Manuscripts

Joseph Holt speeches, letters and articles

Description: Copies.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1858-1883
Call number: mssHolt
Creator: Holt, Joseph (1807-1894)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Holt Rose, 1970.
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Letters to Joseph Holt

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The collection contains correspondence and other documents of Joseph Holt. Included are items relating to American Civil War law and politics; Kentucky at the outbreak of the Civil War; military law and the office of judge advocate general; the trial of Lincoln's assassins including Mary Surratt; Holt's personal and family life; the U.S. Patent Office; and U.S. Post Office. Other correspondents include Gustave Beauregard, Horace Greeley, Winfield Scott, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Edwin Stanton. There is also a copy of a letter by Holt to Abraham Lincoln where he refused the position of attorney general (1864 November 5).

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Joseph Holt papers

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Joseph Holt letters to friends and family

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Letters and other items by others

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Speech of Hon. Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, at Irving Hall, New York, September 3, 1861

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Includes Ulysses S. Grant autograph letter signed to Joesph Holt, 1865 May 11; Ulysses S. and Julia Dent Grant letter invitation to Joseph Holt, ? September 24; Ulysses S. and Julia Dent Grant printed invitation to Joseph Holt, 1867 January?. Includes the following six items from James A. Garfield to Jospeh Holt: letter with envelope, 1864 February 4; autograph letter signed with franked envelope, 1866 April 16; letter signed, 1867 December 12; autograph letter signed with franked envelope, 1868 July 13; autograph letter signed with franked envelope, 1868 July 28; autograph letter signed with franked envelope, 1871 December 14.

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Joseph Holt speeches, letters and articles

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