1897/05/30

Fiske, John, 1842-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to the Review of Reviews re: about article edits

GLC02453.12

1901/01/14

Fiske, John, 1842-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to H. L. Sibley re: about writing plans

GLC02453.13

1884/08/06

George, Henry, 1839-1897

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Knight re: about writing an essay

GLC02453.14

1876/11/27

Gilder, Richard W., fl. 1876

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Stedman re: a letter enclosing other people's poems (not included)

Gilder was an American poet and editor

GLC02453.15

1874/09/26

Hayne, Paul H., fl. 1874

Autograph letter signed

Title: to an unknown recipient re: publication of a poem "My Daughter"

GLC02453.16

1843/04/13

Hoffman, Charles, fl. 1843

Autograph letter signed

Title: to B. F. Schneck re: personal matters

Charles Fenno Hoffman, founder of the Knickerbocker magazine?

GLC02453.17

1867/10/01

Holland, Josiah, fl. 1867

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward De Forest re: about lecture tour

Holland was the founder of "Scribner's" magazine

GLC02453.18

1826/03/02

Hopkinson, Joseoph, 1770-1842

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James C. Fisher re: personal matters

GLC02453.19

1853/02/23

Lossing, Benson, fl. 1853

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown recipient re: thank you letter for a note

GLC02453.22

1869/05/13

Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to W. R. Darling re: reply to someone asking him for a job

Motley was an American historian.

GLC02453.24

1871/08/01

Parton, James, fl. 1871

Autograph letter signed

Title: to an unknown recipient re: about a lecture tour

Parton was an American biographer

GLC02453.25

1850 ca.?

Payne, John H., fl. 1850

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Sanford re: personal matters

American actor and playwright of the mid-nineteenth century.

GLC02453.26

1856/02/25

Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872

Manuscript signed

Title: To the poets (from The New Pastoral) [poem]

GLC02453.28

1899/12/05

Rhodes, James Ford, 1848-1927

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Searle re: accepts a dinner invitation

GLC02453.29

1887/06/13

Roe, Edward P., fl. 1887

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Richmond re: thank you note for comments on his writing

GLC02453.31

1861/06/30

Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: Birds [poem]

GLC02453.33

[1900 ca.]

Tabb, John B. (John Banister), 1845-1909

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: The grave digger [poem] [signature overwritten by another person]

GLC02453.34

1861 ca.?

Timrod, Henry, 1828-1867

Document signed

Title: Signed cover of his book of poems, inscribed to his sister Emily T. Goodwin

Timrod, the "laureate of the Confederacy." Undated. Date assigned without authority.

GLC02453.35

[1847/03]

Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "Harris" re: political views, "clearly wrong to take money from emigrants"

GLC02453.36

1860/05/02

Worcester, Joseph, 1784-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Smith re: giving a copy of his dictionary to a friend

Worcester was the editor of "Chalmer's Dictionary".

GLC02453.37

1864/February/23

Sigel, Franz, 1824-1902

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown [in German]

Letter in Old German. Two bust engravings of Sigel included as collateral.

GLC02458.14

5 December [1861]

Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles S. Hamilton

Authorizes Hamilton to make his Brigade Head Quarters with his Wisconsin regiment. Must have been written during 1861, since this was the only year during which Hamilton would have been in the vicinity of Maryland and under Bank's command during the month of December. Banks resigned from the army in April 1863, and in December 1862 he was serving in the Western theater.

GLC02459.02

February 16, 1865

Law, Evander McIver, 1836-1920

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Colonel

Writes to a Colonel whose name is unspecified the day before Union General William T. Sherman's troops destroyed much of Columbia (Law was one general in charge of evacuating the city). Requests that forces under Captain D. H. Hamilton (possibly Daniel H. Hamilton), Provost Marshal, be ordered to report to him. Further requests "that the Battalion of State Cadets be also ordered to report to me for police duty in the city." Notes that the force under his command for police duty is insufficient. Law writes from Office of the Provost Marshal.

GLC02459.20

1863/02/20

Hatch, John Porter, 1822-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gen. John T. Sprague re: an appointment

Sprague was Adjutant General.

GLC02465.15

1861/12/17

Patrick, Marsena R., 1811-1888

Autograph letter signed

Title: to S. N. Burt re: investigating and commissioning soldiers

Regarding a case of fraud practiced on two officers, and querying re seniority of two captains. "Onderdonk has raised the Squadron...to a very efficient state, working as it for the last 5 months steadily...."

GLC02465.18