March 26, 1867

Ashley, James Mitchell, 1824-1896

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite vignette profile bust portrait of J.M. Ashley, by Brady

1865 imprint, signed and dated 3/26/1867.

GLC05596.01

1865

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite vignette bust portrait of Abner C. Harding

Date from Brady copyright notice.

GLC05596.11

1865

Morgan, Edwin D., 1811-1883

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite vignette bust portrait by Brady, with 2 cent revenue stamp, vers

Date from Brady copyright date.

GLC05596.16

1865

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite vignette bust portrait by M.B. Brady

Signed on front: "L. M. Morrill." Signer of the 13th Amendment. (Autograph also available in GLC 4224, autograph album.)

GLC05597.16

1861

Nesmith, James W., fl. 1861

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite vignette bust portrait by Brady

Signed on front: "JW Nesmith, Oregon"

GLC05597.27

1840-1841

Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849

Book signed

Title: Bound collection of 45 Congressional speeches of various people

Bound volume of printed speeches from Congress signed on the front pastedown by James K. Polk. Most pamphlets have been printed at Washington by Blair and Rives. This bound volume of printed speeches from Congress is signed on the front pastedown by James K. Polk. The book has some damage; one pamphlet even has a portion razored out (#19) Most pamphlets have been printed at Washington by Blair and Rives. Two are signed (# 20, 39). Speech topics include Sub-Treasury Bill; Treasury Note Bill, debt assumption; appropriations; attacks on the Van Buren administration; and a few on abolition…

GLC05598

1882

Bell, Charles Milton, 1848-1893

Photograph signed

Title: [Chester A. Arthur]

Arthur with sideburn and mustache. Signed on mount.

GLC05600

1861-1863

Halleck, H.W. (Henry Wager), 1815-1872

Header Record

Title: Archive of 104 dispatches, notes and letters from Dept. of Mississippi [decimalized: .001-.104]

This collection of 104 documents contains 99 telegraph dispatches (#1-99) and four letters (#100-103) written by Major General Henry W. Halleck. Also, one letter written by William H. Seward to Halleck is included in the collection (#104) (thanking him for a copy of his book , International Law or Rules Regulating Intercourse of States in Peace and War, written during the Trent Affrair). Most of the dispatches direct troop movements or discuss official business in that theater during the winter of 1861-1862. Halleck wrote three of the letters to union generals (# 101 - 103) and one letter…

GLC05601

1861-1865 circa

Header Record

Title: Collection of letters, clipped signatures, and newsclippings from Lincoln's cabinet members [decimalized]

The collection is split into three subsections: .01, .02, and .03. GLC05603.01 is a collection of letters from Lincoln's cabinet members regarding Civil War legislation and other matters. It is decimalized .01-.33. GLC05603.02 is a collection of clipped signatures and notes from members of Lincoln's cabinet, the Civil War legislature, and other associates. Includes items of Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley, Edward Everett, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher Stowe among others. Also includes nine Lincoln cartoons reproduced from Punch. It is decimalized .01-.94. GLC05603.03 is a…

GLC05603

24 July 1864

Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James W. Grimes

Worries about the defense of Washington and discusses his new position as Secretary of the Treasury. The state of the treasury is bad, his task is very complicated, and his health makes the problem worse. Worries about the safety of Washington, the strategy of the Union army, and the actions of the politicians. "In my humble judgment, we are going to the Devil politically, at a pretty swift pace. Every body sees it except those who should see it most clearly, and yet we blunder on as stupidly, or more stupidly, than ever. Only worse blunders on the part of our adversaries will save us -…

GLC05603.01.01

22 March 1864

Pierrepont, Edwards, 1817-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Evarts

Recounts a private conversation with the Secretary of State William H. Seward. Discusses presidential politics. Reports that Salmon P. Chase has withdrawn from the election. Remarks, "Mr. Lincoln has the people; there is no doubt of this; but he has not the upper classes nor the Politicians ... The Copperheads are all for McClellan. The radicals and Germans for Fremont. The Common Man for Lincoln ... " Mentions the ongoing Civil War, "Grant [General Ulysses S.] comes here today and leads the Army of the Potomac. We have every confidence that Lee must be destroyed ... We expect bloody…

GLC05603.01.02

circa April 6, 1865

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Autograph letter signed

Title: [to Mary Todd Lincoln]

Last three pages of a longer letter. Recipient inferred based on content. Senator Sumner, en route with Mrs. Lincoln to City Point to meet up with the president, responds to her note regarding Lincoln's return to Washington in the wake of Secretary of State Seward's serious carriage accident. The First Lady wanted the president to wait at City Point for their arrival; Sumner strongly advises that they wait for the president. The carriage accident would end up, indirectly, saving Seward's life on the night of the Lincoln assassination.

GLC05603.01.03

1825

Blair, John D., 1759-1823

Book

Title: [Sermons collected from the manuscripts of the late Rev. John D. Blair].

Signed by John Marshall. With pasted signature of E. J. Laughlin on front pastedown. Blair was Chaplain of the Virginia House of Delegates and the sermons are about the death of Washington; criticism of the writings of Thomas Paine; and various religious topics. With numeric code penciled on the first four blank endpapers, similar to the diplomatic secret code (cypher) used to encode and decode letters. Marshall used cypher in his role as negotiator during the XYZ Affair. He was Secretary of State from 1800 until 1801 and Chief Justice of the United States from 1801 until 1835. Shoemaker…

GLC05605

27 December 1776

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Manuscript document signed

Title: Resolution in Congress 27th Dec. 1776 investing Genl Washington with certain powers [fragment]

Final page of document conferring extraordinary power on Washington. For six months he is granted the power "to fill up all Vacancies in every other Department in the American Armies; to take wherever he may be, whatever he may want for the Use of the Army...to arrest and confine Persons who refuse to take the Continental Currency, or are otherwise disaffected to the American Cause." The lost portion of the document confers on Washington other powers as well. It is possible this document was being sent to Washington himself, then intercepted by the British. Title from docket. Transcript…

GLC05611

18 February 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William A. Newell

Discusses New Jersey Governor Newell's advocacy of Colonel James T. Hatfield, who was being considered for appointment to brigadier general. Comments that Newell's support for Hatfield is unquestioned, remarking that Newell would only support the promotion of another officer, Colonel Joseph W. Allen, with the condition that it would not interfere with Hatfield's promotion. Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln, (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 - 1862, p. 136

GLC05616

29 February 1647

Winthrop, John, 1588-1649

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: Patience Wilsons bill present unto the honoured court 29 (2) 1647.

Also signed by Will Colbron, John Jackson, and Speaker of the House Joseph Sills. An itemized bill for an addition to the prison. Docketed. Signed on the verso as Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Winthrop refers the bill to Magistrate Johnson and Speaker of the Committee William Best.

GLC05583

1909

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Header Record

Title: Letters to his wife Nellie re: appointments, personal [decimalized]

GLC05585

15 September 1899

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nellie Taft

Discussing his evening the night before, his plans for today and tomorrow and mentions various friends in Cincinnati. Accompanied by letter of reference for nurse Mary Mack who does nothing but cook. re: his 42d birthday, with letter of reference for Mary Mack

GLC05585.01

September 23, 1899

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nellie Taft re: news of friends, university president, golf games

Mentions that the new University president wants to make changes.

GLC05585.04

October 1899

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nellie Taft re: girls who have applied to be his nurse, cook, laundress, etc.

Accompanied by a description of one young woman.

GLC05585.05

30 June 1790

Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander Johnson

Thanks Doctor Johnson for his earlier letter and papers containing, ". . . directions by which persons in whom the vital powers are suspended either by natural causes or by accident may be restored to live." Tells Johnson he will exert himself to preserve the health and happiness of mankind, the citizens of Connecticut in particular. Docketed by Huntington as a copy. Contains numerous strikeouts.

GLC05586

19 March 1776

Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Page

He is happy to hear the mutinous spirits of the soldiers have been subdued and hopes it can be prevented in the future. Remarks, "the putrid fever rages so much in the Norfolk fleet . . ." Discusses officers' commissions and appointments. Hopes some arrangements will be made for procuring salt. Remarks that the men are governed by their present feelings and will riot when the need for salt arises. Expresses concern that not all the Continental troops are under Colonial direction.

GLC05587

12 May 1798

Cabot, George, 1752-1823

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jonathan Williams

Cabot, former United States Senator, informs Williams that he "must decline the Secretaryship of the Navy; to this determination I was ultimately brought by a full conviction that I cou'd not go through the labor of an office so difficult ... in estimating the forces that cou'd be employed to overcome the obstacles in a path hitherto untrod in this country I assure you that my mind constantly resorted to you as the principle, & if I cou'd have been induced to take upon myself so weighty an engagement I shou'd have relied greatly upon your assistance in every part of the performance of it…

GLC05588.01

5 August 1757

De Lancey, James, 1703-1760

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Captain William Conventry to Aide de Camp]

Countersigned by Deputy Secretary of the province Goldsbrow Banyar and witnessed by his clerk, John Godby. Includes official seal. Written in Fort George neighborhood of New York, New York .

GLC05588.04

29 September 1780

Warren, James, 1726-1808

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Bingham

Sends a bill of exchange (not included) drawn by Messrs. Otis & Henley on Charles Pettit for $43,480.

GLC05588.05