Letters to Hewett, and reports, notes, and drafts of articles by him, including many letters from Andrew Dickson White, and regular reports by Hewett to Cornell President Jacob Gould Schurman on the activities of the German Department. Correspondents besides White and Schurman include Charles S. Francis, Hiram Corson, and William Elliot Griffis.

Papers of Waterman Thomas Hewett, a professor of German language and literature at Cornell University.