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General correspondence reflects Ehrmann's professional and private relationships with friends, colleagues, fellow scholars, publishers, editors, and various educational and professional organizations in the United States, France, and Germany. The sub-series contains correspondence with such institutions as the US Senate (including John F. Kennedy's letter to the Ehrmann's), Department of State, and many universities in the USA and abroad. There are also letters from Robert Oppenheimer, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Eleanor Roosevelt, and correspondence that originated in reaction to Ehrmann's letter on Martin Luther King (published in The New York Times in 1969).

The sub-series contains correspondence from and to the former German prisoners-of-war who met Ehrmann during the reeducation program organized by the War Department. The letters - in several cases written by the prisoners' family members as well - almost entirely date from the period immediately subsequent to the POWs' release and their return to Germany. Therefore, they are a valuable source of information about the living conditions in occupied Germany, the country's political transformation, and the correspondents' adaptation to new circumstances.

The sub-series contains single lectures dealing with the political, social, and legal systems of France, Germany, and the United States. There is also a large number of lectures on international affairs.

The material (frequently undated) pertains to the following university courses: International Law, International Organization, International Law and Organization, Comparative Politics: Europe, Introduction to Political Science, Comparative Politics, Verfassungslehre und Verfassungspraxis in den USA und der französischen fünften Republik (Constitutional Theory and Practice in the USA and the French Fifth Republic), Le Système Politique Français, and Politics in France. The lectures are accompanied by numerous handwritten and typed additions as well as newspaper clippings.