Booklet contains reprinted, from the Canadian Historical Review, letters between Egerton Ryerson and Hugh Scobie in 1844 and 1846 that are held in the Archives of Victoria College, University of Toronto. The letters themselves are political in nature and were written just before the elections in 1844 and 1846. The book's forward is written by C. B. Sissons.

Booklet contains letters, reprinted from the Canadian Historical Review in March 1942, written by Egerton Ryerson between August and October 1824 after Egerton had left home to study with John Law at Gore District Grammar School.