The collection consists primarily of nearly fifty years of personal and professional correspondence received by Valaōritēs. Correspondents include Mantō Aravantinou, Laura Beausoleil, Sinclair Beiles, Nicolas Calas, Andrei Codrescu, Markos Dragoumēs, Andreas Empeirikos, Cecil Helman, Jan Herman, Jack Hirschman, Alain and Manina Jouffroy, Helenē Karkazē, Michaēl Mētras, Opal and Ellen Nations, Harold Norse, Nicole Ollier, Alexandros Schinas, Nikos Stangos, and Kōstas Tachtsēs. There are also letters written by Valaōritēs, as well as letters between others. Furthermore, the collection contains poetry and prose writings, notebooks, sketchbooks, printed and miscellanea matter.

The following standard abbreviations are used to identify materials in this collection: AMs=autograph manuscript and TMs=typed manuscript.