Halcyon Dec 2016.Indd
HALCYON THE NEWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE THOMAS FISHER RARE BOOK LIBRARY ISSUE No. , December ISSN – A B G Jennifer Toews and Natalya Rattan Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library come, once again, to and irreplaceable, their legacies endure at the from trees planted in Norway for that express thank our many generous manuscript Fisher Library. purpose. General and specific press related to donors. We received almost more gifts M A is the first writer this project; material for Stone Mattress: Nine Tthan there is space to write about them. During to contribute a new, secret manuscript entitled Tales and e Handmaid’s Tale ballet by the the past year or so, we have had to bid fond ‘Scribbler Moon’ to the Future Library, a public Royal Winnipeg Ballet; as well as drafts, notes and sad farewells to many old friends: Frances artwork project undertaken by Scottish artist and other material related to e Heart Goes Dafoe, Mavis Gallant, Stephen Gilbert, Phyllis Katie Paterson, which will ‘unfold’ near Oslo, Last, including extensive editorial notes and Grosskurth, George Jonas, Jack MacLeod, and Norway. ‘Scribbler Moon’ will be published comments by Ellen Seligman, were deposited Vincent Massey Tovell. Talented, remarkable a hundred years from now on paper made during this past year. IN THIS ISSUE A Bounty of Gifts | Choice Treasures, Tested and True | To Our Donors: Our Deepest Appreciation | Printed Gifts in : “Do Books Matter?” | William Johnston Donation of Early Modern Books | ‘Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest’: e Gift of a Book of Common Prayer | “Idle time, not idly spent”: Angling Collection Arrives at the Fisher Library | A Promise Broken and a Promise Kept: e omas Schweitzer Donation of Aliquando Press and Locks’ Press | e Ronald Cohen Collection of Literary Frauds and Hoaxes | Donors of Gifts-in-Kind to the omas Fisher Rare Book Library | Events and Exhibitions OPENING PAGE: Frances Helen Dafoe with costumes she designed.
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