1831/11/18

Bushnell, C., fl. 1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Livingston re: witness for a trial

C. Bushnell advises Mrs. Livingston that a certain Mr. Smails is a crucial witness to the defense in a present trial, and urges her to ensure his appearance at the trial. Docketed on verso.

GLC03107.04562

1831/12/02

Bushnell & Gaul

Letter

Title: to Mrs. Livingston re: court proceedings

Bushnell and Gaul inform Mrs. Livingston of the recent events in a certain court case, and also emphasize the importance of a specific note as a key piece of evidence. Docketed on recto.

GLC03107.04563

1791/01/21

DeLameter, Cornelius, fl. 1790-1791

Autograph document signed

Title: Receipt of wheat from Cristobhel Kaughatom for rent due Walter, Robert, John, and Henry Livingston

GLC03107.04601

6 May 1785

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Wilson

Encloses Catharine Macaulay's proposals regarding a subscription for her history (possibly referring to her book, A History of England from the Accession of James I to the Elevation of the House of Hanover). Writes, "If you could induce any Gentleman to take this matter under his immediate patronage and make personal applications, more subscribers might be obtained than in any other way. By pursuing this method I obtained three hundred subscribers in one day."

GLC02437.03140

10 March 1797

Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824

Autograph letter

Title: to [Life ?] Wilson

Asks Wilson to purchase several building items, such as boards, and gives other directions as well.

GLC02437.06928

26 Febraury 1787

Wilson, Mary Ann, fl. 1787

Manuscript document

Title: [Receipt]

Received three months wages from Lucy Knox.

GLC02437.08600

26 November 1768

Flucker, Thomas, 1719-1783

Document

Title: [Bill of sale to David Winch]

Partially printed. Agreement between the heirs of Brigadier General Samuel Waldo and David Winch, in which Winch purchases a tract of land from the heirs. Signed by Samuel Waldo, Francis Waldo, Isaac Winslow, Thomas Flucker and Hannah Flucker. Indicates that Isaac Winslow and Thomas Flucker are acting as attorneys and signed the names of some of the heirs. Also signed by John Dennie and one other party whose signature is illegible. Extensive notes in an unknown hand on verso.

GLC02437.09055

10 February 1788

Winslow, Isaac, 1736-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Writes that he and his cousin (likely Isaac Winslow, Sr.) have read Knox's notes regarding the Waldo patent and discussed the claims of Mrs. [possibly Sarah] Waldo (wife of the late Samuel Waldo, Jr.). Provides several notes on the subject, as well as a lengthy quotation from a 1758 letter by Samuel Waldo.

GLC02437.09173

22 April 1852

Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

Document signed

Title: [Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of Johanna Foley, alias Johanna O'Conne, convicted of bigamy].

GLC06048

26 April 1853

Darbee, L. & Son, fl. 1853

Newspaper

Title: Williamsburgh Daily Gazette [Vol. 18, no. 290, whole no. 1675 (April 26, 1853)]

Includes preview of a work soon to be published called "The Narrative of Solomon Northrop, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped and Sold into Slavery in Washington City, in 1844, and Rescued in 1853 from a cotton plantation, near the Red River, in Louisiana." Also shows an image of women running a printing press on the last page. Other local news, ads, and announcements.

GLC06069.01

1879

Pamphlet

Pamphlet

Title: Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report to accompany bill S. Res. 12.

Committee rejection of a proposed amendment that would have granted women the right to vote, issued as Senate Report No. 523 (45th Congress, 3rd Session). Collateral with this is the minority report in support of the proposed amendment, with title that reads "Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following as the views of the minority (to accompany the foregoing report)."

GLC06081

1882/06/01

Guiteau, Charles, 1841-1882

Book signed

Title: The Truth and Removal [assassination of Garfield]

Signed only weeks before he was hanged for the assassination of President Garfield. The title refers to the "removal" of Garfield from the presidency as part of a cosmic belief system which Guiteau explains in his book. Inscribed to Miss Maggie Mitchell.

GLC06095

6 November 1861

Snowden, E., Jr., fl. 1861-1862

Newspaper

Title: The local news. [no volume or number information (November 6, 1861)]

Union occupation newspaper. Also published by W.F. Carne (fl. 1861-1862). Short item says the body of "the negro lad Sam," who had drowned in Hunting Creek during a previous storm, had been found. Report on the popularity of "Foot-ball" -- says it is played everywhere by both boys and men but "We suggest, however, that the game be discarded in all the business streets - so that passers-by - especially ladies, be not incommoded by dashing balls and gangs of lads running at full tilt." Quick line says General Winfield Scott is leaving for Europe. News items from the South, including remarks on…

GLC06107.02

29 June 1864

Joy, George, fl. 1785-1795

Newspaper

Title: North Carolina times. [Vol. 1, no. 47 (June 29, 1864)]

Union-occupation newspaper. Masthead motto reads "Liberty and Union - Now and Forever - One and Inseparable." Front page prints recently passed U.S. laws, including acts to provide trials for minor offences and to incorporate homes for women and children. Editorial titled "The Doomed City" describes events in Virginia and details the state's transgressions, including its endorsement of the massacre of colored troops at Fort Pillow. Describes the late reconnaissance toward Kinston. "Affairs About Petersburg." Interesting reminiscence about George Washington's last vote. Ink manuscript notes…

GLC06107.14

23 January 1864

White, Edward B., fl. 1863-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Offers reflections on his earlier prediction for the Confederacy. Writes in part: "my doctrine before the commencement of it [i.e., the war] was that secession would be followed by the bloodiest strife recorded in the page of modern history and lay the foundation stone for the abolition of slavery; but all such talk as this was, at that time, looked upon as proceeding from the imagination of a lunatic, and treated accordingly. There must be a tremendous reconning to settle up for the misery inflicted on the innocent thousands of young boys, who never had a voice in the affairs of government…

GLC06053.02

1885-1903

Header Record

Title: Why women do not want the vote.

Two-volume bound compilation of 94 different anti-suffrage pamphlets and leaflets. Most issued by Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. Most leaflets run between 6-10 pages. Spine title on both volumes: "Why Women do not Want the Ballot." 8vo. Average no. of pages, about 6 to 10. One of the volumes has a separate leaf of contents. Both volumes. uniformly bound in buckram, with leather labels: "Why Women Do Not Want the Ballot". Includes "Aims of Massachusetts Association"; "Preamble and Protest of New York", "Protest of Illinois Assn."; "Woman'…

GLC06064

circa 1920

Callaway, James, fl. 1920

Broadside

Title: [Character of Robert E. Lee defamed by Susan B. Anthony...].

A response to Anthony's accusation in her History of Woman Suffrage that Robert E. Lee banished his youngest daughter, Annie Carter Lee (1839-1862) during the Civil War because of her Unionist sentiments. The author explains that Lee protected his daughter by sending her away and did not bring her body home for burial as a tribute to the people who took care of her.

GLC06073

10 May 1877 circa

Ladies Memorial Association of Charleston, South Carolina, 1865-1880

Broadside

Title: Memorial Day, May 10th, 1877, at Magnolia Cemetery, under the auspices of the Ladies Memorial Association, Charleston, South Carolina

Contains an announcement for a prayer and memorial ode delivered by Reverend W. H. Campbell. Includes odes by Grace Raymond and Reverend Charles Stuart Vedder. Announces the decoration of graves to be completed by ladies of the Association. The precise print date of this document is not included.

GLC06080

14 April 1869

Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904

Pamphlet

Title: Women's right and the public welfare.

Title continues: "Remarks of Hon. George F. Hoar before a Joint Special Committee of the Massachusetts legislature, April 14, 1869." "I have failed to think of a single reason which I can give why you or I should have the right of suffrage which does not include women." Woman's suffrage tracts, No. 6.

GLC06082

1843

Eldridge, Elleanor, 1785-?

Book

Title: Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge.

Printed by B. T. Albro. Compiled by Francis Harriet Whipple Green McDougall (born Francis Harriet Whipple), an abolitionist and author. Eldridge was a black female slave and servant, who saved money from her labors, establishing herself as a respected entrepreneur. Contains a woodcut portrait of Eldridge opposite title page.

GLC06083

1830

Andrews, Charles C., fl. 1830

Book

Title: The history of the New-York African free-school, from their establishment in 1787, to the present time; embracing a period of more than forty years: also a brief account of the succesful labors of the New-York Manumission Society

Written by Andrews as the principal of the African Free School. Printed by Mahlon Day at 376 Pearl Street in New York. First edition copy. Includes engraving of the school building, from a drawing by a student, opposite the title page. Provides a history of the institution and how the manumission society attempted to provide for the future of free blacks. Andrews is overflowing with praise for the activities of the school, its students, and the famous political leaders who were members of the manumission society. Page 123 provides a list of the school's top five students: Peter Williams the…

GLC06084

14 July 1863

Newspaper

Title: Port Hudson freeman. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 14, 1863)]

Reports on the Surrender of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. Printed by Union troops the day Port Hudson was captured. States that Mrs. Vallandinham had gone insane but her "nervous system was severely shocked." Also includes a very moving report from a hospital. Brown necessity paper.

GLC06107.17

14 May 1865

Wilson, James Harrison, 1837-1925

Broadside

Title: [Extract from Transcript Extra]

Headlined "Jeff. Davis, His Staff, Family & Others, Captured!" Written by Brevet Major General James H. Wilson for Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Says calvary under his command captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Says they will be kept in Macon for the night and then forwarded under a strong guard. Accompanied by two cartes de visite depicting Davis wearing woman's clothes. One is titled "The Last Ditch" (10.4 x 6 cm.) and depicts Davis lunging at a cavalryman with a knife. The other is titled "A Distinguished Arrival," (10.1 x 6.2…

GLC06107.36

1886

Pamphlet

Pamphlet

Title: "Mormon" women's protest.

Title continues: "an appeal for freedom, justice and equal rights. The ladies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints protest against the tyranny and indecency of federal officials in Utah, and against their own disfranchisement without cause. Full account of proceedings at the great mass meeting held in the Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah, Saturday, March 6, 1886." This is a record of the protest held when it was apparent that the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887 would withdraw the right of suffrage from Utah women. Printed in Salt Lake City by the Deseret News. Flake, C.J. Mormon bib…

GLC06609

1796

Tucker, Henry St. George, 1780-1848

Book

Title: A Dissertation on slavery with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it...

[Complete title] "A dissertation on slavery with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it, in the State of Virginia." First edition. With contemporary notations on and a page of manuscript notes dated 1836 in front. Tucker's argument was urgent, and prophetic: "The author [considers] the Abolition of Slavery in this State, as an object of the first importance, not only to our moral character and domestic peace, but even to our political salvation." The Dissertation had originated as a series of lectures at the College of William and Mary. Clarkin, Mathew Carey, A Bibliography 283; Sabin…

GLC06610