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20 December 1875
Pease, Geo B., fl. 1875-1876
to Blanche Kelso Bruce
Pease is writing to tell Senator Bruce that he does not appreciate being followed and would like to talk to the Senator at his earliest convenience.
GLC09400.153
19 December 1875
Hill, F.P., fl. 1875
Hill is asking if "Bro James" is in Washington.
GLC09400.161
17 May 1875
Buchanan, G.M., fl. 1875-1879
Buchanan is apologizing to Senator Bruce about keeping him on the eve of travel. He also wishes to make an appointment with Bruce when it is convenient to him to discuss further issues.
GLC09400.157
16 February 1876
Blackman, H., fl. 1875-1876
A request of Senator Bruce for some papers, and well wishing.
GLC09400.170
13 December 1875
Hancock, W.W., fl. 1876-1880
Hancock is writing Senator Bruce to request some documents be sent to him when the Senator can.
GLC09400.175
1 December 1875
Blackman is requesting that Senator Bruce send him some papers when congress opens so that he can read the messages.
GLC09400.177
6 March 1876
A note to Senator Bruce to meet with Pease in the Marble room. Related to GLC09400.039.2 A longer letter between the two men.
GLC09400.039.01
27 December 1879
Baker, Jay Newton, fl. 1879
This is a note written on letterhead, from the Continental, and concerns a register sent by a Captain Green a day or so previously to check that Senator Bruce received it. The author asks that the senator contact him at once if it did not arrive so...
GLC09400.013
Two letters between Senator Bruce, and Pease, related to Pease leaving Washington.
GLC09400.039
6 December 1879
Bagby, Robert B., fl. 1879
This letter is a thank you from Bagby to Senator Bruce for a Statistical Atlas the Senator sent him.
GLC09400.128
4 February 1876
Florey, H.J., fl. 1876
Florey is letting Senator Bruce know what is going on in town and asking the Senator to send him a paper from Washington and copies of any public speeches he has. This letter is written on letterhead from another party, M.B. Sullivan. The letter is...
GLC09400.202
16 January 1880
Hancock is writing to say he got home okay and that it was a pleasant trip to Washington.
GLC09400.213
13 March 1876
Lowe, Wm., fl. 1876
Lowe is writing Senator Bruce to request he send copies of some of the speeches he recently gave.
GLC09400.208
2 January 1867
Hartsuff, George L., 1830-1874
Special Orders No. 1
Special Orders, No. 1. Assigned command of the Sib-District of the Rio Grande. Docket indicates mileage paid from New Orleans, Louisiana to Galveston, Texas.
GLC03614.02.12
circa 1860s
[Corn cob black doll]
With black dyed muslin head and hands, printed cotton dress, belt, and scarf.
GLC09188
11 August 1784
Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824
to John Bryant
Encloses (not included) an invoice of stores that are to immediately be sold. Also includes (not included) the conditions of the sale and an advertisement. Asks for an account on the amount of twine Bryant has available. Provides Bryant with...
GLC03432.041
30 September 1784
Writes Bryant from Grave Tavern with instructions on a possible upcoming sale of supplies. Discusses pricing and other details related to supplies.
GLC03432.044
26 October 1784
Provides instructions to Bryant regarding what stores should be sold. Notes the sale of the brass cahorns [possibly referring to a coehorn] were sold by mistake and the person who was responsible for it should be held accountable. Says he will only...
GLC03432.046
15 December 1784
Discusses receipts he sent to Bryant regarding the number of stores sold at Springfield, Massachusetts.
GLC03432.049
15 April 1796
Requests Bryant sends 40 of his best French Arms with cartouch boxes and gun [worms] to Captain Edward Miller's recruits in Connecticut. Notes to take triplicate receipts upon delivery.
GLC03432.066
3 May 1798
Instructs Bryant to send weapons and supplies to Melancton Smith in New York. Includes cannon, howitzers, carriages, and various other items.
GLC03432.071
26 June 1798
Requests Captain Bryant sends 500 stand of arms to Archibald Crary in Springfield, Massachusetts and discusses possible transportation routes.
GLC03432.073
1858
Powell, William Henry, 1823-1879
De Soto's Discovery of the Mississippi.
One engraving entitled "De Soto's Discovery of the Mississippi" dated 1858. Depicts De Soto, riding a white horse, arriving at the Mississippi River at a point below Natchez on May 8,1541. Native Americans watch in front of their tepees, and a chief...
GLC08878.0002
23 January 1838
Winslow, Philip B., fl. 1838
In Hanover County Court, January 23rd 1838
One orders dated January 23, 1838 from the Hanover County Court to the sherriff. The order lists the names of freedmen who were not able to pay their taxes: [Cussis] Austin, Milton Rook, John Redd, Peter Page, Frank Harris, Moses Harrison, Jordan...
GLC01447.06
3 December 1852
Smith, Albert, fl. 1852
to Franklin Pierce
Smith writes to Pierce, the newly elected President of the United States, seeking Watson Freeman's appointment as U.S. Marshal. He lists Freeman's qualifications stating, "Mr. F has been, since he was first permitted to vote - for thirty-five years...
GLC09028.02
March 1857
Freeman, Watson, fl. 1827-1857
to James Buchanan
Copy of Watson's letter to Buchanan asking to be reappointed as U.S. Marshal. References his service as marshal for the last four years. Describes the case of fugitive slave Anthony Burns. "...the people of Boston, who witnessed the battering down...
GLC09028.04
16 March 1857
Smith, W.T., fl. 1857
Smith writes to President Buchanan as a friend of Charles F. Suttle (owner of fugitive slave Anthony Burns), to support U.S. Marshal Watson Freeman and District Attorney for Massachusetts Benjamin F. Hallett for reappointment. States that Suttle...
GLC09028.06
26 August 1848
Nickless, Samuel, fl. 1848
[Invitation to speak]
Samuel Nickless, treasurer of William Still's Philadelphia Vigilance Committee, part of the Underground Railroad, asks an unnamed lecturer to come and speak: "The members of the 2nd African Presbyterian Church take the liberty of asking you to give...
GLC09396
17 September 1811
Ogden, T.L., fl. 1811
[Insurance for Spanish slave ship]
Insurance for Spanish slave ship Schooner Victoria. "Insured at New York against all Risks for a voyage round from the Havana, to, at, and from, the coast of Angola, to Havana, with Slaves..."
GLC09412
7 February 1848
Tathan, Benjamin, fl. 1848
[Circular]
A New York Quakers Circular offering an alternative to goods made from slave labor: "The Managers of the Free Produce Association of Friends, of New York Yearly Meeting, have the satisfaction of stating, that a store has been opened for the sale of...
GLC09300
4 October 1829
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
to John Coffee
To John Coffee, General in the Tennessee state militia. During first year of his administration, Jackson forecasts his support for removal of the southeastern Indians, which would be made public in his message to Congress in 1830 and would result in...
GLC09361
16 November 1846
Brown, Neill, fl. 1846
to a cousin
[Slavery] From Cleveland, Ohio to a cousin in North Carolina: "I am here surrounded by abolitionists, yea in the very hot bed of this class of people.… Three weeks since there was a negroe woman who said she was a fugitive slave from Mississippi, got...
GLC09373
22 August 1871
to her cousin
Alabama woman writes to her cousin in Michigan about family news and her mother's illness, and how life has changed since Emancipation: "It does not seem possible that I could go through the same amount of labor and endure the anxiety and suspense of...
GLC09375
16 September 1865 circa
Draft amending Alabama Constitution
"Ordinance / in relation to the Institution of Slavery and the abolition thereof. / Sep. 16 - Subst[itution]. Ordered 100 copies be printed. Sp. order Monday 11. / Be it ordained by the people of the state of Alabama, in convention assembled, That...
GLC09131
2 May 1829
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
[Decree]
Decree issued by the Kentucky Circuit Court at Fayette, awarding payment to Clay, who held the mortgage on a property including slaves, which must be sold to pay him. Clay adds an addendum specifying that a young girl not listed on the mortgage be...
GLC09331
13 March 1855
178 Sugar and Cotton Plantation Slaves!... [Slave sale catalogue from Waverly and Meredith plantations]
By J. A. Beard & May-…13th and 14th March, 1855… Will be Sold at Auction, at Banks Arcade, Magazine Street, in the City of New Orleans…" Catalogue of slaves, listed by families, individually described: "No. 1 field hand, fine axman, sawyer and hewer"...
GLC09340
24 January 1795
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
to Benjamin Lincoln
Later copy. Informs Lincoln a name (possibly Lincoln's or someone Lincoln recommended) has been put on a list of candidates for a Surgeons Mate. Notes the President (George Washington) is the person who will decide when and who the appointment goes...
GLC02437.06320
1 November 1854
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
to William Goodell
Expresses his opinion that the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 will benefit the Whig party.
GLC04717.20
27 August 1857
Compensated emancipation: a speech by Gerrit Smith, in the National Compensation Convention, held in Cleveland, Ohio, August 25, 26 and 27, 1857.
Smith declares, "We are here for the purpose of making a public and formal, and, as we hope, an impressive confession, that the North ought to share with the South in the temporary losses that will result from the abolition of Slavery. Indeed, such...
GLC04717.28
27 August 1859
to John Thomas, Esq.
Smith declines Thomas's invitation to preside at the anniversary of the Rescue of Jerry, who had been arrested in Syracuse under the Fugitive Slave Law and freed by local citizens in 1851. Informs Thomas, Chairman of Jerry Rescue Committee: "The...
GLC04717.29
4 August 1858
Gerrit Smith's acceptance
Includes a State Mass Convention's nomination of Smith as a candidate for Governor of New York. Contains Smith's reply, which begins: "My years have been spent in seclusion. My habits are all formed to private life. It is emphatically true that...
GLC04717.39
20 July 1849
To the Church of Peterboro
Uses an allegory of a tea, coffee, and liquor merchant to illustrate that "the wickedness in one branch... taints with wickedness every other branch..."
GLC04717.51
9 August 1849
to Hiram P. Crozier, New York
Defends the Resolutions of the Church of Peterboro, which Crozier criticized. Chastises Crozier for running a store that sells liquor, declaring "iniquity, permitted in one of the branches of the store, stamps the whole store with iniquity."...
GLC04717.52
17 September 1850
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
to Francis Jackson
"You will begin to think this fugitive slave, ought to be flogged, for his neglect and sloathfulness[sic[, in replying to your letter. . .I have just been in search of the information which you require, in respect to the whereabouts of Livi Chocker...
GLC08387
18 April 1860
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
to Oliver Johnson
Requests Johnson to mail him a copy of the "Independent" containing Beecher's speech at Cooper Institute on women's rights.
GLC03998.03
15 February 1818
Wilson, John, 1777-1848
to Aaron Hobart
Discusses his wife's poor health and indicates he enclosing a letter from Dr. Abbott (see GLC06313.060). Indicates that there is no significant news from Congress.
GLC06313.04.059
5 January 1821
Smith, Albert, 1793-1867
Wishes Hobart a Happy New Year. Mentions that "the noise has not subsided regarding the post offices in Hanson & Pembroke." Also asks him to send a copy of the Intelligencer.
GLC06313.04.089
1867
Extraordinary slave-related court document
Aa complex legal case in which a freed man of color is fraudulently sold as a slave to pay for a purchase of cattle.
GLC08141
1883/06/29
Adee, Alvey Augustus, 1842-1924
To: Col. Rockwell. Re: facsimile of "the Declaration" (presumably, Independence) and attempt to acquire an"impression" of the Presidential Seal.
Discussing a facsimile "of the Declaration" (presumably, Independence) and the Presidential Seal.
GLC06343.301
20 December 1856
Williams, B., fl. 1856
to Samuel C. Greenhow
Letter of introduction for William E. Jones, who is traveling to Richmond. Jones was an old friend of Williams, and Greenhow was treasurer of Richmond.
GLC02711.21
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