Steele Collection MS 2008.1.1.1.3.12.3
Title
Steele Collection MS 2008.1.1.1.3.12.3
Subject
memoir, Sam Steele
Description
Letter from Steele to Irving
Source
Steele Collection
Date
13 January 1911
Original Format
Letter
Text
Transcription of a passage from the letter
I am writing a book of reminiscences and would like to know if you can give any pointers about the strike in the mountains. A friend of mine has stated that James Ross turned out with a lot of men and an engine to go to our assistance at the barracks but I have recollection [written across this section of the letter is “This is not correct” in pencil and “not correct” in ink] except that after we had captured Hugh Behan I sent for a locomotive to take him up to Palliser [written next to this passage is “This is correct” in pencil]
Last page is written in pencil most likely by Irving.
I have taken a novel way of answering but I think a safe way--It keeps the matter wel [sic] in hand & condensed.
I am writing a book of reminiscences and would like to know if you can give any pointers about the strike in the mountains. A friend of mine has stated that James Ross turned out with a lot of men and an engine to go to our assistance at the barracks but I have recollection [written across this section of the letter is “This is not correct” in pencil and “not correct” in ink] except that after we had captured Hugh Behan I sent for a locomotive to take him up to Palliser [written next to this passage is “This is correct” in pencil]
Last page is written in pencil most likely by Irving.
I have taken a novel way of answering but I think a safe way--It keeps the matter wel [sic] in hand & condensed.
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Citation
“Steele Collection MS 2008.1.1.1.3.12.3,” Bruce Peel Special Collections Library Online Exhibits, accessed October 18, 2026, https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/items/show/2483.