This file contains several annotated manuscript and typescript lists, with references to registry files such as the Greek and Armenian ones.
File contains correspondence describing the different sources of refugee-related records from the creation of the League until end of 1929:
(1) files constituted by the Secretariat until 1924;
(2) the files constituted by ILO from 1925 to 1929 inclusive;
(3) files constituted successively by the Secretariat for use by the Transit, Political and Social Sections from 1925 to 1929 inclusive;
and what type of records remain with which office after the creation of the International Nansen Office for the Refugees, an independent office to deal with refugee affairs.
This file contains records concerning staff appointment and contractual matters with a "Mémorandum sur la situation du personnel du Haut-Commissariat pour les réfugiés" and memorandum on pension and medical insurance matters. Notes and correspondence are exchanged between the Secretary-General and other officials concerned by recruitment issues (Major T.F. Johnson, Chief of the Refugee Section).
File contains extracts of LON document C.A.146-1937 on "Contrats du personnel de l'Office pour l'année 1938" and C.A.139-1937 on "Vacances, annuelles et application de l'article 54 du statut du personnel" and "Article 54 du Statut du personnel", as well as correspondence exchanged with Swiss military authorities for special exemptions requested for Swiss officials of the "Service Central".
File includes document Ref./General1-2.1931 on "Liste des membres du Conseil d'administration", "Liste du personnel" and "Représentations", "The Monthly Summary of the League of Nations" February 1935 VOL.XV., No.2 on "Transfer to Germany by the League of the Saar Territory" and "Organisations and Commissions of the League of Nations", C.C.F.C./P.V.5 on "Comité chargé d'étudier la constitution et le fonctionnement des commissions de la Société des Nations".
File contains several communications requesting approval, by the Nansen Office, of part of a manuscript for the Information Section's Monthly Summary.
File contains also correspondence about staff salaries, indemnities to temporary staff, allowance for staff dispensed with for economic reasons, documents of the Conseil d'administration, Finance Commission.
Contains correspondence regarding the conditions on which a member of the delegation in Buenos Aires was engaged, in 1930.
File includes letters, telegrams of condolences from private and state organisations, an extract from the minutes of a meeting of the 59th Session of the Council on "Tribute to the Memory of Dr. Nansen"; press extracts on "Fridtjof Nansen" from "Le Foyer - Organe des Arméniens Réfugiés en France" dated 15 May 1930 and from "Landschäftler Liestal" dated 26 Mar.1931. Includes a letter of thanks by Sigrun Nansen, wife of Dr. Nansen, addressed to Mr. G. Zwerner and other references of commemoration: sculptures, books, articles.