All correspondence with family members, personal friends, and fellow religious acquaintances, and correspondence concerning Schmitt's research activities. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent, with family correspondence filed first. Arranged chronologically within each folder.
Elder, William Henry (1819-1904). Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cincinnati; ordained priest (1846); appointed director of Ecclesiastical Seminary and professor of theology at Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland (1846); consecrated bishop of Natchez, Mississippi (1857); coadjutor to the Archbishop of Cincinnati (1880);