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Family correspondence chiefly from 1763 to 1820 and family history documents.

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.

"Laure", a novel in French, is ascribed to Maria Neglet by a pencilled note in another hand.

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.

Madame Desrivière's diaries describe social, family and economic life in Montréal and Stansbridge, Québec. The first (1843-1846) and last (1853-1854) volumes are in French, the others in English.

Consists of an English translation of a letter to the Marquis de la Jonquière written by Antoine-Louis Rouillé, comte de Jouy, secretary of state for the French Navy, at Versailles, dated 28 February 1750. The letter discusses an immediate release of prisoners of war taken during conflicts between the French and British colonies. It also includes a mention of Indigenous allies of England and France, and Indigenous people captured during the conflicts: "the Indian Prisoners among the two Nations be likewise released, but after all the French and English Prisoners are released" The letter also includes the name of examiner Josiah Willard, secretary of the province of Massachusetts-Bay.

Fonds contains original manuscript, 1893, Chapter VII of Marcella.

Fonds includes The Duel, a prose short story, December 1838, 68 pages. Also included are prose pieces by Susan Corse, dated March-August 1838, and Elements of the philosophy of the human mind [approimately 1860?].

Album written by Mary Kingsley, comprising 17 poems