File consists of a spiral bound volume with copies of love letters sent from Dana Porter to Dorothy Parker during their courtship. Also included are photos of Dorothy, the Porter family, and a print out of a news article by Dana and Dorothy's grand-daughter regarding the letters.

File consists of two photographs showing Dana Porter and others at the signing of the Canadian General Electric maintenance Contract for the O.P.P. Radio system. Also includes one item of correspondence regarding the photographs.

Series consists of correspondence to and from Dana Porter regarding a variety of topics in his personal and professional life. Includes approximately three hundred and thirty-six items. Correspondents are listed at the file level. Note that where applicable items of correspondence have been left in their original file and subsequently correspondence can also be found in :

• Series 2. Dana Porter and Dorothy Parker Family ;
• Series 4. Ephemera ;
• Series 5. Political and Legal Career ;
• Series 6. Scrapbooks and Clippings ;
• Series 7. Shakespeare ;
• Series 8. Speeches and Addresses ;
• Series 9. Visual Materials.

File consists of two items of correspondence from Dana Porter to J.W. McAree of Mail and Empire, regarding the Empire Club of Canada.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Ed Black along with a campaign brochure for the YMCA that features a baby with a resemblance to Leslie Frost.

File consists of one item of correspondence from R.A. Farrell of the News Bulletin of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada.

File consists of eighteen items of correspondence between the secretaries of Yousuf Karsh (Joyce Large) and Dana Porter (Margaret Saunderson) regarding portraits of Porter.

File consists of ten items of correspondence from Dana Porter to Dorothy Parker from the time of their engagement. These letters are the same as those in the spiral bound collection. Also includes copies of the other materials that are in the bound volume.

File consists of three items of correspondence. Two are between Admiral A.R. Parker (Dana Porter's father-in-law) and Dalton Davies. The other item is possibly from Porter's mother-in-law to him or to his wife. All three items were in the same envelope and the letter from Mrs. Ramsey discusses the estate of Dalton Davies.

File consists of two hundred and forty six items of correspondence congratulating Dana Porter on his appointment as Ontario Chief Justice, as Chancellor of the University of Waterloo and as a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Toronto.
Correspondents include :

• Allen, Francis J.
• Althouse, Mayme
• Anderson, Hugh A.
• Archer, William L.
• Armstrong, C.H.A.
• Armstong, James S.P.
• Armstrong, V.W.
• Ash, W.M.V.
• Ball, Gordon R.
• Band, James S.
• Beaudoin, Gerard
• Beck, Frederick A.
• Bell, Dick
• Bell, Thomas H.
• Belyea, Roy E.
• Berlin, S.S.
• Berry, Nixon T.
• Berry, J. Wilson
• Bickle, E.W.
• Bigelow, S. Tupper
• Biggar, H.W.
• Bishop, A.L.
• Bissell, Claude
• Bind, H.I.
• Birbaum, S.U.
• Blackwell, Leslie
• Blaird, Sid
• Blair, Willis L.
• Blatz, Anne and Bill
• Boland, John F.
• Borden, Henry
• Bowlby, A.T.
• Bowman, W.C.
• Brebner, F.R.
• Brown, Mannie
• Bruce, Herbert A.
• Bruce, Maxwell
• Buckland, Babs and Bert
• Bunnell, Arthur E.K.
• Campbell, Fred A.
• Cawthorne, Frederick
• Chalmers, Floyd S.
• Clark, Christie T.
• Coon, Burwell R.
• Crate, Alexander V.
• Currey, Jessie G.
• Davies, Robertson
• Duggan, R.B.
• Duncan, James S.
• Dunlop, W.J.
• Durie, Helen
• Dymond, M.B.
• Edmonds, George E.
• Erichsen-Brown, F.
• Farewell, C.A.
• Featherstone, Edna
• Feinberg, Rabbi Abraham L.
• Fell, Charles P.
• Forsyth, Bob
• Frankel, Egmont
• Fraser, D.G.
• Gelber, Marvin
• Gibson, D.H.
• Gilmour, G.P.
• Glassco, U. Grant
• Goodman, E.A.
• Goodwin, L.H.; Graham, Beatrice B.
• Graydon, Allan
• Green, Robert M.
• Gregory, Wilfrid P.
• Griffin, John
• Grossberg, Ben
• Gundy, Clarke

• H. Mary
• Hall, Emmett M.
• Hamilton, William E.
• Hammell, John E.
• Hanna, John W.
• Harkness, W.U.K.
• Harris, Roland A.
• Hart, G. Arnold
• Hastings, Mable
• Heal, R.F.
• Hearing, George J.
• Herbert, Rober
• Hermant, Sydney
• Hewitt, Gordon; Hilton, John D.
• Hobson, J.A.
• Hasting, R.S.
• Huffman, John
• Hughes, Frank J.
• Hukee, Margie Magone
• Hungerford, Jack
• Inch, George
• Innes, H.B.
• Isber, Rose M.
• Jamieson, H.T.
• Jasperson, Fred K.
• Johnston, Roddy
• Jones, Oakah L.
• Kelly, J.M.
• Kents, Palmer
• Kingston, R.A.
• Kirkpatricks, A.M.
• Kirkwood, Helen
• Kucherepa, John
• Laidlaw, Robert
• Langford, Henry
• Leal, Allan H.
• Leal, W. Allen
• Levinter, Isodore
• Lough, Donald
• Lewis, Dev
• Long, Norman W.
• Lowe, Carl
• Luxenberg, Benjamin
• Lyle, F.
• MacLean, Ian
• McLaughlin, Hugh J.
• McCutcheon, M. Wallace
• McGibbon, J.A.
• McLead, Douglas J.
• McKenzie, A.C.
• McTague, Charles P.
• Mabee, Oliver B.
• Mack, Ron L.
• Maddocks, Fred
• Mahoney, Ed.
• Martin, Walter M.
• Mauskell, J.Q.
• Mendels, M.M.
• Mernill, S.B.
• Millar, J.D.
• Mills, Ralph S.
• Milner, H.R.
• Mitchell, George
• Montague, W.H.
• Moore, Trevor
• Morrison, William
• Mungovan, Lenore
• Monteith, J. Waldo
• Murray, Gladstone
• Nickle, W.M.
• Normandin, Rodrigue
• Ormsly, Gerald
• Osborne, L.
• Pepler, H.W.E.

• Pepper, Elliott R.
• Porteous, J.G.
• Purcell, G.M.
• Portstein, Meyer
• Powel, W. Kent
• Reilly, Gladys and Edward
• Rigney, T.J.
• Robbins, Harry M.
• Robertson, N.S.
• Robinette, T.L.
• Robinson, Cecil W.
• Rodgers, A.B.
• Rogers, Arthur W.
• Rogers, H.W.
• Roebuck, Joseph
• Rooney, Veronica Plunkett
• Rosenburg, Henry
• Ross, A.
• Ross, Allan
• Ross, Douglas
• Ross, James F.W.
• Sale, Rhys M.
• Samuel, Sigmund
• Sedgwick, Joseph
• Sowby, Rev. C.W.
• Schwenger, William F.
• Savage, Claude C.
• Schmon, Arthur A.
• Seed, Jack A.
• Seitz, Joseph L.
• Shenstone, Norman S.
• Simpson, D.G.
• Slemin, J.A.D.
• Smalley-Baker, Dean C. E.
• Smith, Adam W. Simpson
• Soward, Reginald H.
• St. John, Bascom, Starr, Anne
• Stephen, Alan G.A.
• Sullivan, Joseph A.
• Tayts, Paddy
• Templeton, Gilbert
• Thaufrou, Joe
• Torrance, F.W.
• Trebilcock, A.J.
• Tyrrell, T.A.C.
• Wadsworth, J.P.R.
• Walker, C.L.
• Walker, David J.
• Walker, J.W.
• Ward, Alfred B.
• Wardrope, G.C.
• Warrender, W.K.
• Weiss, Herbert J.
• Weldon, D.B.
• Weldon, J.O.
• Whalley, J.F.C.
• Williams, E.K.
• Wilson, Harry H.
• Wilson, Roland F.
• Wilton, Glen
• Wintermeyer, John J.
• Winters, Robert
• Woodland, F.A.L.
• Wren, Albert
• Yaremko, John
• Yavell, L.L.

File consists of three items of correspondence between G.D. Sanagan and Dana Porter regarding a request for a transcript of Porter's address to the County of York Law Association.

File consists of two items of correspondence regarding Dana Porter being unable to attend the opening of the river diversion works at Brampton.

File consists of two items of correspondence between the secretary of Dana Porter and Financial Times of Canada librarian, Alice Kudo, regarding a request for photographs of Porter.

File consists of forty-eight items of correspondence to and from Dana Porter and his secretary regarding the Report of the Royal Commission on Banking and Finance.
Correspondents include:

• Abbott, Justice Douglas
• Barber, Clarence L.
• Cromer, The Earl of
• Diefenbaker, John
• Frost, Leslie
• Gillanders, E.B.
• Hampson, H.A.
• Harris, W.C.
• Haug, Edgar
• Heward, Brian
• Hewitt, H.J.
• Holtroy, Marius
• Johnson, Harry G.
• Keir, David Lindsay
• Kim, John
• Lafrance, Leo
• Litchfield, E.
• Lundberg, Erik
• McKinnon, Neil J.
• McLaughlin, W. Earle
• Mansur, David B.
• Matthews, Beverley
• Mercure, G.
• Neufeld, E.P.
• Parizeau, Jacques
• Prentis, Margaret R.
• Shearer, Ronald A.
• Sproul, Allan
• Stanley, David
• Tanz, Mark M.
• Trudeau, Pierre.

File consists of correspondence between Dana Porter and D.D. Findlay regarding a speech that Porter gave at a Ontario Provincial Police picnic.

File consists of three items of correspondence regarding speeches given by Dana Porter. These items do not correspond with a speech in the collection.

File consists of materials related to Dana Porter's patronage of the Stratford Festival of Canada Foundation. Includes information on the foundation, as well as five items of correspondence between Dana Porter and employees of the foundation.

File consists of an album of photographs used as evidence in the case of the 1952 jail break of the Boyd Gang at the Don Jail. The photographs are listed in the front of the album, but they have been left in original order in the album itself (not chronological). The photographs were taken by Det. Sergt. Maurice Inglis of the Toronto Police. Also includes a clipping from 1990 on the break out.

File consists of one photograph of Clifford Magone, the Deputy Attorney General of Ontario under Dana Porter. The photograph was taken by William Scott, Fire Marshal of Ontario. Also includes an item of correspondence from Scott.

File consists of an envelope with vital records and information for Dana Porter, Jr. Includes correspondence regarding the records from the RCAF, as well as a high school graduation diploma, reports of examinations from the Ontario Agricultural College, clippings on Porter's time at OAC and letters of reference.

File consists of one item of correspondence to Dorothy Porter from William Thomas Brown regarding the death of Dana Porter.

File consists of three items of correspondence addressed to Dorothy Porter from her uncle William Ramsey regarding the Ramsey family tree.

File consists of one item of correspondence from Edward L. Greenspan, Q.C. to Julian Porter with an attached photocopy from a book referencing Dana Porter.

File consists of a brief essay on the book Dana Porter most enjoyed in 1956, The Letters of Thomas Wolfe. Also includes one item of correspondence regarding the request for his favourite book.