Letters and newspaper clippings. Letters mostly between Chief Louis Szathmary and different people about Algren. (such as Bettina Drew about info for a book, Kay Boyle about a dinner to establish a scholarship in Algren's name, as well as Kenneth McCollium-Algren's bibliographer, about a cookbook in Szathmary's possession.)

Clippings include different articles about Algren, both after moving away from Chicago in 1975, and after his death in 1981.