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to Lady Hesketh

Declines recipient's offer to send salmon to Olney where the price is prohibitively expensive. Discusses local matters.

GLC00496.149

to unknown

Discusses recipient's new colonial appointment and offers advice.

GLC00496.150

to Thomas Pringle

Sending Pringle his book on the life of Robert Burns. Cunningham advises him to ignore what the critics have said. Date inferred from publication of the single volume "The works of Robert Burns," published 1840. Recipient inferred from partially...

GLC00496.151

to Thomas Pringle

Denounces a certain critic as having no genius and no right to judge his work. Sympathizes with Pringle's problems with booksellers.

GLC00496.152

to unknown

Asks to borrow a copy of the volume containing his essay on the Lyrics of Tasso.

GLC00496.156

to Thomas Pringle

Voices concerns over Pringle's lack of correspondence and criticism of Howitt's work.

GLC00496.172

Lithographic letter requesting autograph

Hopes to insert into his private copy of "Poets of America" original drafts or autographic copies of poems by the authors represented in the book. He is also collecting engravings of the authors, and asks his correspondent to send a photograph if...

GLC00496.033.04

The Gentleman's Magazine

Printed for D. Henry at St. John's Gate, London. Includes a fold-out regional map of Boston area and dramatic "Account of the proceedings of the American Colonists Since the passing the Boston Port-Bill," including Lexington and Concord. Also has...

GLC02360

The mail; or, Claypoole's daily advertiser. [No. 127 (October 26, 1791)]

One issue of The mail; or, Claypoole's daily advertiser dated October 26, 1791. Founded by David C. Claypoole in 1771 originally as the Pennsylvania Packet. Contains foreign intelligence mainly focused on Russian activities in Europe from the...

GLC00280

M'Fingal: A modern epic poem [New York edition with engravings]

With nine copper-plate engravings. Signed on titlepage: "Soloman Williams'/1795." Collateral to John Adams ALS to John Trumbull, GLC 1228.

GLC00288

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

First edition printing in original brown pebble cloth. Printed by James Munroe & Co., Boston; New York : George P. Putnam; Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blackiston; London : John Chapman, 1849. Based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord...

GLC00326

The soldier's friend; or, hints for the physical and moral welfare of the soldiers of the United States

Published "for gratuitous distribution" by Samuel S. White. Pamphlet is a morale booster as well as a health guide. Page 2 cover has a copy of the poem "Army Hymn" by Oliver Wendell Holmes from the June 1861 Atlantic Monthly. Pages 3-7 has 24 tips...

GLC00267.352

to Henry Knox

Asks Knox's pardon "for the intrusion of a letter on business yesterday morning - I had not heard 'till late in the afternoon of your House being a House of Mourning, or I shou[l]d never have broke in on you at such a season." This is in reference...

GLC02437.05148

to Henry Knox

References Knox's letter of 5 October, which enclosed John Pope's note for eight dollars. Knox sent Carrington a copy of a memorandum on a meeting he had with Pope on 5 October (see GLC02437.05187). Describes Pope as "unhappy in his habits of...

GLC02437.05195

[Diary of William O. Rome]

Autograph manuscript signed. Contain entries dated from 1861 to 1862. Reports on the daily activities of soldiering and camp life. The diary also contains Rome family birth and death records (2 October) and other entries in another hand, including...

GLC03131.09.01

Poems of the War

Written by Philadelphia poet, playwright and diplomat George Henry Boker. First edition copy signed by one of Lincoln's secretaries John G. Nicolay as "Jno G. Nicolay / Sept 19th 1864." Published by Ticknor and Fields. Contains 37 poems, including 4...

GLC00530

to Thomas Pringle

Waugh, a reverend, writes to Pringle in Deptford, a township in London. In the first paragraph, which is struck, Waugh insists that Pringle meet Mrs. Gregory. He introduces Mr. Elliot, who bears this letter. Waugh hopes that Elliot will be useful in...

GLC00496.249

[Journal of a privateer and of prisoner of war during the War of 1812]

Diary written while aboard the privateer Alfred and as a prisoner of war in Melville Island Prison, Halifax, and Dartmoor Prison. Records many sightings and occasional capturing of ships. Entry on 22 February 1814 records the capture of Green's...

GLC00498.01

to Dr. Benjamin Rush

"The history of the hobby horse" -page 4 (Adams's humorous name for the story he tells in this letter). Free frank on page 4. The letter also discusses the dream of American glory and early history.

GLC00599

Caroli Carroll, Liber Anno 1752

Title is printed by hand on mauve colored wrapper, "Caroli Carroll, Liber Anno 1752." Latin school exercise book. Contains rhetoric and poetry exercises in Latin. Signed "Charles Carroll" twice on the last page.

GLC00600

Harper's weekly. [Vol. 5, no. 210 (January 5, 1861); vol.7, no. 314 (January 3, 1863) - vol. 9, no. 470 (December 30, 1865)] [Decimalized .01-.04]

Features article and illustration on emancipated children in New Orleans.

GLC00623

G. L. S.

Poem in memory of George Luther Stearns. This copy was written for his wife, Mary Stearns. Mounted on a piece of letter sized paper. The poem was first published in May 1867 in the "Atlantic Monthly."

GLC00546

[Order to issue army rations to three British deserters]

Order issued by General Knox's aide-de-camp Major Shaw for West Point Commissary James Forsyth to issue seven days worth of rations for three British deserters "to carry them to Philadelphia." It appears that Shaw was reusing paper, as a few lines of...

GLC02437.02316

[Letter and lyrics of Root's song "Tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are marching"]

Root, an American songwriter, thanks Mr. Massett for poems, and transmits the lyrics of "Tramp," a song that became popular during the Civil War.

GLC02467.22

Robert H. Stafford Collection [Decimalized .01- .98]

Stafford enlisted as a sergeant in the 12th Alabama infantry. Contains letters and newsclippings about the Peninsula Campaign, advance into Maryland, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Early's raid on Washington, D.C....

GLC02618