Typescript, typescript with holograph revisions, typescript (carbon copy) and holograph. Research notes, rough draft fragments, good and clean copy drafts, as well as several newsclippings for use as research material. Columns filed chronologically with research material, notes, fragments and preliminary drafts clipped behind typescript (carbon copy) draft of published version of each column. No columns published July 13 or July 27, 1974. Columns contain book reviews of Raymond Fraser's The Black Horse Tavern (1973 May 19); Alfred G. Bailey's Thanks for a drowned island (1973 October 2); Geoffrey Stevens's Stanfield, published title of review Stanfield: "The most improbable of politicians" (1973 October 13); Pierre Berton's Drifting home (1973 October 20); Stuart Trueman's The fascinating world of New Brunswick (1973 December 1); Brenton Stewart's Medicine in New Brunswick (1974 December 21); as well as seven brief book reviews (1974 November 23). Column for December 28, 1974, is reprint of A. Nowlan's Christmas guest column written for Aida Flemming's column Kindness Club notes. Manuscripts untitled and undated; repository annotations of published title and date of publication included with each manuscript. Published titles of individual columns not indexed. The column Alden Nowlan reports published weekly in the Telegraph-Journal from October 1968 to June 1983. Includes references to the following: Review of Raymond Fraser's The Black Horse Tavern; Alden Nowlan reports; Review of Alfred G. Bailey's Thanks for a drowned island; Review of Geoffrey Stevens's Stanfield; Review of Pierre Berton's Drifting home; Review of Stuart Trueman's The fascinating world of New Brunswick; Review of Brenton Stewart's Medicine in New Brunswick; Kindness Club notes : Christmas column.

• Miscellaneous promotional material (n.d., 1973 March 17), relating to the Flat Earth Society.
• Brochures, pledge form, form letters, position papers and newsclippings relating to the Flat Earth Society. Includes copies of some items.

• Letter (1976 January 17), Orillia, Ont., from M. Tooley to Raymond Fraser.
• Autograph letter(s) signed by the hand of the author requesting that Alden Nowlan trace M. Tooley's family lineage, the request a result of R. Fraser's article on the Jacobite cause, Royally wronged, published in Weekend Magazine in January 1976.

Scrapbook containing newsclippings of A. Nowlan's 1973 Telegraph-Journal weekly columns. Scrapbook title in Claudine Nowlan's handwriting. Columns contain book reviews of Raymond Fraser's The Black Horse Tavern (May 19); Alfred G. Bailey's Thanks for a drowned island (October 2); Geoffrey Stevens's Stanfield, published title of review Stanfield : "The most improbable of politicians" (October 13); Pierre Berton's Drifting home (October 20); and Stuart Trueman's The fascinating world of New Brunswick (December 1). Also contains a number of articles written by A. Nowlan including Junior councillors shocked their elders (Evening Times-Globe, June 9); Your time has come, Walter Learning! (July 2); Don't frighten the tourists (September 22); and Reviewer finds Irving book has fatal weaknesses, a review of Russell Hunt and Robert Campbell's K.C. Irving (Daily Gleaner, October 11). Also includes newsclippings of letters to the editor from readers in response to columns, as well as several in response to Maclean's article Testimony of a tent preacher; reviews of Alden Nowlan's Maritimes and Various persons named Kevin O'Brien; and articles about A. Nowlan. Newsclippings have only holograph annotations of dates of publication, which have not been verified. Includes references to the following: Alden Nowlan reports; Your time has come, Walter Learning!; Don't frighten the tourists; Junior councillors shocked their elders; Hodge Nowlan reports; Review of Raymond Fraser's The Black Horse Tavern; Review of Alfred G. Bailey's Thanks for a drowned island; Review of Pierre Berton's Drifting home; Review of Stuart Trueman's The fascinating world of New Brunswick; Review of Russell Hunt and Robert Campbell's K.C. Irving; Review of Geoffrey Stevens's Stanfield; Reviewer finds Irving book has fatal weaknesses; Stanfield : "The most improbable of politicians"; Testimony of a tent preacher; Alden Nowlan's Maritimes; Various persons named Kevin O'Brien.

• Correspondence (1977(?) - 1983 May 20), between various representatives of Doubleday Canada Limited and Alden Nowlan.
• Correspondence relating to requests for literary submissions for publication consideration in anthologies, to reviews by A. Nowlan of books published by Doubleday Canada Limited and to a promotional quote for Raymond Fraser's The fighting fisherman, and discussing the process of writing poetry. Includes references to the following: Review of Raymond Fraser's The fighting fisherman; Word from the losers; Review of Bruce Armstrong's Sable Island; Alden Nowlan reports; I might not tell everybody this; Miracle at Indian River : short story collection.

• Correspondence (n.d., 1970 November 15 - 1981 February 24), relating to the Flat Earth Society, between various officials, members and interested individuals.
• Correspondence relating to the organization, structure and aims of the Flat Earth Society, to dissemination of literature about the Society and to applications for membership. Contains several letters concerning media coverage of the society including a film proposal from the National Film Board. Verso of letter dated July 19, 1972, contains A. Nowlan's holograph note about a conversation with Dorothy Livesay. Undated letters arranged alphabetically by correspondent at the front of the file; remainder of the file arranged chronologically. Includes references to the following: Between tears and laughter; Gruel and plovers' eggs; Kyran's christening; For Marilee; Would you buy a used globe from this man?.

• Correspondence (n.d., 1970(?) - 1982 June 15), between S. Fraser and Alden and Claudine Nowlan.
• Correspondence relating personal news, and discussing S. Fraser's column in the Miramichi Leader. Includes references to the following: The mysterious naked man : poetry collection; Frankenstein : the man who became god.

Typescript and holograph rough and clean copy draft fragments; typescript (carbon copy) clean copy; and typescript (photocopy) review of the anthology East of Canada, edited by Clyde Rose, Jim Stewart and Raymond Fraser (Breakwater Books, 1976). Anthology includes the article, published with variant title Growing up in Ketepaska Creek : a retrospection. Article first published in Weekend Magazine, v. 25, no. 38, September 20, 1975, as Hard times at Ketepaska Creek and later in the collection Double exposure as Growing up in Katpesa Creek. Includes references to the following: Growing up in Ketepaska Creek : a retrospection; Hard times at Ketepaska Creek; Growing up in Katpesa Creek.

• Letters of condolence, telegrams and sympathy cards (n.d., 1983 June 27 - 1984 January 7), from friends to C. and John A. Nowlan.
• Sympathy cards and letters of condolence paying tribute to Alden Nowlan sent to the Nowlan family following A. Nowlan's death in June 1983. Cards acknowledging contributions to charitable societies made in A. Nowlan's memory precede cards and letters in each file. Items arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Includes references to the following: Alden Nowlan reports; For Claudine because I love her; The mysterious naked man : poetry collection; The rose and the puritan : poetry collection; I might not tell everybody this; Great things have happened; How beautiful art thy feet with shoes; He sits down on the floor of a school for the retarded; Miracle at Indian River : short story collection; Legacy; Alden Nowlan's notebook.

• Letter (1975 January 15), Vancouver, B.C., from D. F. Kydd to Raymond Fraser.
• Autograph letter(s) signed by the hand of the author relating to Jim Stewart's claim to the British throne; letter addressed to the Duke of Northumberland, probably Raymond Fraser.