Classification scheme:
Hist. Mss. 1.112
Dates of creation: 1935-1968
Physical description: 17 cm. of textual records
Biographical sketch: Leslie R. Gray was a former President of the Ontario Historical Society. He and his wife, Elma, had Pennsylvania German roots, and carried on significant research on Mennonite and Pennsylvania German history. A particular interest was fraktur art. A manuscript, "The cultural background of the Pennsylvania German Mennonites in Ontario" is housed in the collection of the Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario. The first 21 chapters are by Mrs. Gray; the latter three chapters are by Leslie Gray. He was employed by Silverwoods Dairy in London, Ontario.
Custodial history: Donated by Leslie R. Gray, 1986
Scope and context: Offprints, research notes, correspondence, slides and photographs.
Notes: See also slides of Fraktur at Hist.Mss.10.4
For photographs related to Leslie R. Gray search Mennonite Archival Image Database.
Original archival description created 1990s by Sam Steiner.
File list:
Box 1
- Misc. copies of S'Pennsylfawnish Deitsch Eck, 1935-1968 (A Pennsylvania German column in the Allentown, Pennsylvania Morning Call)
Box 2
- Research notes, correspondence re: Fraktur
- Correspondence re: Elma Gray manuscript on Mennonites (See manuscript in Mennonite Historical Society collection at XV-30.10)
- Pamphlets and notes from Elma Gray's Research into Pennsylvania German Mennonite history.
- Misc. brochures and single copies of serials on Pennsylvania Germans