Franklin Pierce letters and documents 1823-1857

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Franklin Pierce letters and documents 1823-1857

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/17911

This is a small collection of letters and documents relating to Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States. Material includes correspondence; miscellaneous documents signed by Pierce; autographs; and an annotated 1853 statement by an unknown author relating to a published attack by the New York Tribune on the ostensibly pro-Pierce New York Post. Correspondence includes letters to Pierce's father, Benjamin Pierce, from both Franklin and other family members; and a letter from New York City mayor Fernando Wood.

.1 linear feet; 1 folder

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6311782

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Pierce, Benjamin, 1757-1839

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Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869

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