1811/11/23

Evans, Oliver, 1755-1819

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Pitkin

Hopes Congress will pass new laws that will help him to extend his steam engine patent. Argues that by protecting patents the government will be aiding the public good, and encouraging innovation.

GLC04265

1811/08/28

Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815

Document signed

Title: [Renunciation of claim by N. Roosevelt against Robert R. Livingston & John Stevens]

Roosevelt renounces his shipping-related claim against Livingston and Stevens. Signed by Nicholas Roosevelt and by Robert Fulton, as a witness. Document lacks original seal at right hand side. Nicholas J. Roosevelt (1767-1854) had gone into joint venture with Robert Livingston and John Stevens in 1797 to build a steamboat. Roosevelt proposed a vertical wheel design for that vessel. In the spring of 1802, Livingston commuicated Roosevelt's plan to Fulton; the next year, Livingtson and Fulton launched a steamboat propelled by Roosevelt's vertical wheel design. The "New Orleans," piloted by…

GLC04266

1811/11/08

Fox, Robert W., 1754-1818

Letter signed

Title: to James Monroe

Fox, the American consul at Falmouth, writes to Secretary of State Monroe on foreign affairs as they pertained to maritime commerce in the year preceding the War of 1812, particular British enforcement of the orders in council. Offers condolence on the death of General Lyman. Discusses attempts to protect American ships and his hope that the differences between the United States and Britain will be resolved.

GLC04267.01

1817/05/31

Fox, Robert W., 1754-1818

Letter signed

Title: to John Quincy Adams

Fox, the American consul at Falmouth, writes to Secretary of State Adams in an attempt to collect monies owed for expenses he had incurred assisting impressed seamen since 1809.

GLC04267.02

[1778/10]

Rhode Island. Acts

Broadside

Title: An Act assessing and apportioning a rate of tax...[R.I. tax for Gloucester]

Apparently an only known copy. Note on verso indicates that the copy is for the treasurer of Gloucester. References: Alden 751.

GLC04290

1780/11/29

Massachusetts

Broadside

Title: Resolution of Massachusetts Legislature re: militia officers, quota for army, &c

Printed document (or broadside?) subscribed in type by John Hancock. Establishes a quota for each town to supply the Continental Army. Printed by Edes & Sons.

GLC04292

1779/06/17

Broadside

Title: Copy of the proceedings of... Boston, June 17, 1779 [price controls]

Resolution in support of price regulation and the necessity of local committees of correspondence to enforce the regulations. Also resolving that those who refused to accept Continental currency be considered enemies. Printed by Benjamin Edes & Co.

GLC04293

1808/01/21

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J. Dorsey re: progress in manufactures, system of weights & measures, decimal

GLC04491

1861/12/13

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Recommendation of his boyhood friend George May for judge].

Lincoln writes "I knew George May as a boy, and young man, then a little inclined to dissipation -- If free from that now, he has intellect enough for almost any place..." Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 - 1862, p. 68

GLC04500

1812/06/17

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Samuel B. Malcom.

Politics, party & family feuds.

GLC04524

1826/06/24

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Broadside

Title: Jefferson's last letter to Mayor of Washington [small broadside on silk]

A printing of Jefferson's famous letter to the mayor of Washington, D.C., declining an invitation to a Fourth of July celebration. Jefferson hopes the Declaration to be a "signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessing of self government." Jefferson died on July 4. Only 3 other copies. Printed on silk.

GLC04525

1807/12/22

Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849

Printed letter signed

Title: [Announcement of the passage of the Embargo Act to port collectors]

Circular letter addressed to the Collector of the port of Penobscot. The act forbade all exports between the United States and foreign countries, and precipitated the War of 1812. Gallatin was then secretary of the treasury. Signed in type, "Approved : TH: JEFFERSON".

GLC04539

1781/12/12

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Moses Rawlings re: moving British POW's to Lancaster & Philadelphia

Washington also mentions allowing foreigners to stay in frontier towns.

GLC04566

1861/02/01

Texas

Broadside

Title: An Ordinance to dissolve the Union between the state of Texas...

Addressed to James Loving on verso. With collateral tintype of unidentified man.

GLC04482

1860/12/20

South Carolina

Broadside

Title: An ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina....

Dated 1860, but printed 1861.

GLC04483

1774/10/20

United States. Continental Congress.

Broadside

Title: The Association Agreed with the Grand American Congress... [non-importation]

One of 3 known copies

GLC04489

[1862-1865]

Stephens, Asbury, fl. 1862-1865

Header Record

Title: Six manuscript maps of the Atlanta campaign, with ALS 5/7/1865

6 maps with 1 ALS: 1) Route of March of 2nd Division [Chattanooga to Atlanta; shows Andersonville on path] (cloth map); 2) Position of 2d Div.... July 22d 1864 near Atlanta, Ga. (small paper map); 3) [Skirmish at Eastpoint, Ga., July 27, 1864] (small paper map); 4) Plan of Rome... Georgia... Oct 8th 1864 (small paper map); 5) Position of the Fourth Division... at Ogeechee River Ga. (small paper map); 6) Position of the 4th Div.... before Columbia, S.C. Feby 16 and 17 1865; 7) Asbury Stephens ALS Petersburg, Va. 5/7/1865 2 p.

GLC04498

1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: [William T. Sherman]

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait of William T. Sherman in uniform. Inscribed by Ulysses S. Grant on verso, and given to Edwin Stanton.

GLC04504.02

1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: [James B. McPherson]

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait of James B. McPherson in uniform. Inscribed by Ulysses S. Grant, and given to Edwin Stanton.

GLC04504.03

1863 ca.

Header Record

Title: Carte de visites of men of Co. M 7th Iowa cavalry who fought against the Sioux [word processed inventory available]

Many of the men's cartes have been signed or otherwise identified. Almost all the men are in uniform. Most come from the Sioux City studio of Gurnsey.

GLC04506

1865 ca.

Header Record

Title: Cartes of Fort Sumter & Charleston after capture, photographed by Osborne [word processed inventory available]

Pictures taken by Osborne shortly after the capture of Sumter. Album housed separately.

GLC04509

1865/03/17

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard Taylor

GLC04517

February 7, 1825

Hendricks, William, 1782-1850

Printed document signed

Title: "A JOINT RESOLUTION..."

Full title reads "A JOINT RESOLUTION, RESPECTING THE GRADUAL EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES, AND COLONIZATION OF PEOPLE OF COLOR WITHIN THE UNITED STATES." Respecting the Graduate Emancipation of Slaves, and Colonization of People of Color Within the United States. Signed by Hendricks as Governor of Indiana and directed to the Governor of Pennsylvania, John Andrew Shulze. Resolution approving the resolution of Ohio General Assembly which had called for the various states and U.S. Congress to consider a system of gradual emancipation of black slaves, provided they agree to be colonized elsewhere.…

GLC04521

1865/05/09

Wilson, James Harrison, 1837-1925

Broadside

Title: [Lincoln assassination reward]

Reprinting the orders of Gen. James H. Wilson seeking the arrest of Jefferson Davis, Clement Clay, Jacob Thompson, George N. Saunders, Beverly Tucker and William C. Cleary. Lists the rewards for the capture of each person as follows: Davis, Clay, and Thompson, $100,000 each, Saunders and Tucker, $25,000, and Cleary, $10,000.

GLC04527

1776/11/11

Wharton, Thomas, Jr., fl. 1776

Document signed

Title: Warning inhabitants that Howe is turning troops towards Philadelphia

4-line autograph addendum apparenly in Wharon's hand.

GLC04532