Consists of business and personal correspondence with poets, writers, editors, and publishers such as Molly Keane, Sally Phipps, Dervla Murphy, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, Jennifer Johnston, Terence de Vere White, Geraldine Kennedy, Carlo Gebler, Michael Longley, James Simmons, Padraic Fiacc, Gerald Dawe, Medbh McGuckian, John Montague, Robert Greacen, Desmond O'Grady, Dennis O'Driscoll, Seán Dunne, Theo Dorgan, William Wall (Liam deBhal), Patrick Galvin, Joan McBreen, Harry Clifton, Paul Durcan, Peter Fallon, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Gerard Smyth, Paula Meehan, Paul Engle, August Kleinzahler, and Peter Jay; as well as politicians, public figures, and scholars including Lady Clementine Beit of Russborough House, Sir Adrian FitzGerald, Princess Grace de Monaco, Brigadier D.H. FitzGerald, the Countess Michalowski, Sir Richard Keane, W.E.D. Allen, Michael D. Higgins, William V. Shannon, Eugene J. McCarthy, Gerald Y. Goldberg, and John Bernstein. McCarthy's correspondence from the 1970s and 1980s, in particular, contains a number of letters from other emerging Irish poets of the time. While some correspondents have been indicated at the file-level, researchers should note that correspondence from the same person may be found in multiple folders.