Manuscripts
Articles establishing horse-racing at Lanchester Meadows, Co. Durham
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Signed by the future George IV as Prince of Wales, Bolton Foley, Augustus Henry Fitzroy 3rd Duke of Grafton, William Henry Fortescue 1st Earl of Clermont, George O'Brien Wyndham 3rd Earl of Egremont, Richard Grosvenor 1st Earl of Grosvenor, Dennis O'Kelley, and others. 1 page, 40 cm.
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Record of two-year-old horses racing in England, 1770-1892
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With notes on name and place of race, stakes, distance, and winners; for individual horses records weight, sex, racing frequency. Some additional statistical summaries at the beginning of Volume 1 for the years 1779-1900. 18 cm.
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HM63328(1)
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Account for gunpowder from Joseph Fenwick, Georgetown, to William Deakins
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Receipt signed by William Bayly; endorsement signed by George Washington, John Fitzgerald, George Gilpin. (1 page)
HM 25504
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William M. Dunn et al, Washington, D.C., petition to Abraham Lincoln
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Autograph document signed. Petition from the Representatives in Congress from Indiana recommending John Nixon for Judge of the Court of Claims and signed by W.M. Dunn, Schuyler Colfax, George W. Julian, J.P.C. Shanks, A.S. White, and William Mitchell. On House of Representatives letterhead. (1 page)
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Letter from George Washington, headquarters Valley Forge, to Brigadier General George Weedon
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HM 5452