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The series consists of materials pertaining to the founder, Andrew Carnegie; chronological board of trustees' correspondence, and files on selected individual trustees, containing their biographical information, related news items. Many trustees have also been active in other Carnegie charities, so the trustee/staff files in the related collections (particularly Carnegie Corporation of New York Records, Series I.E) can be consulted for additional information.

This series includes a variety of unofficial and personal records. The bulk of the series is Feinberg's correspondence files, which he maintained separately from the correspondence filed elsewhere in the collection. Similarly, Feinberg maintained a general clippings file separate from the clippings filed by topic found elsewhere in the collection. Also in this series is biographical information maintained and updated by Feinberg's secretary, including publications lists. Personal material includes business records from Feinberg's charity and investment activities outside his job, an oral history of Feinberg conducted in the late 1990s, and photographs. The series is arranged in six subseries.

This series contains newspaper clippings, largely related to Stoddard's colleagues in the New York ecumenical community but also including religious notices, obituaries, and some clippings of President Lincoln's fast day declarations in the 1860s; sermons given by Stoddard in institutional and recreational settings on subjects such as charity, reflections on faith following the Civil War, fasting, the state of Jews in New York at the turn of the century, forgiveness, and death; unattributed sermons deriving from the 18th century that were interfiled among Stoddard's papers; Stoddard family genealogical materials dating back to the family's arrival in Massachusetts from England in 1630, including family trees, photographs, and correspondence with community and family members; annotated Presbyterian bulletins and service programs; correspondence and bulletins relating to the Seamen's Friend Society and the Observer; sermons given as part of Stoddard's activities with the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb; a bound typescript biography of Stoddard's paternal grandfather; and Stoddard's journal and personal diary.

Series III includes material associated with the Race Today Collective and its successor organization, the C. L. R. James Institute. Documentation of the Race Today Collective's activities includes bylaws and budget information from circa 1978, audiotapes of Collective meetings and literature study sessions from the late 1980s, and some Race Today editorial correspondence. The latter comprises primarily reprinting permissions and letters to the editor, as well as routine correspondence related to secretarial work and some general discussion of political issues in Trinidad and Tobago and other former British colonies in the Caribbean and Africa. There is a full run of the journal Race Today and a small number of Race Today Publications monographs. A comparatively large group of material related to the United States' 1983 invasion of Grenada includes diaries kept by Race Today Collective member Gus John and a person called Christine in Carriacou documenting the situation in Grenada. This series also contains four folders of Darcus Howe Action Committee material. Finally, there is material related to the Collective's 1991 dissolution and reconstitution as the C. L. R. James Institute, circa 1991-1996. These include meeting minutes, plans and applications for charity status, and even architectural drawings of a proposed cultural center and cafe. The relationship between this C. L. R. James Institute and the one founded in New York City in 1984—if any—is unclear.