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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
Rusk, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson), 1803-1857
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
1865 ca.
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
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