Includes Mexico trips

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).

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

• Files consist of correspondence between Sheilagh Simpson and Christie and Thomas A. Harris; letters regarding Christie Harris's writing including illustrations, publicity and reviews for various works, her reading/speaking engagements and other professional and social commitments, awards for which she was nominated and/or won, her travel plans and adventures.
• Includes letters from Spain (April - June 1962) and Mexico and Peru (January - March 1973), and news of family, friends and acquaintances.
• Many items are carbon copy letters addressed to "Dear Family" which were sent to Christie Harris's out of town children, usually Moira Johnston, Michael Harris and Sheilagh Simpson; the letters in this File are those sent to and kept by S. Simpson and include many addressed specifically to "Sheilagh" or with holograph postscripts to her.
• Many items have Christie Harris's holograph explanatory notes and many include quotations from letters from other individuals such as relatives and Jean E. Karl, Christie Harris's editor at Atheneum. Includes letters to S. Simpson from other individuals, particularly her sister Moira Johnston and her father, Thomas A. Harris.
• The final Folder includes invitation to C. and T.A. Harris's golden wedding anniversary party hosted by S. Simpson in Vernon, B.C., July 31, 1982, and 22 miscellaneous clippings sent to S. Simpson over the years on various topics.
• Typescript, signed; typescript (carbon copy); holograph, signed.
• Includes references to the following: Raven's Cry; Cariboo Trail; Confessions of a Toe-hanger; West With the White Chiefs; You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere; Once Upon a Totem; My Heroine Helped Me; Let X Be Excitement; Forbidden Frontier; Figleafing Through History; Secret in The Stlalakum Wild; Mule Lib; Once More Upon a Totem; Sky Man On The Totem Pole?; Mouse Woman and the Muddleheads; Mouse Woman and the Vanished Princesses; Mouse Woman and The Mischief Makers.

Consists of tourist guidebook for El Paso and Juarez, Mexico used by B. Moore as an aide-memoire for scene in which Mary Dunne recalls her Mexican divorce.