This series contains personal writings by John Mappin himself. Primarily notes on Canadian authors. Includes notes related to a brief submitted to the Parliamentary Committee on the Constitution. Also includes several drafts, and a final copy, of his Master's thesis, "The Political Thoughts of Francis Masers".

This series contains financial records related to business and personal activities. The files include payslips, grant payments, credit card and income tax statements, invoices, bankbooks. This series is mostly located in Container 4, 5, and 10. Some files in Series 5 also contain financial records (please see the file descriptions).

This series consists of poems written by Endre Farkas. Many of them are sorted alphabetically. All documents relating to other poets and poetry-related endeavours. Newsletters and bulletins from the Montreal Poets’ Information Exchange are also included.

This series consists of poems translated by Endre Farkas into English and French. A large portion of this translations are of a Hungarian poet named Bari Karoly, with whom Farkas was good friends.

This series consists of all materials pertaining to Endre Farkas’ and other artists’ play company.

This series consists of photographs, posters, and advertisements for Endre Farkas’ plays and associated artists. It also includes maps from Farkas’ trip to Budapest.

The poetry series consists of textual documents related to Stephen Scobie’s work as a poet. This includes drafts of individual poems, drafts and manuscripts of Scobie’s collected and published works, and editorial notes, in a mixture of typed and handwritten. The series also includes reviews of Scobie’s published poetry collections, correspondence concerning publications and/or performances, advertisements for performances, and publications that featured Scobie’s poetry. Stephen Scobie was the creator of the majority of the records in this series, other creators are only included with written reviews or correspondence. The series is mostly located in Container 3, with some files within Container 4 and 5.

Series consists of bookseller descriptions and catalogue clippings of Bewick works (generally with the catalogue cover appended to a loose page on which Bewick item appears). One folder contains numerous bookseller descriptions printed from internet sale listings. Some items have accompanying correspondence or Geraldine Cole's notes and annotations regarding purchase inquiries. The series also contains a listing of all the items in the Cole-Bewick Collection sold to McGill Library and three spiral-bound volumes containing bibliographic citations and some notes on all the items in the Cole-Bewick Collection in alphabetical order.

This series contains Canadian poetry and art books, some in numbered editions; poetry magazines in unusual formats; some containing his own poems.