Letters to de Vaux regarding projected colony in Canada and one letter from Lord Camden to Lord Melville relating to de Vaux. Copy of an article on de Vaux.
Report by Sir James Carmicheal-Smyth for the Duke of Wellington on the military defences and requirements, engineering establishments and defence of the Canadian frontier in 1826.
In the letter Gowan Gives the history of his connection with the Orange Order from his admission in 1818 in the County of Wexford, Ireland, to the date of writing. He also outlines the position of the Orange Order in Upper Canada in 1832.
Copy of a letter relating to artistic copyright and the anauthorized copying of paintings in the Academy by Gagnon, Coburn, Pilot and others for greeting cards, calendars, etc.