January 14, 1830

Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833

Letter signed

Title: to Thomas Pringle

Wilberforce, a British abolitionist, writes from Highwood Hill, London. He invites Pringle to visit, and discusses travel arrangements in detail. Includes a postscript on the same topic. The letter is attached to a brown paper frame. Split along center fold. Measurements include attached frame. Includes postscript in Wilberforce's own hand.

GLC00496.252

circa 1820

Wilkie, David, 1785-1841

Autograph letter signed

Title: to dear MacDonald

Date previously inferred. Wilkie, the Scottish painter, promises McDonald he will call at 7 o'clock. Measurements include attached frame.

GLC00496.253

October 30, 1846

Yancey, William L., 1814-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Messr. Smith, Greene & White

William L. Yancey accepts an honorary membership in Phi-Delta Society of Oglethorpe University in Midway, Georgia.

GLC00496.256

December 26, 1848

Bennett, James Gordon, 1841-1918

Newspaper

Title: California herald. [(December 26, 1848)]

Large map on front titled "Gold and Quicksilver District of California." Articles discuss California's gold supply, Americans' excitement about the gold supply, and migration of workers to California. Includes "song of the gold digger" on second page.

GLC00496.260

circa 1860

Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895

Print

Title: John Marshall LLD

Portrait engraving of Marshall seated, in judge's robes. Printed signature of Marshall underneath. Possibly based on a painting by J. B. Martin, as the name is printed under the engraving.

GLC00496.262

circa 1840-1849

Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849

Facsimile

Title: [Printed facsimile of Polk's signature]

GLC00496.263

December 4, 1823

Marshall, John, 1755-1835

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Gales, Jr.

Requests pamphlet containing the transactions of the great convention, and asks to become a subscriber to Gales' paper. Brings up political news.

GLC00496.271

September 4, 1817

Perry, Oliver Hazard, 1785-1819

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin W. Crowninshield

Perry writes to the secretary of the navy to recommend Dr. Richard Stevens for a position as a surgeon in the navy. Cites his experience as a surgeon's mate aboard the frigate Java in the Mediterranean and attests to his "extensive acquirements and eminent professional qualifications." The letter is pasted to a piece of paper. Pasted to the verso is an unrelated, undated note pertaining to a woman's request to have her husband's remains buried in the proper cemetery, which had been communicated through Commodore Perry.

GLC00496.273.01

April 28, 1820

Hale, Nathan, 1784-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Ronaldson

Hale requests, "...please inform me what will be your best terms for a set of types for my paper, the principal kinds to consist of, about three hundred and fifty weight of Bourgeois and nine hundred of Minion." Includes a pencil note at the bottom of the page, possibly referring to type ordered in 1816.

GLC00496.274

September 11, 1824

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Letter

Title: to Augustus B. Woodward

Unsigned. The last page(s) are missing. Letter is incomplete. Woodward had written observations "addressed to the individual citizen" which the writer has given a hasty perusal. The writer notes that the Virginia Constitution should not be ascribed to Jefferson; the origin, he finds with George Mason, and the Declaration of rights "was substantially from the same hand" (i.e., Mason's). He ascribes the preamble of the VA. Constitution to Jefferson. The letter breaks-off in mid-sentence. The letter ends: "with a view to correct the faults of the existing Constitution, as well as to obtain the…

GLC00496.605

December 7, 1857

Badger, George Edmund, 1795-1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Carlisle

Discusses current legal cases. Badger was a superior court judge, secretary of the Navy, and a U.S. senator. James Mandeville Carlisle was a Washington, D.C., lawyer with whom he formed a law partnership in the mid-1850s.

GLC00496.125

September 11, 1856

Bertola, G. Alide, fl. 1856

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Reports the visit of Bosch Spencer.

GLC00496.129

14 June 1847

Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Endorsement securing midshipman's commission]

In response to J.B. Blake's third party request for a naval position. Forwarded to Secretary of the Navy John Young Mason.

GLC00496.130

December 30, 1828

Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Gales and William Winston Seaton

Letter to the editors of the Intelligencer in Washington, D.C. Informs them that the "wine gallon" has been omitted from federal law. Noticed this when he was compiling "The Revised Statutes of the State of New York." Calls their attention to two articles on the subject by Professor James Renwick of Columbia College, one of which appeared in the Albany Daily Advertiser. Butler (1795–1858) was Attorney General of the United States from 1833 to 1838, and in that role wrote President Jackson's protest against the Senate's censure of him for removing federal funds from the Bank of the United…

GLC00496.136.01

October 16, 1837

Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Gales and Mr. Seaton

Asks that the last 500 speeches of his that he ordered be sent to the folding room of the House of Representatives. Postscript requests the country newspaper be delivered to him in Buffalo, N.Y., during the recess. Wants $1 worth of speeches sent to William B. Smith of Buskirk's Bridge, NY.

GLC00496.155

January 21, 1848

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Letter signed

Title: to John Young Mason

Co-signed by James H. Thomas, Frederick Stanton, and Hopkins L. Turney. Endorses Baird Scott Hopkins for a midshipman position.

GLC00496.180

November 25, 1840

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to General Kimberly

Introduces John J. Audubon. Infers Audubon's dependence on the success of the quarto "Synopsis of the birds of North America," published 1839. Hand delivered by Audubon.

GLC00496.109

circa 1837-1889

Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889

Autograph quotation signed

Title: [Autograph of January for Mrs. Allen]

Complete quotation reads, "Laura Bridgman Providence autograph for Mrs. Allen." Bridgman was a deaf, mute, and blind girl, educated by Samuel Howe at the Boston Institution for the Blind, Watertown, Massachusetts, beginning in 1837. Collateral are three newspaper clippings about Bridgman (one with a portrait), a printed poem about her by Mrs. Sigourney, and a autograph note by Anna Maria Bergandthat.

GLC00496.114.01

22 April 1852

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Header Record

Title: [Collection of 2 items concerning Andrew Johnson] [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC00496.118

July 24, 1815

Lawrence, Thomas, 1769-1830

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Wolff

Discusses Duke of Wellington's heroism during the July 18, 1815 Battle of Waterloo. Describes circumstances surrounding death of Sir Alexander Gordon. Gordon was Wellington's aide de camp. Lawrence was a British portrait artist. Mrs. Wolff was the subject of one of Lawrence's portraits.

GLC00496.119

April 9, 1830

Allen, William, 1810-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Pringle

Requests a note. Written in Stooke Newington area of London, England.

GLC00496.123

May 14, 1833

Banim, John, 1798-1842

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Pringle

The letter introduces Henry Morton.

GLC00496.128

July 9, 1837

Bourke, Richard, Sir, 1777-1855

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Pringle

Discusses news regarding the Stuurman case. Sir Richard Bourke was Governor of New South Wales, Australia.

GLC00496.131

circa 1850

Bremer, Fredrika, fl. 1850

Autograph quotation signed

Title: [In all things seek the truth!]

Manuscript consists of an aphorism in German, its English translation ("Trans. In all things seek the truth!"), and the signature. Verso is an inscription, "with Mrs. Porter's compliments and thanks, to Mr. Ryland", and (in a third hand) the identification of "Mrs. Porter" as Janet Porter.

GLC00496.132

July 21, 1834

Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham,, 1778-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

The letter introduces Harriet Martineau. Martineau was a British author and transcendentalist.

GLC00496.133