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Morley Callaghan fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1917-1992.

Reference:

R2358-0-7-E, MG30-D365

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

106709

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Morley Callaghan fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1917-1992.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

12.985 m of textual records.
18 photographs : 13 b&w ; 5 col.

Language of material:

English

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Morley Callaghan fonds [textual record]

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Fonds consists of the personal papers and literary manuscripts of Morley Callaghan, including the following series: Correspondence, Morley Callaghan's Own Letters; Correspondence, Alphabetical; Correspondence, Chronological; Correspondence, Additional Material; Contracts and Financial Records; Contracts and Financial Records, Additional Material; Literary Manuscripts, Published Novels and Memoir; Literary Manuscripts, Unpublished Novels; Literary Manuscripts, Drama; Literary Manuscripts, Individual Short Stories; Literary Manuscripts, Individual Short Stories, Additional Material; Literary Manuscripts, Collected Short Stories; Non-fiction Manuscripts; Student Notes; Fragmentary Manuscripts; Manuscripts by Others; CBC Radio, Of Things to Come; Printed Material; Memorabilia; Memorabilia, Additional Material; Manuscript Notebooks.

The fonds also contains photographs including portraits of Morley Callaghan by Jack Marshall, 1950-1959; and portraits and snapshots depicting Morley Callaghan and friends: Irving Layton, Anna Layton, Margaret Atwood, Graeme Gibson, Yvor Winturs, Edmund Wilson, James T. Farrell and Cleo Paturis, and Betty Gardner. These photographs were taken by Jean Gainfort Merrill and unidentified photographers, ca. 1930-1980.

A second donation (accession 1995-0023) was received in 1994 from Morley Callaghan's sons, Michael and Barry Callaghan, of Toronto, Ontario (Vols. 50-69). This material is largely made up of literary manuscripts, copies of published work in periodicals and articles written about Morley Callaghan. These records are arranged by the box order as presented at the time of donation.

Contracts and financial records, memorabilia and identified manuscripts of short stories also received as part of accession 1995-0023 were added previously to the Callaghan Papers (MG 30 D 365, vols. 45-48) as the following series: Contracts and Financial Records - Additional Material; Memorabilia - Additional Material; and Literary Manuscripts - Individual Short Stories - Additional Material. Correspondence found in the second accession had been intergrated into the Correspondence - Additional Material series. Vol. 50-69 (as described in the previous paragraph) represent the balance of this second accession (1995-0023).

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Callaghan, Morley, 1903-1990

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Callaghan, Morley, 1903-1990 : Morley Callaghan was born in Toronto in 1903 and educated at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall. He worked for the Toronto Star, where he met the American writer Ernest Hemingway, before being called to the bar in 1928. He published his first stories in American magazines and expatriate literary journals in Paris, and his first novel, Strange Fugitive (1928), was published in New York by Scribner's, who also published his first collection of short stories, A Native Argosy (1929). Callaghan became part of the expatriate literary scene in Paris when he and his wife, Loretto, spent a summer there in 1929, renewing his friendship with Hemingway and meeting Scott Fitzgerald, Robert McAlmon, James Joyce et al. These experiences resulted in his acclaimed memoir That Summer in Paris (1963).

Between the late 1920s and mid-1930s, Callaghan published five novels in addition to Strange Fugitive: It's Never Over (1930), A Broken Journey (1932), Such is My Beloved (1934), They Shall Inherit the Earth (1935) and More Joy in Heaven (1937), all published in New York and Toronto. He also published two collections of short stories and a Paris-printed novella, No Man's Meat. There was a ten-year hiatus before Callaghan's next books appeared: the juvenile's Luke Baldwin's Vow (1948), the quasi-historical/quasi-fictional The Varsity Story (1948), and the novel The Loved and the Lost (1951).

After another hiatus, Callaghan published four more books: a collection of short stories, Morley Callaghan's Stories (1959), the novels The Many-Coloured Coat (1960) and A Passion in Rome (1961), as well as his memoir That Summer in Paris (1963). Callaghan's last novels include A Fine and Private Place (1975), Close to the Sun Again (1977), A Time for Judas (1983), Our Lady of the Snows (1985) and A Wild Old Man on the Road (1988). His play Season of the Witch was published in 1976, the novellas No Man's Meat and the Enchanted Pimp in 1978, and another collection of short stories, The Lost and Found Stories, in 1985.

Morley Callaghan won the Governor General's Award for The Loved and the Lost in 1951. He received the Royal Bank of Canada Award in 1970 and was named to the Order of Canada in 1983. He died in 1990.

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid 1898 lists the files in vols. 1-69. MSS1898 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000468.pdf

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General note:

Most of the material was received in 1992 and 1994 from Morley Callaghan's sons, Michael and Barry Callaghan, of Toronto, Ontario. The notes and clippings relating to the CBC series "Of Things to Come" 1943-1944 (vols. 41-42) were transferred in 1978 by the Government Archives Division from its CBC holdings.

Subject heading:

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Canadian literature

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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115-020361-7
119-020134-8
119-020146-1
121-020401-0
122-020006-9
122-020135-9
1993-371 DAP
1994/0075
1994/0114
1995-200 DAP
1995/0023
1995/0023 MSS
93-111
95-163
MG30-D365

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-D365
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 D 365] 1--49

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R2358] 50--69

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1898] 139

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [CALLAGHAN, MORLEY 1993-371]

[Consultation 90 Open]

5191;

[Consultation 90 Open]

TCS 00481;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions. Copyright unknown except on photographs taken by Jack Marshall where copyright is held by Jack Marshall. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada.

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