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• Title:Alexander Donaldson fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Donaldson, Alexander Mitchell, 1891-1961.
  
• Published/Created:1940-1960
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS mapsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1167
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:box 1-8
    
    

  • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1167
    
  • Number of Items:8
    
  • Status:c.1 box 1 Requested
    c.1 box 2 Requested
    
  • Location Has:box 1-8
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Donaldson, Alexander Mitchell, 1891-1961.
  Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
  
• Description:26 cm of textual records
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of books by and about Robert Burns and 18th century Scotland and Donaldson's correspondence and papers relating to the development of his Burns collection.
  
• Biography/history note:Alexander Donaldson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, but emigrated to Canada in 1909 where he worked as an auditor for the Ford Motor Company. During World War II he served as an investigator for the War-Time Prices and Trade Board. From 1954 to 1961 he worked at the Vancouver Public Library. Donaldson's collection of books by or about Robert Burns, which began in the 1930s, developed into one of the finest private collections on Burns.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Online inventory available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.