This sub-series consists of correspondence and subject files, organized alphabetically by individual, organization, event, or project, and a small amount of disparate correspondence, organized chronologically (more likely to be post-1980). The files include personal and professional correspondence, cards, articles, notes, contracts, publicity material, clippings and publications, among other material. The most significant groups of files are those for Anansi Press, John Diefenbaker, Honorary doctorates, Dennis Lee, McMaster University, Publishers (other than Anansi Press), and York University. The Diefenbaker files, for example, include their correspondence, Notes on the Constitutional Question that he prepared for Diefenbaker in 1965, documents related to US interference in Canadian affairs, Diefenbaker's request that he be his official biographer, and seven small b&w photographs of Diefenbaker.
The Anansi Press files include editorial correspondence with Shirley Gibson, Jim Polk, and Ann Wall. Grant was an early author with Anansi, but also an investor until the press bought back his shares from his estate, so the files also hold some business material. The Dennis Lee correspondence (mostly filed under his name) discusses their writing projects in the 1970s and 1980s and the trials of Anansi. Grant's files for other publishers (under "P") document his relationships with McClelland and Stewart, Carleton University Press, University of Toronto Press, and Notre Dame University Press. They continue up to about 2000 for his estate, including business correspondence and royalty statements. The records relating to his honorary degrees include correspondence with universities, diplomas, itineraries, publicity material, tributes, texts of convocation addresses, and a photograph by Roy Nicholas (in the Trent University file). His McMaster University files reveal the inner workings and politics of the Department of Religion in the 1960s and 1970s, and the causes of Grant's break with the department in 1980 over his concern about its declining commitment to teaching vis-à-vis research. The York University file includes a transcript of a 1977 interview with Paul Axelrod about his short-lived tenure with York in 1960 (vol. 18), and the audio recording of the interview, including his views on President Murray Ross, sociologist John Seeley, the U of T philosophy department, and the reasons for his resignation.
Some other significant files for individuals are those for John Arapura, McMaster colleague and Hindu scholar; Derek Bedson, an Oxford friend and senior public servant; artist Alex Colville; philosopher James Doull; novelist Hugh MacLennan; and Peter Self, an Oxford friend and expert on social planning. Slimmer files exist for politicians Lester Pearson, Tommy Douglas, Walter Gordon, and Flora MacDonald; writers Matt Cohen, Robertson Davies (see also his note in the U of T honorary doctorate file), and Scott Symons; and academics James Aitcheson, Claude Bissell, Paul Clifford, J. A. Corry, Donald Creighton, Dennis Duffy, H. D. Forbes, Laurence Lampert, Robin Mathews, Hilda Neatby, Murray Tolmie, and Ian Weeks. A small amount of material is posthumous, primarily from friends who continued to correspond with Sheila Grant.
