Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Edward Miner Gallaudet Presidential Correspondence is a collection of letters written to Edward Miner Gallaudet during his term as president of what was formerly called the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and later Gallaudet College. It includes letters from students, faculty, families, businesses, and a variety of leading figures in the deaf community from this era. It also includes the original handwritten manuscript of Gallaudet's "History of the College for the Deaf...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Louis M. Balfour Papers consist of letters, clippings, certificates, diary, poems, receipts, greeting cards, postcards, notebooks, manual alphabet cards, research notes, and business cards. The collection, which consists of approximately 22,100 pages, dates from 1926 to 2003. The bulk of the collection consists of his research papers on the history of Deaf education, especially on the families of Bolling, Braidwood, Gallaudet, Cogswell, and Clerc. There are some copies of biographies of...