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30 July 1877

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard (1822-1893)

Document signed

Title: [Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to a warrant for the pardon of Robert Des Anges].

GLC01181

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13 August 1856

Pierce, Franklin (1804-1869)

Document signed

Title: to the Senate

Based on a report from Captain M.C. Meigs, Pierce requests that the Senate appropriate $750,000 for "the Capitol extension."

GLC01188

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30 April 1808

Madison, James (1751-1836)

Letter signed

Title: to William Pinkney

Discusses congressional proceedings, foreign affairs, the Chesapeake affair, British and French aggression, and the Embargo Act of 1807. A portion of the letter has been written in code and is translated in another hand. Signed as Secretary of State. Pinkney was the U.S. Minister to Great Britain.

GLC01191

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18 May 1863

Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Lincoln endorsement on letter concerning the remains of Captain W. G. Hewins]

Lincoln note written on a letter by the Governor of Massachusetts, John A. Andrew, dated 13 May 1863 from Boston. The letter is addressed to "All Officers in Command, of the United States, or of Volunteers," asking that Mr. Gibbs, who is bringing home the remains of Captain W. G. Hewins, receive all proper courtesies while on his journey. Lincoln's signed note on the second page reads, "Secretary of War please see Mr. Gibbs, with this letter from Gov. Andrew." Also with an autograph note signed by Major General Joseph Hooker and dated 21 May 1863, to Colonel Ingalls requesting that he ask...

GLC01195

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26 October 1879

Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)

Autograph letter signed

Title: 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, Louisiana, and Connecticut.

GLC01197

Collection Item

9 July 1778

Washington, George (1732-1799)

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Francis Barber

Addressed to Barber in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, where he was recovering from a wound received at the Battle of Monmouth. Instructs Barber to obtain intelligence on the British movements across the Hudson river in New York while in New Jersey. Informs that any expenses will be repaid. Expresses relief that Barber's wound is healing. States that, "Tho I wish for your services, I would not have you to rejoin the Army before your condition will admit of it, with the most perfect safety." Text of the letter and the address are written in the hand of Washington's secretary, Robert H. Harrison...

GLC01201

Collection Item

1863/09/03

Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)

Document signed

Title: Printed draft call for troops from Pennsylvania

Printed document signed by Lincoln.

GLC01202

Collection Item

1801/01/02

Adams, John (1735-1826)

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas B. Adams re: French convention and law of nations

Docketed on p. 4. Written as President to his son about the Convention with France which averted war. Adams quotes from jurist Vattell and mentions Grotius and Puffendorf.

GLC01204

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[12 March 1777]

Washington, George (1732-1799)

Manuscript document

Title: [Orders to submit a regimental return]

A working draft of a clerical copy of a circular letter from George Washington. These, or comparable, orders were given by George Washington on 12 March 1777 to various colonels of the Continental Army. (See Fitzpatrick and the GW Papers at the Library of Congress for numerous examples, which demonstrate slightly varied wording.) Instructs recipient to "march all the Recruits you have to Philadelphia, where they will be inoculated and receive farther Orders from the Commanding officers of that City ... Every Commanding officer should know where his inferior officers, and these where their...

GLC01205.04

Collection Item

1 April 1864

Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Samuel B. Wallace as Second Lieutenant]

Signed by Lincoln as President, Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War, and Edward Davis Townsend as Assistant Adjutant General. Includes blue seal at top left corner.

GLC01207

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