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GLC07249.01
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Broadside

Proclamation by His Excellency Samuel Ward King [Dorr as fugitive]

1842/06/29

King, Samuel Ward, 1786-1851

Offering $1,000 reward for the "delivery of the fugitive traitor Thomas Wilson Dorr"

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GLC07251.01
Collection Item
Broadside

Proclamation. By His Excellency Samuel Ward King [day of Thanksgiving]

1842/11/07

King, Samuel Ward, 1786-1851

Regarding setting aside day of thanksgiving

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GLC07232
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Typed document

Speech draft re: influence of Lincoln, given at New York Republican Club of NYC

1909/02/12

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

Original draft of speech: "I was born a slave...my first recollection of Abraham Lincoln was...by the prayers of my mother...as she was kneeling over my body earnestly praying that Abraham Lincoln might succeed and that one day she and her boy might...

GLC07232
GLC07225
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Autograph letter signed

to Emily J. Semmes re: death of Gen. Paul Semmes (to his widow)

1863/07/10

Oden, Mary, fl. 1863

Written from his deathbed nurse, on the day he died with postscript: "A few moments before the General died, he asked for his sword, laying it across his arm, he asked again for his testament." Page 5 is a smaller, additional sheet.

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GLC07229
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Autograph letter signed

to brother and sister Adair re: concern for his son Owen

1856/12/10

Brown, John, 1800-1859

Written while on the run from authorities after Pottawatomie massacre: "Owen (my son) is I trust somewhere on the way from Iowa; but I have a good deal of anxiety about him, as I learn that I was hotly pursued even in Iowa. I can only say that God...

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