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The records of W.R. Grace & Co. cover the rise of the Grace shipping business from 1864 until World War II. The early correspondence concerns all aspects of the shipping business in New York and South America, mining interests in Peru and Chile, the railroad in Costa Rica, the inter-ocean canal planned for Nicaragua, and political interests throughout Central and South America. There are letter books, correspondence, and scrapbooks of clippings for all aspects of W.R. Grace's career. There are minute books and other documents for more than 50 subsidiary companies owned by W.R. Grace & Co. or by family members. The papers of Joseph Peter Grace (1872-1950) continue the business, family, and philanthropic activities until 1942. There are also 20 reels of motion picture film about the Grace Co. South American interests in the 1950s.

Circular letters of Conseil Protestant au Congo, 1929-1960; minutes, reports, and other documents, including materials and correspondence on the Jubilee history of the Conseil Protestant du Congo, 1928; Protestant mission and religious liberty in the Congo; Catholic-Protestant relations and relations between missions and government; Commission pour la protection des indigenes; reports of Foreign Missions Conference of North America, Africa Committee, 1929-1964; report letters from American Presbyterian Congo missionaries, 1931-1960; other correspondence including some with Chester Bowles and Alan Paton, 1920-1965; articles by Emory Ross, 1919-1956; and pamphlets and documents on various church and other organizations.

Papers concerning the Catholic Charities Investigation.

Speeches and writings of Prendergast, chiefly political in nature. Also, three microfilm reels of papers concerning the Catholic Charities Case.

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, subject files, maps, and clippings of Volkonskiĭ. The correspondence dates from 1905-1946 and chiefly concerns religious matters. There are letters from Russians at the Vatican, for emample, and some concerning Volkonskiĭ's financial affairs in emigration. The manuscripts are almost exclusively in the form of notes on church history. Volkonskiĭ was particularly interested in the possible merging of the Orthodox and Catholic churches. The documents include accounts and contracts. One subject files concerns a World War I field hospital, and another has extensive materials on the Ukraine during the period of the revolution and civil war (1917-1920).