[Hume Polytechnic Library — accession card for the MacLean galley book. Standard library form HPL-AC-3, buff card stock, 5 × 8 inches, ruled. The form's printed fields are filled in black pen in a neat clerk's hand; later pencil amendments in two further hands. The card is kept in the third drawer of the catalogue cabinet, eastern bay, behind a typed index slip reading MacLEAN, M. — galley book, S.S. Iphigenia — RESTRICTED.]
ACCESSION No. 1919-A-04417
- Date of deposit: 14 March 1919.
- Deposited by: Mrs. Catriona MacLean, of 14 Inglis Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- Item: One octavo notebook, canvas-bound, ninety-six pages ruled; twenty-two pages written, the remainder blank. Last written page broken mid-line. Ink: black, throughout, by a single hand. Pencil endorsements on inside back cover by a second hand. No title page; no flyleaf inscription.
- Provenance (stated by depositor): the private galley book of my sister Mary MacLean, head cook, S.S. Iphigenia, lost 7 November 1912. Recovered from the wreck on the Canadian side in May 1914 by a private party not named by the depositor. Deposited at this Library by mail, with one covering letter (filed: HPL/MS/1919/04417/a).
- Restrictions: Reading-room only. No circulation. No reproduction without the depositor's written consent. The letter from the depositor enjoins the Library to take no further inquiry as to the recovery agent's identity.
- Acquisitions clerk: Margery Vanstone (Miss).
- Head Librarian (countersign): Dr. P. R. Hargrave, Hon. Curator.
[In the margin, pencil, in Miss Vanstone's hand, undated:]
Depositor's letter is brief. She writes that the book is for safe keeping, the time being not yet right. She does not say what time. Filed accordingly. Item to the unindexed shelf, third bay west, where it will be looked for by no one. — M.V.
[Beneath the above, in a different pencil, later, in another hand:]
Card recopied 1923 (original damp-stained). Item re-shelved per Dr. Hargrave's instruction to the catalogued reading-room cabinet, eastern bay; entered in the supplementary catalogue; finding-aid prepared in anticipation of the Tanner Collection's 1923 addendum. The depositor's standing letter has been re-filed with the item. — Mrs. H. Calder (asst.).
[Clipped to the verso of the card with a brass paper-clip, a small slip of foolscap in Dr. Hargrave's hand, undated, initialled in the lower right:]
Approved for the eastern bay. The time is now closer. — P.R.H.
[Below Dr. Hargrave's slip, a smaller note pinned in pencil by Mrs. Calder:]
Dr. Hargrave's standing instruction (verbal, recorded by me at his direction the same afternoon): the book is to be produced on request to any reader who can name the ship and the cook together, without prompting from the catalogue. Such readers are to be entered in the supplementary register, no further questions. The first entry stands: Miss S. Pellman of the Beacon, 21 June 1923. No second entry to date. — H.C.