Series contains material collected by Cheney about Canadian art and artists other than Emily Carr. It also contains records relating to her medical drawings and the publication of her letters with Humphrey Toms and Emily Carr. Series includes clippings, bulletins, brochures relating to art exhibitions in Vancouver, photographs, letters, memorabilia, drawings, and gallery catalogues.

The fonds consists of 71 holograph letters from Ethel Wilson to Cheney, as well as correspondence from Wallace Wilson, Mary [Dodds] and Dorothy McNair. There is also correspondence between Nan Cheney and various artists, including Emily Carr, between the years 1938 and 1984. Cheney's subject files on Canadian artists are included in the fonds, along with newspaper and periodical clippings, memorabilia, photographs and manuscripts.

Correspondence re: fundraising, compilation of the painting lists, publicaiton expenses, and administration of funds, 1986-1991.

Correspondence and memoranda from Cheney’s friends and family, 1985-1990
Clippings and notices, 1961-1986.

Correspondence and memoranda, wills of Cheney, Carr, and Ira Dilworth (photocopies).

Lists, photocopies, prints and transparencies.

Kay Cashmore’s memorandum and Victor Doray’s original Foreword for <em>Dear Nan</em>.

Clippings and printed material pertaining to art, galleries, and exhibitions in Canada. There is a folder relating to the Vancouver art Gallery (1941-1985) and a folder pertaining to the Museum of Anthropology at U.B.C.

Clippings and printed material pertaining to art galleries, and exhibitions in Canada. There is a folder relating to the Vancouver Art Gallery (1941-1985) and a folder pertaining to the Museum of Anthropology at U.B.C.

Correspondence, Incoming Letters:
Barbeau, Marius, 1962, 1966, 3 items
Binning, Jessie, n.d., 1 item
Brown, Eric, 1938-1939, 5 items
Crawley, Alan, 1973, 1 item
Emery, Tony, 1972, 1 item
Erickson, Arthur, n.d., 1 item
Graham, Colin, 1962, 1966, 3 items
Grigsby, A.S., 1944, 1 item
Harper, J. Russell, 1961, 2 items
Hills, Emily-Jane, 1979, 1 item
Hope-Smith, Page, 1984, 1 item
Jeffels, R.R., 1983, 1 item
Kerner, John, 1956, 1 item
Malkin, Peter, 1976, 2 items
McCurry, H.O., 1938-1939, 6 items
McGeer, Ada, ca. 1981, 1 item
Nye, Hermes, 1968, 2 items
Sawchuk, Peter, 1980, 1 item
Schleicher, Edythe Hembroff, n.d., 1 item
Scott, Duncan Campbell, 1946, 1 item
Smith, Gordon, n.d., 1 item
Smith, Russell, E., 1966, 2 items
Sparzani, Blackie Lee, 1974, 1 item
Stuart-Stubbs, Basil, 1978, 1 item
Tippett, Maria, 1978, 1 item
Toms, Humphrey, 1978, 1 item
Watt, Robert D., 1972, 1 item

Unidentified:
Margaret A., n.d., 1 item
Geoff, 1985, 1 item
Betty H., n.d., 1 item
Peg K., n.d., 1 item
Molly, 1971, 1 item

Newspaper clippings relating to his activities, 1976-1985, and 2 notices for exhibitions of his work.

Bulletins, brochures, announcements, and clippings relating to the activities of artists other than Emily Carr in Canada and to exhibitions of their work, 1937-1985.

Sub-series consists of incoming and outgoing material including several letters written by Cheney to Humphrey Toms and other letters written to or collected by Cheney.

Newspaper clippings pertaining to their activities as well as notices for exhibitions. Also included are the Association of Medical Illustrators Newsletter and a Biomedical Communications Annual Report, 1983-1984.

Outgoing letters to Nan Cheney. The file includes newspaper and periodical clippings pertaining to her work and activities (1944-1984) and announcements of her work and lectures.

Sub-series consists of clippings from newspapers and periodicals relating to Emily Carr’s activities and work.

Sub-series consists of clippings from newspapers and periodicals that relate to the activities of artists in Canada.

Series consists of letters and items by or about Emily Carr and letters exchanged between Cheney and Carr. Series includes memorabilia, unpublished manuscripts about Carr, exhibition catalogues, prints, slides, and clippings.

Maria Wishart (clippings) [photocopies]
Anna Zinkeisen (article in Studio, Apr. 1954, 114-115)

Clippings file, 1957-1981, 26 items.
Medical Illustration, 1957-1980
UBC personalities, 1965-1981

Included here are articles about Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher’s biography, the Emily Carr College of Art, the C.B.C. television documentary and the ballet Klee Wyck.

Antoniou, Sylvia to Toms, Humphrey, 1979-1980, 3 items
Henry, E.M. (Chartered Trust and Executor Company) to McCurry, H.O. (National Gallery of Canada), 1944, 2 items
Kraetschmer, Diana to Toms, Humphrey, 1979, 1 item
McCurry, H.O. to Henry, E.M., 1944, 1 item
Toms, Humphrey to Antoniou, Sylvia, 1980, 1 item

1 clipping pertaining to her work, a copy of her portrait of Dr. Sedgewick, 1949, and a photograph of one painting. The folder includes 2 letters from Jo Newton re: Lilias Newton, 1979-1980, as well as an obit appraisal, 1980.

Notice of exhibition, catalogue of drawings, and a letter from Jessie Binning to Nan Cheney, May 24, 1980.

Sub-series consists of incoming and outgoing material, some of which was exchanged between Emily Carr and Nan Cheney, some of which was collected by Cheney.

The photographs, negatives, and slides (the slides are duplicate images of the photos, with one or two exceptions) BC1849/1-86 are primarily images of Emily Carr and her artwork.

The slides BC1849/90-158 are primarily informal images taken by Cheney of her numerous Canadian artist friends, as well as slides portraying various U.B.C. dignitaries and other well-known Canadians. These date from 1951-1969 and include a section (numbered BC1849/149(a-f)-158) that is devoted to Dr.’s Ethel and Wallace Wilson.

Photographs numbered BC1849/159-200 are mainly photographs of Nan Cheney’s many friends and acquaintances, as well as photographs of art work, including her own. Also there is a series of photographs which record a sculpture show at U.B.C. in 1956 (BC1849/196a-1).

Sub-series consists of exhibition catalogues, a brochure, and an article.

De Fato, Elizabeth to Toms, Humphrey, 1979, 1 item
Toms, Humphrey to de Fato, Elizabeth, 1979, 1 item
Tyler, Patricia D. to Toms, Humphrey, 1979, 1 item
Varley, Christopher to Mrs. Cashmore, n.d., 1 item

Clippings pertaining to his activities. The folder includes articles in the magazines Home and Living, 1968, and The New Yorker, 1979, as well as the Royal Bank Award, 1971. There is a letter written by Myrtle Erickson to her son Don ca. 1947.

Correspondence, Incoming Letters relating to Emily Carr:
Antoniou, Sylvia (National Gallery of Canada), 1979, 1 item
Schleicher, Edythe Hembroff, 1978, 1 item
Scott, Andrew, 1979, 3 items. Enclosed with his letter are portions of Nan Cheney’s transcript about Emily Carr.
Shih, Hsio-Yen (National Gallery of Canada), 1979, 1 item
Toye, William (Oxford University Press), 1979, 1 item
Varley, Christopher (Edmonton Art Gallery), 1979, 1 item

Correspondence, Outgoing Letters:
Cheney, Nan to the Canadian Broadcasting Company, 1973, 1 item. Letter gives permission to use her material in a documentary film on Emily Carr.

Sub-series consists of incoming letters and envelopes from Ethel Wilson, Wallace Wilson, and Dorothy McNair to Cheney.

Sub-series consists of clippings from newspapers relating to Wilson’s activities.

Letters (6) from J.W.G. Macdonald to Nan Cheney, March 21, 1939 to June 27, 1974, relating to his painting. Letters (2) from R. Ann Pollock, National Gallery of Canada, to Cheney, 1969, pertaining to the loan of a Macdonald letter for research purposes.

Sub-series contains three unpublished manuscripts on Emily Carr.

“Emily Carr” by Ruth Humphrey, n.d., 8 pages
“Emily Carr Tribute” by Dr. G.G. Sedgwick on the March 9 national network 4:15-4:30pm, 1945
“Emily Carr: An Interpretation” by Jane Covernton, Honours Essay History 498 Simon Fraser University, 1973.

Newspaper and periodical clippings and postcards relating to his various activities and his career as an architect. The file also contains his convocation address for Simon Fraser University, May 26, 1973.

Burns, Flora, 1967, n.d., 2 items
Carr, Alice N., 1945, n.d., 2items
Sloan, David, 1972, 1 item
H., 1953, 12 item
Unidentified, n.d., 1 item.