Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Millard Fillmore papers, 1839-1925 |
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Span Dates | 1839-1925 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1839-1870) |
ID No. | MSS20537 |
Creator | Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 |
Extent | 35 items |
Extent | 1 container |
Extent | 0.4 linear feet |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms016060 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm81020537 |
Summary | U.S. President, vice president, and representative, lawyer, and educator. Chiefly correspondence of Fillmore relating to slavery; the Compromise of 1850; the Fugitive Slave Law (1850), John Brown's Raid, 1859, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.; the Whig Party; and congressional politics. Includes several letters of and an obituary notice for Fillmore's daughter, Mary Abigail Fillmore, as well as a detailed index to volumes 1-44 of the Millard Fillmore papers in the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, Buffalo, N.Y. |
Online Content | The papers of Millard Filmore are available on the Library of Congress Web site at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000050. |