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JOHNSON, Andrew]. IMPEACHMENT. A collection of printed and manuscript material related to the Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson, comprising: THREE PRINTED ADMISSION TICKETS to Senate Gallery for 1 April, 4 April and 8 April 1868 (the stubs of the 1 April and 4 April tickets are reattached by tape on verso). -- SUMNER, Charles. Printed Address, Expulsion of the President. Opinion of Hon. Charles Sumner...in the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson . Washington: GPO, 1868. Speech decrying Johnson's acquittal as "one of the last great battles with slavery..." -- BOUTWELL, Charles. Printed Address, Speech...in the House...December 5 and 6 1867 . Washington: n.d {1867]. -- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Printed document, Impeachment of the President. Majority report , n.p., n.d. From the 1867 effort to impeach Johnson. -- WADE, C. R. Two ALS to Nellie Wade, 16 April 1866, 8 May 1868. 8pp., 4to, one with autograph envelope franked by Wade's father, Rep. Benjamin F. Wade . Vivid comments on the Washington scene: "Johnson's conviction is inevitable..." -- [McELRATH, Thomas?] Manuscript diary fragment, 1 January - 24 May 1868, by a New Yorker visiting the Capitol during the impeachment drama. 48 pages, disbound, in minute script . A vivid and highly interesting diary of private conversations with many of the key players in the impeachment: Grant, Sumner, Stanton, Henry Wilson and others. A 3 February 1868 entry records attendance at Charles Dickens reading from Christmas Carol and Pickwick during Dickens's second American tour. (References to publishing, Greeley and the Tribune provide a strong case for this being McElrath's work.) -- CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE. Two partly printed documents, subscription lists for speeches of Thaddeus Stevens and G. S. Orth. -- BUTLER, Benjamin. LS to unidentified, 18 July 1867. Declining an invitation. Plus an ALS from Rep. Thomas Williams to a constituent re obtaining copies of the proceedings, and a farcical Andrew Johnson forgery, 19 April 1855 created as a piece of anti-Johnson propaganda. Together 14 items . (14)
JOHNSON, Andrew]. IMPEACHMENT. A collection of printed and manuscript material related to the Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson, comprising: THREE PRINTED ADMISSION TICKETS to Senate Gallery for 1 April, 4 April and 8 April 1868 (the stubs of the 1 April and 4 April tickets are reattached by tape on verso). -- SUMNER, Charles. Printed Address, Expulsion of the President. Opinion of Hon. Charles Sumner...in the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson . Washington: GPO, 1868. Speech decrying Johnson's acquittal as "one of the last great battles with slavery..." -- BOUTWELL, Charles. Printed Address, Speech...in the House...December 5 and 6 1867 . Washington: n.d {1867]. -- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Printed document, Impeachment of the President. Majority report , n.p., n.d. From the 1867 effort to impeach Johnson. -- WADE, C. R. Two ALS to Nellie Wade, 16 April 1866, 8 May 1868. 8pp., 4to, one with autograph envelope franked by Wade's father, Rep. Benjamin F. Wade . Vivid comments on the Washington scene: "Johnson's conviction is inevitable..." -- [McELRATH, Thomas?] Manuscript diary fragment, 1 January - 24 May 1868, by a New Yorker visiting the Capitol during the impeachment drama. 48 pages, disbound, in minute script . A vivid and highly interesting diary of private conversations with many of the key players in the impeachment: Grant, Sumner, Stanton, Henry Wilson and others. A 3 February 1868 entry records attendance at Charles Dickens reading from Christmas Carol and Pickwick during Dickens's second American tour. (References to publishing, Greeley and the Tribune provide a strong case for this being McElrath's work.) -- CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE. Two partly printed documents, subscription lists for speeches of Thaddeus Stevens and G. S. Orth. -- BUTLER, Benjamin. LS to unidentified, 18 July 1867. Declining an invitation. Plus an ALS from Rep. Thomas Williams to a constituent re obtaining copies of the proceedings, and a farcical Andrew Johnson forgery, 19 April 1855 created as a piece of anti-Johnson propaganda. Together 14 items . (14)