Some works contain multiple copies and versions of manuscripts, others have little more than a title page. Many of the poems are single drafts on single sheets. The works that are most represented, with several boxes of material each, include Camino Real , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , The Glass Menagerie , The Milk Train Doesn't Stop here Anymore , and Summer and Smoke . All works by Williams present in the collection are indexed at the end of the finding aid. Correspondence, 1880-1980, n.d.
Outgoing correspondence is in alphabetical order by recipient.
Incoming and Third-party is alphabetical by author. All correspondence, including that found in other parts of the collection, is indexed by author, except for outgoing mail from Tennessee Williams, which is indexed by recipient. Most of the correspondence is typed. Photo and carbon copies are found in large numbers, with carbons comprising all of the incoming correspondence from William's agents, Liebling-Wood. Liebling-Wood correspondence is present in greater amounts than any other in the series and is found in each of the subseries.