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...