Short stories and novelettes. -- [1948?]-[197-?]. -- 44 cm of textual records

Scope and content: This subseries contains notes and draft manuscripts of Walker's short stories and novelettes, many of which were published in Canadian, American, and British magazines including Argosy, The Saturday Evening Post, John Bull, The Atlantic Advocate, and Woman's Journal. Several works appear in Walker's collection of short stories, Storms of Our Journey (1962). This subseries also includes drafts of untitled stories and notes for future writings.

File arrangement is alphabetical by title.

Title based on contents of series.

Researchers should note that some stories listed here may have been published under other titles.

Published copies of Walker's short stories, including many of those listed here, are located in series 3, subseries 4, published short stories.

Notes and drafts of Walker's works of non-fiction are located in series 2, prisoner of war and series 3, subseries 5, articles (non-fiction).

BOX NO. 4

Files:

88. "A Good Tree That Christmas"

89. "Ambler" - "Moonshot" (includes notes)

90. "As Wild As The Peregrine"

91. "Avalanche"

92. "Ay, They Waggle"

93. "Break for Freedom" (originally titled "John Baxter's Riddle")

94. "By Cool Siloam"

95. "Cougar"

96. "Curve of the Snake" (includes correspondence)

97. "Down The River"

98. "Dragon"

99. "Finigan was Afraid"

100. "Finigan Was Not Hunting" (includes notes)

101. "Flying Fish" - "Sebastian Greenfield" (possibly published as "The Moment of the Flying Fish")

102. "Flying Scotsman"

103. "Great Salmon" (includes notes)

104. "Highland Games"

105. "Ill Wind"

106. "Julia Jones" (includes notes)

107. "Kidnap"

108. "Kincaid" (includes notes and correspondence)

109. "Kincaid" (old carbon copies)

110. "Lovely Place"

111. "Lure" (possibly published as "The Secret of Loch Lure" or "Lady of Lure")

112. "Master of the Hill"

113. "McKinny"

114. "Mr. Butter's Ocean Crossing"

115. "My India" (includes correspondence)

116. "Neither Love Nor Freedom"

117. "New and Old" (notes only)

118. "Now, Take John Peploe"

119. "Old Ganderadam"

120. "Orville Palk"

121. "Peter"

122. "Piper's Rock"

123. "Red Herring" (includes notes)

124. "Reekie" (possibly published as "Giant of the Reekie")

125. "Sea Change"

126. "Shine" (possibly published as "So Let Us Shine")

127. "Smuggling"

128. "Star Performance"

129. "The Rabbit"

130. "The Rocket"

131. "The Sandcastle"

132. "The Silk Cotton Tree "

133. "Tiger Tim"

134. "Tiger William" (includes notes)

135. "Uncle Will" (includes notes)

136. "Wait You, John McRae"

137. "WHAUP" (2 drafts)

138. "You Had The Power"

BOX NO. 5

139. Untitled short story

140. Untitled short story

141. Untitled short story

142. Notes and drafts of stories 1/5

143. Notes and drafts of stories 2/5

144. Notes and drafts of stories (includes "possibilities for 2 or 3 novels.") 3/5

145. Notes and drafts of stories ("keep") 4/5

146. Notes and drafts of stories (miscellaneous material) 5/5

147. Notes for future stories

148. Notes for future stories

149. Notes for future stories

150. Untitled Indian serial (draft for first part)

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