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Letters to Mother [May - July 1932]
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- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 28 handwritten letters by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from May 1932 to July 1932. Topics include daily life in Banff, more work on Peter and Catharine's home, Fern Brewster's engagement and marriage, land and lots along Bow Avenue, news in Concord [includin…
- Date Range
- 1932
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 88
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Private record
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- I.A.2. Catharine Robb Whyte papers / photographs
- Sous-Fonds
- M36
- Accession Number
- .
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 88
- GMD
- Private record
- Date Range
- 1932
- Physical Description
- 1.3 cm of textual records (155 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 28 handwritten letters by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from May 1932 to July 1932. Topics include daily life in Banff, more work on Peter and Catharine's home, Fern Brewster's engagement and marriage, land and lots along Bow Avenue, news in Concord [including the death of Catharine's Aunt Helen and Edith Morse Robb's health], conversations with Earl Spencer, the death of Ruth Carpenter Mather [and subsequent reactions of family and locals], visiting and sketching in Yoho, a trip with Barbara Carpenter White to Vancouver, a trip with Barbara Carpenter White and Mary Schaffer Warren to Yoho, Catharine trading a painting for a grizzly hide, Peter getting a commission to paint a pair of portraits, Peter and Catharine's work hanging at the Banff Springs Hotel, painting trips to Larch Valley, Lake O'Hara and other locations, attending the Calgary Stampede [and corresponding art exhibition and an invitation to participate from Gwen[?] Hutton], and interactions and house visits from locals and others [including Norman Luxton, Jackie White, Fern Brewster, Tex Woods, the Moore family, the Brewster family, Earl Spencer, Barbara Carpenter White, Allan Mather, Fred Armbrister, Betty Painter, Belmore Browne, Mary Schaffer Warren, Frances James, Vic Kutschera, Carl Rungius, Frances and Murray Adaskin, Charlie Beil, Lila White Stockand, Norman Knight, Rupe and Chessy Edwards, Cyril Paris, Ted Paris, Dorothy White, Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Oakes [from Boston], Dan McCowan, Mr. Polenski, Mr. Kingsman, and Annie White].
- Notes
- Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, and those of the Jewish faith used throughout is outdated and offensive. Some items were stapled together and therefore scanned together as one document. Letters are all handwritten and include some hotel and camp letterheads. Some letters are marked with a small x in pencil, indicating where Jon Whyte made notes for use in his project "Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte: Commemorative Portfolio," originally published in 1981. Some letters also have numbers written in pencil crayon, believed to be from when originally processed.
- Name Access
- Whyte, Catharine
- Whyte, Peter
- White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.)
- Mather, Allan
- Brewster, Fern
- Spencer, Earl
- Crosby, Lou
- Luxton, Norman
- "Tex" Vernon Wood
- Moore, Phil
- Moore, Pearl
- Moore, Edmee
- Armbrister, Fred
- Painter, Betty
- Browne, Belmore
- Warren, Mary Schaffer
- Kutschera, Vic
- Rungius, Carl
- Adaskin, Murray
- Stockand, Lila (White)
- McCowan, Dan
- Subject Access
- Art
- Artists
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Calgary Stampede
- Camps
- Cinema
- Community life
- Family
- Family and personal life
- First Nations
- Funeral
- Indigenous Peoples
- Lake O'Hara Bungalow Camp
- Lake O'Hara region
- Marriage
- Mount Royal Hotel
- Painting
- Portrait
- Property
- Stoney Nakoda
- Whyte House
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Concord
- Calgary
- Vancouver
- Yoho National Park
- Shadow Lake
- Castle Mountain
- Larch Valley
- Moraine Lake
- Lake O'Hara
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Robb Whyte, Catharine
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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William Henderson Watts fonds
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- Part Of
- William Henderson Watts fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of letters written by Mary Schäffer Warren to William Henderson Watts. Letters document Mary Schäffer Warren's disappointment in the U.S.'s lack of support for the Allies in Europe. Letters also deal with Schäffer Warren's sentiments regarding the loss of Canadian men during the war…
- Date Range
- 1916-1920
- Reference Code
- M553 / V776
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Textual record
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- William Henderson Watts fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 553
- V 776
- Sous-Fonds
- M 553
- V 776
- Accession Number
- 2014.8371
- Reference Code
- M553 / V776
- Date Range
- 1916-1920
- Physical Description
- 7 cm of textual records. -- 3 photographs: (prints, b&w)
- History / Biographical
- William Henderson Watts (1870-1955) was born in Baltimore, MD on February 21, 1870 to William Watts, Jr and Hannah Amanda (Henderson) Watts. He graduated Virginia Theological Seminary in 1900; ordained a deacon October 1900 by Bishop Whittle; ordained a priest June 1901 by Bishop Gibson. He married Mary Gardiner Bach on January 26, 1903.
- He served as curate in Christ Church, Charlottesville, Virginia from 1901-1902
- curate in Christ Church, East Orange, NJ from 1902-1903
- Rector, Calvary Church, Front Royal, and Meade Memorial Church, White Post, VA 1903-1904
- Curate St. Paul's Church, Paterson, NJ 1909-1912
- Rector St. Mary's Church, Haledon, NJ, 1912-1924
- Rector St. Peter's Church, Clifton, NJ, 1924-1930
- Chaplain, City Mission, Diocese of Newark, 1930-1950
- Watts visited England in August of 1909. It is also known that he worked for a time for the Pennsylvania RR, perhaps as a conductor, during a period when it is believed that he was uncertain about continuing his choice of a career as an Episcopal Minister.
- Service in the American Expeditionary Force, chaplain, 1917-1918.
- William H. Watts and Mary G. Watts had three children: Mary Gardiner Watts (11/12/1903 - 12/18/1985) born in Front Royal, VA; William Ivor Bach Watts (3/12/1908 - 3/5/2004) born in East Orange, NJ; Elizabeth Henderson Watts (4/24/1911 - 5/5/1998) born in Paterson, NJ
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of letters written by Mary Schäffer Warren to William Henderson Watts. Letters document Mary Schäffer Warren's disappointment in the U.S.'s lack of support for the Allies in Europe. Letters also deal with Schäffer Warren's sentiments regarding the loss of Canadian men during the war and the loss of her nephew Eric Sharples. Letters cover the period 1916-1920 and were originally part of a scrapbook compiled by William Henderson Watts which was arranged in chronological order between 1912 and 1924 and contained approximately 200 documents.
- Also included is a newspaper clipping of article written by Mary S. Warren "A Letter From the Somme Battle Front", 1916.
- 3 Photographs are of Eric Alfred Sharples in uniform; William Henderson Watts in uniform as [chaplain American Expeditionary Force, 1917]; three small children, 1917 (annotated on reverse).
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- Military
- Politics
- Language
- Language is English
- Creator
- Watts, William Henderson
- Category
- Family and personal life
- Military
- Politics
- Biographical Source Notes
- Episcopal Diocese of Newark, NJ; Capt. Robert B. Watts (William Henderson Watts' grandson)
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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