The fonds consists of correspondence, research notes, drafts, and files of source materials relating to Legends of the South Sea. The fonds also contains binders of biographical and subject material, correspondence, indexes, drafts, newsclippings and photographs relating to The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Also included are two sound recordings: an interview with Alpers about the Mansfield material; and an interview conducted by Alpers, recorded July 17, 1970, with Richard Murray discussing the early years of his life and his recollection of persons and events involving Katherine Mansfield as well as recollections of Katherine herself. As part of the Mansfield Archive, are three microfilm reels of material, one of which holds the Mansfield letters held at the British Museum.
The fonds consists of manuscript and research material relating to Dr. Riley's primary research interests of Alfred Döblin, Elisabeth Langgässer, Frederick Philip Grove and Thomas Mann, as well as correspondence sent and received by Riley. This fonds contains the following series: Correspondence (1904-2002), Lecture Notes (1938-1997), Research Notes (1919-1996), Writings (1903-2002), Personal & University Business (1945-2003), and Sound Recordings ([ca. 1980]-2002).
Fonds consists of correspondence; manuscripts and typescripts; publications; abstracts; subject files; research notes; personal affects; diplomas and certificates; photographs; and oral history recordings relating to Dr. Travill's research activities concerning the study of Medicine; copy of James E. Fraser's "History of Medicine '17 - Term 1915-16". In large part, the material specifically relates to the history of the Queen's Faculty of Medicine, the development of Medicine in the Kingston area, and the medical personalities involved with this development.
Items include two prints from "The Englishman Extraordinary" describing the events surrounding a mutiny in Allahabad, annotated in pencil, as well as a broadsheet with instructions for the Volunteer Corps.
Fonds consists correspondence; subject files; genealogoical material relating to the Laird and Yeigh families; travel journals; clippings; certificates, including marriage and educational, plus Queen's diploma; collection of postcards acquired during excursion to Europe; family photographs, including portraits and trips to the Rocky Mountains.
