Includes deeds, and other legal documents; land contracts, tax receipts, correspondence, and land examiner's reports regarding Western lands owned by Cornell University, 1866-1920; legal documents and logging reports of the New York State College of Forestry; leases for campus houses, including the use of fraternity houses by the armed forces, 1943; manuscript "Narration on the Financial Beginnings of the University 1865-1897"; volume "Mortgage Foreclosure Accounts," 1893-1898; reports to the U.S. Department of Agriculture concerning the Agricultural Experiment Station, ca.1920-1928; copies of correspondence and documents pertaining to the purchase and use of land scrip by Ezra Cornell; estate settlement papers of both Ezra Cornell and Goldwin Smith; and other records of the Cornell Office of University Investments.