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23 April 1892
Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)
to Anne Abbott
Written on printed stationery of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, as Principal, to Anne Abbott, regarding a fund "to help girls who go as missionary teachers".
GLC02087
18 May 1883
Lee, John F. (1813-1884)
to Henry Jackson Hunt
States "I say you are still fit for the tented field; full pay; and to hold your own with any hero or patriot of them all (even with Cullum- I will tell you, someday, why I put him first)." Scolds Hunt for going to Little Rock, Arkansas because...
GLC02382.098
1871-1894
Hemans, Daniel W. (fl. 1872-1881)
Letters with wife Nancy, to Rev. & Mrs Shiras [decimalized]
Letters by missionaries from north of the Missouri River, 38 miles north of Santee Mission in South Dakota, describing teaching English, arithmetic, and bible to Yankton Sioux Indians. The collection was written to Rev. and Mrs. Alexander Shiras of...
GLC02429
13 May 1892
Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901)
Pardon of Truman O. Angell, convicted of bigamy.
Convicted of bigamy. Pardoned since he had forswore and avoided bigamy from April 1, 1885 and promised to uphold the laws of the U.S. against the unlawful practices of the Mormon Church. (c/s James G. Blaine)
GLC00045.35
14 May 1888
Stewart, William Morris (1827-1909)
[Claims of the state of Nevada]
Report submitted by William Stewart, Senator from Nevada and a member of the Committee on Military Affairs, to the Senate as a whole. Requests repayment of money spent during the Civil War by the territorial government of Nevada. Says most of the...
GLC00267.242
18 April 1881
Garfield, James A. (James Abram) (1831-1881)
to Samuel J. Kirkwood
Writes to Secretary of the Interior Kirkwood to introduce Dr. Mark Hopkins, of Williamstown, Massachusetts, who "has been appointed by a number of the churches to represent their Indian affairs." Asks that Hopkins be interviewed. Indicates that...
GLC00637
3 September 1898
Eddy, Mary Baker (1821-1910)
to Oliver C. Sabin
Thanks him for his vindication of Christian Science in his "interesting Washington News letter." Adds, "we are about to start a weekly newspaper in Boston, but I see no reason for its conflicting in the least with the circulation of your paper."
GLC02509.05
1889
Stroyer, Jacob (1849-1908)
My life in the south.
Biography of Stroyer, an freedman raised on a plantation in South Carolina and freed in 1864 by the Emancipation Proclamation. Stroyer was minister of the African Methodist Episcopal church in Salem. The introduction contains letters of support for...
GLC00267.083
28 November 1885
Ford, S. T. (fl. 1885)
Interesting Biographical Sketch by Rev. S.T. Ford
Newspaper clipping of an obituary for John B. Stonehouse given by the Reverend S.T. Ford. Newspaper reprints words said at the funeral, "General, we shall be lonesome without you."
GLC00368.06.02
circa 1880-1890
Volck, Adalbert John (1828-1912)
Worship of the North
Depicts Lincoln in front of an altar with a black idol sitting on a platform with the words "Chicago Platform" on it. A sheet hanging from the platform says "The end justifies the means." Shows a white person being sacrificed in front of it. Henry...
GLC00493.01
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