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to Charles Dumas re: attempts at patience during Treaty of Paris negotiations

"There is a species of witchcraft [that] governs in England that keeps them from knowing their own minds- and a similar malignant spirit reigns in America and prevents us from getting any intelligence from there... It is now 6 months that I have been...

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Virginia court procedures for appointing Justices of the Peace

Printed document signed. Paper losses due to ink decay

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to James A. Caldwell re: financial matters

Buchanan also mentions servants, and to make sure that the "little black man who blacked my boots" is paid.

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to Editor of the Herald

Of the matter Roosevelt comments, "There is something cheap and unpleasant to high-minded Americans in seeing their fellow countrymen go abroad to look on at the agony." With Roosevelt's autograph underlinings and additions.

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to Thomas Helm re: buying slaves and speculating on election results

"We have cheering political news from Penns[ylvani]a, demonstrating that the state has left [Andrew] Jackson." Clipped on left margin with loss to salutation and addressee. Written from Henry Clay's estate, Ashland, in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Oath of allegiance to King George II

Dwight would later be President of Yale University. Document has mold and water damage.

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La Destruction de la Statue Royale a Nouvelle Yorck [New York]

New York Sons of Liberty destroying a statue of King George III. Highly imaginative scene with late Baroque buildings more characteristic of Germany or Austria or perhaps Holland. Hand-colored. Background shows a full-length statue (it was...

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Massacre of the American Prisoners of War at Dartmoor Prison...

Diagram in perspective. War of 1812 depiction of the Somersetshire Militia attack upon American P.O.W.'s on April 6, 1815. Engraving with handcoloring added to the uniforms of the Americans and British. Artist W. Carnes; Engraved by G.G. Smith

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Supplement to the Pennsylvania Ledger no. 54

The supplement concerns the attack by British fleet near Newport, RI. Reports from Providence and Newport. The Ledger was a British Tory newspaper, only printed during the occupation of Philadelphia.

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Supplement to the Daily Advertiser...

Contains report of Congressional Committee establishing a system of revenue. Trimmed. Docketed on p. 1 "Report of Congress, Feb 1786"

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