1779/04/21

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Col. Daniel Brodhead re: wish to chastise the western Indians and Iroquois

Washington notes that supplies, communications and other hazards make any operation difficult and orders Brodhead to make preparation for a joint expedition. Brodhead did pacify Indians along the Alleghany, 1779-1780.

GLC02867.02

1780/10/13

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Col. Daniel Brodhead re: court martials and war news

In addition to discussing the court martials of Capt Thomas Beal, Peter Davis and David Gamble, Washington also mentions his hopes to attack Detroit, thoughts on Virginia and his need for provisions. Written near Passaic Falls, New Jersey.

GLC02867.03

1780/09/06

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Anthony Wayne re: perseverance in the "arduous but glorious struggle...."

Washington, responding to Wayne's letter of September 3 concerning someone's attempts to attack him before Washington, thanks him for his professions of friendship and reassures him of his own regard. Washington assures him that the "person to whom you allude" has "never mentioned a syllable to me in his life injurious to you..., nor... to any Gentn. of my family." Washington asks Wayne to "let all differences subside" and to "[l]et all be as a band of Brothers & rise superior to every injury whether real or imaginary and persevere in the arduous but glorious struggle in which we are…

GLC02872

[1800 ca.]

Document

Title: "Demention [sic] of a Thrashing Machine"

Detailed description of James Tod's threshing machine.

GLC02794.177

1912

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Book signed

Title: Georgius Agricola De Re Metallica

Also authored by Lou Henry Hoover. Translated from the first Latin edition of 1556 and published by the Mining Magazine, Salisbury House, London, England. Inscribed by Hoover to Edwin A. Elsbach. De Re Metallica or "On the Nature of Metals" was the standard text on mining for two centuries. Agricola reviewed everything then known about mining, including equipment and machinery, means of finding ores, methods of surveying and digging, assaying ores, smelting, mine administration, and occupational diseases of miners. It also contains descriptions of ores and of strata. Pages uncut.

GLC02796

20 March 1834

Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864

Letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Knight

Printed circular letter to collectors of the customs. Requests a statement of the amount of specie imported and exported through the station for the last three months. Hereafter the collector is to make weekly reports of these amounts: "Those statements will specify the places from which imported, or to which exported; the names of persons importing or exporting; the amount imported or exported by each, and whether in coin or bullion." Knight was Collector of the Customs of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Signed as Secretary of the Treasury.

GLC02797

1815/07/23

Foster, Ephraim H., 1794-1854

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Graham

In this long, personal letter, Foster, a newly minted lawyer and former secretary to Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812, gets reacquainted with Graham, a childhood friend. Reflects nostalgically at the "halcyon days" of their youth and looks forward to a life of public service. Discusses the Tennessee gubernatorial race. Endorses Graham's plans to become a lawyer. Foster later served in the Tennessee house of representatives and the U.S. senate.

GLC02800

1814/06/12

Foster, Ephraim H., 1794-1854

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Graham

Foster expresses his enduring friendship for Graham, though the two have not seen each other in years. Discusses Jackson's victory over the Creek Indians, their surrender, and other local news.

GLC02801

1814/02/28

Foster, Ephraim H., 1794-1854

Letter signed

Title: to William Graham

Foster discusses a campaign against the Creek Indians, led by Andrew Jackson, in which he was a participant. Discusses the "unlawful pretensions" of the British, demands that Americans "must be as safe abroad as at home," and hopes the War of 1812 "may never be closed until the object for which it was commenced be attained 'free trade'."

GLC02802

1814/04/08

Foster, Ephraim H., 1794-1854

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Graham

Talks about the "glorious & transporting news" of Andrew Jackson's victory over the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, which would prove to be the effective end of the Creek War. Exalts over "the true Genl. Jackson," and his success, while deriding the Northern armies for their lack of action against the Indians. States that he has also enclosed an "account of the whole affair."

GLC02804

1859

Wayne, James M., 1790-1867

Pamphlet

Title: Charge Of Mr. Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States...

Title continues: "...Given On The Fourteenth Day Of November, 1859, To The Grand Jury Of The Sixth Circuit Court." A copy of Wayne's statements charging the members of a Grand Jury in the Sixth Circuit Court in the Southern District of Georgia. Wayne does not specify what the cases before the Grand Jury will be, but says they may relate to slavery. The Grand Jury requested printed copies of Wayne's statements to review them in reference to the case before them. Also details the various laws of Congress related to the slave trade and its criminality. Printed by E. J. Purse.

GLC02807

1790-1793

United States. Congress (1st, 3rd session : 1790-1791). Senate

Header Record

Title: Journal of the Second Session [of the U.S. Senate]

Each printed by John Fenno. With bookplates of John Rutherford (Senator -- NJ) Four volumes as follows: (1) Senate. 1st Cong. 2d Sess (New-York; with p.222-224 misprinted as "122-124"); (2) Senate. 2d Cong. 1st Sess. (Phila.; with p.228, misprinted as "224"); (3) Senate. 2d Cong. 2d Sess. (Phila.); (4) Senate. 3d Cong. 1st Sess. (Phila. with signatures using "W"). Also took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

GLC02808

3 March 1842

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Engraving Signed

Title: [Signed engraving of John Quincy Adams]

Engraved by Nathaniel Dearborn, a Boston engraver. Depicts Adams late in life. With the following note on verso: "Mr. Adams' autograph by himself on the 3rd March 1842. Obtained at the request of Mr. Cross by Judge Underwood of Ky." Possibly Joseph Rogers Underwood, a pro-slavery Whig, Unionist, and congressman from Kentucky.

GLC02809

1816/07/04

Tanner, Benjamin, 1775-1848

Engraving

Title: MacDonough's victory on Lake Champlain, and Defeat of the British Army at Plattsburg by Genl. Macomb, Sept. 11th. 1814.

Engraved and published by Tanner and printed by Rosner & Eskr. The defeat of the British at the Battle of Plattsburg thwarted Sir George Prevost's planned invasion of the United States through the Hudson Valley and strengthened the American bargaining position for peace in Ghent. The battle was one of the most decisive of the War of 1812.

GLC02810

16 May 1862

Grant, Julia D., 1826-1902

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elihu B. Washburne

Thanks Congressman Washburne deeply for defending her husband, Ulysses Grant, against attacks in Congress after the Battle of Shiloh. In a postscript, she asks him to send her a few copies of the speech he made before the House of Representatives.

GLC02811

1860

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Pamphlet

Title: Speech... delivered at the Cooper Institute, New York (Tribune Tracts no. 4)

1860 election campaign tract, Tribune Tracts #4, first edition. This pamphlet is the first printing of Lincoln's Cooper Institute speech made in New York the same year. Monaghan 30.

GLC02812

26 June 1857

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Broadsheet

Title: Speech of Hon. Abram Lincoln, in reply to Judge Douglas

Delivered in Representatives' Hall, Springfield, Illinois. Replies to Judge Stephen Douglas's speech two weeks earlier on the subject of Kansas, the Dred Scott decision, and Utah. Douglas had spoken in favor of the Dred Scott decision and Lincoln's response maintains that the decision was erroneous. This address would provide the logic (and language) Lincoln used again in many of the arguments in his famous "House Divided" speech a year later. Pages are uncut.

GLC02813

10 October 1826

Marshall, John, 1755-1835

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Martin P. Marshall

Writes to his nephew about his sister's accounts, investments, and personal financial business. Asks him to advise on an investment. Inquires as to Marshall's outcome in the polls in Kentucky.

GLC02814

20 September 1781

Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795

Autograph document signed

Title: [Announcement for reward for runaway "negro man servant" named Peter]

An announcement made by Bartlett, the second signer of the Declaration of Independence, regarding his runaway "Negro man servant Named Peter, aged about Twenty years, a short thick fellow, speaks good English, is pretty sensible and understands farming Business very well, had on when he went away a Brown homespun Coat a new pair of moose Leather Breeches & grey yarn Stockings." States that Peter ran away on 18 September 1781. Bartlett promises a reward for information or capture. He also notes that someone "for their own private advantage" has assisted Peter and that they will be…

GLC02816

August 29, 1864

Richardson, Hollon, 1835-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Professor Etooever

Considers Gettysburg as the "turning point of the war" due to the accidents of the enemy rather than their own abilities.

GLC02817

1780/03/16

United States. Continental Congress.

Manuscript document signed

Title: Act of Congress re: continuance of loan

Signed as secretary to Congress.

GLC02818

1860-1866

Louisiana. Legislature

Book

Title: Fifth Legislature of the State of Louisiana

Book is separated into the following sections: Acts passed by the Fifth Legislature of the State of Louisiana at its Second Session. Held and begun in the city of Baton Rouge, on the 21st day of January, 1861. List of Acts and Resolutions passed by the Legislature of Louisiana, extra session of 1860. Acts passed by the Sixth Legislature of the State of Louisiana at its first session, held and begun in the city of Baton Rouge, on the 25th of November, 1861. List of Acts and Resolutions passed by the Legislature of Louisiana, session of 1862. Acts passed by the first general assembly of…

GLC02819

27 June 1863

Swords, J. M., fl. 1863

Newspaper

Title: The Daily Citizen. [June 27, 1863]

This document is a copy of The Daily Citizen issued during the siege of Vicksburg, in Vicksburg. Reports on a new phase of the war with a rebel offensive movement. The document is indecipherable in places due to blurry typeset. Printed on splotchy wallpaper with blue and green flowers, this pattern is evident on verso.

GLC02820

19 April 1865

Imboden, John D., 1823-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Jones

Writes as Brigadier General commanding the Confederate military prisons to Major General Samuel Jones as commander of the District of Florida regarding exchanging his brother, F.M. Imboden for a Union soldier, Captain Wilson French of the 17th Connecticut Volunteers. Informs Jones that his brother is confined at Johnson's Island and gives an account of his quest to have him exchanged for French. Denies that French should not be exchanged because he knows the country and is considered a dangerous man. Exerts his influence to gain his brother's freedom and threatens to go to higher…

GLC02824

2 June 1863

Seddon, James A. (James Alexander), 1815-1880

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Alfred Jones as assistant surgeon in the Provisional Confederate Army]

Partially printed document appointing doctor Alfred Jones as assistant surgeon in the Provisional Confederate Army. Signed by Seddon as Confederate Secretary of War. A note at the bottom orders Jones to report to the medical director of the department to which he is assigned, and is signed by Samuel P. Moore as the Confederate Surgeon General. Apparently written after Jones had been paroled and exchanged after his capture at Fort Donelson. Written on Confederate States of America War Department Stationary.

GLC02825.01