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Personal and professional papers of the foreign correspondent. The collection includes telexes from the Korean War and from assignments across Southeast Asia, letters to and from Steinberg, annotated copy and clips of published work, fiction by Steinberg, various items Steinberg collected in his work and travels, and photographs. Items from the Steinberg family collection include illustrations and book covers by Isador N. Steinberg.

This collection documents the work of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, a group originally founded in 1933 to coordinate boycotts against Nazi Germany. It later investigated and reported on extremist and hate groups of many kinds, primarily within the United States.

The V. K. Wellington Koo papers document the diplomatic legacy of Wellington Koo as a Chinese statesman and diplomat of the 20th Century. The papers primarily consist of materials collected during Koo's diplomatic career, relating to the Lytton Commission, 1932-1933; the League of Nations, 1931-1940; the United Nations, 1944-1946; his ambassadorships to France, 1932-1941; to Britain, 1941-1946; to the United States, 1946-1956; as the Senior Advisor to the Republic of China from 1956; and as the Judge on the International Court of Justice, 1957-1966. The materials include correspondence, diaries, memoranda, manuscripts, documents, notes, speeches, maps, photographs, printed material, and audio visual material. The bulk of the materials emphasizes China's domestic and foreign affairs, such as the Sino-Japanese conflict, World War II and the Cold War in the Far East region, as well as the League of Nations and the United Nations.

The collection contains the papers of William B. Welsh, who served as a research and legislative assistant to Herbert H. Lehman when he was a New York senator.

The Zhaohao Wu letters mainly consist of twenty-eight handwritten letters from Zhaohao Wu and others in Germany and in Moscow to his younger brother Zhaofa Wu in the U.S. between 1923 and 1929. Zhaohao Wu wrote extensively to his brother about his understanding and enthusiasm in the socialist movement, his opinions on Chinese politics, and his life abroad as an international student. One additional letter from Liang Qichao to his son-in-law, Chou Kuo Hsien about the establishment of the Songpo Library in 1918 was later added to the collection.