Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The papers of Andrew Jackson, United States president, senator, representative, and army officer from Tennessee, were given to the Library of Congress by Woodbury Blair, Minna Blair Richey, Gist Blair, and Montgomery Blair in 1903. Other acquisitions were received by gift, purchase, and transfer between 1901 and 2018.
Processing History
The papers of Andrew Jackson were arranged, indexed, and microfilmed in 1967. Subsequent additions were arranged and described in 1979, and a finding aid to the additions was revised and expanded in 1998. In 2009 the finding aid was expanded by including description of the main collection from the published index. A small addition was incorporated and the finding aid revised in 2014. Additional correspondence was processed and the finding aid revised in 2023 by Chad Conrady.
Other Repositories
Also available for consultation in the Manuscript Division Reading Room is a microfilm edition reproducing Jackson correspondence and related materials from some 335 repositories and private collections, including items from a number of collections of Jackson's contemporaries in the Library of Congress. The microfilm, with accompanying guide and index, was the work of the Andrew Jackson Papers project at the Hermitage and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. It was published in 1987 by Scholarly Resources, Inc. and supplements the Andrew Jackson Papers at the Library of Congress and Jackson material not otherwise available on microfilm among the records of the National Archives.
Microfilm
A microfilm edition of part of these papers is available on seventy-eight reels. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition as available.
Online Content
Part of the papers of Andrew Jackson is available on the Library of Congress Web site at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000031. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the online edition as available.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Andrew Jackson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.