Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Censorship, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Courts, Crime, Debt & Bankruptcy, Duelling, Executions, Free Speech, Judges, Lawyers, Outlaws, Prisons, Prohibition, Prostitution, Supreme Court, Taxation, Trials
Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Censorship, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Courts, Crime, Debt & Bankruptcy, Duelling, Executions, Free Speech, Judges, Lawyers, Outlaws, Prisons, Prohibition, Prostitution, Supreme Court, Taxation, Trials
A brief letter from Matthew Hale Smith (1810–1879) writing to a minister who preached a sermon near Malden, Massachusetts in 1842 or 1843 on the..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed by Matthew Hale Smith, Minister, Lawyer, Lecturer, Author, and Journalist
Letter from Philadelphia reformer Roberts Vaux (1786–1836) touching on two concerns: education and temperance. Vaux writes briefly here “to the President, and Members, of the..... Read More about 1831 Autograph Letter Signed by Roberts Vaux, Pennsylvania Abolitionist, Reformer of Education...
Pair of 1845 autograph letters signed by Judge Morris Longstreth (1800–1855) of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Longstreth here writes about his re-nomination as associate judge to..... Read More about Two 1845 Autograph Letters Signed by Judge Morris Longstreth on his Renomination for a...
Three letters, all incoming to Philadelphia attorney J. Whitaker Thompson, United States attorney. The bulk of the material is from Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr. (1856–1910)..... Read More about Solicitor General and Acting U.S. Attorney General Henry M. Hoyt Officially Opines on Medical...
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Fourth of July address delivered in the immediate aftermath of the Nullification Crisis and inscribed by Grimké: “D. Howe Allen, Prof. M. and N. T...... Read More about Presentation Copy] Oration on the Principal Duties of Americans; Delivered before the Washington...
Rules are essential for keeping good order in jail. Everyone must know his or her place. The sheriff, the jailer, legal counsel, prisoners. Those in..... Read More about Rules for the Government of the County Jail of Seward County, Nebraska [1888 typescript with...
Cherokee Indians. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting the Information required by a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d instant, in..... Read More about Memorial of the Cherokee Delegation, submitting the Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee People...
About 75 words, an autograph letter signed from Revolutionary War patriot and Boston lawyer Perez Morton (1751–1837) written to Colonel James T.[recothick] Austin (1784–1870). Austin..... Read More about 1832 Autograph Letter Signed from Perez Morton, Revolutionary War patriot and Boston Lawyer, to...
Dating from the first decade of Nebraska statehood, this unrecorded 1876 theatrical broadside from Schuyler, Colfax County engages the reader right from the start: Sidewalks!..... Read More about Sidewalks! Court Week Amusements! ...The Schuyler Dramatic Association ...The Idiot...
The private United States Secret Service Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio was the publisher of the American Criminal Gazetteer. The circular, here offered, outlines the Rules..... Read More about United States Secret Service Company. Three 1877 Ephemeral Items for Membership and Rules and...
