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Panel addressed to R.Y.C. White, Lebanon, Tennessee

Free frank reads "Andrew Johnson, M.C." Front panel only. Letter is incomplete.

GLC00496.183

to A.F. Cunningham

Declines an invitation to visit with The Temperance Societies of Washington due to a prior engagement. Compliments the Societies' work by stating that "the recollection of the Friends of the Temperance in Washington, being amongst the earliest to...

GLC00496.197

to Mr. Dawson

Declines complimentary box tickets. Written at Willard's Hotel, possibly in Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Washington, D.C.

GLC00496.202

to Frances Bland Coalter

Written by Randolph as a Virginia Congressman to his sister. Writes after learning she has been ill and hopes to visit the warm springs at which she is recuperating. Says he would have been home sooner but an unexpected demand for money left him...

GLC00496.212

to unknown

Letter of introduction for Prince Ruspoli, a Roman nobleman and Admiral of the fleets at Malta.

GLC00496.215

to Mr. Murphy

Augustine Henry Shepperd speculates about the dubious appointments in Jackson's cabinet. First name missing on address sheet.

GLC00496.221

to unknown

Discusses poetry and includes three sonnets.

GLC00496.144

to Mrs. Pringle

Encloses a notice of Thomas Pringle's work that has been published posthumously in a newspaper. Clarke was a printer.

GLC00496.145

to Thomas Pringle

Discusses procedures for a public meeting on protecting the enslaved people in the crown colonies, namely Jamaica. Advises shrewd planning and maintaining a schedule.

GLC00496.146

to Thomas Pringle

Discusses anti-slavery legislation and Pringle's Anti-Slavery Society.

GLC00496.147

to Thomas Pringle

Discusses abolition debates in Parliament. Preaches about moral freedoms in regard to reason and conscience.

GLC00496.148

to Lady Hesketh

Declines recipient's offer to send salmon to Olney where the price is prohibitively expensive. Discusses local matters.

GLC00496.149

to unknown

Discusses recipient's new colonial appointment and offers advice.

GLC00496.150

to Thomas Pringle

Sending Pringle his book on the life of Robert Burns. Cunningham advises him to ignore what the critics have said. Date inferred from publication of the single volume "The works of Robert Burns," published 1840. Recipient inferred from partially...

GLC00496.151

to Thomas Pringle

Denounces a certain critic as having no genius and no right to judge his work. Sympathizes with Pringle's problems with booksellers.

GLC00496.152

to B. B. French

Promises to send a copy of his remarks from a past engagement. French was Clerk of the House of Representatives.

GLC00496.153

to unknown

Plans to visit recipient on next trip to London. Written in Rose Hill Neighborhood.

GLC00496.154

to unknown

Asks to borrow a copy of the volume containing his essay on the Lyrics of Tasso.

GLC00496.156

to Thomas Pringle

Discusses an etching entitled "Mr. Fox and his Friends" by William Lane housed at Holland House. Fox thinks it would be fitting for an upcoming work and says his father has no objection to having it engraved. Whigs depicted in the etching include...

GLC00496.157

to Thomas Pringle

Wants Pringle to see a drawing of the massacre at Glen Coe and is eager to hear his opinions on the depiction's accuracy.

GLC00496.158

to unknown

This manuscript is a copy (possibly a draft) of part of an 01 March 1777 memorandum from American commissioners Benjamin Franklin and to Silas Deane to French foreign minister Vergennes, as they negotiated a contract with the Farmers General of...

GLC00496.159

to Rose

Having left papers regarding Supreme Court case number 9 and a pamphlet on the rules of the court at home, he requests they be sent to him. Written on Union Depot Hotel of Pittsburgh stationery with "Pittsburgh" struck by Garfield.

GLC00496.160

to Thomas Pringle

Formal letter suggesting days and times for an interview.

GLC00496.161

to Dear Madam

Anna M. Hall thanks an unnamed woman author for sending her book on female education. Hall feels there is currently no system of education in England, and the ideas the author espouses are much needed by the women of England. She thinks the author is...

GLC00496.162

to Harrison Gray Otis

Copy of Alexander Hamilton's opinion on the case of John Innes Clark v. Nathaniel Russell at the request of Otis. Transcribed by Clark.

GLC00496.163