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\"Norrie's_typewriter,_possibly\"<\/a><\/p>\n

For many years there\u2019s been a room at the Moncton Public Library called the Northrop Frye room.\u00a0 Various committees of the Frye Festival meet here on occasion, and we feel right at home.\u00a0 Outside the room is a display case containing copies of Frye\u2019s books.\u00a0 This August we\u2019ve added two items to the display: a clock and a typewriter that were originally the property of Frye\u2019s parents.\u00a0 We think it likely that this is the typewriter Frye used during his years at Aberdeen High School, in Moncton.\u00a0 As such, until proven otherwise, it has the look and feel of a relic of the saint (to borrow a phrase from Michael Dolzani).<\/p>\n

These items have survived and we have them on display at the library thanks to the care given them over the years by Earl Johnson, who as a young boy in the late 1930s was a next-door neighbour of the Fryes.\u00a0 The library display includes an information sheet explaining Earl\u2019s connection to the Fryes, which I\u2019ve included a copy below.<\/p>\n

Earl now lives in Middleton, Nova Scotia.\u00a0 I visited him at his house on July 16, 2010, and brought back the typewriter, the clock, and a set of 6 books, Henry Coppe\u00e9’s The Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three Thousand Years.\u00a0 By the Authors and Orators of All Countries<\/em>.\u00a0 The books were given to Earl\u2019s brother in 1940, with a note inside each book from Mrs. H.E. Frye.\u00a0 Cassie Frye died in November, 1940, and is buried in the Elmwood cemetery in Moncton.\u00a0 (The books will also eventually go into the display case.)<\/p>\n

Here is copy of the information sheet included with the library display:<\/p>\n

On Display is a Smith Premier Typewriter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Model No. 1, Manufactured in 1889<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Loan from Earl Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Next-door Neighbour of the Fryes<\/strong><\/p>\n

From ca. 1936 to 1943
\n<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Earl was born in 1933, when his family lived on Dominion Street in Moncton.\u00a0 Sometime in 1936 or 1937 the family moved to 22 Pine Street, next door to Herm and Cassie Frye, the parents of Northrop Frye.\u00a0 Around the time of Cassie\u2019s death in November, 1940, someone in the Frye household gave the typewriter, along with a clock and a set of books, to the Johnsons, hoping they would be put to better use.\u00a0 Eventually they came into Earl\u2019s possession, and he has kept them ever since, as a precious reminder of a long-ago time.\u00a0 It is possible that Northrop Frye used this typewriter during the 1920s, while a student at Moncton High School.\u00a0 Frye graduated in 1928 and that fall he studied at the Success Business College, improving his typing skills for possible future employment.\u00a0 He was so good that on April 8, 1929 he competed in a national typing contest in Toronto.\u00a0 On September 18, 1929 he left Moncton to study at the University of Toronto.\u00a0 Though Northrop visited Moncton several times in the late 1930s, Earl has no recollection of ever meeting him.<\/p>\n

After the jump, a photo of the clock.<\/p>\n

\"clock,_in_bookcase\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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