Series consists of records relating to the academic aspects of the School of Journalism, including recruitment of new students.

Series contains records relating to the administration, activities, maintenance, and projects of the office of the School of Journalism. It documents the year-to-year institutional functioning of the school. Documents relate to staffing, financial matters and correspondence.

Sub-series contains documents and materials outlining the procedures through which students enter the School of Journalism. Records include registration forms for admittance to the School, workshops and classes. Unclaimed diplomas from the Bachelor of Journalism program are shelved separately ( oversized).

Collection consists of correspondence written by 56 Canadian authors, poets and journalists who were acquainted with Andrew Merkel, as well as publications and programmes from the literary societies in which Merkel was a central figure.

There are a roughly equal number of typewritten and manuscript letters. Letters from Merkel are predominantly typewritten, as his handwriting is poor, but other correspondents preferred manuscript or type.

The materials range in date from the early 1900s, when Merkel was a student at King's College, Windsor, N.S., to 1953. The final letters are sympathy notes to him on the death of his wife.

Subjects of the collection include visits by poets, meetings of the Song Fishermen, and the publication of their work. Correspondence between Merkel and other Canadian Press men are also present, along with drafts of articles and discussion of reporting and managerial styles.

The letters were written in locations across the western world, from Paris and London to New York, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax. Some of the article drafts were written as Merkel flew over the Atlantic during the Second World War.

Series includes correspondence between Merkel and J. F. B. Livesay, Tully, and many others, and various documents relating to Merkel's personal and professional life.

Sub-series contains memos and design plans for a school of journalism that had a brief existence in the 1960s. It also contains correspondence regarding the collapse and dissolution of the school.

Series includes 13 newsletters that The Canadian Press sent to Andrew Merkel.

Series contains letters and membership and board-related materials.

Series includes correspondence between Charles Bruce and Andrew Merkel, beginning with Bruce's freshman year at Mount Allison University when Merkel encouraged him to write poetry, and continuing through to the end of World War II, during which Bruce was a war correspondent. Also includes some of Bruce's early work with the Canadian Press.

Series contains mostly correspondence between Andrew Merkel and Charles G.D. Roberts.