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Item is a newspaper article on John Buchan's death and previous skull fracture.

Diary of a young woman touring the Thousand Islands for the month of August 1883 starting in Hartford, Connecticut on August 1st, 1883 and ending in Montreal on September 1st, 1883. The author spends much of the diary remarking on the beauty of the scenery, the quality of the food and variations in the weather. She recounts day excursions on both American and Canadian islands and towns and mentions Clayton, Alexandria Bay, Gananoque, Brown's Bay, Hay's Island, Whitney Point, Guernsey Point, and Stave, Bluff and Skinner islands. She is traveling with the Redfield family (Mr. and Mrs. Redfield and their children George and Henry) and the "Professor". They encounter a Dr. Norris who is known to the family. When they arrive in Montreal they stay at the Windsor Hotel, which is greatly admired.

There is an additional three page entry at the end of the diary describing a trip to the White Mountains in New Hampshire in September of 1885.

This album consists of pictures from the Thousand Islands taken during the summer of 1911. Includes views of Ryder cottage, Wilson's Canal, yachts the 'Ramona' and 'Rowena', the 'Parthia', a barge, and engine hoist of the Kingston Salvage Company, and a couple of Steamers.

Item is a newspaper article concerning the theory of probability and physicists including Dr. Darwin and Lord Rutherford. Item is maintained inside a large brown folder entitled, "Memory Hold-the-Door"

Item is a small map (in black ink) of the Oxford University Press. Item was located and retrieved from WD Jordan Special Collections - Buchan, under call number Z232 .0909.

Item appears to be a book mark with "The Lady Tweedsmuir" written on the front with black marker.

Item is a broadside advertising The Celebrated Horse, the Young Frontenac, who would be willing to stand for mares at various locations in the Kingston area.

The fonds consists of a scrapbook containing clippings about ships, as well as assorted stories and poems.

Item is a telegram from Members of Parliamentary Palestine Committee, expressing congratulations, likely to his appointment to the office of the Governor General.

Item is a telegram , expressing congratulations to John Buchan for his appointment, likely to the office of the Governor General.