Scope and content Silk top hat given by Isaac Roberts to Liberty Hyde Bailey and then passed on to other Deans of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. Documentation includes ten letters relating to the "Dean's Hat"; correspondents include Liberty Hyde Bailey, Carl E. Ladd, Mary Roberts Coolidge, William I. Myers, C. E. Palm, W. Keith Kennedy, Beverly T. Galloway, I. P. Roberts, and Alfred R. Mann. Also, a scroll describing the tradition of the hat. Also a twig pen belonging to...