Alfred C. Berol collection of presidential letters, 1795-1956 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:This collection contains letters from the following former United States Presidents: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower. Most of the letters were written while the sender was in office, but the subject matter tends to be more casual than official. Most of the recipients are private citizens, neighbors to the presidents' civilian estates, or acquaintances with no real historical significance