HALCYON THE NEWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE THOMAS FISHER RARE BOOK LIBRAR Y ISSUE No. 48, December 2011 ISSN 0840–5565

In Memoriam Richard Gerald Landon 1942–2011

‘It is a good thing to read books, and it need not be a bad thing to write them; but it is a pious thing to preserve those that have been sometime written: the collecting, and mending, and binding, and cataloguing of books are all means to such an end.’

From the preface by Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) of his The Rowfant Library : A Catalogue of the Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Drawings and Pictures. London: Quaritch, 1886.

In thI s Issue Forty-three and Out | Manuscript Gifts in 2010 | Donors of Gifts-in-Kind to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library 2010 | Ted Hughes and the Small Press | The Miraculous Survival of an Artistic Legacy: the Illustrated Pentateuch of Carol Deutsch | The First Nicholls Library Fellow| Events and Exhibitions 2

Forty-three and Out

Luba Frastacky Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

he richness and variety of the it isn’t always about sitting behind a desk. We Pole, and two by Philippe Bauche of Siberia collections held by the Fisher Library thank Mrs. Elliott for filling in gaps in our and Kamtchatka from the eighteenth century. were greatly enhanced by the donations holdings of classical authors. Accompanying the maps was an 1808 edition of Tmade during 2010. On a hot July day last We have been collecting the works of John Cary’s New Universal Atlas w it h si x t y-t wo summer, Eva Stepanian, the Fisher Library’s George Bernard Shaw for so long and so hand-coloured maps and a nineteen volume graduate student assistant, and I made our way extensively that it is hard to believe there set of Histoire générale des voyages (Paris, 1746) out to Bloor West Village to meet Mrs. Myrna are editions that we do not yet have. The Last year our late Director, Richard Landon, Elliott, who wished to donate a collection of donation made by Mrs. Christine Bissell last came to the conclusion that he would never classical authors assembled by her late husband. December proved us wrong. Not only did the find the time to work on a Grant Allen She had previously sent our Assistant Director titles donated fill in gaps, but several were bibliography, and so turned over around two a meticulously written chronological list of presentation copies from the author himself; hundred titles by the author of such works as those items she felt would be of interest to one to his French translators, Augustin and The White Man’s Foot (1888); The Jaws of Death us. She was right, and so there we were to Henriette Hamon, another to an Alfred (1889) and the best selling The Woman who pack up a collection hidden in a closet and Freund “for Mrs. Walkley’s sake” with a long did (1895). Allen also wrote under two female in filing cabinet drawers on what turned out explanation in manuscript of the book’s origin pseudonyms, one of them being Olive Pratt to be the hottest day of the year. The earliest by Alfred B. Walkley and Shaw’s card tipped Rayner, author of the novella The Type-writer work was an edition of Sophocles, printed in in on the front flyleaf. In addition there was a Girl (1897). All will be added to the special Rome in 1542; the most recent, Marc-Antoine holograph letter from Adlai Estes Stevenson, to Grant Allen Collection. It is interesting to Muret’s Variarum lectionum XVII, printed in her late husband, Claude, the eighth president note that Allen also wrote on flowers and Halle between 1791 and 1828. Other authors of this University (1958–1971). It was a very perception in insects. Despite having being represented were Plautus, Thucydides, Terence, nice Christmas present! deeply influenced by the British psychologist, Horace and Socrates, to name but a few. But On the same wintery theme, Mr. Walter Herbert Spencer, Darwinian arguments why did they have to be produced in such large Keyser sent us a detailed list of polar maps replaced those of Spencer, thus providing a tomes, we muttered as we gingerly walked the that he was interested in donating and we were nice link to the Library’s extensive Darwin filled boxes down from the second floor and most interested in obtaining. The donation Collection. out to Eva’s car? Still, it provided this future includes an engraving by Willem Blaeu done Several issues ago, I wrote about a gentle- librarian with another aspect of librarianship; in 1635 showing the area below the North man who was always the first donor of the 3

opening pAge: Page from Historic, Military and Naval Anecdotes of Personal Valour … Terminating with the Battle of Waterloo (1819). THiS pAge: Covers from two Grant Allen novels, The Tents of Shem (1893) and Miss Cayley’s Adventures (1899).

ye a r. M r. Joh n C a mbr id g e wou ld app e a r e ver y of the book’s publishing January and pull out a little treasure from a history. His lists are a battered briefcase; it was he who gave us the librarian’s and appraiser’s delightful book on the early game of tennis dream. He and Professor about which I wrote in a previous issue of John Slater will go down Halcyon, as well as many other items. I am in the annals of the Fisher pleased to report that the family tradition Library for their desire to continues; this year we received seven books make the Fisher Library from Mrs. Lys Cambridge Laurence in honour a centre of excellence for of her father, including a 1651 edition of the the history and study of famous Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes. philosophy. Mr. Michael Miller, who in 2008 gave A donor who wishes us a superb collection of books on Arctic to remain anonymous exploration, has chosen this year to give gave us several items of us a selection of his books on naval vessels importance, of which I will describe only a Last year Mr. David and Mrs. Jane Atkins and military history, many of them issued few. L’Imitation de Jesus Christ, the renowned allowed me to go through various bookcases in limited editions by the Marine Research work often attributed to the German-Dutch in their home, selecting titles to enhance our Society in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1920s. mystic Thomas à Kempis, is widely considered collections. Margaret Atwood ensured that we There was also a beautiful edition ofUniform to be one of the greatest manuals of Catholic hold a l l e d it ion s of her work s w here ver t he y a re of the Army of the United States (Philadelphia, devotion. We have been given a copy of the publ i s he d . Profe s s or D en n i s B a r te l s’ i ntere s t i n [1882]) and a splendid Historic, Military and Rouen, 1656 edition, versified by the famous non-Russian primers published in the former Naval Anecdotes of Personal Valour, Bravery seventeenth-century dramatist, Pierre Soviet Union found expression in his donation. and Particular Incidents which Occurred to the Corneille, which is considered to be the first Dr. Robert Brandeis strove to find even more Armies of Great Britain and her Allies in the complete edition (the earlier version of 1651 Penguin and Puffin imprints. Professor Hans Last Long-contested War, Terminating with the did not include the first twenty chapters). We de Groot and Dolores DelVecchio harvested Battle of Waterloo (London, [1819]). have located only one other copy in Canada. A various treasures from their collections. Mr. Ginutis Procuta, who has been work we were unable to locate in a Canadian Because Nicholas Ignatieff had to downsize honoured by his native Lithuania for his institution was Henri, duc d’Aumale’s La his library, we are the fortunate recipients extensive support of the library collections Bataille de Rocroy (Paris, 1890), which details of pre-revolutionary Russian materials. Mr. in Vilnius, has long since done the same for the events of 19 May 1643, when a small French Balfour Le Gresley completed our copy the Lithuanian holdings of both Robarts and force routed the Spanish Army of the North, of Jean-Denis Daule’s Nouveau recueil de the Fisher Library. For us, he always provides invading from Flanders. The Duke was the cantiques (Québec, 1819) by donating part e x ten sive note s on w hy a p a r t ic u l a r work ne e d s son of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, two. Professor Michael Millgate’s theatre to be housed in our library. This year’s gift who retired to England after the Revolution prog r a m me s were a dde d to t he Fi s her L ibr a r y ’s included works produced in displaced peoples’ of 1848 and busied himself with historical already extensive collection. Ken Popert filled camps in post-war Germany, literature issued and military studies. This work was issued i n g ap s i n ou r g ay m a g a z i ne c ol le c t ion. M ic h a h for the Lithuanian community in Chicago, in a very limited edition of 104 copies, ours Rynor contributed to making our Canadian and prose and poetry from pre-World War II being number seventy-five. It is beautifully literature collection as comprehensive as Lithuania. Thanks to Mr. Procuta, Eva and bound by Bretault in full red crushed Levant possible. Professor Josef Škvorecký turned I have expanded our language skills. “Ačiū, goatskin with green moiré silk doublures and over all editions of his works in a variety of p. Procuta!” endpapers. Another work, also not previously languages. And Professor Emeritus Mary P. I tend to panic if I get a major donation available in a Canadian institution, is G.A. Winsor found obscure scientific titles for us. after Hallowe’en because I know there will Jackson’s Algiers: Being a Complete Picture Where would we be without you? be many last-minute gifts to be processed in of the Barbary States (London, 1817), the first A complete list of donors will be found November and December, and I am always and only edition by this little known author. elsewhere in this issue. concerned about having sufficient time to list He describes the inhabitants, customs and Finally, a note of thanks to our graduate several hundred books. But I know I can relax religions of the Berbers, Arabs, Moors, Jews student assistant, Eva Stepanian, for all the when Michael Walsh drops off a dozen or more and Turks of this area. Of particular interest collections she catalogued, her work ethic, cartons late in the year. I know full well that the is his account of slavery in Tripoli, Tunis and the use of her car upon occasion and, most donation will be accompanied with a detailed Algiers. His interviews with captured seamen importantly, her fashion flair and shopping list, and such was the case last November. Mr. who were enslaved, and their accounts of their skills! Extraordinary on all levels! Walsh knows the importance of each book in treatment, leave an indelible impression on the This is my last annual review of gifts. By the donation, and records format, condition, reader. Our growing travel literature holdings the time you read this I will have been retired date of acquisition, provenance, associations, are well-served by this work. for several months—43 and out! notes and bookplates. He sometimes relates It is interesting to note how many of our anecdotes about the author, or provides details donors continue to donate on an annual basis. 4

Manuscript Gifts in 2010

Jennifer Toews Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

rom roaring radishes to alligator and the Roaring Radishes, Payback, the stage Johannesberg and Jerusalem by Dov-Tov in stew, from musical moles to the Bridge of version of The Penelopiad, The Blind Assassin, 1997. Sighs, the scope and quantity of material and The Handmaid’s Tale. The collection also Toronto poet Dav i d D on n e l l donated Fwe received as manuscript gifts this year is includes various speeches, book reviews and holograph, typescript and word processed truly impressive. other writing work. drafts of his poems, reviews, and correspon- It has been a number of years since Toronto dence, as well as teaching material relating to Art/Artists writer Jack Batten last donated to the his master poetry classes at Ryerson University Iconic Canadian artist and provocateur Fisher Library. If his output is any indication, and the University of Toronto. Charles Pachter this year donated however, he certainly hasn’t been short of From George Fetherling we Pachter and Sanders family photographs, let- work. His 2010 donation includes materi- received correspondence, drafts and proofs ters and documents from both of his parents, als—research, manuscripts and other editorial for his books River of Gold: the Fraser and together with nine years of personal and matter—for his most recent books, including Cariboo Gold Rushes, The Sylvia Hotel Poems professional correspondence, and a variety of The Man Who Ran Faster than Everyone: The and Walt Whitman’s Secret; personal and material related to his very busy working and Story of Tom Longboat; The Annex: The Story of professional correspondence; scrapbooks personal life. a Toronto Neighbourhood; Learned Friends: A and books; and letters from Bangkok writer Tribute to 50 Remarkable Advocates, 1950–2000; Christopher G. Moore. Authors/Poets/Literature Silent in an Evil Time: The Brave War of Edith Those interested in the Canadian small Margaret Atwood’s a n nu a l m a nu s c r ipt Cavell; and The War to End All Wars: The Story press will be pleased to learn that Beth donation in 2010 will be a treasure for those of World War I. It also includes research and Follett, the founder of the imprint Pedlar scholars who are researching her latest manuscripts for his freelance work, primarily Press, is a new donor to the Fisher. Her first speculative fiction works. It includes all of for various magazines, as well as radio scripts donation of papers includes manuscripts, the manuscript drafts—both holograph and and other projects. proofs and correspondence for books pub- word processed—of the novel Ye a r of t h e Fl o o d, Translator and writer Miriam lished by Pedlar, which she founded in 1997. allowing researchers to track the entire creative Beckerman donated her English transla- It also includes manuscript drafts of her own process for the book. This is complemented tion from the Yiddish of Books I and II first published novel, Tell it Slant (Toronto: by editorial material related to other Atwood of David E. Wolpe’s autobiography I and Coach House Press, 2001), as well as other books and projects, including Rude Ramsey My World (Ich un Mayn Velt), published in professional and personal material. 5

opening pAge: Illustration from Rosemary Sullivan’s Molito. THiS pAge: David Ruben Piqtoukun with Charles Pachter (below left), Jack Batten (below centre) and David Donnell (bottom left).

a sizeable amount of material from the Milkweed Collective, for w h ic h H a r r i s e d ite d a proje c t of essays entitled The Milkweed Project. One of Canada’s most outstanding Haiku poets, Marshall Hryciuk, has added to previous accessions with his most recent donation. It consists of manuscripts and other materials related to his various projects, including his books, as well as notebooks and other Haiku material. From Crad Kilodney we received his correspondence with readers and friends and a The papers of writers and professorsErik a In March of 1961 she married Paul Gottlieb, signed photo card of Hollywood actor Brett and Paul Gottlieb were donated this with whom she had two children, Peter and Halsey. year by their son, Peter Gottlieb. These include Julie. In addition to pursuing a writing career, Beloved Canadian poet Dennis Lee early and later holograph notes, prose and Erika Gottlieb also taught at universities and donated manuscripts, correspondence and poem drafts in Hungarian and English by c ol le g e s i n Mont re a l a nd Toronto, a nd p a i nte d other material for Yesno; Alligator Stew: both Erika and Paul Gottlieb; sketches by in oils and watercolours. Her works have been Favourite Poems by Dennis Lee; The Bard of the Erika; correspondence and print material exhibited at nine solo shows in Montreal and Universe; essays; work-in-progress; extensive related to the novel and film versions (in Toronto, and are held in private and public editorial material; Jelly Belly; “Cadence, English and Hungarian) of Paul’s Agency, collections in Canada, the United States, Country, Silence”; notebooks containing and In Praise of Older Women, together with England, Italy, Brazil, Israel and Hungary. drafts of early poems; blurbs and correspon- teaching material for both screenplays; Erika’s She contributed numerous articles to literary dence related to his work on the Toronto work on George Orwell, including her book, journals and magazines in Hungarian and Legacy Project and Plaques Programme with The Orwell Conundrum : a Cry of Despair or English, and was the author of three books: Heritage Toronto; material for Fraggle Rock Faith in the Spirit of Man? and unpublished Lost Angels of a Ruined Paradise: Themes of and La dimora d el cuore /Heart Resid ence;Civil nove l s a nd s tor ie s . E r i k a (Si mon) G ot t l ieb w a s Cosmic Strife in Romantic Tragedy; The Orwell Elegies; board books for children, including born 26 February 1938 in Budapest, Hungary, Conundrum; and Dystopian Fiction East and drafts of text, correspondence and drawings the daughter of Paul and Elizabeth Simon. West: Universe of Terror and Trial. Paul E. by the illustrator, Nora Hilb, and music and Gottlieb was born 29 June 1936 in Budapest, plays based on his work. Hu n g a r y, t he s on of A r nold a nd R o s e G ot t l ieb. Canadian writerAlberto Manguel i s He is the author of a suspense novel, Agency generally acknowledged as one of the world’s (1971), and two screenplays for Robert Lantos, foremost readers. Look no further than his In Praise of Older Women, based on the novel most recent book for proof: A Reader on of the same name by Stephen Vizinczey, and Reading, published last year. The complete Agency, as well as articles, stories and reviews. manuscript of this book, along with proofs He was vice president and creative director of and other material related to the book, are R on a ld s -R e y nold s i n Mont re a l, v ic e pre sident but one part of Manguel’s 2010 donation. of Baker-Lovich in Toronto, and a lecturer at It complements and builds on the existing Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and Sheridan Manguel Papers held at the Fisher Library, College. He was a member of the Association and consists of manuscripts—in English, of Canadian Television and Radio Artists, the Spanish and French—for his numerous writ- Academy of Canadian Cinema and the Writers ing projects. Among other works represented Union of Canada. in this collection are an operatic libretto he In 2009, Maureen Scott Harris composed to accompany music by Oscar won the Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing Strasnoy, entitled Un retour, which premiered Prize for her essay “Broken Mouth: Offerings at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2010, his for the Don River, Toronto”, becoming the novel All Men Are Liars, his non-fictional first non-Australian to win the prize. The City of Words, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey: A draft worksheets for that essay are included Biography, and catalogues and books on the in her 2010 donation to the library, along with artists Miquel Barceló and Glen Baxter. d r a f t s of her re c ent p o e t r y a nd pro s e , i nc lud i n g Karen Mulhallen’s papers include the book Drowning Lessons (Trillium Award material related to the literary journal Descant, winner in 2005). The collection also includes a s we l l a s m ater i a l c ompi le d for t he b o okBlake 6

Below: Kati Rekai (left) and Helen Weinzweig (right). fAcing pAge: Photos donated by the Gilber t and Sullivan Society of Toronto.

numerous photographs and other material related to her life and work. Helen died in February 2010. Commenting on her work and influences as a writer, she remarked, “By the time I began to write, at age forty-five, I had a fair knowledge of what was called e x p er i ment a l w r it i n g. I a m s t i l l e xc ite d by ne w ways of telling old stories. Writing is desire, I don’t know how or why.” Poet Bruce Whiteman donated his writing and professional documents, includ- ing those for his well-received The Invisible World is in Decline; personal and family in our World: Essays in Honour of G.E. Bentley, as well as extensive correspondence, notes material, including extensive material about Jr., edited by Mulhallen and published by for a French lecture, his agenda, notebooks his mother; correspondence; drafts of short University of Toronto Press, 2010. and other material. pieces, books, talks and appearances; years of The gift of papers from daughters Julie Famed biographer and University of personal journals and other material related and Judyth completes the previous acces- Toronto English professor Rosemary to his writing life and work. sion of Kati Rekai (1921–2010) material Sullivan recently released her first Eric Wright, author of the popular donated in 2008. Included are drafts, proofs, children’s book, Molito. Co-written with Inspector Charlie Salter mysteries, donated correspondence and other material related Juan Opitz and with illustrations by her sister drafts of published and unpublished works, to her children’s travel books featuring the Colleen, it follows the adventures of a mole correspondence, reviews and other material characters Mickey, Taggy, Puppo and Cica; who encounters an ant named Carlota, who relating to the following: The Day We Sold the Hungarian-Canadian community in tells him about the mysterious place she lives the Cabin, Me and Fred, Joe Barley and the Toronto; cultural and arts events in Toronto; in, called the upperworld. Molito sets out on Russian Mob, A Likely Story, A Hemingway fundraising and other material about the his journey to discover what that world is. Caper, Bringing in the Sheaves, the first ten Central Hospital, Toronto’s first multilingual Sullivan’s 2010 donation to the Fisher includes Charlie Salter books, Death of a Sunday Writer, hospital started by brothers Drs. John manuscript drafts of Molito. The bulk of the his extremely well-received memoir Always and Paul Rekai. Kati Rekai was a weekly donation, however, is comprised of material, Give a Penny to a Blind Man, Moodie’s Tale, broadcaster on both CHIN radio and CIAO including drafts, correspondence and research Death of a Hired Man, My Brother’s Keeper, radio and wrote regular columns mostly materials, for her award-winning book, Villa The Last Hand, Death on the Rocks, and print on subjects of interest to the Hungarian- Air-Bel (published by HarperCollins, 2006). appearances in various journals. Canadian community for Kaleidoscope It also consists of editorial material for The magazine. A recipient of the Order of Canada Guthrie Road ( Bl a c k Mo s s Pre s s , 2 0 0 9), a b o ok Book Arts in 1993, Rekai received numerous awards about Sullivan’s Irish roots. Barry Callaghan donated material in her lifetime for her tireless championing The papers of Toronto author and mentor related to Exile: the literary quarterly, which of friendship and understanding between Helen Weinzweig were donated by her he edits, this time for issues 29:3 to 34:1. This peoples through her children’s books, her son Daniel Weinzweig. Born 21 May 1915 in accession includes an accrual of manuscripts, work with the Writers’ Union of Canada Radom, Poland, to parents Joseph and Lily typescript proofs, page proofs, correspondence Canadian Book Exhibitions Abroad and her Tenenbaum, Helen migrated to Canada in and other materials related to the production involvement in many arts and cultural based 1924. On 19 July 1940 she married Canadian of the journal from 2006–2009. Included events and institutions. composer John Weinzweig, and together they are stories by Gloria Vanderbilt, as well as Retired professor Sa m S ol e ck i donated had two sons, Paul and Daniel. Helen and John extensive correspondence related to the h i s c or re sp ondenc e w it h prom i nent C a n a d i a n Weinzweig were a vibrant part of the Toronto establishment of the The Gloria Vanderbilt and international authors such as Margaret artistic community for many years. This Short Fiction Contest, in memory of her son, Atwood, Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee gift includes extensive correspondence with Carter V. Cooper. Blaise, George Bowering, Earle Birney, Hugh Helen’s wide circle of family and friends, fans, Hood, Karen Mulhallen, and many others. editors and publishers; drafts of manuscripts Theatre and Drama The gift of David Solway includes and notes for Passing Ceremony, Basic Black Gilbert and Sullivan Society of new and revised manuscript material for with Pearls, A View From the Roof, Bridge of Toronto Th i s g roup of p ap er s w a s prep a re d Peregrines; a chapter contribution to R(E) Sighs, A Classical Education (including Dave by Sheryl Mercer and donated by Canon volution: the Big Tent of Political Apostates; a Carley’s scripts for the theatre), manuscript Michael Burgess and Mort Greenberg. This draft of a FrontPage Magazine i nter v ie w ; re v i- drafts for a work in progress with the title, wonderful set of research material comprises sion of an essay for Academic Questions; new “The Man Without Memories”, and other photographs, including those of Hart House poems for his poetry collection, New Wine, short stories and pieces, such as “The Zurich Theatre productions; Toronto Gilbert and Old Bottles; additions to his political book, Years: a memoir of my mother” and also “My Sullivan Society newsletters, and documents Living in the Valley of Shmoon; new poems Mother’s Luck.” Her interest in haiku and from the 1940s to the 2000s, including The for an ongoing collection, Scattered Rhymes; Zen Buddhism are reflected here; as well as Canadian Savoyard a nd ToRonToRa; miniature essays for a new book, The Occupied Mind; her personal journals, kept from 1958–2000s; set designs; programmes; St. Anne’s produc- 7

tions; “pre-history” from Harbord Collegiate Family/Personal Papers Very best wishes to Luba Frastacky on her Institute productions of the 1940s (courtesy of Jennifer Brown added to the papers retirement; things just won’t be the sa me with- Mort Greenberg); and other material related to of her father, Voltaire and Rousseau scholar, out her. Congratulations to John Shoesmith the Toronto and London, England branches Harcourt Brown. on his new role as the Fisher Library’s of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, including E. Robert Hunter donated the Outreach Librarian and to new Fisher Library the original D’Oyly Carte Company. extensive personal correspondence between Manuscripts Processing Archivist, Natalya his grandparents, Sir Edmund Walker and Rattan. Sincere thanks to Nicholls Librarian history/Politics Lady Mary Alexander Walker, spanning the Liz Ridolfo and Petro Jacyk Librarian Nadia Professor Peter Potichnyi added to his period 1873–1921, the personal diaries of his Zavorotna for all of their hard work. Best insurgency/counter-insurgency document mother Ethelwyn Walker (1890–1903), as well wishes to all our researchers and donors. collection with underground documents and as correspondence between Lady Walker and documents relevant to the Ukrainian-Polish her younger sister Eliza I. Alexander from conflict. 1902–1921.

Donors of Gifts-in-Kind to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library 2010

David and Jane Atkins Hans de Groot David K. Horner Julia E. McLaughlin Sam Solecki Margaret Atwood Doreen DelVecchio Marshall Hryciuk Michael Miller David Solway John Auer David Donnell E. Robert Hunter Michael Millgate Mary F. Stewart John Millyard Rosemary Sullivan Denis Bartels Paul Ehrman Nicolas Ignatieff Karen Mulhallen Sara Sutcliffe Herbert Basian Myrna Elliott Patrick Murphy Jack Batten Helen Kahn Emil Talacko Miriam Beckerman George Fetherling Ilja Kalis Charles Pachter Susan Talacko Naomi Bell Beth Follett Walter Keyser Ronald G. Peters Tom Talacko Janna Best Luba Frastacky Crad Kilodney Ken Popert Vincent Tovell Christine Bissell Marinella Frescura Edna Kirk Peter Potichnyi Margaret Turnbull Robert Brandeis Eric Knibbe Ginutis Procuta Jennifer Brown Kazimierz Glaz Chris Vert Russell Brown Daniel Goldstick Richard Landon Judyth Rekai Canon Michael Burgess Peter Gottlieb Lys Cambridge Laurence Julie Rekai Rickerd F. Michael Walsh Balfour Le Gresley Michah Rynor Daniel Weinzweig Barry Callaghan Maureen Harris Dennis Lee George Whipple Elizabeth Campbell Frederick Hayne Ernest Sirluck Bruce Whiteman Heather Hayne Alberto Manguel Josef Škvorecký Mary P. Winsor William Davies Eliane Herz-Fischler Katharine Martyn John Slater Eric Wright 8

Ted Hughes and the Small Press

Graham Bradshaw Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

ed Hughes (1930–1998) w a s one of that Hughes used this form of publishing as and the well-known London bookbinding Britain’s most important poets of the “a tiring room or rehearsal space”, part of the fi r m s of Z a e h n s dor f a nd S a n g or s k i & Sutc l i ff e. second half of the twentieth century. process by which he refined his poetic ideas. In all, sixteen titles were issued under the TBeginning with the publication of his first Many of the poems appearing in these limited Rainbow Press imprint, ten by Hughes (of collection of poetry, the critically acclaimed Rainbow Press editions, were subsequently which one, Poems, was a collaboration with The Hawk in the Rain (1957), Hughes’s wide published in trade editions. Founded in Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe), four by the ranging literary output over the next four October 1970 by Hughes and his sister, Olwyn, poet’s first wife, Sylvia Plath, and one each by decades would encompass not only many who was responsible for overseeing the day- Thom Gunn Mandrakes( ) a nd S e a mu s He a ne y more volumes of verse, but also prose works, to-day operations, the Rainbow Press was so (Bog Poems). The latter work is the only title translations and children’s books. These named, according to his bibliographers, Sagar not in the collection. accomplishments were recognized in his and Tabor, to reflect the idea of binding each Coincidentally, both the first publication lifetime by a host of honours and awards, publication in a different shade of leather to of the Rainbow Press, Crystal Gazer and Other including the Queen’s Gold Medal for create the effect of a rainbow when sitting on Poems, publ i s he d i n M ay 19 7 1, a nd t he l a s t t it le Poetry, the Poet Laureateship in 1984, and the shelf. Although this ambition was never to appear under its imprint in September 1981, his appointment to the prestigious Order of fully realized, the volumes were handsomely Dialogue over a Ouija Board, were written by Merit by Queen Elizabeth II shortly before produced in different colours and formats and Plath. Subject to much criticism from certain his death from cancer. using a variety of binding materials such as quarters over his perceived mistreatment of his The Fisher Library has recently acquired a goat vellum, goat leather, and patterned paper. wife, Hughes spent much of his time after her virtually complete collection of limited, signed Several of the titles were published in two or death in 1963 editing and promoting Plath’s works by Hughes, issued in the 1970s and t h re e d i ff erent bi nd i n g s . Hu g he s a nd h i s si s ter work. Crystal Gazer contains twenty-three early 1980s by two presses he established, the had a particular interest in all aspects of fine poems, most of which had not been previ- Rainbow Press and the Morrigu Press. Paul printing, often selecting the typeface, paper ously collected in volume form, and many of Keegan, editor of Hughes’s Collected Poems, and binding to be used in the production them printed here for the first time. All three has stated that much of the poet’s work during of their books. The actual work itself was binding states are present in the collection: one this period was first collected in volumes contracted out to some of the best craftsmen of twenty copies in a Kelmscott style vellum published by small presses, “a collaborative, in their fields, including the printers Will and bi nd i n g by Z a e h n s dor f, enc lo s e d i n a S ol a nder even familial mode of literary production”, and Sebastian Carter of the Rampant Lions Press, box; one of eighty copies bound in Cape Goat 9

opening pAge: Frontispiece from Sylvia Plath’s Dialogue over a Ouija Board. THiS pAge: “Brooktrout”, frontispiece and title pages from Adam and the Sacred Stone and Prometheus on His Crag, and “Visitation”.

leather with slipcase; and one of three hundred and blocked in gold on the front cover; and and the environment, under the Morrigu copies in quarter buckram with hand-made 143 copies bound in white limp goat vellum. Press imprint. The poems were printed by Japanese paper sides, also in a slipcase. Dialogue Four of the poems from the book (“Couples Hughes’s teenage son, Nicholas, on an old over a Ouija Board, written in 1957 but first under Cover”, “Ravens”, “Teaching a Dumb Albion hand-press given to him by his aunt, published by Rainbow Press in 1981, reflects Calf”, and “February 17th”) were printed the Olwyn. The press was located in a room an interest in the occult and spiritualism that following year as large broadsides, measuring at Court Green, a former rectory in North Plath and Hughes shared. The poem, written approximately 46 cm by 32.5 cm, by Will Carter Tawton near Exeter, purchased by Hughes as a verse dialogue between two characters, for the Rainbow Press, each in an edition in 1961 while travelling through Devon Sibyl and Leroy, grew out of several sessions of one hundred numbered copies signed by and Cornwell with Sylvia Plath. The first they conducted using a Ouija board. Printed Hughes. Priced at £40 for the set or £12 each, publications of the press were three hitherto on Green Canterbury hand-made paper in an the poems were printed on the same paper stock u npubl i s he d p o em s by Hu g he s (“Ni g ht A r r iv a l edition of 140 numbered copies, the book was and from the standing type used for Moortown of Sea Trout”, “The Iron Wolf”, and “Puma”) bound in full limp goat vellum by Winstanley Elegies, with the titles reset. All four are in the issued in editions of thirty numbered copies, of Salisbury. Fisher collection. Several of the books include signed by the poet. Hand-set in Centaur type Among the titles of Hughes’s works from the distinctive drawings of Hughes’s lifelong on Italian mould-made paper, the poems came the Rainbow Press were E a t C r o w; Prometheus friend and collaborator, Leonard Baskin, the in an attractive folder of decorative Japanese on his Crag; Earth-Moon, with illustrations by American artist and printer who first met the paper with a white printed label, and priced the author; Orts; and Remains of Elmet, the poet in 1958 when Hughes and Plath were living at £15. These were followed by several other latter a sequence of sixty-two poems about in Massachusetts. In 1959 Baskin’s Gehenna broadsides issued separately, or as with the first that part of Yorkshire where the poet was born Press published the first broadside of a Hughes poems, published as a set. A portfolio entitled and raised. Four evocative black and white poem (“Pike”), and this collaboration would Three River Poems, contained three broadsides photographs of the landscape by Fay Godwin c ont i nue i nto t he 199 0 s w hen B a s k i n publ i s he d (“Catadrome”, “Caddis”, and “Visitation”), accompany the text. Moortown Elegies, which two exquisitely designed books of Hughes’s each poem framed by the author’s whimsical c a me out i n O c tob er 19 7 8, c ont a i n s t h i r t y-fi ve poetry. Baskin was also responsible for the illustrations. All five separately issued single mostly uncollected poems and passages from colophon devices for both the Rainbow and poems in booklet form and bound in hand- a verse journal about Hughes’s experiences Morrigu Presses. made laid paper are present in the collection. farming in Devon. In 1972 Hughes purchased In contrast to the sophisticated production Every title but one published by the Morrigu the ninety-five acres of Moortown Farm, techniques associated with the publications of Press was by Hughes, the sole exception being located near the small village of Winkleigh, the Rainbow Press, the broadsides and slim Charles Causley’s poem, “Hymn”, which is a nd r a n it w it h Ja c k Orc h a rd , h i s s e c ond w i fe’s one-poem booklets printed by the Morrigu also in the Fisher Library. father. The volume, dedicated to the memory of Press, named after the crow-headed Celtic Th is fi ne a nd intere st ing acqu isit ion signi- fi Orchard, was issued in two bindings, both of water goddess, were altogether less elaborate. cantly enhances the Fisher Library’s already which are in the collection: twenty-six lettered Between 1979 and 1983 Hughes issued almost impressive holdings of twentieth-century copies in full red morocco by Sangorski and twenty separately published poems reflecting British writers. Sutcliffe, with a drawing of a bull by the author, his deep interest in nature, especially animals 10

The Miraculous Survival of an Artistic Legacy: the Illustrated Pentateuch of Carol Deutsch

Barry Walfish Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

recent addition to the Fisher bombardment. They moved to an apartment use of ancient Hebrew script and Egyptian Library’s Hebraica collections is on Consciencestraat where, despite the war’s hieroglyphs. The entire work is a courageous a limited edition facsimile of the hardships, Deutsch laboured on an illustrated affirmation of Deutsch’s Jewish identity in magnificentA illustrated Pentateuch of Carol Pentateuch, dedicated to his daughter, Ingrid, the face of persecution and a significant and Deutsch, produced about five years ago by for her second birthday, in 1942. meaningful legacy to his daughter. the Yad Vashem Art Museum in Jerusalem. Encapsulated in a meticulously crafted On the night of 3 September 1943, Carol Carol Deutsch was born in Antwerp on 21 wooden box adorned with a Star of David and Fela were arrested by the Gestapo and May 1894, the third son of Simon Deutsch, a and a seven-branched menorah, the album’s deported to the Mechelen transit camp. On diamond merchant from Hungary. He and his ninety-nine eye-catching gouaches depict 20 September 1944, they were transported brothers received an Orthodox Jewish educa- biblical scenes with boldness and originality to Auschwitz, where Fela was murdered. tion, and upon completion of their secondary and a unique iconography and palette. The Carol was transported to the Sachsenhausen studies, joined their father’s diamond business. illustrations intertwine Art Nouveau decora- concentration camp and from there to In 1922 Deutsch arrived in Ostende after his tive elements with influences of the Jerusalem Buchenwald, where he died of emaciation and marriage to Esther Laufer, daughter of the Bezalel School, echoes of Deutsch’s visit to exhaustion on 20 December. Their daughter Ostende Je w ish c om mu n it y’s pre sident. In h is Palestine. In contrast with long standing Ingrid, along with her maternal grandmother e a rly t h i r t ie s D eut s c h de c ide d to de vote h i s l i fe European traditions, Deutsch portrayed his Mrs. Bronsztajn, hid with a Catholic family in to art. An admirer of the renowned Belgian biblical protagonists in their indigenous sur- the town of Florenville, in southeast Belgium. artist, James Ensor, he joined his circle of roundings, reflecting his intimate encounter Both survived the war. students. In 1934 he met Fajga (Fela) Bronsztajn, with the Holy Land, as revealed in his accurate After liberation in 1945, Ingrid and her a Jewish immigrant from Poland, winner of the depictions of biblical landscapes, fauna, and grandmother returned to their apartment lo c a l H a d a s s a h Women’s Or g a n i z at ion b e aut y flora. in Antwerp and found that, miraculously, pageant. Commissioned to paint her portrait, The paintings abound in subjects, symbols, Deutsch’s illustrated Pentateuch had survived Deutsch fell in love. Due to his personal and motifs drawn from Jewish literary sources intact. Ingrid moved to the United States, circumstances and financial challenges, he manifesting Deutsch’s thorough familiarity where she died in 1982. In 1984, in accordance traveled to Palestine in 1935, where he painted with traditional Jewish sources on the literal, with her wishes, the illustrated Pentateuch was landscapes of the Holy Land in watercolours m id r a s h ic , a nd my s t ic a l le ve l s . I n t he s e quenc e donated to the Yad Vashem Art Museum in and oils. Upon returning to Belgium he of drawings illustrating the creation story the Jerusalem, where it is on permanent display. divorced his first wife, and married Fela in artist interweaves Hebrew words, symbols, and (This article is based on an article by Yehudit December 1938. Two years later, in January names from the Kabbalah and Jewish esoteric Shendar, Senior Art Curator at the Yad Vashem 1940, their only daughter, Ingrid, was born. In works. A decorative Orientalist approach is Art Museum, Jerusalem, to be published in M ay, B e l g iu m w a s o c c upie d by Na z i G er m a ny evident in the depictions of exotic landscapes, the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception and their home in Antwerp was damaged in a multicoloured figures, opulent settings, and [Berlin: De Gruyter]) 11

The First Nicholls Library Fellow

Anne Dondertman, Acting Director Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

n July 2011 we were able to hire the first Ty r re l l w a s a n e a rly a dopter of photog r aphy were scanned from both original prints, and Nicholls Library Fellow, with support from and continued to be an avid photographer from film and glass negatives. In the case of the Nicholls fund (which had previously throughout his life. The picturess he took later the glass negatives, because of their fragility Ibeen allocated for the Nicholls lecture), sup- in his career, including those of the Yukon, and format, we had never previously been plemented by a grant from the Gladys Krieble have never been digitized and were relatively able to make them accessible to researchers. Delmas Foundation. The successful candidate little known. When Tyrrell left the employ of After the raw images were processed for was Liz Ridolfo, who had just graduated from the Geological Survey in 1898 he went to the web delivery and explanatory captions were the Master of Information Studies program at Klondike and set up in business as a mining provided, they were then uploaded to the the University of Toronto in the spring of 2011. consultant and surveyor. He spent from 1899 web by way of the Fisher Library’s Flickr Given her e x ten sive e x p er ienc e i n d i g it i z i n g to 1905 based in Dawson City, investigating stream, in a separate collection consisting of special collections materials, the first project properties throughout the Klondike for fifteen different themed sets, called the Joseph Liz tackled was to scan and describe a col- various companies and individuals and Burr Tyrrell photograph collection: http:// lection of hundreds of photographs taken by overseeing development on mining claims of www.flickr.com/photos/thomasfisherlibrary/ J.B. Tyrrell of the Yukon, in the gold rush h i s ow n on Hu n k er Cre e k , B on a n z a Cre e k a nd collections/72157627117893725/ period covering the years 1898–1905. Joseph Sourdough Hill. All of these activities, as well Liz has continued to digitize rare material Burr Tyrrell (1858–1957) had a long and distin- as mining work he undertook in Quebec and f rom t he Fi s her c ol le c t ion s , w h ic h h a s a l s o b e en guished career as a geologist, mining engineer, Ontario in 1906 and 1907, were documented added to our Flickr page, including both Bishop historian and successful businessman. His by photographs. White and R.J. Davidson’s nineteenth- and work for the Geological Survey of Canada Liz scanned and described almost 1,400 e a rly t went ie t h- c ent u r y photog r aph s of C h i n a . is well known, particularly his adventures in images taken by Tyrrell during this period, In addition to the project work, Liz has been e x plor i n g t he B a r ren L a nd s re g ion, i n nor t her n which have never been easily publicly available. introduced to both the public service and Manitoba and Saskatchewan and Nunavut. The images include panorama photographs behind-the-scenes technical processing aspects The photographs and other documents related of the Klondike, photos of Dawson City of rare book and special collections librarian- to this were digitized approximately a decade before and after the fire of 1899, and photos ship as part of her experience as the Nicholls ago and form part of the Fisher Library’s of the Klondike depicting the surrounding Fellow. We have benefitted enormously from Barren Lands digital collection: http://link. area and mining operations for each year her enthusiasm, her fresh ideas and approach library.utoronto.ca/Tyrrell/index.cfm. during the period 1898–1907. The images to the profession, and her tireless work to make little known photographic treasures available to scholars and the general public. Liz’s five fAcing pAge: The creation of Eve (left), the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (centre) and Jacob’s month stint at Fisher is almost at an end, and discovery that he has been tricked into marrying Leah (right). THiS pAge, lefT To rigHT: Chinese I hope she enjoyed her time with us as much as Beggar. Chung King [189-] from the set R.J. Davidson China Photos 189-; 44 Hunker. Midnight Lunch. we did. I am most grateful to Hilary Nicholls Apl. 16, 1903 (from 1903 Klondike photographs set); Mary Rufus and two children drowned at sea for her support of this valuable and productive 1942 (from the Charles Henry Douglas Clarke collection). initiative. 12

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