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to Blanche Kelso Bruce

Bynum is requesting the place of Post Master at Corinth if the post master Dodson is removed due to theft by a family member of theirs.

GLC09400.219

to George May Powell

She is anxious to hear back from George and wants to know how other agents are responding. She is pleased with the response of the oval walnut frame.

GLC00687.066

to George May Powell

This is an order for more photographs.

GLC00687.067

to George May Powell

She writes to settle accounts and past bills. She refers to her agent, to whom she has promised a larger commission, who would like to begin canvassing in Chester County. She wonders if her husband, who will soon go to Vermont, should establish an...

GLC00687.068

to George May Powell

She wants to settle past bills and is concerned about heavy expenses.

GLC00687.069

[draft of a contract]

Draft of a contract. The purpose of the contract is to right wrongs caused in the sale of some Wright family cotton during the Northern occupation.

GLC02691.11.088

[draft of a contract]

Subsequent draft of the contract referred to in item No. 87. Also signed by Alex J. Harper, and Miller A. Wright.

GLC02691.11.089

to Mary "Mollie" McLean

He won't be able to dance at her wedding unfortuately. He is heavily in debt and won't be able to send her more money than what he already has. He has sent as much as he can afford to Cassie as well.

GLC02161.152

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

thanks him for his appointment as Post Master.

GLC09400.457

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

encloses a letter from W.H. Gibbs recommending her and asking for the senator's attention to her husband's case.

GLC09400.460

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

letter of recommendation for Judge Hancock as Post Master

GLC09400.462

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

requests that Bruce send him copies of the speeches delivered by Senator Blaine on the investigation resolutions.

GLC09400.468

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

reccomends Judge Hancock for Post Master.

GLC09400.475

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

letter of recommendation for E.B. Ewyn as Post Master of Hernando De Soto County.

GLC09400.488

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

applying for the post office and wants the senator to write a letter on his behalf to the P.M. palmer.

GLC09400.489

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

wants E.B Geoyn appointed Post Master of Hernando.

GLC09400.498

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

confident that their candidate will be elected president. also wants Bruce to use his influence to give him the post office.

GLC09400.272

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

asks that Bruce reply to her two former letters regarding the Post Office. according to present arrangements, he will not be paid, nor will it even pay rent on the office.

GLC09400.280

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

includes letters of endorsement for the position of postmaster

GLC09400.270

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

asking for his help in having a southern Republican appointed for the position of marshall.

GLC09400.274

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

writes to request Hancock's appointment as post master.

GLC09400.300

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

a letter of recommendation for W.S Dodson for route agent.

GLC09400.305

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

a letter of recommendation for Dr. Edward Latham for the position of Consul to Honolulu

GLC09400.309

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

hopes that Judge Leachman gets the appointment. upset over the way the Judge has been treated.

GLC09400.345

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

thanks him for his endorsement of his bid for district attorney even though he did not win.

GLC09400.390

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

has enclosed petitions from both Democrats and Republicans, asking the president to appoint him Consul of Hong Kong.

GLC09400.393

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

encloses another petition for his appointment as Consul to Hong Kong

GLC09400.394

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

recommends Robert Stewart as Post Master.

GLC09400.403

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

requests his recommendation for the post office in Meridan.

GLC09400.416

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

wants Cass C. Allenburg appointed P.M at Lexington.

GLC09400.444

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

wants his son appointed to cadetship at West Point.

GLC09400.450

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

letter of recommendation for Mr. W.A. Slaughter for the office of post master.

GLC09400.369

to Blanche Kelso Bruce

letter of recommendation for Harry Holmes for the position of special agent in the post office.

GLC09400.371

to James HIll

requesting that Hill write him a letter of commendation for route agent to Bruce.

GLC09400.374

to mother

Describes the auctions which are occurring throughout the state. Discusses the weather, which is quite warm one day and cool the next. Also discusses the economic stagnation of the south.

GLC04662.117

Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, delivered in Springfield, Saturday evening, July 17, 1858.

Discusses the disadvantages faced by the Republican Party in the upcoming election. Traces the development of his attitudes toward slavery and equality, expressing his conviction that the South's reliance on slavery was engaged in a conspiracy to...

GLC02955

to David D. Porter

Reminds Porter of a letter he wrote to Sherman last spring in which Porter described everything about a meeting in 1865 where Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Sherman, and Porter discussed the course to be taken when the Confederate forces were...

GLC02984

to Mrs. Lebreton Deschapelles

Clarke, an attorney, discusses the case of Mrs. Deschapelles, who claims that her late husband (possibly Emmanuel Lebreton Deschapelles) suffered property damages from federal forces during the Civil War. Informs Deschapelles that if her husband...

GLC02943.03

to James W. Wall

In the letter, James Buchanan is attacking Radical Republicans, whom he sees as self-destructive. Also discusses strengthening the Democrats in New Jersey, and Johnson's failed veto on the Civil Rights Act.

GLC00576

to Charles Sumner with Sumner's autograph endorsement signed

Chase, a professor at Atlanta University, updates Sumner on the condition of African Americans in Georgia. States that "[t]he opposition to the elevation of the colored people is becoming more & more intense. 'I don't want a nigger to know more than...

GLC07202.02

[Post-war letters and copy of oath of allegiance] [decimalized]

Collection of ten letters and copy of an oath of allegiance from Mississippi. Contains material from immediately after the War concerning an attempt by Fendall, who served in Confederate forces, to get a federal clerkship in the customs house in...

GLC03135.11

[Presidential pardon of S.S. Lee for offenses arising from the rebellion]

This document is a Presidential pardon of S.S. Lee for offenses committed during the Civil War. It is filled out and signed by Andrew Johnson as President and countersigned by William H. Seward as Secretary of State. Accompanied by a white seal.

GLC05782

[U. S. House of Representatives bill]

Printed copy of a U. S. House of Representatives bill introduced by Cox to "remove the political disabilities of William L. Maury... that all legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United...

GLC04572.40

to Samuel Sullivan Cox

The bill for the relief of William L. Maury passed the Senate yesterday. Encloses (not included) a copy of the bill as it passed the Senate, striking the phrase "legal and. . . ." Undated note from Cox responds that he will make sure the House...

GLC04572.41