Beat poet and Finney county, Kansas native Charles Plymell contributed to the Compass American Guide to Kansas. This collection includes calendars, correspondence, brochures, menus, ticket stubs, and Nicodemus clippings related to the production of this book.

Correspondence, poetry drafts, photocopies of photographs and other images, and other materials from poet and author Charles Plymell, mostly dating from the mid-1990s.

John Fowler was editor and publisher of the GRIST magazine, published in the 1960s in Lawrence, Kansas. This collection includes manuscript and other draft materials from items published in the magazine, as well as correspondence between Fowler and contributors.

Author's archives from poet Charles Plymell, including a notebook of draft poems; letters received; photographs; and photocopies of sketches and clippings, with many annotations by Plymell and others. Primarily Beat circles.