22 August 1865

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry W. Slocum

Offering to do whatever he can to make life easier for Slocum and his family

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07 September 1865

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry W. Slocum

Predicting a quick end to reconstruction: "The North cannot long afford to keep arms there for local police": "Still, as long as you do have the force and the state now you must of necessity control...my own opinion is that self interest will soon induce the present people of Mississippi to...manage in a kind of [system] that will, like in Maryland & Missouri, change the whole public opinion. They certainly will not again tempt the resistance of the U.S. nor will they ever reenslave the negro.

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1889

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Header Record

Title: to Henry W. Slocum

Four letters + one photograph

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09 February 1889

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Henry Slocum

Thanking her for flowers sent on his 69th birthday: "If I can worry through another year...time with his scythe... may make a deep swath, but cannot cheat me of seventy years on this insignificant globe with a fair measure of life's pleasures and cares and responsibilities."

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February 11, 1889

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry W. Slocum

"We three will go down to history as the leaders of 'The March to the Sea'." Requesting photos of Slocum and Howard

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21 May 1889

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Henry Slocum

Declining invitation to her daughter's wedding

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01 March 1889

Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry W. Slocum

Enclosing requested photograph (with photo). "Though the main honor of the work crowns our chief, yet in helpful planning & executing, our part will not be forgotten."

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21 March 1873

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Document signed

Title: Order to affix the seal

Order to affix the seal to a warrant for the pardon of Leon McLemon

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circa 1776

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Manuscript document signed

Title: Congress's proposed ship's passport

Certifying Congress's proposed ship's passport, which became part of the 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce with France, the Nation's first treaty with a foreign power in the hand of Charles Thompson

GLC08115

12 July 1837

Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Silas m. Stilwell

Ours is a "Civil War" for the White House: "The glory to be gained is not from the victory we may achieve but from the use we make of it," warning that "confidence in the weakness of an enemy has produced the most disatrous defeats on record."

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03 March 1791

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: Act of Congress

Act of Congress calling upon President Washington to "cause an estimate to be laid before Congress at their next session, of the quantity and situation of the lands not claimed by the Indians, nor granted to, nor claimed by any citizen of the United States, within the territory ceded to the United States, by the State of North Carolina and within the territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio."

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09 December 1806

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: 1806 State of the Union Address

1806 State of the Union Address, announcing the return of Lewis and Clark, who have "traced the Missouri nearly to its source." Burr's conspiracy discussing calling for prohibition of the slave trade in 1808, as son as allowed under the Constitution.

GLC08118

23 November 1769

Johnson, William, 1715-1774

Autograph letter

Title: to Thomas Gage

Re: Indian policy in the wake of mounting troubles on the frontier, fed by spanish and French agents

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28 February 1798

Johnson, John, fl. 1798

Autograph letter signed

Title: Proposed sale of land

From exile in Canada, the loyalist son of Sir William writes on the proposed sale of land

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02 July 1703

Dudley, Joseph, 1647-1720

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Secretary Addington

Re: The Indian Conference at Casco, seeking allies in Queen Anne's War

GLC08121

18 October 1666

Manuscript document

Title: John Richbell and his wife sell...

[Long Island] John Richbell and his wife sell "all that neck or tract of land commonly called & known by the name of Horse Neck lying & being upon the sound on the North side...bounded to the West with Oyster Bay, to the East with [Huntington] Boro Harbour."

GLC08122

May 1765

Duche, Jacob, fl. 1765

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: "Amicus Pennsylvaniae"

"Amicus Pennsylvaniae." Manuscript of Duche's blank-verse history of the colony of Pennsyvania (published by Franklin & Hall, 1766), here entitled "an attempt (by way of amusement) to sketch out some of the particulars." Content includs William Penn's Virtues and Braddock's Defeat.

GLC08123

17 October 1785

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Glen

Arranging a shipment of supplies to the Six Nations, complying with the Treaty of 1792

GLC08124

26 March 1803

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Newspaper

Title: to William Marbury

Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court's landmark decision on "Mandamus": establishing judicial review. Printed in New-York Herald

GLC08125

29 October 1778

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph manuscript

Title: to Elbridge Gerry

Draft of Genet's letter to Adams planning to ask French to reinforce D'Estaing, copied by Adams and sent to Elbridge Gerry

GLC08126

23 August 1818

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Mulligan

Re: New edition of the Federalist, which will be esteemed "as long as our national constitution and the language in which it is written shall endure. I mean not by this however to approve everything in it." Also to Jacob Gibson

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30 July 1864

Broadside

Title: To the citizens of Macon...

"To the citizens of Macon...the enemy is now in sight of your houses. We lack force. I appeal to every man, citizen or refugee, who has a gun of any kind, or can get one, to report at the court house with the least possible delay.""

GLC08128

07 September 1793

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter signed

Title: to Vice Consul Moissonier

[Re: Genet Affair] Warning French Vice consul about violation of American neutrality, by trying to raise Naval forces in America.

GLC08130

30 November 1804

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Oldham

Re: avoidance of involvement in other's quarrels: "I generally presume them to flow from the indulgences of too much passion of both sides" (this dispute about contractor for Monticello Greenhouse).

GLC08131

circa 1876-1880

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Header Record

Title: [Letters belonging to Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, 1876-1880][Decimalized .01-.22]

Collection of letters belonging to Hugh Judson Kilpatrick dated 1876-1880. Consists of 21 items sent primarily to Luisa Kilpatrick and William T. Sherman. Recounts events of the campaign, Sherman's March to the Sea and other Civil War historical figures including Ulysses S. Grant. Majority of letters pertain to Kilpatrick's attempt to be appointed to the Ministry of Chile and other political aspirations.

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