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Scrapbooks relating to the American Civil War. Contains news clippings and patriotic cartoons from American newspapers concerning the Civil War and Fenian activities.

Three letters to Miss Johnston from John Buchan, 1927, from John Gielgud in 1936 and from Lucy Maud Montgomery, undated. With Montgomery's letter is a one-page manuscript of The Land of Uprightness. With the Gielgud letter is a clipping about Gielgud.

Autograph album contains autographs and holograph letters from many well-known figures, including Sir Isaac Brock, Lord Elgin, John Keble, John Henry Newman, Bishop Strachan, Lord John Russell, Governor-General Metcalfe and Lord Dufferin.

An indexed and bound volume of letters (copies) between Kipling and J.W. Barry, 1932-1936 along with a copy of "Supplication of the Black Aberdeen" by Kipling and "A Reader's Guide to Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories for Little Children" compiled by R.E. Harbord.

This collection consists of a photocopy of a letter written by Robert Burns to the Duke of Queensberry in 1791 (the original is framed in Special Collections), and the Christie auction catalogue from where the letter was purchased.

Letter from John Wright to the Upper Canada Tract Society seeking assistance in the research of his book "Early Prayer Books in America." -Letter from John Young of the Upper Canada Tract Society to a Dr. Hodgins (?) asking that he contact Mr. Wright regarding the matter. Also includes a small sheet of hand written notes.

The fonds consists of records of Primary Lodges #47 Westport, 1896-1930, #49 Newboro, 1856-1909, #650 Burridge, 1881-1928, #2883 Newboro, 1926-1950, #693 Westport, Western Star Ladies Orange Benevolent Association, 1925-1927; printed proceedings of Loyal Orange Association of British America, 1855-1949, Provincial Grand Lodge of Ontario East, 1865-1957, and District Lodge of North Crosby, 1860, 1908-1955; constitutions and rituals, 1855-1924; Minute Books, Attendance and Dues Registers, Treasurers' Accounts for South Lake Settlement Lodge #233; Minute Book for Gananoque Lodge #51.

The collection consists of correspondence, including a letter of advice, written one week after Confederation, by John A. Macdonald, to Thomas.A. Milne, of Markham Mills, and the Union candidate for the Riding of East York in the 1867 election, concerning James Metcalfe, the ultimate winner; account book (1855-1858); land and business papers; a badge and press clippings about unveiling of the memorial to Macdonald in City Park, Kingston, in 1895.

The collection consists of transcriptions of meeting minutes of the shareholders and annual reports of the Canadian Land and Emigration Company, 1862-1881, as well as transciptions of Directors of the CLE Company from 1868 to 1881. Also includes a 'Diary of general chit-chat and the farm commencing Oct. 1, 1870' and almanacs for 1865 and 1866.

The collection consists of both originals and copies of correspondence between Eddington and other scientists. The records provide a brief glimpse of the development of the field of astrophysics. The correspondents include Albert Einstein, Erwin Shrodinger, Harlow Shapley, Henry Norris Russell, Walter S. Adams and J.C. Kapetyn. Also included are two copies of pages from the manuscripts, Differentiation of any tensor (1918) and Mass-luminosity equation (1924).