Correspondence, literary manuscripts, newspapers, magazines, clippings, scrapbooks, advertisements, announcements, certificates, commission, greeting cards, invitations, lists, memoranda, military orders, notes, notices, photographs, programs, remittance advices, reports and other documents; pertaining primarily to the literary career of the internationally celebrated Arkansas poet, but also to his personal, familial, business, social, civic, military and other affairs, and to Beverley Githens Dresbach. Included are the literary manuscripts and the first publication of many prize-winning poems which later appeared in the several volumes of Dresbach's collected works, in numerous anthologies of American and British poetry, and in textbooks of English literature used in college and high school courses throughout the nation.

Correspondents include: Brooks Atkinson, Marjorie Barrows, William Stanley Braithwaite, Van Wyck Brooks, Harvey Chalmers II, Richard Church, Katharine Cornell, Virginius Dabney, Clifton Fadiman, Orval Eugene Faubus, Herbert P. Finger, Edsel Ford, James William Fulbright, Claude Albert Fuller, Ethel Romig Fuller, Lillian Gish, Elizabeth Goudge, Bruce Gould, Louis McHenry Howe, Langston Hughes, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Otto Kerner, Max Lerner, Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, John Masefield, Harriet Monroe, Marianne Moore, Andrew Russell Pearson, Lily Peter, Vance Randolph, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Frank Alden Russell, Carl Sandburg, James William Trimble, Mark Van Doren and others.

Places with which material is associated include: Madison, Wisconsin; Panama Canal Zone; Knoxville and Norris, Tennessee; Washington, D.C.; and especially Tyrone, New Mexico; Lanark and Chicago, Illinois; and Eureka Springs, Arkansas.