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ALS, one page both sides, 5 x 8, December 1, 1863. Handwritten letter to Ann Wentworth in Lowell, Massachusetts, in part: "Your dear Aunt has steadily declined since I saw you. For the last 48 hours she has been a great sufferer and the Doctor gives no encouragement of recovery, whatever. She may not survive the night. The terrible blow is near at farthest. How can I stand up under it?" In fine condition. After struggling with worsening bouts of tuberculosis, Franklin Pierce's wife, Jane, succumbed to the disease on December 2, 1863, the day after Pierce penned this letter; she was buried at Old North Cemetery in Concord, New Hampshire.
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