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15 November 1871
Greeley, Horace (1811-1872)
to R. L. Sanderson
Serving as editor of the New York Tribune, Greeley offers advice to Sanderson: "...I say to all who are in want of work, Go West!" Written on New York Tribune stationery.
GLC00608
10 January 1813
Adams, John (1735-1826)
To: Gov. William Plumer.
New York State, party and sectionalism.
GLC00639.02
18 November 1861
Leavenworth, F.P. (fl. 1861)
to his father
A Confederate captain in an ordnance unit tells his father about Civil War activities in Arkansas and Missouri. Comments on the arrival of Union General David Hunter with 36,000 soldiers. Discusses the strength and position of Confederate...
GLC00653.07
14 March 1861
Van Valkenburgh, Gerrit S. (fl. 1860-1866)
to Mollie [Van Valkenburgh]
Written by Gerrit to his sister Mollie. Attempts to justify his decision, as a transplanted Northerner, to side with the South. Mixes support for his adopted home with love for the family he left in the North. References her letter of 12 February...
GLC00686.05
13 January 1622
Brandt, Sebastian (fl. 1600-1625)
to Henry Hovener
Requests having the London Company send him supplies. Requests his nephew (the son of Phillip Brandt) be sent to Virginia from Derbyshire. Mentions Admiral of the Jamestown District John Pountis. Written in Elizabethan secretarial hand. Docket...
GLC00708
30 October 1783
Rochefontaine, Stephen (1755-1814)
[Recommendation]
Recommends two men to General Henry Knox as they still have several more months of service left. Signed by Rochefontaine as Major of Engineers, bearing an approval countersignature of Villefranche, Lt. Col. of Engineers.
GLC02437.02729
31 March 1785
Moriarty, John (fl. 1785-1787)
to Henry Knox
Written in Bristol, Broad Bay (present-day Maine). Hopes to be able to purchase one or two hundred acres of land from Knox. Asks what price Knox would charge for the land, and discusses his method of payment. Writes, "I expect some familys here...
GLC02437.03123
31 July 1785
Discusses the possible purchase of some of Knox's land in present-day Maine, referring to Knox's ownership of two farms and a limeworks. Notes that he could arrange to bring people from Ireland to settle the land. Proposes his method of payment.
GLC02437.03169
3 August 1785
Poellnitz, Frederick Carl Hans Bruno, Baron von (1734-1801)
Writes to Knox to discuss a home in New York City, at Bow[er]y Lane, apparently owned by Baron Poellnitz, which Knox is occupying. Baron Poellnitz has received word from Mr. Steven Sayre that Knox is living there, and is pleased to hear that it has...
GLC02437.03172
12 November 1861
Ericsson, John (1803-1889)
to Munn & Company
Written by Ericsson, the Swedish immigrant inventor responsible for building the first Union ironclad ship, to the Munn & Company as proprietors of the magazine "Scientific American." Writes that he is returning their article "on the subject of my...
GLC02106
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