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13 August 1856
Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869
to the Senate
Based on a report from Captain M.C. Meigs, Pierce requests that the Senate appropriate $750,000 for "the Capitol extension."
GLC01188
April 30, 1808
Madison, James, 1751-1836
to William Pinkney
Discusses congressional proceedings, foreign affairs, the Chesapeake affair, British and French aggression, and the Embargo Act of 1807. A portion of the letter has been written in code and is translated in another hand. Signed as Secretary of...
GLC01191
18 May 1863
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
[Lincoln endorsement on letter concerning the remains of Captain W. G. Hewins]
Lincoln note written on a letter by the Governor of Massachusetts, John A. Andrew, dated 13 May 1863 from Boston. The letter is addressed to "All Officers in Command, of the United States, or of Volunteers," asking that Mr. Gibbs, who is bringing...
GLC01195
October 26, 1879
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
to Emily Collins
Offers his home as a place to stay during her attendance at the eleventh annual meeting of the American Woman Suffrage Association, to be held in District of Columbia in early January 1880. Emily Parmely Collins worked for women's rights in New York...
GLC01197
July 9, 1778
Washington, George, 1732-1799
to Francis Barber
Addressed to Barber in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, where he was recovering from a wound received at the Battle of Monmouth. Instructs Barber to obtain intelligence on the British movements across the Hudson river in New York while in New Jersey....
GLC01201
1863/09/03
Printed draft call for troops from Pennsylvania
Printed document signed by Lincoln.
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January 2, 1801
Adams, John, 1735-1826
to Thomas Boylston Adams
Docketed on p. 4. Written as President to his son about the Convention with France which averted war. Adams quotes from jurist Vattell and mentions Grotius and Puffendorf.
GLC01204
March 12, 1777
[Orders to submit a regimental return]
A working draft of a clerical copy of a circular letter from George Washington. These, or comparable, orders were given by George Washington on 12 March 1777 to various colonels of the Continental Army. (See Fitzpatrick and the GW Papers at the...
GLC01205.04
February 5, 1841
to John Stuart
Written in blue ink. Discussing Illinois and Sangamon county politics, Lincoln says he and some others would like Bat Web (Edwin B. Webb, per Basler) as District Attorney. He concludes by alluding to the "locos" (Democrats) in the upcoming...
GLC01210
May 11, 1863
to Edwin M. Stanton
Curtis was replaced with Schonfield in the Dept of the Missouri. Written on Executive Mansion stationery. Docketed on p. 4 by Stanton
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol...
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