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Bond of 800 pounds owed to Alexander Gillon by John and Edward Rutledge

Signed in receipt on verso by Ann P. Gillon as executrix. Also signed by John Rutledge.

GLC00184.43

to Peter Mallet

Sherman informs Mallet of his son's visit to Charleston and asks that he befriend him and pay the small balance he owes to him. Mentions receiving a letter from Mallet and thanks him for the information it contained.

GLC00184.44

re: debt case of John Wilson and John Wilson, Sr.

With 5-line note signed in Smith's hand as attorney for the Wilsons.

GLC00184.45

Document re: building a Presbyterian Church in Princeton, N.J.

Signed on verso.

GLC00184.46

Document re: debt case

Stone signs twice on verso as attorney for the plaintiff.

GLC00184.47

Document re: deed for sale of "certain tract of a meadow"

Signed on verso by Thornton as Justice of the Peace.

GLC00184.49

Document ordering Wm Glascock to appear before the court

Signed beneath the wax seal as Justice of the State Superior Court. Also signed by Thomas Watkins as clerk.

GLC00184.50

to the Gov. of Georgia

The letter discusses lifting the embargo on rice. Signed on verso by Whipple and Gouverneur Morris, both as members of Congress, as well as Nathaniel Scudder.

GLC00184.51

To unknown

The note discusses the unsettled case in Windham County Court. Document contains 3-line attestation by Williams on recto.

GLC00184.52

Receipt to Job Stockton

[title continued] of three pounds, eight shillings.

GLC00184.54

Writ re: debt case of Cyrus Beers

Summons for Samuel Osborn, Reuben Brady and Lazarus Thomas to appear before Fairfield County Court, CT for failing to pay debt to Cyrus Beers.

GLC00184.55

Document re: recovering a debt of 6 pounds for Elizabeth Hardin

Signed by Wythe as attorney for the plaintiff.

GLC00184.56

[Speech to Democrats]

Signed at the end. References the problems President Andrew Jackson faced during his administration and how he handled them. Talks about letters he has received from families and businesses pledging their support and encouragement for him....

GLC00196.02

[Broadcast speech for Brotherhood Day]

Press release of Roosevelt's speech which he broadcasted on the evening of 23 February 1936, a day designated as Brotherhood Day by the National Conference of Jews and Christians. Notes that it cannot be released to newspapers until 8PM, 23 February...

GLC00196.04

to Alexander Sankey Latty

Chase, Secretary of the United States Treasury, discusses Judge Latty's recommendation of Mr. Huyck "for a commission in the colored regiment." States he will refer the recommendation to Edwin McMasters Stanton, Secretary of War. Predicts that Huyck...

GLC00197

[Presidential note and photograph] [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC00206

[Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the conditional pardon of Joseph Anthony and J.H. Drabing].

GLC00207

to Miss Anna McKnight

A poem in which he expresses his attachment to her and asks her to consider him a true and honest friend: "My pulses, mix'd emotions blend, unchang'd by wind or weather. Of lover-brother-father-friend, to take them all together." Adams was President...

GLC00209

Authority to affix the seal to pardon of William and Elijah McWhorter. [Decimalized .01-.03]

Includes carte de visite and Signed pass to see counting of electoral college 2/10/1877.

GLC00212

Order for Daniel Linder

Lincoln proclaimed a pardon possibility for rebellious soldiers December 8, 1863, in his annual message to Congress. Daniel Linder, son of Usher F. Linder, an old friend of Lincoln in Chicago, was freed on Dec. 26, the date assumed for this document.

GLC00213

to Alexander S. Latty

Comments that he is saddened to hear of Judge Latty's poor health. Talks of local politics and feels that the cities of Williams, Paulding, and Defiance, Ohio will be carried by the Independent Democrats in the fall elections. Remarks that the Whigs...

GLC00216

Pardon of Michele de Robertis (c/s Robert H. Jackson [acting AG])

Convicted of swearing a false affidavit. Reason for pardon not mentioned, but research indicates he received it for turning state's evidence against Al Capone.

GLC00217

to Edgar A. Hamilton

Sherman writes to Reverend Hamilton to eulogize General Hugh Judson Kirkpatrick shortly after his death, praising Kirkpatrick's merits as a soldier and a officer during both peace time and the Civil War. He writes, in part, "I never knew a more...

GLC00223

to Isaac Hill

Writes about the sickness and death of a friend. States that he has rendered a query with the Committee of Investigation in Boston about it. Discusses an election and politics in his native state, New Hampshire. Addressed to Hill in Concord, New...

GLC00225

to Benjamin Huntington

Writes to reprise a letter he had previously sent stating that he wishes "to hold some post under the new government." Prefers to be made a judge for the Eastern District, and in that case would like his son, William Ellery Jr., to succeed him as...

GLC00192

Collection of five speeches [Decimalized .01-.05]

GLC00196

Address of the President at Chicago, Illinois

Speech to businessmen signed at the end. Reports on the recovery the nation is experiencing since the Depression in many areas of business; banks, industry, railroads, farming, investments, etc. Criticizes the previous administration's focus on...

GLC00196.03

[Address at the dedication of the Jersey City Medical Center, New Jersey]

Signed at the end. Marked hold for release by M. H. McIntyre, Assistant Secretary to the President. Mentions the funds of the Public Works Administration that went to American hospitals. Thanks those in the medical and nursing professions....

GLC00196.05

to Samuel K. McConnell, Jr.

Written in reply to Pennsylvania Congressman McConnell's request that he give his views on education legislation (the federal "grants-in aid") before the Committee on Education and Labor. Former President Hoover asserts his strong personal interest...

GLC00200

The case of Trevett against Weeden: On Information and Complaint,....

Evans 20825, Kress B1355, Sabin 98638. Original blue/gray wrappers, reinforced (?). Stamp on titlepage of: Rhode Island Historical Society. The legal case tested the powers of the Articles of Confederation to the right of Trial by Jury.

GLC00201

[Collection of Edwin Jackson, D company, 6th regiment, Minnesota, infantry] [decimalized]

Fighting the Sioux [18 letters]. Edwin Jackson 6th Regt. Minn. Vols. collection of letters, many written on patriotic stationery. Very detailed and descriptive accounts of Indian atrocities against civilians and battles. On 12 October 1862, he...

GLC00203

[Appointment of Norton Quincy as Justice of the Peace].

Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Hancock, appointed Justice of the Peace, Norton Quincy, for the County of Suffolk. The order gives a general sketch of the duties of Quincy's new office. Partially printed. Accompanied by frilled...

GLC00210

Collection of Porter letters [Decimalized .01-.14]

Most of the letters in this collection are to Captain (sometimes Colonel) Julius Walker Adams, a noted engineer and cousin of President John Quincy Adams. Porter discusses the reevaluation of his conduct at Second Manassas by a special commission in...

GLC00214.02

[Subscription for the barge experiment] [Decimalized .01- .02]

GLC00218

Journals of Congress [decimalized]

Set lacks vol. 4. Vol. 2 (Philadelphia, 1776) includes the Declaration of Independence.

GLC00219

Journals of Congress. Containing the proceedings from Sept. 5. 1774

Evans 15683. Reprint edition (per dealer); bookplates of John Rutherfurd in all vols but v.1

GLC00219.01

Journals of Congress. Containing the proceedings in the year, 1776

Strand of blond hair originally laid-in p.296-297 now in paper folder in back.

GLC00219.02

Journals of Congress. Containing the proceedings from January 1, 1777

Probably a later edition; Evans 16138 describes a Philadelphia Dunlap edition.

GLC00219.03

Journal of Congress. Containing the proceedings from January 1, 1779

Evans 17766

GLC00219.05

Resolutions, acts and orders of Congress, for the year 1780 : volume VI

Journals of Congress. Evans 20079

GLC00219.06

Journals of Congress, and of the United States in Congress assembled

Evans 17767 (ref. for Claypoole Phila. printing)

GLC00219.07

Journal of the United States in Congress assembled...

Evans 18266

GLC00219.08

Journal of the United States in Congress assembled...

Evans 18840 (listing xviii p. in index for xxvi p.)

GLC00219.09

Journal of the United States in Congress assembled...

Evans 19316

GLC00219.10

Journal of the United States in Congress assembled... Vol. XI [sic]

Vol. 11 but misprinted on titlepage as XII.

GLC00219.11

Journal of the United States in Congress assembled...

Evans 20772

GLC00219.12

Journal of the United States in Congress assembled...

Evans 21526 ; first issue with misprint "Index to vol. XIV."

GLC00219.13

to Archabald Wade

Whitfield Stevens, a Confederate soldier from Company A of the 4th Virginia Infantry (Stonewall Brigade) writes to his grandfather (letter addressed "Dear Granpa") and sends his letter in a "Yanky Envelope." Written from "Camp Bunkers Hill" outside...

GLC00220

to Moses Grinnell

Asks Grinnell if he can assist the bearer of the letter, supposedly the wife of one of McClellan's soldiers. The woman who is delivering the letter to Grinnell "represents herself as being Mrs. McCormick," the wife of a soldier who served under...

GLC00221

Resolutions settling states' Revolutionary War debt

Broadside signed by Thomson

GLC00222

Camp of the 10th Massachusetts Regt., near Washington [stereocard]

GLC00242.20

Brady's Incidents of the War. 17th Regiment New York Volunteers Colonel Henry Seymour Lansing. Butterfield's Brigade. Fitz John Porter. Division Pauls Hill. Vol.

One undated photograph entitled, "Brady's Incidents of the War," taken by Mathew B. Brady. Captures New York's 17th Regiment standing in dress parade formation and holding rifle-muskets raised upward at their sides.

GLC00243

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner [later print] [O-77 detail]

Detail of Alexander Gardner's famous November 8, 1863 portrait, reprinted about 1910 by Jason Rice. Ostendorf O-77 Head detail (p. 145). Labelled "no. 36." Accompanied by a photograph of Jason Rice's attestation of authenticity (in collateral file)...

GLC00245

[Programme of funeral procession]

Broadside consists of information on the arrangement of Lincoln's funeral procession. Includes details on the order in which participants of the procession will walk. Also includes requests such as the closing of all businesses at 10 a.m. and that...

GLC00247

[Manuscript denouncing Benjamin Wade]

Welles rails against Congress, and Senate President Pro Tem Benjamin Wade in particular. Probably written during the Johnson impeachment crisis. Welles was a Johnson supporter and a strong opponent of Wade. If Johnson's impeachment had resulted in...

GLC00254

General Washington's Letter Declaring his Acceptance of the Command of the Armies of the United States

Regarding the Quasi-War with France, Washington's support for the Administration and acceptance of commander in chief. Signed: "D.R. Slade" in upper right corner. Washington's letter is dated July 17, 1798 from Mount Vernon. The document is also...

GLC00265.04

General Wright, commander of the "Bloody Sixth Corps" [stereocard]

Wright took command of the Sixth Corps in 1864 with the death of Sedgewick.

GLC00242.18

Where General McPherson was killed [at Atlanta] [stereocard]

GLC00242.19

View of the outer trenches ... of Nashville [stereocard]

GLC00242.21

Christian discipline, and anti-slavery broadsides. [Decimalized .01-.07]

GLC00246

Christian Discipline: Certain Good and Wholesome Orders, for the Well-Governing of My Family,in a right Christian Conversation, as becometh the Children of the Light and Truth, in the Most Hight GOD. Divided Into Two Parts.

First page contains guidelines for a religious household, as originally printed by William Penn. Reprint of original by Josiah Forster in 1751. Bible verses act as bookends on the top and bottom of William Penn's type. Note from Forster at the bottom...

GLC00246.01

Nomination and Address of the Essex Republican Convention held at Ipswich

Large campaign broadside for delegates to the Republican Party convention of Essex County, Massachusetts for the election to be held on the first Monday in April 1823. Says at a meeting of delegates held on the 19th of March in Ipswich it was...

GLC00246.02

Mrs. Burritt's defence of her husband; first published in the Southern recorder, Milledgeville, Geo. August 14, 1830.

Elijah Burritt's former partner, John G. Polhill, had charged that Burritt had distributed incendiary pamphlets written by African-American abolitionist David Walker. In this open letter to the editors, his wife states that her husband only sold the...

GLC00246.03

[Singing school exhibition handbill]

Printed by Amy & Milne's Steam Press. Possibly created in Fall River, Massachusetts. Advertises Parker Borden's "Juvenile Class" performance, consisting of 150 children. Program lists songs included in the show and ticket sale locations. Contains...

GLC00246.04

Notice to delinquent tax-payers in the town of Acushnet.

Announces that thirty days from this date, the collector of taxes, Jabez Wood, will collect any unpaid taxes for 1864 and previous years for offenders in the Town of Acushnet.

GLC00246.05

B.A.A. Concert!

Broadside advertising a concert at Bristol, Rhode Island town hall. Program is divided into two sets, with first set having 8 songs, then an intermission, and then a second set with 9 songs. Songs played by an orchestra, great chorus, chorus, and...

GLC00246.06

Know all men by these presents, that in consideration of.

Printed certificate for conveying property to the Quakers, with entry spaces not filled in. Document formerly was adhered to back of a Penn broadside.

GLC00246.07

Battle of Gettysburg, Pa July 3rd 1863.

Handcolored lithograph, possibly contemporary with the battle. Depicts the men engaged in battle. Includes a brief paragraph describing the battle and the commanders on each side, Union and Confederate.

GLC00248

Battle of New Orleans

Published by Kurz & Allison at 76 & 78 Wabash Avenue in Chicago. Depicts General Andrew Jackson, on a white horse, leading his troops in the defense of New Orleans on 8 January 1815, the last major battle of the War of 1812. The American troops are...

GLC00249.01

Battle of Stones River

Published by Kurz & Allison at 76 & 78 Wabash Avenue in Chicago. Full title is: "Battle of Stone River. Near Murfreesborough, Tenn." Seems to have been partially hand colored. Depicts Major General William S. Rosencrans on a black horse directing the...

GLC00249.02

to Jeremiah Wadsworth

David Humphreys encloses a paper (not included) that explains the reasons for the recent movements of both the British and Continental armies during the Revolutionary War. He also encloses a sketch of the order of battle (not included) for the...

GLC00250

to unknown

Written by Wendell, a wealthy, well-connected merchant in New Hampshire to an unknown recipient. References a previous letter he wrote that mentioned political sentiments. Does not go into detail. Mentions a report of the broken American siege of...

GLC00252

ALS with endorsements [decimalized]

GLC00255

[Grant's endorsement on docket of an autograph letter signed from Henry S. Hewit to John A. Rawlins]

In his letter to Rawlins, Hewit requests the use of a steam boat as a hospital, and requests that no transfers of sick men be made at this time. The letter is dated 20 March 1862. Grant's undated docket reads "Surgeon Hewit, Medical Director, will...

GLC00255.02

to John Aaron Rawlins

Written at Smith's Plantation, Headquarters of the Department of the Tennessee, to Colonel Rawlins, General Grant's aide-de-camp and assistant adjutant. J. H. [Hewit?], possibly a Secretary of the United States Volunteers, states "it is a matter of...

GLC00255.03

The American military pocket atlas; being an approved collection of correct maps

First issue in original boards, rebacked. Bookplate of Arthur Haynsworth Masten; ticket of T. Connolly, Bookseller, Dublin. Also with bookplate of Arthur Haynsworth Masten and inscription of "Jimmy [?] Browne / Augt. 1843" on titlepage. Full title...

GLC00257

[Two bound newspapers]

Two bound newspapers dated 1787-1788, The two newspapers are; Freeman's journal. [Vol.6, no. 298 (January 3, 1787)- v.8, no. 402 (December 31, 1788)] and Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 2953 (January 3, 1787) - no. 3042 (September 17, 1788)] [with gap].

GLC00259

Freeman's journal. [Vol.6, no. 298 (January 3, 1787)- v.8, no. 402 (December 31, 1788)]

One bound edition of the newspaper Freeman's Journal containing Vol. 6 no. 298, January 3, 1787 to vol. 8 no. 402, December 31, 1788. Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's Head. Of particular interest is a early printing of Constitution in issue...

GLC00259.01

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 2953 (January 3, 1787) - no. 3042 (September 17, 1788)] [with gap]

One bound edition of the newspaper Pennsylvania gazette containing number 2953 January 3, 1787 to number 3042 Sep 17, 1788, with a gap of number 3003 and a suplement to number 3032. The volume has the signature of Edanus Burke, Esq. on front...

GLC00259.02

to Wallace J. Ford

Then Brigadier General Garfield writes to a friend at home about "the congressional affair" shortly after he aided in the Battle of Corinth. He comments about his poor health and his weight loss. Back in Ohio, Garfield's friends were urging him to...

GLC00261

Broadsides and pamphlets including appointment as commander [Decimalized .01-.04]

[decimalized 00265.01-00265.04]

GLC00265

Resolution: "That the present Embargo be continued"

Signed by Edmund Randolph as Secretary of State. Concerning the Quasi-War with France. States that the present Enbargo be continued until "the twenty fifth day of May next."

GLC00265.01

A Motion: establishing embargo, fortifying ports and raising an army

The motion was a result of the Quasi-War with France. Document is slashed on lower right corner. Formerly pencilled "Duplicate."

GLC00265.02

Message of the President of the United States, to both houses

Dated May 4, 1798. Stab-stitched as issued. Regarding negotiations with France to end the Quasi-War, and report from Ambassadors

GLC00265.03

Pardon-related: Resignation letter to Henry Kissinger (souvenir copy)

Typed letter signed by Nixon (genuine), with a Kissinger endorsement which is probably forged, per Charles Hamilton. On White House stationery.

GLC00154.10

Pardon of Christian Krouse, convicted of assault with intent to rape.

Convicted of assault with intent to rape; sentenced to 2 years imprisonment. Pardoned for "...divers other good and sufficient reasons...". (c/s William L. Marcy)

GLC00159

to L. F. Allen

Millard Fillmore mentions trying to obtain a report from the Topographical Bureau on the estimates for the repairs of the Black Rock harbor and includes the costs. Discusses a bill concerning this harbor. Advises that he has declined to be a...

GLC00162.02

to Manton Marble

Encloses a copy of the review of the Credit Mobilier affair. Calls the scandal "miserable business." Also asks Marble to read the review, stating "I have no right, perhaps to address you on the subject, but I thought you would be willing to look...

GLC00162.05

to Roberto Sacasa

Signed by Harrison as President and William Fisher Wharton as Secretary of State. Informs Sacasa, President of Nicaragua, that Romualdo Pacheco will no longer serve as United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Nicaragua due to...

GLC00162.08

to William R. Day

Discusses having met with Beriah Wilkins, the owner and editor of the Washington Post, who wants to be sent to Paris and attached to the U.S. Peace Commission. Wilkins feels he can be of great service to the American people and the Commission...

GLC00162.10

to William R. Day

Discusses Beriah Wilkins', the owner and editor of the Washington Post, upcoming trip to Paris. Tells Day that Wilkins is not seeking employment but does want to be of help, if he can be. Written on Executive Mansion letterhead. Day was president of...

GLC00162.11

to James V. Forrestal

Franklin D. Roosevelt writes in reference to the Research Board for National Security, a group that provides for civilian participation in scientific research on problems of national defense. He informs that he is transmitting a program to Congress...

GLC00162.17

to Lewis Strauss

Harry S. Truman thanks Lewis Strauss for his memoranda. Truman thinks it is crucially important to maintain good relations with Jewish, Catholic and Protestant world leaders, "As you know, I have been trying my best to organize the moral forces of...

GLC00162.19

Collection of 12 documents relating to pardons (collection #6). See decimalized entries. [Decimalized .01-.12]

GLC00173

[Pardon of John Bladen for assault and battery].

Cosigned by Robert Smith. Bladen was convicted of assault and battery. He was sentenced to 1 month imprisonment and to pay a $100 fine and court costs. Pardoned after serving out his prison sentence because he was unable to pay the resulting fine...

GLC00173.01

[Presidential authority to the Secretaty of State to affix the seal to the pardon of David Babe, alias William Brown].

Babe had been convicted of murder on the high seas in December 1843.

GLC00173.02

[Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of J.N.F. Fulirmann].

GLC00173.04

Pardon of Lucy Wheeler, "a negress," convicted of two counts of aggravated assault.

Wheeler, convicted of two counts of aggravated assault: sentenced in one case to 1 year imprisonment, and to pay a $0.50 fine and court costs; sentenced in the other to 6 months imprisonment [to be served following the first term], and to pay another...

GLC00173.05

Pardon of the Steamboat "Terror" for violations of steamboat inspection laws [fraud].

Convicted of being in violation of steamboat inspection laws [fraud]. Pardoned because the crime was unintentional. The steamboat had been rented only as accommodation to a charitable, religious society for a trip down the Penobscot River at no cost...

GLC00173.06

[Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of James O'Neill].

GLC00173.07