Scope and arrangement
The Ka Morais Papers include family, personal, and professional correspondence. Letters from his brother Michael discuss their collaborations, writing and illustrating poems and other works. Morais' professional papers consist of letters of recommendation, honors and awards, programs and reviews of his exhibits, drawings, and news clippings about him and advertising courses he taught. There are also a few manuscripts by Morais with illustrations (photographs and drawings). Of interest are original and photocopies of letters and postcards written to him by the photographer Ansel Adams, 1975-1981.
Also documented is Morais' involvement in the Bahai religion, his period as an English instructor in Japan (Ube Academy of Foreign Languages), and as a volunteer worker at the United Nations refugee camps in Thailand, 1978-1981.