Letter from Bowling Green State University student Yolanda Denise Johnson to author James Baldwin, requesting to interview Baldwin for BGSU's Obsidian minority student newspaper and the Key yearbook.
Letter from Bowling Green State University President Paul Olscamp to Paul Maginley of the BGSU English Department, on university budgeting procedures and the uncertainty of available funds with which to invite author James Baldwin to campus as a visiting professor for the upcoming semester.
Press release for a memorial service for author James Baldwin, to be held at Bowling Green State University on February 19, 1988, with poet Nikki Giovanni as the keynote speaker.
Letter from Bowling Green State University to the Holiday Travel Center regarding unused airline tickets for author and visiting professor James Baldwin.
Letters to author James Baldwin from the University of Massachusetts Office of the Chancellor, regarding Baldwin's upcoming commencement address at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Letter expressing admiration to Baldwin on his work, written by a gentleman named Paul residing in Albany New York.
Letter from Jay Acton, agent of author James Baldwin, to Dr. Ernest A. Champion confirming the agreement regarding Baldwin's term as Writer in Residence at Bowling Green State University.
Report submitted by Dr. Ernest A. Champion detailing the expenses of his trip to the Toledo Express Airport to bring author James Baldwin to Bowling Green State University for a visiting professorship.
The letter is from Dr. Ernest Champion to James Baldwin confirming Baldwin's acceptance of the position of "Writer in Residence" at Bowling Green State University for the month of May, 1978.