Fonds documents Grant Woolmer's career as an antiquarian book dealer. The records include:

• Card File. 1954 – 1998, 628.5 cm of 3" x 5" (7.5 cm x 12.5 cm) index cards describing every book owned and sold by Grant Woolmer giving description and price. Over 30,000 cards.

• Catalogues. 1954 – 1998, 180 cm. Complete run of catalogues of Antique Book Shop, later Grant Woolmer Books. Over 400 different catalogues.

• Financial Records. 1954 – 1998, 250 cm. 6 ledgers giving daily income and disbursements; invoices, etc.

• Mailing list, undated, 5 cm. Some 200 names of institutions, dealers and private collectors mimeographed on 7 sheets.

• Newspaper clippings and ephemera. 1980 –1998, 5 cm. File consisting of clippings and articles relating to the antiquarian book trade, as well obituaries of antiquarian book dealers and collectors. About 200 items.

• Bates List Finder. 1980s – 1990s, 3 cm. Alphabetical telephone directory and addresses for frequently called numbers.

Fonds contains manuscript of "Cours de réligion en vers," 1797.

Fonds consists of "spiritual testament" dedicated to his sisters, Lady Vavasor and Lady Ingram, written while Belasyse was a prisoner in the Tower of London.

Ellis's 'Notes of my journey to France in 1828' is illustrated with engravings and plans.

Carpenter's "Orations on philosophical topics" stem from his days as a student at Manchester College, York.

These papers consist of "Decimas" and "Quarteros", i.e. poems "compuestas a D. Franco Moline".

Contains an album of poems and drawings created by a Miss C. M. Murray.

This collection consists of a holograph of Scharf's History of Greek Art, (1851-1852) and has pen and ink drawings

This consists of a diary of William Bastard.

This includes notes on a dictionary of Chinook Jargon (Chinook Wawa) extracted from a report of H-L. Langevin and a Frisian dictionary and grammar. There is also a volume of marriage certificates 1878-1880.