The fonds contains the company's business correspondence related to the importation of food products, essences, and spices from international manufacturers, and other business expenditures, as well as some correspondence with government regulators regarding food labeling and quality. In addition, some letters are from charitable and cultural organizations to which the company donated. Some personal correspondence of Henri Jonas is included, as well as numerous restaurant bills and and menus, including for the Montreal Hunt Club.

Chiefly found is incoming correspondence with product suppliers and invoices for various services, including car repair, advertising, stationary, funeral arrangements, and photography. Suppliers include companies from France, Germany, Norway, UK, Italy, Sicily, Hungary, China, India, and Spain. Products include essential oils, soaps and luxury food products such as sardines, truffles, preserves, jam, Hungarian paprika, Chinese tea, olive oil, caviar, liqueurs, foie gras, sardines, and ketchup. Two Montreal-area manufacturers are represented, with a catalogue from Couvrette Sauriol Limitée (1937) and a brochure for the Stuart Brothers. Included is one letter from postwar France soliciting renewed a commercial relationship following the allied victory (Royal Champignon). There are also bulletins from and correspondence with, including one outgoing letter, the Canadian Department of Agriculture regarding quality and labelling of canned fruits and vegetables.

A few letters are personal in nature and addressed to Henri Jonas himself. There are also telegrams and letters from Canadian organizations such as the Pacific Railway Company, and Canadian societies and organizations to which the company donated money (Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Montreal Orchestra, Hospital for Sick Children London, Salvation Army, McGill University Centennial Endowment).

Some of the company's advertising materials are also found, as well as food labels for products including mushrooms, wine, truffles, olive oil, sardines, and lemonade).

Consists of catalogued published at the head office in Montreal, Canada.

File contains part of Lord Noel Noel-Buxton's autobiography. Includes the table of contents, a timeline of Buxton's life, and a list of major personal accomplishments.

File contains drafts of chapter 1 of Lord Noel Noel-Buxton's autobiography, entitled "Parents." Includes 6 different drafts of a chapter about Buxton's parents and grandmother.

File contains drafts of chapter 3 of Lord Noel Noel-Buxton's autobiography, entitled "School and Cambridge." Includes sections titled Harrow, Switzerland, Miss Marsh, Cambridge, Fowell Buxton, and Uncle Charles.

File contains drafts of chapter 6 of Lord Noel Noel-Buxton's autobiography, entitled "Benefactors." The chapter consists of memories of Buxton's mentors and important family members, including Edward Clifford, Buxton's sisters, his grandmother, his aunts

File contains drafts of chapter 9 of Noel Noel-Buxton's autobiography entitled "Politics." Chapter is about Buxton's political life with sections including "Early Toryism," "Norfolk elections," "Labour," "The first Labour government," "Agricultural wages

File contains drafts of chapter 10 of Noel Noel-Buxton's autobiography entitled "Various causes." Chapter concerns Buxton's work for social causes, with sections titled "Temperance reform," "Poor Law reform," "Town gardens," "Agricultural co-operation," "

File contains drafts of chapter 12 of Noel Noel-Buxton's autobiography, entitled "The German danger." Includes sections with the headings "The intimate papers of Colonel House," "Anglo-German Relations," and "Enterprise."

Letters from Rennell to Noel Buxton. One letter is unsigned.