19 June 1851

Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877

Newspaper

Title: National Anti-Slavery Standard. [Vol. 12, no. 4, whole no. 576 (June 19, 1851)]

With previous owner's signature (John Russell) signed along right margin of first page. Contains an article from the Southern Press on "The Constitutional Rights of Secession." Includes an article on abolitionist George Thompson's recent address at Norristown, Pennsylvania, among miscellaneous other reports. Edited by Quincy and James Russell Lowell. Published weekly by the American Anti-Slavery Society.

GLC08875.44

13 July 1861

American Anti-Slavery Society

Newspaper

Title: National Anti-Slavery Standard. [Vol. 22, no. 9, whole no. 1,101 (July 13, 1861)]

Includes a message from President Abraham Lincoln, a speech of abolitionist Wendell Phillips, and miscellaneous other reports. Published weekly by the American Anti-Slavery Society.

GLC08875.45

8 February 1839

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 6 (February 8, 1839)]

Contains articles on the "Refuge of Oppression," Congress, and miscellaneous other items. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general agent. With some discoloration of first page, especially in creases. Contains a small circular chip to middle of front page, slightly affecting text.

GLC08875.46

7 June 1839

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 23 (June 7, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains articles on the "Refuge of Oppression," a letter of John Quincy Adams, and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general agent. Discolored and slightly torn in creases. Fragile.

GLC08875.47

21 June 1839

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 25 (June 21, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general agent. Contains an article on the moral effects of slavery on the master. Includes miscellaneous other reports. Discolored in creases. Fragile.

GLC08875.48

28 June 1839

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 26 (June 28, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Includes articles on the "Refuge of Oppression" and women in the Anti-Slavery Society. Contains resolutions from the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society and other miscellaneous reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general agent. Discolored in creases.

GLC08875.49

12 July 1839

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 28 (July 12, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Includes a letter from William Goodell to John Quincy Adams, among miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general agent. Discolored in creases.

GLC08875.50

26 July 1839

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 30 (July 26, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Includes an article on the Massachusetts Abolition Society and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general agent. Discolored in creases.

GLC08875.51

16 August 1839

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 33 (August 16, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains an article from the Anti-Slavery Lecturer and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general agent. Discolored in creases.

GLC08875.52

13 September 1839

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 37 (September 13, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains an article on the "Unprofitableness of Slavery: Loss of Planters' Tax on the Nation and on the North," and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general agent. Discolored in creases.

GLC08875.53

20 September 1839

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 38 (September 20, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains an article entitled "Blind Leaders of the Blind!," a letter from William Jay to Lewis Tappan, and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general agent. Discolored in creases.

GLC08875.54

1 November 1839

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 44 (November 1, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains an "Address of the Western Reserve Anti-Slavery Convention," a dialogue discussing women and slavery, and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general agent. Discolored and slightly torn in creases.

GLC08875.55

8 November 1839

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 45 (November 8, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains a letter from John Pierpont, a diagram of Marlborough Hall during the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general agent. Discolored and slightly torn in creases.

GLC08875.56

29 November 1839

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 48 (November 29, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains articles on "Free Negroes and Slaves," abolition in France, and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general agent. Discolored and slightly torn in creases.

GLC08875.57

19 September 1845

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 15, no. 38, whole no. 766 (September 19, 1845)]

Contains articles on "Slavery in the United States," and Cassius M. Clay, among miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, James Brown Yerrinton as printer, and Henry W. Williams as general agent. Discolored in creases.

GLC08875.58

20 February 1846

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. 16, no. 8, whole no. 789 (February 20, 1846)]

Contains an article on "The Grand Inquest, or Condemning Unheard. Twelve Short Chapters in Maryland Legislation," among miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, James Brown Yerrinton as printer, and Henry W. Williams as general agent.

GLC08875.59

February 1, 1865

Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

Document

Title: [True copy of the Thirteenth Amendment]

Accompanied by Seward's certification (GLC03264.01) confirming this as a true copy of the Thirteenth Amendment: "Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." Approved 1 February 1865.

GLC03264.02

11 July 1863

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Document signed

Title: [Orders detaching John G. Walker from command of the "Baron de Kalb]

Printed document detaching Lieutenant Commander John G. Walker from the command of the USS "Baron de Kalb" in the Mississippi Squadron. Signed by Welles as Secretary of the Navy and co-signed by A.R.A. Porter. Docket says "Reply Forwarded Aug 20th 1863 David D Porter."

GLC03804.08

7 July 1869

Porter, David Dixon, 1813-1891

Letter signed

Title: to John G. Walker

Written by Porter as Superintendent of the Naval Academy to Commander Walker who was just given command of the USS "Sabine." Apologizes for being so busy. Says he has sent him all the orders he asked for and that he should have sailing directions enough to last him on a trip around the world. Hopes Walker got everything he wanted in Boston. Says that Walker probably wants to know his opinion of the new Naval Secretary, George M. Robeson. Porter says Robeson "has a good deal more 'snap' to him than Mr. Borie." Says the Navy will be "straight as a rams' horn" when he gets back. Written on…

GLC03804.13

27 April 1853

Darbee, L. & Son, fl. 1853

Newspaper

Title: Williamsburgh Daily Gazette [Vol. 18, no. 291, whole no. 1676 (April 27, 1853)]

Includes the conclusion of a preview of a work soon to be published called "The Narrative of Solomon Northrop, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped and Sold into Slavery in Washington City, in 1844, and Rescued in 1853 from a cotton plantation, near the Red River, in Louisiana." The first half was printed the day before, see GLC 6069.01. Also has an image of women running a printing press on the last page. Other local news, ads, and announcements.

GLC06069.02

5 August 1822

Tucker, Thomas Tudor, 1745-1828

Letter signed

Title: to Nabby Gardner

Paritally printed letter signed by Thomas T. Tucker, enclosing a draft for two hundred and forty dollars. The letter was sent "Care of Aaron Hobart." Signed as Treasurer of the United States. The letter and address are on separate pages, which have been torn apart.

GLC06313.04.189

18 September 1822

Burch, Samuel, fl. 1805-1823

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Aaron Hobart

Desires to be appointed to the now vacant position of Clerk of the House of Representatives. The office of the Clerk is filled by a vote among the Representatives, and Burch was requesting Hobart's vote. Details his credentials, stating he has worked in the Office of the House for eighteen years, and believes he is well qualified for the promotion. Burch was soon appointed to the position.

GLC06313.04.191

circa 1863

Photograph

Title: [Carte de visite of Amos Lewis]

Accompanied a letter from Amos to his nephew Seth Lewis, written in January 1863. Carte de visite provides an elderly depiction of Amos Lewis.

GLC03229.02

29 March 1866

McSherry, Anna, 1833-?

Autograph letter

Title: to Henry F. McSherry

Written by Anna to her brother Henry. She seems to have had a meeting with "Mr. Welles" -- possibly the Secretary of Navy Gideon Welles. She thinks one of the charges brought against Henry was disloyalty. She is surprised because "you and Pa at the first out break of the war opposed secession." She mentions that their father was president of a Union meeting early in the war. Says there was a "reign of terror" in West Virginia when Confederate forces came through, making arrests. She says it was well known that Henry always did what he felt was right. Also mentions that their father is…

GLC03523.21.55

7 April 1866

McSherry, Anna, 1833-?

Autograph letter

Title: to Henry F. McSherry

Written by Anna to her brother Henry. Says their father wants him to send home an allotment ticket. Says their father would be able to put the payment, which is in gold, to good use, maybe to purchase land. Continues letter on 18 April 1866. References his letters of 1 February and 11 February, both of which had photographs in them. Henry seems to be thinking about settling in the East Indies. If that is the case, their father would not have thought his resignation such a mistake. Says their Baltimore friends consider his resignation a mistake. Everyone is afraid of the glut of surgeons…

GLC03523.21.56