In Re Alger Hiss: Petition for a Writ of Error Coram Nobis, 1979

Essentially the collection contains three types of papers, namely, court proceedings, government publications, and correspondence.

Court Proceedings

Within this first group, there exists the records of the quasi-judicial Committee on Un-American Activities. These papers not only illustrate the role that the young Congressman Richard Nixon played in the proceedings but depict the nature of investigatory legislative committees.

Moreover, the collection contains the transcripts, memorandums, and abstracts for the Alger Hiss v. Whittaker Chambers case as well as the 1950 U.S. v. Alger Hiss appeal.

Government Publications

This second group of materials is comprised of three publications of the Committee on Un-American Activities regarding espionage and Communist activity within the United States government.

Correspondence

Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence of William Marbury, Alger Hiss's friend and attorney for the libel suit. Content is focused on the Hiss case and includes letters written at the time of the trial as well as correspondence with individuals doing research on the case several years later.

In addition to Marbury's correspondence, there is included the correspondence of two of his firm's partners, namely, John T. Webb and Franklin G. Allen.