1864, 1865

Header Record

Title: Houston (TX) tri-weekly telegraph

Many previously bound. Vol. 30 no. 164-168, 170, 172-182, 184-186, 188, 193-194, 196-197, 199, 201, 204-206, 208, 210, 211 [CONTINUES]. vol. 30 no. 168 misprinted as 198.

GLC05959.54

1861/03-1864/11

J.A. Cowardin & Co., (publishers), fl. 1853-1880

Header Record

Title: Daily dispatch (Richmond, VA)

Many issues have been previously bound. vol. 19 nos. 60, 114, 135-143, 146-153; vol. 20 nos. 6-15, 21, 24-25, 27-44, 46-62, 64-66, 68-69 [TO CONTINUE] Vol. 20 no. 38, 39, 53___ repeated.

GLC05959.56

1862/06/20, 1862/06/21

Header Record

Title: Daily Republican.

4 pp. each. Vol. 5 nos. 145 and 146. Discusses Benjamin Franklin Butler's "women around town" order in New Orleans.

GLC05959.59

1864/09/16

Reverend Richard N. Price & Co., fl. 1864

Newspaper

Title: Marion ensign. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (September 16, 1864)]

Major General George B. McClellan accepts nomination by Democratic party for President of the United States.

GLC05959.67

1862, 1864, 1865

Header Record

Title: Richmond Whig & public advertiser.

Some without volume or issue numbers. 7/11/1862, 10/3/1862, 10/28/1862; 1/10/1865. (Note that 3/7/1862 and 10/27/1864 are distinct titles: 5959.78 and 5959.79).

GLC05959.71

1861, 1862-1865

William Lloyd and Co. (Richmond, Va.), fl. 1861-1865

Header Record

Title: Daily Richmond examiner.

Some are Ex-Flowers, or Duke University. Also includes Semi-weekly Examiner.

GLC05959.72

1861, 1862-1865

Header Record

Title: Richmond weekly enquirer

GLC05959.73

1862, 1863

Bagby, George William, 1828-1883

Header Record

Title: Southern literary messenger.

Monthy magazine. 7/1861 (war a contest for racial supremacy); 11-12/1862 (combined; a new literature); 2/1863-6/1863 (2 copies of March); 11-12/1863.

GLC05959.75

1861/04/08

Newspaper

Title: Richmond (VA) Enquirer. Extra edition

Vol. 57, no. 97. Appears to be distinct (bibliographically) from the Daily and Weekly Enquirers, with an independent numbering system.

GLC05959.81

1861/07-1863

Newspaper

Title: Confederate newspapers from Louisiana [decimalized]

"The New Orleans Daily Crescent" and "The Daily True Delta. Other Louisiana newspapers are contained in GLC 5959.

GLC05960

1959/02/11

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963

Typed document

Title: [Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy to the National Rural Electric Cooperation Association]

Speech given in Washington, D.C. on the topic of rural electrification. Advocates continuing the development of electricity championed by Senator George W. Norris during the New Deal. Argues that electric power will be central to America's expanding economy. Criticizes the policies of the Eisenhower administration and expresses his own desire to protect the REA. Discusses the need to harness and clean the Potomac River. Ties the need to increase generating capacity with the need to keep apace with the Soviet Union, claiming that "The hard, tough question for the next decade...is…

GLC05628

1861/03/16

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Letter signed

Title: Transmittal of a proposed amendment to protect slavery (c/s Seward)

Sending a proposed amendment to Governor to John Downey of California. "I transmit an authenticated copy of a Joint Resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States, adopted by Congress and approved on the 2d of March, 1861, by James Buchanan, President. I have the honor to be, your excellency's obedient servant, Abraham Lincoln."

GLC05631

1775/07/24

United States. Continental Congress.

Autograph letter

Title: to George Washington re: reply to Washington's report to Congress (copy)

Authorizing Washington to make various appointments; mentions the Indian problem, etc. Lacking final pargaraph.

GLC05637

1788/03/03

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox re: congratulations on acceptance of Constitution by Massachusetts

Severely faded on p. 1 right margin (from water damage). Also, opposition in remaining states and predicting revolution in France. Accompanied by provenance note of John F. Smith. This document had been removed from Gen. Knox's papers by his granddaughter in the nineteenth century. Notes: Fitzpatrick, Writings of Washington, 29: 434-435

GLC05638

1800/01/01

Parker, Samuel Stillman, 1776-1811

Newspaper

Title: The Constitutional Telegraphe. [Vol.1, no. 27 (January 1, 1800)]

This document is a copy of the Constitutional Telegraphe published in 1800. It reports on the "Triumph of Democracy," the funeral of Washington (with diagram of procession) and reports a speech of Gov. McKean. The top of the newpaper is decorated with a masthead of an eagle and the motto "We advocate the rights of man." The newspaper was active from 1799-1802 and supported Thomas Jefferson during his Presidency.

GLC05667.03

1920/09/03

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Document signed

Title: [Presidential commutation for William J. Dodge, convicted of sedition according to the Espionage Act on 16 September 1918 and sentenced to six years]

William J. Dodge was convicted in the U.S. District Court of Western New York of making seditious utterances while the U.S. was a war, in violation section 3 of the Espionage Act of 16 May 1918, appeal was denied by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals 13 October 1919 and the Supreme Court denied a petition for a writ of certiorari. Dodge began serving his sentence at the State penitentiary at Baltimore, Maryland on 22 January 1920. Wilson commuted his sentence to expire on 22 November 1920. Countersigned by William L. Frirnson as acting Attorney General. Printed document with blanks…

GLC05678

1780/04/19

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter signed

Title: to Lieutenant of Berkeley Co. re: plans to avenge murders of settlers by Indians

Signed as governor. Planning to retaliate with militia for the murder of frontier settlers by British-backed Indians. "We have been too long diverted by humanity from enforcing good behavior by severe chastisement. Savages are to be curbed by fear only." Page three has severe losses to text at the right edge in the middle of the page.

GLC05710

1857/01/12

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Letter signed

Title: to John G. Tod re: obtaining a federal contract; the new Buchanan administration

Discussing the Buchanan administration: "Trouble comes enough when a man finds it out himself."

GLC05718

1835/10/23

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Document signed

Title: to Carey A. Harris

Appoints Harris as interim Secretary of War "during the temporary absence of the Secretary fir that Department."

GLC05722.01

1836/03/30

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph manuscript

Title: to Lewis Cass

Calling captains back to their companies. Written in the third person. Pencil note added later identifies recipient as Carey A. Harris, which is incorrect.

GLC05722.02

1836/10/15

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph manuscript

Title: to Carey A. Harris re: criticizing paying John Ross to attend Congress

Written in the third person. "If Mr. Bell had been as attentive to the pay of the volunteers as he was to John Ross & others to have them paid for attending Congress & opposing the treaty the appropriation would have been made as required."

GLC05722.03

1836/12/01

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph manuscript

Title: to Carey A. Harris re: interpretation of 14th Sect. of Choctaw Treaty

Asking Harris to bring Samuel Gorman's letter regarding Choctaw Treaty. Written in the third person.

GLC05722.04

1839/04/04

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin F. Butler

Praising his cabinet, recalling fight against the Bank of the United States, "the combined money-power & all its corrupting influence." Also discusses "sacred relations" after joining the church. Mentions his nephew A.J. Donelson.

GLC05613

1944/12/22

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

Document

Title: Mimeograph re: "The enemy is making his supreme effort to break out"

Mimeograph.

GLC05622.02

1945/05/08

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

Document

Title: Mimeograph re: "Victory order of the Day" with typed signature, [via T.J. Davis]

GLC05622.04