The Smith Collection brings together all of the publications published under the editorial purview of Harry Smith, including books by a single author and serials. Materials relating to the influential small press advocate organization and the nation’s first small press trade association, COSMEP (Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers), of which Harry Smith was a founder and served twice as Chair, are also to be found here. In addition to publishing hundreds of poets and writers for the first time and advocating non-conformist views both within and without the literary community, The Smith publications helped give rise to a number of future literary figures of significance. Papers in this collection contain correspondence related to, and manuscripts submitted for, issues of The Smith (a literary magazine devoted to poetry and fiction), The Scene (Off-Off Broadway plays), The New York Smith and Newsart (freewheeling literary arts newspapers), Pulpsmith (a pulp poetry and fiction quarterly), The Newsletter (One the State of the Culture) (which featured muckraking reportage), as well as to the book publishing arm of The Smith. (Notably, few literary small presses have published in such a wide variety of formats.) COSMEP materials relate to the founding of the organization in the late 1960s, and run through its merger with Publishers Marketing Association (PMA) in the mid-1990s. Papers of H. Lloyd Van Brunt, poet and a managing editor of The Smith—the press published at least four of Van Brunt’s books—are also included.