The fonds consists of correspondence and miscellaneous cards. The letters are all personal, family letters the bulk of which are from friends and family members serving overseas in the Canadian forces, and in Queen's University Contingents, 1914-1918. Of particular interest are letters sent to Etta Newlands from "Harvey" and Sarah, young nursing sisters serving in Europe during the war at the No. 7 Canadian General Hospital in France, Salonica and Basingstoke. Part of the correspondence has to do with church and professional activities.
The fonds consists of correspondence, draft of memoirs, speeches and articles on Canadian education, 1961-1968, and files relating to the Canada Council, the amendment of the British North America Act and the Institue for Research in Public Policy.
The fonds consists of correspondence and other papers of three generations of the Craine family from Smiths Falls, Ont. including John Joseph Craine, painter, and Agnes Douglas Craine, M.D.
Family letters of Mrs. Menoah Cronk, Parham. Includes letters from her son, G.S. Cronk (at Queen's University), W.A. Cronk, miner, in northern Ont. (Sudbury district), Sampson and Lawson Cronk. Also includes souvenir postcards and bills of sale.
This collection consists of James A. Eadie's entry in the 'Dictionary of Canadian Biography' on John Stevenson; articles relating to the Rathbun Company, Deseronto, Ontario; essays on Deseronto and the Rathbun Company, written by T.David Martin; slides of Rathbun family portraits, company building and employees with explanatory notes; essay by W.C. Blabe on Deseronto.
Book of extracts from various sources including student notes from the University of Edinburgh 1821-25 session. Notes on home remedies, transcribed poems and manuscript sermons. Essay on taste, notes on the history of the Greeks.