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to Alfred Burr re: hopes for Democratic party success in Connecticut [fragment]

Undated. Written as Democratic Senator from Illinois, to Burr, as Democratic State Central Committee.

GLC02925.11

to Henry Champion Deming

Responds to a previous letter from Deming, Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, in which Deming requested a donation to honor Alfred Edmund Burr, Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee. Expresses enthusiasm in providing a testimonial for Burr...

GLC02925.12

to Thomas H. Seymour re: letter of introduction for Mr. and Mrs. Stone

GLC02925.13

to Alfred E. Burr

Asks Burr to write a letter to Thomas J. Rusk, even though he had previously asked Gideon Welles to do so. Also asks Burr to send him the "piece you spoke of in the Times, the Santa Anna letter, and the last 'Times'."

GLC02925.14

to Alfred Burr

Remarks, " ... my conviction that this is preeminently the time, possibly the only time, for an earnest & successful effort to overthrow sectionalism in the Northern States." Marked private at top.

GLC02925.15

to Alfred Edmund Burr

Wood, Mayor of New York City, informs Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, that he will be able to speak at a political convention preceding the 1860 Presidential election. Written on New York Mayor's Office...

GLC02925.24

Items related to the creation of the Robert Gould Shaw Monument by Augustus Saint-Gaudens [Decimalized .01-.06]

GLC02928

Official copy, permitting Hugh Witt to get land & settle in Texas (in Spanish)

Written in Spanish, signed for Austin by Samuel May Williams. Streeter, Texas 9.

GLC02930

Memorandum re: purchase of land by Elijah Roark

GLC02932

New Arkansas & Texas Land Co. grant to Sylvester Davis (cos. Jackson & Curtis)

Numbered 3895. Cosigned by Daniel Jackson and Edward Curtis. Streeter, Texas Rev. 1138.1.

GLC02933

Capital stock certificate for $50 for land in Portland, Republic of Texas

Signed as agent for sales. Engraved stock certificate. Streeter, Texas 450. Written at Galveston

GLC02934

[Receipt for $25 from W. Rhodes for surveying headright of James O. Rice]

Records the payment by De Cordova and James O. Rice to W. Rhodes, "administrator on the Estate of J.P. Kimball," for locating and surveying Rice's headright.

GLC02935

The Texas cook book.... [first Texas cookbook]

Edited by the Lady's Association of the First Presbyterian Church. Standard fare plus some ethnic dishes. With 60 interleaved manuscript recipes.

GLC02936

Address to the reader of the documents relating to the Galveston Bay....

One of the first accounts of Texas written in English. Printed by G.F. Hopkins and Sons. First edition, first issue, printed without appendix. Graff 1494, Howes S1137.

GLC02937

[Sale of land to Archibald Hotchkiss]

Sale of land document from John Davidson to Archibald Hotchkiss. Handwritten note in pencil on top of document: "Galveston Bay: Texas Land co. 450." Docket on verso.

GLC02938

Land grant [1840] to Levi Jones & Edward Hall of 18215 acres on Galveston Island

Certified copy signed by George W. Smyth as Land Office Commissioner.

GLC02939

Republic of Texas Treasury warrant for $1000 signed by Compt. S. B. Shaw

Texas Treasury warrant endorsed on verso by Jones as Secretary of State for the Republic of Texas. Signed by Samuel B. Shaw as comptroller and Charles Mason as auditor.

GLC02940

Grand Can[y]on of the Yellowstone

Yellowstone Series, 1871. Negative number 252.

GLC03095.52

Grand Can[y]on of the Yellowstone

Yellowstone Series, 1871. No negative number assigned.

GLC03095.53

Yellowstone River, Above the Falls

Yellowstone Series, 1871. Negative number 258.

GLC03095.54

[Steam vent and explorer]

Negative number 262.

GLC03095.55

Yellowstone River, Near the Lake

Yellowstone Series, 1871. Negative number 266.

GLC03095.56

Column Rocks

Yellowstone Series, 1871. Negative number 238.

GLC03095.57

Cinnabar Mountain, From Below

Yellowstone Series, 1871. No negative number assigned.

GLC03095.58

Mounts Doane and Stevenson

Yellowstone Series, 1871. Negative number cut off.

GLC03095.59