Works, including clippings, foreign dispatches, and drafts, some correspondence, and biographical materials.

Correspondence is limited to a few folders of business related letters to editors and publishers. There are extensive clippings covering most of MacDonald's newspaper career from The Chicago American, The Chicago Times, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The collection contains both manuscript and clipping versions of MacDonald's foreign dispatches for the Chicago Times which are of particular interest. The dispatches are full of finely observed detail on the living conditions of French soldiers and civilians, prison camps, and Polish refugees as war breaks in France. The collection also contains some biographical material, including the transcript of a revealing interview with MacDonald broadcast on WMAQ during the 1950s.