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1864/08/09
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
to Horace Greeley re: correspondence on Greeley's peace mission, Stephens
Concerning Greeley's peace mission and his dealings with Alexander Stephens.
GLC05256
1722
De L'Isle, Guillaume, fl. 1718
Carte d'Amerique
Mercator projection including North and South America, with parts of Western Europe and Africa. Boundaries outlined in color. Shows North America from French perspective with English colonies restricted to the coast. Includes latitude and longitude...
GLC05238
1864
Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893
Abraham Lincoln President of the United States
Done after a Mathew Brady photograph. Shows Lincoln surrounded by an emblematic border done by New York illustrator William Momberger. The images in the borders portray the defeat of the dragon "Secession," freed slaves, western emigration, rural...
GLC05239
8 October 1846
Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854
to Metcalf Marsh
Discusses complaints against a physician for neglect. Asks Marsh to obtain a position in a post office for a friend of the "constitutional cause." Marked "Private." Dorr had been released from prison the previous year; he had been convicted of...
GLC05240
1862-1863
Magie, James K., fl. 1862-1863
Collection of James K. Magie, C company, 78th regiment, Illinois, infantry [Decimalized .01-.51]
Private in the Army of the Cumberland. The letters are written to his wife, Mary, who lived in Macomb, Illinois. (There are 46 manuscript items plus 5 printed items which include 3 newspaper clippings.) Magie also held the position of Brigade...
GLC05241
1801/04/25
Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821
to Jacob Burnett re: Jefferson inaugural, Napoleonic wars
GLC05242
11 May 1784
Hall, Lyman, 1724-1790
to Susa Street
Regrets he was not there for his mother's last illness and thanks Street for the care given to her. Is himself elderly and advises against his friends and relatives coming to Georgia, as "they may sicken soon & die." If he envies anyone, "it is him...
GLC05243
26 September 1862
Knowlton, Henry C., 1828-1926
to [Harlow Higinbotham]
Addressed only to "Dear Friend." Discusses mutual acquaintances and personal matters. His friend is in Clarksburg, West Virginia and he asks him "What sort of a place is Clarksburg?...Have you seen any guerillas yet!" Discusses the Emancipation...
GLC05244
1900-1910
Horsfall, Charles G., fl. 1900-1910
Collection of letters of Charles Horsfall [decimalized .01-.53]. [various places]
Writes to his children and wife about Klondike gold fields, mining, life in Alaska, Mormons, and the 1906 election. Horsfall was a Mormon.
GLC05245
1814
Shaler, William, 1773-1833
Diary as secret US agent re: negotiations at Ghent, meetings, confidences
Shaler's diary from Ghent where he served temporarily on the Peace Commission while on his way to Algiers to negotiate a treaty. Shaler gained the confidence of Henry Clay, who relayed to him the negotiating positions of both sides. The book does...
GLC05246.03
1826
Sketches of Algiers, political, historical and civil...
Printed by Cummings, Hilliard and Company. First edition. Original worn paperboards and quarter leather. Written by Shaler as American Consul General at Algiers. Includes chapter 7 "Extracts of the journal kept in the consulate of the United States...
GLC05246.04
1935
Journal of a voyage between China and... America...in 1804
Collateral. Modern fine press reprint (no. 164) by the Saunder Studio Press, with an introduction by Lindley Bynum and illustrations by Ruth Saunders. Facsimiles of the titlepage and beginning reprinted from the Huntington Library copy. This is the...
GLC05246.05
June 14, 1849
Houston, Sam, 1793-1863
Legal document in re Houston v. Jas. Hastarr re: land bought from Austin
GLC05248
November 27, 1871
Dewitt County Board of Freeholders
[Petition for election to determine if DeWitt County, Texas should aid in the construction of the Gulf Western Texas and Pacific Railway]
Made pursuant to a 12 April 1870 state act authorizing counties, cities, and towns to aid internal improvements. Signed by sixty-five men, several from both sides of the Sutton-Taylor feud. Date from docket.
GLC05249
3 January 1868
McGuire, Andrew M., fl. 1867
[Witness' statements in Missouri v. Andrew McGuire regarding Richmond bank robbery]
Signed by Mary Ann Harlow, George Wasson, F.H. Conkey, R. Rimmer, A. Childs, Thomas Woodson, B. Murfee, G. Limerick, Jesse Dean, John Brock, James Chichester, William Barton, John Barnhill, Philip Woodson, Martha Gilpin, George Wapon, and B. Minifer...
GLC05250
1828/09/12
Warrington, H., fl. 1828
to: Italian ambassador.
Written as British emissary, to the Italian ambassador, concerning an offer of $100,000 to prevent kidnappings of British nationals.
GLC05251
1862 ca.??
Gibson, Randall Lee, 1832-1892
Tintype standing portrait, wearing regulation CSA frock coat
GLC05253
1861/11/22
to Randall L. Gibson re: transferring command to Columbus, Ky.
Letter signed by J. F.(?). Illegible as Major, La. [illegible]. Docketed. Collateral to tintype, GLC 5253
GLC05253.02
15 June 1865
Johnston, Joseph Egleston, 1807-1891
to Colonel Ewell
Possibly to Richard S. Ewell. Johnston's wife, Lydia Mulligan McLane Johnston, wrote to Ewell two days before. Discusses the travels of other acquaintances in Virginia, including Mr. Paxson. Writes, "...we are here- Mainly in the hope that such an...
GLC05254
1862-1865
Three pamphlets regarding the Civil War and Lincoln assassination [Decimalized .01-.03]
Collection of three pamphlets: 1) "Opinion on the Constitutional power of the Military to try and Execute the Assassins of th president", 2) "The Loyalist's Ammunition", 3) "Expusion of Mr. Bright : Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, in the...
GLC05255
1891/05/21
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
re: U.S. Civil Service commission recommendation
Signed as "acting President"
GLC06883
1878/07/03
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
re: war with Indians in Oregon
Apparently a fragment or a note on a docketing panel. "This is no war with Indians in the region familiar to Texas Jack, but far away Oregon in a country well known to the troops serving there." Some loss to letters.
GLC06887
16 June 1865
Keckley, Elizabeth, fl. 1818-1907
to James B. Bradwell re: mementos of Jefferson Davis
These mementos belonged to Keckley, a freed slave and onetime seamstress to Mrs. Davis and later to Mrs. Lincoln. They include a "Bedstead taken from the House of Jefferson Davis, four (4) days after the evacuation of the city" and "some other...
GLC06890
1863/11/06
Authority to affix the seal to the pardon of Charles Hughes
Per the National Archives pardon file, Hughes had been convicted of stealing mail.
GLC06899
1814/08/26
Thorn, John, fl. 1814
to Joseph E. Smith re: War of 1812
Among other remarks, he says, "I write you now amidst the noise & compulsion of the camp[.] Some men are marhing one way[,] some the other... while I write it is stated that the enemy are landed & are about destroy'g the City of Washington."
GLC06915
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