Scope and content Included are letters from James O. Griffin and H. B. Hutchins pertaining to Hughes' appointment to the faculty of the Cornell Law School, 1891; his own letter, June 9, 1891 to Cornell President Charles Kendall Adams accepting the appointment; President Jacob Gould Schurman's letter, January 3, 1893, accepting Hughes' resignation; Schurman's letter, Nov. 9, 1916, commending Hughes on the ever of his defeat in the presidential elections of 1916; Schurman's letter, Feb. 14, 1930, congratulating...

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Consists mainly of routine letters, with one patent for 80 acres of land. Letters are signed by George M. Pullman, president of Pullman's Palace Car Company (May 4, 1877); Charles E. Hughes, Governor of New York (November 6, 1908); Representative Henry G. Danforth (39th District, New York), in Washington, D.C. (February 25, 1916); Governor Herbert H. Lehman (May 25, 1933); and Lewis E. Lawes, Warden of Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York (August 18, 1933).