Found 1 collection related to Pierce, Benjamin, 1757-1839

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. less