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The papers, which have been provisionally classified, contain printed material and copies of official reports, but also original items.

The papers originate from the fonds created by Marshal Lyautey at Thorey-Lyautey. They consist of 11 files including 112 numbered items. They enable us to better understand what Marshal Lyautey's social thought in Asia and Africa was.

Besides press cuttings and literary manuscripts, the papers contain, for example "conversations" (notes dictated or written by Martin after meetings), 1915-1933, and copies of his reports to the Director of the International Labour Office.

These private papers also include papers of Mrs. Cattarina Politis, wife of Nicolas Socrate Politis, and of Mr. Athanassiou Politis, brother of Nicolas Socrate Politis.

They also consist of 12 files about the activities of the Hague Academy (administration, teachers, etc., 1923-1939) and some general correspondence (1927-1942).

Contains photographs and few personal documents of J. Winkler, clerk at the League of Nations and after at the World Health Organization (WHO).

The Registry, Records and Mailing Section represented the central processing unit of the Secretariat of the League of Nations which was responsible for registering, placing on file, and indexing of incoming and outgoing documents. For Nansen fonds the Registry classification is important in such a way that, especially for the first period of work of the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (1919-1930), this Office did not have a separate processing unit, thus, all documents were processed for it through the Registry. The situation changed in 1930 with the establishment of the Nansen Office for Refugees, which created and processed its own documents (using higher numbers starting with 80 000), while still having used/assembled old Registry files.

"Commission files" represent the files of the units of the Secretariat which were produced and indexed outside of the Registry, that is those, in the case of Nansen fonds, of external missions, offices, delegations of the High Commissioner for Refugees as well as, for example, of those of the autonomous Nansen Office for Refugees (1930-1938), or of High Commissioner for Refugees in London. Nevertheless, in some cases, Commission files also include some "pure" Registry files as in the series "Nansen Office for Refugees" (1930-1938) and "Liquidator of the Nansen Office in Paris" (1939-1947).

"Section files" represent files of certain Sections of the Secretariat of the League of Nations which were kept in parallel with those of the Registry. Within the Nansen fonds these include one file from the Political Section (1930), files of the Evian intergovernmental conference (1938-39), and archives of the Delegation in Greece (1924-1941).