The fonds consists of microfilm reels of material drawn together from the extant manuscripts and papers in Britain of Thomas Hardy. It contains most of the manuscripts in the Thomas Hardy Memorial Collection held by the Dorset County Museum and further manuscripts from the British Museum, Aberdeen University, Queens College, Oxford University College, Dublin, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Birmingham Museum and the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle. It represents a comprehensive collection of the original manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of the novels, dramatisations, short stories, essays, poems, biographies and personal papers of the Dorset novelist and poet including The Woodlanders, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Trumpet Major and Jude the Obscure.
Fonds consists of manuscripts of his published and unpublished works and some lecture notes and texts. There is biographical information, chiefly from obituaries; a small amount of correspondence from Marquis and also from his wife, Alice, who wished to have some of her late husband's work published, as well as undertaking to have his library sold.
This fonds consists of correspondence with Elizabeth Shortt, and Eldon M. Boyd; biographical material; articles, including 'A Short Account of the Kingston General Hospital' (1935); and a typescript of 'The Litchfield Saga' (1940); excerpts from the Minutes of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Kingston, and the Queen's University Medical Faculty; medical lecture attendance cards (1872 - 1891); prints of well-known 16th, 18th, and 19th century physicans including John Bostock Jnr., Richard Brocklesby, Girolamo Cardano, William Cullen, John Huxham, Edward Jenner, John Coakley Lettsom, Joseph Lister, and Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahnemann.
The fonds consists of correspondence and scrapbooks relating to political and business activities, campaign files documenting the many elections he took part in as candidate and member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and of the House of Commons for Kingston, photographs and subject files. Includes photographs of the military and life in the trenches during World War I.
The fonds consists of correspondence, subject files, press clippings and pamphlets which document all phases of Senator Crerar's varied adult career. An audio disc of a speech by Arthur Meighen of 'the greatest Englishman of History' is also included.
