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to his brother and sister

One letter from Jonathan Bunnell to his brother and sister dated March 9, 1863. Written in camp near White Oak Church

GLC05195.042

to Mrs. J. R. Goldsborough

Commander Goldsborough writes to his wife from the U.S. Steamer Florida, on blockading duty near Charleston, South Carolina. Notes the arrival of the stone fleet, comprised by ships filled with stone, sand, and other heavy materials sent to blockade...

GLC04216

[Printed deed for land in Camden, Massachusetts]

Partially printed legal document signed by General Knox and co-signed by his wife Lucy Knox. Counter-signed by witnesses Josiah Reid, justice of the peace, and John Gleason. Also counter-signed by attorney Thomas Rice on verso. Document gives Elisha...

GLC04367.02

to Carey A. Harris

Appoints Harris as interim Secretary of War "during the temporary absence of the Secretary fir that Department."

GLC05722.01

to Alexander Spottswood Campbell

Spottswood was possibly Mosby's grandson (son of daughter May Virginia Campbell and Robert Campbell). Typed on Department of Justice stationery with the printed heading, "Carbon copy for the file". Transmits a clipping from the Times-Dispatch on an...

GLC05738

to [George] Gray

An extraordinary and lengthy letter, full of observations about people he met, especially the crowned heads of Europe. Labeled on page 1 "For nobody's eyes but yours." Written while acting as special ambassador for the United States for King Edward...

GLC05750

to Jonathan Trumbull re: unwillingness to accept a 3d term, political attacks

Explaining unwillingness to accept a third term, describing political attacks, etc.: "Let that party [the Democrats] set up a broomstick, and call it a true son of Liberty, a Democrat, or give it any other epithet that will suit their purpose, and it...

GLC05787

to Rufus King

Written by Marshall as Secretary of State to King as American Minister to Britain. Includes extract of a letter from Fitzsimmons to Secretary of Navy Benjamin Stoddert, to give King an idea of recent conduct of British Admiralty Courts in America...

GLC05789

to Henry B. Adams

"I am quite in sympathy with democratic principles; it is democratic practice that I object to... Jefferson has always been my pet aversion; to me he seems merely an intriguing doctrinaire, mighty in word and weak in action, revengeful but timid, of...

GLC05792

to Marquis de Lafayette

Madison regrets informing Lafayette that he cannot give him an answer on the loan he requested. He remarks "There is no country where money exists at all that is so unproductive of lenders as this is." States that he hopes Lafayette will have more...

GLC05810

to Amy Post

Douglass writes to Post, a New York abolitionist and suffragist. Had been to Post's home in Rochester, and regretted her absence. Relates that he and Helen, his wife (they married in January 1884) had for their honeymoon traveled through Chicago...

GLC05819

to May Delany

To "the daughter of the daughter of my friend who sheltered me forty and five years ago, when I was a man without a country, a stranger and or sojourner, with little money and few friends, shall now have my autograph. No effort of memory is required...

GLC05906

to Edwin M. Stanton re: parole of honor for Col. Basil K. Duke

Also stating that "Gen. Smith will be responsible that Col. Duke will faithfully keep his parole."

GLC05922.01

to Craven Peyton

Discusses a dispute with a neighbor, the Henderson family, and their dam near Monticello. States that although he does not remember the exact position of John and Charles Henderson's four acres of land, he knows they cannot build a mill without...

GLC05966

to David Humphreys re: trade, laws of European countries against US commerce

Extensive ink bleedthrough obscures Jefferson's writing. Written to America's secret agent in Lisbon concerning laws of France, Spain and England damaging American commerce. "Our best interest would be to employ our principal labours in agriculture...

GLC05967

to James Wilson Grimes

Written in secretarial hand and signed by Secretary of the Navy Welles to Grimes, U.S. Senator from Iowa who chaired the Committee on Naval Affairs. Wants to "invite your attention" to the estimate submitted last November to provide for the...

GLC05997

President Jefferson's Library: A Catalogue

Compiled by the auctioneer, Nathaniel P. Poor. Title continues, "of the extensive and valuable Library of the late President Jefferson, (copied from the original MS., in his hand-writing, as arranged by himself,) to be sold at auction, at the Long...

GLC06094

to William T. Sherman

Colonel Miles of the 5th Infantry sends a report to an unnamed "Dear General" [William T. Sherman]. Concerns Indians in Montana, recounting how "the followers of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Lame Deer had been forced to surrender." Discussing the...

GLC06629

to James Duane

Hamilton, aide-de-camp to Washington, expresses his disgust with General Horatio Gates' disastrous defeat and consequent flight from the Battle of Camden, South Carolina on 16 August 1780. Gates retired in disgrace after Camden, but was cleared two...

GLC06671

to Samuel J. May

Whittier writes to May, an ardent abolitionist: "Until connected with the Cause of Anti-Slavery I never knew what friendship was... engaged in this holy cause of Truth & Love, I have found high & pure hearts beating in perfect unison... No matter...

GLC05720

to Ethan A. Hitchcock

Writes to Major General Hitchcock about exchanging prisoners. Believes that prisoners not wanting to return to Confederate service should be exchanged first. "Those who preferred Northern prisons to a return to the rebel service were invited to...

GLC05727

to George H. Thomas

Grant, commander-in-chief of the United States Army, instructs General Thomas to move out of Nashville, Tennessee, "and force the enemy to retire or fight upon ground of your own choosing." Informs Thomas, commanding the Department of the Cumberland...

GLC05730

to Philip H. Sheridan

Marked cipher at top and copied on verso. Writes to Major General Sheridan at Winchester, Virginia about General William T. Sherman's movements. "General Sherman's movements will depend on the amount of opposition he meets from the enemy." Feels...

GLC05734

to Robert Tyler

Written to his son. Attacks the racial and religious prejudices of the Know-Nothing Party, stating, "a secret society whose only avowed object is religious persecution, cannot endure." Mentions John Selden, Law, Colonel May, and Vanderbilt. He does...

GLC05741

to [Thomas Jefferson]

Regrets that Colonel Humphries will be leaving Monday because her admiration for him and their friendship has grown over his stay. She believes that the two American Secretaries of Legation are worthy of more distinguished stations because "in Europe...

GLC05749

to Orville H. Browning

Writes to Secretary of the Interior Browning a detailed description of diplomatic activities among the Indian tribes in the Missouri River country during the Sioux wars of the 1860s. Outlines his expenses and outlays during his visit with the...

GLC05788.01

to Orville H. Browning re: accepting appointment as peace envoy among Indians

Written at St. Louis University

GLC05788.02

to Lewis W. Bogy re: outlining Smet's services to U.S. as mediator

With docket and stamp of Dept of Interior 9/16/1867 and assorted newsclippings.

GLC05788.03

Guildhall Speech re: Great Britain, Egypt and South Africa [fragment]

Twelve pages total. The first two typed leaves are non-consecutive and unnumbered, the third page is numbered "8", the fourth "11" and the fifth "14"; two smaller leaves written in TR's hand are labeled "A" (4 pp.) and "B" (3 pp.). Typed speech...

GLC05798

to William Constable

Assures Constable that the whole interest on the stock of his business associates in Antwerp (then part of the Netherlands) has been paid. He notes that the transactions were carried out in such a way that violated the laws of both countries. He...

GLC05804

to Friends, Bretheren and Sisters.

In a sermon-like letter quoting the words of the apostle Paul, Penn instructs his flock: "You see by wh[ich] way God began his election. It was by tryals, yea great tryals, but promesses accompanied you, & strong faith." Written from Worminghurst...

GLC05806

[Bond on the estate of John M. Bingley].

Signed by Jane Bingley and Thomas J. Nance as co-administrators, and John T. Stuart and Lincoln as legal counsel. Bingley and Nance give bond for 2000 dollars as administrators of John M. Bingley's estate, who died in Morgan County on December 4...

GLC05807

to Robert Livingston

Hopes to be able to obtain exclusive rights to navigate the Mississippi River for another two years. Also gives a detailed report on the vessel "Clermont." Written two months after the maiden voyage.

GLC05808

to Edwin McMasters Stanton

President Lincoln sends a colored man to advise the Secretary of War, Stanton, on the organization of colored troops in the army. Instructs Stanton to "see [L.H.?] Putnam, whom you will find a very intelligent colored man, and who wishes to talk...

GLC05809

to Charles W. Peale

Fulton writes to prominent American painter Charles Willson Peale, enclosing $120, apparently in payment of a debt. He also details the success of his steamboat business and mentions the "virtuous exertions and enterprising spirit" of Peale's son...

GLC05817

The American anti-slavery almanac, for 1839.

With original yellow wrappers and illustrations for almost every month. Illustrations depict the horrors of slavery. Contains ink stains. Published for the Anti-Slavery Society by S. W. Benedict.

GLC05826

to [Elijah] Vose

Informs Colonel Vose that he will find three days provisions for his troops in Trenton, New Jersey, in addition to boats to accommodate his men on their trip from New Jersey to Virginia to counter British Brigadier General Benedict Arnold. Gives him...

GLC05848

Report of the operations of 11th Corps From June 28th to July 25th exclusive of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Reports activities of the 11th Corps, Army of the Potomac. Mentions Confederate and Union troop locations and actions. Refers to specific commanders, including Generals George Gordon Meade, John Sedgwick, and Alexander Schimmelfennig. Writes "I...

GLC05851

[Wide-awake election of 1860 campaign ribbon]

Republican campaign ribbon supporting Abraham Lincoln for President printed with "Wide Awake," and a large eye. Printed on white silk. Thousands of young men turned out in "Wide Awake" torchlight parades in support of Lincoln. The Wide Awakes are...

GLC05865

to Josiah Bartlett

Discusses Continental troop movements, specifically regarding Fort Ticonderoga and New Jersey. Also, rising cost of living and collapsing currency, taxation, Franklin's reception at Versailles, and New Hampshire politics.

GLC05878

[Annotated manuscript copy of the 1732 acts of Parliament]

Jefferson's handwritten copy of a manuscript with notes entitled, "Anno quinto G[eorge]. II 1732. Cap. VII, An act for the more easy recovery of debts in his majesty's plantations and colonies in America." Establishes a law to coordinate debtors'...

GLC05886

to Henry Knox

Writes a very detailed letter to her husband in Morristown, New Jersey during the American Revolution. Discusses the arrival in Boston of General Charles Tronson du Coudray, a French military engineer "who stiles himself Commander in Chief of the...

GLC05895

[to Meshech Weare]

Signed "W." by Whipple and "B", by fellow New Hampshire congressman Josiah Bartlett. Asks for New Hampshire's views on the question of independence and states that a committee is being formed for this purpose. Stresses the importance of this...

GLC05897

to William Whipple

Discusses the state of financial affairs and the need for a national bank to stop depreciation of the currency and reduced powers of the government. Writes that he "must apply or support to Gentlemen of your Character and Zeal for the service of...

GLC05898

to Major Dana

Former President Madison answers an inquiry regarding employment prospects in Virginia: "The motives you assign for your letter, among which is a sense of duty to your parents, are entitled to respect. But I cannot encourage you to seek a fulfilment...

GLC05910

to Mary Stearns

Written three days before his execution. He asks to be "spared from having any mock; or hypocritical prayers made over me, when I am publicly murdered: & that my only religious attendants be poor little, dirty, ragged, bare headed, & barefooted...

GLC05925.01

to John Bennett re: lobbying support during his successful bid for Congress

Basler, Roy R. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. I
1824 - 1848, p. 355

GLC05927

to Henry Remsen

Discusses the tobacco market and the high quality of tobacco grown at his estate. Reports that they should take advantage of the price of 11 cents per pound since it is so much lower than the Richmond price. States that he has sold his tobacco...

GLC05958

Macon daily telegraph. [no. 881 (December 10, 1862)]

Subjects include Confederate War Debt, Lincoln's Emancipation Policy, Article on Compensated Emancipation. Includes general advertisements and land sale advertisements.

GLC05959.04

Daily Richmond whig. [Vol. 67, no. 56 (March 7, 1862)]

Page 1 and 2 have an image of the Viriginia state seal. Piece of 19th century paper adhered to the front page has the name "W. H. DeWitt." List of the acts passed by the Confederate Congress on front page. Page 2 has several columns of news from the...

GLC05959.78

The history of the New-York African free-school, from their establishment in 1787, to the present time; embracing a period of more than forty years: also a brief account of the succesful labors of the New-York Manumission Society

Written by Andrews as the principal of the African Free School. Printed by Mahlon Day at 376 Pearl Street in New York. First edition copy. Includes engraving of the school building, from a drawing by a student, opposite the title page. Provides a...

GLC06084

[Treasury Department Prescription Blank - National Prohibition Act]

Prescription for Ira Altman of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, for "Sp[iritus] Frumenti" (alcohol) issued by Dr. McCarter. Treasury Dept. US Internal Revenue B 38246 / Blank no. 57. Watermarked "Prohibition."

GLC06097

I am a man

Printed by Allied Printing in large black letters on white posterboard. Poster dates from the day of Dr. King's assassination. Refer to GLC05954 for a different printing of this poster.

GLC06124

Honor King, End Racism

Large black letters printed on white posterboard state "HONOR KING: END RACISM!" Contains strings intended to suspend the poster from a marcher's neck. Poster designed for a march on April 8, 1968, 4 days after Martin Luther King's Jr.'s...

GLC06125

[Wanted poster for saboteurs of Union military stations and vessels in the New Orleans area]

Issued by Christensen as Assistant Adjutant General, by order of Union Major General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby. Lists the names of "persons belonging to parties organized for the purpose of burning depots, store houses, &c., and destroying...

GLC06157.02

For the Good of America

NAACP poster listing statistics regarding the 3,436 lynchings that occurred between 1889 and 1922. States "Do you know that the United States is the Only Land on Earth where people are burned at the stake?" Reports that 83 women have been lynched...

GLC06197

[Response of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to a Constitutional question about fines and forfeitures].

In response to Timothy Matlack's inquiry of the twentieth section of the Constitution of the State of Pennsylvania, Justice McKean gives the opinion of the justices that the chief executives ability to grant remissions of "fines" also comprehends...

GLC06280

to Ruth Patton

Writes to his mother regarding his political aspirations and having met several congressmen who were less than gentlemanly. Mentions hearing that one congressman was at Patton's parent's wedding. Adds that he has gone horse-back riding and is...

GLC06345

Japanese internment broadside

This broadside, printed in Los Angeles, ordered "all persons of Japanese ancestry" to assemble for transport to detention camps. The document gives specific directions to families about what they could take with them-household and personal items...

GLC06360

to C. H. Betts

Responds to criticism from Betts over an article Roosevelt wrote in The Outlook denouncing the New York Court of Appeals for their decision to rule the workmen's compensation act unconstitutional. States that their conduct was, " ... a most flagrant...

GLC06422

Young Africa, or the Bone of Contention

Carte de visite half-length vignette, showing a black infant, with wide-open eyes and mouth, wearing plaid dress

GLC06437

to Leonard Fulton Ross

General Quinby, Commander of the 7th Division, 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, writes from the steamer Superior. Encloses an extract from a letter (not included) in which General Ulysses S. Grant informs General James Birdseye McPherson of...

GLC06462

Views of slavery

Abolitionist broadside with six images depicting kidnapping, torture, auction, and labor of enslaved people. With Channing quotation, "Our laws know no higher crime than that of reducing a man to slavery. To steal or to buy an African on his own...

GLC06477

to Sylvia Willett

Discusses women suffrage in Wyoming in the election of 1900. Comments that turnout among women was high, but "their voting does not help purify politics." Willett supported the candidacy of Williams Jennings Bryan. Also comments on bad weather...

GLC06594

[The Lancaster pocket almanack, for the year 1778. Being the third year of American Independency. Inscribed by William Ellery].

Title continues: "and the neighbouring states; containing a variety of useful lists and tables." Signed on the cover with his title: "Lancaster Almanack for 1778." Includes 24 blank pages for notes, which Ellery has filled with diary, notes, and...

GLC06669

to Emily J. Semmes re: deathbed description of Gettysburg, Wheatfield

Also discusses severe injuries that he incurred (written one day prior to his death).

GLC06823

La Destruction de la Statue Royale a Nouvelle Yorck [New York]

New York Sons of Liberty destroying a statue of King George III. Highly imaginative scene with late Baroque buildings more characteristic of Germany or Austria or perhaps Holland. Hand-colored. Background shows a full-length statue (it was...

GLC06952

The Crisis: or essays on the usurpations of the Federal government. By Brutus

Inscribed by "The author" to Stephen Elliot on cover wrapper and signed again at the bottom of the dedication page. First edition. Turnbull became the leader of the nullification movement in the South and, after his untimely death in 1833, was...

GLC06994

to Alexander Stephens

"I much rather be at home waiting on your company than be here at this hateful school." Written by Fannie, an ex-slave of Stevens while attending the Normal School at Atlanta University, in Georgia.

GLC07019

to Samuel Osgood

Knox writes to Osgood, a Continental Congressman. Thanks him for the "disinterested attention" he has paid Knox in several instances. Assures Osgood he prizes their friendship highly. Reports that George Washington has instructed him to dissolve...

GLC02437.02875

to Henry Knox

Writes that he received Knox's last letter: "I rejoice with you & your family in the prospect of your being so soon well & a perfect cure effected." After reading his letter, showed it to Ben [Hichborn], who declared he has written to Knox about...

GLC02437.04138

to Henry Knox

Thanks Knox for sending his application to President Washington and also informs him that the Rhode Island state convention adjourned without discussing the question of whether or not to adopt the Constitution. Writes that "[t]his Extraordinary Step...

GLC02437.04533

To: Spaulding

Mrs. Grant has received the jewelry Spaulding sent her. He writes that Grant said he thought the ornament might have been carved from "the wood of the tree under which Col. Babcock found Gen. Lee near the Appomattox C.H. when sent after Lee to come...

GLC04360.036

To: H. A. Spaulding

Parker modestly recounts his military career with General Grant for possible publication by Spaulding. "There is nothing particularly brilliant in my military history . . . ."

GLC04360.037

To: Col. Lubey

Requesting an additional ticket for the memorial services at Arlington. [Retired General John A. Logan, acting as Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, established Decoration Day, now known as Memorial Day, on May 29, 1868.]

GLC04360.040

The Kansas question. Speech of Hon. Thomas Bocock, of Virginia, in the House of Representatives, March 8, 1858.

Printed at the Congressional Globe Office. Bocock, a U.S. Representative from Virginia, declares: "I do not know what will be the effect of a refusal to admit Kansas under the Lecompton constitution. I am not authorized to speak the views of...

GLC05116.20

to Henry J. Raymond

Writes to the editor of the New York Times and Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Union [Republican] Party. Urges Raymond to collaborate with the New York Young Men's Republican Union, which had sponsored and published Lincoln's...

GLC05303.01

to John G. Bourke

"I hate to bring in any question of race origin into our politics, and I want to see us all act simply and purely as Americans."

GLC08001

to his sister

Details Archer's life from his departure from London bound for Bermuda on June 13, 1864 to his return from Florida through the blockade on March 23, 1865. "...[I] made every narrow escape from, starving to death, and being eaten up by alligators..."...

GLC01896.079

[Account of books and magazines sent to Henry Knox]

Invoice lists items sent from London and their costs. The second page has an autograph letter identical to GLC02437.00008. Longman was a London bookseller.

GLC02437.00009

to Henry Knox

Order for stationary supplies for Daniel Hopkins in Salem, Massachusetts. Placed by David Hopkins.

GLC02437.00038

to Henry Knox

Reminds Knox about a year-old order for books that has not been filled. Wonders if the list he gave Knox has been lost. Oliver was one of the founders of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society.

GLC02437.00124

to Charles Knowles

Knox writes to Knowles, paymaster of the Massachusetts artillery. Encloses a return pertaining to Lieutenant Samuel Jefferds and his men (refer to GLC02437.02974). Instructs Knowles to give a copy of the return to Major Sebastian Bauman.

GLC02437.02975

to William Hull

Knox writes to Hull, commandant of West Point. Reports on public dislike of the Society of Cincinnati: "The [Country] people in general appear to dislike the Cincinnati- they are afraid that it contains some hidden design..." Reports that the...

GLC02437.02976

to Henry Knox

Partridge, a Continental Congressman, discusses Knox's appointment as Secretary at War: "This Congress made choice of you to be their Secretary in the War Department, but it is rather doubtful with some of your friends whither [sic] you will accept...

GLC02437.03104

to Henry Knox

Delivered to the governor a note that Knox wrote in his favor. Would like very much to be in the army, but if there is no possibility of that, will "in good Earnest set about making my arrangements for evacuating altogether this Country in Favor of...

GLC02437.03394

to Jeremiah Wadsworth

Discusses how best to handle Shays and his supporters. Writes, "I will venture to predict that the insurgents must find security in Arms or they must fly the Country I found this opinion on the moral impossibility, of the existence of government...

GLC02437.03395

to Henry Knox

Thanks him for the information from Monsieur La Forest about his sons, who were in France for their education (see GLC02437.03714 for a related letter). Laments that he did not meet up with La Forest when he was in New York and discusses paying the...

GLC02437.03731

to Henry Knox

Morris, who will soon embark for Europe, thanks Knox for his well wishes (GLC02437.04045). Notes, "Whatever Orders you have in Europe if (as Mr. Burgoyne says) within my Scale of Talent command me."

Signer of the U.S. Constitution.

GLC02437.04046

to unknown [incomplete]

Letter addressed only to "My dear friend," responding to a letter of 24 February 1789. Discusses Waldo patent business, specifically responding to the mistaken claims of Mr. Parkman regarding a sum of 2000 dollars.

GLC02437.04137

to Edward Carrington

Unsigned, but authorship inferred from handwriting. Discusses Carrington's last letter, in which he reported the winners of the Virginia elections and described his prediction that the electorate would "change their sentiments" to support federalism...

GLC02437.04139

to Henry Knox

Discusses recent financial difficulties, and asks to borrow money from Knox "to appear a little decent as were I lodg'd they have taken all my Cloths I should have wait'd on you myself But my dress was such that I was asham'd..." Previously asked...

GLC02437.04434

to Henry Knox

Discusses the financial affairs of a Mr. Pemberton, noting that Pemberton's estate is in the hands of overseers (of Boston), and the interest was to be given to the relief of "such poor persons as had formerly lived in genteel life..." Notes that the...

GLC02437.04444

to Henry Knox

Discusses his business with [Samuel] Parkman and Messrs [Nicholas] Hoffman and [Son], noting it will soon be settled. Informs Knox he will be sailing in the near future, thanks to Parkman. Writes that "[l]anguage is insufficient to express how much...

GLC02437.04532

to Samuel Parkman

Discusses business related to Samuel Shaw and Messrs [Nicholas] Hoffman and [Son] and Shaw's upcoming China trip on the Jay. Notes the Hoffman's will be informing Parkman of their situation concerning Shaw. They are willing to advance Parkman, on...

GLC02437.04534

to Henry Knox

Refers to the poor financial situation of Mr. Tracy, presumably Nathaniel Tracy. Relates that Major Gibbs pursued Tracy into another state to collect a debt. Discusses a petition before the Massachusetts general court related to Knox's Maine lands...

GLC02437.04535

to Samuel Shaw [incomplete ?]

May be missing its beginning page(s). Discusses a proposal apparently geared to help Shaw and [Thomas] Randall avoid debt if "the Jay" (likely a ship) does not arrive according to plan. Mentions that he will likely not be able to write again before...

GLC02437.04569

to Henry Knox

Encloses a letter from Captain David Cook (see GLC02437.04873) to Secretary of War Knox explaining Cook's want of money that has forced him to be detained in Philadelphia. Says he would give Cook "forty dollars" if he could, but he is not in a...

GLC02437.04874

to Henry Knox

Writes, "Mr. [Matthew] McConnell has discounted for me the note you was so obliging as to accept & remitted me the money - I think there is no probability of a charter being granted for another New Bank in New York - it is a pity this rage for...

GLC02437.05335

to Henry Knox

Reports that the interest of Thomas Goldthwait in the Penobscot lands came into his hands part by purchase and part by a debt owed to Taylor's father, Nathaniel Taylor. Claims he now owns 1/5 of the township of Frankfort along the Penobscot River....

GLC02437.05845