The Herbert L. Matthews Papers contain the writings, correspondence, and personal papers of this American journalist, a correspondent and editorial writer for the New York Times from 1922 to 1967. Matthews' assignments spanned the world. As a journalist he covered the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935 and 1936, Spain and the Spanish Civil War, Italy, India, Europe and World War II, postwar Europe, Latin America; as an editor he wrote about Vietnam, China, and Latin America.
The office file of the magazine. There is correspondence and manuscripts from many writers among whom are: William Burroughs; Diane di Prima; Allen Ginsberg; Anselm Hollo; Walter Lowenfels; Michael McClure; Gerard Malanga, and John Wieners