The Daniels papers are completely lacking in material on the last sixteen years of his life, but the collection does include his notes for the Geological Survey of Wisconsin in the 1850s, correspondence concerning his varied activities in the Middle West and in Virginia, several of his speeches on behalf of the cooperative movement, sixteen diaries in the period from 1862 to 1894, and seven miscellaneous notebooks. Among his correspondents were Horace White, J. A. Noonan, Eleazer Root, S. V. Shipman, Jeremiah Rusk, T. O. Howe, Simeon Mills, Increase A. Lapham, James Hall, Byron Kilhourn, Silas Chapman, Lucius Fairchild, Edward H. Rogers, and Booker T. Washington.
Except for a few transcribed items, the collection is available both in original paper form and on microfilm.
