MSS Finding Aids
Publication Date
1-5-2012
Abstract
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 280. Photostat of a letter written at Washington, D.C. on 20 January 1861 by Jefferson Davis to President Frankin Pierce advising of his resignation from the U.S. Senate and his intention to return to Mississippi. Davis also comments on the unsettled conditions following Mississippi's secession from the Union. Original in Library of Congress.
Disciplines
American Politics | American Studies | History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Davis, Jefferson Finis, 1808-1889 (SC 280)" (2012). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 1869.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/1869
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu