File consists of materials related to Anna's education at the Establishment for the Education of Young Ladies, including first class certificate signed by Lucy Simpson, 2 prize and honour lists, session certifications from the Montreal Ladies Education Association, and school informational pamphlets. Also contains a letter dated 1872 from Gordon Smith.

File contains invitation to the wedding of B. J. Harrington and Anna Dawson, advertisement for an excursion with the National History Society, notes dated 1867, notes dated 1874, notice from the B. J. Harrington Professorship Fund, and exhibition pamphlet from the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1882).

Notebook, signed on first page Anna Lois Dawson, Sept. 1873, McGill College. Notebook contains quotations, poems, clippings, and other inserts.

File contains a list of B. J. Harrington's scholarly papers compiled by Anna Harrington.

File consists of envelope with two sketches on trace paper of coal lands, notes on analyses of coals, and letter to John A. McDonald.

This file contains a bound volume containing notes, drawings and diagrams from a journey from Winnipeg to Calgary, August 1883. Includes an itinerary for the trip and a pressed botanical specimen.

File includes a sketch and description by Mr. Moffatt of a copper cermonial object, manufactured by the "Fort Rupert Band" (referring to the Kwakiutl people of the Northwest coast), and notes on Indigenous groups, two fragments containing additional notes on Indigenous groups, and a document entitled, "Customs of the N.C. Indians." This last document contains in particular outsider observations of purported coming of age ceremonies and childbirth traditions.

File consists of lists of George Mercer Dawson's publications, reports, voyages, and expeditions.