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Correspondence with [Robert A.] Tweedie
Letters and memos chiefly of a personal nature. Reference is made to a gift of a travel book to Beaverbrook from Tweedie and of problems encountered with placement of the teacher's overseas scholars.
Correspondence with Robert A. Tweedie
Letters, soundscribers, memos and telegrams relating to the Saint John Law School. Subjects discussed include: shipments of books and furniture to the law school and Old Manse Library (Newcastle, N.B.); damage to goods; upkeep of school grounds; hiring of a caretaker; improvements and repairs; handling of school accounts; shipment of books from Bonar Law Bennett Library to the law library; purchase of a plaque for the school entrance and the naming and official opening of the building. The Teachers' Overseas Scholarship scheme and chosen scholars are mentioned briefly.
Correspondence with Robert A. Tweedie
(CONTINUED) Contained in the file are copies of press releases relating to the various Beaverbrook scholarships.
Correspondence with Robert A. Tweedie
Letters, telegram, soundscribers, invoices, memo and note relating to the Saint John Law School. Subjects discussed include: shipments of books and furnishings destined for the Old Manse Library (Newcastle, N.B.) and the Saint John Law School; proposed opening dates for these institutions; transfer of books from UNB library to law school; proper identification of books and the need for law librarians; conditions of book loans; insurance on books and furnishings; cleaning and naming of the school -- "Beaverbrook House"; possibility that the Senate would approve centering the law school in Saint John and the purchase of gates and plaques for the institution.
Correspondence with Robert A. Tweedie
(CONTINUED) The file contains samples of St. Thomas College's bookplate, a formal information sheet regarding Beaverbrook Undergraduate Scholarships and a news clipping entitled "Beaverbrook Award Winners Announced" (Daily Gleaner, August 29, 1955).
Correspondence with Robert A. Tweedie
Letters, notes and memos relating to a variety of matters. Subjects discussed include: a request by the Board of School Trustees (Campbellton, N.B.) to name the new elementary school after Lord Beaverbrook and for a photograph of Beaverbrook to be hung in the school; confusion surrounding R.A. Tweedie's resignation as Beaverbrook Art Gallery secretary and the appointment of Miss Helen Savage to the position; rumours that Beaverbrook is to obtain an Epstein; response to gallery advertising on Dali's "Santiago El Grande"; the awarding and payment of scholarships (including the new Geology scholarships at UNB) from the Sir James Dunn Foundation; the UNB nursing programme; retired Presbyterian minister's pesion fund payments and the possibility of charging UNB and other agencies for use of the Lady Beaverbrook Rink. The file also contains a sketch of a couch owned by Rev. William Henderson and accountings of various trust funds managed by Tweedie.
Correspondence with R.A. Tweedie
Letters, soundscribers and memoranda chiefly regarding the marble facing, finishing details and opening festivities planned for the Sir James Dunn Arena in St. Andrews. This file includes copies of press releases outlining opening festivities. Other correspondence discusses providing a private nurse for Fraser Winslow, and Bishop LeBlanc's query about Beaverbrook's health.
Correspondence with R.A. Tweedie
Letters, photographs, soundscribers and telegrams related to opening of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery including hanging of the pictures under the direction of Sir Alec Martin from the Tate Gallery; alterations required for building Lucy Pillow's "China Room"; invitations and acceptances to the official opening and the intricacies of publishing the opening exhibition catalogue. There is also some correspondence discussing The Square in Newcastle, N.B.
Correspondence with Robert A. Tweedie
Letters, telegrams and news clippings relating to educational matters: terms and conditions of Beaverbrook scholarship schemes; basis of selection and scholars' progress; discontinuance of chemistry scholarships and of Beaverbrook scholarships awarded to married persons and women (teachers' scholarships excepted in the latter case); appointments to selection committee; possibility of constructing a gymnasium in Chatham, N.B. and a residence at UNB; possible building sites for the new UNB residence; donation toward construction of a paved playing field at Beaverbrook School (Beaverbrook Station, N.B.); shipments of books, paintings, etc. to UNB, St. Thomas College (Chatham, N.B.) and Old Manse Library (Newcastle, N.B.) and the redecorating of Somerville House (Fredericton, N.B.) and the Lady Beaverbrook Building. Also discussed is Beaverbrook's plan to collect letters written by distinguished New Brunswick men of the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Correspondence with Robert A. Tweedie
Letters and memo discussing educational matters: Beaverbrook overseas scholarships--number of applicants, selection of winners, new terms and conditions of undergraduate scholarships; form letter and questionnaire distributed to past Beaverbrook scholars in order to bring scholarship records up to date and the distribution of copies of Beaverbrook's "Men and Power" to all school libraries in New Brunswick.
