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The bound memoirs "Russian Experience 1910-1917" discuss Michael's adventures in Russia in 1910-1917. In 1910 he was hired by the Bessarabian provincial zemstvo to help landlords and peasants in that province improve their corn yields; he stayed there until 1916, when he returned to the United States. The first half of the memoirs covers these years, including extensive commentary on Bessarabian peasants, gentry, zemstvo politics, and some information on World War I. In 1917 he returned on a mission to study the Russian grain trade. He sailed across the Pacific with the American Red Cross Mission, spent August in Petrograd, and then travelled around Russia's Black Sea ports in September-November. In early November, he returned to Petrograd, and finally left Russia by the Trans-Siberian railroad in December. While the first half of these memoirs includes much first-hand information, the second half, on 1917, is more derivative in nature.

Correspondence, manuscripts, and related materials of the "Ulbandus Review." The materials in the first three boxes concern the journal's founding and its first two issues. Those materials in boxes four and five deal with the journal's third issue, which was the first part of a memorial Festschrift dedicated to Rufus Mathewson. Materials given in 1982 include miscellaneous editorial materials and correspondence from 1977-1981, and manuscripts published in the fourth issue (the second part of the Mathewson Festschrift, printed materials, and miscellaneous manuscripts, including some that were apparently rejected).