| Item Description: | Files include Preliminary questions; Organizations; Notes on ALI material; Miscellaneous, includes letter to Eleanor Roosevelt; Correspondences; William Roy Vallance, secretary general, Inter-American Bar Association; Report to the council of the institute and statement of essential human rights by a committee of advisers representing the principal cultures of the world; Memoranda; Foreign constitutions; Biographies of advisers; Conference; Special subcommittees; Reports; Newspaper clippings; An international bill of rights; Miscellaneous statements; Miscellaneous personal notes; Miscellaneous bibliographic sources; Lists of advisers, subcommittees, et cetera; Torts manuscript and correspondence; Notes, drafts, comments; Essential human rights with drafts of appendices; Certificate of incorporation of the ALI; Translation of drafts into foreign languages; List of documents in archives and English translations of miscellaneous foreign constitutions. |