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3 Febraury 1916
Marshall, Thomas (1913-1921)
to Edwin F. Husi
Letter regarding Husi's recipient's upcoming marriage. Written on printed stationery "The Vice-President's Chamber."
GLC02512.08
1906/11/06
Sherman, James S. (1855-1912)
to Mr. French re: relative to Mr. French's party loyalty
Written on stationery of the House of Representatives. Thanks French for being "at the polls today" and concludes "Your Party loyalty has stood the test always...." [vice presidents]. See photograph of James Sherman in GLC02512.11.02.
GLC02512.11.01
1898
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
George Washington
Inscription regarding Washington's greatness dated Princeton, New Jersey, 2 November 1905. Illustrated by Pyle, Fenn, et al. Deckle edges.
GLC02551.01
1915 ca.
Studio portrait of Woodrow Wilson by Harris & Ewing
GLC02551.02
28 June 1901
McKinley, William (1843-1901)
[Presidential commutation for Charles J. Miller, who was indicted for failing to transmit Internal Revenue records and fined $700 on 7 January 1901]
Miller's fine was for failing to produce records from his business as a wholesale liquor dealer; it was commuted to $50 and costs by McKinley, no reason provided. Partly printed document signed by McKinley, countersigned by Acting Attorney General L...
GLC02599
1902/01/20
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
Contract for payment to members of the Cherokee nation (cos. Thomas Buffington)
Signed by Buffington at Tahlequah, Indian Territory, for the Cherokee Nation and approved by Roosevelt at Washington. "Executive Mansion" has been struck and "White House" typed-in. Approving Act of the Cherokee National Council for expenses.
GLC02657
1918-1921 ca.
Dawes, Charles G. (1865-1951)
Letters to his mother in the American Expeditionary Force, with Pershing [Decimalized .01- .79]
Dawes joined the AEF in France to monitor finances, based upon a recommendation of the Secretary of Treasury. Most of the letters are to his mother. Postwar letters are mostly from Chicago, where he was President then Chairman of a bank, and then...
GLC02679
25 June 1921
Dawes, Charles (1865-1951)
to my dear mother
He writes the president has approved all his plans and he will soon meet with the cabinet. He has absolute confidence now.
GLC02679.54
13 July 1921
He has great respect for the president. His wife wife and children will be coming to visit soon. He does not want to have to stay longer than next June.
GLC02679.55
19 July 1921
He is tired but happy because he has accomplished so much by working with the president.
GLC02679.56
27 July 1921
He enclosed an order about improving the goverment business system. He made a quick trip to Illinois.
GLC02679.57
1 August 1921
The publishers sent him the first copy of his book. He is very pleased with it and will send her one as well.
GLC02679.58
15 August 1921
to Mrs. M B Dawes
He ordered 5 copies of his book for his mother.
GLC02679.59
1910
Villard, Oswald G. (1872-1949)
John Brown 1800-1859: A biography fifty years after
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, the Riverside Press Cambridge, Massachusetts.
GLC00267.214
1906
Avey, Elijah (fl. 1906)
The Capture and execution of John Brown: A tale of martyrdom
Avey gives an eye witness account. Printed by the Brethren Publishing House, Elgin, Illinois.
GLC00267.215
1905
Oates, William C. (1835-1910)
The war between the Union and the Confederacy and its lost opportunities
Howes O2aa, Dornbusch (Alabama) 53, I Nevins 139.
GLC00267.220
April 1904
Christian, George L. (1841-1924)
Official report of the History Committee of the Grand Camp, C.V.
Report read by committee chairman Christian at Newport News, Virginia on 28 October 1903. Published by order of the Grand Camp of Virginia. The other committee members include: R.T. Barton, Carter R. Bishop, R.A. Brock, Rev. B.D. Tucker, John W...
GLC00267.240
1900
Members of the regiment
The story of the twenty-first regiment, Connecticut volunteer infantry, during the Civil War
From the Press of the Stewart Printing Co. Inside front cover signed by "Lucien F. Burpee," who appears to be related to Thomas F. Burpee, one of the colonels of the 21st Connecticut killed during the war. The book plate of Lucien Burpee partially...
GLC00267.245
1926
Geer, Walter (1857-1937)
Campaigns of the Civil War
I Nevins 30, III Dornbusch 1391
GLC00267.257
1924
Minnigh, Luther W. (fl. 1905-1924)
Gettysburg: What they did here
Title continues, "The Standard Historical Guide Book on 'Gettysburg' with Numerous Maps and Illustrations." Covers battle plans and marches, various headquarters, and details of the three days' battle. Describes the Soldiers' National Cemetery and...
GLC00267.259
1927
Gray, John C. (1839-1915)
War letters, 1862-1865, of John Chipman Gray Major, Judge Advocate and John Codman Ropes Historian of the War with portraits.
Published by the Riverside Press for the Massachusetts Historical Society. Note behind cover: "I Nevins 97: "unique" / Union Bookshelf 36."
GLC00267.261
1903
Gue, Benjamin F. (1828-1904)
History of the Iowa... Volume II. The Civil War
II Nevins 150. Complete in itself as a history of Iowa in the Civil War.
GLC00267.266
1904
Lee, Robert E. (1807-1870)
Recollections and letters of General Robert E. Lee
Written by his son. Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York.
GLC00267.270
1909
Page, Thomas N. (1853-1922)
Robert E. Lee the southerner
GLC00267.271
[ 1904 ]
Leonard, Albert C. (fl. 1904)
The Boys in blue of 1861-1865, a condensed history worthy of preserving
I Nevins 196, Dornbusch (Penn.) 181, Coulter 290.
GLC00267.273
1928
Beveridge, Albert J. (1862-1927)
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858
Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company and The Riverside Press Cambridge of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Details the life of Abraham Lincoln. Divided into sections based on time and location. Beveridge meant this work to be a companion to his...
GLC00267.274
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858 ["manuscript edition" - expanded]
Howes B408aa. Limited "manuscript" edition
GLC00267.275
November 1910
Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)
Lincoln and Herndon
Published by The Torch Press. Dedicated "To Josephine Kate "The Blessed Baby" with love and joy." Written as a "study of [Lincoln and William H. Herndon's] personal and political fellowship..." Describes the relationship between Lincoln and...
GLC00267.277
1921
McKim, Randolph H. (1842-1920)
A Soldier's recollections: Leaves from the diary of a young Confederate...
I Nevins 126, Coulter 311 cites the first edition. 2nd Maryland Infantry
GLC00267.281
[1904?]
Record. Twenty-second Michigan infantry, Civil War 1861-1865
Volume 22 of the Michigan Adjutant General Reports. Illustrated.
GLC00267.287
Livermore, Thomas L. (1844-1918)
History of the eighteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, 1864-5
I Nevins 121, Dornbusch 76
GLC00267.292
New York (State). Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Ch
Final report on the battlefield of Gettysburg
Spine title: New York at Gettysburg. Monuments commission report for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga. Albany: J.B. Lyon Company. Written in accordance with a New York state act "to provide for designating the positions and movements...
GLC00267.298
Harrill, Lawson (fl. 1910)
Reminiscences 1861-1865: Lawson Harrill, Captain Company I, 56th Regiment N.C.
Dornbusch 834. Rare North Carolina regimental history with action in WV, NC and Va.
GLC00267.299
History of the one hundred and twenty-fifth regiment Pennsylvania volunteers...
I Nevins 144, Dornbusch 304, Nicholson 409. Written by The Regimental Committee. Illustrated.
GLC00267.302
1908
The Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania at Shiloh. History of the regiment
Dornbusch 216. Second edition, enlarged with chapter on escapes from Confederate prisons
GLC00267.303
1913
Taylor, Frank H. (1846-1927)
Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861-1865
I Nevins 166, Dornbusch (reference)
GLC00267.305
Clark, William (fl. 1909)
History of the Hampton Battery F. Independent Pennsylvania light artillery
I Nevins 70, Dornbusch 24
GLC00267.306
1901-1904
Tillinghast, Pardon E. (1836-1905)
Twelfth regiment Rhode Island volunteers in the Civil War, 1862-1863
I Nevins 151, Dornbusch 123. Service in Virginia and Kentucky
GLC00267.328
[1908]
Allen, V. C. (1842-1915)
Rhea and Meigs counties (Tennessee) in the Confederate war
GLC00267.339
[1903?]
McLeary, A. C. (fl. 1903)
Humorous incidents of the war
Dornbusch 995. The only personal account from 12th Tenn. Conf. Cav with Forrest story
GLC00267.340
1912
Tyler, Mason W. (1884-1923)
Recollections of the Civil War [Mass. 37th regiment]
I Nevins 171, Coulter 456, Dornbusch (Mass.) 330, Union Bookshelf 241
GLC00267.342
Wright, Louise Wigfall (1846-1915)
A Southern girl in 61: The war-time memories of a Confederate Senator's daughter
GLC00267.351
Sturgis, Thomas (b. 1846)
Prisoners of war, 1861-1865
I Nevins 203, Dornbusch (Mass.) 418. Recollections of a POW at Libby Prison
GLC00267.359
Bigelow, John (1817-1911)
Retrospections of an active life
Howes B436, I Nevins 246. (Diplomacy) An additional 2 v. were printed in 1913.
GLC00267.361
Phillips, Ulrich B. (1877-1934)
The Life of Robert Toombs
Signed in Los Angeles, California by Phillips to "Professor C.V. Gillilard" on 10 August 1922. Published by The Macmillan Company.
GLC00267.389
Reynolds, John S. (b. 1848)
Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865-1877
Discusses the provisional government and conditions at the end of the Civil War under military occupation and control. Chapters cover the administration of each governor, including James Lawrence Orr, Robert Kingston Scott, Franklin J. Moses, and...
GLC00267.390
1914 ca.
Williams, Charles
Collection record [Decimalized .01-.02]
GLC00272
3 July 1908
to "My Dear Senator", [Jonathan Bourne, Jr.]
Discusses the Standard Oil Trust case and feels it imprudent that the recipient continue to be the intermediary between the lawyers and Mr. Kellogg, the Attorney General, and Mr. Bonaparte. Encloses a note from Mr. Bonaparte (not included) regarding...
GLC00394
2 April 1917
Address of the President of the United States, delivered at a joint session of the two houses of Congress April 2, 1917
Signed by Wilson on front endpaper. Asks Congress to declare war against Germany. Marks the beginning of the American involvement in World War I. With original blue dust-jacket.
GLC00466
no date
Unknown
[Scrapbook related to George Bernard Shaw]
Contains clippings, letters, and other documents related to the writer George Bernard Shaw. Includes a typed description of one letter contained within the scrapbook; the description states that Shaw wrote the letter for a graphologist. In the...
GLC00496.085
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