08 September 1878

Colcock, Mary Anna, 1847-1889

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Theodora Colcock Hutson

States she wishes she could come visit but it is harvest time. Reports that Mr. Dewees is preparing for harvesting. Mentions her children Annie and Emmie and comments about having Emmie learn music. Speaks of the welfare of Hennie. Mentions Hutson visiting. Discusses a past party and another one planned for October. Letter signed Minnie, short for Mary Anna. Theodora Colcock married Charles J.C. Hutson. Mary Anna Colcock is her sister and married Joseph Dewees. Their parents are William Ferguson Colcock and Emmeline L. Huguenin.

GLC08165.21

04 August 1880

Colcock, Mary Anna, 1847-1889

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Theodora Colcock Hutson

Comments on family matters, her children, everyday life, and servants. Letter signed Minnie, short for Mary Anna. Theodora Colcock married Charles J.C. Hutson. Mary Anna Colcock is her sister and married Joseph Dewees. Mary Anna and Theodora's parents are William Ferguson Colcock and Emmeline L. Huguenin.

GLC08165.22

February 2, 1857

Hutson, Charles J., 1842-1902

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charlie

Writes to Charlie, a fellow student, about how he misses college life at South Carolina College and cannot wait to return. Talks of his illness and how he cannot seem to get over it. Asks him to get his room and bed ready for when he returns in April. Huston graduated from South Carolina College in 1859.

GLC08165.23

December 11, 1888

Colcock, William Ferguson, 1804-1889

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard

States if Richard comes for him next Monday he will go to McPhersonville. Mentions visitors and states everything is going well at the office. Gives love to Richard's family.

GLC08165.24

22 September 1862

Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864

Broadside

Title: [Proclamation! To the people of Estill]

Countersigned by R. A. Alston. Message from the Commanding General ordering the Home Guards to come in immediately and give up their arms. Those who do not will be regarded as enemies of the Government, those that do will be treated as private citizens. Indicates that any citizen who ambushes soldiers, "bushwhackers," will be ordered found and shot. "If any of our men are fired on I will lay waste the entire surrounding neighborhood." Morgan was a Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War, famed for his daring cavalry raids behind Union lines.

GLC08176

February 12, 1863

White, Jonathon C., fl. 1862-1863

Newspaper

Title: The Weekly junior register. [Vol. 2, no. 7 (February 12, 1863)]

General order no. 96, re. conscription. Biography of Stonewall Jackson. Some articles are translated into French. Article on back page has been cut out. Fugitive slave ads. Pink, gray, and white leaf and floral design.

GLC08177

20 December 1783

Revolutionary War poems

Broadside

Title: to George, Prince of Wales

British hand-colored, printed rebus poems. "On Peace" shows the Goddess of Peace along with the lines: "While gentle peace alike invites/All ranks to share in her delights...".

GLC08255.02

circa 1877-1900

Print

Title: Print of National Washington Monument

Print of National Washington Monument with signatures

GLC00186.02

1 July 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Photograph

Title: [Carte de visite of Abraham Lincoln].

Photograph accompanied letter from Lincoln to Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt (GLC0167.01).

GLC01677.02

October 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Header Record

Title: Collection of two Lincoln endorsements. See decimalized entries.

See descriptions in GLC02086.01-.02

GLC02086

6 October 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Abraham Lincoln endorsement of William Cole].

Lincoln recommends, possibly to Secretary of War Stanton, that William Cole, Esq., editor of the "Irish American," be appointed to a paymastership in the U.S. Army. Originally written on p. 4 of an integral blank leaf of the letter of recommendation from J.W. Forney that prompted this endorsement (GLC02086.01).

GLC02086.02

9 October 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Header Record

Title: Collection of 2 items relating to Lincoln. See decimalized entries.

GLC02798

9 October 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Photograph

Title: [Lincoln carte de visite].

Accompanied Lincoln letter regarding General Thomas W. Sherman's attack on Port Royal (GLC02798.01).

GLC02798.02

January 8,1866

Shellabarger, Samuel, 1817-1896

Document signed

Title: [Speech of the Hon. Samuel Shellabarger of Ohio].

Speech on Reconstruction. Signed, with the number of copies requested, by Senators Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, William Windon, Thaddeus Stevens, and others.

GLC08227

January 12, 1785

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Document

Title: [Mount Vernon account page].

Account page from Mount Vernon listing monies paid to George Washington by Lewis Lamart, one of his rent collectors.

GLC08228

January 10, 1781

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Franklin

Acknowledgement of Franklin's acceptance of the agency of British prisoners and his intention to contact Sir Henry Clinton to make sure that he makes no objection to Franklin's returning to New York.

GLC08229

1861-1869

Header Record

Title: [Two Beauregard related items].

Reporting that Union troops were between him and General Jones. Countersigned by General Pierre G. T. Beauregard, who adds a pencil note that forces were sent against the Union troops, who unfortunately already were retreating (GLC08238.01). Collateral is a note from Confederate Congressman Robert H. Smith to Beauregard regarding a conversation with Jefferson Davis on the possibility of capturing Washington, D.C. (GLC08238.02)

GLC08238

25 October 1869

Smith, Robert H., fl. 1869

Autograph note signed

Title: to Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Regarding a conversation with Jefferson Davis on the possibility of capturing Washington, D.C.

GLC08238.02

05 August 1786

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Receipt for slave-catching services].

Receipt made out to James Rumsey for payment received by Daniel Neale for pursuit of "Runaway Servants" (most likely slaves). Endorsed by George Washington and George Rumsey on verso.

GLC08254

1815-1860

Bergandthat, Anna Maria, fl. 1837

Autograph quotation signed

Title: [There is nothing more pleasing to a independent person]

Full quotation reads, "There [is] nothing more pleasing to a independent person than to know that his kindness is received with a grateful heart by those on whom it is bestowed." Among the collateral to a autograph quotation by Laura Bridgman, a deaf-blind mute. Attached to the reverse side of a sheet of paper with two newspaper clippings about Bridgman glued to the front. Bergandthat's handwriting style suggests she was also blind, possibly an acquaintance of Bridgman's from the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts, where Bridgman became a student in 1837.

GLC00496.114.02

circa 1884-1893

Keppler, Joseph, fl. 1884-1893

Newspaper clipping

Title: [Editorial cartoon of Benjamin F. Butler]

Caption reads: "'I never wish to defend a man unless I know that he is guilty.' -- Gen. B. F. Butler, in his speech to Graduates of the Boston University Law School, May 28th."

GLC00496.136.02

1900

Foster Brothers

Print

Title: [Photograph of Julia Ward Howe]

Print of Mrs. Howe by Foster Brothers.

GLC01266.02

17 May 1731

Carter, C., fl. 1731

Document signed

Title: [Receipt for John Bartlett]

Receipt for three pounds fifteen shillings "for service done as a commissioner in order to settle the line of gover[men]t from Patucket Falls to the Massachusetts south line."

GLC01450.409.02

circa 1832-1844

Object

Title: [Hard Times tokens].

Tokens satirizing President Andrew Jackson. Issued after Jackson opposed re-chartering of the Bank of the United States, resulting in a depression.

GLC01994.03

2 March 1640

Manuscript document

Title: [Surrender of the Patent of Plymouth Colony to the Freemen].

Outlines the surrender of the Warwick Patent of 1630 to the "Publick Court" by Governor of Plymouth Bradford and the "Old Comers" (original settlers). This resulted from pressure to relinquish the patent to the whole body of freemen. Bradford and the Old Comers reserved three tracts of land, the borders of which are described. A memorandum at the bottom of the document notes that Bradford complied with the order to surrender the patent. This document is a copy.

GLC02924.001