The Gallaudet Centennial Memorial Fund collection consists of letters; drafts of program books; drafts of inscriptions for the stone base of the statue; invoices; list of names of contributors; and treasurer’s reports. The collection, which consists of approximately 1,700 pages, dates from 1885 to 1891. The bulk of the collection consists of letters from agents of each union who was responsible for sending funds, including the list of names of contributors. The next bulk of the collection consists of a list of names of each union’s contributors in the United States and its territories. The bulk dates are mostly between 1886 and 1889, of which the fund were collected. The largest subject in the collection is focused on fundraising for the construction of Rev. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell’s statue. Included in the collection, there are the original address for the unveiling of the statue written by Edmund Booth. Also included is an original poem written by a deaf poet, Laura Searing. The most interesting letters in the collection are that a deaf sculptor wrote a critical letter to Amos G. Draper for not selecting a deaf sculptor. A few letters were written by notable persons such as Augustus Saint Gaudens, a prominent sculptor; John McAllister Schofield, a Civil War general; and Olive Logan, a well-known actress and writer, and lecturer.