Series consists of a journal attributed to James Wolfe, 18 June-16 August 1759 (photostat, 13 pages) copied in 1953 from the original lent to the Museum of the Citadel of Quebec by Maj. Gen. C.B. Price of Montreal but subsequently deposited in the Library of the Royal Mililtary College Kingston (accession number 1032900). This text is missing all but the last two lines of the entry for 18 June. The binding indicates that a portion of the volume was removed. A covering note identifies it as having been found among the papers of Edward Vernon Goodall, solicitor to Mrs. Wolfe (d. 1763). Comparative analysis made in 1987 of the handwriting in this text and other versions of the "Wolfe" journal indicates it to have been written by Thomas Bell, Wolfe's secretary and aide-de-camp, at Wolfe's direction or dictation.
The series also contains a journal attributed to James Wolfe, 10 June-7 August 1759 (photostat, 23 pages), copied in 1938 from the original in the McCord Museum, McGill University, Montreal (reference "M 255"). A duplicate photostat copy, transferred in 1986 from the W.K. Lamb papers (MG 31, D 8) contains an explanatory note regarding the provenance of the journal, acquired by David Ross McCord in 1914 with the information that a number of pages had been lost, one of which had indicated the absence of entries after mid-August. The text begins with an erroneous identification of the month as May and terminates mid-way through the entry for 7 August. The comparative analysis of the handwriting in this text, made in 1987, indicates it is a transcription in the hand of Thomas Bell.
The two versions of the journal are also available on microfilm, reel M-1910. Comparison should also be made with a third copy of the journal, also in Bell's hand, found in the Northcliffe Collection, MG 18 M, series 3, item 24 (sixth notebook), available on microfilm reel C-370.
A transcription of the three texts attributed to Wolfe plus Bell's own journal, in four parallel columns (26 pages) is also available.
