September 20, 1779

Lee, Charles, 1731-1782

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sydney Lee

Marked No. 31 in a different hand. Written by the discredited Continental General in retirement on his farm in Virginia to "my dear Sister." Recipient inferred as Sydney Lee, his only sister. Mentions his experiences during the Revolution and defends his honor. Says "I feel for the horrid ravages & desolation I have been witness of, on this Continent" and expressing Tory sympathies claims "I feel for the Empire of G. Britain, for its glory[,] We[l]fare & existence; I feel for the fortunes of my Friends and relations." Claims he cannot talk about politics because the letter will be…

GLC00251

May 27, 1776

Wendell, John, 1731-1808

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Written by Wendell, a wealthy, well-connected merchant in New Hampshire to an unknown recipient. References a previous letter he wrote that mentioned political sentiments. Does not go into detail. Mentions a report of the broken American siege of Quebec. General Guy Carleton had defeated the Americans under General John Thomas on May 6, 1776. Says Canada must be won or the cause will fail. Claims the British now have "very interesting Advantages" and fears they will press them. Says if they receive the support of the Canadian interests then it will be beyond the power of the Americans to…

GLC00252

1862-1863

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Header Record

Title: ALS with endorsements [decimalized]

GLC00255

February 24, 1862

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry S. Hewit

Ulysses S. Grant orders Hewit to visit hospitals and gather information to "complete your report of the battle of Fort Henry & Donelson." He commends Hewit for his "prompt and efficient manner." Docketed in pencil. Written at Fort Donelson

GLC00255.01

circa March 1862

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Grant's endorsement on docket of an autograph letter signed from Henry S. Hewit to John A. Rawlins]

In his letter to Rawlins, Hewit requests the use of a steam boat as a hospital, and requests that no transfers of sick men be made at this time. The letter is dated 20 March 1862. Grant's undated docket reads "Surgeon Hewit, Medical Director, will make such arrangements for the sick as in his judgment be necessary." Some text loss.

GLC00255.02

25 April 1863

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: to John Aaron Rawlins

Written at Smith's Plantation, Headquarters of the Department of the Tennessee, to Colonel Rawlins, General Grant's aide-de-camp and assistant adjutant. J. H. [Hewit?], possibly a Secretary of the United States Volunteers, states "it is a matter of the greatest importance that means of transportation for the sick and wounded and hospital supplies should be provided..." Requests that he may contact Confederate medical personnel at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in order to obtain permission for the floating Union hospitals and supply boat to keep their batteries. Writes "I respectfully submit that…

GLC00255.03

02 September 1783

Great Britain. Treaties.

Broadside

Title: Preliminary articles of peace between...Great Britain and...the United Provinces

Published by Webster and McLean. Treaty of peace between England and Holland.

GLC00256

1776

Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794

Map

Title: The American military pocket atlas; being an approved collection of correct maps

First issue in original boards, rebacked. Bookplate of Arthur Haynsworth Masten; ticket of T. Connolly, Bookseller, Dublin. Also with bookplate of Arthur Haynsworth Masten and inscription of "Jimmy [?] Browne / Augt. 1843" on titlepage. Full title: The American military Pocket Atlas; being an approved collection of correct maps, both general and particular, of the British colonies, Especially those which now are, or probably may be the Theatre of War; taken principally from the actual survey and judicious observation of engineers De Brahm and Roman; Cook, Jackson, and Collet, Maj. Holland…

GLC00257

17-19 September 1787

Constitutional Convention, 1787

Broadside

Title: United States Constitution. First printing [Dunlap & Claypoole printing]

One printing of the United States Constitution by Dunlap & Claypoole dated September 17, 1787. This printing of the Constitution is inscribed on p.1 to "Doctor John Hampton." With a additional inscription on p.4 reading "John Thos./Daniel." This broadside is the first edition printed specifically for mass public circulation. One of two known copies (the other is at the Library of Congress). Compare to GLC03585. Printed by Dunlap and Claypoole.

GLC00258

1789

Bailey, Francis, 1744-1817

Header Record

Title: [Two bound newspapers]

Two bound newspapers dated 1787-1788, The two newspapers are; Freeman's journal. [Vol.6, no. 298 (January 3, 1787)- v.8, no. 402 (December 31, 1788)] and Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 2953 (January 3, 1787) - no. 3042 (September 17, 1788)] [with gap].

GLC00259

1787-1788

Bailey, Francis, 1744-1817

Newspaper

Title: Freeman's journal. [Vol.6, no. 298 (January 3, 1787)- v.8, no. 402 (December 31, 1788)]

One bound edition of the newspaper Freeman's Journal containing Vol. 6 no. 298, January 3, 1787 to vol. 8 no. 402, December 31, 1788. Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's Head. Of particular interest is a early printing of Constitution in issue number 335. The Freeman's Journal was an anti-Federalist newspaper. The bound newspaper also includes these issues of interest: List of Constitutional Convention members issue number 322 pp. 2-3; Ratifications by Pennsylvania issue number 348, Ratifications by Massachusetts issue number 357, Ratifications by New York issue number 381,…

GLC00259.01

1787-1788

Hall and Sellers

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 2953 (January 3, 1787) - no. 3042 (September 17, 1788)] [with gap]

One bound edition of the newspaper Pennsylvania gazette containing number 2953 January 3, 1787 to number 3042 Sep 17, 1788, with a gap of number 3003 and a suplement to number 3032. The volume has the signature of Edanus Burke, Esq. on front pastedown. The newspaper was printed by Hall and Sellers. Contains the printing of the United States Constitution in issue number 2990. The Pennsylvania Gazette was an anti-Federalist newspaper. Some other issues of note included in the volume are: Northwest Ordinance issue number 2983, Constitution printed as "Plan of the New Federal Government"…

GLC00259.02

July 3, 1862

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Wallace J. Ford

Then Brigadier General Garfield writes to a friend at home about "the congressional affair" shortly after he aided in the Battle of Corinth. He comments about his poor health and his weight loss. Back in Ohio, Garfield's friends were urging him to run for the 19th congressional district's seat, but he tells Ford he does not want his name "to go before a Convention at all unless there is more than an even chance that I would be successful." He describes military preparations for a Fourth of July celebration and the nearby Disciples of Christ, one of which he describes as a secessionist "…

GLC00261

May 11, 1821

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dr. David Hosack

The letter is free franked. Jefferson thanks Hosack for a paper on Nosology, or classification of diseases, a topic that might have interested a man of science like Jefferson, since classification might help find cures. He soon turns to the exciting news of a revolution in Naples which, he writes "secures the efforts of Spain & Portugal, and must cheer the mind of every man of Philanthropy with the prospect it holds up of the extension of representative government to the whole continent of Europe except Russia which too in the end will become capable of it. In what a glorious station does…

GLC00262

1693

Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728

Book

Title: The Wonders of the Invisible world: Being an Account of the Tryals... [witches]

One of the most famous of early New England books, here in the first British edition printed at London, following the first edition published in Boston the same year. Mather meant to expose witchcraft and to support his friends in the government. He gives detailed descriptions of each case, thus providing an invaluable record. All the early editions of this work are extremely rare, especially the Boston edition and the present one. Printed by John Dunton, with errors in pagination and spelling: "Ex[e]cuted" "Bostun" and "Gove[r]nour" on titlepage (per NUC). Small quarto in 19th century…

GLC00264

18 July 1798 ca.

Header Record

Title: Broadsides and pamphlets including appointment as commander [Decimalized .01-.04]

[decimalized 00265.01-00265.04]

GLC00265

18 April 1794

United States. Congress

Broadside

Title: Resolution: "That the present Embargo be continued"

Signed by Edmund Randolph as Secretary of State. Concerning the Quasi-War with France. States that the present Enbargo be continued until "the twenty fifth day of May next."

GLC00265.01

26 March 1798

United States. Congress

Broadside

Title: A Motion: establishing embargo, fortifying ports and raising an army

The motion was a result of the Quasi-War with France. Document is slashed on lower right corner. Formerly pencilled "Duplicate."

GLC00265.02

04 May 1798

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Pamphlet

Title: Message of the President of the United States, to both houses

Dated May 4, 1798. Stab-stitched as issued. Regarding negotiations with France to end the Quasi-War, and report from Ambassadors

GLC00265.03

October 8, 1819

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Monroe

Recommends Crittenden, acting Governor of the Arkansas Territory, to President Monroe for an unidentified post. Refers to an enclosed letter from Crittenden (not included).

GLC00266

1846

Palfrey, John G., 1796-1881

Pamphlet

Title: Papers on the slave power, first published in the "Boston Whig."

Signed on title page by John Day Putnam. Printed by Merrill, Cobb & Co., Boston, Massachusetts. Papers numbered 1-24 argue against slavery by discussing its place in the constitution, the North's role in it, the consequences of overthrowing it, and what the free states, especially Massachusetts, should do about it, among other issues.

GLC00267.002

1858

Weston, George M., 1816-1887

Pamphlet

Title: The Progress of slavery in the United States.

Describes the past progress of slavery and considers circumstances that will control the slavery movement in the future. Argues that the growing slave population in the U.S. was an intended result of the territorial expansion of slavery dictated by the interests of those that own and breed slaves. Curbing its expansion will be beneficial to the Southern states.

GLC00267.005

February 2, 1846

Chappell, Absalom Harris, 1801-1878

Printed document

Title: Resolutions of the legislature of Georgia

[Title continued] in opposition to the principles of certain resolves of the legislature of Massachusetts in relation to an amendment of the constitution on the subject of federal representation. Copy of a resolution by the Georgia Legislature, printed for the twenty ninth Congress. The resolution is in opposition to a call by the Massachusetts legislature to repeal the three fifths voting clause of the Constitution. Likely printed in Washington, D.C. First edition.

GLC00267.006

1832

United States. Census Office. 5th census, 1830

Pamphlet

Title: Abstract of the returns of the fifth census, showing the number of free people, the number of slaves...

Title continues "...the federal or representative number, and the aggregate of each county of each state of the United States." 22nd Congress, 1st session, Doc no. 263. Printed by Duff Green, Washington, D.C.

GLC00267.008

1862

Kennedy, J.C.G., 1813-1887

Book

Title: Preliminary report on the eighth census. 1860.

37th Congress, 2nd session (1861-1862), House Executive Document No. 116. Index included in first pages. Inscribed in pencil on inner front cover to C. S. Van Wyck from C. H. Van Wyck. Charles Henry Van Wyck was a New York Congressman, later a Union brevet brigadier general and U.S. senator from Nebraska.

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