Scope and content Business correspondence and personal papers of Gauntlett and others engaged in real estate and business in New York and New Jersey. Gauntlett real estate transactions pertaining to the McGraw family, Cornell University, and others in western lands, including letters, legal documents, blueprints, and account books from Michigan, Nebraska, South Dakota, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Letters, account books, and legal documents pertaining to the household, will, and the administration of the estate...

Scope and content Includes diaries (2 vols., 1853-63) kept jointly by Thomas J. McElheny and his wife Adelaide (Ada) Taber, concerning daily activities in Dryden, news of their cousins, the John McGraws, and other relatives and friends, travel within the state, church attendance, and containing many comments on political and social events. Also, correspondence between Thomas and Ada McElheny, their daughters, relatives, and friends (1851-88), a letter (1878) from Jennie McGraw (Fiske) to her cousin Thomas...