The Irene Haupt Photographs of Musicians in Buffalo contains images of composers and performers who have participated in new music events at the University at Buffalo ca. 1978-1999. Composers represented in the collection include Larry Austin, Milton Babbitt, Henry Brant, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, Jacob Druckman, David Felder, Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, Lukas Foss, Ernst Krenek, Otto Luening, Conlon Nancarrow, Pauline Oliveros, Bernard Rands, Steve Reich, Poul Ruders, Frederic Rzewski, Ralph Shapey, Leo Smit, Virgil Thomason, Nils Vigeland, and Charles Wuorinen. Notable performers include Ursula Oppens, Yvar Mikhashoff, Frances-Marie Uitti, Jan Williams, Diamanda Galas, Miles Anderson, Leroy Jenkins, Malcolm Goldstein, and Carol Plantamura.

The papers contain correspondence, much of it with University of Rochester classmates of Mr. Rogers, a diary from 1878 when he was a student at the University, financial and legal papers, class notebooks, and photographs.

The Isaac Howd Papers consist of one series: Personal Papers. In that series are three handwritten sermons that Howd preached during his career as a pastor. Also included is an 1863 published sermon titled, "God in Providence." There are family photographic reproductions created by Howd descendent, Judith Hill (Fielder) Harris in the 1980s. Harris also compiled genealogical information on her family and that is included.

The collection contains family letters, legal documents (personal, professional, and business), primarily written by residents of New York State and miscellany; photographs of nineteenth-century portraits from the album of Elizabeth Van Rensselaer; black and white photographs taken in the mid-1950s and 1960s of Van Rensselaer family member portraits and homes; newspapers with articles relating to the Van Rensselaer family.

Correrspondence, manuscripts, notes, memoranda, documents, photographs and printed materials. In addition to personal correspondence and documents, there are files of Amnesty International, the human rights organization of which Morris was American Section chairman. Also included are notes and manuscripts of Morris' studies in Japanese literature and culture, particularly relating to his many books and translations. His interest in puzzles, and compilations of several volumes of them, are reflected in notes and correspondence. Among the major correspondence are Donald Keene, Anthony Powell, Sacheverell Sitwell and Arthur Waley

Material on George Washington coins, medals, and tokens produced and gathered for sales and research projects.

A collection of letters, manuscripts, proofs, and drawings of English and American authors, including 33 letters from Alan Gabriel Barnsley (Gabriel Fielding) to Derek Stanford; a letter from James Boswell to George Colman the younger; a letter from Wilkie Collins; a letter from James Fenimore Cooper to William Buell Sprague; a letter from Dinah Maria Mulock Craik; letters from E.M. Forster; letters from Sarah Grand to James B. Pond; letters from T.B. Macauley; a letter from Hester Lynch Piozzi to James Robson; letters and cards from G.B. Shaw; letters from R.B. Sheridan to Thomas Grenville and to C. Ward, and a letter from Elizabeth Ann Linley Sheridan to R.B. Sheridan; a letter from William Wordsworth to F.W. Faber; a letter to Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Benjamin Disraeli; letters from Anthony Trollope written to Frederic Chapman, Mary Christie, J.T. Fields, Frederic Harrison, and others; letters from Ellen Terry and Rhoda Broughton, and postcards from Evelyn Waugh to Graham Ackroyd. The manuscripts include examples by Max Beerbohm, Arnold Bennett, Elizabeth Bowen, John Burroughs, Ivy Compton-Burnett, A.E. Coppard, Baron Corvo, Cecil Day Lewis, Ronald Firbank, E.M. Forster, George Gissing, Sarah Grand, A.P. Herbert, Rudyard Kipling, Edward Lear, Henry W. Longfellow, Amy Lowell, John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester, G.B. Shaw, Edith Sitwell, and Logan Pearsall Smith.

Letters from William Burroughs, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, and others concerning his poetry and translations and about their own lives. There are also a few poems and photographs.

The Cominsky Papers consist of letters, clippings, memorabilia, scrapbooks and albums, and photographs, which reflect the varied interests of Mr. Cominsky and the esteem with which his colleagues regarded him. Correspondents include George Eastman, Louis Wiley, Harry S. Truman, and persons associated with the Saturday Review and the field of publishing.

The correspondence, research, and teaching files of French-American cultural historian and Columbia University professor emeritus Jacques Barzun (1907-2012).