Also present are loose pages of unidentified dialogue, galley proofs for nine works, and a limited amount of newspaper clippings, photographs, and correspondence. The bulk of the works date from the late 1930s to the mid 1970s. Works are arranged alphabetically by title, or by first line for untitled poems, regardless of genre. Under each title, materials maintain their original arrangement, be it chronological, reverse chronological, or alphabetical, depending on their source. When known, titles for works contained within the subject headings are supplied.
Many works have multiple titles or developed from earlier works with different titles.
To complicate matters, Williams would sometimes use the same title for unrelated works. The Fugitive Kind , and a notation is made about the movie's origin. Due to this and other difficulties in using conventional rules for indicating titles with italics or quotation marks, quotation marks are used for all titles in the container list and the index of works, regardless of the genre, completeness, or publication status. The conventional rules are followed in the remaining portions of the finding aid. When a title represents a collections of poems or short stories, the title of each work in the collection is also listed.