Correspondence
Raymond Knister was embedded in the literary and arts community of Toronto and kept in close contact with well-known authors from the time including, E. J. Pratt, Mazo de la Roche, Morley Callaghan and Wilson Macdonald. Find letters sent by Morley Callaghan to Knister, and one letter sent from Knister to E.F., an unknown frequent correspondent, in the pages linked above.
Raymond Knister as a young man, ca. early 1920s.
“Bertram Brooker, in a letter to Margaret Ray, Librarian at the Victoria University Library, Toronto, in 1949, said,....‘His eagerness to know what other writers were doing and his encouraging and instructive comments on their work were indicative of a generous attitude toward competitors which unfortunately is all too rare. While it was obvious that he had read widely and was alert to current trends, his conversation was free of sophistication and artiness, being redolent rather of earth and growth and weather and simple souls.’”
From Afterword, by Imogen Knister Givens, in Windfalls for Cider...The Poems of Raymond Knister. (Windsor: Black Moss Press, 1983, page 80)