Includes requests for biographical information, charitable solicitations, lecture invitations, editorial correspondence, honors bestowed, internal correspondence of the Institute for Advanced Study, literary solicitations, offprint and permissions requests, and correspondence with professional societies. Also includes unsolicited correspondence from cranks and autograph seekers.

Includes school exercise books, university course notes, vocabulary notebooks, notes for Gödel's lectures at Vienna and Notre Dame, and several series of notebooks on mathematical logic, philosophy, and current events. Among the notebooks are sixteen "Arbeitshefte" (mathematical workbooks), fourteen labelled "Allgemeine Bildung," nine history notebooks, six designated as "Logic and foundations" and four as "Results on foundations," and fifteen philosophical notebooks including material from before May 1941 until the end of Gödel's life. The philosophical notebooks are designated as "Max 0-XV," of which volume XIII is missing; the second of three theological notebooks is also lost.

Drafts, manuscripts and typescript "Reinschriften," galleys and offprints of Gödel's articles, lectures, and reviews, published and unpublished, in English, German, and Gabelsberger shorthand. Important unpublished items includes Gödel's 1951 Gibbs lecture ( *1951), a longer version of Gödel's essay on relativity theory and idealistic philosophy, "Is mathematics syntax of language?" ( *1953/9), (intended for Schilpp 1963), and a revised English version ( 1972) of the Dialectica paper ( 1958).

Diverse notes and memoranda slips, including reading notes, library request slips, bibliographic excerpts and memoranda, and memoranda books. Extensive notes on history, philosophy and theology, especially the works of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (primary and secondary sources). Largely in Gabelsberger shorthand.

Includes computation sheets, reference lists of formulas, miscellaneous mathematical notes and fragmentary drafts, and notes which once accompanied books and papers of others.

Includes elementary and secondary school report cards, course announcements and enrollment slips for courses taught by Gödel, homework graded by Gödel, and administrative correspondence and announcements from the University of Vienna, Notre Dame, and the Institute for Advanced Study.

Includes apartment rental agreements, birth, baptismal, marriage, and citizenship certificates, copyright and publishing agreements, patent documents and correspondence of Gödel's father, passports, and powers of attorney.

Dosage records, medical and dietary memoranda, lists of doctors, prescriptions, and temperature records.

Snapshots of Gödel alone and with family, friends, and colleagues. Some formal portraits. Photographs of the Gödel home at 145 Linden Lane. Some photographs of Gödel's ancestors and his wife's parents. N.A.S.A. Mars and lunarscape photos.

Box 16. Items filed in order of the series in which they logically belong.