1833/05/17

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Letter signed

Title: to Robley Dunglison re: his failing health, University of Virginina

Written in the hand of Dolley Madison.

GLC07524

1836/06/28

Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849

Autograph note signed

Title: to Eliza Lee re: sending large lock of James Madison's hair on day of his death

Note reading "James Madison's Hair" with the date. It appears to be written on the address panel of letter (not present). The large lock of hair is colored mostly gray and blond.

GLC07525

1798/10/27

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Nicholson re: transmitting a letter in French

"The enclosed letter sent me by Mr. Lazenove will give you an opportunity of exercising and displaying your knowledge..."

GLC07526

1872/06/08

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Document signed

Title: Pardon of John A. Price, convicted of using counterfeit money (c/s Hale)

Signed by Grant in purple ink. Countersigned by Charles Hale.

GLC07567

1835/03/30

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Document signed

Title: Patent granted for improvements in horsepower

Much of the text has faded and was overwritten with blue ink. Tied with pink ribbon.

GLC07569

1829/04/03

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Document signed

Title: Patent issued to Ephraim Gilbert for the construction of gun locks

Countersigned by Martin Van Buren. On parchment, with red ribbon.

GLC07585

1801/01/18

Marshall, John, fl. 1801

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Winthrop Sargent re: receiving documents & dividing up Mississippi territory

Date is 1801, and recipient is most likley Winthrop Sargent, who at the time was governor of the Mississippi Territory. Internal evidence and the handwriting on the endorsement point to Sargent, per Charles Hobson, Marshall Papers.

GLC07586

1776/09/12

Hampton, John, fl. 1776

Manuscript document

Title: Muster roll with volunteer sign-up sheet for Mass. minutemen

Volunteer sheet (48.8 x 16.5 cm) signed by 40 men. Muster roll (29.5 x 33.4 cm).

GLC07564

1777/02/15

Cotton, Thomas, fl. 1777

Manuscript

Title: re: invoking 7th Clause of Militia Act by ordering minutemen to equip themselves

"A good fire arm . . . and a bayonet fitted to his gun . . ."

GLC07565

1845/11/03

Manuscript document

Title: Counterfeiting Indictment. State of Ohio v. Hiram Hobbs

Printed on paper. Legal action brought by Harrison County against Hobbs for counterfeiting. With three sketches of counterfeit notes. Docketed. Subscribed in print by John Forsythe and B.F. Butler.

GLC07570

1781/06/13

Charlus, Armand, fl. 1781

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Compte de la Perouse re: late arrival of a convoy; Rochambeau

GLC07571

1861/10/01

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Sitcher

Written to Gov. Sitcher of Virginia.

GLC07572

1866/11/10

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ulysses S. Grant re: Mexico, maintaining a low profile

"I have acted altogether on the theory that the first and most important principle of my last mission was to get out of sight." With small note glued to back.

GLC07573

1868/11/09

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to W.C. Davis re: specie payments and gold

"I quite agree with you that we cannot both sell our gold and resume at the same time..."

GLC07575

1781/03/26

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: to Eldest Magistrate of Berkeley Co. re: supplies needed by Continental Army

Printed circular letter addressed to the Eldest Magistrate in Berkeley County. "I am therefore to desire that you will be pleased to order the wag[g]on, team, driver, and appendages expected from your county...".

GLC07577

1794/11/15

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Lee re: foreign affairs

"It appears... that G.B. is beginning to relax in her injurious policy towards this country and that some favorable issue may be expected to the mission of Mr. Jay."

GLC07578

1797/11/25

Jay, John, 1745-1829

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Peter A. Jay re: Napoleon & the French Revolution

"There must be in the Republic an unprecedented & unparalleled want of virtue."

GLC07579

1864/05/22

Coburn, John, fl. 1864

Manuscript document signed

Title: Battle Report of 20th Corps Brigade [Atlanta campaign]

Battle Report of 20th Corps Brigade leader to John Speed during Atlanta Campaign.

GLC07580

1785/02/20

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown recipient re: legal and financial issues

GLC07583

1860/08/13

Blamire, George W., fl. 1860

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Hurst re: ex-slave writes to former master

"Who would have thought...that I would be leading a band at one of the most fashenable [sic] watering holes in the state and I thank you for it and... do not think I ever shal[l] be able to pay you for the many favors you have sho[w]ne. I can never... forget the way you raised me. I do not think you would have done anymore... if I had been a white boy."

GLC07584

1864 ca.

Photograph

Title: [Tintype of Albert D.J. Cashier]

Cashier, a private in Co. G of 95th Ill. Volunteers, was trans soldier born with the name Jennie Hodgers. Seated 3/4 length tintype portrait with fellow soldier.

GLC07587

1859/11/20

Doyle, Mahala, fl. 1859

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Brown

By the widow and mother of three men killed by Brown in the Pottawatomie massacre: "My son John whose life I begged of [you] is grown up and is very desirous to be at Charlestown on the day of your execution, would certainly be there if his means would permit it, that he might adjust the rope around your neck."Published in the Liberator, 16 December 1859. Also quoted in Robert Penn Warren's John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (1929).

GLC07590

1874/06/27

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874

Broadside

Title: Open Letter to Frederick Douglass re: treatment of black cadets at West Point

GLC07592

1918 ca.

Photograph

Title: Eighth Illinois Regiment Now in France [half tone printed reproduction]

Black troops active in Europe during WWI. Two slightly different printed versions of the same photograph, one trimmed, and the other printed with a slightly grainer half-tone screen.

GLC07593

1861/03/02

Newspaper

Title: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper. [Vol. 11, no. 275 (March 2, 1861)] [uncut]

Abraham Lincoln

GLC07597