File consists of book review. Includes review of Gabrielle Roy's Street of riches and F. R. Scott and A. J. M. Smith's The blasted pine. Review also deals with several other books, television programs and films.

• Correspondence between John Metcalf, Membership Committee and Quebec Representative, Writers' Union of Canada, and various Canadian authors and publishers.
• File consists of letters relating to J. Metcalf's activities on the membership committee involved in establishing the Writers' Union of Canada and as Quebec representative of the Union. Membership committee correspondence includes letters relating to invitations to authors to join the Union and discussing criteria for membership in the Union; list of members originally contacted as potential members; and report of membership committee. Correspondence relating to J. Metcalf's acting as Quebec representative includes letters dealing with publishing problems encountered by members. Also includes letters relating to J. Metcalf's resignation from the Union. Includes duplicates of some outgoing letters.
• Typescript, signed; holograph, signed; typescript (carbon copy); typescript (mimeograph); typescript (photocopy).