Consists of general material (arranged alphabetically), reflecting Keeley's term as President (1992 to 1993), but also covering the years of his membership (1970s to the 1990s). Included are biographies of staff and the executive board; financial material (annual budgets, account statements, etc.); Freedom to Write Bulletins (January 1986 through January/February 1994—some issues are missing); annual reports of the Freedom to Write Committee; notes, by-laws, and correspondence of the Friends of P.E.N. American Center Foundation, Inc.; P.E.N. galas; information and related correspondence (organized chronologically) on immigrant writers; minutes of various committees; memos; P.E.N. newsletters from October 1978 to October 1993 (some issues are missing); information on various programs, such as the Syndicated Fiction Project; the Translation Panel; a translation survey; and the Writers in Prison Committee Newsletter, report, and case list.

The P.E.N. material also consists of (specifically) meetings of the Executive Board (arranged chronologically), which includes correspondence, meeting agendas, memos, and other pertinent material, such as Xeroxes of articles and newspaper clippings; and material pertaining to P.E.N.'s international congresses (chronologically arranged, covering the years 1986 through 1993); and printed matter.

Additional P.E.N. American Center materials acquired after 1995 can be found in Series 10 and 11.