Fonds consists of a travel journal from a trip to Italy kept by Duboille.

The Burney family manuscript collection consists chiefly of material created by Fanny Burney (1752-1840), whose novel, Evelina (1778), was a bestseller during her life time and is still in print, as well as by Burney family members and friends. The manuscript collection contains correspondence, letter fragments, and a journal kept by Fanny Burney (1812), and other materials by Burney herself, other members of her family, and members of their circle. The collection also includes significant correspondence for her father, the musician and musical historian Charles Burney (1726-1814).

The collection consists of research materials accumulated by members of the Burney Centre between approximately the years 1960 and 2010. The research materials are chiefly photocopies of letters from Burney family members the originals of which are held in European and other North American libraries. There are also three boxes of microfilm of letters, newspapers, and other documents associated with the Burney family. The materials total thousands of photocopies and hundreds of microfilm reels which have brought together ten thousand letters scattered over numerous major collections (including the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library, the Beinecke Library at Yale University, the British Library, the Morgan Library, the Houghton Library at Harvard, and the Huntington Library).

The collection includes correspondence, prose, poems, drafts and notes and "Booster and Blaster" records.

The collection consists of three copies of the pamphlet from the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting held in Montreal from August 27th to September 3rd, 1884, titled "Enquiries Respecting Public Education," and one copy of the Programme of Studies for the Protestant Public Schools in the Cities and towns of Manitoba. The collection includes three handwritten papers titled "Education in the Province of Manitoba," "Education in New Brunswick," and "Education in the Province of Nova Scotia." These papers contain replies to the queries in the pamphlet.

The collection consists of four handwritten leaves of poems by Bliss Carman, as well as one typed poem titled "For a Memorial to John Keats," which was written in Washington, D.C. The collection features works from "The Making of Personality," "Songs from Vagabondia," and two unpublished poems. It includes a clipping from a bookseller's catalogue that features a poem from "The Making of Personality."

The collection consists primarily of manuscripts and typescripts of papers written on natural history topics, such as insects, birds, marine life, plants, and reptiles. Most of the documents concern the collection and cataloguing of specimens, and the identification of new species. Also included are research notes, notebooks, field notes, lecture notes, correspondence, off-prints, proofs, and galley proofs, as well as drawings and mock-ups of illustrations for printing.

The Philippines are the most heavily-represented country in the subject material of the collection, followed by other areas of South-East Asia and the South Pacific, including Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Singapore, Taiwan, the Soloman Islands, and Hawaii. There is also material representing North and Central America, including Mexico, the United States of America (especially California and Alaska), El Salvador, the Galapagos, and Canada (especially Quebec and Newfoundland). Some works also relate to China, the British Isles, Russia, Japan, New Zealand, and Socotra (Yemen).

Significant figures represented in the collection include: Richard Crittenden McGregor, A.E. Wileman, Edward Charles Stuart Baker, Frank Spaeth, Casey Albert Wood, Averil Lysaght, Harry S. Swarth, Henry Seebohm, Henry George Vennor, Roy E. Dickerson, J. Muir, and Charles Fuller Baker.

Highlights from the collection include: a manuscript copy of Joseph Banks’ journal from his 1768-1771 voyage on the Endeavour, likely made by Maria Dawson Turner; a manuscript, and several annotated typescript versions of Volume 5 of E.C. Stuart Baker’s “Fauna of British India birds”; an assortment of Casey A. Wood’s research notes; annotated proofs, galley proofs, and a mock-up of Richard C. McGregor and Elizabeth J. Marshall’s “Philippine birds for boys and girls;” and a binder of ornithological notes recorded by G.G. Ommanney and others in the Whitlock Bird Sanctuary and surrounding district near Hudson, Quebec.

Many of the manuscripts in the collection were published by the Philippine Journal of Science; also included is correspondence related to publication in the journal, especially related to editing and corrections.

The collection consists primarily of correspondence on natural history topics between scientists and natural historians. Letters are sometimes accompanied by journal articles.

Figures with significant correspondence within the collection include: Casey Albert Wood, Henry Mousley, Robert Ridgway, and Bowdler Sharpe.

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."

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.