Collection 25-001 - Anne Burke collection on A.J.M. Smith

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Anne Burke collection on A.J.M. Smith

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    • [197-?]-1983 (Creation)
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      Burke, Anne

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    10 cm of textual records (1 box)

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    Anne Burke (nee Ricard) was a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at Ottawa University between [1975?] and [1978?]. She had previous degrees from York University (M.A., 1973) and Queen's University (B.Ed., 1974).

    Burke's doctoral research was on A.J.M. Smith. Her proposed dissertation was "A Literary Biography of Canadian Poet Arthur James Marshall Smith," for which she corresponded extensively with his professional and personal networks.

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    Fonds consists of correspondence, research material, and publications relating to Burke's research on A.J.M. Smith’s professional career and personal life, gathered during her doctoral studies at the University of Ottawa ([197-]-1978). The correspondence includes letters with Smith’s contemporaries and Burke’s nomination of Smith for an honorary degree at the University of Calgary. Photocopied research material includes course listings from Michigan State between 1931 and 1945 (when Smith worked there) and histories of the university. Also includes an audio cassette of 1965 WUOM Radio broadcast "A Tribute to Roethke," featuring E.G. Burrows (host), Allan Seeger; Donald Hall; A.J.M. Smith; Nelson Bently.

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    Donated by Anne Burke, January 2025

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