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Arranged in chronological order. The first folder contains some biographical information on Sponer and her husband, James Franck.

Letters written to Meier by economists, educators, businessmen, and officials of governments and organizations. The collection is primarily professional, with few instances of communications with personal friends and family. Organized into two subseries: Alphabetical and Chronological Correspondence.

On the first folder of this series, Mattie Russell noted, "In 1969 I decided to go through the small amount of personal correspondence I had saved and decide what I should like to have become part of a collection in the Manuscript Department of Perkins Library under the title, Mattie Underwood Russell Papers. To this correspondence, I added genealogy, miscellany, clippings, and printed material. My plan is to add to this file consistently during the remainder of my life."

Contains correspondence between the chapter and the national organization, Duke University departments, other student chapters, and potential speakers.

Hurwicz's professional correspondence with coauthors (Kenneth Arrow, Stanley Reiter, Marcel Richter), colleagues at the University of Minnesota (Vernon Ruttan), former students (Tatsuyoshi Saijo) and others. Most original folder titles have been retained, and a few attached reprints or notes are included. Organized into six subseries: People; Chronologial Correspondence; Email Correspondence; University of Minnesota; Professional Organizations and Other Universities; and Conferences, Research, and Travel.

This series predominantly consists of Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel's incoming correspondence but also contains drafts and copies of materials sent by Diamonstein-Spielvogel. The content generally centers on the logistics, planning, research, and creative energy behind her work, and the personal and professional relationships with friends, political figures, and business and project partners. There is a large overlap between personal and professional content.

Letters to and from Perlman chiefly concerning personal matters; academic affairs at the universities at which he taught; research for his books and articles; negotiations with publishers; and presentations and attendence at conferences. Letters occasionally include articles submitted to Perlman by other ecomomists for publication or proofreading.

Contains mainly professional and academic correspondence, with the bulk from 1971-2007. Includes email from two email accounts--one George Mason and the other America Online (the GMU one also contains an export from Arizona, which is why it dates back to 1993).

Contains Arrow's files on various individuals. While the series is characterized mostly by correspondence, some files are primarily correspondence with the person, while others are primarily correspondence about the person. This series also includes Arrow's correspondence with various publishers and organizations. Correspondents of note include Robert Aumann, Gerard Debreu, Milton Friedman, Frank Hahn, John Harsanyi, Leonid Hurwicz, Harold Hotelling, Tjalling Koopmans, Alain Lewis, Lionel McKenzie, Paul Samuelson, and Robert Solow.

This correspondence is mostly related to Phelps academic endeavors, with the occasional more personal item. It concerns her research and projects, teaching, professional service, requests for copies of her papers, invitations to events, grant applications, and collaborations with colleagues. Copies of her responses are included. Arranged chronologically.

The Kate Millett correspondence series is organized into two subgroups: letters regarding Millett's literary works and activism (1970-2002); and letters of a more personal nature (1958-1999). It should be said, however, that there is considerable overlap between the two. Each group contains both outgoing and incoming letters, but the majority are letters sent to Millett.

Fisher's professional correspondence, largely related to his research and consulting work. Organized into three series: General Correspondence, Referee Reports, and Recommendations.

Scarf's name files on various individuals and general correspondence. He maintained correspondence files for particular individuals of note and his PhD advisees (including copies of dissertations), while collecting other correspondence in General Correspondence folders. This series also contains his correspondence with various publishers and academic journals. Correspondents of note include Kenneth Arrow, Gerard Debreu, Duncan Foley, Ralph Gomory, Werner Hildenbrand, Tim Kehoe, Tjalling Koopmans, Harold Kuhn, Michael Mandler, Rolf Mantel, Joan Robinson, John Shoven, Martin Shubik, and John Whalley.

Covers a wide range of topics related to the growth model, neo-classicism, Keynes and Keynesianism, the efficiency wage model, price expectations, the money-wage dynamics, environmental policies as well as the state of the US economy, including the rising inflation of the 1970s. Given their breadth and their span in time, the exchanges with Partha Dasgupta and Frank Hahn give excellent overviews about Solow the economist as well as Solow the man. Organized into three subseries: Alphabetical Correspondence, Chronological Correspondence, and Recommendations.

Materials in this series are pieces of correspondence sent to Daphne Muse related to African American and Pan-African experiences from 1960s-2022. Materials include direct correspondence with Daphne Muse, circulars, press items, announcements, and invitations. Materials are arranged alphabetically by person/organization. Most folder titles were provided by Muse and kept by the archivist, but a few folder titles were changed to clarify when materials were about a person or organization and not directly from that person. Correspondents include Judy Richardson, Courtland Cox, Charlie Cobb, the Pan African Secretariat, Ralph Featherstone, and many others.

The Correspondence Series documents the planning phases of the project and the selection of Sidney Bernstein from a pool of prospective authors. Company executive Milton Moskowitz was primarily responsible for arranging the project but the Executive Committee approved all aspects of it. Bernstein's and his assistant Marianne Keating's research activities are described throughout the series. The correspondence includes biographical material about various company leaders, including William James Carlton and Stanley B. Resor, and information about the 1918 tax law case against the J. Walter Thompson Company.

Exchanges reflect professional relationships Davidson maintained with colleagues in the United States, Italy, England, Japan, and other countries. There are also many folders of correspondence with academic institutions, media organizations, presses, and publishers, much of which stems from Davidson's many editorial roles for professional journals and other publications. Smaller amounts of correspondence relate to conferences and lectures. The more abundant files include corresponde with Milton Friedman, Geoff Harcourt, Sir John Hicks, Jan Kregel, and Sidney Weintraub; also, there is significant correspondence with economists whose papers are also held at Duke University, such as Clower, Patinkin, Perlman, and Samuelson. Arranged in alphabetical order by correpondent, publication, or topic; each alphabetical sequence is initiated by folders of routine or single-letter correpondence filed by letter rather than by name. There is one file of correspondence containing letters with no last names indicated.

Primarily letters between Lucas and his colleagues on research issues. Organized into two subseries: Correspondence by Date and Correspondence by Subject.

The Correspondence series is comprised of paper communication both composed and received by Davis. The series consists of personal and business correspondence and memos, postcards, invitations, announcements, and greeting cards. A bulk of correspondence are those maintained with the hosts and collaborators of his excursions to West Africa during the early 1990s. Additionally, there are letters and postcards written to Davis's parents, Tony and Ethel.

The Correspondence series consists of the personal and professional correspondence of Robert Cox. Much of the correspondence consists of everyday life and personal concerns. The files are arranged by correspondent or chronologically.

A large portion of the collection's correspondence is between Nancy Sours and her "folks," particularly her mother, Annie; stepfather, Harold Sours; and sister, Nicolette ("Nikki") Hope Sours. Letters home date almost entirely from 1965 and 1966, covering a period while she worked in Moss Point, Vossburg, and Quitman, Mississippi, and then later following her relocation to San Francisco, California. She writes about conditions for civil rights workers in Mississippi as well as tensions and overlaps between the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, SNCC, COFO, and SCLC. Some correspondence reveals her dislike of SCLC ("I get damn sick of hearing MLK proclaimed the savior of the universe when everybody knows that he's made no attempts to create local leadership and SCLC is run on an anti-democratic, hierarchical basis under Big Brother", letter from 1965 April 1). Other letters describe recurring violence and cross-burnings by the Ku Klux Klan against Black communities and individuals. She discusses her arrests and pending court cases.

Treynor's correspondence, which is mostly professional in nature and with other economists, financial analysts, and publishers. The largest files are for Peter L. Bernstein, Craig W. French, Matti von Türk, Craig T. Boyd, Harry M. Markowitz, and Peter McNerney, as well as the publishers John Wiley and Son and McGraw-Hill. The lone subject file contains drafts by Treynor and other authors on fundamental indexation, while the Milton Friedman file only holds a single letter from him. Many files include drafts and/or published writings sent to Treynor by the correspondent, as well as notes and drafts written by Treynor.

Chiefly incoming letters to Guthrie from members of various organizations concerning support for issues and activities as well as for Socialist Party candidates running in local elections. Arranged chronologically.

Series includes incoming and outgoing correspondence from 1972-2004, primarily related to administrative matters. Correspondence is from office directors, including Grant S. Shockley, William C. Turner, Jr., and Tiffney Marley. Correspondence is related to admissions, the creation and administration of the Office of Black Church Studies, and various administrative matters.

This series contains general correspondence from the Director's office relating to the function and projects of the Committee.

This series is first organized by creator, then chronologically.

Aoki's correspondence with friends, colleagues, and representatives of institutions such as publishing industries.

Battalio and Van Huyck's correspondence, which is mainly professional in nature and with other economists, especially Charles Holt, David Levine, Thomas Palfrey, Charles Plott, Alvin Roth, and Larry Samuelson. Topics include the exchange of papers and research material, referee activity, and paper submissions. Organized into three subseries to preserve their original order: Alphabetical Correspondence (for Van Huyck), Chronological Correspondence (for Battalio), and Email Correspondence (from Van Huyck's computer disk drives).

Photocopies of Price's correspondence to Ruhlman. Content includes ongoing writing projects, mutual friends, family news, travels, the AIDS crisis, and other personal topics.

Oscar Micheaux Society correspondence, including extensive e-mail exchanges between the newsletters editors and contributors.

Leslie Brown did not include physical copies of her correspondence with her papers, and only a limited number of electronic copies. The electronic records contain personal and professional correspondence, some documents and letters related to the Southern Historical Association, and biographical statements.

The Correspondence and Contracts Series includes primarily professional correspondence sent (1956-2011) and received (1958-2012 and undated) by Seelye. There are letters from fellow academics and publishers as well as notices from institutions. Occasionally features items of a personal nature, especially following Seelye's retirement around 2008. The sent and received correspondence is arranged chronologically, and includes a few subject files Seelye maintained for individuals. The series also features contracts and supporting documents focusing on Seelye's contact with his publishers. Includes contracts; general publishing correspondence sent and received, some concentrating on publishing rights and permissions; a few illustrations; along with reviews and reader's reports, when available, for his works. The contracts and supporting documents are arranged alphabetically.

Arranged chronologically, the correspondence makes up about 85% of the collection. Some of the 19th century papers are oversized. Most of this early material is related to law cases when Mordecai practiced in Raleigh. Little is revealed of Mordecai himself, mainly the cases he worked. Of particular note, however, is correspondence related to the Royal Coal and Coke Company of Coal Creek, TN in 1894-1895, when Mordecai served as president of the company. Much of the correspondence from 1897-1899 consists of requests from lawyers and others to purchase copies of his publications "Mechanics' Liens in North Carolina" and "Negotiable Instruments Law in North Carolina". Around the turn of the century there appears more and more letters from lawyers requesting Mordecai's opinion on particular cases or problems.

James Sprunt had very extensive correspondence files, of which only a small portion has survived. A year's letters were subdivided alphabetically and included both the incoming originals and the outgoing copies. The years represented by a sizeable body of papers are 1904, 1906, 1909-1910, and 1919-1921, but they are probably quite incomplete. All of the papers have been arranged chronologically. The series also contains "other papers," which cannot be identified with their original files. Most of the material came from James Sprunt's files.

In the Correspondence and Papers series, the papers of W. Robert Leckie and William Hendrick overlap. Both series are arranged chronologically by year.

Primarily personal and professional correspondence, with a small amount of other personal information, including biographical details, awards, clippings, vitae, travel, and a few miscellaneous financial documents. Correspondence is arranged chronologically, followed by personal information folders at the end of the series. A photograph album and scrapbook, described below, are boxed separately.

Series contains letters to and from Amy Morris Bradley, related ephemera, notes and receipts, third-party correspondence about Bradley, and one folder of newspaper clippings. The majority of material relates to Bradley's time in Costa Rica, her work as a field nurse and for the U.S. Sanitary Commission during the Civil War, and her time as an educator in Wilmington, N.C.

Roth's files of correspondence and working papers, arranged alphabetically by last name. Files largely consist of professional correspondence between himself and fellow economists around the world, and usually include copies of a working paper or other scholarship. There are occasional subject files interspersed, as well.

Contains professional and personal correspondence, including the renovation of the chapel organ in 1966.

This folder contains several reprimand letters from the W.S.G.A. regarding failure to report dates with men, and a personal letter from a fellow student.

Series contains outgoing and incoming correspondence in the form of typescript or handwritten letters and, later, email print-outs. Topics are chiefly related to particular events, such as Bell's resignation in 1974 from the Attica investigation, the publication of his New York Times whistle-blowing article in 1975, or court case decisions. Clippings, extracts, and notes are usually present in correspondence folders, and frequently these have been sent by the correspondents.

Materials divided into three subseries: Personal, Washington Office, and District Office. Personal contains letters to colleagues, House members' requests for congressional bicentennial baseball cards, congratulations, and thank-yous to and from Valentine. Files arranged chronologically. (1-3, 1986-1994) Washington Office consists of Valentine's computer letter system of numbers corresponding to particular reply letters. (Box Nos. 4-34, 1985, 1990-1994) The District Office Correspondence uses a similar number system except numbers arrange letters by Valentine's committees (see box list). (35-52, 1983-1990) Both office's letters from constituents cover legislation and issues concerning abortion, wetlands' management, pesticides, labor, defense, education, monetary policy, taxes, prayer in public schools, and gun control. Both office files arranged by number system and then chronologically.

Primarily routine professional correspondence to Scitovsky from academic institutions, publishers, colleagues, and friends. Many concern publications or invitations to events. There are a number of brief but interesting exchanges with other economists, including Moses Abramovitz, Benjamin M. Friedman, Paul Samuelson, Stanley K. Sheinbaum, and Robert Solow.