26 letters written by or to the Ide and Sanford families, and typescripts of the letters; genealogical chart including family names Jenks, Ide, Sanford, Mowry, Angell, Willard, Browning, Arnold, Aldrich, Douglas, Harris, Hunt, Man, Milleman, Oakes, Randall, Sprague, Steere, and Wilbur; and two pages from Ide family Bible.

Genealogies and cemetery lists of various New York State families, many located in Allegany County. Families include: Ackerman, Bloss, Beach, Costello, Covel, Dike, Hunt, Johnston, Kemp, Lewis, Niles, Rogers, Sawyer, Silvernail, Stephens, Stout, and Studer.

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, estate records and documents, financial records and account books, drawings, photographs, research notes, publishing correspondence, clippings, book reviews, and other papers of Violet Hunt, with particular reference to her family and social relations, her publishing career, and to her book The Wife of Rossetti. Includes genealogies and others records relating to the Hunt and Hueffer families, three diaries (1914, 1918, 1919), and an address book.