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This subseries contains articles, editorials, and political cartoons from the Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester), Knickerbocker News (Albany), Knickerbocker Press (Albany), Times Union(Albany), and other papers detailing the events of and public reaction to the 1938 constitutional convention. Among the proposed amendments detailed are those concerning search and seizure provisions, state and local taxation and bond issuance, welfare and relief provision, the "forever wild" clause, and the rights of organized labor. The clippings also detail delegates' and journalists' opinions about the New Deal and furnish profiles and photographs of numerous delegates.

The mental health Committees and Councils subseries includes correspondence and other documents on the New York State Mental Health Services Council, an advisory council to New York State on mental health issues (Lucille Pritchard, executive director of MHANYS, was a member), advocacy material regarding national health care legislation, and minutes and other documents of subcommittees of the New York State Office of Mental Health dealing with Medicaid managed care.

The Piercing the Reich subseries is primarily Persico's research material. The majority of the material is copies of declassified FBI files and the OSS War Report. The Writings subseries includes scripts for the History Channel documentaries "Piercing the Reich: The Deadly Deceivers" and "Nuremberg: Tyranny on Trial" in the "Documentaries, Narration" folder. Additional material collected and created by Persico during the writing of Piercing the Reich was deposited by Persico at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives at Stanford University. The finding aid for this material is available online through the Online Archive of California.

This sub-series has been further sub-divided into two further divisions, with sub-series 2a containing the largest volume of correspondence in the collection.

The Friday Fax was a weekly message sent out to the MHANYS's board, affiliates, and others regarding the current status of advocacy issues.

This sub-section, which is comprised of 348 folders contains approx. 14,953 items of correspondence, is the largest section in the correspondence. Of special note in this section is the lengthy correspondence (over 500 letters) between Friedländer and John Otto Reinemann, 1928-1975, which continues with his widow, Hertha, 1975-1984. Correspondents in this section also include: Angelica Balabanoff, Renée (Ate) Barth and Minna Flake, Jeanne Bauer, Hertha Beese, Erna Blencke, Curt Bondy, Dora von Caemmerer, Kenneth R. Calkins, Madeline DeAntonio, Dorothy Dessau, Walter Fabian, Beverlee Filloy, Ossip and Lillian Flechtheim, Carl Frankenstein, Elisabeth Fricke, Alfred Korach George, Arthur Gottschalk, Ernest Hamburger, Christa Hasenclever, Arthur Hillman, Robert Cuba Jones, Marie Juchacz, Karl Kautsky, Ella Kay, René König, Hilde Richter Köster, Gisela Konopka, Stephan Leibfried, Lotte Lemke, Siegfried Marck, Käthe Mende, Rudolf Pense, Sofie Quast, Käthe Rawiel, Marion (Marid) Rive-Johansen, Emma Steiger and Paul Tillich.

This series contains documents that Citizen Action refered to when working on social, political, racial, and economic issues. This series contains news articles, information guides, workbooks, court cases, and documents related to political candidates and their campaigns. There is one folder that is restricted. Please consult an archivsit before use.

This subseries consists of material relating to the 1987 national march, including material about civil disobedience, and records from Michelle Crone's position as National Civil Disobedience Coordinator and "Out ? Outraged," the 1987 act of civil disobedience at the Supreme Court. Present are correspondence, notes, meeting minutes and memoranda from the committees planning the march. Also included are ephemera, leaflets, pamphlets, newsletters, fliers, and other published material from the March organization. Michelle Crone also collected newspaper clippings and articles pertaining to the march which can be found in the "Press Coverage" folders.