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to George May Powell

Samuel H. Peck requests a full description of the National Picture of the voters of the Constitutional Amendment.

GLC00687.071

to Maria

Kulduh is very sick. Charlie comes up with various treatments. mentions Aunt Philena's health as well. thanks Edward for the sweet potatoes.

GLC08311.52

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

thanks him for his support for her bill on pension.

GLC09400.472

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

asks to be reinstated in treasury.

GLC09400.486

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

asks senator to help her sister Queenie, whose health is poor, to find a place by the 1st of July.

GLC09400.511

to Brother

thanks him for sending him food. glad to hear that he is well. have had bad times concerning the food that is currently available. other side dated March 14th. handwriting very shaky.

GLC09400.537

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

asks for whiskey and cigars. writes that Bruce must enter the lists at Chicago and he cannot afford not to appear.

GLC09400.544

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

Wells, a member of Congress is willing to call Secretary of the Interior in reference to her application and do everything he can on her behalf.

GLC09400.545

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

sent a petition for his appointment as route-agent. has just been informed there will be a vacancy in a few days. hopes that Bruce will reccomend his appointment.

GLC09400.276

Office of the Public Printer

declares the hard work of the employees of the Government Printing Office and how they are absolutely essential.

GLC09400.292

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

asks for the appointment of Secretary of the Territory or U.S Attorney of the territory.

GLC09400.298

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

is anxious about her position and asks the senator to stop in and see her.

GLC09400.556

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

reminds him to go to the Treasury to have her reinstated.

GLC09400.550

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

praises Bruce: "whites will approve of your action and I am sure the colored people will not forget you when I tell them who had the power to prevent and did prevent a democrat defeating a republican."

GLC09400.397

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

wants to know if he has received her application.

GLC09400.380

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

asks for an appointment as a clerk, counter or copyist.

GLC09400.381

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

Hall is writing Senator Bruce to ask about a petition that was sent to Washington to remove Pease the Post Master of Vicksburg from his office. He has never seen nor signed this petition, but has been told his signature, along with other republicans...

GLC09400.229

Pardon of John Letcher for rebellion (c/s William H. Seward)

Accompanied by collateral transmittal letter from Henry Stanberry, the Attorney General's office 23 Jan. 1867. Letcher had been Confederate govenror of Virginia.

GLC06775

"Bloody Colfax"

Distributed during the hotly contested Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1876, "The Colored Chiefs testify. . .The Hellish plot by which, through the slaughter of the negroes, the Kellogg usurpation secured Northern sympathy. . ."

GLC08396

To :Governor Horatio Seymour

The letter details the "problems" of the country under Republican rule including: the impossibility of "Wholesome government in the South under the rule of Negro voters"; and an "undue exaggeration of States Rights" which will destroy national unity...

GLC04360.049

Let the South Alone, Mr. Roosevelt

Author is upset at Roosevelt's attempts to put Black people in office in the South. He says Roosevelt has only succeeded in widening the gap between Black and White people and should stay out of the South. Second page includes advertisements and...

GLC02691.12.11