The fonds consists of written and audio tape correspondence between Dennis Williams, a court reporter in the Northwest Territories, and Marjorie Nicol of Vancouver. It also includes other material sent by Williams, including articles on the NWT's Indigenous people, notes, information brochures, and other sound recordings.

The series consists of 64 cassettes of "tape letters" from Dennis Williams, a court reporter in the Northwest Territories, to Marjorie Osborne Nicol, a friend who lived in Vancouver. The tapes are a combination of Williams' comments about his experiences in the Arctic and personal correspondence with Mrs. Nicol.

The tapes were intended to form the basis of a book that Williams planned to write about his experiences in the NWT. He died suddenly in 1974 with the project uncompleted.