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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm83036200
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of the Pierce-Aiken family were purchased by the Library of Congress in 1983 and 1991. A small addition was given by Norman F. Boas in 1993.
The papers of Pierce-Aiken family purchased in 1983 were processed in 1984. Additions to the papers were interfiled with the family correspondence in 1995. This register describes the 1983 purchase as well as the 1991 and 1993 additions. The register was revised in 2007.
Descriptions of the Pierce-Aiken Family Papers appear in Norman F. Boas,
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of the Pierce-Aiken family is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Pierce-Aiken family are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Pierce-Aiken Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of the Pierce-Aiken family span the years 1797-1903, with the bulk of material dating from 1830 to 1870. The collection consists largely of correspondence between members of the Pierce, Aiken, Appleton, Mason, and Means families, principally of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Contained in this correspondence are letters from Jane M. Pierce (1806-1863) and her husband, Franklin Pierce (1804-1869), fourteenth president of the United States. Photographs and genealogical material are also included.
The family correspondence is arranged by generation and alphabetically therein by name of correspondent. The correspondents' family relationship to Jane Pierce is identified in the container list below. Four generations of Jane Pierce's family are represented, including her grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles, her own generation of siblings and cousins, and her nieces and nephews. Topics include antebellum New England family life, religion, politics, War of 1812, slavery, and events related to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, which Jane Pierce's father, Jesse Appleton, served as president between 1807 and 1819.
Jane Pierce's letters, 1822-1860, include accounts of social life in Washington, D.C., during her husband's congressional years between 1835 and 1842 and during their first year in the White House in 1853. Much of her correspondence, as well as family correspondence about her, reveals her struggle with depression following the deaths of her three children. The papers include six letters written between 1850 and 1868 by Franklin Pierce, largely to his wife's sister, Mary M. Aiken. In one of these letters, written in 1856, Pierce discussed the likelihood that he would not be nominated for a second presidential term.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm83036200