26 May 1818

Crawford, William Harris, 1772-1834

Autograph letter signed

Title: [Letter to a newspaper on how government can help fund internal improvements]

Writes about a resolution passed at the last session of Congress stating that "all companies or incorporations associated for opening roads & making canals which they may respectively concure, require & deserve the aid of the government ... " These companies may provide the Treasury with information about their ventures in order to receive patronage from the government. Goes on to detail the exact information necessary to submit a claim. Written as Secretary of the Treasury.

GLC05530

9 February 1825

Clayton, Thomas, 1778-1854

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Delaware's Senator Clayton communicates the House of Representatives election of John Quincy Adams to the presidency.

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12 June 1819

Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841

Manuscript signed

Title: To the Editors of the National Intelligencer

Defends himself against General James Winchester's attack on his character and conduct in the command of the North Western Army in the War of 1812 Ohio campaign. Concerns who was to blame for sending out a detachment of the army beyond the reach of support. The detachment was almost completely destroyed by the British and Indians. Includes a copy of a letter written to Harrison by Samuel G. Hopkins and dated 24 February 1813 that supports his views. With corrections and an autograph endorsement signed by Harrison on pages 11 and 12.

GLC05565

1828

Broadside

Title: An account of the bloody deeds of General Jackson

Broadside with four woodcuts. The first shows an officer, likely Jackson, ordering an execution squad to "Fire!!" on six militiamen. In the second two Jacksonian officers, one ordering "F-F-Fire!" against a kneeling man in front of his coffin, saying "O God!! My poor mother," while another, probably Jackson, exclaims "Blow ten balls thro' the d-d rascal." The third depicts Jackson dueling with Charles Dickinson, saying as he shoots, "I'll have your heart's blood." The fourth is a simple coffin illustrating "The Case of Neil Cameron." The text summarizes the events depicted, and a number…

GLC05566

November 18, 1818

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Manuscript document signed

Title: "Commencement" address to Congress

Commencement Message of President Monroe to both houses of Congress. Begins with positive assessment of America's situation and a discussion of a trade agreement with Great Britain. Then gets into relations with Spain, the real thrust of the speech. Defends recent American actions against Florida. Says that Spanish territory in North America is poorly policed, claiming "the government of Spain, has scarcely been felt." Says criminals and marauding Indian tribes have used Florida as a base to attack the United States. Says Spain could have prevented problems by ceding the territory to America…

GLC05569

February 15, 1828

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Wilson Lumpkin

Responds to a part of a speech given by Lumpkin, a Georgia congressman, dealing with Indian tribes east of the Mississippi. Contends that Indians "can only be perpetuated as tribes, or nations, by concentrating them west of the Mississippi upon lands secured to them, forever, by the United States, where its...liberal protecting care, can be extended to them." He is happy Lumpkin is on a congressional committee considering the topic. Includes small undated collateral print.

GLC05695

circa 1820

Hill, Rowland, fl. 1820

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Bolton

Rowland, an evangelical preacher, discusses a possible meeting with Mr. Jay somewhere between Wotten and Bath. Also, he also does not know the result of the correspondence between Mr. Potter and Bolton. Dated Saturday evening.

GLC05508.128

7 September 1825

Mason, Lowell, fl. 1825

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. C. Mason

Mason writes to his mother. He meditates on how children come to appreciate their parents as they grow older and hopes to see his mother next season. He expresses that it is more important that they meet in the next life than in this one, and relies on his faith in Jesus to bring him hope that his expectations will be met. Mason reports on and inquires about family affairs and remarks that his leisure time is spent pursuing music. He mentions a book containing several of his compositions.

GLC05508.179

1818

Whelpley, Samuel, fl. 1818

Book

Title: Letters addressed to Caleb Strong... [attacking capital punishment & war]

Full title: "Letters addressed to Caleb Strong, Esq., ... showing that retaliation, capital punishment, and war are prohibited by the Gospel...." Third edition printed by Miller & Hutchen. Justifies pacifism.

GLC05208

1826

Shaler, William, 1773-1833

Book

Title: Sketches of Algiers, political, historical and civil...

Printed by Cummings, Hilliard and Company. First edition. Original worn paperboards and quarter leather. Written by Shaler as American Consul General at Algiers. Includes chapter 7 "Extracts of the journal kept in the consulate of the United States, at Algiers," which appears to be the only original materials. (The rest appears to derive from other works, as per Shaler's preface.)

GLC05246.04

1820-1890

Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851

Header Record

Title: Collection of two items pertaining to James Fenimore Cooper [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC05258

10 June 1820

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Caesar A. Rodney

Written as Speaker of the House. Acknowledges Rodney's letter of 22 May 1820. Rodney asked Clay to hold off on retiring from the House of Representatives, but Clay is adamant, saying "I have reasons, altogether of a private nature, for retiring from the H. of R. which if it were worth while to trouble you with them, I think you would admit justifys my resolution." Says he believes in the maxim of one belonging to his country, but says now is not the time to sacrifice himself since he predicts the country will be at peace for the short term. Believes there is interesting matters to take care…

GLC05265

1817

Washington, Bushrod, 1762-1829

Pamphlet

Title: A view of exertions lately made for the purposes of colonizing the free people of colour, in the United States, in Africa, or elsewhere

A pamphlet containing Bushrod's memorial as president of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States, along with other writings on the subject of colonization. Includes speeches by Henry Clay and many others, resolutions, and a "brief sketch of Sierra Leone." Printed by Jonathan Elliot. Disbound pamphlet.

GLC05181

10 May 1824

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1749-1877

Document signed

Title: Statement of bills paid by Cornelius Vanderbilt for steamboat Thistle at first cost

Co-signed by William Gibbons. Lists bills Vanderbilt paid in April and May 1824, settled at $4617.88. Written on ledger paper.

GLC05179

4 November 1827

Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Creighton, Jr.

Provides a copy of a statement "which took place in the Senate," discussing allegations of a deal between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay to win Adams the presidency in 1824, in which an investigation into the matter was refused. Asks that it be published.

GLC05462

1821

Header Record

Title: Northwest Boundary: with 4 letters, printed report and folding map

Fixing the Northwest boundary between the U.S. and Canada, as far as Oregon Territory. Including complete record of American and British exploration parties. Manuscript book accompanied by map (#8) and 7 other items,starting with early preliminaries.

GLC05634

1825

Blair, John D., 1759-1823

Book

Title: [Sermons collected from the manuscripts of the late Rev. John D. Blair].

Signed by John Marshall. With pasted signature of E. J. Laughlin on front pastedown. Blair was Chaplain of the Virginia House of Delegates and the sermons are about the death of Washington; criticism of the writings of Thomas Paine; and various religious topics. With numeric code penciled on the first four blank endpapers, similar to the diplomatic secret code (cypher) used to encode and decode letters. Marshall used cypher in his role as negotiator during the XYZ Affair. He was Secretary of State from 1800 until 1801 and Chief Justice of the United States from 1801 until 1835. Shoemaker…

GLC05605

30 November 1818

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John C. Calhoun

Acknowledges the appointment of an agent to the Choctaw Indian Nation. Expresses gratitude that the treaty he and Isaac Shelby brokered with the Chickasaws met with then Secretary of War Calhoun's approval. In the treaty, the Chickasaw relinquished their claims to land east of the Mississippi River and north of the Mississippi state line and were given a $20,000, fifteen-year annuity. After Secretary of War Calhoun's approval, President Monroe made the agreement official on January 7, 1819. As a result, both Kentucky and Tennessee expanded far beyond their former border, the Tennessee…

GLC05589

February 5, 1825

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Document signed

Title: [Certifying copyright for the 1825 enlarged edition of Nathan Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant].

Notes that Samuel Green, stereotype printer, is granted copyright to Nathan Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant a "plain, practical system of arithmetic,... adapted to the United States." Marked "No. 687." Written while Adams was Secretary of State.

GLC05320

2 May 1817

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tristam Dalton

Thanks him for the copy of Agriculture Magazine he sent. Regarding cattle feed, he states that instead of the widely used crops of carrots, potatoes, and beets, he recommends Jerusalem artichoke and succory (chicory). He describes the merits of these two crops. Shares his method for plowing hillsides horizontally, which he states his son-in-law (Thomas Mann Randolph) has been doing for years with great success because it prevents rainfall from carrying the soil away. Discusses a modified plow which works well on uneven land. Ends by saying that horizontal, deep plowing, "beginning to be…

GLC07670.01

16 June 1828

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Captain Partridge

Written by Monroe in retirement to a Captain Partrdige. Says he has the pleasure of sending a copy of his memoir (not included here) on the subject of his claims for backpay as a diplomat. Claims he is asking for the money now because "There was no period, at which the subject, could be brought forward, with propriety, prior to my retirement from office, when I could have no influence, on the decision." Says that despite the injury it caused him, he postponed it to avoid talk of impropriety. Claims he has never asked for any favors, but that the documents support his claims. When Monroe left…

GLC07672

26 June 1825

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Smith Shaw

Former President Adams discusses Native American and African religion with Shaw, his nephew and former private secretary. States "Dr. Jarvis has assigned some good causes of the too general inattention to the religion of the indians. But those causes do not apply to the negroes. We have thousands if not millions of them domesticated with us. We might examine them. But who asks them a question? Or studies their languages ... Why are not Bibles translated into negro and sent to the gold coast?" Refers to a slave named Glasgow owned by Boston pastor Samuel Cooper. States that when Cooper…

GLC07533

1822-1826 ca.

Marshall, John, 1755-1835

Autograph manuscript

Title: Notes on edition of George Washington's correspondence [fragment]

Docketed "Page 7 of Jno Marshall mss from his Life of Washington." In fact, these appear to be notes on events in Washington's life referring to page numbers. There is a long struck passage in the lower center of the page.

GLC07603

1817

Torrey, Jesse, fl. 1817

Book

Title: A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery

Engraved frontispiece and 5 additional plates.

GLC07596

6 December 1823

Fry, William, 1777-1855

Newspaper

Title: National gazette. [Vol. IV, no. 434 (December 6, 1823)]

Part of a signature cut off at masthead appears to be "J. M. Sanders." The entire front page and part of the second page is taken up with the President James Monroe's message to Congress that announced the Monroe Doctrine, which was designed to keep European powers from interfering in the Western Hemisphere. The Gazette included a positive editorial on the speech as well. An article says the two houses of Congress ordered a combined total of 9,000 copies of Monroe's speech printed. An article reports on the condition of prisons in Philadelphia. Other articles include: a report on problems of…

GLC08794