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The collection consists of literary news clippings on many of Canada's best-known writers including M. Barbeau, Rupert Brooke, L. Burpee, W.W. Campbell, B. Carman, Mazo de la Roche, Merrill Denison, W.H. Drummond, Sir S. Flemming, F.P. Grove, T. Haliburton, E.J. Hathaway, A Jameson, Pauline Johnson, W. Kirby, R. Knister, S. Leacock, N. McClung, J. McRae, W. Macdonald, T.D. McGee, A.M. Machar, Charles Mair, L.M. Montgomery, M. Pickthall, Sir J. Pope, E.J. Pratt, C.G.D. Roberts, M. Saunders, D.C. Scott, R. Service, G. Smith, A. Stringer

The collection consists of licenses to marry without publication of bans, marriage certificates and affidavits of marriage, 1804-1881. Also includes marriage licenses issued by government in Kingston, 1841-1842.

The collection consists of a scrapbook containing news clippings relating to the British Royal Family, poetry, American political events, religious matters, famous buildings, with a few items relating to the history of Kingston, local buildings and Sir John A. Macdonald. The clippings were pasted in a ledger regarding Great Lakes Shipping.

The collection consists of scrapbooks containing news clippings about sensational murders.

Cemetery records of the Hutchings Cemetery, the St. Mary's Cemetery, the Anglican Church Cemetery, the Tett Cemetery, the United Church Cemetery and the Presbyterian Cemetery. There is an index for each cemetery.

The fonds consists of scrapbooks created by an unknown individual in honour of various Canadian Anglican Primates.

The collection consists of land registry copy books for the counties of Frontenac, 1797-1956 and Leeds, 1797-1955, as well as a number of miscellaneous registers from the registry offices. The Leeds County material includes Grenville County up until 1822. The majority of the books contain copies of deeds, mortagages, quit claims, wills (concerning property) and powers of attorney.

This collection is comprised of papers related to Sir Francis Bond Head. Sir Francis Bond Head (1793-1875) was an English soldier, traveller and author born to James Roper Head of Kent. He was a soldier from 1811-1825 and even served in the campaign of 1815, present at the Battle of Waterloo. He was knighted in 1835 and created a Baronet in the following year. In 1835, he was appointed the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, and had to deal with the rebellion of 1837 led by William Lyon Mackenzie. In response to the rebellion, Britain replaced Bond Head with Lord Durham as Lieutenant-Governor. Bond Head returned to England and never held any office for the rest of his life. Thereafter, he devoted himself to writing, chiefly for the Quarterly Review. Includes: certificate indicating that Head had visited Niagara Falls in1836, and photograph of Head at age of 80.

Chapman's science notebook, with notes and drawings by Myrtle Goodfellow.

The collection consists of material relating to Mary Macdonald, daughter of Sir John A. Macdonald, 1911-1988. Includes an autograph album, photograph of Mary Macdonald, issue of the Times containing the death of Lady Macdonald, September 7, 1920 and notes by Margaret Cohoe. Typescript of A Trilogy: I. Mary Macdonald. II. Sarah Hannah Coward (Mrs. Charles Clarke) and III. St. Aubyns, Hove. Also includes a photograph of Mary Macdonald (1929).