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Contains 8 typed pages of copied burial lists. Copied from Mrs. William Horne, Wolfe Island by Elizabeth S. Williams on September 7th, 1963. The Horne family acquired the ownership of the cemetery lands originally acquired by a Mr. Spinning. This property, known as the Point Alexandria Cemetery, was never transferred to the United Church. Later, Mr. Bruce Horne gave land to the United Church known as the United Church Cemetery. The whole area is known as the Horne's Cemetery and officially as Point Alexandria Cemetery. There are a total of 163 sandstone, limestone, and granite gravestones present as of 1973, the earliest dating to a Ms. Aribella Bush, who died on June 13, 1843.

Item is a list of special purchases, including a collection of letters signed by John Buchan.

The collection was brought together from several family branches related to the Griers, particularly from that of the Cartwright family branch. The collection is comprised of additional material from the Addison, Butler, Farrell-Purnell, Matheson, Stevenson, Stewart,and Dobbs families. Included in the collection are correspondence, journals, photographs, accounts and mementos of Brigadier-General George Strachan Cartwright, as well as photographs and a commonplace book of Anne Leman Purnell and Harriet Dobbs Cartwright. Among the photographs are images of Aden, Yemen, Delhi, India and Niagara Falls from the 1890s.

Item is a photograph of four men and two women, standing from left to right: Susan Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, Mrs. McLaughlin, Mr. McLaughlin, Principal Mackintosh and Henry Pearson Gundy. They are shown standing in front of the John Buchan collection.

Item is a note handwritten in blue crayon. Item was delivered to the Archive in a brown envelope with a label marked "Brockington, Leonard W." "Notes of address at the opening of the John Buchan Collection, October 14, 1955".

Item is a photograph of the John Buchan collection in the Douglas Library at Queen's University. Photograph may have been taken by Dick Herrington.

Item is a note handwritten in blue crayon. Item was delivered to the Archive in a brown envelope with a label marked "Brockington, Leonard W." "Notes of address at the opening of the John Buchan Collection, October 14, 1955".

Item is a typed note on John Buchan's knowledge of Canada: its past, present and future. Item was delivered to the Archive in a brown envelope with a label marked "Brockington, Leonard W." "Notes of address at the opening of the John Buchan Collection, October 14, 1955".

Item is a typed note on the Sovereignty of Canada and the duties of sovereign people. Item was delivered to the Archive in a brown envelope with a label marked "Brockington, Leonard W." "Notes of address at the opening of the John Buchan Collection, October 14, 1955".

Item is a photograph of the John Buchan collection in the Douglas Library at Queen's University. Photograph may have been taken by Dick Herrington.