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Goldwin Smith fonds [textual record (chiefly microform)]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1844-1915.

Reference:

R4263-0-X-E, MG29-D69

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101440

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Goldwin Smith fonds
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Fonds includes:

4 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1844-1915.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

29 microfilm reels : positive.
0.9 cm of textual records (12 p.).

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence arranged chronologically and published works compiled and microfilmed by Cornell University.

Includes correspondence of Theodore Arnold Haultain, a bibliography of Smith's published works, subject index to Bystander columns in the Week and Toronto Weekly Sun and scrapbooks, 1844-1915. There is also correspondence concerning Canadian-American relations, Imperial relations, annexation, and Canadian politics, 1878-1909; correspondence from Sir John A. Macdonald relating to the Canadian Pacific Railway, federal politics, Ontario politics, Edward Blake, and Sir Francis Hincks 1878-1882; and letters from Smith to a student, or possibly junior professor at Oxford named Owen and to his mother Mrs. Owen, n.d.; 1864-1894. Photocopies, 12 pages; microfilm reels M-552, M-2181 to M-2208.

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Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910

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Correspondent: Macdonald, John A. (John Alexander), 1815-1891

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Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910 : Goldwin Smith was born in England in 1923 and educated at Oxford where he subsequently taught Modern History. In 1868, Smith emigrated to the United States to join the faculty of the newly established Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. He settled in 1871 and concentrated on journalism. The founder of various newspapers and periodicals including The Bystander (1880) and the Week (1883), Smith promoted closer commercial and political alliance of Canada with the United Kingdom, his lectures, essays and reviews revealed a wide interest in such contemporary issues as imperialism, Home Rule, prohibition, woman suffrage, evolution, biblical criticism and socialism. He became best known as the advocate of union with the US as a prerequisite to moral unification of the Anglo-Saxon race.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid includes a catalogue covering the documents on reels M-2181 to M-2208, published by Cornell University, and a descriptive list of the documents on reel M-552. MSS0363 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001438.pdf

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General note:

Originals received in 1973.

Location of originals note:

Correspondence and published works copied from originals held by Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Subject heading:

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Goldwin Smith - Authorship, 1844-1915 Canadian Pacific Railway, 1878-1882

Goldwin Smith - Correspondence, 1844-1915 Edward Blake, 1878-1882

T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold) Haultain - Correspondence, [between 1844 and 1915] Sir Francis Hincks, 1878-1882

Goldwin Smith - Bibliography, [between 1844 and 1915] The Bystander, [between 1844 and 1915]

Canada - Relations - United States, [between 1878 and 1919] Week and Toronto Weekly Sun, [between 1844 and 1915]

Imperial relations, [between 1878 and 1919]

Ontario - Politics and government, 1878-1882

Canada - Annexation to the United States

Canada
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MG29-D69
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG29 D 69] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 363] 40

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Microfilm reel M-2206

[Consultation 90 Open]

Textual records: microform

[Consultation90 Open]

Microfilm reel

[Consultation 90 Open]

M-2181--M-2205;

[Consultation 90 Open]

M-2207--M-2208;

[Consultation 90 Open]

M-552;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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