This series is the largest of the collection. It consists of a wide variety of materials authored by Brundage, the bulk of which are letters to the editor from 1956-1972, and drafts or clippings of articles that he wrote during the mid 1960's. In addition, this series also includes two attempts at an autobiography (Luckiest and The Luckiest Man Alive), and Mine be the Dust, a novel about union politics and corruption based upon Brundage’s personal experiences with the house painter’s union in Chicago. The final two folders of The Luckiest Man Alive include a few comments on the book made by Joan Evashuk, Brundage’s literary editor at the time.

Roy Alexander, a friend and sometime agent of Brundage, collaborated with Brundage on the unfinished book Learn to Complain Without Suffering, as well as the play “Sex Probe From Outer Space.” Learn to Complain Without Suffering is a collection of poems by various authors, together with commentary by Brundage about what each poem meant to him, or about an experience of his that the poem brought to mind. Most of the poems and commentaries were never organized by Brundage or Alexander into any particular order, but according to their book proposal they intended to ultimately assemble the poems into chapters, with each chapter relating to a different decade of the Twentieth Century.

None of Brundage’s longer works were ever published, but several of Brundage’s articles appeared in the National Informer, a tabloid for which Brundage served as a columnist for a time beginning in 1964. In addition, “But There Was a Hobo College,” and “Step High, Stoop Low,” were published in the “Panorama” section of the Chicago Daily News. The designation “pub. article” in the folder headings indicates that the article was published and is in the form of a clipping.

Brundage’s unpublished articles were probably submitted to the National Informer or other periodicals for consideration, although to whom exactly they were submitted, if anyone, is not readily apparent. Edited versions of some of the draft articles appear to have been published under different titles than the ones that Brundage originally used. For example, “Step High, Stoop Low” is a modified form of the draft Brundage titled “College of Complexes.”

Despite the title, “College of Complexes” and “Step High, Stoop Low” are actually about the Dill Pickle Club and Bughouse Square. “My College Saloon” and “Name Dropping,” however, are about the College of Complexes. The poetry commentaries are Brundage’s thoughts on a collection of poems that he assembled, although these commentaries are generally shorter (in most cases only a couple of sentences, and some of poems are not commented upon at all), than those found in Learn to Complain Without Suffering.

In Brundage’s longer works (i.e., Luckiest, The Luckiest Man Alive, and Mine be the Dust), there are several pagination errors caused by page numbers occasionally being repeated or skipped. Furthermore, the first page of Luckiest is missing, and the final sections of Mine be the Dust are paginated differently than the earlier sections. Therefore, the final folders of Mine be the Dust have been listed by chapter number rather than page number to avoid confusion. (Note also that there is no chapter 32.) It is possible that some pages are missing from this work as well, as the transition from the last page in the first numbered sequence to the first page of the second numbering scheme is awkward.