Fonds consists of twelve series of records: Journals and Notebooks and Appointment Calendars; Personal Correspondence; Business Correspondence; Exhibition Catalogues and Printed Material Relating to Marian Scott; Printed Material - General; Political Files; Norman Bethune Material; F.R. Scott Material; Peter Dale Scott Material; Memorabilia and Manuscripts; Additional Papers; and Art Material.
The fonds also contains five groups of photographs by the following photographers: Chris F. Payne, Lois Lord, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Dominion Gallery, Sam Tata, Dora, Wm. Blackburn, Yousuf Karsh, Yvan Boulerice, Service de Cine-Photographie Province de Quebec, Swaine, William Toye, London Stereoscope Co., Wm. Notman & Son, Gerda, Von Behr, Gilman & Co., John Steele, Adolphe, and Morris Edwards. The photographs in group one are formal and informal photographs of Marion Scott, her husband F.R. Scott, their son Peter and family; Marion Scott and F.R. Scott among friends, including Anne Scotton, Philip and Margaret Surrey, Pegi Nichols, Claire Laporte, John and Marion Glassco, Sheila Fischman and Ron Graham; albums compiled by F.R. Scott as a student at Oxford University; trips and visits; William Toye, London Stereoscope Co., Wm. Notman & Son, Gerda, Von Behr, Gilman & Co., John Steele, Adolphe, and Morris Edwards. The photographs in group two are formal and informal photographs included in correspondence from friends, including Elizabeth Grove-White and King Gordon, Dawn Trent, and Anne Scotten. In group three there are photographs pertaining to Dr. Norman Bethune; including Bethune in Madrid, 1937; gravemarker of Bethune in China; Bethune's painted self-portrait and memorial plaque given to the people of China by McGill Univerity, 1971; presentation album commemorating Bethune's work in China given by Chen Wen Chieh and Ha-Hsian Wen; and the house where Bethune was born (now a museum). Group four consists of photographic documentation of works of art by Marian Scott, 1930s-1980s, including the following titles: "Cello", "Fossils", "Cell and Crystal", "Dividing Cell, Atom Bone and Embrio (sic)", "Cell and Fossil", "Figures", "Burning Bush", "Community", "Group", "Hugh MacLennan", "Figure", "Iconic", "Apostles", "Facade", "Figures in Architecture", "Couple", "Montreal General Hospital chapel", "Tree of Jesse", "Lorne Cresent", "Building a Cabin", "Impression", "June 28 1985", "May 22 1985", "Quebec fields", "Crocus", "Fire Escape", "Grain Elevator", "Files, Stone and Protoplasm", "Generation", "Tulip", "Still Life", "Tenants", "Cement", "Hairdresser", "Bud", "Dock", and "Sans Titre". The photographs in group five are miscellaneous views, mostly unidentified, sent to or collected by Marian Scott.
The fonds also includes a watercolour self-portrait by Marian Scott.