1860/11/27

Davis, Charles H., fl. 1860

Autograph letter signed

Title: re: books

GLC02466.02

1838/02/01

Forsyth, John, 1780-1841

Letter signed

Title: to Hon. C. Morris re: copy of congressional journals and documents

Forsyth writes that the journals intended for Marietta College would be forwarded.

GLC02504.17

1846/07/31

Winthrop, Robert C., 1809-1894

Autograph letter signed

Title: to McClintock Young re: debt owed to sculptor Horatio Greenough

Written as Representative, to Young, in the Treasury Department. Greenough sculpted the famous (notorious) Washington statue in the capital which he completed in 1841. He also did numerous private commissions.

GLC02505.44

1848/12/02

Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Millard Fillmore re: information on state prisons

GLC02504.16

1842/05/11

Frelinghuysen, Theodore, fl. 1842

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander M. Carter (et al.) re: declining a speaking invitation

GLC02504.18

1834/01/05

Booth, Junius Brutus, 1821-1883

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Has learned that a valuable possession left with the recipient has been destroyed. Threatens to sue for five hundred dollars if the destroyed foot is not returned to him, his agent David Paul Brown or Mr. Duffy, the manager of the Arch Street Theatre.

GLC02508.02

1844/08/22

Parker, Foxall A., fl. 1844

Autograph letter signed

Title: re: applying for mastership of Brig

GLC02466.10

1834/11/12

Stringham, Silas Horton, 1797-1876

Autograph letter signed

Title: re: recommendation for a dismissed officer

GLC02466.14

1845/08/25

Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: re: acceptance in literary society

GLC02466.15

1850 ca.?

Payne, John H., fl. 1850

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Sanford re: personal matters

American actor and playwright of the mid-nineteenth century.

GLC02453.26

1856/02/25

Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872

Manuscript signed

Title: To the poets (from The New Pastoral) [poem]

GLC02453.28

[1847/03]

Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "Harris" re: political views, "clearly wrong to take money from emigrants"

GLC02453.36

1860/05/02

Worcester, Joseph, 1784-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Smith re: giving a copy of his dictionary to a friend

Worcester was the editor of "Chalmer's Dictionary".

GLC02453.37

1834/02/07

King, William R., 1786-1853

Autograph letter signed

Title: to R. J. Gordon

States that after a delay by the Treasury Department, he has obtained an order requiring "the district attorney to attend to the taking of the depositions" regarding the loss of money on board a steamboat. An audit by Mr. Elliott may resolve the matter without further action by Congress, but should a law be necessary, Gordon should forward "the depositions as soon as practicable." William Rufus de Vane King was a former representative from North Carolina, sitting senator from Alabama, and future (short-lived) vice president of the United States under Franklin Pierce.

GLC02512.07

1835/08/21

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Toland

Jackson agrees to pay the debt that his adopted son, Andrew Jackson Jr., owes on furniture that he had purchased two years earlier. Jackson adopted his son as an infant from his wife's brother and sister-in-law, Severn and Elizabeth Rucker. His high hopes for Andrew Jackson Jr. were never realized, and Jackson spent much of his last decade paying off debts for his son, as in this letter.

GLC02527

1844/01/25

Forrest, Edwin, fl. 1844

Autograph letter signed

Title: to F. C. Weymss re: sending actor's parts by express

GLC02508.06

February 28, 1860-1904

Murray, W.H.H., 1840-1904

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Buck

Informs him that he is traveling in England and is in a position to be well informed about current conditions there. Will write to him, and leaves the remuneration to him. Advises him not to print his letters until such time as he has done something "very bad or very good." Murray's writings helped popularize New York's Adirondack region.

GLC02509.07

1846/09/12

Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert J. Walker re: actions which he feels will sustain the tariff of 1846

[vice presidents]

GLC02512.02

1847/01/06

Johnson, Richard M., 1780-1850

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Y. Mason re: a recommendation for Edward A. Morrison

Vice President under Martin Van Buren. [vice presidents]

GLC02512.06

[1860]/10/27

Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "Webb" re: sending someone to speak in his place

(Autograph also available in GLC 4224, autograph album.) [vice presidents]

GLC02512.15

1830/10/18

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Header Record

Title: Letter by Andrew Jackson and engraving of him [Decimalized .01-.02]

A letter by President Andrew Jackson to Hardy M. Cryer, and an engraving of Jackson by A. B. Walter.

GLC02526

1858/07/03

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Newspaper

Title: New-York weekly tribune. [Vol. 17, no. 877 (July 3, 1858)]

Lincoln speech at Republican State Convention, printed in the New-York Herald Tribune, vol. XVII no. 877. Speech appears on page 3 under the section "Republican Principles", titled "Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, at the Republican State Convention, June 16, 1858." This early printing shows the national attention Lincoln received for the speech of June 16, despite his loss to Douglas. Greeley endorses the speech in an editorial on page 4.

GLC02534

1837/03/31

Long, Stephen H., 1784-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard Harlan

Thanks Dr. Harlan for the present he sent to Mrs. Long. Mentions receiving instruction for surveys of Maine and Massachusetts, which he will engage when the weather improves and the winter cold abates. Mentions sending a box of presents.

GLC02475.09

1860/10/15

Ellet, Charles, fl. 1860

Autograph letter signed

Title: to A. Thomas re: regarding family

GLC02480.04

[1847 ca.]

Header Record

Title: Collection of 10 documents relating to or by participants in the Mexican War [Decimalized .01- .11]

GLC02494