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1854/07/07
Collins, James B., fl. 1854
To: Captain U. S. Grant
Enclosing a letter accepting Grant's resignation [not included]. Beginning of another letter dated 7/1/1854 on verso. Written at Fort Humboldt.
GLC04360.038
1835/04/24
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
to Joseph Conn Guild
"It is true in politics as in morals, that those who are not for us are against ... I have long believed, that it was only by preserving the identity of the Republican party, as embodied and chracterised by the principles of Mr. Jefferson that the...
GLC07986
1857/07/03
Connecticut electors
To: James Buchanan [Copy]
Copy of New Haven Memorial sent to Buchanan by electors of Connecticut regarding their grievances with the Lecompton Constitution, popular sovereignty and slavery in Kansas. Includes the signatures of 43 electors. "...the people shall make their own...
GLC07992.01
1816/06/29
Madison, James, 1751-1836
To: James Monroe
Barbary piracy and its connection to Spain with respect to recently captured ships. With Monroe's docketing.
GLC07978
1815/02/14
Monroe, James, 1758-1831
To: Thomas Miller
Fowarding copy of the Treaty of Ghent to the Northern front: "Hostilities may immediately cease between our troops and those of Great Britian"
GLC07980
1818/12/24
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Fowarding his correspondence with Spain
Fowarding his correspondence with Spain: The purchase of Florida, Seminole war, Andrew Jackson and execution of Arbuthnot and Ambrister.
GLC07981
1828/05/15
Houston, Sam, 1793-1863
To: John Campbell
Endorsing Jackson and attacking John Q. Adams, who " would rejoice at the establishment of a throne on the ruins of our sacred constitution."
GLC07982
1815/01/13
to James Monroe
Five days after battle of New Orleans, criticizes delayed supplies: "The want of them continues to expose me to great hazard. How unfortunate it is that our preparations are always so far behind the events that make them necessary!"
GLC07985
1842/09/01
Last Will and Testament
Last Will and Testament. Jackson leaves a presentation sword to his son to use " In support of our glorious union and the constitutional rights of our beloved country" and various other swords to family members. With Secretarial copy of a subsequent...
GLC07987
1 June 1824
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
to James William Paige
Updates his brother-in-law on his journey from Washington D.C. to Philadelphia, via Columbia, Pennsylvania. From Philadelphia, he plans to return to Washington while his wife Grace Webster continues to New York via Princeton.
GLC01946.01
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