Title: Correspondence, 1847-1916
Accession / Call Number: 1926.006
Object ID: 1926.006.002.02
Date: 1847-1916
Physical Description: 35 boxes
Level of Description: Series
Scope and Content: The collection contains letters from other politicians about strategy or reciprocal agreements, colleagues informing him of the political situation in various parts of the country, local informants reporting political gossip in New Hampshire, and constituents asking for jobs, especially regarding appointments of postmasters. The letter books contain outgoing correspondence. Most of the correspondence files contain only incoming letters with occasional copies of Chandler's reply or shorthand notations. In the course of his work he corresponded with Presidents (James Garfield, Theodore Roosevelt); Governors, other Senators, and appointed officials (Robert Bass, Charles Busiel, George Fogg, Jacob Gallinger, Nathaniel Ordway, Edward Rollins, Bainbridge Wadleigh); newspaper and magazine publishers and reporters (Willa Cather, Horace Greeley, Whitelaw Reid, Henry Robinson, Ida Tarbell, Gordon Woodbury); intellectuals and businessmen (Charles Frances Adams, Austin Corbin, New Hampshire author Winston Churchill, Charles Dana, William Lloyd Garrison, Edward Everett Hale, Magnus Robinson, Amos Tuck, Edward Tuck, Booker T. Washington); and ordinary citizens.