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1888/11/30
Schley, Winfield Scott, 1839-1911
to Mrs. Hausch [?] re: answering a letter
Written on Navy Department stationery. [Civil War generals from border states] One bust engraving of Schley incldued as collateral.
GLC02456.25
1881/06/27
Ingalls, John James, fl. 1881
Opportunity [poem signed]
Written on the verso of stationery of the Wilmer Hotel, Anniston, Ala.
GLC02453.20
March 21, 1884
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886
to Levi P. Morton
Introduces an American newspaper man, Albert Pulitzer, to the American foreign minister to France, Morton, as Pulitzer will be travelling abroad. Also asks Morton to extend "any attention or courtesy you may be enabled, consistenly with your duties...
GLC00118.02
March 23, 1892
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
to Charles Hedges
Thanks Hedges for editing a copy of his (Harrison's) speeches and for a book of them which Hedges compiled. Writes that "[t]he care you have taken in the arrangement of these extempore utterances and the good style in which the book is gotten up are...
GLC00118.03
13 July 1889
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896
[Sepia cabinet portrait of William T. Sherman]
Contemporary portrait of Sherman, published in 1888. Seated, upper torso, arms folded. Dated "1889" and signed by Sherman in pencil on front with his inscription on verso to General Frederick Tracy Dent in Denver on 13 July 1889. Dent was Grant's...
GLC00478
1878/05/20
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893
to Herbert P. Maris re: receipt of & thanks for "Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs"
Written on Executive Mansion stationery.
GLC03145
02 March 1881
to Edward Hale re: honor to be conferred on him by Harvard graduates
GLC03206
1879/02/14
to George W. Childs re: buying a portrait of Gen. Grant for the White House
Written as President
GLC02793.044
1881/05/22
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881
to Mrs. Adelia T. Johnson re: improving health of his wife
GLC02793.045
1882/08/09
to Mrs. Franklin Townsend re: apologies for neglected correspondence
GLC02793.046
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