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Serving as a South Carolina Senator, Hayne requests Gibbes, a lawyer, to prepare an answer (possibly in the form of a legal document) for Mr. Ehrich and to get as many of the creditors involved with the case to sign the document as promptly as...

GLC02505.24

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Endorsement signed

21 December 1868

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

[Endorsed check from Gideon Welles]

Printed check for $40 signed by Welles to "G" on recto and endorsed by Gardner on verso. With two cent Revenue stamp, drawn on Riggs & Co. Stamped paid on verso by the Nat'l Bank of the Republic, Washington, D.C.

GLC03016

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Header Record

1829-1862

Blair, Francis Preston, 1791-1876

Archive of correspondence, including letters of Roger B. Taney, Jackson, Welles [Decimalized .01- .27]

GLC03209

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Autograph letter signed

circa 1776

Letter and newspaper clippings pertaining to Jonathan Trumbull [Decimalized .01- .02]

2 black and white seated engravings and one black and white bust engraving of John Trumbull included. 1 engraving ; b&w ; 23.7 x 14.8 cm + 1 engraving ; b&w ; 18.5 x 11.8 cm + 1 engraving ; b&w ; 15 x 21.6 cm

GLC02511

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Autograph letter signed

[1900?]/07/12

Morton, Levi P., 1824-1920

re: forwarding a note with his personal endorsement

[vice presidents]

GLC02512.10

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

[1860]/10/27

Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875

to "Webb" re: sending someone to speak in his place

(Autograph also available in GLC 4224, autograph album.)
[vice presidents]

GLC02512.15

Collection Item

Document signed

1 October 1867

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

[Endorsed check from Gideon Welles]

Check for $16.25 signed by Gideon Welles to "B" and endorsed on verso by Brady.

GLC02926

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Manuscript

1812

Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816

Inventory of Lear's household

GLC03767.03

Collection Item

Autograph endorsement signed

25 June 1790

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

[Sentence of four prisoners for attempting to escape confinement].

Countersigned by Judge William Perkins. Sentence of Thomas Port, John Carny, John Payn and Peter Rodgers to lashings for attempted escape. Each of the prisoners plead guilty and received "thirty nine stripes on their naked backs."

GLC03793

Collection Item

Book signed

1853-1857

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864

Information respecting the history condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States

Six volumes of a series entitled, "Information respecting the history condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States," published in 1853- 1957. Contains the results of a study commissioned by Congress to collect statistics on the...

GLC03679

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Letter signed

1850/03/06

Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

to Henry Martindale re: special counsel to Indians

GLC03948

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Autograph letter signed

4 December 1797

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806

to John Nicholson

Discusses a plan to be able to pay off his debts. Sends "a piece of cold comfort for poor Charles Young" (a document not included) with the comment that it "is the best that my poor tortured brain could spin out this Night." Asks Nicholson to sign...

GLC03842