1819/03/09

Mackenzie, R., fl. 1819

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mssrs. La Farge & Patterson re: trading disagreement

GLC03107.04470

1790/12/22

Livingston, John, 1750-1822

Autograph document signed

Title: Receipt of 4 fowls from Conrad Myers

GLC03107.04485

1747/07/02

Livingston, Gilbert, 1718-1789

Autograph document signed

Title: Account of Arnold M. Donald

Gilbert Livingston confirms labor performed by Arnold M. Donald.

GLC03107.04462

1863/2/14

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

He has received eight letters in the mail. He advises his mother on managing their rental property, writes about friends and family members back home and remarks that their current expedition has come to a stand still.

GLC04662.028

1866/3/25

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

Plans to attend a big government auction in Macon, Georgia. Before he goes home, he must stop in Washington and settle his old quartermaster accounts. He advises his mother on financial affairs including rent houses, and an oil well.

GLC04662.121

1865/9/7

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

He will stay in the South for two or three months. He has borrowed $3000 from Mr. Pratt and is investing in stock [selling horses and mules in South Carolina, see # 68 ] speculation. He has been formally relieved of duty and is anxious to get home, once his trip to South Carolina is over.

GLC04662.108

1865/9/15

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

He has purchased his stock and will start South immediately.

GLC04662.109

1865/10/8

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

He is on his way to Augusta, Georgia to sell his stock. He thinks Columbia must have been a beautiful city before Sherman marched through. "There are a few fire places left yet, which serve to show what the city was, but most of the buildings are now only a heap of ruins or blank, half fallen walls."

GLC04662.110

1865/10/1

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

His stock is not selling as fast as he had hoped. He thinks Darlington is the wealthiest district in the state and adds, "The people are very sesech in their proclivities and are as 'ugly as sin', as the children say."

GLC04662.111

1865/10/27

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

He has been renting out his teams, but will now sell them. He received a job offer from Pratt & Co. and plans to accept it.

GLC04662.112

1865/11/12

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

His stock is selling slowly, but he has already made enough to cover his original purchase and all his expenses. He will hold an auction and hopes to sell of the rest of the teams at that time. Hopes to be home before Christmas.

GLC04662.113

1865/11/23

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

Describes the damage done by union bombardment and subsequent fires. Hopes to dispose of his stock in auction. Wants to be home for Christmas.

GLC04662.114

1865/12/15

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

He has made $3000 in profit in the last three months. Still hopes to be home for Christmas.

GLC04662.116

1866/1/16

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

Describes the auctions which are occurring throughout the state. Discusses the weather, which is quite warm one day and cool the next. Also discusses the economic stagnation of the south.

GLC04662.117

1866/1/28

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

Does not think his family needs to worry about an outbreak of small pox near their house. He thinks his vaccination kept him from getting the disease, even though he was in the company of small pox victims on several occasions. He has been delayed from shipping goods that he bought in auction. The blacks in the area are contracting with the planters. He disliked a church service because it sounded a "little to[o] "Beechering' for my taste."

GLC04662.118

1866/02/13

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

He has purchased many items at auction, including 257 army wagons. He spilled a mixture of kerosene oil and lamp black all over his face and clothes and had a horrible time trying to clean up.

GLC04662.119

1865/2/24

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

He is feeling homesick. Selling the mules and wagons is taking a long time. He writes of a girl from home, Katie Pratt, whom he is interested in and who his mother thinks would be a good choice for a wife. Yet he will not marry until he is financially established.

GLC04662.120

1787/03/12

Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Allibane? re: business, announcing election to Constitutional Convention

GLC04842.04

1787/08/31

Dayton, Jonathan, 1760-1824

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gen. Elias Dayton (his father) re: business, a military trial

Written to his father, Elias Dayton, who had declined election to the Constitutional Convention in favor of his son, because he himself was serving in Congress. Jonathan Dayton was the youngest member of the convention.

GLC04842.20

1938/06/01

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Document signed

Title: Presidential veto of "act to incorporate Mount Olive Cemetery Co."

Presidential veto of "act to incorporate Mount Olive Cemetery Co." because it would exempt them from paying for public improvements. Originally pasted overall on an piece of light cardboard containing election ephemera for Vincent L. Palmisano. (According to conservator SD 7/96, backing cannot be removed without damage to typewritten text: returned without treatment.)

GLC04994

1824/11/12

Livingston, Henry W., 1798-1848

Manuscript document signed

Title: Agreement of Thomas Smailes to be the agent of Henry W. Livingston

GLC03107.05372

12 Feburary 1883

Powell, George May, 1835-1905

Autograph document signed

Title: [George May Powell agrees to relinquish a contract]

GMP agrees to relinquish a contract concerning four maps and publication of maps with Cochrane.

GLC00687.260