ALS as president, signed “Frank'n Pierce,” one page both sides, 8 x 9.75, October 25, 1855. Handwritten letter to his private White House secretary Sidney Webster, in full: "I was so sorry to learn (as I did from Judge Minot) that you were ill while in New England. I hope you are quite restored and that you may enjoy your visit with Mr. Butler as much as I am sure I should if I were there. We are expecting you to return the last of this week or the first of next and I am glad to know it because I begin to need your presence. With kindest regards to Mr. Butler & his daughter." Pierce adds a postscript: "Let me know whether we shall see you Saturday night or Monday or Tuesday." In fine condition.
Josiah Minot (1818-1891) was a law partner of Pierce between the years 1844 and 1852. Pierce, who had a talent for making money as a lawyer but not for retaining it, later entrusted Minot, a first-class businessman and manager, to oversee all of his finances and investments. When Pierce became president in 1853, Minot accompanied him to Washington and, in due time, was appointed as Auditor of the Treasury, and then, as Commissioner of Patents.
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