FRANKLIN PIERCE
                    A REGISTER OF AN ADDITION TO HIS PAPERS
                          IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

                                  Prepared by
               Michael McElderry, 1979, and David Mathisen, 1984

                            Revised and expanded by
                              Nan Thompson Ernst

                              Manuscript Division
                              Library of Congress


                             Washington, D.C. 1996



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                          ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION


      The addition to the papers of Franklin Pierce (1804-1869), president of
the United States, includes material purchased by the Library of Congress
during the years 1966-1984.


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    Many processed and nearly all unprocessed collections are    
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    these items for research use.                                
                                                                 
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                   Linear feet of shelf space occupied:  .2
                   Number of items:                      13



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                            SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE


      The addition to the papers of Franklin Pierce includes correspondence,
writings, and an engraved portrait organized as Series 6: Addenda. 
Correspondence and writings received before 1984 are arranged and described in
Part A and include nine letters written by Pierce to John and Mary Aiken,
Edmund Burke, Asbury Dickins, John W. Forney, Asa Fowler, Milo Mason, and
Nathaniel G. Upham.  In his letter to Burke, 19 Feb. 1847, Pierce reflects
upon the acceptance of his military commission and the cause of the Mexican
War.

      Also included in Part A is a paper entitled "The Influence of
Circumstances on the Intellectual Character," written by Pierce in 1824 while
still a student at Bowdoin College, and a manuscript of an address he wrote
for his father, Benjamin Pierce (1757-1839), delivered as the governor's
message to the legislature of New Hampshire, 6 June 1829.

      Part B comprises material processed in 1996 and includes four items of
correspondence and an engraved portrait.  The correspondence concerns
politics, especially the Democratic party in New Hampshire, and family
matters.  Pierce's signature has been cut out from his letter to [John]
Fairfieled, 12 August 1844, and his letter to John Aiken, 21 March 1857. 




                                CONTAINER LIST


Container No.    Contents

SERIES 6: ADDENDA, 1824-1864, n.d.

Box 27           Part A
                    Correspondence and manuscripts, 1824-1857, n.d.
                 Part B
                    Correspondence and engraved portrait, 1843-1844, 1857,
                       1864


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