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Series consists of manuscripts, typescripts, and correspondence regarding various personal, non-architectural projects undertaken by Nobbs, in particular the design of his deflected northern lighting system for the National Research Council.

Correspondence relating to Nobbs' activities as a professor of architecture at McGill University (1904-1940) and details of his subsequent pension arrangements, as well as the honourary Doctor of Letters awarded him by McGill in 1957. Included are student design problems assigned by Nobbs during his years as Professor of Design at the School of Architecture (1928-1940).

Reports, notes and correspondence stemming from Nobbs's involvement in the Montreal Committee on Housing and Slum Clearance.

Correspondence relating to Nobbs' participation in several professional organizations, specifically the Art Association of Montreal (1916-1933), the Royal Institute of British Architects (1927-1929), the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1928-1939), the Royal Society of Arts (1938-1940) and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (1955).

Letters from several of Nobbs' friends and colleagues, among them Sir Raymond Unwin (1934-1940), Professor G. Baldwin Brown (1893-1926), Auckland C. Geddes (1909-1953), Bertram Goodhue (1906-1935), R. S. Lorimer (1904-1924) and Noulan Cauchon (1935).

The photographs in the Nobbs archive document some of his architectural projects including urban domestic architecture, renovations to the interior of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal, McGill's MacDonald Engineering Building, a proposal for Winnipeg City Hall and a proposal for a war memorial at Lille in France. Documented are plans, exteriors and interiors, models, buildings under construction and perspectives. Included are five photograph albums.