture, A89, A96, C85.5; Larkin-Stuart Lectures, A52a, B32, E76.7-E76.10; Neil Gunn Lecture, C88.5, E88.4, F88.3; Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Anniversary Lecture Series, C75.4; Ontario Science Centre, J. Tuzo Wilson Lecture Series, D89.2, E89.10; The Prince of Hesse Memorial Lecture, A73, E91.3; Princeton University, Spencer Trask Lecture Series, D85, E85.2; Seattle Arts and Lectures, E95.1; Stratford Festival Theatre, Celebrity Lecture Series, A64; University of Manitoba, the Sidney Warhaft Memorial Lecture, C81.3, E80.10; Winchester College, William Empson Society Lecture, D86.4, E86.7; Yale University, Tanner Lectures on Human Values, A76, B61, E91.1, E91.2. See also speeches and lectureships under Queen’s University and University of Toronto Lederer, Francis, C40.19 Lee, Betty (Love and Whisky: The Story of the Dominion Drama Festival and the Early Years of Theatre in Canada 1606-1972), B27 Leech, Clifford, B28, C71.1, E71.2 Lehen, Brian, A71a.5 Leigh, Vivien, D51.4 Leighton, Clare, C41.45 Leland, John, A16a Lemay, H., A16a Lemelin, Roger, B23 Leonard, Elmore, A71a.1 LePan, Douglas, A52a.1, A52a.2, E90.5, J08.1. See also under book reviews by Davies Letourneau, Jean, C45.95 “A Letter from Canada: 1950,” A58, C50.9 “A Letter from Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay,” A90, A97 “Letters: The Unfashionable Canadians,” A58, B23 Lever, Charles, C42.70 Levesque, Stephanie, D90 Lewis, John, G46.16 liberal arts. See humanities libraries, C59.31, C59.38, F62.2, G57.14 Library and Archives Canada. See National Library of Canada Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph, A16, A41 “Light-Hearted Scholarship and Canada,” A58, C53.37 Lincoln, Abraham, C43.54 “Lines Written in Dejection after Seeing a Performance of Hair on Epiphany, 1970,” A97 Linton, J.P., I101 literacy, B54, C75.4, C78.9, E74.5, I19 literature (see also encyclopedias and companions to literature) – American, C41.276, C41.277, C41.281, C59.54 – Bible as literature, C41.215 – Canadian, C41.165, C64.2, C70.5, C71.1, C77.7, C83.7,

D48.3, D65, E70.8, F71.4, F72.4, F73.8, F75.9, F81.6, F85.4, F85.8, F86.4, F86-87, F88.8, F88.13, F93.5, G54.21, G56.11, G56.21, G61.2, I21; “Literature in Canada: 1955,” A58, C55.24; “A Literary Letter from Canada,” C53.5; “Literature in a Country without a Mythology,” A89, A97, C88.5, E88.4; “Some Thoughts on the Present State of Canadian Literature,” E71.2; “What Is Canadian about Canadian Literature?” B46 – The Dignity of Literature, A85 – English, C56.13, C56.42; Old English, C35.6 – history of, C41.259, C54.12, C56.13 – “Insanity and Literature,” A52, A97, E76.1, E77.1 – Irish, C46.47 – medicine and, A17, E62.1, C62.37 – moral purpose of, A89, A96, C90.5, E90.3, I24 – Nobel Prize, A61a.2, F82.5, F85.9, F88.15, J08.1 – post-colonial, B70 – technology and, A89, A96, E89.10 Littledale, Harold A., G57.20 Littler, William, B41, D82.2, F82.3, F87.1 The Lively Arts Drama Festival, I17 Livesey, John, I140 Living Philosophies: The Reflections of Some Eminent Men and Women of Our Time, B57 Livingston, Mrs. H.A., F68 Lloyd, George (Lord Lloyd of Dolobran), C41.43 Lochhead, Douglas. See under Massey College, staff Locke, Matthew, A28 Lockhart, Gene, C41.141 Lockhart, Lloyd, F57 Lomer, Gerhard R., A33a Londerville, John, F93.2 London, Jack, C41.141 longevity, C40.77, C40.84, C42.163. See also death and old age Lonsdale, Freddy, C57.24 “Look at the Clock!” A90, A96, C92.1 “Looking Backward,” C40.19, A58 Lord, M.G., F89.9 “Love and a Cough,” A55, C59.36 Lowe, Jack, C53.19 Loyola, Ignatius, C40.26 Lynch, Gerald, C78.10, C87.1 MacArthur, Duncan, A2 MacArthur, General Douglas, G51.9, G51.13 McBurnie, Michael, A77 McCarthy, D.L., A8a.1 McCormick, F.J., G47.17 McCormick, Marion, I135 McCulloch, Dorothy, B8 McCullough, David Willis, F88.12 MacDonald, Don, D88.1



MacDonald, Flora, J88.1 MacDonald, Mary Lu, B52 Macdonald, Rose, D57.4 Macdonald, Sir John A., B20, B21, C40.34 McDougall, Judge A.G., D52.2 Macfadden, Bernarr, C41.221, C53.29, G55.27 McGarity, D.P., A6 McGehaen, John, A5a McGibbon, Donald W., E80.7 McGill University, E71.1, E74.3 McGillen, Pete, G55.23 McGoogan, Kenneth, F85.4, F88.7, F88.9, F94.13 MacGregor, Martha, F73.2 McInnes, Graham (and Joan), A12a, A93, B39, B43, J02; The Road to Gundagai, B44. See also under book reviews by Davies Macintyre, Ben, B78, F93.4 McKellar, Hugh D., A9b, A29 McKenzie, Beth, F80.1 Mackenzie, Marilyn, F93.2 Macksey, Richard A., I8 McLaren, Norman, G53.4 MacLean, David, F88.5 McLean, J.S., G54.10 McLean, Jim, I148 McLean, Stuart, A68a MacLennan, Hugh, B20, B23, C90.6, F80.1. See also under book reviews by Davies McManus, Judy, D60.2 McMaster, Beth, B73 McMaster University, B11, B13, B26, C59.35, E59, [E6263].12 MacMillan, Alexander, G61.3 MacMillan, Ann, J08.1 MacMillan, Ross A., C92.4 MacMillan Theatre, University of Toronto. See University of Toronto, MacMillan Theatre under theatres, theatrical companies and organizations, and festivals MacNeil, Robert, J89.1, J89.2, J92.1 MacNiven, Elina, F80.3 McPhee, Janet, A5a Macqueen Pope, W. See Pope, W. Macqueen under book reviews by Davies McWilliams, Joseph, C40.29 Macey, Samuel L. (Studies in Robertson Davies’ Deptford Trilogy), B37 Machiavelli, Niccolò, G40.75 magic, C45.31 The Magic Season of Robertson Davies, I11 The Maid of Cefn Ydfa, A13 Malan, D.F., G50.9 Mallet, Gina, B33 Malmquist, Maria, I151

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Malta, C42.79, C43.59 “The Man Who Had No Personality,” A6 “The Man Who Wrote ‘O Canada’,” A58, C42.116 Manguel, Alberto, A52a, A63a Manitoba: Winnipeg, C49.55 (ballet); Winnipeg Free Press, A6, G43.8 Mann, Martha, B22 Mann, Thomas, A38b, E82.7, F85.5, G40.73, G49.10, G56.33. See also under book reviews by Davies Manthorpe, Jonathan, F73.7 “The Maple Leaf Forever,” G50.18, G50.31 maps, C42.77, C57.56 Marchand, Philip, A77, F94.15, J95.5 Marchbanks, Samuel, A3, A4, A8, A25, A67, A69, A92a, B1, B2, C43.85 (diary begins), F85.1; The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, A4, A58 (book review written by Davies), A69, I59 (audio book), C47.92 (book review written by Davies), I137 (audio dramatization); “The Double Life of Robertson Davies,” C54.18; “Drinks with Marchbanks,” A67; The Introduction to the Papers of Samuel Marchbanks, A67; Marchbanks’ Almanack, A25, A69, I47 (audio book), I69 (audio book), I168 (Braille); “The Marchbanks Correspondence,” C49.48 (first column); Marchbanks’ Garland, A69; The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks, A69, F85.3, F89.1, H8 (Czech, selections), I78 (audio book), I179 (Braille); A Reading of The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, A4a; “Samuel Marchbanks’ Diary of a Drama Festival 1949,” A58, C49.33; “Samuel Marchbanks Ruminates on Actors and Playgoers,” A58, C48.66; “Samuel Marchbanks Writes a Letter to Apollo Fishorn,” A58; “Samuel Marchbanks Writes a Letter to Chandos Fribble,” A58; “Samuel Marchbanks Writes a Letter to Haubergeon Hydra,” A58; “Samuel Marchbanks Writes Another Letter to Apollo Fishorn,” A58; “The Table Talk of Robertson Davies,” A55; The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks, A8, A69, I66 (audio book) Margeson, John, I4 Marker, Frederic, B28 Marker, Lise-Lone, B28 Markle, Fletcher, A60 Marlowe, Christopher, G56.1, G56.3 Marlowe, Julia, G50.40 Marquis, Don, A55, C59.65 marriage, C41.172, C41.233, C48.40, C48.56, C56.26, F70.3, F73.5, F81.5, F88.5, F89.1, F89.9, G40.3, G44.41, G47.1, G48.3, G60.3 Marsden, Lorna, B64 Marsh, Edward, C59.59 Marsh, Ngaio, F51. See also under book reviews by Davies Marshall, Douglas, F71.5 Martin, Sandra, C76.4 Martin-Harvey, John, A55, B40, C44.46, F75.2, G44.10 Marvin, Ralph, I17 Mason, James, B7

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Mason, Robert, A66a.1, A68a.3, A69a.4, A83a.2, A83a.3 Mason, Roger, A61b Massey College, A17, A19, A20, A22, A26, A27, A28, A36, A37, A39, A42, A45, A46, A47, A50, A51, A53, A54, A56, A57, A78, A79, A88, A91, A93, B49, B64, C61.31, C63.4C63.5, C64.1, C65.1, C72.2, C73.1, C76.8, D62.1, E62.4, C62.39, C62.40, C74.7, C79.6, E62.7, E63.5, E63.7, E63.8, E64.9, E65.9-E6510, E66.8, E68.3, E70.7, E71.7, E74.6, E80.11, E81.2, E84.6, E85.4, E88.7, E88.8, F61, F63.1F63.3, F64.1, F65, F69, F71.3, F72.2, F73.10, F74.4, F81.2, F81.3, G59.10, J63.1-J63.3, J73.1-J73.3; “Massey College,” B31; Massey College Calendar, A21 (1966), A24 (1967); Massey College Lectures, B30; “Mimesis at Massey,” A55, C65.1; Robertson Davies Library, B71, E64.1, F89.1; women, admission to, C72.2, F73.13, C74.4, J73.3. See also under Gaudy Nights Massey College, staff – Fraser, John (journalist and fourth Master), A89a, A90a, A92a, A96, F77.2, J95.5, J08.1 – Friesen, Colin (bursar), A37a.1 – Greig, E. Peter (assistant printer), A37 – Hume, J.N. Patterson (professor and second Master), A57 – Kennedy, Pat (secretary), A37, A42, A45, B64 – Korey, Marie Elena (librarian; Elegant Editions: Aspects of Victorian Book Design), B71, J08.1 – Lochhead, Douglas (librarian and professor), A20, A22, A24, A26, A31, A37a, A39, A42, A45, B71 – Saddlemyer, Ann (professor and third Master), A80, B33, B34, B64, E95.5, F81.1, J08.1; Early Stages: Theatre in Ontario 1800-1914 B58. See also under book reviews by Davies – Stoneman, William P. (junior fellow and assistant printer), A54, A56 – Whalon, Moira (Davies’s secretary), A14a.2, A16a.1, A16b, A16c, A33a, A35a.1, A37, A38a, A41, A44b.2, A44c, A61a.1, A64, A68a, A70a.1, A71a, A74a, A74a.4, A75a, A78, A81, A83a, A84, A85, A88, A89a, A90a, B28, B34, B35, E84.6, F93.1, J97 – Wry, Gordon (choirmaster), A19, A28, A31, A39, A46, A50, A51, A53, A54, E85.4 Massey Commission or Massey Report. See Royal Commission Studies Massey, Lionel, A28, A31, A32, A55; In Memoriam: Lionel Vincent Massey, A19, E65.9 “Massey, Raymond Hart,” B50 Massey, Vincent, A19, A27, A28, A74a, B2, B17, C60.4, C68.1, C82.2, E68.3, F69, F88.2, G56.14, G56.17; In Memoriam: The Right Honourable Vincent Massey, A28; Massey College Head Remembers Vincent Massey, A27; “Massey, Vincent,” B50 Massie, Allan, F88.3 Matchan, Linda, F75.16

mathematics, F82.1, F88.11 Matheson, Gwen, C72.2 Matthew, H.C.G., B77, B78 Mathews, Brenda. See Davies, Brenda Matthews, Alice Westfeldt, B14a.2 Matthews, Troup, B14a.2 Maugham, Somerset, A55b, A55b.1, C82.6, C44.48, G40.87. See also under book reviews by Davies Mayhew, Henry, C53.17 Maynor, Dorothy, C52.2 Meade Falkner, J. See Falkner, J. Meade under book reviews by Davies meaning of life, B57, C89.1, F79.1 medicine, A17, A96, C49.64, C59.55 (Shakespeare), C85.5, E90.2, F94.8, G40.12, G40.27, G56.22, I8, I10, J01.2 Medicine in the Mirror of the Stage, I10 Meeson, Brian, A41, B22 Melchior, Lauritz, C49.57 Melzack, Louis, A38a Melzak, Shan, I47 Mencken, H.L., C44.72, G56.2. See also under book reviews by Davies Mennell, Sarah, I152 mental health and illness, C42.68 (soldiers), D49.1, E76.1, E77.1, G46.2, G55.11, G55.12, G55.16, G55.45, G62.6, G62.8; “Insanity and Literature,” A52, A97, E76.1, E77.1 Merivale, Patricia, B37 The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books, A89a.1, A89a.2, I123 (audio book), I130 (audio book), I136 (audio book) The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995 A89a, A89b, I116 (audio book), I131 (audio book), I184 (Braille) Meudal, Gérard, H38 Meyer, Bruce, F79.2 Meyer, Nicholas. See under film companies and producers Miller, Arthur, I1; Arthur Miller and Company, B59; See also under book reviews by Davies Miller, Peter, I134 Milne, David B., B10a.1 Milne, William S., A5a Milton, John, C41.151, C43.70, G45.10. See also under book reviews by Davies Missen, Lynne, A63a Mitchell, Alanna, C93.4 Mitchell, Roy, G44.22 Mitchell, W.O., B20, D75.1, H28. See also under book reviews by Davies Mitford, Nancy, C56.46. See also under book reviews by Davies Mitgang, Herbert, F88.23 “Modern Advertisement,” C29 Moffat, Pat, I52 Moiseiwitsch, Tanya, B7, B72; The Stage Is All the World: The Theatrical Designs of Tanya Moiseiwitsch, A90, B67



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Molière, A58, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, D64.3, E64.2 Molotsky, Irvin, D87.2, J82.3 Monahan, David, B37 monarchy, C36, C41.142, C47.87 (poem), C48.3, C53.12, C91.2, F88.17, G40.28, G45.27, G56.16; Catherine of Aragon, C41.225; Charles ii, C41.142; Frederick ii, of Prussia, G40.71; King George vi, C59.5, G44.18; King John, A55, C60.29, C60.34; King Leopold of Belgium, C40.34; Princess Margaret, G55.30, G57.28; Queen Elizabeth ii, C40.4, C53.12; Queen Victoria, C41.134, G49.5; Wilhelm ii of Germany, C41.159 Monk, Patricia, B37, J82.2 Monkman, Leslie, A16a Montague, Bruce, I139 Montgomery, Bernard, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, B47.53 Montgomery, David, B61 Montgomery Hyde, H. See Hyde, H. Montgomery under book reviews by Davies Montreal. See under Quebec Moodie, Susanna A9. See also under book reviews by Davies Moon, Barbara, F65 Moon, Eric, F62.1, J62 Moore, Dora Mavor, A6, A34 and E70.3 (honorary degree citation) Moore, Mavor, A7, B20, B72, G55.1, J94.3 Moore, Tedde, B72 Moore, Tom, C59.18 Morash, Gordon, F94.16 More Than Words Can Say: Personal Perspectives on Literacy, B54 Morgan-Powell, Samuel, G62.1 Morley, Glenn, I15 Morpurgo, J., A16b Morrison, Hugh, F68 Morton, Desmond, A52a Morton Robinson, Henry. See Robinson, Henry Morton under book reviews by Davies Moses, C42.100 Moses, Richard, A63a Moss, Arnold, I34 Mother Shipton, G40.91 “The Mould of Fortune,” A14a Mould, Vernon T., E93.2 Mount Allison Summer Institute, G56.31 Mount Allison University, C74.8, E73.8 movies. See films Mowat, Farley, C75.5, C94.2, F89.1. See also under book reviews by Davies “Mr. Radley Lectures on Shakespeare,” C23 Mudry, Andrea, J98.2 Mulock, Sir William, C42.105 Mulroney, Brian, C93.5 Munro, Alice, C76.5, I22

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murder, E83.3 Murphy, Arthur L., B20, H28 music, A90a.1, A90a.2, C54.4, C54.56, C55.19, C55.20, C57.46, C57.52, C57.58, C58.24, C59.37, C59.64, C62.38, F86.1, F88.16, F88.23, F91.3, F93.3, I128. See also Canada, anthems; opera; and under Toronto – Adaskin, Murray, C46.25 – Britain, C53.12 – Canada, C59.71 – composers: Agostini, Lucio, I51; Applebaum, Louis, A26, A57, B24, E87.3; Bach, Johann Sebastian (St. Matthew Passion), C41.99, C45.28; Bach, Karl Philipp Emanuel, C43.23; Bax, Sir Arnold, C42.38; Beckwith, John, B33; Bissell, Keith, A42, B20, H28; Braggiotti, Mario, C54.23; Britten, Benjamin, A45, A73, A91, C46.53 (Peter Grimes); contemporary, C41.106; Eatock, Colin, A91; Gibbons, Orlando, A42; Handel, George Frideric, C42.97 and C45.28 (Messiah), G59.6; Holman, Derek, A50, A51, A54, A78, B41, D82.2, E93.6, F93.3; Lavallée, Calixa, A58, C42.116; Lerner, Alan Jay (Camelot), C60.46; Loewe, Frederick (Camelot), C60.46; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, C65.7, E78.8 (Don Giovanni); Paderewski, Ignacey Jan, C41.183; Schubert, Franz, C58.35; Shostakovich, Dmitri (7th Symphony), C42.133; Sibelius, Jean, C40.76, C41.89, G40.36; Sullivan, Arthur, A55, C42.94, C60.31 Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich, G40.23, G50.26; Vaughan Williams, Ralph, A45, G40.10; Warlock, Peter, A45, C35.9, C35.10; Willan, Healey, C50.29, G60.5 – criticism, C41.300 – folk songs, A90, C54.33 – “God Save the King,” C40.66 – Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, C40.95 – Hambourg, Boris, G54.24 – harmonica recital, C46.10 – history, C54.35 – International Choral Festival, A78, B51, B68 – Iseler, Elmer, A78 – McArthur, Edwin, C41.235 – MacMillan, Sir Ernest, A52, C41.171, C92.4, C73.5, E73.3, G53.3, G56.20 – merry-go-rounds, C40.1 – Milton Cross’ Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music, C53.63 – musicals, C60.46 (Camelot); G57.36 (My Fur Lady) – “My Musical Career,” A90, A97, E94.4 – National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, G50.26 – Neel, Boyd, B7 – organ recital, C45.24, C48.68 – Oxford Junior Companion to Music, C54.56 – Paganini, Nicolò, G40.78 – patriotism, C40.28 – Peaker, Charles, C45.24

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– piano, C42.80, C45.10 (Bartlett and Robertson), C47.90, C49.21, C50.3, C51.12, C51.49, C53.19 (Lowe and Whittemore), C54.10, C54.23 (Mario Braggiotti), C54.35, C55.8, C58.3, C58.14. C58.39, C61.19, C73.7 (Arthur Rubinstein) – Poirier, Jean-Marie, B23 – radio programs, C41.37 – singers and songs: carols C41.339; Coventry Singers, G54.22; diction, C35.5; The Dumbells, G55.15 and G57.5; Fields, Gracie, C40.18; Forde, Florrie, G40.41; Leslie Bell Singers, C51.18; madrigal singers, C56.48; “The Only Creatures in All of Nature Who Sing Are Birds and Mankind,” B51; popular, G49.1; translation, C35.4; Trapp family choir, C45.79, C50.38; Vienna Boys’ Choir, C57.58; White, Portia, C51.26 – Smith, Leo, G52.7 – Ubukata, Bruce, A53, A54 – Uxbridge Music Hall, B41 – violin, C54.53 Mussolini, Benito, G40.34, G40.75, G40.83, G44.17 mysticism, F76.3, F79.1 Nabokov, Vladimir, F58. See also under book reviews by Davies Napoleon, C41.340, C42.111, G40.70 Napoleon iii, G56.15 Nash, Knowlton, B54 Nash, N. Richard (The Rainmaker), C56.32 Nash, Paul W., A72, B66 Nathan, George Jean, G58.6. See also under book reviews by Davies National Arts Centre Festival, B39 National Ballet of Canada, C41.114, G57.8 National Book League, A16b National Film Board of Canada, C41.271, G48.2 National Health and Welfare, Canada, G45.20 National Library of Canada, G44.9, G49.13, G52.4, G52.9, G55.5 Nazis, C41.192, C41.198, C41.200, C41.248, C41.286, G40.74, G42.19, G45.1, G45.4, G45.16, G47.2, G49.10, G54.14; education, C40.22; Jews, C43.60; music, C40.21; Nuremberg trials, C47.26; propaganda, C40.28; Richard Wagner, C40.20 Neatby, Hilda, B17. See also under book reviews by Davies Needles, William, C51.44 Nelson, George, E. A4a Nelson, Horatio, Lord, C40.37, C42.162 Nemirovitch-Dantchenko, Vladimir, C43.35 Netherlands, C43.47 Neumann, Erich, C70.4 Neville, John, I15 New Canadian Quarterly, G57.2 New Guinea, C43.67, C47.12 Newcastle Journal, Book of the Month, A12a.1

Newfoundland, C40.23 Newman, John Henry, C40.8 Newman, Lena, B8 Newman, Peter C., F72.3, F95.3, J08.1 newspapers, comments on, C41.150, C42.1341, C44.4 (Samuel Marchbanks), C49.10, C67.3, C68.6, C94.4, D48.5, D80.1, D80.2, E48.5, [E50?].1, F63.4, F71.1, F73.6, F80.4, F80.6, F88.6, F88.10, F88.15, F88.18, F89.1, F89.10, G47.6, G48.8, G48.13, G48.18, G49.7, G50.39, G55.30, G56.21, G56.27, G60.2 Newton, Eric, G54.5 Newton, Lilias, A28 Nicholson, Sir Sydney, G47.18 Nicol, Eric, B20, H28. See also under book reviews by Davies Nicolson, Harold, C44.98. See also under book reviews by Davies Niebuhr, Reinhold, C41.83 Nielsen, Richard, I14 Nightingale, Florence, C40.7, G44.4 “The Nineteenth-Century Repertoire,” B58 “Nobility and Style,” C82.8 Norman, Marsha, I10 Norwich, John Julius, A75a, J95.4 “The Novel as Secular Religion,” B48 novels, written by Davies: – The Cornish Trilogy, A61, A68a, A71, A75, F88.7, F89.3, I144 (audio book) – The Cunning Man, A83, A83a.2 (The Black Opal, suggested title), A92a, D95, F94.3-F94.5, F94.8-F94.10, F94.12-F94.15, F94.18, F96.1, F97, H15 (Danish), H27 (Finnish), H39 (French), H53 (German), H57 (Greek), H65 (Korean), H87 (Spanish), H104 (Swedish), I27, I102-I103 (audio course), I105 (Danish, audio book), I109-I110 (audio book), I113-I114 (audio book), I119I120 (audio book), I121 (Swedish, audio book), I181 (Braille), J98.2, J08.1 – The Deptford Trilogy, A38, A44, A49, A61a.3, A66, B37, F76.2, F76.4, F80.3, F82.2, F89.1, H3 (Catalan), H79 (Russian), H94 (Spanish), H101 (Swedish) – Fifth Business, A38, A38b.2 (Taiwanese piracy), A66, D87.1, F70.2, F70.5, F71.1, F73.1, F73.6, F75.5, F86.1, F88.12, F88.22, F89.1, F89.4, F90.4, H1 (Bulgarian), H2 (Catalan), H7 (Czech), H9 (Danish), H19 (Dutch), H22 (Estonian), H25 (Finnish), H29 (French), H43 (German), H59 (Italian), H63 (Japanese), H66 (Norwegian), H68 (Polish), H74 (Portuguese), H77 (Russian), H82 (Spanish), H89 (Spanish), H97 (Swedish), I32 (audio book), I39 (audio book), I43 (audio book), I51 (CBC dramatization), I55 (audio book), I60 (audio book), I74 (audio book), I86 (Danish, audio book), I93 (audio book), I97 (audio book), I127 (audio book), I141 (audio book), I142 (CBC dramatization), I154 (audio book), I157 (Swedish, audio book), I158 (audio



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book), I159 (French, audio book), I165 (Braille), I187 (Braille), J94.2, J09 (Taiwanese piracy) – Leaven of Malice, A11b, A12, A48, D55.2, F.73.11, F89.1, H35 (French), H96 (Spanish), I53 (audio book), I68 (audio book), I121 (audio book), I135 (abridged audio book), I162 (Braille), I170 (Braille), J94.2 – The Lyre of Orpheus, A71, A75, A92a, C88.4, D88.3, D88.5, F88.7, F88.10, F88.11, F88.13, F88.15, F88.16, F89.6, F89.8, H14 (Danish), H37 (French), H56 (Greek), H62 (Italian), H73 (Polish), H85 (Spanish), H92 (Spanish), H103 (Swedish), I23, I88-I89 (audio book), I95 (audio book), I108 (Danish, audio book), I115 (audio book), I138 (audio book), I150 (Swedish, audio book), I175 (Braille), I183 (Braille) – The Manticore, A44, A44a (“Son and Stranger,” suggested title), A44b.1 (“The Dream Prompter” and “Room for Consultation,” suggested titles), A58, A66, D75.1, F89.1, H10 (Danish), H20 (Dutch), H30 (French), H44 (German), H69 (Polish), H76 (Russian), H80 (Spanish), H88 (Spanish), H98 (Swedish), I33-I35 (audio book), I40-I41 (audio book), I44 (audio book), I56-I57 (audio book), I75-I76 (audio book), I77 (Swedish, audio book), I91 (Danish, audio book), I106 (audio book), I129 (audio book), I143 (CBC dramatization), I155 (audio book), I173 (Braille), J94.2 – A Mixture of Frailties, A14, C58.31, F58, H17 (Dutch), H43 (German), I48 (audio book), I62 (audio book), I80 (audio book), I83 (audio book), I124 (audio book), I166 (Braille), J02 – Murther & Walking Spirits, A74, A92a, D92.1, F91.1-91.6, F97, H16 (Danish), H38 (French), H49 (German), H50 (German, first section), H86 (Spanish), I16, I26, I98I101 (audio book), I117 (audio book), I133 (French, audio), I180 (Braille), I185 (Braille), J08.1 – The Rebel Angels, A61, A75, A79, A92a, F81.8, F82.1, F83, H12 (Danish), H23 (Estonian), H33 (French), H46 (German), H54 (Greek), H58 (Hungarian), H61 (Italian), H64 (Korean), H71 (Polish), H75 (Portuguese), H83 (Spanish), H91 (Spanish), H100 (Swedish), I20 (audio recording), I64-I65 (audio book), I72 (audio book), I107 (Danish, audio book), I112 (French, audio book), I125 (audio book), I139 (audio book), I151 (Swedish, audio book), I172 (Braille), J94.2, J08.1 – The Salterton Trilogy, A10, A12, A14, A70, F73.1, F88.20, F89.1 – Tempest-Tost, A10, F89.11, H95 (Spanish), I29 (audio book), I30 (audio book), I54 (audio book), I71 (audio book), I26 (audio book), I146 (audio book), I152 (audio book), I176 (Braille) – What’s Bred in the Bone, A68, A75, A92a, D84, D87.1, F85.7, F86.3, F86.5, F89.1, H4 (Chinese), H6 (Czech), H13 (Danish), H24 (Estonian), H26 (Finnish), H36 (French), H47 (German), H55 (Greek), H67 (Norwe-

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gian), H72 (Polish), H84 (Spanish), H93 (Spanish), H102 (Swedish), I20, I21, I25, I79 (audio book), I81-I82 (audio book), I104 (French, audio book), I111 (Danish, I111), I118 (audio book), I139 (audio book), I149 (Swedish, audio book), I174 (Braille), I182 (Braille) – World of Wonders, A49, A66, F75.2, F75.3, F75.9, F75.15, F75.16, F89.1, H11 (Danish), H21 (Dutch), H31 (French), H34 (French), H45 (German), H60 (Italian), H70 (Polish), H78 (Russian), H81 (Spanish), H90 (Spanish), H99 (Swedish), I31 (audio book), I37-I38 (audio book), I42 (audio book), I49 (audio book), I58 (audio book), I84 (Swedish, audio book), I92 (Danish, audio book), I132 (audio book), I153 (audio book), I169 (Braille): “Merlin’s Laugh” A49a; play adaptation A89, A97, E92.3, E92.5 nuclear threat, F85.11 nudity, G50.5, C57.16 nurses, G44.3. G44.4, G44.6 Oates, Joyce Carol, A52a.1, A71a, C78.5 obscenity. See censorship O’Connor, Donal, F92.2 Ogden, Karen C., A16a O’Grady, Emmett, D52.2 old age. See death and old age Oleson, Tom, F75.18 Olivier, Sir Laurence, A90, C89.4, D51.4 Ommaney, H.T., I63 “On the Dangerous Edge,” B57 O’Neill, Eugene, G53.36. See also under book reviews by Davies O’Neill, Tom, F84.2 Ontario, C42.144, C42.145 – Architectural Conservatory of Ontario, C40.5 – Art Gallery of Ontario, A49a, E88.6 – Barnum House, Grafton, C40.5 – Burlington Golf and Country Club, A49a – Campbellford, G42.24 – Canadian Club, Ottawa, D50, E50.3 – Canadian Club, Port Hope-Cobourg, D65, E65.8 – crimes, E83.3, F88.18, F95.1 – graffiti, G46.15 – Kawarthas, G50.22, G50.33, G52.27 – Kingston, C41.173, C41.174, F80.2, F82.5, F88.20, F89.1, G40.29. See also under Queen’s University – Liberal Party, G45.18 – Lindsay, G50.22 – Liquor Control Board, G48.7, G50.25 – London, G44.31 – Massey College, see separate entry – mental institutions, G53.28, G53.29, G54.3, G54.4 – Millbrook High School, Millbrook, E52.2 – National Arts Centre, Ottawa, C76.7, E76.5

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– Ontario Arts Council, B39 – Ontario Association of Architects, C60.35, E60.1 – Ontario College of Art, E68.4 – Ontario Education Association, D58, E58 – Ontario Historical Society, B58 – Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, B25, C75.4, E74.5 – “Ontario Scene,” B20 – Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, E66.1 – Ontario Teachers’ Federation, C75.4 – Ontario Welfare Council, D66.1, E66.2 – Ottawa, C42.148, G56.15 – Owen Sound, G53.38 – Paris, G56.30 – Peterborough, on: B19, E44.1, F63.4, F88.2, G44.25, G45.31, G46.17, G47.14, G47.15, G48.19, G49.6, G49.15, G49.17, G50.22, G50.33, G51.4, G51.10, G51.22, G52.3, G53.18, G53.30, G56.9, G57.36; citizen of the year, E53.1; Coventry Nativity Play, G53.37; DVA hospital fire, C46.90; Kawartha Club, E44.3; library, E80.9; painting exhibition, C45.38, C45.89; Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School, C48.24, C50.35, C53.59; Peterborough County Board of Education, C76.5; Peterborough Examiner, Davies working at, A3, A4a, A4a.1, A8a, A27, B1, C68.2, C69.1, C73.6, D57.3, D80.2, F61, F75.8, F80.6, F82.5, F89.1, G46.8, G50.35, G52.12, G52.25, G54.8, G54.11, G54.22, G56.23; Souvenir Edition Examiner for the Annual Christmas Party, B1; Peterborough: Land of Shining Waters, B19; Peterborough Theatre Guild: The First Thirty Years, B73; Rotary Club, D55.1, E55.2; sewage plant, C48.54, C48.57-C48.60; Thomas A. Stewart and Auburn Vocational Schools, E67.8. See also under theatres, theatrical companies and organizations, and festivals – Port Hope, Trinity College School, E71.6 – Queen’s Park, C82.4 – schoolrooms, C40.13, C40.14 – Renfrew, F85.9, F86.2 – Society of Industrial Accountants of Ontario, E72.4 – Thamesville, F05 – theatre, B58, C86.3, G47.19, G55.9 – Toronto, see separate entry – Victorian Studies Association of Ontario, E81.1 opera, A97, B41, C41.345, C44.80, C46.51, C49.12, C53.9, C53.47, C55.10, C55.19, C60.10, C61.1, C66.11, C94.3, F90.5, G42.20, G47.16, G51.4, G53.30, G55.6, I23 – Bradshaw, Richard, A91, J08.1 – Brecht, Bertolt (The Threepenny Opera), C61.43 – British opera on the radio, C42.20 – Britten, Benjamin, C46.53 (Peter Grimes) – Calvé, Emma, A55, C42.29 – Canadian Opera Company, A91, B76, E63.4, E64.6, E65.3, E67.3-E67.6

– Canadian Opera Guild, E78.8 – Carmen Jones, C46.19 – Cassel, Walter, C59.25 – castrati, C56.50 – CBC opera, C42.33, C43.80 – Dr. Canon’s Cure, A90, A95, B41, D82.2, F82.3; “A Conversation about Dr. Canon’s Cure,” A90, C82.3 – Dusseau, Jeanne, C41.293 – Ferrier, Kathleen, C50.6 – Forrester, Maureen, D88.4 – Gay, John (The Beggar’s Opera), C41.91 – Gilbert and Sullivan, C41.327, C45.51, C53.11 (Iolanthe), C85.1 – The Golden Ass: A Libretto, A91, A95, B76, J08.1 – Hoffman, E.T.A., A71, C54.60, F89.8 – Johnson, Edward B47 (Edward Johnson Music Foundation), D73, G50.1, G50.16, G59.5; “Speech for the Guelph Spring Festival: Jon Vickers Concert,” A52a, D73, E73.2 – Kipnis, Alexander, C45.90 – Letourneau, Jean, C45.91 – Marshall, Lois, C60.47 – Maynor, Dorothy, C52.2 – Mazzoleni, Ettore, D49.1 – Melba, Nellie, A55, C62.30 – Melchior, Lauritz, C49.57 – Metropolitan Opera Company, ny, G52.10 – Metropolitan Opera House, radio broadcasts, ny, C41.6 – Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, E78.8 (Don Giovanni) – Opera and Humour, A73, A90, A97, E91.3 – “Opera for the Man Who Reads Hamlet,” A90, E89.2 – oratorio. See Jezebel: The Golden Tale of Naboth and His Vineyard, and of King Ahab and His Wicked Queen – Pears, Peter, A73 – Puccini, Giacomo, C65.8 and E63.4 (La Bohème) – Rossini, Gioachino, C58.24, C93.1 (Le Comte Ory) – Rubes, Jan, C54.54 – Salzburg, C65.9, C66.13, C66.14 – “Scottish Folklore and Opera,” A90, E92.4 – Simoneau, Léopold, C52.26 – Smetana, Bedrmich, G47.16 (The Bartered Bride) – St. Louis Opera Festival, E89.4, E92.4 – Strauss, Richard (Ariadne auf Naxos), F89.1 – Sutherland, Joan, C61.62 – Tetrazzini, Luisa, G40.50 – Verdi, Giuseppe, A90 and C92.2 (Rigoletto), E64.6 (La Traviata) – Vickers, Jon, D73 – Wagner, Richard, C40.20. See also under book reviews by Davies – Watson, Jean, C46.72 – “What the Opera Is About,” B41 – “When Is Opera Really Grand?” A90, C94.3



optimism, C44.30 Ormsby, G.Y., A11a ornithology, C49.25 Orr, Lord Boyd, G50.8 Osgoode Hall Legal and Literary Society, E61.8 Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, A69a Osler, Sir William, A17, G49.11 Osmun, Lindsay, J09 Ouida (“Ouida’s Books”), A55, C45.43 Overskou, Thomas, A38, F86.1, F88.12 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, B77, B78, F93.4 Paddon, David, F94.14 Paddy, Victor, F88.11 Paikeday, Thomas M., C87.6 painting. See under art Palagia, Olga, B62 “The Palest Ink,” A55, C56.12 Palinurus. See Connolly, Cyril under book reviews by Davies Pankhurst, Sylvia, G60.4 Panneton, Philippe. See Ringuet under book reviews by Davies Paracelsus, F82.6 Paré, Ambroise, C40.12 Park, Sam, I9 Parker, Brian, A43 Parkin, Andrew, A43 Parlow French, Maida. See French, Maida Parlow under book reviews by Davies parole. See prisons Parr, Thomas, C40.77 Parton, Lorne, F75.14 Pascal, Gabriel, C41.271, C41.285 patent medicines, G51.14 Paterson, John, F51 Patterson, Tom, B45 Paulson, Ingrid, A91 Pawagi, Manjusha, D88.3, F88.18 Payne, Elizabeth, F94.10 peace, G45.5, G45.32 Peacock, Shane, J95.1 Peake, Mervyn, F82.4. See also under book reviews by Davies Pearsall Smith, Logan. See Smith, Logan Pearsall under book reviews by Davies The Peeled Eye: An Author in Canada, B47 Pelagius, G57.1 Peleschak, Michael, I146 Pendragon Ink, A89a, A90a, A91, A92 Penfold, Telford, A18 Penman, Margaret, F89.1 penmanship, C42.135, C55.43-C55.44 (italic), C56.9-C56.10 (italic), C60.30, G40.69, G53.23, G55.48, G62.4 Pennell, Joseph, C43.36

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Pennell, Nicholas, J95.2 Penner, Joe, C41.19 Penner, Philip, A2, A5a Pennington, Earl, I13 Penrose, William, C46.21 Perkyns, Richard (Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 19341984), B42 Perry, Frank, I142 The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose, A16b Peterman, Michael, F89.5, J01.3 Peters, Randolph, A91, B76 Peterson, Leslie, F81.8, F85.5, F85.10 Pettigrew, John, B45 Petulengro, Xavier, G57.10 Phillips, Robin, J82.1 philosophy of life. See meaning of life photography, C42.43, C53.2, G40.54 physicians, A96, C45.33, C62.6, C85.5, E84.7, G53.23 Pickett Chevalier, Elizabeth. See Chevalier, Elizabeth Pickett under book reviews by Davies Pierce, Lorne, G61.8. See also under book reviews by Davies Plato, C46.45. See also under book reviews by Davies plays and theatre, B2, B12, B34, B40, C41.39, C41.58, C41.80, C41.194, C41.230, C41.280 (“Sonny Boy”), C41.337 (“The Student Prince”), C42.32, C48.6, C48.16, C50.15, C66.6, C67.4, C72.1, E44.4, E60.3, E61.6, E75.11 (English), F64.3, I4, I7, F67.1, F80.5, F81.9, F89.10, F90.2, F93.4, G44.42, G47.17, G48.1, G48.16, G52.11, G55.3, G55.21, I134, J85. See also under theatres, theatrical companies and organizations, and festivals; and names of individual playwrights and actors – “Alchemy in the Theatre,” A90, A97, C94.5 – amateur, C48.6 – American, C46.60, C41.52 (vaudeville), C42.84, C58.2 – British, B28, C57.2, C58.2, C70.2, C72.7, C75.11 – Canadian, B27, B38, B42, B50, B58 (Ontario), C42.129, B38, B50, C46.8, C59.71, C69.2, D49.1-2, D51.1, D92.1, E48.4, E49.1, E79.4, G44.42, G48.16, G51.2, G55.21; “A Dialogue on the State of Theatre in Canada,” A58, B2; “The Theatre: A Dialogue on the State of the Theatre in Canada,” B2; “Touring Fare in Canada 1920-35,” A58; “Tyrone Power and Dr. Thomas Guthrie in Canada,” A58, C63.2; The Well-Tempered Critic: One Man’s View of Theatre and Letters in Canada, A58, I73 (audio book); “Why Not a Canadian Drama?” A58, C44.21 – drawing-room plays, C57.60 – Faust, C65.9, E85.1 – Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre, A90a.1, A90a.2, I128 (audio book); Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts, A90a, A90b, I134 (audio book) – Jung, Carl Gustav, A52, A97, E73.1, E73.7, E77.5 – Major, Leon, A48, B20, C75.6, H28

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– medieval, C54.9 – melodrama, E81.1, I7; “Melodrama: The Silver King,” A90, A97, E93.7 – nineteenth-century plays, B28, C34.15, C54.8, C57.24, C72.7 – “On Seeing Plays,” A90, E90.4 – “Playwrights and Plays,” B28 – playwriting, directing, adjudication, A90, B28, C41.275, C41.297 (radio), C47.20, C54.9, C55.32, C58.37, C59.13, C60.50, C72.1, D48.4, D57.4, E90.4, F60, F67.1, F71.3, F72.6, F73.9, F81.1, F89.1, F89.11, F90.2, F90.4, F94.1, F94.15 (see also Tyrone Guthrie); “Directors for Canadian Theatres: 1951,” A58, C51.1 – screenplays, C61.27 plays, written by Davies – At My Heart’s Core, A9, A23, A90, B19, B42, D51.1, E51.1 – At My Heart’s Core, Overlaid, A23, I67 (audio book) – “At the Gates of the Righteous,” A6, A23a, A30 – “Begone Dull Care,” G44.8 – Brothers in the Black Art, A48, A60, A95 – The Centennial Play, B20, B21 (program), F75.2, H28 (French) – Centennial Spectacle, Ottawa, F77.2 – Children of the Moon, A90, A95, A97, B41 – “Coping with Babylon,” A6 – Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays, A6, A30, A81, A90, C49.50-C49.51, E49.2, I17 – Fortune, My Foe, A7, A30, A81, A90, C49.59 (book review written by Davies), F48, F58 – Four Favourite Plays, A30, I52 (audio book), I163 (Braille); “General Confession,” A43, F89.1; “Phantasmata,” A43; “Hope Deferred,” A6, A11b, A30, A34, A95, B38; “Hunting Stuart,” A43, A84, A90, C75.3, F75.7, J55 – Hunting Stuart & Other Plays, A43 – Le Jeu de Centenaire, B21 – A Jig for the Gypsy, A13, A95, B4 (playbill), F75.2 – “Kaleidoscope Number One,” (radio play) G44.3 – “Kaleidoscope Number Two,” (radio play) G44.4 – “Kaleidoscope Number 3,” (radio play) G44.6 – “Kaleidoscope Number 4,” (radio play) G44.7 – “The Last Chevalier: A Comedy,” A43 – Leaven of Malice, A95, C75.2, F.73.11, F75.7, F75.11 – “Love and Libel,” A12a, A84, F60, F73.9, F73.11, F75.4, F89.1, F90.3, B72, J08.1 – A Masque of Aesop, A11, A95 – A Masque for Mr Punch, A18 – Overlaid: A Comedy, A5, A6, A23, A30, A90, B35, I161 (Braille), I178 (Braille) – “A Play of Our Lord’s Nativity,” A6 – “Pontiac and the Green Man,” B33, C77.5, F77.2 – Question Time: A Play, A48, A95, C75.6, F75.2-F75.7, F89.1 – Selected Plays, A95

– Two Plays: At My Heart’s Core & Overlaid, A23b, A90 – Two Plays: Fortune, My Foe & Eros at Breakfast, A81, A90 – Two Plays: Hunting Stuart & The Voice of the People, A84, A90 – Victory Loan plays, G44.8, G45.23, G45.25 – The Voice of the People, A6, A29, A30, A84, A90 – World of Wonders (play adaptation by Elliott Hayes), D92.2, E92.2 (curtain speech about the play adaptation), E92.3, E92.5, F92.2-F92.3, I147 (CBC dramatization) “The Pleasures of an Ornate Style,” A55b, C59.47 “The Pleasures of Love,” A55, C61.63 Plimpton, George, F89.10 Plummer, Christopher, I87 Plunkett, Al, G57.4 Poe, Edgar Allan, F82.4. See also under book reviews by Davies poems, written by Davies, C28.2, C28.3, C28.4, C30, C31.2, C32.2, C47.82 “Poets Wander at Large in Canada: 1959,” A58, C59.11 Poland, democracy in and occupation of, C41.158, C42.65 Polesky, Alice, F89.7 political campaigns. See elections politics, C45.50 polling, C47.69, G53.25 Pollitt, Jerome J., B62 Poole, T.W., G56.23 Pope Pius xii, C45.55 pornography, A16, A55, A92, A96, C60.38, F72.3 Porter, McKenzie, F69 Porter, Robert, F62.2 Portman, Jamie, B45 Post, Emily, C41.172 Poulton, Ron, F63.1 poverty, G50.8 Powell, Anthony, F85.8 Powell, Marilyn, A80, J08.1 Power, Tyrone, A58, C63.2 Powys, John Cowper, A52a, B43 (Wolf Solent), B60, F85.6. See also under book reviews by Davies Praz, Mario, J94.2 Prescott, Peter, A38e, A44b.2, A44e, A49b, A49c Price, Sir John, C40.39 Priestley, J.B., A16b, A59a, C34.12, D56, G57.6, I2, I3, J02. See also under book reviews by Davies printers, apprenticeships, A60, G56.35 printers, binders, paper manufacturers, and typesetters: – A. Wheaton & Co., A44b.1; Academic, Professional & Scholarly Publishing Services Ltd., A43; Adams, Nelson, A47, A50, A83a; The Anchor Press Ltd., A49a.3; Arctech Graphics II, Inc., B62; Ashton Potter, Limited, B7; Atkins, Don, A60; – Bath Press, B66; Berryville Graphics, B57; Bickerton



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Litho, B36; BPCC Hazell Books Ltd., A69a.4; Bryant Press, B27a, B34; Butler & Tanner, Ltd., A8a.1; – C. Nicholls & Company, A38d; Camelot Press, A16b; The Chaucer Press, A49a.2, A61b, A66a, A66a.1, B28; Clarity A92a; Clays Ltd., A70b, A70c, A74a.3, A74a.5, A75a, A83a.2, A83a.3, B59, B65; Cloutier, Edmond, B2; Coach House Printing, A77, B64; Composer Typographic Services Limited, A69a; Cooper and Beatty, A8, B3a; Cox & Wyman Ltd., A68a.3, A70a, B44; Cozens, John, A7; Cromwell Leather Company, A71a.3, A74a.1; Crown Services, A5a; Cuttell Bros., B24; – D’Alessandro, Stephanie, B67; Datix International Limited, A86, B65; Diener, Arnold, A12e; Drumbolis, Nicky, A77; – Elliott, Henry, A68c; – Fairfield Graphics, A14c; Falcom Design & Communications Inc., A12e; Fletcher & Son Ltd., A49a.2; Friesen Printing, A89a, B54; – Gagne Printing Ltd., A10c.1, A12d, A14a.4; GarbeCollins Limited, B7; Garden City Press, B38; General Printers Company Limited, A29; Grand Fair Printing Inc., B68; – H. Wolff Book Mfg. Co., A38b, A44a, A44b; Haddon Craftsmen, A69a.1; Harms Graphics, B52; Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd., A25a.1, A38b.3, A44b.3, A49b, B10, B15; Henriksen, Donald M., A76, B61; Hogg, Robert, B26; Hunter & Foulis Ltd., A12a, A12a.1; Hunter Rose Co. Limited, B7, B30; – Images ’N Type Ltd., B56; Imprimerie Gagné Ltée, A65a; Inland Publishing Company Ltd., B36; – J.W. Printers, A10a; James Burn & Co., A10a.1; John Deyell Limited, A2, A6, A7, A9a, A11, A12a, A12a.1, A13, A30, A43, A55a, A69a, B3, B5a, B7, B24; – Kingsport Press, Inc., A16a, A16a.1; – Lazer Graphics, B73; Litho-Print Limited, B3, B5; Lowe and Brydone, Printers Ltd., A10a.1, A14a.2, A38b.1; – McCorquodale & Blades (Canada) Limited, B7; Macdonald-Downie Limited, B25; Maclean-Hunter, A43; Maracle Printing Company, A4a, A8a, A8a.1, A29, B7; Marc Veilleux Inc., A23b; M&H Type, B52; Morris Printers, B35; Moynes, Jon, A42; Murray, Robert, A62; – Offset Paperback Mfrs., Inc., A44b.2, A49b; – P.H. Glatfelter Paper Company, A74a.1; Page Publications Limited, B38; – Qualitype Company, 27a; – R.R. Donnelley, A68a, A68a.1, A68a.2, A71a.3, A74a.1; Richard Clay Ltd., A49a.2, A61b, A66a, A66a.1, A71a.1, A71a.6, A71b, B28; Richards, Marilyn Ann, A71c; Rowland Phototypesetting Ltd., A70a; Ruzicka, Rudolph, A16a; – S.D. Warren Paper Company, A16a; Sampson Matthews Limited, B17; The Shenval Press Ltd., A12a, A12a.1; Softprobe, A93; Speedspools, B66; St. Edmundsbury

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Press, B53; Stinehour Press, B67; Strohhacker, Hans, B18; Sunville Printco Inc., A80, A85; Sylupid, Jan, A45; – T.H. Best Printing Company Limited, A18, A25a, A35a, A44a, A71a, B6, B7, B17, B50; Thompson, Gordon, V. A11a; Transcontinental Printing Inc., A92a; Twin-Offset Limited, A29; – Wakeley, J.H., A5a; Web Offset Publications Ltd., A33b; Webcom Limited, A10c.1, A12d, A14a.4, A38d.1, A44d, A49b, A59a, A61a.3, A63a; – Zeitlin, M., A57 prisons, G45.11 (reformatories), G47.10, G51.5 (sentencing inequities), G54.1, G55.47 prizes. See awards, fellowships, and prizes “A Prologue to The Critic,” A90 propaganda, C41.306, C42.44, G40.33, G42.26 proverbs, A52, A68, A89, C55.25 pseudonyms used by Davies: Aequus Quadratusque, C31.3; Conservationist, C48.60; Cymro, A5a; Gray, Dolly, C57.38, C58.17, C58.19, C58.21, C58.22, C58.28; Harris, Joseph, C47.87; Interested, C48.58; Marchbanks, Samuel, see under general listing; Maunciple, Margery; C41.333; One of the Boys, C48.59; Phelim, A6; Pilgarlic, Amyas, C40.69, C41.61, C41.154, C41.329; Rummyng, Elynour (also as Eleanor Rumming), C40.83, C41.139, C59.27; S.M. C53.62, C55.47, C57.13, and frequently thereafter while literary editor of Saturday Night; South Ender, C48.57; Taffy, C74.6 psychiatry, F80.5. See also Freud, Sigmund and Jung, Carl Gustav psychic research, C42.172, C43.8 Public Lending Right, C59.31, C67.6, F62.2, G57.14, J83, J88.1, J93.2 public speaking, C41.319 publicity tours. See book tours publishers of Davies’s books and books to which he contributed, and general references to publishers: – The Alcuin Society, A60, B18; Aldeburgh Foundation, A73; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., A12a.2, A15, A16a, A16a.1, A66a1; Allen Lane, A61a.2; Ambassador Books, A16a.1; Americana Corporation, B16; The Arion Press, B52; ArTresor naklada, H5, H7; Associated Booksellers, B14a.1; Azbuka-klassika, H76-H79; – Bantam Books, A44d; Beaverbooks, A14c; BertelsmannClub, H43; Blackie & Sons, B5a.1; Bobbs-Merrill Co. Inc., A12a.2; The Book Society of Canada Limited, A5b, A9b, A23a.1, A29, A41, A69a, B42; Boydell Press, B53; Brighton & Co. International Ltd., H7; Broadview Press, A52a.1; – Canada Publishing Corporation, A61a.3, A66a.2, A68a, A71a, B45; The Canadian Centennial Publishing Company Limited, B17; Centerline Press, B14a.2; Le cercle du livre de France ltée, H29, H31; Charles Scribner’s Sons, A12a.2, A14a, A14a.3, A38b, A70a; Chatto & Windus, A8a.1, A10a, A12a, A12a.1, A14a.2, A25a,

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A52a.1, B44; Chogngusa, H64; Chou, Cheng, A38b.2; Chr. Erichsen, H9-H16; Chung Shan Book Co. Limited, A38b.2; Clarke Irwin (1983), A69a, B42; Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, A2, A4a, A5a, A6, A7, A8, A9a, A10a, A10c, A11, A12, A13, A14a, A14a.1, A18, A23a, A25a, A29, A30, A43, A69a, A70a, B3, B5, B7, B24, C50.28, J08.2; Clio Press, A74b.1; Collier Macmillan Publishers, B48; Collins Press, A69a.3; Collins Publishers, A49b, A69a.2, A69a.3, A69a.5; Copp Clark, A18, A33a; Curtis Books, A12c, A14b, A44c; The Curtis Publishing Company, A15; – Design House Publishing Co., H65; Deutsche BuchGemeinschaft, H43; Dodd, Mead and Co., A35; Dom Wydawniczy “Rebis,” H71-H73; Doubleday, B57; Doubleday Canada Limited, B34; Douglas Gibson Books, see Gibson, Douglas M. under editors (professional); Dundurn Press, A23b, A81, A84; – Ediouro, H75; Éditions de l’Olivier, H36-H39; Éditions du Seuil, H33, H36-H38; Éditions Mazarine, H29; Éditions Payot, H29, H32, H33, H34; Éditions Québec / Amérique, H35; Eesti Raamat, H22; Ekdoseis Kritike, H54-H57; Elisabeth Sifton Books, see Sifton, Elisabeth under editors (professional); Empúries, H3; Európa Könyvkiadó, H58; Everest House Publishers, A14a.4, A14a.5, A14c, A70a; – Farrar and Straus, A4a, A8a; Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, H48; Fitzhenry & Whiteside, A12e, B6, B39; The Folio Society (Folio 50: A Bibliography of the Folio Society 1947-1996), A72, B66; Fourth Estate Ltd., B69; Franklin Library, A71a, A71a.3, A74a.1, A83a; Free Press, B48; Fukutake Shoten, H63; – G.K. Hall & Co., A68c, A71a.4, A71c, A74b; Gage Educational Publishing Limited, B11a.1; Gage Publishing Limited, A61a; Gauntlet Press, B72; General Publishing, A5b, A9b, A38a, A43, A69a; George Allen & Unwin Ltd., B14a; George G. Harrap & Company Limited, A6, A11a, A12a; Goldmann Verlag, H43-H45; Graywolf Press, B60; Greenwood Press, B40; Grolier Incorporated, B16; Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, H66, H67; – The H.W. Wilson Company, B29; Harcourt Brace, A12a.2, B3a; Harper Collins Publishers Ltd., A69a.2, A69a.5; Harper & Row, Publishers, A14c, B28, B43a; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., B62; Hogarth Press, B44; Howard and Wyndham Company, A38b.3, A44b.3, A49a.2, A49a.3; Huang Jia, A68a; Huang kuan, H4; – Irish University Press, B26; Irwin Publishing, A5b, A9b, A10c.1, A12d, A23a.1, A29, A67, A68a, A69a, A69a.1, A69a.2, A70a, B42; Isis Publishing Limited, A74b.1; – J. Garnet Miller Ltd., B5a.1; J.M. Dent & Sons (Canada) Ltd., B6; J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., A1a, A1a.2, A2, A93; Javier Vergara Editor, H80-H85; Jonathan Cape, A16b; José Olympio Editora, H74; – Kelmscott Press, A77; Key Porter Books, B56; Königs-

hausen + Neumann, B46; Kunstannusosakeyhtiö Tammi, H25, H26, H27; – Lege Artis, H1; Leméac Éditeur, H40, H41; Lester & Orpen Dennys, B39; Libros del Asteroide, H2, H88H94; Little, Brown, A55b; London Limited Editions, A71a.1, A74a.4; Longanesi & C., H59; – McClelland & Stewart Limited, A16a, A16a.1, A16a.2, A25, A33, A35, A55a, A58, A65a.1, A69, A74a, A76, A78, A83a, A88, A89a, A89a.1, A90a, A91, A92a, A93, A94, B10, B15, B27a, B54, B69, B74, F91.1; McMaster University Library Press, B26; Macmillan and Co. Ltd. (London), A14a.2, A38a, A38b.1, A44b.1, A49a.2, A70a; Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, A4a, A8a, A14a, A14a.1, A14a.3, A14b, A16a.1, A18, A33a, A38a, A38b.2, A38d, A40, A44a, A44b, A44b.1, A44c, A44d, A48, A49a, A49b, A52a, A52a.1, A55a, A55a.1, A60, A61a, A63a, A65a, A66a.1, A66a.2, A68a, A68a.1, A68b, A69a, A71a, A71a.3, A74a, A80, A88, B18, B31, B45, F91.1, G40.51; Macmillan Publishing Company, B48; Methuen & Co. Ltd., B28, B59; Mornum Time Press, B75a; – National News Company, D52.2; New American Library, A38c, A44d; New Press, A43; – Odeon, H6; Ontario College of Art Press, A62; Omnium Publishing, B66; Oxford University Press, A2, A18, B50, B77, B78; – Pan stwowy Institut Wydawniczy, H68-H70; Paul Neff Verlag, H42; Paul Zsolnay Verlag, H43-H47; Pax, H68; Penguin Books, A10c.1, A10c.2, A10c, A12d, A12f, A14a.3, A14a.4, A14a.5, A14d, A16c, A38d, A38e, A38f, A49b, A52a.2, A61a.2, A61a.4, A61b, A61c, A63a, A62a.2, A66, A66a.1, A66a.2, A68a.2, A68a.3, A70, A71a.5, A71a.7, A71b, A71d, A74a.5, A75a, A75b, A83a.2, A83a.3, A86, A87, A89a.2, A90a.1, A90a.2, A92a.2, B65, C56.31; Penguin Books Canada Limited, A14a.4, A14d, A16a.2, A38d, A38d.1, A38e, A38g, A44d, A44e, A44f, A49c, A49d, A52a.2, A55b.1, A59, A61a.3, A63a, A63a.2, A63a.3, A66a.2, A68b, A68d, A69a.4, A70a, A70a.1, A70b, A74a, A74a.5, A74a.6, A74c, A74d, A75b, A83b, A89b, A90b, Penguin Books Ltd. (UK), A14a.4, A66a, A70a, A70a.1, A70b; Penguin Books USA Inc., A14a.5, A16c, A38c, A38d.2, A44b.2, A52a.2, A55b.1, A61a.4, A66b, A70b.1, A71a.1, A71a.7, A83a.4, A83d; Penguin Canada, A38g, A44f, A49d, A59c, A61c, A70a, A70a.1, A70b, A90b, A95, A96, A97; Penguin Group, A74a.3, A74a.5, A75a; Penguin USA, A71a.1, A74a.6, A87, A90a.1; Pierre Tisseyre, H30; Pocket Books, A12a.2; Poole House Press, A40b, A82; Popular Library, A44c; The Porcupine’s Quill, Inc., B49; – Random House, A16a.1, B3a, B43a.1; Reed International, Octopus Group, A74a.3; Rinehart & Company, A8a, A10b, A12a, B3a; Rivages, H29, H32, H33, H34; Routledge, B70; Russell & Russell Inc., A1a.2; Ryerson Press, A18, G54.12;



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– Samuel French (Canada) Limited, A5a, A6, A23; Secker & Warburg, A16b, A49a.2; Simon & Pierre, A23b, A81, A84, B27a.1; Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd., A74a.1, A74a.3; Springbank Press, A79; St. Martin’s Press, B69; Stoddart Publishing, A10c.1, A12d, A69a, A69a.2; Storytellers Ink, A88; The Symposium Press, B63; Szekszárdi Ny., H58; – T.Y. Crowell Company, A14c; Totem Press, A49b, A69a.2, A69a.3, A69a.5; Tundra Books, A88; – Ugo Guanda Editore, H60-H62; Uitgeverij Contact, H19, H20, H21; University of Toronto Press, A65, B5a, B7, B9, B12, B19, B30, B49, B58; University of Utah Press, A76, B61; The University of Washington Press, B67; – Vaba Maa, H22; Varrak, H23, H24; Viking Penguin Inc. A16c, A38d, A52a.1, A52a.2, A61a.1, A66a.2, A66b, A68a, A68a.1, A69a.1, A71a, A71a.4, A75b, A83a.1, A89a.1, A90a.1, A92a.1; Viking Press, A1a, A16a.3, A37a, A38b, A38b.1, A38c, A44a, A44b, A44b.1, A44c, A44d, A49a.1, A52a.1, A55b, A61a, A61a.1, A63a.1, A68a.1, A69a.1, A71a, A71a.1, A71a.4, A74a, A74a.2, A83a.1, A83a.2, A89a.1, A90a.1; Viking Press (UK), A68a.1; Vintage Books, B43a.1; – W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd., A38b.3, A44b.3, A49a.2, A49a.3; W.J. Gage Limited, B11a, B13; Wahlström & Widstrand, H95-H102; Weidenfeld and Nicolson, A14a.2, A38b.1; Wheeler Publishing, Inc., A83c; William Salloch Books, A1a.1, A1a.2; Wolfgang Krüger Verlag, H49-H53; – Zuid-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, H17 Publishers Weekly, A38b publishing, F73.7 publishing, people in. See editors (professional), managerial, promotion, and production staff of publishers Punch, C40.3, C40.78, C41.187, C51.3, G55.25. See also under book reviews by Davies; and under A Masque for Mr Punch under plays, written by Davies Punch and Judy shows, A18, C51.3, G47.20 Puncher, Jennifer, I15 Purcell, Gil, J08.1 Purdy, Al, D75.1 Purves-Smith, Peter, J94.2 Putnam, Jean Marie C. See Logan, Harry B. under book reviews by Davies Pylypiw, Peter, D51.3 Quartermain, Peter, A60 Quayle, Anthony, D51.4 Quebec, C90.3, F77.3, F89.1, F94.19, G44.39, G45.22, G46.11, G52.22 – Montreal, C78.3, F94.14; Canadian Women’s Press Club (Montreal branch), B8; Les Compagnons de St. Laurent, G52.13; Men’s Press Club, B8; Repertory Theatre, A5a, B38; Women’s Club, E49.3

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Queen’s University, A82, C41.173, C42.90, C62.32, D54.1, E44.2, E62.3, E80.4-E80.6, F80.1, F88.20, G51.12, J10; Alma Mater Society, D49.2, E49.1; Brockington Lecture, C80.4, E80.2; John Watson Hall, A69a; Wallace, R.C., A58, C55.7 Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, G44.10 The Quotable Robertson Davies: The Wit and Wisdom of the Master, A94 Rabelais, François, A17, G50.28, I23. See also under book reviews by Davies Raby, Peter, B24 Rach, Lynne, D66.3 Rae, Arlene Perly, F94.11 Rae, Bob, D92.3, F94.11 Rahmel, Fern, C04, F93.2 Rain, Douglas, I143, I147 Rakoff, Vivian, B30, F89.1 Ramer, Henry, I51, I143, I147 Rampton, David, C87.1 Rasky, Frank, F75.4 Rasky, Harry, I11 rationing in wartime, C42.37, C43.31 (eating), G42.9 Rattray Taylor, G. See Taylor, G. Rattray under book reviews by Davies Ravel, Aviva, D67.5 Ray, Margaret V., C48.63 reading (pleasure in, discernment), A16, C48.43, C54.12, C57.49, C57.53, C61.6, C81.3, D48.3, D61.1, D67.2, D89.1, E44.4, E80.10, F73.2, F81.4, F89.1, F89.12, F91.3, G50.12, G55.43, G57.13; novels, C58.10; poetry, C42.60; “Reading,” A76, A89, E91.1; Reading and Writing, A76, B61, H40 (French); Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading, A96; “Too Much, Too Fast,” A55, C62.31; what and how freshmen should read, C34.5, C34.13 Ready, William B., B26 Reagan, Ronald, F88.2 Red Cross, C40.51, G43.26 Reddan, Gerald, B52 “Reflections from the Golden Age,” B62 Regensdorf, Phil, I130 Rehak, Peter, F75.11 Reid, Bill, F80.2 Reid, Gilbert, I15 Reid, Robert, F88.22 religion, C31.4, C41.251, C41.264, C46.81 and C55.21 (Robert Graves), C87.1, C90.2 (schools), B48, D86.4, F59, F71.2, F74.2, F79.1, F81.5, F87.2, F89.1, F89.10, G54.11, G55.37, G56.22, I25. See also Bible; churches and faiths; Devil; evil, problem of; God Rendell, Ruth, A71a.1, J89.3 retirement, A55b, C82.1, F89.1 Revels: History of Drama in English (vol. vi, 1750-1880), B28

490

Rex, Kay, B8 Reynolds, Reginald, A58, C53.37. See also under book reviews by Davies Rhys, Captain Horton (A Theatrical Trip for a Wager! Through Canada and the United States), B18 ribaldry, C48.88, C53.44, C57.8 Rich, Norman, I10 Richards, Stanley, A5a Richardson, G.P., A65a Richardson, Michael, A52a, I148 Riches, Hester, F94.8 Richler, Mordecai, A80, F88.12 Richler, Noah, F88.5 Richmond, John, F70.4 Riddell, Beatrice, F63.2 Ridley, M. Roy, A1a Ridout, Michael, A78 Ritchie, Charles, J94.3 Rittenhouse, Charles, A5a Roberts, B.A., A12a Robertson Davies in His Own Words, I15 Robertson Davies: Man of Myth. See Grant, Judith Skelton Robertson Davies (National Public Radio), I27 Robertson Davies Reads from His Work, I20 Robertson Davies (video, CityTV), I14 Robertson Davies (video, Literati series), I13 Robertson Davies with Edward Blishen, I9 Robertson, Graham, C53.57 Robertson, Rae, C45.10 Robertson, T.W. (Caste), B22 Robey, George, G54.25 Robinson, Edwin Arlington, B53 Robinson, Judy, F79.2 Robins, John D., C48.63, G52.30 Robson, John M., A65a Rolfsen, Hans Peter, H13, I111 Rooke, Constance (Writing Away: The PEN Canada Travel Anthology), B69 Roosevelt, Franklin D., C41.191, G40.77 Roper, Gordon, A25a.1, A43, A44a, A44α, A49a, A80, A44α, F89.1 Rorty, Richard, B61 Rose, Richard, A10 Rosenbaum, Lisa, H32, H33, H34, H36-38 Rosenberg, Asger, I86, I91, I92 Ross, Alexander, F72.1 Ross, Malcolm, A16a.2, A25a, A33, A35a.1, A55a, A74a, A74a.2, B10. See also under book reviews by Davies Ross, Val, A86, D92.3, F91.4, F94.9, J08.1 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, C49.53 Rossini, Gioachino, C58.24, C93.1 (Le Comte Ory) Rostand, Edmond (Cyrano de Bergerac), A58, C53.59, E62.9, C62.36

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Rothmans, B23 Rotstein, Abraham (Beyond Industrial Growth), B30 Roy, James A., C73.10. See also under book reviews by Davies Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, A62, C73.8, E73.9 Royal Canadian Air Force, G42.4 Royal Canadian College of Organists, D61.5, E61.7 Royal Canadian Mounted Police, G50.32 Royal Commission on Book Publishing, F73.7 Royal Commission Studies: A Selection of Essays Prepared for the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences, B2, G49.2, G61.16 royal family. See monarchy Royal Military College, E80.3 Royal Society of Canada, B28, C71.1, C75.1, E71.2, E75.1 Roycroft movement, C48.27 Ruark, Robert C., A12a.2. See also under book reviews by Davies Rubes, Jan, C54.54 Rubin, Don, B38 Ruczenczyn, Oksana, A80 Ruggeri, Ruggero, G53.26 Rushdie, Salman, F90.3, I12 Ruskin, John, C55.12 Russell, Bertrand, G40.15. See also under book reviews by Davies Russell, Catherine L., F82.2 Russia, C42.89, C44.19, C44.92, C47.43, C48.4, F89.7, G42.5, G43.21; and Hitler, C41.277; poetry of, C44.86; war effort in, C42.22 Rutledge Carroll, Leone. See Carroll, Leone Rutledge under book reviews by Davies Ryan, H.R.S., C69.4 Sabin, Stefana, H48 Saddlemyer, Ann. See under Massey College, staff Sadler, Filmore, G53.41 Sadlier, Michael, A7, A9a Salter, Andrew, C42.8 Saltzberg, Paula Brook, C76.7 Salutin, Rick, E86.8 Salzburg, C65.6, C65.7, C65.9, C66.13, C66.14 Samples, Mac, I94, I99, I116, I120 Samples, William, I117 Samuel Marchbanks’ Almanack. See Marchbanks’ Almanack under Marchbanks, Samuel Sandwell, B.K., A58, B6 (The Diversions of Duchesstown and Other Essays), C54.57, G54.9. See also under book reviews by Davies Sanoff, Alvin P., F89.3 Santa Claus. See Christmas under days of the year, special Sarg, Tony, A55, C42.74 Saul, John Ralston, F89.9, J88.2 Savinel, Christine, H37



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Saywell, John T., C69.4. See also under book reviews by Davies Scandinavia, F86.5, F88.23 Scanlan, Larry, F82.5, F85.2, F86.7 Scarlett, F.P., D57.2 scepticism, C49.35 Schatzky, David, F75.6 Schiller, Friedrich, C41.148 (Die Jungfrau Von Orleans) Schneider, Patti, A69a Schratt, Kathi, G40.38 Schull, Helen Gougeon, B8 Schull, Joseph, B20 Schultz, Albert, A90a science, C45.83 (novels), C47.53, C48.7 science fiction, C53.34, C62.16 Scobie, Stephen, B46 Scotland. See under Britain Scott, Desmond, I31, I88, I89, I145 Scott, Frank, I2 Scott, MaryLynn, F86-87 Scott, Patrick, A44a, F73.4 Scott, Sir Walter, C62.10 “Scraps and Morsels,” A55, C60.41 Scrivens, David, I69, I78 Searle, Ronald, C54.55 Seasongood, Edna, I65 seasons of the year: spring, C51.30-C51.31; winter, A38a, C44.32, C44.101, C46.5, C47.6 (fiction), C47.15, C47.21, C47.23, C47.84, C48.21, C50.37, C51.7, J08.1 Seidner, Eva, F87.2 Sennett, Dorothy (Vital Signs: International Stories on Aging), B60 Service, Robert, G58.9 sex, C48.20, C54.25, C55.3, C59.6, C59.48, C81.4 (Shakespeare), F81.5, F86.2, G48.22 Shakespeare, William, A17, B13, B24, B55, C23, C40.70, C41.104, C41.151, C44.1, C53.35, C54.9, C54.12, C55.27, C56.24, C57.5, C59.55 (medicine), C60.18, C60.33, C64.3C64.4, C65.3, C79.3, C81.4, C87.7, C89.2, D51.4, D60.1, D61.5, D62.2, D64.5, D66.2, E44.2, E60.2, E62.6, E62.8, E62.10, E63.1-E63.3, E64.2, E64.5, E65.3-E64.5, E66.3E66.5, E67.3, E67.4, E67.6, E75.3, F89.5, G40.37, G40.48, G46.23, G52.5, G57.12, I1. See also under book reviews by Davies – All’s Well That Ends Well, A58, C53.38 – Antony and Cleopatra, C67.7, D51.4, E67.6 – The Comedy of Errors, C63.3, D63.1, E63.1 – Coriolanus, A58, C61.32 – Henry iv, E65.4, E64.5 – Henry v, A58, C46.66, E66.3 – Henry vi, A58, C41.148, C66.3, E66.4 – Henry viii, A58, C61.32 – Julius Caesar, E65.3 – King Lear, A58, C64.6, D64.5, E64.5

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– Love’s Labour’s Lost, A58, C61.32 – Macbeth, B55, C56.14, C62.33, D90, E62.5, G55.26, G62.2 – Measure for Measure, A58, C54.36 – The Merry Wives of Windsor, A58, C67.5, D51.4, E67.4, F52, F58, F89.5, F90.4 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, B24 – Othello, C59.42 – Richard ii, A58, C56.46, C64.6, E64.2 – Richard iii, A58, C53.38, C67.5, E67.3 – Shakespeare for Young Players: A Junior Course, A2, I160 (Braille) – “Shakespeare Over the Port,” A55, B11, E60.2 – Shakespeare’s Boy Actors, A1; “The Influence of the BoyActor on Shakespeare’s Dramatic Technique,” A1a – The Taming of the Shrew, A58, C54.36, C62.33, E62.6 – The Tempest, C62.33, E62.8, E82.7 – Timon of Athens, D63.2, E63.2 – Troilus and Cressida, C63.3, D63.3, E63.3 – Twelfth Night, A58, C41.7, C66.3, D66.2, E66.5 Shapiro, Larry, I13 Shaw, George Bernard, A55, B67, C41.32 (on Ireland), C41.151, C41.285 (film of Major Barbara), C43.13-C43.14, C46.49, C49.54, C49.63, C51.20, C53.3, C53.62, C56.47, C57.24, C59.56, C61.9 (Saint Joan), C71.4, C73.9, C74.3, C75.7, C75.8, C78.8, C88.6, C91.4, D51.4, F88.18, J92.2, G40.61, G40.89, G49.4. See also under book reviews by Davies Shaw, James Channing (The Quotable Robertson Davies: The Wit and Wisdom of the Master), A94 Shaw, James M., C91.3 Shaw, Martin, G40.10 Sheridan, Richard. See “A Prologue to The Critic” Sherwood, Robert, C40.51, G40.57 Showalter, Harry, A64, B3a, B45 Shugar, David, G46.19 Shypula, Brian, D92.2 Sidnell, Michael, B40 Sidney, Sir Philip, C41.273 Sillitoe, Alan, A49a.3, A61b, A66a, A66b Simmonds, David, F75.1 Simoneau, Léopold, C52.26 Simpson, Leo, F75.12 Sinclair, Lister, A7 Singer, Isaac, F85.8 Sisson, C.J., B11 Sitwell, Sacheverell, J94.4. See also under book reviews by Davies Sjöberg, Sven, I151 Skinner, Otis, C42.15 Slaght, Arthur, G45.5 Slopen, Beverley, A68a.1, A74a, F75.11, F91.1, F94.3 Smallbridge, John E., A4a

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Smith, A.J.M., A14a, B9. See also under book reviews by Davies Smith, Ernest Bramah. See Bramah, Ernest Smith, John Saumarez, B66, J14 Smith, Logan Pearsall, C46.29. See also under book reviews by Davies Smith, Lyndon, E52.1 Smith, Mabel, B73 Smith, Norman, D61.4 Smith, Nowell C., A55, C54.16 Smith, Percy, B13 Smith, Stephen, A84, F94.4, F94.12 Snowland, C.P., F67.2 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, B30 socialism, F81.4, F88.17 Solecki, Sam, F89.5, J98.1 Soles, Paul, F89.1 Solomon Islands, C43.11 Sommerville, Bill, I4 Sorel, Guy, I39 South Africa, G50.9 Southern, Richard, B28 Spadoni, Carl, J08.2 Spain, C42.171, C45.7, G45.27 Speaight, Robert, A7, I17. See also under book reviews by Davies speeches by Davies (see also convocation addresses; lectureships), C62.25, C63.1, C67.9, C67.10, C70.5, C71.1, C72.5, C72.9, C74.2, C76.3, C76.7, C77.3, C78.4, C83.4, C93.2; – “¿Aca nada?” C88.5, E88.4; “An Allegory of the Physician,” A90, E84.7, A96; “Art and the Cult of the Amateur,” A62, C73.8, E73.9; – “Ben Jonson and Alchemy,” B26, E69.2; – “Can a Doctor Be a Humanist?” A89, A96, C85.5, E84.8, I8; “The Canada of Myth and Reality,” A52, A97, C77.3, E77.2; “A Canadian Author,” A89, A97, C87.5, E87.1; “Canadian Nationalism in Arts and Science,” A58, C75.1, E76.3; A Celebration of Ben Jonson: Papers Presented at the University of Toronto in October 1972, A44α; “Changing Fashions in Shakespearian Production,” B13, D62.2, E62.10; “The Charlottetown Prologue,” E64.8; “The Conscience of the Writer,” A52, A97, E68.1; “Curiosity, That’s the Secret,” C74.7, H18 (Dutch); – Delusions of Literacy C78.9, E78.2, I19; “The Devil’s Burning Throne,” A52, B32, E76.7; The Dignity of Literature, A85; – An Emerging North American Culture, B64, D92.3; – “Fiction of the Future,” A89, A97, D95, E94.3, E95.1, E95.2; “Folk-Song: A Lost World of Archetypes,” A90; “The Funny Professor,” A52, E71.1; – “Gleams and Glooms,” A52, A96, B32, E76.9; – “Ham and Tongue,” A52, A97, E77.3; “Honouring Mavis Gallant,” A89, E93.9; “How the Author Reaches

His Public,” E72.1; “How to Design a Haunted House,” A52, A97, C60.35; “How to Look at Pictures,” E43; – “Insanity and Literature,” A52, A97, E76.1, E77.1; – “Jung and the Theatre,” A52, A97, E73.1, E73.7, E77.5; – Leacock as a Literary Artist,” A37, A58, C71.2, E70.7; “Lewis Carroll in the Theatre,” A90, A97, C94.6, E94.2; Literature and Medicine, A17, E62.1, C62.37; “Literature and Moral Purpose,” A89, A96, C90.5, E90.3, I24; “Literature and Technology,” A89, A96, E89.10; “Literature in a Country without a Mythology,” A89, A97, C88.5, E88.4; “The Lost Lady,” A65; – “Masks of Satan,” A5a, A96, B32, E76.8-E76.10; The Mirror of Nature, A65, I7; “Mixed Grill: Touring Fare in Canada, 1920-1935,” B40, E79.4; “My Cue Is Villainous Melancholy,” A65; “My Early Literary Life,” A89, A97, C88.3, E88.1; “The Mysterious Partnership,” B61 – “The Noble Greeks,” A90, E93.8; “The Novelist and Magic,” A89, A97, E89.9; – “Oblivion’s Balm,” A65; On Being a Professional, A62; One Half of Robertson Davies, A52, C78.5, H8 (Czech, selections), I45 (audio book), I46 (audio book); – “Painting, Fiction, and Faking,” A89, A96; “The Peeled Eye,” A89, E86.3, E93.12; “The Personal Art,” D61.1-3, E61.1, E61.3-4; “Phantasmagoria and Dream Grotto,” A52, A96, B32, E76.8; “Preaching Selfishness,” A52; – “A Rake at Reading,” A89, A96, C81.3, E80.10; “Reading,” A76, A89, B61, E91.1; Reading and Writing, A76, B61, H40 (French); A Return to Rhetoric, A82, C80.4, E80.2 – “Shakespeare over the Port,” A55, B11, E60.2; “Sir Ernest MacMillan,” A52, C73.5; “Some Thoughts on the Present State of Canadian Literature,” E71.2; “Speech for the Guelph Spring Festival: Jon Vickers Concert,” A52a, D73, E73.2; “Stephen Leacock,” B9, B16, E57.1; – “The Theatre,” B12; Thirty Years at Stratford, A64, D82.3, E82.2; “Thunder without Rain,” A52, A96, B32, E76.10; – “An Unlikely Masterpiece,” A89, A96, E93.14; – “The Value of a Coherent Notion of Culture,” A90, A97, B64, E92.6; “A View in Winter: Creativity in Old Age,” A89, A97, E93.13; – “What Every Girl Should Know,” A52, A97, E73.5; “What May Canada Expect from Her Writers?” A52, A97, C72.9, E72.4; “World of Wonders” (speech at Stratford Avon Theatre about the play adaptation), A89, A97, E92.3, E92.5; “Writing,” A76, A89, B61, E91.2 Speirs, Rosemary, C79.6 spelling, C42.92, G55.36 Spencer, Geoffrey, B18 Spencer, Platt, G55.48 Spettigue, D.O., A12e spring. See seasons of the year Spring Thaw, C58.12, C61.16, C62.17 Springfield, Ruth, I142



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Srebotnjak, Tina, I16 St. David, C41.55, G57.1 St. George of England, G40.39 St. George Saunders, Hilary. See Saunders, Hilary St. George under book reviews by Davies St. Laurent, Louis, G53.24 St. Lawrence River, C42.135, C42.174 St. Nicholas, C40.57, C40.93 St. Paul, C60.24 St. Stephen the Martyr, C40.93 Staines, David, B10a.1, B74. See also under book reviews by Davies Stalin, G42.7 Stall, Robert, D67.1 Stanley, G.F.G., C74.8 Stanzel, Franz K., B46 Stark, Tamara, D89.2 Starr, Mary, A19, A28 Steele, Timothy, B63 Stein, Gertrude, G46.7. See also under book reviews by Davies Stekel, Wilhelm, G40.86 Stephen, Alan G., A11a, A18 Stevens, John, A5a Stevenson, Robert Louis, A17. See also under book reviews by Davies Stewart, Reginald, C41.178, C41.235 Stewart, Tim and Naline, E69.1 Stoler, Peter, F85.7 Stone, James A., A11a Stone, Ted, A63a, C76.10 Stone-Blackburn, Susan, A34, J85 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, G51.17 Straiton, Eileen, D57.2 Stratford Festival Theatre. See under theatres, theatrical companies and organizations, and festivals Strindberg, August (The Dance of Death), E66.6 Ström, Sture, I157 Strouse, Jean, F82.1 Struthers, J.R. (Tim), A63a Struthers, Jan, G53.26 Stuart, Mary Alice, B68 Stuart-Stubbs, Basil, B18 Sturak, Clara, B63 suicide, A10a.1, C45.17, C51.27, F88.7, F96.1 Sullivan, Kevin, I7 Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, G43.17 Summers, (Augustus) Montague, B78, F93.4 Superman, C41.57, C41.149, C41.191, C42.161 supernatural (forces, etc.), C53.34, C55.4, C56.34 superstition, C78.10, F76.3, F79.1, F85.8, F87.2, F94.15, F95.3 Surridge, Jennifer (daughter), A83d, A86, A89a, A90, A91, A92a, A95, A96, A97, J01.1

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Sutherland, Arthur, A7, A81 Sutherland Bonnel, John. See Bonnel, John Sutherland under book reviews by Davies Sutherland, Fraser, B6 Sutherland, Jean, B11a Sutton, Susan, F85.8 Swanson, Stevenson, F89.8 Swedenborg, Emanuel, F91.5 Sweeney, John L., A55, C57.16 Sweezey, Eleanor, J94.2, J08.1 Swinton, W.E., A39 Sylvestre, Guy, A16a Sypnovich, Peter, A38b, F71.1 Tagore, Sir Rabindranath, C41.216 Tannenbaum, Jerry, A14a Tanner, Obert Clark, B61 Tanner Lectures on Human Values. See Yale University under lectureships Tappan Wright, Austin. See Wright, Austin Tappan Tasker Howard, John. See Howard, John Tasker under book reviews by Davies Taylor, Charles, B30 Taylor, Laurette, G46.22 Taylor, Samuel A. (Sabrina Fair, play), C55.29 tea, C44.52, G53.25 teaching, C41.299, C62.23, F80.4, F90.3 telephone, invention of, G47.4 Temple, Shirley, G40.72 Temple, Steven, A77 Tennyson, Alfred Lord, B42.154 Tennyson Jesse, F. See Jesse, F. Tennyson under book reviews by Davies Terkel, Studs, A44b Thackeray, William Makepeace, B61, C55.6, C56.4, C58.5. See also under book reviews by Davies theatre. See plays and theatre theatres, theatrical companies and organizations, and festivals – Academy Theatre Foundation, B20 – Arthur Sutherland’s International Players, A7, A81 – Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver, F91.3 – Canadian Repertory Theatre, Ottawa, D51.1, E51.1 – Charlottetown Festival, B39 – Comédie-Française, G55.35 – Compagnons de St. Laurent, Montreal, G52.13 – Crest Theatre Club, Toronto, D57.4, E57.3 – Crest Theatre, Toronto, A13, A43, B4, G57.6 – Cross-Campus Drama Festival, D60.2 – Detroit Players, A5a – Dominion Drama Festival, A6, A7, A74a, B27a, C47.44, C48.42, D49.3, D49.33, F81.1, G46.3, G52.6, G53.9, G54.6, G56.24, I17; Central Ontario Drama Festival (or League), A43, D48.4, D67.4-D67.6, E49.2, F67.1;

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Eastern Ontario Regional Drama Festival, A5a, A6, A7, G52.3; League’s Workshop Group, A6 – Drama Guild, Queen’s University, A81 – Dramatists Theatre Guild, A12a – Edinburgh Festival, A6, C49.49-C49-50, E49.2, G55.28 – Festival Lennoxville, B39, C75.3, F75.7 – Garrick Theatre, London, G56.16 – Inter-Varsity Drama Festival, D54.1 – Hart House Touring Players, A34 – The London Theatre, C32.7 – Malvern Dramatic Festival, C32.6 – Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, C32.4 – Montreal Repertory Theatre, A5a, B38 – Moscow Art Theatre, C43.35 – Murray and Donald Davis Ltd., A13, A43, B4 – The New Play Society, A34 – Niagara Falls’ Summer Theatre, A9a – Niagara Peninsula Drama Festival, D51.2, D51.3 – North Toronto Theatre Guild, A43 – Old Vic Company, London, B72, C39, C50.34, C56.24, F80.4, F93.4, G50.41, J08.1 – One-Act Play Festival, D61.6-D61.8 – Ottawa Drama League, A5a, A6 – Ottawa Little Theatre, B20, B21 – Oxford University Dramatic Society, C38, J08.1 – Peterborough Little Theatre, A5a, C96.2, D51.4, F93.2 – Peterborough Theatre Guild, B73, C48.10, C48.19 – Questors Theatre, Ealing, London, A13 – Robert Gill Theatre, Toronto, A66a, A69a – Salzburg Festival, C66.13, C66.14 – Secondary School Drama Festival, Kingston, on, D48.2 – Shaw Festival, A4a, A48, B39, C75.2, E70.5, E76.6, E80.8, E93.7, F75.7, F75.11 – Stratford Festival Theatre, A49a, B2, B39, B55, B67, C54.1, C55.1, C55.33, C56.1, C56.40, C57.2, C57.29, C58.25, C58.27, C60.29, C62.2, C62.33, C63.3, C74.1, C86.3, C92.3, C94.1, D55.1, D63.1-D63.3, D64.3-D64.5, D66.2, D77, D90, D92.2, E55.2, E60.2, E62.5-E62.6, E62.8, E62.9, E63.1-E63.3, E64.2-E64.5, E65.3-E65.6, E66.3-E66.6, E90.3, E92.3, E92.5, E93.8, E94.2, F80.4, F81.1, F89.1, F90.4, F92.3, G53.6, G53.12, G53.15, G53.27, G54.7, G54.23, G55.19, G55.21, G55.28, G55.46, G56.3, G56.26, G57.11, G57.12, G57.15, G57.30, G58.8, J82.1 “The Festival Idea: 1952,” A58, C52.19 Renown at Stratford: A Record of the Shakespeare Festival in Canada, B3, I167 (Braille) “Stratford: 1953: Richard III/All’s Well That Ends Well,” A58, C53.38 “Stratford: 1954: Measure for Measure/The Taming of the Shrew,” A58, C54.36 “Stratford: 1954: Oedipus Rex,” A58, C54.41

“Stratford: 1961: Coriolanus/Henry VIII/Love’s Labour’s Lost,” A58, C61.32 “Stratford: 1962: Cyrano de Bergerac,” A58, C62.36 “Stratford: 1964: Richard II/Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme/ King Lear,” A58, C64.6 “Stratford: 1965: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,” A58, C65.4 “Stratford: 1965: The Cherry Orchard,”A58, C65.5 “Stratford: 1966: Twelfth Night/Henry V/Henry VI,”A58, C66.3 “Stratford: 1967: Richard III/The Government Inspector/ The Merry Wives of Windsor,” A58, C67.5 Stratford Avon Theatre, A89, A97, E92.3, E92.5 The Stratford Festival Debuts, I18 Stratford Festival’s Celebrated Writers Series, C94.6 Stratford Festival’s Tom Patterson Theatre, A10a “Stratford Forty Years Ago,” A90, A97, C92.3 Stratford Papers on Shakespeare, B11 (1960), B13 (1962), B26 (1972) The Stratford Scene, 1958-1968, B24 Stratford: The First Thirty Years, B45 Thirty Years at Stratford, A64, D82.3, E82.2 Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1955, B7 Twice Have the Trumpets Sounded: A Record of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Canada 1954, B5 – Straw Hat Players, Peterborough, on, B4 – Straw Hat Theatre, Peterborough, on, G48.20 – Summer Theatre, Peterborough, on, A9a, C49.41C49.47, C53.32, G53.13, C54.31, C54.34, C54.39, C55.31, C56.29, C56.37, G54.17, G56.29 – Theatre Ontario Festival, D93, E93.2 – University of Toronto, Drama Committee’s Drama Festival, D54.2 – University of Toronto Extension Players, A34 – University of Toronto, Hart House Theatre, A71a, B22, D54.2, D67.4-D67.6, F73.11, F73.12, F74.1, G44.22, G55.41 – University of Toronto, MacMillan Theatre, A74, B33 – Village Players, A34 – Young People’s Theatre, Toronto, E87.3, F87.1 Thériault, Yves, B20, H28 Theroux, Alexander, J94.4 Thieme, John, A38a Thirkell, Angela, B44, C61.12. See also under book reviews by Davies Thistle, Lauretta, A9a Thistleton, Francis (How I Came to Be Governor of the Island of Cacona), B52 Thomas, David J., A13 Thomas, Dylan, A55, C56.23. See also under book reviews by Davies Thompson, Anne, A38a



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Thompson, Chuck, F96.2 Thompson, Dorothy, C42.82, G40.40, G40.77 Thompson, M.-A., A10a Thomson, Roy, C68.2, G53.10 “Three Worlds, Three Summers—But Not the Summer Just Past,” A55 Thuot, Yvette, I104 Thyssen, Fritz, G40.52 Tibet, C53.2 Tirala, Lothar Gottlieb (Race, Mind and Soul [Rasse, Geist und Seele]), C41.248 Todd, Douglas, F94.17 Tolstoy, Leo, F85.5. See also under book reviews by Davies Tom Jones (play), C49.24 Tomkins, Thomas, A28 toothpicks, G55.7, G56.36 Toronto, D49.1, E50.4, F82.5, F84.42, F94.8, F94.12-F94.14, F96.1 – 3½ Cheers for Toronto, I6 – Academy of Medicine, A17 – Antiquarian Book Fair, A77, E93.4 – Arts and Letters Club, A84, B72, D48.4, E48.3, E49.2, E67.2 – Bishop Strachan School, C74.2, E73.5 – Canadian Club, A40, B54, D48.1, E48.1, E70.10 – City of Toronto Book Award, A61a – Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, E76.1, E83.3 – Empire Club, E72.1 – Granite Club, A8a – Hummingbird Centre, A91 – Hungerford Dinner, E93.11 – Kiwanis Club, E50.4 – Koffler Centre, A68a, A69a – Mackenzie House, A44a – O’Keefe Centre, E85.1 – Riverdale Zoo, G57.18 – Rotary Club, G52.10 – Roy Thomson Hall, A78, E89.2, F93.2 – Royal Conservatory of Music, A49a, B68, C53.47, C63.1, E62.11, E75.4, E94.4, G47.16, G53.30, J94.2 – Royal Ontario Museum, G55.2 – Simpson’s Literary Luncheon, D78, E78.3 – St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, A48, C75.6, F73.9, F75.2, F75.6 – Theatre Books, A90a – Toronto Art Gallery, G55.10 – Toronto Arts Productions, A48 – Toronto French School, E82.1 – Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, A78, G53.3 – Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra, C41.178 – Toronto Promenade Symphony, C41.235 – Toronto Symphony Orchestra, A78, B68, C40.43, C40.85, C41.24, C41.293, C59.61, C86.1, G57.32

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– Toronto Western Hospital, E65.7 – Union Station, G43.15 – University Women’s Club, E70.2 – Upper Canada College Preparatory School, A11a, A18, B25, C31.4, C32.3, C41.177, C72.4, C96.1, E53.2, E63.6, E93.3, F94.7 – World’s Biggest Bookstore, A61a1 Torres, Tereska, D52.2 totalitarianism, C41.335 Totenberg, Roman, C57.52 Town, Harold, B36, J95.5 Townend, W., C54.7 Traill, Catharine Parr, A9, G53.40 translation, C35.4, C41.272, C43.61, C47.18, J94.2 travel, B69, C44.73, C45.19, C46.24, C46.59, C53.23, F85.11, G43.23 Trebitsch-Lincoln, Ignatius, G43.7 Trent University, C68.2, C74.7, E74.4 Trent University, Wenjack Theatre, A49a, F75.9 Trier, Walter, G51.18. See also under book reviews by Davies Trollope, Anthony, A10a, A72, B61, B66 (He Knew He Was Right), C56.4. See also under book reviews by Davies Trollope Society, B66 Trotter, R.G., G51.12 Trudeau, Pierre, B64, D92.3, F75.2 Trueman, Albert, B12 Truman, Harry, G55.38 tulips, Holland mania, C43.47 Turkey, G44.28 Turnbull Irving, Janet. See Irving, Janet Turnbull under agents, literary Turner, Alden R., A16a Tussaud, John Theodore, G43.10 Tussaud, Madame, G50.4 Twain, Mark, C40.80, C85.5, G57.31. See also under book reviews by Davies Twigg, Alan, F80.5 Tyler, Tracey, D89.2 Tzachou-Alexandri, Olga, B62 Udvarhelyi, George B., I8 UNESCO, G56.6 unions, C46.40, G47.3 United Mine Workers’ Union, H55.50 United Nations, G45.14 university education, C43.6, C79.6, C67.4, D66.3, E61.1, F75.14, F79.1, G48.12, G56.4 university initiation rites, G43.18 University of Alberta, C75.1, D57.2, E57.2, E75.1 University of British Columbia, E83.5 University of Calgary, C78.4, D66.3, D75.2, E66.7, E75.2, E78.1; McKimmie Library, A79

496

University of Chicago, B67, C41.299 (Robert Hutchins) University of Guelph, B47, E86.3, E86.4 University of Lethbridge, D81, E81.3 University of Manitoba, C72.6, C81.3, E72.3, E80.10 University of Milwaukee Library, E76.3 University of Ottawa, E77.1 University of Prince Edward Island, D89.1, E89.3 University of Rochester, C83.1, E83.4 University of Toronto, A34, D82.1, E90.5, E95.4. See also Massey College and under theatres, theatrical companies and organizations, and festivals) – Alexander Lectures, A65, E82.3-E82.5 – Alumni Association, E67.7 – Bookroom (university book shop), A68a, A74a – Centre for the Study of Drama, B22 – Edgar Stone Lecturer in Dramatic Literature, F64.2, F64.3 – Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, B33 – Hart House, E55.1, E60.3, E61.5 – New College, E70.1 – President’s Lectures, B12 – School of Graduate Studies Alumni Association, E81.2 – St. Hilda’s College, D64.2, E64.1 – Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, B71, E95.4 – Trinity College, A52a, A61a, D52.1, D61.1-D61.3, E48.5, E52.1, E61.1, E61.4, E65.2, E72.5 – University College, A65a, B28, E50.2, E67.7, C67.10, E70.4, G45.33 – University Extension Lectures about the Canadian Opera Company season, E63.4, E64.6, E65.3, E67.3E67.6 – University Extension Lectures on Stratford Festival, D63.1-D63.3, D64.3-D64.5, D66.2, E62.5-E62.6, E62.8, E62.9, E63.1-E63.3, E64.2-E64.5, E65.3-E65.6, E66.3E66.6 – Victoria College Alumnae, E65.1 – Walter Gordon Memorial Lecture, B64, D92.3, E92.6 – Wiegand Lecture, E89.9 University of Victoria, B37, F75.15 University of Wales, A83a.2 University of Waterloo, C59.35, D88.5, E81.4 University of Western Ontario, D74, D88.3, G56.11, E74.2 University of Windsor, C71.5, E71.4, E71.5 Upton Terrell, John. See Terrell, John Upton under book reviews by Davies Urbanovitch, Tim S., A33a Urquhart, Jane, J95.5 U.S.A., C41.336, C83.6, F85.2, F82.2, F89.6, F96.2, G40.6, G43.21, I3 – Alaska, C45.55 – Asia and, C43.67 – Canada and, C41.298 (School of the Air of the Amer-

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icas), C83.6, C88.5, D84, D85, F81.1, F84.2, F85.2, F86.6, F88.14, F88.17, F89.6, F94.14, F94.19, G46.21, G50.27, G51.15, G52.16, G55.38 – Chicago, G43.20 – fiction, C41.276 – funerals, C56.7 – humour, C41.316, C41.334, C42.160, C47.33 – language, C46.1, C48.39, C53.36, C57.45, C62.18 – literature, C41.277, C41.277, C41.276, C41.281, C41.281, C57.45, C59.54 – New York, C41.315, C50.33, C53.60; American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, C85.2, E85.3; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, B62, G43.4; Metropolitan Opera Company, G52.10; National Arts Club, C87.5, E87.1; Pierpont Morgan Library, E93.14, E95.3; Poetry Center, D92.1 – plays, C41.52 (vaudeville), C42.84 – poetry, C59.54 – Washington, dc: Canadian Embassy, A49a.1; Cosmos Club, E77.3, E99.12; National Gallery of Art, B62 ; National Public Radio, I27; Wheatland Foundation Conference on Literature, D87.2 wines, C41.213 Valk, Frederick, I1 Van Biema, David H., F86.3 van Bridge, Tony, B24 van Rijn, Nicolaas, B36 van Straalen, Alice, F94.18 “The Vanishing Poplin,” C42.152a Vassanji, M.G., A38g, A44f, A49d, A96, A97 vegetarianism, G49.4 Venus, C40.44 Verne, Jules, G40.63 Victorian Order of Nurses, G44.3, G44.4, G44.6, G44.7 Victory Loan campaign, C42.63, G43.6, G43.28, G44.8 Vietor, Marc, I158 Vimy, Viscountess Byng of. See Byng of Vimy, Viscountess under book reviews by Davies Vincent, Isabel, F90.1 Vineberg, Dusty, F73.5 Vitale, Tom, I23, I25 A Voice from the Attic, A16, F58, I36 (audio book), I50 (audio book), I85 (audio book); “A Call to the Clerisy,” A15, A16a, A96; “At Large and with Ornature,” A16a Voliva, Wilbur Glenn, C42.163 Voltaire, C41.148 (La Pucelle), C58.3. See also under book reviews by Davies von Arnim, Elizabeth. See Elizabeth under book reviews by Davies Wachtel, Eleanor, F95.4, I26 Wade, Allan, C49.30



Wagner, Anton (Canada’s Lost Plays, vol. 3, The Developing Mosaic: English-Canadian Drama to Mid-Century), B38 Wakeman, John, B29 Walchli, Julie, C87.1 Wales. See under Britain Walker, Alan, A10a Wallace, R.C., A58, C55.7 Waller, Adrian, F70.5 Walmsley, Ann, F93.1 Walpole, Hugh, C40.64, C52.18. See also under book reviews by Davies Walton, Donna, B44 Wansbrough, V.C., G55.22 war. See World War II Warden, Kathy, D75.2 Warner Angell, Joseph. See Angell, Joseph Warner under book reviews by Davies Wartime Information Board, G42.8 Washington, Booker T., G40.26 Washington, George, C43.32 Waterston, Elizabeth, A14a, B10 Watmough, Ron, D81, F81.4 Watson, Jean, C46.72 Watters, R.E., A12a, C54.18, G58.5 Waugh, Evelyn, C81.7. See also under book reviews by Davies Wavell, General Sir Archibald, C42.170 “We Charitable Critics: 1959,” A58, C59.16 wealth, C80.2 weather, C45.37, C45.46, C45.65, C47.60, C48.64 Weaver, Robert, A38a, G57.16 Weber and Fields. See Fields, Lew Weber, Joe, C42.99 Webster, Judith, C77.3 Webster, Sandy, I142 Weinfeld, Morton, A52a Weingartner, Felix, C42.99 Weisz, Victor. See Vicky under book reviews by Davies Weizmann, Chaim, G52.21 welfare, D66.1, E66.2 Welles, Orson, C41.285, C41.304 Wellesley, Dorothy, C41.18 Wells, Dalton C., F73.3 Wells, H.G., C42.1, C46.57, C60.12. See also under book reviews by Davies The Well-Tempered Critic: One Man’s View of Theatre and Letters in Canada, A58, I73 (audio book) Wertenbaker, Lael, E76.4 Wesleyan-Suffield Writers Conference, E76.4, E77.4, E78.7 West, Mae, D52.2 Western University. See University of Western Ontario Westfeldt, Lulie, B75, C92.5; F. Matthias Alexander: The Man and His Work, B14 Weston, Lynda, D82.3

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Whalon, Moira. See under Massey College, staff What Do You See in the Mirror? A Footnote to the Psychedelic Revolution, A41, C68.3 Whitaker, Muriel, A52a White, J. Alan, B28 Whitener, Barrett, I114 Whitman, Alden, C75.12 Whittaker, Herbert, A13, A23b, A43, A48, B4, B13, B22, B72, C60.33, C70.3, D60.1, D62.2, D66.2, D67.4-D67.7, E62.6, E80.11, E90.6, F64.3, F67.1, F73.9, F73.11, F75.2, J55 Whittemore, Arthur Austin, C53.19 Whittemore, Reed, I21 Why I Do Not Intend to Write an Autobiography, A80, E89.8 Wiebe, Rudy, B46, D75.1 Wigod, Rebecca, F85.6 Wilde, Oscar, C41.188, C54.58. See also under book reviews by Davies Wilder, Thornton, C75.12 William, David, B55 Williams, D.C., B12 Williamson, Mel, A38b Willkie, Wendell, C40.28. See also under book reviews by Davies Willson Disher, M. See Disher, M. Willson under book reviews by Davies Wilson, Angus, A16b. See also under book reviews by Davies Wilson, Edmund, A55b, A55b.1, C66.12, C78.2. See also under book reviews by Davies Wilson, Edwin, I10 Wilson, Everett K., A12a Wilson, H., C80.2 Wilson, Peter, F88.13 winter. See seasons of the year Winter, William, C72.7 Winterowd, W. Ross, A16a witches, C40.40, C40.41, C42.165, C45.85 (England), C57.13, C59.60 Wodehouse, P.G., A55, C48.25, C81.9, G40.87, G55.25. See also under book reviews by Davies Wolfe, Thomas, C57.42, C58.16. See also under book reviews by Davies Wolfit, Donald, C47.2, C47.38 women, C48.55; admission to Massey College, C72.2, F73.13, C74.4, J73.3; alcohol, G45.28; Canadian, E71.3; careers, C40.15; collaborators with the Nazis, C44.27; education, F73.5; equality, feminism and liberation, C53.31, D80.1, D86.2, F71.2, F75.17, F79.1; fashion, G50.24, G57.21; harassment, G51.10; housewife’s wages, G43.27; motherhood, F73.5; Parliament, G53.34; post-war jobs, G44.2; psychology, D88.3; Quebec, G40.25; rights, F72.3, G60.4; rulers, C42.24; smoking, C40.3; Stephen Leacock’s views of, E70.2; teachers, G44.23; voices, C78.3; war effort, C42.158

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Women’s Canadian Club, C70.5, D49.1, E70.8 Wood, Frank P., G55.8, G55.10 Woodcock, George, A71a Woodman, Marion, F95.2 Woodward, Calvin, C87.5 Woodsworth, J.S., G53.35 World War II, C42.46, C42.119, C43.66, C43.67, G40.66, G43.5, G43.13, G45.17; atomic bomb, F89.2, G45.29, G55.29; books, C46.31; bonds, C41.55, G42.13; Dieppe, 43.26, C43.66, G42.12; eating, C43.31; effort, G42.16; plague, C42.9; poetry, C43.33; rationing, C42.37; soldiers, C42.68 (mental health), C42.76 (British Commandos), G40.43, G40.79, G43.4, G43.19, G43.24, G44.26, G50.29, G52.26; sports, G43.19; submarines, C42.174; underground press, Europe, C43.50; V-E week, C45.42; women, Canadian, C42.158. See also under Britain; Canada; France; Germany; Japan; Nazis Wright, Richard B., J80.1 writing (as an art), A97, B61, C56.44, C59.47, C60.6 (letter writing), C60.37, C61.7 (dullest authors), E65.8, E79.2, F70.3, F70.5, F72.5, F73.2, F73.4, F79.2, F80.5, F85.6, F85.11, F89.12, F94.2, F94.15, F95.1, G55.43; “A Canadian Writer’s Manifesto,” A52a, C72.9; “The Conscience of the Writer,” A52, A97, E68.1; Reading and Writing, A76, B61, H40 (French); Selected Works on the Art of Writing, A97; “The Writer’s Week,” A55, C59.23; “Writing,” A76 and A89

writing, organizations: Canadian Authors Association, A68b, C41.310, C41.317, D48.3, D78, E48.2, E55.1, E78.3, E89.5, G53.14, J94.2; International Association of Crime Writers, A74a.2; PEN, B79, C90.1, D86.1, D86.2, E86.1, E86.8, E90.7, E90.8, J86.1, J86.2; Writers and Human Rights Conference, C81.8; Writers’ Development Trust, B36; Writers’ Union of Canada, F75.6 Wylde, Peter, A4a Wylie, William T., B3a.1 Xavier, Francis, C40.26 Yeats, W.B., C41.18, C82.11. See also under book reviews by Davies York University, E68.1, E70.6, E73.6 Young, Scott, J75 youth, F71.2, G46.12 Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar, B46 Znaimer, Moses, I14 zoos, C45.44 Zweig, Stefan, C42.64. See also under book reviews by Davies Zysman, Sy, D61.3