Consists of annotated pamphlets, manuscripts and notes belonging to James Gibson Hume.
Includes seven pamphlets by Hume, bound together, consisting of
- Value of the study of ethics...Toronto 1891, 24 p.
- Political economy and ethics. Toronto, 1892, 40 p.
- Practical value of psychology to the teacher...Toronto 1897, 8 p.
- Moral training in the public schools. n.p., n.d. x6p. caption title
- Pedagogics as a university subject. Offprint, pages 33-47, periodical unidentified
- Prohibition as a problem of individual and social reform. Reprinted from Acta Victoriana, n.d. 15 p. Annotations indicate that Hume would have changed the title in the event of republication, to "Individual self-control and collective self-control - can they be reconciled?", retaining the previous title as a subtitle, and omitting the first paragraph.
- Socialism. An address delivered before the Knox College alumni association at their post-graduate session. Reprinted from the Knox College Monthly, n.d. *1892). annotations show how Hume would have changed the title page, added a qualifying phrase to the final sentence, and added what he calls 'Summary of results &c" without further explanation.
Printed application by Hume to Hon. G.W. Ross, Minister of Education for Ontario, for the chair of Metaphysics and Ethics, and Logic, August 14 1889. 4 p. 4to. Minor annotations
Manuscript essays on temperance and prohibition, and on Indians in Canada and the United States, written during his university days.
Personal letters from S.J. MacLennan, St. Austin Aikins, W.J. (?) Dobbie, and others, including letter and agreement of rental "Of Professor Hume's cottage at Shanty Bay Ont" to Allan G. Findley.
Three pages of manuscript notes "The practical value of Psychology to the teacher" - different from the pamphlet of the same name.
12 pages manuscript on "The interrelation of law and moral conduct"
A few miscellaneous items including 2 printed cards - programs for the Canadian Institute 1899 and 1902.