January 27, 1820

Fayette County (Ky.)

Autograph document signed

Title: Inventory of the goods and chattles of Asa Baker,

Carr, Thomas, and Thomas W. Clagett. DS: Fayette Co., [Ky.] 27 January 1820. Inventory of the goods and chattles of Asa Baker, dec'd. With attached sheet ordering the inventory of Baker's estate. 4 p. + docket.

GLC07237.01

19 November 1862

Bettes, William H., fl. 1862-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lodema

Left Gainesville, Virginia yesterday at 5PM and is now between Centerville and Fairfax, Virginia. On the way, they passed the memorable battlefield of Bull Run. Encamped about six miles west of Centerville; they are now about four miles east of that place and comfortably encamped in the woods. Have their tent up and plenty of hay for their bed. They have "good soft bread, good butter, good fries, good coffee and milk for supper tonight and we have enough for breakfast. We live on the best when it can be had." Feels that the public will no longer be "bored with the old stereotyped phrase…

GLC02596.03

6 December 1862

Bettes, William H., fl. 1862-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lodema

[Writes from Chantilly Camp]. Writes that they are still in their old camp. Has been out on a scouting expedition once since he last wrote. Started about 12 o'clock at night and returned the next day at four o'clock in the afternoon. Is certain that there are almost no Rebels left in the northern part of Virginia except for a few Guerilla bands, which do not amount to much. Has not read the President's message yet, but it is greatly eulogized by those who had already read it. Expects this affair will end in a compromise, but Bettes would rather a fight ended the war since battles have…

GLC02596.06

19 December 1862

Bettes, William H., fl. 1862-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lodema

Encamped near Potomac Creek, Virginia about four miles from Hartford Court House and six or seven miles from Fredericksburg, Virginia. Left the camp at Hall Farm on Saturday and went to Fairfax, Ohio and found the troops. Saw S. Z. Dickinson at Fairfax, Ohio; he was still sick but able to walk. They came through Dumfries, Virginia and the roads were extremely muddy so the teams had to stop every few roads. It took them half a day to go a mile and a half. Writes that one would think this distance should be traveled in a day. The roads from here to Fairfax, Ohio run through the woods.…

GLC02596.11

1861-1864

White, Carr Bailey, 1823-1871

Telegram signed

Title: to James L. Botsford

"The scout sent to Sewall last night came in with a negro boy that stayed at Meadow Bluff night before last & no Rebels had been there . . . " Dated Nov 13 186

GLC02414.289

30 June 1942

Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Estelle Spero

Letter written while on guard duty. Diamond describes a formal dance to mark the opening of the camp's new recreation hall that he had attended the night before. He also runs through the couple's financial situation, having been paid that morning. Discusses the training in communications that he has been receiving. Sidney mentions that Carter, his friend, is a member of the Ku Klux auxiliary in Nashville, Tennessee, and states that he is disgusted by "man's inhumanity to man." Diamond expresses his belief that once the war is over the Civil War should be refought, in order to "really…

GLC09120.055

February 26, 1865

Dow, Neal, 1804-1897

Autograph letter signed

Title: to C. C. Leigh

Writes to Leigh in New York: "It occurs to me, that occasionally there may be colored servant girls- refugees- to be obtained, and that through the National Society, you may have something to do with finding places for them. I should like a good house servant very much- if such is to be had." Predicts that the Civil War will not last much longer. Hopes for peace, "but not for any peace that shall leave a particle of slavery in the Constitution." 1 black and white bust engraving of Neal Dow.

GLC05029

February 26, 1849

Cobb, Howell, 1815-1868

Pamphlet

Title: To our constituents.

"A portion of the Southern Representatives in Congress, have recently issued an Address to the people of the South on the exciting question of slavery. We were unable to unite with them in the movement, and the absence of our names from the paper which they have published, has given rise to strictures upon our course which we propose now to notice. Our conduct has been misconstrued by some and misunderstood by others, and to place the matter in its proper light, is the object of the present communication." Representatives Cobb, Linn Boyd, Beverly Clarke, and John H. Lumpkin object to a…

GLC06070

February 17, 1850

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James William Paige

Reports to his brother-in-law that William Meredith, Secretary of the Treasury, wrote to the Committee of Commerce in the House of Representatives regarding the subject of coinage. Reports that he will take the issue to Senate the following day. States that the admission of California to the Union as a free state in the Compromise of 1850 will not "break up, break down, or overset the Union" though the Union "may be tipped ... as a cart is liable to tip up when a heavy weight is put in to the hind end." Humorously ends by saying "You may go, on buying & selling, & getting gain."

GLC01946.43

February 26, 1891

Brown, John Jr., 1821-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to F.B. Sanborn

Acknowledging that his father, John Brown, sometimes offered remarks from the audience at religious assemblies, but refuting accounts that his father ever preached. Also discusses his brothers Jason's attempt to sell Sanborn's biography of their father.

GLC08250

February 26, 1824

Parris, Albion Keith, 1788-1857

Printed document signed

Title: to John Andrew Shulze

Printed resolution signed by Parris as Governor of Maine to Pennsylvania Governor John Andrew Shulze. Certified by A. Nichols as Maine's Secretary of State. First page claims he is passing along a copy of a resolution passed by the legislature of Maine and requested to be put before the Pennsylvania legislature. The resolution, passed on 17 February 1824, disapproves of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution put forward by the state of Georgia. The Georgia proposal said in part "That no part of the Constitution of the United States ought to be construed to authorize the importation or ingress…

GLC05191

February 27, 1865

Maury, William Lewis, 1813-1878

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nan [Maury]

Comments that Mrs. Sinclair (widow of Confederate States Navy commander Arthur Sinclair) bears the loss of her husband well. Reports that a black woman who frequently stayed in Baltimore set fire to the house of her mistress, the wife of Confederate Admiral [Franklin] Buchanan. Discusses Buchanan's convalescence (Buchanan was wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864. He was exchanged the month this letter was written). Presumes the woman's friends put her up to the crime. Writes, "They seem to be expecting a fight soon on our right. Nothing positive from Sherman,…

GLC04572.32

February 26, 1844

Greay, Thomas, fl. 1844

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Winn

Discussing personal affairs and business transactions, including the sale of an enslaved person for one hundred and fifty dollars. Greay signs with his mark. Winn's name is spelled Wynn.

GLC03434.25

February 17, 1881

Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Wendell P. Garrison

Answers questions about William Lloyd Garrison. Comments on his 1833 trip to England, at which time "he was indicted for a libel, by several of the persecutors, of Miss." Explains how he, Lewis Tappan, and others helped Garrison escape apprehension and make the trip. Also comments on Nathaniel Jocelyn's 1833 portrait of Garrison, which was thought "by all his friends, as a most excellent likeness" and subsequently used to make engravings. Mentions the publication of the Liberator. Notes that he recollects Tappan making a statement at an 1833 convention, probably the Anti-Slavery…

GLC08944

February 26, 1745

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 846 (February 26, 1745)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 3 and 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships.

GLC06670.049

February 6, 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1104 (February 6, 1750)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Discusses the futile but worthwhile attempt to find a northwest passage to the East Indies through Hudson Bay. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships.

GLC06670.130

February 16, 1857

Rock, John Sweat, 1825-1866

Broadside

Title: [Advertisement for antislavery lecture]

Letterpress broadside/flyer for an antislavery lecture by Dr. John Sweat Rock. Includes a short note in which Dr. Rock asks David P. Harmon if his lecture on "The Unity of the Races" would be well received in Harmon's town.

GLC06143.15

February 6, 1857

Grimes, James W., 1816-1872

Pamphlet

Title: Joint resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, in relation to slavery and the admission of Kansas into the Union.

House of Representatives mis. doc. no. 38 (34th Congress, 3rd session). Grimes, Governor of Iowa, approved these resolutions in January 1857. Reprinted by Congress in February. Iowa states its opposition to "the further extension of slavery within the jurisdiction or by the sanction of the general government." Supports the admission of Kansas into the Union as a free state.

GLC08452.07

February 6, 1854

Hamlin, Hannibal, 1809-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Directed to "Dear Dr." Hamlin replies to a letter from the recipient. Mentions affidavits pertaining to an unspecified matter. Writes, "How the reopening of the Slavery questions will effect me and our friends, I cannot tell at this time- They ask us to repeal the Missouri Compromise line of 1820- I cannot do so- They assert that the Compromise measures of 1850 intended to repeal that of 1820- It is false, & I will not vote a lie..." Discusses an upcoming political convention, to be held possibly in the spring or fall. Refers to other political matters, and in closing asks that this…

GLC06596

February 27, 1864

Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

Newspaper

Title: Brownlow's Knoxville Whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 10 (February 27, 1864)]

The Oath of Amnesty - slaves - impressments, etc.

GLC05959.50.10

February 7, 1778

Martinica, Dominica, fl. 1777-1778

Document signed

Title: [Legal document of privateer from Court of Vice Admiralty of East Florida claiming enslaved people]

One document countersigned by Judge Robert Catherwood of the Court of Vice Admiralty of East Florida dated February 7, 1778. Signed with an "X" as the mark of Lieutenant Dominica Martinico. Document states that Martinico, the commander of the privateer schooner "Recovery," had taken several schooners off the coast of South Carolina during a cruise. Two of these schooners, the "Betsey" and "Grace," held enslaved people. Probably written in St. Augustine.

GLC01411.01

28 October 1862

McFaddin, William M., fl. 1862-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Wife

GLC03135.08.01

15 March 1863

McFaddin, William M., fl. 1862-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Wife

GLC03135.08.04

7 April 1863

McFaddin, William M., fl. 1862-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Wife

GLC03135.08.05

12 April 1863

McFaddin, William M., fl. 1862-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Wife

GLC03135.08.06