18 July 1818

Preston, James Patton, 1774-1843

Printed document signed

Title: [Certificate appointing Rawley Evans as sheriff]

Preston, Governor of Virginia (1816-1819), appoints Evans as sheriff of Monongalia County (present day West Virginia). Partially printed.

GLC03481.03

27 June 1819

Moore, Thomas Patrick, 1797-1853

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Informs an unknown recipient: "Eccles has returned is unable to [?] or do anything else- Smashed by his produce speculations- This was to me a totally unexpected event- I may save it in time, but doubt it. Expecting to be at Lexington must constitute my apology for not writing earlier..." Docket states: "T. P. Moore- Private soldier in 1812 member of Congress many years- One of Genl [Jenkins?] pets- Sent Minister to Bogota..."

GLC03481.04

3 October 1828

Wood, Bradford Ripley, 1800-1889

Document signed

Title: [Contract between Walter and Smith Weed]

Wood signs as a witness. Walter, of Auburn, New York, promises to pay Smith, of Albany, New York $2,000. States that if Walter pays Smith $1000 in one year, the previous obligation is void.

GLC03481.05

circa 14 May 1845

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

Address leaf

Title: to Henry Harn

Docketed address leaf from President Polk to Harn in Philadelphia. States "President Polk Recd May 14th 1845."

GLC03481.06

January 1852

Paterson, W.A., fl. 1852

Document signed

Title: [Recommendation for James McDowell to serve as door keeper for the Virginia Senate]

Signed by Paterson, William Ritchie, John M. Daniel, Thomas Ritchie, Robert W. Hughes, L. M. [Gladbrach?], James Dove, Shelton C. Davis, William F. Watson, John Lynch, and G. W. C. Sutten recommend McDowell as members of the "Spartan Rank." Lower right quadrant is missing.

GLC03481.08

13 August 1852

Briggs, George Nixon, 1796-1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Br. Taft

Written as Governor. Writes "I recd a letter from Judge Bishop yesterday saying that Dr. Leavitt wished me to send my bill against him to you. I charged him $50..." Writes (and signs) again 17 December 1852 noting that Taft received his payment for Leavitt's bill. Docket states "Briggs v. Leavitt."

GLC03481.09

14 September 1857

Kane, George Proctor, 1820-1857

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Isaac Toucey

Kane, H. P. Brooks, and James [Lawrence?] recommend Dr. Edward Sparks of Annapolis to Toucey's consideration for the post of naval storekeeper. Brooks relates that Sparks has recently been removed from two positions on account of his political sentiments.

GLC03481.11

28 September 1861

Anthony, Henry Bowen, 1815-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to L. J. Cist

Possibly referring to John Brown Francis, Anthony states "I have yours of the 20th. Gov. Francis lives at his country place, Spring Green, Warwick. His post office address is Providence."

GLC03481.13

circa 21 January 1866

Randall, Samuel Jackson, 1828-1890

Document signed

Title: [List of orders for a printed Congressional speech]

Lists the names and corresponding number of copies ordered for a print of a speech delivered by John Littleton Dawson 21 January 1866 in the House of Representatives. List includes 18 signatures of Representatives: Samuel Jackson Randall (Pennsylvania), Benjamin Markley Boyer (Pennsylvania), Charles Denison (Pennsylvania), James Morgan Humphrey (New York), Lawrence Strother Trimble (Kentucky), Philip Johnson (Pennsylvania), William Ellis Niblack (Indiana), Samuel Scott Marshall (Illinois), John Hogan (Missouri), Anthony Thornton (Illinois), Henry Grider (Kentucky), Myer Strouse (Pennsylvania…

GLC03481.15.01

circa 19 March 1867

Koontz, William Henry, 1830-1911

Document

Title: [List of orders for a printed Congressional speech]

Lists the names and corresponding number of copies ordered for a print of a speech delivered 19 March 1867 in the House of Representatives by William Henry Koontz, United States Representative from Pennsylvania 1865-1868. List includes eight signatures of Representatives: Koontz, Daniel Johnson Morrell (Pennsylvania), Ignatius Donnelly (Minnesota), James Lawrence Getz (Pennsylvania), William Darrah Kelley (Pennsylvania), and one illegible signature. Price per hundred copies cited as $1. Speech was delivered on "The relief of the destitue poor of the South." Includes the name "F. W.…

GLC03481.15.02

circa 16 March 1872

Clagett, William Horace, 1838-1901

Document

Title: [List of orders for a printed Congressional speech]

Lists the names and corresponding number of copies ordered for a print of a speech delivered 16 March 1872 by William Horace Claggett, United States Representative from Montana 1871-1872. List includes six signatures: Claggett, William Theopilus Jones (Wyoming), Jerome Bunty Chaffee (Colorado), among others. Speech was delivered on "The nature of the Supreme Court & District Courts in the Territories."

GLC03481.15.03

circa 30 May 1872

Stevenson, Job Evans, 1832-1922

Document

Title: [List of orders for a printed Congressional speech]

Partially printed. Lists the names and corresponding number of copies ordered for a print of a speech delivered 16 March 1872 in the House of Representatives. List includes three Representatives' signatures: Job Evans Stevenson (Ohio), Aaron Fyfe Perry (Ohio), and Charles Foster (Ohio). Speech was delivered on the topic of the Ku Klux Klan. The name of the person who delivered the speech is torn from document. Printed text relates that copies of the speech are to be printed at the Congressional Globe Office.

GLC03481.15.04

7 July 1866

Black, Jeremiah Sullivan, 1810-1883

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ward Hill Lamon

Black writes "I don't see how I can get down just now or how I could do any thing if I were down... But in the mean time I own to the weakness of wanting to see you very much..."

GLC03481.16

27 January 1875

Manning, Daniel, 1831-1887

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Possibly created by Manning, editor of the Albany Argus 1858-1871 and United State Secretary of the Treasury 1885-1887. Discusses the recipient's upcoming visit to Albany. Writes "Congress Hall, although an hotel, is comparatively quiet, and I recommend it to you, because you will be certain to meet there the Judges of the Court of Appeals, many leading members of our Legislature, and other prominent public men." Recipient's name is illegible.

GLC03481.17

12 January 1887

Sherman, John, 1823-1900

Document signed

Title: [Check to Jacob Grabill]

For the amount of $8. Issued at the Citizens National Bank.

GLC03481.20

7 January 1893

Cooley, Stoughton, 1861-1934

Typed letter signed

Title: to Richard Henry Dana

Cooley writes from the American Proportional Representation League to Dana, lawyer and son of Richard Henry Dana, Jr. States "In view of the national conference for good city government to be held in Philadelphia the 25th instant, permit me to call your attention to a practical means whereby the end sought can the more easily be attained. However intelligent and virtuous the citizenship may be come, whatever its aims may be, the better the tools with which is has to work the better will be the results. Proportional representation is the best political tool yet devised for accomplishing…

GLC03481.23

16 October 1897

Fessenden, Francis, 1839-1906

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Dangerfield

Transmits a note written by his father, Senator William Pitt Fessenden. Relates that it is the only letter he has with William's full signature, as William signed many personal letters with initials.

GLC03481.24

8 May 1906

Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1864-1945

Typed letter signed

Title: to Oliver K. Hand, esq.

Informs Hand "you have doubtless noticed that the Senate before adjournment also passed the Hook Mountain bill, and that all it needs now is the Governor's approval, which I have no doubt it will receive." Recipient inferred from GLC03481.27.

GLC03481.25

16 May 1915

Bartholdt, Richard, 1855-1932

Typed letter signed

Title: to Fred Goetz

Accepts Goetz's invitation to address Goetz's (unspecified) National Society 9 June 1915 in Chicago, Illinois. Bartholdt, who was asked to present on the topic of personal liberty, charges Goetz $100. Possibly written to Fred Goetz, a notorious organized crime participant in the early twentieth century. Typed on House of Representative's stationery.

GLC03481.26

circa 1830-1869

Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869

Signature

Title: [Signature of President Pierce]

Preceded by "Yr. friend & Servt."

GLC03481.31

1815-1860

Youngdalh, Luther Wallace, 1896-1978

Signature

Title: [Signatures of various United States political figures]

Collection primarily contains signatures from nineteenth and twentieth century Senators and Representatives. Other signatures are included, such as Youngdahl (Governor of Minnesota 1947-1951); William Moultrie (Revolutionary War patriot); William F. Packer (Pennsylvania Governor 1858-1861); Frank L. Polk (Acting Secretary of State 1920); Sir Oliver Mowat (Canadian statesman); Jeremiah Sullivan Black (Attorney General 1857-60 and Secretary of State 1860-1861) among others. United States Congressmen include William E. Mason (Illinois, late nineteenth/early twentieth century); Henry Dodge (…

GLC03481.33

8 October 1864

Woolston, Charles, fl. 1864-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin A. Woolston

Writes to his father in Tullytown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania that he is well and reports that he enlisted in the third Pennsylvania Cavalry yesterday but was rejected as of yet. States that he left his clothes in the receiving office to be picked up within the week. Writes that when he gets paid, he will send it home by express. Informs that he brought a gold lever watch but remarks that there are a lot of pickpockets. Written from Camp Cadwalader, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

GLC03523.26.01

16 November 1864

Woolston, Charles, fl. 1864-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin A. Woolston

Writes to his father in Tullytown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, that his regiment is at City Point, Virginia where he will be going soon to meet them. Says they have plenty to eat and can do what they want so he is in no hurry to go. Reports visiting the cemetery at Fairfax where General George B. McClellan fought in 1861. States that Confederate General Garnett was killed here. Says the men were all buried respectably in marked graves. Lists some purchases he has made, a gold pen, rubber suspenders, a pocket glass, etc. Written from Camp Distribution near Alexandria, Virginia.

GLC03523.26.02

20 November 1864

Woolston, Charles, fl. 1864-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin A. Woolston

Addressed from "Camp Near Gen. Mead/ Headquarters in Front of Platersburg." Writes to his father in Tullytown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Reports that it took 30 hours to get to City Point from Alexandria. States he is happy, "we set up on the top & feel as happy as a lord and am as well content as if were at home it is raining now but it dont faise us" Says he is not yet armed but their arms will be a saber carbine and a revolver. Comments, "...this squad will soon be mounted soon the cannon keep a constant cannonade the rebels and our pickets and ours goes pop pop all night at one…

GLC03523.26.03

8 December 1864

Woolston, Charles, fl. 1864-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin A. Woolston

Written from Headquarters, Army of the Potomac. Writes to his father in Tullytown, Bucks County, Pennslyvania. States that his regiment left camp on marching orders and came across the 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry and the 6th Ohio Cavalry. Describes an engagement with the Confederates, "...when the 13 advanced about 200 yards to the creek where they were met by the Rebs with a yell but they were not so easily scared and a general engagement took place our Cavilry being on one side and the Rebel Infantry on the other after about 1/2 an hours fight our men finding that they could not cross the…

GLC03523.26.04