Economist and author. Correspondence, financial statements, notes, clippings, reports on various areas and countries, and other data, largely pertaining to the Institute of Current World Affairs, Washington, D.C., and the world situation. Also includes papers of Levi and LeRoy Davis, farmers and merchants of the Genesee River Valley in New York, during the 1800s.

Correspondence and administrative files pertaining to Library of Contress consultants, fellows, associate fellows (Library of Congress staff members), and chairs at the Library of Congress as well as to the administration of the Library of Congress program.