While the archives holds the papers of individual university presidents from 1817, the records of the Office of the President begin in 1967 with the files of Robben Fleming. The files from the Office of the President are transferred to the archives periodically. Related President's Collections Angell, James Burrill, 1829-1916. Finding aid in the library. Visual and printed materials are cataloged separately.
Correspondence is indexed by name and by date.
After serving as professor of modern languages and literature at Brown, he was appointed president of the University of Vermont from which position he was appointed president of the University of Michigan. He took up his duties at a turbulent time but led the university into a long period of growth and educational gains. University Hall, the first large classroom building, was completed early in his term. His other contributions included support of coeducation, the selection of a rapidly expanding faculty, and his interest in developing a graduate school. He resigned when he was eighty years old, having served for thirty-eight years.