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• Title:Roy Daniells fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Daniells, Roy, 1902-1979.
  
• Published/Created:1884-1979
  

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  • Location:UNIVERSITY ARCHIVESWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: UBCA-ARC-1067
    
  • Number of Items:49
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-49
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Daniells, Roy, 1902-1979.
  Birney, Earle, 1904-1995.
  Finch, Robert, 1900-1995.
  Pacey, Desmond, 1917-1975.
  Frye, Northrop.
  Davis, Herbert.
  Brown, E. K.
  Woodhouse, A.S.P. (Arthur Sutherland Piggott), 1895-1964.
  Herbert, Paul.
  Coates, Carol.
  Maynard, Max, 1903-
  Shadbolt, Jack, 1909-1998.
  Daniells, James.
  Daniells, Constance.
  
• Description:8. 3 m of textual records
  approximately 1500 photographs
  7 sound cassettes
  1 video recording
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of Daniells' personal and professional incoming and outgoing correspondence, diaries, speeches, radio broadcasts, manuscripts, poetry, subject files, research files, postcards and postcard collections, clippings, financial records, audio material, photographs, memorabilia and printed material. Also included are the records of Roy's parents, James and Constance Daniells. The correspondence series contains thousands of letters from major literary figures such as Earle Birney, Robert Finch, Desmond Pacey, Northrop Frye, Herbert Davis, E.K. Brown, A.S.P. Woodhouse, as well as writers, poets, and artists such as Paul Herbert (Sara Brinks), Carol Coates, Max Maynard, Jack Shadbolt and others. His own works are represented by manuscripts of his poetry, fiction, drama, scholarly work on Milton and modernism and Canadian literature, speeches and broadcasts, autobiography, diaries, and many letters to his family. The fonds also contains letters of sympathy received by Daniell's family after his death.
  
• Biography/history note:Born in London, England, Roy Daniells emigrated to Victoria, B.C. with his family in 1910. He received a B.A. from University of British Columbia (1930) before continuing his graduate education in English at the University of Toronto (M.A., 1931 and Ph.D., 1936). After serving as head of the Department of English at the University of Manitoba, Daniells came to UBC in 1946. He became head of the department following the retirement of G.G. Sedgewick in 1948 and continued in this position until 1965. At that time, he was named the first University Professor of English Language and Literature. Daniells authored two volumes of poetry and wrote extensively on Canadian literature. He is best known for his studies of seventeenth century English literature, particularly the work of John Milton.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Inventory available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.