Includes applications for admission to graduate study in the German Department, Cornell University, with related correspondence, resumes, photographs, and other records; similar records concerning applications and appointments to the German Department faculty; other department correspondence; class schedules; and vouchers, budget estimates, financial statements, and other financial records.

Twelve notebooks of courses taken at Cornell, including notes on German, Greek, history of philosophy, and American and English history taught by Professors Charles H. Hull, Henry Morse Stephens, Moses Coit Tyler, and others. Also, Class of 1897 photograph album, and miscellaneous papers of George Matthew Dutcher.

Collection contains course material, class notes, papers and talks by Peter and correspondence.

Book of grades and attendance kept by Simons, an instructor of German for the sections of Professor Horatio Stevens White, Thomas Hewett Waterman and James Owen Griffin, at Cornell University.