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The collection consists of handwritten notes. The paper and ink are late 18th century. Extracts from the "Minet Book of the Chapter of Bristol beginning 1738 Sept 8".

The collection consists of a photograph of B.C. Premier W.A.C Bennett with author Ronald B. Worley at the launch of Worley's book "The Wonderful World of W.A.C. Bennett". It is signed by the Premier, and inscribed to Bill Thomas by the author.

The fonds consists of correspondence; records of high school activities; records of anti Vietnam and ecological political activism, 1963-1974; correspondence, typescripts, proofs and photographs relating to Hinke's book, "Oz in Canada: a Bibliography" (1982); correspondence, transcripts and proofs of the "The Classical Wizard: Magus Mirabilis in Oz" (1987) and "Tela Charlottae" (a Latin version of "Charlotte's Web").

The collection consists of a handwritten letter to Viscount Dillon regarding the recent publication of this book and matters concerned in it.

The collection consists of manuscript material (mostly in Latin) removed from the Seghers Book Collection, plus an annotated copy of Scripture class notes, plus ephemera.

The fonds consists of a MS notebook (photocopy) and transcript of Major Charles McDowall Smyth's account of the end of WWI and the Armistice, dated Nov. 12, 1918. Smyth was in the Canadian Engineers in France and Belgium. Biographical materials include photocopies of photographs and obituary.

The fonds consists of a framed computer scan of a photograph. Vernon Smith, who is in the photograph, has supplied the Title and information above the picture. He has also provided identification of the staff below the photo. On the back of the photo is a photocopy of a clipping from the Victoria Times Colonist" dated 14 Aug 1995, relating to the history of the Station. Smith has typed on the top of it a list of early members of staff and below it, a list of people missing from the photograph. Copies of photographs of the station (from the National Archives of Canada) are located in the Bruce Brown collection (including the one in the clipping). There is also a copy of a scrapbook kept when the WRENS replaced the male personnel in 1944, in the Dorothy Robertson fonds.

The collection consists of two typed rough drafts of 2 pages of the play “A Sleep of Prisoners”, page eleven plus one rough draft of page seventeen, all with Fry's handwritten corrections. Also included is a handwritten cover note, signed.

The collection consists of 2 holograph signed aerograms to Audrey Watson in response to a request for an autograph; one letter alludes to the author's current activities.

The collection consists of 4 letters sent to Graham Ackroyd concerning Henry Miller.

The collection consists of a handwritten poem "Past and Present", signed by Scott at the end, and dated from internal evidence. The poem is accompanied by a handwritten note to Edward L. Blanchard (1820-1889).

The collection consists of a handwritten letter to his mother (small piece torn out with slight loss of text); a typed, signed letter to Mr. Mills; a handwritten letter from Sidney Campion to Ernest Rasdall re Campion's book "The World of Colin Wilson", 21 clippings about Colin Wilson, a signed catalogue for Campion's "Third One-Man Exhibition", and 3 leaves of unidentified corrected typescript.

The collection consists of 11 mounted leaves of pen and ink drawings copied from various sources, with holograph notations. The costumes are from 1400-1720.

The collection consists of a handwritten review of “Poems Ancient and Modern” by Peter Porter, “Sjambok” by Douglas Livingstone, “The Loss of India” by Zulfikar Ghose, “Londoners” by Gavin Ewart, “Old Savage, Young City” by Nathaniel Tarn, and “This Cold Universe” by Patric Dickinson.

The fonds consists of a typescript (photocopy) about Group Captain J.R.D. "Bob" Braham, operations record book entries, photocopies copies of combat reports, together with a package of negatives of the photographs included in the typescript.

The collection consists of a revised typescript with autograph annotations of Daniell's book "The Interpreter's House; a critical assessment of the work of John Buchan".

The fonds consists of a photocopy of the article "John Wilson, Hume's First Printer" (British library journal, v.14, 1988, p.123-135).

The collection consists of a typescript (printers' copy) plus a pencil mock-up of page designs for "Collected Verse Translations"; a manuscript rough draft of the poem "The book of the South West's desire for a North Eastern resting place" , with one page signed by Gascoyne; uncorrected galley and corrected page proofs for "The Sun at Midnight"; and seven semi-abstract watercolours, all signed by Gascoyne.

The collection consists of heavily corrected galley proofs for the poems "The Wall", "The Sleeping Lord" (extract), and "The Boast of Dai" (extract), plus an accompanying hls from Jones to Annwyl [Dear] Meic Stephens.

The collection consists of letters and postcards (1940-1951) written by Levertov to Charles Wrey Gardiner (editor of Poetry Quarterly); letters, drafts of poems and a postcard (1946-1947) to John Hayward; and drawings not used for "A Tree Telling of Orpheus", 1967. The letters also mention Dannie Abse, Herbert Read and Kenneth Rexroth.

The collection consists of a set of page proofs of “The Night Crossing”.

The fonds consists of a corrected typescript of "Mars Over Eden: a military history of British Columbia" (unpublished). Also included is a clipping (photocopy) of his obit from the Times Colonist, a clipping (photocopy) of a column by Charles Lillard "Pethick Deserves a Writer's Epitaph" and some correspondence relating to the bequest from Pethick's estate.

The fonds consists of manuscripts, correspondence, translations, notebooks, several audio tapes, personal journals and periodicals.

The fonds consists of correspondence regarding World War I, 1915-1919, mostly letters and postcards from Georges Destrube in France, with a few from other family members and friends (some are in French). The subject of the letters is mostly about army life/war and the untimely deaths of Guy and Paul Destrube. Also included are clippings from "The Illustrated London News", from 1857 and 1870.

The collection consists of five typewritten leaves of poems, with the author's holograph corrections. Each of the poems also has the author's autograph.