This sub-series contains important or significant documents pertaining to important moments in Milton Murayama’s life. There is a folder full of birth, army, marriage, and nationality-related documents including his birth certificate, marriage certificates, and army discharge papers. Another folder contains documents pertaining to Milton’s school achievements including diplomas, transcripts, and commencement programs. A third folder contains documents pertaining to two writers’ conferences Milton attended: The Pacific Northwest Asian American Writer’s Conference in 1976 and Hawai’i’s Ethnic American Writer’s Conference in 1978. A fourth folder contains documents including congratulatory correspondence about Milton’s receipt of the Hawaii Award for Literature in 1991. The fifth folder contains documents pertaining to three other awards Milton received: The VFW Contest in 1941, The American Book Award in 1980, and being named a Library Laureate by the Friends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library in 2002 . Finally, there is a folder that contains documents from the U.S. Copyright Office about copywriting his four published novels.