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Papers

Correspondence, articles, addresses, lectures, publications, diaries, clippings, indexes and other material from the personal and unofficial professional records of Oliver Otis Howard. Also includes images from a variety of sources. Howard corresponded with more than 14,000 people, including notables in the military, social reformation, politics and law, religion, education, literature and journalism, and the arts. Correspondents include: Henry Ward Beecher, Blanche K. Bruce, Andrew Carnegie, Salmon P. Chase, George Crook, Dorothea Dix, Frederick Douglass, James A. Garfield, William Lloyd Garrison, Ulysses S. Grant, Edward Everett Hale, Winfield S. Hancock, Rutherford B. Hayes, William Randolph Hearst, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, William McKinley, Montgomery C. Meigs, Nelson A. Miles, Dwight L. Moody, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Carl Schurz, Philip H. Sheridan, John Sherman, William T. Sherman, Daniel E. Sickles, Edwin M. Stanton, Charles Sumner, William H. Taft, Soujourner Truth and Booker T. Washington. His most voluminous correspondence (minimum of 110 letters received each) was with: Charles F. Eager of Lincoln Memorial University; Cyrus Kehr, speaking agent; John Hale Larry of Lincoln Memorial University; Henry F. McCoy of the San Francisco Y.M.C.A.; J.E. Rankin of Howard University; Wager Swayne of the Freedmen's Bureau in Alabama; and Eliphalet Whittlesey of the Board of Indian Commissioners.

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