The collection comprises correspondence, personal documents, manuscripts, publications, newspaper clippings and photographs. These papers generally relate to Moll's writing and publishing activities, with little documentation of his activities as a lecturer at the University of Oregon. The collection includes material relating to Moll's poetry and prose writings 'Shoes of silence' (unpublished), Blue interval: poems of Crater Lake (1935), Brief waters (1945), Beware the cuckoo and other poems (1947), The waterhole (1948), The lifted spear (1953), Below these hills: the story of a Riverina farm (1957), Collected poems: 1940-55 (1957), The rainbow serpent and other poems (1962),Briseis(1965), The road to cactus-land: a group of poems (1971), The well and the star (1983), The view from a ninetieth birthday (1992), Recognitions at ninety-three (1993), The children of Somalia 1992-1994 and other poems (1994), A gleaner's sheaf of poems (1995) and other unpublished writings.