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1842/11/07
King, Samuel Ward, 1786-1851
Proclamation. By His Excellency Samuel Ward King [day of Thanksgiving]
Regarding setting aside day of thanksgiving
GLC07251.01
1909/02/12
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
Speech draft re: influence of Lincoln, given at New York Republican Club of NYC
Original draft of speech: "I was born a slave...my first recollection of Abraham Lincoln was...by the prayers of my mother...as she was kneeling over my body earnestly praying that Abraham Lincoln might succeed and that one day she and her boy might...
GLC07232
1863/07/10
Oden, Mary, fl. 1863
to Emily J. Semmes re: death of Gen. Paul Semmes (to his widow)
Written from his deathbed nurse, on the day he died with postscript: "A few moments before the General died, he asked for his sword, laying it across his arm, he asked again for his testament." Page 5 is a smaller, additional sheet.
GLC07225
1856/12/10
Brown, John, 1800-1859
to brother and sister Adair re: concern for his son Owen
Written while on the run from authorities after Pottawatomie massacre: "Owen (my son) is I trust somewhere on the way from Iowa; but I have a good deal of anxiety about him, as I learn that I was hotly pursued even in Iowa. I can only say that God...
GLC07229
2 December 1859
to Aaron D. Stevens
Written on the day Brown was hanged from Charlestown Prison, Virginia, present day West Virginia. Writes in full, "He that is slow to anger; is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, that he, that taketh a city" Solomon."; with...
GLC07230.01
7 February 1817
Adams, John, 1735-1826
to Samuel Latham Mitchill
Adams in retirement to Mitchill, a well-known scientist from New York City. Their correspondence deals with archeological findings. From the docket they are discussing "Babylonian bricks." Asks when a monument to Daniel, the Biblical prophet, was...
GLC07532
26 June 1825
to William Smith Shaw
Former President Adams discusses Native American and African religion with Shaw, his nephew and former private secretary. States "Dr. Jarvis has assigned some good causes of the too general inattention to the religion of the indians. But those...
GLC07533
1840/09
Printed fundraising document for the Amistad captives
"Here are thirty men taken out of the midst of a heathen nation in the interior of Africa, and in the providence of God thrown on the shores of New England. If they should be delivered from the fangs of wicked oppressors, (for which many prayers...
GLC07606
1945/04/16
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
First address to Congress re: death of Roosevelt and his legacy in Europe
"The Laws of God and Man have been violated and the guilty must not go unpunished." Typed document reproduced by an offset process. Signed on page 4.
GLC07529
1771/05/20-25
The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held In London [Quaker conduct]
Letter to the quarterly and monthly meetings in Great Britain, Ireland, and elsewhere guiding Quaker conduct. The letter warns against overuse of credit, "[f]or by these Practices, many inncocent Wives and Children have been inevitably and...
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