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The bulk of the material in this subseries is related to the countries and regions in which Max Bond worked while employed by the United States Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Materials include reports—many of which were written by Max Bond—correspondence, printed material and ephemera. Printed materials include a small collection of Liberian newspapers, several broadsides of Liberian government proclamations, pamphlets, newspapers, and brochures—published by various African states as well as the US State Department. Also here are Ruth Bond's notes and report of her trip to West Africa in 1978. The trip, a feasibility study, was sponsored by the International Division of the National Council of Negro Women. Some correspondence, both professional and occasionally personal, can also be found here.

This subseries includes materials related to Angus MacLise's activities as a publisher and editor, across a range of different projects and imprints that he originated and worked on. The bulk of the subseries comprises publications, prints, and other material released by Bardo Matrix, which was founded by Jon Chick, Dana Young and others as a psychedelic light show in Boulder, Colorado in the late 1960s. Chick and Young followed the hippie trail to Kathmandu in 1969, where Chick established the Spirit Catcher bookstore on the notorious Freak Street, which became a hub for Western expatriates and artists. Following their own arrivals in Nepal, MacLise and Ira Cohen worked with Chick to expand Bardo Matrix into a dynamic imprint for publishing their own writing as well as that of their friends and colleagues. This resulted in a series of pamphlets, prints, books, and broadsides, printed in limited editions on local handmade craft paper, including the Starstreams series under which book-length works by MacLise, Cohen, Diane di Prima, Paul Bowles, Charles Henri Ford, Gregory Corso, and others all appeared between 1974 and 1979. (Cohen's term for their copious activities undertaken during this period, including their close collaborations with local craftsmen, was "the great rice paper adventure.") While many items in this are final, published items, there are also proofs, galleys, and alternate editions represented in the subseries, along with documentation of the day-to-day operations of the press, the bookstore, and the scenes that formed around them. This subseries also notably includes a complete issue no. 9 of Phyllis Johnson's Aspen magazine, co-guest-edited by Angus and Hetty MacLise, and material related to Ting Pa, the literary periodical and Bardo Matrix offshoot that MacLise edited and published while living in Nepal. Finally, there are a number of documents and samples related to Himalayan Paper Inc., the handmade paper import-export company that MacLise was working on at the time of his death. The subseries also includes several hundred large-format prints and woodcuts related to said publications.