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.

Letters (1942-1946) of University of Rochester servicemen to Chuck Dalton, who edited the News Letter to University of Rochester Men in the Service .

Primarily a collection of correspondence, business papers, diaries, journals, essays, etc., of Horatio Gates Warner (1801-1876) and his immediate family.

The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, speeches, and clippings from Wilson's participation in numerous business and community organizations. The bulk of the collection is dated 1959-1971, a period of growth for Xerox as well as the city and University of Rochester.

The collection consists of correspondence to Mrs. Gale from various members of the Bowen and Gale families. There are also many letters from alumni and faculty members of the University of Rochester at the time of the Gale's marriage. Also included in the papers is material on the settlement of the will of Adelaide M. Bowen, mother of Katharine Bowen Gale.

The collection includes materials in four broad categories: scrapbooks, cor­respondence, photographs and autobiographical materials. The scrapbooks kept by Mrs. Laney, Esther Laney, and Augusta (Laney) Hoeing have a definite, if limited, historical interest. In her scrapbooks dating from 1872 to 1894, Mrs. Laney saved items relating to the deaths and marriages in the Laney and Walbridge families. She also collected obituaries of friends and Rochester notables, as well as items relating to the Rochester park system. All three women collected poems and hu­morous short stories cut out of newspapers and magazines. The two younger women's scrapbooks, dating from 1894 to 1917, also contain reviews of local recitals and theater performances along with newspaper clippings about national events and a few personal keepsakes.

Correspondence, publicity, etc. for a 39-week radio series, "Let's Learn Spanish," which was prepared by Time Inc. and sponsored by the University of Rochester over WHAM radio in 1944 and 1945.

Miscellaneous correspondence, drafts of press releases, etc. relating to the University of Rochester.

Applications for admissions to "graduate courses and related correspondence. Also corresondence (1891-1893) from alumni applying for their "A.M. in course" degrees.