Series includes miscellaneous textual records and artefacts belonging to Charles Lewis and Beatrice Maud Young Lewis.

Most of James' research papers stem from his Philadelphia period. The bulk of this material is research files. Approximately 7.5 m of general research files contain notes, extracts, printed materials, correspondence and some teaching materials, largely on economic history with special emphasis on banks, but also including some papers from the 1940s on education and war-time problems. A second category (approximately 1 m) is devoted to the history of banking. Again, these consist largely of notes and extracts, including extensive typed extracts from the business papers of Chicago banker James B. Forgan (active 1900-1917), but there is a component portion of original materials, for example, office correspondence of Pinkerton's Detective Agency (1870s-1880s) and essays and addresses by consulting economist William Wallace Goforth (approximately 1930s). A third category comprises about 15 cm of notes on research methods. Finally, James created three large card-files: one a bibliography-index on economic topics, history and institutions, the second a chronology of 18th and 19th century economic history, and finally a series of larger, more discursive note cards on economic history. There are manuscripts and typescripts of the various drafts and revisions of many of James' publications, particularly The Economics of Money, Credit and Banking, Growth of Chicago Banks, England Today and The Road to Revival. There are also copies of his M.A. and Ph.D. theses, as well as drafts of about half a dozen articles, largely on shipping, from ca 1925 to ca 1933.

Most of the materials pertaining to James' work as an economic consultant are from the post-war period. These include 12 cm of speeches, correspondence and reports on post-war economic issues, 5 cm of draft reports and briefs for the Tremblay Commission (1953), 30 cm of correspondence, notes and reports pertaining to the Conseil d'Orientation Economique du Québec (1961-1962), and documentation illustrating James' involvement in the appraisal and re-organization of the Wharton School (1956-1957).

This series contains scrapbooks and notebooks created by McGill students, their families, and McGill student organizations between 1870 and 2001.

This series is described at the item level. Student scrapbooks contain photographs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera such as programmes and invitations that document the student’s life and studies while they were at McGill. Student notebooks contain drawings, notes, photographs, and reports created by McGill students as part of their coursework. Scrapbooks and notebooks of McGill student organizations contain schedules, notes, photographs, press clippings, programmes, and sketches related to the organizations’ activities.

Series contains lithographic menu templates.

The series consists primarily of incoming correspondence to various administrative units of the Natural History Society. This includes letters to the Recording Secretary, the Corresponding Secretary, the Chairman, the Librarian (dealing largely with book binding costs), the Chairman, the Editor of the Canadian Record of Science (primarily acknowledging receipt of the journal), and the Museum Curator. While most of the series consists of loose documents, it also contains two “Letter Books,” which have indexes of whom letters were sent by or to. These letters are highly administrative in nature, dealing with the daily operations of the Society and not the personal correspondence of its members.

The letters have substantial gaps between 1872-1878, 1881-1884, and in 1895. Many of the loose letters were donated to the Blacker-Wood Collection bundled together and they have been preserved together. However, many of the other loose letters were sorted by year by the archivist or librarian who originally processed them.

Notable Natural History Society members and other prominent people in these files include:
J.F. Whiteaves (non-member)
The Governor General of Canada (non-member)
David R. McCord (non-member)
Sir John William Dawson, as President
Professor David P. Penhallow, as Committee Chairman
Charles Robb, Librarian
E. J. Chambers, Librarian
R. Lachlan, Secretary

Series contains research materials, clippings, notes, and manuscripts on writers of the Bloomsbury Group. Includes materials on Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, J. M. Keynes, Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, and Virginia Woolf, as well as an inventory of George Slater collections of Bloomsbury material. Series also contains manuscripts, proofs, and corrected proofs of Edel's publication "Bloomsbury: A House of Lions."

Series consists of various research files created by Edel in the course of his work on Henry James. The majority of files are copies of original sources, such as the diaries of Theodora Bosquanet, James's amanuensis. Includes numerous off-prints related to James's various novels, Edel's notes on James's letters and correspondents, and ephemera such as book jackets and drafts. Many notes, drafts, and miscellany relate to Edith Wharton and Percy Lubbock.

Series contains material related to Charles Lewis’s pharmacy accreditation and practice. It contains diplomas, licenses, certificates, patent documents, catalogues, testimonials, notes, correspondence, legal documents, financial documents, business documents, and obituaries.

This series contains subject files related to Noel Noel-Buxton's political activities and interests, dating from between roughly 1880 and 1950. The records chiefly concern British politics, and the UK's involvement in world politics, including the First and Second World Wars, Anglo-German relations, the Balkans, Indigenous sovereignty and the treatment of Indigenous populations, the governance of colonies, slavery, refugees, and famine and poverty in Europe after the Second World War. Also includes several files related to Buxton's religious and political beliefs and Paycockes House, a historic 15th century home in Essex that Buxton purchased and restored.

The arrangement of the series reflects the structure of the fonds when it was described by McGill archivists. This may reflect the original order or may be an arrangement that was introduced by Professor H. N. Fieldhouse, who acquired the fonds for McGill and spent many years conducting research in it. Files contain a variety of document types, including reports, notes, correspondence, publications, newspaper clippings, and volumes of parliamentary debates.