Fonds consists of a typescript of law lectures given by George F. Curtis at Dalhousie University in January 1939. Fonds also contains correspondence pertaining to meetings held in 1945 in the Maritimes and British Columbia to discuss the establishment of a world court for permanent peace.
File contains correspondence between Ronald St. John MacDonald and Geping Rao, Song Ying, Bruce Archibald, Henry R. Zheng, Luo Haocai, and Robert S. Prichard.
Item consists of grouped correspondence between Ronald St. John Macdonald, Wang Tieya, Bai Gui-mei, and Ying-han Shi, related to Law in Contemporary China.
Item consists of correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated June 20, 1921 from Windsor, Nova Scotia, discussing the difficult transition from a military life to legal life: the "realization that I was studying law and not deciphering code messages from Prime Minister [Viktor] Pepelaev."
Subseries contains Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding a wide range of subjects, including his visits to China, his research on the teaching of international law at Canadian universities and other topics, the development of various of his books, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie Law School Journal, Dalhousie Law School centenary, the Hague, the United Nations, the Canadian Council on International Law, and many other matters. Subseries contains correspondence between Ronald St. John Macdonald and different individuals, including Paul Martin, Quing-nan Meng, Edgar Gold, Paul Fauteux, Dominique Alheritiere, Tom Hick, R. C. Strother, W.A. MacKay, Wang Fusun, J.D. Kingham, Patti Allen, John Vandermeulen, Rene Jean Dupuy, M.C.W. Pinto, Jacqueline Dauchy, Leo Nevas, Avard Bishop, Charles B. Bourne, John Willis, and many others.
File includes correspondence sent from Ronald St John Macdonald to "the contributors to 'Essays in Honour of Wang Tieya'," as well as a selected list of Wang Tieya's publications and research notes.
Item consists of a contact list and brief biographical sketches of all the likely contributors (as of November 1992) to Ronald St John Macdonald's proposed festschrift "Essays in Honour of Wang Tieya" (eventually published in 2002).
File includes newspaper clippings about Ronald St. John Macdonald's work and his writings, including the articles "security council memberships", "fishing zones", "Canada-US disputes needs new solutions", "important step forward at Western", and "individual rights overlooked in quest to protect groups". File includes two issues of the University of Toronto Versity News periodical of 1967, an issue of the University of Toronto Staff Bulletin of 1968, and the issue vol. 77, no. 3, of October 1997, of the McGill News periodical which contains an article mentioning Mairi St. John Macdonald, and other materials. File contains a letter from Ronald St. John Macdonald to Craig Scott related to lunch arrangements.
Item is a parchment certificate admitting and enrolling James Thomson as an attorney and barrister of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, sealed and signed by Brenton Halliburton, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia.
