George Meade letter to Abraham Lincoln, August 12, 1863, page [2]. George Meade letter to Abraham Lincoln, August 12, 1863, page [2]. Handwritten document. View Item
George Meade letter to Abraham Lincoln, August 12, 1863, page [1]. George Meade letter to Abraham Lincoln, August 12, 1863, page [1]. Handwritten document. View Item
Text Dexter A. Hawkins letter to Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861, page [2]. Autograph letter signed. View Item
Text Dexter A. Hawkins letter to Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861, page [1]. Autograph letter signed. View Item
Text Dexter A. Hawkins letter to Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861, page [3]. Autograph letter signed. View Item
Text Dexter A. Hawkins letter to Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861, page [4]. Autograph letter signed. View Item
Text Abraham Lincoln letter to Edwin M. Stanton\, September 19\, 1862\, page [1]. Autograph letter signed. View Item
Text Abraham Lincoln letter to Edwin M. Stanton\, September 19\, 1862\, page [2]. Autograph letter signed. View Item
Text Abraham Lincoln letter to Edwin M. Stanton, April 18, 1863, page [2]. Autograph letter signed. View Item
Text Abraham Lincoln letter to Edwin M. Stanton, April 18, 1863, page [1]. Autograph letter signed. View Item
Text Thomas W.C. Moore letter to George H. Moore, Librarian of the New-York Historical Society, New York, March 15, 1862 Cover letter addressed to George Moore by Thomas W.C. Moore presenting the enclosed manuscript and briefly discussing the circumstances of the poem's original composition forty years earlier. View Item
Text Gilbert Stuart letter to Benjamin West, circa 1776, verso Dated Monday evening, No. 30 Grace Church St. There are sketches on the letter's interior pages. Gilbert Stuart conveys his destitution and his hopes that Benjamin West can assist him. Stuart writes: "Should Mr. West in his abundant kindness think of ought for me I shall esteem it an obligation which shall bind me forever with gratitude." Gilbert Stuart was, literally, a starving artist, writing to Benjamin West for help. View Item
Text Gilbert Stuart letter to Benjamin West, circa 1776, recto Dated Monday evening, No. 30 Grace Church St. There are sketches on the letter's interior pages. Gilbert Stuart conveys his destitution and his hopes that Benjamin West can assist him. Stuart writes: "Should Mr. West in his abundant kindness think of ought for me I shall esteem it an obligation which shall bind me forever with gratitude." Gilbert Stuart was, literally, a starving artist, writing to Benjamin West for help. View Item
Text Clara Harris letter to Mary, 1865 April 25, page [5] Autograph letter, signed, from Clara Harris, daughter of a U.S. Senator from New York, Ira Harris, and fiancée of Henry Reed Rathbone, to Mary, dated Washington, April 25th, 1865. Clara Harris, with Rathbone, accompanied Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln to the theater on the night of April 14th, 1865, and was witness to the assassination of the President. The letter is a description of the events of that night, the grieving of the widowed First Lady, and the healing of Rathbone's stab wound. View Item
Text Clara Harris letter to Mary, 1865 April 25, page [1] and [4] Autograph letter, signed, from Clara Harris, daughter of a U.S. Senator from New York, Ira Harris, and fiancée of Henry Reed Rathbone, to Mary, dated Washington, April 25th, 1865. Clara Harris, with Rathbone, accompanied Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln to the theater on the night of April 14th, 1865, and was witness to the assassination of the President. The letter is a description of the events of that night, the grieving of the widowed First Lady, and the healing of Rathbone's stab wound. View Item
Text Clara Harris letter to Mary, 1865 April 25, page [2] and [3] Autograph letter, signed, from Clara Harris, daughter of a U.S. Senator from New York, Ira Harris, and fiancée of Henry Reed Rathbone, to Mary, dated Washington, April 25th, 1865. Clara Harris, with Rathbone, accompanied Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln to the theater on the night of April 14th, 1865, and was witness to the assassination of the President. The letter is a description of the events of that night, the grieving of the widowed First Lady, and the healing of Rathbone's stab wound. View Item
Text Clara Harris letter to Mary, 1865 April 25, page [6] Autograph letter, signed, from Clara Harris, daughter of a U.S. Senator from New York, Ira Harris, and fiancée of Henry Reed Rathbone, to Mary, dated Washington, April 25th, 1865. Clara Harris, with Rathbone, accompanied Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln to the theater on the night of April 14th, 1865, and was witness to the assassination of the President. The letter is a description of the events of that night, the grieving of the widowed First Lady, and the healing of Rathbone's stab wound. View Item
Text Ulysses S. Grant letter to Robert E. Lee, Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865 The terms of surrender of General Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865. One of the original impressions from the manifold on which General U.S. Grant wrote the terms of surrender, with interlinear revisions by Ely S. Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca man who had been Grant's military secretary since 1863. Parker's inscription below reads: "The above is an original in Gen. Grant's own handwriting of the terms of surrender given by him to Gen. Lee at Appomattox Court House. View Item
Text Ulysses S. Grant letter to Robert E. Lee, Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865 The terms of surrender of General Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865. One of the original impressions from the manifold on which General U.S. Grant wrote the terms of surrender, with interlinear revisions by Ely S. Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca man who had been Grant's military secretary since 1863. Parker's inscription below reads: "The above is an original in Gen. Grant's own handwriting of the terms of surrender given by him to Gen. Lee at Appomattox Court House. View Item
Text Horace Greeley letter to Henry David Thoreau, November 4, 1856, page [3] Letter from Horace Greeley, editor and publisher of the New York Tribune, 1841-1872, to Henry David Thoreau, asking whether he would be his children's tutor. View Item
Text Horace Greeley letter to Henry David Thoreau, November 4, 1856, page [4] Letter from Horace Greeley, editor and publisher of the New York Tribune, 1841-1872, to Henry David Thoreau, asking whether he would be his children's tutor. View Item
Text Horace Greeley letter to Henry David Thoreau, November 4, 1856, page [2] Letter from Horace Greeley, editor and publisher of the New York Tribune, 1841-1872, to Henry David Thoreau, asking whether he would be his children's tutor. View Item
Text Horace Greeley letter to Henry David Thoreau, November 4, 1856, page [1] Letter from Horace Greeley, editor and publisher of the New York Tribune, 1841-1872, to Henry David Thoreau, asking whether he would be his children's tutor. View Item
Text Letter to suffragist Eleanor C. Erving from her niece Bertie, April 4, 1911, page [1] and [4] Letter requests a "votes for women" pin, with the "sufferage [sic] colors". View Item
Text Letter to suffragist Eleanor C. Erving from her niece Bertie, April 4, 1911, page [2]-[3] Letter requests a "votes for women" pin, with the "sufferage [sic] colors". View Item
Text Sir, On carefully reviewing the conduct of your Congress, I find a remarkable conformity between it and the rules laid down by Machiavel in his well known treatise, intitled, The prince. …, page [1] At head of title: No. VI. Letter no. VI, addressed to John Jay, of the "Letters of Papinian: in which the conduct, present state and prospects, of the American Congress, are examined". The letters were first printed in 1779 in Rivington's Royal Gazette, and afterwards reprinted in Gaine's New-York Gazette. They were reissued the same year in book form in London and New York. Attributed to Inglis in the Dictionary of American biography. Text printed in three columns. New-York Historical copy cropped and torn at edges, with slight loss of text. View Item
Text Sir, On carefully reviewing the conduct of your Congress, I find a remarkable conformity between it and the rules laid down by Machiavel in his well known treatise, intitled, The prince. …, page [2] At head of title: No. VI. Letter no. VI, addressed to John Jay, of the "Letters of Papinian: in which the conduct, present state and prospects, of the American Congress, are examined". The letters were first printed in 1779 in Rivington's Royal Gazette, and afterwards reprinted in Gaine's New-York Gazette. They were reissued the same year in book form in London and New York. Attributed to Inglis in the Dictionary of American biography. Text printed in three columns. New-York Historical copy cropped and torn at edges, with slight loss of text. View Item
Text James M. Miller letter presenting broadside to Col. Michael M. Van Beuren, undated Letter describes the history of New-York Historical's second copy of the broadside, presented to Col. Michael M. Van Beuren by James M. Miller, grandson of Captain Elijah Miller. View Item