Series includes a small amount of correspondence received from Evelyn Cherry in 1987, including a letter to Lawrence from the Travel and Industrial Development Association of Great Britain and Ireland, 1939, correspondence relating to Lawrence Cherry's efforts to find work with the Saskatchewan government, 1956, and letters from Jack Ammon, Dallas Jones, Grant McLean, Florence James, Alistair Morrison, and others (container 30).
Series also contains extensive correspondence donated by Bill and Laverne Cherry in 1997. This includes largely personal correspondence to Evelyn and Lawrence Cherry, including letters from friends in the filmmaking business and letters from relatives. Included are carbon copies of some of Evelyn's replies. The later files largely contain cards from old friends and Evelyn's carbon copies of letters describing her life on Cortes Island in British Columbia; also included in the later files are letters from scholars, filmmakers and others interested in documenting her career.
Included in the series is extensive correspondence, 1951-1988, from Evelyn's sister, the Calgary painter Mary Spice Kerr, and her husband, artist Illingworth (Buck) Kerr, with references to other artists such as Jack Humphrey, Maxwell Bates, Laurence Hyde, Marion Nicholl, and Ernest Lindner. Also included are letters to Evelyn Cherry from her family in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, while she taught school and studied journalism in the United States during the late 1920s and when she went to England during the 1930s. There is also correspondence Evelyn Cherry received in England, including a letter from the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage referring to a possible film project and letters from John Grierson's sister Marion Grierson (Taylor).
Also included in the series is correspondence documenting Evelyn's early career with the National Film Board in Canada, with letters from A.E. Corbett of the Canadian Association for Adult Education; Russell Porter, Columbia University; Don Taylor, Strand Film Company; and Donald Fraser, with references to the Canadian Film Committee, Frank Badgley, the Allied Arts Council, and the Progressive Arts Club. The series includes many letters, dating throughout the Cherrys' lifetimes, from National Film Board colleagues and friends and other associates working in independent filmmaking in Canada. Among the correspondents are the following: John Grierson n.d., 1941; Graphic Associates Film Productions n.d.; William Davidson n.d., 1957; Klenman-Davidson Productions; Paul Burnford, Wilding Picture Corp., Detroit 1938-1939; Norman McLaren 1939, 1960; Stuart Legg 1941; Harry Bronfman 1945; Jack Long 1950; Peter Aykroyd 1950; Jack Bordelay 1952-1968; Jack Ammon 1954, 1957-1968; Julian Roffman, Meridian Productions 1955; Robert Anderson 1957-1966; Hugh Kemp 1957; Jean and Percy Newman 1959-1969; Fritz Speiss, Canadian Society of Cinematographers 1960; W.J. Singleton & Co., Film Counsellors 1960; Jenny Gilbertson 1960-1972, 1984; Wally Hamilton, Trans-Canada Films, Ltd. 1960; Kenneth Hutchinson 1960; Ernest Reid Films 1960, 1972; Jim Wright 1960; Laurence Hyde 1963-1986; Jean Réti 1964-1966; Crawley Films 1964, 1967; John Sime 1965, 1967; Barbara Cass-Beggs 1966; Dick Bird 1966; Margaret and Jim Beveridge 1967, 1974; Michael Spencer 1967; and Gordon Sparling 1975.
