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Correspondence, memoranda, reports, printed material, writings, clippings, diaries, photographs, and miscellanea relating to Paul Moody Atkins, a financial management consultant, international economic and banking expert, author, educator, and special liquidator of securities for the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency (1932-1937). Atkins' professional work in Peru (1931), French West Africa (1940-1941), Iran (1943-1945), Greece (1947-1948), and Japan (1948) are documented through correspondence, memoranda, reports, and other material. His role on financial commissions and as a private consultant are further detailed in correspondence with Mrs. Atkins and family members. Financial data from Atkins' service as special liquidator details the security transactions and operations of this office from 1932-1937. Other professional materials document Atkins' participation on the American Commission to Negotiate Peace (1919), the National Management Council (1950-1951), as an educator and lecturer at Rutgers University (1956-1962), and as a private lecturer (1960-1977). Family papers include the World War I diary of Henri Bergier, Atkins' father-in-law, who was a judge in occupied Cabrai, France during the First World War.

The principal figures in these papers are Phillips Foster Greene, a physician and missionary, and his wife, Ruth Altman Greene, a teacher and writer who accompanied her husband during his service of nearly twenty years at the Yale-in-China Medical School in Changsha (1921-1943) and seven years in Rangoon (1951-1958). The papers consist largely of correspondence with family in the United States and with Yale-in-China staff members. The letters are important sources of information on social conditions in China and political events, as well as a record of the Greenes' day-to-day activities. Also in the papers are financial records, newspaper clippings, copies of their articles on life at Changsha, and photographs.

The records consist of the constitution and minutes of the executive committee of the Yale Law School Association, the school's alumni association.

The letters of Hector Saint John de Crèvecoeur discussing the New Haven seal and receiving diplomas for the security of his family.

Correspondence, reports, manuscripts and research material relating to Thorpe's geological surveys in Utah, to his work on vertebrate paleontology, to his directorship of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, and to his work for the H. Emerson Tuttle Memorial Fund.

The papers consist of correspondence; writings on linguistics, science and religion; miscellaneous biographical material; and lantern slides. Nearly three-fourths of the papers consist of Benjamin Whorf's writings on linguistics, including drafts of published works, unpublished manuscripts, research notes on his trip to Mexico in 1930 and on Hebrew, Maya, Hopi and other languages. Also included are articles by others, chiefly on Indian languages. The correspondence, which is entirely professional, includes Franz Boas, Frans Blom, Clyde Kluckhohn, Alfred Kroeber, J. Alden Mason, Edward Sapir, Herbert Spinden, Alfred M. Tozzer, George L. Trager and Charles F. Voegelin.

Writings and speeches of Wilson M. Compton, relating to lumbering and logging, forest management, and housing construction; includes material prepared for the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

The papers document Elizabeth Cutter Morrow's relationship with and management of the care of her son, Dwight W. Morrow, Jr., as he struggled with mental illness. The papers consist of incoming and outgoing correspondence, newspaper clippings, school and college materials, teaching materials, and photographs. The bulk of the papers consist of correspondence between Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, Dwight W. Morrow, and Dwight W. Morrow, Jr., as well as with various family members, school staff, and health care providers. Correspondence between Elizabeth Cutter Morrow and Dwight W. Morrow with Dwight W. Morrow, Jr., illustrates Dwight, Jr.'s, changing mental state and its impact on the family. Correspondence with school staff and health care providers, including doctors Austen Fox Riggs, Austen Riggs Foundation; William B. Terhune, Silver Hill Hospital; Clarence O. Cheney, The New York Hospital; and John N. Rosen, consists of status reports and discussions of treatment.

Wesleyan held an annual conference featuring scholars from around the country discussing some of the day's most controversial and important topics, including labor, crime, race, marriage, and foreign policy. The tradition of Wesleyan Parleys began in 1924 and lasted until about the early 1960s.

The records consist of accession books, acquisition books, account books, and inventories documenting the operations of the Yale Art & Architecture Library.