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1910
Lincoln Said Women Should Vote
Washington woman suffrage poster, featuring Abraham Lincoln's quote, "I go for all sharing the priviledges of government who assist in bearing its burdens, by no means excluding women."
GLC09103
1919/05/20
Lincoln, Robert T. (1843-1926)
to Isaac Markens re: enclosing a piece of Lincoln manuscript
"I am enclosing to you a piece of Lincoln mss which is not exciting but is characteristic. It was no doubt held in President Lincoln's hand when making the address to Mr. Molina..."
GLC07519.02
14 October 1924
Lincoln, Mary Harlan (1846-1937)
to Mr. Comerford
Lincoln, Robert Todd Lincoln's wife, offers condolence upon the death of Comerford's wife. She assures him that he will meet his wife in heaven.
GLC05508.167
19 March 1912
Johnson, D.C. (fl. 1912)
to J. E. Boos, Esq.
Johnson discusses being raised in Illinois and enlisting in the army. On Lincoln, slavery and the Civil War, he writes: "No man has a higher opinion of Lincoln than I. He was the Good Lords [sic] instrument in destroying the greatest sin of this...
GLC05508.149
1911
Welles, Gideon (1802-1878)
Diary of Gideon Welles
Three volume diary of Gideon Welles, with an autograph letter signed from Welles to Andrew Boyd pasted to front of first volume. The diary recounts Welles' tenure as the Secretary of the Navy. Each volume contains several illustrations of...
GLC00584
1908/10/29
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
to John T. Stewart re: his hope to be remembered as a friend to labor
Signed as President. Roosevelt also writes that he hopes to be thought the best President for farmers, small businessmen and "Abraham Lincoln's plain people."
GLC02793.057
23 June 1915
to Oscar King Davis
"I am pretty well disgusted with our government ... in a democracy like ours people will always do well or ill largely in proportion to their leadership. If Lincoln had acted after the firing on Fort Sumter in the way that Wilson did about the...
GLC08003
1903
Stevens, Frank E. (b.1856)
The Black Hawk War, including a preview of Black Hawk's life
Signed and published by Frank E. Stevens, 1205 Chamber of Commerce Building. Discusses the events of the 1832 Black Hawk War in which Sac and Fox tribes, under the leadership of Black Hawk, fought against United States army and militia troops in...
GLC03168
10 February 1909
Mosby, John S. (1833-1916)
to Sam Chapman
article about Lincoln in Cosmopolitan: "It is the best thing I have seen about Lincoln & confirms what I wrote you that Lincoln offered to the South compensation of their slaves when the Confederacy was in its last gasp & even then we rejected it."
GLC03921.25
25 February 1909
to Alexander Spottswood Campbell
Spottswood was possibly Mosby's grandson (son of daughter May Virginia Campbell and Robert Campbell). Typed on Department of Justice stationery with the printed heading, "Carbon copy for the file". Transmits a clipping from the Times-Dispatch on an...
GLC05738
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