This series contains research materials created and collected by Archimedes L. A. Patti for use in his writing projects. Most of the materials within this series are collected and/or photocopied monographic material on which Patti wrote his research notes. So as to preserve as much of Patti's organizational order as possible, this series has been organized by both subject area and types of materials. Subject area materials are believed to be sorted by Patti and have been organized as such. Files on specific persons, Patti's correspondence and his chronological files also retain his original order. Books and magazines, which also contain many of Patti's handwritten notes, are not in Patti's original order and have been organized alphabetically. Photographs can also be found in this series; many were taken in secret during Patti's covert mission for the OSS in Vietnam in 1945. A small group of these photographs were given to Patti by the Vietnamese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh which show his people suffering from a severe famine in the early 1940s. An audio tape, narrated by Patti, documents his journey to Hanoi in 1986. Various topographical maps on Indochina, scrapbooks and subject index cards created by Patti can also be found in this series.

This series contains manuscript materials for Patti's published and unpublished works. The majority of these materials are typewritten with handwritten notes in the page margins. Patti's only published book, can be found here in its early and final draft forms as well as reviews of the book by The Washington Post, the Washington Star, the New York Times, CBS and Columbia University. Also included are draft copies of Patti's published book in 5.5 inch floppy disk format. This series also contains two unpublished books on the life of Ho Chi Minh as well as a variety of unpublished articles by Patti. Conference and symposium speeches are included in the unpublished materials as they were given by Patti but never published.