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This series contains a complete life story and family history of the Kühnel/Knight family, illustrated with old photographs, documents, and correspondence. Also included in this series are short biographical statements and publications lists.

This series contains correspondence with colleagues, clients of translations, and publishers. Noteworthy is the correspondence between Knight and co-author Joseph Fabry from 1940-1941, when Knight was in Shanghai and Fabry was already in the U.S. Also represented in the correspondence are: Jacques Barzun, Stefan Brecht (son of Bertolt Brecht), Hans Kelsen, illustrator Wolfgang Lederer, Edward Lowinsky, Thornton Wilder and Hans Zeisl.

This series contains typescripts of short stories translated from German into English, original English short stories, translations of poetry and drama, as well as materials used for Knight's The Original Blue Danube Cookbook. This includes his mother's original cookbook containing her original recipes upon which the book was based. Also included in this series are the written analyses of various works submitted for publication to the University of California Press between the years 1950 and 1969 when Knight was an editor for the press.

This series consists primarily of newspaper clippings, which have been separated into three distinct time periods: 1) 1930-1938; 2) 1938-1945 (the war years); and 3) 1945-1993. Within each time period, the clippings are separated into German-language and English-language articles and arranged alphabetically. Whenever a piece appeared under a pseudonym or name other than the Peter Fabrizius pen name, the alternate name is included in the listing.