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7 July 1773
Coffin, Eben (fl. 1773)
to Henry Knox
Asks Knox to sell Coffin's violin in Knox's bookstore. Explains how he obtained the violin from England. In a post script, asks Knox to send him magazines.
GLC02437.00083
21 January 1774
Rivington, James (1724-1802)
Claims that he has no business relationship with Edes & Gill, and that he sent them none of the Keysey pills he sent to Knox. He leaves it to Knox "to take the proper methods of rendering them saleable." Orders books. States that he has placed an...
GLC02437.00120
17 March 1774
Discusses their business relationship. Asks Knox to have Paul Revere send him the prices of engraving plates titled the Storm and the Head. Asks if Knox wants his named placed in books Rivington was printing and indicates that he is sending some...
GLC02437.00128
8 April 1774
Indicates that he has enclosed a print that he wants Paul Revere to engrave immediately. Explains that he needs the engraving for a fold-out in a copy of Cook's Voyage he is printing. Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to...
GLC02437.00136
20 April 1774
Sends Knox pamphlets which he believes Knox does not have and will be of interest to his customers. Mentions that he has printed a letter to John Hancock in Rivington's New-York Gazetteer and would provide the opportunity for any of Hancock's...
GLC02437.00138
11 August 1774
Bird, Nathaniel (fl. 1774-1790)
Places an order for multiple copies of several plays, listed at the bottom of the first page. In a post script asks for a discount for "ready cash" and requests a catalogue of plays.
GLC02437.00176
18 July 1776
Knox, Lucy Flucker (ca. 1756-1824)
Thanks Henry for taking the time to write her "amidst the hurry of public business," referring to the revolutionary war activities in New York. Explains her travel plans, which will bring her to New Haven, Connecticut. Discusses their child's...
GLC02437.00381
10 January 1777
Knox, Henry (1750-1806)
to Lucy Knox
Has just received her letter and assures her "my heart is yours although my Country demands my poor pittance to endevor to rescue her from barbarity." Feels this barbarity, exemplified by Indians slaughtering innocents, enslaved people killing their...
GLC02437.00517
no date
Harmon, A.W.
The soldier's return
Printed copy of the lyrics to "The Soldier's Return" or "Air, Just before the Battle, Mother".
GLC02016.179.01
28 September 1851
Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)
to Thomas L. Sprague
Thanks Sprague, a schoolboy, for his compliments: "Through my mother, who recently visited your friends in Hingham, I have learned your kind interest in me, & the manner in which you have spoken of me in one of your exercises at school. The words of...
GLC02095.04
15 September 1863
to Epes Sargent
Sumner thanks Sargent for his sympathetic praise. Writes, "The verses on Shaw I had enjoyed before, & had sent to England," likely a reference to Sargent's poem, "Colonel Shaw: On Hearing that the Rebels Had Buried His Body Under a Pile of Twenty...
GLC02095.12
9 October 1864
to Theseus Apoleon Cheney
Writes that he is glad Cheney is regaining his health. Comments on the upcoming presidential election and the Civil War: "The good news must stimulate you. Of the result, political or military I cannot doubt. Mr. Lincoln will be re-elected, &...
GLC02095.14
1847
Mr. Sumner's Lecture on White Slavery in the Barbary States.
Sumner's lecture given before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, 17 February 1847. Published by William D. Ticknor and Company. Printed in Cambridge by Metcalf and Company, printers to the University. Inscribed on the original orange cover...
GLC02095.19
1856
The Crime Against Kansas. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts. In the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1856.
Sumner delivered this speech after the May 1856 debates on slavery in Kansas. Condemns Southern advocacy of the expansion of slavery. Published by Greeley and McElrath, New York. Advertised on cover page as being "for sale at the office of the New...
GLC02095.20
circa 1860
[Quotation of Charles Sumner on liberty]
Complete quotation reads: "For myself in a case of doubt I feel that I cannot go wrong when I lean to the side of Liberty."
GLC02095.25
16 March 1874
Unknown
Hymns and music at the funeral services of Charles Sumner.
Held at King's Chapel, Boston, 16 March 1874.
GLC02095.35
Brooks, Preston S. (1819-1857)
[Print with a clipped signature of Preston S. Brooks]
With clipped signature of Brooks. Both engraving and signature are pasted to backer page. A pencil note, also on backer page, explains that Brooks attacked Charles Sumner after Sumner's famous "Crime Against Kansas" speech in the Senate.
GLC02095.37
1860
Currier & Ives
Lithographs depicting Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin following their nomination as Republican candidates for President and Vice President respectively [Decimalized .01-.02]
GLC02132
8 January 1847
Ward, Thomas W.
[Receipt to Brown & Tarbor]
Receipt for payment to Brown & Tarbor for passage for African American woman and child. 1/8/1847. 1 p. + docket.
GLC02145.80.14
9 May 1862
[Receipt for violins and instruments]
Receipt for violins and instruments. 5/9/1862. 1 p. + docket.
GLC02145.80.17
25 December 1861
Miller, Michael Murray (1861-1864)
to Lile Miller
Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Complains that his wife does not write to him enough. Notes that the doctor gave his company a dose of medicine after they stood picket in the rain. Discusses the Christmas holiday in camp: a dress parade took...
GLC02155.025
20 February 1862
Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Writes, "...Please do not let one secession thought enter your heart for not for the world would i have you entertain one Secession principle... think of the stain that Rests on the second and third generation of...
GLC02155.035
26 January 1863
Miller writes to his wife from camp near White Oak Church. Mentions that his father, who is also in the military, is ward master of an unspecified hospital. Writes, "in this letter you filled a large space with the doings of of [sic] the Government...
GLC02155.079
18 March 1863
Comments that mistakes in the letter are due to his companions' singing. Also notes that making rings out of bone or wood has become fashionable in his company.
GLC02155.088
21 May 1863
Complains that some of his fellows have obtained a furlough, while he has not. Discusses Mr. Frey, a sutler, and the sutler store. In a post script, notes that he enclosed a song (not included) with this letter.
GLC02155.101
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