Scope and content Correspondence, including acceptances and regrets pertaining to Day's inauguration as Cornell's president; fourteen volumes of appointment books, 1937-1940; speeches and handwritten notes for speeches; printed material; honorary degrees; accounts; 1909-1910; Mrs. Emily Day's household accounts, 1912-1913, 1921-1922; photographs of the Day family; photographs of Edmund Ezra Day, Cornell University faculty members, and others, 1937-1950; and a Dartmouth College philosophy thesis and...

Scope and content Includes board, term, livery, tailor, and other bills rendered to N.T. Sheafe during his years at Dartmouth (1831-35); a series of essays and speeches (1833-37) by Sheafe on subjects as "The Habits of Mind Cultivated by the Study of History," and "The American Revolutionary Eloquence"; a series of letters (1837) from Margarette Sheafe to her brother Nathaniel commenting on the faculty, the curriculum, examinations, and the social life at Canandaigua Academy, Ontario County, New York; papers...