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The Office of the Secretary maintained binders of information containing indices to Trustee minutes and committee minutes, information regarding by-laws and statutes for both the Board of Trustees and Faculties and Departments as well as historical information on named professorships. These were removed from the binders and placed in folders by Raju Mann, a student worker, in the summer of 1999. Set numbers from the original binders were maintained. Each file has a code which is composed of a two-letter designation for the set, along with a sequential number of the file within the entire set. These appear in parentheses after the folder title in this list. Some additional by-law materials, charter and statute materials, and affirmative action procedures were added to the end of box 9 from files and a binder found in a box of publications obtained from the Office of the Secretary in March 2000.

Series IV contains correspondence, interview transcripts, clippings, and audio and video recordings from Darcus Howe's career in journalism. There are some drafts and clippings of Howe's newspaper columns, including "Thinking Aloud," his weekly column in Trinidad and Tobago's Sunday Mirror. The bulk of this series is composed of videotapes of Howe's television work for Channel Four dating from the mid-1980s through the 1990s. These include the Bandung File, a series Howe co-produced with Tariq Ali between 1985 and 1991, and other programs co-produced by Ali and Howe through their Bandung Productions company. Bandung File and Bandung Productions materials are located in Subseries IV.2. Howe's other television work is located in Subseries IV.3. This includes video tapes of Howe's series Devil's Advocate (1992-1996) and his appearances on Live and Direct and The London Programme. There are also audiotapes of interviews, research material, and other paper and audiovisual material used in Howe's television and radio work.

This small series offers some documentation of Anderson's personal academic history, such as transcripts and examination booklets from Columbia University and Harvard University. Materials related to the publication of Emerson and His Legacy, the festschrift celebrating Anderson's professional career, can be found here, as well as a few examples of Anderson's own musings on his personal history and academic interests. Of particular note are the folders which document Anderson's involvement in projects related to the centennial celebration of Kurt Weill, the composer. Weill was a personal friend of the Anderson family as a result of his professional relationship with Anderson's father, Maxwell Anderson, the playwright. Mrs. Thelma Anderson gathered materials related to Quentin Anderson's death in 2003 to include in this collection; those items which include condolence letters to the Anderson family and items from the memorial service held at St. Paul's Chapel on the Columbia University campus are also contained in this series.

This series contains sermons and other writings of John Rogers Coe, including over 50 handwritten sermons that Coe delivered over the course of his short career. In addition to regular sermons, at least two were composed for a special occasion: one for a child's funeral, another for a Christmas service. The sermons include extensive revisions, such as new readings written in between lines, in the margins, or on strips of paper that have been sewn into place. Nine of the pamphlets contain small sheets of paper that outline the text of the sermon itself. Other writings include a small notebook of copied Biblical texts with added commentary ("Text Book") and a 74 page essay titled Critica Sacra, structured as a series of questions and answers on the subject of textual criticism of the Bible, which it defines as "all that learning which is employed in attempting to ascertain the genuine text of the O[ld]. and N[ew]. Testaments."

Arranged chronologically by project, from Augenfeld's years in Vienna with Karl Hofmann as Hofmann & Augenfeld (1924 - 1938) to his work in the United States, primarily in New York City, but also extending to the Virgin Islands and Havana. The projects within this section include architecture, interior design, and furniture design (for Henredon Modern and the American Chair Company, as well as private furniture commissions). The series is composed primarily of photographs, plans, and perspectives, but also include blueprints, negatives, and occasionally correspondence. The largest collection of material in this series documents the Joseph and Muriel Buttinger Residence & Research Library at 10 East 87th Street in New York City.

This series is composed of legal documents, most of which concern the protracted and costly litigation stemming from Eilenberg's 1969 divorce from Natasha. Box 8, Folder 3 contains Eilenberg's Last Will & Testament, in addition to their legal separation and final divorce settlement papers. Some of this material is also pertinent to Eilenberg's Indian and East Asian art collection, since one of the allegations made by Natasha was that he was concealing the true extent and value of this collection, or even selling off parts of it covertly. Specific art collection inventories and other legal exhibits appear in Folders 4-6, but the collection is a consistently recurrent topic in many of the legal documents throughout the series. Additional complications (and further delay of a final divorce settlement) was provided by the separate, but closely related case of "Eilenberg v. Gemberling," where Eilenberg brought suit over a proposed Christies' auction of some art objects previously stolen from him while in storage (Folders 16-17). The series is organized by type of material.

There are 16.5 linear feet of records in this group which is composed of several series. One series consists of records regarding commissions. Professor Handler served on several important commissions during his career. Included in the series on commissions are drafts of commission reports, correspondence, and related government studies, as well as the commission reports themselves. Handler's activity in Jewish affairs is reflected in the series of records, Jewish Interests, which documents his involvement in this area. It includes clippings, reports, correspondence, and programs. Notable is his co-authored brief entitled "Basic Equities of the Palestine Problem" which was submitted to the United Nations to effect acceptance and establishment of the State of Israel. Considerable documentation on the Truman Centre for the Advancement of Peace and other key activities involving the growth and development of Hebrew University also can be found in this series. Professor Handler helped to draft important legislation during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Some of the background material for this and later antitrust legislation, such as the bill to overrule Illinois Brick and the Hart-Scott Amendment, is in Record Group III, Series 5, Legislation & Senate Hearings, A-Z.