The textual portion of the collection is arranged into a single alphabetical series of papers consisting of Awards and Ephemeral Material (one folder), Clippings (four folders), Correspondence (five folders), Genealogy, Travis Family (one folder), International Military Tribunal (fourteen folders and two large draft manuscripts), Military Entertainment (one folder), and Writings (eight folders).
The correspondence with Governor Chase Osborn and Judges Victor Swearingen and Walter Beals, both judges at Nuremberg, is the most extensive in the Correspondence files. Although the correspondence also includes letters from Woodrow Wilson, Douglas MacArthur, Frank Murphy, Henry Ford II, G. Mennen Williams, Charles Coburn, and other notables, there is little substantive information here.
The International Military Tribunal files are easily the most extensive portion of the collection. Though much of the material is available elsewhere, there are some important unique items. Included in the "Memoranda and Documents" folder are communications both to and from the Office of the Secretary General. "Notes" contains several pages of notes taken by Travis during the trial. "Personal Papers" includes a typewritten job description of the duties of an assistant secretary general.
Materials of interest to researchers of the Nuremberg trials are also found elsewhere in the collection. In addition to the correspondence with Judges Beals and Swearingen, there is limited correspondence with Lucius Clay, Telford Taylor, and Judge Harold Sebring. The Writings files includes two speeches by Travis about his observations at Nuremberg. There are also materials related to Nuremberg in the Clippings files.