Fonds consists of legal records such as the Royal Charter and those pertaining to provincial and federal legislation affecting the University; land instruments such as deeds, leases, and agreements, relating to the University; agendas and minutes of the Board of Trustees, the University Senate, and the University Council, as well as for the numerous committees and sub-committees of these bodies; records of Task Forces; records of Principal's Advisory Committee on Race Relations (1990); correspondence with architects; staff award citations; wills; convocation speeches; copies of manuscripts submitted by recipients of the Marty Memorial Scholarship for the publication, 'Still Running'; the 'Domesday Book', including the signatures of a number of honorary degree recipients and other notable visitors to the University over time; a Bible presented to the University by an alumnus to be used at the time of Convocation and other special events; the Letters Patent, for the Armorial Bearings for the Rector of Queen's University at Kingston; ; photographs of Leonard Field, Ban Righ Hall, and the Lower Campus of Queen's University at Kingston taken for easement and property rights matters; photographs of various Brockington Visitors, with members the Brockington Visitorship Committee; and a VHS tape, produced as part of a presentation to the University's Board of Trustees entitled, "The Governance of the University" (1994); film, shot by William Nicholl, consisting mainly of Queen's buildings, and including Kingston City Park, Sir John A. Macdonald's statue, and his grave in Cataraqui Cemetery (1936).
