Personal/biographical materials is a small series of collected biographical information about Copeland and the Copeland family. Within this series has been placed the scattering of papers of Copeland forebears. There are two letters of Will Holmes to Francis Holmes Copeland written while serving in the Civil War. The letters are dated 1862 and 1864.
37 linear feet — 45 oversize volumes — 1 oversize folder — 33 digital audiovisual files
The Royal Copeland collection, consisting primarily of correspondence, speeches and writings, scrapbooks, and articles, relates primarily to Copeland's medical career as professor of homeopathic medicine at the University of Michigan, dean of the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital, and New York City Commissioner of Public Health, and as United States Senator.
19 linear feet
The Copeland Correspondence series is voluminous, dating from 1892 to 1938. The bulk of this correspondence, however, is 1907 to 1934. Much of the correspondence concerns his career in medicine and medical administration. Included is correspondence with patients, with physicians, and with other medical administrators. There is also social and personal correspondence. A lesser amount of these files pertains to political or legislative activities.