Contents:
1. Tobias's original proposal for his biography of Ginsberg
2. Responses to Tobias's application for a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (which was unsuccessful).
3. Photocopy of autograph letter signed from Bob Rosenthal (Ginsberg's Secretary) to Bernard Crystal (Special Collections, Columbia University). March 17, 1993. Granting Tobias permission to access Ginsberg's earliest journals in the archive on deposit at Columbia.
4. Original autograph letter signed from Allen Ginsberg to Allen Tobias. January 22,1993. Telling Tobias to contact Bob Rosenthal for an official permission letter to access his archive on deposit at Columbia, and pointing him toward other likely resources.
5. Photocopies of finding aid of Ginsberg materials at Columbia University.
6. Typed letters from Allen Tobias to a number of people, asking for photocopies of ephemera and leads to additional material, particularly about Ginsberg's youth.
7. Photocopies from books on Ginsberg and his contemporaries. Approximately 75 leaves.