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This series consists of correspondence pertaining to Albin Polasek's business and professional dealings. The correspondence is arranged by incoming in alphabetical order, and by outgoing in alphabetical order. The correspondence covers a 55-year period from 1910 until Polasek's death in 1965.

Note: Arranged alphabetically. Includes correspondence to Charlotte Beckham, Raymond Bellamy, and Senator W. J. Singletary. Also contains faculty lists of texts used, letter of resignation as FSCW President, and letters to and from students.

This series contains correspondence between Rabindranath Tagore, other members of the Tagore family, and Arthur and Mayce Seymour. This series demonstrates the close relationship between the Seymours and the Tagore family. Other correspondence in the series concerns the Seymour's efforts to publish works about India.

The Correspondence Series contains letters and cards written to and from Floyd Pyles. The series is arranged in alphabetical order by the correspondent's last name or the name of organization, and then chronologically. The correspondence collection dates from circa 1913 to 1977. Including 20th century Western Union telegrams, business relations, greeting cards, military and personal letters. One note regards Ezekiel Pyles and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, as well as "An Expression of Sympathy of the City Officials of the City of Fort Lauderdale in the Death of Floyd W. Pyles."

Correspondence is the largest series in this collection, containing many letters to and from Dean Sandels and Dr. Connor, FSCW Professor of Home Economics (1935-1944), FHEA Vice President (1935) and FHEA President (1941-1942) concerning annual meeting plans, student internships, support for Florida's program of national defense, placement of graduates in Florida high school home economics classes, and the summer 1943 workshop on family life education. There are also letters from Florida high school home economics teachers to home economics teachers-in-training at FSCW offering vocational advice and lists of home addresses of student teachers and student teacher graduates. The series is arranged alphabetically.

Arranged chronologically, much of the correspondence in this series concerns Walker's legal practice as a judge, but also includes official and personal correspondence. At least one folder relates to Walker's appointments as circuit judge and to the selective service board. Other topics include criminal cases and Walker's hospitalization in 1969. The Majority of the papers concerning legal practice are from the 1920s and 1930s. This series compromises a large portion of the collection.

Arranged chronologically, these materials consist of letters to and from Cinema Corporation of American Vice-President Alan Martin on such topics as the popularity and impact of showings of "The King of Kings" in the United States and abroad, purchase of prints of "The King of Kings" to be shown to church groups, and the distribution of the film to African nations, India, and Pakistan. Some of the letters are from Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Cecil B. DeMille. In addition, there is a body of correspondence between Jacqueline Logan and Alan Martin that cover such topics as Logan's request for screenings of "The King of Kings" to actress friends, translations and television broadcasts of the film, and the dissolution of the Cinema Corporation of America in the early 1970s. Logan was the former actress who played "Mary Magdalene" in the original 1927 "The King of Kings" motion picture, and who became the Cinema Corporation of America's film agent in later years.