The fonds consists of correspondence, research notes, drafts, and files of source materials relating to Legends of the South Sea. The fonds also contains binders of biographical and subject material, correspondence, indexes, drafts, newsclippings and photographs relating to The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Also included are two sound recordings: an interview with Alpers about the Mansfield material; and an interview conducted by Alpers, recorded July 17, 1970, with Richard Murray discussing the early years of his life and his recollection of persons and events involving Katherine Mansfield as well as recollections of Katherine herself. As part of the Mansfield Archive, are three microfilm reels of material, one of which holds the Mansfield letters held at the British Museum.
Letter from the Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Ottawa General Hospital, relating to the work of Caroline Cairnie Jenkins, following her death in July, 1984 and a photograph.
Fonds, with accruals, consists of 'Student Lists', (1939-1941); correspondence, notes, photographs, and clippings relating to polymer research conducted at Queen's; audio cassettes, transcripts, and brochures pertaining to the public lectures held in conjunction with the 'Global Warming Symposium', sponsored by the Departments of Chemistry, Economics, and Geography and staged at Queen's University at Kingston, as part of the Sesquicentennial Celebrations (February 1992).It also includes minutes of Queen's Chemical Society (1938-1947), and minutes of the student branch of the Chemical Institute of Canada (1942-1953); along with Grenville Frost's student notes on a physical chemistry lecture by Dr. Miller. There are also photographs of people and students in the Chemistry department in the 1970s and 1980s, and collages of the January Competition in Analytical Chemistry (1961,1963-1965, 1967).