Don Messer

Correspondence and other material

1920s-1973

2 m of textual records and other material

Series forms part of the Don Messer fonds and consists of correspondence, legal papers such as contracts and royalty agreements, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, periodicals, program notes, ephemera such as programs, posters and flyers, and a copy of the 1971 National Film Board documentary on Don Messer's Jubilee. Correspondence consists of incoming and copies of outgoing correspondence from 1944-1973 and includes letters to and from record companies, broadcasters, music publishers, fellow musicians and fans. Scrapbooks include photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, musical programs and other ephemera concerning Messer's career. Series also includes the thirty-five foot long telegram/petition with over thirteen hundred names protesting the cancellation of Don Messer's Jubilee.

Notes

Physical description:
Also includes 9 posters and 3 reels of 16 mm cinefilm (69 mins).

Finding aids:
File list available.

Related groups of records within the same fonds:
Correspondence and program notes are also found in the Musical scores written, annotated and accumulated by Messer series.