The fonds consists of manuscripts and drafts of literary compositions and other working documents, as well as professional and personal correspondence.

Drafts and completed poems written between 1970 to 1978; manuscripts show Morrissey’s interest in concrete and sound poetry and emphasis on experimental writing.

Contains 23 mostly spiral-bound notebooks dated 1979 - 1986. Also, five notebooks with drafts of poems, notes, and crayon drawings and collages from a Canada Council "B" Grant sponsored visit to Mexico from October to December 1984. Includes first drafts of poems published in Family Album (Vancouver, Caitlin Press, 1989) and drafts of book reviews by Stephen Morrissey.
A copy of Divisions is included.

Contains nine “packages” of manuscripts; each “package” is approximately two inches thick. Included are unpublished manuscripts, rough drafts of poems dating from 1984 to 1988, and the manuscript for Family Album (Vancouver, Caitlin Press, 1989).
An unpublished manuscript entitled Meetings With RR, a biography of R.R. Skinner, an English healer and spiritual teacher and friend of Morrissey’s for twenty-five year, is included. Also, included are numerous drafts of book reviews published in Poetry Canada Review, Canadian Literature, The Antigonish Review, and other periodicals.

Box 12 contains the files for two magazines that Stephen Morrissey edited and published, what is and The Montreal Journal of Poetics, between 1973-1985. There is one file of preliminary notes for what is, followed by fifteen files of back issues of what is arranged chronologically (1973-1976). There is a complete run of the magazine. Ten files are included for The Montreal Journal of Poetics (later called MJP), which constitutes a complete run of this magazine (1978 - 1985). These files contain original photo-ready copies of the magazine, also included are duplicate back issues of the magazine. Both what is and The Montreal Journal of Poetics were mailed without cost to those people receiving the magazine. Several issues of what is consisted of only one legal size page. The Montreal Journal of Poetics was photocopied on 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper.

File consists of preliminary notes and mimeographed poems for what is.

File consists of a copy of what is, September 1973, issue # six. : One legal size sheet of paper with a concrete poem "Homage to Allende" by Stephen Morrissey. This poem is a homage to Salvador Allende, the former President of Chile, who was overthrown in a coup d'état in 1973.

File consists of MJP, series 2, # one, Fall-Summer 1982: With this sixteen page issue Morrissey changed the name of the magazine to the letters "MJP". The issue includes articles by George Johnston, Beth Jankola, Guy Birchard, and two short articles by Ken Norris. Drawing of Jake Morrissey by artist John Walsh. Numerous copies of this issue are in the file.

File consists of MJP, series 2, # two, Spring-Summer-Fall 1983: This twelve page issue contains articles by Richard Sommer, Stephen Morrissey, and Tom Konyves. Numerous copies of this issue are included in this file.

File consists of MJP, series 2, # three - four, 1984, Double Issue: This issue contains eighteen pages with articles by Cid Corman, Stephen Morrissey, Ray Filip, two poems by Gerry Gilbert, and drawings by Beth Jankola. Numerous copies of this issue are included.