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The Patrick Hamilton Ewing Collection of
Moodie-Strickland-Vickers-Ewing Family Papers

National Library of Canada


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Series IV. Clippings and Memorabilia

A. Clippings

    Undated Clippings
Box No. File No. Description
Box 13 f.1 About Brighton
   Found in bound scrapbook
  f.2 An agricultural co-operative society for Beckford.
   Found in bound scrapbook.
  f.3 May be Bruce's heart. Leaden casket dug up at Melrose Abbey.
   Found in unbound issue of Victoria Magazine.
  f.4 [Moodie, Susanna?]
   Which!
   Poem found in bound scrap book.
  f.5 Obituary. Sarah Joseph Hale.
   Found in bound scrapbook.
  f.6 [Poem]
   Found in bound scrapbook.
  f.7 Repudiation: the first (or falling) fytte. 2 p.
   Poem (play?) concerning treatment of Blacks in Natal.
  f.8 [Untitled newspaper article]
   Incomplete. Found in the bound scrapbook. Concerns the Strickland family.
  f.9 [York Historical] Society
   Incomplete. Found in the bound scrapbook. Concerns Agnes Fitzgibon as secretary of the York Historical Society.

Dated Clippings
  f.10 "Extract from Calcutta Gazette dated May 20th 1824" 1 leaf
   Ms. copy of newspaper article concerning Thomas Moodie's career in India and his death.
  f.11 Moodie, J.W. Dunbar
   Go it, niggers, 1850.
   Poem. At end: "Belleville, Oct. 18, 1850".
  f.12 Moodie, J.W. Dunbar
   Brodir's fleet in Clontarf Bay, 1858.
   From The Spiritual Telegraph, New York, vol. 7, no. 13, 1858.
  f.13 Brian's battle (Battle of Clontarf), AD 1014.
   Incomplete
   From The Spiritual Telegraph. New York, vol. 7, no. 2, Saturday May 7, 1859.   Concerns Earl Sigurd (Son of Hlovder) of Orkney.
  f.14 Old and new
   From the Montreal Gazette, ca 186- .
   Concerns Col. Brown Chamberlin, second husband of Agnes Dunbar Moodie.
  f.15 Moodie, Donald
The mode of avoiding wars with natives.
   Ms. copy of a letter sent to the Edinburgh Review, January 3, 1861 [with corrections by author?]
  f.16 Book notice. Scenes and adventure as a soldier and a settler during half a century. By J.W. Dunbar Moodie, late Sheriff of the County of Hastings...
   Book review, (Guelph), October [16?], 1866. 2 copies
  f.17 Death of Ex-Sheriff Moodie
   Obituary. [post October 23, 1869]
  f.18 The late J.W. Dunbar Moodie, Esq.
   Obituary notice from [...Her]ald..., [October 23, 1869?] (2 clippings)
  f.19 Moodie, Mary H.
   In memoriam: John Wedderburn Moodie died Oct. 22nd, 1869 at Belleville, Ont., aged 71.
  f.20 [Untitled newspaper article]
   [post 1874]. Concerns the Strickland, Moodie and Traill families.
  f.21 Canadian Institute. Rev. Dr. Scadding on "Canadian Noms de Plume".
   Article. (Streetsville), January [1876?]
   Found in bound scrapbook.
  f.22 The late Susanna Moodie. A biographical sketch of a well-known Canadian author. Her death in Toronto.
   Obituary, 1885.
   Found in bound scrapbook.
  f.23 Mrs. Susanna Moodie, the distinguished Canadian authoress.
   Obituary, April 9, 1885.
  f.24 By a special contributor. Old and new. The following obituary notice of one of the ablest and most laborious of the Strickland sisters (for a copy of which we have to thank one of her Canadian relatives), appeared in the Ipswich Daily Journal of June 22, 1888: The late Jane Strickland.
   Clipping from the Montreal Gazette.
  f.25 [Marriage of Ethel Vickers and S.W. Ewing]
November 11 [1891]
   2 leaves containing 6 clippings about the marriage and other social events.
  f.26 New Minnesota through line. Port Arthur, Duluth and Western Incorporated at Minneapolis.
   Clipping from Chicago Herald, May 3, 1892.
   Found in bound scrapbook.
  f.27 Gone to his rest
   Obituary notice for J.J. Vickers, 1896.
   Found in bound scrapbook.
  f.28 [Obituary notices for J.J. Vickers] 1896
   2 clippings and a calling card of Mrs. John J. Vickers, in an envelope inscribed
    "Memories of my dear father John J. Vickers"
  f.29 Death of John J. Vickers.
  Obituary notice, 1896.
   Found in bound scrapbook.
  f.30 Death of John J. Vickers.
   Obituary notice from The Globe (Toronto), Thursday, March 12, 1896.
   Found in bound scrapbook.
  f.31 [Obituary of J.J. Vickers]
   Clipping, March 12, 1896.
  f.32 [Untitled newspaper article]
   Clipping from Chicago Evening Post, February 11, 1899. Concerns C.P. Traill.
  f.33 Fenton, Faith
   People we meet. Mrs. Catharine Parr Traill.
   Article from Canadian Home Journal, [post 1903?], p. 5-6.
   Found in bound scrapbook.
  f.34 A Hero of the late war.
   Article from The Orkney Herald, Wednesday February 11, 1903.
    Concerns the career of Benjamin Moodie in South Africa and his death.
  f.35 [Untitled newspaper article]
   Clipping [ca 1912]. Concerns Sir Matthew Aylmer (1842-1923) and Agnes Strickland, who knew his father.
  f.36 James Herbert Maguire.
   Obituary notice.
   Found in The Birthday Scripture Text Book.
  f.37 Vickers, Ellen Florence.
   Obituary notice, March 29, 1949.
   Found in The Birthday Scripture Text Book.
  f.38 Vickers, Catherine, M.
    [Scrapbook, 1889]
   26 leaves

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    Contents, f.38
  p.1 Agnes Strickland. The Literary World. April 1, 1887. [book review]
  p.2 Life of Agnes Strickland. By her sister, Jane Margaret Strickland. The Athenaeum. [book review]

Life of Agnes Strickland. By her sister, Jane Margaret Strickland. Manchester Examiner and Times, April 13, 1887. [book review]
  p.3 Life of Agnes Strickland. The Whitehall Review, March 17, 1887. [book review]

Life of Agnes Strickland. The St. James's Gazette, April 13, 1887. [book review]

Agnes Strickland. St. Stephen's Review, March 12, 1887. [book review]
  p.4 Life of Agnes Strickland. By her sister, Jane Margaret Strickland. The Liverpool Courier, March 14, 1887. [book review]
  p.4,5 Life of Agnes Strickland. Local incidents. The Ulverston News, March 12, 1887.
  p.6,7 Life of Miss Strickland. By her sister, Jane Margaret Strickland. The Liverpool Courier, March 14, 1887. [book review]
  p.7 Life of Agnes Strickland. The Daily Free Press (Aberdeen), March 19, 1887 [book review]
  p.8 The Life of Agnes Strickland. Dundee Advertiser, April 6, 1887 [book review]
A literary lady. The Globe and Traveller, March 17, 1887. [book review]
  p.9 Life of Agnes Strickland. Liverpool Mercury. March 29, 1887 [book review]
Life of Agnes Strickland. Glasgow Herald. May 11, 1887 [book review]
Place aux dames! The Leeds Mercury, March 14, 1887 [book review]
  p.10 Life of Agnes Strickland. The Northern Whig (Belfast), May 11, 1887 [book review]
[Book review of Life of Agnes Strickland.] The Echo (London), March 24, 1887.
  p.10,11 Life of Agnes Strickland, Nottingham Daily Guardian, April 6, 1887. [book review]
  p.11 New books and magazine. Leicester Chronicle, April 2, 1887. [book review of Life of Agnes Strickland]
  p.12 Life of Agnes Strickland. The Aberdeen Journal, April 7, 1887. [book review]
  p.12,13 The Life of Agnes Strickland. The Northern Chronicle, March 16, 1887. [book review]
  p.13 [Book review of The Life of Agnes Strickland]. Illustrated London News, April 30, 1887.
  p.14 The historians of the Queens of England. John Bull (London), May 21, [1887]. [book review]
  p.14,15 Life of Agnes Strickland. Saturday Review, June 4, [1887] [book review]
  p.16 In memoriam. [obituary of Catherine Moodie Vickers].
  p.17 [Untitled article on spiritualism, by J.W. Dunbar Moodie?] [The Spiritual Telegraph?], n.d. incomplete
  p.18 [Article], April 6, 1858. incomplete Concerns the nature of love.

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B. Memorabilia

Box 13
Oversize
McNeill, Dun[can]
   Document concerning the estate of James Moodie, 1839.
   Printed document concerning Dunbar Moodie's trial, [1865?] p. 19 only
Box 14 Moodie, J.W. Dunbar
   Bookplate, n.d.
   1 complete, 1 cut

Inscription: J.W. Dunbar Moodie, Lieut. 21st Fusrs
Box 14 Vickers, Catherine Moodie
   Calling card, n.d.

"Mrs. Vickers, The Misses Vickers". Found in the bound scrap book.
Box 14 Moodie, Susanna
   Lock of hair, n.d.

Wrapped in paper, inscribed: "Our dear mothers hair who died 8th April 1885. C.M.V. Catherine Moodie Vickers".
Box 14 The Birthday Scripture Text Book. London: W. Mack, 1881?
   Inscribed: "Ethel Rosina Vickers from Georgie and Katie, March 4, 1881."
Box 14 The Orkney album. n.p. n.d.
   12 photographs on 1 leaf

Inscription: "C.M. Vickers from M. Anderson. Kirkwall, Orkney. Sept. 1884".
Box 13
f.40
Strickland, Jane, estate
   Executor's account of receipts and payments, 1889.
   2 p. on 1 leaf
Box 13
f.41
Ewing, Ethel R.
   Declaration of citizenship, August 10, 1914.
   1 leaf

Printed document
Box 13
f.42
Christmas card list. 1939.
   1 leaf

Ts. list
Box 14 Valentine's snapshots. 12 real photographs for your album.
   Wells, Somerset: T.W. Phillips, n.d.
   12 photographs: b&w
Box 14 All Hallows, Berkyngechirche, E.C.3: a guild church of Toc H.
   12 photographs: b&w
Box 15 Moodie, Catherine M.
   "A small bit of brocade of Catherine Moodie's wedding dress to John Joseph Vickers.    Made over many times for members of family".

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