Fonds consists of correspondence from various authors, family members, and friends; diaries; notebooks; manuscripts, including "Dark Side of the Moon"; drafts of writings and reviews; watercolours. Most of the manuscript material is contained within a series of notebooks (1968-1976).
Fonds consists of correspondence, including letters home to his wife during his time overseas in WWII; sermons, extending over half a century as well as many dating from his time as a Navy Chaplin; writings; research notes and lectures, from his time at Queen's University as an educator; photographs; subject files, both personal and professonial; prayers; and diaries, dating from 1921 until 1984.
The fonds consists of correspondence regarding personal and business matters, drafts of articles, books and poems. Correspondents include John Masefield, Lorne Pierce, Edwin John Pratt, Sir Charles G.D. Roberts and Duncan Campbell Scott. It also includes records from Queen's University Department of English [1925-1947].
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of Canada The textual material includes correspondence, speeches (general and political), writings (published and unpublished), subject files, scrapbooks, press clippings, and photographs.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 .