1910/03/10

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Header Record

Title: to Walter S. Field re: asking Field to appear for Roosevelt in suits in Oklahoma

Includes four related letters: 1. Roosevelt letter to Walter S. Field 3/10.1910. 2. La Follette, Robert M. TLS: Washington, D.C., to Theodore Roosevelt. 18 January 1910. 1 p. re: land formerly belonging to Kickapoo Indians. 3. Field, Walter S. TLS: Washington, D.C., to Theodore Roosevelt. 21 January 1910. 2 p. re: request to represent Roosevelt in Kickapoo land dispute. 4. Teller, Henry Moore. TLS: Washington, D.C., to Theodore Roosevelt. 26 January 1910, 2 p. re: urging Roosevelt to allow Walter Field to represent him in the Kickapoo land dispute.

GLC07733.02

1862/05/21

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: Endorsement on 3 p. Thomas Breck ALS to Charles Sumner re: leniency for soldier

Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 - 1862, p. 228

GLC07742

1865/04/15

Bradford, Peleg, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to C.C. McPherson re: Washington, D.C. after Lincoln's assassination

GLC07745

1865/05/29

Doherty, Edward P., fl. 1865

Autograph letter

Title: to Lorenzo P. Thomas re: four accounts of capture of Herold and death of Booth

Forney, a pro-slavery candidate, was "in favor of the maintenance and faithful execution of the fugitive slave laws...and of the suppression of all further agitation of the slavery question."

GLC07747.01

1865/05/22

McQuade, William, fl. 1865

Manuscript document signed

Title: re: eyewitness account of capture of Herold and death of Booth

GLC07747.02

1865/05/22

Ryan, John, fl. 1865

Manuscript document signed

Title: re: eyewitness account of the capture of Herold and death of Booth

GLC07747.03

1865/05/22

Hoyt, Godfrey, fl. 1865

Manuscript document signed

Title: re: eyewitness account of the capture of Herold and death of Booth

GLC07747.04

1865/05/22

Baker, David, fl. 1865

Manuscript document signed

Title: re: eyewitness account of the capture of Herold and death of Booth

Discusses "the rights of master and the interests of the slave."

GLC07747.05

1862/04/04

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: Authority to affix the seal...to treat...on...suppression of African slave trade

GLC07751

1882/08/20

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sarah Pillsbury re: death of his wife Anna Douglass

Douglass writes "Thanks for your kind letter. Mrs Douglass was all you say of her and more. She was the post in the centre of my house. Different we were in many things. She was conservative and I radical, she was for the old I for the new, She did not care to learn to read - and was thus measurably that out from the things the interested me. but in all the duties of mother and wife, she deserves all you have said of her. Two people could not well live together forty and four years as we have done, without the death of either being a shock and a calamity."

GLC07752.01

February 6, 1843

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John MacKay

Comments on MacKay's improving health and gives additional advice. Discusses congressional appropriations, reductions in budgets and appointments, and politics in Washington, D.C. at length. Mentions that the Oregon Bill, which expansionist President James K. Polk supported in his campaign, passed the Senate but had a doubtful fate in the House. Lee was then the Superintending Engineer for Fort Hamilton in New York Harbor. Delays and changes in congressional appropriations threatened his improvement projects. MacKay was Lee's closest friend during his days at West Point. He served in the…

GLC07755

1869/12/15

Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Editor of theTribune re: Cuban independence

GLC07759

1845/09/27

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

Document signed

Title: Authority to affix the seal attesting to Alabama Act

GLC07761

1804 ca.

Tripoli, fl. 1804

Print

Title: Blowing Up the Fire Ship Intrepid commanded by Capt. Sommers...

[Title continued] "by the American Squadron under Commodore Edward Preble." Hand-colored copper-plate engraving by John Guerrazzi, London.

GLC07729

1861/01/19

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William C. Endicott, Jr. re: cabinet post

GLC07741

1865/04/15

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Document

Title: General Orders no. 51

GLC07746

1865/05/11

Porter, William, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Fessenden re: Lincoln assassination

With autograph corrections.

GLC07749.01

1865/04/27

Wilkinson, Gareth, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Linton re: Lincoln assassination

GLC07749.02

1865/04/27

Blanc, Louis, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles F. Adams re: Lincoln assassination

GLC07749.03

1865/05/06

Tupper, Martin F., fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Cullen Bryant re: forwarding copy of his poem "Lincoln's Martyrdom"

GLC07749.04

[1866]/12/14

Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. James White

Dreams as omens, her husband

GLC07750

1880 ca.?

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Photograph

Title: Half length seated carte de visite portrait of Frederick Douglass, with cane

GLC07752.02

1880 ca.

Powelson, fl. 1880

Photograph

Title: [Carte de visite of Anna Douglass]

Three quarter length seated carte de visite portrait of Anna Douglass. Douglass appears to be holding a parasol.

GLC07752.03

1776 ca.

Habermann, Francois X., 1721-1796

Print

Title: Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck [Vue d'Optique] [Burning of Wall Street area, New York]

GLC07754

1915/11/08

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Henry A. W. Wood re: a speech by President Wilson

GLC07756