Correspondence, manuscripts, and journals of Herman Melville as well as correspondence between various members of his family.

Business correspondence and papers of Thomas Melvill, Sr. and his son Thomas Melvill, Jr. of the Massachusetts-based Melville family, ancestors of the author Herman Melville.

Genealogical notes and photographs of the Massachusetts-based Melville family, ancestors of author Herman Melville.

Photographs, memoirs and genealogical notes of the Massachusetts-based Melville family, family members of author Herman Melville.

Business accounts and French merchants' documents of American merchant Allan Melvill, father of author Herman Melville.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

Material concerning Lewis Carroll and the Harcourt Amory collection of Lewis Carroll in the Harvard College Library, collected by Florence Milner of the Farnsworth Room, then in Widener Library.

Compositions, journals, and correspondence of French philosopher Maurice Blanchot, with works of others as well as family papers.

Letters sent to American author, editor and Harvard professor, Charles Eliot Norton.

A privately printed (New York) collection of approximately 8000 cartes-de-visite photographs of nineteenth century figures, including over a hundred photos of Abraham Lincoln, his famous contemporaries, both American and European, and photos of Union and Confederate Army officers from the collection of Frederick H. Meserve, a New York textile executive and photograph collector.

Reports from correspondents that were circulated to editors at the New York office of Time magazine.