Music trade--Management, Waiters, Travel, Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force, Theater, Smoking cessation, Retail trade--Ownership, Exercise, and Education, Higher
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Resource Type:
Text
Extent:
1 leaf
Geographic Coverage:
Ontario--London and Texas--El Paso
Coordinates:
42.98339, -81.23304 and 31.75872, -106.48693
Additional Physical Characteristics:
Typescript letter on Woodrow Wilson Bean letterhead. Paper slightly marbled.
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Saul Holiff Collection
Provenance:
Acquired from Jonathan Holiff, October 2016.
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
business letters, letters (correspondence), and correspondence
Archival Item Identifier:
Accession Number: 2016-018 and File: 1.34
Fonds Title:
Holiff Family fonds
Fonds Identifier:
SC510
Is Referenced By:
Special Collections fonds: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/holiff-family-fonds
Date Digitized:
2007/2008
Technical Note:
Scanning done by Edgeworx Inc. between 2007-2008 for documentary My Father and the Man in Black. Exact dates of scanning and equipment used for scanning unknown. Image resized to 600dpi tiff using Photoshop CS5 by Libraries Digitization. Metadata by SMacFarlane and KD.
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Resource Type:
Still Image
Extent:
1 album (78 black and white photographs)
Geographic Coverage:
New Zealand, Australia, China--Shanghai, Hawaii, and Canada
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Resource Type:
Text
Extent:
1 envelope, 1 card, 6 pages
Geographic Coverage:
New South Wales--Sydney and France--Paris
Coordinates:
-33.86785, 151.20732 and 48.85341, 2.3488
Chronological Coverage:
1924
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Abkhazi Archives Collection
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
correspondence, letters (correspondence), and personal correspondence
Archival Item Identifier:
File: 5.16 and Accession Number: 2005-006
Fonds Title:
Peggy Abkhazi fonds
Fonds Identifier:
AR325
Is Referenced By:
Finding aid for archival fonds: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/peggy-abkhazi-fonds
Date Digitized:
2009-04-01
Transcript:
Dear Peggy,
Absolutely impossible to get to train station today.
Please accept this little bouquet as a souvenir.
There was nothing I could find. A bottle of milk; but there is nothing I could do.
Give my regards to your mother.
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Bellevue de [unreadable]. 1924.
19 Grande Route de Bellevue.
Seine et Vise
Dear Peggy,
It has been more than a month and a half since I received your card, more than 2 ½ months since I got your letter, and I did get to answer you. I don’t know what you think of me, but let me tell you how much I was happy to receive news from you and to know that you were happy about your trip. I am not going to explain the reason for my impertinent silence, not that I want to excuse myself but to tell you simply the truth. Since you left, I started doing some business, although this word business may make you smile a bit, but the truth is nevertheless that I am in business.
One day, they will proposition me to enter a company of Jewish origin, but officially, FrenchEnglish, to make a few sales in countries [unreadable] with the Germans.
I let them persuade me and I took off for a trip. 9 ½ months, I travelled in Germany, I would tell them some small stories, always accompanied by these men (Israelites), born in England, naturalized French speaking Chinese well. Today, I realize that I wasn’t earning anything and that the others were putting all the money in their pockets, that is when I said good-by and I left for Paris, where I found your letter, which was waiting for a good while. The moral of my experience was: no more work with men that I don’t know.
In all, it was not so bad as I have acquired a certain experience, I travelled a lot and I only lost 20 francs. What do you think?
Once in Paris, I entered a big insurance company and it is there that I worked from morning till night, we were busy all day so I could not write to you even at night, because during that time I had to study the question of insurances. Do not think that I forgot you even for a bit; try to imagine that my office was located close to the train station St. Lazarre, and each time that I cross the Place du Havre I think of the time when we crossed, with much courage, animated by the desire to find the cars, this huge place, so animated and with lots of movements.
Remember the night when you were stuck between 3 cars? But now there is more order, there are agents, the cars circulate with a certain precaution.
However it is the absolute lack of time, that stopped me from writing to you.
I hope Peggy that you will forgive this silence, because I am quite upset about it myself. Did you know that we had a very bad spring, it is so cold that we have to go out with a coat on. However everything is green, there are a lot of Americans, yelling and talking with an abominable accent, lot of people from Cook [North America].
I would assume that you know that we are preparing for the Olympic Games, I believe that we won’t see many people, but many businessmen will have made a lot of money. In spite of the increase in value of the franc, life is not going down, on the contrary, it is stable.
Are you still happy about your trip? I think, after thinking about it, that you are now in Oceanic countries and that you are preparing yourself to go to China? Therefore please tell me, has the guide in Italian been useful for you, as it was for me. I do believe that it a very good guide [The context of the next two sentences is not clear]
Your photograph has arrived in good shape and the package was very well made, and I am sending you my compliments about it.
Even though, we are still far from the nice season, my mother and I, we have decided to live in Bellevue, in a pretty corner of the suburb, less than 10 minutes of the train station Montparasse, do you remember this station from where you go to Chartres? Again another cherished memory of our great adventures. I don’t know if I will go another time to Chartres, but in the end it is worth it to see this wonderful place. Would I have seen anything in Paris if you were not there? Assuredly not.
Would you please convey my best wishes to your mother from Roger, as she often called me when I was with you, and, my dear Peggy, my best wishes to you,
Your Nicholas Abkhazi
P.S. My mother sends you her love.
N.A.
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600 dpi TIFF; no colour correction. Scanned and edited by KM and CDW. Metadata provided by MH and KD.
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Resource Type:
Still Image
Identifier:
Penfold Number: 400
Extent:
1 sheet
Geographic Coverage:
British Columbia and Washington (State)
Coordinates:
53.99983, -125.0032, 47.50012, -120.50147, and 51N-49N/123W-118W
Chronological Coverage:
1861
Additional Physical Characteristics:
1:1,013,760
Physical Repository:
National Archives (Great Britain)
Collection:
Early BC Maps Collection
Provenance:
National Archives of the UK
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Sponsor:
Funded by a Canadian Council of Archives, Archival Community Digitization Program.
Genre:
maps (documents) and historical maps
Archival Item Identifier:
National Archives Number: FO925-1822
Date Digitized:
2010-04-12
Technical Note:
600 dpi jpg and Watermarks added to images by KM, JF, and CDW. Metadata by JTP May 4, 2010.
The survey of London : contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe : with a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publicke and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors, as also all the ancient and moderne monuments erected in the churches, not onely of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) foure miles compasse, The survey of London : contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe : with a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publicke and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors, as also all the ancient and moderne monuments erected in the churches, not onely of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) foure miles compasse / begunne first by the paines and industry of Iohn Stovv, in the yeere 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the yeere 1618 ; and now completely finished by the study and labour of A.M. ; H.D., and others, this present yeere 1633, whereunto, besides many additions (as appeares by the contents) are annexed divers alphabeticall tables, especially two ; the first, an index of things ; the second, a concordance of names., and Stow's survey of London; Remains or remnants of divers worthy things
Subject:
History, Early works, Social conditions, Cities and towns, Antiquities, Historic buildings, Architecture, Travel, Manners and customs, and Buildings
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Resource Type:
Text
Identifier:
Call Number: DA680 S87 1633
Extent:
8 unnumbered pages, 939 [that is 943], 29 unnumbered pages : coats of arms; 35 cm (folio)
Edition:
[Fourth]
Geographic Coverage:
England--London
Coordinates:
51.50853, -0.12574
Chronological Coverage:
16xx/17xx
Additional Physical Characteristics:
The words "survey" and "London" in the title are xylographic; Leaf A1v bears the arms of London; Paging irregular; no. 527-534 repeated, no. 653-654 and 771-772 omitted; Text and register appear continuous despite pagination; Variant of title page lacks "H.D. and others"; Page [757] is a special title page: The remains or remnants of divers worthy things, which should have had their due place and honour in this worke, if promising friends had kept their words, but they failing, and part of them comming to my hands by other good meanes, they are here inserted, to accompany my perambulation foure miles about London. London : Printed by Elizabeth Purlow and are to bee sold by Nicholas Bourne..., 1633; Head and tail pieces, initials; Includes indexes., A⁸ B-2X⁶ 2Y⁶(±2Y2,3,4,5+chi4) 2Z-4I⁶ 4K⁶(±4K6) 4L-4M⁴ 4N⁶. chi gathering marked "Yy" Yy2"; Leaf 4K6 is a cancel; cancel has notes from Henry Marten on bottom of page 939, cancelland (variant) is blank below the sentence ending: Rushes, foure pence., and Conserved by Meadland Bindery (2014).
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Early Printed Books Collection
Provenance:
Gift of Janelle Jenstad (2014).
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
books
Is Referenced By:
Indexed in: ESTC, S117597; STC (2nd ed.), 23345
Date Digitized:
2013-05-03/2013-05-14
Technical Note:
600 dpi TIFF. Scanned on Plustek by SC and KM. Metadata by JTP and KD.