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circa 1861-1865
Young slave girl seated in white dress with black lace
Graphite inscription on verso "Cora Born Jun 25 1861" "slave girl." Cancelled orange two-cent tax stamp on verso.
GLC05111.02.1047
1832
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Thoughts on African Colonization
Early critique of the Colonization Society. Published by Garrison & Knapp.
GLC05830
1836/12/01
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
to Carey A. Harris re: interpretation of 14th Sect. of Choctaw Treaty
Asking Harris to bring Samuel Gorman's letter regarding Choctaw Treaty. Written in the third person.
GLC05722.04
January 1883
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
to unknown
Sends his autograph to an unknown recipient with a quotation: "What does it imply? The Mongolian, the Hebrew, the African, the least aggressive and sanguinary of men, why are the most hated and persecuted by Christian nations?"
GLC05716
2 January 1973
Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981
[I am the Lord your God...]
Wilkins quotes Leviticus 26:13: "I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth and out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their boundmen; and I have broken the bonds of your yoke, and made you go upright." From the Bishop Earl Hunt...
GLC05508.264
1851
Lewis, Morgan Henry, 1818-1881
League of the Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee, or Iroquois
Published by Sage and Brother Publishers. Includes an inscription from W. H. Samson in memory of Arthur Leutchford, dated December 1907. Contains Mrs. Arthur Leutchford's card with an address. Also includes an extract of a letter from George S...
GLC06202
1943
Basler, Roy P., 1906-1989
As one southerner to another: [Lincoln and the Declaration of Independence]
[Title continued] "Concerning Lincoln and the Declaration of Independence." Limited edition reprinted from Southern Atlantic Quarterly (Jan. 1943) under the direction of Ralph G. Newman. Published by the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop.
GLC06213
182[6]
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Blank printed bill of sale for slaves from Jefferson's estate, for T.J. Randolph
Apparently an unused bill of sale for the disposal of Jefferson's slaves by Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Jefferson's grandson and executor of his will. "Know all men by these presents, that I, Thomas J. Randolph, Executor of Thomas Jefferson... have...
GLC06996
1866/12
Atlantic Monthly. [Vol. 18, no. 110 (December 1866)]
First part, published by Ticknor & Fields. First and only printing prior to the collected works. McFeely p. 255.
GLC06830.01
1867/01
Atlantic Monthly. [Vol. 19, no.111 (January 1867)]
GLC06830.02
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