The Gil J. Wolman papers consists of correspondence, writings, printed items, artworks, photographs, sound recordings, and other materials by or relating to French artist Gil J Wolman (1929-1995) and his milieu. The collection documents the early Lettrist movement of the 1950s through correspondence, writings of Wolman and others, and materials related to Lettrist films, especially Wolman's Anticoncept (1952) and Isidore Isou's Traité de Bave et d'éternité (1951). The collection also documents the creation of Wolman's artist's books, literary works, and sound poetry ("mégapneumie"), as well as his professional career in the Paris art gallery scene from circa 1960 to 1995. Correspondents include Noël Arnaud, Serge Berna, Jean Louis Brau, Guy Debord, François Dufrêne, Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître, Dominique Meens, and others.