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The Biographical/Personal, contains biographical information, including lists of published works, committee appointments, biographical sketches, tributes, and correspondence. Also included in this section are materials relating to Edmonson's hobby, railroads. A photograph folder contains a small amount of pictures of Edmonson and his colleagues, mostly from the 1950s.

Edmonson's work with the University of Michigan Presbyterian Corporation is also well documented in Series One. The Corporation succeeded the Tappan Hall Presbyterian Association and represents the first work among Presbyterian college students in a state university. It is affiliated with the Ann Arbor Presbyterian Church. These folders include minutes from the Committee on Student Work, bylaws, Presbyterian Corporation Board of Trustees meeting minutes, and budget information. Although listed with this series, the family scrapbook is shelved as an oversized volume, separate from the collection. It contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, images of Edmonson as a young man, and other items "to revive pleasant memories."

The Topical files series consists mainly of the writings of Edmonson on various issues in education, both secondary and college, and also includes correspondence, papers and essays, reports, minutes, and some published material by Edmonson. Some especially significant files include "Intercollegiate Athletics," under which can be found information on the increasing role of sports in colleges and the subsequent educational debate. "Intercollegiate Athletics" also contains a file on the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools pertaining to sports in colleges during the 1950s. A significant amount of information can be found on the "Canada-United States Committee on Education" which was formed to study the quality and quantity of information taught by each country about their neighbor. The "Fraudulent Schools" files contain correspondence and articles on the "diploma mills" of the 1950s, and the efforts to expose them. There are also folders on various aspects of secondary and college teaching and issues relating to public schools.