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1859/11/24
Taliaferro, William Booth, 1822-1898
to "My Darling Wife" re: doubting reported plan to rescue Brown
Written while guarding John Brown in prison.
GLC07638.02
1835/02/06
Travis, William B., fl. 1835
to David G. Burnet re: politics in Texas
"Austin has been admitted to Bail. Letters from him & Almonte say he will leave Mexico, intirely liberated, in a short time. The new election for governor, Lt. governor, and members of Congress, will take place here next Monday." Also mentions...
GLC07639
1842 ca.
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Landscape watercolor painted by Grant as cadet at West Point
Signed in right hand corner "U.H. Grant". Includes 4 items collateral paperwork.
GLC07641
1818/08/18
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
to Henry Sherburne re: Treaty with the Chickasaw Nation
"Funds have been transmitted you to carry into effect the treaty with the Chickasaw Nation of the 30th of December 1815, and also for the payment of the annuity due them under that treaty for 1817...." Sherburne, a Rhode Island native, was...
GLC07644
1770/05/02
Botetourt, Norborne B., fl. 1770
re: authorizing justices in Charlotte Co. to execute slaves for capital offenses
Authorizes justices in Charlotte County to execute slaves who commit capital offenses. With collateral newspaper article.
GLC07645
1861/09/17
Taylor, Walter Herron, 1838-1916
to Sally Tompkins re: battle at Richmond Mountain
"[T]he expedition not wholly baren of good results. We captured all their pickets...the plan was well arranged (and that is all my Genl [Lee] had to do with it) but...the assault was not made."
GLC07646
1871/09/24
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Engraving inscribed by Sherman
"If...you would take the trouble to examine the volume throughout, and to minute all the passages where your recollection or your notes would detect an error, it would confer a new and valuable obligation upon me...."
GLC07647
1770/03/23
Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775
to George Grenville re: aftermath of Boston Massacre, troop presence in Boston
"It was so apparently incompatible with the Safety of the town for the troops to continue any longer in it, that His Majesty's Council were unanimous in their Advice to the Lieutenant Governor, that they should be removed to the Barracks at Castle...
GLC07649
[1880 ca.]
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
Does a College Education Pay re: supporting college education
"The methods employed in any enterprise and occupation, have so changed within the last fifty years, that a necessity has risen for an advanced grade of intelligence and education."
GLC07650
1771/05/15
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
to Samuel Adams, et al. re: British policy & the potential loss of the colonies
"History shows that by these Steps great Empires have crumbled heretofore; and the late Transactions we have so much Cause to complain of, show that we are in the same Train, and that without a greater Share of Prudence and Wisdom than we seem on...
GLC07651
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