Correspondence, draft memoirs, lists, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers relating to Bickerdyke's work as a Civil War nurse and agent for the United States Sanitary Commission, her activities on behalf of Civil War veterans in the years following the war, and family affairs. Includes papers relating to James H. Cook and the Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.). Family correspondents include Bickerdyke's sons, Hiram Bickerdyke and James Bickerdyke, and members of the Ball and Bickerdyke families. Correspondents include Lucien Baker, Richard Whiting Blue, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Walden Perkins, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lucy Stone.