This collection contains several items pertaining to Charles W. Sherrerd, who was a member of the RPI Class of 1903, including two of Sherrerd's laboratory notebooks, four newspaper accounts of his death by drowning, and two letters from Rensselaer's President, Palmer C. Ricketts. One letter, written to Reverend Roger Israel, discusses Sherrerd as a student and the specifics of the casket, and the other is a copy of a letter that Ricketts wrote to Sherrerd's father, expressing his sympathy over Sherrerd's passing.