Excerpts from letters written by a final year Arts student, and Warden of Gordon House, regarding student life at the University to a friend serving overseas.
Fonds consists of an album containing photographs of Kingston and Barriefield during the Second World War. Album includes images of the automotive, motorcycle, and munitions training centres, individuals, and soldiers marching in the city, as well as military buildings and equipment.
Item is a photo album with numerous b&w photographs attached inside. About halfway through the album, there begins multiple pages of photographs around Queen's University: of students and buildings etc. It can be surmised that this photo album belonged to a female student from the graduating class around 1945, as there are faint dates written in pencil on some of the pages.
The collection is comprised of holograph lecture notes on: Metaphysics; Spelling; Grammar; Mathematics, Classics; Junior Philosophy; Junior English; European and Roman History; Moral Philosophy; Latin; Psychology; Inorganic Chemisty; Political Economy; Medicine; and History. There are also diaries and correspondence.
Letters to Rudolf Joseph, Architect, New York, a recent refugee from Germany. Letters are from Hendrick Willem Van Loon (1882-1944). The correspondence is in English and German.
