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Notes from and relating to Mistral which he sent to Edmond Lefevre to aid him in his bibliographic work on Mistral and the language and literature of Provence. A descriptive notation at the beginning of the volume reads "524 fiches (environ 4,500 indications) autographes de Frédéric Mistral dont plusieurs continent de mombreus indications. Notes écrites de la maine même de Frédéric Mistral pour signaler à E. Lefever les documents composant la BIBLIOGRAPHIE MISTRALIENNE et ses autres publications bibliographiques. - Livres, brochures, articles de journaux, revues, etc. Français et étrangers." The notes are written on full sheets, half sheets, and scraps of paper. Also, some memorabilia relating to ceremonies honoring Mistral, particularly the Nobel Prize Ceremonies in 1904. The material is all mounted on the blank leaves of one volume.

Printed materials (newsletters, broadsides, newspapers, pamphlets, handbills), ephemera, and letters documenting activities of the French Resistance and the Communist Party of France. Includes broadside newspapers from August 1944, when Paris was liberated from the German army.

Memoirs of Wierzbicki. The carbon copy typescript "Vous qui entrez ici laissez toute esperance" was edited and translated into French by Marthe Bernard. It deals with the writer's arrest in Warsaw by the Gestapo, and his experiences in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.