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.

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 consists of notebooks of Armstrong's notes taken during travels primarily in Quebec's regions with observations, interview notes, tasting notes, and information such as food prices. The notebooks begin in 1986, dating from when she began her travels in Quebec for her food reporting. The notebooks cover the years 1986-1989, 1992, 1995-2000, 2003-2016. Later notebooks (2000s) tend to be labeled by date only, while early notebooks (1980s) tend to have both date and location. The notebooks include many items laid in, such as business cards, and post-it notes. From 1986 to 1999, the notebooks represent Armstrong's travels throughout Quebec; later notebooks include notes taken in some international destinations in Europe and the United States. The earliest notebook includes notes taken during a French immersion trip to Jonquière in 1986. In general, the notebooks contain handwritten notes on dishes and their preparation, food products and production, restaurants, grocery store food prices, ephemera like business cards, and notes from interviews with chefs, home cooks, and food producers.

This series consists of manuscripts written by Farkas, both drafts and final copies. These manuscripts include Chance Takes, Murders, Face Off/Mise au Jeu, Surviving Wor(l)ds, Blood is Blood, How To, Never Again, Szerbusz, Life Till The Next Morning, Romantic at Heart and Other Faults, Language Cops, This Wind, and Katie the Collector.

Series consists of approximately 300 culinary, medical, and household recipes dating from roughly the 1780s through the 1850s. Recipes are handwritten in multiple late 18th- and early 19th-century hands on papers of varying sizes, including many small fragments. Medical recipes consist of doctors' prescriptions and various formulae for making and using medicines. Household recipes and instructions are found for products such as polishes, cleaning solutions, and dyes, and activities such as clothes washing. Culinary recipes, the largest category of recipes, are found for a variety of dishes and ingredients, including multiple recipes for puddings, wines, jellies, cakes, gingerbreads, vinegars, biscuits, yeast, pickled dishes, and preserved fruits.
Many contain attributions by the recipe writers, listing the creator or provenance of the recipe. Some recipes also feature names of addressees. Many of these are addressed to Mrs. Warde and appear to be recipes that were either sent to her or solicited by her from friends and acquaintances. One document that postdates the rest of the items in the series is a bill (1950) addressed to Mrs. Warde-Aldam (MSG 1231-2-9).

Series consists of Christmas cards as well as some New Year's greeting cards produced between approximately 1920 and 1989. Many cards come from universities and cultural institutions. Greeting companies like Hallmark and Carleton Cards are represented later on chronologically in the series. Many cards during the 1940s reflect various international aid efforts.

Consists of textual records relating to Canadian railways and an export catalogue from the Canadian Car and Foundry Company.

Series consists of materials related to Dewdney’s undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, including essays, notebooks and lab books. Also includes one copy of University of Toronto’s May 1932 Cap and Gown magazine, scripts from plays, sonnets and doodles, as well as the minutes of a student group called “The Three Musketeers”. Essays are in no discernable order, notebooks ordered by subject/course.

Series contains UCM publications for their annual conventions from 1901-1919. These publications were programmes of their annual conventions and included articles discussing the activities and achievements of the year. The series is arranged chronologically and includes duplicates.