Series consists of twenty years of incoming correspondence organized alphabetically by sender surname and, by sender, chronologically. Contents include: postcards, photographs, and handwritten and typewritten letters (originals, negatives, and copies). When included in the accession, envelopes are retained with the letters with which they came. The bulk of Lowry's incoming correspondence was composed between 1940 and 1954 while the Lowrys resided primarily in Dollarton.

Lowry corresponded with a wide range of family (his own and Margerie's), friends from across the Americas and western Europe, and professional contacts in the literary world. Albert Erskine, David Markson, Downie Kirk, and Harold Matson, for example, all kept up regular correspondence with Lowry for many years. Several files include only short correspondences pertaining to specific activities, generally publication of one of Lowry's poems or short stories, or the translating of his works into another language.

Series includes photographs of Lowry and Margerie at Dollarton, Bowen Island, Sicily, Mexico, Haiti, and England among other places. Friends and family, including Earle Birney, Priscilla Woolfan, and the Burts, also appear. Series also includes picture postcards, predominantly from Mexico and France, and tickets for museum exhibits and cultural heritage sites in Mexico. Some photographs have Margerie or Lowry’s handwriting on the reverse; where titles of photographs are expository, the title is a direct transcription of Margerie’s notes on the reverse of that photograph. 732 of the photographs are taken from three photograph albums; see file-level entries for descriptions of album contents. Also included are pages of scanned copies of the contents of the three photo albums mentioned in the Photographs sous-fonds level arrangement note.

Series consists of a copy of a review of Edward Hoagland’s book Notes From the Century Before: A Journal From British Columbia. Some of the notes in question are Margerie’s from the notebooks in the Malcolm Lowry Papers.

Series consists of miscellaneous objects, including a program for the 1977 Academy Awards, a liquor permit for 1946-1947, several tags for Christmas gifts signed by Lowry, jewelry given to Margerie Lowry by Malcolm Lowry, and a cigarette case and lighter set owned by Malcolm Lowry.

Series consists of notes from Lowry, written on small note cards and scrap paper. Lowry wrote notes to Margerie frequently between 1939 and 1953. The cards often contain love notes to Margerie as well as scraps of poems, small sketches, thoughts, observations, and fragments of what would later become poems.

Series consists of correspondence between the Lowrys and the Burts, mostly from the 1950s and early 1970s. The series also contains poems by Lowry, two of which were written for Dorothy Templeton Burt’s birthday in 1957.

Series consists of photographs and negatives of the Lowrys and the Burts, mostly at Dollarton and during a period where the two couples were in Sicily together.

Series consists of letters from Doyen to Conrad Aiken, Wilfrid Lowry, and James Stern, among others. The majority of the outgoing correspondence is from 1973.

Series consists of a photocopy and transcript of a news article on a friend of Lowry’s from Cambridge who committed suicide while they were at school together in 1929.

Series consists of articles about Lowry’s life and works. Articles from Les Lettres Nouvelles cover Under the Volcano, October Ferry to Gabriola, and Selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry, and an announcement about a film on Lowry. Other articles range in topics, including Lowry’s time as a crewman on the S.S. Pyrrhus in 1927.

Series consists of outgoing correspondence from Markson to the Lowrys, Lowry scholars, and UBC Library RBSC head Anne Yandle. Outgoing letters generally cover periods of at least five years per addressee, though several include longer periods. The majority of the outgoing correspondence is addressed to the Lowrys together and to Margerie alone.

Series consists of letters from R.N. Linscott, Klaus Mann, and James Stern. Contents include quotes from reviewers of Under the Volcano related to its rejection in 1940 (R.N. Linscott worked at Houghton Mifflin Co., which rejected Under the Volcano). Includes also a fragment of a letter from Lowry, undated, and a telegram sent from Mexico to the Daily Herald. The telegram is the same as that sent by one of the characters in Chapter IV of Under the Volcano.

Series consists of manuscript chapters, mostly annotated, of Under the Volcano, notes, quotations, and drawings. Series also contains a typescript of The Last Address, which is missing Chapter IV and differs from later versions of Lunar Caustic. The notes are predominantly about history, culture, geography, etc. or Mexico and the development of Under the Volcano.

Series consists of a partial inventory of the Malcolm Lowry Manuscripts Collection Photographs sous-fonds, specifically for photos BC1770-(01-04), printed copies of photographs, a developed photograph, and several negatives.

Series consists of financial statements for Arthur Lowry, Evelyn Lowry, and Malcolm Lowry and correspondence between Russell Lowry and various banks and institutions involved in settling the estates of Mr. and Mrs. Lowry senior and Malcolm Lowry. Four files in the series are specifically about the settlement of Malcolm Lowry’s estate.

Series consists of miscellaneous records pertaining to the personal life of Malcolm Lowry. Contents include: financial records, art prints hung on the walls of the Dollarton shacks, Lowry’s notes on source character “Fernando” (Juan Fernando Marquez) and the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, and materials gathered by UBC, including copies of Lowry’s birth and death certificates, and newspaper announcements about the death of Arthur Lowry, Malcolm Lowry’s father, and the sale of the house where Lowry wrote the first draft of Under the Volcano.

Series consists of miscellaneous notes not associated with any particular work by Lowry. Notes for individual works are filed with that work (see Manuscripts, Poetry and Manuscripts, Prose series). Notes are on loose pages and page fragments.

Series consists of incoming correspondence from George Sumner Albee, Mabell Bonner (Margerie’s mother), Catherine Carver, Richard Cross, and David Markson. The majority of the incoming letters are from 1958.

Series consists of outgoing correspondence, primarily to Albert Erskine, Harold Matson, and Marie Moore. Correspondence is predominantly from the 1950s.

Series consists of typed and annotated manuscript drafts of several of Margerie’s novels, including Castle of Malatesta, Venus in the Evening Star, and The Caretakers. Some notes and annotations are in Lowry’s handwriting.

Series consists of reviews and notes by Lowry on Birney’s novel, Turvey. The review was published in vol. 5, no. 1 of Thunderbird.

Series consists of correspondence between William McConnell and various friends, family, and Lowry scholars. The majority of the incoming correspondence is from Margerie Lowry and the Crawleys. Outgoing letters are addressed frequently to the Crawleys (Alen, Jean, and Mike), Margerie Lowry, Harvey Breit, and Basil Stuart-Stubbs of UBC Library RBSC. An additional collection of correspondence between McConnell and Earle Birney dating from 1943 to 1947 was added to the William McConnell Papers and is included in this series.

Series consists of an annotated typescript of a song written by Lowry, a typescript of a CBC program on Lowry by McConnell, notes about Lowry and his work, and a copy of Lowry’s death certificate.

Series consists of a handwritten partial draft of Chapter VI of Under the Volcano and a photocopy of the inscription made by Lowry in an edition of Under the Volcano which he gave to the Neilsons.

Series consists of a partial inventory of the Malcolm Lowry Manuscripts Collection Photographs sous-fonds, specifically the Neilson photographs, BC1769-(01-07).

Series consists of several articles about Lowry published by George Woodcock, Alexander Ross, and Harvey Breit in Vancouver area newspapers, an article on the posthumous awarding to Lowry of the Governor General’s literary award in 1961, and a clipping concerning the renaming of a North Vancouver street from Park Lane to Lowry Lane.

Series consists of handwritten manuscripts on various topics related to the Lowry family and Malcolm Lowry by Russell Lowry. Contents include: six narratives on members of the Lowry family and the family home, Inglewood, miscellaneous notes, supplemental materials, and responses to Lowry biographers, specifically Douglas Day.

Series includes photographs of Lowry and Margerie with the Burts and one photograph of the Burts’ shack at Dollarton.

Series consists of materials gathered from elsewhere in the sous-fonds for exhibitions in the 1990s and early 2000s. Contents include: event posters, photographs of the exhibitions, photographs of Lowry and his friends and family, phonograph records, a glass bottle of Mexican alcohol (empty), and a framed sketch by Lowry.

Series consists of almost thirty years of outgoing correspondence written by Lowry (or Margerie for him or for them both) organized chronologically and by addressee. Contents include: postcards, a book, a long prose account of Lowry's experiences in Mexico, and letters (originals, negatives, and copies), both handwritten and typewritten. Some letters are annotated. Christmas cards recur, particularly for friends like David Markson, and family like William and Priscilla Woolfan (Margerie's brother-in-law and sister). When included in the accession, envelopes are retained with the letters with which they came.

The bulk of Lowry's outgoing correspondence was composed between 1940 and 1954 while the Lowrys resided primarily in Dollarton.

Series consists of manuscripts and published collections of Lowry's poetry. Poems and books are filed individually, though some pages contain multiple poems or fragments of other poems. Individual poem files include handwritten and typewritten poems, often with additional notes and drafts in the margins. Series also contains sheet music by Lowry co-written with Bernhard Rooenstrunk.

Poems frequently have multiple titles, either draft version titles or titles offered by Margerie or Earle Birney. File titles correspond to Lowry's finalized title where possible; alternate titles are included in the file-level general notes.

Series consists of prose manuscripts, fiction and non-fiction, organized by work and, for each work, by draft, roughly chronologically. Drafts of Under the Volcano, Lunar Caustic, and October Ferry to Gabriola are part of this series. Manuscripts frequently span multiple files and include pencil drafts, typescripts, printer's copies, and galley proofs as well as notes, fragments, and notebooks pertaining to specific works (for other notebooks, see Notebooks series). Many files include annotations by Lowry and others. Works published after Lowry's death by Margerie were based on these manuscripts and notes.

Series also includes short stories by Lowry’s first wife, Jan Gabrial, and friend of the Lowrys, Philippe “Phito” Thoby-Marcelin, the latter with corrections by the Lowrys.

Series consists of one typewritten and one handwritten, in Lowry’s hand, copy of the poem “By the River” by Margerie.

Series consists of a copy of an essay by Dr. Sherrill Grace about three of Margerie’s novels.

Series consists of photographs and prints of Margerie and Lowry. Photos of Margerie are mostly related to her acting career (head shots, and behind the scenes stills, etc.) and her childhood, though there are several of Lowry as well.

Series consists of incoming letters from Conrad Aiken, Brian O’Kill, James Stern, and Wilfrid Lowry, among others. The majority of the incoming letters are from 1973.

Series consists of letters and poems written by Lowry to Atwater (Carol Phillips), mostly sent while Lowry was living in Los Angeles in 1939. Some of the envelopes from these letters are also contained in the series.

Series consists of an astrological birth chart for Lowry filled out by Atwater.

Series consists of McConnell’s short story In Search of the Word, which is based on a visit with the Lowrys at Dollarton, published in the Malcolm Lowry Review in 1985.

Series consists of rejection letters for Lowry’s Through the Panama and a collection of newspaper clippings about Lowry. At least one clipping and a transcription of a story in the Birghton Argus newspaper are about Lowry’s death.

Series consists of several letters spanning four years from Malcolm and Margerie Lowry to the Neilsons.

Series consists of phonograph jazz records previously owned by Lowry, and accompanying case. Some of the records are damaged.

Series includes photographs of Lowry and Margerie at Lieben on Bowen Island with Einar Neilson, at Dollarton, and in England in the Lake District. Several photographs are copies of those in the Malcolm Lowry Photographs series (as indicated in the item level description). One photograph is a portrait of Lowry drawn by Remo Ferragamo commissioned by Margerie.

Series includes photographs of Lowry, Margerie, and the Burts, at Dollarton, England, and Sicily. Also included are negatives corresponding to some of the Sicily and Dollarton photographs. Slides are of trees and shoreline at Dollarton.

Series consists of published materials about Lowry and his works, organized by medium and, within medium, chronologically. Contents include: reviews, in various languages, of Lowry's works and collections of selected letters and poetry published posthumously, academic articles and papers about Lowry's works, including some presented at the 1987 Lowry Symposium and 1997 Lowry Conference, newspaper and magazine clippings, and excerpts from Lowry biographies. Series is predominantly scholarship and criticism with a secondary focus on biographical works. The collection of newspaper clippings is comprehensive, but source publications and dates are often unclear.

Series also includes several reels of audio recordings, predominantly interviews with Lowry’s friends and Lowry scholars.

Series consists of audiovisual materials organized chronologically. Contents include: interviews with friends and family of the Lowrys and Lowry scholars, documentary films about Lowry’s life and works, footage of a gathering at the Burt home, and a copy of the 1984 film version of Under the Volcano.

Series consists of notebooks not associated with any particular work by Lowry and Margerie, organized chronologically and by location. Both Lowry and Margerie kept notebooks, mostly palm sized and bound with staples, which they filled with thoughts and ideas, some of which developed into poems and manuscripts. Contents include bound notebooks, loose pages, and typewritten fragments of notes.

Series consists of published works by Lowry organized by publication date. Contents include: juvenilia, published primarily in the Leys Public School's journal, the Leys Fortnightly, poetry and short stories published in anthologies, and poetry and short stories published in magazines and journals, during Lowry's lifetime and posthumously. Posthumous publications were predominantly the result of submissions and requests made by Earle Birney and Margerie Lowry to various magazines and journals, though in many cases Lowry's work was sought out for publication in anthologies and collections of poetry and short stories, and for spotlight features about Lowry (see the Earle Birney Papers sous-fonds for correspondence about some posthumous publication of Lowry's writing).

Series consists of three years of correspondence between Birney and a variety of magazines, journals, and publishers, mostly concerning Birney’s efforts to have some of Lowry’s works published posthumously. The majority of the correspondence was posted between 1961 and 1963.

Series consists of footage and audio of an interviews with friends of the Lowrys, including Burt, footage of a 1994 concert at the Deep Cove Shaw Theatre celebrating Lowry’s life, and a variety of sound and video recordings of CBC programming about Lowry and his works.