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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."
GLC08081
16 October 1845
to Richard Rush
Predicting Civil War in wake of slavery's expansion. .
GLC08082
7 May 1837
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
to Mary Owens
To the woman he almost married: "Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented." Owens rejected Lincoln's marriage proposal in 1837, the second of the three...
GLC08085
11 December 1859
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
GLC08086
circa 1830-1910
Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910
[Two sketches of female nudes, one standing, one seated with leg up on knee]
Black ink; tracing paper.
GLC06343.111
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