These papers include correspondence, letterbook, published writings, miscellany, and memoria.

Physician John Wakefield Francis (1789-1861) cofounded the New York Academy of Medicine. He served as the second president of the Academy, taught at Bellevue Hospital, wrote medical texts, and edited professional journals. Collection consists of correspondence, financial papers, writings, by-laws and minutes, and related papers of Francis and others. Correspondence of others include letters to Francis's associates and family members. Financial documents, 1798-1851, are accounts, receipts, receipt books, checks, and collection notices. Writings are speeches, lectures and notes of Francis and others. Also, minutes and by-laws, 1807-1810, of the Medical and Surgical Society of the University of New York State; and printed material.

This journal of Post's, who was in the company of Teedyuscung, John Hays, Isaac Still, and Moses Tattamy, relates to the Indian conference held near the Ohio River. Copy in clerk's hand. Concerning message carried to Mingoes and other Ohio Indians. Includes description of conjuring ceremony.

There are two essays, one on the trees of North America, the other on a project of a nursery of foreign trees and plants in the vicinity of Bayonne; with accompanying letters.

A rough miscellany of antiquities in North and South America as well as Europe and Asia, taken from published sources and personal observation. Contains a classification of antiquities, and descriptions of ancient monuments of Europe. Includes the author's "Ancient Geography..." manuscript.

These documents include letters, reports, lists of plants and trees, and official documents, many that are addressed to the Comte d'Angiviller, concerning Michaux' visit to America to collect specimens for a nursery.

These are records of the United States Exploring Expedition under the command of Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, and include letters, journals, ship's logs, and records of court martials.

Included in these papers are letters, memoranda, computations, and tables.

These papers include correspondence, resolutions of the Board of Trade (1694), minutes of the Board of Trade (1694), laws passed by the General Assembly (1700-1702), and laws established by James, Duke of York, for New Jersey (1667).

These papers include diplomas, testimonials, and letters from Benjamin Rush.

There are letters to and from Thaddeus W. Harris, Frederick E. Melsheimer, Levi W. Leonard, Henry McMurtrie, and Margaretta Hall Morris, on topics in natural history.

These letters concern the province's militia and the French and Indian War.

These papers include 140 pages of letters, council minutes of Indian conferences, petitions, and speeches, concerning the activities of the New York Assembly and the Six Nations, principally for 1745-1747. Also contains a 200-page addendum of papers of the Van Shack family, pertaining to the same subjects. Table of contents included.

These papers include correspondence and reports of proceedings concerning Indian affairs. Miscellaneous materials, mostly 1778-1791, of Timothy Pickering, Henry Knox, William Hardenburgh, John Taylor and others. Includes 94 pages, account of meeting with the Indians at Fort Stanwix, New York, June 1, 1790, and 47 pages of miscellaneous material.

Selections from 31 volumes from the Massachusetts State Archives, these materials include letters and papers from the official records of provincial Massachusetts. Many relate to the Six Nations in New York, and to French activity and influence among the Indians. Contains references to the treaties at Albany with the Six Nations, the western boundary of Massachusetts, the Stockbridge removal, and the sack of Deerfield by Caughnawaga Mohawks.

Journal covers agency affairs at Tookaubatchee, January 23-July 1, 1802. Includes meetings with Creek Indians; treaty negotiations at Fort Wilkinson; relevant correspondence.

This memoir includes sections on East Florida's boundaries, physical characteristics, navigation, Indian customs, Spanish settlements, Negroes, agricultural products, and climate. Also included are itineraries for East and West Florida.

The papers, from originals in the Archives of Foreign Ministry, U.S.S.R., contain mostly correspondence, with a few printed statements and articles.