4 March 1933

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Pamphlet signed

Title: Inaugural address of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Title continues, "President of the United States / delivered at the Capitol, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1933." Signed at the end by Roosevelt. First inaugural address. Printed by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington D.C. in large type for easier reading by Roosevelt. Limited edition of special copies. First printing.

GLC00675

11 February 1878

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Document signed

Title: [Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of Smith T. Conlee].

GLC00681

June 16, 1781

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to George Clinton

Asks the New York Governor "whether any ways & means can be devised to procure Money for the payment of the Troops of the New York Line." Describes it as an urgent "matter of...interesting importance." Written during the American Revolution.

GLC00683

11 January 1843

Tyler, John, 1790-1862

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of John Kell to midshipman in the Navy of the United States]

Partially printed commission effective from 9 September 1841. Co-signed by L.B. Hardin and Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy. Seal missing.

GLC00684.01

24 July 1856

Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of John Kell to Lieutenant of the United States Navy]

Commission effective from 15 September 1855. Co-signed by James Cochrane Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy, and L.B. Hardin. Features two detailed patriotic scenes and a paper seal.

GLC00684.03

13 January 1875

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Document signed

Title: [Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of James Smith and Timothy Hixon].

GLC00685

August 3, 1865

Van Valkenburgh, Robert B., 1821-1888

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary B. Van Valkenburgh

Signed "Robt" by Congressman Robert Van Valkenburgh. Writes to his mother to tell her he has just returned to Washington after a trip to Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, and then to Elmira, Albany, and New York. Says his health is better than it has been in two years. When he was in Bath, New York, he sold his house and lot to Julia and Mary [Ramsey] and the rest of his real estate to other parties. Hopes to know what he will do in a couple of weeks. Also included is a note to his mother from brother Frank, which is all about family or friends. A note in what appears to be a third hand is…

GLC00686.23

05 September 1864

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: Endorsement (by Lee and Beauregard) of telegram from Gov. Zebulon B. Vance

Telegram from Raleigh, N.C. written in a clerical hand on stationery of the Southern Telegraph Company. Endorsed on verso by Beauregard and Lee. Vance was North Carolina governor.

GLC00670

June 7, 1894

Longstreet, James, 1821-1904

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William J. Fowler

General Longstreet discusses the reconstruction policies of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson with Fowler, a judge in Boston, Massachusetts. States "The independent action of President Johnson, was the error that lead the grave troubles that came to the south, and to the north afterwards. Had Congress been called in extra session after the surrender, affairs would have been arranged in a way that would have been, as promptly accepted as was the independence policy" of President Lincoln.

GLC00671

02 November 1839

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Header Record

Title: [Declaration in the case of John Kerr and Augustus Kerr v. Thomas Constant and Josiah Francis].

John and Augustus Kerr sued Constant and Francis for $522.55 they were owed. Lincoln, working as a lawyer with John T. Stuart, won judgment for $440.14 on November 26, 1839.

GLC00672

1864

Header Record

Title: Two pamphlets [decimalized]

GLC00676

1864

Mason, & Co., fl. 1864

Pamphlet

Title: Lincoln campaign songster.

Title page states songster is for the use of clubs and contains all the most popular songs. Miniature book with woodcut of Lincoln on paper cover and printer's advertisements on back cover. Intended for the 1864 presidential election. Uncut between pages 10 and 11.

GLC00676.01

1860

Burleigh, William Henry, 1812-1871

Pamphlet

Title: Republican campaign songster, for 1860.

Edited by Burleigh and published by H. Dayton. Original blue printed front wrapper (only), stab-stitched as issued. Intended for the 1860 Presidential election. Burleigh was a prominent New York journalist and social reformer.

GLC00676.02

30 April 1863

Curran, William, fl. 1863

Newspaper

Title: The Opelousas Courier. [Vol. 11, no. 3 (April 30, 1863)]

On front, humorous soldiers' letters and descriptions. printed: "William Curran, Co. "D," Forty First Regt Mass Vols". On back, blue, brown, gray striped wallpaper pattern, number 289.

GLC00677

4 April 1864

Hughes, Thomas, fl. 1864

Newspaper

Title: Natchitoches union daily. [April 4, 1864]

Advertises Lincoln-Johnson election ticket, proclaims fervent unionist sentiment, local and international news. Light brown (wood grain) wallpaper (on back).

GLC00678

22 June 1776

Jay, John, 1745-1829

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Warrant for the arrest of the traitor John Campbell]

Cosigned by Gouverneur Morris and Philip Livingston. Authorizing the arrest of the Campbell for "treasonable conspiracies" and the seizure of his papers.

GLC00679

1855-1865

Header Record

Title: Two abolitionist letters and one newspaper [Decimalized .01-.03]

GLC00680

June 23, 1855

Stearns, George L. (George Luther), 1809-1967

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Johnson

Stearns, an abolitionist, asks if Reverend Johnson would like him to join Johnson on a trip to Niagara.

GLC00680.01

November 28, 1863

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Knight

Informs Knight that he has "no autograph of the revered Wilberforce to send" but will instead send "one of George Thompson, whose long continued and wonderfully efficient labors in the cause of freedom and humanity you so fittingly eulogise."

GLC00680.02

23 June 1865

Newspaper

Title: Liberator. [Vol. 35, no. 25 (June 23, 1865)]

GLC00680.03

October 1751

Ross, George, 1730-1779

Document signed

Title: [Case of Dalton verses McClure]

Details a case in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, between Andrew Dalton and Robert McClure about a promissory note for payment. Dated "October term."

GLC00682

1843-1900 (bulk: 1861-65)

Kell, John McIntosh, 1823-1900

Header Record

Title: Collection of John McIntosh Kell [Decimalized .01-.21]

Kell was a member of the United States Navy from 1843 until 19 January, 1861, the day of Georgia's secession from the United States. He served in the Confederate Navy for the duration of the Civil War, commanded the C.S.S. Savannah, and was made a captain for his work as First Lieutenant under Captain Raphael Semmes on the C.S.S. Alabama. In 1886, he became the Adjutant General of Georgia. In 1900, the year of his death, he published a book, "Recollections of a Naval Life; Including the Cruises of the Confederate Steamers Sumter and Alabama."

GLC00684

May 6, 1849-June 16, 1849

Kell, John McIntosh, 1823-1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Kell

Writes to his sister while suspended from duty and awaiting Court Martial aboard the Albany. Describes surrounding islands of Santo Domingo and Navaro with stories of landscape and native islanders. Arrives at Aux Cayes, Haiti, on 11 June 1849 and learns that "the Frigate Raritan had sailed from there ten days since for Port au Prince." On 16 June 1849, writes of the Albany's move to St. Iago de Cuba, where he is allowed to go ashore after four months confinement. Feels "quite a new being" and reports to family that he will reach Pensacola by "the middle or perhaps the last of July," when…

GLC00684.02

October 6, 1859

Kell, John McIntosh, 1823-1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Julia Blanche Kell

Writes to his wife while commandant at Warrington Navy Yard. Discusses a month long leave of absence to visit his family. Mentions that he is a member of a court investigating the grounding of the Fulton and that his cousin, Captain James McKay McIntosh, is unwell. Written at the Warrington Navy Yard, Florida.

GLC00684.04

January 17, 1861

Kell, John McIntosh, 1823-1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Julia Blanche Kell

Writes to his wife with postscript that "the Secession Ordinance will probably pass tomorrow."

GLC00684.05