The Sand Dollar Collection contains all relevant archival material for Unicorn Bookshop and Sand Dollar Bookshop; all retained manuscripts, correspondence, galley and page proofs, flyers and ephemera, and business records for Maya and Sand Dollar Books; all other personal literary correspondence and manuscripts as received by Jack Shoemaker and Sand Dollar, including letters from Gary Snyder, Robin Blaser, Charles Bukowski, Basil Bunting, Robert Creeley, David Meltzer, Ted Enslin, Cid Corman, Jonathan Greene, Daphne Marlatt, George and Mary Oppen, Diane di Prima, and nearly 100 others; all correspondence, publicity, and posters from the readings Shoemaker organized in California; all ephemera for literary and art events he received over the years 1965 to 1978; and all of Shoemaker's own manuscripts, notebooks, typescripts, interviews, and publications.