Correspondence between Bloom and his editors at various news publications, literary agents, editors, colleagues, faculty at the University of Iowa, and "thank you notes" from various students. Also included in Bloom's correspondence, postcards sent to his parents, Marian and Jerry Bloom, which detail his travels as a foreign correspondent in Brazil and other parts of Latin America.

Materials from Bloom's project Tears of Mermaids including reporters notebooks, research materials, correspondence, press articles, manuscript drafts with edits.