The collection consists of correspondence, publishers' agreements, receipts, telegrams, and a Travelers Insurance policy. It also includes the manuscript for the article "Yankee Doodle, Miss Columbia & Ahngmaloktok," which was published in St. Nicholas, Volume 32, Number 2 (1904) under the title "Yankee Doodle and Miss Columbia." The policy from The Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, is for Robert E. Peary, dated November 13, 1909. The policy amount is US 50,000 with a premium of US 611.10, covering the period from November 1909 to August 1910. The collection also contains a letter from Ballard & Garrett, Inc. to Broadway Magazine, Inc., acknowledging the official receipt of The Travelers Insurance policy covering Robert E. Peary, a two-page Agreement between Robert E. Peary and Broadway Magazine, Inc., dated November 4, 1909, in which Peary agrees to write a story about his journey to the North Pole, Peary's signed receipt of the agreement and a letter from Benjamin B. Hampton, President of Broadway Magazine, Inc., expressing consent for the Frederick A. Stokes Company to publish all or part of Peary's story, Peary's handwritten copy of a telegram to the President of Hampton's Magazine regarding additional article, as well as the magazine's telegram consenting to his request, two handwritten letters from Peary regarding his writing materials (1892) and thanking the Aluminum Coal Company for supplying his ships (1898). It also includes a typed letter acknowledging the receipt of the North Pole flag (1910), and a typewritten letter from Benjamin Hampton to Commander Robert E. Peary, dated October 2, 1909, regarding Mr. Peary's payment. Lastly, there is a typewritten letter from The American Magazine to Hampton's Magazine, returning the loaned letter from Commander R. E. Peary. The manuscript of "Yankee Doodle, Miss Columbia & Ahngmaloktok" is in File 2 (16 leaves, leaves 2 and 5 are missing).

This appointment of Robert M. Watson as Second Lieutenant in the Brockville Artillery Company is signed by Sir George Arthur, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada.

The private and business papers of Reid include correspondence, design layouts of typographical productions, financial records, lecture notes and photographs. Among his correspondents are William Carter, Carl Dair, Dora Hood, W. Kaye Lamb, Beverley Blackmore Leech, Richard Pennington, Gustav Reuter, R.D. Hilton Smith, Roderick D. Steinhour and Takao Tanabe.

This fonds contains records created by Robertson Masson & Co. as part of their work as merchants between 1835 and 1844. Robertson Masson & Co. were based in Montreal and served clients in Ontario, Quebec, and in the northeastern United States.

Records in this fonds are arranged chronologically, and are divided into files based on the year of their creation. The fonds consists primarily of business correspondence that includes information about accounts and orders, as well as financial records such as bills, receipts, and statements of account.

The collection contains an account written by a Major Gilbert of the 1757 Rochefort expedition during the Seven Years' War. During this conflict, known as the Raid of Rochefort, British amphibious troops attempted unsuccessfully to capture the French port of Rochefort on the Atlantic coast.

His papers comprise correspondence concerning the McGill Medical Faculty from Lord Strathcona, the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Red Cross, and a Boer War Relief Fund.

Approximately half this material consists of letters, covering the years 1823-1837, from Andrew William Cochran, 1792-1849, civil secretary to the governors of Lower Canada from 1812 onwards, and a member of the Executive Council from 1827 to 1841. The remainder comprises a number of accounts of travels and exploration by North West Company employees, probably collected by McKenzie for his history. Included are Charles McKenzie's expeditions amongst the Otoe Missouria Tribe.; Edward Umfreville's journal of a canoe trip from Lake Superior to Portage de l'Isle 1784; accounts of the Alaskan Athabaskans, 1795 and 1805, George Keith's memoirs of the McKenzie River Department, 1807-1817; and George Henry Monk's of the Department of Fond du Lac or Mississippi, 1807; John McDonnell's account of the Red River, ca 1787; and John Johnston's of Lake Superior and a letter on the Indigenous communities of the northwest from Eneas McDonnell. Also included are letters written to McKenzie from Forks on the Mackenzie River by William Ferdinand Wentzel, 1807-1824.

The collection was formed by the Canadian puppeteer Rosalynde Osborne Stearn as a comprehensive library on the puppet theatre with representative examples of puppets characteristic of different periods and countries. It includes some 2714 books and periodicals from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on the puppet theatre in various European languages as well as scripts for puppet plays. The collection contains 171 puppets from Europe, Asia (including shadow puppets), and the Americas, from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Also included are toy theatres, theatrical portraits, paintings, prints and posters.

The fonds consists of books and other materials about Black people in history and contemporary society which Roy States collected from his teenage years to the end of his life. The materials are primarily English-language works produced during his lifetime, and the majority of them are from Canada or the United States. The physically largest series within the collection (Series B, Monographs) consists of 679 published volumes, most of them books and a smaller number of them booklets. These volumes are all catalogued individually, with a common sublocation of "Roy States Collection" within Rare Books and Special Collections. The remaining series contain a diversity of published, ephemeral, and unpublished materials, including various items by or about Roy States himself. Series A is a group of biographical materials and other items which relate directly to States. Series C consists of booklets and brochures. Series D consists of complete issues of newspapers, and Series E consists of complete issues of serials other than newspapers. Series F contains an assortment of newspaper and magazine clippings, as well as reprinted or photocopied extracts from books, journals and other works. Series G contains materials relating to conferences and meetings, chiefly involving groups and organizations advocating for civil rights; the materials include programs, agendas, minutes and reports, as well as the text of various speeches presented at these events. Series H consists primarily of graphic materials which have been mounted in cardboard-and-plastic display sleeves or in glass-fronted wooden frames. Series I is a group of miscellaneous materials such as studies, reports, typescripts, bibliographies and leaflets.

Fonds consists of correspondence between Kipling and his wife and his father to Lockwood de Forest and his wife Meta, two drawings by Kipling, and the manuscript Traffics and Discoveries, 1904.