The fonds consists of the immediate and related business and legal venture of the Scovil family in the regards to their general store business. The bulk of the fonds consists of ledgers, daybooks and record books of the Scovil General Store through three successive owners. The related legal documents pertain to wills and testaments, mortgages, quit claims, indentures and land transfers. Of particular interest is volume 41 which includes eight pages of medicinal recipes.
The fonds predominantly consists of hand written letters, telegrams and postcards from Symonds to Henry D. Davray. Points of origin include Rome(1897), Madrid (1899), Leipzig (1899) and Cardoba (1898). Also included are two typed copies of letters, 1890, to Bliss Carman and a hand written note to Mr. Symons from Elodie Dolmetsch (Desiree), sister-in-law and later 2nd wife of Arnold Dolmetsch French born musician and intrument maker.
The fonds consists of correspondence and business papers of the Rankin family : Andrew Rankin, carter; his sons Charles, a carpenter and James W., a tinsmith; and his wife Mrs.Ann Jane Rankin. The papers include business records with such local firms as Anglin, Sowards, Robertson, Livingston, Cartwright, Cunningham, Isaac Newlands, Simmons, Rathbun, McKelvey and Birch, Dalton and Strange; a number of lawyers including John A. Macdonald, Kirkpatrick and Rogers, Britton and Whiting; and a number of doctors.
