Reminiscences concerning the Ebenezer Community (Community of True Inspiration, later the Amana Society) on the Seneca Indian Reservation and describing its dealings with the Ogden Land Company and the Seneca Indians, its members' continuing emigration from Germany and the hardships they endured from epidemics and natural disasters, and the structure and organization of their three original buildings.

Consists largely of correspondence from the Assistant Secretary of the Emergency Committee, Edward R. Murrow, to the chairman of its Executive Committee, Livingston Farrand. Included is correspondence of or about Kurt Lewin, the German-American psychologist, who came to Cornell University in the 1930s after fleeing Nazi Germany.

Includes historical and biographical sketches of the Espenschied [Espenscheid] family, photographs, genealogical chart, notes, and clippings. Also, 1 reel negative microfilm of historical sketches of the John Espenscheid family of Wayne County, New York and of Phillip Jacob Espenscheid, photographs, and a genealogical chart of descendants of Johannes Espenscheid.