Six manuscript sermons were composed by Abbott in 1824-1825 but, as annotations indicated, delivered on a number of occasions thereafter.

Fonds contains the letters of certification of William A. De Wolf Smith's attendance at medical courses at McGill University in 1883. The fonds includes three letters of certification signed by teachers.

Bovey's papers document his involvement with a number of organizations, his political, literary, and military careers, and his travels. His files as president of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild, 1930-1936, include reports, correspondence and speeches, while those connected with the Canadian Legion Educational Services also include photographs and printed material, 1939-1946. The C.B.C. series comprises programmes, draft speeches and letters, 1936-1944. His political correspondents include St. Laurent and MacKenzie King, 1940-1944. Speeches made by Bovey before the Legislative Council, business and other groups discuss a wide range of political, social and educational issues are supplemented by clipping files on Québec politics. Bovey's literary ventures generated correspondence and book reviews, as well as manuscript poems, 1939-1941, n.d., while his World War I military service is the subject of a small file of correspondence, 1915-1953. Finally, Bovey assembled scrapbooks of photographs and souvenirs of his voyages between 1930 and 1939. For Bovey's files as director of Extra-Mural Relations and Extension at McGill, see McGill Administrative Records, Record Group 44.

The Penfield fonds consists of over eighty metres of Penfield's personal and professional records dating from his childhood up until his death in 1976, including during his career at the Montreal Neurological Institute. The materials in the fonds include photographs, correspondence, manuscripts and drafts of publications and speeches, research notes, glass slides, bound reports, films, and academic gowns.

Two binders of typescript notes compiled by McBride in preparation for a proposed book on the history of mining in Canada and the World.

Fonds consists of original manuscript for the romantic opera, "Conrad, or, The Heir of Holstein," adapted from Matthew Gregory Lewis's One O'Clock. Libretto was composed by W. H. Bellamy and music by William Hutchins Callcott.

Fonds contains architectural drawings representing twenty-one projects, including:

1. Town of Mount Royal Library; 1966 (26 drawings)
2. Sources Library, Roxboro, Quebec: 1967 (11 drawings)
3. Pointe Claire Library, Pointe-Claire, Quebec: 1973 (31 drawings)
4. Brenninkmeyer Residence, Beaconsfield, Quebec: 1975 (58 drawings)
5. North Hatley Library Expansion & Renovation: 1985 (18 drawings)
6. Bank of Montreal Molsons Bank Building: 1987-88 (16 drawings)
7. Bank of Montreal Main Branch, Place d'Armes, Montreal: 1987 (18 drawings)
8. St-Patrick's Church, Montreal (62 drawings)
9. Office Building, Greene Avenue, Westmount, Quebec: 1985-1990 (135 drawings)
10. McGill Bookstore, Montreal, Quebec: 1987-1990 (91 drawings)
11. Modification to a Barn, Baie d'Urfe, Quebec: 1989 (23 drawings)
12. Andraos Residence, Surrey Gardens, Westmount, Quebec: 1989 (35 drawings)
13. Chapelle du Frere Andre, Oratoire St-Joseph, Montreal: 1991 (22 drawings)
14. Loyola High School, Montreal: 1991 (59 drawings)
15. Restoration of Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal: 1993-1996 (36 drawings)
16. Eglise Notre-Dame de la Garde, Verdun, Quebec: 1997 (8 drawings)
17. Eclairage de la Basilique Oratoire St-Joseph du Mont-Royal, Montreal: 1999 (10 drawings)
18. McGill University Athletic Complex, Montreal: 1992-2001 (172 drawings)
19. Cegep John Abbott, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec (194 drawings)
20. Concordia University Downtown Library, Montreal (204 drawings)
21. Holy Name of Jesus Church, Chomedy, Laval: 1968 (11 drawings)

McGill pocket diaries kept by Wendell B. Brewer while a student at McGill, noting his academic, sports, and social activities for 1920-1921, 1921-1922, and 1922-1923.

The fonds consists of condolence letters on the occasion of Wayne Corse's death during active service in World War II; other textual records; convocation program, 1943; McGill Daily banquet, 1939, 1940; card from the Canadian government, 1927; pamphlet "My Son is Missing" broadcast on the CBC; business card; McGill handbook 1941-1942; photos of Wayne Corse, Rosamond Brown; certificate from McGill University approximately 1942; McGill pin; and military identification tags.

Most of this material concerns the last illness and death of Robert Harvey Warden, and comprises letters of sympathy to himself and his wife, and following his death, condolences to his wife and children. The letters are from personal friends as well as from Presbyterian bodies. Printed obituaries are also included. Letters of condolence to Mrs Warden on the death of her daughter Lila Dunton are likewise accompanied by newspaper obituaries, 1908.