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1 October 1867
Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896
[Endorsed check from Gideon Welles]
Check for $16.25 signed by Gideon Welles to "B" and endorsed on verso by Brady.
GLC02926
1941
Harris & Ewing, fl. 1905-1977
[Portrait of Supreme Court Justices]
Formal group portrait of the Supreme Court Justices in robes. Signed by the nine justices: Owen J. Roberts, J.C. McReynolds, Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan Fisk Stone, Hugo L. Black, William O. Douglas, Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter, and Frank...
GLC02929.01
2 March 1888
Barnum, P.T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891
to A. E. Barr & Co.
Begins by asking Burr to consider this letter private and confidential. Discusses the possible mistaken publication of his letter in the Times. Informs he received a request from a reporter from the Hartford Times and might have answered...
GLC02925.02
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
17 March 1860
Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879
to Thomas H. Seymour
Cushing, former United States Representative, states that he proposes to leave soon for Hartford, Connecticut (possibly to campaign prior to the 1860 Presidential election). Cushing served as a U.S. congressman from Massachusetts (1835-1842) and as a...
GLC02925.07
Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879
to Alfred Edmund Burr
Dix, postmaster of the City of New York, declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to speak at a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. Dix served as a U.S. senator from New York...
GLC02925.10
1855 ca?
Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861
to Alfred Burr re: hopes for Democratic party success in Connecticut [fragment]
Undated. Written as Democratic Senator from Illinois, to Burr, as Democratic State Central Committee.
GLC02925.11
1856/06/02
Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874
to Thomas H. Seymour re: letter of introduction for Mr. and Mrs. Stone
GLC02925.13
December 29. 1859
Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869
to Alfred Burr
Remarks, " ... my conviction that this is preeminently the time, possibly the only time, for an earnest & successful effort to overthrow sectionalism in the Northern States." Marked private at top.
GLC02925.15
10 March 1860
Van Buren, John, 1810-1866
Van Buren, a Democratic party leader from New York, declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to speak at a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. States "the Democrats of New York &...
GLC02925.21
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