Lennard was a psychologist who received a grant from the U.S. Office of Education and Department of Health proposed to conduct research on adult education at The New School.

Lister was an economist and sociologist who received grants to study energy policy at The New School.

Correspondence regarding grant applications that The New School submitted to the Rockefeller Foundation, including a copy of a research proposal by Jane Jacobs. Also contains material related to oil stock held by The New School.

Correspondence with Peter Rutkoff and William Scott, at the time both professors at Kenyon College, related to their historical study of the New School for Social Research, which resulted in the 1986 book New School: A History of the New School for Social Research.