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The cataloged correspondence consists of two brief letters from Beneš to František Kupka. The great majority of the collection is made up of Smutnʹy's manuscripts, notes, and subject files on these topics: Edvard Beneš, the 1938 Munich crisis, World War II, the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II, the communist coup in Czechoslovakia in February 1948, and Jan Masaryk, the last non-communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, who died under mysterious circumstances at the time of the coup. Among the printed materials are publications of the Edvard Beneš Institute, including Smutnʹy's works and Beneš's "Mnichovské dny.". Series II (4 boxes) also available on microfilm.

Krek's correspondence, manuscripts, subject files, and printed materials concern the London Yugoslav government-in-exile during World War II. There are one or two letters each in the collection from Louis Adamic, Edvard Beneš, and Anthony Eden. There are files of correspondence and related materials from or to such Yugoslav leaders as Slobodan Jovanoviʹc, Dušan Simoviʹc, and Franc Snoj, and also several files on events in Slovenia during the war.

Cataloged photographs are of Antonʹin Sv̌ehla and Edvard Beneš/ Other photographs portray a convalescent home, a secondary school, the Zemgor library in Prague, the Zemgor staff, and the staff of the Russkiĭ Zagranichnyĭ Istorichesskiĭ Arkhiv (Russian Historical Archive Abroad). Also included are charts of contributions and programs, and a caricature apparently of Russian activists in Czechoslovakia.