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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.

Correspondence, documents, photographs, printed matters, memorabilia pertaining to the life of Jaroslav Sustar.