September 20, 1817

Webb, Mary, fl. 1817

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Miss Ratledge

Webb, on the Island of Saint Helena while Napoleon was there, writes to her friend in London. Mentions a recent earthquake on the island. Refers to mutual acquaintances. Discusses ordering goods from the India Company. Comments that her daughter is her only female comfort, that she made a mistake in bringing only female servants, and complains of the lack of British goods on the island. Writes "the gaiety of this place is sickening to say nothing of the dissipation- We often often talk of the many pleasant hours you have suffered us to pass in your presence and the recollection affords me…

GLC00496.250

May 9, 1832

Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833

Letter signed

Title: to Thomas Pringle

Wilberforce, a British abolitionist, writes from the Brighstone (Brixton) Rectory (possibly while his son Samuel served as vicar there). He recommends Mr. Stephen, a relative and friend (likely his brother-in-law James Stephen), to serve as chairman of an unspecified organization (possibly the Anti-Slavery Society). He notes Stephen's "abhorrence of the Slave trade and Slavery." Mentions other members of the Society, including Mr. Buxton and Dr. Lushington (possibly Thomas F. Buxton and Stephen Lushington, both reformers and abolitionists). He hopes Pringle's new anti-slavery publication will…

GLC00496.251

January 14, 1830

Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833

Letter signed

Title: to Thomas Pringle

Wilberforce, a British abolitionist, writes from Highwood Hill, London. He invites Pringle to visit, and discusses travel arrangements in detail. Includes a postscript on the same topic. The letter is attached to a brown paper frame. Split along center fold. Measurements include attached frame. Includes postscript in Wilberforce's own hand.

GLC00496.252

circa 1820

Wilkie, David, 1785-1841

Autograph letter signed

Title: to dear MacDonald

Date previously inferred. Wilkie, the Scottish painter, promises McDonald he will call at 7 o'clock. Measurements include attached frame.

GLC00496.253

1862-1865

Header Record

Title: Four letters and two other documents regarding William A. Williams [Decimalized .01-.06]

Four letters regarding Williams's land holding and legal issues, mentioning freedmen, as well as an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy and an official permission to visit Richmond.

GLC00496.254

October 1, 1787

Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison

Recipient is James Madison, who was awarded this degree in 1787. Madison's name is faded. Witherspoon informs the recipient, a College of New Jersey (now Princeton) alumni, that he has been awarded the Degree of Doctor of Laws. Written from "Tusculum near Princeton," Witherspoon's home.

GLC00496.255

October 30, 1846

Yancey, William L., 1814-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Messr. Smith, Greene & White

William L. Yancey accepts an honorary membership in Phi-Delta Society of Oglethorpe University in Midway, Georgia.

GLC00496.256

January 7, 1673

Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703

Letter signed

Title: to unknown

Replies to a letter from an unknown Lord and other gentlemen. He states "I will by the first opportunity informe his Majty of what you write concerning the Soldiers, both in the Downs and at Harwick, and shall speedily send you his Resolution thereupon." He writes that George I, King of Great Britain, intends "the Augustine shall goe out with Sr John Narbrough, and to that purpose I have sent you his Majty Orders for Victualling her in which I advise you will cause all possible dispatch to be used... " Discusses the refitting of two other ships. Written at Darby House.

GLC00496.258.01

June 13, 1898

Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, 1819-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ronald

Queen Victoria thanks Ronald for a cup he sent for her Jubilee. She hopes to see him when she returns to Windsor. Written on black-bordered Osborne royal stationery.

GLC00496.259

December 26, 1848

Bennett, James Gordon, 1841-1918

Newspaper

Title: California herald. [(December 26, 1848)]

Large map on front titled "Gold and Quicksilver District of California." Articles discuss California's gold supply, Americans' excitement about the gold supply, and migration of workers to California. Includes "song of the gold digger" on second page.

GLC00496.260

1861-1865

Smith, H.W., fl. 1848-1868

Print

Title: Engraved portrait of Andrew Johnson

Vignette left-facing bust portrait in profile by H.W. Smith. Engraver's name is located on the lower right of the image. Printed signature underneath image. Page appears to have once been a part of a book.

GLC00496.261.01

circa 1860

Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895

Print

Title: John Marshall LLD

Portrait engraving of Marshall seated, in judge's robes. Printed signature of Marshall underneath. Possibly based on a painting by J. B. Martin, as the name is printed under the engraving.

GLC00496.262

circa 1840-1849

Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849

Facsimile

Title: [Printed facsimile of Polk's signature]

GLC00496.263

March 1, 1863

Wilkes, Jane J., fl. 1863

Letter

Title: to Charles Wilkes

Incomplete letter from which author has been inferred (says "Mrs. Wilkes" in the body). Mrs. Wilkes discusses her meetings with President Lincoln, Secretary of Navy Gideon Welles, Secretary of State William Seward, Senator Isaac Arnold, and General John Sedgwick in trying to get her husband's rank of commodore reinstated (it had been annulled according to this letter). Wilkes was disrated (becoming a captain on the retired list) in November 1862, on the ground that he had been too old to receive the rank of commodore under the act then governing promotions. Recipient inferred from the lines "…

GLC00496.265

1763-1783

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Autograph note

Title: Regarding affidavits in Paris

Contains list of names concerning some issue in Paris, including Peyton Skipwith, Gouverneur Morris, William Lee, General William Hull, and Benjamin Hichborn. Seems to be written on the back of an old letter. Unrelated address leaf on verso. Note is a fragment.

GLC00496.266

January 20, 1778

Lee, William, 1739-1795

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and Arthur Lee

Addressed to Franklin, Deane, and Lee as the Commissioners at Versailles. Now that he has received a copy of a treaty, he will go to Vienna to take up his appointment there. Also comments on money needed for travel.

GLC00496.268

October 23, 1776

Andre, fl. 1776

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer

Requesting permission to ship twenty-five barrels of flour. Written to Jenifer while president of the Maryland Council of Safety. Andre was most likely a French merchant.

GLC00496.269

8 June 1782

Marion, Francis, 1732-1795

Manuscript document

Title: Articles of Treaty between General Marion in behalf of the State of So. Carolina and Major Gainey & the Inhabitants under his Command which were Included in the Treaty made under the 17th day of June 1781

Clerical copy of treaty made between loyalist Major Micajah Gainey and American General Francis Marion. Gainey promises to disarm and swear allegiance to America. The second article notes that Gainey "will deliver up all Negroes, Cattle and other property." They loyalists will also give up all who do not agree to the terms and all their prisoners. In return, Gainey's men will be pardoned from treason charges. Those who do not accede "shall have leave to go within the British Lines." Written at Burches Mill on Peedee.

GLC00496.270

December 4, 1823

Marshall, John, 1755-1835

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Gales, Jr.

Requests pamphlet containing the transactions of the great convention, and asks to become a subscriber to Gales' paper. Brings up political news.

GLC00496.271

16 October 1794

Marshall, John, 1755-1835

Manuscript

Title: Mr. Marshall's opinion as to the penalties incurred under the Militia Laws

Manuscript in clerical hand with clerical signature. Marshall expresses the opinion that "only the fine imposed by the Act of Congress ought to be Collected." He concludes by noting that foreign subjects and citizens are not subject to the militia laws.

GLC00496.272

September 4, 1817

Perry, Oliver Hazard, 1785-1819

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin W. Crowninshield

Perry writes to the secretary of the navy to recommend Dr. Richard Stevens for a position as a surgeon in the navy. Cites his experience as a surgeon's mate aboard the frigate Java in the Mediterranean and attests to his "extensive acquirements and eminent professional qualifications." The letter is pasted to a piece of paper. Pasted to the verso is an unrelated, undated note pertaining to a woman's request to have her husband's remains buried in the proper cemetery, which had been communicated through Commodore Perry.

GLC00496.273.01

April 28, 1820

Hale, Nathan, 1784-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Ronaldson

Hale requests, "...please inform me what will be your best terms for a set of types for my paper, the principal kinds to consist of, about three hundred and fifty weight of Bourgeois and nine hundred of Minion." Includes a pencil note at the bottom of the page, possibly referring to type ordered in 1816.

GLC00496.274

September 11, 1824

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Letter

Title: to Augustus B. Woodward

Unsigned. The last page(s) are missing. Letter is incomplete. Woodward had written observations "addressed to the individual citizen" which the writer has given a hasty perusal. The writer notes that the Virginia Constitution should not be ascribed to Jefferson; the origin, he finds with George Mason, and the Declaration of rights "was substantially from the same hand" (i.e., Mason's). He ascribes the preamble of the VA. Constitution to Jefferson. The letter breaks-off in mid-sentence. The letter ends: "with a view to correct the faults of the existing Constitution, as well as to obtain the…

GLC00496.605

March 20, 1779

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gouverneur Morris

Washington acknowledges receiving the letter from Colonel George Morgan, and discussing "affairs to the westward." McIntosh, who had mortally wounded Button Gwinnett in a duel, commanded Fort Pitt from May 1778 until March 5, 1779. His subordinates Daniel Broadhead and Morgan complained of his conduct. Washington writes that residence with McIntosh at Valley Forge had impressed him and he hoped the Georgian would be disinterested in western disputes. He writes that command will go now to Brodhead and concludes (with a hint of exasperation) "with such means as are provided, I must labour" ("…

GLC00496.099

August 14, 1795

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Dickinson, et al.

Memorial regarding Jay's Treaty. Answers Dickinson's current inquiry regarding a memorial with an enclosure previously sent to the Selectmen of Boston (not included).

GLC00496.100