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This series of correspondence dates predominately from the years 1936-1943 and contains approximately 2345 items of correspondence, consisting of letters to Kotschnig, carbons of many of his own letters, as well as third party letters which were sent to him. The correspondence documents the history of the International Student Service in the United States, its connection to the European Student Relief Fund, and its subsequent evolution into the World Student Service and the World Student Service Fund. The most substantial correspondent is Alfred E. Cohn (212 items), but the collection also includes correspondence with many of the individuals involved with these organizations: Edward Bradby, Margaret J. Brown, Joseph Cadden, André de Blonay, Clyde Eagleton, Roland A. Elliott, William G. Fletcher, Kenneth Holland, Ruth Hubbard, Alvin S. Johnson, Robert E. Lane, Joseph P. Lash, Charlotte Löhrig, Robert C. Mackie, Louise Morley, William Allan Neilson, Michael Pobers (Pobereszki), Harper W. Poulsen, Eliot D. Pratt, Trude W. Pratt, Wilmina Rowland, Max H. Schneebeli, Robert G. Spivack, Anne Wiggin and Arnold Wolfers.

This subseries contains material that concerns Michelle Crone's social and political activism at the New York State level, including correspondence, news clippings, and some administrative material.

This sub-series contains issues of The South End Scene, a newspaper Dr. Green founded in 1976 as Executive Director of the Trinity Institution in Albany. Alice Green's writing, most often in the form of editorials, is found throughout these newspapers. The first available issue, dated 1976, is in newsletter form.This sub-series does not represent the entirety of The South End Scene. These are original copies. There are photocopies of each issue in the collection available for use by researchers in addition to microfilm for issues published between July 1978 and July 1985 in the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives Microforms Collection.

Working papers are developed to support a specific area of concern and are then used in seminars and special forum programs by which the center can help educate women. They report on admission of women in medical school, comparable worth, pay equity and sex-segregated career ladders.

This sub-series contains correspondences with numerous relatives, including numerous members of the Friedländer, Bergmann, Haase and Lichtenstein families, most forced to flee Nazi Germany because of their Jewish heritage, eventually settling in the United States, England, Israel and Australia. Among the correspondence with friends included in this series, are lengthy correspondences spanning four or five decades with Irma and Erich Berndt, Paul and Käte Brün, Alfred and Charlotte Dresel, Leo and Anne Marie Grebler, Isa Gruner, Werner and Hanna Heider, Mario and Dorothee Iona, Paul and Regina Kägi, Robert M.W. and Benedicta Kempner, Robert and Herthi Liebknecht, Dyno and Mara Löwenstein, Adolf and Elisabeth Lüchinger, Hilde and Hardi Meisels, Hans and Käte Siegel.

The bulk of this sub-series contains the phone and address lists for the members of the NYRSC and its executive committee, yet there are also a few lists of delegates and alternates to the Republican National Convention. These lists were handed out during meetings so that the members of these groups could remain in contact.

These records document the administration of the NYSSAC Patients' Rights Project. This was an ongoing effort to act as a health care advocate for seniors and other patients. The project deals specifically with Medicare and Medicaid claims disputes, DRG discharge disputes, but also deals with other common problems, promoting a patients' rights hotline, an informational hotline, and legal advocacy. Records include grant applications and background materials, correspondence, and a final report on the DRG Monitoring Project/Complaint Line at Community Action for Legal Services (CALS).

The Republican Organization of the State of New York gives lists of delegates and alternates to the State and National Committees. The Republican Organization of the State of New York is a quick reference guide that indicates the names of county chairs, the vote tallies for state and federal elections by county and the major resolutions passed by the State and National Committees each year. These would be excellent guides for anyone needing to find the name of an officer or the margin of votes by which an officer was elected. One could find similar uses for these sources of information as with the rolls of the State and National Committees.