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This item is a typescript of an autobiography written by Captain Charles Rubidge and published in 1870.

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

This item is a photocopy of an 1840 report written by Henry Ruttan, Sheriff of Newcastle District, as a response to the circular letter of Lord Sydenham. Discussed in the letter are the militia, the roads and other internal improvements, the land granting system, the state of education; the (projected) union of the two provinces and responsible government. Several uncritical pages are missing.

This item is a photocopy of a letter written by H.H. Stevens January 11, 1968 to a student in History/Political Science 301 in response to questions posed. Stevens writes about the Report of the Price Spreads and Mass Buying Commission, 1934-35, The Canadian Manufacturers Association's complaint, R.B. Bennet's refusal to act, Bennet's removal of Stevens from Conservative Party and the elimination of sweat shop conditions.

This item is a photocopy of a booklet published by the Toronto Daily News in 1885. Its subject matter depicts Toronto's night life.

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.