Fonds consists of letters, postcards, Christmas cards discussing R. Kroetsch's social life, work, writing and plans for his trips to New Zealand as well as critiquing G.C. Gahan's writing. Correspondence is from Kingston, Ontario, Goose Bay, Labrador, Montreal, Quebec, Bread Loaf, Vermont, Heisler, Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Mexico, Oakland, California, Iowa City, Iowa, Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Victoria, B.C. Some letters are from G. Gahan to R. Kroetsch and from Jane Kroetsch.

Fonds consists of correspondence, primarily with H. Stallworthy's brother Bill in England and his wife Hilda, much of it written from various R.C.M.P. detachments and including official reports and documents; manuscripts of articles and lectures on the North; material about H. Stallworthy including personal documents, newsclippings and articles; Hilda Stallworthy's diaries, daily journals and notebooks; miscellaneous material; and slides and negatives of northern scenes. Fonds also includes copies of H. Stallworthy's R.C.M.P. service and medical files obtained from the R.C.M.P. Archives in Ottawa, Ontario, by William Barr as additional sources for his biography Red serge and polar bear pants : the biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP (Edmonton : The University of Alberta Press, 2004).

Consists of photoprint of portrait of kimono-clad Mrs. Winnifred Eaton Reeve outdoors in California.

Series consists of photographs and slides of trups to the Arctic, California and Mexico.