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Includes correspondence from Katharine Graham, Barbara Probst Solomon, Hubert Humphrey, Ted Kennedy, Edmund Muskie, Gary Hart, Joseph Biden, Nona Balakian, Richard Wilbur.

Original poems include: Gene Baro: "Country Water" (typewritten poem, signed and dated 5/31/63); Kim Cushman: "Greater Play'' (with cover letter, 1980); Robert Phillips: "Academy Terrace Party: A Pantoum" (inscribed); "Poem for Christmas 1980" (signed poem card); "Flatworms" (original typed poem, inscribed); William Meredith "In the Rif Mountains" (inscribed, 1980); Lewis Turco: "Prothalamion" (signed poem card, 1980); "The Covered Bridge" (signed poem card, 1979); Margot Archer: "The Camels" (signed poem card); Stephen Sandy: "Air for Air" (signed poem card); Arthur Gregor ''The Link'' (signed poem card); Norma Farber "Late Evening in Autumn" (original typed poem, inscribed, 1979); Norman Campbell Cross (original carbon manuscript, stapled and inscribed, 1970); Roy Basler "A Poodle Killed in the Street" (inscribed tearsheet); Ned O'Gorman "Color" (signed); "Bach" (signed); Lawrence Lieberman: "Santena" (inscribed tearsheet, 1966); plus various poems by Robert Phillips, Derek Walcott; Seamus Heany; Jorge Luis Borges; W. S. Merwin; Ned O'Gorman; and many others.