Fonds consists of correspondence; reports; speeches; newspaper clippings; drafts, manuscripts and proofs for Tolson's book The Captain, the Colonel, and Me; research notes for book; research on the history of Bedford, such as photocopied land grants, maps, and transcriptions of the 1871 census; four photographs of Bedford; and notes on the history of Tolson's house, the Scott Manor House, and Fort Sackville.