The fonds primarily consists of notes for Calvin's book, 'Queen's University at Kingston.' Also included are two letters, one in 1935 regarding the death of William Lawson Grant, and a second in 1948 regarding his book 'John MacNaughton - Essays and Addresses.'
Fonds consists of professional papers relating to his career as a teacher and research physicist and includes correspondence; lecture notes; subject files; and a copy of his "Report on a Visit to the General Electric Co. Reserach Laboratory, Schenectady, New York, May 1950", in relation to the establishment of a Synchrotron Lab, under the auspices of the Department of Physics, at Queen's University at Kingston.
This fonds consists of minutes from Departmental meetings; subject files; correspondence regarding the Institute of Public Administration Conference at Queen's in 1958; and photographs from a summer social event.
