These papers include biographical pamphlets, photographs, clippings, and correspondence. Later correspondence is regarding the creation of a bronze bust and holding the Stefansson Centennial Symposium in 1980.

Correspondents include President Walter A. Jessup, President Virgil M. Hancher, President Willard L. Boyd, Fred W. Sargent (Head, SUI Iowa Memorial Union), Dean Vernon P. Squires (University of North Dakota), Charles B. Maruth and H. C. Dorcas (SUI Office of the Registrar), Grace Van Wormer and Dale M. Bentz (SUI Libraries), F. G. Higbee (head, SUI Centennial Committee), Arlo Wilson, Robert E. Latimer, G. Edgar Folk, Jr. (Stefansson Centennial Committee), John E. Sater (Arctic Institute of North America), Gary A. Laursen (Naval Arctic Research Laboratory), professor Frank A. Pitelka (University of California, Berkeley), professor W. O. Pruitt, Jr., (University of Manitoba), Ron K. McGregor (Office of Naval Research), Max E. Britton (U. S. Geological Survey), John Bligh (University of Alaska, Fairbanks), Peter J. Anderson (Institute of Polar Studies, Ohio State University), Theodore A. Snyder, Jr. (President, Sierra Club), Max Brewer and John Schindler (directors, Naval Arctic Research Laboratory, Point Barrow), Paul Sampson (National Geographic Society), Olivier Héroux (Canadian Physiological Society), Dr. John Martin, Dr. Robert L. Van Citters (University of Washington), Walter Sullivan (New York Times), Vera Alexander (director, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Alaska), Jacque LeBlanc (Université Laval, Quebec), Warren W. Denner (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada), John G. Kemeny (President, Dartmouth College).