1864/06/10

Smith, Henry W., 1836-1869

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Smith re: Grant, Richmond and a spy matter

"Reinforcements are being sent down all the time, but Richmond must be starved out. That miserable city if protected by 5 lines if splendid fortifications, on which Mr. Lee has laid himself out.... I have tried to see Clara Howard... she is charged with being a spy... if she is guilty I do not want her sex to protect her."

GLC06941

1869/12/22

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

Manuscript document signed

Title: Pardon of William W. Copper (c/s Hamilton Fish)

Convicted of counterfeiting

GLC06942

1929/02/22

Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Cornelius Greenway re: advice on education, work, etc.

Thanking Greenway for his note and writing "If my saying that the best thing students can do is to work hard and improve themselves has been of any help to you I am glad I thought to say it..." On White House stationery.

GLC06946

1789/10/17

Fenno, John, 1751-1798

Newspaper

Title: Gazette of the United States. [No. 54 (October 17, 1789)]

Regarding the quorum obtained in the First Session of Senate; votes for President and Vice-President counted; with mention of George Washington's first tour. Disbound, leaves are now separate.

GLC06959.02

1791/01/26

Fenno, John, 1751-1798

Newspaper

Title: Gazette of the United States. [Vol. 2, no. 78 (January 26, 1791)]

Concerning the proclamation by Washington and Jefferson defining the boundaries of the "Federal City on the Potomac" and Hamilton's closing remarks in a report on public credit. Two sheets, no longer joined.

GLC06960

1791/10/29

Fenno, John, 1751-1798

Newspaper

Title: Gazette of the United States. [Vol. 3, no. 53 (October 29, 1791)]

Contains Washington's proclamation on rules for building in Washington, D.C. as well as a list of members of the Second Congress.

GLC06961

1863/06/04

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: Four Language Whaling Ship's papers from New Bedford, MA (c/s Seward)

Dated at New Bedford. Large sheet, printed in four columns (French, Spanish, English and Dutch) countersigned by William H. Seward. Shipmaster Nehemiah West for the schooner Glendmer, bound for "Atlantic Ocean."

GLC06962

1916/08/29

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Pamphlet signed

Title: Address of the President of the United States

Regarding rights of railroad workers (8 hour days, overtime pay, etc.). Signed on page 8.

GLC06963

1865/06/26

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Manuscript document signed

Title: Pardon of William Maller of Lynchburg, Va. for participating in the Rebellion

Countersigned by W. Hunter as Acting Sec. of State.

GLC06964

1925/03/04

Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

Typed quotation signed

Title: Quotation from inaugural address re: Imperialism

Extract from his inaugural address: "America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions." On White House stationery

GLC06968

1790/07/01

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Broadside

Title: An act providing the means of intercourse between the US and foreign nations

Printed by Childs & Swayne. First printing. This act specifies the salaries to be paid to those officials representing the U.S. abroad. Not in Evans or NUC.

GLC06986

1862/04/13

Halleck, H.W. (Henry Wager), 1815-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edwin M. Stanton, re: W.T. Sherman promotion to Major General

Requests that W.T. Sherman be promoted to Major General because he was "in the thickest of the fight both days, having three horses killed under him and being wounded twice" at the Battle of Shiloh

GLC06884

1862/09/03

Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Abraham Lincoln, re: recommending Capt. David A. Demmeritt of the CA Vols.

GLC06885

1863/02/19

Schofield, John McAllister, 1831-1906

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Abraham Lincoln, re: seeking position of military governor of Arkansas

Asking Lincoln to be considered a candidate for military governor of Arkansas

GLC06886

1861/07/08-1861/12/27

Pitcher, Henry, fl. 1862-1891

Diary

Title: Diary of member of 33rd New York Regimental Band

Diary of musician, includes descriptions of 2 photos taken by Mathew Brady, on field near Bull Run (included as .02 and .03), as well as review by Lincoln and McClellan, Professor Lowe warning of enemy's advance from his balloon, etc.

GLC06889.01

1852 after

Object

Title: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" banner [on cloth]

Red banner with nine scenes from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Textile.

GLC06894

1920 ca.

Header Record

Title: Letters to Mrs. [Sarah Secor] Edward Bissell re: Suffrage [decimalized]

Four letters originally mounted on a board with ribbons and a "Votes for Women" felt banner in a display prepared ca. 1920. They were a part of the Bisselll Archive and Suffrage Memorabilia.

GLC06895

1897/06/18

Anthony, Susan B., 1820-1906

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Edward Bissell re: receiving funds for NAWSA

The letter also requests any letters written to Sarah Secor (Mrs. Edward) Bissell.

GLC06895.01

1890/06/13

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Edward Bissel re: a letter acompanying leaflets

Leaflets started as "Almost anything will pass muster if well read....& the best thing can be spoiled if badly read."

GLC06895.02

1886/10/16

Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Edward Bissell re: a thank you letter for the Toledo Report

The letter also wishes that all members "belonged to the American W.S.A."

GLC06895.03

1920/06/24

Upton, Harriet T., 1853-1945

Typed letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Edward Bissell re: collecting histories of Ohio suffrage associations

GLC06895.04

[1917?]

Object

Title: Votes for Women [small yellow felt banner, with collateral bow]

Banner is on yellow felt. Accompanied by separate blue, red and yellow ribbon with bow). A later note indicates that the "chest bow" was owned by suffrage supporter Mrs. Walter Bissell.

GLC06895.05

1865 ca.

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

Pamphlet

Title: "Nelly's Hospital" reprinted by U.S. Sanitary Commission for "our young folks"

Fiction.

GLC06896

1863/03/05

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Letter signed

Title: Transmittal of S.C. act guaranteeing Conference bonds

With brad hole. Slightly damaged when removed from brad.

GLC06897.01

1862/11/28

Reynolds, Alexander W., fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. S. Patton re: daily life & grievances

"If Floyd should be elected senator... in all probability, I would be appointed to his command. I would to God it would be so as I would then get rid of Jefferson Davis and his kin." Signature separate, clipped from a piece of blue paper. Written at Camp Lanore, E.T.

GLC06898