Arrangement
This collection is divided into 8 series.
- Series 1. General Files
- Series 2. Class Notes (Brown)
- Series 3. Class Notes (Berlin)
- Series 4. Student Papers
- Series 5. Author's Notes
- Series 6. Afro-American Studies
- Series 7. Manuscripts
- Series 8. Correspondence
- Subseries 1. General Correspondence to Nichols
- Subseries 2. General Correspondence by Nichols
- Subseries 3. Professional Correspondence
- Subseries 4. Publications Correspondence
- Subseries 5. Lectureship Correspondence
- Subseries 6. Correspondence, Hill and Buckinham
- Subseries 7. Correspondence, A. B. Cummings
- Subseries 8. National Foundations