Board of Estimate and Appointment of the City of New York, Report of Committee of the Whole, Building Zone Plan. New York, New York, 1916

Correspondence, books, articles, reports, legal briefs transcripts, and scrapbooks dealing with Bassett's tenure as a U.S. Congressman, 1902-1905, and his membership on committees and boards including the Public Service Commission of New York, the Brooklyn Committee on City Plan, the Zoning Committee of the City of New York, and the Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs Committee. Papers deal primarily with zoning and city planning in New York City. Also includes many articles, reports and books authored by Bassett, such as The Master Plan, Zoning, and the Autobiography of Edward M. Bassett. There are also extensive legal records concerning zoning laws, regulations, and questions throughout the United States. Among his numerous correspondents were Harland Bartholomew, Otto M. Eidlitz, Lawson Purdy, Nelson P. Lewis, George McAneny, John Purroy Mitchel, Lewis H. Pounds, Frederic B. Pratt, Lewis T. Reed, Charles W. Shelton, Walter Stabler, Alfred T. White, and Robert H. Whitten.