Boxes 1 and 2 contain about 250 letters, dating from 1780 to 1910, with a concentration of letters between 1800 and 1830. The correspondence is mainly to and from Nathaniel Rochester, with some other family members represented. The papers contain a few letters from well-known national figures, including Henry Clay (two letters, along with material concerning Clay's burial in Box 3 folder 10), James Madison (one letter signed), Albert Gallatin (one document signed), and Alexander Hamilton (one document signed). Other important correspondents include Charles Carroll and William Fitzhugh, Rochester's partners in the 1803 Western New York land purchase. There are also retained copies of Rochester's own letters, written in his own hand along with correspondence from several of his sons, including William B. Rochester, who served as a Congressman. Also included are 17 letters Nathaniel Thrift Rochester wrote to his mother and sisters during a tour of Europe in 1832. Letters dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are to and from descendants of Rochester.

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents and printed materials documenting the career of Aaron Frankel. The correspondence is by Lynn Fontanne, Greer Garson, Lorne Greene, Alfred Lunt, Frederick Marshall, Robert Penn Warren and others. The manuscripts include l4 drafts of Frankel's "Writing the Broadway Musical" as well as manuscripts by Robert Penn Warren and Myron Galewski for two plays"Willie Stark: His Rise and Fall" and "Brother to Dragons". One of the documents is a collaboration agreement signed by Warren and Frankel. The printed materials include galleys of "Writing the Broadway Musical" and items relating to Frankel's productions of Warren's plays.

The Individual Manuscripts Collection ranges in date from the eighteenth through the twenty-first century and documents the actions of historical figures and events, principally from American History. Personages include Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charlotte Bronte, Robert Browning, Edmund Burke, Aaron Burr, Henry Clay, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Frances Folsom Cleveland, Grover Cleveland, DeWitt Clinton, Calvin Coolidge, David Crockett, Charles Darwin, Jefferson Davis, Henry Dearborn, Ferdinand Victor Eugeneène Delacroix, Albert Einstein, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner, Millard Fillmore, Gerald Ford, Benjamin Franklin, William Lloyd Garrison, George IV, Ulysses S. Grant, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Hardy, Benjamin Harrison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rutherford B. Hayes, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Hooker, Herbert Hoover, John Edgar Hoover, Samuel Houston, Julia Ward Howe, Charles Evans Hughes, Washington Irving, Andrew Jackson, Henry James, Mary Jemison, Andrew Johnson, John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Rudyard Kipling, Samuel Kirkland, Henry Knox, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Martin Luther, James Madison, John Marshall, Cotton Mather, Guy de Maupassant, William McKinley, James Monroe, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Horatio Nelson, Richard Nixon, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, John Rutledge, Margaret Sanger, the Seneca Nation, Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley, William Tecumseh Sherman, Upton Sinclair, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, William Howard Taft, Isaiah Townsend, Bess (Wallace) Truman, Sojourner Truth, Martin Van Buren, George Washington, Daniel Webster, Walt Whitman, William Wilberforce, Thornton Wilder, William Wordsworth, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Emile Zola.

This collection primarily contains architectural drawings, photographs, business records and reference materials related to the projects and designs of architectural and engineering firm Abbott, Merkt and Company. A subsidiary portion of the collection includes drawings, photographs and papers related to the life and career of Richard H. Tatlow, III, president of Abbott Merkt, as well as the firms and agencies for which he also worked.

The collection consists of 157 volumes of business books and three boxes of financial materials, correspondence, books, scrapbooks and diaries relating to the Bell Family and the Abraham Bell and Son Company.

For more than three decades, Abraham J. Bonowitz has worked to educate the public about human rights problems, in particular the death penalty and the need for alternatives to the death penalty. During this time he served in numerous director, consultant, managerial, and activist roles with leading advocacy and death penalty abolitionist organizations.

This large collection documents in great detail the architectural projects of Abraham Geller and his colleagues throughout the United States and abroad, spanning the 1940s through the 1990s. Types of projects represented include retirement homes, recreational facilities, medical centers, private residences and prototype dwellings for large residential developments, urban renewal projects, and offices.

Correspondence, manuscripts, research files, teaching materials, memoranda, etc.

Papers pertaining to the War of 1812.

The Adam Clark Works Papers contain correspondence from his family and friends. Also included are diaries belonging to Adam Clark Works, his first wife, Mrs. Elida I. (Van Sickle) Works, his second wife, Mrs. Ellen (Mihill) Works, his daughter, Ruth Elida Works, and his brother, George Washington William Works. The collection also contains memorabilia, photographs and a china figurine, "Three O'Clock in the Morning." The bulk of his papers are from the 1860's. The family correspondence includes letters from his mother, Mrs. Julia (Coolidge) Works Crouch, his brothers, George Washington William Works, Robert Miller Works, Obadiah Works, his halfbrothers, James Chesterfield Crouch, Benjamin F. Crouch, and his uncle, George Griswold, who raised him after his father, George W. Works, died in 1839. The collection includes courtship and marriage letters, from both wives of Adam Clark Works. His first wife, Elida, died in 1869 after a prolonged illness. Her letters are filled with descriptive detail concerning methods of medical treatment at the Castile Water Cure Sanatorium in 1868. Adam Clark Works' in-laws, Mary and Henry C. C. Van Sickel (or Van Sickle), referred to as "Ma" and "Pa," and the Rev. Norris and Mellissa (Lamson) Mihill (or Mihills) carried on an extensive correspondence with him. The sisters of his second wife, Ellen, Mrs. Emma (Mihill) Marsh and Mrs. Caroline (Mihill) Lengfeld also wrote often. Adam Clark Works' correspondence also includes letters from many friends. Several were from former students and teaching acquaintances. The Rev. Herbert Franklin Fisk, President of Genesee Wesleyan Seminary (1868-72) and Principal of the Preparatory School at Northwestern University wrote frequently. Another close friend that he corresponded with throughout his adult life was James M. Hodge, a professor of natural science at Fort Edward Collegiate Institute, Fort Edward, N.Y. and later a partner in Ogelsby and Hodge, Plumbers, Gas & Steam Fitters of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also corresponded with Joel Dorman Steele (1836-1886), author of several scientific and historical books. Of special interest are the letters from Robert H. Skinner, which give a detailed account of the Civil War from his enlistment in the 77th Regiment, N.Y. Volunteers, Company D, from November 7, 1861 until his release on March 12, 1863. Lt. Skinner's letters describe his company's march to Washington, the camp conditions, Army supplies, military engagements, medical treatment of the wounded, and the attitude of the men toward the war.