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Folder from Merwin-Clauton Sales Company
1911/10/25
Folder from Merwin-Clauton Sales Company [auction house] of "Autograph of Grant (U.S.). Lists documents that the original collector owned.
GLC04360.118
to Burgess Ball
3 May 1775
Griffin, Cyrus, 1748-1810
Griffin, managing Ball's affairs in England, states "we are finishing on your affairs with all imaginable dispatch ... Some of the Estates are considerably out of order- others are in tolerable good repair. I really can give no guess how they will...
GLC04377.01
A View of the United States in a series of papers...
1794
Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824
First edition. Contains papers on commercial policy, American manufactures, cotton industry and conditions in Pennsylvania. Copy owned by Joseph Humphreys Jr. with bookplate of Historical Society of Pa. References: Evans 26829 and Sabin 17307.
GLC04396
to Frederick Jacob Wichelhausen
8 June 1798
Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
Letter forwarded to Wichelhausen, American Consul in Bremen, by Rufus King, American Ambassador to Britain. King's signature appears on the address. Secretary of State Pickering says he received Wichelhausen's letter of 16 January 1798 as well as...
GLC04439
Almon Kingsbury petition for tavern licence
3 September 1830
Brown, Owen, 1771-1856
Petitioning the Court of Common Pleas in Portage County, Ohio for a tavern license. State their opinion that "a tavern is needed at the center of Hudson...that the house lately occupied by Owen Brown Esqr...would constitute a favorable stand for...
GLC04463.06
A Broader Philosophy of Protection
August 1897
Brainerd, Cephas Jr., 1859-1898
Article removed from the August issue of Gunton's Magazine, pages 109-121. Responds to an article titled, "Philosophy of Protection," printed in the July issue of Gunton's Magazine. Discusses the differing philosophies of free trade and...
GLC04471.08
The Association Agreed with the Grand American Congress... [non-importation]
1774/10/20
United States. Continental Congress.
One of 3 known copies
GLC04489
to his father Tobias Gibson
7 January [1862]
Gibson, Randall Lee, 1832-1892
Explains that though he is acting brigadier general of the newly formed brigade, he has not actually received a promotion from. General Polk. He believes the regiment may be ordered back to Louisiana by General Lovell. Gibson also suggests trying to...
GLC04501.016
to Randall Lee Gibson
January 20, 1862
Smith, C.M., fl. 1862
Resigning his position as a Surgeon in Gibson's regiment due to poor health. Smith notes that his fellow surgeon [Charles] Langenbacker is already "casting a wistful eye" upon Smith's post. He also discusses the parish crop, noting that some planters...
GLC04501.018
"Die Markthalle, No. 5." Ink inscription on recto: "Market Hall."
April 1861
Osborn's Gallery
Osborn imprint on verso. Ink inscription on verso: "Die Markthalle, No. 5." Ink inscription on recto: "Market Hall." View of the hall's main entrance.
GLC04509.07
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