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This series is divided into three sections: documents pertaining directly to Paul Leser, documents pertaining to other family members, and newspaper clippings primarily about Paul Leser. Included in this series are materials pertaining to the Leser family residence, located in the Plittersdorf section of Bonn, Germany, and include documentation of the estate, details of the original land purchase, wartime confiscation by the Nazis, later restitution claims, and final sale of the property in 1972.

This series contains a number of Leser's early diaries (1914-1922) as well as a number from the last decade of his life (1973-1982). Calendars and appointment books date from 1923-1983. This series also contains a card address file, as well as personal address/telephone books.

This series contains Paul Leser's correspondence with family members and legal counsel. Much of the post-war correspondence deals with issues surrounding the family property and residence in Bonn (Plittersdorf), Germany. This includes a lengthy correspondence between Paul Leser and the other heirs to the Leser family properties, including brother Albert Lestoque, niece Bettina Coon and nephew Walter Lestoque, as well as with family lawyers Wolf Wassermeyer, Günter Kofferath, Agnes Küsel-Meise.

Maria (Mira) Lingemann (b. January 20, 1894; d. May 23, 1964) was the older sister of Paul Leser. Her husband, Heinrich Lingemann (b. September 23, 1880; d. June 29, 1962), was a lawyer by profession until he was forced by the Nazis to retire in 1938. In the years immediately following the end of World War II, Lingemann was recalled to public service in Germany and served as Oberlandesgerichtspräsident of the province of Nordrhein, Germany, helping to reshape the judicial system of postwar Germany. The materials in this series have been divided into two sections, the first being the papers of Maria Lingemann. These consist of documents, some early writings, diaries and notebooks, and correspondence. The largest amount of correspondence is between Maria Lingemann and Paul Leser and dates from 1913 until her death in 1964. The Heinrich Lingemann materials consist of a small number of documents, typescripts, correspondence pertaining to Lingemann's activities in post-war Germany, and several case files, the most notable being that of Otto Bräutigam. In addition to Bräutigam, other notable correspondents represented in the Heinrich Lingemann papers include Konrad Adenauer, Heinrich Brüning and Emil Niethammer.