1864/05/26

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dr. Robert King Stone re: prescription for Mrs. Lincoln's headache

Written as President. Not in Basler, but compare Basler 7: 161 and 179.

GLC02793.035

1864/09/06

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gideon Welles re: furnishing coal for the Government

Written as President. Not in Basler. Lincoln writes to his Secretary of Navy about a woman's proposal to supply coal. He suspects she is insane.

GLC02793.036

1864/09/24

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Holt re: trial of Simon Ready before military court

Written as President on Executive Mansion stationery. Basler 8: 22. Ready has not been identified and no response is known. Joseph Holt was Judge Advocate General.

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1867/07

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William H. Seward re: affairs in Texas

Written as President. Date inferred from content.

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1870/01/15

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his father Jesse Grant re: declining to intervene in an appointment

Written as President

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1877/12

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Sherman

Signed as President. Invites Sherman to his 25th wedding anniversary. Date inferred from contents.

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1879/02/14

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George W. Childs re: buying a portrait of Gen. Grant for the White House

Written as President

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1881/05/22

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Adelia T. Johnson re: improving health of his wife

Written as President

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1882/08/09

Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Franklin Townsend re: apologies for neglected correspondence

Written as President

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1886/11/18

Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Fitzhugh Lee re: a saddle horse and his weight

Written as President to Gov. Lee of Virginia.

GLC02793.047

1887/12/30

Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry W. Box re: thanks for box of cigars

Written as President. An unusually thankful note.

GLC02793.048

1889/11/10

Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sen. Joseph R. Hawley re: his loneliness and an invitation to dinner

Written as President

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1890/12/05

Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Anna Harrison Morris re: prayers for a relative and worries of office

Thanks Morris for informing him of Maggies condition.

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1897/01/01

Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Comm. E. C. Benedict re: his message to Congress, advice on investments

Written as President

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1898/06/02

McKinley, William, 1843-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elihu Root re: giving a son's body and arms to his father

Written as President to Root as Secretary of War. The bearer, Nicholas Fish, had lost his son in the Spanish-American War.

GLC02793.052

1901/09/25

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to H. L. Shaw re: assuming the Presidency, inviting his Harvard friends

Signed as President on black-bordered stationery. Alludes to a dinner with his Harvard friends held as Governor of New York two years prior.

GLC02793.053

4 December 1877

Remington, Philo, 1816-1889

Typed letter signed

Title: to Edward Clark

Signed as President of the Remington Company. Discusses debt owed to the Singer Company which he is not able to pay at this time. Remarks on why he entered into the manufacture of sewing machines, "It was not primarily to make money; ... the impelling motive which drove me into it, was to give my people, ... more especially our skilled labor, - to keep them with us contented in the intervals -- in the periods when we should be without military work." Clark was President of the Singer Company. Singer held Remington's sewing machine division debt. Typed on stationary from the Office of…

GLC02764

1845/03/11

Abbot, Abiel, 1765-1859

Autograph letter signed

Title: re: negative comments on Mormons and annexation of Texas

Abbot writes that the annexation of Texas is an "offense against humanity and a monstrous transgression of the law of God." With address on p. 4.

GLC02765

1919-1962

Fenton, Guy A., fl. 1919-1962

Header Record

Title: Papers of Gen. Fenton re: Treaty of Versailles, plebiscite in Upper Silesia [Decimalized .01- .65]

General Fenton served with British forces on the Continent. He was an accomplished linguist and commanded considerable respect in France and Germany. The papers include numerous printed items relating to the Plebiscite in Upper Silesia. Part of the collection is in French and German. Also includes three incomplete editions of the newspaper, the Daily Telegram, Aug 1921.

GLC02766

1809

Reich, John, fl. 1809

Object

Title: [James Madison Indian peace medal]

Medal features James Madison's profile on front and the words "James Madison President of the U.S. A.D. 1809." Designer is unknown. Verso features two hands shaking, a tomahawk crossed with a pipe, and the words, "Peace and Friendship," designed by John Reich.

GLC02767.02

1817 circa

Furst, Moritz, 1782-1840

Object

Title: [James Monroe Indian peace medal]

Indian peace medal with James Monroe's profile on front, with the words "James Monroe President of the U.S. A.D. 1817," designed by Moritz Furst. Verso features two hands shaking, a tomahawk crossed with a pipe, and the words, "Peace and Friendship," designed by John Reich.

GLC02768.02

1818/01/21

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Letter signed

Title: to Edward Livingston

Acknowledging a bronze casting of Napoleon, and offering thanks for the gift. Written as General in the U.S. Army.

GLC02769

1835/07/25

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Letter signed

Title: to Democratic Committee of Pennsylvania

Jackson refuses to endorse either candidate, or say anything to interfere with a gubernatorial race. He chooses to do so because both candidates, Wolf and Muhlenburg, are his friends. Also claims it is his policy not to involve himself in local matters of this kind. Written as President, to the twelve members of the Democratic Committee. Signed by Jackson with the date, place, names of recipients, also written in his own hand. Written from Fort Wool, also known as Fort Calhoun, in Hampton, Virginia, which served as Jackson's summer home for a time, and was nicknamed Rip Raps, spelled Rip…

GLC02771

1829 circa

Furst, Moritz, 1782-1840

Object

Title: [Andrew Jackson Indian peace medal]

Front of medal features profile of Andrew Jackson and the words "Andrew Jackson President of the United States. A.D. 1829," most likely designed by Moritz Furst. Verso features two hands shaking, a tomahawk crossed with a pipe, and the words, "Peace and Friendship," designed by John Reich. Some scratching on front and back.

GLC02772.02

7 September 1875

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J.W. Vance

Writes, "Your note of the 23rd of August inviting me to attend a reception and banquet to be given in Paris, Ill. on the 21st of Oct. by the members of my old 31st Ill. Vols. was duly received. I do not know a reception that it would be more gratifying for me to attend than this. But I must forego the pleasure. My private interests compel me to be in St. Louis about the end of this month, and it will be impossible for me to extend my visit so late as to the 21st of August [August is crossed out and "Oct." written in pencil]." Wishes them a gratifying reunion and hopes they will remember the…

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