The fonds consists of both textual and microfilmed material relating to Baron John Buchan's personal life and career as Governor General of Canada The textual material includes correspondence, speeches (general and political), writings (published and unpublished), subject files, scrapbooks, press clippings, and photographs. The microfilmed material includes correspondence with Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936-1940, and one letter from Roosevelt to Lady Tweedsmuir, 1941 Apr. 16 and the original manuscript for "Sick Heart River" which is housed in Special Collections, Queen's University Library.
Fonds consists of submissions and transcripts of interviews, received as a result of a request for stories, anecdotes, memories, and photographs, pertaining to William Allen ('Dollar Bill'); a compact disc of songs by the folk group 'Tanglefoot', including one track entitled 'Dollar Bill'.
Fonds consists of correspondence home to his wife, describing the travels and adventures of Robert Harkness, as he crossed the continent as an Overlander.
Fonds consists of planning documents, correspondence, minutes, reports, promotional kits, and other material relating to various fundraising inititiatives such as 'Q Appeal', Donald Gordon Centre, John Deutsch Centre, the 'Capital Appeal' campaigns; copies of "In Production", a promotional brochure relating to the 'Creation of a Chair in Film Studies' within the Department of Film Studies at Queen's University; records pertaining to the Leonard Brockington Memorial Concert Organ (formerly the Odeon Carlton Theatre Organ; endowment campaign scrapbooks 1926, 1927 and 1949 .
The fonds consists of a ledger for the Kingston branch of the Knights of Labor (Local Assembly No. 553). The ledger was later used as a scrapbook, and has many pages pasted over with news clippings.
The fonds consists of correspondence, receipts, clippings and ephemera of F. Murray Macfarland, Janet Allen Macfarland, John F. Macfarland and Maxwell Theodore Macfarland. Includes a Queen's Student's Handbook 1916-1917, an alumni list for the Winnipeg Branch (1953), and a Veteran's list of Queen's students and Alumni who fought in the Second World War.
The volume is the original handwritten notebook of Sir Francis Moore reporting cases heard in the King's Bench from 1485 to 1617. The manuscript is in French, and was eventually published in 1663 as "Cases Collect & Reported per Sir Fra. Moore, Chivalier".
