Collection of letters of Lincoln's cabinet & Calhoun, Smith, etc. [decimalized]

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GLC#
GLC02320
Type
Header Record
Date
1838-1866
Title
Collection of letters of Lincoln's cabinet & Calhoun, Smith, etc. [decimalized]
Place Written
Various Places
Pagination
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Government and Civics
Lincoln's Cabinet
Politics
Congress

Showing 8 of 8 records

GLC02320.01
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to David Hubbard

15 June 1838

Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850

Written by Calhoun in blue ink, concerning his support for (and failure to get) a rail route from Georgia to the west, instead of through Ohio. He concludes that southern rail routes will unite the slaveholding states and change commercial and...

GLC02320.01
GLC02320.02
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Thomas Ewing

February 22, 1850

Smith, Caleb B. (Caleb Blood), 1808-1864

Recommending William D. Shepherd for a clerkship, and enclosing a petition signed by many Indiana Whigs supporting this promotion.

GLC02320.02
GLC02320.03
Collection Item
Document signed

to unknown

March 9, 1866

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Granting permission to visit Washington on legal business. On Navy Department printed stationery. Document has been trimmed, affecting the department name.

GLC02320.03
GLC02320.04
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Robert McClelland

1855 circa

Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

Requests a job in the Department of the Interior for "Col Gaszynsk...a Polish gentleman of merit and character."

GLC02320.04
GLC02320.05
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to E. C. Carrington

November 23, 1864

Bates, Edward, 1793-1869

Invitation to dinner with Bates and the men in his office. Carrington is addressed as General.

GLC02320.05
GLC02320.06
Collection Item
Autograph note signed

to unknown

circa 1861

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

Expects to arrive in New York in a few days.

GLC02320.06
GLC02320.07
Collection Item
Document signed

[Promotion of George B. Drake]

November 28, 1863

Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869

Partially printed document promoting George B. Drake to the rank of First Lieutenant.

GLC02320.07
GLC02320.08
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to unkown

27 August 1839

Blair, Montgomery, 1813-1883

Written to The St. Louis Daily Globe, requesting delivery of the paper, and giving advice to the publishers. With two endorsements by other writers at the bottom, one signed with the initials J. H.

GLC02320.08