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Coulter, John fonds. Part II

Diaries There is a total of 55 diaries, 53 originals and two in photocopy form.
Box 10:
July 1919 - January 1920, 1 day per page, full entries, accounts of work in progress, the weather, social activity, theatre news and reading.
January 1, 1922 - December 31, 1922, 4 days per page, brief entries, work in progress, weather, tennis games.
January 20, 1925 - November 30, 1925, 1 day per page but small format diary, brief entries with frequent gaps of a week or more.
January 26, 1929 - January 8, 1930, 4 days per page, brief entries, gaps of up to a month in the first half, fuller and more frequent entries in the second half.
February 17, 1930 - December 31, 1930, 1 day per page, regular brief entries becoming fuller in the second half, particularly in August when Coulter's father died.
January 1, 1932 - December 30, 1932, 4 days per page, regular brief entries except for gap most of February, much literary and tennis activity.
January 6, 1933 - December 27, 1933, 4 days per page, regular brief entries, no long gaps.

January 1, 1934 - December 29, 1934, 7 days per page, regular brief entries with later notes added by Coulter explaining some entries.
The original diaries for 1935 and 1936 are not in the collection but have been kept by Coulter's daughter Primrose. However, both have been photocopied and the copies are included here in a file folder. Both diaries are 4 days to a page type with regular brief entries.
January 26, 1937 - February 29, 1938, 2 days per page, regular fuller entries with gaps in March and May.
February 16,1938 - December 31,1938, 1 day per page but small format, regular entries with gaps in March and April, some brief, others longer.
January 1,1939 - January 7,1940, 2 days per page, very regular, full entries, no gaps.
January 7,1940 - December 31,1940, 2 days per page, regular, full entries, no gaps.
January 21,1941 - January 5,1942, 2 days per page, regular full entries, no gaps. Notes for the period January 10 - January 13,1941 describing the death of James Joyce have been added later.
January 1,1942 - December 31, 1942, 1 day per page, small format, regular daily entries, some pages completely filled, lists of family letters sent and received at back.
January I, 1943 - December 31, 1943, 2 days per page, regular but usually quite brief entries, lists of family letters sent and received and monthly income records at back.
January 1, 1944 - December 31,1944, 2 days per page, regular full entries, family correspondence and accounts lists at back.
January 1, 1945 - January 4, 1946, 2 days per page, regular full entries, accounts at back, family correspondence list at front.
January 4, 1946 - December 31, 1946, 4 days per page, regular, very full entries. accounts at back, family correspondence list at front.

January 1, 1947 - December 31, 1947, 3 days per page, regular, very full entries, accounts and memoranda at back, family correspondence list at front.
There are two diaries for 1948, one a small, 4 days to a page format with only occasional brief jottings, the other a large format 4 days to a page diary with very full and regular entries -no gaps. There are accounts and a list of family correspondence sent and received at the back.
1949-1953. From 1949 until the end of his life John Coulter began to 24-28 use the large format Letts brand diary with 2 days on each page and a place for notes at the end of each week. Apart from 1950 and one other year when the diary appears to have been temporarily discontinued and a Collins diary of similar format was used (1970), Coulter followed an unbroken routine of regular and generally quite full entries with financial summaries at the end and sometimes also the beginning of each year and a list of family correspondence sent and received. To almost all of these diaries Coulter has gone back later in life and highlighted and often annotated in red or blue pencil the most significant events.

Box 11:
1954-1967. As above except that 1955 and 1956 have one day for each page.

Box 12:
1968-1980. See notes above.

Alternative titles used by John Coulter for his plays
Ah, Laziness - see - Oblomov
A Capful of Pennies - see - This Glittering Dust
Come Back to Erin - see - Holy Manhattan
Conochar's Queen - see - Deirdre
The Crime of Louis Riel - see - Riel
Dark Days of Ancient Hate - see - God' s Ulsterman
Darling Boy - see - Mrs. Moore's Mistake and Living Together
The Devil's Wedge - see - Stirring of the Backwaters
The Exile of Francois Bigot - see - Francois Bigot and The Fall of Quebec.
The Fabulous Francois Bigot - see - Francois Bigot and The FaLL of Quebec
Father Brady's New Pig - see - Clogherbann Fair
Flowers for Judy - see - Sleep My Pretty One and Living Together
The Folks in Brickfield Street - see - The Family Portrait
Francois Bigot and the Golden Calf - see - Francois Bigot and the Fall of Quebec.
The Grand Old Lady of Gregor Lodge - see -While I Live
Green Lawns and Peacocks - see - While I Live
Helen, Edie, Hal - see - Living Together
Highlights - see - Living Together
Laziness My Love - see - Oblomov
Laugh Yorrick, Laugh - see - This Glittering Dust
The Legend of Gregor Lake - see - While I Live
Mr. Kean of Drury Lane - see -This Glittering Dust
Mr. Oblomov- see - Oblomov
Nosegay for Yorrick - see -This Glittering Dust
One Weekend In SpPing -see -Living Together
Pigs - see -Clogherbann Fair
Portrait of the Painter - see - Living Together
The Red Hand of Ulster - see - God's Ulsterman
Round at Bella Neill's - see -The Family Portrait
Sally's Chance - see - House in the Quiet Glen
The Sponger - see - The Family Portrait
Stars in Brickfield Street - see - The Family Portrait
Talking of Love - see - Living Together
This Is My Country - see - Holy Manhattan
The Trial of Louis Riel - see - Riel
Turf Smoke (the play) - see - Holy Manhattan
Val ! Oh Val - see - Living Together
When I Was Young - see - The House in the Quiet Glen and The Family Portrait
Willy, Hinton, Jill - see - Living Together
Willy, Sinton, Jill - see - Living Together
Yorrick - see - This Glittering Dust

Box 13:
Plays
F.1 Claudia Come Home
Typescript in binder, lightly annotated with notes on the title page by the author written in 1958 and 1979. The play was written in London in the 1950s. There are also 2 sketches of the set, 87 pp. total.
Clogherbann Fair
Under its original title, Pigs, this was the first play written by John Coulter after his arrival in Canada. It was the Arts and Letters Club New Year's Eve presentation in 1937 and in 1940 it formed the central item of a revue at Hart House Theatre, Toronto. Later it was revised for CBC radio and then lengthened and renamed Clogherbann Fair for BBC Belfast in 1948. Subsequently it was heard on Dublin radio and was broadcast again by the BBC in 1954. It was sometimes performed as Father Brady's New Pig.
F.2 Pigs, stage version, lightly annotated carbon typescript, 14 pp.
F.3 Pigs (typed) - Clogherbann Fair (pencilled) "radio version", [1954], lightly annotated carbon typescript, 24 pp.
F.4 Clogherbann Fair, radio script, 1954, photocopied typescript. 24 pp.
F.5 Cuttings of 1940 performance and 1954 broadcast.

The Drums Are Out
This three act play "about a decent man in a desperate predicament, torn between dedication to duty and family affection" was written in June and July 1947 and played for five weeks at Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1948. Although originally written for the Dominion Drama Festival it did not receive its first Canadian production unti:l1950 when it won the D.D.F. award for the best Canadian play. Also in 1950 it was revised for CBC radio's "Wednesday Night" series and broadcast. It was re-broadcast in 1967 and 1969 and televised in 1969. DePaul University Press published it in 1971.
F.6 Annotated holograph script with suggestions for various titles on the first two pages, 80 pp.
F7. Typescript with both original and a revised ending (12 additional pp.) and 4 copies of p.74, l08 pp. total.
F.8 Radio script, carbon typescript, "London, 1956", 2 copies, each one 30pp.
F.9 Television script, carbon typescript, 39pp.
F.10 Holograph note on Drums at the Abbey Theatre. Dublin, holograph cast list of Drums at the Abbey and a brief: typescript outline of a possible film version.
F.11 The Drums Are Out. copy of the published version. Vol.. VI. Irish Drama Series. edited by William J. Feeney. with an introduction by Coulter. De Paul University. Chicago. 1971. 77 pp.
F.12 Letter (published version) by Coulter regarding Drums, in Saturday Night [March?] [1948].
F.13 Poster, programmes and 13 photographs of Drums at the Abbey.
F.14 Cuttings of Drums at the Abbey. 1948, and another cutting. 1950.
F.15 More cuttings and reviews of Abbey prums production.
F.16 Arts and Letters Club production of Drums, 1950, programmes and photograph.
F.17 Cuttings relating to D.D.F. production of Drums. 1950.
F.18 CBC Radio broadcast of Drums, article in CBC Times, July 1951.
Letter to editor of CBC Times praising Drums broadcast, August 1951.
F.19 Review in University of Toronto Quarterly, April 1949, p.276.

Box 14:
The Family Portrait
This play, originally entitled The Folks in Brickfield Street, was probably written in the early 1930s. The radio version of it, with the title changed, at the insistence of the BBC, to The Family Portrait, was broadcast twice in 1935. The stage version was published in 1937 by Macmillan in Canada both separately and in a single volume containing The House in the Quiet Glen (op. cit.) and the same year saw a stage production at Hart House, Toronto as well as a CBC broadcast. The emergence of a successful American play also called The Fami1y Portrait made Coulter change the name of his play once again, first to Round at Bella Neill's then to Stars in Brickfield Street although other later scripts still use the earlier The Folks in Brickfield Street. In 1948 as Stars in Brickfield Street, it had a successful run at the Group Theatre in Belfast and in a much-revised version not written by Coulter the play appeared on CBC television in 1956 entitled The Sponger. The play forms half of the author's 1976 compilation When I Was Young joined with Coulter's other "folk comedy" House in the Quiet Glen (op. cit.)

F.1 Two chronologies of the play by the author, one typescript, one carbon typescript (3 copies), one annotated, 4 pp. total.
F.2 The Folks in Brickfield Street. This is clearly not the original radio script but may well be a retyped version of it. It has a note on the title page by the author and a holograph note dated 1965 attached. Photocopied typescript, 50 pp.
3. The Family Portrait, Act I only. Bound carbon typescript, annotated, 34 pp.
4. The Family Portrait, printed version of the stage play, Macmillan, 1937. The play has been extensively revised in blue pencil by the author and retitled Round at Bella Neill's, 124 pp.
5. Disbound pages from the published Family Portrait with extensive ink revisions by author (for the Round at Bella Neill's version?), 52 pp.
6. Round at Bella Neill's ("alternative title Stars in Brickfield Street") , retyped version of the printed and holograph one above, photocopied typescript, 67 pp.
7. "Stars Revise" , holograph page with author's ideas for revising play (carried out below(?) - folder 9.), 1 p.
- another holograph page with scheme for Stars as a comic opera.
8. Stars in Brickfield Street "rejected sheets", original typescript, carbon typescript and photocopied typescript - rejected sheets taken from various versions of the play, often several copies of the same page, 112 pp. total.
F.9 The Folks in Brickfield Street (TV), suggested TV version, 1950s, carbon typescript, 50 pp.
F.10 When I Was Young, bound, annotated typescript of The House in the Quiet Glen and The Family Portrait placed together with a new introduction in May 1976.

F.11 A photocopy and carbon copy of folder 10 and list of those to whom copies sent.
F.12 Programmes, newspaper cuttings and advertising flyers for 1937 Toronto production, Ulster production and radio versions.
F.13 1937 Toronto rehersal schedule and photograph.
F.14 Radio review of the published version of The House in the Quiet Glen and The Family Portrait, typescript, 3pp. and 1 carbon copy, 3 pp. (Copies of the review may be found in The House in the Quiet Glen box.)
François Bigot and the Fall of Quebec
John Coulter's early interest in Quebec was responsible for his first Canadian play "A Tale of Old Quebec" written in England for the BBC in 1930 and revived by CBC Montreal ten years later. For these plays see Radio Documentary Dramas, Box 36. Also during the 1830s, as part of the "Living History Series" for CBS came "Quebec in 1670". In old age Coulter returned to the Quebec theme for one of his last plays, François Bigot and the Fall of Quebec, the first draft of which was completed in 1968 on a commission from CBC radio as The Fabulous Francois Bigot. It was broadcast from Toronto in 1970 but the author continued to work at adaptations for both television and the stage under various titles almost up until the time of his death. The play was published by Hownslow Press, Toronto, in 1978.
F.15 Research notes and various holograph drafts for the stage with interleaved typescript pages from the radio version, some sections dated at various times during 1969, 111 pp. total.

F.16 Various memos and outlines proposing the writing of a "new Canadian play" (Bigot), typescript and carbon typescript, 5 different versions with many duplicates, 29 pp. total.
F.17 Work sheets for 1970 (final) version, heavily revised holograph and typescript sheets bearing various dates during 1969 and 1970, plans for radio and stage versions, 12l pp. total.
F.18 The Fabulous Francois Bigot (radio version?), annotated carbon typescript,62 pp.
F.19 3 copies of part one of the play, stage version, original typescript and 2 carbon copies,
45 pp. each, 135 pp. total.

Box 15:
F.1 The Exile of François Bigot, bound typescript, stage version, lightly annotated 65 pp.
F.2 Incomplete bound and annotated carbon typescript, stage version with loose revised pages dated in 1977, carbon typescript and holograph and "note on the writing of François Bigot and the Fall of Quebec", carbon typescript, 61 pp. total.
F.3 Photocopy, mlnotated typescript of the published version of Bigot, 1978, 54 pp.
F.4 Published version of Bigot, Hownslow Press. 1978.
5 copies of review in The Guardian, April 5, 1979; 2 other reviews; list of those sent copies of the book, with dates
F.5 Two photocopies of the section in Geraldine Anthony's John Coulter dealing with Bigot.
God's Ulsterman
Unlike other compilations by Coulter where two previously independent plays have been joined some time later into a sequence or "double bill" (e.g. When I Was Young and Talking of Love), Red Hand, a play reflecting "the troubles" in contemporary Ulster, was written early in 1971 and was followed quickly by another set in the Cromwellian era, Dark Days of Ancient Hate to form the sequence God's Ulsterman by November 1971. The Red Hand portion was broadcast by CBC radio 1974.

F.6 "Working material God's Ulsterman." Newspaper cuttings and articles about Paisley and Cromwell, 1970 and 1971.
F.7 Holograph script, parts I and II of God's Ulsterman bearing dates in February and March 1971, 56 pp. total.
F.8 Typescript with holograph pages and revisions, part II (Red Hand) only, 23 pp.
F.9 Red Hand, bound typescript with foreword by the author, lightly annotated, 39 pp.
F.10 3 bound copies of the play with single loose page of introduction by Coulter, typescript, dated November 1971.
F.11 Holograph notes and newspaper cuttings relating to God's Ulsterman; also more copies of announcement sent out with the play.

Box 16:
Holy Manhattan (See also Turf Smoke)
The play Holy Manhattan was first produced in 1940 at the Arts and Letters Club. As This Is My Country it had its radio premiere in 1941. Subsequently the drama was turned into a novel published in Canada by Ryerson in 1945 as Turf Smoke and in Ireland by Talbot Press in 1949 as Turf Smoke on Manhattan. To complicate the picture somewhat the title Turf Smoke was applied to at least one staged version of the play (e.g. Halifax, 1962) and in a television version of the play the title was changed to Come Back to Erin.
F.1 Author's chronology of Holy Manhattan, carbon typescript, 1 p.
F.2 Holy Manhattan - E.G. Sterndale Bennett's copy for Arts and Letters performance in 1940, "revised (1940) version", Acts I and III, carbon typescript with set sketches by Coulter, 49 pp. total.
F.3 This Is My Country - 1941 radio version, photocopied typescript, 44 pp.
F.4 Holy Manhattan - lightly annotated typescript with attached holograph note by Coulter to Aubrey (Forbes), January 6, 1961, 93 pp.
F.5 Holy Manhattan - photocopied typescript, apparently a retyped version of F.4, 82 pp.
F.6 2 more copies, as F.5.
F.7 Holy Manhattan - a television version marked by Coulter "rejected pp. and rejected Prologue, Epilogue and Sc. 2 Act 2". Typescript, 69 pp.
F.8 Come Back To Erin - a television version, typescript, 45 pp.
F.9 Clippings and programmes relating to various performances of the play.
F.10 Rough holograph notes by Coulter relating to the possible further use of the "Barney" character and newscutting on the "hobo immigrant" theme.

The House in the Quiet Glen
This play originated as Sally's Chance, a tragic one act drama which is the earliest of Coulter's dramatic works to survive. It was written in Belfast during the 1920s and was broadcast by the BBC Northern Ireland (in 1925, according to Geraldine Anthony's John Coulter), but Coulter notes on an early script (F.2) that Tyrone Guthrie, the producer of the radio version, turned the play into a comedy. It was the play with the comic ending which was rewritten and lengthened as The House in the Quiet Glen, probably one of Coulter's best known early works. The Eaton's Masquers staged the play in 1937 in which year the play made an almost clean sweep of the Dominion Drama Festival awards. It was also published by Macmillan in 1937 (together with The Family Portrait), was broadcast in both stage and radio versions, and was revived by the Arts and Letters Club at a celebration dinner to honour Coulter in 1972. The House in the Quiet Glen and Family Portrait were compiled as a "double bill" in 1976 under the title When I Was Young. (See Family Portrait box 14)
F.11 Author's note regarding the chronology of the play, carbon (?) typescript, 2 pp.
F.12 Sally's Chance, "This is the original play", annotated typescript, notations on title page, 13 pp.
F.13 Sally's Chance, same version as F.12 with notations by Coulter on title page, 12 pp.
F.14 The House in the Quiet Glen, stage version, carbon typescript, Sketch of set and 1 p. sheet music for the play, 28 pp. total.
F.15 The House in the Quiet Glen. "Half hour radio version of the play...July 15 1940", partly carbon and partly photocopy typescript, 19 pp.
F.16 The House in the Quiet Glen, programs and promotional material for 1937 Toronto and Ottawa performances.
F.17 Newspaper cuttings (mounted) concerning the D.D.F. performances of The House in the Quiet Glen.
F.18 Three programmes for 1972 Arts and Letters Club performance, and 1 playbill for another (undated) A & L performance.
F.19 Photographs, 3 from 1937 D.D.F. production; 3 from 1972 Arts and Letters Club production.
F.20 Framed Karsh photograph - 1937 D.D.F. production.
F.21 Radio review of published version of The House in the Quiet Glen and Family Portrait, typescript. 3 pp.; announcement of publication of The House in the Quiet Glen and Family Portrait, another announcement, also with announcement of Radio Drama Is Not Theatre.

Box 17:
Living Together
There are a whole series of plays included under this title, all on the theme of love between members of the same as well as of different sexes. The earliest appears to be One Weekend in Spring, the story of an affectionate relationship between two women, the acquiring of a boyfriend by the younger one and the return of a former lover of the older woman. The theme of close male affection appears for the first time in Portrait of the Painter in which one of the men tries to disentangle himself from an increasingly demanding relationship. In its earliest version Talking of Love is essentially a revised One Weekend in Spring, but the same title was then applied to a pair of short plays, Helen, Edie, Hal (based on One Weekend in Spring) and Willy, Hinton (later Sinton), Jill (based on Portrait of the Painter). The title of the "double bill" was then changed to Living Together. Living Together seems to have been Coulter's most used title for his two plays on the theme of love but it was not his final title, for the story of the relationship between the two women was rewritten yet again as Val ! Oh Val and this play was included in his four playlet selection finally entitled Highlights.
F.1 One Weekend in Spring - carbon typescript with 2 sketches for set design. 73 pp.
F.2 Outline of suggested changes for Weekend. holograph. 2 pp.
F.3 Portrait of the Painter. Holograph script. 28 pp.
F.4 Portrait of the Painter. Carbon typescript. 19 pp.
F.5 Portrait of the Painter. Bound. 19 pp.

F.6 Sketch for a Portrait - "abandoned" TV script. Typescript. The theme here is essentially that of Portrait of the Painter but the two main characters are women, 24 pp.
F.7 Talking of Love. Holograph script with some typed pages. This is essentially a pared-down version of One Weekend in Spring, 79 pp.
F.8 Talking of Love. Bound typescript (as F.7). 36 pp.
F.9 Talking of Love. 2 copies, original and carbon, of 2 introductory pages of 2 copies, original and carbon, of 2 introductory pages of "a sequence of two plays, Helen, Edie, Hal and Willy, Hinton, Jill", 4 pp, total.

F.10 Living Together. "A sequence of two plays Helen, Edie. Hal and Willy, Sinton, Jill", bound typescript, 50 pp .
F.11 Helen, Edie, Hal. Typescript, Living Together, part one, 23 pp.
F.12 Helen, Edie, Hal . Carbon typescript (as F.11), several duplicate pages, 43 pp.
F.13 Willy, Sinton, Jill, Living Together, part two Typescript, annotated, 19 pp.
F.14 As F.13 except this is a carbon copy.
F.15 Living Together, typescript. Five copies of 11 revised pages for insertion into both plays, "Jan. 3 1980", 55 pp. total. Typescript extracted from Willy, Sinton, Jill, 7 pp.
F.16 Val! Oh Val. Holograph. This is a playlet which combines elements of both the plays in Living Together; two women, characters from Helen, Edie, Hal, replace the two men of the original Portrait of the Painter, 9 pp.
F.17 Highlights. Carbon typescript and a pencil set sketch, 53 pp. This is a compilation of 4 brief playlets of which one is Val !Oh Val, the others being Darling Boy, Neighbors and Flowers for Judy, all based upon earlier Coulter works (Mrs. Moore's Mistake, The Drums Are Out and Sleep My Pretty One, respectively).
F.18 Highlights. Bound copy (as F.17), lightly annotated, and l p. of holograph notes of criticism of Darling Boy and Neighbours, unsigned, 48 pp. + l p.
F.19 Highlights . Holograph work sheets for the other 3 plays, Darling Boy, Neighours and Flowers for Judy, 29 pp.

Box 18:
Mr. Churchill of England
As Coulter's personal contribution to the war effort, he wrote during 1940 a "living newspaper". type of factual play. It was given an experimental tryout at the Arts and Letters Club in May 1942 and the radio version was broadcast in four successive instalments during February 1943. The material was serialized in Maclean's magazine and published in the form of a biography, Churchill, by Ryerson Press in 1944. Plans for a film version were abandoned when Churchill declared himself "unanxious" to see the project proceed.
F.1 "Notes for Mr.Churchill of England". Notebook containing pencil holograph notes and a bibliography of works consulted (at the University of Toronto Library) with 73 pp. written on.
F.2 Mr. Churchill of England, stage version, 1940. Annotated carbon typescript, 113 pp.
F.3 Stage version. Annotated carbon typescript with cast list for the play, 114 pp.
F.4 Stage version. Lightly annotated. Draft for proposed published version? Marked by author "Macmillan" and "1942".
F.5 "Mr .Churchill of England (Radio)". Annotated typescript, 106 pp.
F.6 Radio script. "Scenes from the stage play" broadcast in four parts by CBC, February 3, 10, 17 and 24, 1943. Photocopy typescripts, 82 pp. total.
F.7 Another set (as F.6) .
F.8 Newspaper reviews and clippings relating to the play and the book, 1944. Also 2 posters: Colour reproduction of the cover of the book Churchill as published by Ryerson in 1942, poster advertising the serialization of "The Life Story of Churchill" by Coulter. Also a brief review in University of Toronto Quarterly, April 1944, p.330, along with mentions of Transit and Fiddling Hind.

Mrs. Moore's Mistake
This early radio play by John Coulter was probably written during the 19308. The theme of a young man stifled by the obsessive love of his mother was treated once again by the author in one of the plays included in the Highlights selection, Darling Boy (op. cit., box 17, files 17-19).
F.9 Two carbon typescripts, one with light revisions, the other clean, each 4l pp.; also holograph sheet with corrections listed, 83 pp. total.

Oblomov
Oblomov was a play John Coulter had intended to write since first reading a translation of Goncharov's novel in the 1920s. As he recalls in his memoirs, he carried the novel around with him wherever he went until, at last, the drama presented itself to him and the first draft was written in ten days during November 1945. In March of 1946 it was given its first stage tryout at the Arts and Letters Club. It was broadcast in England on BBC radio in 1954, on CBC radio in Canada in 1962 and on CBC television in 1962, but despite numerous translations and performances in many parts of the world the play has never received a major professional stage production in Canada. Coulter's effort to change its setting from a Russian to an Irish one, under the titles Ah Laziness and Laziness My Love, also proved unsuccessful.
F.10 Coulter's copy of Ivan Goncharov's novel Oblomov, 1929 (translation). The text has been heavily annotated by Coulter and there are notes by him interleaved on small pieces of paper throughout.
F.11 Holograph notes, first draft and 2 pp. typescript - cast list and Coulter's account of how the play came to be written. 101 pp.

Box 19:
F.1 Typescript, photocopy, 100 pp.
F.2 Duplicate of F.l.
F.3 Heavily revised version of F.l and F.2, with annotations and new holograph sheets substituting for pages in earlier version, 155 pp.
F.4 Same photocopy typescript lacking last scenes in Act III. Marked by author "first (short) version, 47".
F.5 Carbon typescript, shortened version now entitled Mr. Oblomoff, 78 pp. with "October 1952 London" typed on the title page and a London address added in pencil by the author. Note: This typescript was not acquired with the rest of the Coulter archive. It was purchased from a Vancouver dealer in 1982.
F.6 Further shortened version of Mr. Oblomoff with the title Oblomov restored in pencilled revision. Typescript, photocopy, lightly annotated, 75 pp.
F.7 A clean version of F.6, typescript, photocopy, 79 pp.
F.8 Bound version of F.7.
F.9 CBC television script, telecast October 12, 1962, with deletions and revisions which do not appear to be by Coulter. Typescript, photocopy, 87 pp.
F.10. As F.9, lightly annotated, 90 pp.

Box 20:
F.1- 2 Clean typescript photocopies of same script, 107 pp.
F.3 Photocopy typescript of BBC version (1954) with Coulter's holograph revisions for CBC radio production, purchased 1961, 56 pp.
F.4 Unrevised 1962 CBC "Wednesday Night" radio version, broadcast November 1962.
F.5 Radio script, carbon typescript, 1964 version, 59 pp.
F.6 Mr. Oblomov. Revised speeches for 1959 Arts and Letters Club production only and rehearsal schedule, 2 pp. typescript, carbon.
F.7 Flemish translation of Oblomov, bound typescript, photocopy, 109 pp.
F.8 French translation (by Antoinette Sainsbury), bound typescript, carbon, 69 pp.
F.9 Urdu translation, typescript, photocopy, 82 pp.
F.10 Author's partial chronology of Oblomov and notes on the play, holograph and typescript, 4 pp.
F.11 Photographs of first production, 1946 Arts and Letters Club, 12 photographs.
F.12 Reviews of Goncharov's Oblomov, Coulter's notes on various editions, reading room slips.
F.13 Newspaper cuttings regarding Coulter's Oblomov, 1946-1949.
F.14 Brief article on his play by Coulter in Radio Times, September 17, 1954, printed version, 1 p.
F.15 Newspaper cuttings regarding radio version of the play, 1954 and 1955.
F.16 Group Theatre, Belfast performance, 1957, newspaper cuttings and programme.
F.17 Arts and Letters Club performances, 1946, 1959, programmes and cuttings.
F.18 CBC radio broadcast, cuttings, 1961.
F.19 CBC TV broadcast, cuttings, 1962
F.20 Summer Theatre 67, London, Ontario, cuttings and programmes.
F.21 4 envelopes with Coulter's holograph notes regarding Oblomov material.
F.22 Copies of letters in the correspondence files which relate to Oblomov.

Box 21:
Riel
According to Coulter's own chronology (see F.l) he began his research on Riel in 1948. It was given its first production by Dora Mavor Moore's New Play Society in 1950 and was broadcast on CBC radio the following year. It was performed at the Saskatchewan Summer Festival in 1960 and a two-part television version was shown on CBC in 1961. The large scale stage production for which Coulter waited so long finally took place at the National Arts Centre in 1975. The script of the play was published by Ryerson in 1962 and having been out of print for some time, was reissued by Cromlech Press in 1972. Another two plays were subsequently developed around the same central character, The Crime of Louis Riel, a scaled down version "freely adapted from Riel" in 1966 and The Trial of Louis Riel, written in 1966-1967on a commission from the Regina Chamber of Commerce and performed there every year since. The Trial of Louis Riel was published by Oberon Press in 1968.
F.1 Author's holograph chronology of Riel, 3 pp. and partial list of Riel material, l p.
F.2 Holograph research notes, names of works consulted, quotations from various sources, suggested titles for a play, timing of various scenes and the playas a whole ("8 November 1949") , 176 pp. total.
F.3 Holograph pencil draft (first?), heavily corrected, 120 pp.
F.4 Holograph pencil revised draft, heavily corrected, l56 pp.
F.5 First typed draft, Brian Doherty's copy (1949), lightly annotated carbon typescript, l13 pp.
F.6 Second typed draft, very lightly annotated carbon typescript, l13 pp.
F.7 Radio version, annotated carbon typescript, l01pp. with an "introduction to the broadcast version", carbon typescript, 9 pp. and 5 additional copies of the first page.
F.8 Heavily annotated photocopied typescript, with instructions for printer (1962 Ryerson published version), 96 pp. and 2 pp. holograph notes.
F.9 "Riel, A Play for TV in Two Parts, adapted by John Coulter from his stage play". Part I only, carbon typescript, 37 pp. and 2 pp. holograph notes listing corrections.
F.10 Television script, photocopied typescript, Riel, Part I, telecast April 9, 1961, 78 pp.
Riel, Part II, telecast April 16, 1961, 63 pp.
F.11 The Crime of Louis Riel -"freely adapted from the author's epic drama Riel", lightly annotated carbon typescript, 87 pp.
F.12 Crime - holograph notes re London (Ontario) and Hamilton productions of Crime, 13 pp.
Prologue- typescript, 1 p.
Programme note - carbon typescript, 2 pp.
Script changes - carbon typescript, 2 pp.
Insert for p.66 - typescript, 1 p. and 3 carbon copies Scene 9, photocopied typescript, 2 pp.

Box 22:
F.1 Overprinted photocopy of material in F.11 and F.12, previous box.
F.2 The Crime of Louis Riel, bound typescript, lightly annotated and with a prologue "tipped in" and Act I Scene I omitted, 75 pp.
Foreword about the writing of Crime...and Trial... , annotated typescript,2 pp.
F.3 Holograph notes and a cutting relating to the play, 8 pp.
F.4 Queen vs. Riel, holograph notes taken from the trial for the play, The Trial of Louis Riel, 13 pp.
F.5 Translations of portions of Trial into French by Raynald Desmeules
English typescript, 4 pp.
carbon copy, 4 pp.
French translation, signed, 3 pp.
l p. holograph note re. translation.
F.6 The Trial of Louis Riel, lightly annotated carbon typescript, 71 pp plus 1 p. with holograph corrections.
F.7 Trial of Louis Riel, the Hon. Mr. Justice Carl Stewart's rough sketch of court house.
F.8 Riel, script of the National Arts Centre performance, 1975, photocopied typescript, 187 pp.
F.9 Second copy, as F.8 with additional typescript list of Cree Poems.
F.10 As above, but in a black binder with unbound cast list dated Nov. 22 1974.

Box 23:
F.1 Riel, another Arts Centre script with annotated title page and additional French sections, 189 pp.
F.2 The Crime of Louis Riel, version published by Playwrights Co-op, March 1976, two copies, one annotated by author.
F.3 Riel version published by Cromlech Press, Hamilton, 1972.
The Trial of Louis Riel version published by Oberon Press, Ottawa, 1968.
Cover of Trial of Louis Riel.
Article about Oberon Press, 1 p. cutting.
F.4 Programme of the 1975 Arts Centre production with a holograph note by Coulter regarding the different ending used in this production.
F.5 8 photographs of the Arts Centre production of Riel.
F.6 24 photographs of CBC production of Riel, 1961, with one of Coulter on the set.
F.7 22 ink sketches (by Coulter?) of scenes from Riel, for a projected film version.
F.8 "Riel, outline of a sequence of scenes for a screen play", typescript and carbon typescript, 8 pp.
F.9 Holograph notes and figures, various attempts at costing and casting Riel, 1962 and 1964, 18 pp.
F.10 Press releases by Coulter regarding Riel, Trial..., and Crime..., typescript, carbon typescript and photocopies, 18 pp.
F.11 Programmes of Riel performances, 1950-1967.
F.12 Doris Sangster's critique of Riel, carbon typescript, some suggested cuts in Riel carbon and holograph typescript, and other opinions of play, printed. Books and pamphlets about Rial (the historical figure): William McCartney Davidson, Louis Riel, Calgary, 1955. John Kinsey Howard, Strange Empire, Toronto, 1965 (inscribed by J. Colombo). G.F.G. Stanley, Louis Riel, Patriot or Rebel?, Ottawa, 1964 (with cutting enclosed). G.F.G. Stanley, Louis Riel, Toronto, 1963.

Box 24:
F.1 Reviews and cuttings re 1950 New Play Society presentation of Riel and Coulter's note about possibility of bringing Guthrie to Canada with Riel.
F.2 Vincent Tovell's review of 1950 N.P.S. production in Letters in Canada, 1950, pp. 272-4.
F.3 Radio performances of Riel, 1951 and 1968, cuttings and articles, 1958 cuttings with Coulter's annotations about financing of Riel.
F.4 4 copies of Riel (in Saskatchewan) review by Mavor Moore, Telegram, Toronto, July 6, 1960,
Regina Leader-Post review, June 22, 1960,
Radio review (Saskatchewan), June 23, 1960.
F.5 TV version of Riel, cuttings and reviews including 7 copies of Anthony Ferry's "Riel on TV better than nothing but where's stage production?", Toronto Daily Star, March 25, 1961.
F.6 Articles, 1962-1967, by Nathan Cohen in Toronto Daily Star and transcript of a talk on CBC radio, 1966 about Riel.
F.7 Ryerson catalogue, Spring 1962, announcing forthcoming publication of Riel.
F.8 Reviews of the Ryerson edition of Riel, 1962, including one in University of Toronto Quarterly, July 1963.
F.9 Riel - Summer Theatre '66, London, Ontario, TV review and cutting.
F.10 Typescript and printed version of article by John Robert Colombo,
"A Graveyard of Good Inventions" in The Stage in Canada, August 1966, pp.6-8, (2 copies)
F.11 Riel -Vagabond Players (New Westminister, B.C.) production, 1967, publicity and reviews.
F.12 Invitation to first Regina performance of Riel, 1967 programme, maps, and report on first summer by Doug Lee to Chamber of Commerce.
F.13 Regina, Riel, cuttings, 1966-1967.
F.14 Published letter criticising proposed Riel production by J.R. Bothwell, February 10, 1967, and typescript of Coulter's reply, typescript, 5 pp.
F.15 Bound selection of cuttings of Regina Riel for John Coulter 1967.
F.16 Programmes, cuttings, posters of Regina Riel, 1967-1977. One oversize poster is in Map Cabinet 9.
F.17 Programmes, cuttings, publicity of Ottawa National Arts Centre Riel, 1974-1975.
F.18 Cuttings relating to historical Riel including two-part Maclean's article by W.O. Mitchell.
F.19 Poem by J.R. Colombo about Riel, "The Last Words of Louis Riel", Marxist Quarterly, Autumn 1965, pp. 48-53.
F.20 Facsimile of Riel's handwriting from the Star, 1885, and 3 photocopies.
F.21 Louis Riel (the opera), programme 1968 and correspondence (cutting and photocopies) in Globe and Mail regarding the opera.

Box 25:
Sleep My Pretty One
Unlike most of John Coulter's other plays which had frequent changes of name, this one was called from the first and remained Sleepy My Pretty One. It was written in 1950 and subsequently Laurence Olivier purchased an option to produce it but he failed to mount a production. It had its only stage presentation in Toronto in 1961.
F.1 Holograph and typed script, annotated "written at Dahwamah July-September 1950", 99 pp .
F.2 Carbon typescript, annotated "first version" , 120 pp.
F.3 Photocopy of the typescript, 118 pp.
F.4-5 2 annotated working scripts, bound, with the author's notations - Laurence Olivier's scripts.
F.6 Carbon typescript, revised version, 87 pp.
F.7 2 carbon typescripts (final version1), 71 pp. each, 142 pp. total.
F.8 Newspaper cuttings and publicity regarding Sleep. Note: A scene from Sleep has been included as the playlet Flowers for Judy in the four play compilation Highlights. Poster in M.C. 9

Box 26:
This Glittering Dust
Like other plays by John Coulter this one has seen a variety of versions and titles, with the last version very far removed from the original. In his autobiography Coulter explains (pp.323-326) that Laugh Yorick Laugh, a play about a contemporary actor, disillusioned with his life, was generally thought to be about 0livier and that this misinterpretation hampered the securing of a production. Having redrafted the play into a television version Coulter abandoned the contemporary actor but retained the theme of an actor's disillusionment by portraying the offstage life of Edmund Kean in This Glittering Dust. When, despite the enthusiasm of New York agent Harold Matson, no major production materialized, the play was given a tryout by a small Toronto company in 1967 under the disguised title A Capful of Pennies. It was subsequently rewritten, shortened and entitled A Nosegay for Yorick and was revised once more in the spring of 1980, to be finally called Mr. Kean of Drury Lane.
F.1 Laugh Yorick Laugh -holograph work sheets. 20 pp. and 2 newspaper cuttings.
F.2 Yorick - holograph work sheets, 2 pp.
F.3 Yorick - bound carbon typescript, 1955, 59 pp.
F.4 Yorick - carbon typescript, 1956. TV version, 58 pp.
F.5 This Glittering Dust ("alternative title A Capful of Pennies") annotated bound typescript, 1960s, incomplete (pages removed "for the shorter script Nosegay for Yorick") , 33 pp .
F.6 A Capful of Pennies - 2 programmes, 1967, and a newspaper cutting regarding Sartre's play Kean. Also poster in M.C. 9.
F.7 A Nosegay for Yorick - part typescript, part carbon typescript, annotated, 77 pp.
F.8 A Nosegay for Yorick - incomplete carbon typescript, 24 pp .
F.9 A Nosegay for Yorick - bound photocopy version of F.7, 77 pp.
F.10 Mr. Kean of Drury Lane - as F.9 but with new title and many deletions, additions and annotations, 72 pp., with typescript and carbon 1 p. note by author inside front cover, April 1980.
F.11 Mr. Kean of Drury Lane - fair copy of F.l0, typescript, 63 pp.
F.12 Mr. Kean of Drury Lane - bound copy of F.11, 63 pp.
The Stirring of the Backwaters
F.13 Typescript, lightly annotated, with the letter to the editor which seems to have inspired it. Written in the early 1930s with the title page annotated by the author in 1978 and 1979, 36 pp.
F.14 The Devil's Wedge. An attempt to turn The Stirring of the Backwaters into a full-length comedy, annotated by the author in 1978 and 1979, typescript, 63 pp.

Box 27:
This Great Experiment
This short (22-minute play) was broadcast on CBC radio Toronto in 1942, sponsored by the League of Nations to mark Lord Robert Cecil's birthday.
F.1 Pamphlets and cuttings about the war and the League of Nations.
F.2 Memo from Coulter about the show, carbon typescript, 2 copies, 2 pp. total.
F.3 Research notes for This Great Experiment, holograph, some with newspaper cuttings attached, 39 pp.
F.4 Holograph draft of the play, heavily revised, 12 pp.
F.5 2 carbon typescripts of the play "original version", both lightly annotated, one with first page missing, 15 pp., and 16 pp.
F.6 Another carbon typescript of the original script, this one with heavy marginal notations by Hume Wrong, Department of External Affairs and lighter notations by another member of the External Affairs Department. Coulter made deletions and revisions as a result of these comments.
F.7 2 copies of final radio script, duplicated typescript, one clean the other lightly annotated, each l8 pp., 36 pp. total.

While I Live
The story of an old lady determined to resist the onslaught of the twentieth century iconoclasts who would build a road to destroy her idyllic retreat has been given various treatments by Coulter. When initial reaction to the play was less than favourable he struggled with revisions during his stay in London during the 1950s and again attempted to secure production by working on a more "Canadian" version for television or for the stage in the early 1960s. While the CBC commissioned revision of the play it does not seem to have been broadcast nor produced.
F.8 Holograph notes by Coulter outlining ideas for the play, one page dated June 1961, another 30 December 1962, 6 pp.
- cutting and 2 duplicated sheets with ideas of relevance to the play.
F.9 While I Live, "Alternative title Green Lawns and Peacocks, A Rhetorical Pavan", "the 1951/2 version", bound typescript, carbon, 63 pp. annotated.
F.10 Green Lawns and Peacocks, A Rhetorical Pavan, London, 1956, carbon typescript, 47 pp.
F.11 While I Live or The Legend of Gregor Lodge, holograph manuscript [1961], 64 pp.
F.12 The Grand Old Lady of Gregor Lodge, carbon typescript, 77 pp.
F.13 Another copy of F.12.
F.14 While I Live TV version, holograph manuscript [early 1960s] , 30 pp.
F.15 While I Live, TV version, lightly annotated carbon typescript, "abandoned" [early 1960s] 46 pp.
F.16 While I Live, TV version (set in Canada, reduced cast, shortened) carbon typescript, 36 pp.
F.17 Green Lawns and Peacocks, lightly annotated typescript [1966], 71 pp.
F.18 Photocopy of F.17.
F.19 While I Live, shortened version, typescript, [19605) , 51 pp.
F.20 While I Live, as F.19 but this is a bound copy marked "final version" - with "first scribble" for turning
- with "first scribble for turning While I Live into a fiction", 2 pp. holograph + 1 p. (plus carbon) typescript, dated April 18, 1977.

Short Plays and Skits:
F.21 Christmas Accordion - "A double monologue in three scenes "
- [early 1940s], carbon typescript, 2 copies, 6 pp. each.
- radio version, a longer treatment, 3 copies, 18 pp. each.
F.22 Christmas Comes But Once a Year
one act comedy, annotated carbon typescript, [1942], 18 pp.
F.23 Rest of programme for Arts and Letters Club 1942 Dinner, typescript and carbon typescript, l3 pp.
F.24 Cockpit York, lightly annotated carbon typescript, skit for Arts and Letters Club, [mid 1960s], 5 pp.
F.25 The Fiddling Hind (The First Noel) - "a dramatic improvisation...suitable for the Christmas festivities at boys' schools"
- l p. synopsis, 4 copies (original typescript and 3 carbons)
- photocopied typescript, 11 pp., 6 copies.
F.26 The House That Jack Built, Comedy for Ice Carnival, written under pseudonym "John Roycroft" [1940s], typescript, 9 pp.
F.27 Still There's Christmas - "an after-dinner programme of song and drama", lightly annotated typescript, [early 1940s?], 44 pp.
28. Writ With a White Feather, holograph outline for a play [not developed?], n.d., 10 pp.

Box 28
Libretti
Deirdre
The story of Deirdre was probably one of the earliest sources of John Coulter's literary inspiration. He wrote Conochar's Queen, a five act play in blank verse in 1918 which was adapted and broadcast as a radio play in 1934. The success of his collaboration with Healey Willan on the opera Transit Through provided the impetus to turn the Conochar's Queen into an opera and the CBC was persuaded to commission it in May 1943, the music being completed two years later. It was broadcast by the CBC on April 20, 1946 but had to wait for a stage presentation until 1965 at the Macmillan Theatre, and for its professional debut until 1966 at the O'Keefe Centre.
F.1 Coulter's holograph notes about the chronology of Deirdre, 8 pp.
F.2 Conochar's Queen, radio version, broadcast May 24, 1934, BBC, photocopied, heavily annotated typescript, with typescript introduction for radio, 35 pp.
F.3 Conochar's Queen - "provisional synopsis" of 80,000 word, 8 chapter book, typescript, 7 pp.
F.4 Conochar's Queen - Synopsis of the legend and outline scenario as a possible basis for libretto of a musical work, typescript, 4 pp. Also holograph notes regarding the writing of a musical work, 7 pp.
F.5 Conochar's Queen, revised and lengthened radio version, "author's file copy", no date, carbon typescript, lightly annotated, 76 pp.
F.6 As F.5, another carbon typescript with notes for radio and stage, more heavily annotated and some added pages, 93 pp.
F.7 As F.5 but with 4 additional holograph pages at beginning and sketch for staging, without the additional pages in F.6, 80 pp. total.
F.8 "Libretto (for an opera which may be entitled) Deirdre of the Sorrows derived by John Coulter from his radio play called Conochar's Queen for music by Healey Willan", annotated typescript, 38 pp.
- Holograph notes on the timing of Deirdre, 3 pp.
- 3 songs, holograph pencil drafts, for Deirdre, all dated at Dahwamah, August 1943, 3 pp.
- Deirdre's Lament, carbon typescript, dated June 1943, 2 copies, 2 pp.
F.9 Deirdre of the Sorrows -printer's copy of the libretto, a stage version with the stage directions deleted by the author. Carbon typescript, heavily annotated, additional preliminary material for the printed version, including foreword (by Coulter?) and preface by the author, 1944, 95 pp.
F.10 Promotional material for Deirdre, 1944, typescript, 2 pp.
F.11 Deirdre - Arts and Letters Club reading, announcement, notes and cast list.
F.12 Coulter's holograph notes regarding orchestration for Deirdre, 2 pp.
F.13 "Deirdre; An Ancient and Noble Tale Retold by John Coulter for music by Healey Willan" , "this is the original script of the scorer, spiral bound, 162 pp .
F.14 Deirdre - full musical score, 2 volumes, photographic, spiral bound copies, 247 pp. total, with author's note regarding disposition of other copies of the vocal score.
F.15 Deirdre- cast list of April 20, 1946 broadcast and announcer's continuity (introduction and between act summaries), lightly annotated typescript, 14 pp.
F.16 Part of the first intermission interview for 1946 broadcast - Healey Willan's answers omitted. Carbon typescript, 7 pp.
F.17 Intermission talk by Coulter about Deirdre broadcast April 13, 1946, one week before the opera. Heavily revised holograph script, 7 pp.
F.18 "Notes re exploitation of Deirdre". Typescript, 25 April 1946, 4 pp.
F.19 "Concerning Deirdre..." Coulter's typescript notes on his efforts to secure production in Ireland written in 1965, 2 copies, and a tentative cast list (holograph) for 1966 Toronto production, 7 pp. total.
F.20 Three copies of the libretto of Deirdre
1) "first stage production", published by Macmillan in 1965, 32 pp.
2) As 1) but annotated, "author's marked copy"
3) "2nd stage production, revised libretto, O'Keefe Centre, Toronto", Macmillan, 1966, 34 pp .
Coulter's notes on cost of libretti.

Box 29:
F.1 "The Drama Behind Deirdre", article by Coulter, 4 copies of printed version clipped from the Toronto Telegram, September 24, 1966.
F.2 11 photographs of staged version of Deirdre, variously marked by Coulter as 1965 (MacMillan Theatre) and 1966 (O'Keefe Centre) productions, but all appear to be of same production. Includes one photograph of Coulter, Willan, Mazzoleni, Schafer and Geiger-Torel.
F.3 Reviews of the published libretto of Deirdre of the Sorrows. Macmil1an, 1945.
F.4 Short article on Deirdre of Sorrows with photograph of Coulter and Healey Willan, Canadian Review of Music and Art, vol.5 no.1, 1946, p .35, 13 copies.
F.5 Promotional material and cuttings, reviews of Deirdre of the Sorrows, broadcast version, 1946.
F.6 CBC Times, October 7-13, 1951, with article about rebroadcast of the opera, now entitled Deirdre, 2 copies.
F.7 Cuttings relating to possible Irish production of Deirdre, 1948-1973.
F.8 Article by Charles Acton "Canada: a pointer to us" in the Irish Times, March 22, 1973, and subsequent correspondence by Acton and Coulter to the Irish Times, original letters, published versions, mounted and annotated, with 4 photocopies.
F.9 Cuttings, programmes, articles relating to the 1965 MacMillan Theatre presentation of Deirdre.
F.10 Cuttings and reviews relating to 1966 O'Keefe Centre presentation of Deirdre.
F.11 Cuttings, programmes, reviews and photographs of Banff Centre School of Fine Arts production of Deirdre, August 1972.
F.12 Canadian Opera Company, A 150 Year History by Ruby Mercer, published as part of Opera Canada magazine, 1973. There is a photograph of Coulter, Healey Willan et al. on p.59.
F.13 Shipping forms and customs declaration for tape of Deirdre. Note: See also poster advertising the first CBC broadcast, 1946 in Map Cabinet 9.

Transit Through Fire
John Coulter's first operatic collaboration with Healey Willan was in the creation of the short wartime opera Transit Through Fire written in three months, 1941-42. It was commissioned by the CBC and first broadcast in March 1942 and rebroadcast the following year. Its success was responsible for the commissioning of the ful1-length opera Deirdre.
F.14 Portion of the Arts and Letters Club Newsletter with Coulter's account of the writing of Transit. (Other parts of the newsletter have obituaries for Healey Willan), February 1968, photocopied typescript, 6 pp.
F.15 Part of Coulter's early draft of the libretto for Transit, holograph pencil version, 13 pp.
F.16 "Transit Through Fire; the story of Sergeant William Thomson. An Odyssey of 1942". Photocopied typescript of the libretto. This copy is inscribed by the author to his parents-in-law "For Bep and the Colonel--a book of words for Sunday March 8, John".
Coulter also notes that cuts were made to fit the allotted one hour and these are marked on the script, 29 pp.
17. Bound copy of the full score of Transit. "The C.B.C. gave this copy to John Coulter when the opera was first broadcast: March 8, 1942". It is autographed by the composer, producer, conductor and soloists and there are photographs of the soloists pasted inside the back cover, 92 pp.
F.18 Libretto of Transit, 10 printed copies and 2 photostat copies. One copy has annotations by Coulter dated December 1964 and another annotation dated 1969. Another copy is a heavily revised printer's proof and there are two sheets with the title of the opera designed by Coulter .
F.19. An abridged introduction to Transit for the March 8, 1942 broadcast, typescript, 1 p.
F.20 Promotional material for the 1942 broadcast and the published libretto of Transit.
F.21 Script for a lecture on Transit [1942], carbon typescript, 4 pp. - Invitation to 1943 Toronto Conservatory of Music performance of Transit.
F.22 Suggestion for an illustrated feature based upon the writing of Transit, typescript, 1 p.
F.23 Cuttings - articles and reviews relating to 1942 and 1943 broadcast performances (an additional mention may be found in University of Toronto Quarterly, April 1944, p.330, Box 18, F.8).
F.24 Note from Coulter regarding Arts and Letters Club lecture on opera which included excerpt from Transit, no date [1970s?]. carbon typescript, 4 pp.

Box 30:
F.1 "Words for a Composer" -Article by Coulter about the writing of Transit and Deirdre, no date [between 1946 and 1964], carbon typescript, 2 copies, 3 pp. each.
F.2 "Words for Music" - Article by Coulter in Opera Canada, 23rd issue, September 1965, pp.74-75.
F.3 Article about the writing of Transit and Deirdre by John Adaskin, Opera in Canada, February 15, 1962, pp.11-13, 2 copies.
F.4 Articles by and about Healey Wil1an, one of which, Opera Canada, February 1965, p.7-9, tells of the forthcoming O'Keefe performance of Deirdre.
F.5 Article about Coulter at Canadian Opera Company luncheon, Opera Canada, February 1966, p. 29.
F.6 Photograph of Coulter and Healey Willan, annotated by Coulter
F.7. Epitaph for Ettore Mazzoleni by Coulter, carbon typescript, June 4, 1968, 4 pp.
Photograph of Ettore Mazzoleni (conducting Transit?).
F.8 Copies of Opera Canada, fall, 1973 and Canadian Review of Music and Art, February March 1941 and November 1942 - no references to Coulter .
F.9 Newscuttings and memorial material for Healey Willan including Coulter's "Lament for Healey Willan" published in Arts and Letters Club Newsletter, February 1968.

Novels:
Turf Smoke
For chronology see the note preceding the play, Holy Manhattan.
F.10 Author's note regarding the novel, originally to be entitled Turf Smoke on Manhattan, June 1944, carbon typescript, 1 p.
F.11 Turf Smoke on Manhattan (also called Turf Smoke). Heavily annotated typescript interleaved with holograph pages, some duplicate pp., 148 pp. total.
F.12 Turf Smoke - lightly annotated typescript "original typescript", 139 pp.
F.13 Turf Smoke - as F.12 but an incomplete carbon typescript (pp.1-12, 14 and 15 missing).
F.14 Reviews and cuttings relating to Turf Smoke.
F.15 Reviews and cuttings relating to Turf Smoke on Manhattan - Irish edition.

Box 31
Short Stories
F.1 "The Agitator", the Ulster Review, vol. I, no.5, October 1924, pp.108-109.
F.2 "Boy At A Prayer Meeting" ; "This is the script of the story as published in the Adelphi. It was my introduction to J.M. Murry--and my subsequent work with him on the New Adelphi", published in the Adelphi, vol. III, no.12, May 1926, pp. 808-815, lightly annotated typescript, 9 pp.
F.3 "Boy At a Prayer Meeting", published version, the Adelphi , vol. III, no.12, pp. 808-815, May 1926, + envelope annotated by Coulter.
F.4 "Boy At a Prayer Meeting", revised version (for radio), 1950
- annotated typescript, 13 pp.
- annotated carbon typescript, incomplete, with "note for a producer", 6 pp.
F.5 "Boy At a Prayer Meeting", "my first scribble draft of T.V." version, holograph pencil script, l5 pp.
F.6 "Boy At a Prayer Meeting" , "Scribble draft of T.V. version, Boy", holograph pencil script, 11 pp.
F.7 "Boy At a Prayer Meeting", "this is my adaptation to T. V." (subsequently abandoned), annotated carbon typescript, 17 pp.
F.8 "Boy At a Prayer Meeting", television version, 2 copies of CBC work script, lightly annotated, 28 pp. each.
F.9 "Canadian Street Car", carbon typescript, 3 pp.
- published version, Saturday Night, August 28,1943, p. 25.
F.10 "The Catholics Walk" published in Living Age, no.323, November 22, 1924, pp. 433-435. Lightly annotated carbon typescript, 10 pp.
F.11 "Chatterbox Walks With the Poet"
- annotated typescript, 3 pp.
- annotated carbon typescript, 3 pp.
- published version in the Irish Statesman, June 28,1924, pp. 487-488.
F.12 "Church and Chapel Comedy", [1920s?] ) annotated carbon typescript, 7 pp.
F.13 "Encounter", published version in the Ulster Review, vol. II, no.9, February 1926, pp.365-367.
F.14 "The House in Plane Tree Square" [1930s?] , annotated typescript, 8 pp.
F.15 "In the Dormitory" published version in the Ulster Review, vol. II, no.7, December 1925, pp.324-326.
F.16 "The Novice", published in the New Adelphi, vol. II, no.1, September 1923.
- lightly annotated typescript, 3 pp.
- published version, the New Adelphi, vol. II, no.1, September 1928, pp. 57-58.
F.17 "Suburban Sketches", 3 short fragments, published version in the Ulster Review, vol.II, no.10, March-April, 1926, pp.386-387, "I - Piano Solo" , "II -Waltz" , "III -Buns and Bunting".

Poetry
The Blossoming Thorn
This was John Coulter's only published book of verse. It contains forty pieces written between the spring of 1943 and the spring of 1945. The collection was published by Ryerson in 1946.
F.18 Annotated typescript (incomplete) of The Blossoming Thorn with two drafts of the Apprentice's Note for Fellow-Craftsmen, "blurb material for use with The Blossoming Thorn", 79 pp.
F.19 The Blossoming Thorn with alternative title New Verse and Words for Music, lightly annotated typescript and carbon typescript (incomplete), 2 or 3 copies of some poems, 83 pp.
F.20 The Blossoming Thorn [final version?] , lightly annotated typescript set up for printer, 87 pp.
F.21 Newspaper reviews and publicity regarding the book.
F.22 Extract from The Blossoming Thorn in Canadian Review of Music and Art, vol.5, no. 4-5, 1946, p. 51, 2 photocopies.
F.23 Review of The Blossoming Thorn in Canadian Review of Music and Art, vol.5, no. 6-7, 1947, p. 49, published version.
F.24 Follows of Infinite Jest, a scribble of personal regrets. Poem for the Arts and Letters Club Jubilee, read out at luncheon in March 1958 and subsequently published in the Arts and Letters Newsletter, annotated typescript, 11 pp.
F.25 As F.24 but published version with holograph annotations explaining the references, 6 pp.
F.26 5 more annotated copies of Fellows of Infinite Jest, the published version.
F.27 Lament for Healey Willan, a scribble of personal confession and appreciation, 19 February 1968.
- carbon typescript, annotated, 3 pp.
- published version in Arts and Letters Newsletter, February 1968, 3 pp., 2 copies.
- published version (with half verse deleted) in Opera Canada, vol.IX no.2, May 1968, pp.16-17.

Autobiography
Box 32
In My Day
John Coulter began work on his autobiography in 1973 as soon as he had partially recovered from the devastating shock of his wife's death. The work was largely completed by 1975 but because of the difficulty of finding a publisher In My Day appeared only in a limited edition format. published by Hownslow Press, in 1980.
F.1 Notes from diaries made in preparation of Coulter's memoirs - holograph sheets.
F.2 Further extracts from diaries made for memoirs -holograph sheets.
F.3 Memoirs - holograph notes and cuttings -research material for In My Day.
F/4 Index - completed before the memoirs were written. A list of people and places to present to potential publishers, 1 annotated carbon typescript and 2 photocopy typescripts. 15 pp. each.
F.5 Page search for index, holograph notes, 31 pp.
F.6 Index with page numbers written in. typescript and holograph, 24 pp.
F.7 Extended version "final" of the index, typescript and holograph, 36 pp.
F.8 Final typed version of the index, annotated typescript, 12 pp.
F.9 Coulter's draft of title page for In My Day, 1 p.
F.10 Preliminaries, contents and supplement, corrected typescript and carbon typescript, 23 pp.
F.11 Worksheets. The holograph manuscript of part III of the memoirs with some typewritten pages interspersed, begun January 24, 1973, 222 pp.
F.12 Original corrected typescript, chapters 1-10, 253 pp.
F.13 Original corrected typescript, Chapter XI to end, and footnotes.
F.14 Corrected photocopy typescript of the preliminaries and Chapters I to IV, 97 pp.

Box 33:
F.1 Part Two, Chapters V-IX, corrected photocopy typescript, 130 pp.
F.2 Part Three, Chapters X-XIV, corrected photocopy typescript, 257 pp.
F.3 Photographs for In My Day, holograph and typescript list for identification, 17 small sheets.
F.4 Corrected pages of In My Day, holograph line corrections and typescript pages, 29 pp. + annotated envelope.
F.5 Suggested replacement pages for a duplicate passage, typescript, 3 pp., carbon typescript, 3 pp.
F.6 Holograph notes of the contents of each page of the memoirs. (Page number references are to the typescript, not to the published version.) 16 pp.
F.7 Corrected page proofs of chapters I to IV.
F.8 Corrected page proofs of chapter VI to end with incomplete footnotes.
F.9 Corrected galley proofs of chapter I to part of chapter IV.
F.10 Corrected final galley proofs mounted, of chapters I to IV.

Box 34:
F.1 Photocopy of the corrected typescript complete except for footnotes, 475 pp.
F.2 The author's copy of the book, bound (spiral bound) and boxes, numbered by the author "No.1 of 93".
F.3 Another bound (spiral bound) and boxed copy of the book numbered by the author "No. 34 of 93".
F.4 Draft of promotional material for In My Day, annotated typescript, 3 pp.
F.5 Promotional flyer for In My Day, 7 copies with one other folded and stamped for mailing.
F.6 Annotated list of those to whom promotional flyer sent some duplicate pages, 10 pp. total.
F.7 Coulter's holograph list of those to whom his twelve author's copies were sent, 1 p.
F.8 Coulter's holograph note regarding the underwriting of In My Day.
F.9 Two photocopied reviews of In My Day, one by Ron Davies, the other by Mark Abley.

Box 35:
Uncompleted Work
Selected Plays
On the day of his death, December 1, 1980, John Coulter, with the assistance of a commission from the Canada Council, was at work on a projected edition of plays selected from his works, begun earlier in the year. Each play was to have a brief introduction describing the writing and outlining the subsequent successes and failures.
F.1 Small black notebook with notes from Coulter's diaries on Oblomov, Sleep My Pretty One, In My Day, The Family Portrait, Deirdre, Riel, God's Ulsterman, House in the Quiet Glen, Kean, Fiddling Hind and Mr. Churchill of England.
"Notes on the plays -for possible Introduction to Selected Plays", 15 pp. Written on.
F.2 "Worksheets for prefaces, 1980", holograph and typewritten pages some bearing dates February-April 1980, 82 pp.
(On the reverse of some sheets are typescript pages of other plays - one is Living Together, the other an abandoned one of Coulter's?)
F.3 Holograph notes relating to the content and organization of prefaces to Selected Plays,
5 pp .
F.4 "General Introduction to a volume or volumes of my Collected or Selected Plays. The Canada Council project". Annotated typescript, 66 pp.
(The last two pages are about Riel and there is both an original and carbon copy of these, the last page marked by Coulter's daughter Primrose "from typewriter - last thing he typed").
F.5 Some photocopied pages "for early submission to Oberon" from the prefaces to Selected Plays.
F.6 Holograph, last two pages written but not typed of the prefaces.
Contributions to Publications
"John Coulter" entry in Ten Canadian Playwrights edited by Geraldine Anthony, Doubleday, 1978.
F.7 Photocopy annotated typescript. "This is the piece as I wrote it ... it was changed from interview form into the straight article...", 26 pp.
F.8 Photocopy annotated typescript, the straight article version, 19 pp.
Publications about John Coulter
John Coulter, by Geraldine Anthony, Twayne Books, 1976.
F.9 "Copy of Geraldine Anthony's original script of biography John Coulter", photocopy typescript, 204 pp.
- also a review from Library Journal, vol.101, no.17, October 1976, p. 2064, photocopy.
F.10 Photocopies of parts of Geraldine Anthony's book.
Prelude to a Marriage (autobiography)
Selected Letters, Diaries, Journals of Olive Clare Primrose and John Coulter, edited with commentary by John Coulter. This book was published in 1979 by Oberon Press.
F.11 Annotated typescript, 134 pp.
F.12 Carbon annotated typescript, duplicate of F.11, "proofs corrected September 30 1978", 134 pp.
F.13 Another carbon annotated typescript, duplicate of F.11 and F.12 above. 134 pp.
F.14 "Prelude, corrections and odd sheets", 14 pp. + envelope.
F.15 2 copies of William French's review of Prelude, clipped from Globe and Mail April 10, 1979.

Unpublished Editorial Work
F.16 As I Went Over the Hill, The Journals of Olive Clare Primrose, [1970s], edited by J.C, annotated carbon typescript, 254 pp.

Box 36:
Broadcasts: Radio Reviews, Criticism, and Radio Documentary Dramas
A. Talks, Reviews, and Criticism
F.1. "Books and Shows"
Series of literary and theatrical criticism for CBC Toronto, first series June 16, 1942- August 25, 1942. All are typescript or carbon typescript (often both) and most are lightly annotated.
1) Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means
Grey Eminence
Bruce Lancaster, Bright to the Wanderer
John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down 7 pp.
2) Ksawery Pruszynski, Polish Invasion
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras
Richard Hillary, Falling Through Space.
Middleton Murry, The Betrayal of Christ.
Richard Finnie, Canada Moves North 7 pp.
3) Art and Theatre reviews. 7 pp. (2 copies)
4) Plays by Merrill Denison and William Saroyan, 7 pp. (2 copies)
5) Saroyan plays, continued, and Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley, 7 pp., (2 copies)
6) W.T. Stace, The Destiny of Western Man
Roy Porter, Uncensored France
Rene Kraus, Europe in Revolt
James Street, Tap Roots 7 pp. (3 copies)
7) W.T. Stace, The Destiny of. Western Man
S .I. Hayakawa, Language in Action
Rene Kraus, Europe in Revolt
Vera Knight, A.R.P. for Canada
Captain Fairbairn, Get Tough
G.T. Burch, So I Said to the Colonel
Alexander Kiralfy, Victory in the Pacific.
Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver 6 pp. (3 copies)
8) Raoul de Roussy de Sales, The Making of Tomorrow 6 pp. (2 copies)
9) Abbé Arthur Maheux, French Canada and Britain
C.W. Jefferys, The Picture Gallery of Canadian History
Bruce Hutchinson, The Unknown Country
Dorothy Duncan, Bluenose
Robert Nathan, The Sea-Gull Cry 6 pp. (2 copies)
10) Amos Wilder, The Spiritual Aspects of the New Poetry
Ralph Gustafson (editor), Anthology of Canadian Poetry in English
T. S. Eliot, East Cocker
Anne Marriott, Calling Adventurers
Ernest Fewster, Litany Before the Dawn of Fire 6 pp. (2 copies)
11) Gladys Schmitt, The Gates of Aulis
Sean O'Casey, Pictures in the Hallway
Jennie Lee, The Great Journey
Austin Tappan Wright, Islandia
Ben Robertson, Red Hills and Cotton
Russell Hill, Desert War
R.A. Davies, Soviet Asia
Maritime Art, Canadian Review of Music and Other Arts (magazines ) 6 pp. (2 copies)

F.2 "Books and Shows", second series, November 24, 1942-March 30, 1943, all typescripts, often with carbons, most lightly annotated.
1) Film - United We Stand
2) Edmund Blunden (editor), Poems of War
Earle Birney, David and Other Poems
Ralph Gustafson, Lyrics Unromantic
Anne Marriott, Salt Marsh 5 pp. (3 copies)
3) Clara Bernhardt, Far Horizon
James Edward Ward, This England
Winston Churchill, Great Contemporaries
Heaketh Pearson, G.B.S.
Earle Birney, David and Other Poems 6 pp. (2 copies)
4) Preview magazine
Robert Tristram Coffin, The Substance that Poetry
T.S. Eliot (editor), A Choice of Kipling's Verse
William Seabrook, No Hiding Place
Grace Campbell, The Thorn Apple Tree
G. Herbert Sallens, Little Man
Emily Carr, The Book of Small 6 pp. (2 copies)
5) The Carr, Campbell and Seabrook books again
Bemelmans, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You 6 pp. (2 copies)
6) Stephen Leacock, Montreal, Seaport and City
Wickham Steed, That Bad Man
Harry C. Vigne, The Time of My Life 6 pp. (2 copies)
7) Review of the CBC radio programme Our Canada - talk by poets, painters and musicians including E.J. Pratt, Earle Birney, A.Y. Jackson, Fred Taylor, Lauren Harris, Emily Carr, Ernest Macmillan, Geoffrey Ridout, John Weinsweig, Barbara Pentland, Robert Farnham, 6 pp. (2 copies)
8) Canada; The War and After. Study Outlines of Canadian Problems Alice
A. Brady, Between War and Peace
W .H .Chamberlain; Canada Today and Tomorrow
Mary Bosanquet, Saddlebags and Suitcase 6 pp. (2 copies)
9) "What is Canadian Culture?" 5 pp. (2 copies)
10) Canadian Culture, continued
Klaus Man , The Turning Point 4 pp. (2 copies)
11) Prince Kropotkin, Fields, Factories and Workshops
Halford Mackinder, Democratic Ideas and Reality
Louis Lochner, What About Germany
Email Lengyel, Siberia 5 pp. (2 copies)
12) Thomas Mann, Listen Germany
Richard Tregaskis, Guadalcanal Diary and 4 films 5 pp. (2 copies)
13) Radio programming in Canada, with a mention of Coulter's own Mr.Churchill of England, 5 pp. (2 copies)
14) J.G. Sime, Orpheus in Quebec
Edmund Blunden, Thomas Hardy 5 pp. (2 copies)
15) Louise Dickinson Rich, We Took to the Woods, 5 pp.
16) Review of Art Exhibition by Ontario Society of Artists. 5 pp. (2 copies)
17) Art Exhibition. continued. Elizabeth Bowen, Bowen's Court 5 pp. (2 copies plus 2 more incomplete copies)
18) Radio programming including mention of Coulter's Mr. Churchill of England and Morley Callaghan's Of Things to Come 5 pp. (2 copies)
19) Final talk.
William Saroyan, The Human Comedy
Merrill Denison, Klondike Mike
Edith Sitwell, Street Songs
Dorothy Wellesley, Lost Planet and Other Poems
also other brief mentions 5 pp. (2 copies)

F.3 Rough notes and cuttings relating to Books for the Times and Books and Shows series.
F.4 "Books for the Times", Series of book talks for CBC Toronto, 1945.
June 19, 1945-July 10, 1945.
1) G.B. Shaw. Everybody's Political What's What, lightly annotated typescript. 5 pp.
2) Frank O'Connor, Crab Apple Jelly
Katherine Anne Porter, Flowering Judas
Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger
lightly annotated typescript, 7 pp.
3) Bill Mauldin, Up Front
Joan Bennett, Virginia Woolf
Osbert Sitwell, Left Hand, Right Hand
lightly annotated typescript, 7 pp.
4) Monica Roberts Chalmers, And in Time of Harvest
F.R. Scott, Overture
A.M. Klein, The Hitleriad
Waldo Mayo, Tchaikovsky
lightly annotated typescript, 6 pp.

F.5 Two reviews of Coulter's radio criticism from Saturday Night, February 27 and April 10, 1943.
F.6 "C.B.C. Symphony Broadcast", [1942] , interview between Dr. Charles Peaker and Coulter,
1) carbon typescript, 6 pp.
2) annotated carbon typescript, revised version, 5 pp.
F.7 "Canada's Fighting Forces", radio script. December 2, 1942,
annotated carbon typescript, 8 pp., and 2 pp. holograph notes
F.8 "Christmas Aftermath". Unfinished holograph script of radio talk with later note about its composition on an envelope by Coulter, holograph pencil script, December 27, 1938, 5 pp.
F.9 "Dominion Drama Festival", radio talk, May 1947, lightly annotated carbon typescript, 4 pp.
F.10 Untitled radio script broadcast in the Echoe of Ulster series, October 13, 1934, annotated typescript, 4 pp.
F.11 "G.B.S. in Dublin" .recorded for BBC Northern Ireland, 13 August 1956, annotated typescript, 9 pp.
- Also another version with the same title, for CBC, July 1968, annotated typescript, 11 pp.
- also some cuttings about Shaw.
F.12 "Gogarty's Tale of a Paranoid", a review of Mr. Petunia by Oliver St. John Gogarty. Annotated carbon-typescript, 3 pp.
F.13 "St. Patrick Was a Gentleman". Talk for CBC Toronto, March 17th, 1940, annotated typescript, 6 pp.
F.14. [Shaw, G.B.] An obituary broadcast on CBC Toronto, November 3,1950. Heavily annotated typescript, 5 pp.
F.15 "So Canadians Can't Act", broadcast for CBL, Toronto, February 4,1940. Annotated carbon typescript, 5 pp.
F.16 "Speaking As A Listener", series of talks of radio criticism, broadcast March 12,1948
- May 7,1948, photocopied typescripts, lightly annotated, 11 scripts, each 3 pp. long, 33 pp. total
F.17 "Talk on Canada", broadcast from CBC Toronto for BBC Northern Ireland, November 1946. Annotated typescript, 6 pp.
F.18 "Well of All Things", review of revue at Hart House Theatre, broadcast on CBL Toronto, January 31,1940, typescript, 4 pp.

B. Radio Documentary Dramas (i.e. dramatic presentations of factual material)
F.19 "Adventures in Science", proposed script for CBS, n.d. [1937-38? ], duplicated typescript, 20 pp.
F.20 "At the Shore", a programme introducing variations of the holiday theme in holiday places of Northern Ireland.
All duplicated typescripts
1) "Coast Road to the North", n.d. [August 1934], 15 pp.
2) "Beyond the Mournes", August 29.1934, annotated, 17 pp.
3) "Copeland Light to Blackhead Light", September 10, 1934, annotated, with 2 holograph pp. inserted, 17 pp. total
4) Dunluce, the Causeway and the North, October 3.1934, annotated, 15 pp.
F.21 "Fire! Fire! Being the story of a midnight visit to the fire station" [1930s], 2 copies, one a carbon typescript, lightly annotated, 18 pp.
the other a duplicated script, lightly annotated, 15 pp.
F.22 "Home Counties Series". Radio scripts for programmes on various English counties for the BBC. The first in the series was not by Coulter; all subsequent ones were.
1) "Men of Kent and Kentish Men" by William Maclurg, 19 December 1934, duplicated script. 14 pp.
2) "Sussex", lightly annotated carbon typescript. 16 pp.
3) "Surrey", lightly annotated carbon typescript. 13 pp.
4) "Middlesex", lightly annotated carbon typescript. 13 pp.
5) "Buckingham", lightly annotated carbon typescript. 13 pp.
6) "Berkshire", lightly annotated carbon typescript. 6 pp.

F.23 "In Touch. Project for a TV and Sound Broadcasting feature designed to keep viewers and listeners in touch with what is most entertaining and artistically exciting in current theatre, ballet, opera, film, painting, sculpture, etc., 2 lightly annotated carbon typescripts, 1956. 5 pp. each. 10 pp. total
F.24 "Living History Series", radio scripts for CBS education department, 1938.
- holograph research notebook.
- outline of programmes in the series. typescript, 2 pp.
- duplicated typed radio script. broadcast May 11, 1938, 15 pp.
- carbon typescript "cancelled version" for May 18. 1938, 7 pp.
- carbon typescript "the cancelled first 4 pp. for May 18"
- carbon typescript. revised, 4 pp.
- carbon typescript. "complete revised script" for May 18. 1938, 8 pp.
- annotated carbon typescript, part of June 1, 1938 broadcast, 7 pp.
- duplicated radio script. complete text of June 1, 1938 broadcast, 20 pp.

F.25 "A Tale of Old Quebec".
This play was first broadcast, according to Coulter's memoirs, on BBC radio in 1930 and the "scheme for a programme" included here appears to date from this time. However, the full script is of the later CBC broadcast.
- "A Lay of Old Quebec - Scheme for a programme", carbon typescript, 6 pp.
-"A Tale of Old Quebec", duplicated radio script, lightly annotated, broadcast from Montreal September 13, 1940, 15 pp.
F.26 "Tales of the Towns", series of radio scripts [for BBC Northern Ireland?], [1930s]
"Carrickfergus - And the Return of Clandeboy",
- heavily annotated typescript, 23 pp.
- heavily revised version, duplicated typescript, 15 pp.
"This Great Experiment", see Plays, Box 27.
F.27 "The Trial of Joseph Howe, on which was founded the freedom of the press in Canada;
a radio play"
3 carbon typescripts of the play, written August 1941, each with slightly different title pages, each copy 20 pp., 60 pp. total
Articles (including letters to the editor, reports, reviews, introductions: all published short pieces)

Box 37:
F.1 "Alas Poor Hamlet", 2 letters to the editor, [n.d. -pre 1968] , on Sir Laurence Olivier's film Hamlet, annotated typescript, 4 pp.
F.2 "Are We Ashamed of Ulster?", Belfast Telegraph, February 20, 1936, on Drama Festival, published version.
F.3 "Art", Coulter's contribution to a dictionary, a tear sheet from the published version, [1930s].
F.4 "Art in Society. Notes for an address given at an exhibition of art students' works in the Northern Vocational School, Toronto", [1944-5], annotated typescript, 7 pp.
F.5 "The Art of the Playwright. Some notes from a lecture given in Hart House Theatre under the auspices of the Toronto University Drama Committee", [c.1940] , holograph rough draft, 4 pp.; and typescript version, 5 pp.
F.6 "The Arts, Number One" , review of a new English magazine in Canadian Review of Music and Art, 1947, vol. 5, p. 48.
"As We See It", editorial piece, published version in the Ulster Review, vol. II, no.7, December 1925, p.318.
- See Box 31, F.15.
"As We See It", editorial piece, published version in the Ulster Review, vol. II, no.10, April 1926, pp. 376-377.
- See Box 3l, F.17.
F.7 "Attention to O'Casey", article for the Adelphi, [1920s?] , typescript, 5 pp.
F.8 "Back In Dublin", no place of publication, 1948, annotated carbon typescript, 4 pp.
F.9 "Blanched Linen", "First (how appalling!) effort to collect a little cash by writing". Published in the Daily Mail, "I think 1920", annotated typescript, 4 pp.
F.10 "Canadian Drama and the Festival", for Saturday Night, 1948, annotated typescript, 8pp.

F.11 "Canadian Poetry", Canadian Review of Music and Art, December 1942, pp.15-18. 3 copies of the published version. This article was taken from Coulter's talk in the first series of Books and Shows broadcasts, programme 10 (op. cit.).
F.12. "Distinguished Ulster Artist, the work of James S. Sleator, R.H.A.", review article [for newspaper?] [1920s?]. Typescript, 4 pp.
See also "Some Portraits and Other Paintings by James S. Sleator", F.38, and "The Work of James S. Sleator", F.51, below.
F.13 "Down Our Street" , series in Ireland's Saturday Night, 1936.
1) "Patter that sells bananas", with Coulter's date given as "16-8-136"
2) "Strange tale of a fiddle" [1936]
3) "Transported to the Shankhill" [1936]
- all are cuttings of the published versions.
"The Drama. Three New Plays". Review article, published version in the Ulster Review, vol. II, no.9, February 1926, pp. 369-70.
- See Box 31, F.13
F.14 "The Drama in Ulster", the Ulster Review, vol. II, no. 8, January 1926, pp. 349-350. Published version. Also in the same issue Coulter's editorial, "The Playboy of the Western World", and "Shakespeare and Communism".
F.15 "Farm and Factory", article for the vol. IV. no.2, May 1932, annotated galley proofs, 4 sheets

F.16 "A Festival Adjudicator Should Wear 2 Masks", Saturday Night, April 26, 1947, p. 18, cutting of the published version together with the response generated in the correspondence columns, June 7 and June 21, 1947.
F.17 "Festival (C.O.D.L.) in Retrospect" , annotated typescript, 7 pp. and the published version, cutting from Saturday Night, March 27, 1948, pp. 25 and 36.
F.18 "Fridolin in English" , typescript, 5 pp. and the published version, cutting from Saturday Night, January 18, 1947, p. 3.
F.19 "The Gods at Hamlet", typescript, no date, [1930s?], 6 pp.
"Hail and Farewell", editorial piece in the Ulster Review, vol. II, no.7, December 1925, pp. 317-318. - See box 31, F.15.
F.20 "High Seas and Old Ships" , typescript, [n.d. -1930s?] , 8 pp.
"Important Announcement", editorial column, published version in the Review, vol. II, no.10, March-April 1926, p. 377. - See box 31, F.17.

F.21 "Impressario by S. Hurok and Ruth Goode", review article, published version, Canadian Review of Music and Art, 1946, vol. 5, nos. 4 and 5, p. 51.
F.22 "International Theatre Seminar at Dublin". Brief report by Coulter of the proceedings, September 30-October 8,1967, typescript, 6 pp.
F.23 "Juno and the Paycock", programme note by Coulter for Mavor Moore's 1947 N.P.S. production, cutting from the programme, l p. See also F.35 below.
F.24 "Linen", [for Good Housekeeping ?] , marked by author "not for publication", [n.d. -1920s-l930s], [incomplete?], typescript, 5 pp.
F.25 "Man and the Machine", the New Adelphi, vol. II, no. 2, Spring 1929, pp. 155-l57, cutting of the published version.
F.26 "The Mill", the New Adelphi, vol. II, no. 2, Spring 1929, p.140, cutting of the published version.

F.27 "Muskoka Respite", typescript (originally written for Vogue magazine but not accepted), 4 pp.
- cutting of the published version from Saturday Night, February 6, 1943.
F.28 "My Heart's in the Highlands", "programme note to follow cast", [August 6, 1942], annotated typescript 2 pp.
F.29 "The Modern Drama", a series of articles for the Irish Times, 1922. part I, carbon typescript, 4 pp.
- part II, annotated carbon typescript, 5 pp.
- part III, carbon typescript, 5 pp.
On the reverse side of parts II and III is part of what appears to be a short story The Cupid in Bronze; A Satiric Diversion. Although the author is given as "P.P.B" this appears to be an early fictional effort by Coulter There is a fragment of another story or novel on the back of the last page of part I. See also F.34.
"Much Ado About Nothing", review, published version in the Ulster Review, vol. II, no.7, December 1925, pp. 33l-332. - See box 31, F.15.
"The New Idea in Industry", editorial column, published version in the Ulster Review, vol. II, no.9, February 1926, pp. 358-359. - See box 31, F.13.
F.30 "No Nonsense About Art in Canada", a letter to the editors of Saturday Night, Star, Telegram and Globe and Mail, June 20, 1943, annotated typescript, 4 pp.

F.31 "Note as to the formation of a Drama League in Ulster", printed pamphlet, Belfast, 1919, 4 copies, all of them bearing later annotations by Coulter
F.32 "O'Flaherty's Melodrama", review article of a book by Liam O'Flaherty, Globe and Mail, September 7, 1946.
F.33 "Out with the Killultaghs", article, no place or date of publication [1930s?], annotated typescript, 5 pp.
F.34 "Periods of Art", Irish Times [1922?] , carbon typescript, 4 pp.
The fragment of the story (novel?) referred to above - F.29 - is continued on the reverse of these pages.
F.35 "The Playboy and the Paycock", "programme note for N.P.S. production". This is the original draft of the printed note in F.23 above, op. cit. Annotated typescript [1947] , 1 p.
"The Playboy of the Western World". - See F.14 above, the Ulster Review, vol. II, no. 8, January 1926, p. 350.
"Politics and Religion, a Plea for Protestantism in Ulster", editorial column published version in the Ulster Review vol. II, no.10, March-April 1926, pp. 379-380. - See box 31, F.17.

F.36 Preface - to a catalogue of the publications of Macmillan's in Canada, edited by Peggy Blackstock, taken from one of the broadcasts in the Books and Shows series (op. cit. ) [1943] , annotated cutting from the printed catalogue. l p.
F.37 "Rugger v. Soccer". "This is my first article published and paid for. Reread now, in November 1945 in Toronto, Canada.
"Comment: Oh My God !". Annotated typescript, no place or date of publication [1920?], 4 pp.
"Shakespeare and Communism". - See F.14 above, the Ulster Review, vol. II, no.8, January 1926, p. 350.
F.38 "Some Portraits and Other Paintings by James S. Sleator, R.H.A", companion piece to the articles described in F.12 above and F.51 below [1920s?], annotated typescript, 4 pp.
F.39 "Tennis Criticism. Ulster Hard Courts Tournament", Belfast Telegraph, May 21,1936, cutting of the published version.
F.40 "Time for Dusting off the Drama Festival", Saturday Night, March 22, 1947, p. 20, published version.
"Toward a Better Ireland", editorial comment, published version in the Ulster Review, vol.II, no.9, February 1926, p. 357. See Box 31, F.13.
F.41 "Toward a Canadian Theatre", Canadian Review of Music and Art, vo1. 4, nos. l and 2, August-September 1945, pp. 17 and 20.
"Today and Tomorrow in Ulster", editorial comment, published version in the Ulster Review, vol. II, no. 8, January 1926, p. 337. See F.14 above.
F.42 "Towards a National and Civic Theatre", "copy of letter sent to editors of Globe and Mail, Star, Telegram, and Earle Grey", [July 23, 1945] Appears not to have been sent; see Coulter's letter to Edgar Stone, September 24, 1945; annotated carbon typescript, 5 pp.

F.43 "Twelve Months of 2BE", Ulster Review, vol. II, no. 6, November 1925, p. 306, published version.
F.44 "An Ulster Farmhouse Where Outlaws Once Met", Ireland's Saturday Night, part of series of articles which ran weekly June 30
- July 22, 1931, annotated cutting of the published version.
F.45 "An Ulster Sojourn", series of topographical sketches with a fictional story interwoven, published in the Weekly Northern Whig, Belfast, October 10 to December 12, 1931.
(1) Original annotated typescript with 20 chapters, 158 pp. and envelope 1969 comments on the pieces.
F.46 (2) "Dinner Hour At the Mill - An Ulster Sojourn", an adaptation of chapter V of the series [as a separate short story?], typescript, 4 pp.
F.47 (3) "Sketches of Ulster Life" - the published version of "An Ulster Sojourn", advertisements for the series and 11 cuttings of the published articles, October - December 1931.
F.48 "While Belfast Sleeps. Impressionist series. Behind the Civic Scenes", series of articles on the public services in the Belfast Telegraph, September 26-October 31, 1931. Cuttings of the published version.
"Mammoth Machine of Gasworks" , September 26, 1931 (2 copies) .
"Where Firemen Keep Vigil", October 3, 1931.
"City's Nightly Clean Up. Sweeping 332 miles of streets", October 10, 1931.
"Power Station Marvels. City's mechanical brain", October 17, 1931.
"The Vigil of the Wards. Night-Time in Royal Victoria", October 24, 1931.
"Ships and Beacons. Round the Harbour at Night", October 31, 1931, (2 copies).
F.49 "Why Sabotage the Theatre?", Canadian Review of Music and Art, vol. 1, no. 4, May 1942, pp. 5-6 ,18. Published version.

F.50 "William Butler Yeats in Dublin",
- 2 copies of carbon typescript, 11 pp. each
- 1 copy of published version, the Star Weekly, Toronto, February 18, 1939.
F.51 The Work of James S. Sleator", review article [for newspaper?] [1920s?]. Typescript,
4 pp. See also other articles on the same exhibition, F.12 and F.38.
F.52 "A Young Playwright in the Blue Moon", review article of play by Lister Sinclair, Saturday Night, May 10, 1947.

Subject Files
Box 38:
A. Biographical
F.1 Newspaper cuttings about John Coulter, 1931-1975, also one with some mention of Olive Clare Primrose's writing.
F.2 Biographical and publicity material about Coulter including copies of
- Who's Who entries, 1940s-1970s ,
- 7 photographs of his former residence, 9 Montclair Avenue, Toronto,
- 1 photograph of his daughter Primrose, c.1942,
- Coulter's own listing and description of his plays.
Articles about John Coulter
F.3 "CanLit's Anonymous Parent", by Mark Abley, Maclean's, July 9, 1979, pp. l0-11.
F.4 "The Forgotten Man", by Geraldine C. Anthony, Canadian Drama, March 1975, pp. 12-l8.
F.5 "John Coulter", by Marion Dempsey, Performing Arts in Canada, vol. VIII, no.1, Spring 1971, pp. 20-21.
F.6 "The Playwright Canada Forgot", by David Cobb, the Telegram, Toronto, March 13, 1967, p. 17.
F.7 Cutting with article and photograph, about Clare Coulter, Globe and Mail, January 26, 1977.

B. General Subject Files ( listed alphabetically)
F.8 Accounts; Bank book and typescript pages of figures [from 1930s].
F.9 Canada Council; Brochures from and cuttings relating to:
Canadian National Theatre, Canada Council and the role of the Arts and Letters Club:
John Coulter's pivotal role first in spurring the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto towards the promotion of Canadian drama and then, as part of its delegation to Ottawa, assisting in the post-war reconstruction of artistic life in Canada and the establishment of Canadian cultural life as we now know it, is clearly reflected in the files which are included here. The researcher is directed also to the correspondence files for the 1943-1950 period under such names as Elizabeth Black, Earle Grey, Betty Mitchell et al.
F.10 "Minutes of proceedings and evidence of the special committee on reconstruction and re-establishment, House of Commons. Wednesday, June 21, 1944". Coulter listed as one of the witnesses in the presentation of "the Artists' Brief" to the government, a presentation which was to eventually lead to the founding of the Canada Council.
F.11 Article from the Ottawa Journal, Thursday, June 29,1944: "An Acorn of Culture Planted on the Hill".
F.12 Articles, 1943-1944, about the Arts and Letters Club promotion of Canadian plays.
F.13 Arts and Letters Club material, 1945-1946.
F.14 Extracts from Coulter's diaries, 1943-1952, regarding the activities of the Arts and Letters Club, carbon typescript, 4 pp. (3 copies).
F.15 Minutes of the Arts and Letters Club Executive Committee meetings, circulars and publicity, 1943-1947.
F.16 Arts and Letters Club National Theatre material, 1943-1945, with Coulter as Chairman of the Drama Committee.
- also Roly Young's article "Towards a Civic Theatre", July 17, 1945. (See the correspondence with Earle Grey for Coulter's opposition to this.)
F.17 Other accounts of Coulter's efforts in the struggle for the National Theatre and the Canada Council.
F.18 Arts and Letters Club programmes and cuttings, 1943-1945, and a later Newsletter account of the 1943-1945 activity.
F.19 Belfast and Dublin:
Newspaper cuttings from 1940s to 1970s on Irish theatrical and literary figures.
F.20 Ceres: 2 photographs and a Christmas card of the Ceres tapestry designed by Coulter about 1909 or 1910.
F.21 Certificates: Awards to Coulter for art and design, 1906-1910.
F.22 Citation: Upon the awarding of the degree D.Litt. by York University, June 1978; 3 copies of the citation spoken by the Chancellor (Mavor Moore) and publicity.
F.23 Dublin Theatre Festival: Newspaper cuttings relating to the festival, 1967.
F.24 Dublin Theatre Festival: Programmes, 1967.
F.25 Edwards, Hilton and Michael Machiammoir: Newspaper cuttings relating to.
F.26 Envelopes: Coulter's original storage envelopes for his correspondence, annotated.

Box 39:
F.1 Guthrie, Tyrone: cuttings and articles relating to.
F.2 Lists: Coulter's typescript lists of his correspondence, 1970-1976.
F.3 Music: printed sheet with the words and music of the song My Lagan Love by Hamilton Harty.
F.4 Newspaper cuttings: various, including tourism in Ontario, travel in Ireland and some wartime articles.
F.5 Network TV proposals: cuttings relating to 1967.
F.6 Ninetieth birthday: cards and tributes including one signed by many members of the Arts and Letters Club and another from Coulter's biographer, Geraldine Anthony.
F.7 Notes: random scraps with jottings on books being read, music, definitions of words, quotes from himself - all holograph.
F.8 Obituaries: news cuttings, including ones of Lennox Robinson. T.J. Irwin,
Paul Henry, Seumas O'Sullivan, Sterndale Bennett and Philip J. Ambrose.
F.9 Sean O'Casey: Page proofs of his Red Roses for Me (London, Macmillan, 1942) annotated by Coulter, 156 pp.
F.10 Radio Times : "Press cuttings, BBC" - pages from various issues of Radio Times in the 1930s, announcements and synopses of Coulter's plays and sports broadcasts.
F.11 James Reaney.: galley proofs of his Twelve Letters to a Small Town with notations by Coulter and Coulter's remarks on Reaney's The Kildeer quoted in a cutting from CBC Times, June 10-16, 1961.
F.12 Russia : periodicals and cuttings, 1938-1943, including "The Living Newspaper" from the Adelphi Theatre.
F.13 Theatre Programme : Christopher Colombus, performed in London, 1956.
F.14 Ulster Review: contributions received by Coulter while editor, 1925-26.
Magazines, without any contribution by or about Coulter:
The Adelphi, October, 1926 (Olive Clare Primrose's copy) May,1931
July-September, 1945 , April-June, 1947, July-September, 1947
The New Adelphi, June August, 1929 ("O.C. Primrose"), Coulter edited but did not contribute to this volume; it contains a useful index to vols. I and II of the new series.
Canadian Library Council Bulletin, vol. II, no. 4, April 1946.
Partisan Review, June, 1949, with an article marked by Francis Fergusson on "The Theatre of Shaw and Pirandello". March-April, 1952, with an article marked by Robie Macauley on "Oblomov: The Superfluous Man".
Theatre Arts Monthly, July, 1938.

Posters
Some large posters for A Capful of Pennies, Riel, Crime of Louis Riel, Trial of Louis Riel, Deirdre and Sleep My Pretty One. Oversize. M.C. 9.

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