Friar was named the first director of the YMHA Poetry Center in 1944, a post he held until 1948. Official correspondence with the educational director of the YMHA, William Kolodney, and the administrative staff of the YMHA is arranged by years. For correspondence relating to the readings, see also the following author folders: Adams, Leonie; Auden, W. H.; Bogan, Louise; Boyle, Kay; Brown, Harry; Eberhart, Richard; Jarrell, Randall; MacLeish, Archibald; Moore, Marianne; Mistral, Gabriela; Parker, Dorothy; Nin, Anaïs; Ransom, John Crowe; Shapiro, Karl; Schwartz, Delmore; Tate, Allen; Thompson, Dunstan; Troy, William; Van Doren, Mark; Warren, Robert Penn; Williams, Tennessee; Williams, William Carlos; Young, Marguerite.