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Subscription solicitation to Jeremiah Wadsworth for "State Papers;" with reply

GLC07839.04

to Ebenezer Hazard re: sending list of subscribers to "State Papers"

GLC07839.05

Contract for printing of "State Papers..."

GLC07839.06

Receipt to Ebenezer Hazard for copy of "State Papers"

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to Benjamin Rush re: Rush's son, "Philosophy of Jesus"

Written in Monticello

GLC07840

to Thomas Cooper re: free trade, danger of oppression in government

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The Providence gazette and country journal. [Vol. 24, no.1239 (September 29, 1787)]

printing Constitution

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U.S. Constitution

GLC07846

to Arthur St. Clair re: acknowledging salute of a frontier cavalry troop

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to Maj. Wemyss re: strategy for Carolina Campaign

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to Horatio Sharpe

GLC07850

A Proclamation, for Suppressing Rebellion...

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to Edward O.C. Ord re: order to rescue Union Army at Corinth

GLC07852

to Convention of the State of Georgia re: importance of carrying on the war

GLC07853

to [B. Clarke Lundy] re: publication of his speech on Dred Scott and Utah

Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. II 1848 - 1858,
p. 412

GLC07855

to Dr. James L. Ord re: early military career in California

GLC07857

to John Hancock re: complimenting Hancock on his resignation as Governor

GLC07860

to Jonathan Drayton

Regarding the election of 1800 and seeking to settle a sum of money owed. "...I am extremely apprehensive of the consequences of the equality of Votes for a President - I do most sincerely hope the Federalists will act upon principle and observe a...

GLC07861

to Thomas Mifflin re: embargo on ships traveling to foreign ports

GLC07862

Daily journal of Massachusetts delegation to Republican National Convention

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[Resolution of New Jersey Delegation]

One manuscript page (in the hand of N. W. Voorhees, Secretary) in which the New Jersey Delegation responds to the Massachusetts Delegation's communication with a resolution of their own, instructing and informing the Delegates from Massachusetts that...

GLC07863.02

[Draft of a resolution of thanks]

A communication from the Headquarters of the Massachusetts Delegation to the Republican Convention, Chicago (from the Secretary of that Delegation) thanking Governor Randall of Wisconsin "for the kind and liberal invitation to us to an execution over...

GLC07863.03

to James Madison

Responds favorably to the work done at the Annapolis Convention and since. Explains why he cannot attend the Constitutional Convention. He was re-elected president of the Society of Cincinnati, whose meeting coincides with the convention....

GLC07699

to William Norris re: President Jackson's discussion of Texas Independence

"The message of the President's concerning Texas [Independence] will I think close the campaign on that subject for the present session. The truth is, that it would be as impolite as vain for the opposition to attack the dying lion [Jackson]; & they...

GLC07709

Patent issued to Gould Thorp for inventing an improvement to the cooking stove

GLC07718

Speech re: transition to peacetime; economy

"Four days after the surrender of Japan, I issued executive order 9599 which laid down the guiding policies of your government during the transition from war to peace...to assist in the maximum production of civilian goods...to avoid both inflation...

GLC07720

to Anthony Morris re: War of 1812

Terms offered by nation Britain have "contributed more than any circumstance whatever to unite all parties in the resolution of repelling unitedly, the enemy;" burning of the White House: "It would have shocked you my dear papa to have heard how many...

GLC07721

Paying Off the Democratic Public Debt

re: Civil War debts and "the legacy which the Democratic administration of James Buchanan bequeathed the Republican party."

GLC07722

Message from the President of the United States... [Pardoned Confederates]

List of pardoned Confederates from 15 April 1865 to 2 March 1867.

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Message from the President of the United States... [Pardoned Confederates]

List of pardoned Confederates from 15 April 1865 to 8 July 1867.

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Message from the President of the United States... [Pardon proclamation]

Pardon proclamation justifying his constitutional right to pardon, noting similar proclamations from previous presidents.

GLC07725

to Walter S. Field re: asking Field to appear for Roosevelt in suits in Oklahoma

Includes four related letters:
1. Roosevelt letter to Walter S. Field 3/10.1910.
2. La Follette, Robert M. TLS: Washington, D.C., to Theodore Roosevelt. 18 January 1910. 1 p. re: land formerly belonging to Kickapoo Indians.
3. Field, Walter S....

GLC07733.02

[seated portrait of Abraham Lincoln]

Large oval seated photograph of President Lincoln taken for Mathew B. Brady. Albumen photograph on original mount with the Brady studio imprint. Hamilton/Ostendorf O-92.

GLC07735

[Collection of Richard H. Jackson, I company, 9th regiment, New York, infantry] [Decimalized .001- .516]

Letters of Richard H. Jackson, Lieutenant in the 9th NY regiment, Hawkins Zouaves, during the period of his service in the Union Army and his subsequent employment as a government clerk attached to the army's subsistence department. 185 letters...

GLC07705

Speech at the Tremont Temple

"The immediate cause of the present war is that your president would not sell them Fort Sumter... it is as true of Nations as of Individuals, that nothing so surely invites further agression, as to yield to unjust demands."

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to Frederick Bowen

"The people of this Country have seen [William Jennings] Bryan in high office. If...they make him President of this Country, they will give us four years of incompetence and corruption without a single redeeming feature."

GLC07708

to Colonel Brewer re: military movements of General Howe

"I am still of the opinion General Howe goes southward or returns to the North River- He will receive great aid in attacking Philadelphia from his shipping and great assistance from the inhabitants of all the lower counties." Written at Coryells...

GLC07710

to Martha Bradstreet re: current legal situation of Bradstreet

Opinions on war in Europe against Naples and Spain told via allegory of turkeys and ducks.

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Expositor Extra!

"Sheridan attacks Lee and routs him! Gen. Ewell captured.... Lee's army has surrendered." With pencil note on verso: "I tore this from a hook in Adrian post office...heaven send the news are true. Charles M. Walker."

GLC07714

Texas amnesty oath signed by Confederate soldier

GLC07716

18 Civil War dispatches, extracts, and general orders issued by U.S. Navy

Topics include payment of persons called "contrabands", British ships attempting to run the blockade, Naval intelligence, sanitation during the "hot and sickly" season in the south, and legal requirements with regard to captured vessels. Probably...

GLC07717

Blowing Up the Fire Ship Intrepid commanded by Capt. Sommers...

[Title continued] "by the American Squadron under Commodore Edward Preble." Hand-colored copper-plate engraving by John Guerrazzi, London.

GLC07729

[Five cartes de visite and one miniature albumen portrait of Lincoln]

Includes photos by Alexander Gardner, Mathew Brady, and Anthony Berger. Four of the photographs are from engravings. Miniature portrait measures 2.5 x 1.8 cm.

GLC07739

to William C. Endicott, Jr. re: cabinet post

GLC07741

to James Wilkinson re: summoning Wilkinson to Washington

"I begin now to be anxious to learn that you had received my letter desiring you to repair to the Seat of Government...that...a general plan for the arrangement of the affairs of the Western Army, with an eye to the existing posture of our political...

GLC07656

Appointing Tobias Lear as Consul to Algiers

GLC07658

to [Sally Fairfax] re: requesting herbal remedies and recipes

GLC07663

to Baron de Capellan de Sol re: letter of thanks

Highly complimentary letter of thanks for a gift received from the Patriotic Society of the City of Enkhuysen, The Netherlands. "Your station, Sir, and your Character in particular, have indeed merited the confidence and regard of the Confederate...

GLC07676

to Edmund Randolph re: debating legality of relocating Congress

GLC07677

re: admission of West Virginia as a state

Letter from Lincoln to Cabinet members calling for written opinions re: admission of West Virginia as a state. Includes autograph of Seward and secretarial signature of Lincoln.

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