Fonds consists of textual records relating to George and John Cartwright including the Addition to the Labrador Companion. 112 pages of notes on game and hunting, dogs, fishing techniques, equipment, survival skills needed in Labrador. Letters, both personal and business related, drawings for buildings and traps, a list of goods required for Labrador, list of traps with locations, list of workmen by occupation, a note on construction techniques, memorandum on how to work and trade with native people, letter stating his opinion (in 1818) about the futility of the British Navy expeditions for finding the North-West Passage; A Journal of Transactions and Events during a Residence of nearly 16 years on the Coast of Labrador (published in 1792) - 3 vol. Cartwright's own copy. Volume 3 has two inserted letters from George Cartwright; Arctic Zoology by Thomas Pennant - 3 vols. Published in 1784-5. With extensive annotations by George Cartwright, contradicting or extending Pennant's observations; The life and correspondence of Major Cartwright - 4 volumes (Vol I part I & II: 1759-1794; Vol 2 part I & II: 1794-1824 plus Appendices) These volumes were put together by Frances D. Cartwright who was Edmund Cartwright's (the third Cartwright brother) daughter but who was brought up by John Cartwright. They contain a compendium of printed texts, drawings, engravings, letters and notes relating to the life of John Cartwright with several references to his stay in Newfoundland (1766-1770). It also contains clippings about the Inuit visit in 1772 and a pamphlet, published in 1772 entitled Rights and Interests of Fishing Companies. The most significant item in these scrapbooks is the watercolour Portrait of Caubvick ca. 1772, likely done by Catherine Cartwright, sister of George and John which is inserted into Volume I of The Life and Correspondence of Major [John] Cartwright. Caubvick was one of five Inuit, taken by George Cartwright to London in 1772. The fonds also includes cartographic material including the Sketch of a bay in Labrador from one drawn by An Eskimeau Indian; as well as graphic material including Portrait of George Cartwright, ca. 1791-92 by William Hilton the Elder; Portrait of John Cartwright, 1789 by John Hoppner; Portrait of George Cartwright, 1792, copper plate engraved by Thomas Medland. The engraving from this plate was used as the frontispiece for A Journal of Transactions; Portrait of John Cartwright, 1789, copper plate engraved by Georg Siegmund Facius after the portrait by Hoppner; Portrait of John Cartwright, 1789, (2 copies) in Vol I part 1 of The Life and Correspondence of Major [John] Cartwright. In addition, the fonds contains four embroidered birchbark boxes embroidered, late -18th century made for the tourist industry by nuns in Quebec by nuns, showing Indigenous people engaged in various activities.
