This is largely Gilman's incoming letters arranged alphabetically by correspondent. 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.

There is a card index to this series available on A-Level.

This series also includes 7 boxes of material that has not been sorted. Some is correspondence, most is not.

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 IV. A list of these letters is in the container list for Series IV.

Letters written by Gilman to his family can be found in Series X, Series XIII, and Series XIV.

Includes photographs of Gilman and his family as well as photographs of contemporary public figures .

This series needs processing. It contains letterpress volumes of outgoing letters and various groups of official Johns Hopkins University correspondence. Related material can be found in the Special Collections.

The autograph collection of Gilman correspondence is also part of this series. .

These are copies of nearly all the writings and speeches that Gilman published. Some were bound and titled "Connecticut Public Schools 1856-70," "University of California 1872-75," and "Various Speeches and Articles 1854-1905."

These include speeches and articles collected by Gilman. Some are bound and titled "Yale College Class Records," "Education: Public Schools," "Education: Industrial Schools," "Education: Universities and Colleges," "Religion," and "Biography."

This includes Gilman's diaries, appointment books, registers of personal letters sent, letters conferring honorary membership in various organizations, and some autobiographical writings. Also included are letters written by Daniel C. Gilman to his parents, brother and sisters. Most were written during 1854-55 while he was traveling in Europe and serving as attache to the legation in St. Petersburg.

These are the papers of Daniel C. Gilman's second wife Elisabeth Dwight Woolsey Gilman (1839-1910) whom he married in 1877. The papers include her correspondnece largely outgoing. There are letters to her parents and sisters written while she was traveling. Outgoing letters she wrote to her step-daughters Alice and Elisabeth are found with Alice's papers in Series XIII. Elisabeth's incoming letters for 1908 are condolences on the death of Daniel C. Gilman.

The series also includes Elisabeth's diary for the years 1873, 1877, and 1889-90.

Mary Van Winker Ketcham Gilman (1838-69) was Daniel C. Gilman's first wife. Her papers consist of letters (1860-6l) she wrote to Daniel, a memoir of her by Daniel, and an account book from her estate.

Alice (b. 1863) was the oldest daughter of Mary K. and Daniel C. Gilman. Her papers consist of incoming letters. There is a series of condolence letters (1925) written on the death of her husband Everett Wheeler. There is a series of letters (1869- 1907) written to Alice and her sister Elisabeth together from their parents. The third set of letters (1917-19) were written by Elisabeth Gilman while she was in France with the YWCA. These letters appear to have been returned to Elisabeth and are filed with Elisabeth's outgoing letters in Series XIV.

Elisabeth Gilman (1867-1950?) was the younger daughter of Mary K. and Daniel C. Gilman. She was a social activist and member of the Socialist Party. Her papers reflect her many public activities. The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings, diaries, newspaper clippings, printed material, memorabilia, and photographs.

From 1917 to 1919 Elisabeth served as a Secretary for the YMCA in Paris. This work is documented in her letters home to her sister Alice and her aunt. The letters apparently were returned to Elisabeth after she returned home and are filed with her papers. Elisabeth also wrote several articles about her war work which are included in the papers.

After returning home, Elisabeth became active in progressive later Socialist Party activities. There are letters, speeches, writings, and clippings about her work for the unemployed and especially her forays into politics as a candidate for governor, senator, and mayor of Baltimore on the Socialist Party ticket.

Elisabeth's personal life is less well-documented. There are a few childhood diaries and incoming letters from her parents. Since these letters (1869-l907) were written jointly to Elisabeth and her sister Alice, they have been filed together in Series XIII.