1865 ca.

Metcalf, fl. 1865

Photograph

Title: [Carte de visite of cadet]

With 2-cent tax stamp on verso.

GLC06440

1862 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [Benson's battery of horse artillery near Fair Oaks]

No. 433 in series.

GLC06441

1863 May

Black, J.W., 1825-1896

Photograph

Title: Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence

Depicts Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence "redeemed in Virginia by Catherine S. Lawrence; baptized in Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher..." Full-length standing portrait. Shows Fanny standing with her hands on hips, wearing a day dress, cape and hat. Her hair is fashionably curled. Published by J.W. Black, Boston.

GLC06445

1865, 1890 ca.

Photograph signed

Title: [John S. Mosby]

Original photograph was taken ca. 1865 but this half-tone (from a book?) was signed ca. 1890.

GLC06448

1890 ca.

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Header Record

Title: [Stereoviews of Roosevelt as President and Rough Rider] [Decimalized]

Includes images of Roosevelt giving speeches, campaigning, the Rough Riders, the Spanish American war. Some images are captioned with portions of his political speeches. Mostly published by Underwood & Underwood. [decimalized: .01-.55]

GLC06449

1911/05/19

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Charles C. Duryee re: preventing crime

"We ought to do much more than is now done towards the abolition of the conditions that tend to breed crime." On "Outlook" stationery, with 6 words added by T.R. on p. 2.

GLC06463

1804/11/28

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph note signed

Title: to [Charles Wilson] re: postscript on polygraph modifications [fragment]

A postscript signed with initials

GLC06468

1794/07/05

Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796

Letter signed

Title: to Francis Vigo re: thanks for measures taken to procure information

Also states that the Spanish attempt to establish a port a Chickasaw Bluff is "an aggression of the highest nature."

GLC06479.02

1794/09/29

Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796

Letter signed

Title: to Francis Vigo re: battle of Fallen Timbers

"The enemy amounted to two thousand men, who were beat and totally routed by less than half that number."

GLC06479.03

1794/06/24

Vigo, Francis, fl. 1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Anthony Wayne re: responding to Wayne's request for intelligence [draft]

Apparently a letter draft.

GLC06479.04

1898/07/25

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Miguel Otero re: Battle of San Juan Hill

Describes the daring and resolution of New Mexico officers and troops in battle.

GLC06480

1792/05/31

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Mease re: thanks for Mease's dissertation on canine madness

ALS in the third person, written horizontally and signed in text at the beginning. Thanking Mease for his "very learned and ingenious dissertation on canine madness" and discussing insanity. Jefferson mentions a cure by mercury of an American captive in Algiers, a cure mentioned in Mease's book. He suggests an experiment with animals, infecting them with madness and then attempting the cures. Docketed, with loss at the upper right corner of the address leaf.

GLC06510

1814/06/29

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Mease re: origins of the Taliaferro apple, its quality, cyder

Responding to a letter about Hughes's crab apple. (Spelling Mease's name "Maese.") He tells the origins of the Taliaferro apple by Major Taliaferro about 60 years before, near Williamsburg, and which he called the Robertson apple. When Taliferro "made a cask of cyder [it was]... the finest they had ever seen." Jefferson compares the Hughes crab apple to the Taliaferro and finds the latter "has more body, is less acid, and comes nearer to the silky Champaigne than any other." Written in Monticello

GLC06511

1809/08/25

Pinckney, Charles C., fl. 1746-1825

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Mease

Thanks him for sending a Spanish merino ram. Discusses problems with breeding because the ram does not seem interested in the ewes. Describes his sheep pasture and thanks Mease for his advice. Comments on his desire to breed for merino wool on a Barbary carcase.

GLC06512

1831/04/29

Miller, Joseph, fl. 1819-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Mease

Responds to Mease's query about the causes of a boiler explosion aboard the steamboat Philadelphia. Blames the accident on a combination of factors including the age of the boiler and the rust accumulated on it. Places most of the blame, however, on the engineer, who he argues was not well trained and tried to generate more steam than the engine could safely maintain. James Mease (1771-1846) was a prominent Philadelphia physician and scientific thinker. Joseph Miller was captain of the steamboat "Bristol."

GLC06515

1782/08/13

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806

Letter signed

Title: to John Langdon re: financing ship "America"

"Circumstances of various kinds had brought down my notes to a very considerable discount... in this situation not having money, the states neglecting to raise taxes and heavy demands pouring in on me from every quarter, I had daily to encounter difficulties which I hourly expected to sink under."

GLC06533

1800/12/23

Shurburne, John, fl. 1800

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Langdon re: gloating over Republican victory in election of 1800

GLC06534

1800/12/29

Sullivan, James, 1744-1808

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Langdon re: election of 1800, support of Jefferson, Adams temper

Also, the need "to maintain our Republic upon the glorious principles of the Constitution."

GLC06535

1836/11/20

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Manuscript document

Title: Copy of Santa Anna's release as prisoner of war

Granting Santa Anna safe passage to Washington D.C.

GLC06284.01

1805/08/13

Thornton, William, fl. 1805-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Eaton re: cover letter on relations with Algiers and Barbary pirates

Eaton was American naval agent at Tripoli. Calls the enclosed document (.01) a "Holy Roll." He writes in part "I inclose you the Blessing & mysteries revealed to the chief maiabout Philosopher, astronomer, soothsayer & magician of the west."

GLC06304.02

1832/11/27

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Blunt

Discusses an example of a British sailor executed for serving on an American ship during the war of 1812. Also discusses Andrew Jackson's election, de-emphasizing its importance, and comments that "the real difficulties of the Country are in another quarter," referring to slavery and the nullification crisis. Closes by quipping: "Van Buren seems to have got the start of Mr. Calhoun, but the whirligig of Time brings about its revenges."

GLC06312

1836/05/03

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Aaron Hobart

Writes that Daniel Webster, in his attempt to gain control of the Senate, has destroyed his own ambitions to be President and any Senate opposition to Jackson. Has "no confidence in the present administration" regarding the national bank crisis and currency. Also discusses confirmation of Roger B. Taney as Chief Justice, and Henry Clay's continuing opposition to Jackson.

GLC06314

1837/04/05

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gerrit Smith

Political situation, Gag Rule, opposition to slavery. "The condition of the African race in this Union has ever been to me subject of deep concern... I have felt an anxious wish that slavery might be abolished... throughout the Union and throughout the world... [but] the people of the free states are spell-bound by the talisman of ambition to sustain the slavery of the south."

GLC06315

1882/06/01

Guiteau, Charles, 1841-1882

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: My Case [poem]

Faded ink. "For Saturday's Star." A poem justifying his assassination of President Garfield. "I executed / the Divine command. And Garfield did remove / to save my party / and my country / from the bitter fate of war...." The fifth page has had a slip of paper attached to lower third of page, adding six lines of poetry. (Some staining from the glue used.)

GLC06319

1837/02/25

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William H. Ellis

Written six days before the end of his second term as president. Jackson "Hopes he has administered the government to the approbation of the Democratic Republicans...The only desire I have now is, to see my beloved country prosperous and happy." Presents an "Eagle of his country" to Ellis' son, named after the President, and says he will pray for the boy.

GLC06321