Scope and content

Pamphlets, correspondence, and other papers relating to the law practice of Kingsley in Bath, Steuben County, New York; also, reports and bulletins of New York State bar associations, collection bureaus, and town governments. Collection includes material pertaining to Cornell University, especially relating to alumni activities, the Cornellian Council, and trustee matters.

Scope and content Papers of Henry Valentine Pratt (Cornell University Class of 1890) include a letter (1885) from W.A. Randall of Rochester, advising him to join a college fraternity, letters (1885) from L.H. Barnum, School Commissioner at Bloods, Steuben County, New York, advising him against fraternities and introducing him to Professor John Lewis Morris at Cornell, where Pratt had won a Regents scholarship, and an essay (1887) written for a social science class on the Willard Asylum and other state...