This series contains various biographical material, personal items, and material Frank Prentice Rand used in teaching, including personal correspondence, addresses, newsletters, two scrapbooks (one compiled at his retirement and one related to the Rand Commemoration Fund), examinations, gradebooks, and related clippings. Costume masks (Box 6) made by Rand for Shakespearian productions are also included in this series.

The "autobiographical scrapbook" contains clippings, personal letters, and a list of the plays he produced as director of the Roister Doisters, collected at his retirement in 1960. The folder on awards and honors includes certificates of his honorary doctorates from the University of Massachusetts (1955) and from Williams College (1956), as well as letters and clippings pertaining to his awards. The material on the Frank P. Rand Scholarship and Commemoration Fund includes correspondence, notes, clippings, and a scrapbook of letters, postcards, and clippings. Also included here are letters to and from Archibald MacLeish concerning his lecture, the second Rand Commemoration Lecture (1961).

This series also contains a small amount of material related to Rand's service as Acting Dean of Liberal Arts, his statement made in 1946 before the Subcommittee on State Universities of the Massachusetts State Senate's Special Recess, Commission on Education, annual newsletters of the Alumni Teachers of English between 1935 and 1954, and the dedication text, letters, and clippings on the Rand Theater Dedication in the Fine Arts Center (1976).

The material is arranged alphabetically by title, and chronologically under each work.

This series includes addresses, correspondence, reviews, annotated typescripts, and newsclippings related to the writing and publishing of Rand's works. Also included in this series are annotated drafts of several early poems (1906-1910; n.d.), correspondence and a newsclipping dealing with his puns (1932-1933), annotated typescripts of short stories (n.d.), essays on Shakespeare productions by the Roister Doisters (1925-1944), a record book of Shakespearean performances attended by Rand between 1905 and 1938, and annotated typescripts of his Random Reminiscences (1966-1971), the column he wrote for the Amherst Record.

The series contains Professor Rand's books and plays; articles in scholarly journals; published poems and puns (1912-1956); a scrapbook of published poems, advertisement jingles, and editorials written by Rand as a student (1905-1917); and clippings of his column Random Reminiscences (1966-1971).

Books included in this series are: John Epps (1921), Crumpled Leaves from Old Japan (1922), Doctor Ben of Butter Hill (1923), Phi Sigma Kappa (1923), Our Lady Cushing (1925,1950), In the Octagon (1927), Heart O' Town (1945), The Jones Library in Amherst (1969), and Wordsworth's Mariner Brother (1966).