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to Committee of Correspondence for the Colony of Virginia

Co-signed by Samuel Rhoads and Joseph Galloway on behalf of the committee. Galloway was Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly and would eventually become a well known Loyalist after his Plan of Union was rejected. References their letter asking the...

GLC07666

to Timothy Pickering

Writes to Pickering, who was his successor as Quartermaster of the Continental Army when Greene took command of West Point just after Benedict Arnold's treason. Expresses his dismay at the state of the garrison at West Point and requests supplies....

GLC07667

to Marshall Pinkney Wilder

Co-signed by Oliver Lowndes Davis, a member of the Illinois delegation. Judd, an Illinois State Senator, responds on behalf of the Illinois delegation to the Chairman of the Massachusetts delegation prior to the 1860 presidential election. States,...

GLC07671

to Captain Partridge

Written by Monroe in retirement to a Captain Partrdige. Says he has the pleasure of sending a copy of his memoir (not included here) on the subject of his claims for backpay as a diplomat. Claims he is asking for the money now because "There was no...

GLC07672

to J. C. Martin

Disputes Martin's premise that a candidate's religion is important: "In no case does the man's religious belief in any way influence his discharge of his duties, save as to make him more eager to act justly and uprightly in his relations to all men."...

GLC07673

re: defending himself against accusations in the Yazoo land grant scandal

GLC07636

Eyewitness account of sinking of the Titanic

Written by a first-class passenger on Carpathia stationery: "Awakened about 11:40 by a violent jar....I went out to the promenade deck and soon learned that we had run into ice...and I had heard a passenger state that he saw an iceberg pass the...

GLC07640

re: capture of Davis and his transport from Nashville to Washington [decimalized]

From the archive of Alba M. Tucker, Assistant Quarter Master. Collection consists of telegrams, general orders, an annual report to the Quartermaster General, printed biographical sketches, newspaper clippings, and one photograph concerning the...

GLC07642

to Richard Taylor re: slavery debate preceding compromise of 1850

"Congress as yet has done but little, but discuss the unfortunate slavery question which is not yet adjusted and it is quite uncertain when it will be...."

GLC07643

to James Madison re: correcting journals of Constitutional Convention

GLC07648

The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held In London [emancipation]

Contains a letter to friends at the quarterly and monthly meetings in Great Britain and Ireland, and another letter to friends at their yearly meeting in Philadelphia. Both letters guide the conduct of Quakers, and encourage "the continuance of your...

GLC07633

The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held in London [British abolition efforts]

Quaker meeting regarding the conduct of church members. Mentions the global spread of British abolition efforts: "It is with particular satisfaction we observe the spreading of those principles of justice, which have long bound us to the cause of...

GLC07634

The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held in London [American Revolution]

Contains a letter to friends at the quarterly and monthly meetings in Great Britain and Ireland: "The sufferings of our brethren in America... have principally arisen from that confusion and distress which are inseparable from war..."; and another...

GLC07635

Life of Jeff. Davis in Five Expressive Tableaux [engraving]

Engraved series of metamorphoses from "Before He Becomes a Traitor" to "Finis''.

GLC07637

to Thomas B. Musgrave re: imprisonment

"I do not feel myself the least degraded by my imprisonment, my chain, or the near prospect of the gallows. Men cannot imprison, or chain, or hang the soul." With engraving, photograph, and collateral paperwork. Per Lee Shepard, Asst. Director for...

GLC07638.01

to "My Darling Wife" re: doubting reported plan to rescue Brown

Written while guarding John Brown in prison.

GLC07638.02

to David G. Burnet re: politics in Texas

"Austin has been admitted to Bail. Letters from him & Almonte say he will leave Mexico, intirely liberated, in a short time. The new election for governor, Lt. governor, and members of Congress, will take place here next Monday." Also mentions...

GLC07639

Landscape watercolor painted by Grant as cadet at West Point

Signed in right hand corner "U.H. Grant". Includes 4 items collateral paperwork.

GLC07641

to Henry Sherburne re: Treaty with the Chickasaw Nation

"Funds have been transmitted you to carry into effect the treaty with the Chickasaw Nation of the 30th of December 1815, and also for the payment of the annuity due them under that treaty for 1817...." Sherburne, a Rhode Island native, was...

GLC07644

re: authorizing justices in Charlotte Co. to execute slaves for capital offenses

Authorizes justices in Charlotte County to execute slaves who commit capital offenses. With collateral newspaper article.

GLC07645

to Sally Tompkins re: battle at Richmond Mountain

"[T]he expedition not wholly baren of good results. We captured all their pickets...the plan was well arranged (and that is all my Genl [Lee] had to do with it) but...the assault was not made."

GLC07646

Engraving inscribed by Sherman

"If...you would take the trouble to examine the volume throughout, and to minute all the passages where your recollection or your notes would detect an error, it would confer a new and valuable obligation upon me...."

GLC07647

to George Grenville re: aftermath of Boston Massacre, troop presence in Boston

"It was so apparently incompatible with the Safety of the town for the troops to continue any longer in it, that His Majesty's Council were unanimous in their Advice to the Lieutenant Governor, that they should be removed to the Barracks at Castle...

GLC07649

Does a College Education Pay re: supporting college education

"The methods employed in any enterprise and occupation, have so changed within the last fifty years, that a necessity has risen for an advanced grade of intelligence and education."

GLC07650

to Samuel Adams, et al. re: British policy & the potential loss of the colonies

"History shows that by these Steps great Empires have crumbled heretofore; and the late Transactions we have so much Cause to complain of, show that we are in the same Train, and that without a greater Share of Prudence and Wisdom than we seem on...

GLC07651