John Bartlet Brebner papers, 1937-1957

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Series I: Correspondence



Box 1 Cataloged Correspondence


Box 1 Correspondence, 1937-1957 (arranged by year), 1937-1957



Box 2 Correspondence, 1937-1957 (arranged by year), 1937-1957



Box 3 Correspondence, 1937-1957 (arranged by year), 1937-1957



Box 4 Correspondence, 1937-1957 (arranged by year), 1937-1957

Series II: Documents



Box 5 Memoranda on Upper College, Columbia College


Box 5 Memoranda on Bard College


Box 5 H. A. Innis: cuttings (obituaries, etc) and correspondence about him


Box 5 Business concerning North Atlantic Triangle--mostly with Yale University Press


Box 5 Address, "Man's Right to Knowledge," at Ottawa, 1954--copy and offprints


Box 5 Address, "Keystone in the Arch, Centenary, University College, Toronto, 1956


Box 5 Bicentennial Oration, "The Common Ground in Humility"--correspondence and clippings


Box 5 Stockholm address, "Man's Right to Knowledge,", 1954


Box 5 Essay on Elie Halevy--drafts and copy



Box 6 Encyclopedia Americana, article on Canada since, 1867


Box 6 Chapter in U.N Volume on Canada: Drafts and correspondence


Box 6 "Laissez-faire and State Intervention," draft and correspondence


Box 6 Draft AHA comment on L. H. Gipson's paper on "The American Revolution as an Aftermath of the Great War for Empire,", 1948


Box 6 General Staff Course, Washington, notes, address, and correspondence, 1948


Box 6 Informal talk to English-Speaking Union, "Democratic Foundations of Government,", 1948


Box 6 CBC Talk, "The Canadian Personality," 1948--copy and correspondence


Box 6 Economic History Association, 1947


Box 6 Address at Winnipeg, "History and Current Social Trends,", 1946


Box 6 North Atlantic Triangle--correspondence and reviews, 2 folders



Box 7 Scholarship for Canada


Box 7 Convocation Address, McMaster University--"General Education and Research,", 1945


Box 7 Canadian Universities Materials


Box 7 Reports, Canadian Universities, 1944


Box 7 Making of Modern Britain correspondence


Box 7 Correspondence on G.L. Beer's MSS


Box 7 Canadian Historical Association Presidential Address--"Canadianism"--Notes, Copy, and Correspondence,, 1940



Box 8 Toronto Conference, United States and World Organization


Box 8 "The British Social Welfare State"--OWI talk, 1943


Box 8 ERPI film on Early North American discovery: script and correspondence, 1942


Box 8 "Tadoussac, Kingdom of the Saguenay,", 1942


Box 8 "The United States, Canada's Problem," Notes and copy, PTA, 1940


Box 8 "Canadian-American Relations in a Changing World"--address to U.M.C.A. at Couchiching,, 1940

(contains draft, copy, and correspondence)


Box 8 "The Ogdensburg Agreement between Canada and the United States"--Inter-American Quarterly, 1940


Box 8 Correspondence concerining Hanson's Mingling of the Canadian and American Peoples, completed by Brebner



Box 9 Correspondence concerning map for Neutral Yankees .


Box 9 "Canada, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and the Washington Conference PSQ, 1935

(contains notes,draft, offprint, and correspondence)


Box 9 CHR--Dr. Andrew Brown MSS: draft, copy, and correspondence


Box 9 DAB--Samuel Vetch (1668-1732), first military and second colonial governor of Nova Scotia


Box 9 Louis Delisle de la Croyere MSS--correspondence


Box 9 Kingston National Defence College, 1948 1950 1953, 1948, 1950, 1953


Box 9 Canadian Social Science Research Councils correspondence



Box 10 Correspondence concerning Carnegie series on relations of Canada and the United States,, 1968



Box 11 Reviews, etc., for Explorers


Box 11 Materials for Neutral Yankees


Box 11 Correspondence and Materials for New England's Outpost.


Box 11 Mingling of Canadian and American Peoples Manuscript



Box 12 Criticisms of North Atlantic Triangle


Box 12 North Atlantic Triangle Manuscript


Box 12 Outlines of plan for Canadian-American series, 1933 (2 brochures)_, 1933



Box 13 Notes for Canada in North American History, the Columbia course



Box 14 Draft Making of Modern Canada



Box 15 Canadian-American maps.


Box 15 British historical materials before 1850--offprints, clippings, notes, etc.


Box 15 "Under George III," Conference on British Studies, 1955


Box 15 British Constitutional History


Box 15 Cambridge lectures on Anglo-American relations


Box 15 Fulbright seminar on migration, 1951



Boxes 16, 17, 18, 35 Britain since 1776 the Columbia course and basis of proposed book on industrial Britain, 1776



Box 19 3 x 5 cards--notes on Nova Scotia (Neutral Yankees )


Box 19 Industrial Britain, MS, four chapters



Box 20 Paul Mascarene


Box 20 "Collectivist Britain" ms. notes


Box 20 "Some aspects of Great Britain between wars" ms. notes


Box 20 Canada-2 course outlines


Box 20 Rockefeller grant: correspondence Etc.


Box 20 Recommendations for scholarship & fellowship awards: correspondence


Box 20 Seminar information


Box 20 Examination questions in history



Box 21 Candidacies, 1938-1946



Box 22 Student Papers



Box 23 Student Papers



Box 24 Student Papers



Box 22 Diplomas of John Bartlet Brebner



Box 23 Diplomas of John Bartlet Brebner



Box 24 Diplomas of John Bartlet Brebner



Box 25 Periodicals with articles by John Bartlet Brebner



Box 26 Periodicals with articles by John Bartlet Brebner

Series III: 2016 Addition



Box 28 Folder 7 John Bartlet Brebner's Russia letters, 1927


Box 28 John Bartlet Brebner and James Brebner letters, 1925


Box 28 Folder 26 Letters from Pascal Poirier and Rene Baudry (copies, in French), 19 December 1932 & 19 March 1948


Box 28 Folder 5 Bibliographies & articles, 1921


Box 28 Folder 3 Canadian Maritines, 1-22 Feb. 1944


Box 28 Across Canada diary. Part 2, 10-30 July 1944


Box 28 Folder 8 Interview with Trotsky (T.ms.), 19 August 1927


Box 28 Folder 2 John Bartlet Brebner's diary, 1923, 1936, 1937


Box 28 Folder 13 John Bartlet Brebner's diary, April-May 1951


Box 28 Folder 18 John Bartlet Brebner's diary, 25 June - 22 October 1954


Box 28 Folder 14 John Bartlet Brebner's diary, 3 May-15 September 1955


Box 28 Folder 16 John Bartlet Brebner's travel diary. Book I, 25 June 1954 - 22 October 1954


Box 28 Folder 17 John Bartlet Brebner's travel diary, 7 November 1954 - 25 April 1955


Box 28 Folder 1 John Bartlet Brebner's Trip, Part 1, 1952


Box 28 Folder 12 John Bartlet Brebner's Trip, Part II, 1952


Box 28 Folder 25 St. John's College. Oxford. Notice of meeting regarding the granting of degrees, 18 June 1925


Box 28 Folder 21 Columbia University Convocation speech.


Box 28 Folder 22 Personal Oddments (letters, notes, clippings, etc., including copy of will (1954)


Box 28 Folder 10 John Bartlet Brebner's honorary doctorate from Brown University, 1944


Box 28 Folder 11 John Bartlet Brebner's certificate of vaccination from the W.H.O., 1957


Box 28 John Bartlet Brebner's Auxiliary Police ID, 1942


Box 28 Folder 23 Obituaries and condolences, 1957


Box 28 Folder 24 Royalties, rights, etc., 1948-1969


Box 28 Folder 9 John Bartlet Brebner's passports (2)


Box 28 Folder 4 Photographs and cards


Box 28 Folder 20 Ping-ti Ho letters,etc.


Box 28 New England's Outpost by John Bartlet Brebner, 1927


Box 28 Folder 19 Columbia University. Brebner Papers Fund.


Box 28 Folder 15 Miscellaneous: note, small notebook, clipping, photographs.


Box 28 Folder 6 Questions & Answers from Stalin to American Trade Unionists, 1927 Published by Workers Library Publishers, NY


Box 28 The Oxford Society. Oxford. February 1937



Box 29 Portfolio of pamphlets, notes, clippings, cards relation to Brebner's 1955 trip to Moscow to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the establishment of Moscow University.