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1895/03/08

Wallace, Lew, fl. 1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to W. G. Sibley re: personal matters

Apparently thanking Sibley for a positive review, letting Wallace "rank above Dickens."

GLC02453.04

1889/10/13

Burroughs, John, 1837-1921

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Riding re: thanking for editing his article

GLC02453.05

1887/03/10

English, Thomas, fl. 1887

Autograph letter signed

Title: Thank you note, with AMS poem "Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt"

Thank you note, accompanied by poem 23 September 1843 (22.6 x 18 cm.).

GLC02453.10

1892/12/22

Field, Eugene, 1850-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Herbert re: regarding brother's arrival in Chicago

GLC02453.11

1897/05/30

Fiske, John, 1842-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to the Review of Reviews re: about article edits

GLC02453.12

1884/08/06

George, Henry, 1839-1897

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Knight re: about writing an essay

GLC02453.14

30 December [1883]

Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Jackson Hunt

Mentions the 27 December 1883 death of General Andrew Atkinson Humphreys. Writes that Humphrey's death "... was a shock to me. It is a reminder of the uncertainty of life at our age." Refers to John Alexander Logan, a General and Senator, and mentions an unspecified action Logan must take to assist Hunt. Date inferred from content.

GLC02382.077

1890/12/05

Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Anna Harrison Morris re: prayers for a relative and worries of office

Thanks Morris for informing him of Maggies condition.

GLC02793.050

1881/02/24

Document

Title: Connecticut House bill no. 185 re: erection of telephone and telegraph lines

Concerning the rights to land ownership of companies or people who erect telegraph or telephone wires.

GLC05702

1894/06/14

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. W. Chandler

On stationery of US Civil Service Commission. "There must be failure and sorrow, where life is as it should be, eager, strenuous, vigorous. It has been a hobby of mine that intellect was of small moment compared to character." With envelope.

GLC05726

1880/04

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Letter

Title: to Nahum Capen re: Grant's presidential campaign

Written in purple ink and signed (for her husband) by Varina Davis. "With all his stupidity, neglect of his duties and abuse of his trust... the case must be hopeless. [...] God forbade war to coerce the seceding tribes (of Israel) to return. "

GLC05719

1884/09/13

Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James E. Neal re: election campaign for presidency, written as Gov. of NY

"A public office is a public trust." Signed as governor, on printed stationery.

GLC05870

1882/11/20

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Autograph letter signed

Title: 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 enormously overrated abilities, and standing about on a par with Jefferson Davis -- minus the latter's boldness."

GLC05792

1894/05/17

Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901

Letter signed

Title: to Murat Halstead re: newspaper writer

Amusing personal letter written on mourning stationery, concerning his recent trip to New York and Brooklyn. He writes that since he has been free of work for the last year, he can be considerably more genial. "Few of the newspaper writers seem to get on to the fact that a poor ass, that is carrying three loads, cannot be expected to be as frisky as a ... colt."

GLC05797

1886/06-08

Steno book

Title: Steno book.

Noted as "Book 1 Cases from June to Aug 1886 A. W. Millgate Clerk."

GLC05756.158

February 9, 1889

Andrews, George L., 1828-1899

Autograph letter signed

Title: to H. K. Green

After reading the letter from Robert E. Lee addressed to his son Boo (George Washington Custis Lee) at West Point (GLC07081.01), Andrews confirms that it is the sort of letter he would have suspected from Lee. Also reports that G.W.C. Lee was the only son of Lee's enrolled at West Point in 1851. Andrews erroneously believes that the Lee referred to in "that slanderous report against the room of those fine Cadets Lee, Wood, & Turnbull" was Stephen G. Lee, son of Thomas Lee of South Carolina. Andrews was possibly the George L. Andrews who taught French at West Point from 1871 to 1892.…

GLC07081.02

[1880 ca.]

Hooker, Joseph, 1814-1879

Broadside

Title: Woman Suffrage and the Marriage Relation

Long broadsheet, printed letter to the editor of the Hartford Courant.

GLC06981

1891/07/31

Wood, Robert, fl. 1891

Broadside

Title: An Appeal to the colored voters of Hart County [with Clabe Garvin]

Issued by 2 black men (Wood and Clabe Garvin) from Bowling Green, Ky., who claimed to be falsely imprisoned because they refused to vote for a klansman. Unevenly inked.

GLC07018

1890 ca.

Smith and Buck

Photograph

Title: [Cabinet card of Mrs. Harriet Chapman]

Shows Mrs. Chapman, daughter of Lincoln's cousin Dennis Hanks, at about age 72. Provenance notes in pencil on back.

GLC07088.02

1897/09/22

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Sam Chapman

enclosed check to settle accounts; appointments by McKinley.

GLC03921.02

1887/03

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph manuscript

Title: Chemical analyses

Analyses of the first and second groups of elements, and third and fourth groups of metals, with a list of chemicals. Group analysis notes are stencil duplicates created at the Indiana University Chemistry Laboratory.

GLC04195.56

11 September

Autograph document

Title: [Envelope addressed to Henry B. Noyes and Mr. Phelps]

Envelope addressed to Henry B. Noyes and Mr. Phelps, Esquire. The address is in Chicago, Illinois, and a $.02 stamp of Washington's profile is included on the envelope.

GLC02150.46