Scope and arrangement
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.