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Journal of a cruise to China and Japan in the U.S. Sloop Vandalia.

Journal of a sailor under Captain John Pope. The journal describes customs in the ports it visited, mentions meeting Commodore Matthew Perry's flag ship, and provides information on hostilities between American troops and the Japanese military.

GLC02547

Six Nations. Document signed with the holograph totems of 14 chiefs.

A reciept acknowledging the final payment for land ceded by the Six Nations at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix.
With the loss of these lands the Six Nations eventually dispersed: the Mohawk and Cayuga to Canada, the Oneida to Wisconsin, while the Onondaga...

GLC02548

[David and Isabella Dundas letters] [Decimalized]

The letters include the American Revolution (Rhode Island, Cornwallis surrender, campaign in the South), the Gordon Riots in London, and cultural life including disparaging remarks on Italian opera and Handel's music. Most letters written by David...

GLC02549

to Charles Dudley Warner re: declining to write a life of Francis Parkman

Having been asked to write the life of Francis Parkman for the American Men of Letters Series, Wilson, despite the compliment to his own abilities, declines.

GLC02551.03

to Stan Henkels

Thanks Henkels for gift of Bradford's Bibliographical Manual.

GLC02551.04

Advertisement. [calling for meeting to determine support for non-importation]

Docketed on verso by Alexander McDougall. Evans 11785, Stokes's Iconography of Manhattan 4: 182. Ex-McDougall Papers.

GLC02553

Advertisement. [a poll of New Yorkers regarding importation]

Not in Evans or Bristol. (Facsimile reprint was made by N.W. Allen, 1967, Schenedtady, N.Y.) Ex-Alexander McDougall Papers

GLC02554

Appeal to Members of NY Provincial Congress to attend February session

Issued by the New York Committee of Public Safety, appealing to New York's members of Congress. Also appeals on rejection of Lord North's reconciliation plan, which is intended to "disunite the colonies." From the Alexander McDougall papers.

GLC02555

To The People of Texas re: siege of Mexican garrison at San Antonio de Bexar

Streeter Texas 92. re siege of Mexican garrison at San Antonio de Bexar. Compared with Streeter copy at Yale University.

GLC02558

Proclamation re: admission of Texas to the Union, with John Tod ALS

Issued by Jones as President of the Republic of Texas, calling all Senators and Representatives to convene a state government. Accompanied by a 2 p. John Tod ALS, Galveston, concerning the proclamation, written while commanding in the Texas navy.

GLC02560

[Military convention for the provisional suspension of hostilities]

Order No. 18, ratified by William Orlando Butler as Major General Commanding on March 5,1848. Signed by Adjutant Irvin McDowell. Orders a suspension of hostilities following seventeen articles by the Military Convention. The Convention provisions...

GLC02561

Treaty between Great Britain and Texas for suppression of slave trade

Streeter Texas 1416. Printed by T. R. Harrison.

GLC02562

An act of Parliament effecting a treaty between Great Britain and the Republic of Texas for the suppression of the slave trade.

Passed on 11 April 1843. Paginated 166-180 + unpaginated first page.

GLC02563

[Texas rail road, navigation, and banking company share certificate]

Printed bank document issued to James Collinsworth and cosigned by B. J. Archer, Collinsworth, J. Henderson and T. McKinney. Features printed border.

GLC02565

Land grant certificate for army service of Thomas J. Green

Partly printed document signed by Bee as Secretary of War.

GLC02566

Rio Grande And Texas Land Company certificate with map

Printed on very thin paper (art vellum style) with handcolored map of the grant area. Numbered 55. Signed by Beales, Isaac A. Johnston and Silas M. Stilwell.

GLC02567

Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company Certificate no. 12075

Signed by Anthony Dey, William H. Sumner and George Curtis as trustees for Burnett, Lorenzo De Zavala and Joseph Vehlein, granting a parcel to J.R. Poinsett. Illustrated with map at bottom left. Streeter 117.

GLC02568

[Collection of Gustave Cook, H company, 8th regiment, Texas, cavalry] [decimalized]

#3 mentions intention to attend the Jeff Davis inaugural. #8 mentions Union POW's from 1st Manassas arriving in New Orleans. #9 has good description of camp life. #10 has account of battle of Woodsonville, KY 12/17/1861 and death of Col. Terry....

GLC02570

to Edward Burleson re: Vasquez expedition's approach

Written as Secretary of War and Navy of the Texas Republic one day after Vasquez occupied San Antonio. Burleson was Vice President of Texas. Vasquez led an unauthorized force in seizing San Antonio and proclaiming Mexican law. The Republic of...

GLC02572

to Thomas J. Rusk re: Houston's retreat in the "runaway scrape"

Written as Colonel in the Texas Army. Written 3 weeks before Houston's victory at San Jancinto

GLC02573

to his sister re: fighting for Texas with the "Louisiana Grays"

Written as an officer in the Texas Army in the Louisiana Grays. Mentions his new land ownership and his affection for a young woman.

GLC02574

to Edward Burleson re: Vasquez expedition and archives war

GLC02575

to Edward C. Hanrick

Hanrick was an Alabama speculator in Texas lands. Williams held the lands in trust until colonists from Alabama were to arrive. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02576

to Thomas R. Lucks re: demanding certain documents

Written as governor. Order written during the "Archives War." Smith is known as the first American Gov. of Texas.

GLC02577

to Joseph F. Spier re: hard times in city of Houston

A long and excellent description of Texas in 1841. Spier concludes by saying he planned to return home to the US. Written at Galveston

GLC02578

to John D. Moore

Describes preparations and provisions for the Santa Fe Expedition. In case of his death or long absence, wants Moore to "protect the negros from sale," and keep them for himself.

GLC02579

to Judge W. Hardin & Capt. William M. Logan re: mobilizing militia

Letter signed as President of Texas, countersigned by acting Secretary of War Jacob Snively.

GLC02580

Republic of Texas, Austin county election results

Listing returns from Austin County for the election of President, Vice President, Senator and Representatives for the Repubic.

GLC02581

Republic of Texas, Austin county election results re: annexation & constitution

Republic of Texas, Austin County election results on the question of annexation, sent to Edwin Waller as Chief Justice of the county.

GLC02582

[French and Indian War privateer's commission of Captain Samuel Partridge]

Countersigned by Thomas Clarke, Deputy Secretary. Pownall, Governor of Massachusetts Bay, authorizes Captain Samuel Partridge to "set forth in warlike manner the said Ship Race Horse under his own Command and ... seize & take the Ships, Vessels, and...

GLC02587

[Manuscript Civil War map of Murfreesboro, Tennessee]

Shows Murfreesboro and the areas north and west of it, along with names of property owners. Drawn shortly before the Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro), providing evidence that General Braxton Bragg originally planned to attack the Union forces...

GLC02588

to Hugh McCulloch

Kemper, Governor of Virginia, discusses Virginia's repayment of post-Civil War debt with McCulloch, former Secretary of the Treasury and a member of the London banking firm Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Co. Offended that McCulloch did not respond to his...

GLC02589

to Virginia Clay-Clopton

Clay, a former U.S. and Confederate Senator, writes to his wife while imprisoned at Fort Monroe. Informs her that, "The hardest part of my trial here has been my solicitude about you, my parents and other kindred, who, I feared, would be tortured by...

GLC02590

Authorization of Charles Harrison to borrow $50,000 on faith of Texas (c/s Rusk)

Countersigned by Thomas J. Rusk, as Secretary of State.

GLC02591

The American Museum. [Vol. II, no. 3 (September 1787)]

Contains the first magazine printing of the United States Constitution on p. 276-284. Also contains an essay by Benjamin Franklin on "Information for those who would wish to remove to America. Also features political sketches, an address to...

GLC02593.01

to Hamilton A. Hill

Urges that "the present is as favorable a time as we can expect for the agitation of the free trade question." Explains the importance of free trade and elimination of a protective tariff. Declares that "During the war the country went back to a...

GLC02595

[Collection of William H. Bettes, L company, 6th regiment, Ohio, cavalry] [decimalized]

This collection consists of fourteen letters written by William Henry Bettes. Eleven of these letters are written to Lodema Bettes, his wife, one letter is written to Charley Bettes, his son, one letter is written to Carrie Bettes, his daughter, and...

GLC02596

Memorandum of instructions for the troops tonight

Orders detailing preparations for a possible Union attack on Morris Island. Written at night on the same day the assault on Fort Sumter had begun. Part of the Confederate force for the assault on Fort Sumter was located on Morris Island.

GLC02600

to David R. Jones

Retained draft in secretarial hand for Whitings own files of a letter detailing the surrender of Fort Sumter. Describing attack on fort, says soon "Anderson's position will be untenable." Worries about a naval attack by Union forces, "more than...

GLC02601

to Edward Manigault

Requesting artillery supplies in case while taking Fort Sumter "a desperate battle" ensues. Written the day before the fort is attacked. Written as Colonel of the First Regiment Rifles of South Carolina on the day before Fort Sumter surrendered.

GLC02602

[Certificate of deposit by Kansas soldier donating his savings to the U.S. Government]

Partially printed certificate of the U.S. Treasury filled out by hand. Patriotic $50 donation by soldier Alfred T. Jackson of Co. D of the 1st Regiment of Kansas Mounted Infantry indicated to be the "amount of his savings as a soldier." Spinner was...

GLC02609

Robert H. Stafford Collection [Decimalized .01- .98]

Stafford enlisted as a sergeant in the 12th Alabama infantry. Contains letters and newsclippings about the Peninsula Campaign, advance into Maryland, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Early's raid on Washington, D.C....

GLC02618

Joint report upon the survey and demarcation of the boundary between the United States and Canada from the source of the St. Croix River to the Atlantic Ocean

Contains treaties between the United States and Canada regarding the demarcation of geographic boundaries. Describes the types of committees used and the methods of surveying the boundary from the source of the St. Croix River to the Atlantic Ocean....

GLC02619

Address to officers with General orders 3/11/1783 & Newburgh address

A contemporary transcript written by an unknown soldier on the leaves of a stitched pamphlet. Contains the anonymous "Address to the Officers of the Army" calling the army's general officers to a meeting (a mutinous situation) (pp. 1-12), Washington...

GLC02624

[Draft of a telegram to Philip Sheridan]

Ordering all American troops North of the Rio Grande. Also orders Sheridan to inspect any damage his forces may have done, so that "if claims are hereafter made...we should know the justice of them." Following the end of the Civil War, Union troops...

GLC02629

to D. W. Burroughs

Pierce, writing as a United States Senator from Vermont, responds to a letter from Reverend Burroughs. In reference to their conflicting views on slavery, promises to send Burroughs a copy of the United States Constitution, as he requested. Writes...

GLC02634

to Lieut. G. W. Smith re: awaiting ratification of the treaty with Mexico

Written as Captain of Engineers regarding preparations for the engineer corps to leave. Mentions McClellan ("McClelland").

GLC02641

Cavalry tactics. Third part. Evolutions of a regiment.

McClellan's personal copy of an army cavalry tactics manual, signed by McClellan on the titlepage as "Capt. 1st Cavalry." Pencilled note on rear pastedown by Millis Knickerbocker, a member of McClellan's Dragoons, states that he found the book near...

GLC02645

Fremont's proclamation

Issued from Headquarters of the Western Department. Fremont, department commander, declares martial law over the state of Missouri to counteract "the total insecurity of life, and the devastation of property by bands murderers and marauders, who...

GLC02654

Contract for payment to members of the Cherokee nation (cos. Thomas Buffington)

Signed by Buffington at Tahlequah, Indian Territory, for the Cherokee Nation and approved by Roosevelt at Washington. "Executive Mansion" has been struck and "White House" typed-in. Approving Act of the Cherokee National Council for expenses.

GLC02657