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The fonds consists of notes and manuscript material for his Rougon-Macquart cycle of novels. Les Rougon-Macquart was set in France's Second Empire and depicted the effects of violence, alcoholism, and prostitution in two branches of a single family over five generations. The fonds includes: La Fortune Des Rougon, 1871 (The Fortune of the Rougions); La Curée, 1874 (The Rush for the Spoil); Le Ventre De Paris, 1874 (The Belly of Paris); La Conquête De Plassans, 1874 (The Conquest of Plassans); La Faute de L'Abbé Mouret, 1875; Son Excellence Eugène Rougon, 1876 (His Excellency Eugène Rougon); L'Assommoir, 1877 (The Dram Shop / The Gin Palace); Une Page d'Amour, 1878; Nana, 1880 (trans.); Pot-Bouille, 1882 (Restless House); Au Bonheur des Dames, 1883 (The Ladies' Paradise); La Joie de Vivre, 1884 (How Jolly Life Is); Germinal, 1885; L'Oeuvre, 1886 (The Masterpiece); La Terre, 1887 (The Soil); La Rêve, 1888 (The Dream); La Bête Humaine, 1890 (The Beast in Man); L'Argent, 1891 (Money); La Débâcle, 1892 (The Downfall); and Le Docteur Pascal, 1893 (Doctor Pascal).

The fonds consists of correspondence from various members of the family, land grants, deeds, mortgages, stocks, wills, probates, power of attorney, financial records and a copy of the Herchmer Family Tree. Most of the material relates to Johan Jost Herkimer; his son Lawrence Herchmer; Lawrence's son, the Reverend Willam Macaulay Herchmer and his wife Frances and his son Col. William Macaulay Herchmer of the North-West Mounted Police.

Original manuscript and typescript of display book. Published by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston.

Two volumes of journals recording the passage of vessels up and down the Rideau canal, and the pointing, painting, and repairing of locks. Includes visitors, and copies of a few letters and the statement of dues.

The fonds consists of documents concerning labour relations of the time, including letters requesting employment, employee expense accounts, letters from the penitentiary regarding fees and the nature of quality labour, and an early wage dispute/settlement from an employee against J.P. Milliner and Company.

The fonds consists of correspondence; minutes; scrapbooks; brochures, including a promotional booklet entitled, "You will be welcome in Kingston" containing various aerial views of the City's waterfront and inner harbour, the Alcan and Dupont plants, the Kingston Dry Dock, the Kingston Yacht Club, and Old Fort Henry; plans; newsletters; financial records;and photographs detailing the work of a medium sized city Chamber of Commerce in Canada.

Fonds consists of correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings. Included is material related to the School's closing in 1936.

Correspondence, minutes, manuals and pamphlets.

Fonds consists of correspondence, research files, lecture notes, examination questions and background notes on pre-1896 balance of payments. Among the more interesting files in this collection are a whole series showing various ways capital flows to and from Canada based on figures drawn largely from the 1914-26 period. For most of the early 1940's Knox's work reveals his interest in war finance and post war recovery but there are also files on something called the Book Binder's Arbitration. After the war there are files on a Hyde Park Conference, Bretton Woods, the European League for Economic Co-operation and the Commonwealth Conference of 1951. Two other interesting files are the one of the Royal Society Selection Committee of 1948-9 and another on a 'Proposed Association of Canadian University Teachers'.