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This case file contains court filings from the Virginia district court case as well as materials related to the Supreme Court cases. Additionally, because the Department of State holds certain powers to determine whether or not foreign officials can seek immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, several files contain materials connected to the State Department. Several Supreme Court appeal briefs arrived interfiled with those related to Yousuf v. Samantar. These have been kept in their original order and include: Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, Al-Odah v. USA, and Rasul v. Bush and regard topics such as the Alien Tort Claims Act (Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain) and individual rights and freedoms (Al-Odah v. USA and Rasul v. Bush).

Eleanor Elliott's writings consist of published pieces in Glamour, Vogue, Town and Country and by the Feminist Press. They also include files from an unpublished memoir. Speeches were given at the following institutions and events, among others: The National Conference of Christians and Jews, The National Association of Fund Raising Executives, Colony Club, New York Association for the Blind, Columbia Graduate School of Business, International House of New York, Women's Forum Meeting, Forum for Women Directors, New York Junior League, Planned Giving Group of New York, Center for the Study of Philanthropy, Women and Money Conference, New York Hospital, St. Nicholas Society, United Hospital Fund, Women's Health Symposium, Meeting of Women and Foundations-Corporate Philanthropy; Celanese Forum for Women Directors.

The images in this subseries document former students of the Zion Hill Rosenwald school. Hoksins writes: "I have included images here of some former Rosenwald students from Zion Hill. We got everyone together for a group photo for a piece I was doing for Preservation magazine in front to the historic marker that references the Rosenwald school that used to be there. It ended up being a truly special day as some of the students hadn't seen each other in years. Zion Hill has worked extremely hard to have their community recognized. It is also one of the communities I have been photographing for years for The Homeplace project."

Letters from, to, and about itinerant preacher Zechariah Taft (1772-1848) and Mary Barritt (1772-1851), later Mary Taft. Although there are no letters by Barritt here, and only one directly addressed to her, her preaching is a frequently-broached topic. Taft's correspondents also refer to his well-known wife. In 1802, the year of their marriage, Laurence Kane writes to inquire about rumors of controversy: "Various accounts having reached us here, respecting your good wife's preaching, and Mr. [Joseph] Benson's interference there with." Three decades later, letters continue to include invitations to both of them to preach. In another, Taft himself mentions to John Bramwell Mrs. Taft's recent work in the Newark Circuit and reiterates his continuing interest in women's preaching: "We should also like to know ... whether Mrs. Ward (Wood?)--or any other pious female of your acquaintance acts publickly for God." Other topics include overseas missions. On an early letter from William Ault, who would go on to accompany Thomas Coke on a fateful voyage to establish Methodist missions in Ceylon, Taft later recorded the brief note that "Mr. Ault died at Celon." And in an 1845 letter he reminds George John Stevenson of the Methodist contribution to the anti-slavery movement: "The africans in the West Indies would have been in slavery this day had not the subject been agitated in this Country."