Augustine Bowe wrote poetry prodigiously during his life. This series contains over 50 long yellow legal pads on which friend and colleague John Frederick Nims says Bowe wrote, "night after night, year after year." According to Nims, there are approximately 1500 poems in 50 legal pads, handwritten and typed drafts. Bowe published a few poems in Poetry, but stopped seeking publication of his work when he became president of the Modern Poetry Association. Exact dates on this work is difficult to ascertain, as Bowe revised repeatedly, and had poems typed and retyped at various times. John Frederick Nims eventually went through the entirety of the various drafts and edited a volume of selected poems titled No Gods are False published in 1967. Correspondence, galleys and manuscripts of this book are located at the end of the series.