Materials are arranged alphabetically by topical heading. There is sometimes overlap between files, such as related correspondence and clippings located under Royal Shakespeare Company and also Reviews-Cyrano. Burgess's works are represented in this series largely by clippings of reviews, with small and scattered amounts of correspondence and manuscript fragments. These files are arranged alphabetically by the title of each work, under the main heading Reviews. Some works, such as Carmen and A Mouthful of Air , have files within the Reviews heading and also have a separate subject file in the series.
Most files contain general research material, including notes, clippings, and correspondence.
The file for A Clockwork Orange does not contain material related to the original novel, but instead documents the 1972 Stanley Kubrick film, a lawsuit brought by Burgess against the film's production company, and later theatrical productions. Of note in the Scrapbook file is an autograph poem by Burgess titled Apres Charles d' Orleans. Another autograph poem, Letter to Scotland is located in the Reviews file for Honey for the Bears . Magazines and Publisher's Catalogs each consist of several boxes of unfoldered publications in alphabetical order. Address and appointment books are also unfoldered and located together in Boxes 96-98 in rough chronological order.