[Personal_archives] [Personal_archPamela Millerives] FW:Messyproposition

[Judith Colwell]

A hammer; $2.00 bill with King George VI; a book of pressed leaves; buttons 
more than once.

By the way note my new e-mail address    archives at marconf.ca

Judith Colwell

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From: "Barriault, Marcel" <Marcel.Barriault at lac-bac.gc.ca>
To: "Hobbs, Catherine" <catherine.hobbs at lac-bac.gc.ca>; 
<personal_archives at mailman.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Personal_archives] [Personal_archPamela Millerives] 
FW:Messyproposition


Let's see... A filled-in coupon for free thong underwear for men, an 
answering machine and a used band-aid.

M.

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[mailto:personal_archives-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] De la part de Hobbs, 
Catherine
Envoyé : 13 janvier 2009 10:01
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Messyproposition

Which begs the question... "What was the strangest thing you've found in a 
personal fonds?".

(Without breaking any confidences of course) For me it has to be the live 
flare found in the personal fonds of a writer for which we had to call in 
the bomb defusal team. Or, wait a minute... I did find a caul pressed 
between pages of a family bible (neither of which were accepted as part of 
the fonds).

My colleague here at LAC found a scientific sample of porcupine tuberculosis 
which seemed to relate to the writer's brother.

Aren't all of these indications which serve to show the individuality of 
personal fonds creators and the way in which many of them do not make any 
distinction between the types of personal property which the professionals 
divvy up into "archives", "museums", "art", "memorabilia" and "trash".

Catherine


-----Original Message-----
From: Pamela Miller [mailto:pamela.miller at mcgill.ca]
Sent: January 13, 2009 9:18 AM
To: Hobbs, Catherine
Subject: RE: [Personal_archives] FW: Messy proposition

Lovely idea, especially when I consider the things I've found in incoming 
archives, like a surveyor's chain or chicken feathers, or worse...
Pam

Pamela Miller
History of Medicine Librarian
Osler Library, McGill University
514-398-4475 ext. 09861
fax 514-398-5747
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[mailto:personal_archives-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Hobbs, 
Catherine
Sent: January 13, 2009 8:43 AM
To: personal_archives at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: [Personal_archives] FW: Messy proposition


> I raise this only with a hint of irony> ...> . > ...> consider the 
> possibilities for a discussion of sites of creation and original order in 
> personal archives at the March conference in Britain on the topic of 
> "mess".
> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english/about/mess.htm
> Happy New Year,
> Catherine Hobbs (Chair, SISPA)
>
> Catherine Hobbs,
> Archivist, Literary Archives (English-language) / Archiviste, Archives
> littéraires de langue anglaise Documentary Heritage Collection Sector
> / Secteur de la collection du patrimoine documentaire Library and
> Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada Place de la Cité,
> Room / Piece 598, 550, boul. de la Cité, Gatineau (QC), K1A 0N4
> catherine.hobbs at lac-bac.gc.ca Téléphone /Telephone 819-934-8331
> Télécopieur / Facsimile 819-934-8333
>
> Gouvernement du Canada / Government of Canada
> www.collectionscanada.gc.ca
>
>
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