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Circa 1842

Ellis, Richard, fl. 1842

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recipt for education]

Receipt for tuition for three of the Burleson children.

GLC03521.03

18 July 1848

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Richard

Excerpts: 18 July 1848: "I am still quite well notwithstanding I have for two or three weeks undergone much fatigue and have been broken of my regular sleeping hours. The health of the country does not seem to improve in the least. Cholera is still unabated, and seems rather on the increase." "The affair of the seas seems to have excited a great deal of interest in the neighborhood. I learned the fact of their having left - with the exception of [Join ?] the Louisville Democrat of week before last, They have succeeded in getting their names in the papers at all events. It is no atall…

GLC04192.01

16 June 1851

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Mary

Excerpt: 16 June 1851: "Soon after my arrival I visited the Crystal Palace. This is a miniature world, where you may see people of every nation; and their advancement in the arts may be learned from the specimens of workmanship which they are here exhibiting.""Written at Fleet Street

GLC04192.02

08 August 1851

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Richard

GLC04192.03

15 April 1852

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Mary

GLC04192.04

2 August 1852

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Mary

Excerpt: 2 August 1852: "The county was generally beautiful; many parts of it exceedingly so - naturally fertile but many parts poorly cultivated and every part filled with wretchedness, starvation and beggary - owing in part to an unjust and tyrannical system of government, systematically pursued for the last hundred years, but perhaps mainly to the miserable system of letting lands, by which the tenant can be turned out at any moment, without a care of remuneration for any improvements he may have made on the Land. Another reason of the wretched condition of many of them is their own…

GLC04192.05

16 May 1851 - 27 July 1851

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Diary

Title: Diary of John Moore

Excerpt: Diary entries 12 June 1852: "The Tower has been so often described that it is unnecessary to enter into any description of it. There is no place in the world, perhaps where one can see so many specimens of all the varieties of arms that have been used from the earliest ages, together with coats of mail and every description of defensive armor. The cell in which Sir Walter Raleigh was so long confined is shown and a gloomy looking dungeon it is. The block on which he was beheaded is still preserved. The crown jewels and regalia are also kept in an apartment of the Tower." 13…

GLC04192.06

26 August 1850

Baxter, Thompson, fl. 1849-1854

Autograph letter signed

Title: My Dear Wife

GLC09234.01

6 September 1850

Baxter, Thompson, fl. 1849-1854

Autograph letter signed

Title: My Dear Wife

GLC09234.02

12 September 1851

Baxter, Thompson, fl. 1849-1854

Autograph letter signed

Title: My Dear Wife

GLC09234.03

1815-1860

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thompson Baxter

A letter to Thompson Baxter, it is written in the form of a diary with multiple days worth of events seperated by the date it was written. In this particular letter Thompspn Baxter's wife has written about the death of their daughter on the 21 of October. Circa Oct 12- November 11

GLC09234.04

1815-1860

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thompson Baxter

A letter to Thompson Baxter, it is written in the form of a diary with multiple days worth of events seperated by the date it was written. Circa 5th September- October 9th

GLC09234.05

11 September 1849- 27 September 1849

Autograph letter signed

Title: Dearest Husband

A letter to Thompson Baxter, it is written in the form of a diary with multiple days worth of events seperated by the date it was written.

GLC09234.06

28 August 1849- 10 September 1849

Autograph letter signed

Title: Dearest Husband

A letter to Thompson Baxter, it is written in the form of a diary with multiple days worth of events seperated by the date it was written.

GLC09234.07

1815-1860

Cooke & LeCount, fl. 1815-1860

Broadside

Title: [Scenes of California]

Printed cartoon panel ("This is a true Picture of Callifornia I have seen it And experienced it myself T. Baxter") notation on the bottom Possibly reads Published by Cooke & LeCount

GLC09234.08