Part of the central archives of the Jesuit Order, containing records from the office of the Jesuit Procurator General (chief liaison officer to various papal departments). The Vatican Film Library has filmed two groups of materials from this collection relating to Jesuit activities in the Americas: a collection of letters from individual Jesuits requesting to be sent to one of the mission fields, and a collection of documents relating to the economic development and history of various Jesuit colleges, mainly in Brazil and the Spanish Indies. There is little material in this collection pertaining to non-Spanish North America.