PIERCE, FRANKLIN, President . Autograph letter signed ("Fr Pierce") as President, to Dr. Boardman, Washington, D.C., 16 September 1856. 2 pages, 4to, integral blank . Fine. Two months after failing to win renomination by the Democratic party, President Pierce reports to a Philadelphia physician on the health of the First Lady: "...Mrs. P[ierce] passed one or two days at the Gerard House on her return from Long Branch...Altho it would have afforded Mrs. P[ierce] great pleasure to see you and make the acquaintance of Mrs. Boardman, she hardly anticipated it...Mrs. P[ierce] would have been greatly improved by her sojourn at Long Branch with her sister but for a severe cold which seized her only two or three days before she came away and from the effects of which she has not yet entirely recovered. Yes, I am as you suggest a good deal worn down in body & mind -- and feel sensibly the need of rest and change -- but it is not quite clear how I am to secure either..." Jane Pierce suffered periodically from bad health all her life, but after her son was killed in a train accident in 1853, she grew chronically ill and spent most of her years as First Lady in seclusion.
PIERCE, FRANKLIN, President . Autograph letter signed ("Fr Pierce") as President, to Dr. Boardman, Washington, D.C., 16 September 1856. 2 pages, 4to, integral blank . Fine. Two months after failing to win renomination by the Democratic party, President Pierce reports to a Philadelphia physician on the health of the First Lady: "...Mrs. P[ierce] passed one or two days at the Gerard House on her return from Long Branch...Altho it would have afforded Mrs. P[ierce] great pleasure to see you and make the acquaintance of Mrs. Boardman, she hardly anticipated it...Mrs. P[ierce] would have been greatly improved by her sojourn at Long Branch with her sister but for a severe cold which seized her only two or three days before she came away and from the effects of which she has not yet entirely recovered. Yes, I am as you suggest a good deal worn down in body & mind -- and feel sensibly the need of rest and change -- but it is not quite clear how I am to secure either..." Jane Pierce suffered periodically from bad health all her life, but after her son was killed in a train accident in 1853, she grew chronically ill and spent most of her years as First Lady in seclusion.
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