This is the largest series of the collection and it consists of a wide variety of materials authored by Wright, the bulk of which are drafts or clippings of newspaper articles that he wrote while serving as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. In addition, this series also includes Wright's diaries during most of the time he was stationed abroad, as well as a trip he took to Europe while in college. It appears, however, that a number of pages were removed from these diaries, either by Wright himself or his family, before the collection was accessioned.

Besides the newspaper articles and diaries, Wright also wrote several poems and essays, a monograph about the geology of Chicago, and a booklet about developments under the National Defense Act of 1920. In addition, Wright put together another book entitled A Newsman Goes East by West, which is a collection of some of his newspaper articles, most of which he edited substantially for the compilation. Wright worked on A Newsman Goes East by West for a number of years and completed it shortly before his death. He had hoped to have this work published, but it never was.

The frequency of Wright's newspaper articles varies a great deal, but his busiest periods seem to be when he was in Manchuria in 1929 and in Shanghai in 1927, when he posted articles almost every day for months at a time. There are almost no clippings relating to the period when Wright was attached as a correspondent to the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia (1918-1919), but drafts of some of the stories he wrote during this time exist, as does a partial draft of "The Log of the See Chass.," which is a lengthy account by Wright of his travels across Siberia by train. ("The Log of the See Chass." was apparently written in at least seven installments, of which numbers 1, 2, and 5 are missing.)