Series consists of financial records, including income tax receipts, earnings statements, reports of sales of books, buyers, quotes, invoices, funding applications, contracts, and correspondence related to financial matters.

The series consists of Dorothy Duncan’s personal and professional correspondence. The personal correspondence includes a significant number of letters from Duncan’s husband, Hugh MacLennan, as well as letters from family and friends. The professional correspondence is comprised of fan mail, exchanges with Duncan’s publishers, sample contracts, newsletters, and letters from other writers. Duncan’s correspondents included Stephen Leacock, Lorne Pierce, Robert J.C. Stead, Bruce Hutchinson, Gwethalyn Graham, David Walker, and C.P. Snow. This series also contains a file about graphology which is made up of reference material and several handwriting assessments by Robert H. Simmons.

This series consists of day diaries (one for each year from 1953 to 1957), one composition notebook with clippings and hand-copied poems from other authors (1931-1934), typed notes and story drafts (1933), hand-written character lists (1933), a journal with notes for novels (1950), a notebook with a loose leaf list of Duncan’s paintings (1944-1956), and one unpaginated ledger of accounts (1945-1957).

The series consists of manuscripts, including whole and selected sections of works that were eventually published or intended for publication. It contains first drafts, revised, edited and annotated drafts of After Manto (Container 1, Files 1-14 and 17-25; Container 2, Files 1-4 and 10), Permanent Siege (Container 1, Files 5, 15, 16, and 22; Container 2, File 1), Passage to Lahore (Container 2, Files 5-9), Architecture, Beliefs & Monuments, The Raft of the Medusa, and Fato the European Miser (Container 2, File 15), as well as various others. Drafts of screenplays for The Entanglement (Container 3, Files 1, 2, 4-27; Container 5, File 1) and Persona Non (Container 5, Files 2-4) are in the series as well. Most drafts are organized in folders by work.

The series consists of materials written and collected by Samuel in support of his writing. It reflects his research and writing process and gives context to decisions made in his work. The series includes newspaper articles, pamphlets, and other published materials Samuel consulted in the development of his writing, interspersed with handwritten notes and correspondence regarding the work. Research and process records are organized in folders, often though not always by the work it is intended to support.

This series contains personal diaries kept by Christina Barbara Hall, Benjamin Hall, and Charlotte Hall between 18 October 1795 and 8 May 1886. Christina Barbara Hall's diaries were written while she lived in Andover, Massachusetts, and in Montreal, Quebec. Benjamin Hall's diaries were written from Montreal and during a trip to London, England. Charlotte Hall's diary was written while she lived in Montreal. The diaries chiefly concern weather, news of family and community members, as well as occasional remarks about politics.

Each diary (or set of loose pages) was allocated a separate file because of the size and/or fragility of the volumes, and to maintain consistency within the series. Files in the series are arranged in chronological order. Diaries are mostly bound volumes, though Benjamin Hall's diaries are loose pages.

Series consists of theatrical portraits and coloured printed scenes, including some published by J. Redington and Épinal.

Correspondence from Robert C. Parsons to his wife, Peggy Parsons, living in Vancouver. Also includes 6 letters from Peggy to Robert. Contents of the letters chiefly concern news from home, daily life as a soldier, thanks for care packages, and thoughts of one another. The letters are very affectionate and often erotic.

The series contains letters written by Robert Abraham to several recipients, including his father and his brother.