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to Winthrop Sargent

This is the letterpress original that was used to make the copy of GLC02437.05892. Refer to that record for a full catalog entry. Fragile with areas of text loss.

GLC02437.05894

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

informing him that Mr. Lynch has promised to secure his appointment as P.M of Greenville in the event of Hayes being declared president.

GLC09400.263

Certificate of authenticity of pardon

Copy of GLC01444.02, however this version includes signed oath of P.B. Jones to uphold the constitution from now on.

GLC01444.04

[Article honoring those who lost their lives in the Civil War]

Title torn from article. "These men fought to maintain and perpetuate the rights of human nature. These men fought, not for themselves alone--they struck the chains from the limbs of four millions of bondsmen..."

GLC03131.16.18

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

wants appointment as deputy under James Hill, who was recently appointed collector of the district of Mississippi.

GLC09400.478

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

introducing Oliver White.

GLC09400.504

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

asks senator to aid Saul B. Raymond.

GLC09400.495

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

introducing H.B Bromwell.

GLC09400.503

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

requests Hayden's Reports of surveys in the West.

GLC09400.513

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

thinks it necessary for the Post Master to be removed to ensure the success of the Republican party,

GLC09400.528

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

wants appointment for a route agent.

GLC09400.535

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

endorses M. Ferguson as one of the Commissioners to be appointed

GLC09400.331

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

asks him to speak to the Secretary about their protection.

GLC09400.351

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

asks that he do all he can for G.V Boswell.

GLC09400.266

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

regarding Captain S.R Blow, building him up, promoting him.

GLC09400.267

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

asks him to see Mr. French

GLC09400.269

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

asks for his assistance in obtaining a job as a Railway Postal Clerk or Route Agent.

GLC09400.303

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

writing to inform him of N.G. Henderson's appointment as Collector of Customs and now awaited confirmation.

GLC09400.324

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

introducing M.L Brady

GLC09400.330

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

congratulates him on his marriage and expresses interest in the Hong Kong consulate

GLC09400.333

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

now that he has accepted the position of collector of customs, he waiting the arrival of the oath. requests that Bruce speed things up so he can begin as possible.

GLC09400.340

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

serves as an introduction for C.D. Frost

GLC09400.347

Normal's 22nd Commencement of the Agricultural and Mechanical College

program which states that Blanche Kelso Bruce is the annual speaker. 2 copies.

GLC09400.567

Resolution of the Legislature of Ohio

protesting Against the action of the United States military authorities in the expulsion of certain members of the Lousiana Legislature. 6 copies

GLC09400.569

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

mentions Judge Humphries' death and how he wants to take his place.

GLC09400.454

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

asks him to use his influence to get him the job of railway mail agent.

GLC09400.389

to James Hill

has forwarded an application for deputy collector to Hill.

GLC09400.406

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

encloses letter of J.Reed who wants to be a route agent.

GLC09400.417

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

introducing Mr. Gage, his chief clerk

GLC09400.448

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

there is a vacancy in the postal dept. due to a death. hopes Bruce can secure the spot for him.

GLC09400.358

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

letter of introduction for H.E. Sizer.

GLC09400.375

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

asks him to consider his reappointment. also requests a post route map of Mississippi and Louisiana.

GLC09400.377

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

thanks him for a copy of the report of the commissioner of agriculture.

GLC09400.382

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

would like to be appointed to a clerkship instead of re-appointed to collectorship

GLC09400.388

[Sharecropper's contract between Isham Bailey and freedman Alie Bailey]

Alie Bailey is to receive half of the corn, cotton, and fodder cultivated in return for providing all the work necessary to keep up the farm, assisting in putting up fences, and cultivating forty acres of cotton and corn. Amongst other things...

GLC04522.09

to Philip Henry Sheridan

Former Confederate General John B. Hood writes to Commander of the Military Division of the Gulf, General Philip Sheridan (1865-1867). Requests permission for Colonel Harding to visit Mexico on business. Includes initials after post script that...

GLC02455.06

re: former Confederate general admits Union victory was a "blessing"

A Confederate general admits Union victory was "an incommensurable blessing to the whole country and especially to the people of the South. The consequences would have been continual wars, standing armies, fortifications on every frontier and...

GLC06695.03

An act donating public lands to the several state & territories, which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture & the mechanic arts

A copy of the Morril Land Grant act, granting public lands to individual states for the building of agricultural colleges, written by Robert E. Lee. The act, passed in 1862, offered states 30,000 acres of public land per Congressman from that state...

GLC05926

to friend Paddon

Requesting information about the process of pressing and refining the surplus coal at the Tredegar Iron Works into a saleable product for steamers through compression into blocks that burn longer and produce more steam than unrefined bituminous coal...

GLC01896.084

[Certificate of amnesty]

Signed by Augustin as a United States Commissioner for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Also signed by Emmanuel Lebreton Deschapelles, who swears an oath of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States following the Civil War. Deschapelles...

GLC02943.01

Replies to Ex-Governor Bullock-Some Fearless Facts on the Race Questions

Author Graves feels the race problem is indestructible and universal, not likely to ever go away even with the appointment of Black people in Southern offices. He cites several examples where Black people are discriminated against in the North. Small...

GLC02691.12.09

[Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of Joseph E. Johnston].

GLC00656

to Thomas C. Reynolds

Harris discusses his return to Tennessee after escaping to Mexico after the Civil War. He describes how he went to England to investigate the prospects of making a living there in the cotton industry. After a three year absence, he realized "I should...

GLC00909

Military Map Showing the Marches of the United States Forces Under Command of Maj. Genl. W.T. Sherman, U.S.A. During the Years 1863, 1864, 1865

Black and white map ranging from Missouri to Maryland in the north and Louisiana to Georgia in the south. Sherman's routes are outlined in red, blue, green, yellow and brown. Compiled according to Sherman's order by Brevet Major W.L.B Jenney, and...

GLC07086.01

[Instructions for house managers for the showing of David W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation"]

Contains spaces for house managers to fill in information, including performance or film dates, company arrival and departure times, and manager names. Jack Edwards, a Southern Representative of the performance or film, instructs theater house...

GLC05091

to Bradford R. Wood

Bryant, editor of the New York Evening Post, replies to a letter from Wood, former Representative from New York. Discusses Black suffrage: "I utterly detest the narrow principles of that party which denied equal rights to any of our fellow men on...

GLC06631.01

to F. A. Angell

General Butler writes to Angell in Brooklyn, New York. "A mans right to self government is inherent and inalienable. It does not depend on the degree of his intelligence or on other accident. It is the correlative of self defence. Is the negro a...

GLC06660