1888-1903

Includes letters to, from and about Hyde, chiefly Hyde's own correspondence written during his years as president of the College and concerning College affairs. Also included are some personal letters with family and friends, correspondence discussing matters related to Hyde's publishing deals, and letters after his death concerning his portrait (which hangs in Hubbard Hall at Bowdoin College). Principal non-family correspondents are: Charles T. Burnett, Kenyon Cox, Lucien Howe, Frank Locke, George H. Palmer, and Henry Van Dyke. Also includes an "autograph album" containing letters to Hyde (primarily written between 1899 and 1904) that concern permission to publish, invitation acceptance or regrets, and appreciation of hospitality. Among the correspondents are notable academics, politicians, and distinguished persons such as Melville W. Fuller, Oliver Otis Howard, Elijah Kellogg, Donald Baxter MacMillan, Francis Peabody, Robert E. Peary, Kate Douglas Riggs (Kate Douglas Wiggin), Theodore Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington and Orville Wright. Letters that are glued into the album are in random order; the loose letters set in the album have been organized in alphabetical order by correspondent.