Contains correspondence with Gerard Smyth, Michael Smith, Jack Sweeney from the New Writers Press, Arthur Guinness Son & Co. and Gill & MacMillan relating to Gerard Smyth and Niall Montgomery’s efforts to find Smyth a job. Smyth eventually began work with 'The Irish Times' which is mentioned in the letters. Includes newspaper clippings of poems by Gerard Smyth and numerous typescripts-‘A Sweeter Man’; ‘Ceol’, ‘Standstill’; ‘Listen’; ‘Old People’; ‘Night Rain’; ‘After the Party’; ‘Stone Echoes’; ‘Always and Forever’; ‘Homesick at the Station’; ‘Soft Pedal Push’; ‘In a Waiting Room Forever’; ‘Elegy in May’; ‘Portobello Bridge’; ‘Schoolroom’; ‘It’s a Sad Walk After, to Colette’; ‘I have decided to Divide Myself…’; ‘Enormous Crimes have Kept us close together’; ‘My Poor Lazarus’; ‘I Woke up to the Memory of My Mother’; ‘Ghosts for Al’.