"Atlanta Exposition" correspondence
Scope and Contents
This series largely consists of Gilman's incoming letters. There are some drafts of outgoing letters. The majority of the letters relate to the Johns Hopkins University. Principal correspondnets include: Andrew Dickson White, Charles W. Eliot, Herbert Baxter Adams, Chrles S. Peirce, William K. Brooks, Ira Remsen, Sidney Lanier, Simon Newcomb, Richard T. Ely, Basil L. Gildersleeve, J.J. Sylvester, Henry Rowland, and Francis Lieber. Other correspondents represented by a lesser volume include a number of notables of the time including Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, Henry James, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Cullen Bryant, William Dean Howells, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Henry Adams, John Hay, William James, George Bancroft, John Dewey, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Huxley, Andrew Carnegie, Horace Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher, Helen Keller, and Louis Pasteur. Correspondence not included in this series are letters in Gilman's autograph collection. These are personal letters written to Gilman which he mounted in albums. When these letters were restored, they were assigned to Series 4. A list of these letters is in the container list for Series 4. Letters written by Gilman to his family can be found in Series 10, Series 13, and Series 14.
Dates
- Creation: 1842-1907
Creator
- From the Collection: Gilman, Daniel C. (Daniel Coit), 1831-1908 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is housed off-site and requires 48-hours' notice for retrieval. Please contact Special Collections for more information.
Collection is open for use.
Biographical / Historical
Gilman titled this file "Atlanta Exposition" in reference to the Atlanta Exposition Speech, an address on the topic of race relations given by Booker T. Washington on September 18, 1895. The speech laid the foundation for the Atlanta Compromise, an agreement that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic education and due process in law. Prominent black leaders such as W.E.B. DuBois publicly objected to the arguments put forth in the Altanta Compromise. Daniel Coit Gilman served as Chairman of the Cotton States and International Exposition, where Washington delivered the speech.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Exposition_Speech
Extent
From the Collection: 45.9 Cubic Feet (13 letter size document boxes, 73 legal size document boxes, 4 legal half-size document boxes, 1 flat box (20.5 x 14.5 x 1.5 inches), 2 flat boxes (15.5 x 12 x 3 inches), 2 flat boxes (11 x 9 x 3 inches), 2 flat boxes (21 x 17 x 3.5 inches), 2 flat boxes (21 x 17 x 3 inches), 10 pamphlet boxes (7.25 x 4 x 10 inches), 1 telescoping box)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
The Sheridan Libraries
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