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This item is a photocopy of an 1870's recipe book entitled Five Hundred Dollars Worth of Knowledge for One Dollar: Great Exposure of Liquors and Recipe Book by Charles H. Hagar. The book was published in Binghampton, New York and contains recipes for alcoholic drinks and sundry other recipes for things such as hair tonic, sore throats, pain killers and others.

This item is an account book dated 1902-1903 of a furniture factory owned by Frank Sanford of Fenelon Falls. At the end of the book, several pages are filled with grain accounts. Throughout, many pages are covered with pasted-in pictures from magazines, and a child's drawings. There are also three pages of notes relating to British colonies.

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 2 (1979) which includes the following content:

• Steering Committee
• Chambers, Robert D. Editorial
• The Friends’ First Assembly
• Burke, Anne. Reflections on the A.J.M. Smith Collection
• Hagar, F.A. The Bradd Downey Fund at Trent University
• Jones, Elwood. Mill on the Trent: the Fowlds-Marryat Collection
• Johnson, Kenneth W. An Archival Genealogy
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 10 (September 1989) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• McKee, Penny. The Peterborough Information Infrastructure. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Scott, Monroe. The Writer in the Community Monroe Scott and the Lindsay Public Library Experience. Recorded by Rahmel, Fern
• Young, Scott. Scott Young and the Pleasures of Being a Writer in Canada. Recorded by Stevenson, Betty
• Vaisey, David. The Bodleian Library: Inheritance from the Past – Challenge for the Future. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Mallory, Enid. Coppermine: The Far North of George M. Douglas. Recorded by Rahmel, Fern
• Brown, Louise. Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia 1646-1684
• Annual Meeting
• Report of the Acquisitions Committee 1988-1989
• Acquisitions 1988-1989
• Annual Financial Statement 1 May 1988 to 30 April 1989
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 11 (September 1990) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. The Peterborough Information Infrastructure Updated
• Peterman, Michael. The New Letters of Susanna Moodie. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Halpenny, Frances. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Lockhart Fleming, Patricia. Upper Canadian Imprints 1801-1841. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Hodgins, Bruce. The Canoe as a Canadian Cultural Icon. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Annual Meeting
• Report of the Acquisitions Committee 1989-1990
• Rahmel, Fern. Acquisitions 1989-1990
• Annual Financial Statement 1 May 1989 to 30 April 1990
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 12 (September 1991) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Wiseman, John A. Bata Library’s Special Collections Room
• Pollock, Zailig. The Editor as Story Teller. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Dahl, Ed. Twenty Maps I’d Like to Take Home with Me. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Barrett, Karen. How to Write a Local History
• Kokatailo, Philip. A.J.M. Smith and the Book of Canadian Poetry. Recorded by Rahmel, Fern
• Annual Meeting
• Rahmel, Fern. Report of the Acquisitions Committee 1991-92
• Annual Financial Statement for 1990-1991
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 13 (September 1992) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Ash, Mary Eileen. Goldwin Smith, the Grange and the Library
• Williamson, Mary F. Canadian Art Materials and Special Collections: Rescuing Rare Books from the Stacks. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Lacombe, Michèle. William Arthur Deacon: The Life, Times and Letters of a Literary Journalist. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Dodge, Bernadine. Youth Camping: an Ontario Experience. Recorded by Cole, Alf
• Rahmel, Fern. Peterborough’s First Librarian. Recorded by Cole, Jean Murray
• Annual Meeting
• Rahmel, Fern. Report of the Acquisitions Committee 1992-92
• Annual Financial Statement for 1991-92
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 14 (Fall 1993) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Heiderman, Margaret Lowery. Good Reads Revisited
• Rodger, Andrew C. Photography and the Historian. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Tahiliani, Moti. A Library Embraces the Computer Age. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Johnston, Julie. Published and Approved Julie Johnston talks to the Friends. Recorded by Rahmel, Fern A.
• Anson-Cartwright, Hugh. The Booklover’s Bookseller. Cole, Jean Murray
• Annual Meeting
• Rahmel, Fern. Acquisitions, 1992-1993
• Report on Membership
• Annual Financial Statement for 1992-93
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 15 (Fall 1994) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Brown, Quentin. I’m Monstrous Full Er Fleas Dis Mawnin’
• O’Brien, Brendan. Speedy Justice. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Peterman, Michael. The Life of the Pioneer Writer. Recorded by Cole, Jean Murray
• Scigliano, Marisa. Johann Gutenberg and the 42-Line Bible. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Lennox, John. A Friendship in Letters. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Macrae, John. Annual Meeting
• Rahmel, Fern. Acquisitions 1993-1994
• Annual Financial Statement (May 1993-April 1994)
• Report on Membership
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 16 (Fall 1995) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Hoyle, Gwyneth. Adventure – No Life Should be Without It
• Knight, Lorna. The National Library – Research Opportunities in Literary Manuscripts. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Conolly, Leonard. Censorship – It’s Alive and Well. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Wadland, John. Menage a Trois. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Black, John. Libraries: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Macrae, John. Annual Meeting
• Annual Financial Statement (May 1994-April 1995)
• Report on Membership
• Treadwell, Michael. Acquisitions 1994-1995
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 17 (Fall 1996) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Rahmel, Fern. Robertson Davies: Wonder-Worker
• Harrison, Julia. A Museum Founded on Oil. Recorded by Chambers, Robert
• Neufeld, James. The National Ballet of Canada. Recorded by Rahmel, Fern
• Paehlke, Robert. The Experience of Editing and Encyclopedia. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Smith, Denis. Communing with Dief. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Macrae, John. Annual Meeting
• Annual Financial Statement (May 1995-April 1996)
• Report on Membership
• Treadwell, Michael. Acquisitions 1995-1996
• Wadland, John. Larry Turner (1952-1996)
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 18 (Fall 1997) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Barrett, Karen. Bibliomania: When the Passions of Bibliophiles are Carried to the Extreme
• Evans, Gwynneth. Lessons from the National Library: Inquiring into Canada. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Verduyn, Christl. Marian Engel: The Writer, the Woman. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Peterman, Michael. Working With Catherine Parr Trail: Her Life and Letters. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Benidickson, Jamie. Idleness, Water and a Canoe. Recorded by Peterman, Cara
• Carmichael, Don. Annual Meeting
• Annual Financial Statement (May 1996-April 1997)
• Report on Membership
• Treadwell,Michael. Acquisitions 1996-97
• Peterman, Michael. Tom Eadie

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 19 (Fall 1998) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Cole, Jean Murray. South Monaghan – The Garden of Eden
• Landon, Richard – Cooper & Beatty: Designers with Type. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Struthers, Jim. Who’s Afraid of Public Pensions? Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Daunt, Frances. From Ontario to Persia: An Unusual Expedition 1916-1919. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Eadie, Tom. The Once and Future Library. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Carmichael, Don. Annual Meeting
• Annual Financial Statement (May 1997-April 1998)
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 2 (1980) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Chambers, Robert D. Editorial
• First Annual Business Meeting includes acquisitions
• Page, Robert. A Question of Energy
• The Friends Visit the Bibliotheca Vogriana including remarks by Prof. Gilbert Bagnani
• The Voice to go with the Room – interview of AJM Smith by Gordon Johnston and Michael Peterman
• Cole, Jean Murray. Archibald McDonald
• Ebbs, Harry and Adele Ebbs. The Ebbs Camping Archives
• Obituaries for Mrs. Dorothy R. Dyde, Mrs. W.R. Philp, Mrs. Robert E. (Muriel) Nott.
• The Friends – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 20/21 (Fall 1999/Fall 2000) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Hooke, Katharine. Editor’s Note
• Millard, Janice. Donations to the Bata Library
• Peterman, Michael. James Michael Treadwell (1942-1999)
• Financial Report 1999-2001
• Cooper, Cynthia. Dressing up Canada: Last Victorian Fancy Dress Balls. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Bjornson, Pam. CIHM…Acronym for an Impressive Canadian Resource. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Sangster, Joan. Transforming Local History into Drama. Recorded by Clark, Lorrie
• Murray, Heather. Book Clubs in Nineteenth-Century Ontario. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Bocking, Richard. Bocking, Stephen. Streams of Life: The Fraser River, Ecology and Canada’s Living Environment. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Meneley, Anne. Qat Chewing in Yemen and the Web. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Armstrong, Duncan. Rice Lake Tallgrass Prarie Recreates Early Landscape. Recorded by Cole, Jean Murray
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 22 (Fall 2001) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Mission Statement
• Membership
• Hooke, Katharine. Editor’s Note
• Chambers, Robert. Can There Be a Perfect Critic? Some Thoughts on Edmund Wilson. Recorded by Clark, Lorrie
• McKillop, Brian. The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the Mystery of the Purloined Past. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Scott, Munroe. The Carving of Canada: A Tale of Parliamentary Gothic. Recorded by Cole, Jean M
• Financial Report 1999-2001
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 23 (Fall 2002) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Hooke, Katharine. Editor’s Note
• Cole, Jean Murray. Acquisitions
• Jenish, D’Arcy. Indian Fall The Last Great Days of the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Hoyle, Gwyneth. Flowers in the Snow. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Cole, Jean Murray. Getting to Know One’s Great-great Grandfather. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Douglas, James Bolivar. Telling our Own Stories. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Third Annual Dinner: May 9, 2002
• Financial Report 2001-2002
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 24 (Fall 2003) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Hooke, Katharine. Editor’s Note
• Cambridge to Calgary: In Pursuit of Austin Lane, 1998-2000
• Daunt, Frances. Background of the Friends of the Bata Library
• Financial Report
• Acquisitions to the Bata Library
• Djwa, Sandra. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Flemming, Rae. A Night of Nostalgia: Words and Images Evoking Memories of a Vanished Canada: The Royal Tour of 1939 and the World of the General Store. The Golden Age of Two Canadian Institutions. Recorded by Daunt, Frances
• MacLeod, Alistair. A No-Name Non-Talk. Recorded by Scott, Munroe
• Peterman, Michael. Isabella Valancy Crawford and the Rise of the Illustrated Papers: A Curious Kind of Literary Life. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 25 (Fall 2004) which includes the following content:

• Hooke, Katharine. Editor’s Note
• Financial Report
• Bata Library Acquisitions 2003-2004
• Dodge, Bernadine. Archives News
• Faculty Publications
• Other News
• MacMillan, Margaret. Writing History; or Why Write and Read History? Recorded by Hooke Katharine
• Chambers, Robert. Trent, Books and Us. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Harrison, Julia. Making Travel Meaningful. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Bailey, Suzanne. After Elizabeth: Browning and the Texture of Time. Recorded by Daunt, Frances
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 3 (May 1981) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Hagar, F.A. Forward
• Second Annual Business Meeting including acquisitions
• The Bata Library and the Canadian Heritage – the election of Professor T.H.B. Symons as an honourary member in the Friends
• Friends of the Bata Library: Constitution
• Whalley, George. The Web of the North. Recorded by Chambers, Robert D.
• The Trials of Authors – interview of Jean Cole by Robert D. Chambers
• Sandwell, Barney. The Trials of Publishers
• Laurence, Margaret. Margaret Laurence & her Fellow Authors
• The Friends & their Friends in Peterborough
• Lewis, Joyce C. The Bata Library Wall Display Case
• Johnston, Gordon. A.J.M. Smith: First Honourary Member of the Friends of the - Bata Library
• Volunteers Solicited
• Details of Membership
• The Friends – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 4 (1982) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Hagar, F.A. Forward
• Anson-Cartwright, Hugh. Hugh Anson-Cartwright, Third Honorary Friend of the Bata Library
• Derry, Ramsay. The Making of a Best Seller
• Laurence, Margaret. Books That Mattered to Me
• Wiseman, John A. The Light in the Forest: Popular Literature and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
• Wadland, John. Ernest Thompson Seton and the Origins of the Boy Scout Movement
• Financial Statement
• Details of Membership
• The Friends – list of members
• Hagar, F.A. Acknowledgements

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 5 (June 1984) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Hagar, F.A. Forward
• Article on James Stevenson
• Brown, Quentin. Books from a Wayfarer’s Knapsack
• Cole, Jean. Professor Roper talks to the Friends of the Bata’s Collection of Canadiana
• Hoyle, Gwyneth. A Report by the Treasurer
• Annual Financial Statement
• McAuley, Darienne. Books and other printed material purchased by the Friends and presented to the Bata Library 1979-1983
• Details of Membership
• Acknowledgements

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 6 (September 1985) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Foreword
• Matthews, Ross M. Oft in the Stilly Night
• Chambers, Robert D. Literary Nationalism
• The Mossom Boyd Collection
• Adams. Friends Visit the Map Room
• Evans, Emrys. The Birdsall Bookbinding Tools
• Audley, Paul. Canadian Publishing
• Annual Financial Statement
• McAuley, Darienne. Report of the Acquisitions Committee, 1984-85
• Acquisitions – list of gifts and purchases
• Acknowledgements
• Membership – list of members