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Engraving of Jacob Thompson

Biographical note is adhered below the image. Photograph by J.E. M'Clees Washington D.C. Engraved by J.C. Buttre N.Y.

GLC02459.62

[Receipt for money owed to John G. Blount by North Carolina]

Countersigned by John Clitherall. Expenses billed to the "Publick of North Carolina" include costs of delivering proclamations discontinuing assemblies in various counties and costs for transporting a suspected counterfeiter named James Mansfield.

GLC02450.02

to Ives

Seeks payment of a fifty pound debt or proof that it has already been paid. The recipient was possibly James Ives of Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

GLC02450.10

to John Pickering

Informs by quoting from a letter he recently received that Pickering has been nominated, and will be appointed, District Judge for New Hampshire. Offers to maintain a communication "on the Business of our Offices as well as an other occasions."

GLC02450.11

to the Freeholders of the County of Westmoreland

Announces Meriwether Smith's desire to become a representative in Congress for the district containing Essex County, Virginia, through the upcoming election, the first under the recently ratified Constitution. Cites his public service during the...

GLC02450.18

Lines on the death of a young officer of the United States Navy, fallen in battle for his country

Sentimental poem lamenting the death of a soldier in battle. 12 lines written in one stanza. Poem ends: "He lived as Mother's wish their Sons to live, / He died as fathers wish their Sons to die." Halleck was a poet from Guildford, Connecticut. He...

GLC02453.01

to George Bancroft re: telling Bancroft he was elected honorary member

GLC02453.09

to Mr. Knight re: about writing an essay

GLC02453.14

to an unknown recipient re: publication of a poem "My Daughter"

GLC02453.16

to Edward De Forest re: about lecture tour

Holland was the founder of "Scribner's" magazine

GLC02453.18

to unknown recipient re: thank you letter for a note

GLC02453.22

to an unknown recipient re: about a lecture tour

Parton was an American biographer

GLC02453.25

to Mr. Searle re: accepts a dinner invitation

GLC02453.29

to Mr. Richmond re: thank you note for comments on his writing

GLC02453.31

Birds [poem]

GLC02453.33

Engraving of Theodore O'Hara.

Engraving and typed bio note are both adhered to paper.

GLC02453.39

Engraving of George William Curtis.

Adhered to paper with bio note. Both are adhered to scapbook mount.

GLC02453.40

Engraving of Thomas Buchanan Read.

Adhered to scapbook mount.

GLC02453.42

Engraving of George Ripley.

Adhered to scapbook mount.

GLC02453.43

Engraving of Thurlow Weed.

Adhered to scapbook mount.

GLC02453.48

Engraving of Joseph Hopkinson.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Adhered to lower right is typed biographical note. Based on the ca. 1810 portrait by Thomas Sully.

GLC02453.55

Engraving of Thomas Dunn English.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Song lyrics printed in background, "Oh' don't you remember sweet Alice Ben Bolt."

GLC02453.57

Engraving of George William Curtis.

Adhered to scrapbook mount. Adhered to lower right is a short biographical note.

GLC02453.59

to William Buel Franklin

Orders written the morning of the Battle of Fredericksburg. Burnside is "this moment preparing orders for you," and tells Franklin to "Make no movement except for defense until they arrive." Also hopes "to be with you this morning." Franklin was...

GLC02455.02

to Henry Wager Halleck

General Dix, Commander of the Department of the East, encloses a confidential report (not included) by a detective from Buffalo, New York. Informs Halleck, General in Chief of the Union army, that the detective "has seen, as you will observe, a...

GLC02455.04