The Sanford Louis Palay Papers include the bulk of Palay's professional correspondence from his days as a medical student until after his retirement. The collection includes class notes, research notes on brain anatomy and physiology and on the golgi apparatus, a large number of electron micrographs of brain structures, and editorial files from the Journal of Comparative Neurology (1980-1997). This is a large and comprehensive collection of Palay's professional papers.The correspondence and photographs are especially rich and are likely to be the sections of this collection most interesting to researchers. Palay's records from the Journal of Comparative Neurology, which document the publication process for papers, constitute nearly half of the collection.

Letters and papers relating to Sparks's research on Benjamin Franklin and the publication of an edition of the latter's writings. There are also extracts from Sparks's journal, 1831-1841, relating to his Franklin researches.

Known for his pioneering work on Athens in the fifth century BC, Benjamin Dean Meritt spent most of his career at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he developed a world-renowned center for the study of Attic epigraphy, or Greek inscriptions. Meritt reconstructed, with A.B. West, the inscribed tribute-quota lists of the Athenian Empire and is perhaps best known for his work on fifth century BC Athenian finances, which resulted in the four-volume Athenian Tribute Lists, co-authored with H.T. Wade-Gery and M.F. McGregor.

The Mary Rosamond Haas papers are extensive, including correspondence, research notes, field notes, texts, lexical slip files, audio recordings, photographs, reprints and more, covering more than 100 languages of North America and Southeast Asia. Of particular value are notes and audio recordings from fieldwork from the 1930s on Ditidaht, Tunica, Natchez and Muscogee, work toward pedagogical materials for Thai, and groundbreaking comparative studies of several language families of North America.