Nicholl's papers contain sessional tickets, 1887-1890, and photographs of the McGill medical class of 1894 (taken in 1924) and of the resident staff of Royal Victoria Hospital, 1894-1895. Both include Nicholls.

The fonds consists of two accessions. The first includes research files, copies of publications, drafts, presentations and addresses, research notes, organization of the Kierkegaard conference, the acquisition by McGill University Libraries of the Kierkegaard-Malantschuk Collection and correspondence with other academics and scholars; workshop materials for content analysis software to explore the relationships of philosophical texts; teaching files containing lecture notes, course syllabuses, handouts, and examinations, 1951-1987; administrative files, activities within the Department of Philosophy and McGill University, 1961-1991; and personal material - sermons, clipping files, some papers and dissertations as a student, creative writing, two unpublished manuscripts, and a journal, 1948 – 1993.

Ridge's lectures and addresses to Extension Department classes, the McGill University Library Staff Association, Library School students at McGill and Carleton and professional organizations discuss the nature of archives and archival procedures.

The fonds consists of the personal papers of Aimé Sydney Bruneau, including personal family and WWI correspondence, diaries, minutes, manuscripts, and Shakespeare manuscripts.

The Aileen Ross fonds consists mainly of correspondence (1935-1990), research files, a brief autobiography (1940-1980), biographical material (1920-1990), and specific talks (1942-1973). Included are personal diaries (1918-1962), appointment books (1946-1992), and Matthew Ibbotson's correspondence to Ross (1921-1927). Books, original and printed articles, newspaper clippings, and reviews of books and articles are also part of the collection. Non textual records consist of several photographs.

The fonds includes a collection of AIDS activism materials, with an emphasis on its manifestation in Canada's visual art world, through the collections of Mr. John A. Schweitzer and others. Several of the documents have been signed by either John A. Schweitzer or Robert Mapplethorpe. The materials in the collection include posters, press releases, conference programs, exhibition catalogues, exhibition invitations, exhibition ephemera, programs, brochures, tear-sheets, auction catalogues, and reviews.

Fonds consists of a late seventeenth-century manuscript containing a critical commentary on Machiavelli's The Price, created for the use of Agostino Cerretari.

The fonds consists of two letters from A.E. Walker to J.W. Dawson.

The A.E. Sanderson fonds contains student notebooks which belonged to A.E. Sanderson. They include English literature (poets of the nineteenth century, 1889-90, taught by Professor Charles E. Moyse), History of English literature (January term, 1889) and Botany (1888-1890).
In addition, two exams, unworked from April 9th 1890 (English literature - A midsummer's night's dream, English literature - The leading poets of the nineteenth century) are included in this fonds and were placed in the Printed Collection in 1998.

Greeley's papers comprise 15 letters, and the original typescript, with handwritten corrections of Chapters 11-18 of Arctic Discoveries.