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1839/12/19
Fillmore, Millard (1800-1874)
to Solomon Haven re: news from the capital and NJ, Clay expected to resign
Also reporting the (false) rumor that Clay would resign his Senate seat.
GLC03894
2 November 1815
Monroe, James (1758-1831)
to Moses Abbott
Written by Monroe as Secretary of State. Monroe apparently owes Abbott a substantial debt, saying he will pay to his order five hundred dollars by Mr. Dabney next week and the balance in 90 days. Says his farms in Albemarle and Loudoun Counties in...
GLC03908
24 December 1824
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848)
[Instructions to James Brown, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to France]
Written by Quincy Adams as Secretary of State to Brown as American Ambassador to France. Lists 14 items he included with instructions, including: a commission for his post, a letter of credence to King Louis XVIII, full powers for negotiating...
GLC03922
16 December 1856
Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)
to Silas Ketchum
Senator Sumner informs Ketchum, "Of course, I cannot identify the child to which you refer. There was a little girl quite white, a slave in Washington, whose freedom was purchased through my agency, & afterwards sent to Boston, where I presume she...
GLC03980
17 July 1860
Buchanan, James (1791-1868)
[Pardon of Jacob Smith for mail tampering].
Pardon is countersigned by Acting Secretary of State William Henry Trescot. After serving his sentence, Jacob Smith continued to be imprisoned in Philadelphia for nonpayment of his $500 fine. He was pardoned by Buchanan after this was petitioned by...
GLC03984
1841/03/18
Lee, Robert E. (1807-1870)
to John MacKay re: birth of daughter Agnes, engineer business, officers marrying
Paper is overall darkened. With integral address panel on p. 4 (Lee has written on all panels which would have been folded out of view. Talks about Congress, General Winfield Scott, etc.
GLC03989
3 December 1838
Van Buren, Martin (1782-1862)
[Last page of 1838 message to Congress]
"Whatever differences of opinion may exist as to the expediency of vesting such a power in the Judiciary in a system of Government constituted like that of the United States, all must agree that these disparaging discrepancies in the law and in the...
GLC03994
1817/06
Adams, John (1735-1826)
To: Hezekiah Niles.
Enclosure of papers for publication in Nile's Weekly Register. Adams mentions a letter of Washington's which may have been lost in the burning of Washington, D.C. and warning "Conclude not, from this that my papers are of any great value."
GLC03999
21 April 1824
to Edgar Mason
President Adams sends a copy of a letter from Edmund Gage to Massachusetts congressman Jeremiah Nelson (not included) to District Attorney Mason. Asks Mason to verify the claims in the letter; if they are true "Captain Gage and his vessel may both...
GLC04004
15 April 1829
to Francisco Pacon
Written by Van Buren as Secretary of State. Acknowledges Pacon's letter of 11 April 1829 which provided "a List of all the Grants of Land, purporting to have been made in the Floridas, by the Government of His Catholic Majesty." This diplomatic...
GLC04058
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