28 June 1864

Russell, Andrew J., 1829-1902

Photograph

Title: Front of Arlington House

Image of Robert E. Lee's estate at Arlington, Virginia. Union soldiers sit on the front steps of the portico, dwarfed by the immense columns they lean on. The estate was used by Union soldiers as a hospital and later turned into Arlington National Cemetary. Captain Russell photographed in the field. (See GLC03029.03 of Arlington House). Russell's name was scratched into the negative by the sidewalk. There is some damage and discoloration on the right edge of the image.

GLC03092.01

circa 1862

Russell, Andrew J., 1829-1902

Photograph

Title: [View on the James River]

One undated image was taken by Andrew J. Russell. The image is of a stretch of the James River; the specific scene has not been identified. The image may have been taken during General George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. It depicts the banks of the river, rising towards small bluffs with a sparse scattering of trees. The mount has suffered some damage.

GLC03092.02

circa 1862

Russell, Andrew J., 1829-1902

Photograph

Title: [Photograph of the effect of a shell explosion near Fredericksburg, Va.]

One undated photograph was taken by Andrew J. Russell. The image shows General Herman Haupt leaning against a stump and surveying the damage to artillery caissons caused by a shell. The caissons lie in wreckage next to the dead mules who had hauled them. The image is damaged on the left margin of the photo negative.

GLC03093

22 April 1865

Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917

Photograph

Title: Albumen of Ulysses S. Grant at time of Lincoln funeral

Portrait of General Ulysses S. Grant. Grant wears a black mourning armband, his left hand tucked in his coat in a "Napoleonic" pose. Probably taken while Lincoln's courtege traveled through Philadelphia. (See GLC01270, carte de visite).

GLC03094

29 June 1840

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry A. Muhlenberg

Comments on the 1840 presidential campaign and states that they are "in the midst of a higher political excitement than I have ever yet witnessed ... " Believes that Pennsylvania will support Democrat Martin Van Buren though the Whigs have claimed the state for William Henry Harrison. Dwells at length upon the Whigs tactics to get the military leader, Harrison, elected. "They have built Log Cabins & drunk hard cider every where. This senseless clamor of Log Cabins & hard cider is an insult to the understandings of the people & is every where beginning to react with…

GLC02919

1905-1940

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

Book

Title: Address of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts in honor of Theodore Roosevelt, Ex-President of the United States before the Congress of the United States Sunday, February 9, 1919 [word processed inventory available]

Memorial address at the time of Theodore Roosevelt's death. Printed by the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. Pasted within the book are 13 letters, one photograph of Henry Cabot Lodge, three manuscripts, and five prints of Roosevelt. Seven of the letters and two of the manuscripts are written by Theodore Roosevelt. Out of the seven letters by Roosevelt, four are to Charles Greenough, a lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts dated 1912-1918. Two are to George W. Goethals, the chief engineer of the Panama Canal dated 1918-1919, and one is to Henry Cabot Lodge, 1905. Also includes…

GLC02920

15 March 1860

Bright, Jesse David, 1812-1875

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alfred Edmund Burr

Bright, a United States Senator from Indiana, declines an offer from Burr, Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, to "visit Connecticut and address the Democracy of that state during the present Canvass." Bright served as a U.S. senator from Indiana from 1845-1862.

GLC02925.03

1858/03/18

Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Seymour re: introducing John Marmen Grigg

Written as Secretary of State. Seymour was American Minister to Russia.

GLC02925.04

9 April 1860

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Letter signed

Title: to Alfred Edmund Burr

Davis, a United States Senator from Mississippi, declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to attend a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. Writes "Although the state of my health & that of my family would not have allowed…I am sure I would have been much pleased with a visit to your state…My public duties however so completely engross my time as to leave me no opportunity for such enjoyments during the Session of Congress ...". Davis served as a U.S. congressman (1845-1846) and senator (1847-1851, 1857-1861) and as…

GLC02925.08

10 March 1860

Pugh, George Ellis, 1822-1876

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alfred Edmund Burr

Declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to speak at a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. States "I fervently hope that our Democratic friends in Connecticut may be so earnest, and zealous, and withal so fortunate as to break the back of Abolitionism at the approaching election. Their victory (if victory it shall be) will decide the Presidential contest ...It is a source of regret to me that I cannot wear the harness in a battle so glorious, and full of such weighty consequences." Pugh served as a U.S. senator from Ohio…

GLC02925.16

1850/05/02

Ritchie, Thomas, 1778-1854

Autograph letter signed

Title: to General

Thanks the General for a copy of Ritchie's own letter from 1836, in which he argued for the annexation of Texas. Recalls that he sent a similar letter to Secretary of State Martin Van Buren around the same time, and that Van Buren seemed to agree with him. Remembers that it was, ironically, Van Buren's later opposition to annexation that cost him the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1844. This letter comes from Alfred E. Burr's scrapbook, but it is unclear who the "General" was. The docket, which is written in a separate hand, but also addressed to "Gen." suggests that the letter…

GLC02925.17

12 March 1860

Slidell, John, 1793-1871

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alfred Edmund Burr

Slidell, a United States Senator from Louisiana, regretfully declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to speak at a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. States "The Democracy of Connecticut has long been distinguished for its bold & unflinching adherence to sound constitutional principles, your representatives in both branches of Congress have commanded the gratitude & admiration of every true Southern man ..." Declares "in the person of the gallant Seymour you have a standard bearer worthy of the great cause…

GLC02925.18

4 August 1860

Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alfred Edmund Burr

Stevens, writing as chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee, transmits an article (not included) for publication in the Hartford Times, a Connecticut newspaper. Instructs Burr, Times founder and publisher, to publish his enclosed article immediately. Written on National Democratic Executive Committee stationery containing a printed endorsement for John C. Breckenridge as President and General Joseph Lane for Vice President in the upper left corner. Stevens was governor of the Territory of Washington from 1853 to 1857, and served in the U.S. Congress from 1857 to 1861. During…

GLC02925.19

13 March 1860

Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alfred Edmund Burr

Toombs, a United States Senator from Georgia, regretfully declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to speak at a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. States "I consider your approaching election of the utmost importance to the Country. Your opponents are the enemies of the Constitution & when the Constitution perishes the Union will & ought to perish with it." Toombs was a U.S. congressman (1845-1852) and senator (1853-1860) from Georgia. During the Civil War he served as Confederate secretary of state and…

GLC02925.20

21 August 1913

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Typed letter signed

Title: to Willie Olcott Burr

Signed as President, typed on White House stationery. Wilson refutes the imputation made on Noone, stating that Noone's honesty is not questionable. Willie Olcott Burr was editor of the Hartford Times.

GLC02925.22

7 April 1915

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Typed letter signed

Title: to Alfred Burr

Signed as President. Letter regarding the investigation of statements made against Mr. Spellacy.

GLC02925.23

1 October 1867

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Document signed

Title: [Endorsed check from Gideon Welles]

Check for $16.25 signed by Gideon Welles to "B" and endorsed on verso by Brady.

GLC02926

1 July 1832

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J. Vincent Browne

Informs that he has received his letter about cordage and tea. States that the Committee of Manufactures of the Senate is now meeting about the tariff and will report tomorrow. Remarks that " ... you have already engaged their attention and we hope to remedy the evils suggested by you." Written as Senator and addressed to Browne in Boston, Massachusetts.

GLC02927

1941

Harris & Ewing, fl. 1905-1977

Photograph signed

Title: [Portrait of Supreme Court Justices]

Formal group portrait of the Supreme Court Justices in robes. Signed by the nine justices: Owen J. Roberts, J.C. McReynolds, Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan Fisk Stone, Hugo L. Black, William O. Douglas, Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter, and Frank Murphy. Date determined due to the overlapping time the justices served. McReynolds and Hughes both left in 1941, while Stone had just started in 1941.

GLC02929.01

circa 1962

Harris & Ewing, fl. 1905-1977

Photograph signed

Title: [Portrait of Supreme Court Justices]

Formal group portrait of the Supreme Court Justices in robes. Signed by justices William O. Douglas, Hugo L. Black, Earl Warren, Felix Frankfurter, Tom Clark, Charles E. Whittaker, John Marshall Harlan, William J. Brennan Jr., and Potter Stewart.

GLC02929.02

10 April 1786

Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lord Sydney

Written by General Cornwallis, the leader of British forces at Yorktown, who had accepted the post of Governor General of India in February 1786 to Lord Sydney as Home Secretary in the Pitt government. Wants Lord Sydney to talk to King George about the specific powers of his new office. Wants to know if he has the power of granting commissions below the rank of colonel because he heard the king is disinclined to grant that power in peacetime. Says he does not expect any pay for the appointment. Sent from "Mansfield Street" in London.

GLC02921

1774/08/12

Griffin, Cyrus, 1748-1810

Manuscript document

Title: [Revocation of Cyrus Griffin's power of attorney][copy]

Witnessed by Leroy Peachy, Samuel Griffin, and William Griffin. The power of attorney had been granted by Burges Ball and John Payne, and their wives, and pertained to the administration of land in Virginia. Also contains a copy of the identity and marriage certification made by James Gordon, the justice of the peace for Lancaster County, Virginia, as well as James Ball, Dale Carter, and Richard Mitchell. A note on the verso by Thomas Griffin indicates that the certification was recorded in a court in Lancaster County on 15 September 1774.

GLC02923

circa 1640-1837

Various

Header Record

Title: Collection of 73 documents relating to Plymouth, Dartmouth Township, and environs. See decimalized entries.

GLC02924

1853-1915

Burr, Alfred Edmund, 1815-1900

Header Record

Title: Album of letters to Burr and Henry Deming [decimalized]

GLC02925

2 March 1888

Barnum, P.T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to A. E. Barr & Co.

Begins by asking Burr to consider this letter private and confidential. Discusses the possible mistaken publication of his letter in the Times. Informs he received a request from a reporter from the Hartford Times and might have answered incorrectly. "I answered as I supposed correctly - but upon consulting with my partner & manager this A.M. I find I was 'all at Sea' on the subject. I telegraphed you just now, & hope I thus prevented publication of my letter ... " Includes a postscript enclosing tickets to his show in case Burr comes to New York. Calls the show, "by far the…

GLC02925.02