This series contains Faith Chevaillier’s correspondence, typescripts of a few of her articles, her financial records and business records, including the documents for a gold mine in South America, her notebooks and travel documents, and files on the causes for which she was an active advocate, including prison reform and the institutionalization of the mentally impaired. The correspondence in this series includes her correspondence with Phillip Brooks in the 1880s, birthday and other greeting cards, and her correspondence about the case and trial of Charles J. Guiteau, who assassinated President James Garfield after being instructed by God to do so. Also included in this series are newspaper and periodical clippings by or about Chevaillier, ephemera, photographs and self-improvement literature to which Chevaillier subscribed.