The fonds consists of books used in part by Fairfield family for account books : James Macfarlane and Company account and letterbook of Kingston Chronicle, 1832-1834; Cataraqui Bridge Company letterbook, 1827-1830; daybook for cut stone business, 1889; bank book of Herman Fairfield with Merchants' Bank of Canada, 1869.
Three letters to Miss Johnston from John Buchan, 1927, from John Gielgud in 1936 and from Lucy Maud Montgomery, undated. With Montgomery's letter is a one-page manuscript of The Land of Uprightness. With the Gielgud letter is a clipping about Gielgud.
Two scrapbooks; one bound in purple with gold lettering and inscribed on the first page. The 100 pages of this album have been numbered by machine, The other volume is bound in green and black with gold lettering andsome of its pages have been numbered by hand. Both books contain news clippings on matters concerning medicine, women's rights, spiritualism and political personages.
This collection consists of a scrapbook entitled "Scraps", containing correspondence, clippings, pamphlets, speeches, 'Certificate of Incorporation' relating to 'The American Party' and tracts relating to William Sulzer.