11 August 1864

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Referring to abolition, Sumner declares, "The cause is more than any man- Davis, Wade or Lincoln, & it must be saved. There must be harmony among our friends, & energy- oh my God! Energy in the Good!" Following his signature, continues "Energy in action & in ideas!- both!" Sumner is referring to Henry Winter Davis, Benjamin Franklin Wade, and Abraham Lincoln.

GLC06554

12 September 1788

Morris, Richard, 1730-1810

Document signed

Title: [Successful petition of James Duane for speedy sale of Morris estate]

Twice countersigned by Mayor James Duane and once by Gerard Bancker, Treasurer of the State of New York. Chief Justice Richard Morris' certificate for debt due to Duane from the forfeited estate of Roger Morris.

GLC06555

1850-1876

Ogden, Sarah Perot, 1831-?

Header Record

Title: [Collection of Sarah Perot Ogden] [decimalized]

Collection includes 153 letters and envelopes, a photograph album with 27 cartes-de-visite, three objects, ephemera, one book, and one marriage certificate. The first section includes 137 letters, 84 accompanying envelopes, and 10 unaccompanied envelopes, mostly from soldiers to Sarah Ogden regarding her service as hospital volunteer during the Civil War. Includes details on the soldiers and battle content. Identifies 20 patients (one of whom is John Walker, a 13 year old drummer boy), four male nurses and stewards. Correspondences, (16 letters), are letters from Edward Ogden to his…

GLC06559

circa 1861-1865

Anderson, William, fl. 1861-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sarah Ogden

Encloses a certificate (not included) to thank Ogden for "the interest you have taken in this mans faith." The man, a neighbor of Anderson's, was a soldier who "felt unable to return" to the war and "believes that he will not be able to perform Military service in the future." Includes an embossed seal in the upper left hand corner.

GLC06559.001

3 September 1864

Benham, Tower S., fl. 1841-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sarah Ogden

States he was recently in two major battles where his company suffered several casualties. Expresses his opinions on the 1864 election. Notes he hopes that Fremont will not run, because he fears that if he does, General George McClellan will be elected. Supports Abraham Lincoln, and believes that, if elected, he will bring the war to a speedy end.

GLC06559.004

1850-1865

Ogden, Sarah Perot, 1831-?

Photograph album

Title: Photograph album, with cartes de visite [word processed inventory available]

The album contains 27 photographs of the military patients and staff of the U. S. Hospital in Philadelphia. Includes 20 identified patients (one of whom is John Walker, a 13 year old drummer boy), 4 male nurses and stewards. All of the patients are dressed in military uniforms. Information on the reverse of the Cartes de visite, written in ink, gives the subject's identity, wounds or illness, and other details. The initial leaf of the album is inscribed "Sallie M. Ogden, December 25, 186-." The second leaf is inscribed "Sick & Wounded at U. S. Hospital, Broad and Cherry Sts. Phila."…

GLC06559.154

December 1, 1853

Ogden, Sarah Perot, 1831-?

Document signed

Title: Quaker marriage certificate for Edward H. Ogden and Sarah M. Perot

Large vellum marriage certificate signed by the bride and groom as well as members of the meeting.

GLC06559.160

12 December 1832

Hayne, Robert Y., 1791-1839

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [Stephen Decatur Miller]

Informs that he has been elected governor of South Carolina (on December 10, just two days prior), and that nullification will proceed, despite the protests of Unionists in Charleston. Instructs that he should be kept informed as to the course of affairs of the other states and Congress on this matter. Wants the recipient, Senator Stephen Miller, to write to him once a week and give him "the earliest and most authentic information on this subject." Remarks that he has "no doubt that the State [South Carolina] will be nobly sustained in her present position." Notes in a postscript that John C…

GLC06562

1945

Henley, Raymond D., fl. 1945-1953

Header Record

Title: Collection of Raymond D. Henley relating to the Marines on Okinawa [Decimalized .01-.10]

Henley was a member of the 2nd Squad, 1st Platoon, "G" Company, 3rd Battalion, 29th Marines. The collection includes photographs, photo albums, his squad book, a telegram and letter to his wife, three medals, a certificate showing he fought in China, a Japanese flag he brought home from Okinawa, and other miscellaneous items. The photographs are images from China, the Pacific, Okinawa, United States armed forces, the devastation, and Japanese P.O.W's and dead.

GLC06567

22 November 1776

Lansing, John, 1754-1829

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Philip Schuyler

Written by Lansing as secretary to Major General Schuyler. Written to Schuyler, who was commander of the Northern Department. Copied extract from the resolves of Congress. Says situation is such that recruiting officers are to enlist men for three years or the duration of the war and offer respective bounties. Says it should be kept in mind that is Congress's opinion that "the public Service will be best promoted by Inlistments for the War, if the recruiting Business is not retarded thereby."

GLC06568

29 May 1853

Atchison, David Rice, 1807-1886

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jefferson Davis

Page one consists of a letter from Atchison, a United States Senator from Missouri, introducing Judge Samuel Treat of St. Louis to Davis, Secretary of War. Describes Treat as "a politician of the Nullification, Secession, & High Treason School, to which I belong, he understands the true position of parties and men in this State." Pages two and three consist of a 13 July 1863 letter from J. F. Allison, an infantryman from Illinois, to his parents. Allison discusses the surrenders of Vicksburg, Mississippi and Port Hudson, Louisiana. Describes witnessing Confederate General John C.…

GLC06569

1 January 1918 - 29 April 1919

Osborn, Ella Jane, 1881-1966

Diary

Title: [Diary of World War I army nurse Ella Jane Osborn] [word processed inventory available]

Ella Jane Osborn, originally from Wainscott, Long Island, New York, departed as an Army Nurse in January of 1918 and spent the majority of her assignment stationed near Toul and Nancy, in the Lorraine region of northeastern France, near the German border. She traveled extensively, spending time in London, Paris, Cannes, Blois Monte Carlo, Nice, and Antibes. She returned to New York by boat in March of 1919. Occasionally describes a particularly sad or touching death. Discusses in great detail the rumors and news she receives regarding Allied victories and defeats, and the negotiations of…

GLC06570.01

circa 1815

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph note

Title: [Description of a rain-gauge]

A scientific note on the design of a rain gauge. Includes 18 lines on the measurement (volume and weight) of rain, written on the verso of a fragmentary address leaf to John Gads[incomplete]. "The area of the funnel is 10. square inches. The fall of an inch of rain then delivers 10. cubic inches into the funnel." He notes the weight of a cubic inch which was used to mark, successively, each point on the gage and concludes that this system "renders unnecessary all attention to the ratio of the area of the funnel and measuring tube, or to the inequalities of the caliber of the measuring tube…

GLC06572

1819

Joyce, Jeremiah, fl. 1819

Header Record

Title: Scientific Dialogues, intended for the instruction... of young people

12 mo. 248, [2],; 272, iv; 285, ii pp. with 24 engraved plates. Collateral to GLC 6572, although this 1819 edition printed by M. Carey and Son, is probably later than that used by Jefferson. Scarce. Title in full: "Scientific dialogues, intended for the instruction and entertainment of young people: in which the first principles of natural and experimental philosophy are fully explained by J. Joyce." v. 1. Of mechanics and astronomy -- v. 2. Of hydrostatics and pneumatics -- v. 3. Of optics, magnetism, electricity, and galvanism. American Imprints 48395, Shaw & Shoemaker 48395.

GLC06572.02

1849-1850

Sarah, fl. 1849-1850

Header Record

Title: [Collection of six letters from Sarah to her husband Everett] [Decimalized]

Sarah writes to her friend and eventual husband Everett.

GLC06573

17 October to 27 October 1851

Bullock, R.R., fl. 1851

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: to his wife and children

Writes to his family discussing camp life as a miner and describes his health. Written in Gregory's Express Pocket Letter Book. Includes envelope from 1937. Inside covers include a calendar and an advertisement for Gregory's Express.

GLC06574

February 1798

Trumbull, John, 1756-1843

Print

Title: The Battle of Bunker's Hill

After the painting of John Trumbull. Engraving by Johann Gottfried von Muller. Published by A.C. de Poggi, in London.

GLC06579

February 1798

Clemens, Johan Frederik, 1748-1831

Print

Title: Death of General Montgomery

Engraved by Danish engraver J.F. Clemens, based on a painting by John Trumbull completed in 1786. Published by A.C. de Poggi at 91 New Bond Street, London. Depicts the death of General Richard Montgomery during the assault on Quebec on 31 December 1775. Montgomery showed real promise as an officer when he took command of General Philip Schuyler's army after Schuyler was evacuated because of illness. He led troops that captured St. John and Montreal and afterward he converged on Quebec with General Benedict Arnold and met his fate. Aaron Burr is depicted holding Montgomery. Burr tried to…

GLC06580

1 January 1861-21 October 1861

Averell, William W., 1832-1900

Diary

Title: [William Averell Civil War diary]

One of three of Union General Averell's Civil War-era diaries (see GLC06581.02-.03). The entries are highly detailed with a great deal of battle content, particularly cavalry actions. Also contains content related to his conversations with military and political figures, including Abraham Lincoln, that offer insight into many significant events of the war. Averell also jotted down small snatches of poetry and made several drawings. Memoranda sheets at ends have notes on them as well. Accompanied by three war-era notes from 1862 and three pressed flowers, originally contained in the…

GLC06581.01

February-December 1862

Williams, George M., fl. 1862

Header Record

Title: Collection of Confederate soldier George Morton Williams] [Decimalized: .01-.62]

Includes 56 complete and 3 incomplete letters written to his wife. Williams was a captain in the 9th Virginia, Hansbrough's Battalion. Discusses family matters, and important military information including the surrender of Fort Donelson, and the Merrimac blow up. Mentions Jackson's good news in the valley: "Vicksburg is relieved and New Orleans will soon be retaken -- then to Butler the Beast... if he had forty lives he should lose them all by hanging." During the period of these letters, Williams, the adopted son of Congressman John S. Pendleton, had been ordered to Richmond for…

GLC06582

1861-1864

Mixter, Calvin Symmes, 1832-?

Header Record

Title: Materials pertaining to Mixter, a Civil War soldier. [Decimalized .01-.05]

GLC06583

13 June 1861

Wadsworth, James S., 1807-1864

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Endorsement of the creation of Berdan's sharpshooters]

Wadsworth endorses s clerical copy of a letter from Major General Nathaniel P. Banks to Secretary of War Simon Cameron, with his own approval of the establishment of "Berdan's Sharpshooters." Banks recommends that "the Rifle shooters what Mr. Berdan proposes to organize" be made part of the military, and Wadsworth adds, "I entirely concur in the above - especially in view of the mode of warfare adopted by the rebels."

GLC06585

22 July 1862

Adams, Alexander D., 1832-1872

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Petition to New York Governor Edwin D. Morgan seeking military policy changes]

Signed by several New York officers and endorsed by prominent Union generals Joseph Bartlett, John Newton, Winfield S. Hancock, and Henry W. Slocum, among others. Seeks to institute policy changes in order to fill the ranks for New York regiments. Includes two pages of regiment statistics. Lieutenant Colonel Adams was the first signed among the New York officers.

GLC06587

August 1862- July 1865

Elmore, Bruce, fl. 1862-1865

Header Record

Title: [Collection of Bruce Elmore, C company, 143rd regiment, New York, infantry] [decimalized]

Over 200 letters from Sergeant Elmore to his wife, with an additional 60 from his wife. Highlights include pursuit of Lee's army after Gettysburg, the siege of Atlanta, Sherman's march to the sea, and other campaigns. Also includes several loose pages of an informal diary kept by Elmore during the March to the Sea, which he mailed home to his wife upon reaching Savannah. Elmore was discharged in July 1865.

GLC06588

2 May 1862

Broadside

Title: News-letter extra.

Rare newspaper extra from Ship Island containing two letters by Admiral Farragut to the Mayor of New Orleans. On verso is an autograph letter signed (undated) from Union soldier S. S. Eastman to a friend. Severe ink bleed-through throughout.

GLC06589