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This series is arranged into three sections: the first contains Speier's early writings, including poetry, aphorisms and short stories from the 1920s and 1930s. The largest section is made up of Speier's essayistic writings and contains a number of pieces written during the 1940s when Speier was employed by the Office of War Information and the Department of State. The last section contains Speier's book reviews.

This series contains Speier's log (diary) notes from trips to Germany taken for The RAND Corporation, the people he met and interviewed, places visited, etc. Sections of the log notes served as a basis for his autobiography From the Ashes of Disgrace: A Journal from Germany 1945-1955.

Although this series contains primarily memoranda and essays generated for The RAND Corporation by Hans Speier or under his direction, general materials and correspondence pertaining to RAND, as well as some essays by others are also included in this series.