Correspondence, speeches and writings, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers relating to Terrell's interest in African American education and welfare, courts and schools in Washington, D.C., Republican politics, and the Washington Board of Trade, of which he was a member. Correspondents include Charles Anderson, Roscoe Conkling Bruce, James Sullivan Clarkson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Roger Lynch, William McKinley, Robert Mattingly, Charles Burleigh Purvis, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Emmett J. Scott, William Howard Taft, Booker T. Washington, and Woodrow Wilson.