Records include routine college and interdepartmental administrative correspondence; correspondence pertaining to commercial forestry, government regulation of forest products industries, conservation, and professional forestry associations; also, correspondence pertaining to the formal exercises at the opening of the Forestry Building at the N.Y.S. College of Agriculture (1914).

Includes letters from Chinese engineering professors with references to their work and the effect of the war on China, letters complaining about the conduct of the students at the summer surveying camp, letters from Ora Miner Leland, one of Underwood's teachers, a signed "Expression of Esteem from the Faculty of the School of Engineering," and a history of the Cornell Summer Surveys.