The fonds consists of colour transparencies, colour slides (35 mm) and black and white negatives of aerial views of Eastern Canada including the Maritimes, Quebec and Ontario in general, and Eastern Ontario, especially the region around Kingston, in particular. Included are views of private dwellings and public, industrial, and commercial buildings; mines and quarries; landscapes and forms; urban waterfronts; the Thousand Islands; the Rideau and St. Lawrence River valleys; military camps; and highway interchanges.
The fonds consists of holograph manuscripts of 'The Family at Football', 'What the Radio Overheard,' and '[?] to the Underworld,' as well as an incomplete manuscript.
The fonds consists of correspondence and drafts of manuscripts. Includes correspondence with Earle Birney, Mazo de la Roche, Louis Dudek, Raymond Knister, Malcolm Lowry, Desmond Pacey, Seymour Mayne, Sir Charles G.D. Roberts and Miriam Waddington.
The fonds consists of correspondence with academic colleagues and publishing companies, files of writings (rough, draft and published), field notes, notebooks and legal records relating to the Canada Thermos trademark case.
The fonds consists of correspondence, research notes, drafts, and files of source materials relating to Legends of the South Sea. The fonds also contains binders of biographical and subject material, correspondence, indexes, drafts, newsclippings and photographs relating to The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Also included are two sound recordings: an interview with Alpers about the Mansfield material; and an interview conducted by Alpers, recorded July 17, 1970, with Richard Murray discussing the early years of his life and his recollection of persons and events involving Katherine Mansfield as well as recollections of Katherine herself. As part of the Mansfield Archive, are three microfilm reels of material, one of which holds the Mansfield letters held at the British Museum.