Papers include syllabi; law school curricula; lecture notes; student papers; exams; notes and printed material concerning trusts, torts, bankruptcy, and other legal issues; a broadside entitled "The Law Tree"; and other papers relating to Wilson's career as a law professor.

Primarily legal papers pertaining to various cases over which Judge Horton presided while Justice of the New York State Supreme Court, 6th Judicial District or as a private attorney; also, correspondence and papers (1917-1919) relating to the Ithaca Calendar Clock Company, of which Horton was a trustee, mainly in connection with its going into receivership and with its dissolution.