This collection includes research notes written in Slovenian or Latin, handwritten and typescript drafts of articles or papers composed by Turk, newspaper clippings from California papers concerning Tito and the governmental upheaval in Yugoslavia, personal documents and correspondence, canceled postage stamps from Spain, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany dated between the 1940s and early 1950s. The research papers and notes are primarily concerned with the Cisterican Statuta and important figures in Cistercian history, such as Bernard of Clairvaux, William of St. Thierry and Stephen Harding.