Collection includes family photographs, personal and biographical materials including his Ph. D. Thesis, sporadic and limited correspondence, lecture notes, speeches, reprints, photocopies of unclassified correspondence and documents relating to the U. S. Atomic Energy commission Tolman Committee on Declassification. Also there is one box of materials relating to his wife, Ruth Tolman who was a psychologist. The collection covers a braod range of topics from his work in physical chemistry and mathematical physics.