1842

Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854

Autograph document signed

Title: [Thomas Dorr's response to Whig accusations during the Dorr Rebellion]

Written in the third person and signed "Gov. Dorr" at the top of the page. Responds to accusations in Whig newspapers that he is "one of the most pusillanimous cowards in existence" and is "about to descend upon Rhode Island with a military force." Compares Dorr to Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. Dorr, then an illegitimate governor, led the Dorr Rebellion over suffrage rights in Rhode Island. Pencilled note on the verso indicates the document is written in Dorr's hand.

GLC05757.07

6 December 1842

New Hampshire legislators

Letter signed

Title: to Thomas W. Dorr

The 141 undersigned Democratic Republican members of the New Hampshire legislature (including Franklin Pierce) and other citizens convey their support for Rhode Island's illegitimate Governor Dorr: "We think that the principles for which you have contended though as yet unsuccessful, are the fundamental principles of Republican Government." They ask him to speak at the Old North Church in Concord on 14 December 1842. Dorr, then an illegitimate governor, led the Dorr Rebellion over suffrage rights in Rhode Island. See GLC05757.09 for his response.

GLC05757.08

7 December 1842

Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Moses Norris, Jr., Thomas Chandler, Reuben Davis, Franklin Pierce, Nathan Felton, and Samuel Swasey, & others

Responds to a letter from 141 Democratic Republican members of the New Hampshire legislature and citizenry (see GLC05757.08). Thanks them for their support and accepts their invitation to speak about Rhode Island's citizen's thwarted attempt to enact a new Constitution, Equal rights and suffrage. Dorr, then an illegitimate governor, led the Dorr Rebellion over suffrage rights in Rhode Island.

GLC05757.09

14 April 1843

Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854

Autograph letter signed

Title: to H. H. Carroll

Discusses New Hampshire politics. Provides a long analysis of political events in Rhode Island, including a recent setback to the "People's cause," the possibility of registering voters, and holding a democratic convention to nominate Martin Van Buren for President. Discusses at some length the situation of the people of Rhode Island and compares their plight to that of Russian serfs. Dorr led the Dorr Rebellion over suffrage rights in Rhode Island. The address identifies Carroll as the editor of the New Hampshire Patriot.

GLC05757.10

22 March 1699

Randolph, Edward, fl. 1699

Letter signed

Title: to William Blathwayt

Reports that Cutler, an adventurer, is in Charleston seeking information on mines of precious metals in the province. Cutler claims he has a commission from the king to search for mines, but Randolph doubts that Cutler has a commission and that there are such mines. Encloses a letter from James Moore giving his thoughts about precious metals in the province. At the time this letter was written, Randolph was Surveyor General of His Majesty's Customs in America and Blathwayt was Surveyor and Auditor General of Royal Revenue in the Colonies.

GLC05758.01

1 March 1699

Moore, James, fl. 1699

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Randolph

Replies to Surveyor General of Customs for North America Randolph's inquiry about precious metals. Describes an expedition he undertook in 1690 to the Appalachian mountains. Argues that there may indeed be precious minerals there. Mentions Colonel Maurice Mathews, Chancellor of the Exchequer Montague, and William Blathwayt. Moore was Receiver General and Chief Justice of the Province of Carolina.

GLC05758.02

April 1862

Map

Title: [Field map made prior to the Civil War battles of Shiloh and Corinth]

This document is a manuscript map that shows major roads from Corinth to the Tennessee River, houses and their inhabitants, and occasionally their sympathies along the route. It also includes other topographical features. Drawn in pencil and brown ink and marked No. 5.

GLC05759

1842

Cleveland, Richard Jeffry, 1773-1860

Book

Title: A Narrative of Voyages and commercial enterprises

Published by John Owen. First edition. Original cloth. Vol. II signed in pencil by F.A. Fruman, possibly the owner, in New York in 1861. Includes discussions of Captain Cleveland's voyages to China, Hawaii, Alaska, South America, California and the Northwest coast from 1799-1803. His voyages to Alaska and the Islands in 1799 and California in 1803 pertained mostly to the fur trade. Includes descriptions of his impressions of Native Americans. Cleveland was partners with William Shaler.

GLC05760

22 December 1861

Nottingham, V.A., fl. 1861

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for $110 for the hire of slave Jim Smith]

Nottingham, a slave owner, attests to the receipt of $110 from Captain William Lambert, for the hire of Nottingham's slave, Jim Smith, for the year of 1861.

GLC05763

circa 1856

Pamphlet

Title: Infidelity and abolitionism. An open letter to the friends of religion, morality, and the American Union.

Attacks the Presidential campaign of John C. Frémont. "John C. Fremont is the candidate for the Presidency of conjoined fanaticisms... We assert and defy contradiction, that every organization boasting infidel doctrines is now an organization in favor of Fremont; and we assert also, that all those desiring a dissolution of the Union are openly co-operating with these organizations."

GLC05764

1844

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

Pamphlet

Title: An address delivered in the court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the anniversary of the emancipation of the negroes of the British West Indies

Speech by Emerson attacking slavery, one of his earliest statements in support of abolition. First edition. Published by James Munroe and Company.

GLC05766

1783

Burke, Aedanus, 1743-1802

Pamphlet

Title: Considerations on the Society or Order of Cincinnati...

Remainder of title: "Lately Instituted By the Major-Generals, Brigadier-Generals, and Officers of the American Army...." Burke is identified on the cover as the author. Printed by Basil Webster.

GLC05767

1848

Bowditch, William Ingersoll, 1819-1909

Pamphlet

Title: Cass and Taylor on the slavery question.

First edition, printed by Damrell & Moore. Stab-stitched. Contains a New York State Library stamp in upper right corner of cover.

GLC05768

1848

Adams, John Calvin, 1810-1885

Pamphlet

Title: General Taylor and the Wilmot Proviso

Published by Wilson and Damrell. Imprint from advertisement on back cover. Library of Congress attributes this pamphlet to Adams. Contains multiple notes written in brown ink throughout text.

GLC05769

1860

Pamphlet

Title: Who is John Bell?

Defends Bell, nominated by the Constitutional Union party for the presidential election of 1860, against Republican attacks by quoting Republicans, such as Cassius Clay. Meant to sway Northern opinion.

GLC05771

20 June 1862

Pamphlet

Title: Green-Back to his Country Friends.

Addressed to the constituents of the 37th Congress and signed by "Green-back." Concerns the issuance of paper money during the Civil War. First edition in original bright green wrapper, as issued. Signature of John R. Bartlett on cover. (Possibly John Russell Bartlett, the former boundary commissioner, explorer, author and ethnographer; he served as Rhode Island's secretary of state from 1855-1872.)

GLC05772

1800

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Pamphlet

Title: Letter... concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq.

Third edition. Printed by John Lang. Signature of B. Vaughan on cover. Stab stitched. Hamilton denies being part of a pro-British faction

GLC05773

1860

Thayer & Eldridge (Boston, Mass.), fl. 1860

Book

Title: Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. and Hon. Hannibal Hamlin of Maine.

Published by Thayer & Eldridge, printed by George C. Rand & Avery, Boston. With original green wrapper (lacking back) and portrait engraving in front.

GLC05774

1837

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to Establish and Maintain a General System of Internal Improvements...

(Lincoln-related.) [Full title] "An act to Establish and Maintain a General System of Internal Improvement with Supplementary Acts: Passed at a General Assembly of the State of Illinois..." First edition printed by William Walters. Stab-stitched.

GLC05776

1790

Pennsylvania, Senate

Book

Title: A Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Printed by Zachariah Poulson. Stab-stitched and untrimmed, as issued.

GLC05777

1861-1863 ca.

Header Record

Title: Collection of original Confederate salt print photographs [decimalized]

Collection of oval portraits, mostly salt prints, all uniform size on original dark gray mounts. The images all have visible signs of water damage or other damage except for .11. Some photographs have remnants of pencil notes (.01) which has been written in ink on the front mount.

GLC05786

1862-1863 ca.

Photograph

Title: [J. E. B. Stuart: salt print 3/4 length seated portrait, in Confederate uniform]

J. E. B. Stuart wearing a cavalry uniform and sabre; his hat on his lap. Ink inscription on mount: "J.E.B. Stuart. Va." Verso of this photograph only has pencil note: "From C.K. l[illegible] Petersburg Va." No stars visible.

GLC05786.01

1862-1863 ca.

Photograph

Title: Albumen print, vignette bust profile portrait, in Confederate uniform

The well-known vignette profile of Jackson. Faded. Contemporary ink inscription on mount: "Stonewall Jackson." (Not signed.) 3 stars visible.

GLC05786.02

1862-1863 ca.

Archer, James J., fl. 1862-1863

Photograph

Title: Salt print half length bust portrait, in Confederate uniform

Ink inscription on mount: "J.J. Archer, Maryland Commanding Tennesse Brigade" No stars visible. Prior to July 1863 (captured at Gettysburg and not paroled until 1864).

GLC05786.03

1862-1863 ca.

Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914

Photograph

Title: Salt (?) print 1/2 length bust portrait, in Confederate uniform

Faded. Ink inscription on mount: "Simon Bolivar Buckner"

GLC05786.05