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GLC06795.02

A Secularizar Las Misiones De Alta y...California" ...

15 Articles of Secularization Law, opening way for colonization of California. Printed document.

GLC06796

An account of some of the bloody deeds of Gen. Jackson [with coffins, response]

Dramatic broadside. A sarcastic rejoinder to the broadside "An Account of the Bloody Deeds of Gen. Jackson." Features coffin surrounded by dozens of smaller black coffins. With a pro-Jackson text that ironically describes the "slaughter" of the...

GLC06797

Application for a bonus based on service for Jeremiah Boley, 4th Reg. USCT

Boley served in the 4th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops. With a receipt for payment, power of Attorney, and affadavit. Consists of 4 leaves attached at upper corner

GLC06798

to unknown re: explanation of the Import Law with regard to Hemp duty

GLC06799

to Mr. Peal re: sale and delivery of slaves to his plantation

Letter in the third person, signed in the text.

GLC06800

to James P. Foster re: the Republican Party's mission

He writes in part "surely the time has arrived when the Republican Party should assume again its great mission." Was written in the Senate Chamber

GLC06804

to Charles Butler re: Atlantic cable

"My prediction of the 1842-3 of the Atlantic Cable Project is at length realized. May it be a blessing to the World..."

GLC06805

The Capture and Execution of John Brown: A Tale of Martyrdom

With thirty illustrations. Eyewitness account, inscribed. Printed by the Brethren Publishing House for the author and Publisher. Accompanied (.02) by publisher's prospectus, small printed leaf of Brown's last written words, photo of Brown's widow's...

GLC06806

[Materials related to "The Capture of John Brown"] [decimalized .01-.03]

Items accompanying Avey's book: the original publisher's prospectus signed by James Collin as publisher's agent, small printed leaflet facsimile of Brown's last written words (included with the book, according to the note written on it), and a...

GLC06806.02

Circular. Office of....Freedmen re: information for Freedmen in Natchez, La.

With manuscript note on obtaining permits, etc. Printed by Freedmen Press, Vicksburg, MS with MS corrections, for use in Dept. of Tenn. & Ark. One black and white bust engraving of General Eaton included.

GLC06807

"Diary" of Captain, Co. D. 9th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery

Captain Oviat's "Diary" with printed titlepage, and short entries concerning drilling, telegrams received, etc. The entries appear to have been copied, as noted on the titlepage "Edited by Joseph Fitzgerald, 1st Lt. Co. 9, USC Artillery (heavy)."...

GLC06808

Daily Journal Extra... "2 P.M. Richmond is taken. The city is on fire"

Double column broadside prints Stanton's telegraph.

GLC06809

Free South. [Vol. 1, no. 2 (January 17, 1863)]

Includes article "The Policy of a Negro Army for the North"

GLC06810

The President's dedication address at Gettysburg

Printed by Miller & Mathews. Contains textual variations indicative of a very early printing of the Gettysburg Address.

GLC06811

The Daily citizen. [June 16, 1863]

News at Vicksburg, (false) reports of victory at Port Hudson. Support for General Pemberton. Geometric red and gray pattern.

GLC06812

Benedict Arnold & Horatio Seymour! ... Who is to be president? [election]

Election-relation broadside attacking Seymour and attempting to link him to the 1863 draft riots in New York City.

GLC06813

Who shall be Vice President? George Pendleton vs. Andrew Johnson [1864 election]

GLC06815

Passport of George Rice indicating complexion as "Dark"

Signed (?) by Hamilton Fish

GLC06817.02

to Acting Secretary of War re: burning of Washington by British

Winchester also requests to be reassigned. Docketed "Copy of a letter to the Acting Secretary of War."

GLC06824

to Henry Dearborn re: recommending W.Duncanson for Librarian of Congress

Jefferson, writing to his Secretary of War, discusses nominations for various posts, particularly W. Duncanson for Librarian of Congress, because of his distressed condition. "He was in the worst days of terror, one of the 4 or 5 who alone stood...

GLC06826

Oration delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester

First Edition by Lee, Mann & Co. Douglass' famous fourth of July oration, given on the fifth. Douglass was asked by the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society to give the oration on the fourth, choosing the topic "the meaning of the Fourth to the...

GLC06829

Orderly book of Captain Blauvelt at beginning of New York Campaign

New York (Rockland County) or New Jersey (Bergen County) militia Revolutionary War orderly book. Includes Washington's orders for troops sent to New York after recapture of Boston, New York campaign prior to British arrival at Staten Island (July)....

GLC06849

Pardon of Charles W. Dorrance with stamped signature

Stamped Signature of President Johnson (sole example in GLC). Countersigned by William H. Seward

GLC06850

to James Monroe re: Washington D.C., letter (copy) written during war of 1812

Contemporary copy. Cochrane writes to Secretary of State Monroe that British attacks will occur unless the U.S. makes reparation to the suffering inhabitants of Upper Canada. Dated from "His Britannic Majesty's Ship the Tornnant in the Patusan...

GLC06863

Pardon of Leonard Prather (c/s John Forsyth)

Convicted of stealing money from letters as assistant postmaster

GLC06868.01

Pardon of George Anderson (c/s John Forsyth)

Convicted of an assault and battery on Captain Hilliard of Ship Draper

GLC06868.02

Pardon of Edward King (c/s James Buchanan)

Convicted of transferring forged papers to the treasury in exchange for money

GLC06868.03

to W. S. Rainsford

Writes of Creel: "He can only find inconsistencies precisely as he can find them in the writings of Washington or Lincoln- that is, an occasional honest and necessary change of mind and ...circumstances which necessitated a change on my part...

GLC06881

re: U.S. Civil Service commission recommendation

Signed as "acting President"

GLC06883

re: war with Indians in Oregon

Apparently a fragment or a note on a docketing panel. "This is no war with Indians in the region familiar to Texas Jack, but far away Oregon in a country well known to the troops serving there." Some loss to letters.

GLC06887

to James B. Bradwell re: mementos of Jefferson Davis

These mementos belonged to Keckley, a freed slave and onetime seamstress to Mrs. Davis and later to Mrs. Lincoln. They include a "Bedstead taken from the House of Jefferson Davis, four (4) days after the evacuation of the city" and "some other...

GLC06890

Authority to affix the seal to the pardon of Charles Hughes

Per the National Archives pardon file, Hughes had been convicted of stealing mail.

GLC06899

Continental Congress. Account ledger detailing funds paid and received

Continental Congress in Boston. Entries include the following: "Cash to the Hon. Continental Congress-received from the Hon. John Hancock Esq.-President by the hands of Mr. George Spriggs-two boxes containing one hundred and fifty thousand dollars...

GLC06816

to Henry W. Beecher re: difficulties in graduating from medical school

Rice was a black doctor and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery who studied under Joseph Lister. He writes concerning his difficulties being accepted into medical school; Rice states: "I hope soon....to get my diploma from a school which stands first in...

GLC06817.01

to Major Bewell re: Bewell's appointment as head of recruiting party in Vermont

Detailed instructions on supplies, strategies preparing for war with France

GLC06818

Observations upon certain passages in Mr. Jefferson's Notes on Virginia

Title continued: "...which appear to have a tendency to subvert religion, and establish a false philosophy." An attack on Jefferson's Notes, by the clergyman better known for his poem "The Night Before Christmas."

GLC06819

The United States Sanitary Commission: A Sketch of its purposes and work

First edition published by Little Brown. Inscribed in pencil on the titlepage by S. W. Bridgham to "Mrs. Ives." Wormeley was a prominent organizer of women's aid societies in New England during the Civil War. She also served on U.S. Sanitary...

GLC06820

Six items re: prisoner exchanges after battle of Springfield [Decimalized .01- .07]

1. John C. Fremont. DS: Springfield, Mo. 5 November 1861. 4 p. "Proclamation to all peacably disposed citizens of the State of Missouri..." Cosigned by Sterling Price.
2. Little, Henry. DS: Cassville, [Mo.] 5 November 1861. 1 p. + docket....

GLC06821

to Emily J. Semmes re: action and retreat at Williamsburg

With a continuation on verso, dated 12 May 1862 in pencil.

GLC06822

to Emily J. Semmes re: deathbed description of Gettysburg, Wheatfield

Also discusses severe injuries that he incurred (written one day prior to his death).

GLC06823

Chicago broadside printed in white ink on black silk for Lincoln funeral

"Order of Procession" printed in 3 columns. Worn.

GLC06825

to William Stedman re: embargo, Florida and the Miranda expedition

Ellery thanks Stedman, Federalist representative from Massachusetts, for his letters, remarks that "I cannot perceive any good arising out of partial restrictions of trade with G.B. but I can see great evil springing from a total non-Importatation...

GLC06827

to Samuel Cooper re: Victory over Cornwallis at Yorktown

"The glorious and important success we have obtained will afford joy to every true american." Co-signed by Samuel Cooper.

GLC06828

Atlantic Monthly. [Vol. 18, no. 110 (December 1866)]

First part, published by Ticknor & Fields. First and only printing prior to the collected works. McFeely p. 255.

GLC06830.01

Atlantic Monthly. [Vol. 19, no.111 (January 1867)]

GLC06830.02

The equality of men before the law, claimed and defended in speeches...

Title continued: "by Hon. William D. Kelley, Wendell Phillips and Frederick Douglass." Lacks original wrappers, stab-stitched. Douglass' speech was made to the annual Anti-Slavery Convention. Blockson Collection 2779. Schomburg 324.15-K. USE WITH...

GLC06831

The Colored Cadet at West Point. Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper...

First edition printed by Homer Lee & Co. Flipper, while not the first African-American to attend West Point, was the first to graduate. He was assigned to the all-black 10th Cavalry Regiment. Accused of embezzling army funds at Fort Davis, Indian...

GLC06832

The Black troopers ... in the Spanish American War

Complete title: "The black troopers or the daring heroism of the Negro soldier in the Spanish-American War." Lacks front free endpaper. Illustrated with lithographed drawings. Self-printed book of M.V. Lynk. Work notes this author as African...

GLC06833

to John Calkins re: how his money was used for fugitive slaves

A long, detailed letter from Bibb, the noted runaway slave and conductor on the Underground Railroad, telling Calkins of Wilbraham, Mass., how his money was spent in aiding runaway slaves who had traveled on the Underground Railroad, particularly...

GLC06834