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Video of Viktor Kravchenko and his son Valentin. Viktor Kravchenko was a well known Soviet defector who was apparently killed by the KGB in the late 1960s.

The collection consists of approximately 100 articles by Seni︠u︡tovich (often signed Seni︠u︡tovich-Berezhnyĭ) on topics including genealogy, heraldry, military history, the history of Russia and the Ukraine, and the Russian emigration. There is also correspondence both to and from Seni︠u︡tovich, newsletters from the Ukrainian Genealogical and Heraldic Society, an autobiographical essay by Seni︠u︡tovich, and three photographs.

Clippings gathered into scrapbooks, chiefly from American newspapers, on various subjects relating to the Soviet Union and communism.

Typescript and carbon copy of an incomplete and unpublished manuscript "Iz istorii osvoboditel'nogo dvizheniia (ili obshchestvennogo samosoznaniia) v Rossii. Pavel Borisovich Aksel'rod. Ego zhizn', literaturnaia i prakticheskaia deiatel'nost'" , 200 pp., attributed to Aptekman in a note signed by Abraham Ascher of Brooklyn College.

The collection consists of 124 letters from Count Leo Tolstoy and members of his family to Aylmer Maude, the English translator of his works. There are 69 letters from Count Leo Tolstoy, eighteen letters from Countess Tolstai︠a︡, eleven letters from Sergei Tolstoĭ (his son), 25 letters from his four daughters, Alexandra, Olga, Marya, and Tati︠a︡na, and one letter from Anna Konstantinovna Chertkova. The letters deal with such subjects as "What is art?", the "Resurrection" fund, Tolstoy's health, censorship, Ruskin, the banishment of the Dukhobors to Siberia, Tolstoy's doctrine of non-resistance, Jewish pogroms, famine in Russia, murder of Alexander II, etc. There are letters from the countess which reflect her feelings about the Tchertkoffs' connection with Tolstoy and a letter from Sergei informing Maude that Tolstoy had left home to die, 1910. Subsequent letters deal with posthumous publications of Tolstoy's works.

The collection consists entirely of personal papers including correspondence, manuscripts, and miscellaneous materials, most of which pertain to Davis' family. The most interesting parts of the collection are Davis' letters from Russia, 1916-1919, which contain his observations on the Russian Revolution, and Davis' short story and play manuscripts, none of which were ever published.

The collection consists of 124 letters from Count Leo Tolstoy and members of his family to Aylmer Maude, the English translator of his works. There are 69 letters from Count Leo Tolstoy, eighteen letters from Countess Tolstaia, eleven letters from Sergei Tolstoi (his son), 25 letters from his four daughters, Alexandra, Olga, Marya, and Tatiana, and one letter from Anna Konstantinovna Chertkova. The letters deal with such subjects as "What is art?", the "Resurrection" fund, Tolstoy's health, censorship, Ruskin, the banishment of the Dukhobors to Siberia, Tolstoy's doctrine of non-resistance, Jewish pogroms, famine in Russia, murder of Alexander II, etc. There are letters from the countess which reflect her feelings about the Chertkov's connection with Tolstoy and a letter from Sergei informing Maude that Tolstoy had left home to die, 1910. Subsequent letters deal with posthumous publications of Tolstoy's works.

The John N. Hazard papers consist of a processed set of 11 boxes, numbered 1-11, and an unprocessed set of 46 boxes, numbered 1-46.