1784 circa

Pico, Joshua, fl. 1760-1790

Object

Title: [Liquor merchant's trunk]

Belonged to Joshua Pico, a liquor merchant from Boston. Wooden chest with two handles, metal edges, and a lock on the lid. The key is missing so the lock is stuffed with paper to prevent locking. Interior has separated compartments for six large glass liquor bottles with glass toppers, six smaller bottles with glass toppers, and a removable section with two tumblers, two small liquor glasses, and a shot glass. All glass items are decorated with a gold floral pattern. Pico's license to sell liquor in Boston is pasted to the bottom of the removable compartment. It is dated 21 December…

GLC01450.911

1875-1880 ca.

Rocher, H., fl. 1875-1880

Photograph signed

Title: [Cyrus H. McCormick]

Cabinet photograph of Cyrus H. McCormick. Signed on mount. Image by H. Rocher of Chicago.

GLC01451

1887

McKecknie, & Oswald, fl. 1887

Photograph signed

Title: [Rutherford B. Hayes]

Cabinet photograph of Hayes by McKecknie & Oswald of Toledo, Ohio. Signed and dated by Hayes on the mount.

GLC01452

1868

Upton & Simson

Photograph signed

Title: [Carte de visite of Millard Fillmore]

Signed and dated by Fillmore once on the mount and again on the verso.

GLC01455

1932/02/25

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Document signed

Title: Pardon-related: Respite of execution for Benjamin Gordon

Signed as New York State governor. Gordon was a murder convict.

GLC01457

17 July 1782

Carleton, Guy, 1724-1808

Document signed

Title: [Authorization for payment to General William Howe's forces in New York]

Dating from the final months of British occupation of New York during the American Revolution. To Deputy Paymaster William Deane Poyntz. Countersigned by W. Morgan. Payment of 246 pounds, 19 shillings, and 4 pence sterling for the provisions of Howe's 23rd Regiment of Foot. Money to be paid to Paymaster Captain James Drury. Partly printed document, numbered 38.

GLC01468

1867/04/19

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

Endorsement signed

Title: [Promotion request: presumably to Edwin Stanton]

A.N. Preston, acting assistant adjutant general of the District of Mississippi, details his qualifications for promotion; the top portion of his request is missing, so the addressee and date are unknown. Brevet Major General Thomas J. Wood adds his recommendation on January 10, 1867. W. T. Sherman recommends Preston's promotion on January 15. The request is signed and forwarded to the Secretary of War by Grant on April 19, 1867.

GLC01471

25 March 1777

Gordon, William, 1728-1807

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Catharine Macaulay

Seeks her help writing a history of the Revolution. Planned a contemporaneous account of the Revolution, which he claims is authorized by Washington. Written in the neighborhood of Jamaica Plain, formerly part of Roxbury, Massachusetts.

GLC01791.01

24 August 1775

Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Catharine Macaulay

Refers to the present dangerous affairs due to British barbarity. Alludes to "the Bravery of the peasants of Lexington." Describes the investment of a colonial army led by Washington and the beginnings of a representative government in Massachusetts.

GLC01800.02

10 December 1827

Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison

Dates letter Thursday. Discusses President John Quincy Adams' State of the Union Address before Congress on 4 December 1827 and comments that it did not move her either negatively or positively. Observes that some may be critical of it because he persists in his conviction that it will be advantageous to be represented at the Congress in Panama. Continues the letter on Friday and states that she just received Madison's letter. Discusses the welfare and happenings of friends. Reports that Henry Conway died after a drinking spell. Continues on Saturday and writes a little about her day.…

GLC01812

1814/03/05

Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison

Responds to a letter from Madison in which he told Gerry that Parliament had abolished the Courts of Session in Middlesex. Gerry considers the news "laughable." In a long note after his signature he comments on the popularity of a certain Mrs. Derby and also notes "that our republican ladies refuse to mix with those of the high federalists of our quarter." Gerry was Madison's vice president.

GLC01814

29 November 1871

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

Letter signed

Title: to John Thompson Hoffman

President Grant transmits a copy of a treaty (not included) signed 8 May 1871 between the United States and Great Britain to Hoffman, Governor of New York. Informs Hoffman of shared American and British use of waterways, stating that "It is confidentally believed that the use of the artificial water communications which the Treaty contemplates will contribute to a rapid increase of trade ... " Desires to bring the provisions of the Treaty before the New York State Legislature, securing the use of several New York canals for Great Britain.

GLC01817

14 August 1878

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Document signed

Title: [Presidential authority to the secretary of state to affix the seal to a warrant remitting the sentences of Henry Walsh and James S. Gregory].

Walsh and Gregory were being held in the Albany County, New York, Penitentiary and, in reference to the warrant, their "sentences were remitted "on the condition therein prescribed."

GLC01819

6 February 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Ormsby M. Mitchel as Brigadier General of Volunteers]

Signed by Abraham Lincoln as president; countersigned by Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War, and endorsed by Lorenzo Thomas as Adjutant General on 7 February 1862. On verso, contains a note in pencil relating that this document was given to a previous owner by Mitchel's grandson., "Given to me by O. M. Mitchell, June 10 1903 grandson of within and to be returned to him if I die before he does." Blue seal on top left corner. Docketed in pink ink on top left corner.

GLC01821

1862

Hay, John, 1838-1905

Header Record

Title: Collection of items related to John Hay, letter and two photographs [Decimalized .01-.03]

GLC01822

1825

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Album autographed by John Quincy Adams and Marquis de Lafayette].

A note by Lafayette dated January 23, 1825 indicates he was an "old friend" of the parents of the young lady who owned this album. Adams writes a seven-line poem dated March 10, 1825. A note from William White dated March 23, 1825 quotes Proverbs. Three other notes, New Haven, Buffalo and New York, 1865 news clipping on Palmerston death, one small broadside concerning $1 contribution to the Washington Monument and piece of embroidery. Bound by P. Thompson, Washington City, in red ribbed morocco binding with gilt decorative board.

GLC01826

1863/01/10

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: Authority to affix the seal to the pardon of Henry Fort

GLC01827

17 November 1779

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to John Sullivan

Informs Sullivan that Greene has prepared winter quarters for those of his men commanded by Clinton and Hand. Written in McHenry's hand. Written from "Head Quarters."

GLC01830

5 August 1788

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Endorsement signed

Title: [Endorsed receipt for 100 lbs of gunpowder for the Potomac Company].

Cosigned by John Fitzgerald and George Gilpin. Receipt for payment made out from Richardson Stuart to Henry Bedinger and Jacob Bedinger. The Potomac Company was Washington's first business venture after the American Revolution.

GLC01831

1814/08/22

Beall, William Dent, 1757-1829

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Lieutenant Colonel Beall reports on the British advance into Marlboro, Maryland, and the strength of the British force. Also requests money. Adds in a postscript: "It is of great importance that Col. Hood should march immediately. The Flotilla is in ashes & the men with General Winder." Written in the field two days before the Battle of Bladensburg, where Beall commanded. The American defeat at Bladensburg allowed British forces to enter Washington, D.C.

GLC01836.01

1861/01/15

Townsend, Aurelia W., 1820-1885

Autograph letter signed

Title: to B. J. Lossing

Indicates that she is sending two engravings of General William H. Winder to Lossing. Also suggests sources for Lossing's historical research on the War of 1812 and indicates that Mrs. Winder (Gertrude Polk Winder) is forwarding contacts to Townshend's mother. Hopes to exonerate General Winder of perceived errors in his defense of retreat from Washington, D.C., when the city was captured by the British in 1814. Lossing, an historian, published 'The American revolution and the war of 1812' in 1875. Townshend was clearly Winder's kin, but the exact relation is unclear.

GLC01836.02

20 February 1830

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Document signed

Title: [Pardon of Samuel L. Valentine for security on a debenture bond]

Countersigned by Secretary of State Martin Van Buren. Jackson orders Valentine's release because of his poverty and large family and on condition that he pay the costs of the suit.

GLC01837

1862-1865

Thompson, W. S., fl. 1862-1865

Header Record

Title: [Four Civil War pocket diaries] [decimalized .01-.04]

William S. Thompson, captain of a Pennsylvania militia company, was mustered into service on 29 May 1861. He left his hometown of Bristol, Pennsylvania to join the 3rd Pennsylvania Reserve (32nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry) at Camp Washington (the regiment was organized there 21 June 1861), where he was given the rank of lieutenant colonel. Thompson left the army in July of 1862 and became chief engineer on the steamship "Suwanee" on 13 February 1863. In October of that year, he joined the United States Navy, serving as an engineer aboard the ironclad "Atlanta" until his death on 6 April…

GLC01838

6 June 1783

Trumbull, John, 1756-1843

Print

Title: General Washington

Black and white mezzotint published by Valentine Green. A portrait of young Washington based upon John Trumbull's painting.

GLC01855

1845/04/15

Jones, Anson, 1798-1858

Document signed

Title: Pardon of R.S. Redmond (c/s Tobias Allen)

Redmond was convicted of horse-stealing. No reason is given for his pardon. Countersigned by Allen as acting Secretary of State.

GLC01860.04