Scrapbook contains original poems and drawings related to Kingston about 1840-1846. There is a coloured lithograph of St. George's Cathedral after its renovations in 1846, drawings and watercolours of other Kingston scenes.
Fonds consists of correspondence, articles, diaries, subject files, news clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, manuscript notes, notebooks, cartoons, watercolours, and medals. Adam Shortt's involvement with Queen's University, his work as Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, his work as first Chairman of the Board of Historical Publications of the Public Archives, his active career as a public speaker, and his creative output are all reflected in the papers. There is also a large series of autographs that Shortt collected over the course of his life.
The fonds consists of correspondence and writings and includes his unpublished biography of W.L. Mackenzie King. Correspondents include John Diefenbaker, Arthur Meighen, Senator Paul Martin and Dr. Wilder Penfield.
Two scrapbooks; one bound in purple with gold lettering and inscribed on the first page. The 100 pages of this album have been numbered by machine, The other volume is bound in green and black with gold lettering andsome of its pages have been numbered by hand. Both books contain news clippings on matters concerning medicine, women's rights, spiritualism and political personages.
