This collection includes several multi-volume editions, including all books published by the Mark Twain Project at the Uvneristy of California Berkeley and all of the manuscript facsimile editions. Also included are secondary works on Twain, as well as a substantial selection of ephemera, prints and film adaptations, and audio materials.
Books from this donation were made into the Mark Twain Book collection.
Reverend Canon Donald D. Fraser was born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in the Bay Area. He graduated St. Mary's High School in Berkeley and served in the United States Air Force from 1963 to 1967. During this time he participated in two tours of duty in Vietnam. Canon Fraser entered St. Patrick's Seminary, Menlo Park, and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Boise, Idaho in 1974. Since 1997, he had served as Pastor of Our Lady of the Lake parish in McCall, Idaho. As of 2012, Canon Fraser had retired from active ministry.
In 2012, Canon Fraser donated his massive collection on Mark Twain to the University of Idaho Special Collections and Archives. The university held an honoring ceremony on October 16, 2012 at the University of Idaho Boise campus. In addition to his speech, Lynn N. Baird, Dean of Library Services at the time, as well as Ruthie Nellis and Katherine G. Aiken spoke during the service. After the initial donation, Canon Fraser continued to donate items which grew the collection to it's current size.
Folders are arranged in alphabetical order.
Collection is open for research.
Donald D. Fraser donated his massive collection on Mark Twain to the University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department in 2012.
[Description of Item], Donald D. Fraser collection, MG 509, Special Collections and Archives, University of Idaho Library, Moscow, Idaho.