1899/08/28

Corrigan, Archbishop M.A., fl. 1899

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: The Archbishop of New York writes with suggestions for the Dewey Memorial Arch.

GLC06343.263

August 29, 1899

Philip, J.N., fl. 1899

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: Suggestion to Ward to included Commodore John Barry in his [Dewey] Arch.

Marked as "Personal," Philip goes on to site Barry's merits and service to the United States and mentions that if John Paul Jones has a place on the Arch [someone who was not actually American] than at the least a statue of Barry should be alongside him.

GLC06343.264

1899/09/09

Sanford, J.E.M., fl. 1899

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: Suggestion to Ward to included Admiral John A. Winslow in Dewey Arch.

Sanford justifies his suggestion by providing evidence of Winslow's valour and deeds, and quotes Admiral Farragut as being inf avor of the suggestion.

GLC06343.265

1899/09/11

Piatty, John J., fl. 1899

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: figures mounted on top of Dewey Arch and the construction of the Dewey Arch.

Photograph of the Dewey Arch.

GLC06343.266

1899/09/21

Foster, Warren W., fl. 1899

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: John Q.A. Ward. Re: "Reception of Admiral Dewey, by the City of New York."

Designates Ward as a member of the "Special Committee" meeting Dewey and escorting him to City Hall.

GLC06343.267

1899/09/30

Nemetz, Charles, fl. 1899

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: John Q.A. Ward. Re: criticism of Ward for making a female and not a male angel on the Dewey Arch.

Purple stamp on p. 2: "J.C. DeHaven, Druggist and News Dealer, Council Bluffs, Iowa."

GLC06343.268

1899/10/02

Belmont, August, fl. 1899

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: John Q.A. Ward. Re: support for proposition to replicate the Dewey Arch at Madison Square and contempt for "newspaper advertising."

Discusses Dewey Arch and Dewey reception; plans for replicating the Arch in Madison Square; details of the progress of the Dewey Arch sculpture; lists military heroes (John Paul Jones, Farragut, etc.) who might merit being represented in sculptural form.

GLC06343.269

1899/10/07

Eaton, D. Cady, fl. 1899

Typed letter signed

Title: To: John Q.A. Ward. Re: congratulations to Ward on his artistic endeavors involved with the creation of the Dewey Arch. [Carbon Copy]

Header reads: "D. CADY EATON, Counselor at Law, New Haven, Conn."

GLC06343.270

1899/11/04

Church, William C., fl. 1899

Typed letter signed

Title: To: John Q.A. Ward. Re: the possibility of reproducing the Dewey Arch into marble, and costs associated with it. [Carbon Copy]

Church, a representative of The Citizens Committee for Perpetuating the Dewey Arch, writes to Ward about the possibility of reproducing the Dewey Arch into a permanent form [marble].

GLC06343.271

November 1899

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Manuscript

Title: Cost estimates: "Pieces for Sculpture work on Dewey Arch."

Includes qualtity and price of each separate item.

GLC06343.272

November 1899

Council of the National Sculpture Society

Document

Title: Statement proclaiming support for Lamb to be appointed to head the efforts of constructing a permanent version of the Dewey Arch.

Scrap of Typed Manuscript, with handwritten emendations, concerning Mr. Lamb's role in erecting monuments in NYC.

GLC06343.273

1899/12/12

Belmont, August, fl. 1899

Typed letter signed

Title: To: John Q.A. Ward. Re: request by Ward for financial assistance; promises to subscribe $5000 toward the "perpetuation of the Dewey Arch."

Stationary bordered in black trim.

GLC06343.274

1868/05/22

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Manuscript document signed

Title: "Memorandum of an Agreement" or work contract. Re: creation of a statue honoring William Shakespeare in Central Park, NY.

Contract establishes commission costs, materials to be used in construction [bronze], etc.

GLC06343.275

1894/06

Document

Title: Article: "The Monumental News. American Sculptors.--J.Q.A. Ward and his Work . . . No. 6, Vol. 6"

GLC06343.276

1899/10/14

Brinton, Christian, fl. 1899

Document

Title: Article: "The Churchman . . . The Dewey Arch" with picture of "The Dewey Arch and Approach From the South" on reverse side.

Excerpt from a magazine about the Dewey Arch.

GLC06343.277

4 April 1865

Document signed

Title: [Furlough granted to Brigadier General N. C. McLean]

Written on printed Head Quarters, Department of North Carolina, Army of the Ohio stationery. Grants General Nathaniel Collins McLean a leave of absence, "with permission to proceed to Cincinnati and await the action of the War Dept on the tender of his resignation." Issued by Major General John McAllister Schofield. Signed by Schofield's assistant adjutant general, whose signature is illegible. Contains an endorsement on verso, from the same date, also signed by the assistant adjutant general, who notes "The Q M Dept will furnish transportation to Washington, D.C. to Gen McLean..."

GLC01740.05.03

1860

Bartlett, David W., fl. 1859-1860

Book

Title: Life and public services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln

Published by H. Dayton. A work encompassing the political life of Abraham Lincoln up to 1860. The book is divided into four main chapters: early history, Congress, the senatorial race, and the Republican National Convention of 1860. Bartlett was a Washington correspondent for the N.Y. Post and the N.Y. Independent. In wrappers.

GLC02913.01

1861

D. Appleton & Company, fl. 1861-1880

Photograph

Title: [Carte-de-visite of Henry W. Halleck]

Carte-de-visite of Henry W. Halleck, printed by D. Appleton & Co.

GLC00664.02

1863

Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917

Photograph

Title: [Carte-de-visite of Major General George B. McClellan and his wife]

Carte-de-visite of McClellan and his wife Ellen Marcy McClellan. Titled "Maj. Gen. Geo B. McClellan and Lady."

GLC00664.03

circa 1866

McMillan, Charles, fl. 1866

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: to William T. Sherman

Writes an inscription to Major General Sherman on a blank flyleaf apparently removed from the "History of Julius Caesar" presenting this "brochure." Hopes that Sherman will be induced to write a similar history about the Civil War. " ... this Imperial brochure may induce him to undertake at some early leisure 'Commentaries' on a war of more magnificent proportions than Cesar's Gallic one in which so much has been done by himself & this great army toward making the history of the time and illustrating the American name." Signs the inscription, "from his devoted friend and former staff…

GLC00955.01

5 December 1866

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

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Statement declining a suggestion to write his memoirs of the Civil War]

In response to a suggestion from Charles McMillan (see GLC00955.01), Sherman states that he has no intention of writing a memoir. "Where Caesar may have succeeded and it may be one or two others, the greater majority of military men have signally failed." He believes that the reports of modern officers are sufficient material for histories to be written. This way, they will be written without "the pressure of personal claims to fame." Appears to be written on a blank flyleaf removed from the "History of Julius Caesar."

GLC00955.02

25 June 1886

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

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Comment on his decision to publish his memoirs]

Inscription written by Sherman on the title page and an illustrated plate removed from the book "History of Julius Caesar." Explains that though the book was given to him by Ingram McMillan (see GLC00955.01, Sherman is possibly referring to Charles McMillan), he must downsize his library as he is now residing in Rome. Gives the book to Major Henry Hitchcock, "my friend and former Staff Officer." Comments on his 1866 dismissal of the idea of writing memoirs of the Civil War written on the foregoing page (GLC00955.02). Writes that he decided to publish his two volume memoir in 1875 because…

GLC00955.03

6 October 1897

McLean, Nathaniel Collins, 1815-1905

Typed letter signed

Title: [To historian John C. Ropes on the topic of the Battle of Second Manassas]

GLC01740.05.01 and .02 were originally bound together. Accompanied by a docketed wrapper. In a letter from 6 October, McLean, who was a Union General during the Civil War, responds to a letter from Ropes requesting reminisces of the August 1862 Battle of Second Manassas. Mentions Generals John Pope (commander of the Army of Virginia at Second Bull Run), Reynolds (possibly John Reynolds, commander of the 3rd Division Pennsylvania Reserves/III Corps), and Franz Sigel among other officers. Recalling events of the battle, states, "The object in sending me there was to help General Reynolds…

GLC01740.05.01

15 October 1897

McLean, Nathaniel Collins, 1815-1905

Typed letter signed

Title: [To historian John C. Ropes on the topic of the Battle of Second Manassas]

GLC01740.05.01 and .02 were originally bound together. Accompanied by a docketed wrapper. McLean discusses more details of Bald Hill. Notes that Anderson was not with him, but could have been at another point on Bald Hill. Mentions Generals Pope, Irvin McDowell, and Marsena Rudolph Patrick. Notes that he received ill treatment from Pope and McDowell the morning after the battle. Asks if Ropes has consulted Charles King's book, "Famous and Decisive Battles of the World." Notes that King had also consulted him (McLean) on the battle. Written on Potter & Price, Real Estate and…

GLC01740.05.02

9 October 1770

Stuyvesant, Peter, 1592-1672

Manuscript document

Title: [Translation of West India Company deed for Teunis Cornelisse]

Translation of GLC02542.01, a 1652 Dutch deed conveying land to Cornelisse. Translated by J. Roorbach, who dated and signed it at the bottom of the page.

GLC02542.01.01