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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
19 August 1898
McKinley, William (1843-1901)
[Appointment of William Sampson as commissioner to meet with Spanish regarding Cuba]
Commissioning William Sampson to meet with Spanish representatives concerning their evacuation of Cuba. Signed by William McKinley as President of the United States. Countersigned by J.B. Moore as acting Secretary of State. White seal on bottom...
GLC04002.04
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
1898/02/17
Telegram to Wilhelm II.
Accepting condolences for loss of Americans aboard U.S.S. Maine.
GLC07952
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
22 October 1897
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
1 September 1891
Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901)
to Roberto Sacasa
Signed by Harrison as President and William Fisher Wharton as Secretary of State. Informs Sacasa, President of Nicaragua, that Romualdo Pacheco will no longer serve as United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Nicaragua due...
GLC00162.08
18 February 1898
to Czar Nicholas II
Telegram thanking Czar Nicholas for condolences he had offered for the sinking of the USS Maine. Typed on Department of State telegram letterhead. Stamped "2d Assistant Secretary, Feb 18 1898."
GLC00782.16
28 November 1898
[Draft letter]
Discusses appointing a governor to Havana, Cuba. Written in pencil on Executive Mansion letterhead. Some words have been retouched by another hand.
GLC00970
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
4 April 1899
Dewey, George (1837-1917)
Proclamation to the people of the Philippine Islands
Title continued: "The Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain, ratified several weeks ago by the former, having on March 20th been ratified by the latter, the cession to the United States...."
GLC02134
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
1898
Rockwood, George Gardner (1832-1911)
[Cabinet photograph of Theodore Roosevelt in Rough Rider uniform]
Three-quarter length photogravure portrait of Roosevelt in "Rough Rider" uniform, with hat, gloves, and glasses.
GLC01681
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
11 September 1895
Manchester, Marietta (fl. 1895-1896)
To Mother and Father
This letter written on Japanese scroll paper is concerning Manchester's travels. She mentions seeing the Aleutian Islands after many days at sea, and says a few days later they started to see the coast of Japan. She mentions many volcanos and says...
GLC09585.01
12 September 1895
To Wallace and Clara
This letter written on Japanese scroll paper is concerning Manchester's travels. In this letter Manchester writes about her journey to Japan and along the coast. She mentions seeing whales and porpoise. She mentions the native's lack of clothing, and...
GLC09585.02
6-7 March 1896
To Father
This letter written on Japanese scroll paper is concerning Manchester's new post in China. She writes that she is on her way to her house in Chang Shan in Cheh Kiang Province in the south eastern part of China. She thought it would take two weeks but...
GLC09585.03
no date
Robin, Augustus
[Engraving of Frederick Douglass]
Accompanied an unrelated autograph note signed by Douglass (see GLC08948.01). Robin was an artist and engraver who worked in New York.
GLC08948.02
January 1884
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885)
to Tiffany and Co.
Requesting a contribution of $5,000 towards completing the base of the Statue of Liberty. "You will no doubt deplore with us the marked indifference of the citizens of New York to the munificent gift of the French People to the People of the United...
GLC08978
9 September 1889
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss (1816-1894)
to George F. Hoar
Begins by asking Hoar to support John D. Powell Jr. of Boston, an African American for a position in the Navy. States, "He is quite a remarkable man ... His energy and activity are unlimited. He knows no fear ...These with other good qualities are...
GLC09010
26 July 1898
Schley, Winfield S.
to A.W. Reese
Days after triumphing over the Spanish Squadron at Santiago, Cuba, and sent from flagship Brooklyn: "Thank you for your note of congratulation. I am afraid I am being praised more than I deserve for a simple act of duty which my whole training in...
GLC09073
January 1888 - June1888
Frank Leslie's Publishing House
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. [Vol. 25. no. 1 (January 1888) - Vol. 25. no. 6 (June, 1888)]
One bound volume of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly from January 1888 - June 1888. The bound literary magazine contains many short stories, illustrations, and poems. The contents cover many topics including love, family, battle, travel and immigration...
GLC09673
1894
Northrop, Rev. B.G.
The Homes of the Negroes in the South
Essay written by Rev. B.G. Northrop taken from The Congregationalist of April 12, 1894.
GLC09564
Currier & Ives
Our victorious fleets in Cuban waters [chromolithograph]
GLC03534
20 March 1879
to Michael Cramer re: his round-the-world trip
GLC03595
7 Jaunary 1881
to Nathan Appleton
Former President Grant replies to a letter received 27 December 1880 from Boston lawyer Nathan Appleton. States that all investments in the construction of the Panama Canal under European management will be "sunk without any return to the investors...
GLC03635
4 December 1897
Zelaya, José Santos (1853-1919)
Monopoly of lead, fulminating caps and cartridges for shot guns and revolvers
Contract approved by Zelaya as President of Nicaragua. Contract given by Minister of Finance Enrique Lopez. Probably arranged by Walker in retirement from the U.S. Navy working on the canal commission in Nicaragua, but his signature is not on the...
GLC03804.24
9 September 1898
Haupt, Lewis Muhlenberg (1844-1937)
Written by Haupt, who was working with Walker in Nicaragua (see GLC03804.25 -- he is referenced as one of the guests on the receipt) on the feasibility of creating a canal there. Says he heard that "Menocal has been 'pardoned'" and assigned to duty...
GLC03804.30
26 September 1878
Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891)
to David Douty Colton
Expresses gratitude to Colton, Vice President of the Southern Pacific Railroad, for the convenience the railroad offers transcontinental travelers. States that the railroad is "'a great civilizer', and will enable the Military Authorities to...
GLC05095
2 April 1898
Lee, Fitzhugh (1835-1905)
to William Sampson
Dispatch regarding the arrival of Spanish torpedo fleet at Martinique. Written in pencil.
GLC04275
19 September 1898
Sampson, William Thomas (1840-1902)
to Mrs. Sampson
Discusses the conditions in Havana and the importance of the Spanish withdrawal from Cuba.
GLC04277.01
2 March 1900
Taft, William H. (1857-1930)
to Luke Wright
Urges recipient to accept appointment as President of the Philippine Commission. Written on U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit letterhead.
GLC04279
13 May 1882
Astor, John Jacob (1822-1890)
[Indenture between John Jacob Astor and two railroad companies]
Signed by Astor, his wife, Charlotte Augusta, and Cornelius Vanderbilt as the Vice President of both railroad companies. Edwin F. Carey signed as a witness. Land indenture between Astor and his wife and the Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad...
GLC04341
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