Search | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Our Collection

At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Start New Search

87506 search results

Filter:

Only return results with full-sized images

Sort by

Advanced search

Keyword

Author

Subjects

Place written

Year

Sub-era

1899/09/20

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nellie Taft re: tired of living without his wife

"Charley and I agreed last night that we were tired of living without our wives. We don't feel quite respectable and we are confident we are not happy." Writes that he wants to get a railroad car for his wife and others to travel in comfort. Discusses news of friends.

GLC05585.02

1899/09/21

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nellie Taft re: President McKinley, nomination, politics and campaigning

Mentions that President McKinley believes he has friends in Cincinnati. One person who he assumed was his friend would prefer to nominate someone else. Mentions that his walks on Syracuse Hill are for medical purposes.

GLC05585.03

September 23, 1899

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nellie Taft re: news of friends, university president, golf games

Mentions that the new University president wants to make changes.

GLC05585.04

October 1899

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nellie Taft re: girls who have applied to be his nurse, cook, laundress, etc.

Accompanied by a description of one young woman.

GLC05585.05

30 June 1790

Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander Johnson

Thanks Doctor Johnson for his earlier letter and papers containing, ". . . directions by which persons in whom the vital powers are suspended either by natural causes or by accident may be restored to live." Tells Johnson he will exert himself to preserve the health and happiness of mankind, the citizens of Connecticut in particular. Docketed by Huntington as a copy. Contains numerous strikeouts.

GLC05586

19 March 1776

Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Page

He is happy to hear the mutinous spirits of the soldiers have been subdued and hopes it can be prevented in the future. Remarks, "the putrid fever rages so much in the Norfolk fleet . . ." Discusses officers' commissions and appointments. Hopes some arrangements will be made for procuring salt. Remarks that the men are governed by their present feelings and will riot when the need for salt arises. Expresses concern that not all the Continental troops are under Colonial direction.

GLC05587

12 May 1798

Cabot, George, 1752-1823

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jonathan Williams

Cabot, former United States Senator, informs Williams that he "must decline the Secretaryship of the Navy; to this determination I was ultimately brought by a full conviction that I cou'd not go through the labor of an office so difficult ... in estimating the forces that cou'd be employed to overcome the obstacles in a path hitherto untrod in this country I assure you that my mind constantly resorted to you as the principle, & if I cou'd have been induced to take upon myself so weighty an engagement I shou'd have relied greatly upon your assistance in every part of the performance of it…

GLC05588.01

1759/04/25

Ruggles, Timothy, 1711-1795

Autograph document signed

Title: Ordering troops to Lunenburg and Halifax

Ordering Col. Thomas to take troops to relieve the garrison at Lunenburg (N.S.) and then for the relieved officer to go to Halifax.

GLC05588.02

5 August 1757

De Lancey, James, 1703-1760

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Captain William Conventry to Aide de Camp]

Countersigned by Deputy Secretary of the province Goldsbrow Banyar and witnessed by his clerk, John Godby. Includes official seal. Written in Fort George neighborhood of New York, New York .

GLC05588.04

29 September 1780

Warren, James, 1726-1808

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Bingham

Sends a bill of exchange (not included) drawn by Messrs. Otis & Henley on Charles Pettit for $43,480.

GLC05588.05

30 November 1818

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John C. Calhoun

Acknowledges the appointment of an agent to the Choctaw Indian Nation. Expresses gratitude that the treaty he and Isaac Shelby brokered with the Chickasaws met with then Secretary of War Calhoun's approval. In the treaty, the Chickasaw relinquished their claims to land east of the Mississippi River and north of the Mississippi state line and were given a $20,000, fifteen-year annuity. After Secretary of War Calhoun's approval, President Monroe made the agreement official on January 7, 1819. As a result, both Kentucky and Tennessee expanded far beyond their former border, the Tennessee…

GLC05589

28 December 1874

Kell, John McIntosh, 1823-1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Raphael Semmes

Writes to Semmes about "my recollection of the capture of the Whaling Ship Levi Starbuck." Gives a detailed description of the events leading up to the ship's capture and the situation of the Levi Starbuck's prisoners on board -- "I most solemnly hold that no prisoners on board of the Alabama were treated with severity" but "greater restrictions were necessary...perhaps confinement in irons." Mentions that a man named Whitney claims that "the loss of the use of his hands" occurred while he was imprisoned on the Alabama and calls the accusation "simply absurd." Writes that Whitney…

GLC05591

26 September 1862

Gorman, Willis Arnold, 1816-1876

Letter signed

Title: to Francis M. Rotch

Discusses placement of New York troops, losses at Antietam, and reinforcements. "Now, since the battle of Antietam the loss...of my whole brigade, is so great, that I would ask that six companies for each of the two N.Y. regts might be sent me." Says he can easily make room for these new companies by consolidating old ones, which is acceptable to his men.

GLC05592

5 June 1862

Owen, Lemuel, fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Adi Meyers

Recipient is from Clear Creek, New York. Reports death of friend at Fair Oaks and mentions General O. O. Howard. Writes, "General Howard rode up to us & said 'The 64th Must not brake.' " On patriotic letterhead and envelope.

GLC05594

1861-1865 ca.

Header Record

Title: Cartes de visite of Farragut, Porter and Worden [decimalized]

Carte de visites of Admirals David G. Farragut, David D. Porter and John L. Worden.

GLC05595

1863

Jacobs, E., fl. 1863

Photograph signed

Title: David Glasgow Farragut

Depicts Farragut standing 3/4 length in Napoleonic pose, holding cap and wearing sword. Pencil inscription on verso (not DGD's writing) "Presented 1863 sent from N.O. [New Orleans]." Signed on mount and verso. Photographer imprint on verso.

GLC05595.01

1865

Willard, O.H., fl. 1865

Photograph signed

Title: Porter and Gen. Meade

Title from verso. Depicts David Dixon Porter and George G. Meade seated facing each other on opposite sides of small round table. Porter's hat is on the table. Meade wears one star. Photographer imprint on verso. Signed on mount.

GLC05595.02