The descriptive media, published and unpublished, created by an originating office, an archival agency, or manuscript repository, to establish physical or administrative and intellectual control over records and other holdings. The Inventory usually includes an historical sketch of the institution or division of the institution whose records are being described, a scope and content note, and a series description. The series description usually includes title, dates, quantity of materials, arrangement, relationship to other series and description of significant subject content. The inventory also includes a box and folder list. See also Register .
Personal papers are the private documents accumulated by an individual.
These documents can take many forms, but will often include the individual's correspondence, diaries, drafts of published works, photographs, etc. In archival terms, this refers to the administrative office of origin of a given record, group of records, or files. In the case of manuscript collections, provenance refers to the person, family, firm or other source from which the materials were obtained. Provenance can also refer to information about the successive transfers of ownership and custody of a particular, book, object, or document. A record group is usually defined as a body of related records that are organizationally grouped together due to their common unit of origin.