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to Henry Jackson Hunt

Porter replies to a letter from Hunt. Mentions McClellan, and initials on verso of page one. Recalls his experience in the Mexican American War for Hunt, who was writing on the topic. Suggests Hunt attempt to publish his writings in a magazine....

GLC02382.074

to Henry Jackson Hunt

Thanks Hunt for his recollections regarding Manassas. Mentions Generals John Fulton Reynolds, Robert Cumming Schenck, Irvin McDowell, John Alexander Logan, and John Pope, among others. Notes that another writer is tackling the topic of Manassas...

GLC02382.076

to Henry Jackson Hunt

Responds to Hunt's Gettysburg article as the "best" he has read and notes he is writing his own account. Long was a veteran artilleryman promoted from military secretary for Lee to the command of the 2nd Corps artillery. Promoted to 2nd Corps guns...

GLC02382.079

Columbian centinel. [Vol. 17, no. 50 (September 1, 1792)] and Columbian centinel. [Vol. 17, no. 51 (September 5, 1792)]

Two issues of the Columbia Centinel bound together from September 1 and 5 of 1792. Issue 50 contains a letter written by Thomas Paine directed to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for the Home Department in Great Britain. Paine defends his work...

GLC00281

A plea for Africa, being familiar conversations on the subject of slavery and colonization, [originally published under the title "Yaradee."]

Published by J. Whetham. Discusses African history, slavery, and colonization. Contains reviews following the appendix. Also includes an advertisement for Psalmodia, another book by Freeman. On inner front cover, contains a Henry F. Porter...

GLC00267.392

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

The Prince library: a catalogue of the collection of books and manuscripts which formerly belonged to the...

(title continues)... Reverend Thomas Prince, and was by him bequeathed to the old South Church and is now deposited in the public library of the City of Boston. Published by Alfred Mudge & Son printers. Divided in American part, foreign part, and...

GLC00351

One hundred influential American books printed before 1900...

(title continues)... Catalogue and addresses. Exhibition at The Grolier Club, April eighteenth-June sixteenth, MCMXLVI. Published by the Grolier Club. Contents include the committee's selections, "America as Frontier," a catalogue of the...

GLC00352

Collected catalogues of Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach

GLC00354

History of the Conquest of Mexico

Hill, p. 240, BAL 16340, Sabin 65262. The first American edition, second (corrected) printing. In original publisher's cloth. H. Bradley Martin's copy.

GLC00361

History of the Conquest of Peru

H. Bradley Martin copy.

GLC00362

to Mrs. Anderson

A personal note written while Sherman was Commander-in-Chief on United States Army Headquarters stationery, reflecting some previous correspondence. Mentions Scott's Heart of Midlothian, which he calls a great novel, and speaks about the joys of...

GLC00331

to Francis Childs

Webster, book writer and editor of the New York Federalist newspaper "The Commercial Advertiser," writes to Childs, a New York publisher and friend, in London. He asks Childs to place an order for type with Caslon's foundry, perhaps for his newspaper...

GLC00312

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

Agrarian justice opposed to agrarian law, and the agrarian monopoly...

8vo; Disbound. Howes P21, Gimbel-Yale 112, Evans 32630

GLC00387

An Eulogy on the life of General George Washington....

Signed on half title by Paine (?). Evans 38178

GLC00420

The Barbarities of the Rebels...

Title continues, "...as Shown in their Cruelty to the Federal Wounded and Prisoners; in their Outrages Upon Union Men; in the Murder of Negroes, and in their Unmanly Conduct Throughout the Rebellion." Written by Bartlett as Secretary of State for...

GLC00267.355

to Ralph Cooper Hutchinson

Writes about returning Hutchinson's biography of General Grant. Mentions that he can no longer make the Army-Navy game because his schedule is too busy. Congratulates Hutchinson, who was president of Lafayette College, on his team's victory...

GLC00456.02

Collection of two items related to Dwight D. Eisenhower [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC00456

Grant of Appomattox, a study of the man, by William E. Brooks

Inscribed by Brooks to Ralph Hutchinson, 12 October 1942. Signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower as "presented to me," and dated 21 November 1946. Published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company. First edition.

GLC00456.01

to James Bowdoin

Written in the thrid person and signed in text. Informs Bowdoin that he will depart for New York on 24 November, and offers to transmit letters to Lady Temple. Notes that the "Marquis de Santa Cruz, and Duque de Almodovar are the [Grandees] of Spain...

GLC02437.04033

to Henry Knox

Agrees to propose the admission of two Spanish noblemen to the Academy of Arts and Sciences based on Knox's request (GLC02437.04033). Asks Knox to inform him of their titles and "literary character." The Spanish noblemen are the Marquis de Santa...

GLC02437.04034

to Robert Aitken

Based on an agreement with David Ramsay, Knox was supposed to have sent Aitken a list of general and field officers to be published in the appendix of Ramsay's book, History of the American Revolution. He had another person working on the list for...

GLC02437.04411

to George Washington

Extract of a letter in the hand of Tobias Lear, secretary to George Washington. Explains that he proof-read entries from the "Encyclopedie Methodique" on the "Etats unis" and the "Cincinnati," and gave corrections to the author. Also gave the article...

GLC02437.03338

to John Adams

Written by Secretary of War Knox to Vice President Adams. Thanks Adams for his hospitality at Bush Hill. Mentions criticism of Adams's travels in the Connecticut and New York newspapers. Comments on the "political heresy [of the] American edition...

GLC02437.04986