Fiction was begun in 1953. This collection contains issues from 1963, though the reader should note that the collection may not be complete.

George F. Walker was a professor in the Modern Languages Department at Georgia Tech. His papers primarily consist of materials he collected on the French novelist Marcel Proust.

This manuscript is a forerunner of Bourdin's two books printed posthumously in 1655 - L'Architecture militaire and Le Dessein ou la perspective militaire. It serves as a pre-publication hybrid model and includes 188 full-page woodcuts made from 66 blocks and 3 folding engraved plates. These were used in Bourdin's classes on mathematics and fortification at the College de Clermont in Paris in the 17th century.