The fonds consists of manuscript and research material relating to Dr. Riley's primary research interests of Alfred Döblin, Elisabeth Langgässer, Frederick Philip Grove and Thomas Mann, as well as correspondence sent and received by Riley. This fonds contains the following series: Correspondence (1904-2002), Lecture Notes (1938-1997), Research Notes (1919-1996), Writings (1903-2002), Personal & University Business (1945-2003), and Sound Recordings ([ca. 1980]-2002).
Fonds consists of correspondence; manuscripts and typescripts; publications; abstracts; subject files; research notes; personal affects; diplomas and certificates; photographs; and oral history recordings relating to Dr. Travill's research activities concerning the study of Medicine; copy of James E. Fraser's "History of Medicine '17 - Term 1915-16". In large part, the material specifically relates to the history of the Queen's Faculty of Medicine, the development of Medicine in the Kingston area, and the medical personalities involved with this development.
Items include two prints from "The Englishman Extraordinary" describing the events surrounding a mutiny in Allahabad, annotated in pencil, as well as a broadsheet with instructions for the Volunteer Corps.
Fonds consists correspondence; subject files; genealogoical material relating to the Laird and Yeigh families; travel journals; clippings; certificates, including marriage and educational, plus Queen's diploma; collection of postcards acquired during excursion to Europe; family photographs, including portraits and trips to the Rocky Mountains.
The fonds consists of a scrapbook (photocopy) containing numerous mementos, including photographs, programmes, clippings, invitations and dance cards, of her days at Queen's, 1924 - 1927; a poem extolling her chosen University and written by her during her second year [1926]; and a photo album belonging to her future husband, Hugh Cameron Jenkinson that was compiled by himself during his days an Honours Engineering student at Queen's, 1923 - 1927.
This collection consists of one sepia-tone, digitally enhanced copy print; two black and white, 4 x 5 copy negatives; and three, 35 mm. copy slides; of 'Camp Iroquois', a summer home built in 1875 by James Wallace, and located on Bostwick Island in the Thousand Islands, Ontario.
Fonds consists of a scrapbook containing programmes, invitations, clippings, correspondence, photographs including several of the fire at Kingston Hall in 1931, pertaining to her time as a student at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario.
Fonds consists of her diary written during 1874, in the Marlbank, Ontario, area, and includes accounts, a list of persons deceased the same year, and again in 1891-1892, and snippets of poetry and biblical passages; a photograph of ?Anna Young?; and two promissary notes relating to George Young.
