Item 0052 - Letter, Toronto, to Lorne Pierce, Toronto.

Thomas Guthrie Marquis (1864-1936), author and editor, was born in Chatham, New Brunswick on 4 July 1864. He graduated from Queen's University, Kingston in 1889 with a B.A. and taught school until 1901. He became a free-lance journalist, writer of history and historical biographies and an editor. He edited Builders of Canada from Cartier to Laurier (Toronto 1903) and collaborated with Agnes Maule Machar in Stories of New France (1890). As T.G.M., Mr. Marquis was a well known reviewer of books for Saturday Night and The Canadian Bookman. He died in Toronto 1 April 1936, survived by his wife Alice.