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to my dear mother

He enclosed an order about improving the goverment business system. He made a quick trip to Illinois.

GLC02679.57

to my dear mother

The censor prevents him from writing anything significant but says he is keeping a record of what happens so he will remember after the war. Tomorrow he will have a special birthday dinner. He expects to leave on special detail very soon.

GLC02679.05

to my dear mother

He talks of a Col. Henry S. Graves that he has gotten know. His labor organization is going well. There have been air raids.

GLC02679.12

to my dear mother

He has enclosed some souveniers of the war (not included here). Some amazing things have happened which will remain in posterity but he can't write of it here because of the censors.

GLC02679.15

to my dear mother

He talks how his plans are often met with opposition because the commanding officers are so conservative. But he feels that with the help of the French he can push his plans through.

GLC02679.16

to my dear mother

He saw a bombardment recently at the [Chaucien?] de dames. While there he stopped in a cathedral and picked up a pamphlet which he has enclosed (not in folder.)

GLC02679.22

to my dear mother

The day the armistice was declared, Nov. 11, he took several phone calls in which they reversed the American Expeditionary Forces. Later the Italian army called saying they have 1 million Austrian prisoners and 200,000 horses and nothing to feed them...

GLC02679.25

to my dear mother

He says he does not know when he will be home. He knows she was under the weather recently. He hopes to send her the official reports soon.

GLC02679.27

to my dear mother

He had an attack of ptomaine poisoning but is well now. He expects to be home in July. He will visit the English Dawes soon.

GLC02679.32

to my dear mother

He has enlclosed a copy of a letter from Sergeant Baker. Since the Germans are hesitating to sign the peace treaty, John has to postpone his trip to England, which means he will go by himself to his grandson's christening.

GLC02679.35

to my dear mother

He can only stay a few days on his first visit to Marietta. He says she must occupy centerstage in the family because he does not want the attention.

GLC02679.38

to my dear mother

His friend, Gen. Payut is giving him a dinner at his headquarters. He will see his mother on July 26th.

GLC02679.41

to my dear mother

He notes that the newspaper was wrong in reporting that General Pershing was now in the oil business. He visited with Dorothy and her husband. He will give beman a copy of a picture of William Dawes Jr.

GLC02679.45

to General Dawes

A written testimony to show they agree with France's recent public recognition for his services.

GLC02679.64

to General Dawes

In recognition of the services he performed with regard to the Franco-American cooperation.

GLC02679.65

[Soldiers marching at unknown parade field]

Two postcards of marching regiments. Associated with GLC02679.09. An X under a soldier on horseback in both photographs is likely Dawes.

GLC02679.71

To General Wilson

He is unable to forward a letter that is among his Mother's papers in Chicago. The letter, written by Ulysses S. Grant before his death, requested that Frederick's son Ulysses S. Grant III, be admitted to West Point. It was cosigned by William T...

GLC04360.014

To: John H. Gundlach

[Written as Librarian of the St. Louis Public Library.] Photograph of General Grant, Julia Grant, Martin Wilkins and four others on the veranda of his Long Branch summer home. [The letter explains that the image formerly hung at St. Michael Rectory...

GLC04360.030

"Grant-Dent Memorial Association. Articles of Association."

"Grant-Dent Memorial Association. Articles of Association."

GLC04360.045

A Debt St. Louis Owes.

"A Debt St. Louis Owes." A pamphlet promoting the preservation of the "Old Grant home" by the Grant-Dent Memorial Association.

GLC04360.046

Folder from Merwin-Clauton Sales Company

Folder from Merwin-Clauton Sales Company [auction house] of "Autograph of Grant (U.S.). Lists documents that the original collector owned.

GLC04360.118

Certificate.

Certificate of appointment as 2nd Lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps.

GLC06196.238

Certificate.

Certificate of provisional appointment as 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry.

GLC06196.239

Certificate.

Certificate of provisional appointment as 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry.

GLC06196.240

Certificate.

Certificate of temporary appointment to the rank of 1st Lieutenant.

GLC06196.241

Certificate.

Certificate of provisional appointment to the rank of 1st Lieutenant.

GLC06196.242

Certificate.

Regular Army Infantry School (Fort Benning, Ga.) Certificate for completion of the company officers course.

GLC06196.243

to Dr. Lyman Abbott

Regarding controversy over black appointments: "Have you noticed that Collier's Weekly attacks me because I have gone too far in my policy of doing justice to the negro while the Evening Post declines to support me because I have not gone far enough...

GLC08002

Cigarette case

Cigarette case, inscribed "J.H.H." on outside; "V.E.B. to J.H.H. March 27-1918" on inside.

GLC06196.120

Three issues of The Daily Telegram (August 3, 1921, August 6, 1921, August 8, 1921)

Three issues of the Daily Telegram dated August 3, 1921, August 6, 1921, and August 8, 1921.

GLC02766.066

Fletcher Ladd McCordic: A Tribute

One book entitled Fletcher Ladd McCordic: A Tribute dated 1921. There is no listed author, it is possible it was created by members of the 88th Aero Squadron A.E.F.

GLC09672.07

Portrait of Calvin Coolidge

One print of Calvin Coolidge. Black and white bust.

GLC04675.40

Portrait of Warren G. Harding

One print of Warren G. Harding. Black and white bust.

GLC04675.41

Portrait of Woodrow Wilson

One print of Woodrow Wilson. Black and white bust.

GLC04675.42

Portrait of William H. Taft

One print of William H. Taft. Black and white bust.

GLC04675.43

Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt

One print of Theodore Roosevelt. Black and white bust.

GLC04675.44

to George A. Reed

One ballot envelope addressed to George A. Reed from the Society of Engineers.

GLC10004.01.30

[Presidential commutation for William J. Dodge, convicted of sedition according to the Espionage Act on 16 September 1918 and sentenced to six years]

William J. Dodge was convicted in the U.S. District Court of Western New York of making seditious utterances while the U.S. was a war, in violation section 3 of the Espionage Act of 16 May 1918, appeal was denied by the Second Circuit Court of...

GLC05678

Justice the issue! Shall Sacco and Vanzetti be judicially murdered?

This document is a printed broadside put out by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee which attacks the exclusive judgment of Judge Webster Thayer and says in part: "The issue is not only for Massachusetts. It is for America. The world will judge...

GLC05712.01

[Broadside against the Sacco-Vanzetti execution]

This document is a printed broadside that quotes a columnist from the New York World and reads, "What more can these immigrants from Italy expect? it is not every prisoner who has a President of Harvard University throw on the switch for him." Sacco...

GLC05712.02

to [George] Gray

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

Guildhall Speech re: Great Britain, Egypt and South Africa [fragment]

Twelve pages total. The first two typed leaves are non-consecutive and unnumbered, the third page is numbered "8", the fourth "11" and the fifth "14"; two smaller leaves written in TR's hand are labeled "A" (4 pp.) and "B" (3 pp.). Typed speech...

GLC05798

The History of Woman Suffrage... in Four Volumes, Vol. IV. 1883-1900

Inscribed to Emily M. Gross. Edited by Anthony and Ida Husted Harper. Published by Susan B. Anthony.

GLC05175

Address of the President of the United States

Regarding rights of railroad workers (8 hour days, overtime pay, etc.). Signed on page 8.

GLC06963

Quotation from inaugural address re: Imperialism

Extract from his inaugural address: "America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions." On White House stationery

GLC06968

to Editor of the Herald

Of the matter Roosevelt comments, "There is something cheap and unpleasant to high-minded Americans in seeing their fellow countrymen go abroad to look on at the agony." With Roosevelt's autograph underlinings and additions.

GLC06945

Seven Woman Suffrage resolutions

With one handwritten correction

GLC06982

to W. S. Rainsford

Writes of Creel: "He can only find inconsistencies precisely as he can find them in the writings of Washington or Lincoln- that is, an occasional honest and necessary change of mind and ...circumstances which necessitated a change on my part...

GLC06881

to W.S. Rainsford

Misaddressed to "Ranisford." TR writes in part "I think vulgar boasting and vulgar depreciation of the courage and efficiency of our enemies represent the nadir of patriotism and good taste..." On stationery of the Kansas City Star. Corrected in T.R...

GLC06879

to W. S. Rainsford

"I am a radical and I could never be anything else; but I am a sane radical and I know we cannot get people to digest too much radicalism..." Corrected in T.R.'s hand. On personal stationery. Some water damage to inks.

GLC06880