Pamphlets, circulars, announcements, and other printed items relating to Charles Kendall Adams at Cornell University, including the program for his inauguration as president of Cornell, November 19, 1885; correspondence with Dr. William T. Lusk and Austin Flint relating to a proposed merger with Bellevue Hospital Medical College; letter to William Henry Miller about the proposed library building, 1887; notebook containing Alonzo Cornell's invitation to Adams' reception in New York City and a alphabetical list of the invited guests; and cartoon about Adams' resignation, 1892. Correspondence and contract between Charles Kendall Adams and Dodd, Mead, Co. relating to his book Christopher Columbus, 1892, 1899; letter from John Read Meredith, 1896; and letter from Charles C. Soule, 1885.