Letter states that Dougherty went on a summer visit to Japan and learned how to write a Basho-style book of haibun. Fall 2005.

Letter thanks Bixby for inviting Estabrook to send his poem "Don't Know Where to Begin" and includes a poem written at the top of the letter titled "I'll never forget it as long as I live"; comes with a copy of Estabrook's poem "Don't Know Where to Begin", an additional copy of "I'll never forget it as long as I live", and his poems "Dad would have been 72 today" and "The Day I Visitied an Old Buddy of my Dad's"

Two short poems by Estabrook with only one edit made to either of the poems

Letter states that enclosed are the corrected proofs for the poems accepted for publication in Parting Gifts, as well as a check for a subscription to the journal

Collection of Francisco's poems include "Wordlust", "Alchemy", "Robinson Crusoe", "Fleeing", "Looking for Kierkegaard in Copenhagen", and "Quotidian"; many of these poems have edits and corrections made to them in black ink; came with previous letter from Francisco to Bixby

Letter asks Bixby to consider the attached poems for Parting Gifts; says that Francisco volume Love, Death, and Child was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000

Collection of Francisco's poems include "Wordlust", "Alchemy", "Robinson Crusoe", "Fleeing", "Looking for Kierkegaard in Copenhagen", and "Quotidian"

Letter states that enclosed are 10 poems for Bixby to look at and consider; comes with a brief bio of Gerber

Collection of Gerber's poems include "Candor Seeks Its Own Unforeseeable Occasions", "There is No Self that Suffers Rebirth", "Once in Nineveh", "Autumn on the Plains of Idaho", "Out Walking in Early November", "Fledgling", "In Praise of Umberto Tapia", "A Small Dark Thing", "Getting it Right, or Wrong", and "Six Miles Up"; contains no edits or corrections to any of the poem and came with previous letter from Gerber to Bixby

1 page poem by Gerber with a few edits made to it; note at the bottom to Robert Bixby says that Gerber is excited that Bixby accepted his poem for Parting Gifts and that he will get a subscription to the journal