Papers include Tompkins County Medical Society certificates of Dr. Chauncy P. Farlin, 1838 and 1840; indentures for land in Ludlowville, New York, diaries of Lucien A. Farlin, 1882-1883, and other manuscript and printed items of other family members; ledger sheets of Farlin & Reynolds, a grocery firm of Geneva, New York; and information on the Ithaca Lyceum Theatre compiled from newspapers.

Collection includes a Certificate of Incorporation, 1960; volumes of minutes; a scrapbook of newspaper clippings concerning the Society and its members; minutes of the Committee for Medical Preparedness, 1942-1945; printed items; membership lists; notes about medicine in Tompkins County, New York; eight page pamphlet of bylaws and list of officers, May 22, 1838; and other records of the Tompkins County Medical Society.