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Jeff's Last Shift

Cartoon depicting the capture of Jefferson Davis. Depicts his rumored attempt to escape in women's clothing. Davis had actually thrown his wife's overcoat over his shoulders prior to making an unsuccessful dash to elude the soldiers pursing him...

GLC03949

Greenback Party: pieces of campaign ephemera including Br, circulars & "money" [Decimalized .01- .21]

Also, numerous handbills in the form of currency, many quite humorous. Some items are second copies.

GLC03972

to Ethel re: staying with her uncle, sending autograph (traced sig.?)

Written in purple ink. "I hope your music and your morals are improving."

GLC04675.26

"The Irrepressible Conflict" or the Republican Barge in Danger

Published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street, New York. Cartoon making reference to the so-called "Irrepressible Conflict" speech given by New York Senator William Seward at Rochester, New York on 25 October 1858. This speech ignited a firestorm...

GLC03489

"Uncle Sam" making new arrangements

Published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street, New York. Black and white political cartoon related to Abraham Lincoln's 1860 election. Uncle Sam holds a wanted sign which reads, "An honest upright and capable man to take charge of this house for...

GLC03488

[Collection of John B. Moore letters and a 37-page travel diary] [Decimalized .01- .06]

Covers the first few years of Moore's medical career before joining the army. Medical references, including a cholera epidemic in Laconia, Indiana (1) and diseases and medical treatments in England and Ireland (2, 5, 6). Written from Indiana, New...

GLC04192

to Matthews re: asking him to resubmit article c/o Bill Nye

Jocular letter, signed J[..]sy [illegible]

GLC04353.17

to John MacKay

Written as Captain of Topological Engineers working on the defenses of New York City harbor. Written in a playful manner typical of his other letters to MacKay, a close friend. Lee worries about MacKay's lingering illness and hopes the warm Gulf...

GLC03324

The Young sweep in love, or the house-maid's conquest [mezzotint with color]

Mezzotint printed by Carrington Bowles, 7th May 1772. Depicts a short and filthy chimney-sweep embracing a house-maid, while an obscured figure watches in the background (and puts food in his mouth). The poetry appears to be a parody of Dryden's...

GLC04961.02

to F. S. Cozzens

Written from camp near Culpeper. Missed Cozzens on a recent trip to Washington, D.C. On the train to Washington, sat beside a Presbyterian parson. Told the parson he was a brevet Bishop in the Army of the Potomac. Notes that the parson was...

GLC05033

to Francis P. Blair & John C. Rives

Apologizing for remark meant in jest and for a late payment.

GLC03209.25

The Old Flag. First Published by Union prisoners at Camp Ford, Tyler, Texas.

Postwar souvenir facsimile of prison camp newspaper from 17 February 1864 to 15 March 1864, six issues. According to the preface, written by J.P. Robens, "The Old Flag" was published during an imprisonment of 13 months in Tyler, Texas. Contains...

GLC03772

to George G. Channing

Personal letter in which Ellery describes a man named Mr. Otis as "a mellifluous, pathetic speaker" and explains his views on the relationship between business activities and intellectual improvement as well as the proverbial saying "laugh and be...

GLC03841

to Anzolette Page

Writes to ask his mother if his sisters, Mary and Rose, may travel to Richmond, Virginia to attend the inauguration of Jefferson Davis as Confederate President. Humorously phrases the request in military terms, describing the request for a...

GLC03844

The American Museum or Universal Magazine. [Vol. 9 (1791)]

Contains six monthly issues, January to June 1791. Bound in contemporary leather. Published by Carey, Stewart & Co. Contains a lot of information on American history at the beginning of the U.S. Government, Indian "depradations (sic)," Washington...

GLC03461

Town and Country Magazine. [Vol. 10, (1778)]

Title continues, "or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Entertainment for the Year 1778." Tenth annual volume of a periodical journal that resembles the Gentleman's Magazine and London Magazine in format and style. 12 monthly issues...

GLC03458

The American Magazine.

Contains six monthly issues. Billed as "Containing a Miscellaneous Collection of Original an other Valuable Essays, in Prose and Verse, and Calculated both for Instruction and Amusement." A quote underneath the title reads: "Science the guide, and...

GLC03462

The Opelousas Courier. [Vol. 11, no. 3 (April 30, 1863)]

On front, humorous soldiers' letters and descriptions. printed: "William Curran, Co. "D," Forty First Regt Mass Vols". On back, blue, brown, gray striped wallpaper pattern, number 289.

GLC00677

to Faith Van Valkenburgh

Unsigned, with a short postscript hand-written on page 3. Several corrections made in pen throughout. Written on letter head of Van Valkenburgh's own law firm. Letter written by Frank to his daughter, Faith, in Buffalo, New York. A funny letter with...

GLC00686.27

to Dr. W. H. Merritt

Written on stationary of the law office of Frank B. Van Valkenburgh. Written to Dr. Merritt, the Chairman of the Norwalk, Ohio Centennial Committee. He is flattered that he would receive an invitation to be present at the "Norwalk Home Coming Week...

GLC00686.29

to Frank Van Valkenburgh

Illegible signature at end of letter. Pencil note at the bottom of the letter says it is Garrit [likely Gerrit] S. Van Valkenburgh, but it is too obscure to be certain. Pokes fun at his brother for such a bad letter to him. Says it is cold and that...

GLC00686.30

Robins and Robbins

Poem on two typed pages. The type is green instead of black. Size in the extent is for the larger sheet. The smaller sheet is 13.8 x 21.6 cm. Two stanzas on the smaller sheet and two longer stanzas on the the bigger sheet. Pencil note says the poem...

GLC00686.31

[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 James McHenry

McHenry served as Secretary of War. Mentions appointment of ambassadors to France during Quasi-war and newspaper accusations by William Duane against federalist officials (in a July editorial) for supposedly accepting bribes. Humorous letter (on...

GLC00604.01

to William D. Street

Written after his defeat in the 1910 Ohio gubernatorial election to thank Street for his support in the campaign. He cheerfully accepts defeat and recounts humorous misconceptions of his positions. Letter typed on personal stationary in purple ink...

GLC00782.09

Memorandum for D. Basil O'Connor

Roosevelt advises in humor that the Knickerbocker Ice Company has a cold storage plant in Brooklyn that O'Connor can rent, commenting that "After visits from your old friends like Gus and Meyer and Julian, a night spent in the cooler will restore you...

GLC00894

to William Tudor

Adams, in retirement, writes to Tudor, who was clerk of Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts. Says he wants to make Tudor laugh. Sends Tudor a copy of Jemmibullero's (probably Samuel Waterhouse) "The Song of the Drunkard," which is not included...

GLC00693.04

An elementary course in civil engineering for the use of the cadets of the United States Military Academy

Signed by Sherman on the first fly leaf, "Sherman/West Point N.Y./Sept 1st/39." Class book for cadets written by D.H. Mahan, a professor of military and civil engineering at the Academy. Printed by Wiley and Putnam, New York. With doodles and a...

GLC01243

to Robert N. Johnson

Grant replies to Johnson's letter and encloses his version of an anecdote told by Abraham Lincoln about Alexander Stephens and his overcoat at the Hampton Roads, Virginia Peace Conference. State he will use the anecdote in his memoirs. The story...

GLC01305

to William North

Whimsical letter written by Von Steuben in retirement and in debt in New York to his former aide North, who was also in retirement at Duanesburg, New York. Refers to North as "my dear Bill." Looks back on the last year. Mentions that "you did cut...

GLC02542.12

to Gaston

Written as Assistant Attorney General, he comments that anyone joking about McKinley's assassination is "a brute." Written on Department of Justic letterhead.

GLC02827

to unknown re: humorous anecdote regarding servants' antics in Algiers

GLC02794.175

to Harry A. Woodring re: Christmas greetings, with envelope

Signed as President to his Secretary of War. The envelope has a silver foil seal reading "Please DO NOT OPEN until CHRISTMAS." Typed on White House stationery. Alluding to wartime rationing, FDR jokes "This metal [on the envelope seal] can be...

GLC02793.084

to Dean Acheson re: Madame Tussaud's Waxworks likeness of him

Signed as President on White House stationery. (Accompanied by a typed copy of Acheson's reply with the Feb. 2 Truman memo reponding to his memo as .121). Quite humorous.

GLC02793.091

to George D. Vaill re: rumor that his autograph on his arm would become a shrine

Light-hearted piece signed as President. Accompanied by Vaill's sardonic query. Ford had signed Vaill's arm.

GLC02793.112

to Dean Acheson re: uncomplimentary wax statue at Mme Tussaud's museum

Goes with GLC 2793.091

GLC02793.120

to Borie

Writes, "Hearing of your illness, I, some days ago, wrote to Mrs. Borie asking if she and you would not come down and spend a few days, or as long as you pleased, and recuperate and get well again. But before the mail went out I rec'd [sic] your...

GLC03018

to Gen. Alexander Spotswood re: horses & marriage, the French fleet [incomplete]

Incomplete, lacking signature and close. Washington jokingly remarks that he "will take the horse... as Men take their wives -- better for worse [sic]." Also mentions his disappointment over the lack of cooperation of the French fleet.

GLC02842

'A Sayre [Satire] upon the Times'

Verse entitled "A Saytr upon ye Times." Caustic critique of an "Unhappy York," where a manipulative church and king have allowed the colony's political affairs to become rife with corruption and hypocrisy. In New York "villians triumph under a...

GLC03107.00692

Southern confederacy [Vol. 3, no. 57 (April 19, 1863)]

Published by Adair and J. Henry Smith (1820-1897). B.C. Smith is the associate editor. Tag line below masthead says "The Public Good Before Private Advantage." Masthead vignette depicts an industrialized Southern Confederacy. Announces the beginning...

GLC08492

to Thomas Pringle

Discusses an etching entitled "Mr. Fox and his Friends" by William Lane housed at Holland House. Fox thinks it would be fitting for an upcoming work and says his father has no objection to having it engraved. Whigs depicted in the etching include...

GLC00496.157

to J.M. Dawson

Describes the reception of his poem in New York City and Philadelphia. Discusses Broadway and the New York theatre scene. Affixed to verso is a satirical letter from Dawson dated February 25, 1854 presenting Lover with a diamond ring.

GLC00496.189

to H.W.R.

Signed in text and likely written by Henry Placide, in the third person (based on a handwriting comparison). Writes that Henry Placide cannot give an opinion of a farce without having read it and asks the recipient to send a copy. Written on paper...

GLC00496.218

to Henry Colburn

Signed "Horatio Smith." Discusses two satirical articles he wrote that Colburn may want for the New Monthly Magazine.

GLC00496.227

to Capt. Nathan G. Evans

A humorous letter to his friend from West Point. Also concerns fighting Indians and paying for a gun. Lee remained in Texas by order of General Twiggs. The letter also mentions A.S. Sydney going to Utah to fight Mormons, army news, debt settlement...

GLC01031

to Arthur Carpenter

Writes a witty letter to the business manager at Warm Springs, Georgia, where Roosevelt founded the Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation in 1927. Jokes about mosquitoes briefly. Discusses the sprinkler system for the Meriwether Hotel. Signed...

GLC02202

Dignified retirement: parody on the house that Jack built, -- fitted to the times

A parody of the nursery rhyme styled upon eighteenth century children's chapbooks making fun of Jefferson's retirement at a time of national crisis. The figures are rough allegories of Jefferson (alternately a king then a priest, retiring to a...

GLC02209

to Eliakim P. Scammon

Encloses a dispatch from Captain Simmonds (not present) and calls it "sensational." Hopes Scammon finds it amusing. Mentions General Jacob Dolan Cox and G.M. Bascom, a major and assistant adjutant general. Marked private. Written at Camp White also...

GLC02414.010

to John Waite

Moody seems to be a teacher writing a reassuring letter to Waite, a resident of Watertown, Massachusetts, who sent his son to Moody's school. Mentions that his son is in good health and high spirits. Says he has a good sense of humor, but that he...

GLC01450.209.02

to Lizzie Ellicott

Jocular letter where he talks of mutual acquaintances, taking a trip east in June, and other trivial matters. Promises her that when he becomes President, Mr. Pike will receive a diplomatic appointment "and you shall enjoy old world sights for me."

GLC01473