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In July 1791, Burr was serving as New York State commissioner of Revolutionary claims and as freshman U.S. Senator, while also practicing law. Here, the future presidential candidate instructs the clerk keeping his New York office on everything from entering pleas, to sending case paperwork, to ordering vials of an eye moisturizer and books analyzing the French Revolution, to correspondence.
AARON BURR. Autograph Letter Signed, to William Ireson. Albany, N.Y., July 20, 1791. 3 pp., folio, with integral address leaf to Ireson "at A Burr's."
Complete Transcript
Albany 20th July 1791
I have just received your letter of the 17th. In the parts in which Mr Cozine has sent you Declarations, I am Counsel and think JB Prevost is atty. if so give him the narr's [narratives?], if not, you must either get Cozines leave to delay the pleas till my Return or if he declines that Indulgence, plead the Gen'l offence and pleas administravit—but I shall wish to alter the Pleas on my return—Ask Mr Prevost to draw and… Read More

[ABRAHAM LINCOLN].
Chromolithograph. Presidents of the United States, [Philadelphia]: Published by F. Bouclet, lithographed by A. Feusier. Sheet size: 21 in. x 27 in. Image size: 24½ in. x 18¾ in. A large, patriotic chromolithograph, issued around the time of Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration. The central image is the goddess Columbia wearing a draped American flag, flanked by bald eagle and Union shield. Behind her is a steam ship and the artist's rendition of what the then-uncompleted Capitol building was expected to look like. Surrounding Columbia is an ornate frame made up of portraits of the presidents of the United States from 1789-1861—including a beardless Abraham Lincoln: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William H. Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln.

Historical Background

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When enslaved African Americans fled to the ships of the Union blockading fleet, officers often sent them to "contraband" camps such as those at Port Royal, South Carolina, or Fortress Monroe, Virginia, or shipped them north. However, the Union Navy, short on manpower, also encouraged able-bodied male contrabands to enlist. In September 1861, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles authorized the enlistment of contrabands "under the same forms and regulations as apply to other enlistments." As crew members of navy ships and gunboats, these black sailors served on blockade duty and even on expeditions up southern rivers and creeks.

On January 5, 1863, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles ordered commanders of squadrons to forward monthly returns of "contrabands" employed on board the respective vessels under their command. The USS Western World had been part of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in 1861 and 1862. After extensive overhaul, the Western World was reassigned in March 1863 to the… Read More

JAMES CALLENDER.
Book. Historical Memories of the United States for 1796. Jan 1797. [Philadelphia: Bioran and Madan]. 288 pp. Half calf and marbled boards, bound in antique style, spine gilt, corners leather tipped.
Callender (secretly backed by Jefferson) characterizes Alexander Hamilton's push for centralized power as a moral betrayal of the Revolution. The public questioning of Hamilton's personal finances and motivation was soon taken up again in Callender's History of the United States for 1796, which exposed the Reynolds affair. Early in 1791, Hamilton had been called upon in Philadelphia by 23-year-old Maria Reynolds, who claimed to have been abused and abandoned by her husband. Mrs. Reynolds beseeched Treasury Secretary Hamilton for a personal favor—cash to allow her to return to New York with her small daughter. Hamilton, who had been raised by a young, single mother before being orphaned, agreed. When he called on her at home, donation at the ready, Mrs. Reynolds… Read More

CARTER B. HARLAN.
Manuscript Document Signed, as Secretary of State of Ohio, attesting that this is a true copy. February 4, 1826 [December 5, 1839]. 3 pp. Double Folio ribbon tied at head. With: WISON SHANNON. Document Signed. December 5, 1839. 1 p.
This act authorized the creation of the Ohio Insurance Company in Cincinnati and the solicitation of subscriptions. It is approved by William W. Irvin (Speaker – Ohio House of Representatives) and Allen Trimble (Speaker – Ohio Senate).

New York, 1683. No binding. Fine. Autograph Letter Signed to Governor William Penn. New York, May 1, 1683, ""As the loadstone attracts Iron, so ought acknowledgemts to pursue faviours ... [I] dare not presume any further having soe lately recd soe great a marke of your bounty....""Deputy Governor Anthony Brockholls of New York extends a cordial note to Governor William Penn in the midst of continuing deliberations between Penn and Lord Baltimore over the southern boundary of Pennsylvania and possession of Delaware. Complete Transcript[New Y]orke Primo[1st] May 1683Right Honble,As the loadstone attracts Iron, soe [loss] ought acknowledgemts to pursue faviours the wch am in some measure guilty of but dare not presume any further having soe lately recd soe great a marke of your bounty wch I esteame after tryall to be the best I have seen in these parts and wish my selfe able to make retaliacon but you finding inabilitie want [loss] part, wch I am troubld at, so pleased to comand what [loss] score till… Read More

ALEX HALEY.
Signed Check, September 20, 1988. Drawn on the First Tennessee Bank in Knoxville. To "Patricia Alexander". With "Love!" in the memo field and on the back is her endorsement and a note that says "Thanks!".

"Today is the 'memorable 8th' and the Party in Power chose this as the day to pass in the House the Bill to refund to Genl Jackson the fine imposed on him at New Orleans. I tried hard to get the floor to make a speech upon an amendment I had proposed – which was to pay the amount of the fine without reFlection [?] upon the judge – but the Locos would not let me. They 'gagged' all discussion and I was not permitted to say anything on my amendment. A more outrageous proceeding I hardly ever witnessed. I was the more anxious to make a speech…misstated by the Globe reporter." ALEXANDER STEPHENS.
Autograph Letter Signed, to John L. Bird, January 8, 1844, Washington, D.C. With integral address leaf franked "Free A.H. Stephens MC." 3 pp., 8 x 10 in.
Historical Background

Andrew Jackson had been fined $1,000 for detaining a federal judge and unconstitutionally imposing martial law in New Orleans immediately following his famous victory over the British on January 8, 1815. Jackson called on… Read More

In this fascinating letter, Alexander Hamilton's son thanks U.S. Senator Jacob M. Howard for his report on President Andrew Johnson's attempt to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. That attempt and the refusal of the Senate to endorse it led the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach Johnson just six weeks after Hamilton wrote this letter.

John Hamilton also jokingly refers to Howard's thinly veiled criticism of Thomas Jefferson, whom Hamilton characterizes as the "Machiavel of the U States." Italian Renaissance man Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) wrote The Prince
(1513, published 1532) in which he commends an amoral expediency in the ruthless exercise of power, exactly the view the younger Hamilton held of Jefferson. Hamilton also commends his father's plan for funding the nation's Revolutionary War debt as a model for funding the Civil War debt. JOHN C. HAMILTON.
Autograph Letter Signed, to Jacob M. Howard, January 11, 1868, New York. 2 pp., 5 x 7⅞ in.
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AMERCAN CHRISTIAN PALESTINE COMMITEE.
Scrapbook compiled by Harrison Fry, Religion Editor of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, one of the twenty-two tour participants. April 1951. Items glued or stapled to several pages, with additional papers laid in. In green leatherette boards, rules and decorations in yellow. 120 pp., 9½ x 11¾ x 1 in.
The American Christian Palestine Committee (ACPC) was created in 1946 by merger of the American Palestine Committee (1931-1946) and the Christian Council on Palestine (1942-1946). Its purpose was to educate American Christian leaders about the post-Holocaust need for a Jewish state, to publicize the new states' accomplishments, to fight anti-Semitism, and to support the country's existence. Over 20,000 Christian leaders, mostly Protestants, were members. The ACPC sponsored seminars, published educational materials, created a speaker's bureau, and conducted study tours taking religious leaders and journalists to Israel and adjoining Arab lands.… Read More

ANDREW JACKSON.
Autograph Endorsement Signed with Initials, ca January 1837. On ANDREW JACKSON DONELSON, Autograph Letter Signed, to Andrew Jackson, January 22, 1837. 4 pp., 8 x 10 in.
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[Jackson's Endorsement:]

A. J. Donelson. / with Col Love. / Turnpike road.

A. J.

[Letter:]

at home / Jany 22d 1837

Dr Uncle

You will see from the enclosed letter of Col Love that he has subscribed in your name for a mile of the road running thro' a part of Mrs Wards land at $4250. I did the same for myself before the receipt of this letter, taking the mile from the church in the direction of Scotts branch. My undertaking is a more difficult one that yours, but I am willing to sacrifice a good deal to obtain a good road. You can scarcely form an idea of the trouble we encounter in travelling now to Nashville. I have been compelled to send my waggon twice there, and though it had five horses, it took two days each time to perform the… Read More

"As long as our Government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending...."

Andrew Jackson's election in 1828 over incumbent John Quincy Adams marked an end to the "Era of Good Feelings," as Jackson's supporters became the Democratic Party, while those who supported Adams became the National Republicans. In March 1829, Jackson became the first president to take the oath of office on the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol. His inaugural address promised to respect the rights of states and the constitutional limits on the presidency. ANDREW JACKSON.
Newspaper. Niles' Weekly Register, March 7, 1829. Baltimore, Maryland: Hezekiah Niles & Son. 16 pp. (17-32), 6¼ x 9⅞ in.During Jackson's two terms, he concluded about seventy treaties with Native Americans in the South and Northwest that initiated a policy of Indian removal to… Read More

ANDREW JACKSON.
Broadside. The Proclamation of Andrew Jackson, President To the People of the United States. New York: E. Conrad, [1832]. Large broadside on silk, text in 5 columns, surrounded by an ornamental border. 20½ x 29 in. 1 p. Excerpt:

"I consider then the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution unauthorized by it's spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed …"

Historical Background

Drafted by Secretary of State Edward Livingston, but infused with the President's Unionist principles and unyielding resolve, Jackson's Proclamation was the most important statement of constitutional principles in the first half of the nineteenth century.

On November 25, 1832, South Carolina passed an Ordinance of Nullification declaring the congressional tariffs of 1828 and 1832 to be… Read More

[ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION].
Newspaper. Thomas's Massachusetts Spy, Or, The Worcester Gazette, Worcester, Mass., May 13, 1784. 4 pp., 11 x 18½ in. With a "Liberty Defended from Tyranny" masthead designed by Paul Revere, page 1 features advertisements, legal notices (the first of which is Harvard College requesting immediate payment of debts, "as money is much wanted," as well as stage coach schedules and a lengthy list of winning lottery numbers.

Page 2 features a lengthy letter on taxes, lands, and the public debt "The people are seldom wrong when they are rightly informed, and fully comprehend the whole system offered to their contemplation: But they are too frequently deceived by wicked and designing men, or led a fruitless round by the low ambition of a few, who court their favor by means disgraceful to honesty. Hence arises the many county Conventions, to complain of those grievances which are inseparable from an expensive war; and which all the nations of the earth have… Read More

ANDREW JACKSON.
Broadside. A Brief Account of Some of the Bloody Deeds of General Jackson, Philadelphia?, 1828. 15¼ x 21 in. 1 p. Historical Background

This broadside, issued during the contentious election of 1828, in which Andrew Jackson ran against John Quincy Adams, is one of several versions with similar and at times identical text, but typographically different. At least twenty-seven different configurations are known to have been produced. These "coffin hand bills" originated with Republican editor John Binns (1772-1860) of Philadelphia in his campaign against presidential candidate Andrew Jackson.

This version shows a row of six coffins at the top, referring to the deaths of militiamen during the Creek War. The next series of coffins represent the executions of regular soldiers shot to death near Nashville. The single coffin to the right refers to the execution of John Woods, about who Jackson "repeatedly vociferated, 'Shoot the damn'd rascal!'" The final four coffins… Read More

This small abolitionist broadside circular to the clergy of Massachusetts urged them to "multiply, to the utmost, remonstrances against the admission of Texas" to encourage members of Congress to vote against a step that would "build up slavery again in a country where it was abolished sixteen years ago." Despite their efforts, Congress admitted Texas by joint resolution fewer than two months later.
ABOLITION; TEXAS. Printed Broadside Circular Letter to Massachusetts Clergy, Boston, November 3, 1845, announcing the formation of a Massachusetts Committee to resist the admission of Texas as a slate state. Signed in type by 39 persons, including Charles Francis Adams, William Ingersoll Bowditch, William Lloyd Garrison, Francis Jackson, John Gorham Palfrey, John Pierpont, Henry B. Stanton, George Bradburn, Ellis Gray Loring, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, Elizur Wright, Elihu Burritt, Samuel E. Sewall, Henry Wilson, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Joshua Coffin. 1 p., 8 x 9⅞ in.
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This sheet contains five rough sketches of graphics calling on the workers and voters of America to support Franklin D. Roosevelt's reelection in 1936. They did, in record numbers. [PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1936].
Typed Document Signed. Artwork by Franz Felix and Ideas and Copy by Richard Barron, "Set of Rough Sketches Containing Some Suggested Promotion Ideas to be Used in the 1936 Democratic Presidential Campaign," July 2, 1936. 1 p., 12 x 10½ in.
Excerpts:

"1. Sounding the call against 'economic royalists' in the spirit of 1776."

"2. Appropriating the well-known symbol of violence [upraised fist], diverting it to peaceful democratic use. To include the farmer, phrase the appeal: TOILERS OF AMERICA – UNITE FOR ROOSEVELT."

"3. The statue of 'The Thinker' as a symbol of the man today who thinks, the toiler with brawn and brain...everyman."

"4. Direct appeal to radical labor and leftists in general."

"5. Another way of appealing to the working class men and women."

"This collaborative… Read More

1910. No binding. Fine. Autograph Letter Signed. [New York, N.Y.?] 4 pp., 4 1/2 x 7 in. Transcript Dear Mrs. Lamb,I have just got nicely settled in my home with my brother. We left so early last summer that we invited few friends to share our pleasure with us. Now I want to see my friends around my table, and often. I started to call on you Monday but was called in another direction and Tuesday is my day at home. Today to go out wd [would] be too great a risk. But I want you to come to lunch with me to-morrow Tuesday at one.I do admire your courage and persistence and success in your specialty and want to talk with you - I have invited seven other ladies. But it will not be a formal affair. Please reply - by telegraph, if you can accept. Or not: Yrs Ever Kate SanbornKate Sanborn (1839-1917) was a writer and lecturer. She was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, to educator Edwin David Sanborn. She was the niece of Senator Daniel Webster. Sanborn taught English literature at Smith College, then elocution… Read More