The fonds is comprised of family papers. Mrs. Pierce gathered together correspondence and memorabilia of the whole family and have been arranged into the following series: correspondence (1909-1955); diary; research notes and memoranda; photographs; news clippings; and miscellaneous.
Fonds consists of letters, with typescript copies, received from student "pen pals" living in Holland and Germany, following World War Two, and a German POW who had been interred in Lethbridge, Alberta.
The fonds consists of a limited number of business receipts, accounts and holdings of Ebenezar and Simeon Washburn. Includes receipts for shares purchased in three Steamers being built in the Kingston area: Comodore Barrie, Sir James Kempt and one an unnamed Steamer being undertaken by Calvin of Garden island in 1842.
Fonds consists of correspondence, photographs, and notes concerning the 50th, 52nd, 53rd Batteries C.F.A., C.E.F., their activities during World War I and the Association formed after the War. Also includes comments on the opening of the Queen's University overseas record, 1914-1917, a manuscript, and an Arts '12 Yearbook containing autograph notes and comments, clippings, obituaries pertaining to fellow students and their professors while at Queen's University, and throughout their lives.