This collection contains correspondence, study materials, journals, address books, programs, memorabilia, teaching material, military documents and photographs and negatives documenting his personal, academic and professional life between 1930 and 1988, one item per year from 1848, 1856, 1859, 1898, 1901 and 1903, and a record book of personal finances contains entries from 1989 in someone else's handwriting.

The records of the Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of the People's Republic of China, held at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 1975. The collection, dated 1974 to 1976, primarily consists of correspondence, photographs, financial records, publicity reports, press releases, and other related material.