1952/04/01

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Typed letter signed

Title: to Harry I. Schwimmer re: his intention not to seek re-election

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.093

1952/06/13

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward H. Pruden re: a prayer he said since his youth, with prayer

Written as President on White House stationery, accompanied by the prayer on White House stationery. Pruden was minister at the First Baptist Church, Washington, D.C.

GLC02793.094

1955/05/06

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

Typed letter signed

Title: to Brig. Gen. Arthur S. Nevins re: rearing quail, garden plots on his farm

Signed "DE" as President on White House stationery. Eisenhower kept a farm at Gettysburg, Pa.

GLC02793.095

1957/11/08

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

Typed letter signed

Title: to Evan Aurand re: "tempest in a teapot" created by his riding in helicopter

Memorandum for Captain Aurand

GLC02793.096

1958/10/06

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

Typed letter signed

Title: to Irving Geist re: his golf game

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.097

1961/02/07

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963

Typed letter signed

Title: to David Mynders Smythe re: thanking Smythe for his support

Signed as President on White House stationery. JFK has struck the official typed salutation for "Dave." Accompanied by TLS (carbon) of David M. Smythe to Kennedy 1/25/1961 to which JFK was responding.

GLC02793.099

1961/03/11

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963

Typed letter signed

Title: to Rev. E. C. Leadley re: Solomon Island native who helped rescue the PT-109

Signed as President. Accompanied by a certified copy of letter from N. Biuku Gasa (certified and signed by E. C. Leadley) for the man who carried hidden messages for the crew of JFK's PT-109, with envelope.

GLC02793.100

1961 ca?

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dean Acheson re: thanking him for his recent letter

Written as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.101

1962/04/20

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963

Typed letter signed

Title: to Emily Davis Chamberlain re: thanks for her letter of support, happy birthday

Signed as President on White House stationery, with a handwritten postscript "yours was almost the nicest letter we have received since being in the W.H."

GLC02793.102

1963/08/15

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963

Typed letter signed

Title: to Seymour Halpern re: Halpern's remembrance for the loss of their son

Signed as President on White House stationery. JFK has struck the formal salutation "Congressman Halpern" and inserted "Seymour."

GLC02793.103

1968/04/03

Johnson, Lyndon B., 1908-1973

Typed letter signed

Title: to Orville Poland re: placing peace & freedom above personal concerns

GLC02793.105

1969/01/16

Johnson, Lyndon B., 1908-1973

Typed letter signed

Title: to Dorothy Nichols re: thanks for her support and looking forward to retirement

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.106

1975/11/22

Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006

Autograph note

Title: to Ron Nessen re: a TV interview at half time of the Ohio State-Michigan game

Written on White House stationery. Nessen was Ford's Press Secretary. Date from later typewritten note of Nessen's Secretary, with note by Nessen. Ford was a Michigan alumnus and former football player.

GLC02793.111

1976/02/04

Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006

Typed letter signed

Title: to George D. Vaill re: rumor that his autograph on his arm would become a shrine

Light-hearted piece signed as President. Accompanied by Vaill's sardonic query. Ford had signed Vaill's arm.

GLC02793.112

1976/08/10

Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006

Typed letter signed

Title: to Ruth K. Stroh re: thanking her for support, her research on genealogy

Signed as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.113

1977/09/20

Carter, James E., 1924-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sarah McClendon re: her "superb questions" at press conferences

Written as President on White House stationery.

GLC02793.114

1981/04/06

Reagan, Ronald, 1911-2004

Autograph letter signed

Title: Postcard of thanks to nurse at hospital

Written as President to a nurse at George Washington University Hospital

GLC02793.115

1982/02/01

Reagan, Ronald, 1911-2004

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Patti Davis re: thanking her for birthday gift, weather

Written as President on White House stationery to his daughter. Date inferred from content.

GLC02793.116

1982/09/16 ca.

Reagan, Ronald, 1911-2004

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: Handwritten drafts of five letters, including one to William F. Buckley, Jr.

Written as President. Date inferred from contents; one of the letters, to Jim Curtis, was discovered by a previous owner to be dated September 16, 1982. A series of written drafts on yellow paper intended for his secretary. Although the letter to Curtis was "signed" with an autopen, the draft shows Reagan's care in correspondence, even with strangers.

GLC02793.117

1989/02/08

Bush, George, 1924-2018

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dennis Fogle re: telling his paddleball buddies "I'm ready"

Written as President

GLC02793.118

1990/04/25

Bush, George, 1924-2018

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dr. F. Terry Hambrecht re: enjoying "The Toy Shop" and a story of Lincoln

Written as President

GLC02793.119

1951/02/02

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Typed letter signed

Title: to Dean Acheson re: uncomplimentary wax statue at Mme Tussaud's museum

Goes with GLC 2793.091

GLC02793.120

1796/03/07

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Document signed

Title: 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 (American Minister to Portugal).

GLC02794.001

1785/12/29

Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Lincoln re: gratitude for getting position as Washington's secretary

"I gladly and willingly accept of the proposal which you made me of going to Virginia . . . . to render myself serviceable, and agreeable to General Washington." Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.002

1789/02/14

Breck, Samuel, 1747-1809

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: prospects for manufacturing, prosperity in America

"Happily for America the Spirit of perfect Liberty has opperated [sic] to produce the best effects, with us, Industry, Economy & Temperance, are allowd to exceed in every Class of Citizens that of any former period & I am convinced . . . a few years will render America the most desirable Country in the world [. . . .] [I] congratulate you on the arrival of this important period, which promises so amply to compensate America for her Toils & Hazards through a long & distressing War!" Breck was a prominent American merchant. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.003