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Harvey Burt Papers
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Arthur Harvey Burt, born in 1920, and wife Dorothy were part-time neighbours of the Lowrys at Dollarton. Burt was a schoolteacher, and he and Dorothy stayed at their Dollarton shack on weekends and in the summer months. They met and became close friends with the Lowrys in the early 1950s, frequently spending their Dollarton excursions in their company. By the time the Lowrys relocated to England in 1954, the couples were close enough that Burt was entrusted with the Lowrys’ shack, the boat with it, and the papers and books left inside. Burt would later donate many of the books to the UBC Library (the bulk of the Malcolm Lowry Personal Library Collection).
Burt was active with the North Shore Historical Society and a font of anecdotal information on Lowry and Margerie much sought after by Lowry scholars. Burt and Dorothy lived in Deep Cove, North Vancouver, until Burt’s death in 2003.
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The sous-fonds consists of correspondence between the Lowrys and the Burts, the majority of which is from the 1950s and early 1970s, and audio-visual records of CBC programs, interviews, and celebration concert about Lowry and his works. This material is mostly from the early 1990s and 2000. Also included in the sous-fonds is Burt’s copy of Under the Volcano and notes regarding Under the Volcano in Lowry’s handwriting.
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The contents of files 05-19 through 05-23 have been moved to Photograph Boxes 3, 4, and 7. Descriptions are in the Photographs sous-fonds' Harvey Burt Photographs series.
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Some files in the Harvey Burt Papers will only be circulated one at a time. Circulation restriction is indicated in the series and file level description.
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9.25 cm textual records, 4 videocassettes, 1 CD-R, 5 cassettes, 4 audio tape reels