Fonds consists chiefly of the literary papers of Canadian poet Artie Gold as well as some personal and professional correspondence. Many of his drawings are also included. Within the literary materials it contains poems and poem fragments, notebooks, manuscripts, proofs, and publications. The correspondence included is predominantly personal, many with other Canadian poems and literary figures, as well as some professional correspondence related to publication, poetry readings, grants, etc. There are some files of biographical material as well.
The minutes of the Club are accompanied by a letter from the Secretary, George Murray, to Wilfred Skaife. Skaife notes in the minute book that "no further meetings of the Society were held".
William Badgley's papers form the bulk of the family's papers and consist of a book of legal notes and judgments, 1801-1826; legal commissions, 1823-1866; as well as circulars, petitions and correspondence for the Constitutional Association, 1834-1839. Other papers include family correspondence, 1823-1829, and deeds of sale, 1831-1852, of James Thompson Badgley.
The typescripts are arranged into four series. A: manuscripts related to Oregon; B: manuscripts related to Washington; C: manuscripts related to Canada and particularly British Columbia; C: manuscript related to the history of Oregon and the fur trade.
In series C, of particular interest are the first and second journal of Simon Fraser, 1806, 1808; the voyages of the ship Columbia, 1787-1789; and the journal of John Work, Chief Factor, Hudson’s Bay Company, Astoria, 1824-1834.
Fonds consists of "spiritual testament" dedicated to his sisters, Lady Vavasor and Lady Ingram, written while Belasyse was a prisoner in the Tower of London.
Consists of a letter from Lord Selkirk to Captain Benjamin Walker dated 14 June 1816 concerning the sale of Selkirk’s land at Salmon River, New York, and his impending departure for the Red River.
The collection consists of a typescript of the author's book "Salon sketches" and a copy of the 1938 edition titled "Salon sketches: biographical studies of Berlin salons of the emancipation," published by Bloch Publishing Company in New York. It also contains newspaper clippings featuring reviews of the book from 1938 and 1939, as well as two articles from 1966 commemorating Professor Bertha Meyer's 50 years of teaching at McGill University.
The collection consists of seven leaves of typewritten poems, with a few handwritten annotations, possibly made by the author, as well as a typewritten copy of the poem collection "Svendborger G[r]dichte."
