1889/01/17

Grant, Frederick D., 1850-1912

Letter

Title: To Mr. Childs

Written on mourning stationery. Frederick asks for help in obtaining an appointment to China.

GLC04360.009

1889/12/28

Grant, Frederick D., 1850-1912

Letter

Title: To: Mr. Childs

He read Child's book, "Recollections of General Grant." He believes his father did not have better friends than Mr. Childs and Mr. Drexel. Includes news about Ida and himself since their arrival in Vienna.

GLC04360.010

1890/11/03

Grant, Frederick D., 1850-1912

Letter

Title: To: Genera Pawn [?]

Stamped by the US pension office. Enclosing the application of Mrs. Kielmaussegge [not included] to obtain her husband's pension.

GLC04360.011

1895/11/14

Grant, Frederick D., 1850-1912

Letter

Title: To General Wilson

Thanking Wilson for "Life of General Lee" which he has not finished reading. Encloses a newspaper account of a speech he made in Cincinnati [not included].

GLC04360.012

1897/01/30

Grant, Frederick D., 1850-1912

Letter

Title: To Genl. Wilson

He is unable to read his paper before the "Genealogical & Biographical Society" on 2/12. He already promised to attend a Lincoln Banquet, but suggests that someone else may read his paper.

GLC04360.013

1905/04/02

Grant, Frederick D., 1850-1912

Letter

Title: 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. Sherman and written "to the President, whoever he might be." President Mckinley endorsed the letter and ordered Ulysses III to be admitted to West Point.

GLC04360.014

[n.d.]

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Autograph note signed

Title: To: Rowley

Card with pin-hole. Sending a copy of a letter [not included] Grant sent to the President.

GLC04360.019

1892/05/14

Grant, Julia D., 1826-1902

Letter

Title: to Mrs. Lattrers

Written by J.M. Cele for Mrs. Grant. Written on mourning stationery. Mrs. Grant is unable to attend a reception to meet Miss. Lee. She has not attended receptions for eight years. Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Grant may attend if they are in town. [With pencil provenance note "From J.M. Smith, Grand Rapids, April 1922"]

GLC04360.020

1874/05/21

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Letter

Title: Invitation and Menu

Engraved invitation to Nellie Grant's wedding. The ceremony and reception took place at the White House. "Menu" printed on silk, inserted loosely into the invitation.

GLC04360.021

1874/07/20

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Letter

Title: To: "Judge" John F. Long.

Written on an envelope. Requesting that his horse, Butcher Boy, be sent to him. [This letter is quoted in William S. McFeely, "Grant A Biography" (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1981): 399]

GLC04360.022

1922/04/28

Bostwick, Arthur E., 1860-1942

Typed letter signed

Title: 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 in Litchfield, CT and that is where he learned its history.]

GLC04360.030

1869/03/16

Brainard, E.P., fl. 1869

Letter

Title: To: J. R. Grant

Recommending Mr. Hart for District Attorney for Northern District of Ohio. [Jesse Grant refused to make the recommendation, see # 2.]

GLC04360.031

1859/10/01

Anthony, Susan B., 1820-1906

Letter

Title: to Dear Sir

Agrees to speak before a lyceum during late June on the subject "The True Woman." "My terms[ are] the same you pay the men lecturers of your course."

GLC04360.032

1854/07/07

Collins, James B., fl. 1854

Letter

Title: To: Captain U. S. Grant

Enclosing a letter accepting Grant's resignation [not included]. Beginning of another letter dated 7/1/1854 on verso. Written at Fort Humboldt.

GLC04360.038

1785/02/14

Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813

Autograph document signed

Title: To: Gerard Bencker.

Receipt to Treasurer Gerard Bancker for 50 pounds.

GLC07969

1885/12/08

Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

Autograph manuscript

Title: Draft of one of the opening sections of first State of the Union address.

Draft of one of the opening sections of first State of the Union address. With collateral G.L. Rives Als fowarding draft to his sister, stating " the rest of the draft wad torn up, - so this is all there is of it."

GLC07999

1870/05/29

Belknap, William W. (William Worth), 1829-1890

Letter

Title: To: Col. Lubey

Requesting an additional ticket for the memorial services at Arlington. [Retired General John A. Logan, acting as Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, established Decoration Day, now known as Memorial Day, on May 29, 1868.]

GLC04360.040

1865/07/30

Archer, Edward R., fl. 1830-1917

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Details Archer's life from his departure from London bound for Bermuda on June 13, 1864 to his return from Florida through the blockade on March 23, 1865. "...[I] made every narrow escape from, starving to death, and being eaten up by alligators..." Included in his travelogue are the ruminations undertaken by himself and several other Confederates through Bermuda, Havana, Florida's marshy coasts, through St Marks Tallahassee and Quincy to Albany and Macon before finally discovering the fate of the Confederacy. Numerous graphite additions have been inserted into the text in a hand rather…

GLC01896.079

February 17, 1773

McClure, David, 1748-1820

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Writes about his good health and safe return from Indian country. Mentions that he has not received a letter from Knox. Asks Knox to "convey the inclos'd by some safe Conveyance," possibly in reference to a book order. M'Clure sent Knox a letter from Fort Pitt on 20 August 1772, (see GLC02437.00015) indicating that he was going to serve as missionary to the Delaware Indians in a town on the Muskingum River in Ohio. M'Clure spells his name Maccluer.

GLC02437.00032

1881 circa

Barber, C.E., fl. 1881

Object

Title: [Medal of James A. Garfield]

Front of medal features James A. Garfield in relief profile with the words "James A. Garfield." Verso, designed by C.E. Barber, features a wreath with the following words inside: "Inaugurated President of the United States March 4 1881 - Assassinated July 2, 1881 - Died Sept. 19, 1881."

GLC02783.03

1865/04/05

Mitchell, Walter B., fl. 1865

Letter

Title: To: Jacob Zielin

Enclosing a receipt for a deed [not included] forwarded by express.

GLC04360.039

1874/10/01

Document

Title: Invitation to the Wedding of Maria Ewing Sherman and Thomas William Fitch

Engraved invitation to the Wedding of Maria Ewing Sherman and Thomas William Fitch. Reception menu on the inside.

GLC04360.041

[n.d.]

Busteed, Richard, 1822-1898

Letter signed

Title: To: General Ulysses S. Grant

Endorsing Mr. Ryan for his skill as a stenographer.

GLC04360.042

1883/05/05

Document

Title: Menu from the "Saturday Night Club."

Menu from the "Saturday Night Club." Engraving on front features a caricature of an older man in a sailors uniform straddling two steam ships. Autographed on verso by Ulysses S. Grant, Roscoe Conklin, J. N. Camden, and Edgar M. Cullen.

GLC04360.043

1917/01/17

Document

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

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

GLC04360.045