The collection comprises twenty archival boxes of manuscripts, correspondence, and other material pertaining to Nikos Stangos as a Greek poet and translator, and as an art editor in London (1967-2003) for Penguin Books and Thames and Hudson. The papers include personal correspondence with major Greek poets and writers (such as Giannē Ritsos, Nanos Valaōritēs, Andreas Empeirikos, Kōstas Tachtsēs, Giōrgos Iōannou, and Natasa Chatzidaki), as well as with English and American artists and intellectuals (such as David Hockney and John Berger). Also included are many autograph letters of Stangos's mother and other close family members, student notebooks, clippings of newspapers and literary magazines, autograph and typed manuscript drafts of his translations of Modern Greek poetry, printed material, and photographs.