THE NEWSLETTER OF THE FRIEND

ISS E No .I I , Ju nel993

OF THE THOMAS FISHER RARE BOOK LIBRARY

ISSN 0840-5565

IE. Ty rrell: Explorerand Adventurer

Exactly one hund red years ago, on thelast day of May 1893, a party of six men,led by Joseph Burr Tyr rell , o f the Geo logi­C"J. ) Survey o f Canada. launched their rw onew Peterborough canoes at Athnbnscaland ing, a hu ndred miles north o f Edmon­ron, and began (heir descent of theArhab ascn River. The day was fair andcool - It W.IS still early spring In theAtbnbusca vall ey ; the leaves on the treeswere lust opening and the mosquitos hadnot yet nrrtved . The parry enjoyed theireffo rtless descent of the river as thecurrent bore them swlfuy north towardLake Arhabasca and the beginning of theirjourney o f explora tion through [he BarrenLand s. It was an auspi cious start for anextrao rd ina ry exped ition that was to lastseven months, cover 3200 miles. and testto the limit the physical endurance o f a llits members.

T he parry 's leader, J.B. Tyrre ll, was, althe age o f thirty-four, the veteran o f ni neprev iou s ex peditions for the Geologica lSu rvey. His assisrant on this trip w as hisyounger brother . J iffies Tyrrell . who hadspent a season at a meteorologi cal stationon Hudson B:IY and was [0 serve as theparty 's Inuit int erpreter. In add ition Tyrrellhad hired three Iroquo is bro thers from theCaughnaw aga Reserve near Montreal.These were Pierre. Lo uis, and MichelFrench, who had been recommended fortheir white water can oe ing skills (Pierrehad rece ntly sho t the Lachine Rapids fo rp leasure - on Christmas Day) . T he sixthmember o f the party W:IS a Prince Albertman, John Flett . pan Loucheux, anexperienced traveller in the north, andllu eru in the Chlpew yan langu age withsome knowledge of the language of theBarren Lands Inuit. Part W~IY down theAthabasca the party was join ed by a th irdcanoe and two addi tional men: JimCorrlgal, w ho was of ree descent, and

[B. 1Yn'e/la' lied Deer, Alberta, Nooember' 886.

Francois Maurice , part Chlpewya n, bothfrom the no-a-la-crosse area, where theyhad been hired by the Huds n Bay factoron Tyrrell 's behal f. This w as the party thatW<lS 10 tr iumph oyer all the obstacles thatnonhern wilderness travel could Invol ve-dangerous rapids , d ifficult portages,harsh weather, scarcity o f fuel for fires,shortages of food, insufficicn ll y warm

lo rhing, and a largely unknown route.The expedition located the SOurce o f

the Dubawnt River north o f Black I.ake.and canoed down th is river to its [oncturewith the Thelon tu ver flowing east fromGreat Slave Lake. The party then de­scended the Thelon to Baker take and onto Chesterfie ld Inlet on "Judson Bay. Fromhere they turned south down the coast,headi ng for the Hudson Bay POSI atChurchill, the only settlement on the coastat th is time . 11 was already late Septemberand bluer co ld weather , scarclry of game

for food , and 1:ICk of fuel made thetravelling diffi cuh . As the p:lrty struggledon, ice began to form along the shores ofthe b ay. They decided to cache one canoeand most or their equlprne ru in order 10

trow el more quick ly, racin g south to reachChurchi ll before the onset orw inter, fou rmen 10 each canoe, li ving on what fewducks they were able to shOOI on thewate r. Tyrrell later wrote how "the waterIh;1I W<lS splas hed over us by the w indfroze on ou r cloth es and beards. \VIe hadconstantly to b reak the ice from Ourpadd les, ' IS they became 100 heavy f r us10 sw ing." Eventually the ice became toothick for the canoes 10 continue. Almost allthe parry were now lOO de bilitated fromhunger and coldto contjnue overlandthrough the sno w, ulthough 'l'yrn..rll feltsur' they wert: close LO Churchil l. jtmCorrlgal nnd John Flett , the only tw o o fthe party with enough strength to wa lkmore than a few yards, vo lunteered to tryto reach the post on fOOL nnd bring ba k arescue party. In th ls desperate attemp tthey were successful, returning after twodays wnh dogrearns and drivers to take therest of the party in to Churchill - onlytw en ty miles dis tant.

Nor was the adventure ove r atChurchi l l. The parry w ailed until freezeup and then spent November and Decem­ber travelling ove rland 10 Wi nnipegby dogteum and on snowshoes. OnJanuary I , 1894, Tyrrell sent his fiancee inOttawa a telegram announ ing his safereturn: "Happy new year all we ll telegraph& write Manitoba Hotel Wi nn ipeg. " To theDi rector o f the Geo logical Survey he w iredthe proud message: "Co mplete successcrossed Barren Grounds explored Chester­field Inlet and west sho re or Hu dson Bay."

The current exhlb hion in the Th om asFisher Rare Book Library celebrates thehundredth annive rsary of this amazingexped itio n and tells the sto ry of the otherexpeditio ns wh ich Tyrrell led for theGcological Survey o f Canada. from 1884 10

1898. On the earliest o f these. in 1884,Tyrrell made a major discovery o f d inosaurbones in the Red Deer River valley andW:15 lh e Ors( to survey (he huge coal seams

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ncar Drumheller. Just over a hundredyears later , in 1985, ;1 major new museumopened at Drumhell er, named the RoyalTyrre ll Museum o f Paleont ol ogy In honouro f Tyrrell 's d iscoveries in 1884. LaterTyrrell led exped itions to northern Alberta .to ce ntral and nort hern Manitoba. nnd, in1892, to the region east of Lake Athabasca.

Despi te the hard ships of his 1893Barren Lands expedttl on, Tyrrell wasanxious 1"0 co mtnuc explo ring the area.Th e fo llo w ing year , in 189 , hc returned LO

the Barren Lands, accompanied by RobertMu nro Fergl lson, an adventurous youngScot w ho helped funcl the expedhlon. Th isl ime Tyrrel l foll owed the K:.1Z{tn River.once again travel ling through country thaiW:IS unknown except to its Inuit inhabit ­ants. Foll owing the maps which the Inuitd rew for him (so me o f the o rigl nals are ondisplay in the current exhibition), Tyrrelldiscovered a short cu t from the KazanRiver across 10 the oasr o f Hudson Bay.via a river w hich he nam ed the "Ferguson"after his travelling com panion. Thls routebrought the party ou r to Hudson Bay atNeville Bay, considerabl y 10 the south ofw here the previous year's expedition hademerged, and enabled them 10 rca hChurch ill on the 1st orOctober, we llbefore freeze up. Here they wai ledseveral weeks fo r the inl and rivers tofreeze solid ly eno ugh for travel , and thenSCi our by dogteam and sno wshoes fo r rheove rland trek 10 Winnipeg. reach ingOxfo rd I louse by a new and then corn ­pletely unknown rou te which was l.uerpaniall y utilized by the Hudson BayRailway.

In the years follo w ing his two BarrenLands expeditions Tyr rell was assigned tosurvey country between lakes Mani t baand Winnipegosis, bu t he missed theadventure o f the far north find felt over­looked a nd undervalued :It (he Survey.Then in 1898 he W~IS sent to the Yuk nand experienced the exciteme nt of theKlondike gold rush first hand . After seeingone pan of gravel y ield go ld worth morethan ;1 thi rd of his yearly salary at theSurvey, Ty rrell decided on a change o fcaree r. He spent the next six years :JS amining eng ineer and consu ltant in DawsonCity, worki ng his Ow n claims on HunkerCreek. In 1906, however, seekl ng a moresettled li fe wi th his family. he return ed tothe east and SCI up business ::IS ;:1 sue ess­Iu l min ing consultant in Toronto . Hebecame interesred in the go ld mining areaaround Porcupine in northern Ontario andin the 19205 he became managing direct rand then president of the Kirk land takeGo ld Mine. He continued as presidentuntil his retirement in 1955 - at the age

f ninety six - fW O years before his deathin 1958.

The materla ls on di splay at the FisherLibrary were selected from (he vo luminousco llection of papers and ot her materla lswhich j.B. Tyrrell left :15 .1 bequest (0 theUnivers ity of Toron to Library. 11'1c exhibi­tion gives an overvi ew orTyrrell 's careerat the Geo logical Survey and in ludesexamples of his field notebooks a ndorigi nal survey maps, his tell ers home tohis family, his orig inal phorogrnphs andlantern slides, together with mod ern

enlarge ments 1ll.ICJc especia lly fo r th isdisplay. and several of the originalChipewyan and Inuit 1ll:IPS from theBarren Lands exped itions, A small selec­tion of photogra phs from Tyrrell 'sKlondike years, after he left the Survey .can be seen in the Maclean Hu nter Roomon the first floo r.

The exhibition opened on Apri l 5,1993, with n receptio n for the Friends o fthe Fisher UbnlIY and for the descendan tsof th ~ Tyrrell famil y. Many members of thefunuly were abl e to a ttend, Includi ngJ.B.Tyrrell 's daught er-In-la w, Mrs. JoyceTyrrell , and three o f his grandchil d ren.Mrs. Kntherlne Stewart, 1\'1 1'5. Edith Au ck ­

land, and Mr. John Dalton , In additionseveral grandc hildren ofJ. B. Tyrrell'sbrother, James \VI. Tyrrell, were present.Davi I Pelly. author of 71Je Karans f ou rn eytnto a n Eme'8i118 Land. gave a sho rtaddress describing his own experiences inthe Barren lands retraci ng po rtions o fTyrrell's routes.

' M1C exhibition will be on view \.111111

Ju ly 30, 1993. A atnlog ue, j .s. '1),,,w/1,Explorerand Adoentnrer; describing theexhib ition and outli ning Tyrrell 's careerwi th 111 ' Geological Survey, has beenpublished by the Library wi th assistancefrom the Friends and Is available from theLibra ry III u cost of SI 5 ( free to Friends) .Both the exhibi tion and the cataloguewere prepared by Kathnrlne Martyn,Assistant Director of the Fisher Library ,w ho spent pan of her research leave Iolstyear wo rki ng on th is pro ject .

7j117'e/lj"mlly members at tbe ojxmlugoj tbe jB. '1)'" ../1 exbibttton, Aplil1993. Seated: Sara b SteWtn1,joyccTyrrell. SItU/dl llg: Katbenne Steusart ,Edttb A uckland, Sand ra Smytbers,Sbeelagb Smy tbers, j obn Dalton, HelenDIy /be, 1111gb Stetuart, j olm 'I,)wrell.

Another Vintage Year!

Serendi pi ty o ften pla ys a ro le in themanner donations arriv e at the Fisherlibrary. L'lst spring Richard Landonreceived a phone-call from Robert Milnes,ge ne ral mana ger and a fe rry-se ven yea rveteran of the fi rm of Cooper & Sca lly:wou ld we be Interested in acquiri ng theirarchives and libra ry? The firm, not ab le toco mpete with the desk-top publishingbusiness, was bei ng closed down, and ifwe were interested , we had three days 10

pack and remove the books and fliesbe fore me movers came. As Cooper &Beatty was one o f Canada 's pre-eminentad vertising art and design firms we weremost Interested. and within the spec ifiedtime li mit there we re a dozen palle ts inou r basement, p lied hi gh w ith boxes.These proved to be fi lled w ith a fascinat­ing variety of items, Includin g not only thefi rm's library o f books and periodicals ondes ign, type nnd adve rtis ing art, but alsoexam ples of fin e printing by n number o fImportan t private presses. Complete runso f some of the most Important Canadianand intern al lana i an and design periodi­cals fi lled our gift shelves. Books featuring

type designs by Carl Dair and AllanFleming stood beside those w hich hadwon international awards by otherdesigners. The archives included genera loffice fli es, fin ancial records and inter­office correspo ndence , pho tographs andproof copies of books, mock-ups forexhibitions, advert ising campaigns andconferences. Cooper & Beatty wasfounded as a typograph ic serv ice in 1921by E,T, Cooper and L,W, Beatty , In theL930s it began to specia lize in designingtype for advertisi ng agencies. Bothfounders reti red in the 1950s and W.E.Trevett , a typographic designer, becamepresident, Employing such we l l-kno w ngraph ic designers as Allan Fleming, CarlDair, Jim Donoahue and Ken Rod mell , thefirm was quickly recognized as top in itsfield and became I' -spo nslble fo r designingmost of Canada 's consumer art . TIl erecords o f Cooper & Beatty, together wi ththelr sister companies- Headl iners o fCanada, Linotype Composing Company,Lon don Ty pesetting Company and Sw ift- D­Type were nll included in th is donation bythe parent flrm, jannock Enterprises,

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Btndtng fora n illustrated man uscript copya/ Robert Broumlng 'spoem In a gondo la,created by Alberto Sa llgolSki, GIjI ojl ouIs Me/z(lCk.

mak ing the co llec tio n an Importantresource for those study ing Canadia npublishing and printing hi sto ry.

Another in teresting collection carne tous this year from (he library of Ronal dPeters, currently p resident o f the Friendsof the Fisher Lib rary. His gift consisted ofsome fi fty·four books, all in superbcondition, elghteen of which were printedbefore 1599, Th ese included John Acton'sed ition of consttnntone leglfimae ecclestaetottusque regionis angltcanae ... (Paris,15(4), the first appearance of the typefacekn own us "Textura 70", which was used asthe proto type for English black letter; the1521 OjJer" o f Lactaruius, with a large titlepage woodbloc k by Hans Ho lbe in ; andthe second ed ition of Henri Estlenne's firstwork In French: Tvatcte de la confo rmneau ICII/guogefi'''tlf ois ,wee legrec. (Paris,1569) , Oth er works donated by Mr. Petersincl uded several dozen books from theeighteenth and ulneteeruh cemury,examples o f twentieth-century Oneprinting and a selection o f boo ks onbooks. Th ose Interested in fine bind ingsmay w ish to examine the copy o f theDance 01aeatb by Francis Douce (Londo n,1833) which came from the bindingcollec tio n of Sir David Salomens and isbo und in full calf by Bed ford ,

Oth er additions 10 Our holdi ngs o f fineb ind ings came from Sarah Anson­Cartwright and Marion Rooke. MissRooke's contribution was a 1953 edi tion ofElizabeih OilYQ/lee/l by Richard Oimbleby,handsomel y bound by Zaehnsdo rf, wi th adelightful fo re-edge paintin g of theCoro nation coach, Ms. Anson -Cartwrightdo naled two books on religious an andchurches in France , The w or ks are not inthemselves rare, but of Interest for theirassociation with Douglas Duncan, theCanadia n art collector and galle ry owner.Du ncan, who had rud ied the an ofbookb indi ng in France, had sewn andcased these vo lumes, but never managedto finish them, leaving us his notes onhow they were to be bound and decoratedon the cardboard casings.

The name of Will iam Boyne may notbe familiar to the average researcher, butment ion it to any num ismatist, and itwould immediately be recog nized as beingthat o f the outstanding nlneteemh-cemuryco in co llec tor and author of several boo ks

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on Engl ish and European coi ns. Boyne'sbest kn own work is Tokens Issued In (beseoenteentb century 1/1 England, trolandand U'ltlles by corporattons; merchants,tradesmen, etc, (Londo n, 1858) , though hew rote man y o thers. Cop ies of all hiswo rks. journals, family letters, portfolio ofengravings and sales catalogues weredonated last sp ri ng to the Fisher Library byo ne o f his desce nda nts, William Harshaw .

Born in leeds , Eng land , in 1814 Into awealthy family - hi fath er was :I tobaccoimport er , man ufacturer , w holesaler anddistr ibutor - William Boyne entered thefamily busin ess :11 the age o f six teen. IIIhealth forced his early retirement , and in1853 he moved to London , w here fromthat da te unt 11 1867. he atte nded everyImportant auction and sale featuring co inso r drawings. He later moved 10 Florence,w here he d ied in 1893. In 1896, hiscollection of coi ns, which numbered ove rthirty-thousan d pi eces, W:l S auctioned o ffby Sotheby's in a series of fWO ten-daySil l es. Th e London Times descri bed thi seven t as "the most Irnpon aru, in po in t o fmagnitude and general interest, that hasever been offered ... under the IW11l11ler inEng land ."

Boy ne was n meti culous recorder. 11i5journals contain detailed accou nts of histravels , in cludi ng ex penses. Like a moderntour ist buying postcards, he also co llec tedengravings o f the pl aces he visited, laterhaving them bound Into vo lumes, eachprefaced with a li st o f co ntents in his ow nhand , gi ving (he locatton of each pri nt.The albums contain several hund redengravings and etchi ngs of scenes inPran ce , ltnly and England . Particularly fi neare those by Gia mbattis ta Piranesi and theBritish nineteenth-ce ntury artist, WilliamSho rter Boys.

O ver the past decade Professor WiJliamBli ssett has don ated extensive manuscriptmateri als to the Fisher Libra ry's DavidJones Collection, and thts year gave aco llection of tw elv e books, a ll of whichwere either ill ustrated by j ones, o r printedat Eric Gill's St. Dominic's Press. Ofparticular no te is the Canttca Natalia, therarest book issued by the press ; onlyninery-flve copies having been produced .From 1922 to 1924, Jones li ved in Gill'sDilchling co mmunity, learn in g the an ofwood engraving and being employed as abook and magazine illustrator. Several o fthe works in this gifl are from this per iodand include Tbe Ga me, a mon thly maga­zine issued by the Press, co- w ri tten by GIlJand Hilary and Hlusrrated in the 19205 byDavid Jones, A later work his III pa rentbe­sis (London, 1937) , Is here In the onlykn o w n proof copy.

Another Friend of long standi ng.Pro fessor Still man Drake, recently donateda man usc ript copy o f the first th irt eenbooks o f Saint Augustinc's Dc ctuuate IJeI,This appears 10 be the only manuscript ofth is work In a Canadian inst ltu rtcn. It W::IS

writt en, probably in France. du ring thefirst quarter o f the fift eent h entury . Thereis a decorated in itial, in bl ack , red , whiteand blue, :11 the begi nning of each sectio nand p inpricks on each leaf Indicate howthe pages were ru led to keep the wri tingeven . TIle vo lume, w hich is in exce llentcondi tion, is bou nd in oak boards w ith aFleur de Iys decornuon and shows theremains of clasps. It bears the bookplateo f the conue Chandon de Briailles,possibly Paul (1821- 1895), the fi rst mem­ber of the Chandon family to assume thisform o f the name.

"A certa tn frtar was sentfrom his PriOIY topreach.. , .. wood-engraotng by Dav it/Jonesfrom Diary with Domini an calendar(D llcbIi1l8' I. DoIIII IIIc 'S Press, 1928) . GiftofProf essor \fl. Blissell .

Ou r Canadia n and Eng lish lit eratureholdings have been considerab ly en­hanced this year by major dona tions fromProfessors Mi chael and j ane MilIg;uc: aco llection of nearly tw o hundred books byor about Graham Greene and a set of theworks o f Geo rge Meredith. From Mrs. KayRou illard we received two scrapbooks ofShaw hems, ccmal ntng the first Americanmagazine appearances o f Tbe dark Itldy ofthe sonnets, Geni"8 marri ed andG'Haberty, V.c.; theatre programmes ofShaw plays performed in Boston. andcopies of interviews w ith Shaw on avariety o f toptcs. Professor William Keithdo nated ;1 co llec tion of books on Eng lishcountry li fe, Including an almost comple te

co llec tion o f the works o f H.) .Massingham. We were also delighted byProfessor 's Keith manuscript donation.which consisted o f letters wri tten byCanad ian authors and artists to EdwinAustin Hardy, ed itor, anthologist and thelong-tim e secretary of the Canad ianAuthors' Associ ation. Authors rep resen tedinclude Mazo De WI Roch e, Will iam HenryDrummond, lucy Maude Montgom ery ,Charles G.D. Roberts and Duncancampbell scou, Hardy also compiled.directo ry listing Canad ian art ists for theOntario Secondary School TeachersFederatl n's Buttettn, and in th is connec­tion received loners from most o f the well­known artists of the day, such as CharlesComfort, Lawren Harris, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald , Hom er Watson and manyothers.

Louts-Melzack. w hose gifts to thisLibrary have alread y been well docu­merued In other issues of The ttatc yon,continued his generosity again this year.The pr int ed works received incl ude RegerBacon's r oocureof old tlge and prcseroa­uon of yontb. (London, 1683) , the onlyEnglish ed ltlon of a major med ievalmedical work; Bishop Edmund Burke'sRl:111t ,rks 011'be NC1V. Mr. Stanser':s examt­nation of/be Rev. MI'. Burke 's letter 0/tnstrucuon to tbe C.M. 0/NOlXI scotta(J lnlifax , 180S) j the fir st coltecuon f lawsprinted in Canada: Francols j osephCugnet's Extratts ties t!d lts ...(Quebec,1775); George Dartnell's Bri ef narrative oftbe sbtpuueck ofthe tra nsport "Premier"(Lo ndo n, 1805) , which occurred in themouth of the 51. tawrence, ,I map of theMidla nd and Prince Edward districts,printed at Hallowell . U.C. in 1836, o fwhich w e have been able (0 fi nd only fourrecorded copies; the firs t edition of theGemeinscbaftttcbe Iledersannnlnng,printed by H.W, Peterson in Berlin,Ontario in 1836(t he printer'S own copy ofOne o f the first books in the Germa nlanguage to be printed in Upper Canada):the first edition of a rare captivlry sagaenti tled: A Narrat ive 0/ tbe captivity a ndsujJel1118s ofBenja mi n Gilbert a nd hisfa mily. (Philadelphia, 1784) ; a beauufulhand-coloured copy of Will iam Hunter'sOttawa scenery (O ttawa . 185S); and acopy of Benjamin Stevens' A sermonoccastoned by tbo aeatb 0/ toe n on. SirIf/II/{{/l1l Peppen'ell . (Boston, 1759). Th iswork is extra-Illus trated with fifty -sixengraved port raits. maps, plans, views andtw o receip ts Signed by Pepperrell.Pepp errell commanded the expedItionagainst Lcufsburg in 1745 and was laterawarded a baronetcy for his successfuleffo rts.

Mr. Melzack also donated a number ofInteresting anadian hist rica! manu­scripts, the carllesr being a 1697 manu­script fragment signed by Henry Belzile ofQue bec, acknow ledging recei pt of lenpounds for hav ing shaved M. Peneverduring the pasr year , \lie were alsopleased to receive IWO twe ntieth-centu rymanuscripts: Browning's I" i t goltdola andwordsworth's Cbildbood and tlBa wereIlluminated, Illustrated and richly de 0 ­

rated in :1 medieva l style by the ce lebratedcal ltgruphe r Alberto Sangorskl in 1916,

Another Canadiana co llector, JohnMappin, continues 10 amaze us with thenumber nnd range of Canadian pamphletshe is able (0 Iind th:tl are new (0 ourcollectio ns. TIlls past year his gift ofhistorical and politica l works a llowed us toIncrease our holdings in this area by OVer

one hund red titles.ur Canadian liter a ry man uscript

ho ld ings were also enriched throughdonauous by Don Bailey, ProfessorsDennis Duffy and Phyll is Gross kun h. CradKilodney, Jon Pearce and David Solway .LLoyd Haines made additions 10 thepap ers of his late futher-ln-law, W. A.

Deacon , while Pruricla Hughes sent us thepublishing Illes of her husband, Campbell,a former edito r at the ny .rson Press. Alladded 10 the weal th of materials alreadyheld by the Fisher, which have made thisOne of the finest research collections inthis field in Canada.

A collect io n that crosses many bounda­ries was donated by Peter Weinrich lastfall. Mr. Weinr ich has been ;1 col lecto r andbib l iographer of social ist material forseveral years and the Fisher Library hasbeen the recipi ent o f his generosity manytimes. This year's gifl included anarchistand SOCialist materials, including works byPaul oodmnn and the art critic andsocialist, 1-1 rben Read, as well 3S li teraryworks by Arthu r wa tey, w ho speclalizedin trans lating Chinese and Japanesepoetry.

Gift s from this University 's staff form :111

import ant part of the do nations receivedench year and this year has been noexception. Dr. Ra ben Brandeis, ChiefLibrarian, Victoria niversity , do natedsome Interesting items during the pastyear. Includ ing several addi tions for ourRochdale ollege hold ings and

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u leworrumcru Press co llections. RobertPenni Professor of Political Economy,brought in several inter sting volumes ofphilosop hy; one of these, :1 1724 Edln­burgh cdhl n of Pufe ndo rff 's De off/clobonnnts et ctots, W:15 anno tated byG ersho m Carrn tchac l (c tr a 1672-1729) ,w ho is considered to be the founder of theScott ish school of phi losophy.

Robertson Davies, the Master Emeritusof Massey College, doruued fo rty-th reevolumes of Tbe Em. :1nineteenth centuryperiodical whi h deals main ly with Ellg l i~h

drama nnd music. A fascinating eye ­wuncss account of the 18; 7 Sepoyuprising In Shahjahanpur W;IS donated byPro fessor Roger Savory . Printed in 1925 inCaw nporc, it is :'1 very vnlunblc source ofinformation for Indian colonial history andis not listed in the major nauonnl com­logues. Professors john Denny , PierreBc ulllaguer, Hartwell Bowsficld, Barna rdGilmore, David Hoentger, the late lIelenII gg, Linda Munk , I I. Gordon Skilling andAndrew \'(f:ltson should also he ment ionedfor their generosity thi s past year as shouldtheir library colleagues, Dr. Gayle Garloc k,Rnch 'I Grover, Philip Oldfield and MnryRuscillo.

Other interesting glfls were receivedfrom Professor Jennifer Brown of theUniversity o f Manitoba , w ho donated acopy of Voltaire's F '(I i su r tes gtterresciviles de France ( 1..1 Haye, 1729), w hichwas described In the November 1992 issueof 71Je Halcyo n; J.D. Cambridge, DavidLa nk . and Professor Simon Langlois of1.':lv;11 University.

Th ere are runny more names thatshould h:IV' been mentioned in this list,but space restraints prevent us from do ingso. We thank you all for your generosityand your continuing interest in the FisherLibrary.

t.uba IIl/sselrtsbor Ra re Book l ibrary

"March." \f!ood-ells"avl1lB by DootdJones III /-li/tllyPepler'sPert inent & imperti nent (Dilebling: 51.Domtntc's Press. /926) . Gift ofProfessor \fI. nnssen.

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In memoriam

\VIe were sad dened (0 learn o fthe death o f Pro fessor Robert Fenn,of the Polit ical cience Department.on March 25th. 1993. An expert onthe life and w ork of James Mill ,Professor Fenn was also an enthusi­astic co llect r f rare books In thefields o f politi cal history andecono mics. and had donated manyo f his cho icest vo lumes 10 the FisherLibrary over the past severa l years.\VIe mourn the loss of a good fri endo f the Library and ex tend oursympathy to his family.

Ju st :15 this issue of Tbe Ha lcy onwas be ing prepared, we receivedthe sad news of the sudden death ofMrs. Joyce Tyrre ll , on May 14, 1993,'111C widow of j.B. Tyrrell 's yo ungerSOil, Tom Tyrrell , Mrs. Tyrrell hadbeen most enthusiastic about theLibra ry's Ty rrell exhlbt rlon . \'<Ie werede lighted that she wus able to attendthe exhibition opening, her presencegreatly adding to the fesuvtry o f theocc asion. Her generoslry in sharingher memories and kn owledge o f herfathe r-in-law was much ap preciated.O n behalf of the Fisher we exte ndour sympathy to Mrs. Tyrrell's familyand fr iends.

Editor's Note

Th is issue was written by AlanHorne, tuba Hussel, Rich ard Landon andKathari ne Marty n, It W ;IS designed byVeronica Fisher w ith photogra phs byPhilip O we r, Comments and/or sugges­tions sho uld be sent to Alan Horne,Director, Development and Public Affairs ,University o f Toronto library , Toron to ,O ntario M5S IA5 (416-978-7644) ,

H'A'L'('Y'Q'NUni versity of Toronto LibraryToronto. Ontario M5S I AS

Another Winningexhibition catalogue!

For the thi rd time in a row a FisherLibrary exhibit ion catalogue has won anaward in the annual competuion forexhib itio n catalogues held by the RareBooks and Manuscript Section o f theAmerican Library Associat ion, The Libra ry'scentennial exhibitio n catalogue , entitledsootuuo » of lbe Heart , 71Je UNiversityLlbreuy: the Flrsl Century 182 7-1923, wasawarded first pla ce in d iv ision 11 , by theKatharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. LeabAmerican Book Prices Cu rre nt ExhibitionCatalogue Aw ards Committee. Th e Chairof the Aw ards Comm ittee w rote:

71Je commtuee fe tt tbat tbe calli/aguebalances COn tent a nd deslB" I" anelegant, tmdntonat f onnat wltb fine,bl8b quattty prodncuon, 77Jeen8Clglng!y unitten content covers tbeloundlng andgrounb of /be library,botb collections and bl/fldl ugs,guided by generous, contankerous,and energetic libraria ns . 71Jeannotated case /iSI oj tbe oxbtbtuonIs ba ne/somely deslglled and In·eludes carefu lty chosen btston cotpb olognlpbs. 71JCcenter dou blefo tdou t of tbe uatercotor eleoattonsj ar tbe 1890 New Library werep raised by tbe committee as a wisecbo ice.In 1992 the exhi bition catalogue, Eric

GJII., his life and art, also won nrst pl ace indivision II and in 199 1 the catalogue,Fifteenth Century ttat tan wocacuss fro mthe Blb/iotecll Classense, Ravenna, pl acedfirst in dlvi ion III.

Once again co ngratulations 10 all [hoseinvolved wi th this year's p rize w inner: theauthors, Harold Averill, Robert Blackburn,Anne jocz. and Garro n Wells; the graphicdesigner. Veronica Fisher; the photogra­phers j ohn Glover and Phlllp Ower; andthe printer, Fisher Lith o Arts, Ltd , AlanHome will receiv e the award on behalf ofthe library at the AU annua l meeting inNew Orleans on j une 27th.

Copies of the catalogue are stillavai lable from the Library, at a cost o f$15,00,

Friends meetings heldWinter - Spring 1993

Apart from the opening of the Tyrrellexh ibi tio n, which has been dealt w ithelsewhere in th is issue, three Friendsmeetings we re arrang ed for the wi nter­spring period o f 1993.

11,C first was held on 4 February wheneridwcn Lloyd -Morgan spo ke about the

artist. Gwe n John ( 1876-1939), Dr, Lloyd­Morgan, who is Asstsranr Archi vist in theDepartment of Manuscripts and Records :11the National Library of W411es, had beenworking on Gwen j oh n sin e 1983 whenthe ational Library was first offered herarchives, he gave a fascinat ing talk aboutthe artist and the books the artis t read inParis, where she drew and painted formost of her working life,

Th e next meetin g followed just a weeklater on 10 February, when we managedto persuade Ruari Mclean to make a slightdetour from his tr ip 10 Chicago and Bosl0 11

and speak on "Colou r Printing Then andNow" , Mr. Mclea n is the author ofnumerous works On prtnttng and graphicdesign, Inclu ding his classic works onVlct0f1t1 J1 Book Desig" and Colour Printtngand lWO books on vtaorta n Publtshers 'Book-Bindings. His research on thesesubjects was based in pan upon anextensive personal co llection which wasacqu ired by Massey College in 1970,

Th is meeting was co-sponsored by theFriends of Fisher, Massey College, and theCanadian Bookb inde rs and Book ArnsrsGuild , and w as held in Massey College, Alarge crowd attended and after the talk ,descended to the Robertson Davies Libraryin Massey College to view " se le li on ofbooks from the Ruari Mcl.ean o llcction orvlcrortan Boo k design and Colour Print ing.Refreshments were also provided as wellas a keepsake printed by Brian Maloneyon one o f the Library 's col lectio n or handprint ing machines.

At the third meeti ng on 4 March , Dr,Peter \VI, M , Blayney spo ke abo ut Shake­speare's First Fo lio , a copy of w hich is inthe Fisher Library , He is Scholar inResidence at the Folger Lib rary, Washing­ton , D,C. His books inclu de TIle Texts ofK/llg Lea r 011<1 Tbetr ortgtns(982) and17X! Bookshops ill 51, Paul 'sCrossChurch­)'a r<l099O) , Dr, Blayney has beenworking on the hrsrcry f the First Fo liofor some li me, and his intimate knowledgeof pri nti ng practices during Shakespeare'sl im e and the extent of his research into thetexts o f the plays we re clearly revealed inhis authori tative yet easily accessible talk,

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