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Matt Cohen

Thirteenth accrual . -- 1960-1982. -- 21.5 cm of textual records and graphic material.

Series 1:
Correspondence. – 1960-1982. – 15 cm of textual records. – Title based on content of series. -- 1 photograph.

Box 150          Correspondence, 1960-1982

Matt Cohen to his parents:
F.1       1960; 11 letters
F.2       1961; 11 letters, includes a SUPA circular letter by Cohen
F.3       1962; 5 letters
F.4       1963; 11 letters
F.5       1964; 30 letters
F.6       1965-1969; 35 letters
F.7       1970-1980; 39 letters

Matt Cohen to his father:
F.8       1963-1964, 2 letters

Matt Cohen to his parents and his brother Andy:
F.9       1961-1969; 18 letters

Matt Cohen to his brother Andy:
F.10     1960-1964; 5 letters

Matt Cohen and Arden Ford (first wife) to his parents, including one also addressed to Andy:
F.11     1965-1966; 4 letters

Arden Ford (first wife) to his parents:
F.12     1964-1967; 10 letters, there is also one letter to Mr. and Mrs. Ginsburg

Susan “Susie” Bricker (second wife) to his parents:
F.13     1970-1974; 21 letters

Susan “Susie” Bricker (second wife) to Beatrice Cohen (Matt’s mother):
F.14     1971-1973; 14 letters

Matt Cohen and Susie” Bricker (second wife) to Beatrice Cohen (Matt’s mother):
F.15     Two letters, 1971 and n.d.

Matt Cohen and Patsy Aldana (third wife) to his parents:
F.16     One postcard from Matt, one letter from Patsy and children, both 1982 from Flivigny-sur-Ozerain in France.

Beatrice Cohen (Matt’s mother) to Matt Cohen:
F.17     one letter, n.d.

To Beatrice Cohen (Matt’s mother):
F.17     1962-1970; from John O. Wyspianski, University of Ottawa; Hazel Ford (encl. col. photograph of Matt with unidentified young woman); Florence McPhail; Hugh P Godard

Series 2:
Writings and other documents. – 1960-1967. – 6.5 cm of textual records. – Title based on content of series.

Box 151
F.1       Dissertation, “A Study of the Thought of Albert Camus”, [ca. 1965], ts. carbon, 46pages, encl. with letter to his father.
F.2       “The Second Class Student”, mimeograph, 5 pages written for the XXXI Congress, Canadian Union of Students, [1967-1968]
F.3       Poetry: “Two Wealthy Barbarians”, photocopy from Acta Nepeani, June 1960; untitled poem, “A beardless old man …”, ms., 2 pages with envelope pmk. 16 Dec. 1960; exchange of poems with his father: “Oh Matt, my son, is out of his teens …”, ms., 1 page, “circa 1962” and  untitled reply “my father you write in excellent verse …”, ts., 2 pages.
F.4       Issue of This Magazine Is About Schools, Autumn 1967, containing article by Cohen, “Nihilism or Insanity: The Strange Life of Ichabod Oise”.
F.5       “The Kibbutz”, ts., 34 pages, marked as “translation”
F.6       Research: Index cards containing book authors and titles, presumably for The Spanish Doctor; also 4 col. postcards from Manitoba, one with sticker noting it as “research materials”.
F.7       List of names, some with addresses, ms., 1 page.

Addendum: Manuscript, 2 pp., dated 1994. Added to this accrual March 2010.