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[David and Isabella Dundas letters] [Decimalized]

The letters include the American Revolution (Rhode Island, Cornwallis surrender, campaign in the South), the Gordon Riots in London, and cultural life including disparaging remarks on Italian opera and Handel's music. Most letters written by David...

GLC02549

[Confiscating the property of John Troutbeck, a Tory from Massachusetts]

Partially form filled in and signed by Paine, the Attorney General of Massachusetts. States that because Troutbeck removed to British territory (during the American Revolution" his property in Waltham, Massachusetts was being confiscated in...

GLC03412

to Comte de Moustier re: etiquette, new US Constitution, the Estates General

Written as American Minister to France, to Moustier, the French Minister to the U.S. Slight ink bleedthrough. Published in: Boyd, Papers of TJ, 13: 173-76.

GLC03271

to Messrs. Duchesne, de Barth, Thiebaud & Assoc.

Washington responds to French settlers who had invested in the Scioto Company, which had obtained an option on 5 million acres in the Northwest Territory. The company sold the lands to French citizens fleeing the Revolution. Unfortunately the Scioto...

GLC00311

to Gouverneur Morris

Marked both duplicate and private. President Washington writes to Morris as Minister to France. Assures Morris of his continued confidence in him, despite the need to recall him from his position in Paris. Says he was not going to write and simply...

GLC06433.01

Plan of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton

From the Atlantic Neptune. Engraved and tinted map showing the Hudson River by Anthony's Nose with the Americans' chains across the river. Plate no. 19. (The map mistakenly calls the mountain "St. Anthony's Nose.") Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the...

GLC01850

to Joseph Clarke

Deblois, a loyalist writing during the American Revolution, thanks Clarke for forwarding him a letter from John Glover, a colonel in the Continental Army, and asks him to forward a letter to Nathaniel Clark and Jeremiah Clark, possibly the commander...

GLC01450.139

International Pamphlets, Numbers 11-20

One volume of International Pamphlets printed in New York. Item is a series of individual pamphlets printed together, related to communism. Entries include: "Social Insurance" by Grace M. Burnham; "The Paris Commune, A Story in Picture" by William...

GLC09640.092