File contains 48 typed letters signed, 46 typed letters (unsigned), 5 autograph letters signed, 8 autograph letters (unsigned), 1 autograph note signed, 5 S receipts, 3 receipt. Includes correspondence with A Wetmore, Ruthven Deane, Frank P Jepson, JD Tothill, W J Belcher, W Otto Emerson, Harry Swarth, W L Solater, Cahs Richmond, Miss Knobel, Joseph Grinnell, Hon. Thos. Fell, Robert Ridgway, The Marquess of Tavistock, Orpheus M Schantz, Ernest Ingersoll, J H Fleming, Her Grace the Duchess of Wellington, Arthur Willey.

File contains 23 typed letters signed, 7 autograph letters (unsigned), 16 typed letters (unsigned), 2 autograph letters signed, "The color sense of the satin bower bird" (typed letters (unsigned)), 5 page typed letters (unsigned) from suva, fiji Islands (1923). Includes correspondence with Mr. Cayley, Frank Shepherd, Major Allan Brooks, J A Munro, Fred G Criekmay (?), A Wetmore, Mrs. Ridgway, R W Shufeldt, Ruthven Deane, Dr. Richmond, Robert Ridgway, Orpheus M Schantz, Ernest Ingersoll, Gregory Mathews, S Palmer, Sir Maynard Hedstrom, Dr. Chapman, W J Belcher, H P Bascom, Miss Gnaedinger, J A Leach, Dr. Grinnell, C D Farrar.

File contains 4 autograph letters signed, 3 typed letters (unsigned), 5 typed letters signed, 35 page typed letters (unsigned) from suva, fiji Islands (1923), "List of birds observed in Waitemata Harbour & Hauraki Gulf 17th May 1923", "Sketches from the note-book of a naturalist-traveller in oceania during the year 1923", "The Grand Pacific Tour" pamphlet (2 copies). Includes correspondence with Henry Fairfield Osborn, Dr. Hornaday, Robt. A Millikan, Francis R Lloy.

File contains 8 typed letters (unsigned), 13 typed letters signed. Includes correspondence with L O Dart, R H Beck, Arthur W Head, A Wetmore, Dr. Theodore S Palmer, S A Forbes, J R Slonaker, Robert Ridgway, Chas H Hicks, Frank E Heddard, Thomas C Lee.

File contains 7 autograph letters signed, 1 receipt, 36 typed letters (unsigned), 6 typed letters signed, 4 signed receipt, 1 autograph letter (unsigned). Includes correspondence with J R Slonaker, Arthur W Heade, John E Weeks, Dr. Geo E deSchweinitz.

Collection consists of 38 letters written primarily by John Wood Senior to family members in England. Many of these were written to a sister or sister-in-law and a few are addressed to his brother, Will Wood, a watchmaker and jeweller in London, including two in which Wood includes a list of trade supplies to order. Four letters are from John Wood's son, Peter Wentworth Wood. One letter is by John's wife, Anna. Contents include topics such as the country's economy, Canadian-British politics, the Woods' watchmaking and jewellery business, crops, slavery, and the American Civil War, as well as local Montreal news on subjects such as fires, the Victoria Bridge, a cholera outbreak, the 1856 Railroad Celebration, and a visit by the Prince of Wales. Letters also include family news, particularly of John Wood's children Peter, John, and Charles, seafaring disasters, gold mines, improvements in shipping in the St. Lawrence seaway and the Atlantic Ocean, the expansion of railroads, and the Atlantic Telegraph. Letters date between 25 November 1839 and 13 December 1867. One is a crossed letter.