Victor V. Martin autograph collection, 1694-1945.

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Victor V. Martin autograph collection, 1694-1945.

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Victor V. Martin autograph contains correspondence and documents bearing signatures of a variety of famous people. A letter, 1694 April 28, Louis XIV, to his son the dauphin, Commander in Chief of the Army of Flanders, requests the use of Monsieur d'Auvray as a Brigadier-General. A deed, 1773 March 1, Lord Fairfax to David Ross and Company grants land on the Potomac River in Berkeley County. A letter, 1777 December 27, the Marquis de Lafayette to Jonathan Ford Morris, concerns care for the wounded Major Joseph Morris and offers to send Count Pulaski's surgeon to attend him. A document, 1778 September 18, by John Hancock, appoints John Choate as justice in Essex County, Massachusetts. A document, 1790, by George Washington and Thomas Jeffersonappoints Nathaniel Barrett of Massachusetts as Consul to France. A letter, 1792 October 17, Tobias Lear, as secretary to George Washington, to Samuel Hodgdon, concerns Indian trouble on the South Carolina frontier, and authorizes Hodgdon to six hundred stand of arms from the public stores. A letter, 1795 July 29, William Henry Harrison to "Col. Meiggs," [Return Jonathan Meigs?], orders him to deliver six silver crosses and one silver gorget for wampum belts. A note, 1797 February 22, Lt. Charles Martin to the Issuing Commissary, Fort LeBoeuf, requests a gallon of whiskey for the officers and soldiers to celebrate George Washington's birthday. A letter, 1824 January 10, Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Grotjan, offers a few words of advice on the conduct of life, at the request of Grotjan's mother. A postscript, 1833 June 9, by Andrew Jackson, recommends a "rigid adherence" to Jefferson's advice. A letter, 1828 April 27, Zachary Taylor to William Lee, concerns the receipt of a draft on the Bank of the United States for recruiting services in Louisville Kentucky. A letter, 1834 November 18, Francis Scott Key to Hagner, Gratist & Thornton, discusses a legal matter on behalf of his clients Farrow and Harris. A note, 1865 February 8, from Abraham Lincoln orders the unnamed recipient to "Let these men take the oath of Dec. 8, 1863 & be discharged ..." With the note is a Brady photograph of Lincoln. A letter, 1945 November 21, Harry S. Truman to Victor V. Martin, sends a letter for Martin's presidential autograph collection.

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