Murray's pocket diaries for 1883-1934 provide a brief record of his activities, social engagements, letters, visits and the weather. The earliest volumes, covering his last years as an undergraduate at Dalhousie and the final ones written after his retirement are the most detailed.

The fonds consists of correspondence, course material, research and interview notes, articles, speeches, transcripts, grant applications, and other records pertaining to Dale Thomson's activities as a researcher, professor, journalist and Liberal Party activist from the 1940s to 1999 in Canada, The United States and other parts of the world. There is also a considerable amount of original, primary source material collected by Dale Thomson for his books. The fonds is composed of the following series:

1. Research Activities
2. Teaching and Administrative Activities
3. Political Activities

Although there are three separate series, it must be noted that some information contained in series files is often relevant to more than that area of activity. This is especially true of correspondence files.

Lewis' papers consist of a few scattered items apparently assembled as part of his research for Royal Victoria Hospital 1887-1949, Montreal, McGill University Press, 1969. Newspaper clippings, 1932-1964, deal with Montréal and R.V.H. history. Lewis' correspondence, 1965-1971, with the Dominion Archivist, the McGill Archives, Dr. John Cleland, Mrs. Ellen Scrimger and others discusses various historical materials connected with the hospital. Also includes notes on material in the R.V.H. archives, some hospital newsletters and photographs, and a few reprints and addresses.

Fonds consists of correspondence and literary manuscripts, documenting all aspects of MacMillan’s career. Biographical background is provided by his own notes on his life and family history. From his student years come certificates and testimonials in support of his application for a Rhodes Scholarship (1904-1909). His war experience is recorded in letters from the front preserved by his family, and by a personal diary for 1917. There are also approximately twenty photographs of Macmillan and his family taken between about 1905 and 1940.

Macmillan's correspondence includes files of letters to his wife (1917-1936) on his war service and political affairs; personal and social letters (1923-1929); political correspondence, including several letters from McKenzie King (1926-1946); letters concerning McGill, including a number from Sir Arthur Currie and from Stephen Leacock (1920-1947); post-retirement correspondence on McGill and public affairs; and correspondence concerning his publications (1920-1960). There are also files of invitations to events at McGill and elsewhere.

The manuscripts fall into two categories: political speeches and literary manuscripts. Besides notes and texts for his own speeches, there are also texts of, and newspaper clippings about speeches written by Macmillan for Sir Arthur Currie and others (1920-1950). Drafts and typescripts of his literary works are supplemented by notes, clippings and correspondence.

The fonds comprises of files including letters to Jean Purvis in Montreal from her mother Jennie Purvis and father Henry Purvis in Paisley Scotland, and letters to her from relatives from the United Kingdom (1930-1944). Included is also one letter to Jean from Lalla Stanhope addressed to the Recruiting Office in Paisley in 1918. The fonds also contains the accounts of the execution of the will of the late John Purvis (1954), brother of Jean’s father Henry Purvis.

The fonds consists of records created by the Council of Palliative Care and includes workshop materials; minutes and agendas; materials from David Bourke; special events and promotional paraphernalia; Sandra Goldberg lectures; newsletters; financial materials; and task force materials for Balfour Mount, Montreal General Hospital and Jewish General Hospital.

The Conrad Harrington fonds consists of correspondence including the Royal Trust Companies in Canada, London, Jersey and Ireland (1964-1973). Heavily documented is Conrad Harrington’s involvement at McGill University as a member on the Board of Governors (1963-1975), with the Alma Mater Fund and with the McGill Fund Council. Included are newspaper clippings, mainly related to the Royal Trust Companies, St. Paul Church in Montreal, and reports, minutes and agendas of meetings from Trinity College School in Ontario (1973-1974). Files are arranged alphabetically. Records related to Dr. Harrington as McGill Chancellor can be found in the Record Group 1.

The records of this society comprise a minute book, 1920-1926, a register of members, and some unbound papers (drafts of constitution, membership lists, correspondence).

Description forthcoming.
Please contact McGill University Archives for further information: 514-398-4711 or refdesk.archives@mcgill.ca

The greater portion of Purves' papers consists of research materials from his undergraduate and post-graduate period. These include lecture notes in natural philosophy and chemistry (1921-1923), laboratory notes on methylated sugars (1923-1924), extraction of glucose by yeast (1929-1931) and carbohydrate analysis (1929-1930) and reports of experiments at the U.S. National Institute of Health. Teaching files contain lecture notes for his courses in organic chemistry (1957-1965) and correspondence with John R. Platt regarding a new textbook of elementary organic chemistry.