Image Franz Sigel letter to Abraham Lincoln, March 17, 1863. 10 Items Franz Sigel letter to Abraham Lincoln, March 17, 1863. Handwritten letter. View Item
Image Joseph A. Wright letter to Abraham Lincoln, August 16, 1864, with endorsement by Abraham Lincoln dated August 20, 1864. 4 Items Joseph A. Wright letter to Abraham Lincoln, August 16, 1864, with endorsement by Abraham Lincoln dated August 20, 1864. Autograph letter signed. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Abraham Lincoln letter to Edwin M. Stanton, August 6, 1862. Autograph letter signed. View Item
Image Augustus W. Bradford letter to Abraham Lincoln, June 9, 1864 enclosing copy of G.F. Maddox letter to Bradford, June 5, 1864, with endorsement by Abraham Lincoln. 5 Items Augustus W. Bradford letter to Abraham Lincoln, June 9, 1864 enclosing copy of G.F. Maddox letter to Bradford, June 5, 1864, with endorsement by Abraham Lincoln. Autograph letter signed. View Item
Image Text 15 Items Unknown sender to Abraham Lincoln, September 29, 1863. Handwritten letter from unidentified sender. View Item
Image Text 4 Items Milton S. Latham letter to Abraham Lincoln, April 26, 1862, with endorsement by Abraham Lincoln. Autograph letter signed. View Item
Image Text 4 Items John M. Johnston letter to Abraham Lincoln, with endorsement by Abraham Lincoln, October 8, 1862. Autograph letter signed. View Item
Image George Meade letter to Abraham Lincoln, August 12, 1863. 2 Items George Meade letter to Abraham Lincoln, August 12, 1863. Handwritten document. View Item
Image Text 4 Items Dexter A. Hawkins letter to Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861. Autograph letter signed. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Abraham Lincoln letter to Edwin M. Stanton, September 19, 1862. Autograph letter signed. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Abraham Lincoln letter to Edwin M. Stanton, April 18, 1863. Autograph letter signed. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Gilbert Stuart letter to Benjamin West, circa 1776 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
Image Text 4 Items Clara Harris letter to Mary, 1865 April 25 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
Image Text 2 Items 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
Image Text 4 Items Horace Greeley letter to Henry David Thoreau, November 4, 1856 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
Image Text 2 Items Letter to suffragist Eleanor C. Erving from her niece Bertie, April 4, 1911 Letter requests a "votes for women" pin, with the "sufferage [sic] colors". View Item
Image Text 2 Items Eadweard Muybridge letter to William Kelby, 1897 May 17. In May 1897, Muybridge wrote to William Kelby, librarian and director of the New-York Historical Society, to express his pleasure at the purchase of his Panorama of San Francisco by Daniel Parish, one of the Society's greatest benefactors. View Item
Image Still Image 61 Items John Jacob Omenhausser's Rebel prison scenes, Point Lookout, Maryland, 1864 The forty-two color ink drawings presented here were made in 1864 by a Confederate prisoner of war at Point Lookout, Maryland, the Union's largest Civil War prison camp. The drawings highlight the concerns and experiences of prisoners of war; most scenes show prisoners playing cards, buying food, or engaging in barter with food vendors. All of the prison guards depicted are African American, and encounters are recorded between these guards and the Confederate prisoners. View Item
Image Text 3 Items Walt Whitman letter, Washington, D.C. to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Badwin Haskell, July 27, 1863 Letter informs Erastus Haskell's parents that their son is sick with typhoid fever. View Item
Image Text 4 Items J.M. Jansen and Erastus Haskell letter, Camp Casey, Washington D.C., to Samuel Baldwin Haskell, April 5, 1863 Letter from Joel M. Jansen, a musician in company C, 141st New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, describes Erastus Haskell's condition and life at Camp Casey, Washington D.C. Erastus continues the letter to his father, discussing his health and situation while at the camp. View Item
Image Text 4 Items Walt Whitman letter, Washington, D.C. to Mr. And Mrs. Samuel Baldwin Haskell, August 10, 1863 Letter describes the final days of Erastus Haskell's life before his death from typhoid fever. View Item
Image Text 1 Items Walt Whitman letter, Washington, D.C. to Samuel Baldwin Haskell, September 9, 1863 Letter written in reply to a letter from Samuel Haskell, and in remembrance of Erastus Haskell. Whitman sends his love to the Haskell family, including Erastus's mother, brother, and sisters. View Item
Text [Richard Peter letter to Joshua Underhill and Joseph Curtis, September 11, 1818], page [4] Four page letter, dated Philadelphia, September 11, 1818, written by Richard Peters on the state of the cause of abolition. View Item
Text Volume 5, Minutes of meetings, records, and reports of committees. Request and Order for Calling Meeting of Manumission Society 9 mo 25. 1821, page [1] One page request for calling a meeting of the Manumission Society. The request is dated September 22, 1821, and signed by Robert Cornell, William Mott, J. Thompson, M. R. Willis and Robert White. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Letter from Francis Jackson, et al.] Two-page letter from Francis Jackson, Samuel Philbrick, Ellis Gray Loring, William Bassett, and Edmund Quincy of Boston, [Massachusetts] to an unnamed addressee soliciting funds for the operation of The Liberator, an explaining a new subscription service. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Pledges for Liberator, 1839 Letter from Hamlett Bates in Boston to [secretary of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] friend [James Caleb] Jackson, listing unpaid pledges made to The Liberator in 1839 and identifying those that may be collected. View Item
Image Text 4 Items A. S. Circular from the Decade meeting Dec. 1843, American A. S. Soc. Three-page manuscript circular letter from the American Anti-Slavery Society, soliciting donations to sustain operation of the organization. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Copy to S. S. Foster to address a meeting in Faneuil Hall Letter from Francis Jackson, Ellis Gray Loring, Amos B. Merrill, and S. E. Sewall to Stephen S. Foster, requesting that he address the public at an assembly at Faneuil Hall, Boston [Massachusetts] on October 30, 1842. View Item
Image Text 2 Items [Letter to the Editor of the Evening Post arguing for the abolishment of slavery] Unsigned and undated draft of a note addressed "to the Ed. Of the Evg Post" arguing for the abolition of slavery. View Item
Image Text 4 Items [Letter from Edmund Quincy to J. Otis Williams] Letter from Edmund Quincy to J. Otis Williams, a librarian for the Public Library in Dedham [Massachusetts], in response to his request for volumes of literature produced by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. View Item