The correspondence includes the excerpt from the article by G. M. Acklom, Dalhousie Gazette, March 7, 1903 describing the coat of arms of the Earl of Dalhousie as used by the college. It also notes that the original shield with the black eagle was white (silver) and changed to gold by the Board of Governors, Dalhousie University, August 24, 1950.
File includes Sprott's CV; correspondence between C.L. Bennett and Sprott; and correspondence from Raymond Klinbansky, Joyce Hemlow, A. R. Woolley and D.C. Allen.
The correspondence includes information about C.L. Bennet sponsoring the Halifax Branch of the Humanities Association of Canada and a memo to the Dalhousie Gazette stating that Dr. W. J. Archibald has decided to remain as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Fonds contains considerable material from the Dalhousie Review from 1950–1953, including correspondence, book reviews and articles pending; correspondence relating to Dalhousie University Faculty of Graduate Studies and Senate; examinations and papers of Dalhousie students (primarily 1930s); correspondence, outlines and galley proofs of Canada Books, I to VI, 1933–1951; correspondence and other material relating to the Down Under Club and Anzac Club (1940s); personal papers, including Bennet's course notes and exams from his days as a Harvard undergraduate; copies of acting scripts; photographs of local theatre productions, the School for the Blind, Dalhousie University English Department, and the first Soviet war bride in England (Nora Murray); and copies of Archibald MacMechan's Late Harvest and E. Ritchie's In the Gloaming.
The material includes a proposal to build a Sigma Chi Fraternity House on campus; information about creating a Halifax chapter of the Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity; correspondence concerning the Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity and the code of chapter discipline for the gamma Rho Chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity.
