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to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia is sad that it is Valentine's Day and Moe is not with her; but has received his flowers and poem. She was going to go over to the Selective Service Board after work, but it was raining too hard. Her Dad is very ill, but getting away to Florida...

GLC09414.0162

to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia says that while she is convinced that Moe has confidence in her judgment in regard to the use of the car; she has always felt that the car and its use must be subject to his okay. Says she still might be able to get a "B" gasoline ration...

GLC09414.0163

to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia Reports on family. She went to the Selective Service Board. Talked about the draftees they have seen and the hard job that the Board has had and the toll it's taken on their health. Had a series of "screwballs" in Intake at work. One 82 year...

GLC09414.0164

to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia is happy that Moe shared his furlough in London with her in his letters, and is happy because the next day is a holiday-glad George Washington was born for many reasons.
Is listening to Music to Read By [WQXR] and hears "The Merry Widow Waltz...

GLC09414.0170

The Inaugural Address of John Fitzgerald Kennedy

GLC09528

Americans All

US government printing office O-476311. Features men working on a tank surrounded by surnames of European origins. also features a quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt "... it is the duty of employers and labor organizers to provide for the full...

GLC09530

Two shilling and sixpence note

[Currency]. [Philadelphia], Pennsylvania: 03 April 1772. Two shilling and sixpence note. Printed by Hall and Sellers. Signed by Cadwalader Morris, Joseph Swift and Samuel Hudson. No. 4665.

GLC01450.226.01

Fifteen shilling note

[Currency]. Burlington, New Jersey: 25 March 1776. Fifteen shilling note. Printed by Isaac Collins. Signed by Robert Smith, Jonathan Deare and John [Smith?]. No. 17365.

Historical Background: An emission of £100,000 in legal tender bills of credit...

GLC01450.226.02

Five shilling note

[Currency]. [Philadelphia], Pennsylvania: 01 October 1773. Five shilling note. Printed by Hall and Sellers. Signed by William Wister, Samuel Miles and Owen Jones, Jr. No. 24025.

Historical Background: An emission of £150,000 in bills of credit to...

GLC01450.226.03

To Henry Swift,

Shaw, Francis. Document signed: to Henry Swift. [Boston]: November 1779.

Bill or receipt for state and town/county poll and real estate taxes. Signed by Francis Shaw, on recto and verso, as tax collector.

GLC01450.226.04

[Receipt for wages for three year's service in the Continental Army]

Howard, John (fl. 1775-1778) [Receipt for wages for three year's service in the Continental Army] Ipswich, Massachusetts: 16 March 1778. Receipt for one hundred pounds for service in Captain Joseph Hodgkin's Company in Colonel Timothy Bigelow's...

GLC01450.226.05

[Receipt for wages of John Hodgkins, soldier in the Continental Army]

Hodgkins, Serrah (fl. 1779). [Receipt for wages of John Hodgkins, soldier in the Continental Army]. Ipswich, Massachusetts: 22 May 1779. Receipt for ninety pounds due for service from 1 September 1777-1 March 1779. Paid by the Selectmen of Ipswich...

GLC01450.226.06

To Thomas Ward

Letter written from Houston, re: business, Texas finaces & poverty. There is a small hole on the third, and last page.

GLC02145.23.01

To Thomas Ward

Letter written from Houston, re: land cases, politics

GLC02145.23.02

To Thomas Ward

Letter written from Houston, re: land business

GLC02145.23.03

To Thomas Ward

Letter written from Houston, re: impending war with Mexico and the U.S.

GLC02145.23.04

Translation of the laws, orders, and contracts,on Colonization

Stephen F. Austin. Translation of the Laws, orders, and contracts on colonization... in Texas.... San Felipe de Austin, Texas: Printed by Godwin B. Cotten, November 1829. 71 p. (Translated with S. M. Williams, p.26.) [With 3 newsclippings pasted...

GLC02753.01

Address to the Reader of the Documents

Address to the reader of the documents relating to the Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company.... New-York: Printed by G. F. Hopkins & Son, January 1, 1831. 38, 69 p. (Annotated.)

GLC02753.02

Documents Relating to the Grants of Land

Documents relating to grants of lands made to Don Estevan Julian Willson [sic], and Don Richard Exter [sic], in Texas. New-York: Ludwig & Tolefree, 1831. 31 p. (With page of manuscript notes on verso p. 31 re: a land speculator and translation of a...

GLC02753.03

[Recipt for money and horses recieved]

A receipt to Stephen Austin regarding money and horses advanced by Austin. Title from docket

GLC03521.01

Treasury Warrant

Treasury warrant noting money paid to Burleson for his salary as Vice President of Texas.

GLC03521.02

[Recipt for education]

Receipt for tuition for three of the Burleson children.

GLC03521.03

To Richard

Excerpts:
18 July 1848: "I am still quite well notwithstanding I have for two or three weeks undergone much fatigue and have been broken of my regular sleeping hours. The health of the country does not seem to improve in the least. Cholera is still...

GLC04192.01

To Mary

Excerpt:
16 June 1851: "Soon after my arrival I visited the Crystal Palace. This is a miniature world, where you may see people of every nation; and their advancement in the arts may be learned from the specimens of workmanship which they are here...

GLC04192.02

To Richard

GLC04192.03