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June 1863

Rhode Island. 2nd Regiment

Document signed

Title: Report of commissioned officers

Signed by the surgeon in charge of the 2nd Division hospital.

GLC00468.08

circa 1865

Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906

Ephemera

Title: [Calling card signed by Schurz]

GLC00468.09

20 February 1863

Tyler, Robert, fl. 1863

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Confederate States of America bond].

Endorsed by Confederate States of America Register of the Treasury Tyler. With engraved portrait of General Thomas J. Jackson. Bond no. 29246 for $1,000. Labelled "Loan."

GLC00468.10

10/4/1864

Falconer, William, fl. 1863

Document signed

Title: to E. B. [Branch]

Falconer, an Officer in Command, requests transportation for 380 men to Goldsboro, North Carolina, from [Branch?], Assistant Quartermaster at Petersburg.

GLC00468.11

July 9, 1849

Matthew, Theobald, 1790-1856

Autograph letter signed

Title: to A.F. Cunningham

Declines an invitation to visit with The Temperance Societies of Washington due to a prior engagement. Compliments the Societies' work by stating that "the recollection of the Friends of the Temperance in Washington, being amongst the earliest to encourage me to leave Ireland, is an additional inducement to make me fulfil [sic] my long promised intention of witnessing the result of their exertions..."

GLC00496.197

March 6, 1859

O'Brien, William Smith, 1803-1864

Autograph note

Title: to Mr. Dawson

Declines complimentary box tickets. Written at Willard's Hotel, possibly in Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Washington, D.C.

GLC00496.202

September 18, 1808

Randolph, John, 1773-1833

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frances Bland Coalter

Written by Randolph as a Virginia Congressman to his sister. Writes after learning she has been ill and hopes to visit the warm springs at which she is recuperating. Says he would have been home sooner but an unexpected demand for money left him without the means to pay for his passage home until after the court session was over. Tells her "This fact is for yourself alone; for altho' I am not ashamed of my poverty, I do not choose that it should be unnecessarily disclosed." Although he wanted nothing more than to visit her, he claims that the expedition "like everyone other which [my desire…

GLC00496.212

February 1, 1802

Rutledge, John, 1766-1819

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Letter of introduction for Prince Ruspoli, a Roman nobleman and Admiral of the fleets at Malta.

GLC00496.215

February 19, 1829

Shepperd, Augustine Henry, 1792-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Murphy

Augustine Henry Shepperd speculates about the dubious appointments in Jackson's cabinet. First name missing on address sheet.

GLC00496.221

December 17, 1856

Thalberg, Sigismond, 1812-1871

Autograph quotation signed

Title: [Musical quotation signed]

Also includes a book plate from Henry K. Willard, 1333 K. Street, N.W., Washington, DC.

GLC00496.235

circa October 18, 1830

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Branch

Letter of introduction of Mr. Groves of New York to Secretary of the Navy Branch. Written as Secretary of State.

GLC00496.241

December 6, 1752

Price, William, ?-1790

Document signed

Title: [Deposition in case of Brown vs. Payne]

Signed as a witness by Augustine Washington, George Washington's half-brother, and Andrew Monroe. Deposition deals with the settlement of Brown's estate. Also contains deposition of John Brown but it is struck through. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC00496.245

December 6, 1752

Jenings, Edmund, fl. 1752

Document signed

Title: [Prepared statement and depositions in case of Brown vs. Payne]

The depositions are signed as witnesses by Andrew Monroe and Augustine Washington, George Washington's half-brother. Consists of a three page statement plus docket summarizing the plaintiff's case, prepared and signed by Edmund Jenings, and addressed to Sir William Gooch and the judges of the general court; and one page of depositions plus docket of William Brown and William Rowe.

GLC00496.246

12 October 1831

Washington, Perrin, 1790-1857

Autograph document signed

Title: [Promissory note binding Washington and Thornton F. Offutt to pay Thomas N. Jones $175]

Note on verso records the receipt of partial payment. Docketed on verso.

GLC00496.247

February 14, 1803

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: [Ship's passport for Brigantine Mary of Newburyport]

Partially printed document countersigned by James Madison as Secretary of State and by the Collector of the port of New York, David Gelston. Includes official seal. One of the Collection's largest ship passports.

GLC00496.257

January 6, 1794

Note

Title: [Forged George Washington note and facsimile]

Marked as a forgery of a note from President Washington to the cashier of the office of discount and deposit in Baltimore, Maryland. Instructs the cashier to pay [N. S.] Ridgely $230.50. Includes a facsimile of a different note mounted on the same backing measuring 6.1 x 14.2 cm. The facsimiled note was written in Mount Vernon, Virginia, and instructs the cashier to pay William Robb $75. Entire backing including both notes measures 14.5 x 16.6 cm.

GLC00496.264

May 5, 1794

Madison, William, 1762-1843

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison

Writes to his brother, then a Virginia congressman, about advocating for Madison's resolutions (in favor of a policy of commercial retaliation against European powers) in an election. The comment that the resolutions, which Madison submitted to Congress in December 1793, were "attached to the British nation" alludes to Madison's position that President Washington's 1793 proclamation of neutrality in the conflict between Britain and France unwisely showed indifference to the French movement toward republicanism. Also discusses the growing unpopularity of the excise tax and urges its repeal.…

GLC00496.267

April 15, 1831

Lee, Sarah, 1791-1856

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Delivers an account of her travels. Mentions her respect for Thomas Pringle.

GLC00496.187

May 27, 1834

Lockhart, J.G., 1794-1854

Autograph note signed

Title: to unknown

Comments on recipient's recent book. Requests information on Sir Walter Scott.

GLC00496.188

January 23, 1848

Lover, Samuel, 1797-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J.M. Dawson

Describes the reception of his poem in New York City and Philadelphia. Discusses Broadway and the New York theatre scene. Affixed to verso is a satirical letter from Dawson dated February 25, 1854 presenting Lover with a diamond ring.

GLC00496.189