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The collection consists of correspondence, research files, manuscripts, journals, and ephemera created and accumulated by writer and scholar Leon Edel, who was notably the editor and biographer of Henry James as well as Edmund Wilson.

The collection consists of lecture notes from Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, dated around 1873. The lecture is divided into three parts. The first part discusses the origins of textiles, with a particular emphasis on cotton. The second part explores the ribbon, detailing its uses and origins in Normandy, France. The third part addresses industrial progress and modern ribbon manufacturing, and it presents the biography of Jean Baptiste Masselin, the founder of the ribbon industry in France.

The collection consists of reports, correspondence, borrowing agreements, and issues of the McGill University Medical Library News from December 1979 to December 1994. It also includes library guides; documents concerning off-site storage at the Currie Gym (1999, 2002, 2013); records of library opening hours from 1980 to 2000; and letters, emails, and a 13-page petition addressing low temperatures in the Health Sciences Library (1989–1991). Additional materials include reports and articles on air quality concerns in the Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building following lawsuits filed by Dr. Mishkin and Dr. Aaron after their leukemia diagnoses (2002), as well as the Life Sciences Library Concept Brief (2008).

The collection further holds pamphlets such as Walking Tour of McGill University (1990) and Continuity & Change: 175 Years of the McGill University Health Sciences Library (1999); reprints of historical articles on the medical library McGill University, The Medical Library (C.F. Wylde, 1927), History of the Medical Library, McGill University (M. Bickley, 1954), The McGill Medical Librarians, 1829-1929, (M. Benjamin, 1962), The Osler Library of the History of Medicine (Dr. Bates, 1967); a June 26, 2013 issue of The Montreal Gazette featuring the article McGill’s Medical Library is Closing, Staff Say; and a copy of C. Lyons’s Consultations regarding the Future of the Life Sciences Library: Possible Effects on the Osler Library (May 10, 2013).

Collection consists of an impartial 19th-century transcription of Franquet's "Voyages et mémoires sur le Canada" (https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/oclc/49159386) by an unknown author, along with its English translation.

This collection, assembled by the Faculty of Dentistry, consists of curricula vitae, photocopied notices of papers Francis presented at conferences, and photocopies of his thesis and some of his published articles.

Collection consists of a manuscript book containing numerous short handwritten excerpts, fragments of poems, reflections, and quotations from various authors, primarily focused on flowers, health, and wisdom. It also includes pages of handwritten poems by C.J.C. Briscoe, the uncle of J. Kerr. Includes a six-page typewritten fable titled "The butterfly and the ant: a fable," written in 1886. Includes a one-page typewritten article titled, "Observations of the Works of Modern Flower Painters, Miss Lawrence." This article is "a copy made from a book entitled "A Practical Essay on the Art of Flower Painting" by John Cart Burgess, Professor and Teacher of Drawing and Painting, and an Exhibitor at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1811" (from a note on the bottom of the page).

This volume is a circulating letter of the first graduating class in Agriculture; a class member would write his personal and career news addressed to the class in general and forward the book to the next person to do the same.

The collection consists of books, periodicals, and published ephemera related to alternative media between roughly the 1960s and 1998. The collections has a special focus on Quebec alternative, grassroots, and political publications as well as journalism trade publications and ephemera, and union and labour movement publications. Some publications are from Cuba and China, including Cuban calendars and some documents, books, and newspapers on China.

The collection consists of her manuscript of "David and the Bear Man," which was published by Macmillan in 1929. It also contains manuscript, typescript, and galley proof versions of "The Singing Swan: An Account of Ann Seward and Her Acquaintance with Dr. Johnson, Boswell, and Others of Their Time," published by Yale University Press in 1931. Additionally, the collection features six black-and-white photographs intended for reproduction in the biography, as well as three letters concerning its publication.

Manuscript is a typewritten preface with handwritten corrections for the book "In Gipsy Camp and Royal Palace; Wanderings in Rumania" (1924), by Emil Otto Hoppé. It is signed by Marie, Queen, consort of Ferdinand I, King of Romania, 1875-1938.