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1916/12/05
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
to Bella W. Swope re: running for a second term
Signed as President on White House stationery. WW notes that "I look forward to the next four years with something of a sinking heart...."
GLC02793.067
1928/04/20
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
to Francis Prescott re: his determination not to seek another term
Signed as President on White House stationery. Prescott was chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee.
GLC02793.077
1908/03/14
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
to Willie Olcott Burr re: Nebraska Democratic platform & other proposals [Bryan]
Signed as a former President, concerning his feelings on the Nebraska Democratic platform and implicitly, the rise of populism and William Jennings Bryan. Cleveland advocate the "old Democratic creed."
GLC02925.05
24 December 1908
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
to Herbert Parsons re: endorsement of Jacob M. Dickinson for Attorney General
Signed as President-elect. With autograph postscript. Dicksinson served 1909-11 as Taft's Secretary of War.
GLC03509
[1919]
Rules of the House of Warriors Adopted 12-07-1903 [Creek Indians]
Pamphlet containing rules of behavior when in assembly. Printed in English and Creek.
GLC03775.02
1910 ca.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Signed White House card
Printed card signed by "Theodore Roosevelt" undated.
GLC03663.04
19 April 1918
to Harvey
Discusses using President Wilson's quote of 1 January in a newspaper article. Criticizes Wilson's prosecution of the war in Europe. Says that Wilson can speed up the war and come "to the left of our allies before it is too late, by just one...
GLC03663.01
09 May 1907
Mosby, John S., 1833-1916
to Sam Chapman
Written on stationery of the Department of Justice. Discusses Grant's endorsement of Lee's pardon after the war, and Johnson's refusal to grant it. He discusses politics during the Reconstruction era. He comments "there was more vindictiveness...
GLC03293
02 January 1912
[Presidential commutation of sentence of Robert Sawyer, convicted of murder and sentenced to death, 10 November 1905]
Sawyer had been convicted of murder on the high seas in the U.S. Circuit Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. He was originally sentenced to death, but that sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Taft commuted his sentence so it...
GLC03579.01
2 April 1917
A message calling for war with the imperial German government in defense of American rights
Subtitled "Delivered by President Woodrow Wilson to the Congress of the United States of America on Monday, April the Second, in the year nineteen hundred seventeen."
GLC03621
8 October 1904
to Gaston
Written as Assistant Attorney General, he comments that anyone joking about McKinley's assassination is "a brute." Written on Department of Justic letterhead.
GLC02827
1903/02/25
Document re: expenses for democratic government for Cherokee
Co-signed by Thomas Mitchell Buffington (principal Cherokee Indian Chief), J.T. Parks, and J.W. Zevely. Accompanied by a copy of the Act passed by the Cherokee National Council.
GLC02855
1904
Evans, Geo. D., fl. 1904
Delegates to the First National Convention of the Socialist Party of the United States of America, held at Chicago, Illinois, May 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th, 1904
One group portrait entitled, "Delegates to the First National Convention of the Socialist Party of the United States of America" taken by Geo. D. Evans. Image is of the 212 delegates to the First National Convention of the Socialist Party. Each...
GLC04753
27 August 1908
to Herbert Parsons
Denies charges of undue influence by hand writing "I have no intention of 'forcing' the nomination or of trying to; but that, unless you object, I should like, as a good Republican and party man and a staunch believer...." Envelope is not original...
GLC04930
1911/05/06
to Hugh H. Hanna
Discusses an endorsement of his proposed arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain. Taft would like the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church to withhold their public endorsement until a specific agreement has been...
GLC04932.01
14 November 1902
Walker, John Grimes, 1835-1907
to Thomas Gibbons
Glad to receive a copy of the "Rainbow," a paper published aboard the U.S. Flagship Rainbow. Thanks him for box of cigars, though he says he does not smoke regularly, as well as for a photograph of himself and one of Gibbons taken in Hong Kong....
GLC02763.01
1925
Message of the President.
Signed State of the Union Address.
GLC03945
1921/03/04
McAdoo, William G., 1863-1941
Press statement re: Woodrow Wilson's work at the Peace Conference (Versailles)
Arguing that Wilson "laid the foundations of world peace and a new order" and that Wilson's work will last despite "[t]he tides of reaction."
GLC03967
9 October 1904
Discusses Senator James T. Heflin's remarks on assassination of McKinley. Also writes that black voters hold the balance of power in some states and that Roosevelt would be re-elected. Written on Department of Justice letterhead.
GLC03993
3 July 1900
McKinley, William, 1843-1901
to John Hay
Text reads: "Hay. Instructions to Ambassadors in China defining the attitude of the United States. Approved". Written on Executive Mansion stationery.
GLC03995
16 January 1904
to Paul H. Lacey
Discusses his desire for a Square Deal for all Americans. Severely faded. Typed on White House letterhead.
GLC04078
1900
Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809
History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean : performed during the years 1804, 1805, 1806 by order of the government of the United States
Prepared for the press by Paul Allen, Esq., revised and abridged by Archibald M'Vickar. Reprint by A. W. Fowle, apparently of the 1845 Harper Brothers edition.
GLC04051.02
1908/08/27
to Robert U. Johnson re: article by Carnegie on competition in steel industry
Typed on printed stationery dated from Cincinnati. Taft writes Johnson of the Century Magazine that Andrew Carnegie's article on tariffs will prove useful in revising schedules. Carnegie argued, according to Taft, that the US could produce steel...
GLC04311
29 August 1905
to Charles M. Taylor
Thanks for news of signing of Russo-Japanese treaty.
GLC04325
1910/04/27
Cody, William F., 1846-1917
to Joseph K. Dixon re: Dixon's filming Indian councils at Little Big Horn
Praises Dixon's filming of one of the last great Indian councils and describes how the film was seen by President Taft and other dignitaries. Written on his colorful letterhead.
GLC03911.06
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