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Correspondence, manuscripts, journals, documents, subject files, photographs, memorabilia, and printed matter. The collection includes Pillionnel's routine correspondence, manuscripts in French and English of his poems, plays and prose works, many of which are unpublished, and his "Journal Intime" which covers the period 1932-1972. Included is an oil portrait of Pillionnel by his friend Peter Hayward. One document folder contains Pillionnel family records (birth certificates, baptismal records, passports) from the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Correspondence, notes, lectures, and clippings of Marguerite Mespoulet, relating to her work and writings on French literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, with special emphasis on Charles Baudelaire, Paul Claudel, and Max Jacob. There are eleven letters and one manuscript"Partage de midi" of Paul Claudel, six letters and seven manuscripts of Max Jacob, and seven letters of Pierre Reverdy.