14 March 1777

Hart, John, 1708-1780

Autograph document signed

Title: [Act of Assembly constituting a Council of Safety]

Written by Hart, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, as speaker of the New Jersey Assembly. Also signed by Stevens as Vice President of the New Jersey Assembly. Establishes a committee of safety to govern New Jersey during the Revolutionary War. Lists members of the newly created Council of Safety, including among others, John Cleves Symmes, Silas Condict, Dick Samuel, and Nathaniel Scudder, who were all members of the Continental Congress. Has 10 sections that describe how the council will work. Allows the body to operate under a quorum of five and appoints the governor as…

GLC00753

28 February 1793

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Printed document signed

Title: An Act making Appropriations for the Support of Government for the Year one thousand seven hundred and ninety three.

Sets the federal budget for the year at $1,589,044.72. Lists the salaries to be paid to members and employees of government, the amount of their expenses, such as stationary, to be covered, and other costs of the federal government, such as the Indian Bureau. Gives the President the power to borrow money from the Bank to pay off these expenses. Signed by Jefferson as Secretary of State.

GLC00755

November 11, 1853

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lewis M. Hays

Encloses a draft for $100 (not present). States he did not receive Hays' letter dated October 12th until yesterday as he was out of town.

GLC00756

11 March 1861

Cobb, Howell, 1815-1868

Book signed

Title: Constitution of the Confederate States of America

First printing, signed by Howell Cobb, President of the Constitutional Congress at end. Parrish & Willingham 8 is a variant with space for signing by Cobb, for private distribution (cf. Parrish 1)

GLC00759

July 20, 1854

Tyler, John, 1790-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Capt. John Lestor

Written on blue lined paper. The letter discusses the annexation of Texas and California. Letter written to Captain John Lestor of Baltimore.

GLC00760

May 20, 1863

Seddon, James A. (James Alexander), 1815-1880

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sarah B. Seddon

Sends news home to his wife from wartime Richmond. He comments on working with Confederate President Jefferson Davis. He laments recent military engagements in Mississippi under generals John Pemberton and Joseph E. Johnston. Notes his anxiety about "our affairs in Miss" after the loss of Jackson, Mississippi to the Union Army. Comments that "Virginia is the sacred soil still."

GLC00761

1865 ca.

Photograph signed

Title: Cabinet photograph of Andrew Johnson, signed on mount

Background and clothing have been painted. Seated portrait.

GLC00763

May 22, 1836

Fiske, E.G., fl. 1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Miss S. H. Fiske

E. G. Fiske writes to his sister concerning Indian problems. Discusses Texas and the capture of Santa Anna.

GLC00765

February 12, 1761

Peters, Richard, 1704-1776

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Johnson

Richard Peters writes to the British commissioner about Northern Indian Affairs in upper New York. He discusses Indian tribes and Connecticut's attempt to get a new grant from the King. He concludes: "I most heartily congratulate You in the Surrender of Canada and on the most favourable Solution of all our Affairs." Richard Peters, Provincial Secretary, superintended Indian affairs and attended the Albany Congress, 1754.

GLC00766

1814

Hall, John E., fl. 1814

Book signed

Title: American Law Journal : vol. V. : being the second in a new series

Signed by John Marshall three times. Once on the main title page and once on the title page of each pamphlet. Includes printings of Thomas Jefferson's, "The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in Maintaining the Public to the Beach of the Mississippi, Adjacent to New Orleans," and Edward Livingston's reply, "An Answer to Mr. Jefferson's Justification of His Conduct in the Case of the New Orleans Batture." The rest of the volume is synopses of important state cases. Edited by Hall, a counselor at law in the Supreme Court. Printed by William Fry. Entire cover of the book…

GLC00767

1866-1892

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

Header Record

Title: [Collection of 2 documents pertaining to Herman Melville.] [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC00768

1866

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

Book signed

Title: Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.

First edition of Melville's only book of poetry. Inscribed on inital blank facing the titlepage: "Major Edward Y. Lansing from H. Melville. As a souvenir of his soldier hospitality at the cavalry camp in the Virginia woods, April 1864." Also inscriped by Lansing in pencil on page 187 above the peom "The Scout toward Aldis": "Major Edwin Y. Lansing's cavalry camp in the Virginia woods, April 1864." In April, 1864 Melville and his brother obtained a pass to visit the front to search for their cousin, Colonel Henry Gansevoort. Melville met Lansing in a scouting party he and his brother…

GLC00768.01

1765

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: Act for granting and applying certain Stamp Duties...in America...

The Stamp Act. Paginated 499-520 + unpaginated title page.

GLC00769

December 25, 1866

Cobb, Howell, 1815-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry L. Benning

Cobb, former President of the Confederate Provisional Congress, requests Supreme Court reports from Benning, Confederate General and former Georgia State Supreme Court Justice. Bitterly discusses legal property cases during reconstruction, claiming that Radicals in Congress are attempting to force the District Attorney "to account for their failure to prosecute such cases. I am inclined to the opinion that the Radicals have abandoned blood and turned their attention to plunder."

GLC00771

September 23, 1864

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Franklin Butler and George Gordon Meade

Grant, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army, writes to Generals Meade, Commander of the Army of the Potomac, and Butler, commander of Army of the James. Grant praises General Philip Henry Sheridan on his victory in the Battle of Fisher's Hill September 21-22, 1964. He writes "Order a salute of one hundred guns, shotted, at day light tomorrow morning in honor of Sheridan's second great victory." Letter written on Headquarters, Armies of the United States stationery.

GLC00772

October 5, 1780

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elizabeth Schuyler

Hamilton begins a dramatic love letter to his fiancée with, " I have told you, and I told you truly that I love you too much . . . I meet you in every dream. . . I am to be thus monopolized by a little nut brown maid like you and from a Statesman and soldier metamorphosed into a puny lover." He continues on to say how much he misses her, but that he must remain until Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison returns. He states that he will not be delayed past November and assures her that he is doing everything in his power to return. He descriptively explains how much he loves and misses her…

GLC00773

February 1, 1805

Chase, Samuel, 1741-1811

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Tilghman

Samuel Chase informs that he has heard that one cannot be a director of the offices of discount without being a stockholder and he does not own stock. He mentions that he is happy to hear of the acquittal of the Pennsylvania judges, but is dismayed to find out that 13 members voted them guilty. He comments that "party-rage" prevails in the courts of justice.

GLC00775

13 April 1820

Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery

Document signed

Title: [Preamble and resolution]

Printed petition signed by William Rawle as President of the Abolition Society and [Benjamin] Williams as secretary. Sent to Jacob H. De Witt, member of the House of Representatives from the 7th District of New York. Petition states that the society unanimously passed a resolution for the exclusion of slavery from the Missouri Territory. Written during the Missouri Compromise debates. States "We deem this a proper occasion to declare, that with a deep conviction that slavery is inconsistent with moral principle, national interest, and above all, with the Christian dispensation." Says the…

GLC00777

1859-1917

Various

Header Record

Title: Commissions of Thomas and Philip Ward, including Lincoln [decimalized]

With corrections and additions in Harrison's hand.

GLC00778

11 June 1863

Mahan, D.H., fl. 1863

Document signed

Title: [Diploma of Thomas Ward from West Point]

Signed, amongst others, by D.H. Mahan.

GLC00778.03

December 18, 1785

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

The letter discusses a debt owed to him and his shortage of funds.

GLC00655.01

September 24, 1842

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George N. Briggs

John Quincy Adams declines an invitation to a Cattle Show and fair, citing age, and his inability to attend public functions, and previous engagements. He hopes to soon meet Briggs in Washington, D.C., "under better auspices than those which have overshadowed us since Captain Christopher Sly was installed at the white house," possibly referring to John Tyler. Briggs was a congressman from Massachusetts.

GLC00655.03

December 13, 1823

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John C. Calhoun

Andrew Jackson requests to the Secretary of War that he make sure that Rufus Bowyer be allowed to enter the military academy as a cadet. He recommends him based on his own merits, and those of his father, Colonel Bowyer. Docket labeled "Va. [77]."

GLC00655.04

October 2, 1844

Tyler, John, 1790-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Wilkins

John Tyler acknowledges the receipt of Pennsylvania Congressman Wilkins' letter and thanks him "for the Kindness furnished Mrs. Tyler to New York." He desires Wilkins quick return to Washington, D.C. so that he can expedite the removal of the Choctaw Indians, because Tyler fears "Mr. Crawford is inclined to present impediments, from a misapprehension of the true position of things."

GLC00655.07

January 5, 1861

Furniss, John P., fl. 1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Judge Haden

John P. Furniss asks for financial remittance due to his having taken "private classes to improve [himself] in particular branches of Medicine." He relates that two convicts hung the day before, and a friend of his took a part of one of the bodies for Furniss to dissect. Signed "Your friend & ward." Furniss was a Confederate doctor.

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