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The Professional series spans .25 linear feet and contains materials pertaining to Meyer's academic career. The series includes news articles written about Meyer and his work, honors and awards received during his career, including the award received and speech given by Meyer at the presentation to him of a Grand Cross of the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany in 1991. Also included is correspondence, primarily with colleagues and students, while at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. These two folders also include correspondence with Vice-President Hubert Humphrey in 1967 over requests by Meyer that his passport be validated for travel to Cuba, and correspondence over a matter occurring at Michigan State University in 1959, in which a colleague linked Meyer to a possible Communist conspiracy on campus. Also included in this series is testimony Meyer made before the U.S. Senate's Disarmament Subcommittee in 1957 as an authority on Soviet affairs, as well as correspondence with Hubert Humphrey, chairman of the Committee. Finally, this series includes materials relating to Meyer's retirement from the University of Michigan, including most notably a significant number of written thanks and detailed remembrances of Meyer's contributions to the university from past and present students and colleagues.

The Writings series spans 1 linear foot and includes published and unpublished or draft articles, essays and manuscripts by Meyer. The published materials include two folders of journal articles, reviews, and translations, arranged chronologically by publication date, as well as two books published in translation, one in Korean and one, Lenin and Leninism, in French. Also included is one folder of correspondence with colleagues and publishers regarding Meyer's published works. The unpublished or draft materials include four folders of essays and lectures on scholarly and biographical topics as well as on teaching itself, some of which are the draft versions of essays later published, and some of which have never been published. Titles include The Lecture, My Attitude Toward Germany and Being Jewish, and Thoughts About the Evaluation of Freshman Papers. Also included are materials pertaining to an unpublished biography of Friedrich Engels, including a full draft of the biography and correspondence with publishers and colleagues regarding the work. This series also contains unpublished translations done by Meyer of works of Mario Wirz, including one essay, one book-length piece, and correspondence with Wirz and publishers.