Correspondence and financial and legal documents relating to efforts in 1878 and 1890-1891 to merge the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York with Columbia College. Correspondents include Cornelius Agnew, Morgan Dix, Hamilton Fish, Seth Low, James W. McLane, William Schermerhorn and others.

These approximately 30 documents are largely between the principle figures in the 1890-91 negotiations that led to the merger of the College of Physicians and Surgeons with Columbia College: James W. McLane, the President of P&S; Seth Low, the President of Columbia; William Schermerhorn, Hamilton Fish, Morgan Dix and Stephen Nash, all Columbia Trustees.

Also included is a publication, For the Use of the Trustees of Columbia College and of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, a 24 page compilation of correspondence between McLane and Low (including letters that do not appear in this collection) and financial documents. Other items include drafts of the provisional merger agreement and the New York State bill permitting the union.

This is not the complete record of the merger negotiations; additional correspondence can be found in the Central Files of the Office of the President, now in the University Archives.