Scope and Contents This collection consists of 46 engraved portraits, 2 engraved other illustrations, 1 photographic print and 22 textual documents inserted into William Van R. Whitall's copy of Horace Porter's Campaigning with Grant. The textual documents are either manuscript or partially manuscript and partially printed. Each of the portraits is of a prominent leader mentioned by Porter at some point in the text. Although the textual documents vary in form, function and scope, each document contains an...

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Conveys message that President Grant declines to interfere further with a court order; autograph signature of Horace Porter, with autograph signature of F. T. Dent

Item Description Sealed enveloped, slit open at right side; on the front of the envelope is printed form for transmitting referrals of cases from the Executive [i.e. office of the President] to the Attorney General, filled in by manuscript in the hand of Horace Porter with his autograph signature; dated "June 28, 1869"; referring petition of pardon of Calvert G. W. Price [?}, Js. o. P. [Justice of the Peace?] of Kentucky, who had been convicted of assaulting a freedman and sentenced to 12 months...