Arranged chronologically.

It includes diplomas, resumes, record of funerals, military citations, course schedules and more.

Two photographs of Sanders were separated from this series and placed in the University of Massachusetts photograph collection.

Arranged alphabetically according to the last name of the person or by the title of the corresponding organization.

Contains general correspondence. There is also some printed material that relates to or clarifies certain correspondence.

Contains class notes taken while Sanders was a student, and lecture notes written while he was a professor, and lay lecturer. There are also some printed materials, handouts, newspaper clippings, etc., which relate to and add relevance to the notes. Unfortunately, he left very little material from his association with the University of Massachusetts. The material includes a noncredit course in religion given at the Newman Center in 1955, proposals for a course in the study of the Bible as literature, plus some notes he had on classes other than the one he taught on the Bible.

Class notes he took as a student at the University of Massachusetts have been separated from his papers and placed with the English department papers (1964-1965). Correspondence relating to the notes and lectures has been kept with the related materials.

Arranged in two subseries: Book Material and Essay Material. Book Material is arranged chronologically according to publication date, or dates present on the unpublished material (an exception being the essays edited for Twentieth-Century Interpretation of the Book of Job which are arranged alphabetically according to author surname). Essay Material is arranged alphabetically according to the title of the published essay.

Included in this Book Material subseries are student theses; Twentieth-Century Interpretation of the Book of Job; and an unpublished manuscript for "The Poetry of the Book Psalms". Book reviews exist in this Essay Material subseries, arranged according to the journal they appeared in, and thereafter, according to the last name of the author of the work reviewed.

Correspondence relating to the essays, book reviews, and the major works remains with the related material.

They are arranged alphabetically according to religious event, subject, or sermon title.

Consists entirely of sermons written during Sanders' ministry.

The arrangement is alphabetical according to subject.

Includes organizational material from the Layman's Academy for Oecumenical Studies (LAOS) and MRI. Included as well is material on the topics of teaching religion and religion in public education.

Correspondence relating to these subjects remains with the associated material.