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Students manuscript book.
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Luella Bruce Creighton was a Canadian author whose works, both fiction and non fiction, were published in the 1950's and 1960's. Born Luella Sanders Bruce on Aug. 25, 1901 in Stouffville, Ontario she taught in a rural school in 1920-1921 prior to attending Victoria College at the University of Toronto. She graduated with a BA in 1926 and married historian and writer Donald Creighton on June 23 of the same year. Her writings include High bright buggy wheels, McClelland & Stewart, 1951; Turn east, turn west, McClelland & Stewart, 1954; Canada, the struggle for empire (non-fiction), Dent, 1960; Canada, trial and triumph (non- fiction), Dent, 1963; Tecumseh, the story of the shawnee chief (juvenile biography), Macmillan, 1965; Miss Multipenny and Miss Crumb, Peal, 1966; The elegant Canadians (non-fiction), McClelland & Stewart, 1967; The hitching post, McClelland & Stewart, 1969. Luella Creighton died in 1996 [?].
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File consists of one lined volume used as a scrapbook, notebook and diary by Luella Creighton while at Victoria College. Contains only a few written entries with much ephemeral material inserted, illustrative of university life of the time. Ephemera includes dance cards, programmes, menus, tickets, announcements, invitations, news clippings, etc. Of special note is the menu and programme for the Graduating Class Dinner, March 26, 1926, autographed by E.J. Pratt with "(good luck)" and at which Henri Lassere was the soloist.
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The ephemera has been removed as found and placed in acid free paper folders, with insertion places also marked.
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Several photographs of university buildings have been removed and placed in Series 6: Photographs, File 120.