Bound manuscript poems by Charles F. Hammond entitled "Poems of Portland, Oregon and the Great North West," circa 1926, with corrections.

Oral history interview with Alfred Powers conducted by Linda S. Dodds from February 22 to March 7, 1980. Powers was an author, journalist, teacher, book collector, and book binder.

Oral history interview with Clyde Rice conducted by Rick Harmon from January 22 to March 13, 1985. Rice was an author from Portland, Oregon, and he discusses his novel "A Heaven in the Eye," as well as his family background and early life, his marriages, and his father's flavor extract business.

Pen and ink sketches by Bob Kuhn for Mary Jane Carr's book "Children of the covered wagon: a story of the old Oregon Trail," depicting moccasins, a buffalo skull, and scenes from the book. Kuhn (1920-2007) was one of the leading painters of North American and African wildlife.

Collection includes typescript photocopies of two documents by Earl R. Smith: one titled "The Days of My Years," 1968, an autobiography; and an incomplete copy of one titled "The Westfall Country," 1962.

Papers of Genevieve Thompson Smith (1883-1974), an author, playwright, and attorney of Portland, Oregon. Collection includes correspondence, manuscripts for stories and plays, a scrapbook, ephemera, and other materials.

Collection includes typescript and manuscript literary manuscripts of "Buckskin Fight with the Wolves," "A Test of Courage," "Oregon Pioneering," "A Race with the Wind," and "Was it Luck or Providence?"

Typescript play by Raphael Fabian Bennett, set in 1895 Arkansas, 85 pages, with notes.

Typescript photocopy draft, 78 pages, of a fictional account of settlers and miners near Granite, Oregon.

Papers of an Oregon writer and poet who grew up in the Philippines. Includes correspondence and publicity concerning Doreen Gandy Wiley's books, materials relating to the Philippines, and materials by and about poet Ruth Robertson, 1907-1910.