December 29, 1789

Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Adams

Written to the Vice-President of the United States offering to resign his seat in the U.S. Senate on the basis of poor health. "I wish to execute, to the best of my power, the trust with which I have been honored by my country." Indicates that his health is very poor and he cannot undertake a journey to New York until March. He relays his wishes that if the Senate cannot be assembled without him, he wants his successor to be elected right away and sent to New York. A small piece of paper separated from the letter is stamped Annapolis January 2, and signed "His Excellency." Carroll served…

GLC08171

December 31, 1798

Jay, John, 1745-1829

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Morris

Notifies James Morris of his appointment to the position of Sheriff of the City and County of New York. States that he has faith in Morris's abilities. Comments that he is happy to hear Morris's uncle has arrived and asks him to send his compliments. Written while Jay was governor of New York.

GLC08172

19 June 1962

Kennedy, Robert Francis, 1925-1968

Document signed

Title: Grant for presidential pardon

Grant for presidential pardon to Charles Henry Durner, who was convicted of falsifying documents. With legal files.

GLC08173

August 4, 1778

Morris, Lewis, 1726-1798

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gouverneur Morris

Letter to his half brother praising the commissary general of supplies of the army, Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth, and asking him to support Wadsworth against his opposers in Congress. Remarks that accounts have reported that the British have "made almost every lady in the place of easy virtue" in Philadelphia. Expects to hear of a strike at Rhode Island any day and that General John Sullivan will have an army of 10,000 besides the forces of the French Admiral (Marquis de Lafayette). Written shortly after British forces evacuated Philadelphia in June 1778 and during the Newport Rhode Island…

GLC08174

10 April 1788

McMechen, David, 1754-1810

Broadside

Title: [To the Voters of Baltimore-Town]

Co-signed by Samuel Sterett. Announces that two anti-Federalist candidates, David McMechen and Samuel Sterett, are pulling out of the election of delegates to the Maryland Ratification Convention because the principles they stand for have been misconceived by the citizens. The state of Maryland ratified the U. S. Constitution on 28 April 1788.

GLC08175

02 April 1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Todd Lincoln.

Lincoln's last letter to Mary Lincoln, day before the fall of Richmond, Re: dramatic news of the final collapse of the confederate defenses.

GLC08090

29 March 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Simon Cameron

Orders Secretary of War Cameron to send a naval expedition to resupply Fort Sumter. Indicates that specific instructions were in an attached memorandum (not included) and instructs Cameron to cooperate with Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles.

GLC08093

December 11, 1796

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sir John Sinclair

Written by President Washington to Sinclair the Scottish politician and writer on finance and agriculture. Describes the natural characteristics of various sections of the country, their chief resources, climates, interests and activities, relative land values, and the planned federal city. Says land in Pennsylvania is more valuable than that in Virginia or Maryland because of immigration and naturalization laws, and because of slavery regulations: "there are laws here for the gradual abolition of slavery, which neither of the two states above mentioned have, at present, but which nothing is…

GLC08095

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Two skulls with partial skull sketch on reverse]

Conte crayon, chalk, graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.063

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Three men sailing with wind-beings blowing sails]

Iron gall ink; wove paper.

GLC06343.064

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch signed

Title: [Two portraits of man in hat]

Mirror images signed. Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.065

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Two portraits of man in hat]

Mirror images signed. Graphite; crease down center; wove paper.

GLC06343.066

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: Boy sitting on bench; reverse side, man in rocking chair drawn in boundaries of large brown stain; graphite; wove paper.

Seagulls and cricket; black ink wash; wove paper

GLC06343.067

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Woman eating and sketch of boy below]

Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.068

4 August 1855

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Landscape, rock formation with trees]

Inscribed, "Mount Morris." Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.069

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Five sketches of cats]

Graphite, iron gall ink; lined wove paper.

GLC06343.070

1867

Chambers, Joht W., fl. 1867

Newspaper

Title: The Late Dr. Edward Ruggles

Newspaper clipping of obituary of Dr. Edward Ruggles. Chambers signed as Secretary of the American Institute.

GLC06343.071

1857

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: Dr. Edward Ruggles, Brooklyn 1857

Sketch of a man working at a sewing machine. Iron gall ink; wove paper glued at back corners to heavy backing.

GLC06343.072

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Goateed man in defensive pose]

Graphite or charcoal; orange wove paper.

GLC06343.073

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Sketch of heavenly scene with haloed figure and couple in hammock]

Text on reverse, "Bring wood to make me bright and banish every evil sprite . . . The family is the Nation. The hearth [illegible] the alter of Liberty." Wove paper.

GLC06343.074

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Sculpture design: standing man [possibly James A. Garfield] holding up a paper in one hand]

Graphite; tan tracing paper.

GLC06343.075

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Four sculpture designs: standing man (James A. Garfield)]

Graphite; tan tracing paper.

GLC06343.076

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Sculpture design: standing man]

Possibly James A. Garfield. Graphite; tan tracing paper.

GLC06343.077

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Sculpture design: standing man]

Possibly James A. Garfield. Graphite; tan tracing paper; pressure sensitive tapes.

GLC06343.078

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Sculpture design: standing man]

Possibly James A. Garfield. With hand on pedestal. Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.079