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File consists of 2 diaries and one sketch of “The Radical” (R.S.K.) by DCH [Dorothy Choate Herriman] (1946), in the back.

Diary 10 documents a party for Sir Charles G.D. Roberts' 80th birthday attended by Canadian literary people, W. Perkins Bull, etc. Notes also an "at-home" at the Art College with the Reids, Jackson, Sir Wyly [Grier] etc.

In Diary 11, Herriman writes of her interest in Robert Sheldon Kenny, a friend of Dorothy Livesay, beginning in 1946. He began his career as an anarchist but gradually worked for organized labour as a socialist. Dorothy H. met him when he worked in a second-hand bookshop in Toronto. A penciled note on the first page by Dorothy gives an outline of their friendship written in 1972.

File consists of 3 diaries of Dorothy Choate Herriman.

Diary 1 pertains to when Herriman and family lived in Orillia, Ontario where her father was assistant superintendent of the Ontario Hospital at Orillia. Dorothy was in Toronto attending Ontario College of Art (OCA) for her last year. She writes about her new Remington portable typewriter, a new short coat, dreading going home for the summer because the house is "all torn up" and she and her mother seem incompatible. On July 24, she notes a drowning accident in Balsam Lake when 11 boys of St. Andrews Brotherhood died. August 19, "as a united household we would make a good volcanic eruption! We are the acme of disintegration, individualism & misinterpretations. I wish some invisible being would 'write us up' --- as a comedy." September 25, Garvin's book containing poems and photographs of Dorothy Herriman was published, and Dorothy hated her picture, "...I have such a 'hatchet' faced expression.” She returned to OCA. in October and found that "Mr. Reid is very uninspiring in costume. I shall forget all I ever learned with Mr. Varley." On October 18, Herriman notes it is a red-letter day because she was "wangled" into getting her hair bobbed.

Diary 2 starts with Herriman's last few months at OCA. On March 4, she is wondering who will get appointed as administrator of Rockwood. The diary is full of details about courses, instructors, public lectures she has attended, residence problems, health concerns, and letters from her father. On May 30, Herriman talks about her mother who has gone to Battle Creek for a few days and has consulted Dr. Kellogg. Dr. William Herriman had been assistant superintendent at Orillia, and in 1927 was made superintendent of the Ontario Hospital at Cobourg as Herriman notes on September 20. On November 17 she writes, "I seem to crave an impetus of some sort to feel any vital interest in life. I must be suffering from ennui--or the modern craze for excitement & stimulation."

Diary 3 documents a problem in the family with William and his daughter Dorothy's habit of going to bed at 2:00 AM and often later and not arising until noon. The diary also talks about quarrels with her mother and constant tension at home. On May 10 she writes, "Daddy wants to go to Orillia over Sunday but is afraid I won't get up on time while he is away. He looks 'crushed & broken" with his 'domestic troubles'."

File includes two diaries by Dorothy Choate Herriman.

Diary 4 documents Dorothy Herriman at home in Cobourg. Her grandmother's funeral was on June 16. The diary also talks about more family "ructions," and the beginning evidence of economic depression in towns.

Diary 5 has introspective writing with much soul-searching. Dorothy Herriman is living in Toronto, visiting family and friends in Cobourg, Port Hope and Orillia, trying to write. There is conflict with her mother and despair over what she perceives as the lack of courage of a weak father. Her father is going to have trouble financing Cousin Doris, Orillia, at Normal School and Dorothy wished the chance to give back some of her years at Havergal or Tech. or the Ontario College of Art since "my reward for study has certainly not been monetary -- nor has it brought me a peaceful environment." She starts her infatuation with a cousin, Ralph Wilson, which becomes a love affair and lasts until 1938. The economic depression is severe. She notes one Orillia suicide and tells of a neighbour, Mr. Dempsey who has lost his job as manager of local branch of the Northway's store.

File also includes many newspaper clippings.

File consists of two diaries of Dorothy Choate Herriman, along with correspondence between Dorothy and her mother (1927) and newspaper clippings.

In diary 6, Herriman writes of family discord, with thwarted writing. She talks about last illness and death of her mother (May 1934).

Diary 7 talks about her father apparently objecting to her affair with a "relative". Dorothy turned 33 that year and writes of her continuing relationship with "R" [Ralph Wilson].

File consists of 2 diaries and a few newspaper clippings.

Diary 8 talks about the relationship with "R" [Wilson] winding down and a new infatuation with Eric Gaskell, National Secretary of the Canadian Authors' Association (CAA).

Diary 9 discusses the Journal of the CAA. convention and her feelings for Eric of whom she would "trail his footprints like a faithful hound - to Hell or Heaven."

The fonds consists of typescripts of the field diary and report of the survey of Bell's Line by Robert Bell, August 1847-September 1848.