The Awards, Certificates, and Scrapbooks Series consists of memorabilia and ephemera collected by Edge during his career. A bulk of the awards and certificates are honorary degrees that were bestowed upon Edge. Certificates of Election and accolades from the Republican Party are also included here. The bulk of the Scrapbooks focus on Edge's marriage to Camilla Sewall and his second term as Governor of New Jersey. Many of the scrapbooks were compiled by a clippings service.

Series 1: Correspondence, 1948-1959, arranged alphabetically by correspondent, contains letters, notes and memoranda. The following sets of letters are found together outside the general alphabetical folders: congratulatory letters on Hughes's appointment as the administrative assistant to President Eisenhower, letters from the Princeton Class of 1941, and correspondence with Eisenhower. Correspondence and memoranda directly related to various speeches are found in Series 2.

Series 3: General, 1940-1962, arranged alphabetically by topic, contains articles and dispatches written by Hughes for Time-Life, Inc., notes and book reviews related to his monographs, newspaper clippings on Hughes, and schedules, calendar pages and diary notes related to the Eisenhower administration. Photos found at the end of this series include those for Report from Spain, official Navy photos from the trip on the U.S.S. Helena to Korea with Eisenhower, and a set of general photos kept by Hughes.

This series is primarily composed of drafts, research files, and other materials pertaining to Hughes's published and unpublished works. To a lesser extent, it documents Hughes's work as a political advisor and speechwriter for Governor Nelson Rockefeller's 1968 presidential bid.