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18 December 1864
Jones, John, fl. 1862-1864
to his wife
Written from camp near Savannah. He has received a few letters. Hopes to be home by January. Includes a weather report.
GLC05981.55
15 February 1821
Robbins, Josiah, 1766-?
to Aaron Hobart
Informs Hobart that he received his letter and the certificate, and that he followed through with his directions, which related to port collections. Also discusses an appointment for the post office. Notes that he perceives that Hobart (as a...
GLC06313.04.112
17 February 1821
Warren, Henry, 1764-?
Discusses a legal matter. Mentions that Judge Davis' refusal of 'probable cause' was owing to the certificate said to have accompanied the tin." Claims that he was not aware of the tin and was unable to obtain the evidence from the certificate....
GLC06313.04.114
11 December 1821
Gay, Ebenezer, 1771-1842
Mentions that he had a meeting with the commissioners "under the Florida Treaty," referring to the 1819 Adams-Onis Treaty (annexing Florida), which was ratified in 1821. The bulk of the letter discusses a claim related to a bankruptcy case, and...
GLC06313.04.118
13 December 1821
Indicates that he has sent a "proposal to the Commissioners of the Navy, to furnish Cordage." Asks Hobart to help him get the contract by exerting his influence in a letter to the commissioners. Describes his capacity to complete the contract....
GLC06313.04.119
14 December 1821
Home, John, fl. 1821
Explains that the Collector of the Customs's office in his district will soon be vacant. Indicates that he is planning on applying for the position and seeks Hobart's support and assistance in obtaining the post.
GLC06313.04.120
19 December 1821
James, Elisha, 1785-?
Informs Hobart, on the request of his "Townsman and neighbor," Ezekiel Jones, that Jones desires a regular commission in the Navy. Describes and recommends Jones, sharing his opinion and suitability for such a position.
GLC06313.04.121
24 December 1821
Sampson, Zabdiel, 1781-1828
Indicates that he voted against a bankruptcy law when a member of Congress, describing such laws as "one of the great evils that always to be avoided." Also notes that he believes the people of Hobart's district would vote overwhelmingly against a...
GLC06313.04.122
1858 - circa 1897
Wright, Miller A., fl. 1861-1864
[Personal and military correspondence and documents related to August or Miller Wright] [decimalized]
More than half of these items, to, from, or relating to Augustus or Miller Wright, are Civil War-period. Includes an 9 February 1864 autograph letter signed from Walter Herron Taylor, aide to Robert E. Lee, regarding General Lee's refusal to approve...
GLC02691.11
1856
Colton, Joseph Hutchins, 1800-1893
Map to illustrate Capt. Bonneville's adventures among the Rocky Mountains.
The map covers the western United States, with Washington, Oregon, California, Utah, New Mexico, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, and Arkansas. Published in New York by George P. Putnam. Owned by John Moore (1826-1907), an army surgeon with the Utah...
GLC04194.01
13 January 1873
Middleton, Daniel Wesley, 1805-1880
[Appointment of Cephas Brainerd as Attorney of the Supreme Court]
Middleton, clerk of the Supreme Court, appoints Brainerd as attorney of the U.S. Supreme Court per a motion made by former congressman, senator and judge Truman Smith. Smith was Brainerd's former law partner. Includes engraved illustration. Features...
GLC04471.11
circa 1914
[Event at the Union League Club]
One undated sepia-toned photograph of attendees at an event at the Union League Club. Pictured is mostly men seated in rows facing backwards towards the camera. A few women sit in the audience as well. Some empty seats marked "Reserved for members."...
GLC04471.16
13 April 1861
Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869
New York times. [Vol. X, no. 2983 (April 13, 1861)]
The headline announces the firing on Fort Sumter by Confederate Troops, the beginning of the Civil War. Though the South had already seceded, physical confrontation did not begin until the fort was fired on. The paper reports in detail the events...
GLC04661.06
12 March 1856
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Kansas affairs in the Senate. Minority report of the Senate committee on territories. Made March 12, 1856, by Judge Collamer, of Vermont.
Published by Buell & Blanchard. Collamer explores the issue of Kansas: "A Territory of our Government is now convulsed with violence and discord, and the whole family of our nation is in a state of excitement and anxiety. The national executive...
GLC05116.10
3 April 1856- 4 April 1856
Speech of Hon. Jacob Collamer of Vermont, on affairs in Kansas. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 3 and 4, 1856.
Printed at the Congressional Globe Office. Regarding Kansas, Senator Collamer states, "...I am not prepared at this moment to go at length into my reasons for believing as I do, that the best, the shortest, and the most quiet way is to admit that...
GLC05116.11
9 April 1856
Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872
Speech of Hon. William H. Seward for the immediate admission of Kansas into the Union; delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 9, 1856.
Printed at the Congressional Globe Office. Signed by J. I. Werner on cover. Seward states, "I will grant, for the sake of the argument, that with Federal battalions you can carry slavery into Kansas, and maintain it there. Are you quite confident...
GLC05116.12
19 May 1856
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts. In the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1856.
Sumner's speech was delivered in Washington, D.C. and published by the New York Tribune in New York City. Last page advertises and lists prices for different issues of the Tribune. Sumner declares, "...I fearlessly assert that the wrongs of much...
GLC05116.13
The Crime Against Kansas. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts. In the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1856.
Sumner's speech was delivered in Washington, D.C. and published by the New York Tribune in New York City. Contains the stamp of T. B. Pugh, bookseller, on the upper left corner of front cover. Contains water stains.
GLC05116.14
21 June 1856
Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885
The "Laws" of Kansas. Speech of the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana.
Colfax, a United States Representative from Indiana, writes "The only relief possible, if Kansas is not promptly admitted as a State, which I hope may be effected, is in a change of the Administration and of the party that so recklessly misrules the...
GLC05116.15
1 July 1856
Howard, William Alanson, 1813-1880
Subduing freedom in Kansas. Report of the Congressional Committee, presented in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 1, 1856.
Presented in the House of Representatives, published in New York by the Tribune Office. Howard and Sherman report the committee's findings on Kansas's struggle for admission to the Union: "It cannot be doubted that if its condition as a free...
GLC05116.16
6 August 1856
Sage, Russell, 1816-1906
Speech of Hon. Russell Sage, of New-York, on the profession and acts of the President of the United States; the repeal of the Missouri Compromise...
(title continues)... the outrages in Kansas; and the sectional influence and aggressions of the slave power. Delivered in the House of Representatives; published by Weed, Parsons & Co. in Albany, New York. Representative Sage quotes Henry Clay: " '...
GLC05116.18
8 March 1858
Bocock, Thomas S., 1815-1891
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
7 November 1789
Fenno, John, 1751-1798
Gazette of the United States. [No. 60 (November 7, 1789)]
Printed on page four is the act of Congress to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States (continued in the 2nd issue of the Gazette, see GLC08757.02). A letter of John Adams dated 16 October 1780 concerning troops in the Revolutionary War...
GLC08757.01
circa 1862
Scammon, Eliakim Parker, 1816-1894
to Jacob Dolson Cox
Writes to General Cox, the Commander of the District in Charleston, about Lieutenant Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes's scouts. States that they have not returned due to high water. Mentions that they will probably not meet opposition at Princetown...
GLC02414.032
20 June 1774
Rivington, James, 1724-1802
to Henry Knox
Suggests collecting payment from Knox's subscribers to Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, since they have had it a year. Requests a list of subscribers to Cook's Voyage, which Rivington was printing. Asks Knox to forward to New York any news Boston...
GLC02437.00156
26 June 1774
Requests that Knox buy and send him soap. Also asks Knox to write him a letter describing the state of things in Boston; at the time, the British had just passed the Intolerable Acts, including the Boston Port Bill, which closed Boston Harbor on 1...
GLC02437.00157
Indicates that Dr. Morewood, who has been appointed by Dr. Norton to distribute Maredants Drops, seeks an agent for distribution in Boston. Rivington has recommended Knox. Also asks him to collect money from subscribers to his newspaper, Rivington...
GLC02437.00159
27 June 1774
Bass, Phillipe, fl. 1774
Captain Bass informs Knox that he knew his brother John when they sailed to London together. States that he has "been sick going on three years which has seduced me to the necessity to ask favours from Sundry Gentleman." Asks Knox for a donation.
GLC02437.00160
4 July 1774
Knox, Hugh, 1727-1790
Asks Henry to help him acquire subscribers for his new publication, which will be printed in New York shortly, possibly referring to "Moral and religious miscellany; or, Sixty-one aphoretical essays, on some of the most important Christian doctrines...
GLC02437.00161
10 July 1774
Ruggles, John, 1742-?
Captain Ruggles orders magazines.
GLC02437.00162
13 July 1774
Fletcher, Thomas, fl. 1774
Tells Knox that he referred a friend, Hugh Knox, to him for the purpose of obtaining subscriptions for his upcoming publication of religious essays. Although Fletcher feels that the world has enough of such treatises, he thinks it may be of use to...
GLC02437.00163
14 July 1774
Wright, & Gill, fl. 1753-1798
Indicates that they received Knox's payment. In regard to the Boston Port Bill, they write that they "are extremely sorry for the Situation of our Friends at Boston, and heartily wish that every Difference was so far settled, as that a mutual good...
GLC02437.00164
30 July 1774
Newell, Andre, fl. 1774
Orders a dressing table (toilet) from Knox.
GLC02437.00165
19 July 1774
Dudley, Charles, fl. 1774
Inquires about a book order.
GLC02437.00166
20 July 1774
Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809
Explains why he has not written sooner. Discusses working on a fishing ship and being owed money by his employer. He fears the possibility of staying in Newfoundland until the fall, citing that the town lacks amusements, even a "five alley." He...
GLC02437.00167
21 July 1774
Waldo, Jonathon, fl. 1721-1779
to William Knox
Comments on his poor health, "a bad cold which has affected my eyes." Asks Knox to send an enclosed letter to his mother. Mentions that he will be visiting Sally Flucker. Expects to see Knox soon.
GLC02437.00168
25 July 1774
Discusses various issues related to their business dealings. Comments on collecting fees from subscribers to Rivington's New-York Gazetteer. Mentions that he will discuss Knox's terms for business with Dr. Morewood (see GLC024137.00158). Orders...
GLC02437.00169
27 July 1774
Paine, William, fl. 1774
Places an orders for paper.
GLC02437.00170
28 July 1774
Informs Knox that the regiment of Royal Welch Fusiliers has embarked from New York to Boston, and that he has recommended them to Knox's shop. Having heard that Hyson tea was scarce in Boston, Rivington indicates that he has sent four chests of it...
GLC02437.00171
29 July 1774
Requests another copy of a book that he ordered previously but believes to have been lost.
GLC02437.00172
circa July 1864
Stanley, Lucius T., 1844-1934
Battlefield Peach Tree Cr. Fought July 20 1864 Scale 4 in. pr. mi. from actual Survey by Topogs. of 1st Div 20 Corps
Notes houses, roads, military trails, locations of Union, including 1-3 Divisions of the 26th Corps and Confederate troops, lines of artillery, and barracks. Items are identifiable though the legend on the top of the map. Signed "Stanley fecit." Map...
GLC02710.35
[Union Civil War battlefield map of the Battle of Peachtree Creek]
Untitled draft of "Battlefield Peach Tree Cr. Fought July 20 1864 Scale 4 in. pr. mi. from actual Survey by Topogs. of 1st Div 20 Corps," found in GLC02710.35. Notes houses, Howel's Mill and Collier's Mill, a burned bridge, roads, and waterways...
GLC02710.36
circa May 1863
[Chancellorsville map showing Hooker, Jackson's attack, and site of the latter's death]
Shows Stonewall Jackson's route, his attack on the 11th Corps on 2 May 1863, and the "Place where Jackson was killed." Many annotations on reconnaissance, military activities, and places occupied by certain commanders, including Joseph Hooker. Shows...
GLC02710.37
circa 1864
Atlanta, and its rebel defences
Printed Civil War map from the Atlanta Campaign. Names major streets. The Fair Ground, Cemetery, the Locomotive House of the W & A Railroad, the Atlanta Steam Tannery, White Hall, and the headwaters of South River are indicated. The tracks for the...
GLC02710.38
circa 1861-1916
Jenks, Ethan A., fl. 1825-1901
[Collection of Ethan A. Jenks, company I, seventh regiment, Rhode Island volunteers] [decimalized]
The first group of size one documents in the Ethan A. Jenks collection primarily contains Civil War correspondence related to the Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers. This group begins with Jenks' enlistment as Recruiting Officer (#2), and...
GLC02750
14 April 1865
Sarsons, Eleazer L., 1836-?
to his brothers and sisters
Explains the course of travel that brought him to Goldsboro, North Carolina and his expectation to head to the front. Comments that "this Rebellion is about played out they are in our grasp. Lee has surrendered and Johnson is hemed in...Richmond is...
GLC03953.01
1861-1865
[Eleazer L. Sarsons]
Civil War era tintype of Sarsons from waist up, in a formal uniform with two rows of vertical buttons. He is hatless. GLC03953.18-.20 show Sarsons in different ranks, from private to captain.
GLC03953.18
25 November 1857
Moore, John, 1826-1907
to Mary Kelly
Complains of deprivations on the Mormon trail during the Utah Expedition. Describes hardships due to frigid temperatures and supplies burned by Mormons. He has received no mail.
GLC04194.04
21 December 1867
Godwin, James, fl. 1867
Echoes of the Christmas Chimes
Removed from The Illustrated London News, p. 681. Depicts a group of well dressed men, women, and children enjoying each other's company. The group is surrounded by smaller, allegorical figures dressed as angels and ancient Greeks or Romans, flying...
GLC04471.13
7 January 1914
Drucker & Co., fl. 1914
Committee on Political Reform. The Union League Club. N.Y. Jan. 7, 1914.
One black-and-white photograph entitled, "Committee on Political Reform," dated January 7, 1914." Image is of ten men in tuxedos around a dinner table at the Union League Club. Fourth from the left sits Samuel W. Fairchild, then President of the...
GLC04471.14
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