The fonds consists of a typescript of a study entitled The Development of Legislation Relating to Immigration to Canada before Confederation and the Process of its Administration, The study consists of two parts, a general survey of the subject and a collection of relevant documents.
The fonds consists of scrapbooks containing literary references, poems, articles, a short series on various counties in Ontario and news clippings of World War l. A notebook entitled The Heart of a Boy contains manuscripts and articles, 1884-1891. Three issues of The Maritime Advocate and Busy East, 1935, contain articles about Nova Scotia and enclosed correspondence.
The collection contains ten photographs of Nelligan related to his attendance at Queen's and five which depict Dennis Jordan (executor of the Stauffer estate) in the 1990s. Textual records are related to Nelligan's service in World War II, or Jordan's life.
