May 1812

Header Record

Title: Five documents to John Langdon regarding his nomination as vice president [decimalized]

GLC05899

29 May 1812

Nicholson, Joseph H., 1770-1817

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Langdon

Urges Langdon to accept the nomination for vice president, stating that his "services are necessary to the public weal. The Union must be consolidated by combining the strength of the Southern and Eastern States in the two highest offices of the Government." Praises Langdon and mentions the failed attempt to nominate Elbridge Gerry. Langdon declined the nomination.

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1892

National Continental Union League

Typed document signed

Title: [Petition of National Continental Union League for union with Canada]

Petition calling for lawful, peaceful and honorable union between the United States and Canada. Says "The time has come when it is desirable that Europe should cease to direct or control the political or domestic affairs or any portion of this continent." Petition was the first act of organization of the National Continental Union League, founded in 1892 in New York and Toronto. The group devoted itself to raising funds to promote a constitutional union through the publication of pamphlets and aid to Canadian organizations and politicians in favor of union. The petition is signed in…

GLC05900

1785/09/27

United States in Congress Assembled. Thomson, Charles

Document signed

Title: Report of the Grand Committee of Congress respecting the debt of the U.S.

Lists foreign and domestic debt, assessment of each state. Numbered "no. 26" in ink.

GLC05901

1 May 1789

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nathaniel Freeman

An amusing and friendly letter to his former Harvard classmate. Discusses their correspondence. Also discusses the visit to town of two young women (Miss Charlotte Geyer and Miss Breck) who Adams wishes to meet "under the shade of an amorous myrtle." Mentions a magazine and publishing by Geyer and other women. Also comments on his legal education and his study habits: "I have no reason to boast of my industry...mere professional books should claim but a small part of a student's application." Asks for a subscription to the Herald of Freedom.

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1910/12/06

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Robert Baker re: not fearing socialism

"But socialism does not alarm me at all, having implicit confidence in the disposition of the masses in general."

GLC05903

1 January 1809

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Gray

Clay, a United States Senator from Kentucky, discusses the terms of hire for Newman, an ensalved man. Notes the terms of payment: Gray will hire Newman for one year for the price of $100. 1 black and white bust engraving of Henry Clay included.

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18 April 1906

Moffit, Frank J., fl. 1906

Broadside

Title: Oakland enquirer. Extra 4:30. [8th edition (April 18, 1906)]

This document is a newspaper from the Oakland Enquirer that includes news regarding the San Francisco earthquake. Started in 1885 by Moffit, The Oakland enquirer continued the Independent Enquirer and was later continued in 1921 by the Oakland Daily Post and the Oakland Post Enquirer. Topic coverage for this newspaper includes earthquake damage reports and local news besides that.

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26 April 1906

Lincke, M.W., 1895-1941

Newspaper

Title: The Graphic. [Vol. 12, no. 17 (April 26, 1906)]

This newspaper covers local news from Nashville, North Carolina including an article on the San Francisco earthquake. "Stall Lorain" inscribed on front page. Includes several articles on tobacco farming, the need for farm hands, bias against citylife, and other advertisments from local businesses.

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12 September 1819

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Major Dana

Former President Madison answers an inquiry regarding employment prospects in Virginia: "The motives you assign for your letter, among which is a sense of duty to your parents, are entitled to respect. But I cannot encourage you to seek a fulfilment of them in this quarter. The modes of husbandry here are very different from those to which you are accustomed; and the labour is generally preformed by negroes whom a stranger would not advantageously superintend. I can only wish you therefore a better prospect of success elsewhere." Madison possibly writes from Montpelier, his Virginia…

GLC05910

1840-1892

Simpson, Edward, 1824-1888

Header Record

Title: [Journals and log books of Edward Simpson Sr. and Edward Simpson, Jr.] [word processed inventory available] [Decimalized .01- .23]

Edward Simpson, Sr. was a member of the first class of "middies" to graduate from Annapolis after only nine months of study.  Over the following twenty years, Simpson followed a career that involved him in the Mexican War, had him working on the coastal survey, took him briefly to Canton and, finally back to the Naval Academy as an instructor in gunnery, until he was called to serve on both ironclads and frigates during the Civil War. He continued to serve at sea in the Gulf and Northern Pacific Squadrons until 1877. Simpson, author of the Treatise on Ordnance and Naval Gunnery (1859) and…

GLC05911

1903/05/22

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Senator William P. Frye re: not reinstating Col. Dickey

On White House stationery. "It is evidently out of the question for [Col.] Dickey to be reinstated."

GLC05913.01

1838

Object

Title: [Metal slave tag for porter number 743]

GLC05915

1840

Object

Title: [Metal slave tag for a servant number 94]

GLC05916

1864 ca.

William S., & A. Martien, fl. 1864

Engraving

Title: Col. Berdan

Carte-de-visite engraved bust portrait of Himan Berdan. Inscribed on verso with name and rank, "H. Berdan Col. Commanding U.S.S.S."

GLC05917

May 13, 1881

Black, J.W., 1825-1896

Photograph signed

Title: [Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard]

Carte de visite of the organizer of 1st U.S. Colored Infantry, vignette bust. Shepard later served as U.S. Counsel at Hankow, China.

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February 12, 1864

McClees, J.E., fl. 1855-1865

Photograph signed

Title: [Julius Stahel]

Awarded the Medal of Honor in 1893 for distinction while commanding a cavalry division at the Battle of Piedmont (June 5, 1864).

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June 1864

Bartelle, Charles V., fl. 1864

Map signed

Title: Sketch showing defences and channels of Charleston Harbor.

This document is a map of Charleston Harbor depicting the major waterways and various forts in the area, among these is Fort Sumter. On the map it states that the map has been, "Copied by direction of Rear Admiral J. A. Dahlgren." The water on the map has been hand-colored in light blue ink. Signed "[Charles V. Bartelle], Asst. U.S. Comm. Survey." A note, "from the best information," is handwritten underneath the title (apparently not in Bartelle's hand).

GLC05919

14 August 1897

Duke, Basil Wilson, 1838-1916

Typed letter signed

Title: to George A. Dary

Duke, a former Confederate lieutenant colonel and historian, acknowledges receipt of a letter from Dary, a Boston lawyer. Confirms that Dary's letter (not included) was accompanied by a copy of President Abraham Lincoln's correspondence with Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, discussing Duke's parole.

GLC05922.02

1863 ca.

Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891

Photograph

Title: [Robert G. Shaw]

Carte de visite, 3/4 length standing portrait. Later reprint of a war-time photo.

GLC05923

29 November 1859 - 2 December 1859

Header Record

Title: John Brown letter and broadside [decimalized .01-.02]

Letter written by John Brown shortly before his death, and broadside for a funeral service to him.

GLC05925

29 November 1859

Brown, John, 1800-1859

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Stearns

Written three days before his execution. He asks to be "spared from having any mock; or hypocritical prayers made over me, when I am publicly murdered: & that my only religious attendants be poor little, dirty, ragged, bare headed, & barefooted Slave Boys; & Girls led by some old gray headed Slave Mother...Farewell, Farewell." Docket reads "please mail this to her." Addressed to "Mrs. George L. Stearns." Mary's husband George was a member of The Secret Six, the group that financed Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.

GLC05925.01

2 December 1859

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

Broadside

Title: Martyrdom of John Brown

Program created by Thoreau for the funeral service for John Brown to be held in the Concord Town Hall on December 2nd. Event will include "Reading of pertinent passages. Selections from Brown's last words. Service for the death of a martyr." Also contains a "Dirge" in Brown's honor, written by Sanborn to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne" The first verse states "To-day beside Potomac's wave, Beneath Virginia's Sky, They slay the man who loved the slave, and dared for him to die." Concord was the home to many of Brown's most famous and ardent supporters. The dirge is misdated 30 December at…

GLC05925.02

1846/01/15

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Bennett re: lobbying support during his successful bid for Congress

Basler, Roy R. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. I 1824 - 1848, p. 355

GLC05927

1855/03/03

Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

Book signed

Title: An Essay to prove the contagious character of maligant cholera... .

By Bernard M. Byrne. Published by Childs & Peterson. Second edition. Signed by Millard Fillmore and inscribed to Fillmore by the author. Book plate of Abram T. Kerr and Agnes Kerr.

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