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Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Alfred Charles William Harmsworth [textual record]

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1897.

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R7156-0-4-E, MG27-IIH8, Volume number: 1

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102347

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Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Alfred Charles William Harmsworth
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Date(s):

1897.

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0.1 cm of textual records (2 p.).

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English

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Item is a letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, dated 15 July 1897, introducing a young American journalist named Ivy Isobel Garrison.

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Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe, 1865-1922

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Correspondent: Laurier, Wilfrid, Sir, 1841-1919

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Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe, 1865-1922 : Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, born in Ireland in 1865, was one of the most spectacular of popular journalists and newspaper publishers in the history of the British press. Beginning his career as a free-lance contributor to popular periodicals, he launched in 1888 his first independent effort, Answers to Correspondents, a weekly of informative tidbits. Other publications were gradually acquired that formed the basis for what became the world's largest periodical combine, the Amalgamated Press. In 1894, Harmsworth bought the London Evening News, launching his career in newspaper publishing. Continuing to popularize, he inaugurated such specialties as woman's columns, serials, and social gossip in this and in later papers that he founded, including the Daily Mail in 1896 and the Daily Mirror in 1903. He gained control of the dying Times in 1908, putting it back on its feet with changes in makeup and editorial policy. His newspaper campaigns during World War I, particularly those concerning faulty munitions, national conscription, and food rationing, were determining factors in England's conduct of the war, and his support of Lloyd George in 1916 was instrumental in bringing the downfall of the Asquith government. He was made Viscount of Northcliffe in 1917. Harmsworth died in 1922. "Northcliffe, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount" The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. 9 April 2001. 206813

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Letters of introduction, 1897 Ivy Isobel Garrison, 1897

Journalists, 1897

Prime ministers Canada
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MG27-IIH8
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Volume [MG27 II H 8] 1

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