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. Gift of Frances Helen Dafoe. BELOW: Travel article written by Kildare Dobbs. Gift of Linda Kooluris Dobbs. FACING PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Sketch of Lawrence Hill by Karin Hadfield. Gift of Lawrence Hill. Photograph of Phyllis Grosskurth, part of her final gift to the Fisher. Lorna Goodison with Edward Chamberlin. Gift of Lorna Goodison and Edward Chamberlin. R B and D Wayne and Shuster show and Mr. Dressup, B gifted drafts, notes, submissions, the closing ceremonies of the Winter and other material for the Oxford University Olympics, and the Charlottetown Festival. Press Anthology of Canadian Literature; editorial As a freelance designer, Frances created work by Donna Bennett and Russell Brown on costumes for many professional performers, various manuscripts, including Lorna Crozier, dancers, and figure skaters, including Michael Michael Tregebov, and Doris McCarthy; Burgess, Sharon, Lois & Bram, Alan icke, correspondence; a Sheila Watson file relating Al Waxman, Karen Kain, Isabelle Brasseur to her PhD thesis; and other material related and Lloyd Eisler, Kurt Browning, Scott to the work of Bennett and Brown. Hamilton, Elizabeth Manley, Elvis Stojko, rough the support of the Joan Walwyn Katarina Witt, and Kristi Yamaguchi. In Randall Fund, we received the correspondence Frances published a book, Figure Skating: Eight between M B and Lana Peters Centuries of Sport and Inspiration. She was with the assistance of Professor Rosemary awarded the Order of Ontario in and Sullivan. e papers include letters and notes the Order of Canada in in recognition of sent by Lana Peters (Svetlana Alliluyeva her contributions to costume design and sport –, daughter of Joseph Stalin) to Mary in Canada. In her final donation to the Fisher Burkett, a prominent British felt artist and Library we received drafts of Figure Skating and historian, over a twenty-year period from the Arts: Eight Centuries of Sport and Inspiration; to . Print articles about Svetlana Alliluyeva files pertaining to an exhibition she worked on during and after her defection to the United entitled ‘Art Forms of Skating’; many costume States from the Soviet Union in also form design sketches; design booklets; personal magazines); his contributions to CBC Radio part of the papers. figure skating files; photographs; skating programs such as ‘Anthology’ and ‘Ideas’; a M B donated drafts and notes memorabilia; family records; skating-related large amount of travel files pertaining to the for e Reason for Time, You Again, Casting tapes and CDs; and other materials relating places he visited and wrote about from all the Angel, e Last Resort, and Presto!; writing- to her life and work. around the world; a significant amount of related and personal correspondence; her blog; is year the Fisher received a substantial correspondence; personal files and documents and columns from e Yukon News, including donation from L K D, relating to his family’s history; professional ‘Soapbox’ from the s. wife of poet, short story and travel writer, files including cutouts and printouts of his P J C donated K D (–). Kildare published articles; photographs; notebooks his delightful fifty-year correspondence Dobbs was born in India, raised in Ireland, and and journals; audiovisual and digital materials; (–) with Robert Finch, as well as audio educated in Dublin, Cambridge, and London. and other files relating to his life and work. cassette recordings of Finch reading his poetry, After serving in the Royal Navy during the F, S G (New speaking, and playing the piano (recorded in Second World War, and subsequently in York) donated corrected first pass proofs and the s). e Library also holds the papers Tanganyika (Tanzania), Dobbs migrated to ‘foul matter’ for e Poetry of Derek Walcott, of Robert Finch. Canada in , where he worked in journal- –. J C gave research, notes, ism and publishing as the managing editor of G F donated his and other background material for The Saturday Night and book editor of e Toronto personal and professional files and correspond- Tightrope Walker: Autobiographical Writings Star Weekly. During his distinguished career he ence; his personal journals—selections from of Anne Wilkinson. contributed to most of the major magazines and which form the basis of e Writing Life: is past September we lost the brilliant newspapers in Canada as a freelance writer. His Journals, –; the Twentieth Anniversary F H D (–). autobiography, Running to Paradise (), won edition of Travels By Night proofs; scrapbooks of Frances Dafoe was a costume designer and a Governor General’s Award. He also published his ‘Ephemeral Newspaper Scribbling’; reviews; former Olympic figure skater who competed various collections of short stories, novellas, and and other material related to his life and work. with Norris Bowden. Together they captured poetry. He was awarded the Order of Ontario L F F of the Siena- four Canadian titles and two World Figure in and installed as Writer-in-Residence Toronto Centre based at the University of Skating Championships, winning the silver at the University of Toronto in . Dobbs Siena has begun to donate papers related to the medal at the Winter Olympics. With the lived in Toronto with his wife, Linda Kooluris many author events held in Siena and Toronto conclusion of her skating career, Dafoe worked Dobbs, a noted portrait artist, painter, and through their multi-year exchange program. as a costume designer and Olympic judge. An photographer. In he received the Order of G G donated his extensive employee of the CBC for almost forty years, Canada. Included in this donation are drafts correspondence and other material related she designed costumes for a variety of popular of his published works; other writing drafts to his own writing and to his work with the television shows and festivals, including e (including his writing for newspapers and Harbourfront International Author’s Festival. Nettleford and Derek Walcott; ink doodles and drawings; appearances; photographs; and issues of Saturday Night, for which J. Edward Chamberlin edited the illustrated Canadian poetry pages from January –January . M. E G gave the Reverend George Tsukornyk’s papers to the library. George J. (Iurii. Ia.) Tsukornyk was a Ukrainian Orthodox priest and teacher who composed and arranged Ukrainian music and directed choirs throughout Canada. He was born in Zhuravna, in the Zhydachiv region of Ukraine on April , and died in Ontario on May . Tsukornyk received his musical education from the Lviv State Conservatory and continued his studies in Vienna. He immigrated to Fort William, Ontario in , and held his first concert there on May of that same year. In he was ordained to the Orthodox priesthood. e papers include selected correspondence; a daily journal he kept while pastor of St. Mary’s Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Oshawa; as well as speeches and concert programs given at several Ukrainian Orthodox parishes. e final gift of P G includes drafts, research notes, photographs, editorial and other material related to her biographies of Melanie Klein, Margaret Mead, Freud and his circle, Lord Byron, Havelock Ellis, and John Addington Symonds — the bulk pertaining to Klein, Byron, and Freud; psychoanalytical research, conferences and activities; personal and professional cor- respondence; travel and research. e gift of M S H includes materials relating to writing and literary projects such as drafts and proofs for the Fieldnotes Chapbooks series; a significant amount of correspondence with specific individuals (Lynda Lange, Norma Lundberg, M. C G donated at the University of Toronto as a part-time Barry Dempster, and Irene McGuire); guest anatomical drawings and illustrations by her lecturer. He also authored Pictorial Human lectureship at the University of Toronto; as late husband, S G. e Embryology in and Outline of Cat Anatomy well as journals and materials used in the Stephen Gilbert papers include anatomical with Reference to the Human in . Gilbert organization of various literary events and drawings of the adult human, adult embryo, also worked as a tattoo artist and historian, readings.