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Title: Margaret E. Hicks Collection of W. C. D. Pacey Correspondence

Dates: 1954-1975

Extent: 7 cm of textual records; 2 photographs

Biographical Sketch: Margaret E. Hicks was a teacher of mathematics and her husband, T.J. Hicks, was a principal at the Caledonia High School (Caledonia, Ontario). In the early 1930s, they befriended a young student, W.C. Desmond Pacey, who spent three years in Caledonia High School. Pacey (1917-1975) subsequently had a very distinguished career as a pioneer in Canadian literary history and criticism, an author, an educator and university administrator. Throughout his life, he maintained contact with Margaret and T.J. Hicks, writing to them on a regular basis and visiting periodically.

Scope and Content: This is a collection of personal correspondence from Desmond Pacey to Margaret and/or T.J. Hicks. Largely it consists of personal news about general activities and family life. It includes some Christmas cards with photographs of the Pacey Family, cards by Mary Pacey and newspaper clippings about Desmond Pacey.

Note that the W.C.D. Pacey Fonds is held by the UNB Archives. See MG L1. An inventory is available for this fonds.

Access: Open



A calendar of the correspondence follows:

1.  1954          Pacey, Desmond    [Fredericton]       3 pp.
2.  1957 Dec. 16  Pacey, Desmond    [Fredericton]       4 pp.
3.  1958 Dec. 16  Pacey, Desmond    [Fredericton        4 pp.
4.  1959 Mar. 18  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              2 pp.
5.  1959 Dec. 19  Pacey, Desmond    Fredericton         2 pp.
6.  1962 Dec. 8   Pacey, Desmond    Cambridge, England  2 pp.
7.  1963 Jan. 2   Pacey, Desmond    Cambridge, England  2 pp.
8.  1963 Dec. 14  Pacey, Desmond    Fredericton         2 pp.
9.  1964 Dec. 10  Pacey, Desmond    Fredericton         2 pp.
10. 1966 Jan. 18  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              4 pp.
11. 1966 Dec. 12  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              6 pp.
12. 1967 Feb. 16  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              1 p.
13. 1967 Mar. 13  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              2 pp.
14. 1967 Mar. 27  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              1 p.
15. 1967 Oct. 10  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              3 pp.
16. 1967 Oct. 11  Pacey, Alan       U.N.B.              1 p.
17. 1967 Oct. 25  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              1 p.
18. 1967 Nov. 20  Mackay, Colin B.  U.N.B.              1 p.
19. 1967 Nov. 23  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              2 pp.
20. 1968 Feb. 1   Pacey, Desmond    Note on Brunswick   1 p.
                                    Press Invoice
21. 1968 Feb. 2   Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              2 pp.
22. 1968 Feb. 22  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              2 pp.
23. 1968 Je. 12   Pacey, Desmond    Fredericton         5 pp.
24. 1968 Nov. 11  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              3 pp.
25. 1969 Apr. 7   Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              2 pp.
26. 1969 Apr. 29  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B               2 pp.
27. 1969 Je. 7    Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              2 pp.
28. 1969 Dec. 9   Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              3 pp.
29. 1970 Nov. 23  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              4 pp.
30. 1971 Dec. 15  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              4 pp.
31. 1972 Apr. 26  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              4 pp.
32. 1972 Jly. 31  Pacey, Desmond    Fredericton         2 pp.
33. 1972 Oct. 9   Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              2 pp.
34. 1972 Oct. 30  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              4 pp.
35. 1972 Dec. 22  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              2 pp.
36. 1973 Jan. 28  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              3 pp.
37. 1973 Dec. 13  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              2 pp.
38. 1974 Aug. 22  Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              3 pp.
39. 1974 Oct. 7   Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              1 p.
40. 1974 Nov. 4   Pacey, Desmond    U.N.B.              2 pp. + clipping
41. 1975 Aug. 3   Pacey, Mary       Fredericton         2 pp.
42.- 44.   n.d.   Christmas card with photograph of Pacey Family
45.- 51.   n.d.   Christmas cards by Mary Pacey
52. Photograph -[Caledonia] Upper School (Grade 13) Class of 1933-34.
    Desmond Pacey is in back row, second from left.
53. Exhibition Programme - European Water colours by Mary Pacey, Art
    Centre, Nov. 7-28, 1963.
54. Three manuscripts by Margaret Hicks.
55. Desmond Pacey. The Goldsmiths and their villages. (U. of T. Quarterly,
    Vol. XXI, no. 1, Oct. 1951).
56. Clippings about Dr. Pacey.

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