Correspondence, newspaper articles, letters received, cartoons, a Clayton family history, and short stories. Also included are typed drafts of articles written for the China Post newspaper composed while Clayton was a visiting professor of journalism for the Cheng Chi University in Hong Kong. The essays deal with the changes and modernization of China in the 20th century.

Correspondence, articles, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks. These materials were created by Perkins and his wife, Ione Bendel Perkins. The collection relates to the Perkins study of Japan, China, and the Far East.

There is also a brief description of Helen Foster Snow's life and a few dates extracted from her book, "My China Years." Also includes four newspaper clippings dated between 1978 and 1997, relating to the production of a 1978 movie by Helen Foster Snow and Tim Cosidine; and on Helen Foster Snow's life and involvement with China. The film had not been released as of 1997.