Irma Wassall was a poet and close friend of Frank Marshall Davis. Material relates primarily to Wassall's career. It includes newspaper clippings about Wassall's poetry and artistic accomplishments; printouts of photographs of Wassall and musicians at an event; photocopies of poems titled "Langston Hughes" and "Federico Garcia Lorca" by Enrique Riverón, both in English and Spanish; published copies of The Ruby-Emerald Jungles and The Fading Year by Wassall; fliers and programs for poetry readings; holiday cards from Davis to Wassall; photocopy of "For a Young Girl in Green" by Ruben F. Menendez; photograph of Davis in the early 1940s; Kansas State University publication The Publishing X-Press S.C.W.M. from November 2, 1996; speaking notes for brief talk by Wassall at Wichita Heights High School; Muse Odyssey Orbital News Fall 1995 featuring Fred and Irma Wassall's art; Kansas Artist Fellowship application by Wassall for The Filly's Eye; original typescripts for Associated Negro Press "Rating the Records" columns, some with dates written in Davis's hand; Along the River by Wassall; Fred and Irma Wassall: Drawings and Poems; Loonshadow by Wassall; and a letter from Wassall to Tidwell about familial issues.