Contains various working drafts of poems and manuscripts for The Yoni Rocks (Montreal, Empyreal Press, 1993); the long poem "The Great Year", and three chapbooks: The Divining Rod (Edmonton, Greensleeve Editions, 1993), The Carolyn Poems (Vancouver, The Poem Factory, 1994), and 1950 (Vancouver, The Poem Factory, 1996).
Copies of published books by the author are included.

Box 15 contains two video tapes of readings Morrissey gave at Vehicule Art on 27 March 1977 and an unopened LP album, "Sounds Like" of sound poetry by Montreal poets. It also contains thirty-eight audio cassettes of poetry readings. These are recordings of readings, mostly from the 1970s and 1980s in Montreal; however, there are several tapes from the 1990s in Montreal and Vancouver. Also included are photographs—black and white, colour, and colour slides—taken by Stephen Morrissey. These photographs are mostly of poets, taken at poetry readings, or less formal settings, in Quebec and in the 1990s in British Columbia.

The series is arranged by subject as indicated.

Contains two packages of manuscripts, twenty-one notebooks and two file folders of manuscripts. Included are first drafts of poems and manuscripts for "The Shadow Trilogy": this is made up of The Compass (Montreal, Empyreal Press, 1993), The Yoni Rocks (Montreal, Empyreal Press, 1995), and The Mystic Beast (Montreal, Empyreal Press, 1997).
Copies of published books by the author are included.

Contains rough drafts and manuscript work for The Mystic Beast (Montreal, Empyreal Press, 1997). All selection and editing work related to Mapping the Soul, New and Selected Poems 1978-1998 (Winnipeg, The Muses' Company, 1998). The long poem "The Great Year", published in a limited edition chapbook form in 1996.
A copy of Mapping the Soul, New and Selected Poems 1978-1998 is included.

Programmes, 1984–89 in front in container; Programmes, Miscellaneous in rear of container. See Folders 1 and 2 for other years and undated.
BOX 8 (front). Programmes, 1984–89 :
Includes programmes for recitals by Henryk Szeryng and Charles Reiner at Carnegie Hall, Roy Thomson Hall, and Ambassador Auditorium; and programmes for collaborative performances with: Dorothy Bales, Karen Shaffer Baskin, Brian McCue, Jutta Puchhammer-Sedillot, Robert Slappcoff, Eva Svensson-Williams, Henryk Szeryng, Gergely Szokolay, Gyorgy Terebesi, Thomas Williams, and le Quatuor Laval.
BOX 8 (rear). Programmes, Miscellaneous :
Includes programmes for memorial services of Helmut Blume and Margaret Kalil and programmes for performances by: the BBC Symphony Orchestra (cond. Pierre Boulez), Béla Böszörményí-Nagy, ―Celebration…Steinway at Carnegie Hall‖, Karl Engel [one programme signed with dedication to Charles’ first wife, ―Suzy‖], the English Chamber Orchestra (cond. Karl Richter), Rudolf Firkusny, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Maureen Forrester, ―Full Symphony Orchestra‖ (cond. Alexander Brott), Emil Gilels, Vladimir Horowitz [one programme with newspaper review], the [Hungarian State Symphony] (cond. László Somogyi), Lili Kraus, Constantin Lifschitz, the Monteverdi Choir and Monteverdi Orchestra (cond. John Eliot Gardiner), the Mozart Festival Quartet, Yaron Ross, the Royal Ballet, the Royal Opera, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Wolfgang Schneiderhan with Albert Hirsch, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Solomon [signed], Paul Stewart, Henryk Szeryng with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood (cond. Seiji Ozawa), and Henryk Szeryng with the New York Philharmonic (cond. Rodney Friend).

Includes programmes for performance by Henryk Szeryng and Charles Reiner at the United Nations Concert in honour of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; leaflets and programmes for recitals by Micheline René and Charles Reiner as well as Hyman Bress and Charles Reiner at Alice Tully Hall (Lincoln Center); programme for recital by Igor Oistrakh and Charles Reiner at Philharmonic Hall (Lincoln Center); and programmes for collaborative performances with: Otto Armin, Jean Baxtresser, Denis Brott, Lawrence Combs, Edward Culbreath, Michael Edwards, Gaelyne Gabora, Arthur Garami, Dale Hunter, Donelda Hunter, Antonio Janigro, Jacques Lareau, Laurien Laufman, René Masino, Abel Nagytothy-Toth, Igor Oistrakh, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Micheline René, Margarita Schack, Jan Simons, Henryk Szeryng, Gyorgy Terebesi, Robert Verebes, Christine Walevska, the Arthur Garami Chamber Players, the Classical Quartet of Montreal, and Musica Camerata Montreal.

The series is arranged by subject as indicated.

Container 1 holds Hardinge's correspondence dated between 1822 and 1829.