Series 1, PERSONAL AFFAIRS, 1962-1991, contains biographical information, posthumous material such as eulogies and retrospective articles about Bloom, a variety of Bloom's personal identification cards, and an address book. This series is organized by material type.

Series 2, WRITINGS AND DRAWINGS, 1961-1969, is divided into three sub-series:

A. Notes and Manuscripts for Possible Publication, 1965-1969
B. Personal Journals, 1961-1969
C. Plans and Drawings, ca. 1965-1968

Notes and Manuscripts for Possible Publication (sub-series A) consists chiefly of undated and unfinished typescript or manuscript drafts of articles that Bloom hoped to publish. A large amount of this material concerns "Moral Re-Armament," a conservative American youth organization that Bloom followed from 1966 to 1969. This sub-series is organized chronologically. See also Series 8, London School of Economics, sub-series B: Walter Adams Protest, for Bloom's typescript of his recollections of the student protests at the London School of Economics.

Personal Journals (sub-series B) are private notes and diaries kept by Bloom from ap-proximately 1961 to 1969. Some were written on loose sheets while others are in note-books. This sub-series includes diary entries written by Bloom very shortly before the end of his life, describing life on the farm in Montague. This sub-series is organized chronologically, with undated journals at the beginning.

Plans and Drawings (sub-series C) are two folders of architectural drawings of floor plans and building exteriors. They reflect Bloom's amateur interest in architectural and graphic design. Although most are undated and unidentified, one group appears to be Bloom's ideas for additions to existing residential buildings on the Amherst College campus in an area north of Lessey Street. This sub-series is organized by material type.

Series 3, GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1961-1976, consists of incoming and outgoing cor-respondence, chiefly personal, arranged in loose chronological order. There is also one folder of posthumous family correspondence related to Bloom. Some folders are designated for specific individual correspondents, but generally each folder includes letters to and from a varie-ty of people and is arranged chronologically. Many items are undated, but in some cases an approxi-mate date has been inferred. For correspondence related to Bloom's activity in United States Student Press Associa-tion, see Series 9; for Liberation News Service correspondence, see Series 10, sub-series A.

Series 4, FINANCIAL RECORDS, 1966-1969, contains invoices, bank records and correspond-ence related to Bloom's personal finances and possibly also those of the Montague farm collec-tive-ly. This series is organized chronologically. For financial records of Liberation News Service, see Series 10, sub-series B.

Series 5, DENVER CHILDHOOD, 1955-1963, contains approximately 1 linear foot of material documenting Bloom's childhood and school days before attending Amherst College. It includes records of his activity in B'nai B'rith, Boys' State and Junior Red Cross, and of his junior high and high school academics; school newspapers, 1955-1962; yearbooks; and college applications, 1962. This series is organized by material type and within each section chronologically.

Series 6, AMHERST COLLEGE, 1962-1969 (bulk 1962-1966), is divided into three sub-series:

A. Chairmanship of The Amherst Student, 1965
B. Academic Work, 1962-1966
C. Other Activities, 1962-1969

Chairmanship of The Amherst Student (sub-series A) consists chiefly of correspondence and issues of the student newspaper that Bloom chaired from January to December 1965. This sub-series is organized by material type.

Academic Work (sub-series B) includes notes and papers related to Bloom's course of study at Amherst, including his American Studies honors thesis entitled "The Attitude of Selma Jews Toward Integration." This sub-series is organized alphabetically by course name.

Other Activities (sub-series C) includes documentation of Bloom's various extra-curric-ular activities such as Forum (the College lecture committee), 1963-1965, and the protest at the 1966 Commence-ment exercises at which Amherst awarded an honorary degree to then Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. There are also College publications and other material dating from as late as 1969 that are indicative of Bloom's active interest in the College as an alumnus. This sub-series is organized chronologically.

Series 7, SOUTHERN CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVITIES, 1964-1966, documents Bloom's active participation in civil rights protests in Florida (1964) and Alabama (1965), and his role as co-founder and staff writer for The Southern Courier (1965-1966) a newspaper that reported on civil rights and black culture in the South. This series is organized chronologically; newspapers are stored separately in oversize flat boxes.

Series 8, LONDON, 1966-1967, is divided into three sub-series:

A. London School of Economics - Academic Work, 1966-1967
B. London School of Economics - Walter Adams Protest, 1966-1967
C. Other London Material, 1966-1967

London School of Economics - Academic Work (sub-series A) includes course syllabi, notes and papers from Bloom's sociology coursework at LSE. This sub-series is organized by material type.

London School of Economics - Walter Adams Protest (sub-series B) consists of extensive British and U.S. press coverage of the protests of January 1967 in which Bloom, as president of the Graduate Students' Association, played a leading role. Also included are the official proceedings of an LSE Board of Discipline convened to investigate the matter, statements by Bloom, records of the Graduate Student Alliance, and undated retrospective writings by Bloom on the protest. This sub-series is organized by material type.

Other London Material (sub-series C) includes various newspaper clippings, personal records and ephemera related to Bloom's year in England. This sub-series is organized by material type.

Series 9, UNITED STATES STUDENT PRESS ASSOCIATION, 1961-1967 (bulk 1967), consists of correspondence, mailing lists, bulletins and other administrative records and general files of the USSPA for the period before and during Bloom's tenure as General Secretary in 1967. Included are papers related to Bloom's ouster resulting from the Congress of the Student Press held in Minneapolis in July 1967. This series is organized by material type.

Series 10, LIBERATION NEWS SERVICE, 1967-1999 (bulk 1967-1999), is organized into five sub-series:

A. Correspondence, 1967-1969
B. Memoranda and Other Internal Records, 1967-1973 (bulk 1967-1969)
C. Subject Files for Stories, 1967-1969
D. Ray Mungo, 1967-1999 (bulk 1967-1969)
E. LNS Issues, 1967-1969

Correspondence (sub-series A) contains mainly administrative correspondence, organized in loose chronological order with some folders for specific correspondents (James Aronson, Abbie Hoffman, Ray Mungo and Jerry Rubin).

Memoranda and Other Internal Records (sub-series B) contains organizational, financial, marketing and legal records of LNS; materials related to sponsored seminars, conferences and other programs; and notes and news clippings concerning the alternative press in general and LNS in particular. This sub-series documents how LNS was organized and managed, its various activities and programs, and the eventual internal divisions that led to its split. This sub-series is organized by material type.

Subject Files for Stories (sub-series C) comprises research material and drafts of articles that LNS staff writers were working on. Files are arranged alphabetically by subject, with a folder of miscellaneous subjects, a folder of AP wire reports and a folder containing one month of compiled mainstream news clippings placed at the end of the series. Subject headings include Columbia University student protests (May 1968), Draft Resistance and Military Desertion, Dick Gregory, Resurrection City (Washington, DC) photographs by Peter Simon, Riots Commission, and Jerry Rubin. The subject headings were created while organizing the Papers and were not assigned by Bloom. This sub-series is organized alphabetically by subject name.

Ray Mungo (sub-series C) contains clippings and articles about Bloom's friend and co-founder of LNS, manuscripts of stories written by Mungo for LNS, and two copies of a newsletter Mungo published from his Vermont farm. This sub-series is organized by material type. For Bloom-Mungo correspondence, see Series 3, box 2, folder 16. For letters written by Mungo to Bloom's parents after Bloom's death, see Series 2, box 2, folder 26.

LNS Issues (sub-series E) consists of office copies of LNS packets mailed to subscribers arranged chronologically from #1 (December 1967) through #120 (January 1969), with gaps. Also included are unnumbered LNS mailings. For a complete run of LNS issues, see the Marshall Bloom Alternative Press Collection.

Series 11, MONTAGUE FARM, 1968-1994, consists of legal documents, notes, clippings and newsletters related to the farm in Montague, Massachusetts, where Bloom and his LNS associates moved in 1968. One folder of posthumous material includes news clippings about the farm and a newsletter published by people associated with it. This series is organized by material type. For photographs of the farm, see Series 12.

Series 12, PHOTOGRAPHS, ca. 1950-1969, contains portrait photographs of Bloom from childhood to adulthood, as well as snapshots of people and places at Montague Farm in 1969. Identified subjects include Verandah Porche and Harvey Wasserman. This series is organized alphabetically.

Series 13, MISCELLANEOUS PRINTED MATTER, ca. 1967-1969, includes a small amount of publications on social and political issues from a variety of sources, possibly acquired by Liberation News Service for editorial use. This series is organized by material type.

Series 14, BOOKS, is a collection of 54 books from Marshall Bloom's personal collection. They are chiefly paperbacks in American studies, sociology, psychology, history and literature that appear to have been used by Bloom for undergraduate courses at Amherst.