This sub-series hold records relating to Sheila Grant's support for and close involvement in posthumous publishing projects related to George Grant by University of Toronto Press. These include George Grant: A Biography (1993) and Selected Letters (1996) by William Christian; George Grant in Conversation (1995), edited by David Cayley; George Grant and the Subversion of Modernity (1996), edited by Arthur Davis; The George Grant Reader (1998), edited by William Christian and Sheila Grant; and the four-volume Collected Works of George Grant (2000-2009), edited by Arthur Davis, Peter Emberley, and Henry Roper. The works best documented are those where she worked most closely with the editors: George Grant and the Subversion of Modernity, The George Grant Reader (which she co-edited), and the Collected Works.
The four-volume Collected Works of George Grant project spanned two decades. Her records relating to it include editorial correspondence, bibliographies created to guide the editors, plans of the proposed content and selection of texts, drafts of the editors' introductions, chronologies, and other "front matter". In addition, there are transcripts made of Grant's lectures and other unpublished writings in his notebooks, contracts with University of Toronto Press, permissions, anonymous reader reports, designs, reviews, and public response. Her correspondence with the editors Arthur Davis and Peter Emberley, and family member Edward Andrew (a professor of political science), who all promoted the idea of a "collected works" project, is of particular value for its genesis and early development.
The files for Subversion of Modernity hold her correspondence with editor Arthur Davis, records of the mini-conference of contributors to the book, and her annotations on chapter drafts, particularly Davis's chapter. She wrote the chapter, "George Grant and the Theology of the Cross", and edited Grant's own manuscripts and drafts to produce the chapter, "Celine's Trilogy". The records relating to The George Grant Reader include correspondence with William Christian, reports of the anonymous readers, corrected drafts of the introduction, and an edited draft of the manuscript. The sub-series also holds records relating to George Grant: A Biography by William Christian, including her annotations or corrections on his manuscript, and her short summary of the "bits of work" she did for Grant, from background research to sometimes writing the first draft (particularly for articles relating to abortion and euthanasia). There are also comments by Dennis Lee and Charles Taylor on the manuscript, copies of reader mail, and reviews.
