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Series 11: Unpublished Writings - Non-fiction

Dates: 1927-1972
Extent: 2 cm of textual records


Scope and Content

This series contains typescripts, research material, and notes pertaining to ten of Raddall's unpublished non-fiction works.

Access Restrictions

None.


29.4 "Repairing the Deep-sea Cables" - circa 1927 - 4 pp.
  "Keeping the Fleet Afloat" - circa 1940 - 5 pp.; Notes - 2 pp.
  "Francis Freeman Tupper" - n.d. - 4 pp.; Research notes - 16 pp.
  "There's a Run on the Fishing Banks" - 1952 - 10 pp.
  "Thomas Chandler Haliburton was a poor business man" - circa 1955 - 4 pp.; Research material 8 pp.
  "An Unforgettable Character" - circa 1955 - 7 pp. (2 copies, each has a different set of revisions)
  "Traces of Early French in Queens County and Adjacent Parts of Nova Scotia" - n.d. - 16 pp.
  "The Bank of Acadia" - May 19, 1965 - 1 p.; plus research notes and materials - 11 pp. -- See also Correspondence Series, Bank of Acadia, Box 37, Folder 26
  "Minesweeping at Halifax, 1943" - 1972 - 10 pp.
  "The Story of the Canadian Legion Branch No. 38, from 1931-1946: A Brief Sketch by Thomas H. Raddall"- June 6, 1981 - 10 pp.
10.21 Contracts between THR and Doubleday for unpublished (?) "McNab's Island (tentative)," "True Tales if Romance, Sea and Courts (tentative)," and "Sable Island: Graveyard of the Atlantic" - March 21, 1963