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James Lawrence Fly papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, notes, reports, legal briefs and other documents, books, clippings, and other printed materials dealing with Fly's professional activities and relationships in all three phases of his career. Correspondents include Roger N. Baldwin, Felix Frankfurter, Cordell Hull, Elmer Rice, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry Truman.

With the exception of letters to John Dewey, George Rives, G. Stanley Hall and some original incoming correspondence, the papers of James McKeen Cattell consist of typescript copies of correspondence with Seth Low, Nicholas Murray Butler, and faculty members, dealing with Psychology Dept. matters, professional matters, and Cattell's battle for academic freedom which ended in his dismissal from and subsequent suit against Columbia. Included are typescript copies of University reports, printed court records, and transcripts of correspondence with Cattell's lawyers.

(The text has been published in Johannes Kepler Gesammelte Werke, volume 18, 1959)

Collection of 290 letters and documents (150 autograph letters signed, 140 documents and receipts), dated 1860s-1890s, written to and about New York financier and author John Austin Stevens and his son.

A collection of about 130 letters and 12 documents concerning the Toulouse Bibliotheq́ue Municipale Ms. 609 - Collection Doat register, 1245-1246. Included are letters from Merriam Sherwood Mantz to Prof. Austin P. Evans with carbons of his replies on her European research from 1933-1952 for his upcoming book on inquisitional registers, and some correspondence concerning the funding of this project by Columbia University.