Correspondence, memoranda, clippings, drafts, reprints, and miscellaneous public health data. Includes material on: Arkansas-Mississippi flood (1927), "A national plan for health services" (1934), "Greater Boston community survey" (1949), and "A five year plan ... in Connecticut" (1964). Also contains health data relating to other countries, especially China. Includes notes and printed matter pertaining to W. Frank Walker.

Contains primarily speeches and articles by Dr. Cornely concentrating on public health activities in 1960s and 1970s, portraits, some material on APHA, Howard University, and University of Michigan, and some correspondence.