Correspondence, research notes and source material on HL's part in the Israeli Declaration of Independence, including: correspondence between Sir Elihu Lauterpacht and Shabtai Rosenne [earlier Sefton Rowson] and earlier original letters between HL and Rosenne [Legal Adviser to the Israeli Foreign Ministry], 1957-58; copies of letters from Aubrey Eban [liaison officer to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, later Abba Eban] on recognition for the State of Israel, 1948; HL's ms and typed drafts of the Act of Independence and the Declaration on the Assumption of Power by the Provisional Government of the Jewish Republic, 1948.