Series 4

Personal and business records [textual record]. -- 1953 - 1989, predominant 1966 - 1982. -- 46 cm of textual records

Scope and content: This series contains biographical material on Ray Fraser, his income tax returns, a duplicate copy of the copyright registration for Waiting for God's Angel, duplicate copies of business registrations for Poverty Press and Montreal Storyteller, posters, school records, and newspaper clippings of various articles, stories and reviews. Copies of tracts and newsletters of The Flat Earth Society and a few other miscellaneous personal and business records are also included.

Title based on contents.

File arrangement is random.


BOX NO. 5
Files:

5-22. The Flat Earth Society, 1970-1972
Note: Includes tracts, copies of newsletters, listings of executive members, and other items.

5-23a. Beer brewing
Note: Includes recipes and newspaper clippings.

5-23b. Newspaper clippings
Note: Relating to photographs by Raymond Fraser.

5-23c. Newspaper clippings
Note: Relating to Alden Nowlan, Yvon Durelle, David Adams Richards, and The Escuminac Disaster (19 June 1959), which was published by Cadogan Publishing Ltd. Also includes Ray Fraser's curriculum vitae.

5-23d. Newspaper clippings and other records
Note: Includes business registration for Poverty Press, copyright registration for Waiting for God's Angel, Ray Fraser's birth certificate, and other records.

5-23e. Newspaper clippings and other records
Note: Includes a few cartoons by Ray Fraser, his honour certificate from Chatham Schools dated June 1953, and copy of an article on Alden Nowlan published in Weekend Magazine.

5-23f. Newspaper clippings and other records
Note: Includes registration of Montreal Storyteller, poster for Theatre Festival 71 (Quebec), biographical sketch of Ray Fraser, information sheets on The Rank Outsiders (reading-group consisting of poets Bryan McCarthy and Raymond Fraser) and on the Montreal Storyteller, and programme for The St. Joseph Teachers College production of Fraser's play The Heart Sound.

5-23g. Miscellaneous records
Note: Includes Ray Fraser's 1971-1972 membership card for The Flat Earth Society, Ray Fraser's employee card NB Department of Education, St. Thomas University transcripts 1961-1962 and 1963-1964, copies of invoices owing to Raymond Fraser for photographs and books; Sharon Fraser's passport; and several other items.

5-23h. Miscellaneous records
Note: Includes record of Fraser's royalties and orders for various works, along with a booklet of original paintings by Raymond Fraser and Sharon Fraser.

5-23i. Miscellaneous records
Note: Includes programme for October 1971 poetry reading by Manuel Betanzos-Santos, Mario Gross, Bryan McCarthy, Willie Dunn, Ray Fraser, Ronald Lee, and Arthur Huston,  reviews of Waiting for God's Angel and The Struggle Outside, as well as the summer 1982 issue of Protée which contains comments on The Struggle Outside and The Bannonbridge Musicians.

5-23j. Miscellaneous records
Note: Includes newspaper clippings, manuscript poem by Dave Pinson, information sheets on the pollution walk of 20 February 1971 and the Worker Student Alliance, reviews of Bryan McCarthy's work, and other items.

5-23k. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1966-1974

5-23l. Miscellaneous business records, 1966, 1968-1973
Note: Includes copy of contract and licence to broadcast with CBC and purchase orders 5-23m. Miscellaneous records
Note: Includes photocopies of poems, copies of reviews of various authors' works, newspaper clippings, and other items.

BOX NO. 6
6-1. Income Tax Returns, 1969-1982 inclusive

6-2. Miscellaneous Tax Material, 1964, 1972-1989

6-3. Scrapbook of articles from Midnight, 1966-1967
Note: Includes several by Raymond Fraser under various pseudonyms.

6-4. Scrapbook of articles from Midnight , 1968
Note: Includes several by Raymond Fraser under various pseudonyms.

6-5. Scrapbook of articles from Midnight, 1968-1969
Note: Includes several by Raymond Fraser under various pseudonyms.

6-6. Scrapbook of articles from Midnight, 1969
Note: Includes several by Raymond Fraser under various pseudonyms.

6-7. Scrapbook of articles from Midnight, 1970
Note: Includes several by Raymond Fraser under various pseudonyms.


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