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[$10.00 Check to Mary Todd Lincoln]

Check signed by Lincoln payable to "wife." Printed in blue ink, drawn on the Springfield Marine & Fire Insurance Company. Printed by Richards & Smith.

GLC03875

to George C. Latham re: encouraging Robert's friend to reapply to Harvard

Lincoln writes to his son's friend, who had been rejected by Harvard. He writes a letter of encouragement: "It is a certain truth, that you can enter, and graduate in, Harvard University; and having made the attempt, you must succeed in it. 'Must'...

GLC03876

Items pertaining to British soldier Henry Rooke [Decimalized .01-.04]

GLC03881

to John B. Hood

Writes to Confederate General Hood to discuss a prisoner exchange. Also discusses the deplorable conditions at Andersonville Prison, asking him to give the Union prisoners more room and food, and to allow them to construct shelters. Written on...

GLC03882

Collection of five letters of Roger B. Taney [Decimalized]

GLC03883

[Affidavit concerning the lies of General L.C. Baker in regard to the case of Henry Wirz]

Wirz, the wife of the recently executed Captain Henry Wirz, denies Baker's allegation that she attempted to deliver a poison to her husband during one of her visits to him before he was convicted of war crimes at Andersonville Prison during the Civil...

GLC03887

to Thomas L. Kane

Young writes to Colonel Kane, an abolitionist and friend. Praises his acquaintance with Kane, and Kane's knowledge of the Mormon people. Thanks Kane for his assistance in a legal case, the "May case," noting "...it is no remedy at all, to put a man...

GLC03888

to John Langdon

Bartlett, a Continental Congressman, informs Langdon that "The Congress have ordered the Secret Committee to purchase & bring in for the use of the navy & army sundry articles which were under consideration before you left the Congress." Discusses...

GLC03892

[Clipped signature]

GLC03893.02

to Henry Root

Apologizes for not writing sooner as she has been busy with family and friends. Discusses a sketch of James Garfield's life that Root was to write and states that she is sure he will say what is best to honor him. Mentions that their son, Abram...

GLC03895.02

to Mrs. George W. Childs

Addressed to Childs at "The Manhattan, 42nd Street, New York City." Asks how she is doing in New York and mentions that she planned on visiting her yesterday, but got caught up in errands. Explains that she had not planned to be in Princeton but...

GLC03895.03

[to Mrs. Stanley Brown]

Addressed to Brown at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. Stamped South Pass, California.

GLC03895.04

to Ezra Stiles Ely

Jackson explains that while he and his wife have been attacked viciously during this campaign, it has only made him more resilient. "All the slander that wickedness can suggest & falsehood invent, have been leveled against me, & my family, by the...

GLC03896

to Arthur St. Clair

Discusses Major General St. Clair's court martial and acquittal. St. Clair was court martialed in 1778 for evacuating Fort Ticonderoga, without a fight against the superior British forces in 1777. Letter written aboard the ship Alliance off the coast...

GLC03898

to James Monroe

Lafayette writes that he will be placing his monetary gift from Congress into the Bank of the United States.

GLC03899

Album signed by Delegates to first assembly of the League of Nations

Signers include Paderewski, A.J. Balfour, H.A.L. Fisher, etc. Inscribed to L. Cordel.

GLC03900

[Album signed by Paris Peace Conference Delegates]

Signers include Lloyd George, A. J. Balfour, Marshall Foch, Paderewski, etc.

GLC03901

Archive of correspondence re: Nova Scotia politics and mercantile affairs [partially decimalized]

Also mentions the Stamp Act, Bunker Hill and early Revolutionary War. Joshua Mauger Collection. [various places]: 343 items, 1619-1789 (bulk: 1763-1785). The greater part of the collection consists of 249 letters to Mauger, dealing primarily with...

GLC03902

to George B. McClellan

Declining McClellan's offer for medical supplies for captured sick and wounded because he hopes that "in a few days your sick and wounded will be under you own care...."

GLC03905

to Robert Morris

Written as President of Congress. Transmits information about John Swanwick, an employee of Morris, concerning Swanswick's possible treasonous correspondence in Philadelphia. Instructs Morris to confidentially inquire into the matter.

GLC03907

to Caroline Flagg Foote

Written by Foote as commander of the Mississippi River Squadron to his wife. Written from Island No. 10, the day after Foote's Squadron captured it. Says he can barely lift his pen to write after the recent fight and the "intense mental anxiety for...

GLC03910

American Indian Archive, 21 letters [decimalized .01-.07]

Includes letters from William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Theodore Roosevelt, European military leaders and a TMS of John J. "Blackjack" Pershing on American Indian contributions to victory.

GLC03911

to Joseph K. Dixon re: declining to endorse Dixon's book

Written on stationery of "The Outlook" magazine, to say that he endorses no book unless he studies it and saying he has no time to read it.

GLC03911.01

to Joseph K. Dixon

Written on stationery of The Roosevelt Hospital, with one written correction.

GLC03911.02

to Joseph K. Dixon re: thanks for a picture, with TL signed clerically 5/18/1917

The letter is signed with an autograph postscript and is accompanied by a typed letter 5/17/1917 signed clerically.

GLC03911.03