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to Samuel K. McConnell, Jr.

Written in reply to Pennsylvania Congressman McConnell's request that he give his views on education legislation (the federal "grants-in aid") before the Committee on Education and Labor. Former President Hoover asserts his strong personal interest...

GLC00200

The case of Trevett against Weeden: On Information and Complaint,....

Evans 20825, Kress B1355, Sabin 98638. Original blue/gray wrappers, reinforced (?). Stamp on titlepage of: Rhode Island Historical Society. The legal case tested the powers of the Articles of Confederation to the right of Trial by Jury.

GLC00201

to Nicholas Cooke

William Ellery voices concern about the financing of the national debt and the issuance of paper money. He has found in Congress some interest in naval defense. The American army is at Morristown and the British army is at Brunswick. There have been...

GLC00202

[Collection of Edwin Jackson, D company, 6th regiment, Minnesota, infantry] [decimalized]

Fighting the Sioux [18 letters]. Edwin Jackson 6th Regt. Minn. Vols. collection of letters, many written on patriotic stationery. Very detailed and descriptive accounts of Indian atrocities against civilians and battles. On 12 October 1862, he...

GLC00203

[Appointment of Norton Quincy as Justice of the Peace].

Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Hancock, appointed Justice of the Peace, Norton Quincy, for the County of Suffolk. The order gives a general sketch of the duties of Quincy's new office. Partially printed. Accompanied by frilled...

GLC00210

to J. C. S. Harrison

Written in response to a letter from his grandson, J. C. S. Harrison. President-elect Harrison advises him at Asbury University in Greencastle, Indiana, for success in life. Encloses five dollars. Harrison misspells the name of the university as...

GLC00211

Collection of Porter letters [Decimalized .01-.14]

Most of the letters in this collection are to Captain (sometimes Colonel) Julius Walker Adams, a noted engineer and cousin of President John Quincy Adams. Porter discusses the reevaluation of his conduct at Second Manassas by a special commission in...

GLC00214.02

to Sidney Smith Lee

It is a secretarially written and signed letter. Written to his brother (addressed "My dear Rose") as Engineer accompanying the Mexico expedition. A joyous Lee proudly announces the final ratification of a Peace Treaty between the United States and...

GLC00215

[Subscription for the barge experiment] [Decimalized .01- .02]

GLC00218

Journals of Congress [decimalized]

Set lacks vol. 4. Vol. 2 (Philadelphia, 1776) includes the Declaration of Independence.

GLC00219