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Autograph letter signed

to Mr. Bayley re: plan to liberate his slaves, colonization, personal matters

1829/04/15

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

Written to Mr. Bayley in England. Discusses his plans for colonizing his freed slaves in Haiti or Liberia. Lafayette also mentions the Catholic emancipation bill, etc.

GLC06721
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Document signed

Colonization society membership certificate for Millard Fillmore [slavery]

1850/09/30

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Certificate countersigned by William McLain. Certificate made out to Fillmore as President of the US. Damaged, with slight loss of paper at top center.

GLC06216
GLC07465
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Autograph letter signed

to unknown re: U.S. role in Mediterranean after end of the Barbary War

1806/05/19

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Also discusses ratifying Treaty of Peace and changing from war to peace establishment. Written in Monticello

GLC07465
GLC07658
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Document signed

Appointing Tobias Lear as Consul to Algiers

1803/11/18

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

GLC07658
GLC07606
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Document

Printed fundraising document for the Amistad captives

1840/09

"Here are thirty men taken out of the midst of a heathen nation in the interior of Africa, and in the providence of God thrown on the shores of New England. If they should be delivered from the fangs of wicked oppressors, (for which many prayers...

GLC07606
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Newspaper

Boston weekly news-letter. [No. 1667 (January 22- January 29, 1736)]

1736/01/22-29

Complete in 2 pages? Printed by F. Draper. Includes international news, Tunis, war on the Continent and Boston news.

GLC05667.02
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Autograph letter signed

to: Unknown.

1815/09/14

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Discusses his ill health, Napoleon's demise and a treaty with Algiers

GLC05281
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Autograph letter signed

to: Italian ambassador.

1828/09/12

Warrington, H., fl. 1828

Written as British emissary, to the Italian ambassador, concerning an offer of $100,000 to prevent kidnappings of British nationals.

GLC05251
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Broadside

Constitution of the [blank] Colonization Society [form for local Ohio chapters]

1838 ca.

Blank form for local auxiliaries of the Ohio State Colonization Society: "Article I. This Society shall be called [blank] Colonization Society, and shall be auxiliary to the Ohio State Colonization Society. Article II. The object to which its views...

GLC05334
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Typed letter signed

to [George] Gray

1911/09/25

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

An extraordinary and lengthy letter, full of observations about people he met, especially the crowned heads of Europe. Labeled on page 1 "For nobody's eyes but yours." Written while acting as special ambassador for the United States for King Edward...

GLC05750

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