Materials from the Cornell Public Library collections later transferred to the Cornell University Library. Ezra Cornell papers include minutes of a citizens' meeting (February 5, 1863), at which Cornell's proposal for building the Cornell Public Library was considered, and letters to Cornell, 1863-1874, from William Hodgins, the library architect, and John Henry Selkreg, Francis Miles Finch, and others concerning the operation of the library; reciept on Barnaby and Mooers' plow stationary from Ezra for the sale of his bull (see also 1-1-1, 7-15-1841 letter); clipping regarding Ezra Cornell's purchase of Audubon's Birds of North America set for the library; program for the dedication of Cornell Library; ticket from the first Cornell University commencement; records of the Ithaca & Owego Railroad, 1834-1845, later the Cayuga Division of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, include a letter from William Ross Humphrey to his father, Charles Humphrey, discussing some of the problems that were faced in starting the railroad, correspondence, financial statements, vouchers, bonds, a Cayuga Lake ticket, and minutes of Board of Directors' meetings, including note from Beebe; land records include War of 1812, Black Hawk, and Seminole Wars bounty warrants, 1851-1864 and letters patent for lands in Illinois and Dakota Territory, 1818-1887; records concerning the Edward H. Rulloff murder trial and appeal, 1847-1860, include copies of indictments, briefs, notes on the selection of jurors, testimony, writs of error, New York State Supreme Court opinions, including discussion of corpus delicti, and letters from Rulloff to Douglass Boardman and Francis Miles Finch; the "Nautical Journal from River Plate [La Plata] to Pacific Ocean on Board Brig Laura of Salem" (ca. 150 pp.) contains a narrative of John Holman's voyage along the coast of South America, 1822-1824, and includes a sketch of the LAURA laying to off Cape Horn in a tremendous gale.

Also, cipher book of John Munson, ca. 1807; two letters from Lyman C. Draper to members of the Cantine family concerning their family history, 1878, and other Cantine items, 1822; thirty pencil drawings by Mary Hibbard; and miscellaneous manuscripts,and newspapers and printed items relating to Ithaca and Tompkins County.

One folder of material transferred later from the History Center, but believed to originally been at the Cornell Public Library including: 1824 cider mill accounts, and miscellaneous bills, checks, envelopes including 1867 from H. J. Comstock and 1869 envelope from Cornell University featuring a campus image, insurance policy for 116 South Fulton Street, A. M. Lucas Ithaca document, Frederick Beers of Danby receipts for New Yorker subscripton and maps, United States improvement Company of New York pamphlets, Submarginal Land Program document for Dryden. Program for the commencement excercises of the Ithaca Piano School of Music 1922 at the Woman's Community Building, printed by Atkinson Press, Ithaca.