U.S. History mss.,

Scope and Contents: Arranged chronologically at the item level, undated items are further arranged alphabetically.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 30 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 leaf. 16.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Partly printed in a civilité based type very similar or identical to English Engrossing Secretary (H7), cf. Carter and Vervlíet, Civilité types , p. 83 (Lilly Z250.5.S4 C2)
2. Imprint: Sold by Nicholas Bourne, at the South Entrance of the Royall Exchange.
3. Dated in Boston.
4. Probably not the Mayflower that transported the Pilgrims.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1985

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 4 p. 29 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 31 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 31 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p.

Physical Description: folio.

Dimensions: 25 x 30 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. On vellum.
2. Adorned with a red wax peppercorn seal.
3. Memorandum of land sold by John Foile, July 13, 1686 , and the date recorded in official records.
4. Document was in an envelope from Paris dated Feb. 15, 1956.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source of purchase unknown. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 39 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p.

Physical Description: folio.

Dimensions: 31 x 39 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Copy of Document 1 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Countersigned by David Jamison, [deputy secretary and clerk of the council].
2. Certified copy May 12, 1830, from book of Native American deeds, No. 1, page 73, in the Secretary's office of the State of New York.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Contents: Transcription: [page 1] A letter from W. Penn to Tho. Curtis of Reading London 14 of 9 Month 1706

What is the matter?—that my old Friend is under Temptation to desert us? What I have heard from Originals, was so good a Surprise that my Love questioned the Integrity of those that related the sad story to me;--has not thy Soul felt Immortality brought to light amongst us? And with all our weaknefses that Urim & Thummim are with us beyond what there ever felt among any other sort of people;--what strange Eclipse is this: 'tis like a apoplectic on the mind:--What doubt our Foundation!—or go from the pattern that was brought us down by our Spiritual Moses from the Mount.—Dear Thomas! Look back, look forward, and remember the days wherein we took sacred Fellowship together in the Heavenly Power that has after Filled the Gospel Temple with its holy smoke and been an agreeable [??????] amongst us. I wish myself with thee though 'twere but one night, and if thou will meet me at Reading and set the time we will meet (the Lord willing) privately either at John [Brigg's?] or the [page 2] Bear Inn at the West End of the Town asking for No. 7 and if any one or two at most thou desired to accompany me I shall communicate it to them for that Purpose ; Our Fear, our Love, our Grief weighs us down on thy accord; Dear Thomas return by the door of which thou wentest out, and be again a Fool and a little Child, delighting thy Soul in Simplicity, Meeknefs and Humility, which the feeling of Divine Life being into wherein all doubtings are resolved, all Fears difsipated and an entire sweetnefs and reposing the Soul within the Veil. Oh! What of this World is like unto this; our greatest Joys take wing on a s[???????] and fly away but the inward and mental Joys of the Holy Ghost they keep us company through this world to that which is out of the reach of all Human Troubles, which is the reward of the Righteous: Hear, fear, and answer and by this stumble thou will at last get ground to help others; Yea the Godly sorrow that may follow this ho[???] & power of Darkness in which thou art rather tried than Overcome may break up a deeper sense and Travail than ever; and both restore and augment thy gift and Service: O! may it be so saith my Soul. I write this in the Innocency of my Heart, make a right us of it and let me hear from thee directed to [page 3] Henry Goldney, so with trice love to thee and thy [???????????] I end thy truly loving Friend in the Lord William Penn

PS Excuse my mean tools for this, through much Bufsinefs I got this penned.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from A Collection of the Works of William Penn , 2 vols. London, J. Sowle, 1726 . (Lilly PS821.A1 1726 V.1). 1972

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed [52] pp.

Dimensions: 31 x 20.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. In marbleized paper covers.
2. Log, 1715, Oct. 21-1716, July 1 , of the ship Elizabeth bound from Boston to "Seranam" [Surinam] and Barbados with a cargo of horses and sheep and return via the "Ueriemia" [Virginia] coast with salt; earlier trip to Boston, 1715, June 1-July 10.
3. Accounts, 1716, May 3-1721, May 16 , of memoranda of payment from crew members for rum and sugar; of wages to Ward from "Capt Pattredg"; of charges for boards and nails and daily labor of Thomas Greene and "Gerthum" [Jonathan?] Ward: "Ballonced all accompts from the beginning of the world to this very day".
4. Inscribed inside front cover, also: Elisha Ward his Book March the 18/1764.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1981

Physical Description: Documents Signed, 4 items, 32-33.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Filled in and signed.

Scope and Content:

1. 1) 1742, May 15. Mortgage indenture to the General Loan Office of Pennsylvania, signed by George Weirick, yeoman of Lancaster Co., and to John Kinsey, atty of the Court of Common Pleas; red seal. (2 pp. 32 cm.)
2. 2) 1751, Apr. 26. Bond to John Wallace, merchant of Philadelphia, signed by Isaac Greenleaf and Mordecai Yarnall, merchants; receipted on verso by John Wallace, Nov. 12, 1751; (paper seals. 1 leaf. 32 cm.)
3. 3) 1763, Dec. 22. Bond to John Montgomery of Shippenburgh, Cumberland Co., signed by John Armstrong (his mark) or York Co., and to Robert Megan, atty of the Court of Common Pleas; (red seal. 2 pp. 32 cm.)
4. 4) 1786 (pr. date). Writ issued to Joseph M. Clellan, high sheriff of Chester Co. to take hold of the goods, etc. of Thomas Wiley, collector of the rates and assessments laid on the inhabitants of Kennett township; incomplete, not signed. 1 p. with blank contiguous leaf. 33.5 cm. Accompanied by blank copy of the same legal form.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1983

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Documents Signed 11 leaves. 18.5-32.5 cm.

Physical Description: bound.

Scope and Content:

1. 1. 1752, Mar. 20, for Henry Ouldakers, 260 acres, no plat (Colonial Series I:33, no. 9);
2. 2. 1752, Mar. 27, for Henry Enoch, 270 acres, with plat (Colonial Series I:31, No. 6);
3. 3. 1752, Mar. 28, for James Baker, 220 acres, with plat (Colonial Series I:31, No. 1);
4. 4. 1752, Mar. 30, for Daniel Osborne, 270 acres, with plat (Colonial Series I:33, no. 10);
5. 5. 1752, Mar. 30, for George Washington, 240 acres, with plat, not signed by Washington, not cited in Colonial Series;
6. 6. 1752, Mar. 30, for Daniel Osborne, 220 acres, with plat, not cited in Colonial Series;
7. 7. 1752, Mar. 30, for William Williams, 121 acres, with plat (Colonial Series I:33, no. 13);
8. 8. 1752, Apr. 2, for David Edwards, 200 acres, with plat (Colonial Series I:31, no. 5);
9. 9. 1752, Apr. 8, for John Parke the Younger, 135 acres, with plat (Colonial Series I:33, no. 11);
10. 10. 1752, May 8, for Major Marquis Calmes, 1110 acres, with plat, not cited in Colonial Series;
11. 11. 1752, Oct. 23, for Christopher Beiler, 67 acres, with plat (Colonial Series I:31, no. 2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1984

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana, who had obtained it from the Gribbel collection. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Enclosure in Spry's hand: A proposal for the further establishment of regular courts of Vice Admiralty in America, June 27, 1765. (A.D. 6 p. 23 cm.)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1965

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 62 pp. In box.

Dimensions: 39 x 16.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. note about Mother who would "give me one year's salary toward the expense of my building", ca. 1767
2. the Estate of his brother Rowland Ellis who died in 1771
3. varieties of apple trees planted
4. the English guinea exchanged for 1/15/0

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1981

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 30 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 4 cm.

Physical Description: genreform: Autograph.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1961

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 19 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Attached to a Broadside advertising sale of Ohio lands, July 15, 1773.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 243 p. 19 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Marbled boards, half calf back.
3. The Journal was edited by James Henry Maguire, 1944-, for his Ph.D. dissertation at Indiana University, September, 1970 (PN7000.M213).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. (no accession date)

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 40 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Partly printed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 23 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document 11 p. 36 cm.

Physical Description: genreform: folio. photostat.

Scope and Content:

1. Photostat from the original in the Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Quantity: 1 p. 27 cm. facsimile.

Scope and Content:

1. Signatures grouped on one page with a note reading "Department of State 19th April 1819. I certify that this is a Correct Copy of the original Declaration of Independence deposited at this Department and that I have compared all the signatures with those of the original and have found them Exact Imitations. (signed) John Quincy Adams." This statement probably in reference to the Benjamin Owen Tyler facsimile.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: D.S.

Physical Description: Facsimile on parchment. folio.

Dimensions: 62 x 74.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Measurements are the contact size of the engraving with the edge of the parchment extending with the edge of the parchment extending from 3.5 to 4 cm. beyond.
3. The plate was made by imposing a wet paper on the original which removed a great deal of the text and some of the signatures, irreparably defacing the original.
4. Adams notified the Senate on 2 January 1824 that 200 copies had been made on paper.
5. See the Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress for June 30, 1949 (Washington, 1950), pages 36, 41, and 52.
6. Census Report by W. R. Coleman in August 1984 lists 26 copies on parchment.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1974

Physical Description: D.S. 40 cm.

Physical Description: Facsimile on paper. folio.

Scope and Content:

1. Facsimile varies from the original in that the word only is omitted from the line: Our repeated Petitions have been answered [only] by repeated injury.
2. Presented by John Hancock Life Insurance Company.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and Date unknown.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 20 cm. folio.

Scope and Content:

1. Printed form filled out by hand.
2. Framed with reproduction of a painting of Benjamin Franklin.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1965

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 17 p. 36-44 cm.

Physical Description: folio. photostat.

Scope and Content:

1. Photostat from the original in the Pennsylvania State Archives Division.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 11 p. 38 cm.

Physical Description: folio. photostat.

Scope and Content:

1. Photostat of the original in the State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Physical Description: Document [4] p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. At head of p. [1]: "Copy of the first draught by G W C."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1959

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 31 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Letter Signed 2 leaves.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Letter written in an unidentified hand.
3. Addressed to "Sir" who is identified as Israel Shreve from a letter of the same date to William Livingston.
4. Varies slightly from the Library of Congress copy in the hand of Tench Tilghman as published in Fitzpatrick, Writings of Washington, Vo. 11 (E312.7.A2 1931) pages 109-110; letter to Livingston follows on pages 110-111.
5. Version of leaf 2 bears the note: Examined 7th June 1784.
6. Bottom half of leaf 2 has been replaced and missing edges of both have been filled in.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Removed from Freneau's Poems Relating to the American Revolution (1865) purchased from Dauber and Pine, January 20, 1928 (E295.F8). The autograph has been mounted on a blank page of the volume, which carries the manuscript note: "Margaret L. Freneau, with the complements of the Publisher New York. June 8, 1866."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and Date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 4 pp. 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Watermark: P F.
2. Published in A Study in Dissent, The Warren-Gerry Correspondence, edited by C. Harvey Gardiner. Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press, 1968 (Main E203.W26) in which Warren's letter of the 7th is also published.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1984

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 31 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Not published in the collected sets of Washington's writings edited by Sparks (1834-1837), Ford (1889-1893) or Fitzpatrick (1931-1944).
3. Accompanied by a picture of Washington.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Quantity: 1 p.

Dimensions: 16 x 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. On page 2 are later transactions by Robert Campbell.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 3 p. 46 cm.

Physical Description: folio. photostat.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 31 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Document [286] pp. 31.5 cm.

Physical Description: genreform: slipcase.

Scope and Content:

1. Connecticut by [Jonathan] Trumbull and [Samuel] Huntington;
2. Delaware by [Samuel] Wharton;
3. Georgia by [George] Walton and [Richard] Howley;
4. Maryland by [Daniel of St. Thomas] Jenifer;
5. Massachusetts by "Les Delegués de cet Etat";
6. New Hampshire by [John] Sullivan;
7. New Jersey by [William] Livingston and [John] Witherspoon;
8. New York by [Robert R.] Livingston;
9. North Carolina by [Benjamin] Hawkins;
10. Pennsylvania by [Thomas] Fitzsimmons and other persons;
11. Rhode Island by [C?] Johnson;
12. South Carolina by [Thomas] Bee;
13. Virginia by [Thomas] Jefferson.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1984

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 11 cm.

Physical Description: vault.

Scope and Content:

1. Printed form filled in by hand.
2. Accompanied by an engraving of George Washington.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1965

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. "Read in Council 22nd January 1784, approved and order drawn." Signed: James Trimble for John Armstrong, Jr., sec.
2. Notice of settlement of account, January 22, 1784. Signed: John Nicholson, Comtroller general's office.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Not published in the collected sets of Washington's writings edited by Sparks (1834-1837), Ford (1889-1893) or Fitzpatrick (1931-1944).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Scope and Contents: Notes, handwritten; a series of 18th century memoranda with additional typed and handwritten accession notes describing the transfer of the notes in this file from Charter to the manuscript department included in the file.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from Rhode Island. Charter. Newport: Printed by the Widow Franklin, 1744 , also held by Lilly, and transferred to manuscripts department.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 pp. 23 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Josiah Kirby Lilly, Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: 1 page, 32 cm. Partly printed; bears paper seal with the pine tree of the Naval Office, Port of Salem. Watermark: HB enclosed in circle.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Charles Apfelbaum, Valley Stream, New York. 1991.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Referred to as "Not found" in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson , volume 8 … Julian P. Boyd, editor … Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1953, p. 161.
2. The copy of Notes on the State of Virginia … Paris, 1782, presented by Jefferson to Fabroni is in the Lilly Library, Indiana University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1961

Physical Description: Letter Signed 2 pp. 23.6 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Bears note: and 30th Sep 1785.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1983

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 pp. 31 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. In red half-morocco slip case.
3. Published in John Clement Fitzpatrick, ed., Writings of George Washington …
4. Bicentennial Commission, 1931-1941, 39 vols. (E312.7.A2 vol. 28, page 303 1931).

Thomas F. Madigan, New York City dealer; David Gage Joyce, Chicago, collector; Abel S. Berland of 69 West Washington St., Chicago, purchased the letter via John Fleming as agent at the Joyce sale at the Hanzel Galleries, Chicago, on September 23, 1973; purchased by Lilly Library out of the Ball Brothers Foundation Bicentennial Fund from Abel S. Berland in 1976.

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 leaf.

Physical Description: folio.

Dimensions: 44.5 x 34 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Printed document filled in.
2. Watermark: T CHADRY and CO under ornate shield.
3. Endorsed by John Hawrie.
4. Wax seal largely eroded.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1980

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Published in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson , volume 9 … Julian P. Boyd, editor … Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1954, p. 571-572. From press copy in the Massachusetts Historical Society Library.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1961

Physical Description: Document Signed

Physical Description: folio.

Dimensions: 37 x 53 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Partly printed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 31 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 pp. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Signed by Charles Thomson, 1729-1824, secretary of the Continental Congress.
3. Varies slightly in punctuation and capitalization from the Resolution as published in the Journal of the United States in Congress Assembled … Vol. 12, page 17, Philadelphia, printed by r. Aitken, 1787 (Lilly J10.A1)
4. Paper bears the watermark of J Buttanshaw, papermaker of West Peckham, Kent, Mill no. 36, who was active between 1775-1804 (See Monumenta Chartae Papyraceae , Vol. VI, Lilly TS1080.P183)
5. Attached to the first sheet is a second page bearing the watermark of Brittania whose papermaker is unidentified.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1979

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 pp. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Letter cited in G. A. Billias, Elbridge Gerry … McGraw Hill, N.Y., 1976 (Main E302.6.G37 B54) on pages 193 and 388.
2. Formerly in the Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang Collection.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1982

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. The resolutions, not here present, may be those passed by the House of Delegates, Oct. 25, and approved by the Senate on Oct. 30. See Evans, American Bibliography, No. 20839 (Lilly Z1215.A3); and H. B. Grigsby, The History of the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788 (Virginia Historical Collections IX), Vol. 1, pages 56-57 (Lilly JK3925.G85 1788) which give the gist of the resolutions concerning delegates to the June, 1788, convention for ratifying the federal constitution.
2. For another copy of this cover letter, see Nov. 14, 1787, in Lafayette mss.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1984

Physical Description: Copy of Autograph Document Signed 4 p. 43 cm.

Physical Description: folio.

Scope and Content:

1. Reproduced in collotype from original presented to the Rutgers University Library by Mr. and Mrs. Philip D. Sang.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1960

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 4 pp. 31.7 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Note on integral address leaf indicates the letter was answered Jan. 27.
2. Accompanied by transcription.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1982

Physical Description: Autograph Letter 1 p. 22.3 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Apparently personal draft.
2. Endorsed on verso: To Mr. Bingham.
3. Enclosure not present.
4. Published in The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay . Edited by Henry P. Johnston. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1891 (Main Library E302.J38 A2) Vol. III, page 325.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1984

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 11 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1946-1947

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 pp. 25.3 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by transcription.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1982

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Endorsed on verso in George Washington's hand: From the Honorable James Madison Jr, 25th June 1788.
3. Published in Letters and Other Writings of James Madison , R. Worthington, New York, 1884 (E302.M2 A3) Vol. 1, page 400; in The Papers of James Madison , (University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1977 (E302.Ma19) Vol. 11, page 178, noted as owned by Philip D. and Elsie O. Sang, River Forest, Ill., in 1962.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1980

Physical Description: Autograph Letter 1 p. 22.3 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Apparently personal draft.
2. Endorsed on verso: in ans to 20 June last.
3. Published, except for the remainder of the first paragraph following "… friendly letter …," in The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay . Edited by Henry P. Johnston. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1891 (Main Library E302.J38 A2) Vol. III, page 362.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1984

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 19.7 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Addressee excised from address leaf.
2. Letter undated; Virginia adopted the constitution June 25, 1788.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1994

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed [120] pp. 16.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. 14-22, Expenses for coming to America in 1794 from the region of Bala, Wales;
2. 23-29, Catalog of books and prices, 1797;
3. 32, Places of lodging in Wales and England, 1788-1789;
4. 36, American wages;
5. 37-43, Letters received, written and desired from Wales, including the name of John Evans of Bala, 1723-1817, preacher;
6. 45-60, History of journey to America in 1794 on the Astria with Captain Alexander Askin, and other journeys and places lived until 1997 (in Welsh);
7. 64, Work ledger, 1797-1798;
8. 67-68, Letters received from Wales, includes J. Evans of Bala who wrote Feb. 1 and received May 20, 1796;
9. 70, Memo of expenses coming to the Allegheny mountains;
10. 72-73, Birthdates of the Robert's children and astrological signs, 1802-1807;
11. 77-79, Weddings at Cambria and New York, 1795-1800; List of those who came from Wales and boat names, 1795-1796;
12. 84-86, Names of settlers of Cambria, Sept. 30, 1798;
13. 87-96, Goods sold upon leaving Cambria, 1801;
14. 97-100, Valuation of his things in 1800;
15. 102-104, Expenses in transporting goods from Cambria to New York, April, 1801;
16. 104-105, Prices for things bought in New York, May, 1801;
17. 107, Evan Roberts his Book of Memorandum;
18. 109-111, Land taxes in Cambria, 1799;
19. 113, Elections in Cambria, 1799;
20. 116-118, Amount of the sale of his brother's things, 1799.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1980

Provenance: The Memorandum book was found in a house at 395 Bellaire Street, Denver, Colorado, previously owned by a Bishop family, and which had been built by a Mr. Neustetter, department store owner, in the 1930's.

Physical Description: Letter (Contemporary copy). 1 p. 30.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Verso bears crossed-out beginning of message "To the Electors of Middlesex" in Gerry's hand.
2. Substantial quote from letter appears on page 211 of A Study in Dissent, The Warren-Gerry Correspondence …, edited by C. Harvey Gardiner, Carbondale … Southern Illinois University Press, 1968 (Main E203.W26).
3. Formerly in the Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang Collection.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1982

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 pp. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. With integral address leaf and red wax seal.
3. Published in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , Vol. XVII (1893), pages 204-207, as contributed by Israel W. Morris (Main F146.P43).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 08401

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Printed in John C. Fitzpatrick, editor, The Writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources , 1745-1799. Washington, Government Printing Office, [1939], XXX, p. 284-285.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1970

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Printed in John C. Fitzpatrick, editor, The Writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources , 1745-1799. Washington, Government Printing Office, [1939], XXX, p. 289.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1970

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 31 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Not published in the collected sets of Washington's writings edited by Sparks (1834-1837), Ford (1889-1893) or Fitzpatrick (1931-1944).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p.

Physical Description: facsimile; elephant folio.

Dimensions: 69 x 81 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Two copies.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1949

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 pp. 30.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Addressee derived from information on verso.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1982

Physical Description: Photostat of Autograph Document Signed 4 p. 33-45 cm.

Physical Description: folio.

Scope and Content:

1. Photostat from the original in the Pennsylvania State Archives Division.
2. Two copies.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Physical Description: Autograph Document 2 p. 41 cm.

Physical Description: folio.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Document 41 p.

Dimensions: 21 x 33 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. April 25, 1972

Provenance: It is not certain whether the present manuscript was the property of Henry Kuhl, Hamilton's amanuensis and later Comptroller of the Treasury, or Michael Hillegas, who had been Treasurer of the United States but who at the time this document was written had retired. Henry Kuhl, acting as Hamilton's secretary wrote out the present document from Hamilton's notes, and the manuscript may have been given to him after President Washington had read it through and had approved the Bill which it defended. Washington, however, may have asked for the opinion of Michael Hillegas whose experience as Treasurer would have been useful to the President in determining the value of Hamilton's arguments, in which case Washington may have given the document to Hillegas.

Deborah Hillegas, daughter of the former Treasurer, married Henry Kuhl and inherited the document either from her father or husband. At her death the manuscript passed into the hands of her daughter, Matilda (Kuhl) Dillard, the wife of Thomas Dillard, a U.S. Navy Surgeon, and then to Matilda, their daughter. Matilda Dillard did not marry and the document was inherited by her nephew, Henry Kuhl Dillard, the father of John R. Dillard of Philadelphia.

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1939

Physical Description: Letter Signed 1 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Partly printed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document 1 p. 37.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. On integral blank leaf of United States. An act for granting lands to the inhabitants and settlers at Vicennes and the Illinois country … [Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1791] (Lilly KF5675.A32).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1985

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. On lower half of letter from Randolph to Peters, April 1, 1793.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. On lower half of letter is a communication from Richard Peters to John Nicholson, Apr. 1, 1793.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Letter Signed 2 pp. 32.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Speech copies not present.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1983

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 14 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Quantity: 6 Documents Signed 6 p. 6-13 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 4 p. 31 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Lower corners of 2nd leaf torn off and missing.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1958

Physical Description: Letter Signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Partly printed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Partly printed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 8 pp. 23 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1983

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 pp. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Integral leaf attached.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1983

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 5 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p.

Physical Description: framed.

Dimensions: 6.5 x 19 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Size given as shown within the cut-out of the mat.
2. Framed (34 x 31 cm.) with a portrait of Harrison.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1981

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Enclosure lacking.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Photostat of Autograph Document Signed 41 p. 38 cm.

Physical Description: folio.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by typewritten transcript.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 3 p. 34 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Signed: John Logan, John Wilkason, John Bird. Recorded in Lincoln Co., [Kentucky] Aug. 16, 1796. Signed: Willis Green, clerk.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Main Library, Indiana University. 1937

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 26 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Document Signed

Physical Description: folio.

Dimensions: 23 x 39 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Partly printed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Published in Paul Leicester Ford, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson , New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1896, vol. 7, p. 119-124.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 13 p. 22.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Letter press copy.
3. Bound in red morocco with an engraving of Washington by H. B. Hall from a miniature painted from life by Sharpless in 1796.
4. Many lines often illegible from the faded ink and holes in paper.
5. Published in The Writings of George Washington , edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, U.S. G.P.O., Washington, 1940, Vol. 35, pages 499-505 (Main E312.7.A2 1931) which cites the letter as through the kindness of George A. Ball, Muncie, Indiana.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1984

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Facsimile of Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 16 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Endorsed: "Invoice and Receipt Indian goods carried to Corn planter's town by Tho Silks May 1798."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 11 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from the Main Library, Indiana University. 1937

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 33 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Document Signed 2 p. 19cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 11 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 30 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Appended are duplicate receipts to Lieutenant Jacob Wilson for $150 signed by Thomas Lee, Winchester, Va., Aug. 7, 1800.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Document 18 p. 16 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by an autographed engraving of Edward Preble.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 31 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Address leaf bears receipt date.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1981

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Address leaf indicates received and answered dates.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1981

Physical Description: Document Signed

Physical Description: folio.

Dimensions: 43 x 52 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Partly printed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 11.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Receipted with "his mark", 22nd April.
2. In another hand on verso: "Mr. LeMaire 22nd April 1802 $113.70".
3. Accompanied by etching of Thomas Jefferson engraved by H. B. Hall's Sons, New York, 30.3 x 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1988

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Address leaf bears receipt and answered dates and remains of wax seal.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1981

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Facsimile of Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. 300 copies printed at the Carl Purington Rollins printing office of the Yale University Press for Frederick w. Beinecke, Christmas, 1961.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and Date unknown.

Physical Description: 1p. 14.5x32.5 cm.

Scope and Contents: No watermark Account for the schooner Sally, arrived Mar. 27, 1809, master or owner James Benson Wording on verso: Hospital money See reference to hospital fund for seamen in _The Naval War of 1812, a Documentary History_, 1895 (Lilly E360 .N28 pp. 140-141).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Charles Apfelbaum, Valley Stream, New York. 1991.

Physical Description: Letter Signed 3 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Documents Signed [38] pp. 7.5-31.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. 17 items.

Scope and Content:

1. Partial contents:
2. 1803, Sept. 7 – account of Frances Decore (or Deccore) to David Vance for "making 140 nails …" etc. and "going to Vincennes, Indiana Territory, 22 days";
3. 1819, Oct. 8 – letter of Jacob Middelcuff of Charlestown, Kanawha Co., Virginia, to John Sprinkle of Boonville, Warrick Co., Indiana, concerning sale of salt;
4. 1821, Dec. 16 – letter of Jacob Middelcuff of Pt. Pleasant, Mason Co., Virginia, to David Leeman, Yallow Banks [Owensboro], Ky., regarding John Sprinkle and the sale of salt;
5. 1826, Dec. 1-1830, Dec. 8 – deed of Illinois military lands by John L. Dexter of Hamilton Co., Ohio, to David G. Wilson of Ky., etc;
6. 1832, Mar. 11 – answer of David G. Wilson of Ky. to charges by James Leman in Spencer Co., Indiana, court regarding the Illinois military lands;
7. n.d. – Sprinkle vs. Middelcuff deposition regarding the price for the sale of salt.

1. There is an inventory in the Vertical file.
2. Formerly in the library of King V. Hostick of Springfield, Illinois.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1985

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 30 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Enclosure lacking.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Quantity: 1 leaf

Dimensions: 39 x 50 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Printed on the verso is an Act of Congress for the Government and Regulation of Seamen in the Merchants' Service, Jan. 4, 1790.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1974

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Facsimile of Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p.

Physical Description: folio.

Dimensions: 33 x 61 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Signed by Stephen Ogden, Hannah Ogden, and 54 members of the congregation.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1949

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Appended in Cutler's hand is an "extract from our Bond, containing ye. Conditions."
3. Integral address leaf bears name of recipient and remains of red wax seal.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1985

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Physical Description: folio.

Scope and Content:

1. Countersigned by James Madison, secretary of state.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Enclosure lacking.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 41 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. The document was also signed by The Owl (John), The Loon, The Chapine (Chapein, Shapein, Shapine, Shawpine), Silver Heels, and Smoke.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Quantity: 2 pp. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Burr's signature appears beneath his list of physical characteristics.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1974

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 4 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1961

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Enclosure not present.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1983

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: 1 page, 20 cm. Partly printed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase. Charles Apfelbaum, Valley Stream, New York. 1991.

Physical Description: Manuscript Receipt 1 p. 8vo, 6" x 7.5".

Scope and Content:

1. Companion piece to 14 June 1814 letter signed by Robert Ross regarding illness and death of Smith's charger in War of 1812 mss.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 14 p. 26-34 cm.

Physical Description: folio.

Scope and Content:

1. Marriage licenses countersigned by N. B. Bioleau, secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: 1 page, 20.5 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Charles Apfelbaum, Valley Stream, New York. 1991.

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autographs [53] pieces ca. 2 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. John Armstron, 1758-1843, secretary of war, "War Dept", Part I, 107;
2. Jacob Jennings Brown, 1775-1828, general, "Yours ever", I, between 140/141;
3. William Orlando Butler, 1791-1880, army officer, "Maj. Genl", II, 168/169;
4. George Cadwallader, 1804-1879, general, II, 268/269;
5. John Coffee, 1772-1833, army officer, "Col Cavalry", I, 200;
6. George Crogham, 1791-1841, army officer, "Lt commandr 8th Art"., I, 111;
7. Henry Dearborn, 1791-1829, secretary of war, I, 93;
8. Alexander William Doniphan, 1808-1887, army officer, II, 203;
9. James Duncan, 1814-1849, army officer, "Your obdt servant [illegible] 2d arty. comdy Field Arty 1st Brigade", II, 248/249;
10. John Charles Edmund Pendleton Gaines, 1777-1849, general "1815 Major General", II, 176/177;
11. Edmund Pendleton Gaines, 1777-1749, general, "Major Genl by B", II, 177;
12. William Shelby Harney, 1800-1889, general, "Brigadier General", II, 274/275;
13. William Shelby Harney, 1800-1889, general, "Bvt Brig Genl U S Army", II, 275;
14. William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841, pres. U.S., I, 119;
15. William Hull, 1753-1825, army officer, I, 9;
16. Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845, pres. U.S., I, 196/197;
17. Thomas Sidney Jesup, 1788-1860, army officer, "Major 1st Infty and Colonel by brevet cond", I, 175;
18. Richard Mentor Johnson, 1780-1850, vice pres. U.S., I, 133;
19. Roger Jones, 1789-1852, soldier, II, 281;
20. Stephen Watts Kearny, 1794-1848, army officer, "yr obedt servt", II, 195;
21. Joseph Lane, 1801-1881, territorial governor of Oregon, "Genl 1848", II, 262/263;
22. Alexander Macomb, 1782-1841, general "Yr obt servant", I, 184/185;
23. Alexander Macomb, 1782-1841, general, "Inf", I, 185;
24. Charles Augustus May, 1817?-1864, army officer, "[illegible]", II, 165;
25. James Miller, 1776-1851, governor of Arkansas territory, "U S Army", I, 167;
26. Robert Patterson, 1792-1881, army officer, "Yr ob svt", II, 239;
27. Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869, pres. U.S., "Dec 7 1846 Sworn and Subscribed Before Me … Jus Peace", II, 278/279;
28. Clara H. [(Brown)] Pike, 1783?-1847, I, 92;
29. Zebulon Montgomery Pike, 1779-1813, general, "with high consideration your ob svt … 15th", I, 87;
30. Gideon Johnson Pillow, 1806-1878, general, "Brig Genl, U.S.A.", II, 267;
31. Peter Buell Porter, 1773-1844, congressman, secretary of war, "Yours etc", I, 183;
32. John Anthony Quitman, 1798-1858, general, "your fellow citizen", II, 256/257;
33. Bennet Riley, 1878-1853, army officer, "Col", II, 253;
34. Samuel Ringgold, 1800-1846, army officer, "very respy yrs … Maj G1", II, 161;
35. Eleazar Whellock Ripley, 1782-1839, general, "I have the honor to be yrs truly", I, 159;
36. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, 1795-1876, president of Mexico, "Brigada del Sr. Coronel Obando. Dios y Liberatad Cuartel gral en el Encero Abril 10 de 1847", 12.5cm, II, 153;
37. Winfield Scott, 1786-1866, general, I, 210/211;
38. Issac Shelley, 1750-1826, soldier, governor of Kentucky, "your most ob sevt", I, 139;
39. James Shields, 1806-1879, general, U.S. senator, II, 244/245;
40. Persifor Frazer Smith, 1798-1858, army officer, "Your sincere friend and Sevt", II, 241;
41. Samuel Smith, 1752-1839, U.S. senator, "Your obed Svt", I, 191;
42. Zachary Taylor, 1784-1850, pres. U.S., II, 136/137;
43. Joseph Gilbert Totten, 1788-1864, general, "Eng Department … Chief", II, 237;
44. Nathan Towson, 1784-1854, soldier, "M G", I, 171;
45. David Emanuel Twiggs, 1790-1862, army officer, II, 231;
46. Samuel Hamilton Walker, 1815-1847, army officer, II, 208-209;
47. James Wilkinson, 1757-1825, general, "Yours", I, 97;
48. James Winchester, 1752-1826, general, "Dear Colonel Yours etc", I, 81;
49. John Ellis Wool, 1784-1869, army officer, "Brig. Genl", II, 188/189;
50. John Ellis Wool, 1784-1869, army officer, "Brig. Genl", II, 189;
51. William Jenkins Worth, 1794-1849, army officer, "Yours truly", II, 176/177.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 1981

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 34 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Countersigned by N.B. Boileau, secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 104 p. 19 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Bound in the account book are the lectures on rhetoric and moral philosophy delivered by Andrew Wylie to the junior class at Indiana University in 1848-1849, of which Morris Birkbeck, grandson of Morris Birkbeck, 1764-1825, was a member and as recorded by the grandson. (Autograph Document Signed 254 p. 19 cm)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1944-1945

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by an engraving of Thomas Jefferson.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Removed from Delaplaine's Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished American Characters . Philadelphia, 1815 (Lilly E206.D3).

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Removed from Delaplaine's Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished American Characters . Philadelphia, 1815 (Lilly E206.D3).

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 15 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Partly printed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: 1 page, 13 cm. Partly printed: Sold by D. Fest, 68, State Street, Boston Signature, presumably that of ship's master, partially torn off

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Charles Apfelbaum, Valley Stream, New York. 1991.

Physical Description: Autograph Note Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p.

Physical Description: photostat.

Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Countersigned by Josiah Miegs, commissioner, General land office.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1933

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Photostat of Autograph Document Signed 25 p. 45 cm.

Physical Description: folio.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Scope and Contents:

1. Wrapped in contemporary Philadelphia newsprint
2. Title page reads "Maxwell Thompson, March 22 1818"
3. Cover reads "Charles Hugler [sp?] January 15 1819"

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 4 p. 25.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Watermark: J Whatman 1815.
2. Published in The Writings of John Quincy Adams , edited by Worthington C. Ford, New York, The Macmillan Co., 1916, Vol. VI, pages 545-550 (Main E337.8.A21).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1984

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by another deed for February 13, 1821 and a fragment of one for May 24, 1815. (Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 17-33 cm)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source of purchase unknown. 1917

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Witnessed by John Heaton and Nathaniel Spencer. Notarized by John Heaton, justice of the peace, Clark County, Ohio.
2. Identification of John Heaton, signed by Saul Henkle, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, Clark County, Ohio.
3. Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of Clark County, Ohio, attached.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1946-1947

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Also signed by Joseph White and John Trumbo, agent of governor of Kentucky.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 114 p. 15 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Memorandum of journey. (73 p.)
2. pp.84-108, Smith family genealogical data.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1951

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 11 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Removed from Chapin's A Sermon Delivered, 14 January 1817, at the Funeral of the Rev. Timothy Dwight … New Haven, Maltby, Goldsmith & Co., 1817 (Lilly AC2.C465 S4).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 1962

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 16 .2 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Body of document in an unidentified hand.
2. Oval portrait of Burr showing head and shoulders pasted in lower left hand corner.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1984

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source of purchase unknown. 1968

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 33 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source of purchase unknown. 1968

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase date unknown.

Physical Description: Photostat of Autograph Letter Signed

Physical Description: 2 leaves.

Dimensions: 13 x 15 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. In German.
2. Accompanied by address leaf.
3. Original in the possession of Paul C. Rohloff, Chicago, Illinois.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1974

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1965

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 30 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Witness: John Carpenter.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from the Main Library, Indiana University. 1934-1936

Physical Description: Autograph Document 117 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. First 21 p. contain an index; maps facing pp. 2, 12, 67, 68.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1939

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1961

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 5 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by Edwards, James L., War Department, Pension office, August 7, 1829. To Abisha Packard, Madrid, St. Lawrence County, New York. Re Packard's Revolutionary war pension claim. (L.S. 1 p. 25 cm)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1953

Physical Description: Document 6 p. 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Typewritten copy of manuscript left by George C. Johnston, who conducted a licensed trading post at "Wapaughkonnetta," and later at St. Mary's [Ohio]. Pencilled note on first page: "Original destroyed by fire, probably the only copy."
2. Cover title: Diary of George Bluejacket.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1939

Physical Description: Autograph Document [172] p. 33cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 31 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Main Library, Indiana University. 1937

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Copy of Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Copy of Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 42 cm.

Physical Description: folio.

Scope and Content:

1. Partly printed.
2. Patent granted for an improvement "In the Machine for Manufacturing Ship biscuit pilot bread Crackers and c."
3. Also signed by Secretary of State Edward Livingston and the Attorney General R. B. Taney.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transfer. Book Department, Lilly Library. Bloomington, Indiana. 1987

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Letter Signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Letter written in another hand but signed by Madison.
2. Draft of letter in Madison papers, Library of Congress, indicates recipient is Thomas Harding Ellis.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Document 3 p. 31 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Document 3 p. 30.5 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Signed: A.V. Linderen, president; Charles P. McIlvaine, corresponding secretary.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 4 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1952

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 20.4cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1988

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 3 p. 40 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1963

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 286 p. 26 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. p. 134-135. To Abraham Lincoln. Presenting Gordon's claims for an appointment.
2. p. 204-206. Indianapolis, Jan. 3, 1861. To Abraham Lincoln. Recommending Caleb B. Smith for a place in the Cabinet.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Enclosure lacking.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1961

Physical Description: Document 1 p.

Physical Description: photostat.

Dimensions: 15 x 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Signature reads: "Andrew Jackson Donelson Secy."
2. Countersigned by Athan Allen Brown, commissioner, General land office.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1933

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 6 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. 1) William Henry Harrison to William Ayres, Harrisburg, Penna, Nov. 28, 1835, mailed from Cincinnati referring to the "property of publishing the letter to Mr. Stevens" and another letter to Messrs. Shock and Harris. (Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 32 cm)
2. 2) [William Henry Harrison] to William Ayres, Esq. of the House of Representatives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, mailed from Cincinnati, Apr. 31, [1836?], containing the postscript of a message relating to Harrison's presidential prospects. (A.L. 2 p. 32 cm)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Written in third person.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1981

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Written in third person.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1981

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 pp. 31.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. 1) photographs of Charles W. Mellon and his wife, Ellen (Mack) Mellon, 1833-1907;
2. 2) copies of the marriage certificate of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Mellon, and of the account of Mrs. Mellon's death from the newspaper.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1981

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 26 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 26 cm

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Scope and Content:

1. Statement of Burnet's knowledge of facts relating to disputed ownership of two sections of land in Colerain Township, [Hamilton County, Ohio], claimed by William Henry Harrison and heirs of James Findlay and William McMillan. (Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 25 cm)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from Samuel Ware Fisher's History, the Unfolding of Gods Providence … Cincinnati, 1853. 1921

Physical Description: Document Signed 3 p. 30 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Witnessed by James Wallace.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from the Main Library, Indiana University. 1937

Physical Description: Autograph Document 37 p. 14 cm.

Physical Description: bound.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1956

Physical Description: Document 1 p.

Dimensions: 14 x 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Signature reads: "Martin Van Buren By Abraham Van Buren Secy."
2. Countersigned by Samuel D. King, acting recorder, General land office.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1933

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from John Pierpont, The Portrait. Boston, 1812 (Lilly War of 1812 E312.65.P6). 1951

Physical Description: Letter Signed 1 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Enclosure lacking.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1961

Physical Description: 1 page, 27.5 cm. Filed inside the policy: cancelled promissory note, printed for the cost of the policy, signed by Ephraim Brown, dated may 3, 1838. 1 page, 8.7 cm.

Scope and Contents: Partly printed Signed by Richard Girdler, president, and [illegible], treasurer Marginal note: The Haytien dollar val. at 80 cents

Physical Description: Autograph Note Signed 1 p. 11 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Mounted on lined paper with the annotation.
2. "Presented to Jos. S. Cauls by Charles Francis Adams", n.d. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Lilly Library Administrative Office. 1975

Physical Description: 1p. 27.5 cm. Partly printed.

Scope and Contents: Signed by Richard Girdler, president, and [illegible] treasurer Filed inside the policy: promissory note, printed, for the cost of the policy, filled in but not signed. 1p. 8cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Charles Apfelbaum, Valley Stream, New York. 1991.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1959

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by: Taylor, Janette. Statement regarding the obtaining of letters of administration on the estate of John Paul Jones by John Henry Sherburne, June 8, 1839. (Autograph Document Signed 4 p. 31 cm)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from John Paul Jones, The Life and Correspondence of John Paul Jones … New York, 1830 (Lilly E207.J7 J65). 1940

Physical Description: Typed copy. 11 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Copied by James Albert Green from original in New York Historical Society.
2. Introduction, dated July 12, 1926, and appended note by James Albert Green.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1940

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 4 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1952

Physical Description: Autograph Document 1 p. 30 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Printed Documents Signed 51 leaves. 17.5-25.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. * Earliest – Five Per Cent Loan, Philadelphia, 1840;
2. * Latest – Adelphia Bank and Trust Co., Philadelphia, 1929;
3. * Indiana related – Michigan Southern and Indiana Northern Railway Company, New York, 185 …, Vernon, Greensburg and Rushville Railroad Company, Greensburg, Indiana, 188 …, White Water Railroad Company, State of Indiana, 1878.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1981

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 4 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1952

Physical Description: Printed Letter Signed 4 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Partly printed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1965

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document 262 p. 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Bound volume.
2. Ink.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Manuscript DS, 1 p. folio. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased 1999 .

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1939

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 6 p. 6-26 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1946-1947

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 23 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1939

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 11 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Newspaper advertisement attached.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from the Main Library, Indiana University. 1937

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 55 p.

Dimensions: 17.4 x 8.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. In ink on paper embossed: D & J Ames, Springfield.
2. Leather covers.
3. Illegible traces of writer's name inside front cover: … [Dana ?], Dover, New Hamshire.
4. Route via railroad cars, stage coach, steamboat, and walking from Boston, Natick, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Burlington, Galena, Chicago, Milwaukee, Sheboygan, Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, Natick, Boston, and Dover [New Hamshire].
5. Boat names; Belleair (May 27), Potosi (May 31), Brazill [sic] (June 3), Great Western (June 10), Indiana (June 22); See "The Lytle List" (Main VM7.S7 No.6).
6. Notes daily expenses and mileage, the "beautiful prairie," temperance houses, river conditions, the weather, and activities such as seeing a museum, a circus, a glass factory at the several towns.
7. Concludes: "… it had cost me … one hundred dollars and have traveled fore thousand and five hundred miles. And am well satisfied with my tramp."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1984

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1972

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p.

Physical Description: folio.

Dimensions: 36 x 43 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Countersigned by Hugh Swinton Legaré, secretary of state.
2. Accompanied by passport of George H. Proffit, dated July 19, 1843, and signed by Abel Parker Upshur, secretary of state.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1919

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Document [94] p. 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. In ink.
2. Illustrations which include a water color drawing of the vessel.
3. Bound with log of brig Vesta, 1847, Apr. 13-1848, Sept. 19.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 4 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. [1] Thomas, Hiram S., Vermont, Illinois. To "Dear Aunt," Dec. 16, 1849. Family news. (Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 32 cm)
2. [2] Thomas, Hiram S., Vermont, Illinois. To "Dear Aunt." Family news; farming in Illinois. (Autograph Letter Signed 4 p. 25 cm)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: T.D. 7 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Transcript from original furnished by Capt. A. J. Perry.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1952

Scope and Content:

1. Regrets he cannot travel west. Discusses recent smallpox outbreak. (Autograph Letter Signed [4] p. 25.5 cm)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1990

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 12 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: A.D. [39] p. 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. In ink.
2. Illustrations.
3. Bound with log of the whaling barque Sarah, 1844, Apr. 10-1846, Jan. 29.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by a copy of sale of a Negro slave named Rosetta by George W. Apperson to John Rhodes Russell. (A.D. 2 p. 35 cm)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1969

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by cover.
2. Also present is an engraving of Henry Clay, "painted by Alonzo Chappel from a daguerreotype by Root," 28.4 x 21.2 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1988

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: A.D. 215 p. 35 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Bound volume.
2. In ink with illustrations.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Main Library, Indiana University. 1937

Physical Description: Copy of T.D. 21 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1967

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p.

Dimensions: 9 x 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Signed: W. H. Paine, C. A. Paine

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from the Main Library, Indiana University. 1937

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 17 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from Edward Deering Mansfield, The Life of General Winfield Scott . New York, A. S. Barnes and Co., 1846 (Lilly E403.1.S4 M2). 1981

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1943

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed [2] p. 25.5 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1990

Quantity: 2 letters. 2 p. 26 cm. 3 p. 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 311 p. 29 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Dedication to his daughter, Francis Mabie Cotton, signed by Charles B. Cotton, dated Brooklyn, N.Y., January 1, 1855.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1945-1946

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 29 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1952

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1949

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 26 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1972

Physical Description: Typed copy of Autograph Letter Signed 104 p. 20-28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Includes also: Allison H. Cook, Logansport, Indiana, to his mother, Mrs. Lydia B. (Bardwell) Cook, Oct. 30, 1851; Charles N. Cook, Nicholus, [California], to his parents, Noah & Lydia B. (Bardwell) Cook, Oct. 28, 1853; Edward Cook, Williamstown, Massachusetts, to Charles N. Cook, July 15, 1863.
2. Typescript from the originals in the possession of Mrs. John Hodge of Oxford, Ohio, daughter of Charles N. and Margaret (Ball) Cook.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1952

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by typescript.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1945-1946

Physical Description: Documents Signed 8 pieces.

Dimensions: ca. 11.5 x 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. 1852, Sept. 29, Adams & Co., Bill of exchange to Samuel Sherman;
2. 1858, Feb. 3, Receipt for exchange to J. H. Smart at San Jose;
3. 1858, Feb. 4, Wells, Fargo & Co., Bill of exchange to Daniel A. Smart;
4. 1859, Mar. 30, Wells, Fargo & Co., Bill of exchange to Daniel Smart;
5. 1859, Apr. 15, Freeman & Co's Express, Receipt to John T. Sherman;
6. 1860, Apr. 4, Wells, Fargo & Co., Bill of exchange to Daniel A. Smart;
7. 1862, Jan. 3, Wells, Fargo & Co., Bill of exchange to Daniel A. Smart;
8. 1863, Nov. 21, Donohoe, Ralston & Co., Bill of exchange to John T. Sherman.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1983

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p.

Dimensions: 15 x 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Filled in and signed by Jas. A. Shorb, pres., and E. N. Cornwall, secy.
2. Name of owner not filled in.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1983

Quantity: 30 Items

Scope and Content:

1. Negative microfilm made from the originals in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 19107.
2. 1 reel. microfilm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1970

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 15 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Report not present with the letter.
2. Recipient identified from press and letterbook copies in the National Archives.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1943

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p.

Physical Description: folio.

Dimensions: 25 x 39.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Filled in and signed.
2. Presidential signature by H. E. Baldwin, asst. sec. Signed also by M. Granger, recorder of the General Land Office.
3. Penciled note on verso indicates Pitkin was from Delaware.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1983

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 4 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 16 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 3 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. p. [3] contains copy of promissory note, date May 5, 1856, and signed by Leo Haydon and Joseph Wallace.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Main Library, Indiana University. 1937

Physical Description: Document & Autograph Letter Signed 5 p. 26-34 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. [1] Copy of his baptismal record, February 7, 1857, 1 p.;
2. [2] Permit to emigrate to America from Altengronau, Hesse, Germany, February 9, 1857;
3. [3] Maier, Konrad, Altengronau, Germany. To his sons in America, November 8, 1863, 3 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1952

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 36 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by a mortgage in the name of Octave Anfoux and recorded against the slave Ellen, cancelled Jan. 31, 1857. Document Signed 1 p. 17 cm. Partly printed.
2. Also a copy of the sale of the slave Ellen by Octave Anfoux to Mrs. Suzannah (Trevitt) Russell, Feb. 3, 1857. Document Signed 2 p. 33 cm. Partly printed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1969

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 4 pp. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. "Answered 30th August 1857 Sunday Brantz Mayer".

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from Charles Fox. A Portrait of George Washington from an Original Drawing … Boston: published by Crocker & Brewster, 1851 (Lilly E312.43.F7). 1969

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Document 225 p. 31 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Published under title: With Sherman to the Sea … ed. … by Oscar Osburn Winther … Baton Rouge, La., 1943.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Presented to the Library. 1942-1943

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 19 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Published in Roy P. Basler, ed. The Collection Works of Abraham Lincoln . New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 1953. vol. 3, p. 329-3330.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document 3 vol. 20-25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. V.[1] 1858-April 21, 1879;
2. V.[2] April 27, 1879-Nov. 8, 1892;
3. V.[3] Sermon notes only, entered in Advanced Quarterly , published by American Baptist Publication Society, IV: no. 4, October-December 1882.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1949

Physical Description: Document Signed 4 p. 44 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Lower 15 cm. of pages 3-4 lacking.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1952

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Physical Description: Bound item

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 2004

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 leaf. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Letter backed by a newspaper of the period.
2. Small clipping appended to the front of the letter mentioning Mr. Brady's name.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1975

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Appended note: Walker, A. To Beckwith. [April] 20, 1861.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1943

Quantity: 34 autograph letters signed

Scope and Content:

1. In German with English transcriptions
2. Further biographical information available in vertical file

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase. Date unknown

Physical Description: Document 1 p. 50 cm.

Physical Description: copy, folio.

Scope and Content:

1. Signature not in Lincoln's hand.
2. To replace original which was burned.
3. See not on verso.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Document [24], 336, [22] p. 40 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Deposit. 1954

Physical Description: Typed Document 300,47 p. 28 cm.

Physical Description: copy.

Scope and Content:

1. 2 drafts for March 14-August 5, 1864.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Printed form, filled in.
2. $30 … received at Richmond by John P. Pearson.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1986

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 vol. 18-15 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Edited by Cecil K. Byrd and published in Indiana Magazine of History , XLII, p. 69-87, March 1946.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 9 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p.

Physical Description: folio.

Dimensions: 41 x 26 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Printed form, filled in.
2. John T. Wother, master.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1986

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 7 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Partly printed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1950

Physical Description: Photostat of Autograph Letter Signed [2], 21 p. 28-32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Negative Photostat of original in the possession of Ezra Cole, Nyack, New York.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 1957

Physical Description: Autograph Document 16 p. 14 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Contents: P.[1], title-page; pp.[2-8], diary; pp.[9-14], blank; p.[15], Bill of fare during siege; p.[16], blank.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Physical Description: Typescript of Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Typescript from original in possession of Homer F. Horton, son of Andrew Marcus Horton.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 1951

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 3 p. 25.4 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1989

Scope and Content:

1. Partly printed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source of purchase unknown. 1968

Scope and Content:

1. Printed form, filled in.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1986

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1961

Physical Description: Letter Signed. 4 p. 20.5 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1943

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. William P. Slocum, witness.
2. Affidavit, signed b George K. Dauchy, 1st Lt. commanding 12 battery, Light Artillery. New York State Volunteers, appended.
3. Cover, on which affidavit of William H. Akeburst affirming right to vote appears, included. (Document Signed 1 p. 10 cm.)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Document 199 p. 12 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 51 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. Signed by Lincoln, Vice-president Hannibal Hamlin, Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax, Secretary of the Senate John W. Forney, Clerk of the House Edward McPherson, 33 senators and 114 Representatives.
3. The Abraham Lincoln signature was not signed by Lincoln's hand but by someone else on his behalf.
4. The Charles Sumner-James Wormly copy.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Document Signed 4 p.

Physical Description: folio.

Dimensions: 38 x 51 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by a drawing 40 x 53 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source of purchase unknown. 1968

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 26 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Facsimile of Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 32 cm.

Physical Description: folio.

Scope and Content:

1. On verso: Facsimile. The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelly & Sons Company, [Chicago, Illinois].
2. From the original in the possession of Forest H. Sweet, Battle Creek, Michigan. In folder with printed [preface] 5 p.
3. Label on front cover varies: copy 1, Reproduced by Donnelly deeptone offset; copy 2, Presented as a keepsake to the members of the Caxton Club; copy 3, Presented as a keepsake to the members of the Manuscript Society.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 1955

Physical Description: Autograph Note Signed 1 p.

Dimensions: 6 x 9 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1972

Physical Description: Typescript of Autograph Letter Signed 5 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Typescript from original in possession of Homer F. Horton, son of Andrew Marcus Horton.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 1958

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1969

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p.

Dimensions: 25 x 34 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Countersigned: W. Hunter, acting secretary of state.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Document Signed 2 pp.

Dimensions: 18.2 x 27.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Filled in and signed by E. Penn Smith, pres., and M. T. Seibert, treasurer; countersigned: John H. Oberly.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1983

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Three appended notes recommending Dalton for a position, signed by Ira Harris, Edwin Denison Morgan, Henry Van Aernam, William Augustus Darling, Henry Jarvis Raymond, Samuel Breck, and Edward Davis Townsend.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source of purchase unknown. 1968

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 48 cm.

Physical Description: folio.

Scope and Content:

1. Countersigned by Edwin McMasters Stanton, secretary of war.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 10 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed [2] p. 20.5 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase. 1990

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from John Brown Dillon's History of Indiana , 1859. 1931

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Countersigned by Hamilton Fish, secretary of state.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Document

Dimensions: 61 x 102 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. In black and red ink.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1968

Physical Description: Autograph Telegram. Signed 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Partly printed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from Smith's Caleb West … Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1898. (Lilly PS2864.C3 1898). 1966

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from Salisbury's An Essay on the Star Spangled Banner and National Songs … Worcester, Mass., Charles Hamilton, 1873. (Lilly ML3561.S7 S19). 1961

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 4 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by cover.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Quantity: 3 documents. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Documents, 3 items, 8.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Contents: 1876, Feb. 16; Sept. 21; Oct. 16.
2. All bear the embossed three cents U.S. postage stamp.
3. Rosita, founded about 1873, and nearly destroyed by fire in 1881, was a ghost town by 1885: see Perry Eberhart, Guide to the Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps , Alan Swallow, Denver, 1959. (Lilly F776.E2)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1983

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from Hamilton's Our National Flag n.p., 1877 (Lilly CR113.H2). 1961

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1943

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 2 p. 7 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Beginning and end of a letter cut off and pasted together. Part of the letter in Sherman's handwriting remains on back.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Facsimile of Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 23 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Date and source of acquisition unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Quantity: 10 Documents 35 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. (1) [Wilson, Woodrow]. To Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., April 4, 1884. Autograph Letter p.1 and 2 only;
2. (2) [Wilson, Woodrow]. The college man and society, [notes for an address before the] 19th century club, New York, Nov. 15, 1899. Autograph Document 1 p.;
3. (4) Wilson, Woodrow. Inaugural address, Trenton, January 17, 1911. Typed Document with holograph revisions. p. 1 only;
4. (6) [Wilson, Woodrow]. Inaugural, [March 4, 1913]. Typed Document with holograph revisions. 2 p.;
5. (7) [Wilson, Woodrow]. Introduction to message to Congress, April 8, 1913. Typed Document with holograph revisions. 2 p. Accompanied by first page of printed text;
6. (12) [Wilson, Woodrow. Draft of so-called Fourteen points address before a joint session of Congress, January 8, 1918]. Typed Document with holography revisions. p. 10 only;
7. (13) [Wilson, Woodrow Early draft of Covenant of League of nations], August 1918. Typed Document with holograph & typed revisions. 3 p.;
8. (15) [Wilson, Woodrow. Notes for address on the] League of nations, January 25, 1919. Typed Document p. 1 only;
9. (17) [Wilson, Woodrow]. Address [to the Senate] July 10, 1919. Typed Document with holograph revisions. 2 p. Accompanied by p. 1 of printed text;
10. (19) Wilson, Woodrow. To Raymond B. Fosdick. April 27, 1922.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed [125] leaves. 12-24 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Portrait signed, "Faithfully yours, Francis Fisher Browne," leaf [1];
2. Preface to Life of Lincoln by Francis Fisher Browne, July 17, 1886, leaves [2-8], 15 cm., pages vii-viii in printed work;
3. The Father of Abraham Lincoln by George Belle Balch, 1828-1886, rural poet of Lerna, Coles Co., Illinois, leaves [9-22], 20 cm., pages 82-87 in printed work;
4. Contribution to Life of Lincoln by [Paul Selby], 1825-1913, author, leaves [23-31], 12 cm., pages 251-253 in printed work;
5. Contribution by [William Bross], 1813-1890, journalist, Illinois lt. governor, in pencil, leaves [32-38], 15 cm., page 264 in printed work;
6. Contribution by [George Clement Noyes], 1833-1889, clergyman, leaves [39-44], 23 cm., pages 289-292 in printed work;
7. Contribution by [Andrew Shuman], 1830-1890, journalist, Illinois lt. governor, leaves [45-65], 11-23 cm., pages 293-298 in printed work;
8. Contribution by [William Henry Smith], 1833-1896, journalist, Ohio secretary of state, leaves [66-76], [107-110], 14-23 cm., partially on the letterhead of The Western Associated Press, New York, 188-, pages 382-386 and 673-674 in the printed work;
9. Contribution by [Albert Gallatin Riddle], 1816-1902, congressman, in pencil, leaves [77-89], 13 cm., pages 386-388 in printed work;
10. Original ms. by Francis Fisher Browne, Life of Lincoln, July 13, 1886, leaves [90-105], [111-125], 16 cm., pages 511-513, 596-597, 531, 674-674, 701, 715-717 in printed work, with portrait pasted in of George Brinton McClellan, 1826-1885, general, leaf [96], and proof of portrait of George Gordon Meade, 1815-1872, general, leaf [102], both with facsimile signatures, pages 512 and 597 of printed work.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1973

Quantity: 1 Letter Signed, 2 Autograph Letter Signed and fragment of a third one. 4 p. 26-28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Simmons, Charles E., land commissioner, Chicago & North-Western Railway Co., Chicago, Ill. To Arthur Calvin Mellette, Watertown, D.T., Aug. 10, 1886;
2. Mellette, Arthur Calvin, Watertown, Dak. To his father, Sept. 27, 1886, Prescott & Bidwell, abstractors and examiners of titles, Mitchell, S. D. Dec. 22, 1894;
3. Last page of a letter written by Arthur Calvin Mellette. Undated.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Physical Description: Typed Document 120 p. 28 cm. copy.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Physical Description: Autograph Note Signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Enclosures lacking.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from the Main Library, Indiana University. 1941

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 7 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Notes presented by Beecher from the pulpit to J. B. Pond.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Quantity: 1 photograph. 20 cm. x 13 cm. 1 broadside. 55 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: 43 pages

Scope and Contents: Group of 11 letters and 2 retained mailing envelopes written in ink by Mrs. Jane "Janie" A. Smith Baker (1825-1888) of South Norwalk, Connecticut, to her sister Mrs. Martha "Mattie" Smith Horton of Brooklyn, New York. One letter is dated 1885, eight letters are dated 1887, and the final two are not dated but fit the same timeframe.

The letters are about Jane Baker's sewing and knitting projects, as well as her and her family's health and their treatment by doctors, the weather, and holiday plans.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2020

Indexed Terms:

• Subjects:
  • Women

Physical Description: Letter Signed 1 p. 26 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Enclosure lacking.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1954

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from the Main Library, Indiana University. 1941

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p.

Physical Description: folio.

Dimensions: 48 x 39 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Countersigned by William Crowninshield Endicott, secretary of war.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 16 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source of purchase unknown. 1968

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Signed: "Yours in Friendship, Charity, & Loyalty."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1986

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Dimensions: 21.7 x 13.5 cm. – 16.5 x 10.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. 1) The First Day – "Squatting on town lots or squatter sovereignty, [Apr. 22];
2. 2) Gen. Weaver addressing the crowd at Guthrie on the first day, [Apr. 22];
3. 3) First building erected in Guthrie, [ca. Apr. 25];
4. 4) Getting settled – first week at Guthrie – no streets, [ca. Apr. 27];
5. 5) Street scene the first week, [ca. Apr. 27];
6. 6) A new arrival hunting for a lot, [Apr.?];
7. 7) General view of Guthrie town site, [Apr.?];
8. 8) Guthrie on the South, [Apr.?];
9. 9) Land Attorney's outfit, [Apr.?];
10. 10) 1889. In Guthrie. J. W. Piercy, fourth from left – facing Davis correspondent from Kansas City Times , [Apr.?];
11. 11) A Boomer's Camp, [Apr.?];
12. 12) First Blacksmith Shop in Guthrie, [Apr.?]
13. 13) First Theatre in Guthrie, [Apr.?];
14. 14) Electing a Mayor, [Apr.?];
15. 15) [Electing a Mayor?], [Apr.?];
16. 16) Removing a claimant from a lot, May 1;
17. 17) May 8 at Tahlequah 1889;
18. 18) Indian Mission, Tahlequah, I.T., May 10;
19. 19) Cherokee Church. Near Tahlequah, I.T., May 15;
20. 20) Capitol Building. Tahlequah, I.T., May 15;
21. 21) Crossing the Arkansas about May 17;
22. 22) Guthrie one month old, [May 22];
23. 23) Some "Business Blocks," [May?];
24. 24) Riot over a town lot, [May?];
25. 25) Guthrie mob liberating a prisoner from the jail, [May?];
26. 26) Post-office, Guthrie, [May?];
27. 27) Guthrie looking East, [May?];
28. 28) Guthrie on the North, [May?];
29. 29) Morning of June 4 at daylight;
30. 30) Kingfisher, June 10;
31. 31) Picture of a Cheyenne tepee near Kingfisher. Chief Black Bear and family, June 10;
32. 32) Darlington Agency – near Ft. Reno – Furnishing cows to the Indians …, June 12;
33. 33) Picture of Indian tepees … Near Darlington – Cheyenne Camp, June 12;
34. 34) Some Indians that tried to tomahawk us with an ax at Darlington agency near Ft. Reno, June 12;
35. 35) Guthrie in the distance from the hills in the west, June 16;
36. 36) An Oklahoma hotel, n.d.;
37. 37) "Some Faces," n.d.;
38. 38) View near Arkansas City, n.d.;
39. 39) A Plantation. Choctaw Res., n.d.;
40. 40) Two Otoes and one Cherokee – Shelton Ed. of Tahlequah Telephone, n.d.;
41. 41) Cherokee Indians, n.d.
42. 42) Chief of the Ottoes, n.d.;
43. 43) An Indian camp, n.d.;
44. 44) Purcell, I.T. View from the top of the mission school, n.d.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transfer. Book Department, Lilly Library. 1986

Physical Description: Autograph Document 94 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1959

Physical Description: Letter Signed. 2 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1990

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 23 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from William Ogden Niles, The Tippecanoe Textbook. Baltimore, Duff Green; Philadelphia, Hogan & Thompson and T. K. & P. G. Collins, 1840 (Lilly E392.N696). 1973

Physical Description: Autograph Document 47 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Read to the Fortnightly Club, [Bloomington, Indiana], May 2, 1892. Published in the Indiana Magazine of History , IX: 234-246, December 1913.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from the Main Library, Indiana University. 1942

Quantity: 68 p. 22.5 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hogue. 1985 .

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 9 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from Henry Harrisse, John Cabot, the discoverer of North America … London, B. F. Stevens, 1896. (Lilly E129.C1 H3 Mendel). 1970

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 28 cm.

Physical Description: copy.

Scope and Content:

1. Singed with initials.
2. Verifax copy.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1956

Physical Description: Typed Document 39 [i.e. 58] p. 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Carries holograph revisions and corrections.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1963

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1969

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1994

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 13 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 3 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Typed Letter 2 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by carbon copy of reply, September 20, 1906, signed "F.E.S." and rejecting ms. without reading.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1955

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 8 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by cover.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Letter Signed 9 p. 32 cm.

Physical Description: photostat.

Scope and Content:

1. Negative Photostat from original in possession of Howard H. Quint, University of South Carolina.
2. Printed in Howard H. Quint's "Upton Sinclair's quest for artistic independence – 1909." American Literature , XXIX: 194-202, May 1957.

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Signed R. E. Peary, U.S.N.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1973

Physical Description: Document

Dimensions: 21.3 x 16.4 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. On verso, in pencil: 481 ft. high; covers 13 acres.
2. Date from envelope in which photo transferred to Lilly Library.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. (Probably in the 1960s) Transferred. Main Library. 1991

Scope and Contents: A friendship album compiled by Elvira Cornelia Bates (née Scott) of Plymouth, Connecticut. The album consists of squares from a desktop calendar dated January 1, 1910 through December 31, 1910, plus an additional 26 undated squares, affixed 4 to a page in the album. Each square, which measures approximately 4"x4", contains a quotation or short message from a friend or family member; many are signed, and some are dated 1909. Some squares also contain drawings, clippings, or photographs. The square for Valentine's Day has a little envelope with a message inside, and the square for Halloween has a drawing of bats and a Victor Hugo quote. An undated square at the back of the album has a photograph of a cat with the annotation, "The best cat ever lived - we think."

Biographical / Historical: Elvira Cornelia Bates (née Scott) was born in 1842 and died in 1922. She lived in Plymouth, Connecticut. She married George H. Bates (1844-1929) and had 3 children, 2 of whom lived to adulthood.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2023. Kurt A. Sanftleben - Paper Americana.

Indexed Terms:

• Subjects:
  • Autograph albums
  • Women

Physical Description: Document 1 p. 35 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Signed: William Howard Taft By M. P. LeRoy, Secretary.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1933

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed [4] p. 28.3 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Ex libris. Clifford Odets. 1992

Physical Description: Typed Document 42 p. 28 cm.

Physical Description: copy.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Typescript made from a copy in the possession of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth (Goodwin) True, Bloomington, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 23 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from Townsend Walsh's The Career of Dion Boucicault . New York, 1915 (Lilly PN2598.B74 W3). 1947

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 23.5 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1989

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Typwritten. 338 p. 33cm.

Physical Description: genreform: Maps.

Scope and Content:

1. Printed with some revision and rearrangement under title: The Official History of the Fifth Division, U.S.A. … 1917-1919. Washington, D.C. 1919.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1967

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 2 p. 26.5 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1990

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Year taken from cover.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1962

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 187 p. 35 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1971

Quantity: 86 p. 26 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1936

Physical Description: Typed Document 5 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1952

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Quantity: 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Typed Document [187] p. 31 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by a copy of the letter sent to the state chairman, county chairman, delegates-at-large and alternates, district and alternate delegates, successful congressmen, and defeated congressmen. facsimile of Typed Letter 6 p. 27 cm.
2. From the library of Edward Mandell House.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1967

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from the Main Library, Indiana University. 1936

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p.

Scope and Content:

1. On half title page.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Inscribed in Ferguson, I saw Booth shoot Lincoln , Boston: Houghton Mifflin company, 1930. (Lilly E457.5.F353) 1987

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 17 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from Hathaway's A new Bedford merchant . [Boston], Privately printed, [D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, c. 1930]. (Lilly VK140.H3 h3). 1972

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed [2] p. 27.3 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Carries some holograph corrections.
2. Written in Dewey's "simpler spelling" style.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred. Book Dept. Lilly Library. Indiana University. (found originally in a Ball collection transfer). 1994

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed. 2 p. 26 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Scope and Content:

1. Removed from Herman Melville's White-Jacket … New York, Harper, 1850. (Lilly PS2384.W48 1850a vault 1)
2. There are marginal notes on p. [iii], 29, 31, 41, 44, 240, 384, 402, 440, 456, presumably by Robertson.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 12.8 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. 1) In pencil – Bought from Eugene Field's Collection. A. Lincoln signature?
2. 2) In ink – Father says Lincoln signature may be, & probably is a forgery.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1984

Physical Description: Typed Document Signed [3], 12 p. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Photographs of house.
2. Autographed: To my Friend A. G. Mitten with the warm Regards of James A. Green.
3. Cincinnati, Dec. 25-1931.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1939

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Enclosure: Receipt No. 85, 7 cm., for two dollars, signed by Marx Lewis for the Socialist Opportunity Drive, Washington, D.C., n.d.
2. Accompanied by another receipt, No. 105, 9 cm., dated July 17, 1932, for the Thomas President Committee, New York City.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from Norman Thomas, America's Way Out . New York, Macmillan Company, 1931 (Lilly 4-4592) in which appears the name of Kate Kelsey, May, 1931. 1977

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1954

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. [1] D., I. To Lillian Shulman, Washington, D.C. Will try to send her a copy of an answer to the New Leader article by a group of Socialist party members of the Arrangements Committee of the United States Congress Against War, September 18, 1933 (copy) 1 p. 28 cm.;
2. [2] Levinson, Edward. "Who are the betrayers of unity? Startling revelations of duplicity." Newspaper clipping.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from the Main Library, Indiana University. 1954

Physical Description: Document 3 p. 27 cm.

Physical Description: copy.

Scope and Content:

1. Carbon copy of typed copy.
2. Typed signatures of Morris Hillquit and others, National executive committee, Socialist Party.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1939

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 5 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by five telegrams and newspaper clippings.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Document 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1960

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 17 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1950

Physical Description: Letter Signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1950

Physical Description: Letter Signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1950

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by cover.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Typed Document 28 leaves. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. In large type with holograph underlinings and corrections in pencil.
2. Varies little from text as published in The New York Times , Nov. 2, 1940, page 10.
3. Changes made in consultation with Russell Davenport and Pierce Butler and delivered from train parked at a Pennsylvania Railroad track according to a letter of Clark Denney to Elfrieda Lang, July 19, 1970.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1970

Physical Description: Typed Document 11 p. 28 cm.

Physical Description: genreform: typescript.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1969

Physical Description: Vinyl record, 78rpm

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Date unknown

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 2 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Signed Freddy.
2. Removed from Lilly copy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Looking forward … New York, The John Day Co., [c. 1933].

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Typed Document [154 leaves.] 33 cm.

Physical Description: bound.

Scope and Content:

1. Collection originated by Henry Stevens of Vermont, augmented by his son, Henry Newton Stevens, completed by his grandson, Henry Stevens, with annotations & bibliographical notes by Robert E. Stiles, and offered for sale by Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles of London.
2. Introduction by Henry Stevens, London, December, 1941.
3. Lists 695 items.
4. Bound with this: The War of American Independence … Five Hundred and Fifty Pamphlets & Books … (T.D. [137 leaves] 33 cm.)
5. Gathered, arranged and described by Henry Stevens, and offered for sale by Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles of London.
6. Foreword by Henry Stevens, n.d., which states: This collection is primarily intended as a Supplement to the Collection of Works on the War of American Independence which was purchased from us by the Indiana University Library late in 1944.
7. Lists 549 items.
8. Both parts bear notes in pencil indicating cataloged status, accession numbers, revised main entries and other notes in ink.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Lilly Library Book Department. 1985

Quantity: 9 documents, each 4 p. 14.5 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Enclosure is mimeographed press release of Wendell L. Wilkie. Talk delivered at the annual Lincoln's day banquet of the Women's Republican Club of Indianapolis on Thursday evening, February 11, 1943, at the Columbia Club, Indianapolis, Indiana. It has been placed in the Oakleaf-Lincoln book collection.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1950

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift.

Physical Description: Typed copy. [4], 6, 155 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Translated from Nicholas Hesse's Das Westliche Nord Amerika in Besonderer Beziehung auf die Deutschen Einwanderer … Paderborn, Joseph Wesener, 1838.
2. Map lacking.
3. 2nd copy carries note on title page: Translated by Joseph Maidt and William G. Bek, Grand Forks, N. Dak., 1944.
4. 2nd copy: [4], 6, 155 [i.e. 153] p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1952

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 26 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1945

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 23 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1945

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1950

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Mimeographed.
2. Signed by author.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Physical Description: Autograph Document 4 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by typescript.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 26 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 2 pp. 27.5 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from George Adam, The Dreadful Sufferings and Thrilling Adventures … St. Louis, Mo., Barclay & Co., 1850 (Lilly F593.1.A24). 1983

Physical Description: Typescript of Letter 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1957

Physical Description: Typescript of Letter 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1957

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. and 10 p. enclosure. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. pp. 1-4, Obituary of Marcus Blakey Allmond, copied from Louisville Times , Sept. 2, 1909;
2. pp. 5-8, Poem by Allmond read at his funeral, copied from Louisville Courier Journal , Sept. 5, 1909;
3. pp. 9-10, biographical and bibliographical notes on Marcus Blakey Allmond, by Allen E. Allmond. Accompanied by map of Louisville, Kentucky, on which places associated with Marcus Blakey Allmond have been marked by Allen E. Allmond.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: 1957

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by franked cover.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1957

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by cover.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1957

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1958

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1964

Scope and Contents: One audio reel in box. Also contains a text transcript of the speech.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Donated by Donald R. Mott of Butler University, Sept. 12, 1990.

Scope and Contents: Collected by Peter Eisner of Miami, president of the Junior Philatelic Americans

Scope and Contents: On NASA letterhead. Letter from the Director of the Office of Manned Space Flight, iterating the goal of reaching the moon "at the earliest possible time within this decade"

Scope and Contents: On NASA letterhead. The goal of reaching the moon by the end of the decade: "we are, of course, making every effort to make our manned lunar exploration as soon as possible"

Scope and Contents: On NASA letterhead. Regarding Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper's designation as "pilot for the next U.S. manned orbital space flight" scheduled for April 1963

Scope and Contents: On General Dynamics Astronautics letterhead. Providing a capsule history of the development of the Atlas missile, and citing Karel J. Bossart as the originator of the project

Scope and Contents: On General Dynamics Astronautics letterhead. Enclosing a picture (present) and descriptive literature (not present) of the Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, and with a fact-sheet on Brossart also on GDA letterhead

Scope and Contents: On Douglas Aircraft Co letterhead. Regarding the history of his Cloudster aircraft

Scope and Contents: About the history of rocketry, the work of Goddard, and parallel work in Germany and Russia

Scope and Contents: Magazine article (incomplete) written and signed by Gordon

Scope and Contents: Reprinted from Aero/Space Engineering, Vol. 19 No. 4. Incomplete, inscribed by Faget

Physical Description: Typed Document [3], V, [1] p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1965

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1971

Physical Description: Typed Document iv + 227 leaves. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Carbon of typescript.
2. Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Speech and Theatre, Indiana University, 1966, June.
3. Bibliography cites the Sinclair Papers in Lilly Library.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1971

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 2 p. 28 cm.

Physical Description: photocopy.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1974

Physical Description: ilus. Typed Document 18 leaves. [i.e., 152 leaves.] 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Laid in for illustration are publicity releases, newspaper clippings, letters, speeches, dating from November, 1939, to July, 1940.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1976, 1977

Dimensions: Approximately 6.25 inches across by 3.5 inches tall

Historical Note: Section of an oak tree from Bloomington, Illinois, under which Abraham Lincoln delivered a speech in the 1850s. Designated a historic tree by the Bicentennial Commission. After the tree's death, was cut down in September 1976, with chunks taken as souvenirs.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2022. Garrett Scott, bookseller.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed. 1 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Addressed to "Mrs. R. Carlisle [sic] Buley".
2. Enclosed is 67 p. (plus duplicates of p. 64-67) photocopy of listing of Roscoe Carlyle Buley's personal library titled "Buley Bibliography".
3. Accompanied by 1 p. Typed Document Signed by David Russell Warrington, Dec. 19, 1985, concerning the provenance of item and disposition of Buley's library.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1985

Physical Description: Typed Document Signed [362] leaves.

Dimensions: 28 x 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Concerns the trial and impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
2. An enlargement of the author's M.A. thesis at the University of Chicago.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1974

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 3 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1961

Physical Description: folio.

Dimensions: 29 x 31 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Signatures of Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Pierce Butler, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Evans Hughes, James Clark McReynolds, Owen Josephus Roberts, Harlan Fiske Stone, George Sutherland, and Willis Van Devanter.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1969

Physical Description: Signature 1 p. 8 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1953

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Mounted on front flyleaf of Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle … Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1892 (Lilly E302.1.R95 v.1). 1961

Physical Description: Typed Document 10 p. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Incomplete.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Physical Description: Autograph Document 7 p. 26 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1951

Physical Description: Autograph Document 3 p. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Accompanied by "A copy of recollections of her parents [Noah and Jane (Pearson) Miles] and grandparents [Solomon and Elizabeth (Searle) Pearson] by Mrs. Huldah Miles Clapp." (Document 3 p. 23 cm.)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1950

Physical Description: Autograph Document 27 p. 33 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1950

Physical Description: Autograph Document 38 p. 33 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1961

Physical Description: Autograph Document 4 p. 30 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Removed from [John Mitchell], A full account of the actions of the late famous pyrate, Capt. Kidd … Dublin, Reprinted for Matthew Gunn, 1701.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Typed Document 4 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1952

Physical Description: Typed Document [513] pp. 28 cm.

Physical Description: folio.

Scope and Content:

1. 1) 40 pages of notes and
2. 2) transmittal note from Carmony.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1984

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 6.2 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. In brown ink.
2. Accompanied by a profile lithograph of Everett by J. H. Bufford, Boston, Mass.
3. Both attached to manila sheet, 32.4 cm. x 21.6 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred. Book Department Print File, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 1989

Physical Description: Autograph Note 2 p. 8 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1950

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 33 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1961

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 4 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1961

Physical Description: Document 1 p. 81 cm.

Physical Description: folio.

Scope and Content:

1. Begins: Dr. M. P. Hanson now of Milwaukee … In the hand of his daughter Charlotte.
2. Consists of several pages taped together.
3. Two lines are quoted on pages 16 and 18 of The Story of Malcolm Hanson by Lida Siboni Hanson, Privately printed, 1946 (Lilly 6-3926).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1980

Physical Description: Autograph card 6 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from John Hay, Letters of John Hay and Extracts from Diary . Washington, 1908. Vol. 1 (Lilly PS1903.A9 1908). 1967

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 17.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Dated: Dec. 25.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1984

Physical Description: Typed Document 13 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1952

Physical Description: Typed Document 2 p. 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. From the collection of Robert G. Miller, lawyer, of Bloomington, Indiana.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1954

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 32 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1972

Physical Description: Typed Document Signed 41 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed (copy) 2 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Letter copy.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from George C. Barns' Denver, the Man … Wilmington, Ohio, 1949 (Lilly-Ellison F684.D3 B2). 1958

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 3 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1961

Physical Description: Autograph Document 4 pp. 22.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. In ink.
3. Consists of 29 numbered questions concerning the subject of neutrality with specific reference to the United States and France and the practice of privateering.
4. Lacks question numbered 14.
5. Prepared following Washington's Neutrality Proclamation on April 22, 1793, and preceding the case of Glass v. Sloop Betsy, 12-18 February 1974.
6. Watermark: J Larking. John Larking was a papermaker at East Malling, Kent, between 1791 and 1816.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1980

Physical Description: Autograph Document Signed 1 p. 6 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Physical Description: Autograph Document 1 p. 39 cm.

Physical Description: folio.

Scope and Content:

1. On verso: "John Vestal."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1955

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956

Physical Description: Typed Document 6 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. At head of p. 1: "From C. E. McCormick, Princeton, Indiana.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1952

Physical Description: Document

Dimensions: 14 x 10 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Mounted to 18 x 10.5 cm.
2. Signed on lower edge of mount: John [Milton] Hay.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Book Department, Lilly Library, Indiana University. 1980

Physical Description: Document [3] leaves. 24.7 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Shelved in Vault 2.
2. In ink.
3. Contemporary copy of the eleven points of Alexander Hamilton's plan delivered June 18, 1787, at the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia.
4. Varies from the draft published in The Papers of Alexander Hamilton , edited by Harold C. Syrett, Columbia University Press, 1962 (Lilly E302.H2 S98), Vol. 4, pp. 207-211 (compares the Hamilton, James Madison, Robert Yates, and John Lansing versions).
5. For other known published drafts see the list in the Manuscripts Department.
6. Note on verso of page 3 reads: Given me July 1815 by Smith Esq. of Philada.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1980

Physical Description: Typed Document 23 p. 31 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Reproduction of typewritten copy.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1942

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Dated August 23.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1961

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 4 p. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. In English and French.
2. Dated November 24.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1961

Physical Description: Water color Signed 1 p.

Dimensions: 16 x 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1943

Scope and Contents: Townsend, Daniel W., Jr. An account of his Civil War service during 1861-1865. Undated typed document. 1 copy.

Years of service: 1861-1864, Apr. 15 and 1865, Feb. 28-Sept. 5; part of that under Ca[tain Abner Doubleday (1814-1893).

Last page or pages appear to be missing.

Includes letters to his mother, sister Mary, and brother Henry in the 48th NY V.V. One of his letters is noted as having been published in the Brooklyn Times (page 314). Other family: sister Fanny and brothers Andrew, Edward, and Sammy. Includes Civil War poems: "Vicksburg is Ours" by J.O. Blythe, D. (page 207); "The Veteran Volunteer" by John Shemway, Co. K, Horn's Light Brigade (page 334); and "Sherman's Campaign from Atlanta to Raleigh" by S. Pepper, Co. G, 78th Regt., Ohio V.V. Infantry (page 413).

Townsend's name appears on pp. 313, 322, 333, 408.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. Found in the Lilly Library, 1974.

Scope and Contents: Townsend, Daniel W., Jr. An account of his Civil War service during 1861-1865. Undated typed document. 1 copy.

Years of service: 1861-1864, Apr. 15 and 1865, Feb. 28-Sept. 5; part of that under Ca[tain Abner Doubleday (1814-1893).

Last page or pages appear to be missing.

Includes letters to his mother, sister Mary, and brother Henry in the 48th NY V.V. One of his letters is noted as having been published in the Brooklyn Times (page 314). Other family: sister Fanny and brothers Andrew, Edward, and Sammy. Includes Civil War poems: "Vicksburg is Ours" by J.O. Blythe, D. (page 207); "The Veteran Volunteer" by John Shemway, Co. K, Horn's Light Brigade (page 334); and "Sherman's Campaign from Atlanta to Raleigh" by S. Pepper, Co. G, 78th Regt., Ohio V.V. Infantry (page 413).

Townsend's name appears on pp. 313, 322, 333, 408.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. Found in the Lilly Library, 1974.

Physical Description: Typed Document 11 p. 18-28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. Transcript made by Roscoe Carlyle Buley, professor of history, Indiana University, from copy in the possession of Lawrence K. Tuley, New Albany, Indiana.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1952

Physical Description: Autograph Document 2 v. 19-22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1947

Physical Description: Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 23 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. 1971

Physical Description: 2 photostats

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Unknown; recieved in Manuscript department from Books, 7/12/77.

Physical Description: Typed Document 5 p. 28 cm. copy.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from the Main Library, Indiana University. 1942

Physical Description: Document Signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

1. (1) Photostat of title page of six volumes of autographs presented to Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes in 1881 as a tribute to her for prohibiting the serving of alcoholic beverages at the White House during her husband's term as President;
2. (2) Scott, Georg Tressler, "Illinois' testimonial to Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes." Reprinted with appendix added from Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society , Spring 1953, pp. 3-21.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1953

Physical Description: Typed Document 12 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. 1952

Physical Description: Autograph manuscript signed "Jefferson" and integral autograph letter at conclusion, Philadelphia, 15 February 1826, with integral address leaf addressed to Hugh Hamilton (1785-1836), editor of the Harrisburg Chronicle

Scope and Contents: "Stephen Simpson (1789-1854) was a writer and radical democratic politician who was largely responsible for the rise of Andrew Jackson in Pennsylvania and was an early and important champion of labor rights in the United States. Son of George Simpson, cashier of the First Bank of the United States (and later Girard's Bank), he followed in his father's footsteps as a note clerk at Girard's bank. With his brother, George Jr., he fought in the War of 1812, serving with distinction at the Battle of New Orleans. It was there that Simpson became an admirer of General Andrew Jackson and upon returnign to Philadelphia, became an early poitical booster for Old Hickory in Pennsylvania. Simpson used his inside knowledge of the workings of Girard's bank to author a series of damning articles exposing gross corruption and mismanagement at the Second Bank of the United States. From 1818 to 1819, Simpson's attacks appeared in William Duane's Philadelphia Aurora, under the pseudonym "Brutus," cementing his identity as a radical democratic firebrand. He remained a champion of Jackson until 1828, when a hoped-for political appointment failed to materialize. A staunch advocate of the laboring classes, the Workingman's Party nominated him for Congress in 1830. Simpson founded several short-lived newspapers including the Columbian Observer and Portico and was the author of numerous works including The Working Man's Manual A New Theory of Political Economy (1831) and Biography of Stephen Girard (1832).

Address leaf bears Philadelphia, 15 February cancellation and is docketed, "1826 Stephen Simpson. A specimen political Essay." The essay, entitled "Slavery re-established by Mr. Schulze", is a scathing indictment of Governor Andrew Schulze's support of a proposed agreement between Maryland and Pennsylvania to allow slaveholders to more easily recover fugitives within Pennsylvania. For some time, slave holders attempting to recover fugitives were subject to verbal and physical abuse from local abolitionists as well as a maze of laws which made recovery exceedingly difficult. On 2 February 1826 the Pennsylvania legislature received a delegation of representatives from Maryland charged with negotiating a settlement on the issue of fugitives. The news of their arrival in Harrisburg set off a firestorm among abolitionists in Pennsylvania. Their opposition did not prevent passage of the bill, but their influence did allow for the addition of several amendments that would render the law virtually toothless. The resultant "Act to give effect to the provisions of the constitution of the United States, relative to fugitives form labour, for the protection of free people of colour, and to prevent kidnapping," was the statute at issue in the landmark Supreme Court case of Prigg v. Pennsylvania and was an important precedent in later northern interference in administering the federal fugitive slave act of 1793."

-Bookseller's description, Extant Americana