JACOBSON, Percy and Joe

JACOBSON, Percy and Joe 

JACOBSON, Percy and Joe 

Env. 1.03 metres of textual records. 

The Percy Jacobson portion of the collection donated in 1990 consists of a typed diary covering the years 1939-1949 in Montreal, correspondence, plays and other writings (some published), legal and financial documents, McGill University Scholarships information, Canadian Authors' Association programs, minutes and reports. There are also documents relating to the sale and copyright of his plays, including contracts and information on the Copyright act. There are some publications among the papers; mostly magazines and newsletters containing articles by Percy Jacobson. There are also some newsletters and a number of newsclippings. The collection includes a portrait photo of Percy Jacobson.The Percy Jacobson papers added to this collection in 2012 includes 1 cm. of clippings about Percy Jacobson and 18 additional cm. of plays, correspondence, and various published writings by Percy Jacobson; sympathy letters and clippings about Percy Jacobson (mostly on fragile oversize scrapbook paper), one file about May Jacobson's pre-war children's bookstore, and a folder of background material clippings collected by Percy during WWII which informed his writing then.The following Percy and May Jacobson papers were donated by Janet Jacobson Smith and family in October 2013: a diary of Percy Jacobson for 1950 while in England, France and the Netherlands, on the occasion of attending a PEN conference in Edinburgh as a Canadian delegate. Two bound, handwritten diaries by May Jacobson from the years 1930 and 1950 (in one volume), and 1954; the 1930 diary covers a trip to England and Belgium with her family, and the 1950 segment covers same trip as that of her husband in 1950. The 1954 diary was written during a trip to England, the Netherlands and Scandinavia while a delegate to a NCJW conference on education in Scandinavia. One file containing 19 typed short stories by Percy Jacobson, one of which references a refugee couple who stayed with the family in 1938. A CD of all these documents in PDF format were donated by Peter Usher along with the originals.The Joe Jacobson portion of the collection includes Joe Jacobson's prewar and wartime diaries, several folders of pre-war and wartime letters, as well as 1 folder (1 cm.) of sympathy letters received by his family at the time of his death. An additional Joe Jacobson diary from 1937, and two letters by Joe Jacobson written on Twin Lake stationary in summer 1939 prior to his enlistment were donated in 2013 by Janet Jacobson Smith and family, along with digital copies made by Peter Usher.Addition 2018: 2 framed photographs: Monty Berger in military uniform, Herb Ross (nee Rosenstein) in military uniform. 17 photographs ca. 1940 with Joey Jacobson in military uniform. 1 photograph with Joey Jacobson in letterman sweater. File folder with drafts of Percy Jacobson plays:"The Road Hom""Roundabout Roa" with Monty Berger;"But for the Grace of God" Folder with Percy Jacobson play:"Not the Only Guppy (The Guppy or Rainbow Fish Devours its Own Young)" Folder with Percy Jacobson plays:"Ridiculous and Sublime" published 1948;"...And Sendeth Rain" published 1934; drafts of:"The Telephone" n.d.;"But for the Grace of God" n.d;"The Man with the Lovely Veins" n.d;"Portrait of my Grandmother" n.d.;"The Great Fear" n.d.;"Ridiculous and Sublime" n.d.