The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-15
TuLSQn Gums Rare Autograph Collection

Robert Burns, william Wordworth,
Charles Dickens. william ThaCkery,
Lord Byron, oliver Goldsmith and
Robert Browning, heados many OF
lesser prominence.
From the Revolutionary period
there are Albert Gallatin, Roger
sherman, David Rowland. General
Dearborn. General Huntington. oil
YER Wolcc.t, Rembrandt: Tvaiv. IA
nous artist, Roger Griswold, Major
General II. Knox favorlte general
OF George Washington. Baron Steu-
ben. who taught Washington's men
at valley Forge how 20 use the bay
ouot. Alexander Hamilton, Aaron
ond I'm the historical duel between
Hamilton and Burr. Thomas Pick
ering and Thomas Miflin.
Clyil war figures represented In
the collection are Ulysses S. Grant,
Phil sheridan, william Tccumsch,
Admiral David ID. Porter, George W.
Mcclellan, General John A. Logan,
d. =. Slcklcs, Robert f.. Lee, John
r. Morgan. Jefferson Davis, J. T..
Johnston. Fiizhugh Lee. James
Longstrcet and J b Hood.
New Haven, 29th Sept. 1891.
81 have manufactured 5000 mus
Sets for tho state Of New York,
1000 for the state OF New Jersey.
and $1,000 for the United States,
all precisely the same model and
quality.
The United States viii employe
mo 20 manufacture an additional
number Of 1000 muskets after this
model provided the state Of Connect
iCut shall be as wei satisfied TO re-
coive the same ss a part Of their
quota 20 be furnished by the United
States as 20 receive muskets OF any
other make or manufacture.
some OF the muskots which |
have made for tho state OF Connect
cut have been for a number Of
years and are now In the hands ~
tho militia. Many OF those which
! made for the state Of New York
have been used IN the service OF
that state and from Inc reputation
which my muskots have Uniform
ly sustained there is just reason 20
believe that no muskcts arc more
highly approved.
"Muskets Of my manufacture arc
unquostionably much superior 20
those which the state Of Counecti-
cut has heretofore received from
tho United states and I think equal
in this country.
should YOU feel authorized 10
say that tho state OF Connecticut
would ho quite satisfied 10 receive
my arms from The United states,
! will thank you 90 address a letter
20 that effect Cit1or 90 myself or
TO the secretary OF war.
"With great respect, ] am, sir,
your very obcdion' servant
"ELI WHITNEY"
His Excellency Governor W0lcott"
In the Rogers collection IS an un-
published poem by Ella Wheeler
wilcox, written a. Meriden, Conn,
Sept. ~, 1855. u probably rs the
youngest document in the collection
While n is valued because II bears
Mrs. Wlcox's signature II Is priced
also Tor the beautiful sentiment u
oNpresses-a sentiment typical of
the poets religious zeal.
written with flowing hand en-
bossed with the writer's initials, and
entitled THE Touch uf God,' the
poem reads as follows.
whatever evil falls across my path,
81 straightway look with optimls-
tic eyes
ITO see that purpose underneath #
les
"For I believe always Gods SEEM
ing wrath
rs but the vsil TO some extended
good
by men not understood.
"But II We will take time amidst
our grief
ITO search for g., think We can
not fail
ITO find the hidden meaning meath
the veil,
And, having found It, 10, we find
relief,
and what has seemed a cruel
chastening rod
proves the kind touch OF God" f."
Among the autographs of notable
foreigners ara those OF Louis XIV OF
France, King Edward VII, Queen
Victoria, Napoleon Bonaparte, the
Duke of wellington, az whose hands
Napoleon met his Waterloo, Cardi-
nal Woolsey. General Won Moltke,
George H. King OF England. william
Pitt, Edmund Burke, Duke Of York,
Lord Walpole Queen Charlotte.
Queen KalakaWa. last queen OF the
Hawaiian Islands, and LORD North
Of England,
OF the American statesmen, those
known best by the present genera