Pamphlets, manuscript speeches, circulars, newspaper clippings, and letters relating to the controversy over the establishment of a New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, including successive drafts of a speech that Bailey made to the Governors of the Cornell Club of Rochester.

Pamphlets produced by the New York State College of Forestry.

Correspondence to and from B.E. Fernow relating to the New York State College of Forestry, mainly fielding inquiries from prospective students concerning admission requirements, course offerings, and tuition expenses (1898-1903). Also, a few letters to or from Ralph S. Hosmer (1942), and an issue of the New York State Conservation Department's Conservation Bulletin focusing on the 75th anniversary of New York State's Forest Preserve (1960).