Correspondence includes letters from General H.D.G. Crerar, the Secretary to King George VI, Norman Robertson, W.L. Mackenzie King, the Assistant Secretary to the Governor-General, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ian A. Mackenzie, James Forestall, Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
The portion of Albert Schwenger's collection housed at Queen's University Archives is divided into two manuscript series. The first series consists of documents related to the Milne and MacKay families. The papers originate with Captain William Milne who settled in Ancaster where his daughter Anna Maria married into the MacKay family in the 1820's. His correspondence comments of trade conditions, relations in the native community after the Treaty of Greenville and European wars. Of particular note is a letter of introduction for Captain Milne written in Turkish from 1799. The second series consists of unrelated historical documents primarily from the Niagara area, but includes one British document.
Collection consists of two albums compiled by unidentified numbers of the 21st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force overseas, World War I. Includes group and individual pictures; also Queen's University YMCA; Royal Military College; Belleville, Ont.; Thomasburg, Ont.; Kingston scenes; England; Egypt with Queen's Stationary Hospital and Australian hospital; baseball games.
Ontario's first township: John Collins' survey of October 27, 1783, of a six mile square township in the Province of Quebec near the ancient Fort Frontenac, now part of the City and Township of Kingston, Ontario; plan showing Collins' survey.
Material relating to Lynnwood Farnam. Includes list of his recitals at the Church of the Holy Communion, New York City, 1920-1930; Farnam's notebooks, correspondence relating to Farnam and a biography sketch of Farnam.
This collection consists of an assortment of notes, jottings, and letters found within a number of books from the Watt Collection which is held in the Special Collections Unit, Stauffer Library, Queen's University at Kingston.
This collection consists of a scrapbook entitled "Scraps", containing correspondence, clippings, pamphlets, speeches, 'Certificate of Incorporation' relating to 'The American Party' and tracts relating to William Sulzer.