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Letters to Ella B. Sexton from a friend, describing summer prospecting for gold in northern Ontario. Includes one envelope of photographs.

This fonds consists of a photo album containing prints of Kingston, Ontario, and area families, Ellen Carruthers Davidson.

The fonds consists of correspondence; manuscripts, drafts and published copies; and, reviews and clippings. The material is predominantly reflective of the time that Stafford spent in Mexico and her various drafts and versions of writings that came out of those experiences. There are manuscripts for all of her published works as well as her major unpublished work about Mexico, variously titled Mexico, Mi Amour or Mexican Time. Of particular note is a file of correspondence with Jack McClelland in which Stafford discusses editorial projects as well as her own writing and publishing ambitions.

Files regarding origin of college, its construction, management, lawsuits, contracts and finances. Included is an Elrond Membership Pamphlet 1972-73.

The fonds consists of one photo album containing photographs of Elsie Smith, Sir Sandford Fleming (her uncle), Thomas and Laura Critchley, among others. Also includes photos of the Ottawa fire, Riviere du Loup, Murray Bay and a trip to Sterling and York.

This collection consists of a scrapbook entitled "Scraps", containing correspondence, clippings, pamphlets, speeches, 'Certificate of Incorporation' relating to 'The American Party' and tracts relating to William Sulzer.

The fonds consists of notes and manuscript material for his Rougon-Macquart cycle of novels. Les Rougon-Macquart was set in France's Second Empire and depicted the effects of violence, alcoholism, and prostitution in two branches of a single family over five generations. The fonds includes: La Fortune Des Rougon, 1871 (The Fortune of the Rougions); La Curée, 1874 (The Rush for the Spoil); Le Ventre De Paris, 1874 (The Belly of Paris); La Conquête De Plassans, 1874 (The Conquest of Plassans); La Faute de L'Abbé Mouret, 1875; Son Excellence Eugène Rougon, 1876 (His Excellency Eugène Rougon); L'Assommoir, 1877 (The Dram Shop / The Gin Palace); Une Page d'Amour, 1878; Nana, 1880 (trans.); Pot-Bouille, 1882 (Restless House); Au Bonheur des Dames, 1883 (The Ladies' Paradise); La Joie de Vivre, 1884 (How Jolly Life Is); Germinal, 1885; L'Oeuvre, 1886 (The Masterpiece); La Terre, 1887 (The Soil); La Rêve, 1888 (The Dream); La Bête Humaine, 1890 (The Beast in Man); L'Argent, 1891 (Money); La Débâcle, 1892 (The Downfall); and Le Docteur Pascal, 1893 (Doctor Pascal).

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.

The fonds consists of various collected copies of family trees and other genealogical information for the Acheson, Robertson and Kenyon families from the Tay Valley/North Burgess geographic area. Of particular note is the information pertaining to Grace Kenyon, a cousin of Campbell's, who did missionary work in India in the 1940's. There is a small amount of original material in the fonds including 5 photographs of various Robertson family members. Also includes class exams written by Emma Campbell (nee Acheson) in the early 1940's from her nursing courses in a variety of subjects such as Anatomy and Physiology, Preventative Medicine, Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Psychiatric Nursing, Communicable Diseases, etc.

The fonds consists of correspondence, notebooks belonging to Mrs. Roberts and her grandson, Athelston Roberts, son of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, poems, news clippings, drawings and photographs.