Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-03-31

Creator(s)

Metropolitan Club Restaurant

Language

English

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-10

Creator(s)

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Receipt for Cornelius C. Roosevelt’s payment on Interest Certificate No. 3037; 1 pound, 16 shillings, 9 pence to fulfill 1/4 payment of the certificate.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1790-09-30

Transcript of a letter by George Washington on the principles that should guide the United States in foreign politics and other matters. Washington also references a “Plan of a New City,” referring to Washington, D.C. A fragment of the original handwritten letter is included.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1793-04-22

Volume I, Number 6 of the newspaper, “a National Journal devoted to Politics, Literature and Finance.” This issue includes a portion of an address on federalism by Alexander Del Mar given before the Liberal Club of New York City, as well as details of the debate that followed Del Mar’s remarks.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1873-02-22

In a portion of a letter, excerpted in Worthing Chauncey Ford’s Writings of George Washington, George Washington tells John Adams that he had read about a sword from an unknown Dutch maker that was intended for him, but pawned in Alexandria. He asks Adams, who is serving as a minister in Holland, to find out what he can about the sword. An annotation from Ford says that the sword was made by Theophilus Alte. Alte sent his son to give the sword to Washington, but the son sold it at a tavern and disappeared. The sword is currently in the possession of Alice Lawrason Riggs.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-18

Gouverneur Morris entreats George Washington to consider running for the presidency again at the end of President Adams’s term, as Adams is unfit to hold the office and the country is in peril. The letter did not reach Washington before his death on December 14, 1799.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1799-12-09

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-08-30

Creator(s)

Chaffee, Adna Romanza, 1842-1914

Recipient

Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-09-04

Creator(s)

Chaffee, Adna Romanza, 1842-1914

Recipient

Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909

Transfer of 349 acres, called “Newry,” to Henry Toland, Philadelphia merchant and capitalist who was associated with the founding of Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1806-05-03

Transcript of a letter in which Thomas Jefferson explains that he supports the abolition of slavery but protests that he is not the one to lead the effort.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1814-08-25

James Buchanan’s petitions for acceptance into the Masons in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This printed facsimile includes information on his service and on those who recommended him for membership.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1816-11-13

“This ticket will entitle the Bearer to such prize as may be drawn to its number, if demanded within twelve months after the drawing is finished; subject to a deduction of fifteen per cent. PAYABLE in sixty days after the completion of the drawing.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1820-06

British Foreign Secretary Canning writes U.S. Minister to Great Britain Rush regarding the possibility of their countries coming to an understanding on the Spanish colonies in America.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1823-08-20

British Foreign Secretary George Canning urges U.S. Minister to Great Britain Richard Rush to come to an understanding on the Spanish colonies in America, as developments in Spain make this more necessary.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1823-08-23

British Foreign Secretary George Canning continues the negotiations toward a joint declaration with the United States regarding the Spanish colonies in America.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1823-08-31

U.S. minister to Great Britain Rush updates Secretary of State Adams on the possibility of a joint declaration regarding the Spanish colonies in America.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1823-09-03

U.S. Minister to Britain Richard Rush updates Secretary of State John Adams on the possibility of a joint declaration regarding the Spanish colonies in America.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1823-10-02

Admiral Robley D. Evans is set to retire on his 62nd birthday because of his bout with rheumatism.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-10

The New York State Infantry 45th Brigade commissions Samuel Heath as a Sergeant in the 5th Company, under the command of Nicholas Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1825-10-05