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Materials prepared by the Count Paul Teleki Research Institute in Budapest for the Hungarian Delegation to the 1946 Paris Peace Conference. "The Hungarian Nation's Proposals and Basic Principles in Regard to the Peace Treaty" are contained in two bound volumes, augmented by numerous annexes and supplements and concern Hungarian claims to disputed territory and populations after World War II. A large portion of the text examines the problem of Transylvania and its mixture of nationalities. There is also a bound "Atlas of Central Europe" contructed by Prof. Andrew Rónai which contains numerous maps of population distribution.

The records of W.R. Grace & Co. cover the rise of the Grace shipping business from 1864 until World War II. The early correspondence concerns all aspects of the shipping business in New York and South America, mining interests in Peru and Chile, the railroad in Costa Rica, the inter-ocean canal planned for Nicaragua, and political interests throughout Central and South America. There are letter books, correspondence, and scrapbooks of clippings for all aspects of W.R. Grace's career. There are minute books and other documents for more than 50 subsidiary companies owned by W.R. Grace & Co. or by family members. The papers of Joseph Peter Grace (1872-1950) continue the business, family, and philanthropic activities until 1942. There are also 20 reels of motion picture film about the Grace Co. South American interests in the 1950s.