Letter from Harris Leon Kempner to Shrub discussing about the next steamers after Flandre. He mentions that he wouldn't change the reservations anymore and then if he couldn't keep up he will have to lose his idea of being a junior Usher. He also mentions that he'd send the book back once he gets time.

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to the Harvard Department of Athletics requesting two tickets to the Yale-Harvard game and asking about the Varsity Club.

Letter from W.F. Ohlemeyer to David Duclos discussing personal issues including his health, time spent at the senior center, and a trip to Oro Grande (north of El Paso). The pages are all stamped in red with the text "Confirmation of Phone Order." The letter is dated April 1988, but it is in an envelope postmarked February 1986, addressed to the S. D. Myres Saddle Co. in Massachusetts.

Letter from Elliot Forbes to Harris L. Kempner asking his assistance in raising funds for the Harvard Glee Club to send some of their students Asia.

Convocation speech to the students of Brandeis University regarding the future of America and public service.

Convocation speech to the students of Brandeis University regarding the future of America and public service.

Commencement program for Harvard University including a list of all recipients of degrees in 1977, broken down by college and degree type. Also included are "Graduates Admitted Since the Last Commencement."

Commencement program for Harvard University outlining the order of events for both the Commencement and the afternoon. According to the program Barbara Jordan is listed to give an address to the graduating class; pages 1-5 describe the Festival Rites.

Interview with Gretchen Legler from Salt Lake City, Utah, and her partner Ruth Hill, from Woburn, Massachusetts, both homesteaders. Legler and Hill discuss their respective families, upbringing, their interest in animals and the environment, the influence of their families, traveling to Anatarctica, Alaska, and other places, meeting one another and developing a relationship, returning to New England and developing a farm, neighbors and the local community, and slaughtering and the ethics of meat.

Interview with Ruth Hill, a librarian and the wife of Boston-area storyteller Brother Blue (Hugh Morgan Hill) from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Hill discusses growing up in Pittsfield and the layout of the communities there, her family history, school, attending the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, working at Harvard, marrying Hugh, festivities on the Cambridge commons, Blue's storytelling career, and her career working on African-American history projects. In appendix are 3 photos of Mrs. Hill.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Program for the Commencement Day Associated Harvard Alumni Annual Meeting taking place in the Tercentenary Theatre. It contains an order of events for the meeting followed by a detailed outline for each individual event; according to the program Barbara Jordan is giving the address during the meeting.

Commencement week program for Harvard College, that includes a list of events taking place from June 14-17. Also included is an aerial map of the school and surrounding area to show directions and parking. According to the program the exercises on June 16 "will be televised on WGBX, Channel 44."

Letter from Professor Henry B. Bigelow advocating for Rabbi Leo Shubow's manuscript about his time patrolling "the icebergs of the North Atlantic". A paper is attached that contains the cover page and contents of the manuscript on one side and an article about Shubow on the other.

Monthly English and Esperanto-language magazine from West Newton, Massachusetts that includes news and information concerning the Esperanto language along with advertising.

Article proposing a nonreductionist interpretation of near-death experiences (NDEs), showing that it is possible to give credit to individual testimony while still taking into account the physiological, psychological, and cultural conditions that influence visionary experience in the face of death.