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File consists of various letters and records from the 1870s, including a receipt from "Little Britain Cabinet Shop" 1874; flyer from Minister of Agriculture asking farmers to contribute grains and produce as examples to International Exhibition to be held in Philadelphia, 1876; and Department of Immigration flyer announcing availability of "Farm Labourers and Female Domestic Servants" 1876

File include various letters and records from the 1880s, including James Purdy, UCND conviction for assault 1880; Thos. Bullard, Manvers conviction for insulting language; letter from Nile Expeditionary Force, March 20, 1885, saying campaign a complete failure, have withdrawn and left country in a "riotous condition," notes fall of Khartown and death of General Gordon; and a flyer asking for subscription support for Peterborough YMCA, 18 December 1886

File includes various letters, with correspondents including William Buell (bookseller, Brockville), D.B. Stevenson (merchant, Picton), Rev. Caleb Strong (Montreal), Nathaniel Burwash (Bytown), Dr. Boys (Bursar, King's College, letter to D.B. Stevenson), Benjamin Bird (coroner, P.H.), and Daniel McLachlan (lumber merchant, Bytown). Also includes a letter regarding the death of Strong, age 31, 1847, from his father Lewis. File also includes a circular re Canadian Farmer & Mechanic; request for child support, 8 June 1842, Peterborough; request for child support, 21 February 1843; prospectus for a "Canada Literary, Manual Labour, and Educational Society," Haldimand, 1844; itemized list of lumber in Port at Québec, 1844; May 19, 1846 - Rev. Strong discussing U.S. government apparatus; Dec. 15, 1846 - circular re converting R.C. Quebecers to Church of Scotland; Irish Relief Fund letter, 26 March 1847; letter re Mr. Johns sawmill, Orono 1847; miscellaneous returns of conviction; and documents and correspondence 1847 re apprehension of a criminal in New York State.

File includes various letters and records from the 1850s, with correspondents including William Osborne (re: lithographs), George Murray (New York), William Dummer Powell, George Penford (Ancaster, Upper Canada), D.B. Stevenson (Quebec, re: Agricultural Society), Charles Clark (Elora), D. Robbin (MPP, Napanee and Quebec), J. Hargrave Esq (Canada West), Daniel McLaughlin (Ottawa), and others.

File includes various correspondence from the 1830s, including that relating to the Congregational Church of Christ, Middleburg, Vermont; Charles Askin, Sandwich Township, Upper Canada, letter from brother in Bruges re death of child from scarlet fever; John Cartwright, Kingston; Letter 1839 "The Lieutenant Governor has learnt with feelings of extreme regret that several musket shots were fired from the shore at Prescott on the American Steamer "United States"'"

File includes various letters and records from the 1860s, including to John Charles Molson (Montreal), Hugh McIntyre (St. Thomas), Charles Clarke (Elora), James Davison (Cobourg), and others.

File includes 3 letters to C & J McDonald (merchants, Gananoque) and 1 letter to Mr. George Gordon (merchant, Penetanguishene)

File includes general correspondence and records from the 1890s, mostly pertaining to Cobourg and Victoria County

File includes correspondence and records from the 1900s, including to/from J. Kerr and William Kerr (Cobourg), John Brackenbridge (Westwood), Sam Nesbitt (apple grower, Brighton), W.F. Kerr, and others. Includes an envelope showing road equipment, Sawyer & Massey, Hamilton, Ontario and a letter to townships from Ontario Department of Agriculture asking them to purchase 5-10 acres of land & using it as a demonstration of forestation

File includes various letters and enclosures from the 17th and 18th centuries, sent to primarily the United States (Philadelphia, New York, Virginia, Florida, Baltimore, North Carolina) but also France, London, Glasgow, and Jamaica.

File includes various correspondence from 1800-1825, including those from/to William Dummer Powell, Aaron Greeley, Thomas Cartwright, William Baldwin Esquire, John Baldwin, Miss Parish, Reverend Lidebour (Rotterdam), Mr. Asa P. Lewish (American Prisoner, Morbaix), Thomas McCord (Montreal), John Dotry, Margaret Greeley (Newhampshire), John Fleming (Montreal), Jacob Bigelow (Montreal), Garret Hallenbeck, and William Fuller. Also includes "An act to empower His Majesty, for a limited time, to secure and detain such Persons as his Majesty shall suspect of a Treasonable adherence to the Enemy" (1814) and Militia General Orders from C. Foster (Kingston, 1814). Also includes a document appointing J.B. Rousseaux Esquire as Lieutenant Colonel in the Second Regiment of Militia in the County of York (1811)