Correspondence
The Correspondence series covers the period of 1865 to 1910, though it bulks largest for the period since 1880. This series is especially rich as it includes correspondence with faculty members at the University of Michigan, notably John Dewey, Henry Carter Adams, and President James B. Angell. Eliza Sunderland also corresponded with prominent figures in the Unitarian Church, individuals such as Augusta Chapin, Robert Collyer, Samuel A. Eliot, William C. Gannett, Edward Hale, and Jenkin Lloyd Jones. From her involvement with the Association for the Advancement of Women, Sunderland received a number of letters from Julia Ward Howe and other officers of the organization. At various times, she also corresponded with Caroline Bartlett Crane, Myra B. Jordan, Lucinda H. Stone, the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, the Michigan Equal Suffrage Association, and the Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs. Researchers interested in Sunderland's family concerns may also wish to view the Sunderland-Safford family papers which include Sunderland's letters to her daughter, Bertrude Safford-Sunderland.