Speeches and writings, correspondence, military orders and dispatches, interview transcripts, printed matter, and photographs, relating to world travel, and to Office of Strategic Services operations in France and Thailand during World War II. Includes research materials collected by Sharon E. Karr for her authorized biography Traveler of the Crossroads: A Biography of Adventurer Nicol Smith (Dorrington, Calif., 1994). Smith was a Lieutenant colonel, United States Army; member, Office of Strategic Services, 1942-1945; travel writer.