22 August 1844

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward P. Fry

Regrets that he cannot yet give Fry an answer to his request because he cannot get in touch with all the other proprietors. Sends a paper Fry requested (not present), and states he has made an improvement in the telegraph machinery which will allow him to write at least 25 characters a minute. Informs that he has just completed experiments on running telegraph lines across rivers. Addressed to Fry in Philadelphia.

GLC04503.04

1 January 1869

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward P. Fry

Replies to Fry's request for his memories of events occurring in 1844. Morse states that " ... with my feeble memory in regard to the details, I fear I can give you but little satisfaction." Remembers negotiating with Amos Kendall to have him put in control of the business aspects of the telegraph. Believes that Fry is correct in saying that Fry was the first to attempt to form a company to extend the telegraph line from Philadelphia to New York. Concurs that he was obstructed from doing this by those ruling Wall Street at the time. Comments that he does not remember the details of their…

GLC04503.05

11 March 1870

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward P. Fry

Thanks Fry for sending a memorandum that proves that Morse was interested in having the government own the telegraph invention back in 1844. States that he made concessions to make it easier and less costly for the government but that they did not take advantage before the offer expired. Believes that this is now to his advantage and that it would not have been a good idea to have the government control the telegraph.

GLC04503.06

14 March 1870

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward P. Fry

Complains about mail he has sent that has failed to reach its destination, including a recent letter to Fry. Includes a transcript of the earlier note that was never received in which he thanks Fry for information sent to him proving that Morse was interested in having the government purchase the telegraph invention back in 1844 (see GLC04503.06 for original letter).

GLC04503.07

March 14, 1870

Fry, Edward P., fl. 1844-1870

Autograph note signed

Title: [List of letters sent from Samuel F. B. Morse to Edward P. Fry]

Lists dates and places written of five letters sent from Morse to Fry concerning the formation of a telegraph line from New York to Philadelphia in 1844. Note at bottom states that other letters from 1870 were included in order to make a book of autographs. Signed with initials, E. P. F. Letters referred to are GLC04503.01 - .07.

GLC04503.08

19 April 1820

Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Peter Gansevoort

Discusses New York state politics, specifically Westchester County. States that the majority of the Federalists will vote for De Witt Clinton, the New York state Governor, who ran for President in 1820 but was defeated by James Monroe. Mentions Daniel C. Tomkins, who ran on the Republican ticket in the 1820 election with Monroe. Signed James Cooper. He did not have his name legally changed to James Fenimore Cooper until 1826.

GLC05258.01

October 1890

Newspaper

Title: James Fenimore Cooper: A Letter Explaining Why He Petitioned to Have His Name Changed.

Newspaper article that details a letter written by Cooper that was found in which Cooper petitions to add Fenimore to his name. Prints Cooper's letter in full. Date added in pencil at a later time.

GLC05258.02

13 June 1893

Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Isaac N. Roland

Sends an autograph copy of his poem, "Maryland, My Maryland," as Roland requested. Comments that he made an exception "for the sake of your good wife" since demand for copies of his poem is great and he normally denies requests. On stationary of the Edmonds Brothers, Manufacturers' Record Building, Baltimore.

GLC05296.01

13 June 1893

Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: "Maryland, My Maryland"

Handwritten copy of Randall's poem as requested by Isaac N. Roland (see GLC05296.01). Copy is noted at end "Originally written, in 1861, at Pointe Coupee La [Louisiana] by James R. Randall."

GLC05296.02

circa 1855-1870

Lanman, Charles, 1795-1870

Autograph note

Title: to unknown

Note explains letter in GLC05503.01. Writes that he corresponded with Thomas Sully in 1853 in regard to a portrait of his wife. States that Sully gave him prices: head $80, bust $100, kit kat $200, half length $600. Mentions that in 1855 he corresponded with Sully about a portrait of Commodore James Lawrence by Gilbert Stuart that had come into his possession and Sully sent a reply (see GLC05503.01).

GLC05503.02

1908

Object

Title: Discharge pouch

Discharge pouch of George W. Peters. See GLC05653.01 for presidential pardon.

GLC05653.02

18 August 1865

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. M. Stuart

Gives the address of William Goodrich in Paris. Also encloses his photograph (not present). Replies to her request for his opinion on the Atlantic telegraph by saying "I have always had full faith in its final accomplishment; It is practicable, and therefore the demands of the world will eventually accomplish it." He has faith that it will be completed despite the current gloomy prospects. Addressed to Stuart in Abington, Pennsylvania.

GLC06329.01

circa 1870

Sartan, John, fl. 1870

Engraving

Title: Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse. Inventor of the Magnetic Telegraph

Half-length engraving of Morse with his telegraph machine. Marked as after a photo from life.

GLC06329.02

18 November 1834

Lubbock, Francis R., 1815-1905

Printed letter signed

Title: to John Fitzgerald

Partially printed circular letter to the Sheriff of Montgomery County ordering that Philip Capeland be taken into custody and transported to the Court House in Houston to answer to the charge of "Groce Contempt." Signed by Lubbock in his capacity as the clerk of the Harris County district court. Docket, signed by Sheriff Fitzgerald, indicates the letter was returned on 4 October 1844 not executed because Capeland was not found in the county.

GLC06623.13

17 June 1854

Pease, Elisha M., 1812-1883

Printed document signed

Title: [Texas land grant to "Benjamin Bacus assignee of Willis H. Landrum"]

Signed by Pease as governor and countersigned by Robert M. Elgin, chief clerk and acting commissioner of the General Land Office. Partially printed grant of 325 acres in Hunt County, Texas. Specifies the precise location and boundaries of the tract. A partially printed note on the verso certifies the document.

GLC06623.14

16 August 1855

Pease, Elisha M., 1812-1883

Printed document signed

Title: [Texas land grant to "John S Boucher assignee of Hoard Claybrook"]

Signed by Pease as governor and countersigned by J. Crosby (possibly Josiah Frazier Crosby), commissioner of the General Land Office. Partially printed grant of 320 acres in Hunt County, Texas. Specifies the precise location and boundaries of the tract. A note on the verso certifies the document.

GLC06623.15

23 October 1855

Pease, Elisha M., 1812-1883

Printed document signed

Title: [Texas land grant to "Stephen D. Barker assignee of Thomas R. Jennison"]

Signed by Pease as governor and countersigned by J. Crosby (possibly Josiah Frazier Crosby), commissioner of the General Land Office. Partially printed grant of 320 acres in Hunt County, Texas. Specifies the precise location and boundaries of the tract. A note on the verso certifies the document.

GLC06623.16

18 September 1856

Pease, Elisha M., 1812-1883

Printed document signed

Title: [Texas land grant to "the School Commissioners of Hunt County, and their Successors"]

Signed by Pease as governor and countersigned by J. Crosby (possibly Josiah Frazier Crosby), commissioner of the General Land Office. Partially printed grant of "One League" in "Cooke District, Wise and Cooke Counties," Texas. Specifies the precise location and boundaries of the tract.

GLC06623.17

28 June 1856

Pease, Elisha M., 1812-1883

Printed document signed

Title: [Texas land grant to "Leonidas Wilson, Assignee of Jones Whittaker"]

Signed by Pease as governor and countersigned by J. Crosby (possibly Josiah Frazier Crosby), commissioner of the General Land Office. Partially printed grant of 284 acres in Collin County, Texas. Specifies the precise location and boundaries of the tract. A partially printed note on the verso certifies the document.

GLC06623.18

13 July 1857

Pease, Elisha M., 1812-1883

Printed document signed

Title: [Texas land grant to "Esther Gooding Assignee of James J. Stephens"]

Signed by Pease as governor and countersigned by Robert M. Elgin, chief clerk and acting commissioner of the General Land Office. Partially printed grant of 160 acres in Hunt County, Texas. Specifies the precise location and boundaries of the tract. A note on the verso certifies the document.

GLC06623.19

21 October 1837

Pinckney, John Townsend, 1802-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas C. Pinckney

Writes to his brother after returning from Houston, where the Texas legislature was in session. Discusses the activities of the General Land Office and plans for surveying and opening lands. Also discusses the removal of several Native American tribes from their fertile land, an activity that "has occupied my attention ever since I first came to the cuntry [sic]." Indicates that he has finally "got the Government to act on the subject." Comments on the quality of the Indian land, the white settlement that will follow their removal, and the increase in land value that Pinckney will reap…

GLC06623.20

1838-1848

Richardson, Stephen, 1794-1860

Autograph document signed

Title: [Certification of a deed signed by Thomas Davis and Richardson selling land to Robert Wilson and Walter C. White]

Certifies that a deed was given to Wilson and White for land then located in Harrisburg, Texas. The deed had been lost. Date approximated from the period in which Richardson lived in Harrisburg.

GLC06623.21

2 June 1839

Richardson, Stephen, 1794-1860

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Texas land deed of sale]

Certifies the sale of one quarter of a league of land "on the Trinity River near Cashatta Village" from Richardson to Edward Hall of Houston, Texas, for $1,000. The land had been granted to Richardson on 20 November 1835. Witnessed by George R. Robertson. An autograph and signed note by J.H. Griffin on the second page indicates that the sale was recorded in the Liberty County records on 2 May 1841.

GLC06623.22

5 August 1841

Roberts, Samuel A., 1809-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to B.C. Franklin

Discusses issues related to a land survey.

GLC06623.23

December 1835

Stewart, A.B., fl. 1835-1836

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Errata to two Texas ordinances]

The first was an "Errata in ordinance and draw authorising the Govern[or] to give instructions to Commissioners to the United States" and the second was an "Errata in ordinance and draw to raise a Loan for the use of the Provisional Government of Texas." Lists corrections in wording to be made to specific sections of the ordinances. Date pencilled in at a later time.

GLC06623.25