The company's records contain administrative, financial and publicity material. The administrative series comprises the minutes of the directors from 1929 to 1955 and of the executive committee from 1949 to 1956. An engagement book records contracts between the company and its employees, 1902-1906. Henry Morgan's business correspondence covers the period 1847-1850, and includes a few personal letters to his brother James. Financial records cover both internal operations and stock transactions. The former are documented by an account book, 1845-1848; ledgers, 1870-1889; and diaries, 1884, 1936; the latter by lists of stock holders, 1954-1960; and records of transfers of Morgan's common stock, 1954-1961. Also included are files of invoices, receipts and cheques, 1846-1852. Publicity materials largely centre around anniversaries. Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, other printed materials and photographs cover the years 1936-1945, culminating in the company's centennial, for which a typescript history was prepared.

Mintzberg's papers comprise student materials, office files, and papers relating to his publications. Student materials contain course notes from both the engineering (1956-1961) and management (1961-1968) phases of Mintzberg's education, as well as research notes and drafts for his doctoral thesis "The Manager at Work". His McGill office files contain reports, minutes and memoranda for various faculty committees (1968-1976); correspondence, particularly regarding the M.B.A. programme (1970-1976); course outlines (1968-1973); and files on his Ph.D. students (1974-1976) (Restricted). Papers relating to publications include research notes, working papers, and drafts of articles and books, as well as correspondence about his writings (1968-1978).

These scattered Henry family papers, except for a few letters from William Taft and about Dr. Bowditch addressed to John Stewart Henry, 1929-30, reflect Leila Henry's interest in family history. They include genealogical charts, a biographical sketch of Lysbeth Dawson Murdoch, and a copy of a Banffshire newspaper of 1894 reprinting sections of Barbara Mitchell's diary of her return journey from Nova Scotia to Scotland.

The fonds consists of the graduating class photograph, comparative medicine, 1895 and diplomas of H.D. Clark.

Fonds shows Henry Beaumont Small's activities as a medical student through his admission cards for his complete medical formation. It contains 43 admission cards signed by or printed for the teachers, among them William Osler.

Fonds comprises photocopies of three works for the piano, which Blume described as "meine gesammelten Werke" ("my collected works"). Two of these – an arrangement of the "Emperor Waltz", and "Variations on an American Folk-Song" – were written in the Sherbrooke Internment Camp in 1942. The third, "Picture book for Veronika" was written later that year in Toronto.

The Helen Neilson fonds consists of a variety of research notes used as source material for her book on Macdonald College. It includes statistics on students in Household Sciences, as well as names of directors and staff. There are copies of Diaper Dell Doings (1946-1948), Diaper Dell Association pamphlet, which reflects the housing development constructed by McGill University after World War II for the use of student veterans and their families at Macdonald College. Included are also newspaper clippings, notes on teaching and research (1971-1973), and photocopies of sketches of the coat of arms of Macdonald College. There is some correspondence relating to the proposed move to McGill’s downtown campus, the establishment of the provincial CEGEP John Abbott College at Macdonald and the 50th reunion of class 1912 (1917-1952).

Included are Boa's photograph 1906, six certificates, including her Normal School diploma, 1903-1906, and a letter offering her a scholarship in the Faculty of Arts from the University Registrar, 1905.

Student assignment "Engineering Reports 136" completed in 1944.