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Letter of Judah P. Benjamin and his portrait [Decimalized .01-.02]

A letter from Confederate Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin to North Carolina Governor Henry T. Clark and a portrait of Benjamin.

GLC01353

[A list of officers detained, discharged officers, and letters to be carried home for the soldiers]

A list of officers detained in the service to the United States, officers discharged, and letters to be carried home for the soldiers.

GLC02669.036

[Letter certifying the service of a Billings Burch in the Revolutionary War]

Letter from Thomas Noyes and Nicholas Clark certifying that they were acquainted with a Billings Burch of Stonington, Connecticut during their Revolutionary War service. They say that Burch served under Colonel Lippet, Colonel Babcock, and General...

GLC02150.18

[Copy of letter to John Jacob Faesch directed to Henry Knox]

Written from the War Office. Marked "copy." Addressee on verso is Henry Knox, but letter is apparently a copy of one Lincoln wrote to John Jacob Faesch, a metalworker in the army's employ, which he forwarded to Knox. Writes, "I have been honor'd...

GLC02437.01605

Exercises marking the opening of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters

This pamphlet is a transcript of the ceremony for the opening of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters. This collection was founded by Carl Van Vechten and the ceremony took place at Sprague Memorial Hall.

JB00005

Politics in Ohio. Senator Chase's letter to Hon. A. P. Edgerton.

Also titled "Baltimore Democracy and Independent Democracy." In closing, Chase indicates his wish "...that the Ohio Democracy might maintain firmly and fearlessly their own noble creed; and that, hereafter, the action of the Ohio Democracy might...

GLC00267.192

to General Forteguerra re: extract of letter requesting loan of gunboats

"In consequence of the situation of the City & harbour of Tripoli it is necessary, in order to carry on our operations against that Regency with the greatest effect, that we should have Bomb-vessels & Gun-boats."

GLC02794.062

Jefferson's last letter to Mayor of Washington [small broadside on silk]

A printing of Jefferson's famous letter to the mayor of Washington, D.C., declining an invitation to a Fourth of July celebration. Jefferson hopes the Declaration to be a "signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and...

GLC04525

Letter of Gerrit Smith, to the Liberty Party of New-Hampshire

Criticizes the Liberty Party of New Hampshire for voting for slaveholders. Encourages the state to reconstruct a "true" liberty party, "a Party, which will sooner perish than vote for a proslavery man- and a Party, too, which will practically...

GLC04717.32

to Charles T. Beach re: printed circular letter on anti-slavery

"The present is the most auspicious period for the diffusion of antislavery statements." Counter signed by Francis Jackson.

GLC06862