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Describes journey from Kingston to Baltimore. Includes transcript of one letter to brother William.

Refers to personal charges against a parishoner, and gives a character reference.

Relates to military articles for the 57th Regiment and the 81st Regiment.

Consists of correspondence from William Macaulay to his mother and brother residing in Kingston while he was living in England studying at Oxford (1816-1818).

Letter relates to the return of a document in a legal case and the payment to be received by Fairfield.

Includes transactions for a general store.

Two letters from Susan Webster of Weare, New Hampshire addressed to her cousin Hannah Straw in Hamilton, Upper Canada, relating to social and family events.

The journal/commonplace book contains roughly 40 pages. There appear to be pages which have been cut out, and material has been pasted in. The content is varied and the book seems to have been used and reused at different points in Stretton's travels as there is a mix of European drawings with those of Canada. There are eight documentary pen and ink watercolours depicting Canadian content: "Carioling on the St. Lawrence" (1823); "Canadian Marche donc Cariole"; "Colonel Frobishers Cariole"; "Islands of Ice off the Banks of Newfoundland, June 7th and 10th, 1818"; "Falls of the Chaudiere near Quebec, Canada" (1824); "Pageantry (French-Canadian) Aug 14, 1823"; and, "A Quebec Indian and Squaw" (1824). Also included is a copy of a hand drawn plan of Quebec (city) for 1824, and wash over pencil (graphite) drawings of: a cave scene at Quebec; a waterfall at Quebec; the Albany Barracks; Tintern Abbery, Wales; Stonehenge; and a few other drawings with non-Canadian content. There are snippets of recorded weather, a recipe for lavender water, clippings on various subjects (curling being one), and a rather lengthy report of the Halifax Sledge Club from 1843.

Relates to business transactions.

Item is a photograph of a portrait of Sir Peregrine Maitland.