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The Monroe Doctrine
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Mayor and City Council, Baltimore, Maryland, resolution offering reward
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Contemporary copy. Resolution offering reward of $10,000 for the arrest and conviction of the murderer or murderers of the late President of the United States. Certified by John A. Thompson, Register's Office, 1865 May 3.
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Mayor and City Council, Baltimore, Maryland, resolution offering reward
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Contemporary copy. Resolution offering reward of $10,000 for the arrest and conviction of the murderer or murderers of the late President of the United States. Certified by John A. Thompson, Register's Office, 1865 May 3. (2 pages)
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White-Plains, July 9, 1776. In Convention of the Representatives of the State of New-York. Resolved unanimously, that the reasons assigned by the Continental Congress, for declaring the united colonies free and independent states, are cogent and conclusive ... Extract from the minutes, Robert Benson, secretary. In Congress, July 4, 1776. A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress assembled
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Copy of John Holt's broadside of the Declaration of Independence with the "Extract from the Minutes" containing the draft version of the resolution of the Fourth Provincial Congress of New York approving the Declaration of Independence; attested by Robert Benson (1739-1823), a secretary of the Fourth Provincial Congress in White Plains. With manuscript annotations by John McKesson (1734-1798), another secretary of the Fourth Provincial Congress in White Plains. Within an elaborate border of type ornaments; the Declaration of Independence is printed in two columns separated by a line of ornaments. The typeset is similar to the broadside that Holt published on July 11, 1776, as an insert in that day's issue of "The New York Journal or General Advertiser.” The manuscript notes on the verso are drafts of the minutes taken on the morning and afternoon of July 9, 1776. The morning entry documents the seating of the delegates from Cumberland County, and the afternoon entry, the tally of the votes for the resolution approving the Declaration of Independence. The annotations on the recto expand and amend the text of the resolution to include the clause authorizing the New York delegates at the Second Continental Congress to vote for "all such measures as they may deem conducive to the happiness & welfare of the United States of America." The last note is dated July 30, 1776 and describes the seating of the delegates from Gloucester County.
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Leland Monroe Hayward letter to General William B. Franklin of Hartford, Connecticut
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This letter from Leland Monroe Hayward is a letter of recommendation to appoint Captain J.H. Culver of Milford Nebraska as the Assistant Inspector General of Soldiers' Homes. William B. Franklin was president, Board of Managers, on inspection of branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and soldiers homes in states.
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Centennial exposition of American presidents
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Image of a group of portraits of United States presidents until 1876 in celebration of the United States Centennial: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant; presentation of the Declaration of Independence to Congress at center; bald eagle with Union shield and American flags at top center.
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Hamlin Garland letters to Max Farrand
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In these two letters written by Garland, from his home in Hollywood, to Max Farrand, Garland is offering to give the Huntington Library his "records and manuscripts which form the basis of [his] latest book, 'The Mystery of the Buried Crosses.'" He states that other archives in California have offered to take the material and perhaps plan an exhibit of his material. Garland also plans on bringing guests to the Huntington. These letters were written just a few days before Hamlin's death.
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