An autograph album created by someone advantageously positioned and possibly working in the Polk government, consisting almost exclusively of signatures obtained directly from each signer. Included in the album are the signatures of President James K. Polk (and below his the signature of Joseph Knox Walker, Polk’s nephew and private secretary).....
A compelling group of letters, all retained copies, written in response to the upcoming election of 1848 by a supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Gen. Lewis Cass. Marshall argues for the removal of the Quartermaster General of New Orleans, Major Daniel D. Tompkins (1798–1863), whose scheming on behalf of Whig.....
A letter written by the labor movement leader falsely convicted of murder in the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing of 1916, requesting his sister be allowed to access courtroom photos of him, as well as shots of California governor James Rolph and his “Advisory Pardon Board.” After seventeen years in.....
A Reconstruction-era archive including a vitriolic anti-Reconstruction letter and a plea for character reference from a white banker embroiled in a bribery scandal with South Carolina’s first prominent Black politician. Thomas J. Robertson (1823–1897) was a South Carolina plantation and slave owner who supported the Union during the Civil War.....