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Manuscripts, proofs, and printed editions of Scheinfeld's books on human heredity, YOU AND HEREDITY, WOMEN AND MEN, and THE NEW YOU AND HEREDITY. Sketches and line drawings used as illustrations in the books are included. Also, manuscripts and clippings of his magazine articles; many examples of his comic strips, including "Dixie Dugan;" and correspondence and financial documents about his works.

Mostly testimonial letters from satisfied clients of A.P. Watt, praising his services. Many of the letters were published in promotional brochures. Two of these books, COLLECTION OF LETTERS ADDRESSED TO A.P. WATT BY VARIOUS WRITERS (London, 1893) & LETTERS ADDRESSED TO A.P. WATT (London, 1894), are included in the collection. There were other editions published in 1889, 1898, 1899, 1924, 1929, etc.

Manuscripts by Benjamin C. Truman relating primarily to American slang but also to American hotels and restaurants. There are also printed versions of some of these manuscripts

Papers of Stolberg include correspondence files, notes and manuscripts of his writings, and files of clippings and periodicals in which his articles appeared. His writings deal with the labor movement, economics, the Socialist Party, and other liberal causes of the period between the wars. The extensive correspondence in the collection includes letters from Lewis Corey, Herbert Hoover, Sinclair Lewis, H.L. Mencken, Ayn Rand, Norman Thomas, and Leon Trotsky.

Correspondence from clients about placing their work. Among the authors are: Michael Arlen, Nancy Astor, Beverley Nichols, Cecil Roberts, and Alec Waugh. There is also a typescript concert program for The Amphion Glee Club in 1907, signed by 58 members who were orthopedic surgeons.

Cyril Trevor Pinch (1888-1954) was a prominent British journalist. He lived through the era of the end of the British Empire, punctuated by two World Wars, the 1930s boom and depression, and post-war austerity. He had a wide and varied career serving as a soldier in the Mechanized Division during World War I, working his way in Fleet Street as a sub-editor for the Daily Mail, and editing provincial newspapers. He was also the editor in India of the main newspaper of the old Raj, The Military and Civilian Gazette (a paper also edited at one time by Rudyard Kipling). He wrote daily columns specializing on "foreign affairs" and was the lead writer for the short-lived broadsheet the Favourite Weekly in 1938. He published some of his early contributions under the name Cyril Trevor Pinch but most of his career he used the name Trevor Pinch. He wrote an important book about social conditions in India (particularly the exploitation of women and the failures of Indian health care) (Stark India, 1930).

Papers documenting Longwell's influential career in publishing and journalism. There are files of correspondence with such notables as Sir Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Hart Benton, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Christopher Morley, and H.L. Mencken as well as artists such as Tom Lea and Peter Hurd. Also, correspondence and memoranda dealing with the Time-Life organization, among them an extensive series of letters from Henry R. Luce and various editors of the magazines.

Press clippings, photographs, videotapes, writings, notes, biography manuscripts, awards, etc.

The collections consists of 51 boxes of manuscript and typescript notes and drafts, correspondence, and a limited sampling or prizes and realia, include a dice cup/boot.

Personal and professional papers of Stedman, including correspondence, letter books, diaries, poetry manuscripts, scrapbooks, photographs, and genealogical materials for the Stedman and Dodge families. Correspondence and manuscripts of his mother, Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman Kinney (1810-1889), poet and diarist, and of his granddaughter, Laura Stedman Gould (1881-1941), author and editor. Also, editions of Stedman's LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE including printed materials relating to the marketing; and an album of Civil War photographs by Mathew Brady, inscribed by the photographer to Laura H.W. Stedman as well as additional loose photographs by Brady.