Manuscripts

Grover Cleveland, Washington, D.C., appointment to John B. Coyle :

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Description: Appointment of John B. Coyle as Second Assistant Engineer in the Revenue Service of the United States. Signed by President Grover Cleveland and by Acting Secretary of the Treasury Hugh S. Thompson. Printed form, filled in.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1888 May 12.
Call number: mssHM 48300
Creator: Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of December 1982.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Grover Cleveland message to the Senate, Washington, D.C. :

Manuscripts

Handwritten draft of published message to the U.S. Senate regarding "An Act to restore a pension to Harriet M. Knowlton" (Senate Bill No. 719), which Cleveland does not approve. Item is attached to typescript letter signed from D.R. Francis, Department of the Interior, to Grover Cleveland, 1897 February 24; an undated typescript copy of the bill; and published copies of the House and Senate reports on the bill. Also included is a cartoon of Cleveland with handwritten notes on the reverse. Published version of Cleveland's message is dated March 1, 1897. Harriet M. Knowlton was the widow of a Civil War soldier who had remarried and then divorced, and was seeking to restore her previous pension.

mssHM 2043

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Grover Cleveland, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., letter to V.W. Foster, Chicago :

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Cleveland thanks Foster for the letters and clippings; he expresses government support for citizens "who deem themselves in danger from the indians," and states it is "not remiss in efforts for their protection." Includes stamped and addressed envelope.

mssHM 15548

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Grover Cleveland, Buffalo, letter to A.P. Nichols, Albany :

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Writing in the capacity of sheriff of Buffalo, Cleveland inquires about forms or instructions for billing expenses to the state. On Sheriff's Office, Erie County letterhead.

mssHM 23457

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Grover Cleveland, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., letter to W.D. Abbott :

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Thanking him for the book and good wishes.

mssHM 23498

Abraham Lincoln, Washington, D.C., appointment of John North as Associate Justice of Supreme Court, Nevada Territory

Manuscripts

Document signed; printed form, filled in. Signed by Lincoln and Acting Secretary of State Frederick W. Seward.

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Abraham Lincoln, Washington, D.C., appointment of John North as Associate Justice of Supreme Court, Nevada Territory

Manuscripts

Document signed; printed form, filled in. Signed by Lincoln and Acting Secretary of State Frederick W. Seward. (1 page)

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Grover Cleveland, Washington, D.C., appointment to John B. Coyle :

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