• File consists of letter expressing appreciation for essay on photographer Sam Tata, Conversations Without Words. Essay published in The Tata era = L'Epoque Tata, a catalogue published in 1988 for a retrospective exhibition of Sam Tata's work organized and circulated by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.
• Typescript, signed.
• Includes references to the following: Conversations Without Words.
• Letter from Martha Langford, Chief Curator, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario, to John Metcalf, Ottawa, Ontario.

Sub-subseries consists of album containing photographs of Canadian Writers (various). Contains some Sam Tata portraits not previously printed Book 1." (Photo album/Book 1).

• File consists of rough draft, fair draft fragment subtitled Silent Conversations and three clean copy drafts. Item 5 is French translation of essay, titled Conversations Sans Paroles. Includes photocopy of item 4. Original file folder contained John Metcalf's handwritten annotation "Sam Tata Essay. September 87."
• Handwritten; computer printout; computer printout (photocopy).
• Includes references to the following: Conversations Without Words; Conversations Without Words : Silent Conversations; Conversations Sans Paroles.

Series consists of correspondence with artists, greeting and Christmas cards, exhibition catalogues, news clippings and photographs.

Consists of handwritten ‘roughs’; handwritten ‘typing copy’; typescript (computer printout) with handwritten revisions; typescript (computer printout) (photocopy) which incorporates revisions of previous typescript and includes additional revisions and two handwritten inserts.

Collection consists of photographs of Ron Thom’s architectural work taken by John Flanders in ca. 1993. The photographs document many of Thom’s most well-known projects in British Columbia and Ontario. John Flanders’s photographs were used extensively in the publication Ron Thom: The Shaping of an Architect by Douglas Shadbolt, 1995.

Consists of photograph taken at the conference held at the University of Guelph “Coming of Age: John Metcalf and The Canadian Short Story."

Subseries consists of materials related to literary anthology edited by John Metcalf.

Consists of plaque-mounted photograph of "Montreal Story Tellers 1970" by Sam Tata. "Sent me by Noreen Hood."

• Contract between National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, and John Metcalf, Ottawa, Ontario
• Contract stating terms for writing text for Sam Tata exhibition catalogue. Contract signed by Bernard Pelletier, National Gallery of Canada, and John Metcalf. Text probably essay on Sam Tata titled Conversations Without Words, published in exhibition catalogue The Tata era = L'Epoque Tata by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1988. Exhibition catalogue accompanied retrospective exhibition of Sam Tata's work, organized and circulated by Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.
• Typescript, signed.
• Includes references to the following: Conversations Without Words.

Series consists of photographic materials, chiefly original photoprints and negatives.

Sub-subseries consists of album containing photographs of various Canadian writers and painters. Includes "Many previously unprinted Sam Tata portraits." (Photo album/Book 2).

Fonds consists of correspondence; family papers; journals; manuscripts of prose, poetry and novel; published works; photographs; miscellaneous; and works by others.

• Consists of correspondence between Sam Tata, St. Laurent, Quebec, and John Metcalf.
• Letters relating to photographs of John Metcalf taken by Sam Tata, and discussing Sam Tata's photography exhibition and purchase of painting.
• Handwritten, signed (some photocopy); typescript (carbon copy).

• Subseries consists of handmade scrapbook albums containing photoprints of various individuals and events.
• Chiefly includes images of Canadian authors, editors, and publishers.

Consists of VHS tape of feature Sam Tata: A Certain Identity.

• File consists of photograph of John Metcalf and his daughter Liz. Photograph used on dust jacket of and as illustrative material for Oberon Press edition of short story collection The Teeth of My Father (Oberon Press, 1975).
• Includes references to the following: The Teeth of My Father : Short Stories.

• File consists of photograph of John Metcalf used on back flap of dust jacket of novel Going Down Slow (McClelland and Stewart, 1972).
• Includes references to the following: Going Down Slow.

File consists of photograph of John Metcalf.

File consists of photographs of John Metcalf.

• File consists of two photographs sent to John Metcalf by Sam Tata. Also includes two contact sheets and repository photocopy of letter of enclosure (1982 March 22) discussing contact sheets and four prints enclosed, only two of which were received at repository. Original letter in Correspondence series, Sam Tata (Firm) file. One image on contact sheet used on dust jacket of Anthology Making It New (Methuen, 1982) and on back cover of essay collection Kicking Against the Pricks (Red Kite Press, 1986).
• Includes references to the following: Making It New; Kicking Against the Pricks : Essays.

File consists of photograph of J. and L. Metcalf. Verso of item contains John Metcalf's handwritten annotation "Sam Tata Liz age 2 1/2-3 in my study in Colbrook."

File consists of photograph of members of the Montreal Story Tellers: Clark Blaise, Raymond Fraser, Hugh Hood, John Metcalf and Ray Smith. John Metcalf's accompanying note states that the photograph was later made into a poster.

File consists of copies of various images captured by Sam Tata published in special Sam Tata issue of Canadian Fiction Magazine. Includes shot of John Metcalf on p. 95 with a brief bibliography on p. 94.