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to Katharine & Louisa Loring re: his recent trip and expected vacation

Written as President. The Lorings were neighbors of Taft at the vacation spot.

GLC02793.060

to J. Edwin Murphy re: thanking him for admitting mistake

Signed as President. Goes with #2793.064. Wilson's distress was in being seen "a fool and a sloven." Murphy was editor of the Washington Times.

GLC02793.065

to James Murrary Dewey re: his penmanship

Written as President on White House stationery, apparently in response to a request to pen a letter. Harding compares his penmanship to Horace Greeley's.

GLC02793.070

to Fred L. Seely re: thanks for helping his sick son Herbert

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.079

to Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam re: opposition to prohibition

Signed as President on White House stationery. Written as a follow-up to meeting with Methodist bishops.

GLC02793.085

to Arthur J. Morris re: thanks for congratulations, questions about legacy

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.087

to Arthur J. Morris re: distribution of his mother's estate to his children

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.088

Treaty between the U.S. and the Dey & Regency of Algiers (c/s Timothy Pickering)

Signed as President and countersigned by Pickering as Secretary of State. English translation from the Arabic with clerical signatures for Vizier Hassan Bashan (the Dey of Algiers), Joseph Donaldson Jr. (American negotiator) and David Humphreys...

GLC02794.001

to Tobias Lear re: presenting a "large salmon for Mrs. Washington."

Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.014

to Tobias Lear re: error at the Treasury Dept.

"I have taken measures for correcting the error, which happened in the Settlement at the Treasury . . . " Written in a clerk's hand. Wolcott was the Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury. Docketed on address leaf. Attached to GLC 2794.017.

GLC02794.016

to Gouverneur Morris re: recommendation of Tobias Lear

Written as President to Morris, American Minister to France, recommending Lear: "[h]e is a person who possesses my entire friendship & confidence . . . ."

GLC02794.031

to M. de la Motte re: recommendation of Tobias Lear

Written in a clerk's hand while Jefferson was serving as Secretary of State, introducing Lear to de la Motte, Vice-Consul for the U.S. at Le Havre: "he is well known as the late Secretary of President Washington, and I can further assure you that he...

GLC02794.033

to: Tobias Lear

Introduction for Dr. May, who is moving to Washington. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.039

To: Bey of Tunis.

Copy of letter announcing appointment of Lear as Consul, with clerical countersignature of James Madison. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.053

On the choice of a horse

Detailed instructions regarding buying and shipping horses. Bound by a pink ribbon. Dr. Thornton, who treated Lear as a patient, was also a prominent architect and inventor.

GLC02794.103

[An Act to alter the times and places of holding the circuit courts in the eastern district, and in North Carolina, and for other purposes]

Printed document signed by Jefferson as Secretary of State. Also signed in type by Jonathan Trumbull as Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Langdon as President pro tempore of the Senate, and approved by George Washington as President....

GLC02806

to John Sherman

Intends to give Sherman a copy of a speech he (Douglass) gave on the 26th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, if the speech is published. Supports Sherman's attempt for the presidency on the Republican ticket. Written on Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D...

GLC02841

to William M. Lowry

Analyzes the current political situation in Tennessee and the state of the Democratic Party. Discusses West H. Humphreys, a federal judge in Tennessee with Confederate sympathies. Says Humphreys has "taken it into his head that [Gideon J.] Pillow...

GLC02848

[Carte de visite of Orville B. Willcox]

Signed as Brevet Major General.

GLC02791

[Carte de visite of W. W. Averell]

Signed as Brigadier General.

GLC02792

to Rev. William J. Hampton re: his love for his mother

Signed as President, on White House stationery, aboard the U.S.S. Mayflower.

GLC02793.068

to Tobias Lear

Lambert transmits a report from Alexander Hamilton, Secretery of the Treasury. Lambert writes for John Beckley, Clerk of the House of Representatives.

GLC02794.006

to Tobias Lear re: transport of "Steam Jack" and visit to Philadelphia

Written as the Collector at the Port of Boston. Attached to GLC 2794.021. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.018

to Tobias Lear

Harrison writes from the Auditor's Office: "I request the favor of your informing me on what day William Lewis Esquire resigned his Commission as Judge of the district of Pennsylvania." Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.020

to Tobias Lear re: a donation to Peale's Museum in Philadelphia

Requesting to make "the donation to the Museum" in Lear's name. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.022