This series includes large-scale drawings, preliminary sketches, and general plans of various parts of the organ, such as the buffet, console, keyboards, and windchest. This series is divided into three subseries: organs with opus number; organs without opus number, which includes Wolff’s plans for proposed but ultimately not-constructed organs; and finally plans by other organ builders or Wolff’s drawings based on historical treatises and documents.

There is one box of files for two magazines that Stephen Morrissey edited and published, what is and The Montreal Journal of Poetics, between 1973-1985. There are also three boxes of documents and literary archives relating mostly to the Montreal poetry scene. These boxes contain audio and video tape recordings of poetry readings; photographs by Stephen Morrissey including colour slides and black and white photographs of poets giving readings and colour photographs of poets; a collection of poetry magazines; posters for poetry readings, and information on poets handed out at their readings; and broadsides of poems, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. There are also items from the 1990s.

The eleven boxes of papers in series A contain original manuscripts, including working drafts and final drafts of texts from 1966 to 1998. These manuscripts, working drafts, and notebooks of Morrissey’s writings have resulted in seven published books of poetry; these are The Trees of Unknowing (Montreal : Vehicule Press, 1978), Divisions (Toronto : Coach House Press, 1983), Family Album (Vancouver : Caitlin Press, 1989), The Compass (Montreal : Empyreal Press, 1993), The Yoni Rocks, (Montreal : Empyreal Press, 1995), The Mystic Beast (Montreal : Empyreal Press, 1997), and Mapping the Soul, New and Selected Poems 1978-1998 (Winnipeg : The Muses' Company, 1998). As well, there are five chapbooks; these are Poems of a Period (Montreal, 1971), The Divining Rod (Edmonton : Greensleeve Editions, 1993), The Beauty of Love (Vancouver : The Poem Factory, 1993), The Carolyn Poems (Vancouver : The Poem Factory, 1994), 1950 (Vancouver : The Poem Factory, 1996), and several broadsides. Copies of the poetry books are included in the respective boxes.

Series consists of original records relating primarily to the Hart, Joseph and de Sola families; however, materials relating to the de Sola family dominate the series. Includes records relating to Abraham de Sola, Abraham's father David Aaron de Sola as well as Abraham's sons Aaron David Meldola de Sola and Clarence Isaac de Sola. Also Includes records of the early Hart family, mostly concerning Aaron Hart and the family's settlement in Trois-Rivières, Quebec.

The documents primarily include correspondence to and from Abraham de Sola and to a lesser extent his sons Aaron David Meldola & Clarence Isaac de Sola. There is some early correspondence by David Aaron de Sola, Abraham de Sola's father. As well, the series Includes personal correspondence between Abraham de Sola and his wife Esther Joseph de Sola and their children (particularly Aaron David Meldola and Clarence Isaac).

Abraham de Sola's correspondence relates to his work as reverend of the Shearith Israel (Montreal) synagogue; Professor of Oriental Languages at McGill University; and as a lodge member of the Ancient Jewish Order of Kesher Shel Barzel, to which he gave his name to its first Canadian lodge in 1872, the De Sola Lodge no. 89. There is extensive correspondence relating to the lodge as well as other lodges in the order, the majority located in the United States. The correspondence relating to Abraham de Sola's professorship at McGill University includes a number of letters from Principal William Dawson.

The correspondence in the fonds related to David Aaron Meldola de Sola focuses on his assuming the position of Reverend of the Shearith Israel (Montreal) Synagogue upon his father's death in 1882, and Includes a number of handwritten and printed sermons given to the congregation. The correspondence and documents relating to Clarence Isaac de Sola focuses mainly on his role as the president of the Federation of Zionist Societies of Canada from 1899 to 1920. This includes sermons, conference proceedings, as well correspondence between Clarence Isaac de Sola and the leader of the Zionist movement, Theodore Herzl.

1889: 4 letters
1890: 10 letters
1891: 8 letters
1893: 4 letters

The series consists of chiefly of letters written by Osler that Cushing collecting during the preparation of his biography, The Life of Sir William Osler, between the years of 1920 and 1924. The letters in the series include both originals and transcriptions. The series also contains accompanying notes (both by Cushing and by Osler), clippings, articles, and other ephemera related to Osler.

files 959-966

The series includes personal and professional correspondence between various Dawson and Harrington family members, between 1861 and 2001; family history, documents and genealogical notes, essays, newspaper clippings, maps, mementos, and obituaries of family members; pamphlets and other promotional material for Redpath Museum, 1933-1961; conference material for the Phoenix Festival in 1971 and the Phoenix Natural Science Association; photocopies of receipts, deeds of gift, notes, and correspondence related to the donation of archival materials to McGill University, given by the Dawson family, between 1908 and 1963.

This series contains documents related to the Hall family's public and private life. The documents date from approximately 1739 to 16 April 1859 and were created while members of the Hall family were living in Germany, the United States, and Canada. The documents in the series reflect the Hall family's participation in religious, masonic, and military organizations and includes certificates, official correspondence, a manuscript and a recipe.

The documents in this series were those that did not fit easily into the other series of the fonds. Files in this series are grouped by activity and are arranged in rough chronological order.

Series consists of other files related to research, including correspondence and maps.

This series consists of a small cache of papers belonging to other Penfield family members. This series includes correspondence addressed to the mothers of Wilder Penfield and Helen Kermott Penfield, Mrs. E.P. Kermott and Jean Jefferson Penfield; a diary and letters of Penfield’s beloved sister Ruthmary Penfield Inglis, whose brain tumour Penfield unsuccessfully operated on; and a few items pertaining to Penfield’s daughter Ruthmary Penfield Lewis, mother of Jefferson Lewis.