3 August 1920

Harding, Warren G., 1865-1923

Typed letter signed

Title: to Clarence Atwood Nado

Written on Senate stationery, thanking him for his message of congratulation -- apparently for being nominated to the presidency.

GLC04675.30

16 December 1919

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Typed letter signed

Title: to Hamilton Holt

Written on personal stationery. Hoover thanks Holt of The Independent for an invitation but regrets that he will be in California.

GLC04675.32

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

1980

Photograph signed

Title: [Jimmy Carter]

Photograph of President Carter, inscribed to Norman Taurog. Signed by Carter. Accompanied by GLC04675.36.01.

GLC04675.36.02

1963

Bachrach, Fabian, 1917-2010

Photograph

Title: [John F. Kennedy photograph with printed signature]

Portrait of Kennedy in a pinstripe suit, pictured from the chest up.

GLC04675.37

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

6 August 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: [Commission of James B. McPherson as Captain in the Corps of Engineers]

This document is a record of the commission of James B. McPherson, signed by Abraham Lincoln as President and countersigned by Simon Cameron, Secretary of War. Also signed recorded in the Adjutant General's office 10 August 1861 by L. Thomas, Adjutant General. Includes vignette engravings of war weapons, supplies, and flags by J.V.N. and C.H and a spread eagle at the top. Accompanied by a blue seal.

GLC04680

21 July 1823

Yates, Joseph Christopher, 1768-1837

Autograph endorsement

Title: to James Monroe

Letter from Yates as Governor of New York to Monroe as President. The letter seems to be in a secretarial hand and signed by Yates. Docketed by Monroe on verso. Forwarded to Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, who also docketed the letter. Neither Monroe's nor Adams's signature is on the document. Yates wrote to express outrage over a British law passed on 5 August 1822, which restricted American free trade down the St. Lawrence River at Quebec. Asks that negotiations be entered with Britain and if they are unsuccessful to retaliate by creating additional duties on British bottoms. Repairs…

GLC04682

13 January 1807

Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Law

Endorses the plans of Benjamin Latrobe for a canal on the eastern and western branches of the Potomac. Describes the proposed canal. Compares it's potential to bolster commerce to the Duke of Bridgewater's canal in Manchester (which Fulton had studied while in England). Discusses the canal's expected cost and how it will be recovered through the canal's commercial advantages. Fulton concludes by deeming the project fiscally superior to the proposal to construct a bridge. Law was possibly involved with appropriations for public works in Washington, D.C.

GLC04687

1861-1866 circa

Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885

Photograph album

Title: [Photograph album of Major Schuyler Colfax]

Album belonging to Schuyler Colfax with over one hundred cartes des visite of New York, Washington, famous policians and other sights. Includes forty outdoor cartes of New York City by E & H.T. Anthony; 16 of Washington and environs by Gardner and by Gardner & Gibson; 12 of Richmond by George O. Ennis; and 5 of Boston by John Soule; 26 portraits by Anthony (Grant, Farragut, Sherman, etc.), Lee and Jefferson Davis by Vannerson and Jones, etc. The album is full calf with beaded decorations and brass clasp edges with all edges gilt, with silver beads sewn over original leather on cover…

GLC04689

1806

Peake, Thomas, 1771-1838

Book

Title: A compendium of the law of evidence

The second American edition, from the second London edition. Printed for P. Byrne, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Explains details and rules which govern English legal proceedings using cases as examples. Includes a table of cases cited, a preface to both the first and second editions, and an appendix. With Webster's name written twice but not in his hand.

GLC04620

3 November 1864

Upton, Emory, 1839-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Oliver Edwards

General Upton intends to do all he can for Edwards, who did not receive promotion to the rank of general. Writes, "...it has been your misfortune to have performed your bravest deeds unwitnessed by a superior officer but justice must and will be rendered you your promotion should go back to May 12th, for what you did on that day, of which I was a personal witness; but aside from all that Winchester alone entitles you to promotion. I shall never forget how beautifully you brought your noble Brigade forward..." Promises to inform General Philip Sheridan, commanding Army of the Shenandoah and…

GLC04622

1849/08

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Anne C. Lynch

Thanks Lynch for a signed collection of her poems that she sent as a gift. Written at the Allanlee House.

GLC04623.02

2 February 1837

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morgan F. Thomas

Massachusetts Senator Webster writes to Thomas, a lawyer in Milford, Pennsylvania, regarding a case involving James Blumenson of Missouri.

GLC04623.04

1845/03/22

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Monroe Jr. re: politics, Webster's presidential run, Polk's removals

Addressed to the President's nephew

GLC04623.05

23 July 1827

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Colonel Aspenwall

General Scott writes to Aspinwall, possibly Thomas Aspinwall, American Consul General in London. Recommends Wyndham Robertson of Richmond, Virginia, who plans to visit Europe. Writes, "May I beg you to show him any civility in your power & particularly present him to such persons as may be useful to him?"

GLC04623.06

22 April 1676

Rawson, Edward, fl. 1676

Autograph document signed

Title: [Order to the Major of Suffolk to send troops to help protect Concord and Medfield].

Written as Secretary of the Council of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1650-1686) to the leader of the Massachusetts Milita in Dorchester (the Major of Suffolk) a few days after the 18 April 1676 attack on Sudbury during King Philip's War.

GLC04629

February 26, 1775

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Autograph note signed

Title: to David Hartley

Signed in text in the opening of the note and written in the third-person: "Dr. Franklin presents..." Sarcastically explains British methods for taxing the American colonies. Date from docket.

GLC04632

2 April 1862

Plattenburg, Alfred W., fl. 1862

Broadside

Title: to Alfred P. Putnam

Plattenburg, an agent working for the Western Sanitary Commission, sends Reverend Putnam a report of his mission to deliver hospital stores to Union troops fighting in Arkansas and Missouri. His report is printed on the same page with the orders he received to undertake the journey. To encourage donations to the Commission, he states "I am fully convinced that no army was (so far as provision for the wounded was concerned,) ever sent into the field in such destitute condition as ours ... Could the kind and sympathizing men and women of our loyal States, who place these abundant…

GLC04633

7 December 1864

Defoe, William W., fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Emery Defoe

Defoe, a Civil War soldier, updates his parents on Union progress, stating "as yet we have had few killed the soldiers are all in good Spirits and fear nothing." Continues writing at a later time, requesting that if he is killed in battle, his parents ensure that his son George W. Defoe receives a proper education. Again resumes writing at a later time to relate the events of a recent battle, stating "this has been one of the bloodiest battles that has been fought since the war began. the Rebs have lost in killed and wounded Near (17,000) seventeen thousand." Accompanied by a United States…

GLC04634

16 September 1864

Kappes, Charles, fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sim Van Winkel

Kappes, a Union soldier waiting for his discharge in the Annapolis United States General Hospital, relates the events of his capture to friends in New Jersey. Reports that while engaged in battle near Richmond, Virginia, his corps was surrounded by Confederate soldiers and forced to surrender, after which he was taken as a prisoner. Complains of poor conditions prisoners were exposed to while on Belle Island, near Richmond, stating "I was almost starved and then such rations as they do give why the farmers of the north would not be guilty of giving it to his hogs if he did the old Pig would…

GLC04635

30 June 1862

Campbell, Fannie, fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas E. Vermilye

Campbell, a nurse, informs Pastor Vermilye of events which took place while she rode aboard the Union hospital steamer, the Kennebec, travelling to White House, Virginia. States that while on the Pamunkey River, the Kennebec met many transports traveling in the opposite direction, escaping fires and battle that raged behind them. The Kennebec then retreated to Yorktown, Virginia, as "mild flowers were blooming on the banks Nature in her rich June dress enthroned like a queen sat bland and smiling as if the bloodred hand of civil war was not lifted in her domain." Reports that General…

GLC04636

circa 1864

Gillespie, Elizabeth Duane, 1821-1901

Broadside

Title: [Announcement for the Central Fair Letter Boxes]

Gillespie, postmistress for the Central Fair, directs Fair participants to "Letter-Boxes, as a great convenience to all desiring to correspond with visitors to the Fair; as well as for letters to be delivered throughout the City, or at the Post Office for mailing." Summarizes mailing requirements and rates.

GLC04637