The Rufus Ivory Cole Papers include at least 10 volumes of journals spanning 1861-1927. The bulk of those volumes were maintained by John B. Smith and Ivory S. Cole in the second-half of the nineteenth century. Those include a school notebook (10/3/1861-7/15/1865), a daybook with some accounts (11/20/1868-9/25/1871), four diaries with brief entries focused on household chores (1874, 1875, 1877, 1886), and a pair of daybooks from the early-twentieth century (1910 and 1913-14). There is also at least one appointment book belonging to Rufus Ivory Cole, a pioneer in clinical research. That volume records various notes pertaining to travels and meetings between 1910-1927. Finally, there is a memorandum book that includes sporadic notes from June and July of an unspecified year.