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The "Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts" collection provides a wealth of source material on a range of major writers. John Forster owned the largest collection of Samuel Richardson manuscripts in existence. Forty-seven poems, including odes, sonnets, dramatic prologues and epilogues are included, along with the major archive of his correspondence. Eight-hundred and fifty letters are reproduced, many relating to his work on the major novels "Pamela," "Clarissa" and "Sir Charles Grandison." A vast collection of literary manuscripts, letters and papers of Jonathan Swift are also included in Part Two. Among them is Swift's private diary, that dates from 1727, many personal accounts, correspondence, verses, riddles, a problematic first edition of "Gulliver's Travels" with manuscript alterations that may be autograph and the Dublin Inquisition's Commission of Lunacy on Swift of 1742. Manuscripts of Samuel Johnson include the proof sheets of his "Lives of the English Poets," along with varied correspondence. Correspondence of major authors of the period include that of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Mrs. (Elizabeth) Inchbald, Robert Burns, Edmund Burke, William Cowper, Horace Walpole and David Hume. Some early letters of William Wordsworth date from 1797 and there is a large volume of verse by James Thomson.

Fonds consists of correspondence and other material relating to several family members from Portsmouth, Ontario, who fought with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War One.

This collection contains material pertinent to the Fort as museum and consists of thirty-three scrapbooks of printed clippings covering Fort Henry and local activities from opening of Fort as museum in 1936, ( v.1) to 1982 (v.33).

Fonds consists of letters written by a Tamil girl, living at the Guild of Service Seva Samajam Girls Home, located in Coimbatore, South India, to her foster parents in Kingston, Ontario.

The fonds consists of photographs of F.P. Boyce, his brother, Herbert Frank Boyce, a photograph possibly of the interior of the Kingston Branch of the CIBC (1918), ration books from the 1940s and invitations to events surrounding the royal visit in 1973. Also includes files relating to the switching depot for the Canadian National Railways and a natural gas contract.

Fragment of manuscript written in Latin (?), with some English notations on the verso.

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Clippings, order of service and article relating to the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Sydenham Street United Church, June 28, 1959.

The fonds consists of correspondence from the first half of the nineteenth century with many well-known figures, including Sir Allan Macnab, Peter McGill, John Solomon Cartwright, Robert David Cartwright, John Macaulay and James Bell Forsyth. These papers provide valuable information about the political and religious life for the period from 1878 to 1853. In addition there is a good deal of information about Cartwright business affairs. The papers are arranged chronologically in twenty-two files. While most of the letters are original, there are transcripts of a few letters in the files.