1868/12/11

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Document signed

Title: Authority to affix the seal...to pardon of Robert Armstrong.

GLC04675.05

1783/06/09

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Document signed

Title: Military discharge of John Brown, soldier in 2d NY Art. Reg. (c/s Trumbull)

Partially printed. The soldier is "John Brown [space] Matrass [?]." He served from 17 March 1781.

GLC04675.08

1829/02/12

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Letter signed

Title: to Edward G. W. Butler

Written before his inauguration, Jackson declines an invitation which his "public duties will not now allow me to indulge." Instead he must find his relief in the "activity and importance of the situation to which the country has called me." Recipient's docket on the address leaf notes "His duties will not allow him to visit Woodlawn."

GLC04675.11

1790/10/01

Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841

Autograph document signed

Title: to the Quarter Master re: ordering forage for a public horse

Written on a quarter sheet of paper.

GLC04675.13

1857/01/24

Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869

Document signed

Title: Authority to affix the seal to arrest warrant of seven men

Partially printed. The seven men were: Charles Carpentier (?), Louis Gilet, Eugene Gilet, Auguste Parot, and David, Edward and Felicite Dubid.

GLC04675.17

1864/01/14

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph note signed

Title: "Let him take the oath of Dec. 8 & be discharged... ." [clipped from letter]

Written on blue-lined paper. Ink on note and signature is smudged.

GLC04675.19

1878/12/28

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to A. J. Drexel re: declining invitation to attend "Saturday Club"

Written on Executive mansion stationery

GLC04675.21

1875/01/25

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

Letter signed

Title: to Wallace J. Ford re: death of Ford's mother, suit in Supreme Court

Mentions that he gave his help and advice to "Price & Isaac" for the "defence of their suit in the Supreme Court." Ford's name is cross-written at the bottom left.

GLC04675.22

1884/12/26

Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886

Document signed

Title: [Military commission of Tredwell W. Moore]

This document is a record of the military commission of Tredwall W. Moore as Second Lieutenant in the 22nd Regiment of Infantry. Signed by Chester A. Arthur as President. Docketed by Adjutant General on recto and accompanied by a blue seal.

GLC04675.23

1892/05/21

Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

Autograph letter signed

Title: to T. F. Barnes (?) re: instructing him where to obtain photographs

Writes that photographs are obtainable from C. M. Bell in Washington

GLC04675.24

1901/12/30

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Curtis Guild Jr. re: "Tavern Quatrain" and disappointment with Crane

Typed on White House Stationery.

GLC04675.27

1916/06/18

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

Typed letter signed

Title: to Jose E. Pidgeon

On Navy Dept. stationery, as Assistant Sec. of the Navy. FDR writes that he is unable to supply service records for Marine Harold E. Starrett (since he is on active duty) and suggests contacting his naval base in Haiti.

GLC04675.33

1973/09/10

Nixon, Richard M., 1913-1994

Typed letter signed

Title: to Sue Taurog

Nixon thanks Taurog, the wife of filmmaker Norman Taurog, for her friendship and support at a 23 August 1973 news conference. At that conference, Nixon announced the resignation of Secretary of State William Rogers and the nomination of Henry Kissinger as his successor. He also took questions on the Watergate investigation. Written on White House stationery a little over a month after John Dean's Watergate testimony. Also includes three identical cards with "The President" printed on each.

GLC04675.34

1972/08/27

Photograph signed

Title: [Richard Nixon photograph inscribed to Norman Taurog]

An official White House photograph inscribed to Taurog and signed by Richard Nixon. Shows Nixon shaking hands with someone (possibly Taurog) with Henry Kissinger in the background on the right. Date based on Nixon's inscription.

GLC04675.35.01

1922/05/08

Harding, Warren G., 1865-1923

Typed letter signed

Title: to Martin B. Madden

Transmitting the report of the Director of the Budget for the fiscal year ending 30 June 1922, "prepared in response to...House Resolution 285," to an Illinois congressman. Discusses reductions in government costs and expenditures and concludes that his administrative practices will convey "the determination of those in authority to operate the government effectively at the least possible cost, to make the government's full contribution to a return to the normal ways of peace, and ultimately lifting the excessive burdens of taxation." Typed on White House stationery. The second page…

GLC04678

1862/01/23

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter

Title: to Andrew H. Foote, Telegram re: naval support for Grant's Tennessee campaign

Basler 5: 108 (Footnote reprints GLC 4702.02, cover letter by Wise accompanying Lincoln's telegram). Lincoln writes in the third-person: "The President wishes the rafts with their 13 inch mortars and all appointments to be ready for use at the earliest possible moment. What can be done to advance this? What is lacking? What is being done, so far as you know? Telegraph us every day, showing the progress, or lack of progress in this matter." Annotated and dated by Wise 3.15 P.M. Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol…

GLC04702.01

1815/06/09

Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Whann

Seeking repayment of a $15,000 loan he made to the government during the War of 1812.

GLC04667

1791/03/15

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter signed

Title: to Gov. of Georgia re: transmitting copies of various acts of Congress

Various acts of Congress: Whiskey tax, the capitol, treasury dept., salaries of the Executive Dept., post office, pensions for invalids, support of light-houses, reducing the public debt, granting lands to settlers in the Northwest territory, raising an additional regiment to protect the frontiers, the U.S. Mint, and provisions for temporary jails when necessary. Docketed.

GLC04675.01

1834/11/20

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown re: ordering Saratoga water

The recipient's name is illegible. With a note on verso regarding son Smith (?).

GLC04675.12

1850/03/20

Tyler, John, 1790-1862

Autograph note signed

Title: to unknown re: sending his autograph

GLC04675.14

1873/06/10

Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

Autograph note signed

Title: to A. H. Allen re: "I can not furnish you the autographs which you desire"

GLC04675.16

1884/07/26

Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901

Letter signed

Title: to W.W. Dudley re: pension for P.A. Long, comrade from 70th Ind. Vols.

Written in purple ink on his law office stationery

GLC04675.25

1916/12/24

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Typed letter signed

Title: to Robert J. Harlan re: declining to write about patronage

Written on personal stationery. Hardlan was auditor for the Navy in the Treasury Department. Taft responds briefly, in a businesslike letter, "I have uniformly declined to write to members of this administration on subjects of patronage."

GLC04675.28

1786/06/12

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Letter signed

Title: to John Franklin, William Hooker Smith, and John Jenkins

Franklin, writing as president of the Pennsylvania Council, discusses the strife in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, land that was claimed by both Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Acknowledges the "affliction" of the Yankee settlers, describes the testimony heard by the Council, and offers safe passage for an agent. The Connecticut settlers were later given clear title to the land, but John Franklin was imprisoned for treason. The conflict arose under the Articles of Confederation and helped justify support of a new Constitution.

GLC04686

1856 ca.

Anson, Rufus, fl. 1856

Photograph

Title: 1/4 plate daguerreotype in uniform by Rufus Anson

Daguerreotype showing George Lucas Hartsuff in regular US Army uniform as second artillery officer. Sothebys suggested it was probably taken shortly before he returned to West Point as an instructor in 1856. Case (not original): 12.75 x 10.3 x 2.4 cm.

GLC04688