File contains a one-page printed Ontario Historical Society biography of Reverend Robert McDowell first regular Presbyterian Missionary to Upper Canada who served in the Bay of Quinte and Kingston areas from 1798 to 1841. Also contains a printed transcript of a memorial tablet commemorating the career of Reverend McDowall and his role as a founder of Queen's University.

File contains a printed copy of The Queen's University Alumni Review, Sept-Oct., 1968

File contains two printed issues of Douglas Library Notes, Queen's University Volume XIV, no. 1 (Winter, 1965) and Vol. XIV, no.3 (Summer, 1965). The latter contains reprints of excerpts of correspondence by Sir John A. MacDonald, 1849-1881, in the holdings of the Douglas Library.

File contains original documents, presented to the Hastings County Historical Society in 1960; Biographical sketch written on 22-September-1869 covers the years 1862 to 1869 when Willson was teaching school in the southern part of Hastings County; educational papers; legal papers; correspondence and a poem entitled "To The Mohawks".