 There are many notable items in the library's collections.The library also owns the papers of Hollywood directors Orson Welles and John Ford, film critic Pauline Kael, the poets Sylvia Plath and Ezra Pound, and authors Edith Wharton and Upton Sinclair.After the death of Ruth E. Adomeit in 1996, her collection of miniature books was donated to the Lilly.