Autograph Collection correspondence, 1840 - 1899, 1900 - 1939

The second folder in the MAU autograph collection includes letters, some of which appear to be professional correspondence between Thomas Henry Atherton (Updegraff's father) and instutitions including the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute and the Bible Institute for Home and Foreign Missions, of the Chicago Evangelization Society. Names incldued are: John Gibson Paton (1824 – 1907); Cyrus Long Pershing (1825-1903); Francis L. Patton (1843-1932); James McCosh (1811-1894); Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934); Adrian H. Joline (1850-1912); Andrew Fleming West (1853-1943); Henry van Dyke ( 1852-1933); Horace Greeley (1811-1872; Office of the New York Tribune); Peter Prince of Greece and Denmark (1908-1980); George Washington Cable (1844-1925); Robert Jones Burdette (1844-1914); Elihu Vedder (1836-1923); Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899); Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910); George William Curtis (1824-1892); Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900); Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915); Jacob A. Riis (1849–1914).