This series contains general information about Williams' personal and professional life, including an overview of her teaching career and items from the year she taught in Japan. Also, this series contains material related to her father's death and the dedication of a building in his name at Florida State University.

This series holds a sample of Williams' publications. There are three articles and her major work, Conflict of Homonyms in English, which developed out of her Ph.D. dissertation at Yale.

This series includes general material on foreign students at Smith, presumably gathered by Williams in her work on the Committee on Foreign Students, which she was deeply involved with for many years. The material here gives various summaries of the numbers, backgrounds, and accomplishments of the foreign students. Additionally, there is more detailed information on certain individuals that Williams became good friends with.

This series contains quite a large collection of letters Williams received from her former foreign students. The women regarded her as a mentor and friend, and often wrote to keep her updated on their lives and progress. These letters are a testament to the great impact a Smith education and Williams' guidance had on the students' lives both personally and professionally.

This series contains a variety of images of students, faculty and friends. Williams herself was an amateur photographer and especially enjoyed taking pictures of the Smith campus. Other pictures that may or may not have been taken by Williams include quite a few of foreign students and Smith faculty and friends. Additionally, Williams had collected baby pictures of her female faculty friends for a project on "Friends in Childhood." Thus the series also contains photographs of the following women as babies or young girls: Dorothy Bacon, Gladys Bryson, Mary Ellen Chase, Virginia Corwin, Katherine Hornbeak, Dorothy Huey, Laura Lord Scales, Priscilla Van der Poel, and Edna Williams.

This series contains slides of the Smith campus and foreign students, as well as a tape recording of Williams' farewell party in Japan. These items are not housed with this collection; please see below for their locations.