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to Estelle Spero

Diamond instructs Estelle to "Save some room when you go to sleep…I'm paying you a visit tonight…I'll be beside you…" Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific

GLC09120.535

to Estelle Spero

Diamond addresses the letter to his "murderer", and proceeds to joke about having found a pin in the fruitcake sent to him. Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific

GLC09120.536

to Estelle Spero

Greeting card sent to Estelle for Christmas and the New Year. Diamond writes that the volcano depicted on the front of the card is the volcano on their island. Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific

GLC09120.537

to Estelle Spero

Diamond provides a commentary of the photographs that he has enclosed with the letter. Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific

GLC09120.538

to Estelle Spero

Diamond discusses the "problem facing all of the present" being that of adjustment: "adjustment of wills, adjustment of claims, adjustment of hiking corsets and adjustment of returning soldiers." Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific

GLC09120.539

to Estelle Spero

Diamond apologizes that his letters have become "dull and ship shod" but explains that "this inactivity, this waiting is getting us all on edge." Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific

GLC09120.540

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes about how much he longs for Estelle. Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific

GLC09120.541

to Estelle Spero

Diamond thanks Estelle and her family for everything that they send to him. Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific

GLC09120.542

to Estelle Spero

Diamond comments on how disappointing the previous night's entertainment had been. Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific

GLC09120.543

to Estelle Spero

Diamond begs Estelle not to live alone. Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific

GLC09120.544

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that the smell of Estelle's "hair, powder" is "causing a glow within". Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific

GLC09120.545

to Estelle Spero

Diamond instructs Estelle to go out that evening, and pretend that he is with her. Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific

GLC09120.546

to Sidney Diamond

Thanksgiving card sent from Estelle to Sidney, in which she writes that she is giving thanks for Sidney: "for the past we have had together and for the future to be." He adds in the note, "To Us!!!", and then signs his name.

GLC09120.547

to Estelle Spero

Diamond reports that nearly every member of his company has contracted some sort of skin infection from the climate. Sidney writes that he does not really like the new island: "Whereas before we complained of the interminable rain - Here it's...

GLC09120.548

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that the soldiers have been swamped with packages of various delicacies, to the extent that they had to have a party in order to cheat the ants of eating the food. Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific

GLC09120.549

to Estelle Spero

Diamond apologizes for not being able to write more, explaining that it is simply impossible, but reassures Estelle that there is "no need to fret."
Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific
photocopy

GLC09120.550

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes, "It is difficult at present to be the cold, the practical…I cannot say where we are, what we are doing, what we will do - There's been so much between us unsaid and undone - So much of our lives missed - " He instructs Estelle that...

GLC09120.552

to Estelle Spero

Christmas greeting card to Estelle. Written on an unknown island in the South Pacific

GLC09120.553

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that life is wonderful of late, "enjoying myself to the fullest extent of the articles of war - Written en route to the Philippines

GLC09120.555

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes to Estelle: "It is unnecessary for me to describe my eternal devotion to you - " Written en route to the Philippines

GLC09120.557

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes, "In combat again - a lot to say but - A. very tired - B. very very dirty - C. Busy, Busy as all hell - "

GLC09120.558

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that they have been "moving so fast, so often, so far" that he "just can't squeeze in mail - ". Sidney continues to explain that he now knows why he is in the war, that in "unmitigated brutality - barbarism - cruelty - the Japanese...

GLC09120.559

to Estelle Spero

"Baptism of fire" letter. First air raid encounter with Japanese bombers. Year on letter is 1943 but content indicates it was written in 1944.

GLC09120.560

[Petition of a free black to become a slave of Jefferson S. Nash]

Petition to the District Court of Texas. "Charlotte Frazier...respectfully states and shows that she is a free person of African descent - that she is... mother of Six children under the age of Fourteen ... to wit ... Mack ... Betsey ...Luke...

GLC09123

Report of the arguments of counsel, in the case of Prudence Crandall, Plff. in error, Vs. State of Connecticut, before the Supreme Court of Errors, at their session at Brooklyn, July Term, 1834.

Prudence Crandall, having allowed black children into her school, was tried by the State of Connecticut for violating a law against the education of colored children who were not inhabitants of the State, which required consent of the town of...

GLC09124

Addresses delivered before the Virginia State Convention by Hon. Fulton Anderson...Hon. Henry L. Benning, ... and Hon. John S. Preston...February 1861.

Wyatt M. Elliott. Representatives of Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina work to persaude Virginia to join a slave-holding Confederacy.

GLC09125

Historical and Legal Examination of that part of the decision of the Supreme Court ....

" of the United States in the Dred Scott case, which declares the unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise Act, and the self extension of the Constitution to territories, carrying slavery along with it..." New York, D. Appleton and Company...

GLC09126

The Liberty Almanac for 1847.

Cover woodcut illustration sows idyllic "Emancipation" scene near the U.S. Capital building. With 5 more illustrations throughout. New York: William Harned.

GLC09127

A Discourse, Delivered April 12, 1797, at the request of and before the New-York Society ...

"... for promoting the manumission of slaves, and protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated. By...one of the Ministers of the United Presbyterian Churches in the City of New-York, and members of said society." New York: T. and J...

GLC09128

Slave dealer letter

" I have purchased...a very large and tolerable likely fellow of Hollingsworth at $450, Ralph of Elder Patterson at $425, he keeps him untill his crop is finished unless he becomes unruly. Thar is at this time at least double the number of negroes...

GLC09129

Office of Board of Claims/For Slaves enlisted in U. S. service...

State of Maryland. Compensation claim by Joshua Johnson for a slave, Thomas Johnson, he manumitted and enlisted as a USCT, United States Colored Troops. Partially printed document.

GLC09130.01

Proof of slave ownership

Proof of ownership by Joshua Johnson for the slave Thomas Johnson.

GLC09130.02

Draft amending Alabama Constitution

"Ordinance / in relation to the Institution of Slavery and the abolition thereof. / Sep. 16 - Subst[itution]. Ordered 100 copies be printed. Sp. order Monday 11. / Be it ordained by the people of the state of Alabama, in convention assembled, That...

GLC09131

Revolutionary war pay warrants

Five Connecticut Line Continental Army, Revolutionary War pay warrants issued to African American soldiers. Signed by John Lawrence, treasurer of the State, and docketed every year to 1789 when interest was paid. Four of the five have signatures of...

GLC09132

Warrant for money owed to Sharp Liberty

One warrant for eight pounds and five shillings owed to soldier, Sharp Liberty. Signed "X"' by Liberty and J. Lawrence, treasurer.

GLC09132.01

Pay warrant to African American soldier

Philip Negro for six pounds, five shillings, and nine pence. Remainder of Negro's signature.

GLC09132.02

Pay warrant to African American soldier

Castor Freeman for twelve pounds, eight shillings, and four pence. Remainder of Freeman's signature.

GLC09132.03

Pay warrant to African American soldier

Pomp McCuffee for nine pounds and nine shillings. Unsigned by McCuffee.

GLC09132.04

Pay warrant to African American soldier

Jeffery Liberty for three pounds, twelve shillings, and seven pence. Signed in full "Jeffry Liberty."

GLC09132.05

to unknown

"I believe that there were never so many thinking upon the subject, never were thoughts more nearly right on the great question of Liberty. I do not disesteem the political & Commercial aspects of Slavery. Its evils in these regards are greater...

GLC09133

Clothing and payroll return document 1st Massachusetts regiment [Decimalized .01- .04]

Manuscript clothing and payroll return documents listing many African American freemen who fought in this desegregated regiment during the Siege of Boston and at Trenton, Princeton, Saratoga, and Monmouth, and guarded the Hudson Highlands. These...

GLC09134

[Fragment]

Unsigned fragment. "It would be dishonourable, and might be ruinous if without a redress of our wrongs war did not promptly follow the expiration of the embargo. No other alternative is left to our choice. Every other expedient has been tried and...

GLC09135

Proceedings of a Board of Survey

Signed by Major Francis Lee. "Lt. U.S. Grant, Commissary & Regimental Quartermaster, 4th Infantry, had deposited in the trunk of Capt Gore, 4th Infantry, for safe keeping, the sum of $1,000 public money...and the trunk [was] stolen...[N]o blame can...

GLC09136

to Quartermaster General Hale

"All quiet in front! No enemy here to fight. Our transportation will not allow us to go into the interior of the state to hunt them up: we want to go to Richmond. In the grand review of our Corps de Armee by Genl. Burnside, the 51st was the largest...

GLC09137

to Dr. George Work

Abolitionist and future Union Brigadier General writes of tension in "Bleeding Kansas." "I was stationed here about a year ago, after leaving California. I have marched about 450 miles in reaching here...we were ordered...to protect the emigrants...

GLC09138

to a family member

"[Nashville is] under the control of our guns from the forts and batteries...I saw 3 or 4 dead Rebs still lying on the ground unburied and some that had been buried with some parts still visible above the ground...the point B.F. is where the greatest...

GLC09139

to Secretary of War James Seddon and various Confederate generals

Seven retained telegrams to Union General John G. Foster's expedition towards Goldsboro, NC. "I have no cavalry with a view to the navigation of the Mississippi from New Orleans upwards, sails to-day from the North River, near the State Prison, to...

GLC09140

to George R. Gilman, Governor of Georgia

Letter about the crisis over fugitive slaves and the landmark Supreme Court case, Prigg vs. Pennsylvania, which determined that states were not required to enforce slave laws of other states. From South Carolina Gov. Patrick Noble to Gov. of Georgia...

GLC09141.01

"In Senate...committee on Federal Relations...in relation to an alleged violation, on the part of ...[Maine]

"In Senate...committee on Federal Relations...in relation to an alleged violation, on the part of ...[Maine], of that important provision of the constitution of the United States, concerning the apprehension and trial of 'fugitives from justice.'...

GLC09141.02

to John W. Frughs

Writes shortly after being nominated as Grant's Vice President. "I find your note and the Platform of 'The Young Men's Continental League' ...I have long hoped and believed that the people inhabiting the North American Continent will be united under...

GLC09142