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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."

GLC08113.04

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

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."

GLC08116

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...

GLC08117

to Thomas Gage

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

GLC08119.01