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6 February 1850
Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850
[California and New Mexico]
Message from President Taylor including all reports and correspondence relating to California and New Mexico. Lacks a proper cover.
GLC08701
24 January 1850
Message from the President of the United States, communicating information called for by the resolution of the Senate of the 17th instant, in relation to California and New Mexico
Includes all reports from the heads of departments which contain information in President Taylor's possession regarding California and New Mexico. Book lacks proper cover.
GLC08702
1845/12/02
Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849
Message from the President [disbound]
GLC08703
1861
Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873
A system of national finance. Notes explanatory of Mr. Chase's plan of national finance.
Explains Chase's plan for creating a national currency and enabling all existing banks to become national institutions. Printed by the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
GLC08704
1865 ca.
Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896
[Carte de visite of John A. Logan]
GLC02136.29
30 August 1856
Clephane, Lewis, 1824-1897
To the opponents of slavery extension.
The Congressional Republican Committee calls on Republicans to spread literature against the extension of slavery. Lists documents and prices which the Republican Association will furnish upon request. Clephane was Secretary of the Association, and...
GLC02142
1842/10/08
Houston, Sam, 1793-1863
to Thomas W. Ward re: removal of goverment from Austin and archives
Signed as President of Texas. Refers to the removal of the government from Austin to Washington-on-the-Brazos, and the need to remove the archives, a removal that eventually led to the Texas "archives war."
GLC02145.02
1842/12/10
Clerical copy of letter to Thomas Smith & Eli Chandler re:archives
Instructions regarding removal of archives mentioning wagons and ways to hide their purpose. Also mentions threats made against moving the archives.
GLC02145.03
to Thomas Ward re: moving Texas archives from Austin to Washington-on-the Brazos
Signed twice as President of Texas. Telling Ward of Smith's and Chandler's orders to remove the archives.
GLC02145.04
1844/01/22
Ogden, F.W., fl. 1844
Collection of 3 items related to the Report to Texas House of Representatives] Decimalized
Clerical manuscript damaged with loss of text in margin. Authentic copy. (Docket misdates). Accompanied by two copies of the Ward broadside, "A Card," responding to Ogdin & Grammont report on archives, 1844/02/03, 33 x 20 cm. re: condition of...
GLC02145.05
1843/01/04
to Texas House of Representatives re: complete summary of events in Archives War
Clerical copy, with docket "private property" on p. 4.
GLC02145.14
1857/10/02
Jones, Anson, 1798-1858
to Thomas Ward re: dissatisfaction with present life and career
A very friendly and kindly letter written three months before his suicide. Mentions Ward's newborn son, personal matters, Jones' personal isolation and Texas politics.
GLC02145.15
1843/11/24
Mayfield, James S., fl. 1843
to Thomas Ward re: Sam Houston's declining popularity in East Texas
GLC02145.17
1842/10/17
Waples, Joseph, fl. 1842
Authorizing James Shaw to take certain government supplies in Austin
Signed as chief clerk of the Texas Dept. of State. Also signed by N. C. Hamilton (War) and M. P. Woodhouse (Treasury), for same purpose of getting stationery and other official supplies.
GLC02145.26
1843/02/06
to Thomas W. Ward re: asking Ward for Texas State Dept. parchment
GLC02145.31
1854/02/18
Rusk, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson), 1803-1857
to Thomas Ward re: building a railroad through Texas
GLC02145.39
1856/03/13
to Thomas Ward re: attempts of Columbia to have Ward removed as U.S. Consul
GLC02145.40
1854/06/06
to Thomas Ward re: possible war with Spain
GLC02145.52
1854/07/12
to Thomas Ward re: granting leave of absense from his post in Panama
GLC02145.53
1855/01/10
to Thomas Ward re: inability to write
GLC02145.54
1866/10/06
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
Appointment of Thomas W. Ward collector of Customs at Corpus Christi
GLC02145.58
1869/10/23
Boutwell, George Sewall, 1818-1905
to Thomas Kearny re: telling Kearny to personally collect customs
Signed as Secretary of Treasury.
GLC02145.62
1844/01/30
Prentiss, Francis, fl. 1844
Obligation to pay Ross & Echington for horse bought from Ward
With separate docket and address leaves (25.0 x 20.1 cm).
GLC02145.77
1857/01/25
to Col. Thomas Ward re: personal and business matters
Docketed.
GLC02145.78
1824/09/05
Clark, William, 1770-1838
to Richard Graham
Notes that apparent strife between Indians and whites in Arkansas has dissipated. Reports a conversation with Secretary of War John C. Calhoun on the topic of establishing Indian agents, in which Calhoun asserted that he would not make any...
GLC02146.04
1818/12/29
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850
to Richard Graham and Joseph Philips
Secretary of State Calhoun denies an appropriation request because he did not receive a detailed estimate of expenses. Indicates that he will attempt to have the senate increase the appropriation but advises them to keep their disbursements to the...
GLC02146.17
1780/06/18
Washington, George, 1732-1799
to Henry Knox re: sending Knox to stop NJ from forming its own Army
Sending Knox in an attempt to keep New Jersey from forming a separate army.
GLC02147
6 August 1808
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
to Eli Williams, Thomas Moore, and Joseph Kerr
President Jefferson writes to the commissioners of the Cumberland Road about reexamining its route from Washington, Pennsylvania, to Wheeling, Pennsylvania. Explains that "the principal object of this road is a communication directly westwardly if...
GLC02148
1777-1895
Noyes Family, 1777-1895
Nuncia pacis. [Noyes family scrapbook]
Genealogical scrapbook. Folder 1 has 3 photographs of Noyes family homes, family letters concerning family history and genealogical details (dated 1806-1895), undated biographies and family record sheets, list of marriages performed by Rev. James...
GLC02150.56.02
4 March 1805
President Jefferson's Inaugural Speech
President Jefferson's inaugural speech, given after his official reelection in 1805: "Mr. Jefferson appeared in the Chamber of the United States Senate, where his reelection was declated, and the necessary oath administered to him." Printed on silk...
GLC02151
Richards, fl. 1860-1865
[Carte de visite of Alfred Sully]
Signed on image and verso as Brig. Gen., bust
GLC02136.27
[Carte de visite of Lorenzo Thomas]
GLC02136.28
26 June 1864
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Special field orders
Signed "W.T.S." Apparently a draft of orders, unnumbered, with cross outs and additions. Concerns the strategy for rationing supplies at the start of Atlanta campaign. Also details procedures for dealing with deficiencies of supplies due to...
GLC02137
15 April 1890
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896
[Signed portrait of seated William T. Sherman]
Seated portrait of Sherman holding sword and ceremonial hat. Inscribed and dated by Sherman on the mount to Frederic G. Huntington, Cincinnati, Ohio, a few years before his death.
GLC02138
7 September 1750-2 December 1750
Pell, William, fl. 1750
Journal of an intended voyage on bord the ship Newport packet: with Gods [illegible] from London to Rhoad Island in New England.
Title continues: "Able Mitchener Commander. Kept by William Pell, 1750." Log book. The ship made land at Block Island on 29 November 1750. On the verso of the first leaf of the log is the draft of a letter from Pell to James Gray of London in which...
GLC02139
31 October 1760
Bernard, Francis, 1712-1779
[Appointment of Charles Cushing Sheriff of Lincoln County, Massachusetts].
Also signed by Secretary of the Province of Massachusetts Bay Andrew Oliver. On 9 November 1760 Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay Thomas Hutchinson warrants that Cushing has taken the oaths required for the office. With paper...
GLC02140
1787
Various
The Columbian Magazine
Twelve issues plus a supplement to the first volume. Each issue has a table of contents. The September issue contains a printing of the constitution proposed at the Constitutional Convention under the heading "The New plan for a Federal...
GLC02141
1804
Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture
Papers on agriculture ; consisting of communications made to the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture.
Signed by Henry Knox on front cover. Contains articles on various subjects within the field of agriculture such as using gypsum in agriculture, the culture of potatoes, grafting of trees, etc. Published by the Trustees of the Society. Printed by...
GLC02143
1838
Duane, William John, 1780-1865
Narrative and correspondence concerning the removal of the deposites and occurrences connected therewith.
Inscribed on free endpaper by Duane to Henry A. Wise dated February 1839. In part a defense of his refusal as Andrew Jackson's Secretary of Treasury, to remove deposits from the Bank of the United States to state banks.
GLC02144
1836-1869
Texana: documents, many relating to Thomas Ward & archives war [decimalized]
Note that some letters are written to "William" Ward, i.e., Thomas William Ward, the person who assembled this archive as archivist of the Republic of Texas.
GLC02145
1842/03/23
Green, Thomas J., 1802-1863
to Thomas W. Ward re: early stages of the Mier expedition
Damaged, missing part of p. 1/2. Written as commander of artillery. Written at San Antonio De Brexar.
GLC02145.01
1836/06/09
Miller, W.P., fl. 1836
True copy of the "Whip Handle despatch" re: impending Mexican invasion
Secretrial copy of two letters, one on p. 1 by W. P. Miller, and the second on p. 2-3 by Henry Teal with the endorsement (copy) of H.W. Karney. The entire document written originally to Thomas Rusk, by John D. McLeod with this particularly addressed...
GLC02145.06
1842/06/22
Ward, Thomas W., fl. 1842-1862
to Houston re: resignation as guardian of Texas archive due to marauding Indians
Clerical copy. Ward feared his inability to protect the archives from marauding Indians.
GLC02145.07
1836/09/01
Burnet, David G., fl. 1830-1870
Commission of Thomas Ward, Major in army of the Republic of Texas
Signed as President of the Republic of Texas and countersigned by S. F. Sawyer, acting Secretary of War.
GLC02145.08
1842/07/19
Byrne, James W., fl. 1842
to Col. Thomas Ward re: details of the late invasion by the Mexicans
Free franked.
GLC02145.09
1836/06/07
General Order no. 11 ordering Ward to take command of Texan troops & provisions
General order no. 11. Clerical manuscript, ordering Ward to go to Casses Point and report to Gen. Rusk.
GLC02145.10
1836/06/12
to Thomas W. Ward re: rumors of Gen. Rusk's resignation
Advises Ward that if Rusk has resigned, the command should be transferred to Green.
GLC02145.11
1842/03/07
Hockley, George W., 1802-1851
Declaring martial law in Austin because of archives war
As Secretary of War, declares martial law because of "archives war" and places Thomas Ward in command of stores. Probably clerical.
GLC02145.12
1842/04/04
to Henry Jones re: commanding him not to interfere with archives removal
Houston Commands Jones that interference with removal of the archives from Houston would be treasonable. Clerical copy with docket of Joseph Daniels on p. 2 certifying delivery of original.
GLC02145.13
1842/04/15
Jones, Henry, fl. 1842
to Th. Ward re: informing Ward that there are enough wagons to remove archives
With certification of delivery on p. 2 by Joseph Daniels. Mistakenly addressed to [Thomas] "Wm. Ward"
GLC02145.16
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