The arrangement of the series and description in the Cassady Lewis Carroll finding aid is based on the Cassady Lewis Carroll Bibliography, created and maintained by George Cassady.

The USC Libraries included all of the bibliography's sets in the list below, but some of the sets will not appear elsewhere in the finding aid if they have not been used to group archival material. Material that the bibliography groups under "Set 23: USC Wonderland Award" is described in a separate finding aid titled "Wonderland Award Submissions collection" -- Collection no. 0293.

Following is an excerpt from the introduction to the Cassady Lewis Carroll Bibliography by George Cassady, which describes the scope and evolution of this collection's arrangement.

There are many arbitrary decisions in this listing -- some were conscious decisions, others were adopted from earlier bibliographies. Items are grouped in 23 Sets. While this may seem a simple and obvious action, it continues to be strangely difficult. For example, should an abridged comic book version of 'Wonderland' in Spanish be considered a 'Foreign Translation' or an 'Alternative Publishing'? Is a book composed entirely of photographs to be placed in 'Art' or 'Reference Works'? Should magazine & newspaper articles containing crucial descriptive bibliographic & historical information be considered 'Reference Works' or should they be listed among 'Ephemera' as standard cataloging generally requires? And speaking of 'Ephemera', is my inclusion of such diverse items as puppets, postcards, postage stamps, and puzzles in that category simply because they all begin with a 'P' -- "Why not", the March Hare would say -- or simply stupid on my part? In the end, my subjective decisions are arbitrary and arguable. While they generally follow the patterns of earlier bibliographies, there are many differences. A brief overview, with details of the sequence of entries follows:

Set 1: Reference Works, Criticism, Annotations, Biography, Bibliography and Related Works

Ordered by date with several exceptions. Grouping by illustrator or publisher often interrupts the chronologic sequence. Also of note is my decision to include in this set books and writings contemporaneous with Dodgson which may have influenced his work. Works pertaining to his interests and acquaintances, as well as several books from his personal library are also included.

Set 2: Alice's Adventures Underground

Primary sort is by date.

Set 3: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Ordered first by publishing date, then with publishers' editions remaining together in chronologic sequence.

Set 4: The Nursery Alice

Entered in the same sequence as in Set 3.

Set 5: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland AND Through the Looking-Glass

Entered in the same sequence as Set 3, I have included editions in which 'Wonderland' & 'Looking-Glass' are published in a single binding, or those in separate bindings but housed together in a single slipcase or box. It is important to note I have NOT included here many editions apparently published as ‘sets’ but bound separately or each in their own slipcase.

Set 6: Through the Looking-Glass

Entered in the same sequence as Sets 3, 4, and 5.

Set 7: Carroll Works on Mathematics, Logic, Puzzles and Games

Primary sort is by date.

Set 8: Carroll Pamphlets, Diaries and Letters

Primary sort is by date.

Set 9: The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits

Primary sort is by date. Difficult decisions here for editions in an 'Alice' work includes 'Snark'. When this happens – or when 'Snark' is published with 'Sylvie & Bruno' - what’s a bibliographer to do?

Set 10: Sylvie and Bruno

Primary sort is by date.

Set 11: Other Carroll Works, Including Poetry, Excerpts, Collections & Pieces in Anthologies

Primary sort is by date.

Set 12: Renderings in Other Languages

Translations are recorded in alphabetic order by language, each subset in chronologic order. Included here are critical reference works on translation written in English, and excluded are East Asian translations.

Set 13: East Asian Works

Group as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean translations each subset generally in chronologic order. Includes 'back translations' of works originally in an Asian language. There is considerable overlap between this and other sets, as Comics, Multimedia, Ephemera, Art in an Asian language are included here.

Set 14: Parodies and Derivatives

Ordered by date. This set has true parodies of the 'Alice' books, as well as many with only the title or a few phrases related to Carroll's works.

Set 15: Alternative Formats

Entered by item type, then each subset by date.

Set 16: Art

Entered by item type, then each subset by date.

Set 17: Sound Recordings

Entered by item type, each subset by date.

Set 18: Movies and Multimedia

Entered by item type, then each subset by date.

Set 19: Performing Arts: Musical Scores, Theatrical Plays, Screenplays, Playbills and Theatrical Ephemera

Entered by item type, then each subset by date.

Set 20: Ephemera and Realia

Listed by item type, then each subset by date.

Set 21: Carroll Societies Publications

Primary sort is by date.

Set 22: Catalogs

Listed alphabetically by auction house or bookseller, then by date.

Set 23: USC Wonderland Award

Includes student entries for the annual University of Southern California Wonderland Award. Mostly from USC students, they are listed by item type, then by date.