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01 July 1881
Garfield, James A. (James Abram) (1831-1881)
Inaugural Address of James A. Garfield / Mar. 4, 1881 [inscribed to Mrs. Blaine]
Inscribed to Mrs. Blaine by Garfield the day before he was shot by Guiteau.
GLC03558
30 December 1899
Hay, John (1838-1905)
to John G. Walker
Typed letter on Department of State letterhead signed by Hay as Secretary of State. Written to retired Rear Admiral Walker as President of the Isthmian Canal Commission. Says that President McKinley wants Senator George Peabody Wetmore's son to...
GLC03804.36
4 December 1888
Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
to Robert Adams
He is disturbed over the "clamour raised for the disfranchisement of the colored voters of the South." Written on letterhead from Cedar Hill, Douglass's Washington, D.C. home.
GLC04997
20 November 1882
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
to Henry B. Adams
"I am quite in sympathy with democratic principles; it is democratic practice that I object to... Jefferson has always been my pet aversion; to me he seems merely an intriguing doctrinaire, mighty in word and weak in action, revengeful but timid, of...
GLC05792
27 August 1884
to Amy Post
Douglass writes to Post, a New York abolitionist and suffragist. Had been to Post's home in Rochester, and regretted her absence. Relates that he and Helen, his wife (they married in January 1884) had for their honeymoon traveled through Chicago...
GLC05819
12 February 1897
Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922)
to Clara Hammond McGuigan
Bell writes to Superintendent of the Mystic Oral School McGuigan about current issues in deaf education. He is waiting in Washington because he may be called to testify before a Congressional Committee concerning a bill supported by both of them...
GLC06277
1 June 1882
Guiteau, Charles (1841-1882)
My Case [poem]
Faded ink. "For Saturday's Star." A poem justifying his assassination of President Garfield. "I executed / the Divine command. And Garfield did remove / to save my party / and my country / from the bitter fate of war...." The fifth page has had...
GLC06319
02 February 1887
Gibson, Randall Lee (1832-1892)
to Grover Cleveland re: passage of a railroad grant bill
Written as Senator from Louisiana.
GLC03505
31 January 1896
Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)
Address of Booker T. Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, before the Hamilton Club, Chicago
With autograph corrections. Washington's address establishes that he believes in the African American to be the glue that holds and can hold the North and the South together. He believes that African Americans in both the North and South struggle...
GLC07934
1884/02/01
Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906)
re: apathy of women in Suffrage movement
"And my answer to the Men-is-that if they insist of leaving the women of this republic disfranchised until the vast majority of them demand it-there is no hope for our emancipation from political serfdom."
GLC07419
24 March 1894
to Benjamin Franklin Auld
Thanks Auld for helping him obtain the date when Auld's father, Hugh, began the ship building firm where Douglass served in Baltimore. Asserts that Hugh may have begun the business as early as 1827, and he (Douglass) may have been eight years old in...
GLC07484.01
1879/05/19
The Exodus [oppression of blacks in the South and their leaving for the North]
Apparently a sentiment or quotation written on blue lined paper, removed from a notebook or autograph album. This may be unrhymed verse. "If they were generally and systematically whipt starved and shot to death and if there were no rational ground...
GLC07563
23 November 1887
to unknown
Discusses equality of treatment for blacks in the South. Pleased that black lawyers are now allowed to practice, and says it "implies a wonderful revolution in the public sentiment of the Southern States." However, worries because some teachers of...
GLC08992
22 August 1879
[Douglass quotation on each citizen's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness]
One note from Frederick Douglass dated August 22, 1879. Writes that the government owes every citizen equal opportunity to live and when it does not provide this service should be overthrown.
GLC01116
26 October 1879
to Emily Collins
Offers his home as a place to stay during her attendance at the eleventh annual meeting of the American Woman Suffrage Association, to be held in District of Columbia in early January 1880. Emily Parmely Collins worked for women's rights in New York...
GLC01197
27 July 1886
Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908)
[Appointment of George C. Munson as Assayer of the United States Mint at Denver, Colorado]
Countersigned by Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard. Signed as Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America. Has blue coloring likely due to discoloration.
GLC01990
22 October 1897
McKinley, William (1843-1901)
Pardon of Dora Lincoln, convicted of prostitution [or of operating a brothel].
Convicted of "keeping a disorderly house" [a term once used to refer to prostitution]; sentenced to 2 months imprisonment with an additional 2 months imprisonment added after being unable to pay the $25 fine also accrued. Pardoned after serving...
GLC00045.37
28 December 1896
to Edward Oliver Wolcott
Writes to the Colorado senator regarding international bimetallism. Bimetallism is the use of silver and gold as a standard of currency. McKinley initially favored international bimetallism, but when the British rejected that system, he abandoned...
GLC00655.16
12 March 1877
to C. F. Manahan
Requests that Manahan make arrangements with Western Union Telegraph Company or the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company to connect lines with his private line. Offers to repeat a telephone lecture in Lowell [Massachusetts] as long as the lines are...
GLC02062
9 March 1881
Foster, Abigail K. (fl. 1881)
to Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson
Abolitionist and suffragist Foster responds to questions from Robinson who was doing research for her book, "Massachusetts in the woman suffrage movement. A general, political, legal and legislative history from 1774 to 1881" (Boston, 1881). Foster...
GLC02076
12 June 1878
Porter, Horace (1837-1921)
to George C. Pullman
Written as Vice President of the Pullman Company to the President while on vacation. Mentions political news, cost-effectiveness of the elevated trains in New York, and scheduling trains to handle rush hours. Written on Pullman Palace Car Company...
GLC02114
14 November 1892
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard (1822-1893)
to E.K. May
Discusses reform for hardened criminals. Wants as much reform as possible, but those not able to reform should stay in prison indefinitely - "no cure no release."
GLC00118.01.01
30 December 1886-17 January 1887
Morgan, J. Pierpont (1837-1913)
[Indenture of Deed from New Jersey Junction Railroad Company, et al. to The United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company]
Contains three parts: the first is an indenture in which the New Jersey Junction Railroad Company pays $18,000 to the United New Jersey Rail Road and Canal Company for specified lands and buildings in Jersey City, New Jersey. Morgan and Harris C...
GLC01616
23 March 1880
Temperance Republican Headquarters
Recent work of grog shops
Gives detailed accounts of crimes and murders committed at liquor saloons due to excessive drinking. Stories are reprinted from other newspapers or publications. Printed by the Temperance Republicans. Subtitle reads: "It is high time for the law...
GLC01733.15
1895 - 1898
Manchester, Marietta
[Three letters from an American missionary woman in China during the Boxer Rebellion] [Decimalized .01-.04]
Three letters from Marietta Manchester to her family while traveling in Japan and China on a missionary trip. According to a note that accompanies these letters she was killed during the Boxer Rebellion. There are descriptions of Japanese houses, and...
GLC09585
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