Correspondence, including letters to and from Pelham Edgar and E.J. Pratt; diaries of life in Kirkfield, Ont. (1898-1902), High River, Alta. (1914), and Victoria, B.C. (1914-1946, intermittent); manuscripts of articles, short stories and poetry; papers re activities in the Victoria and Islands Branch of the Canadian Authors' Association and the Victoria Natural History Society. M. Eugenie Perry was born in Kirkfield, Ontario, in 1880 or 1881 (she was 77 at the time of her death in 1958). She lived with her family in Dauphin, Manitoba, Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, and High River, Alberta, before moving to Victoria in 1916. She continued to live in Victoria until her death. Miss Perry was a writer and poet who published articles, short stories and poems in British, American and Canadian magazines as well as several volumes of poetry and one of short stories. The collection consists of correspondence (boxes 1 to 5), papers collected in connection with Miss Perry's involvement with the Victoria and Island Branch of the Canadian Authors' Association and the Victoria Natural History Society (box 6), diaries (box 7), scrapbooks (box 8), notebooks and clippings of reviews (box 9), poetry, family papers, articles, plays, typescripts and manuscripts (boxes 10 to 15). The correspondence in and out has been arranged chronologically with the exception of correspondence with E.J. Pratt and Pelham Edgar which is filed under those writers names. Source: MS Finding Aids Finding aid: file list.