Fonds consists of family prints and photographs of his time in the Royal Canadian Air Force, stationed at Summerside, Prince Edward Island, during the Second World War. As well as a memorandum to the Building Committee, December 1969 titled "Some Reflections on Recent Architecture at Queen's University."
Fonds consists of memorabilia relating to her time as a student at Queen's including programmes to Queen's Athletics Awards nights, the score to "The All-Queen's Revue" 1950 production of 'Dear Susie', and photographs of Pam Buchan as a member of the Queen's Bands, of a women's hockey team, and accepting an a athletic award; a clipping of 'Boo Hoo the Bear', the Queen's mascot; and a number of Queen's crests.
This fonds consists of correspondence, on personal, literary, artistic and particularly theatre matters. Material also contains a couple of pieces of art work by Grant Macdonald.
The collection consists of both Leal's own photographs and those he collected. There is a large number of portrait photographs which are arranged by surname but are undated. There are also a number of personal photographs which are listed by date (1937-1953) and topic and include such subject matter as the royal visit of King George to Kingston in 1939, some World War II activities, social events of the Canadian Locomotive company as well as collected photographs of air races, 1928-1930. There are also a number of commercial business photographs.
Sous-fonds consists of a typescript with holograph notes for "Twentieth Century Canadian Poetry" which was edited by Birney; includes letter from Birney to Ryerson Press (1953 June 2) discussing book. Also a typescript for "David and other poems."
