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The collection includes more than 100 letters to Benningsen from P.P. Ignatév, the last Minister of Imperial Russia, written in 1920-1921; and correspondence between Benningsen and his wife, Ekaterina Platonovna Benningsen, and Ksenii︠a︡ V. Denikina. Several manuscripts by E. P. Benningsen are also included: a long memoir which treats the history of the Benningsen family, his own government and Red Cross service, the 1917 Revolution and the Civil War, and emigration in France and Brazil. There are copies of his lectures and articles on historical topics; a lengthy essay on the character of modern politics called "Ce que la vie m'a enseigne"̀; and a number of reviews of books dealing with Russia. There are two sets of subject files: one containing materials relating to the activities of the "Soi︠u︡z Pazheĭ" (an emigre organization of former members of the Corps of Pages); the other, materials relating to the efforts by former officers of the Kavalergardskiĭ Regiment to recover a trove of silver objects belonging to them that they had deposited in the State Treasury at the beginning of World War I and which finally ended up in Belgrade. A brief biographical note on her husband by Ekaterina P. Benningsen and a few photographs complete the collection.

Correspondence, clippings, notebooks, and photographs. The principal files are not complete. The correspondence covers the years 1920 to 1941, and the scrapbooks of clippings begin in 1927 and end in 1945. Nevertheless, many of Knickerbocker's reports, cables, and interviews, some unpublished, are present and provide information concerning news events, primarily in Europe, and the operations of his office. Correspondence with fellow members of the press is extensive and interesting. There are a few original manuscripts in the collection, but none pertain to Knickerbocker's seven books. Also, photographs relating to Knickerbocker's works on Russian trade and the Five Year Plan, and of Knickerbocker himself. The correspondence includes letters from Winston Churchill, Randolph Churchill, Evelyn Waugh, Leon Trotsky, Sir Josiah Stamp, Ernestine Evans, Walter Duranty, and John W. Wheeler-Bennett.

Papers of Konstantin K. Troĭt︠s︡kiĭ and of his wife Natalii︠a︡. Included are Konstantin Troĭt︠s︡kiĭ's memoirs of his education and years of government service, entitled "Iz vospominaniĭ Chinovnika Osobykh Porucheniĭ V-ogo Klassa pri Ministre Vnutrennykh Del" (151 p.); two short typescripts by Natalii︠a︡ Troĭt︠s︡kai︠a︡ discussing women's education in pre-revolutionary Russia and the Russian School in Indianapolis, near Saõ Paulo; and photographs and printed items relating to the Troĭt︠s︡kiĭ family and the emigration in Brazil.

The collection consists of 124 letters from Count Leo Tolstoy and members of his family to Aylmer Maude, the English translator of his works. There are 69 letters from Count Leo Tolstoy, eighteen letters from Countess Tolstaia, eleven letters from Sergei Tolstoi (his son), 25 letters from his four daughters, Alexandra, Olga, Marya, and Tatiana, and one letter from Anna Konstantinovna Chertkova. The letters deal with such subjects as "What is art?", the "Resurrection" fund, Tolstoy's health, censorship, Ruskin, the banishment of the Dukhobors to Siberia, Tolstoy's doctrine of non-resistance, Jewish pogroms, famine in Russia, murder of Alexander II, etc. There are letters from the countess which reflect her feelings about the Chertkov's connection with Tolstoy and a letter from Sergei informing Maude that Tolstoy had left home to die, 1910. Subsequent letters deal with posthumous publications of Tolstoy's works.

The collection consists of 124 letters from Count Leo Tolstoy and members of his family to Aylmer Maude, the English translator of his works. There are 69 letters from Count Leo Tolstoy, eighteen letters from Countess Tolstai︠a︡, eleven letters from Sergei Tolstoĭ (his son), 25 letters from his four daughters, Alexandra, Olga, Marya, and Tati︠a︡na, and one letter from Anna Konstantinovna Chertkova. The letters deal with such subjects as "What is art?", the "Resurrection" fund, Tolstoy's health, censorship, Ruskin, the banishment of the Dukhobors to Siberia, Tolstoy's doctrine of non-resistance, Jewish pogroms, famine in Russia, murder of Alexander II, etc. There are letters from the countess which reflect her feelings about the Tchertkoffs' connection with Tolstoy and a letter from Sergei informing Maude that Tolstoy had left home to die, 1910. Subsequent letters deal with posthumous publications of Tolstoy's works.

Carbon copy of Davis's doctoral dissertation (550 p.) for the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, entitled "Religion and Communist Government in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe" (1960).

The papers consist of correspondence, minor and fragmentary manuscripts, and clippings. The bulk of the collection consists of manuscripts and fragments, including a brief autobiography and manuscripts on the Kadets, the Civil War, and ROOVA.

Typescript and carbon copy of an incomplete and unpublished manuscript "Iz istorii osvoboditel'nogo dvizheniia (ili obshchestvennogo samosoznaniia) v Rossii. Pavel Borisovich Aksel'rod. Ego zhizn', literaturnaia i prakticheskaia deiatel'nost'" , 200 pp., attributed to Aptekman in a note signed by Abraham Ascher of Brooklyn College.

Clippings gathered into scrapbooks, chiefly from American newspapers, on various subjects relating to the Soviet Union and communism.