The collection is comprised of sixty letters written during the years of 1843 to 1872 to George Copeman in England.Fifty-three are original letters, four are copies of the originals which are housed in the Dr. Albert E Senkler, (EJS’s son) collection at the Minnesota Historical Museum in St Paul, and three that were transcribed by hand by his grandson Edmund J Reynolds ( EJR) but the whereabouts of the originals is no longer known.
Transcriptions of the original letters are also available and appear to have been transcribed by EJR, perhaps in the 1920s.
The journal/commonplace book contains roughly 40 pages. There appear to be pages which have been cut out, and material has been pasted in. The content is varied and the book seems to have been used and reused at different points in Stretton's travels as there is a mix of European drawings with those of Canada. There are eight documentary pen and ink watercolours depicting Canadian content: "Carioling on the St. Lawrence" (1823); "Canadian Marche donc Cariole"; "Colonel Frobishers Cariole"; "Islands of Ice off the Banks of Newfoundland, June 7th and 10th, 1818"; "Falls of the Chaudiere near Quebec, Canada" (1824); "Pageantry (French-Canadian) Aug 14, 1823"; and, "A Quebec Indian and Squaw" (1824). Also included is a copy of a hand drawn plan of Quebec (city) for 1824, and wash over pencil (graphite) drawings of: a cave scene at Quebec; a waterfall at Quebec; the Albany Barracks; Tintern Abbery, Wales; Stonehenge; and a few other drawings with non-Canadian content. There are snippets of recorded weather, a recipe for lavender water, clippings on various subjects (curling being one), and a rather lengthy report of the Halifax Sledge Club from 1843.
Scrapbook contains original poems and drawings related to Kingston about 1840-1846. There is a coloured lithograph of St. George's Cathedral after its renovations in 1846, drawings and watercolours of other Kingston scenes.
This collection consists of recordings of Robert W. Service reading a selection of his poetry, as recorded by Radio Station CFUN, Vancouver, British Columbia (1948); and at a Sourdough Convention in Vancouver, British Columbia (1953).
Collection consists of a photograph of "Honours Chemistry, Queen's University 1961"; various Queen's-related printed material inlcuding dance card for "Levana Midsummer-Night's Dream" (1961), Graduation Dinner programme (1961), Baccalaureate Service (1961), Housing Bureau list (1959), Arts Society information pamphlet (1959), "A Letter from the Principal" (1961); Snowball buttons (1960-1962); Kingston General Hospital School of Nursing Graduation programme (1960). It also includes a conference brochure (1960's) with a colourful hand-drawn campus map as its cover, and Ban Righ residence rules.
Fonds consists of eleven presentation drawings which were executed for the Board of Trustees by Shepard and Calvin of the proposed Queen's library 1915 (7 drawings) and campus plan 1920 (4 drawings).
