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This file contains a full second draft of The Unquiet Bed.
Draft is typescript with handwritten revisions and notes.

This file contains a full first draft of The Unquiet Bed.
Draft is typescript with handwritten revisions and notes.

This file contains a partial author's proof of The Unquiet Bed.
Each page has handwritten revisions.
Proofs included seem to be only those which required editing

This file contains a full draft of The Documentaries.
Draft is typescript with handwritten revisions and notes.

This file contains a full author's proof of The Documentaries and 14 copies of a descriptive write-up for The Documentaries.
Proofs have very few handwritten revisions.

File consists of documentation and correspondence related to the description of and research on the Dorothy Livesay Fonds done in the 1970s. These records provide context on the acquisition and arrangement of Livesay's records.

This file contains a full draft of Selected Poems, 1926-1956.
Draft is typescript with some handwritten revisions and notes.

This file contains a full draft of Selected Poems, 1926-1956. This draft version is titled Signature.
Draft is typescript with some handwritten revisions and notes.

Series includes typescript drafts and author's proofs for several of Livesay's publications.

This series consists of approximately 1,470 poems, which are represented as typescripts and/or manuscripts. File titles within this series reflect the arrangement of poems, which are grouped together based on the year and time frame in which those poems were written or, in the case of poems with no recorded date, the year and alphabetical span of those poems.
While nearly all of the poems are typescript, most poems in this series are in both typescript (ts) and manuscripts (ms) form. Many poems have multiple typescript copies and some have multiple manuscript copies. It is not clear whether Livesay herself created the typescripts, but many have handwritten notes, edits, or signatures from Livesay. When there is one or more typescript and one or more manuscript of a single poem, the materials are arranged together (ts/ms). Rarely, two different poems are written on one manuscript and therefore not all manuscript poems are arranged with their respective typescript.
This series also consists of clippings and photocopies of published poems (p), which are arranged with the typescript and/or manuscript of the same poem.

2 notebooks of Livesay's poetry written between the years of 1926 and 1931.

Notebook of Livesay's poetry written in the years 1926 and 1927.
Poems found within MSS:
"Night Song"
"Possession"
"The Unfulfilled"
Only in music do I find rest...
"The Dreamer"
"The Prophetess"
Stung by fierce pride, she stood,...
"Poet's Song"
"At the Fair"
"Young Sleep"
I sought her on the mountains where the sun has set...
"Old Houses"
"Sonnet: An Imagined Conversation"
"Shower"
"Triolet"
"The Wind Sings"
"Remembrance"
"Love Crept so Sadly"
Come not too near me...
"Voice from the Storm"
"Disquietude"
My soul is the wind, the strong white wind...
"Epitaph" / "Wind in the rushes"
"In the Chapel"
"Barrier"
"The Besiegers"
"The Unwritten Letters"
"Bankrupt"
"Fireweed"
"Hate" / "Desire"
"The Woman who Lived Alone"
"Autumn"
"A Gardener"
"Helen"
"Thoughts from the Shore"
"The Listener: Sunday Morning"
"Fantasy"
"(The Builders) Ecstasy"
"Her Valentine"
"The Man of Destiny"
"(The Invincible)"
"In her Cupboard"
"The Marauders"
"In Winter"
"Melody"
"He who is Blind"
"Desire"
"Prayer to the Four Corners"
"Quest"
"Impuissance"
"Treasure"
"Messages"
"Conceit"
"The Priest"
"Prostitute"
"A Tale"
"Secret"
"Strophe"
"Landscape"
"Caution"
"Monologue"
"Sympathy"
"Connoisseur"
"Wraith"
"A Thief in Heaven"
"Houses: A Contrast"
"Bridal"
"The Godmother"
"Finis"
"Adventure"
"Portrait"
"Wedding?"
"Shadow"
"Phantasy in May"
"Meditations of a Thief"
"Song"
"Out of Loveliness"
"Epicurean Lady"
"Blind Song"
Dawn is a sigh of wind...
"Two Songs"
"The Intimates"
"Silhouettes"
"Song for a Runner"
"Finale"
"Primitive"
"Chinese"
"Prelude: Chopin"
"Madrigal"
"Sudden Awakening"
"Cinquain"
"Widow-woman"
"Etching"
"The Forsaken"
"Growth"
"The Gardener"
"Nostalgia"
"Hermit"
"Explanation"
If you think / This is not I...
"Confession"
"Song for Departure"
"A Boy in Bronze"
"To One Dying"
"Boswell"
"Exile"
"Analysis"
"Answer"
Never hesitate to say...
"Defiance"
"Monition"
"Madonna"
"Interim (Recess)"
"Transcendence"
"Autumn"
"Unkind Hokkus"
"Clarity"
"Cinquain"
"Song in Winter"
In arresting love / Before it has flown...
"The Wife"
"Pilgrim"
"Advent"
"Memorials"
"Fire and Reason"
"The Untouched"
"Thief"
"Philosophy"
"Hokku"
Nothing to tear the heart...
"Epitaph"

Notebook of Livesay's poetry written in the years 1927 to 1931.
Poems found within EB:
"Sign Post"
"Seasonal"
"Organ"
"Afterthought (Consideration)"
"Such Silence"
Things hurt, quite suddenly...
"The Snare"
"Puritan"
"Sonnet II"
'Of Eustacia, who Drowned Herself"
"Masquerade"
"Legend"
"Pastoral (Prince Edward Island)"
I shall be afraid of mountains...
"Refuge"
"Impression"
"The Lake"
This defeating power of life...
"Emergence"
"The Sitter"
"Reality"
"Cinquain"
"Snow Burial"
"Interpretation"
"A Dream"
"Sonnet III"
"Sonnet IV"
"Song"
"Impossibility"
"Epistle"
"Ironic Night"
Tenacious faith / Is her epitaph...
"Pioneer"
"Vandal"
"The Lover"
"Green Rain"
"Romanticism"
Sun through the winter's dust...
"Symbols"
"A Bystander at Golgotha"
"The Choice"
"To the Last Pioneer"
He often stood and watched how the snow fell...
"Song to Myself"
"Snare"
"Going to Sleep"
"Emily Dickinson"
How many of us have learned, with Orpheus...
I have not found / In any dark place hidden in the woods...
"A Confidence"
"Enchantment"
Capture the rose and let it die...
Let this suffice / Your bitterness...
The earth is my lover...
However fast I run...
There was a beating of air, / Wings flashed,...
"Testament"
"Of Seasons"
"Aliens"
Now the dark sky is islanded...
"The Seeker"
"The Clearing"
"Haunted House"
Woman and instrument become one song...
"Journey"
"Summer"
"Spring"
Out of my dreams / Come thoughts the wind must whisper...
I am abandoned, who once was proud,...
"Sonnet"
"September"
"Epitaph"
"September Rain"
"Personalities"
Because of this and this--...
"Sesame"
"Youth"
If I should die this night...
"The Stranger"
This sing with joy...
"Retreat"
"Adventure"
"Astronomers"
"The Unbeliever" / "Accusation"
"Old Song"
"This Wisdom"
"Sheila"
"Staccato"
"City Night"
I confess I'll wear a smiling face...
"Samaritans"
"Secrets"
"Of Battles"
"Tokens"
"Weapons"
"For Archibald Lampman"
"And Even Now"
"Song"
"In the Street"
"Resurrection"
"Blindness"
What way can my distress...
"Perversity"
"Alienation"
"Climax"
"The Room"
"Chained" / "The Aliens"
"Decree"
"A Song for Ophelia"
O spring, hold back a little while...
"Interrogation"
Everyone says / "Believe!"...
"Eurydice"
"Envoy (To N.E.W.)"
"Perversity (ii)"
'The Prisoner"
"Question"
"Time of Year (For M.E.W.)"
I must have trembled, then, because the storm...
"The Challenge"
"Doubt"
"The Portraits"
"Winter"
"Edward Thomas"
Now I am starved for sun, and need...
"Wilderness Stone"
"Ask of the Winds"
"Assertion"
"The Accursed"
"Sonnet for Ontario"
"The Difference"
"In the Grass"
I cried when I found something lovely...
"Sonnet"
"Moments (Fragments)"
"Astronomy"
Be thou then, the lamp...
No ground is alien to my eyes...
"Song for Solomon"
"No kiss"
"Let us climb the tower," you said...
"Neighbourhood"
"Summer"
"I was Surprised" / "Time"
"Song for Departure"
"Afterthought"
"What is it?" so I tried...
"If it were Easy"
"Time" / "Time II"
"Fable"
"Not Love (For N.A.B.)"
"The Peasants"
"September Morning"
"The Price"
"Recompense"
"Supplication"
"Companions"
"Daedalus"
"Postscript"
"Northern Loon"
"Habit"
"Stung"
"Absence"
"Pioneer"
"Crossroads"
"Street Lamp"
"Dust"
"Guest"
What virtue is there in the night...
"Retrospect"
"Memory"
"I was not Indiscreet"
"Morning Song"
"For N.E.W."
"In the South"
"Sun"
"I Dreamed at First"
"Sea Flowers"
"Hibernate"
"Release"
If we rest motionless as any star...
"Discovery"
Not in the country did I hear...
"I Saw my Thought"
"Surfeit"
"Discovery"
"Morning"
"Gardening"
'Echo (Edge of the World)"
"Farewell I"
"Farewell II"
I know not death, although...
"Constancy"
"Sanctuary"
Glittering shadows of leaves flicker...
"Haunted"
"In the Wood" / "Babes in the Wood (M.E.W.)"
"Nothing can Change my Heart"
"Repulse"
I am not ashamed of loving you...
"I hate now, being alone"...
"If"
"If Looking Were Saying"
"Spring Song"
He shot a singing bird...
"Journey"
"Reiteration"
Strange girl, wanting / What you have not--...
"The Listener"
"Protest"
Earth was her vagrancies of time and mood...
It is too late to recall / The word unspoken...
"Another Spring"
Rain, let me your creature be...
When in despair--- the dark being waywardness...
I think I have not learned...
And I shall stand like autumn in the air...
To stand in sunlight is an easy thing...
You are my sun; not fire that strikes and sears...
"Always"
Once your voice sounded me...
My longing was a chain so holding me...
More lovely than you know...
Love me in the house, not in the wood,...
"Still-life"
I cannot sing; the song has gone...
Amazement! / I walk through the revolving doors...
Don't criticize me while the blood is hot...
The wind has broken in pieces again me...
The mirage of your love...
Shape me to your will...
Shake off the hours like petals, dream...
Let not our love grow mildewed, out of use...
"Jeune Menage"
"Dialogue"
"The Kiss"
"Flowers he feeds on, where no voice in heard"
I am merry; till I lie alone...
It's true, philosophies / Have never darkened me...
Shepherd of my delight...
"Primavera"

This file contains a full draft of Day and Night.
Draft is typescript with some handwritten revisions and notes.

Series includes business correspondence between Ryerson Press and Dorothy Livesay. Most letters are from various editors and managers regarding the publishing and publicity of Livesay's works. There are also copies of letters written by Livesay to various people at Ryerson Press. Correspondents include Lorne Pierce, Frank Flemington, Elsinore Haultain, Fred(?) Ellins, Enid Thornton, Earle Toppings, Campbell Hughes, George Truss, Georgeanna Hamilton, and Robin Farr. Correspondence is arranged chronologically.
Series also includes miscellaneous items such as newsclippings, postage receipts, royalty statements, review lists, and advertisements.

Letter written by Alan Crawley, editor of Contemporary Verse. It is addressed to Mr. Gregory, who was probably a subscriber of the poetry magazine. The letter highlights the praise and reviews that Contemporary Verse has received, outlines how it is fulfills a certain niche in the Canadian poetry landscape, and asks for continued continued subscription. Dorothy Livesay is listed as part of the publishing committee, along with Floris Clark McLaren, Doris Ferne, and Anne Marriott. The letter is undated.

"Women's Lib" (ts/ms)
"Surfaces" (ts(2)/ms)
"Halleluia" (ts/ms)
"The Hibernation" (ts)
"The Law of the Sea (Seagull and Two Crows)" (ts(2)/ms)
"Prison Camp" (ts)
"Unmusical Bird (Blue Heron)" (ts/ms)

"For the New Year" (ts(2)/ms)
"Windows" (ts(6)/ms)
"Seagulls" (ts(2)/ms)
"Envoi" (ts/ms)
"The Illness" (ts/ms)
"Gull" (ts(3)/ms)
"Cry" / "A Bed of Roses" (ts(2)/ms)
"So?" (ts(2)/ms)
"Widow" (ts(2)/ms)
"Ice Age (For Marcy and Marvin)" (ts(2)/ms)
"My Loves" (ts(2)/ms)
"Empathies" (ms(2))
"Martha" (ts/ms)
"The Position" (ts/ms)
"Definition" (ts/ms)
"Postscript" (ts/ms)
"Love Apples" (ts/ms(2))
"A Gentle Man" (ts/ms)
"The Superiority of Flight" (ts/ms)
"Some Dreams" (ts/ms)

"Aging" (ts(3)/ms/p)
"Baby Sitter as Hypnotist" (ts/ms(2))
"The Cabbage" (ts/ms)
"Canadian Saga (For Gary Geddes)" (ts/ms)
"The High" (ts/ms)
"Klein" (ts(2)/ms)
"Legends" (ts(3)/ms/p)
"Looking Across Juan de Fuca Strait" (ts(2)/ms)
"One-way Conversation" / "The Man with the Small Penis" (ts(2)/ms)
"Recipe for a Young Poet" (ts)
"Red River" (ts)
"The Survivor" (ts(2))
"Winnipeg: 1905" (ts/ms)

"West Coast Winter (1973)" (ts(4)/ms)
"For Galen, Five Months Young" (ts(2))
"The Prisoner of Time (for an Old Man)" (ts(3))
"L'envoi" (ts/ms)
"Don't walk!" (ts/ms)
"Popular Song" / "Popular Song: You were an Angel" (ts(4)/ms)
"Letter from Victoria: 1973" (ts(2)/ms)
"It Ness" (ts(2)/ms)
"Cloud Messages" (ts/ms)
"Rock Cottage" / "Song: No Wild Sea" (ts/ms)
"Manifesto" (ts(3)/ms)
"Old Woman in the K Mart" / "Inflation" (ts/ms)
"Unitas" / "All One" (ts(2)/ms)
"Suicide" (ts(3)/ms)
"Sermon to a Young Man" / "Lecture to a Young Man" (ts/ms)
"Mount Baker" (ts(3)/ms)

"The Alphabet of Sleep" (ts(2)/ms)
"Breathing" (ts)
"Cassandra" (ts(2)/ms)
"Flight of the Tenses" (ts(3)/ms/p)
"The Garden of Silence" / "Victoria "Garden of Truth"" (ts(2)/ms)
"Gathering Oysters" (ts(3)/ms)
"Good Friday" (ts)
"Grandmother" (ts(2)/ms/p)
"How come?" (ts/ms(2))
"Hurricane Beth and the Bertha Army Worm and All That" (ts(2)/ms)
"I Get Restless" (ts/ms)
"Indian Summer: North Winnipeg" (ts(2)/ms)
"Last Letter" (ts(2))
"Mathematics" (ts)
"Old Soldier" (ts(6)/ms)
"Parks Department" (ts)
"Song" (ts)
"Thumbing a Ride" (ts(5)/ms/p)
"Time and Mrs MacNair" (ts/ms/p)
"To be Blind" (ts(5)/ms(2))
"Walking in the Dark (For Randal)" (ms)
"Whitepiece" (ts(2))
"Why are we Here (For Elizabeth Brewster)" (ts(3)/ms)

"Jay" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Merger" (ts(2)/ms)
"Aubade" (ts(2)/ms)
"Dawn" (ts(2)/ms)
"Morning Rituals" / "Waking" / "Between Laughter and Tears" / "Old Woman" (ts/ms)
"Morning Rituals" / "Acupuncture" (ts/ms)
"Blessing" / "White Ceiling" / "Window" (ts/ms)
"Evensong" / "Evening Prayers" / "Ceremony for Desdemona" / "Night Song for Desdemona" (ts(3)/ms)
"Epiphany" / "Of Stress" (ts(2)/ms)
"Down Beat" (ts(2)/ms)
"Semantics: (Remembering Mazo)" (ts/ms)
Fresh as that pearl-yellow… (ts/ms)
"The Old Bawd" / "The Courtesan" (ts(2)/ms)
"Small Dialogue with Icarus" / "Icarus" (ts/ms)
"For Louis Frank: Nootka" / "News from Nookta (For Louis Frank, Ahausit)" / "News at the End of the War" (ts(2)/ms/p)

"As" (ts/ms)
"A Catechism" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Stoned Woman" (ts(2)/ms)
"A Late Spring" / "February" (ts(3)/ms)
"Not" (ts(2)/ms)
"A Poem for Diane" (ts/ms)
"Of Chains (for Anne Campbell)" / "Of Death: At Easter (for Jean Crawley)" (ts(5)/ms)
"March 26 (for Jean Crawley)" (ts(2))
"Living Alone" (ts(2)/ms)
"Dilemma" / "Creation" (ts(3)/ms)
"Unexpected Guests" / "Young Visitor" / "The Messenger" (ts(4)/ms)
"The Impossible Doorway" (ts(6)/ms)
"The Assassinations" (ts(5))
"The Disembodiment of Pierre Eliot Trudeau" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Magnet" (ts(5)/ms)

"Three Mirror Poems" [series of three poems] (ts/p)
"Schizoid" (ts/ms)
When she goes to the movies… (ts/ms)
"A Letter" (ts(7)/ms)

"Essondale" (ts/ms(2))
"For Rent" / "The Bedroom of the Nation" / "Consecutive Smile" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Guitar-maker" / "A "found" Poem" (ts(5)/ms)
"Jennie" (ts/ms)
"The Pearl" (ts/ms)
"The Unquiet Bed (Aurora Borealis)" (ts(4)/ms)
The body is precious… (ts/ms)

"Canadiana" (ts/ms(2))
"Encounter" (ts(5)/ms)
"Middle-aged Complaint" (ts(3)/ms)
I lean against the door… (ts/ms)
My lids beached now… (ts(2)/ms(2))
"The Children's Letters" (ts/ms)
"On Cleaning a Chicken (For A.M. Klein)" (ts(4)/ms)
The pessimistic voice on the radio… (ts/ms)
It is getting late… (ts/ms)
"March 21" (ts(2)/ms)
"Osmosis" / "Art and Three Saints" (ts(3)/ms)
"The Woman Syndrome (For Annie)" (ts/ms)
"The Chilldown" (ts(2)/ms(2))
"Summer Landscape: Jasper" (ts(3)/ms)
"Meditations on the Great Bear Lake Meditations" / "Dream I" (ts(3)/ms)
"Outdoor Concert" / "The Guitarist" (ts(2)/ms)
"Summer Horizon, Edmonton" (ts/ms)
"Interiors" / "Future Perspective" (ts(3)/ms)

"Disasters of the Sun" [Series of seven poems]
"Sky Apartment" (ts(2))
"For Tom Ezzy" (ts/ms)
"Flight 403" (ts(2))
"Discards" (ts(2)/ms)
During the last heat wave… (ts)
Keep out… (ts)
Connect me underground… (ts(3))

Caliban [series of two poems]
"Caliban" (ms)
"Latter Day Eve" / "Cherry Ripe" (ts(7)/ms)

"McCluhan Criticized" (ts/ms)
"Weather Forecast" (ts(2)/ms(2))
"Interior Landscape (For Roy Kiyooka)" (ts(3)/ms(2))
"The Time Child" (ts(3)/ms)
"Intermedia" (ts(6)/ms)
"Wringso Write" (ts(5)/ms)
"The Hallowe'ens" (ts/ms)
"Respice Ad Finem" / "Look to the End" (ts(4)/ms)
"Explosives" (ts(3)/ms)
"Old Woman Waiting" (ts/ms)
"Where I Usually Sit" (ts(4)/ms)

"Aorte" (ts(3)/ms)
"Art Gallery" (ts/ms)
The glitter and the snap… (ts/ms)
I want to swing and swing and SWING… (ts/ms)
mauve michaelmas… (ts/ms)
"Gold Rush" (ts/ms)
"Lullaby" (ts/ms)
"The Twins" (ts(4)/ms)

"Solstice" / "Train journey" / "C.N.R. West" (ts(3)/ms)
"From my Balcony" / "Po Loo Shun in Edmonton" (ts(7)/ms(2)/p)
"Mud Bath" (ts(2)/ms)
To drink a whole bottle… (ts/ms)
"A Day in Lent" (ts/ms)
"St. Valentine's Day" (ts(4)/ms)
"Sea Shelter" / "The Houses" (ts(4)/ms)
"Jack on the Telephone Beanstalk" / "Who's Who" (ts(4)/ms)
"Heredity" / "Autobiog" / "My Father's Crest" (ts(9)/ms(3))
"After Winter" (ts/ms)
"Love is" (ts(2)/ms)
"A Poem for Randal" (ts/ms)
"Each Year the Birds" (ts/ms)
"We've Tamed" (ts(3)/ms(2))
"The Dilemma" (ts/ms)

"House Amongst Trees" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Universal Lover" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Yin and the Yang" (ts(2)/ms)
"Savour of Salt" (ts/ms)
"The Eaters" / "The Eating Poems" (ts(4)/ms(2))
"After the Operation" (ts/ms)
"Green Peace" (ts(2)/ms)
"Prose and Poetry" (ts/ms)
"The Artefacts: West Coast" / "The Island Story" / "Hair as History" (ts(5)/ms)
"Manitoba: August" (ts/ms)
"Out of the Cradle" (ts(4)/ms(2)/p)
"Sword into Ploughshare" (ts(4)/ms)

"Perspectives" (ts(4)/ms)
"Birthday (For Frank Bessai)" (ts(4)/ms(3))
"No Exit" (ts(3)/ms)
My days move lightly over you… (ts/ms)
"Frank Bessai" (ts/ms(2))
Don't move near to hear me speak… (ts(2)/ms)
"Visiting Hours" / "Hospital" (ts(4)/ms)
"Autumn" (ts(2)/ms)
"History" / "Perspectives (Edmonton)" / "Echoes" / "Winter day" (ts(10)/ms)
"Poems for the City Sick" (ts(5)/ms)
"Photograph" (ts(2)/ms)

"At Porpoise Bay" (ts(2)/ms)
"Edmonton at Night" (ts(6)/ms)
The protestants and puritans were right:… (ts(3)/ms)
"The Sign" (ts(6)/ms)

"The Snow Girl's Ballad" / The Curse Not Cast" (ts(3)/ms)
"Homelands" (ts(2)/ms)
"Rowan Red Rowan" (ts(3))
"High Rise" / "Omniplex" (ts(4)/ms)
"The Undressing" (ts(4)/ms)
If in the dark… (ts(3)/ms)
"Looking Down" (ts(2)/ms)
Sometimes in the dead of night… (ts(4)/ms)
The cool green tongues of grass… (ts/ms)
"Consequences" (ts(3)/ms)
"The Waves" (ts(4)/ms)
"The Rooms Exist No More" (ts(4)/ms)
"Only" (ts(2)/ms)
Old age puts a staple… (ts(2)/ms)
"Goodness Knows" (ts(2)/ms)
When the guest have gone... / "Old Frames" (ts(2)/ms(2))
"To Robbie Burns from on of his Mistresses" (ts(2)/ms)
"And on the Third Day" (ts(2)/ms)
"Caretaker" (ts(4)/ms)

"Among Friends" (ts/ms)
"The Apparition" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Child's Bed" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Dream" (ts/ms)
"Geranus' ... Crane" (ts(3)/ms(2))
I keep trying… (ts/ms)
"Insomnia" (ts(4)/ms(2))
Life is a process… (ts/ms)
"A Modern Crusoe" (ts(3)/ms)
"Never Shall I Lie" (ts(2)/ms)
"Of Marriages" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Step Beyond" (ts(2)/ms)
"Walking in the Dark" (ts(2)/ms)
"Woman" (ts(2)/ms)

"Queen's Park (For Desmond on his Birthday)" (ts(2)/ms)
"Mother Song" (ts(5)/ms)
"Catechism" (ts(2)/ms)
"Poem" / "Another Spring" (ts(12)/ms)
"An Evening with Clark" (ts)
"Travel Maybe" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Good Neighbour" (ts/ms)
"Victoria's Bells on Sunday Morning (For Diane)" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Operation" (ts(5)/ms)
"Post-operative Instructions" (ts/ms)
"The Holly and the Ivy" (ts(2)/ms)
"Sonnet" / "Cry" (ts(4)/ms)
Tied in the knot of love… (ts(2)/ms)
"The Game" (ts/ms)
"The Feminist" (ts(2)/ms)

"At Dawn" (ts(7)/ms)
"The Woman" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Dreamers" (ts(3)/ms)
"Ave" (ts/ms)
Cities are of the mind... (ts/ms)
"The Quarrel" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Samaritan" (ts(2)/ms)
"Notes for a Train Poem" (ts(2)ms(2))
"Romance Languages" (ts(2)/ms)
"Dirge for March: Saint John River" (ts/ms)
"Fredericton Spring" (ts/ms)
"Suburbia" (ts(2)/ms)
"Snow Woman" (ts(4)/ms)
"Objets trouvés (For Anne)" (ts(4)/ms)
"Threnody: Easter, 1968" / ""I have a dream" (For Martin Luther King)" (ts(4)/ms(3)/p)
"Cutting Bread" (ts/ms)
"The Pupil" (ts/ms)
"Pagan" (ts(2)/ms)
"Sorcery" / "A Call for Sorcery" (ts(5)/ms)
"There is a Satellite" (ts(2)/ms)

This file contains 32 letters, a draft of the forward for 'The Documentaries', and a review list:
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Frank Flemington dated 22 February 1968.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to George Truss dated 16 April 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Robin Farr) dated 7 March 1968.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Robin Farr dated 13 March 1968 (draft of forward for 'The Documentaries' attached).
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 17 April 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 19 April 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Robin Farr) dated 22 April 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 24 April 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Robin Farr) dated 3 May 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Robin Farr) dated 17 May 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 17 May 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Patricia Pierce) dated 27 May 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Georgeanna Hamilton) dated 18 June 1968.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Robin Farr dated 24 June 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Robin Farr) dated 28 June 1968.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Robin Farr dated 30 June 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Robin Farr) dated 4 July 1968.
Letter form Livesay (not signed) to Robin Farr dated 9 July 1968.
Letter form Livesay (not signed) to Robin Farr dated 14 July 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Avo Erisahn(?)) dated 9 August 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Robin Farr) dated 15 August 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Avo) dated 19 September 1968.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Georgeanna Hamilton dated 20 September 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Georgeanna Hamilton) dated 25 September 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Avo) dated 30 September 1968,
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Georgeanna Hamilton) dated 25 October 1968.
Letter from Robin Farr (signed) dated 3 November 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Georgeanna Hamilton) dated 6 November 1968 (review list for 'The Documentaries' attached).
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Robin Farr) dated 15 November 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Georgeanna Hamilton) dated 15 November 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Georgeanna Hamilton) dated 26 November 1968.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Avo) dated 24 December 1968.

"Poemsnaps (Vancouver)" [series of five poems]
"Acorn" / "Red Jazz" (ts(4)/ms)
"Mayne" (ts(2)/ms)
"Bissett" / "Beans Talk" (ts(3)/ms)
"Lane" (ts(2)/ms)
"Lowther" (ts(2)/ms)

"Auguries" / "Journey by Steel" / "Journey by Night" (ts(9)/ms)
"The Lovers" / "Rhythms" (ts/ms)
"Birdwatching" (ts(5)/ms)
"The Metal and the Flower" (ts(3)/ms/p)
"The Uninvited" (ts(7)/ms)
"Erosion" (ts(2)/ms)
"Dream" (ts(3)/ms)
"The Outsider" (ts(2)/ms)
"Aliens All" (ts(2)/ms)
"Remembering New Jersey: 1935" / "U.S.A. 1935" (ts(2)/ms)
Never but once before… (ts/ms)
"The Phone-in" (ts(4)/ms)
"Imprints" (ts(5)/ms)

"Random Pictures (The Manga)" (ts(4)/ms)
"The Road to Monckton" (ts/ms)
"Roomers" (ts/ms)
"The Sculptors (Within These Walls)" (ts(6)/ms)
"Snowy Morning" (ts(4)/ms)
"Sunflower in Winter" (ts/ms)
Two cripples set out along the road… (ts/ms)

"April Night" (ts(2)/ms)
"At "Sosnovka"" (ts(3)/ms)
Because you cannot be my mate… (ts(2))
"Between a Thousand" (ts/ms)
"The Eccentrics" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Encroachment" (ts/ms)
"The Feedback" (ts(2)/ms)
"House Keeper" (ts(3)/ms(2))
"In the Garden" / "The Coupling" (ts(3)/ms)
"In the Labyrinth" (ts(2))
"The invasion" (ts(5)/ms)
I seek an elixir… (ts/ms)
"Memo to my Daughter" (ts(2)/ms)
"Patterns" (ts(3))
"Persephone" (ts/ms)

This file contains 42 letters, a postage receipt, a review list, an advertisement, and a write-up:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 4 January 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 9 January 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 12 January 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 16 January 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 17 January 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 31 January 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Georgeanna Hamilton) dated 13 February 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 21 February 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 23 February 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 24 February 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Roy dated 27 February 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 2 March 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 7 March 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 22 March 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 22 March 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Georgeanna Hamilton) dated 22 March 1967.
Postage receipt from Ryerson Press for order of 'Selected Poetry-Dorothy Livesay' dated 20 March 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 29 March 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to George Truss dated 31 March 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 6 April 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 7 April 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 11 April 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 11 April 1967.
Review list for 'The Unquiet Bed'.
Advertisement example for magazines for 'The Unquiet Bed'.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Enid Thornton) dated 13 April 1967.
Letter from Charlie Boylan to Earle Toppings dated 14 April 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 15 April 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 17 April 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 20 April 1967.
Letter and copy of same letter from Livesay(?) (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 21 April 1967.
Letter from Livesay (signed) to Earle Toppings dated 22 April 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 8 May 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to George Truss dated 14 May 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 16 May 1967 (write-up of 'The Unquiet Bed' and other poetry books by Donald Phillipson attached).
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 29 May 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 9 June 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 14 July 1967.
Letter (second page) from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) date unknown.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to George Truss dated 25 July 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 31 July 1967.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to George Truss dated 4 August 1967(?).
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 15 August 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 17 August 1967.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 8 November 1967.

"The Woman with Small Hands" (ts(4)/ms)
"Iconoclast" (ts/ms)
"Another Sickness" (ts(4)/ms)
"The Game" / "Spring Happenings" (ts(3)/ms)
"Fundy" (ts(3)/ms/p)
"Centennial People" (ts(3)/ms)
"At Birney's (June 4, 1967 -- Before the Israeli-Arab Conflict)" (ts(3)/ms)
"The Labyrinth" (ts)
"Birthday" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Cave" (ts(7)/ms/p)
Storm rise... (ts/ms)
"Parenthood" (ts(2)/ms(2))
"Rachel Rachel" / "A Dream" (ts(8)/ms)
"Instructions" (ts/ms)
"Waking" (ts(2)/ms)

"Another Journey" (ts(3)/ms)
"The Balance" (ts/ms(2))
The blind man turns… (ts(3)/ms)
"Cote d'Azur" / "The Skin Divers" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Elms" (ts/ms)
In my dream room… (ts)
"Library" (ts/ms)
"The Notations of Love" / "For Richer, or Poorer" (ts(5)/ms)
"Poet and Critic (For Ray Souster)" / "Critic" (ts(2)/ms)
"Reaching Out" (ts/ms)
The record of all our nights… (ts)
"Time" (ts(2)/ms)
"Truths" (ts(4)/ms)
"The Unquiet Bed" (ts(4)/ms)
"Variations on an Elizabethan Theme" / "Melody on an Old Air" (ts(4)/ms)
"The Witch" (ts)

"From Spanish Banks" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Transfer" (ts/ms)
"Sun Fast" (ts(2)/ms)
"Thinking of you" (ts/ms)
"Return to a Birthplace" / "Roots" (ts(8)/ms(2))
"Moving out" (ts(3)/ms(2))
"Widow" (ts/ms)
"Eve" (ts(4)/ms)
"Messages" (ts(2)/ms)
"Mercy Living" (ts/ms)
"Perceptions" (ts/ms)
"F.R.L." (ts/ms)
"The Journey East" / "Traffic Island" (ts(6)/ms)
"Autumn 1966" (ts/ms)
"Autumn" (ts/ms)
"Psalm" (ts(3))
"A Book of Charms" (ts/ms)
"The Fog Horn" (ts/ms)
"New Song" (ts(9)/ms(3))
"Hello" (ts(2)/ms)
"De-evolution" (ts(5)/ms)

This file contains 34 letters and a write-up:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 14 April 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Campbell Hughes) dated 10 May 1966.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Campbell Hughes dated 15 May 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 15 June 1966.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 16 June 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 17 June 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 23 June 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 27 June 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 27 June 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 8 July 1966.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 12 July 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 19 July 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 22 July 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 3 August 1966.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 1966?.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 9 August 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 7 September 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 7 September 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 20 September 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 21 September 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 23 September 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 26 September 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Campbell Hughes) dated 6 October 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 6 October 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 18 October 1966.
Write-up for 'The Unquiet Bed' from Ryerson Press.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to George Truss dated 20 October 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Frank Flemington) dated 27 October 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by George Truss) dated 27 October 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 18 November 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 28 November 1966 (copies of letters from Earle Toppings to Roy Kiyooka and Edith McCarthy attached).
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 5 December 1966.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 15 December 1966.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 'Sunday the 17th, 1966?'.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 22 December 1966.

"The Pacemaker" / "Sun Fast" (ts(2)/ms)
"Pavane" (ts/ms)
"Roots" / "Pear Tree" (ts(3)/ms)
"Points of View" / "Colour book" / "Colours" / "The Colouring Book" (ts(4))
"Postscript" (ts(3)/ms)
"Process" / "The Inheritors" (ts(3)/ms)
"The Rat" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Road Re-traced (On a Theme by Edwin Muir)" (ts/ms)
"The Secretive Tock" (ts)
The severance being willed… (ts)
"The Taming" (ts(3))
Thank God I waited till you came… (ts)
"This Page my Bed" (ts)
"The Touching" (ts(8)/ms)
Unable as I am… (ts)
"The Unicorn" / "The Mark" / "The Dream" (ts(4))
"View North" (ts(2)/ms(2))
"The Vigil" (ts)
"The Way" (ts(2)/ms)
You put me through the gamut... / "Sonnet" (ts/ms(2))

"Autumn" (ts/ms)
"Being at a Loss" (ts/ms)
The colour of your talking... / "Voice" (ts/ms)
"Comox: 1965" (ts(6))
"Completion" (ts/ms)
"Epilogue" (ts)
"Four Songs" / "Variations on a Theme by Emily" (ts(11)/ms)
"He Calleth for Couples" (ts)
I bless you most, because… (ts(2)/ms)
I have to go on beyond your in time and space... / "The Differential" (ts(2)/ms)
I loved your mind… (ts)
"The Incendiary (For Duncan)" (ts(5)/ms)
"A Letter" (ts)
"Museum" (ts/ms)
"New for Walt" / "It's Time" (ts(4)/ms)
"Old Song" (ts)

"Soccer Game" / "Soccer: Vancouver" (ts(2)/ms)
"Making the Poem (For Jack Spicer before his death)" / "Serial Poem" (ts(8)/ms/p)
"Flower Music" (ts(6)/ms(4))
"Empress" (ts(4)/ms)
"Poem" (ts(2)/ms)
"And Give us our Tresspasses" (ts(2)/ms)
"Moment" (ts/ms)

This file contains 8 letters:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 29 March 1965.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 4 April 1965.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 7 May 1965.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 9 May 1965.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Earle Toppings dated 16 June 1965.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Betty Henley) dated 18 June 1965.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 18 June 1965.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 15 November 1965.

"Zambia" [Series of nine poems]
"Initiation" (ts(3))
"U.N.I.P. Meeting" (ts(3))
"Prophet" (ts(3))
"Cockcrow" (ts(3))
"Christening" (ts(3))
"The Wild Fig Tree" (ts(3))
"Village" (ts(6))
"Funeral" (ts(3))
"Wedding" / "Finale" (ts(3))
[Unused portions of "Zambia"]:
"Before Independence" (ts/ms)
"The Prophetess" (ts/ms(2))
I boughed under the trees… (ts)
O wild fig tree… (ts/ms(2))
"Zambian Wedding" (ts/ms)

"The Colour of God's Face" [Series of four poems] (ts)
"The Land" (ts(2)/ms)
"The People" (ts) [includes poems "Village"; "Funeral"; "Wedding"]
"The Prophetess" (ts)
"The Leader" (ts)

Unused portions of "Zambia" and "The Color of God's Face":
"Cockrow" (ts(2))
"Prophet" (ts)
"The Takeover" (ts(2))
"The Drowned Boy" (ms)
"Copperbelt" (ts)
"Copperbelt night" (ms)

"Notes from a Journey" [series of five poems]
"Fire" (ts/ms)
"Astronauts" (ts/ms)
"Night Light" (ts/ms)
Counting ahead… (ts/ms)
"The Attachments" (ts/ms)

"Poet" (ts(2))
"Points of View" (ts)
"Second Coming" / "Questions" (ts(5)/ms)
"Sour Poem (For Malcolm Lowry)" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Still Centre" / "On Hearing a Sonnet" (ts/ms)
This old house creaks… (ts/ms)
"Toilette" (ts/ms)
"Weather Report" (ts(2))
"Without Benefit of Tape" (ts(8)/ms/p)
"Woman Waylaid" / "Fork Lake" (ts(8)/ms)
"Woman Waylaid" / "Leda again" (ts(2))
"The Yoke (For DCM)" (ts(3)/ms)

"For a Young Poet" / "For Gwendolyn" (ts(7)/ms)
How often shall we move, and moving be… (ts/ms)
I must apologize:… (ts/ms)
In the still centre of this painting… (ts)
"It's Catching" (ts/ms)
"Jet Age" (ts/ms)
"Labour Peer" (ts(2)/ms)
"Living Room" (ts(2))
"Neither-nor" (ts(2)/ms)

"Ballad of me" / "Never quite" / "Auto Biog" (ts(5)/ms) [includes poems "The Abortion" (ts/ms); "The Psychiatrist" (ts)]
"Bathing" (ts(2) [includes poems "Company"; "Baptism"; "Vespers"]
"Calligraphies" (ts/ms)
"Haiku" (ts/ms)

"Bivouac" (ts/ms(2))
"The Thirties" (ts(2))
"Among Friends" (ts(2)/ms)
Wow, Mr. Wu!... (ts(2))
"Remembering Red Lane" (ts(3)/ms)

This file contains 4 letters:
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to the Royalties Dept. of Ryerson Press dated 4 June 1964.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by A.E. Herbert) dated 8 June 1964.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to the Editor of Ryerson Press dated 20 June 1964.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Earle Toppings) dated 14 July 1964.

"For Abe Klein: Poet" [series of poems dedicated to Abe Klein; each poem (except "The Descent) begins with a line of Abe Klein's poetry]
"The Descent" / "Envoy" (ts(2)/ms)
He breaks the wineglass underneath his heel. (A.K) / When they come… (ts(2)/ms)
"A Gloss of Poems (Remembering Abe Klein)" : Break down the twigs, break down the boughs / But break not, Lord, the golden bowl. (A.K.) / My body is tree… (ts(3)/ms)
The wrath of people is like foam and leather / Risen against us. Wherefore, Lord, and why? (A.K.) / Tender the boy's song… (ts(2)/ms)
"For Abe Klein: Poet" : And lives alone, and in his secret shines / like phosphorous. At the bottom of the sea. (A.K.) / Drowned? Were you the one… (ts(3)/ms(2))
"For Abraham" : Break down the twigs, break down the boughs / But break not, Lord, the golden bowl. (A.K.) / The stutter of the guns must still go on… (ts(2)/ms)
His was an open heart (A.K.) / He was always so 'there'... (ms)

"Birthday" (ts(3)/ms)
"Aunt Helen" (ts/ms)
"The Child on Steps" (ts(3)/ms)
"On Re-reading a Letter" (ts(3))

"Benny Lighting a Fire" (ts/ms)
"Morning in Africa" (ts(2))
"My Poor Mouth" (ts)
"Progression" (ts(3)/ms)
"The Second Language (For Raphael: "Mwapuleni mukwai")" (ts(3))
"Mother Tongue" (ts(2)/ms)
"Widow" (ts/ms)

"Day" (ts/ms)
"Audio-Visual" (ts/ms)
"Babel" / "United Nations" / "Exercises in Co-existence" (ts(3))
"Before the Journey" (ts(3)/ms)
"The Gift" / "Paris" (ts(5)/ms)
"Point of View" (ts(3)/ms)
"Pot Luck" (ts(3))
"Self-portrait" (ts(3)/ms)
"The Sitter" (ts(3)/ms)
"Co-existence" / "United Nations" (ts(2))
"Hoax" (ts)

"After Grief" (ts(2)/ms)
"Articulate Defense" (ts/ms)
Bent to untowardness, he... (ts(2))
The birds who sang at midnight when the lights went on… (ts/ms)
"The Blue Room" (ts(3)/ms)
"Brief Encounter" (ts)
"Conformity" (ts/ms)
Darker than the world… (ts/ms)
"Deliverance" (ts/ms)
"The Dream" (ts(2)/ms(2))
Each day is a house I build… (ts)
"Fasten Safety Belts" (ts/ms(2))
"Girl Child" (ts/ms)
"Hold" (ts/ms)
"Houdini Eliot" (ts/ms)
"Icarus" (ts(3)/ms)
"The Immortals" (ts/ms)
"Indian Summer" (ts)
"Letter to my Daughter" (ts(2)/ms)
"The Lovers" (ts(2))
"Man on Grouse Mountain" (ts(3)/ms)
Masses are sad in church but outdoors… (ts/ms)
A felling of sun slides in the sulky air… (ts/ms)
"Paysage Provencale" (ts(4)/ms)
Poems are written in the dead centre of night… (ts/ms)
"Poet Proliferate" / "Dudek sprecht" (ts/ms(2))
"Praise and Lament" (ts(2))
"Prayer for Sleep" (ts)
"The Ring" / "Mutations" (ts)
"Russell Square: Spring" / "May in Russell Square" (ts(4)/ms)
"She Replies to his Pleas" (ts(3))
"Song" (ts)
"Song" (ts/ms)
"Sonnet" (ts)
"Sunflower" (ts(2))
"Time Tells us we are Tall" (ts/ms)
"Vase" (ts/ms)
"Wine from Cyprus" (ts(3))
"Vintage" / "In Luxembourg of Kensington" (ts)
"The Yoke" (ts/ms)

"The Absences" (ts(3))
"Cote d'Azur" (ts(3)/ms)
"Words for our Time" (ts(2)/ms)
"Persephone" (ts(2)/ms)
"Mothering Sunday" (ts(2)/ms)
"Picasso, Sketching" / "Picasso's eye" / "Picasso's 'I'" / "The Clowning Act" (ts(8)/ms)
"Gardening" (ts/ms)
"Song" (ts/ms)
"Window" (ts/ms)
"Invocation" (ts(2)/ms)

This file contains 8 letters:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 20 April 1959 (and photocopy of same letter).
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by M.(?) Daly) dated 30 April 1959.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 22 May 1959.
Letter fro Livesay (not signed) to Lorne Pierce dated 27 April 1959.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by (?)) dated 19 May 1959.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Lorne Pierce dated 14 June 1959.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 19 June 1959.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 20 August 1959.

"The Voyage Out" (ts(6)/ms)
"In the Ward" (ts/ms)
"Quaker Meeting" (ts(2)/ms)
"Sonnet for the Times" (ts(2)/ms(2))
"Russel Square: Winter" / "In the Park" (ts(4)/ms)

"Ballet of Squares" [includes poems "Fitzroy" (ts(2)); "Guy Fawkes Night" (ts(3)); "November Eleventh" (ts(2)); "Trafalgar" (ts(3))]
"The Coil" (ts/ms)
"Conversations" (ts(2))
"One, Two, Three" (ts)
"The Dismembered Poem" (ts(3))
"The Emperor's Circus" (ts(5))
"Eurydice" (ts(2))
"From the Shell" (ts(3))
"Girl" (ts/ms)
"A Long Night's Journey" (ts(3))
"The Sky Watchers" / "Aurora Borealis" (ts(4))
"Sonnet" (ts)
"Surgery" (ts(2))

"Framed" (ts/ms(2))
"Song for the New Year" (ts/ms)

This file contains 4 letters and an advertisement:
Advertisement for 'Selected Poems of Dorothy Livesay, 1926-1956' from Ryerson Press.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 26 February 1957.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 4 April 1957.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 15 April 1957.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 1 May 1957.

"Water Colours: Victoria" / "Victoria in Aquarelle" [Series of six poems] (ts(7))
"Frost-bitten" / "Strange Winter" (ts)
"Sea Summer" (ts)
"Hotel Garden" (ts)
"Parliament Buildings" (ts)
"Beacon Hill" (ts)
"Convention" (ts)

"Incognito" (ts)
"Isolate" / "Cobwebs" (ts(2)/ms)
"God Talking" / "Lovers" (ts(2))
"Melpomene" (ts)
"Modern Times" (ts/ms(2))
"On Whipping a Child" (ts/ms)
"The Skin of Time" / "Tiger, Tiger" (ts(2)/ms)
"Sunbather" (ts/ms)
"Boy Girl" / "Loving Weather" / "Of Human Weather" (ts/ms)
"Cameos" (ts)
"Madrigal" (ts)
"To a Younger Poet" (ts(5)/ms)
"The Twins" / "Man to Man" / "Units of Study" (ts/ms(2))

This file contains 5 letters:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 23 May 1956.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Lorne Pierce dated 25 August 1956.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 13 September 1956.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Frank Flemington) dated 17 October 1956.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Frank Flemington) dated 12 November 1956.

"Affair and End" (ts/ms)
"On His Sixteenth Birthday" (ts)
"Loss" (ts)
"On Looking into Henry Moore" (ts/ms)

"The Academicals" [Series of four poems] (ts(2))
"The Professor as Medium" (ts(2))
"The Professor as Magician" (ts(2)/ms(3))
"The Professor as Twins" (ts(2))
"Egg and Square" (ts(2)/ms)

"Pool" (ts/ms)
Animal, fawn… (ts/ms(2))
"Ceremonial Journey" / "Journey by Air" / "A Ceremony of Love" (ts(3))
"The Dark Runner" (ts)
"Diagnosis" (ts(2))
"Generation" (ts/ms)
"Genii" / "West Coast" (ts(2))
"Nocturne I" (ts(2))
"Nocturne II" (ts(2))
"On Seeing" (ts(2))
"Song" (ts)
"Song" / "Winter Song" (ts)
"Spring" (ts(4)/ms(2))
"The Traveller" (ts(2)/ms)
"This Arrow" (ts/ms)
"Versus the Universe" (ts/ms(2))

"Beggar's Opera" (ts/ms)
Beloved the horn… (ts/ms)
The scratched face of the sea… (ts/ms)
"The Blade of Grass" (ts(2)/ms)
"Hop-scotch" (ts(2))
"Other" (ts(2))

This file contains 2 letters:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Enid Thornton) dated 10 February 1954.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Enid Thornton) dated 2 April 1954.

"The Husband" (ts/ms)

"Chant" / "Prayer" (ts(4)/ms)

This file contains 4 letters:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 28 January 1953.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Lorne Pierce dated 19 June 1953.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 2 July 1953.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 8 September 1953.

"Arms and the People" / "Chorale" (ts(3))
"Ariel" (ts)
"Children's Camp" / "Excursion" (ts(4)/ms)
"Song" (ts)
"Song" (ts(3))
"The Three Emilys" (ts(2))

This file contains 3 letters:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 12 May 1952.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Lorne Pierce dated 14 May 1952.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 25 September 1952.

Father of this our lot… (ts(3)/ms)
"If Time" (ts/ms)
I'll never hear… (ts)
"Epithalamium for Susan" / "Overture for Susan" / "Ballad for Susan" (ts(3)/ms)
"Sequence in Light" (ts(2)/ms)
"Stampede" (ts/ms)
"Variations on a Solitary Theme" (ts/ms)

"Easter 1951 (After Hiroshima)" (ts(2)/ms)
"Pied Piper" (ts/ms)
"Hymn to Man" (ts/ms(2))
A leaf leaps out… (ts/ms)
"Though Winter Comes" (ts(2))
"Wedlock" (ts/ms)

This file contains 7 letters:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 9 January 1951.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 13 March 1951.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Frank Flemington) dated 6 April 1951.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 26 June 1951.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 12 September 1951.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Lorne Pierce dated 14 September 1951.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 1 October 1951.

"Lines on a Poet Who Stopped Writing (P.K. Page)" (ts(3)/ms)
"Adam's Choice" (ts)
"Autumn" (ts/ms)
"Bulldozer" (ts)
"The Invisible Sun" / "Housewife" (ts)
"On Seeing" (ts)
"Tale" (ts)

This file contains 11 letters, a write-up for "Call My People Home", and a review list:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 20 March 1950.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 7 June 1950.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Enid Thornton) dated 17 July 1950.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 24 August 1950.
Letter from Livesay (not signed) to Frank Flemington dated 21 September 1950.
Copy of write-up for the chapbook publication of "Call My People Home".
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Frank Flemington) dated 16 October 1950.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 25 October 1950.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 17 November 1950.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Frank Flemington) dated 21 November 1950.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 27 November 1950 (review list for "Call My People Home" attached).
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 5 December 1950.

This file contains 3 letters and a review list:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 7 November 1949.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 1 December 1949.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 23 December 1949 (review list for 'The Collected Poems of Raymond Knister' attached).

"December" (ts)
"Unwritten Letter" (ts)

"At Sechelt" / "Sea Sequence" (ts)
"Call my People Home" (ts/ms)
"The Child in Fear" (ts)
"Easter" (ts)
How good it is to turn the earth again… (ts/ms)
"The Mirror" (ts)
Now, my Lord… (ts/ms)
"Variations on a Tree" (ts)
"On Tape (Cariboo Bus)" (ts/ms)

This file contains 7 letters, a royalty statement, and a postage receipt.
Royalty Statement from Ryerson Press for period 1 March 1947-29 February 1948.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 6 April 1948.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Fred(?) Ellins) dated 13 April 1948 (statement of balance with Ryerson Press attached.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Fred(?) Ellins) dated 23 April 1948.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 20 April 1948 (announcement of "Dorothy Livesay Wins Royal Society Medal" attached).
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 26 May 1948.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Fred(?) Ellins) dated 28 September 1948.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Fred(?) Ellins) dated 9 November 1948.
Postage receipt from Ryerson Press for order of 'Poems for People' dated 5 November 1948.

"Matins" (ts(2))
"A Poet's Guide to Fishing" (p)
"Vancouver Winter" (ts/p)

This file contains 12 letters and a postage receipt:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by W.E. Barlow) dated 20 March 1947.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Frank Flemington) dated 2 April 1947.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Frank Flemington) dated 18 April 1947.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 1 May 1947 (review list for 'Poems for People' attached).
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 8 May 1947.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 23 May 1947.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Frank Flemington) dated 2 June 1947.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Frank Flemington) dated 11 June 1947.
Postage receipt from Ryerson Press for order of 'Poems for People', 'East of the City', and 'At the Long Sault' dated 23 June 1947.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 27 June 1947.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 10 September 1947.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 12 September 1947.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 19 November 1947.

"London Revisited (1946)" (ts(2))
"Lullaby II" (ts)
"Lullaby I" (ts)
"Of Neighbours" (ts/ms)
"Song and Solitude" [a dramatic poem for radio] (ts(3))
"Okanagan Pictures" (n)
"Journey by Train" (ts(3)/ms)
"Pastoral" / "Ontario Story" (ts(2))
"Prairie Town" (ts/ms)
Rain is mother… (ts/ms)
Reared in snow she was… (ts/ms)

"Abracadabra" (ts(3))
"Ancestral Theme" / "Signature" (ts(5)/ms)
As though the mind, shaken by fiery voices… (ts/ms)
"Autumn in Wales" (ts(2))
"Carnival" (ts/ms)
I saw a bird come down… (ts)
"The Inheritors" (ts)

This file contains 4 letters and 2 postage receipts:
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 7 January 1946.
Postage Receipt from Ryerson Press for order of 'Day and Night' dated 22 October 1946.
Postage Receipt from Ryerson Press for order of 'As Ten as Twenty', 'The White Centre', and 'Day and Night' dated 3 December 1946.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 10 December 1946.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Elsinore Haultain) dated 18 December 1946.
Letter from Ryerson Press (signed by Lorne Pierce) dated 23 December 1946.

"Evensong" (ts)
"Inheritance" (ts(2)/ms)
"Pain (A Response to C.E.M. Joad)" (ts(2))
"Rain" (notes) (ms)
Words travel through my mind like rain... (ts/ms)