1778/02/25

Gates, Horatio, 1727-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to H. Hollingsworth re: order to purchase or seize food

[At height of Valley Forge supply crisis.]

GLC05581

1667/07/05

Williams, Roger, fl. 1640-1667

Autograph document signed

Title: [Report of a meeting to elect envoys from the Colony of Rhode Island to King Charles II].

Also signed by William Brenton, William Raulston, Benedict Arnold, and John Froster. William Dyer and John Green were asked to serve as envoys "in the name & behalfe of the whole Colony."

GLC05582

19 May 1812

Macon, Nathaniel, 1758-1837

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Langdon

Reports that James Madison was nominated for president and Langdon for vice president by Republican Congressional Caucus. Congratulates Langdon and describes his nomination as "made without the solicitation or intrigue of any one of your acquaintances, I consider it made purely on principle." Hopes Langdon will accept the nomination. Macon was a North Carolina congressman. Langdon declined the nomination.

GLC05899.01

21 May 1812

Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Langdon

Urges Langdon to accept the nomination for vice president, claiming that "Your not declining the nomination to the vice presidency is, in my opinion, essential to Union, Republicanism and the public welfare." Heaps praise on Langdon. Earnestly exhorts him to take the nomination for the public good and to avert the creation of factions in the party, "which will lead to toryism and perhaps worse consequences." Langdon declined the nomination.

GLC05899.02

22 May 1812

Smilie, John, 1741-1812

Letter signed

Title: to John Langdon

Cosigned by William H. Crawford and Charles Cutts. On behalf of the Republican members of Congress, informs Langdon of his nomination for the vice presidency. Comments on the difficulties facing the nation, claiming that "In this awful period of arms, & calamities, when the whole system of nature appears to be convulsed, the Republic has a right to the service of its citizens." Urges him to consent to the nomination. Langdon declined the nomination.

GLC05899.03

29 May 1812

Varnum, Joseph B., 1751-1821

Autograph document signed

Title: [Extracts from the proceedings Republican presidential and vice presidential nominating convention]

Records the process by which James Madison and John Langdon were nominated for president and vice president for the election of 1812. Also indicates the failed attempt to nominate Elbridge Gerry for vice president: "[O]n counting the ballots... for John Langdon 64 for Elbridge Gerry 16..." Langdon declined the nomination.

GLC05899.05

8 June 1890

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to May Delany

To "the daughter of the daughter of my friend who sheltered me forty and five years ago, when I was a man without a country, a stranger and or sojourner, with little money and few friends, shall now have my autograph. No effort of memory is required to recall the welcome visit of yourself and your precious mother at that dingy hotel overlooking the Thames...." Hopes to meet up with Delany later in the summer, if she passes through Washington D.C. (Douglass had a home in D.C. called "Cedar Hill"). Writes, "I have grown somewhat old in this fierce tropical climate but I am still quite wide…

GLC05906

12 November 1921

Harding, Warren G., 1865-1923

Pamphlet signed

Title: Address of the President... at conference on limitations of armament

"Address of the President of the United States at the Opening of the Conference on Limitation of Armament at Washington." Disbound.

GLC05907

1868/05/18

Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885

Document

Title: Congressional subpoena of W. S. Huntington re: impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Countersigned by Edward McPherson.

GLC05908.01

1868 ca.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Andrew Johnson]

Imprint on verso.

GLC05908.02

1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Lewis Powell]

Carte de visite of Lincoln assassination conspirator Lewis Powell. Inscription on mount shows known aliases "Payne, Wood, Hall," and reads "arrested as an associate of Booth in the conspiracy." Powell had attempted to kill William H. Seward.

GLC05909

17 September 1942

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Document signed

Title: Pardon of California judge Gavin Craig convicted in Italo Petroleum case

The judge was convicted of "Conspiracy to endeavor to obstruct justice...." in the Italo Petroleum Case. With pardon attorney's warrant and file of supporting original petitions.

GLC05912

1903/06/12

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Senator William P. Frye re: sending report, punishment for Col. Dickey

Sending report on Col. Dickey's case which "calls for exemplary punishment."

GLC05913.02

1861 October

Photograph signed

Title: [William Farquhar Barry]

Carte de visite of the Union Chief of Artillery, 1/2 length portrait. Inscribed to Ms. Belle Riley." Barry served as Chief of Artillery from 1st Bull Run through the Peninsula Campaign.

GLC05918.01

1865 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph signed

Title: [McMillian, James W.]

Carte de visite, vignette bust portrait.

GLC05918.02

17 February 1866

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Document signed

Title: [Presidential pardon of Philip D. Roddey for his participation in the rebellion]

This document is a Presidential pardon in which President Andrew Johnson granted Philip D. Roddey a full pardon and amnesty from crimes committed during the rebellion. Roddey was nicknamed "the Swamp Fox of Tennessee." The pardon was countersigned by the Secretary of State William H. Seward and accompanied by a paper seal.

GLC05921

1864/01/20

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edwin M. Stanton re: parole of honor for Col. Basil K. Duke

Also stating that "Gen. Smith will be responsible that Col. Duke will faithfully keep his parole."

GLC05922.01

20 April 1890

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Autograph document signed

Title: to Chaplain Charles Pierce

A copy of General orders No 77, dated 1 November 1, 1883, in which Sherman relinquished command of the Army of the United States. Deterioration affecting date and title at bottom. The original document was made in Washington, D.C., but the copy was created in New York, New York.

GLC05924

1866 circa

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Autograph document

Title: An act donating public lands to the several state & territories, which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture & the mechanic arts

A copy of the Morril Land Grant act, granting public lands to individual states for the building of agricultural colleges, written by Robert E. Lee. The act, passed in 1862, offered states 30,000 acres of public land per Congressman from that state, to be used as an endowment to build agricultural and mechanical schools. Lee, who following the war became the President of Washington College (now Washington and Lee), was heavily engaged in trying to raise funds to rebuild education in the decimated South. In January of 1866 Lee met with the Committee on Education of the Virginia Legislature…

GLC05926

1838

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Pamphlet

Title: Speech... upon the right of people ... relating to the annexation of Texas

Full title: "Speech... upon the right of the people ... to petition; on the freedom of speech and of debate in the House of Representatives of the United States... relating to the annexation of Texas." Printed by Gales and Seaton.

GLC05934

1864

Swinton, William, 1833-1892

Pamphlet

Title: McClellan's military career reviewed and exposed ...

Title continues, " ...THE MILITARY POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRATION SET FORTH AND VINDICATED ." Criticizes General George B. McClellan, the Democratic nomination for president in the 1864 election. First edition. Published by the Union Congressional Committee. Printed by Lemuel Towers.

GLC05937

11 March 1850

Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

Pamphlet

Title: California, union, and freedom. Speech of William H. Seward, on the admission of California.

Printed by Buell & Blanchard. Uncut. Argues for the admission of California into the Union (as a free state).

GLC05938

1880 ca.

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

Book

Title: Garfield and Arthur campaign songbook

Bright pink cover. Printed by the Republican Congressional Committee.

GLC05941

1856

Schade, Louis, fl. 1856

Pamphlet

Title: The Immigration into the United States of America

Disbound. Title continued: "From a statistical and national-economical point of view." Printed at the Union Office.

GLC05942

1792-1808

Book

Title: Selected pamplets... Duane's collection [bound in one volume]

Bound collection of nine pamphlets 1792-1808 [William Duane, publisher.] 6 printed at Philadelphia, 3 at Washington First edition with this title page.

GLC05945