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The writings by Alex Haley series contains drafts and final works by Alex Haley, such as articles, a forward, stories, scripts, notes, interview notes, research, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and supplementary materials. The series encompasses works, contributions, and interviews from magazines, journals, and periodicals as Raggs International, People on the Way Up (POTWUP), a featured person piece, Playboy, Reader's Digest, and Freighter Fancier, a writer's guide. "The Imaging" is a series of aritcles of accounts from people in the United States and United Kingdom about their impressions of black people. Alex Haley also wrote for organizations, such as the International Friend League. Works are arranged alphabetically by title or medium.

The writings by others series contains works sent to Alex Haley for reading or review, or otherwise works written by others that were collected by Alex Haley. The series includes a family historical record "Moore of Westmoreland and Barbados and South Carolina – Family Records and Traditions", the technical script of a movie entitled "Paradise Lost", and "The African Project" by Alfred Garrett, among others. Works are organized alphabetically by title.

The writings series includes drafts of published and unpublished works and galley prints for published works by Michael Shaara. His early fiction was published in fantasy and science fiction magazines. By the late 1950s and early 1960s, Shaara broadened his focus to include mainstream fiction and began publishing short stories in Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and the Saturday Evening Post. He wrote four novels: The Broken Place (1968), The Killer Angels (1974), The Herald (1977), and For Love of the Game (published posthumously in 1991). After completing research, Michael Shaara spent four years writing The Killer Angels while teaching at Florida State University. When the novel was accepted to publish, Shaara was asked to change the working title "The Glory of the Coming" to "The Killer Angels".