The Intercontinental Correspondence University was an educational institution founded in Washington, D.C., in 1904 by several nationally prominent figures including U.S. Senators Chauncey Depew of New York and George F. Hoar of Massachusetts, Chaplain of the United States Senate Edward Everett Hale, and Supreme Court Justice David J. Brewer, remaining active for the rest of the 1900s and into the 1910s. The institution was unable to turn a profit, and went into receivership in 1913, before ultimately being dissolved in 1915.

Chauncey Mitchell Depew was an American attorney, businessman, and Republican politician. He is best remembered for his two terms as United States Senator from New York and for his work for Cornelius Vanderbilt, as an attorney and as president of the New York Central Railroad System.