The Peace Collection sometimes kept her groupings of material by subject or time period in the final arrangement. When Randall's original file folders added information, they were kept with the items with which they were found. In l983 a generic arrangement was undertaken to replace lengthy item inventories that previously had been used. The first three of these are microfilmed. Series IV and V are not microfilmed, but Balch correspondence and writings found there were moved into Series II and III and thus are filmed.
Letters are together in chronological order by year, month, and day.
If only the month is known, the letter appears at the end of that month. If only the year is known, the letter appears at the end of that year. Undated correspondence is together, following dated correspondence. When a page is missing from a dated letter, it may be found with undated correspondence. The same chronological arrangement is used with writings as with correspondence.