The fonds consists of correspondence, research notes, drafts, and files of source materials relating to Legends of the South Sea. The fonds also contains binders of biographical and subject material, correspondence, indexes, drafts, newsclippings and photographs relating to The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Also included are two sound recordings: an interview with Alpers about the Mansfield material; and an interview conducted by Alpers, recorded July 17, 1970, with Richard Murray discussing the early years of his life and his recollection of persons and events involving Katherine Mansfield as well as recollections of Katherine herself. As part of the Mansfield Archive, are three microfilm reels of material, one of which holds the Mansfield letters held at the British Museum.
The fonds consists of manuscript and research material relating to Dr. Riley's primary research interests of Alfred Döblin, Elisabeth Langgässer, Frederick Philip Grove and Thomas Mann, as well as correspondence sent and received by Riley. This fonds contains the following series: Correspondence (1904-2002), Lecture Notes (1938-1997), Research Notes (1919-1996), Writings (1903-2002), Personal & University Business (1945-2003), and Sound Recordings ([ca. 1980]-2002).
Fonds consists of correspondence; manuscripts and typescripts; publications; abstracts; subject files; research notes; personal affects; diplomas and certificates; photographs; and oral history recordings relating to Dr. Travill's research activities concerning the study of Medicine; copy of James E. Fraser's "History of Medicine '17 - Term 1915-16". In large part, the material specifically relates to the history of the Queen's Faculty of Medicine, the development of Medicine in the Kingston area, and the medical personalities involved with this development.
Items include two prints from "The Englishman Extraordinary" describing the events surrounding a mutiny in Allahabad, annotated in pencil, as well as a broadsheet with instructions for the Volunteer Corps.
Fonds consists correspondence; subject files; genealogoical material relating to the Laird and Yeigh families; travel journals; clippings; certificates, including marriage and educational, plus Queen's diploma; collection of postcards acquired during excursion to Europe; family photographs, including portraits and trips to the Rocky Mountains.
The fonds consists of a scrapbook (photocopy) containing numerous mementos, including photographs, programmes, clippings, invitations and dance cards, of her days at Queen's, 1924 - 1927; a poem extolling her chosen University and written by her during her second year [1926]; and a photo album belonging to her future husband, Hugh Cameron Jenkinson that was compiled by himself during his days an Honours Engineering student at Queen's, 1923 - 1927. It also includes the academic gown and hood worn by Annie Elizabeth Graham during her graduation as class of Arts 1927,
This collection consists of one sepia-tone, digitally enhanced copy print; two black and white, 4 x 5 copy negatives; and three, 35 mm. copy slides; of 'Camp Iroquois', a summer home built in 1875 by James Wallace, and located on Bostwick Island in the Thousand Islands, Ontario.
