The fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts and prepublication mock-ups relating to the various publications of Dr. Watters. The largest part of the correspondence relates to the British Columbia Anthology.
Letter to his sister (1870) about the capture of Fort Garry from Louis Riel during the Red River Rebellion. Diary, 1865, describing a hunting trip to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
The South Carolina collection consists of two parts: Part 1: the Papers of James Henry Hammond, and Part 2, Miscellaneous Collections of Personal and Family Papers. James Henry Hammond (1807-1864) was a statesman and plantation owner in South Carolina. He served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, and was Governor of South Carolina from from 1840 to 1842. The papers reflect his role as both statesman and planter, including records pertaining to agriculture, education, family life, the practice of law, politics and slave management.The Miscellaneous collections of Personal and Family papers includes: Samuel Porcher Gaillard Plantation journals; John Forsythe Talbert Plantation journals; a Caleb Coker Plantation book; James Trezevant Plantation diary and records; Glover family papers;a James Talbert Ouzts Plantation book; a David Milling Plantation book; John Ogilvie Medical Account books; a diary from Natalie DeLage Sumter; the papers of Mary Hart Means; Thomas family diaries; the papers of James Ritchie Sparkman; the John Stapleton papers; Thomas Cassells Law papers; John McPherson DeSaussure papers; Lewis Malone Ayer papers; the Read-Lance family papers; the Heyward family papers; John Ewing Colhoun papers; the Miller-Furman-Dabbs family papers; and the Hammond-Bryan-Cumming family papers.
The fonds consists of correspondence and business papers of the Rankin family : Andrew Rankin, carter; his sons Charles, a carpenter and James W., a tinsmith; and his wife Mrs.Ann Jane Rankin. The papers include business records with such local firms as Anglin, Sowards, Robertson, Livingston, Cartwright, Cunningham, Isaac Newlands, Simmons, Rathbun, McKelvey and Birch, Dalton and Strange; a number of lawyers including John A. Macdonald, Kirkpatrick and Rogers, Britton and Whiting; and a number of doctors.
The fonds consists of correspondence and material relating to Canadian civil liberties, specifically the Civil Liberties Association of Manitoba. Includes letters from A.R.M. Lower, James G. Gardiner, R.J. Manion and Charles J. Power.
Includes articles, a history of the Department of Mathematics with reference to the Faculty of Applied Science, a list of Professor Jeffrey's publications and an obituary.
Fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, subject files, news clippings, tape recordings, galley proofs, a relatively complete bibliography of his work, a videocassette copy of "Rare 'Home Movies'" originally shot in the 1940's and 1950s, and photographs. Included are memorabilia and conference papers from Mr. Gustafson's career as a poet, critic, and scholar.