Letter from Basil Johnston to Anna Porter (McClelland & Stewart), [1976], re manuscript
Description
Citation
McClelland & Stewart Ltd. fonds
Subject
Rights and Contributing Institution
Technical
Mrs. Anna Porter,
I submit this manuscript of stories of humourous incidents that have occurred among the Ojibway peoples for your assessment.
1. To my knowledge no attempt has been made to date to record and recount Indian humour.
2. All stories are based on actual incidents.
3. In some instances the names and places have been changed to avoid causing embarrassment.
4. The stories have not been arranged in any particular order.
5. Perhaps the stories are not exclusively Indian, hopefully they have a more universal appeal.
6. The stories submitted represent only a small portion of a large fund of stories that have amused the Ojibway people.
If the draft of the manuscript is not as clean in type as it ought to be, it is because I no longer have a secretary. A young lady has voluntarily done the typing. In any event, the content and themes are the important matters.
My thanks to you for agreeing to read the manuscript.
Yours truly,
Basil H Johnston
Related Information
Theme
Authorship
Case Study
'Dorothy Livesay and "Call My People Home" (with audio recording)'
Era
1918-1980
Contributor
Queen's University
Collection/Fonds
Lorne and Edith Pierce collection
Date
24 January 1949
Material Type
letter (typescript)