Materials created and accumulated by Bernard Suits over the course of his education and teaching career. Includes materials created as a student such as class notes and exams, materials created as a professor at the University of Waterloo including course outlines and exams, published and unpublished fiction and non-fiction works, correspondence, meeting minutes, and audio and visual recordings of Suits' lectures.

File consists of poems written by Suits. Includes manuscript and typescript poems as well as "Liontayles", a poetry book put out by the University of Waterloo Federation of Students which includes four poems by Suits and one item of correspondence regarding "Liontayles". Poems are typescript (original and computer output) and manuscript and are one leaf unless otherwise noted. Multiple copies of each poem are present.

Poems include:

• Lily
• Epitaph
• Riddle
• Triolte upon Triolet
• In Memoriam
• Venus at Five O'Clock
• Parable
• Things Always Look Much Different in the Morning
• Two Part Invention
• Triolet
• Untitled Lines
• Obsolescence
  *Nocturn: Early Spring
• October Day (2 leaves)
• Comment
• Self Portrait
• Verses to my Friends
• What is She
• Sonnet to Bette
• Untitled
• Nineteenth Birthday
• The Nocturnal Vase
• A Song of the Sea (2 leaves)
• The History of Man
• Parable
• A Portable Proust
• The Figure in the Carpet
• The Fool on the Hill
• Furnish the House
• McBain
• The Monsters: A Theological Reflection
• My Return
• The Playwright Begins His Day
• Old Age
• Reflection of a Chamber Pot.

File consists of one hundred three items of typescript and manuscript correspondence and accompanying materials between Bernard Suits and others relating to his work "The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia", requests for papers, conference information, and other personal and professional correspondence. The exchanges are predominantly administrative in nature with a focus on publication and speaking requests or solicitations.

Correspondents include:
• Achtenburg, Deborah;
• American Philosophical Quarterly;
• Braybrooke, David;
• Coleman, James S.;
• Canadian Journal of Philosophy;
• Denisova, Z.V.;
• Edwards, Carl N.;
• Eichorn, Mary E.;
• Fry, Katharine Z.;
• Garvin, Harry R.;
• Garrett, Eugene;
• Graham, Robert;
• Grudge, T.A.;
• Haycroft, Colin;
• Kawa, Y.;
• Kennan, Francis;
• Kiefer, H.E.;
• King-Farlow, John;
• Kretchmar, Scott;
• Kubara, Michael;
• Kutscher, Austin;
• Lenk, Hans;
• Meier, Klaus;
• Mitroff, Ian;
• Morgan, Charles;
• Morris, Charles;
• New, John;
• The New Republic;
• The New Yorker;
• Nowell-Smith, P.H.;
• O'Connor, John;
• Osterhoudt, Bob;
• Oxford University Press;
• Payne, Thomas;
• Perry, Charmer;
• Rawnsley, Howard;
• Rescher, Nicholas;
• Rubin, Richard;
• Rudner, Richard;
• Schoeffel, R.M.;
• Shepherd, Greg;
• Shiner, Roger;
• Shirts, Gary;
• Shupe, Donald;
• Siedentop, Daryl;
• Sutton-Smith, B.;
• Teipel, [?];
• Thomas, John E.;
• Tooley, Jay;
• Tursman, Dick;
• Werner, Louis;
• Wick, Warner A.;
• Wilson, Robert;
• Wilson, Roger;
• Woods, John;
• Wright, Douglas;
• Yetman, Norman R.;
• Zeigler, Earle.

File consists of twelve cassette tapes for the University of Waterloo correspondence course Philosophy 380 taught by Bernard Suits. Includes both official correspondence tapes as well as backup tapes made at a later date. Lectures 3-4 are missing. Also present are lectures 4 and 5 for Philosophy 200A.

File consists of Suits' fiction writing. Includes prose, plays and notes including:

• Herschel Duncan's Duty typescript (original, 8 leaves);
• Inside the Illinois Mafia: A Confession typescript (original, 3 leaves);
• Looking for Woodcroft typescript (computer output, 39 leaves);
• Sealed Orders, two drafts, typescript (original, 10 leaves);
• The Last Mole typescript (original, 5 copies, 7 leaves);
• untitled loose papers typescript (original) and manuscript (12 leaves).

File consists of forty one items of manuscript and typescript correspondence between Bernard Suits and publishers regarding his book "The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia." Also included are royalty statements and a signed Memorandum of Agreement between Suits and the University of Toronto Press dated September 29, 1977.

Correspondents include:
• Basic Books Inc.;
• Bayliss, Catherine;
• Carver, Catharine;
• Davidson, R.I.K.;
• Epton, Arli;
• Ferris, April;
• Fitchen, Allen N.;
• The Free Press;
• Godine, David R.;
• Gray, Lisa;
• Green, Ashbel;
• Harper and Row;
• Isay, Jane;
• Jamieson, Jean C.;
• Livernois, Audrey M.;
• Marshall, Hilary S.;
• Mirrieless, James F.;
• Parker, Margaret;
• Peroni, Gwen;
• Stallworthy, Jon;
• Stokes, John;
• Wilson, N.W.

File consists of typescript draft with manuscript notes of Grasshopper Soup: Philosophical Essays on Games by Bernard Suits. Grasshopper Soup is a collection of essays, some of which appeared elsewhere, that serves as a sequel to "The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia." Essays from this collection are present elsewhere in the fonds both individually and collected under the title "Return of the Grasshopper: Further Reflections on Games, Life and Utopia." Neither manuscript was ever published as a collection under either title.

An Acknowledgements section at the front of each manuscript outlines where previously published essays appeared. It reads:

"Some of these essays have appeared, in whole or in part, elsewhere. Chapter One is a somewhat revised writing of the concluding essay in Utopias, Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1984. Some of the material in Chapters Three and Four is taken from "McBride and Paddie on The Grasshopper," Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 1981; Chapter Six is substantially the same as "Is Life a Game We are Playing?" Ethics, 1967 (Copyright 1967 by the University of Chicago); Chapter Seven is an expanded version of an article which first appeared in Dialogue, 1982, under its present title; and Chapter Eight, "The Detective Story: a Case Study of Games in Literature," was published in The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 1985. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the publishers for permission to include that material here."

Series consists of non-fiction works created and accumulated by Bernard Suits. Includes both published and unpublished essays, commentaries, reviews and chapters of his book "The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia" as well as the unpublished sequel "Return of the Grasshopper: Further Reflections on Games, Life and Utopia." Also includes materials relating to the copyright of his book "The Grasshopper."

File consists of one spiral bound notebook labeled "Phil 300" with manuscript notes. Although the notebook is labeled as Phil 300 the notes inside are in reference to the preparation for Suits' unpublished book "Grasshopper Soup." Includes a draft index for the book, a draft outline for Chapter 1, to do lists, and a draft explanation of the "soup method" used to write the book.

File consists of draft chapters of Suits' unpublished work "Return of the Grasshopper; Further Reflections on Games, Life and Utopia" as well as notes and brief passages from chapters. Draft chapters include:

• Reflections typescript (original, nine leaves);
• Racing File Objection Refuted typescript (original, seven leaves);
• Rebuttals from Bill manuscript (seven leaves);
• unidentified writings typescript and manuscript (originals and computer output, 31 leaves);
• unidentified notes manuscript (12 leaves);
• Paradox manuscript (3 leaves);
• unidentified writings typescript (original) and manuscript (23 leaves);
• Life as Game manuscript (2 leaves);
• Pretending and Gaming as the Two Varieties of Playing manuscript (4 leaves).

File consists of draft chapters of Suits' unpublished work "Return of the Grasshopper; Further Reflections on Games, Life and Utopia" as well as notes and brief passages from chapters. Draft chapters include:

• Late Additions typescript (computer output, 10 leaves);
• Selected Excerpts from Return of the Grasshopper typescript (computer output, 4 leaves);
• Now Notes typescript (computer output, 6 leaves);
• Ephemera typescript (computer output, 20 leaves);
• Untitled essay [Utopia] typescript (computer output, 28 leaves);
• untitled loose papers typescript (original and computer output) and manuscript (11 leaves);
• Life is a Game: Surprising First Draft typescript (original, 29 leaves).

File consists of draft copies of essays written by Bernard Suits as well as drafts of chapters of Suits' unpublished work "Return of the Grasshopper: Further Reflections on Games, Life and Utopia." Includes:

• On making a game of life typescript (original, 10 leaves);
• Chapter three: six ways to play a game without knowing it typescript (original, 3 leaves);
• Knowledge and utopia: a reply to cooper and others typescript (original, 8 leaves);
• Utopias: summary and proposal typescript (original, 4 leaves);
• untitled typescript (original, 5 leaves);
• Transition to chapter three: The fool on the hill typescript (original, 5 leaves);
• Chapter two: grasshopper soup typescript (original, 8 leaves);
• N ways to beat death typescript (original, 3 leaves);
• Related fragments on play/game manuscript and typescript (original, 22 leaves);
• Objections to the theory of utopia advanced in The Grasshopper typescript (original, 2 leaves);
• A myth for a moral cosmogony typescript (original, 3 leaves);
• Ludenics: the philosophy of play typescript (original, 8 leaves);
• Homo ludens: notes manuscript (4 leaves);
• Play and playing a game manuscript (15 leaves);
• Play and prediction manuscript (4 leaves);
• Play: questions and reflections typescript (original, 4 leaves);
• Aristotle manuscript (6 leaves);
• Ludenics typescript (original, 2 leaves);
• loose manuscript and typescript (original, 51 leaves).

File consists of manuscript and typescript notes and drafts on philosophy. Includes:

• The pragmatic squirrel manuscript (2 leaves)
• Words and thought manuscript (9 leaves)
• untitled manuscript (7 leaves)
• untitled typescript (7 leaves)
• untitled typescript (original) and manuscript with diagrams (6 leaves)
• helps manuscript (17 leaves)
• untitled manuscript and typescript (original, 7 leaves)
• Delta typescript and manuscript (original, 9 leaves)
• untitled typescript (original, 3 leaves)
• Principles typescript (original, 12 leaves)
• untitled typescript and manuscript (original, 13 leaves)
• loose papers typescript (original, 13 leaves) and manuscript (47 leaves).

File consists of manuscript poems and poem fragments by Bernard Suits. Includes:

• untitled manuscript (2 leaves)
• Lines of freedom (ode to liberty) manuscript
• There is this one thing about our money, doctor manuscript
• untitled fragments manuscript
• untitled manuscript
• Unfinished portrait manuscript (2 leaves)
• untitled manuscripts (3 leaves)
• Visiting hours manuscript
• untitled manuscripts (3 leaves)
• The roge of friendship manuscript
• Early spring manuscript
• untitled manuscripts (3 leaves)
• I want a herring-bone overcoat manuscript
• The beach manuscript
• Sonnet manuscript
• untitled manuscript
• Riddle manuscript
• untitled manuscripts (3 leaves)
• The page of friendship manuscript
• untitled manuscripts (9 leaves). Note that all poems are 1 leaf unless otherwise noted.

File consists of typescript drafts and fragments of poetry written by Bernard Suits. Poems include:

• alphabetical acrostic typescript (original, 2 leaves)
• Venus at five o'clock typescript (computer output)
• untitled typescript (original)
• visiting hours typescript (original)
• The playwright begins his day (original)
• Big John (original)
• Like Pontius Pilate said (original)
• untitled typescript (original, 2 leaves)
• Mary had a little lamb typescript (original)
• Small Etudes typescript (original)
• Things always look quite different in the morning typescript (original)
• The nocturnal vase typescript (original, 2 leaves)
• Heloise and Abelarde typescript (original, 2 leaves)
• A fit of triolets typescript (original, 2 leaves)
• A repetition typescript (original)
• Love's progress typescript (original)
• A seascape
• a sacrement typescript (original)
• Hello, goodbye typescript (original)
• Catalog number twenty-four typescript (original)
• All loci of our heroine's parade typescript (original)
• Visiting hours typescript (original).

Note that all poems are 1 leaf unless otherwise noted and many have manuscript notes.

File consists of one item of correspondence between the University of Waterloo Federation of Students and Bernard Suits regarding publication of his work in the Liontayles journal. Also includes the June 1944 edition of Carillon, the University of Chicago College Magazine which includes a poem by Suits.

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Bernard Suits over the course of his professional career outside of his regular teaching duties. Includes speeches given at conferences, and minutes of meetings of the Philosophy Department (of which Suits was head), the Graduate Affairs Committee and others.

File consists of twenty five items of manuscript and typescript professional correspondence and accompanying materials between Bernard Suits and others including official departmental correspondence, personal professional correspondence and memos.

Correspondents include:

• Brown, L.W.
• Bruce, John
• Butterfield, Philip
• Byram, Terence
• Doner, D.B.
• George, Rolf
• Haworth, L.
• Hellawell, E. Robert
• Langan, Thomas
• Linden, George W.
• Mills, Margaret
• Minas, J.S.
• Petch, H.E.
• Suits, David B.
• Thomas, John E.
• Tursman, Richard
• Yildiran, Guzver.

File consists of one hundred thirteen items of manuscript and typescript professional correspondence between Bernard Suits and others including official departmental correspondence, personal professional correspondence and memos.

Correspondents include:

• Adamczewski, Zygmunt
• Ages, Arnold
• Armour, L.
• Barker, Stephen F.
• Beaman, C.
• Binkley, Robert W.
• Boydston, Jo Ann
• Brown, Marvin
• Canada Council
• Cornell, Paul
• Cournoyer, Robert
• Cross, G.E,
• Dray, W.H.
• Dyck, J.W.
• Gold, J.
• Haworth, L.
• Ingram, Brian
• Jennings, R.E.
• Mackenzie, D.C.
• Matulewicz, Chris
• Minas, J.S.
• Mitias, Michael
• Odegard, D.
• Robertson, P.
• Schouls, P.A.
• Slater, J.G.
• Smith, Alex
• Taylor, M.C.
• Taylor, Mort
• Thomas, John
• Thomas, John E.
• Tymieniecka, [?]
• Vincent, Una
• West, David
• Whitling, Dennis.

File consists of sixty items of manuscript and typescript professional correspondence between Bernard Suits and others including official departmental correspondence, personal professional correspondence and memos.

Correspondents include:

• Adam, Martin
• Adams, Jack
• Anderson, R.F.
• Baker, William
• Banks, R.K.
• Banks, Robin
• Braybrooke, David
• Brzustowski, T.A.
• Daniel, J.V.
• George, Rolf
• Hallman, Max
• Harkins, P.
• Hendley, Brian
• Homles, Richard
• Horne, Jim
• Hyland, Drew A.
• Keller, Lynn
• Kutscher, Austin H.
• L'Heureux, W.J.
• Matthews, B.C.
• Minas, J.S.
• Patten, S.C.
• Redmond, Chris
• Sherwin, Susan
• Stone, Roselyn
• Sumner, Wayne
• Van Evra, J.W.
• van Fraassen, Bas
• Watt, L.A.K.
• Willms, J.F.
• Wright, Douglas
• Zeigler, Earle.

File consists of one hundred thirty one items of manuscript and typescript professional correspondence between Bernard Suits and others including official departmental correspondence, personal professional correspondence and memos.

Correspondents include:

• Adamczewski, Zygmunt
• Ashworth, Jenny
• Batke, T.L.
• Beaumont, C.F.A.
• Boyes, T.C.
• Brown, Richard
• Centore, F.
• Cornell, P.G.
• Department of National Revenue
• Diesing, Paul
• Fraleigh, Warren
• Godbey, Geoffrey
• Grayhurst, Denis
• Haworth, Lawrence
• Hendley, B.
• Horne, J.R.
• Laycock, H.
• MacIntyre, Rae
• Matthews, B.C.
• Needham, Robert
• Odegard, Doug
• Odegard, Douglas
• Ornstein, Jack
• Pagliuso, Saverio
• Parker, David
• Pearson, Kathleen
• Petch, H.E.
• Romenco, A.
• Short, Michael
• Spadoni, Carl
• Taylor, Mort
• Vogel-Sprott, Muriel
• Zeigler, Earle.

File consists of one hundred thirty two items of manuscript and typescript professional correspondence between Bernard Suits and others including official departmental correspondence, personal professional correspondence and memos.

Correspondents include:

• Adamczewski, Zygmunt
• Air Canada
• Binkley, Robert
• Brown, Norman
• Canada Council
• Centore, F.
• Chairmen of Departments of Philosophy of Ontario
• Cornell, P.G.
• Cross, G.E.
• di Norcia, Vincent
• Eichhorn, Mary
• Fisch, Max
• Gallop, David
• George, Rolf
• Harris, H.S.
• Hart, James
• Hendley, B.
• King-Farlow, John
• Kretchmar, Scott
• Kubara, Michael
• Mandell, Arthur
• Matthews, B.C.
• McElroy, Elliott
• Morgan, J.D.
• Munro, Bradley
• New, J.F.
• Parfait, D.
• Pearson, Kathleen
• Penelhum, T.
• Pfeiffer, W.M.
• Roazen, Paul
• Robertson, Phyllis
• Robinson, Helier
• Seguin, Lloyd
• Shimizu, V.Y.
• Smale, Peter
• Taylor, M.C.
• Taylor, Mort
• Thomas, John
• Vincent, Una
• Whitton, R.W.
• Yolton, John
• Zeman, V.

File consists of one hundred fifty eight items of typescript professional correspondence between Bernard Suits and others including official departmental correspondence, personal professional correspondence and memos.

Correspondents include:

• Ages, Arnold
• Armour, Leslie
• Brown, Norman
• Cabot, Roger
• Callaghan, William
• Canada Council
• Centore, F.
• Cornell, P.G.
• Cornell, Paul
• Cross, G.
• Cross, George
• Davies, James
• Duncan, A.R.C.
• Eastman, M.N.
• Edwards, Carl N.
• Hermann, Robert
• Huertas-Jourda, Jose
• Hymmen, James
• Kenyon, Gerald S.
• Matthews, B.C.
• McCaskill, David
• Minas, J.S.
• Morgan, Charles G.
• Needham, W.R.
• Northcote, Margo
• Palit, Arun Kumar
• Penelhum, T.
• Petch, Howard
• Qualter, T.H.
• Settle, T.
• Sievert, Donald
• Sumner, L.W.
• Taylor, M.C.
• Taylor, Mort
• The British High Commissioner
• Thomas, John E.
• Vincent, R.H.
• Vincent, Una
• Watson, W.
• Whitton, Bob
• Willms, J.F.
• Yolton, John W.

File consists of eighty one items of manuscript and typescript professional correspondence and accompanying materials between Bernard Suits and others including official departmental correspondence, personal professional correspondence and memos.

Correspondents include:

• Adamczewski, Zygmunt
• Adams, D.J.
• Adams, Jack
• Ashworth, E.J.
• Battae, Dorothy
• Canada Council
• Cornell, P.G.
• Deck, John N.
• Horne, James
• Ingram, Brian
• Kerr-Lawson, A.
• Matthews, B.C.
• McCracken, W.
• Monro, D.H.
• Needham, W.R.
• Nemetz, Anthony
• New, J.F.H.
• Npwell-Smith, P.H.
• Ober, W.U.
• Penelhum, Terence
• Seguin, Lloyd
• Siegfried, C.L.
• Smale, Peter
• Tucker, John
• Vogel-Sprott, M.D.
• Wahl, J.A.
• Whitton, Bob.

File consists of eighty nine items of manuscript and typescript professional correspondence between Bernard Suits and others including official departmental correspondence, personal professional correspondence and memos.

Correspondents include:

• Ages, Arnold
• Armour, Leslie
• Bowlden, Larry S.
• Cabot, Roger
• Canada Council
• Cornell, Paul
• Department of National Revenue
• Eichhorn, Mary E.
• Fisch, Max H.
• Harris, Henry S.
• Hendley, Brian
• Holmes, Richard
• Honsberger, Ross
• Huertas-Jourda, Jose
• Kekes, John
• Krader, L.
• Kutscher, Austin H.
• Lenk, Hans
• Matthews, B.C.
• Minas, J.S.
• Najm, S.M.
• Ober, W.U.
• Petch, Harold
• Robertson, Phyllis
• Romenco, A.
• Tagg, Melvin S.
• Taylor, M.C.
• Taylor, Mort
• Teipel, [?], Roazen, Paul
• Thomas, John E.
• Vincent, Una
• Yolton, John W.

File consists of seventy six items of manuscript and typescript correspondence between Bernard Suits and others relating to the Philosophical Society for the Study of Sport.

Correspondents include:

• Aspin, D.N.
• Best, David
• Fahey, Brian W.
• Felshin, Jan
• Fraleigh, Warren
• Genasci, James
• Highland, Drew
• Hopkins, M.B,
• Kennan, Francis
• Meier, Klaus V.
• Moolenizjer, Nicolaas
• Pearson, Kathleen
• Phillips, Patricia A.
• Seidel, Beverly
• Stone, Roselyn
• Thomas, Carolyn
• VanderZwaag, Harold J.
• VanHorn, E.C.
• Zeigler, Earle.

File consists of twenty items of undated typescript professional correspondence and related materials between Bernard Suits and others including typescript official departmental correspondence, personal professional correspondence and memos.

Correspondents include:

• Armour, L.;
• Assistant to the Associate Deans for Graduate and Undergraduate Affairs in the Faculty of Arts;
• Dean;
• Dean Moyles;
• Departments of Philosophy of the Province of Ontario Chairmen;
• Faculty, Department of Philosophy;
• Gazette, the editor;
• Kubara, Michael;
• Ontario Council on Graduate Studies;
• Redmond, Chris;
• Sachs, [?];
• Tursman, R;
• [?], Rolf.

File consists of typescript. manuscript, offprints and photocopies of papers and essays published by Bernard Suits. Includes:

• Metaphysics and urbanism typescript (original, 23 leaves)
• Philagones typescript (original, 8 leaves)
• Aristotle on the function of man typescript (original, 27 leaves)
• What is a game typescript (original, offprint, 10 leaves)
• The elements of sport typescript (original, 21 leaves)
• McBride and Paddick on The Grasshopper typescript (original, 21 leaves and offprint)
• Games and utopia: Posthumous reflections typescript (original, offprint, 10 leaves)
• Aristotle on the function of man: fallacies, heresies and other entertainments typescript (photocopy of original printed article, 9 leaves)
• Can you play a game without knowing it? typescript (photocopy of original article, 4 leaves)
• DCSC Civie Circuit Vol. XIII No. 1 (includes article by Bernard Suits on smoking)
• Discussion: games and paradox typescript (original, offprint, 4 leaves)
• University of Waterloo Gazette Oct. 9, 1991 Vol. 32, No.6 (article by Bernard Suits titled "Taking Deconstructionism Seriously?")
• Is life a game we are playing typescript (original, offprint, 1 leaf - leaves have been excised). Also includes a transcript of the speech given upon the conferment of Suits' Distinguished Professor Emeritus title, photocopy of the table of contents from "Utopias", and a portion of an offprint titled "Games and Morality" by an unknown author.

File consists of thirty two items of typescript and manuscript correspondence and requests from researchers looking for reprints of Suits' articles as well as submissions by Suits to journals.

Correspondents include:

• Anderson, Alan Ross
• Andrews, Don
  *Campbell, M.G.
• Canadian Journal of Philosophy
• Cowan, Thomas A.
• Cryan, D.M.
• Curtis, Henry
• Dixon, Nicholas
• Friedrich, Rudolf
• Fry, Katharine
• Gal, Fedor
• Garvin, Harry R.
• Garcia, Margarita
• Gayer, Jan
• Gutierez, Edgar J
• Horne, Jim
• Jaffrey, A.H.
• Keenan, Francis
• Kleimman, Arthur
• Kutscher, Austin H.
• Link, F.
• Mitroff, Ian
• Mohyla, F.
• Poole, Charles P.
• Rudner, Richard S.
• Shiner, Roger A.
• Stukovsky, Robert C.
• Sutton-Smith, B.
• Wilson, Robert
• [?], Joel
• [?], David
• [?], Bob

File consists of unpublished work written by Bernard Suits. Includes: Achievement precedes definitions typescript (original, 5 leaves); Comments on Jan Narveson's "Egoism, consistency, and morality" typescript (original, 7 leaves); Life, possibly, is a game typescript (original, 31 leaves); untitled typescript (original, 24 leaves).

File consists of sixty seven items of manuscript and typescript correspondence between Bernard Suits and others (primarily organization) regarding his speaking engagements.

Correspondents include:

• Alexander, Peter
• Binkley, Robert W.
• Bjerring, Andrew K.
• Breddemeier, Mary E.
• Burnett, Virgil
• Churchman, C. West
• Cohen, G.A.
• Cornell, P.G.
• DeMarco, Joseph P.
• Fox, Richard M.
• Fraleigh, Warren
• Goodman, F.
• Grierson, D.E.
• Grill, Roger
• Keenan, Francis
• Kiefer, H.E.
• Kretchmar, Scott
• Kutscher, Austin H.
• Linksy, Bernard
• McIntosh, Peter
• McManus, Mike
• Morgan, Bill
• Morrell, John
• Newman, Jay
• Osterhoudt, Bob
• Parker, David
• Smith, Phil
• Stone, Roselyn E.
• Taylor, Arthur
• Taylor, A.W.
• Thomas, John
• The Foundation of Thanatology
• [?], Spencer
• [?], Drew
• [?], Doug
• [?], Ros.

Also includes a media release, a programme and a poster.

File consists of transcripts, draft copies and notes of or regarding speeches given by Bernard Suits. Completed speeches include:

• Life, possibly, is a game typescript (original, 33 leaves);
• The literary and philosophic use of death: Billy Budd and Socrates typescript (original, 16 leaves);
• Ripping off the readers or rip off the big game typescript (original, 6 leaves).

Also includes drafts of:

• The definition of games typescript (original, 2 leaves);
• Science vs. the humanities: A solvable problem, typescript (original, 2 leaves);
• The dramatic and philosophical uses of death: Billy Budd and Socrates typescript (original, 1 leaf);
• On the moral uses of death: Billy Budd and Socrates typescript (original, 3 leaves)

As well as 24 typescript (original) leaves and 6 manuscript leaves of unidentified pieces and excerpts of speeches and one item of correspondence from Donald W. Ball.

File consists of term papers written by Suits while he was a student. Includes:

• The implications of "self-sufficiency" as an ethical criterion: Aristotle's ethics typescript (original, 4 leaves);
• Play and value, an inquiry into the possibility of a philosophical formulation of play typescript (original, 3 leaves);
• A comparison of epicurean and stoic ethics typescript (original, 12 leaves);
• The relation of Athenian democracy to imperialism and militarism as exhibited in the comedies of Aristophanes typescript (original, 16 leaves);
• God as a source for moral dictum typescript (original, 17 leaves);
• Review of: The substance of gothic typescript (original, 5 leaves);
• Review of: Life and times of Savonarola typescript (original, 3 leaves);
• Review of: The medieval mind typescript (original, 4 leaves);
• Review of: The Holy Roman Empire typescript (original, 3 leaves);
• Review of: The divine comedy typescript (original, 3 leaves);
• The reconstruction of Protagoras typescript (original, 17 leaves);
• An appendix to the summa typescript (original, 8 leaves);
• Croce's theory of aesthetics and a comparison with Kant typescript (original, 34 leaves);
• Samuel Johnson's biographical criticism typescript (original, 7 leaves);
• John Dennis' theory of passion in the grounds of criticism in poetry typescript (original, 16 leaves);
• Richards and value & ransom and reality typescript (original, 17 leaves);
• Kant: foundations of the metaphysics of morals typescript (original, 13 leaves);
• Hume: an enquiry concerning the principles of morals typescript (original, 8 leaves).

File consists of work created by Bernard Suits when he was a student at the University of Chicago. Includes typescript and manuscript notes, a spiralbound notebook marked "play", manuscript notes of social science lectures. Suits completed his BA and MA at the University of Chicago.

Series consists of materials created or accumulated by Bernard Suits during the course of his teaching career at the University of Waterloo. Includes exams and class notes from courses he taught, correspondence with students and colleagues, Suits' CV, as well as Suit's distinguished teaching and professor emeritus certificates.

File consists of class notes kept by Bernard Suits relating to courses that he taught. Includes both typescript and manuscript handouts and personal lecture notes for courses including:

• Phil 100,
• Phil 221,
• El 109,
• Phil 300,
• Phil 200A,
• Phil 501,
• Phil 125,
• Phil 471/674,
• Phil 331,
• Phil 222.

Also includes a course pack for a correspondence course offered by the University of Waterloo, Philosophy 380/Classics 361: History of Ancient Philosophy 1.

File consists of exams, midterms and assignments written by Bernard Suits for various courses that he taught at the University of Waterloo. Includes:

• Phil 381 first exam, second exam, take-home exam;
• Phil 331 first exam, mid-term exam;
• Phil 101X take-home exam, exam one, first exam, first assignment, second assignment, and final examination;
• Phil 200A second examination, third exam;
• Phil 221 first exam;
• Phil 300 first examination;
• Phil 100 third examination, first examination, fourth examination, final examination;
• Phil 280 first exam, third exam, first test, second test, make-up, final examination;
• Phil 282 first exam, second exam, last examination;
• Phil 281 Make-up exam, first test, final examination;
• Phil 221 final examination;
• Phil 331 first examination, final examination;
• Phil 111 second exam;
• Phil 111-2 second test, test four;
• Phil 150ez first examination,
• Phil 221-2 final examination;
• Phil 140 first exam