Primarily includes correspondence dating from the late 1920s until the late 2010s received by René Char and Marie-Claude Char. Correspondents include: Pierre-André Benoit, Éditions Gallimard, and others publishers; Yves Bonnefoy, Pierre Boulez, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Anna Seghers, Tristan Tzara, and other authors, critics, editors, translators, journalists, artists, and musicians; as well as some letters from Char, including those to Georgette Goldstein, his first wife, and to Marie-Claude Char. Related documents, manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and printed materials accompany some of the correspondence. Some of this includes materials about correspondents that Marie-Claude Char presumably added to the collection. Some letters correspond with René Char's time with the French Resistance during World War II.

Consists of individual files of former undergraduate students of Princeton University, compiled by the Bureau of Alumni Information. Material in each file varies greatly but most include the names of relatives, notable achievements at Princeton and post-graduation, news items, address updates, and obituaries.

Series 1, Program Records, 1748-present, contains commencement, class day, and Service of Remembrance programs; pamphlets; schedules; valedictory and salutatory addresses; and newspaper clippings.

Series 2, General Records, 1748-1966, contains one volume of early commencement notices and articles which have been copied in full from newspaper articles. These are penciled, handwritten reprints of articles regarding commencement activities which have been bound into one volume. There is an index in the volume listing the title of each publication and the date. Also present is a notebook from Alexander Leitch (1938-1966) containing articles regarding commencement, typewritten notes with annotated remarks, Commencement Committee reports, notes, and other material, and correspondence with Paul Bedford, Class of 1897, and head of the Commencement Committee.

Series 3, Bound Commencement Programs, 1913-1994, contains commencement programs, identical those found in Series 1, but held in bound volumes.

Series 4, Audio Recordings, 1937-1985, contains phonograph recordings, and reel-to-reel and cassette tapes documenting addresses, commencement and class day exercises, Latin Salutatory and Valedictory orations, and Baccalaureate services. All fifteen phonograph albums (in 4 volumes) were recorded during the June 22, 1937 Commencement. These albums are electrical broadcast transcriptions and require special equipment to play. Reel-to-reel tapes span a period during the mid 1970s and the cassettes range from the late 1970s to mid 1980s.

Series 5: Oversize Items, 1748-1962 contains photostats of 18th century newspaper clippings, broadside advertisements for commencement activities, and a small variety of other oversize printed materials.

Consists primarily of bound, autograph manuscripts (many of them oversized), together with additional letters, documents and drawings. A few oversize, unbound manuscripts and/or letters have been retained in their original cases.