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To: Lieutenant Colonel Jean Babtiste Gouvion.

Commendation of Jean B. Gouvion's "most valuable services" at Yorktown.

GLC07907

To: William Greene.

Requests Greene to relocate cannons from Providence to Rochambeau's post.

GLC07915

[Notes for an address]

Manuscript constituting a fragment of a draft of an untitled address by James Madison. Seemingly missing an initial page or pages; starts midway, discussing issues of national security, peace, and ensuring comfort to the nation's citizens. Beneath...

GLC07893

To: Jean B. Gouvion.

Lafayette informs Gouvion of "good news," Rodney has been defeated in two different engagements and six of his vessels have for some time been out of combat."

GLC07904

To: Robert Wood

Taylor suggests that if he were to be nominated for the United States Presidency he would have to decline until after the Mexican War was over, and that it would have to be for the good of a nation and not that of a party. Taylor states that "There...

GLC07906

Affidavit.

Benjamin Headwine swears that he believes the Spanish ship Cleopatra "is intended for the slave trade."

GLC07910

Retained draft of Hancocks' instructions to Massachusetts legislature

One manuscript written by John Hancock dated circa 1788. Pertaining to the selection of electors to vote for the President of the United States. He believes that such an act would not only strengthen the relations between the states but establish...

GLC07916

To: William Stedman.

Ellery feels that there should be no war with Great Britain.

GLC07922

To: Anson Burlingame.

Authorizing Anson Burlingame to negotiate with Chinese to modify treaty article.

GLC07924

To: John Schank.

Phillips' reaction to a truce at Fort Ticonderoga

GLC07928