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Bassett appears to have been a prolific author, and a small portion of his drafts and essays are in this series. Topics range from public health or medical issues and treatment to personal essays and genealogical research on various figures in Georgia medical history.

A range of materials from across Bassett's professional life are held in this series. Subjects are arranged alphabetically and include professional organizations; medical topics; public health issues; medical history, including genealogy for Georgia physicians; and other miscellaneous topics. Bassett's files include both his collected and composed notes as well as printed materials and typescript excerpts from other publications.

This series includes unsorted, undated, untitled manuscript drafts that appear around the theme of "Granpa's Stories," written by Hoxie. There is also a small number of titled drafts on Seminoles, porcupines, and salamanders, as well as a published obituary for Hoxie.

Bassett's lecture notes, lab books, and other materials from his medical training at the University of Wisconsin, University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins University are held in this series. Some notes are bound by Bassett. Topics include infectious diseases, gynecology, obstetrics, bacteriology, and other medical subjects.

Almost half of the collection, Correspondence comprises both business and personal letters. Most of the content consists of Chaloner's communications with various attorneys in New York, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia that address his multiple legal battles. The letters discuss his efforts to regain possession of his estate, verdicts from psychologists concerning his mental condition, the circulation of his sonnets on European politics prior to 1914, and congratulations on his receiving a favorable verdict from the U. S. Supreme Court regarding his sanity. Also includes content on the fostering of motion pictures for rural areas. The series contains one nineteenth-century typed transcript of a letter from 1782 regarding the Revolutionary War in Virginia.