Arrangement
The collection has been arranged in seven series:
- Series 1. Poems of Sarah Helen Whitman
- Series 2. Newspaper articles
- Series 3. Miscellaneous notes
- Series 4. Legal documents
- Series 5. Genealogical information
- Series 6. Correspondence from Sarah Helen Whitman
- Series 7. Correspondence to Sarah Helen Whitman
The first six series are papers generated by Sarah Helen Whitman. Most of these papers are those of Whitman herself, but there are a few copies. Miscellaneous notes could not be classified as letter fragments.