1790/07/05

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Printed document signed

Title: [Act of Congress calling for the first census in Rhode Island]

An act declaring that the act calling for the first census was applicable to Rhode Island, which had not yet ratified the Constitution when the first session of Congress began. Rhode Island's ratification occurred on 29 May 1790. Jefferson signed as Secretary of State.

GLC06020

16 March 1814

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Bentley

Thanks Reverend Bentley for his sermon given upon the death of General John Fiske, which Jefferson has just read. Praises Fiske as "a model of merit." Contains Dove watermark. Bentley's sermon, delivered in the East Meeting-House, Salem, Massachusetts, was published in 1797. Written in Monticello

GLC06021

18 March 1826

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robley Dunglison

Mentions a draft in progress for the dispensary with proposed amendments for the University of Virginia. Inquires about a list of periodicals requested for annual renewal by the faculty.

GLC06022

23 May 1864

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edwin M. Stanton

Written prior to the campaign for New Hope Church, Georgia as General Sherman maneuvered around General Joseph E. Johnston's left flank. Sherman reports to Stanton that he will speak to the Governors as requested. He will continue to telegraph daily the results of his conquests. Comments that Ulysses S. Grant's work impressed the Virginians, "with the knowledge that the Yankees will fight them fair and square...must precede all main advantages of strategic movements." This contrasts with his efforts in Georgia, where "the enemy knows we can and will fight like the Devil, & therefore,…

GLC06023

26 August 1847

Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850

Letter signed

Title: to the Adjutant General of the Army

In response to a request, discusses and encloses (not included) a report re discharged foot volunteers from the Company of Texas. Mentions General Winfield Scott's capture of Mexico City.

GLC06024

1826

Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885

Broadside

Title: The drunkard's progress, or the direct road to poverty, wretchedness, & ruin

Four woodcut panels showing the decline of man through drink: The Morning Dram, The Grog Shop, The Confirmed Drunkard, Concluding Scene. Each panel is accompanied by a written description of each stage of drunkenness.

GLC06025

1783/10/03

United States in Congress Assembled. Thomson, Charles

Manuscript document signed

Title: The sixth Article of Confederation re: military forces during peace time

Resolution limiting number of warships and soldiers during peacetime and allowing Virginia to maintain two armed vessels and troops for defense of trade, public prisons and stores.

GLC06026

1854

Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

Pamphlet

Title: Dedication of Antioch College, and Inaugural address of its president

[title continued] "Hon. Horace Mann; with other proceedings." Printed by O. S. Dean. Education reform.

GLC06027.01

1859/09/08

Hill, Thomas, 1818-1891

Pamphlet

Title: Integral education. An inaugural address, delivered at Antioch College...

[title continued] "... , of Yellow Springs, Greene County, Ohio." Published by Little Brown. Education reform.

GLC06027.02

January 1854

Hastings & Green

Broadside

Title: Catalogue of Antioch College for 1853 - 1854

List of faculty by "class" (of knowledge), with admissions, course requirements and information on preparatory school and coeducation.

GLC06027.03

1913

Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937

Book signed

Title: Our vanishing wild life its extermination and preservation, by William T. Hornaday ... with maps and illustrations

Published by the New York Zoological Society. Printed by Clark & Fritts, New York. With inscription by Hornaday to William Edward Coffin dated 17 January 1913.

GLC06028

1914

Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937

Book signed

Title: Wild life conservation in theory and practice; lectures delivered before the Forest School of Yale University, 1914, by William T. Hornaday, Sc.D. ...

Title continues, "with a chapter on Private game preserves, by Frederic C. Walcott." With an inscription by Hornaday dated 23 November 1914 to William Edward Coffin, "To my Esteemed Friend." Mentions Coffin's dedication to wild life and forest protection. Published by Yale University Press.

GLC06029

circa 1915

Carver, George Washington, 1864-1943

Broadside

Title: The sweet potato as a flour substitute

Carver, a celebrated agricultural chemist at the Tuskegee Institute, offers advice and recipes regarding conservation of the year's unusually large sweet potato crop. Provides recipes for using sweet potatoes to make flour, bread, and biscuits.

GLC06172

1855

Nell, William C., 1816-1874

Book

Title: The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons: to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans.

Signed several times on the inside cover by Mrs. George H. Washington at an unspecified date. Signed 23 December 1978 in blue pen on the inner front cover by William D. Hoyt. Published by Robert F. Wallcut. Includes an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Nell, the author, describes African Americans' meritorious military service. Contains a printed fold-out leaf opposite page 132, which consists of George Washington's discharge for a soldier named Brister Baker. The first illustration depicts Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave and a sailor who died 5 March 1770 in the Boston Massacre…

GLC06176

1897

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Book

Title: A Catalog of the Washington collection in the Boston Athenaeum

Compiled by William Coolidge Lane. First edition, 8vo, frontis portrait, 1 other plate and 12 facsimile titlepages. "A catalogue of the books from Washington's library and assorted Washingtoniana on deposit at the Athenaeum, with an inventory of Washington's books as drawn up by the appraisers of his estate, and the later history and present ownership of those books not in the Athenaeum collections." Includes a re-ordered transcript of the estate inventory of Washington's library.

GLC06187

6 October 1778

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to William Alexander

Remarks upon the importance of information received from spies. "Every minutiae should have a place in our collection: for things of a seemingly triffling nature when conjoined with others of a more serious cast may lead to very valuable conclusions." States that what the British are foraging and amassing in New Jersey may tell them something about their plans. Asks him to collect information about this and other circumstances that may help ascertain the British movements.

GLC06193

1851

Lewis, Morgan Henry, 1818-1881

Book signed

Title: League of the Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee, or Iroquois

Published by Sage and Brother Publishers. Includes an inscription from W. H. Samson in memory of Arthur Leutchford, dated December 1907. Contains Mrs. Arthur Leutchford's card with an address. Also includes an extract of a letter from George S. Conover to Samson citing editorial corrections. The author of this note is unknown. A note is inserted dated 18 August 1849 from Sage & Brother Publishing instructing A. W. Rood, a lawyer, to pay Lewis Style a sum of money. Includes a printed page from the law office of William C. Bryant, containing the signature of General Ely Parker…

GLC06202

1835/04/15

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Pessenger and William P. Varian

Thanking Pessenger and William P. Varian as representatives of the Democratic Electors of New York's Eleventh Ward for a side of beef, which Jackson says gives him as great if not greater pleasure than many fancier gifts. Pessenger and William P. Varian were butchers. "It has been the aim of my life to secure the happiness and thus to gain the affections of the cottagers of my country. To this end, I have toiled, and that labor might be safe in its earnings a thing impossible when the government is not under the control of the workingmen...." The letter was reprinted in a number of…

GLC06204

1861

Georgia. Convention of the People (1861 : Milledgeville, Ga. and Savannah, Ga.)

Book

Title: Journal of the public and secret proceedings of the Convention of the people of Georgia, ...

Title continues, " ... held in Milledgeville and Savannah in 1861. Together with the ordinances adopted." Published by order of the convention by Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes, state printers. In original bright green wrappers. Tight paper binding; handle with care. Includes proceedings of the Convention and Governor Brown's correspondence with President Davis regarding states' rights.

GLC06158.03

1864

Fowler, W. H. (William Henry), 1826-1867

Pamphlet

Title: Guide for Claimants of Deceased Soldiers

Written by Colonel Fowler as Superintendent of Army Records and Agent to Adjust the Claims of Deceased Soldiers for the State of Alabama. Printed by George P. Evans & Co. A guide for southern families to claim the bodies and personal possessions of their sons killed on the battlefield. Printed on brown Confederate "necessity" paper. Back cover lists topics found in the pamphlet, including a list of laws of Congress dealing with claims, various rules for making claims, and a discussion of logistical issues involved, etc. Stamped as deaccessioned from the University of Vermont Library.

GLC06158.04

1861

Pamphlet

Title: The School of the Guides, for Use of the Army of the Confederate States, with Questions

Drill and marching manual. Printed by Brawner & Putnam in Griffin, Georgia and John M. Cooper & Co. in Savannah, Georgia. Engraving and printing by H.P. Hill & Co. in Griffin, Georgia. Original green muslin wrapper with patriotic label featuring the Confederate national flag. Contains 28 illustrations throughout. Inscription inside front cover shows Union ownership information (apparently captured): "Frank T. Campbell, Capt. Co. 'B' 40th Iowa Infty. Reg. July 24, 1864."

GLC06158.05

1862

Richardson, George W., 1819-1891

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of George W. Richardson, of Hanover, in Committee of the Whole, on the report of the Committee on federal relations, in the convention of Virginia, April 4, 1861.

Virginia secession pamphlet listing reasons why the state should leave the union. A passionate defense of the southern way of life, calling on Virginians to lend their complete support to the Confederacy. Blames the North for having imposed the institution of slavery on the South. Contains detailed listing by county of all slaves in Virginia on page 27. Printed at the Whig Book and Job Office. In original dark blue wrappers.

GLC06158.06

1861

Smith, William Russell, 1815-1896

Book

Title: The History and Debates of the Convention of the People of Alabama, Begun and held in the City of Montgomery, on the seventh Day of January, 1861; ....

Title continues, " ... in which is preserved the speeches of the secret sessions, and many valuable state papers." Includes Alabama's secession and ordinance of secession, its proposal reopening the African slave trade, sending troops to Florida, ratification of the Confederate Constitution, and the provisional and permanent government of the Confederate States. Compiled by William R. Smith, one of the delegates from Tuscaloosa. Printed in Montgomery by White, Pfister & Co., Tuscaloosa by D. Woodruff, and Atlanta by Wood, Hanleiter, Rice & Co.

GLC06158.07

1861

Thornwell, James Henley, 1812-1862

Pamphlet

Title: The state of the country

Authored by Thornwell, D.D., as a professor of theology at the Columbia, South Carolina Theological Seminary. Concerns the secession of South Carolina and other states that might follow; defends slavery in the South. Addressed on back cover to Rev. R. L. Stanton in Chillicothe, Ohio, on March 28, 1861, with canceled stamp. Yellow wrappers.

GLC06158.08

1865

Chaudron, A. de V. (Adelaide de Vendel), fl. 1865

Book

Title: Chaudron's Spelling Book

Full title is "Chaudron's Spelling Book; Carefully Prepared for Family and School Use." Printed by S. H. Goetzel. Top and bottom of recto says "Fifth Edition - Fortieth Thousand." The famous children's spelling book with its covers printed on the reverse side of wallpaper. A pocket size spelling book with numerous woodblock illustrations. Preface claims this book has become the uniform speller in the South and that "In former times, the country was overrun with an endless number of competition School Books in ever line of instruction. The present condition of the country has delivered us from…

GLC06158.09