This sub-series consists of files related to George Grant's articles, essays, conference papers, public lectures, radio broadcasts, book reviews, poems, letters to the editor, and other writings. Sheila Grant and the editors of the Collected Works used this material to identify texts and dates of his works (Grant seldom provided context for his manuscripts). His writings covered a wide array of subjects, including philosophy, religion, the church, abortion, politics, the university, adult education, peace and conflict, and arts and literature, among others. The files hold drafts in various stages ranging from rough notes to typed copies submitted for publication, and often include his own corrections or annotations by others. There is also correspondence with editors and conference organizers, interviews, reaction from participants or readers, publications, and related material.
For his early writings, the series includes a bound copy of his Oxford D.Phil. thesis; wartime columns in Food for Thought for the Canadian Association for Adult Education; and the bulletins accompanying his CBC broadcasts, Of Things to Come: A Citizens' Forum on the Post-war World. There are also drafts of his unpublished book, Acceptance and Rebellion. For the 1960s, the sub-series includes records of the CBC Radio Extension series on "Ideals and Democracy" (1965-66) that he did with Gad Horowitz and of the Toronto International Teach-In against Vietnam (October 1965), which led to several articles and talks, and includes his correspondence with Clayton Ruby of the Student Union for Peace Action (SUPA). The files for his introduction to Scott Symons' book Heritage (1971) include correspondence, drafts, galleys, and colour negatives by photographer John De Visser.
Grant produced successive drafts in the 1970s for another book that was not published: Technique(s) and Good and later, Good and Technique. In addition to manuscripts, chapter drafts, notes and outlines, this sub-series holds files on several lectures and shorter articles on the impact of technology that it inspired. As the issues of abortion and euthanasia moved to the public forefront, he wrote a number of articles, both with Sheila Grant and alone, including "The Case against Abortion" in Today Magazine (1981), paired with a pro-choice piece by editor Walter Stewart, which produced a vast amount of reader mail. His works that appeared posthumously are also documented here, including his 1953 essay, Two Theological Languages, published in a book of the same name edited by Wayne Whillier (1990); the manuscripts for Obedience, edited by Gerald Owen for The Idler (1991); and Celine's Trilogy, edited by Sheila Grant for publication in George Grant and the Subversion of Modernity (1996).
