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This file focusses on correspondence between author Germaine Grignon Guèvremont and members of her family.

When she was a student at Loretto Abbey in Toronto, Germaine sent her mother, Valentine Labelle, in Sainte-Scholastique, a postcard dated September 21, 1908. In it, she asks for news about the family and informs her mother that she is feeling less homesick and likes her new teacher.

Many years later, two letters from the author to her daughter Marthe document a family trip to the United States. Dated July 22, 1964, the first letter explains that she has had trouble finding a suitable place to stay and provides a temporary address in Old Orchard. She also shares her state of mind: "It isn't easy to write here and I'm just getting used to being around other people." She goes on to mention visits from Jeanne and Germaine (probably her nieces), and the presence of Louise and Sat (probably her daughter Louise Guèvremont and her husband, Saturno Gentiletti), along with Lauretta and Eliza's "handsome Irmo." In her second letter, sent from Old Orchard on July 29, 1964, the author confirms that she has finally found a cottage near the ocean that is clean and big enough, and tells her daughter how to get there, since she is scheduled to join them. She also notes that she is glad that Marthe has visited the cemetery, following the recent death of her father, Hyacinthe Guèvremont (Germaine Grignon Guèvremont's husband), on July 7, 1964.

In addition, the file includes two postcards that Germaine Grignon Guèvremont sent from Florida in December 1966 to her niece Jeanne Dawson and her husband, Gordon Dawson, along with two undated greeting cards, one of which is signed "Aunt Germaine." The other card, which was probably sent to (unnamed) family members, refers to the fact that she is recovering from a recent illness.

Finally, the file is completed by an invitation to the University of Ottawa Convocation of May 29, 1960, addressed to her daughter Marcelle Guèvremont at 1010 Sherbrooke Street East, Montreal.