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The accession is organized chronologically as received. It is comprised of correspondence between Paul Blum and numerous associates, among whom his cousin Robert (Bob) Greene, the artist Claude Remusat, colleague George (Jack) H. Kerr, and sister Mrs. Marguerite (Maggie) Amdur, figure prominently. The correspondence from 1940 contains reproductions of Blum's notes taken during the German Blitzkrieg into France in June. Several letters from Allen Dulles, 1952 and 1967-1968, briefly consider the historical record of their work in Japan at the end of World War II. Letters of condolence addressed to Greene and Kerr, following Blum's death in August of 1981, fill three folders. English transcriptions of Blum's letters to Mrs. Iwanami, his functionary in Japan, and copies of his extended correspondence with the author R. Gordon Wasson follow the general correspondence. Blum's passports, 1926-1979, and personal documents conclude the accession.

The accession comprises an early edited typescript draft of Robert S. Greene's Blum-san, a biography of Paul Blum, and transcriptions of Greene's interviews with various Blum associates done as part of his research for the book.