Apart from some personal and obituary materials, Kelly's papers concern his career as an infantry officer in Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry during World War I. A pocket diary records his experiences in 1918 and a copy of a photograph album shows scenes around Mons in 1914. Printed souvenirs, Christmas cards, certificates and medals supplement these documents. Other photographs show Kelly and his family, and the McGill Observatory.
Nicholl's papers contain sessional tickets, 1887-1890, and photographs of the McGill medical class of 1894 (taken in 1924) and of the resident staff of Royal Victoria Hospital, 1894-1895. Both include Nicholls.
The fonds consists of two accessions. The first includes research files, copies of publications, drafts, presentations and addresses, research notes, organization of the Kierkegaard conference, the acquisition by McGill University Libraries of the Kierkegaard-Malantschuk Collection and correspondence with other academics and scholars; workshop materials for content analysis software to explore the relationships of philosophical texts; teaching files containing lecture notes, course syllabuses, handouts, and examinations, 1951-1987; administrative files, activities within the Department of Philosophy and McGill University, 1961-1991; and personal material - sermons, clipping files, some papers and dissertations as a student, creative writing, two unpublished manuscripts, and a journal, 1948 – 1993.
Ridge's lectures and addresses to Extension Department classes, the McGill University Library Staff Association, Library School students at McGill and Carleton and professional organizations discuss the nature of archives and archival procedures.
The fonds consists of the personal papers of Aimé Sydney Bruneau, including personal family and WWI correspondence, diaries, minutes, manuscripts, and Shakespeare manuscripts.
The Aileen Ross fonds consists mainly of correspondence (1935-1990), research files, a brief autobiography (1940-1980), biographical material (1920-1990), and specific talks (1942-1973). Included are personal diaries (1918-1962), appointment books (1946-1992), and Matthew Ibbotson's correspondence to Ross (1921-1927). Books, original and printed articles, newspaper clippings, and reviews of books and articles are also part of the collection. Non textual records consist of several photographs.
The A.E. Sanderson fonds contains student notebooks which belonged to A.E. Sanderson. They include English literature (poets of the nineteenth century, 1889-90, taught by Professor Charles E. Moyse), History of English literature (January term, 1889) and Botany (1888-1890). In addition, two exams, unworked from April 9th 1890 (English literature - A midsummer's night's dream, English literature - The leading poets of the nineteenth century) are included in this fonds and were placed in the Printed Collection in 1998.
Most of the Livinson papers consist of lecture notes taken between 1905 and 1914 for undergraduate courses in philosophy, literature and history, and for courses in the Law Faculty. Two scrapbooks of clippings and photographs reflect Livinson's interest in Wilfred Laurier, approximately 1916-1949, and Abraham Lincoln, 1923-1937; there are also two 'notebooks' of clippings on books on the art of writing, memorable quotations, and speeches, 1936. Livinson's journals, sometimes kept under his own name and sometimes under the pseudonyms 'André Penuel' or 'André Charles' consist primarily of philosophical reflections and aphorisms, 1936-1942, 1947-1948, 1952. A short essay on Barbados, 1936, is accompanied by photographs, and there are also a number of photographs of Montréal scenes. Livinson's autograph collection consists of letters from prominent men, largely Montrealers, in business and government.
