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[Endorsed check from Gideon Welles]

Check for $16.25 signed by Gideon Welles to "B" and endorsed on verso by Brady.

GLC02926

[Portrait of Supreme Court Justices]

Formal group portrait of the Supreme Court Justices in robes. Signed by the nine justices: Owen J. Roberts, J.C. McReynolds, Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan Fisk Stone, Hugo L. Black, William O. Douglas, Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter, and Frank...

GLC02929.01

Galveston entrance, Texas, from a trigonometrical survey under the direction of A.D. Bache superintendant of the survery of the coast of the United States

Map of the Galveston entrance in Texas from 1853. Sailing directions written on righthand side of document, including information about tides. Harbor shown is the Gulf of Mexico. Includes compass. Scale noted on bottom. Triangulation by R.H...

GLC02941

to Samuel Hooper

Written from camp near Damstown. Banks, commanding a division, Army of the Potomac, replies to a note from Hooper, a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Relates that he has been busy organizing his staff, and will soon make...

GLC02944.01

to Peter Wager

Buchanan writes as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Discusses a possible mistake regarding the price of wine he ordered from Wager. Writes, "We have nothing new here except what you see in the papers. I think a deeper & stronger feeling...

GLC02949

to Mark Healy

Wishes to know why his desire to purchase land in Arkansas and Mississippi should be related to Mr. Moore's actions, and hopes to have the situation resolved soon. On verso, what appears to be Healy's draft of a response, written in pencil. Free...

GLC02976

The Battle of Gettysburg

Headline reads "From the Original Picture painted for the State of Pennsylvania under award of Commission appointed by the Legislature." Caption reads "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1872 by P. F. Rothermel in the office of the...

GLC02980.01

[Report of a meeting held at the town house].

George Badcock and Henry Tucker have asked the township's permission to build a grist mill. After examining the records of the township and on consultation with Benjamin Hammond's survey, it is determined that title to the land is clear. Attested as...

GLC02924.045

[Land Deed]

GLC02924.048

[Meeting notes]

Three different notes on meetings, the first date is illegible.

GLC02924.049

Inheritence

GLC02924.058

Sale of Land

GLC02924.061

Reciept

Assets gained in grandfathers will

GLC02924.063

Land sale

GLC02924.068

Land Grant

GLC02924.071

Extracts from deeds

GLC02924.072

to Alfred Edmund Burr

Dix, postmaster of the City of New York, declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to speak at a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. Dix served as a U.S. senator from New York...

GLC02925.10

to Alfred Edmund Burr

Van Buren, a Democratic party leader from New York, declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to speak at a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. States "the Democrats of New York &...

GLC02925.21

to Mr. Kennard

Saint-Gaudens discusses the inscription on a monument honoring Robert Gould Shaw with Kennard (possibly Martin P. Kennard, a Boston abolitionist and political reformer). Encloses a letter (not included) from Edward Atkinson, treasurer of the Shaw...

GLC02928.03

[Draft of inscription intended for the Robert Gould Shaw monument]

Includes hand written corrections. Describes the Shaw monument as a tribute to the famous 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry, organized in Boston and reviewed by Massachusetts Governor John Albion Andrew 18 May 1863. Includes extracts from Andrew...

GLC02928.05

New Arkansas & Texas Land Co. grant to Sylvester Davis (cos. Jackson & Curtis)

Numbered 3895. Cosigned by Daniel Jackson and Edward Curtis. Streeter, Texas Rev. 1138.1.

GLC02933

Republic of Texas Treasury warrant for $1000 signed by Compt. S. B. Shaw

Texas Treasury warrant endorsed on verso by Jones as Secretary of State for the Republic of Texas. Signed by Samuel B. Shaw as comptroller and Charles Mason as auditor.

GLC02940

to John Brown Dillon

Harrison offers his opinion to Dillon, who is publishing a pamphlet on the subject of slavery: "our Union is a Union of Sovereign Independent States &... in every particular where power is not expressly surrendered by that instrument to the General...

GLC02946

to Thomas Bocock

Text written for Davis by his private secretary, Burton Harrison. Indicates he is sending a communication from the Secretary of the Navy (not included) related to the budget for prosecuting the Civil War. "I herewith transmit to the House of...

GLC02950

Speech of the Hon. Abram Lincoln, in reply to Judge Douglas.

Speech on the subjects of Kansas, the Dred Scott decision, and Utah. Delivered in Representatives' Hall, Springfield, Illinois, June 26th, 1857.

GLC02954