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Correspondence and poems.

The fonds consists of correspondence of A.T. Drummond, 1861-1923, and of members of his family. The correspondence deals primarily with Drummond's carreer as railroad entrepreneur and his time at Queen's though there is a fair amount of material which pertains to botanical matters and interests.

Fonds consists of booklets written by A. Campbell Derby about his grandfather, Dr..W.J. Derby entitled, 'The Life and Times of Dr. W.J. Derby'; and his father, Leonard Lansdowne Derby, titled 'Memories of my Father'.

Fonds consists of a "head and shoulders" portrait of the Rev. Dr. Angus McColl, one of the graduates of the first class attending Queen's University at Kingston.

The fonds is comprised of material gathered, collected and created by Ann Straus Gertler during her four decades as a peace advocate and activist.

Gertler acted as a distribution clearing house of sorts for information pertaining to disarmament activities in North America and Europe. The material is mainly comprised of literature and ephemera collected and gathered, which she would redistribute to those she thought interested in the activities of like-minded groups, or interested in knowing what was being discussed by various policy makers. For a number of years she issued the Ann Gertler Report which would synthesize this information for groups such as Voice of Women (V.O.W.), Project Ploughshares, and the Group of 78. The majority of this material is in the subject files series.

Ann Gertler was also a active member of a variety of organizations such as United Nations non-governmental organizations observer group, V.O.W., Group of 78, Canadian Pugwash, Project Ploughshares, the Consultative Group to the UN Ambassador on Disarmament, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security (CIIPS), and the St Lawrence River Public Advisory Committee. Each of these organizations are represented with series in the fonds.

Also included in the fonds are the yearly notebooks, calendars and correspondence that Gertler maintained reflecting her activities, thoughts and interests at a myriad of meetings she attended or observed. This material along with her educational materials from Columbia and other collected biographical information constitutes the Personal series.

Fonds consist of dance cards relating to various functions attended while A.B. Mowat was a student at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario.

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, writings, memorabilia and photographs. The papers are divided into two series: Correspondence of Anna Walling - prominent correspondents include Charlotte Perkins Gliman, Emma Goldman, and Selig Perlman, and Correspondence of Others - including correspondence of William English Walling, other family members and Leonard Abbott. The correspondence (1897-1964) which includes family, friends and political associates documents Walling's involvement in political causes. The letters also reveal Anna Walling's feelings on personal matters, social questions and her reactions to meetings with prominent persons both in the United States and abroad.

Fonds consists of her diary written during 1874, in the Marlbank, Ontario, area, and includes accounts, a list of persons deceased the same year, and again in 1891-1892, and snippets of poetry and biblical passages; a photograph of ?Anna Young?; and two promissary notes relating to George Young.

Fonds consists of a scrapbook containing programmes, invitations, clippings, correspondence, photographs including several of the fire at Kingston Hall in 1931, pertaining to her time as a student at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario.

The fonds consists of a scrapbook (photocopy) containing numerous mementos, including photographs, programmes, clippings, invitations and dance cards, of her days at Queen's, 1924 - 1927; a poem extolling her chosen University and written by her during her second year [1926]; and a photo album belonging to her future husband, Hugh Cameron Jenkinson that was compiled by himself during his days an Honours Engineering student at Queen's, 1923 - 1927.