The collection consists of the personal papers of Hungary-born actor, director, and choreographer Ernst Matray. The collection includes personal correspondence and correspondence related to Ernst Matray’s artistic life, as well as photographs, invoices & statements, press clippings, artwork by Ernst Matray, autobiographical manuscripts and creative writing, some audio-visual materials, and some correspondence and invoices & statements of Matray’s third wife Elizabeth McKinley Matray. The papers comprise materials from the years 1933-1984, the bulk being from Matray’s second stay in the U.S. from 1955-1978.