8 September 1787

Clinton, George, 1739-1812

Document signed

Title: Proclamation

Signed as Governor of New York State offering a reward of $1000 for the capture of arsonists in New York City. Includes official seal.

GLC02893

25 May 1792

Clymer, George, 1739-1813

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Hand

Sends General Hand copies of the excise law, an explanatory letter from the treasury department, a license form, and a copy of a "bill raising money for the protection of the Frontiers" (none included). Discusses the Whiskey Rebellion, relaying Alexander Hamilton's sentiments "that the government will face the opposition with all the necessary spirit."

GLC02894

1790/04/13

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: Marriage certificate of Louis Guillaume Otto & Miss de Crevecoeur

In Latin and French, witnessed by numerous people. Signed by Jefferson (serving then as Secretary of State). Also signed by Members of Congress Jeremiah Wadsworth, Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., NYS Supreme Court Justice Richard Morris, Vice Consul of France Antoine R.C.M. DelaForest [sic?] and wife (?), with John and Susanna Kean, Philip Livingston, John Trumbull. A. Frances de Crevecoeur was daughter to the famous author.

GLC02895

31 January 1889

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Heram Hitchcock

States that they must begin at once for Carnegie Hall to be ready by next winter. Remarks that the location of the hall should not be below 56th Street. Discusses other financial and real estate arrangements for building Carnegie Hall. Written on 5 West Fifty-first Street, New York, stationery.

GLC02896

24 February 1826

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Levett Harris

Discusses the debt of John Payne Todd.

GLC02898

1813/07/03

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Mathew Carey.

Clark had published a history of the United States. Adams also provides suggestions for the next edition. Accompanied by a slip of paper in Adams's hand reading "Philadelphia," (probably removed from the address leaf).

GLC02900

September 1863

Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888

Pamphlet signed

Title: Report of Operations of the Third Division, Twentieth Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, Maj. Gen. P.H. Sheridan, U.S. Vol's, Commanding

A detailed report covering the Battle of Chickamauga. Signed at conclusion by Sheridan as major general commanding.

GLC02901

1862/05/23

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gen. John Stewart

Written as General, a few months after his transfer from Confederate South Eastern defenses. (Name is correctly Stewart.)

GLC02903

19 November 1846

Hill, Daniel H., 1821-1889

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Latta

Reports on the Battle of Monterey and admits that his romantic ideas of war have been replaced with the harsh realities of battle and death. Writes that all accounts in the newspapers are wrong and that the report written by General Zachary Taylor is probably the most incorrect account circulating. Discusses the embedded journalists and how the Autocrat of Russia never had so loyal a "set of toadies."

GLC02905

14 October 1846

Kingsbury, Daniel M., 1811-1873

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. A. B. Kingsbury

Writes to his mother about the Battle of Monterrey and describes the casualties. Mentions supervising Mexican prisoners who are burying the American dead.

GLC02906

26 September 1794

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Hodgdon

Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton asks Superintendent of Military Stores Samuel Hodgdon to check a return for military stores at New London, Virginia, that had been sent to him by Virginia Governor Henry Lee.

GLC02908.01

1893 ca.

Photograph

Title: Post-war photographs of Gettysburg, Antietam and Chancellorsville

GLC02912.01

1866 ca.

Photograph

Title: [Abraham Lincoln]

Oval photograph of engraved portrait of Lincoln. With two one-cent tax stamps on verso. (Dating based on use of tax stamps.)

GLC02912.02.01

1870s

Header Record

Title: Portraits of circus performers

Portrait subjects include Capt. Jack Bassett, Major and Mrs. Ray (ca. 1891), Miss Millie La Mar, Lalloo, and Prince Nicholi ("The Little Russian Prince"). Photographers include Wendt of Boonton, N.J.; Obermuller and Kern of New York; and Eisenmann, also of New York. Previously identified as photographs of "circus freaks."

GLC02912.02.02

1860-1865

Book

Title: Collection of one book and pamphlets on Abraham Lincoln [Decimalized .01-.09]

Includes one paperback book entitled "Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln" and eight eulogy pamphlets.

GLC02913

1864

Print

Title: [Chromolithograph oil portrait of Abraham Lincoln, framed]

Idealized oil chromolithograph of Lincoln mounted on wooden backing within an oval wood frame. Published by E. C. Middleton & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.

GLC02914

1861-1867

Kendall, Sarah, fl. 1861-1867

Header Record

Title: [Civil War correspondence of Sarah Kendall] [Decimalized .01- .85]

Collection of seventy-nine letters to and from Sarah Kendall of New Lebanon, New York, 1860-1867. Most of her correspondents are Union Soldiers during the Civil War. Also includes 1 photograph, 2 newspaper clippings, several diary pages, and ephemera including dried leaves, small rocks, and a decorative cloth heart.

GLC02915

9 April 1865

Broadside

Title: [Courant Extra! Glorious News! The End of the War]

Small newspaper broadside re-printing Grant's famous notice to Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, about Lee's surrender at Appomattox. "Let the People Rejoice. Surrender of Lee and His Whole Army. Ring the Bells and Shout Loud Huzzas." With a manuscript note "Printed At Midnight Sunday April 9. /65."

GLC02916

1847

N. Currier (Firm)

Print

Title: General Scott's victorious entry into the City of Mexico Sept. 14th 1847

Colored lithograph depicting General Winfield Scott entering Mexico City in 1847. Scott is surrounded by other soldiers on horseback. There is an American flag flying in the background. Printed by N. Currier "in the Clerk's office of the District court of the Southern district of N.Y." at 154 Nassau Street. Small repaired tear alongside lower righthand side.

GLC02918.01

10 April 1786

Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lord Sydney

Written by General Cornwallis, the leader of British forces at Yorktown, who had accepted the post of Governor General of India in February 1786 to Lord Sydney as Home Secretary in the Pitt government. Wants Lord Sydney to talk to King George about the specific powers of his new office. Wants to know if he has the power of granting commissions below the rank of colonel because he heard the king is disinclined to grant that power in peacetime. Says he does not expect any pay for the appointment. Sent from "Mansfield Street" in London.

GLC02921

27 November 1776

Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Duane

Written by Major General Schuyler to Duane as a New York delegate to the Continental Congress. References Duane's letter that was delivered 26 November. Says he had to abandon the fortress on York Island because the enemy's strength was overwhelming. Defends his actions as the best he could have done in the situation confronting him. Compares himself favorably to Washington's defeat in New York in August 1776 saying "I wish Gen: Washington had adhered to his own opinion and rejected the Intemporate advice of people of more prowess than Wisdom. In such a situation of ours It is now Eligible…

GLC02544

7 March 1857

Daniel, Peter Vivian, 1784-1860

Autograph manuscript

Title: The opinion of Justice Peter V. Daniel of the United States Supreme Court in the famous Dred Scott case.

Daniel's original manuscript of his opinion on the Dred Scott case, bound into a book. Daniels, a passionate slavery advocate, argues that slavery had more protection under the Constitution than any other form of property. He supports the majority opinion of Justice Taney, but goes farther, asserting the unconstitutionality of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. Contains pencil notes, and numerous insertions and deletions in Daniel's hand, including slips of paper. With a later title page in another hand. This copy was used by the printers for the official printing of Daniel's opinion.

GLC02546.01

3 September 1776

Nelson, Thomas Jr., 1738-1789

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Page

Discusses the American defeat at the Battle of Long Island and their retreat. Thinks the British will quit New York City very shortly. Reports that Brigadier General Lord Sterling and General Sullivan have been taken prisoner along with other valuable field officers. Adds that the Americans' 2400 troops bravely and successfully forced their way through enemy lines and kept the enemy's 10,000 soldiers at bay. Feels that the Americans must give up their islands until they build a marine power strong enough to defend them.

GLC02540

4 July 1817

North, William, 1755-1836

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Record of his family history and short biography]

Written by North for one of his grandchildren. Speaks of his family that came from Ireland in 1720 and settled in eastern Massachusetts at Yarmouth. Mentions that his mother sold the estate they had when he was 10 or 12 years old after his father died. The narration is not chronological and North tells a variety of stories from a variety of generations. The first four pages are connected and deal with family history and there is a separate fifth page that is the start of a biography, which is incomplete.

GLC02541.01

18 September 1823

North, William, 1755-1836

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [An account of the execution of Major John Andre]

Details the execution of Major John Andre, accused of being a spy, and expresses his sympathetic feelings toward Andre's unfortunate fate. Describes how Baron Von Steuben could not comply with Andre's wish to suffer a soldier's death by being shot since the only suitable death for a spy is hanging.

GLC02541.02