Fonds consists of congratulatory letters regarding Ballard's appointment as President of the National Research Council (NRC), three sound recordings of the touch-sensitive organ from the electronic music laboratories of the NRC, various honours and awards as well as some miscellaneous publications from Westinghouse Electric.
Subject files consisting of news clippings, press releases and pamphlets. It also includes a small number of negatives and contact sheets of photographs from Journal issues from the late 1980s to 1999.
The bulk of the fonds is the correspondence of Carrie and Julia. Of particular interest is their letters from Lady Agnes Macdonald, widow of Sir John. Baroness Macdonald's letters tell of her life abroad with her daughter Mary and her continuing interest in Ottawa life. There is a small amount of correspondence from Miriam Reiffenstein Macpherson Fenwick, the daughter of Miriam Reiffenstein Macpherson. Besides legal papers, such as wills, administration of trustees and estates, the fonds reflects important happenings in the life of the Reiffenstein family; the fire at the family home in Ottawa in 1885, Carrie's train trip West with the MacDonalds in 1886, a family trip abroad in 1889, the diamond wedding anniversary of George and Georgina Reiffenstein in 1900, and the trip to England in 1904 by Carrie and Julia where Julia died in London.
Correspondence, two record books listing some of the items in the library of L. Mackay Smith, resolutions of the Indians of Quebec Association General Assembly, 1971-1975; resolutions of the Executive Committee of the Indians of Quebec Association, 1973-1975 and resolutions of the Board of Directors Committee, Indians of Quebec Association, 1973-1974.
Farmer's work diary and accounts, 1890-1893, agricultural periodical and advertisements, 1898, and religious pamphlets. Includes: one Constitution, By-Laws, Rules of Order etc for Cataraqui Lodge, No. 10 of the Independent Order of Oddfellows; two Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book, designed for Farmers, Mechanics and All People; one Catechism for Confirmation; one "Are You Regenerate?" booklet relating to being "born again"; one notebook containing farm happenings includes harvests and animal deaths or purchases etc; one issue of The Canadian Horticulturist (Oct 1898); one Pocket Compendium for the Friends of Massey-Harris Co. Limited; one price list of E.D. Smith Nursery in Winona, Ontario; one envelope for Green's Nursery Co., Rochester, NY; one Surprise Soap catalogue (1899); one Elipse Soap catalogue; one Almanac & Notebook containing rough notes; and one The Perfect Life booklet.
