Many letters relate to Manassas Industrial School and the fire at Kowaliga School. Correspondents include Caroline Putnam, Jennie Dean, Booker T. Washington, Rebecca Taliaferro, Harriet Taylor Upton, Leslie Pinckney Hill, Lyman Ward, Alice L. White, Annie E. Merritt, Martha Schofield, William R. Carter, William H. Holtzclaw, Harriet May Mills, William E. Benson, Eliza Wright Osborne, Debbie B. Young, Rebecca Taliaferro, Henry D. Davidson, Clara Colby, A.W. Nicholson, A. Gertrude Flanders, Agnes Salmund, Emanuel M. McDuffie, Alfred H. Love, Charlotte Hancock, Katherine Munhall, Ella Crossett, Annie E. Merritt, Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, William J. Edwards, and Sallie Ely, among others.