Presidential Papers - The Edward Miner Gallaudet Presidential Correspondence, 1857-1911
Edward Miner Gallaudet (EMG), the son of famed advocate for deaf education Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, was born in 1837. In 1856, when EMG was just shy of 20 years old, Amos Kendall, former Postmaster General of the United States, made him an offer he couldn't refuse: establish a school for deaf children on the grounds of Kendall's estate in the District of Columbia.
The newly-founded Columbia Institution grew quickly; in 1864, a sustained lobbying campaign won the Institution the right to award collegiate degrees, and it became the National Deaf-Mute College.
EMG's tenure lasted more than 50 years; he retired from the superintendency in 1910. This collection contains the entirety the correspondence he received during this period.
The majority of the correspondence consists of communications from parents, other educators of the deaf, and other interested individuals.
Please refer to the index (the first listed file in this collection) to locate individuals by name, and note the box and folder numbers in which those names appear. After that, the collection is organized chronologically by box number.
Browse the Presidential Papers - The Edward Miner Gallaudet Presidential Correspondence, 1857-1911 Collections:
An Index of the Edward Miner Gallaudet Presidential Correspondence
Box 1 Correspondence - Incoming: June 1857 to May 1861
Box 2 Correspondence - Incoming: May 1861 to December 1863
Box 3 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1864 to December 1864
Box 4 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1864 to December 1865
Box 5 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1866 to October 1866
Box 5a Correspondence - Incoming: October 1866 – April 1867
Box 6 Correspondence - Incoming: April 1867 to February 1868
Box 6a Correspondence - Incoming: March 1868 – December 1868
Box 7 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1869 to January 1871
Box 8 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1871 to May 1872
Box 9 Correspondence - Incoming: July 1872 – April 1876
Box 9a Correspondence - Incoming: May 1876 – December 1876
Box 10 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1877 – August 1878
Box 11 Correspondence - Incoming: September 1878 – April 1879
Box 12 Correspondence - Incoming: May 1879 – December 1879
Box 12a Correspondence - Incoming: December 1879 – March 1880
Box 13 Correspondence - Incoming: March 1880 – December 1880
Box 13a Correspondence - Incoming: January 1881 – September 1881
Box 14 Correspondence - Incoming: September 1881 – August 1882
Box 15 Correspondence - Incoming: July 1882 – September 1883
Box 15a Correspondence - Incoming: September 1883 – December 1883
Box 16 Correspondence - Incoming: December 1883 – June 1884
Box 17 Correspondence - Incoming: 1884 – 1886 A – Y
Box 18 Correspondence - Incoming: 1887 – 1888 A – Y
Box 18a Correspondence - Incoming: 1889 A – Z, 1890 A – J
Box 18b Correspondence - Incoming: 1890 K – W
Box 19 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1891 – December 1891 A – O
Box 19a Correspondence - Incoming: January 1891 – December 1891 P – Y
Box 20 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1892 – December 1892 A – R
Box 20a Correspondence - Incoming: January 1892 – December 1892 S – Z
Box 21 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1893 – December 1893 A – L
Box 22 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1893 – December 1893 M – Z
Box 23 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1894 – December 1894 A – L
Box 23a Correspondence - Incoming: January 1894 – December 1894 M – Z
Box 24 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1895 – June 1895 A – Z
Box 25 Correspondence - Incoming: July 1895 – December 1895 A – Z
Box 26 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1896 – June 1896 A – P
Box 26a Correspondence - Incoming: January 1896 – June 1896 R – Z
Box 27 Correspondence - Incoming: July 1896 – December 1896 A – Z
Box 28 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1897 – June 1897 A – S
Box 28a Correspondence - Incoming: January 1897 – June 1897 T – Z
Box 29 Correspondence - Incoming: July 1897 – December 1897 A – Q
Box 29a Correspondence - Incoming: July 1897 – December 1897 R – Z
Box 30 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1898 – June 1898 A – R
Box 30a Correspondence - Incoming: January 1898 – June 1898 S – Z
Box 31 Correspondence - Incoming: July 1898 – December 1898 A – Z
Box 32 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1899 – June 1899 A – Z
Box 33 Correspondence - Incoming: July 1899 – December 1899 A – Z
Box 34 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1900 – June 1900 A – Q
Box 34a Correspondence - Incoming: January 1900 – June 1900 R – Z
Box 35 Correspondence - Incoming: July 1900 – December 1900 A – Q
Box 35a Correspondence - Incoming: July 1900 – December 1900 R – Z
Box 36 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1901 – June 1901 A – Z
Box 37 Correspondence - Incoming: July 1901 – December 1901 A – R
Box 37a Correspondence - Incoming: July 1901 – December 1901 S – Z
Box 38 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1902 – June 1902 A – Q
Box 38a Correspondence - Incoming: January 1902 – June 1902 R – Z
Box 39 Correspondence - Incoming: July 1902 – December 1902 A – Q
Box 39a Correspondence - Incoming: July 1902 – December 1902 R – Z
Box 40 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1903 – June 1903 A – Z
Box 41 Correspondence - Incoming: July 1903 – December 1903 A – Z
Box 42 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1904 – June 1904 A – Z
Box 43 Correspondence - Incoming: July 1904 – December 1904 A – Z
Box 44 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1905 – December 1905 A – J
Box 44a Correspondence - Incoming: January 1905 – December 1905 K – Z
Box 45 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1906 – June 1906 A – Z
Box 46 Correspondence - Incoming: July 1906 – December 1906 A – Z
Box 47 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1907 – June 1907 A – Z
Box 48 Correspondence - Incoming: July 1907 – December 1907 A – Z
Box 49 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1908 – June 1908 A – Z
Box 50 Correspondence - Incoming: July 1908 – December 1908 A – Z
Box 51 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1909 – June 1909 A – Z
Box 52 Correspondence - Incoming: July 1909 – December 1909 A – Z
Box 53 Correspondence - Incoming: January 1910 – December 1910 A – Z
Box 54 General Correspondence: 1886 – 1899
Box 55 Admission Letters: Aug 1881 – 1887
Box 56 Admission Letters 1887 - 1890
Box 57 Applications Letters to College: 1890 – 1907
Box 58 Entrance Examinations – Grammar A – Z: 1900
Box 59 Entrance Examinations – U. S. History A – Z: June 1900
Box 60 General Files A – L: 1861 – 1908
Box 61 General Files L – W: 1843 – 1908
