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The non- MED materials at the end of the Kurath era comprise the equivalent of a full box (parts of boxes 10 and 11; 1 linear foot). In addition to his appointment as Editor of the MED and Professor of English, Kurath continued during his years at the University of Michigan as Director of the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada, and all of his Atlas materials are in this last category. The first item is his Atlas correspondence, which is mainly with fellow American dialectologists (chiefly Raven I. McDavid, Jr., of the University of Chicago, William Moulton of Cornell and Princeton, and others), but also with the British dialectologist Harold Orton, the Romance dialectologist Sever Pop, the well known H.L. Mencken (author of The American Language), and the Linguistic Society of America (of which Kurath was president in 1941). This correspondence is followed by a number of files on Atlas business matters and on two books by Kurath that grew out of his Atlas work. At the end are some files on his University departmental activities.