Project Ayer - Undated Items - Transcriptions
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| AyerJennieJames0391 Source | Undated | Letter | From: Jennie James | Jennie is going to price Back Silk as a gift from Ira. |
My darling husband; I would prize so very, very highly such a beautiful present from love husband. I have not priced Black Silk in Washington lately, I will go out tomorrow and do so, if they ask exorbitant prices! for all articles of clothing is exceedingly high hear, if it is so, love, I will wait a little while, I will tell you the cost, and then your good judgment will settle this, love, Your loving, loving wife,
Jennie Ayer
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| JamesJaneF0031 Source | Undated | Letter | From: Jane Frances James | Jane talks of traveling through Rockets and Ft. Monroe. Ask for several things. |
My Dr Dr Children all. If Clemens can come on with Mary and Children o Tuesday we will meet them at Rockets, while they are discharging [Corps] at Fortress Monroe which will take an hour Step ashore to Telegraph office & telegraph to US Collector of Internal Revenue U. S. to send an ambulance down to Rockets no explanation wanting, no pay. walk in & give the message & walk out as Sam [diditake] Crackers & [Gingerb..] for the children & [selies] enough & cheese ask Jenny to send me a few sheets, pillow slips, quilts & blankets, make up a Deal Box, a few towels & a few of the Shiped [Licks] Hannah and Emma will help you. I am sorry to hear of sweet babe being sick, how much I think of her, give the girls & your self stamps enclosed to write me, I think it strange they do not write me, I sent them paper & envelopes & stamps, now help May to get off tell Ira I am so grateful to him for his nice letter & read it to Mrs [Nustine] how anxiously she [Enjoied] about you Jenny & was [any] so when yr letter came, Same will give you an [neet] I am from place to place give my love to all, perhaps, dr Jenny you can make us a visit in a week or two in the meantime dr Jenny [jarevease] [your] [jandy] & [affct] [Nwthe] Mrs Watsen expects for you 'Jane' Love to Ira baby Emma Hannah Julia & [Johenno] & [Annty] & Sambo when you see him yr J F J
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| JamesJaneF0261 Source | Undated | Letter | From: Jane Frances James | Hard to read. Talks of father and cousin Sam, parades, marching into Richmond, Stars and Stripes. |
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| JessupJuliaAyer0041 Source | Undated | Letter | From: Julia Ayer |
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| AyerIraII0341 Source | Undated | Note | Ira Ayer, Jr | Improvement of Time |
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| AyerIraII0351 Source | Undated | Note | Ira Ayer, Jr |
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| JamesWilliam0031 Source | Undated | Letter | From: William James | William asks if he and his wife can call for a few minutes at 7:30pm. |
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| AyerIraII0661 Source | Undated | Card | GAR card for Ira Ayer, Jr. | It's from New Jersey so it must be from around 1883-5 |
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| AyerIraII0711 Source | Undated | Card | Card of Matias Ramero | He is a minister from Mexico |
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| AyerIraII0731 Source | Undated | Ticket | "For the Review" | Major General Augur (Christopher C. Augur) was promoted to Major General in 1862 and retired in 1885. |
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| AyerIraII0951 Source | Undated | Card | Card for General Badeau | Likely General Adam Badeau |
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| AyerIraII0291 Source | Undated | Invitation | Invitation to the home of Postmaster General Creswell and his wife | John Creswell was Postmaster General from March 5, 1869 to June 22, 1874. During that time, January 31st fell on a Monday in 1870. It could have been for Ira. He was just about to be appointed Special Agent for the Treasury Department, had been stationed in Richmond and would soon be stationed in Norfolk. |
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| AyerIraII0991 Source | Undated | Money | Confederate $5 bill |
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| AyerIraII1001 Source | Undated | Money | Confederate $10 bill |
1 Dr. Bliss Clark Collection
2 National Archives Civil War Collection - not online
3 Abraham
Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
4 Library of Congress "A
Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation"
5 United
States Patent Office
6 National Archives records of William James investigation
and trial from the US Senate Papers - not online
7 Annual
Report to the Secretary of War, 1867
8 National Archives records of Samuel Reginald James petition
of Congress - not online
9 Fiarella Williams Collection
10 Journal of the executive proceedings of the Senate of the
United States, Volume
21
11 Hanover County Court Records available on-line
12 Jerseyman Newspaper 18 December 1885 - Available at the
Morristown Library, Morristown, NJ
13 US Supreme Court Reports, Volume
28
14 The Statutes
at Large, Treaties, and Proclamations of the United States of America from
December 1863 to December 1865
15 The Papers
of Andrew Johnson: September 1867-March 1868, Edited by Paul Bergeron
Copyright Bill Scholtz 2010-
Last edited 12/18/2011