Scrapbooks contains news clippings relating to events and people in Bowmanville, photographs and minutes of the Bowmanville Mechanic Association and Library Association.
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.
Items are sound recordings of Sir Bernard Lovell's Brockington Lecture (9 Mar. 1970) and recordings of an informal discussion with students held 10 Mar. 1970.
Photocopied article contains short sketches of G.D. Liveing, W.J. Pope, Sir James Dewar, Dr. Ruhemann, Sir J.J. Thomson, Sir Eric Victor Appleton, Lord Rutherford of Nelson and Charles Thomas Heycock.
