Franklin Pierce letters and documents

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{"value"=>"MssCol 17911", "type"=>"local_call"}

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unitdate

{"value"=>"1823-1857", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1823/1857"}

date_inclusive_start

1823

date_inclusive_end

1857

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1823

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{"value"=>"Franklin Pierce letters and documents"}

repository

{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Manuscripts and Archives Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}

abstract

{"value"=>"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."}

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{"value"=>"<p>Franklin Pierce letters and documents, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}

origination

{"value"=>"Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Franklin Pierce was the fourteenth president of the United States.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>This is a small collection of letters and documents relating to Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States. Material includes four letters sent by Pierce, 1826-1857, including one to Daniel Webster (1850), and one to his father, Benjamin Pierce (1826); two letters to Benjamin Pierce from other family members (1823, 1834); one letter to Pierce from James H. Graham (1852); one letter to Pierce from Fernando Wood (1856); three documents and various 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.</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Compiled by Kit Messick.</p>"}

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.1 linear feet (1 folder)

date_start

1823

date_end

1857

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