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This fonds is divided into 11 series reflecting the filing system used by Nevitt during his career, and based on subject divisions. The series are: ‘Subject Files’, ‘Early Manuscripts’, ‘Northern Electric Company’, ‘Discoveries International Symposium’, ‘Management by PreVision’, ‘Published Articles and Papers’, ‘Captain Gulliver’s Interplanetary Travels’, ‘ABC’, ‘Correspondence’, ‘Who Was Marshall McLuhan’, and ‘Printed Materials’.

The first series ‘Subject Files’, consists of 57 files containing a variety of textual records including correspondence, notes, printed materials, clippings, manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, ephemera, and overhead transparencies, and a small amount of audio recordings in various formats. The records are grouped together in individual files based on subject matter divisions reflecting specific creative and academic projects that Nevitt worked on alone and in conjunction with McLuhan, and topics of interest to Nevitt. The series also contains a file of collected photographs and a file titled ‘Ephemera and Mixed Media’, which contains a small collection of audio records.

The second series ‘Early Manuscripts’ consists of typescripts, and drafts of various academic manuscripts and papers written by Nevitt. The records in this series were created between 1945 – 1965.

The third series ‘Northern Electric Company’ includes notes, seminar material, and clippings compiled by Nevitt during his time with the Northern Electric Company between 1961 and 1962. The series includes material from various seminars organized by the American Management Association and attended by Nevitt.

The fourth series ‘Discoveries International Symposium’ includes correspondence, notes, ephemera, and symposium and conference materials related to Nevitt’s participation in Discoveries International Symposiums held in 1977 and 1978.

The fifth series, ‘Management by PreVision’ includes notes, clippings, drafts, correspondence, and other textual records related to Nevitt’s book project ‘Management by PreVision’.

The sixth series ‘Published Articles and Papers’, includes a collection of chronologically arranged articles and manuscripts written and published by Nevitt and others between 1951-1994, and related correspondence.

The seventh series ‘Captain Gulliver’s Interplanetary Travels’, includes correspondence, clippings, notes, contracts, manuscripts, and other textual records related to Nevitt’s science fiction book project of the same name.

The eighth series ‘ABC of Prophecy’ includes clippings, notes, manuscripts, and other textual records related to Nevitt’s book project of the same name.

The ninth series ‘Correspondence’ includes a collection of chronologically arranged correspondence related to Nevitt and generated between 1966 – 1993.

The tenth series ‘Who Was Marshall McLuhan’ includes correspondence, notes, clippings, and other textual records related to the book of the same name that was co-authored by Nevitt and Maurice McLuhan.

The eleventh series ‘Printed Materials’, includes monographs, periodicals, and published journal articles generated between 1953 – 1994 by Nevitt, Marshall McLuhan and other writers working on topics of interest to Nevitt.

This fonds includes textual material relating to the following books and publications:

Telecommunication Equipment for Power Systems Developments and Application in Sweden (book, 1953)
Causality in the Electronic World (book, 1972)
Take Today: The Executive as Dropout (book, 1972)
Encyclopedia of the Future Under the Direction of the Hudson Institute (article, 1973)
Managing Change by Anticipating its Effects on People (article, 1973)
New Media (book, 1973)
Development and Underdevelopment in the Electric Age (article, 1974)
The Responsive Chord (book, 1974)
ABC of Prophecy (book, 1980)
Archivist as Comprehensivist (article, 1981)
The Communication Ecology (book, 1982)
The Future of Media (book, 1982)
Keeping Ahead of Economic Panic (book, 1985)
Captain Gulliver’s Interplanetary Travels (book, 1986)
Who Was Marshal McLuhan (book, 1993)
From MBO to MBP (article)
Management by PreVision (article)

Sub-series consists of Flahiff's transcriptions of selected correspondence between Marshall McLuhan, Wilfred Watson and Sheila Watson in the Wilfred Watson fonds at the University of Alberta.

McLuhan, Herbert Marshall. "Kipling and Forster." The Sewanee Review, vol. 52, no. 3, 1944, pp. 332-343.

McLuhan, Herbert Marshall. “An Ancient Quarrel in Modern America.” The Classical Journal, vol. 41, no. 4, 1946, pp. 156–162.

McLuhan, Herbert Marshall. “Inside Blake and Hollywood.” The Sewanee Review, vol. 55, no. 4, 1947, pp. 710–715.

McLuhan, Herbert Marshall. Introduction. Paradox in Chesterton, by Hugh Kenner, Sheed and Ward, 1947, pp. xi-xxii.

McLuhan, Marshall. "The 'Colour-Bar' of BBC English." Canadian Forum,vol. 29, 1949, pp. 9-10.

McLuhan, Marshall. "Pound's Critical Prose." An Examination of Ezra Pound: A Collection of Essays edited by Peter Russell, New Directions Publishing, 1950, pp. 165-171.

McLuhan, H.M. "Technology and Political Change." International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis,vol. 7, issue 3, 1952, pp. 189-195.

McLuhan, Marshall. "Baseball is Culture!" CBC Times, October 25, 1952, pp.19-25.

McLuhan, Marshall. "James Joyce: Trivial and Quadrivial." Thought: Fordham University Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 1, 1953, pp. 75-98.

McLuhan, Marshall. “Joyce, Mallarmé, and the Press.” The Sewanee Review, vol. 62, no. 1, 1954, pp. 38–55.

McLuhan, Marshall. “The Psychopathology of 'Time' and 'Life'." The Scene Before You: A New Approach to American Culture,edited by Chandler Brossard, Rinehart, 1955, pp. 147-160.

McLuhan, Marshall. “Myth and Mass Media." Myth and the Myth-Making,edited by Henry A. Miller, Braziller, 1960, pp.288-299.

McLuhan, H.M. "Tennyson and Picturesque Poetry." Critical essays on the Poetry of Tennyson,edited by John Killham, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960, pp.67-85.

McLuhan, Marshall. "The Medium Is the Message." Forum,vol.3, no. 4, 1960, pp. 19-24.

McLuhan, Marshall. "Inside the Five Sense Sensorium." Canadian Architect, vol.6, no.6, pp. 49-54.

McLuhan, Marshall. "The Humanities in the Electronic Age." Thought: From the Learned Societies of Canada, 1960,edited by Alec Lucas, W.J. Gage, 1961, pp. 5-14.

Emery, Tony. "Revolutions in Communication." Review of The Gutenberg Galaxy,by Marshall McLuhan. Canadian Literature,no. 14, Autumn, 1962, pp.65-67.

McLuhan, Marshall. "Printing and the mind." The Times Literary Supplement,Issue 3203, 19 July 1963, p. 517.

McLuhan, Marshall. "Murder by Television." The Canadian Forum, vol. 43, no. 516, 1964, pp. 222-223.

McLuhan, Marshall. "Notes on Burroughs." The Nation, vol. 199, no. 21, 1964, pp. 517-519.

McLuhan, Marshall. "The Invisible Environment I." The Canadian Architect, vol. 11, no. 5, 1966, pp. 71-74.

McLuhan, Marshall. "Technology and Environment." Artscanada, vol. 24, no. 2, 1967, pp. 5-7.

McLuhan, Marshall. Preface. Time: Fourth Dimension of the Mind, by Robert Wallis. Translated by Betty B. and Denis B. Montgomery. Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968, pp. vii-ix.

McLuhan, Marshall. "The Reversal of the Overheated Image." Playboy, vol. 15, no. 12, 1968, pp. 131-134.

McLuhan, H. M. "The Electric Culture." Review of The Books at the Wake, by James S. Atherton, Renascence: A Critical Journal of Letters, vol. 13, no. 4, 1961, pp. 219-220.

McLuahn, H. Marshall. "Communication Media: Makers of the Modern Mind." Annual Seminarians’ Conference: Communications and the Word of God, Toronto, Ont, 29-31 August 1959, University of St. Michael's College, 1959, pp. 9-22.

Deane, Philip. "Symbols Supplant Real Points of View." The Globe and Mail [Toronto, Ont.], 12 October 1959, p. 7.

McLuhan, H. M. "Producers and Consumers." Review of James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann, Renascence: A Critical Journal of Letters, vol. 13, no. 4, 1961, pp. 217-219.

Rockman, Arnold. "A View of Communication." The Toronto Daily Star, 7 July 1962.

Thomas, Alan. "Misunderstanding Media?" The Telegram [Toronto, Ont.], 22 August 1964, p. 5.

McLuhan, Marshall. "The Public and Private Sectors in the Electric Age." The National Conference on Canadian Goals, 9-12 September 1964, Fredericton, NB. Conference presentation. 19 pages.

McLuhan, Marshall. "The Story of the Man in the Mask." Review of Federalism and the French Canadians by Pierre Eliott Trudeau, The New York Times,17 Novemeber 1968, BR36, 38.

Anderson, Violet. "Our Unofficial Education." Review of The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man by Herbert Marshall McLuhan, Food for Thought, vol. 12, no. 5, 1952, pp. 28-31, 35.

Irving, John. "Civilzation, Human Nature, and the Printing Press." Review of The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan, The Canadian Saturday Night, vo. 77, no. 17, 1962, pp. 33-34.

Rosenberg, Harold. "Philosophy in a Pop Key." Review of Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan, The New Yorker, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 129-136.

Schickel, Richard. "Marshall McLuhan: Canada's Intellectual Comet." Harper's Magazine, vol. 231, no. 1386, 1965, pp. 62-68.

Newman, Peter C. "He Says Politicians Should Copy the Beatles." The Toronto Daily Star, 11 December 1965, p. 7.

"McLuhan says Star Erred in Story." Correction. The Toronto Daily Star, 15 January 1966, p. 17.

Dunford, Gary. "Students Read Lewis Carroll. McLuhan Stages a 'Colossal Happening'--To Teach Poetry." The Toronto Daily Star, 7 March 1966, p. 17.

Wetzsteon, Ross. "The Doubtful Necessity of Understanding McLuhan." The Village Voice [New York, NY], 12 May 1966, pp. 19-21.

Murray, Peggy. "The Cool McLuhan World." The Telegram [Toronto, Ont.], 29 October 1966, p. 67.

Fefferman, Stan. "Marshall McLuhan." The Telegram [Toronto, Ont.], 31 December 1966, p. 22.

Spraggett, Allen. "A Catholic Galaxy in 'Orange' Toronto." The Toronto Daily Star, 7 January 1967, p. 61.

Kostelanetz, Richard. "Marshall McLuhan: He Sees Significance Where Others See Only Data." Commonweal, vol. 85, no. 15, 1967, pp. 420-426.

"Schools Could Banish Bonanza Easily as The Bard: McLuhan." The Toronto Daily Star, 20 January 1967, p. 30.

Culkin, John M. "A Schoolman's Guide to Marshall McLuhan." Saturday Review,18 March 1967, pp. 51- 53, 70-72.

Watson, Patrick. "Critical Spasms from Twitched Ganglia." Review of McLuhan Hot and Cool: A Critical Symposium, edited by Gerald E. Stearn, The Globe Magazine, 9 December 1967, p. 15.

Fraser, Graham. "The Marshall McLuhan Newsletter Story." The Toronto Daily Star, 3 August 1968, p. 31.