1850/04

Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard Taylor re: slavery debate preceding compromise of 1850

"Congress as yet has done but little, but discuss the unfortunate slavery question which is not yet adjusted and it is quite uncertain when it will be...."

GLC07643

1820/06/21

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: correcting journals of Constitutional Convention

GLC07648

1865/04/16

Keifer, Joseph Warren, 1836-1932

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Maj. O.V. Saucey re: account of a battle at Petersburg, Va.

Written by Brig. General of 2nd Brigade, 3rd division, 6th Corps.

GLC07625

1865/03/24

Smith, Thomas Kilby, fl. 1863-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to C.L. Pascal re: responding to autograph request

"I...shall deem my sacrifices light if my name be considered worthy of record with those of the heroes who now bear our flag in triumph, or the illustrious dead who have fallen beneath its folds." Written at Fort Gaines

GLC07626

1771/05/20-25

Document

Title: The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held In London [Quaker conduct]

Letter to the quarterly and monthly meetings in Great Britain, Ireland, and elsewhere guiding Quaker conduct. The letter warns against overuse of credit, "[f]or by these Practices, many inncocent Wives and Children have been inevitably and unexpectedly involved in ruinous and deplorable Circumstances." Written in the fifth Quaker month.

GLC07628

1777/05/19-24

Document

Title: The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held In London [Revolution]

Contains a letter to friends at the quarterly and monthly meetings in Great Britain and Ireland, and another letter to friends at their yearly meeting in Philadelphia. Both letters guide the conduct of Quakers, and encourage peaceful conduct in the face of the American Revolution: "...the general body of friends in America, under all the trials and difficulties they are exposed to in these times of confusion and peril, have been preserved in a conduct consistent with our peaceable principles." Written in the fifth Quaker month.

GLC07629

1776/05/27-06/01

Document

Title: The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held In London [American Revolution]

Contains a letter to friends at the quarterly and monthly meetings in Great Britain and Ireland, and another letter to friends at their yearly meeting in Philadelphia. Both letters guide the conduct of Quakers, especially in the difficult time of the American Revolution. Written in the fifth and sixth Quaker months.

GLC07630

1780/05/15-20

Document

Title: The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held In London [Quaker conduct]

Quaker meeting regarding the conduct of church members. Written during the fifth Quaker month.

GLC07631

1781/06/04-09

Document

Title: The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held In London [Quaker conduct]

Contains a letter to friends at the quarterly and monthly meetings in Great Britain and Ireland, and another letter to friends at their yearly meeting in Philadelphia. Both letters guide Quaker conduct. Written in the sixth Quaker month.

GLC07632

1782/05/20-25

Document

Title: The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held In London [emancipation]

Contains a letter to friends at the quarterly and monthly meetings in Great Britain and Ireland, and another letter to friends at their yearly meeting in Philadelphia. Both letters guide the conduct of Quakers, and encourage "the continuance of your endeavors for the relief of the poor opressed Africans..." Written in the fifth Quaker month.

GLC07633

1789/06/01-09

Document

Title: The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held in London [British abolition efforts]

Quaker meeting regarding the conduct of church members. Mentions the global spread of British abolition efforts: "It is with particular satisfaction we observe the spreading of those principles of justice, which have long bound us to the cause of the injured Africans..." Written in the sixth Quaker month.

GLC07634

1779/05/24-29

Document

Title: The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held in London [American Revolution]

Contains a letter to friends at the quarterly and monthly meetings in Great Britain and Ireland: "The sufferings of our brethren in America... have principally arisen from that confusion and distress which are inseparable from war..."; and another letter to friends at their yearly meeting in Philadelphia: "We are sensible, that many are the difficulties and sufferings, which the present unhappy contests and commotions in your land must produce..." Written in the fifth Quaker month.

GLC07635

1864 ca.

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Print

Title: Life of Jeff. Davis in Five Expressive Tableaux [engraving]

Engraved series of metamorphoses from "Before He Becomes a Traitor" to "Finis''.

GLC07637

1859/11/17

Brown, John, 1800-1859

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas B. Musgrave re: imprisonment

"I do not feel myself the least degraded by my imprisonment, my chain, or the near prospect of the gallows. Men cannot imprison, or chain, or hang the soul." With engraving, photograph, and collateral paperwork. Per Lee Shepard, Asst. Director for Manuscript and Archives at the Virginia Historical Society, the recipient of John Brown's letter is Thomas B. Musgrave rather than "F.B." Musgrave. Shepard writes (May 2001) that Musgrave "is identified as the son of a New England merchant and industrialist with whom Brown had dealings earlier in his life."

GLC07638.01

1859/11/24

Taliaferro, William Booth, 1822-1898

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "My Darling Wife" re: doubting reported plan to rescue Brown

Written while guarding John Brown in prison.

GLC07638.02

1835/02/06

Travis, William B., fl. 1835

Autograph letter signed

Title: to David G. Burnet re: politics in Texas

"Austin has been admitted to Bail. Letters from him & Almonte say he will leave Mexico, intirely liberated, in a short time. The new election for governor, Lt. governor, and members of Congress, will take place here next Monday." Also mentions selling a slave: "I have sold my woman Matilda (the best one) for $700 in Brazoria."

GLC07639

1842 ca.

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

Painting

Title: Landscape watercolor painted by Grant as cadet at West Point

Signed in right hand corner "U.H. Grant". Includes 4 items collateral paperwork.

GLC07641

1818/08/18

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Letter signed

Title: to Henry Sherburne re: Treaty with the Chickasaw Nation

"Funds have been transmitted you to carry into effect the treaty with the Chickasaw Nation of the 30th of December 1815, and also for the payment of the annuity due them under that treaty for 1817...." Sherburne, a Rhode Island native, was appointed Chicasaw agent in December 1817.

GLC07644

1770/05/02

Botetourt, Norborne B., fl. 1770

Document signed

Title: re: authorizing justices in Charlotte Co. to execute slaves for capital offenses

Authorizes justices in Charlotte County to execute slaves who commit capital offenses. With collateral newspaper article.

GLC07645

1861/09/17

Taylor, Walter Herron, 1838-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sally Tompkins re: battle at Richmond Mountain

"[T]he expedition not wholly baren of good results. We captured all their pickets...the plan was well arranged (and that is all my Genl [Lee] had to do with it) but...the assault was not made."

GLC07646

1871/09/24

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Print

Title: Engraving inscribed by Sherman

"If...you would take the trouble to examine the volume throughout, and to minute all the passages where your recollection or your notes would detect an error, it would confer a new and valuable obligation upon me...."

GLC07647

1770/03/23

Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775

Letter signed

Title: to George Grenville re: aftermath of Boston Massacre, troop presence in Boston

"It was so apparently incompatible with the Safety of the town for the troops to continue any longer in it, that His Majesty's Council were unanimous in their Advice to the Lieutenant Governor, that they should be removed to the Barracks at Castle Island." Also signed by James Bowdoin and Samuel Pemberton.

GLC07649

[1880 ca.]

Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: Does a College Education Pay re: supporting college education

"The methods employed in any enterprise and occupation, have so changed within the last fifty years, that a necessity has risen for an advanced grade of intelligence and education."

GLC07650

1771/05/15

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Adams, et al. re: British policy & the potential loss of the colonies

"History shows that by these Steps great Empires have crumbled heretofore; and the late Transactions we have so much Cause to complain of, show that we are in the same Train, and that without a greater Share of Prudence and Wisdom than we seem on both Sides to be possessed of, we shall probably come to the Same Conclusion" Includes only last page of original letter, along with a collateral transcript of the remainder.

GLC07651

1841/01/26

Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Solomon G. Haven re: blasting Loco Focos, inauguration of W.H. Harrison

GLC07499