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1889 ca.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: Brief autobiographical sketch: "A slave in 1837. Free man 1838..."

Includes envelope addressed to Charles Peirce, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

GLC07762

1877/06/22

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Letter signed

Title: Circular letter re: eliminating electioneering by civil servants

GLC07809

1880/11/03

Huntington, Collis P., fl. 1880

Letter signed

Title: to M.E. Ingalls re: stock in railroad companies and developing western land

GLC07819

1880/11/24

Huntington, Collis P., fl. 1880

Letter signed

Title: to M.E. Ingalls re: reorganizing company, increasing stock value

GLC07820

1882

Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870

Book

Title: Memoir of John A. Dahlgren

GLC07826

1895 ca.

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

Autograph manuscript

Title: Page of notes, probably for a speech: "Cast down your bucket where you are..."

GLC07805

1898/07/07

Shafter, William R., fl. 1898

Document

Title: Squadron Bulletin

GLC07781

1888

Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896

Photograph signed

Title: William T. Sherman

Half length seated cabinet card portrait, in uniform, with arms crossed. Imprint of Sarony, New York, on recto.

GLC07795

January 14, 1881-March 2, 1886

Simpson, Edward, 1824-1888

Manuscript

Title: Letter press book

Commodore Simpson's letterpress book with blotter papers and original correspondence interleaved in chronological order.

GLC05911.16

September 5, 1880-March 31, 1882

Simpson, Edward, 1824-1888

Autograph manuscript

Title: Journal of Edward Simpson, Jr.

Lt. Simpson's personal journal on board the U.S.F.S Richmond in the South Pacific Ocean.

GLC05911.19.01

October 14, 1880-February 25, 1882

Simpson, Edward Jr., fl. 1880-1882

Manuscript

Title: Navigation note book

Lt. Simpson's navigational logbook aboard the U.S.F.S. Richmond in the South Pacific Ocean. Pages 156 - 180 are a series of question and answer exercises on the theory and practice of navigation. Page 181 contains a series of translation exercises from English into both Spanish and French.

GLC05911.19.02

September 17, 1894-January 19,1896

Simpson, Edward, 1824-1888

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Lieutenant Edward Simpson, Jr.'s personal journal of a voyage on the U.S.S. Concord and the U.S.F.S. Baltimore in the South Pacific].

Written aboard the U.S.S. Concord and the U.S.F.S. Baltimore. Particularly focused around Port Arthur, Japan. U.S.F.S. Baltimore containing 1) 9 October 1894 Nippon, Japan, "S. Ito, Commander-in-chief of H. I. Japanese M.'s United Squadron" "Official Report of the Naval Engagement which took place in the sea off Taikoshan . . . (Extract [and translation] from the report made by our commander-in-chief of the Fleet" and 2) 2 October 1894 Jiji Shimpo "The Real Condition of the Great Naval Battle in the Yellow Sea." Collateral material removed from volume: envelope addressed to Lieutenant…

GLC05911.20

20 September 1885

Manuscript

Title: French conjugation chart

Written from U.S. Marine Barracks, in Annapolis, Maryland. "Locality being a powerful aid to the Memory . . . to conjugate the verbs... and... the gender of French nouns." Red, blue and yellow "swirl" marbled boards.

GLC05911.23