The Toni Sender Papers are comprised almost exclusively of materials relating to Miss Sender after her arrival in the United States in December 1935. The correspondence in the collection covers the years from August 1934 to March 1964 and includes letters from a number of important individuals including Herbert Morrison (1938-1959), Herta Gotthelf (1947-1951), Paul Löbe (1946-1961), Fritz Heine (1944-1950), Wilhelm Sander (1947-1963), Julius Braunthal (1953), and William Green (1947-1949). All of the correspondence is arranged chronologically by months.
The collection includes correspondence, memos, and reports for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1944-1946. Many of these reports concern the problem of displaced persons and economic affairs in Austria and Czechoslovakia. Other reports relate to forced labor, German labor personalities, and non-governmental organizations at the United Nations.
Annually between 1947 and 1956, Miss Sender kept a master file of copies of all of her memos, reports, resolutions, and speeches that were presented at the meetings of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. This material is arranged in chronological order with a table of contents for each year's activities.
The Toni Sender Papers include two manuscript drafts of The Autobiography of a German Rebel and one folder each of additional biographical material and clippings. The papers also contain articles, speeches, and numerous miscellaneous notes that Miss Sender kept for reference purposes for writing and for her United Nations activities.
The sixteen volumes are comprised of three diaries, 1937-1940 (volumes 1-3), and thirteen miscellaneous notebooks.
