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November 15, 1871
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
to R. L. Sanderson
Serving as editor of the New York Tribune, Greeley offers advice to Sanderson: "...I say to all who are in want of work, Go West!" Written on New York Tribune stationery.
GLC00608
November 18, 1861
Leavenworth, F.P., fl. 1861
to his father
A Confederate captain in an ordnance unit tells his father about Civil War activities in Arkansas and Missouri. Comments on the arrival of Union General David Hunter with 36,000 soldiers. Discusses the strength and position of Confederate...
GLC00653.07
July 24, 1839
Dresser, Amos, 1812-1904
to Hiram Wilson
Writes to Reverend Wilson who is expecting two enslaved people seeking emancipation in Canada through the underground railroad. Writes, "I rejoice in the privilege of handing over to you two more Daughters of affliction who can tell you their own...
GLC00867
26 November 1819
Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843
to Henry Maynadier
Written from Georgetown. Key writes to his uncle about depressed stock prices. He also discusses colonizing 12 captured Africans who are in Baltimore (he does not explain how they came to be there), in reference to his efforts through the American...
GLC02379
2 November 1912
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
to Timothy L. Woodruff
Writes to Lieutenant Governor Woodruff of New York regarding political reform and democracy. As a candidate for president, he stresses the right of people to rule themselves. In the 1912 presidential election Roosevelt ran and lost under the...
GLC02372
October 1854
Jay, John, 1817-1894
Free Democratic Address to the People of the State of New York.
Anti-slavery broadside signed in type by John P. Hale, Hiram Barney and John Jay, the New York Politician and descendant of the earlier John Jay, as a committee appointed by the State Convention of the Free Democracy. Urges support for anti-Nebraska...
GLC02383
22 November 1819
King, Rufus, 1755-1827
Substance of Two Speeches, Delivered in the Senate of the United States on the Subject of the Missouri Bill
Printed pamphlet written by King as an anti-slavery U.S. Senator from New York. King also signed the U.S. Constitution in 1787. King was asked to write the pamphlet, which summarized his two anti-slavery speeches given before the U.S. Senate during...
GLC02384
6 January 1840
Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874
to Solomon Haven
Discusses political and social news. Mentions that the state legislature will meet tomorrow and that there is a movement toward legal reform, which he feels in necessary. Briefly comments on national and state debts. Written as member of Congress.
GLC02344
1785/07/06
Adams, John, 1735-1826
to Elbridge Gerry re: frustrations and doubts on British commercial treaty
Written as U.S. Minister to Great Britain after formally presenting his credentials to George III. Enclosing letters (not included) "sent to Mr. Jay in Cypher." America had been flooded with British imports after the Revolution, but Congress was...
GLC02293
1855 circa
Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872
to Robert McClelland
Requests a job in the Department of the Interior for "Col Gaszynsk...a Polish gentleman of merit and character."
GLC02320.04
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