The collection consists of three albums containing documents pertaining to the Oblong Octavo series, which consisted of twenty signed limited-edition publications. The Series began in 1967 to "help Marianne Moore who had told [Wilson] she was devastated by the New Yorker's refusal of a poem which she had counted on for income." The next work in the series featured Wilson's longtime friend W. H. Auden, followed by Ashbery, Wilbur, Merwin, Nemerov, Duncan, Snyder, McClure, Wiebers, Tim Reynolds, Zukofsky, Corso, Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Bishop, Merrill, di Primar, Kinnell & Baraka. All author files include correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, and related material.