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Contents include excerpts pertaining to winter taken from nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century diaries and letters. Also included are images of photographs and Christmas cards from the same era.

Contents include World War I Christmas letters from men and women serving overseas to their families in the Peterborough area.

Contents include images of our newly acquired Susanna Moodie paintings. Also included is information about our new Disaster Preparedness and Response Plan prepared this spring by Fleming College's Collections Conservation and Management class. And, highlighted from our holdings is an image of an Indigenous woman at nearby Rice Lake painted in 1860 presumably by Colonel Robert Brown of the Royal Scotch Fusiliers.

This issue acknowledges the support and friendship of bibliophile Hugh Anson-Cartwright. For more than forty-five years, Anson-Cartwright has had the interests of Bata Library and Trent University Archives at heart and has made many contributions to our holdings. We also include a description of an important new acquisition of print Canadiana, a bound volume of nineteenth-century pamphlets related to Louis Riel and the North-west Rebellion of 1885.

Contents include images of title pages of first edition books from The Michael Treadwell Special Collections and Rare Books Room. Included among others are title page images of Mark Twain's 1872 edition of Bleak House, and William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero.

Contents include a focus on gardening featuring Sheila Boyd, Frank Morris, Kittie Revell Peck, and Catharine Parr Traill.

Contents include some Christmas cards from the Boyd Collection. We also featured a Christmas dinner which Helen Fowlds and other nursing sisters served to soldiers serving in France in 1915.

Curator/Librarian Janice Millard has retired after 41 years of service at Trent University. We wish her a happy retirement! This issue of Archives News includes an overview of the history of the Trent University Art Collection over the past 50 years.

Trent University Archives is the depository for the records of the Ontario Camping Association. This issue of Archives News focuses on the papers and their long relationship with the University. The Trent Treasures column highlights Walt Whitman's masterpiece, Leaves of Grass, many editions of which are located in Special Collections.

Canadian Studies is the focus of this issue of Archives News, a timely topic, given the upcoming international "Contesting Canada's Future" conference, to be held at Trent in May. Our Trent Treasures column reflects on the Great Depression in Canada and the responses to the social injustices of that period. Also, Doors Open Peterborough 2015 will be held entirely at Trent, also in May, and the Archives is a host site; details are available in the newsletter.