ANS: William Henry Harrison, Headquarters, Greeneville, [Tennessee], to Col. Meiggs.

AMsS: Thomas Jefferson, "Monticello," Albemarle County, Virginia, to Thomas Jefferson Grotjan. [Writes at the request of the recipient's mother a memento which might have a favorable influence on the course of his life. Advises on the positive feelings and actions one should have toward God, one's parents, one's neighbor, and one's country, and further advises him to be just and true.]

Andrew Jackson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Thomas Jefferson Grotjan. [Several years later, Mr. Grotjan requests Andrew Jackson to add to Thomas Jefferson's document a statement which would also serve as an inspiration to their son. He commends on the "admirable advice given to his son by that virtuous patriot and enlightened statesman" and recommends following that advice which contains the "purest morality" and "noblest sentiments."]

ALS: Frances Scott Key, Geo[rge] Town, to Hagner, Gratist & Thornton. [Requests a meeting of their board to discuss compliance under the resolution of Congress to award on the claims of Farrow and Harris.]

ALS: Marquis de Lafayette, "at camp," to Lieutenant Jonathan [Ford] Moriss [sic], [Fourth] Con[tinental] Artillerists. at Morisstown [sic], [New Jersey]. [Expresses concern that Major [Joseph] Moriss [sic] went down from the camp to Morisstown [sic] without a surgeon in attendance. Offers a good French surgeon belonging to Count de Pulaski as well as a personal servant to take care of the major.]

ALS: Tobias Lear, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Col. Samuel Hodgdon. [Writes as secretary to George Washington, president   of the United States. Informs him, on behalf of the president  , that considering the situation on the frontier of Carolina and the fact that arms cannot immediately be procured for that state, that the colonel has permission to furnish six hundred stand of arms out of the public stores under his care.]

ANS: Abraham Lincoln quote and photograph. ["Let these men take the oath of Dec. 8, 1863 & be discharged ALincoln Feb. 8, 1865" concerning his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction which offered pardon to Confederates who took a loyalty oath. Note placed below an original [Matthew B.] Brady photograph of Lincoln and mounted in a frame.]

ANS: Charles Martin, Lieutenant, to the Issuing Commissary, Fort LeBoeuf. [Requests one gallon of whiskey for the non-commissioned officers and soldiers under his command to celebrate the president's   [George Washington] birthday.]

ALS: Zachary Taylor, Lt. Col. of the U.S. Army, New Orleans, Louisiana, to W[illiam] Lee, Tr[easury] Dep[artmen]t, Washington, D.C. [Concerns the receipt of a draft drawn on the Bank of the United States by the Treasury on account for recruiting service in Louisville, Kentucky between the 15th of March 1824 and the 30th of April 1826.]

TLS: Harry S. Truman, The White House, Washington, D.C., to Victor V. Martin, Ward Department, Washington, D.C. [Sends with pleasure a signed letter to add to Martin's collection of "original letters written by every President from George Washington to Franklin D. Roosevelts."

ADS: Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron. [Deed granted unto David Ross and Company of the Province of Maryland for a tract of land on the Potomac River in Berkeley County.]

DS: John Hancock. [Appointment of John Choate as justice in Essex County, Massachussetts for the term of seven years.]

Louis XIV, King of France, Versailles, to his son the dauphin, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Flanders. [Requests that he use Monsieur d'Auvray as a Brigadier General in the Army of Flanders as best suited.]

ADS: George Washington and Thomas Jeffeson. [Appointment of Nathaniel Barrett of Massachussetts as Consul of the United States to France.]