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Douglas Duncan fonds
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Douglas Duncan fonds

  • LA.SC095
  • Fonds
  • 1921-1971

Fonds consists chiefly of correspondence to Douglas Duncan as director of the Picture Loan Society in Toronto between 1936 and 1966, and his personal correspondence with Norman Endicott and their friends in common during the 1920s. Also included are records of Canadian artist David Milne from the 1950s and British painter Robert ‘Scottie’ Wilson from about 1945 to 1970; both were clients of Douglas Duncan and friends of Norman Endicott. Fonds is comprised of the following series: 1. Picture Loan Society correspondence 2. Duncan-Endicott correspondence 3. David Milne records 4. Scottie Wilson records

Duncan, Douglas

DMD to NJE,

17 letters, from Mille Roches (Ont.), and within Toronto;letter to NJE (in Vienna) from a British from Toronto customs official

DMD to NJE

  • 8 letters to Toronto from New York*, Rome, Naples, Chamonix, Paris, Biervliet (Netherlands) and aboard RMS Mauretania;also 1 fragment (no addresses)
  • *One includes instructions for the dispersal of his books in case of death

DMD to NJE

7 letters (whole or partial) from Muskoka (Ont.) and England.Included is a typed enclosure with quotes on several authors from Philip Guedella's A Gallery (Anatole France, John Galsworthy, Proust, Kirriemuir & Bernard Shaw)

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