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File contains a booklet (3 sheets of paper folded in quarto and bound in a wrapper with string) of layouts for the illustrated edition of Walden, comprising pencil sketches (5) for the frontispiece, title page, chapter openings and page openings. The title page of the booklet of layouts reads "Walden, or, Life in the woods by Henry D. Thoreau, with drawings by Thoreau MacDonald, Limited Editions Club, New York, MCMXXXIII".

Correspondence with the Art Gallery of Toronto, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation, and the Board of Education.

File includes correspondence with H.O. McCurry and Eric Brown at the National Gallery, The Art Association of Montreal, the editor of the Edinburgh Scotsman, the editor of the Montreal Gazette and others.

Letters include congratulations on Panton's election as President, correspondence with Lawren Harris regarding the formation of the Canadian Group of Painters, letters from Fred Brigden, Thoreau MacDonald, C.W. Jefferys, Franz Johnston, letters to the editors of the Canadian Forum and The Globe and Empire, correspondence with G.A. Reid, the Ontario Department of Education, Frank Carmichael, Eric Brown, Florence Wyle and others.

Files contains typed texts of lectures given to the St. Clements Club, talks to open OSA exhibitions in Hamilton, Barrie and elsewhere, lectures addressed to the Heliconian Club, the Hamilton Association and the University of Western Ontario.

Correspondence from Art Gallery files

Series consists of a suit of clothing and other objects of personal significance.

Series comprises photocopies of correspondence between Mrs Frank Cooper and the Art Gallery of Toronto regarding the purchase by J.S. McLean of the painting Round Lake, Mud Bay (1915) by Tom Thomson.

File contains correspondence to and from Varley and Manya.

File contains a manuscript essay by Arthur Lismer entitled "The appreciation of pictures"; typescript or carbon copies of "Letters to African teachers of Bechuanaland," and "Suggestions for a proposed syllabus for the teaching of art in [South African] native schools"; and a mimeograph copy of five chapters of "The teaching of art in normal primary & secondary schools [in the Transvaal]."