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circa 1830-1910
Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910
[Bearded man with upraised arm and naval emblem with anchor on reverse side]
Tracing paper fragment.
GLC06343.097
[Two sketches of female nudes from behind with drapes]
Graphite; wove paper.
GLC06343.098
[Reclining nude male playing with goat]
Graphite [also traced on reverse]; tracing paper.
GLC06343.099
[Numerous sketches with figures, lion, and stork]
Graphite, black ink; tan wove paper.
GLC06343.100
[Kneeling figure bending forward]
Graphite over charcoal; wove paper.
GLC06343.102
[Angel watching over reclining figure in circle]
Black ink; tracing paper.
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[Female figure from behind]
Graphite, black ink; tracing paper.
GLC06343.105
[Two sketches: one woman standing with knee resting on mount, one sitting holding hair]
Graphite, wove paper.
GLC06343.106
[Nude woman standing with one arm raised]
Black ink with pale skirt drawn in graphite; thick tracing paper.
GLC06343.107
[Man in loincloth holding dagger]
Graphite; tracing paper.
GLC06343.108
[Two small figures on panel surrounded by various grasses and Cat Tails sprouts]
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16 March 1791
Adams, John, 1735-1826
to Charles Storer
Recalling the Boston Massacre, also his defense of Constitution: "Equal laws cannot be preserved without there independent orders forming a mutual balance."
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09 March 1831
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
To: Joseph Blunt.
Criticizing Jackson administration and spoils system, including mention of Peggy Eaton affair: They have no "character to lose."
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16 October 1845
to Richard Rush
Predicting Civil War in wake of slavery's expansion. .
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11 December 1859
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
To: William Kellogg.
Re: Election of 1860 & difficulties in dealing with Horace Greeley and Greeley's support of Stephen Douglas.
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. III 1858 - 1860, p. 506
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21 May 1864
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
To: Ambrose Burnside.
Specifying the route Burnside's troops will march from Spotsylvania to the north Anna river (prelude to battle of cold harbor).
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30 January 1865
To: Thomas J. Eckert.
Arranging secret Hampton Roads peace conference.
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29 March 1865
To: Ulysses S. Grant.
Re: Troop movements at Port Stedman at the end of the war: "From what direction did the enemy come?"
GLC08089
14 April 1865
Edict.
Granting amnesty to a group of confederate prisoners provided they take oath (one of the last official acts before his assisination), under Andrew Johnson, ES,4/12/1865.
GLC08091
08 December 1869
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
To: Gideon Welles.
Condemning Reconstruction. "There has never been a greater outrage perpetrated...since the formation of the government."
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12 June1783
Washington, George, 1732-1799
To: William Livingston.
Washington's farewell address ("Circular to the States") as Commander-in-Chief,spelling out principles esssential to new nation's future existence, now that the United States are "proposed of absolute freedom and independency." With printed copy of...
GLC08079.01
[Two sketches of female nudes, one standing, one seated with leg up on knee]
GLC06343.111
[Two standing males, one nude with musket, one in 18th century garb]
Graphite; tan tracing paper.
GLC06343.112
[Woman with foot raised holding tablet and lightning bolt (?)]
Black ink over graphite; wove paper.
GLC06343.113
[Nude figure with out-stretched hand]
Pale charcoal or graphite; wove paper.
GLC06343.114
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