The fonds consists of photocopies of correspondence and memoranda between Pearson and Grant Dexter, 1936-1941. These photocopies were received from L.B Pearson himself as a thank-you for providing him with information from Grant Dexter's records for his Memoirs. Pearson thought the provided photocopies from his own records would provide some interesting additional information to Queen's Archives holdings. There is also a reading copy of first Brockington visitor lecture at Queen's University (1969), a biography of Lester B. Pearson (1967), and a commemerative newspaper clippings folio about Pearson.
Items include a promissory note for one dollar, payable by the Independent Hungarian Government, issued 2 Feb. 1852, as well as a letter explaining the note from Charles Stone, 1956.
Item is a typewritten copy of a letter sent to G.Y. Chown, Secretary of the Queen's University Board of Trustees, from A.L. Clark relating to the encroachment of applied science on pure science.
Letter from Francis Willock, who resided near Lindsay, describing to his mother-in-law, Mrs. Gray of Perth, the death of his wife, her daughter, Margaret, shortly after the still-birth of their twelfth child.
