The collection focuses on the personal struggle of McClellan to get his wife, Irina Igorevna Ashekhova McClellan, a Soviet citizen, out of the Soviet Union and contains correspondence between the McClellans and between McClellan and numerous private individuals and government officials in the United States and the Soviet Union, particularly U.S. Congressmen. Some of the material is in Russian. The papers reflect the personal travail of the McClellans and reveal the relationship of human rights issues to the broader context of U.S.-Soviet affairs. Included are McClellan's diary, 1970-1974; a pen-and-ink drawing of Irina McClellan; photographs, principally of Mrs. McClellan; and tape recordings of the American Security Council's "Washington Report of the Air." Principle correspondents, other than Mrs. McClellan, include: Bella Savitzky Abzug, Birch Evan Bayh, Edward William Brooke, Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, James Lane Buckley, Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., Hodding Carter, Clifford Philip Case, Alan P. Cranston, Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger, Robert William Edgar, Millicent Hammond Fenwick, Floyd Fithian, Barry Morris Goldwater, Loren Raymond Graham, Andrey Andeyevich Gromyko, David Hartman, Henry John Heinz, Frank Loucks Hereford, and Linwood Holton. Other correspondents include: Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Henry Martin Jackson, Jacob Koppel Javits, Edward Moore Kennedy, Henry Alfred Kissinger, John Little McClellan, George Stanley McGovern, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Gaylord Anton Nelson, Monrad G. Paulsen, Charles Harting Percy, William Proxmire, Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, James Kenneth Robinson, William Safire, Richard Schultz Schweiker, and Hugh Scott. Additional correspondents are: Walter John Stoessel, Malcolm Toon, John Goodwin Tower, Morris King Udall, George William Whitehurst, Christopher Sale Wren, Lawrence Gordon Williams, William Lloyd Scott, Brent Scowcroft, Marshall Darrow Schulman, and John Jackson Sparkman.
