This series contains works by Clement Winston, Sophie Winston, Mollie Zion, and several of Clement Winston's colleagues and fellow mathematicians, arranged alphabetically by author. The bulk of the writings were authored or co-authored by Clement Winston.

Writings by Clement's colleagues can be found in box 1, folders 1 and 2 and include papers authored by Leonard Carlitz, I. Lattman, Joseph Lehner, J. L. Shereshefsky, James Alexander Shohat, and Sylvia Steckler. These writings focus on the fields of medicine, mathematics and chemical physics and most are inscribed to Clement Winston. There are various papers written by the mathematician James Alexander Shohat, with whom Clement co-wrote "On mechanical quadratures," published in the Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo in 1934 (individual copies of this paper and of the entire 1934 issue of the Rendiconti are included in box 1, folders 3 and 4). Researchers will also find several government publications, including a staff roster, a copy of the 1952 report "Markets after the Defense Expansion," and an issue of the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents.

Winston's writings on the subject of mathematics include "On Mechanical Quadratures Formulae Involving the Classical Orthogonal Polynomials," published in Annals of Mathematics in 1934. A draft of this paper, along with draft copies of "To find limits for the zeros of Hermite Polynomials" and "Correlation of Time Series" (unsigned, but presumably by Winston) are also included. During his time at the Bureau of the Budget, Winston contributed to Survey of Current Business, a publication of the Department of Commerce. Nineteen full issues featuring articles written or co-written by Winston and several reprinted articles are included, as well as two copies of the Department's Current Economic Analyses for Retail Business, with an article co-written by Winston. Additional examples of Clement Winston's writings in economics include an article in Dun's Review, two copies of textbook reviews submitted to SIAM Review, a transcription of a lecture on "long range projections" delivered at an economic analysis seminar, and a copy of Food Topics, in which Winston is quoted.

The "Report on Art Division of Red Cross Arts and Skills Corps Program at Walter Reed General Hospital Convalescent Section" by Sophie Z. Winston (a volunteer art instructor with the program) describes the participants, operations and results of the program between January 1944 and January 1946. The speech by Mollie B. Zion discusses the history and mission of the Securities and Exchange Commission, where she was employed as an administrative assistant.

This series consists of creative writing, songs, and drawings by Clement Winston. Both the fictional short stories ("Halloween" and "The Mysterious Buns") and the non-fictional stories (such as the travel impressions, and other pieces which describe amusing or inspiring episodes from everyday life) are written in a casual, conversational style. The essays on Greek words are short, informative discussions of the history, etymology and cultural meanings of words like 'echo,' 'drama,' and 'idea.' "We Are the O.B.E." is a six act musical comedy about the Office of Business Economics. Most of the musical notation in box 2, folder 2 is untitled, though some songs have accompanying lyrics. The several "Chanukah Carols," by contrast, are generally printed with musical notation, Yiddish lyrics, transliterated Yiddish lyrics, English lyrics and a glossary of Yiddish words. (The copyright material for the 1982 "Chanukah Song" can be found in Series VII. Personal papers). Most of the doodles and drawings are very rough pencil sketches on scraps of paper, though some-–particularly those meant to decorate poems and cards--have a more finished quality. Many of the documents in this series, whether stories, songs or drawings, are in multiple copies.

Almost all of the poems in this series are present in multiple iterations, which lends some insight into Winston's creative process. Winston typically shared his poetry widely with friends, so there are photocopied and hand-copied versions of his verse (sometimes individually inscribed) in addition to numerous drafts. Winston organized his poems in a number of ways: two typed compilations, "Fair Copies" manuscript compilation, and manuscript compilations. All four are relatively formal compilations of poems, of which the "Manuscript compilation" is the most extensive. These compilations overlap considerably, but are not identical to each other. While they are not fully representative of the range of poems in found in "Drafts and copies" (that is, some poems found in "Drafts and copies" are not included in the compilations, and vice versa), they nevertheless accurately reflect the bulk of Winston's oeuvre. Thematically, much of this poetic work relates to nature (such as poems about animals or seasons), love, holidays (including annual New Year's and Valentine's Day poems) and current events. Winston also wrote many poems to, or about, his acquaintances, including poems celebrating the retirements of colleagues, or the birthdays of friends and family. In tone, the poems are generally lighthearted and often comical, though Winston's later work is somewhat more introspective. There are also a few incomplete indices of the poems, as well as numerous lists of individuals to whom specific poems were sent.

Four issues of Zantia, a magazine dedicated to "stories and poems by the over-sixty" and featuring some of Clement's verse, comprise the final file in this series.

Series IV. Correspondence includes letters and cards and drafts of letters (largely written by Clement Winston). It is frequently difficult to ascertain the author and/or intended recipient of the letters and card, and therefore, they are arranged in chronological order. Researchers will find a combination of letters received by Clement and Sophie Winston, letters sent by Clement and Sophie to Mollie Zion, and birthday and Valentine's Day cards exchanged between Clement, Sophie and Mollie. While most of the letters are family letters, there are letters between Clement and the editors of various literary magazines, as well as a few letters documenting day-to-day business with stores, etc. Much of the correspondence between Clement, Sophie and Mollie employs a set of nicknames: Sophie is "Pooh," Mollie is "Eeyore" or "Moops," and Clement is "Rabbit" or his occasional pen name, "Bigelow B. Baygel."

Clement (and, to a lesser degree, Sophie) often composed long letters which they copied and sent to acquaintances en masse. The drafts of these letters and of their more personal correspondence make up the remainder of this series. These drafts range from loosely written and visibly revised notes to polished reports similar to the anecdotal short stories found in in Series II. Some of the letters from 1952 and 1953 (drafted, sent and received) pertain to Clement's emotionally intense experiences of his hearing before the Loyalty Board for the Department of Commerce.

This series is mostly composed of notebooks kept by Clement Winston. These pocket-sized booklets are filled with notes of various descriptions: diary entries, funny snippets of conversation, addresses, poems, lists of expenses and budget calculations, stories, reminders, trip itineraries and other information. Tucked into most of the notebooks are loose papers and ephemera, such as receipts, tickets, sketches, letters, newspaper clippings, calendar leaves, postage stamps, business cards, and Winston's eccentric collection of bathroom tissue and toilet paper wrappers which he amassed on his international travels. The larger of the loose papers have been removed from the pages of the notebooks but kept alongside the volume in which they were originally enclosed. The relatively minimal loose notes in box 6, folder 3 are similar in their content to the notebooks, but also contain some pages of mathematical calculations. Subsequent folders of academic notes appear to be partially drawn from lecture material and partially Winston's original work. The economics notes, from lectures delivered by Charles Jordan, a professor at the University of Budapest, are in French. The last three folders in this series contain additional fliers, event programs, clippings and ephemera. Of particular interest may be the ephemera relating to Winston's retirement in 1968, for which colleagues wrote poems in the Winston-style (box 6, folder 8).

For about fifty years, Clement and Sophie Winston kept meticulous records of their household finances. In box 6, folders 10-16, researchers will find account books that list the Winston's daily expenditures by item ("bedroom slippers," "ice cream," "movies," etc.). The expenses for each day are sorted into categories which, though they vary slightly from book to book, generally correspond to "household food;" "outside meals & lunches;" rent, insurance, and utilities such as gas, electric and telephone; clothing, clothing repairs and laundry; gifts and donations; bus fare, newspapers, and travel; and miscellaneous expenses. Unless self-explanatory by its categorical placement, each expense is specified with an annotation. The notation of expenses in these volumes is almost a type of diary-keeping, especially from January 1944 to September 1964 (box 6, folders 12-14) where entries are described in greatest detail.

Two of the account books contain some non-financial material. The first twenty pages of the account book for April 1936 to December 1943 feature sporadic diary entries written by Clement Winston between from November 1, 1923 and January 10, 1926. While not extensive, these pages provide an interesting glimpse of life in 1920s Philadelphia, and Winston's social circle at the time. The last section of the account book for July 1938 to October 1945 contains a meal plan (fourteen sets of breakfast, lunch and dinner menus) for diabetes management, and charts recording the results of urine glucose tests. The dates listed in the titles of these files refer only to the chronological span of the financial accounts. Since some of the books have non-financial material, like the diary and dietary information, the true date of the file may not exactly correspond to the date listed in its title.

The total monthly expenditures do not provide the various individual expenses incurred each day, but rather the total money spent each month. These totals are listed in categories like those of the preceding files, along with more specific groupings, like for cigarettes, library fees, and visits to the barber. The itemized annual expenditures are likewise listed by category, thus a page might, for example, list all of the cosmetics bought by Sophie Winston in the year 1974, with the date of purchase, product, and price. Because the itemized annual expenditures extend to 1990, at least the final portion of these records could not have been the work of either Sophie or Clement, and was perhaps maintained by Mollie Zion. As is the case with the notebooks in Series V, there are some loose papers enclosed in the account books.

The final series in this collection contains personal papers (mostly legal documents) relating to Clement and Sophie Winston, and some of their relatives. Researchers will find documents pertaining to Rose Zion's purchase of, and mortgage for, a house at 1622 South Orkney Street in Philadelphia; Rose's accident disability certificate; and the wedding certificate from her marriage to Harry Zion. Mollie Zion's passport and birth certificate; Sophie Zion Winston's birth certificate; and Clement's citizenship certificate, social security card and handwritten bar mitzvah certification are also found in this series. In 1931, Clement filed a legal petition to change his last name from Weinstein to Winston. Around 1938, he began the process of citizenship application, which was complicated by the fact that he did not have his birth certificate. Documents relating to Winston's name change, birth record and citizenship application - including legal certificates, correspondence, census records and Winston's 1903 immigration papers - are included in box 7, folder 8. Subsequent folders include copies of the last will and testament of Clement and Sophie Winston, affidavits by Clement Winston affirming the name change of his sister-in-law and national loyalty of George Perazich, and the copyright registration filed by Clement Winston for the words and music of the "Chanukah Song." The final file in the series contains membership certificates granted to Clement by several societies, two awards recognizing Sophie's volunteer service with the American National Red Cross during the Second World War, and an honorable mention award given to Sophie for her studies at the Corcoran School of Art.