This fonds documents aspects of Raymond Souster's literary activities during the mid-1960s. It includes correspondence concerning the publication of two books of poetry Ten elephants on Yonge Street (Ryerson Press, 1965) and New wave Canada: The new explosion in Canadian poetry (Contact Press, 1966), revised drafts of poems for inclusion in the books, and manuscript copies of them.

Several files containing edited, typescript copies of Souster's poems; four note books of hand-written poems authored by Souster during 1965, and bound manuscript copies of New workings: new versions of some uncollected poems (1973), and The way it looks from here: new and uncollected poems (1973) created by Souster are also included in the fonds. File 2 contains a hand-written five-page document titled "Ten Elephants" which discusses the book of the same name, file 3 contains a four-page text called "Combustion" which seems to have been written for the magazine's "limited reprinting in two bound volumes ... by Victor Coleman's Island Press" and file 5 contains a four-page manuscript "Some afterthoughts on Contact Magazine" which appears in Contact 1952 - 1954. Being an index to the contents of Contact ... by Michael Gnarowski (Montreal: Delta Canada, 1966).