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Family correspondence and personal material [textual record, graphic material]

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Series

Date:

[ca. 1899-1990].

Reference:

R12219-3-9-E

Type of material:

Photographs, Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3720427

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M. B. Williams fonds

Family correspondence and personal material
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Series includes:

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Date(s):

[ca. 1899-1990].

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

11 photographs : 10 b&w, 1 col.
8 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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This series consists of M. B. Williams's family correspondence, related personal material, and photographs. Most of the family correspondence is between Williams and her mother, sister "Brownie", and niece Ruth Wertheimer. The earliest letter is written to her family while she was studying at the University of Toronto in 1899 or 1900 and gives details of her boarding arrangements. Most of the letters date from the 1930s when she moved to London, England, with Mrs. Zoe Herridge and relate personal news, plays, travels, the latest fashions, and news of Canadian acquaintances overseas, like Charlotte Whitton in one letter. An exchange of letters with A. B. Buckley is the only correspondence with romantic implications though it also describes her difficulties in meeting the publisher's deadline for "Guardians of the Wild" in 1936. There is relatively little mention otherwise of her research or work with National Parks.

The photographs in this series depict Williams (including a studio portrait), her sister Brownie's wedding, niece Frances Girling, and family grave stones in the Carpenter cemetery in Brockville. Notes for the presentation of a painting in the memory of her and her brother Ernest Williams by their nieces provide additional biographical information.

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Private
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