Materials document the life and career of Cuban poet, Virgil Suárez, Materials include manuscripts, drafts, notes, teaching materials, correspondence, and submission to literary journals.

The papers document professional activities of Virginia Hern as a fiction writer and a journalist in Cuba and Miami. The materials include a manuscript of her novel, El Otro, scrapbooks with clippings of her articles published in Cuba and in Miami, in El Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, photographs and memorabilia.