Correspondence of JAMES K. POLK
Symbols
Document Classifications
| ADS, copy | Autograph Document Signed, copied by writer |
| ADS, fragment | Autograph Document Signed, fragment |
| ADsS | Autograph Documents Signed |
| AE | Autograph Endorsement |
| AE, facsimile | Autograph Endorsement, published facsimile copy |
| AEI | Autograph Endorsement Initialed |
| AES | Autograph Endorsement Signed |
| AEs | Autograph Endorsements |
| AEsS | Autograph Endorsements, Signed |
| AL | Autograph Letter |
| AL, draft | Autograph Letter, drafted by writer |
| ALI, copy | Autograph Letter Initialed, copied by writer |
| ALI, fragment | Autograph Letter Initialed, fragment |
| ALS | Autograph Letter Signed |
| ALS, copy | Autograph Letter Signed, copied by writer |
| ALS, draft | Autograph Letter Signed, drafted by writer |
| ALS, facsimile | Autograph Letter Signed, published facsimile copy |
| ALS, fragment | Autograph Letter Signed, fragment |
| ALS, microfilm | Autograph Letter Signed, microfilm copy |
| ALS, photocopy | Autograph Letter Signed, photocopy |
| ALS, press copy | Autograph Letter Signed, press copy |
| ALS, press copy of copy | Autograph Letter Signed, copied by writer, press copy |
| ALS, probably press copy | Autograph Letter Signed, probably press copy |
| ALs, drafts | Autograph Letters, drafted by writer |
| ALsS | Autograph Letters Signed |
| AN | Autograph Note |
| AN, press copy | Autograph Note, press copy |
| ANS | Autograph Note Signed |
| ANS, copy | Autograph Note Signed, copied by writer |
| D, copy | Document, authorship attributed or unknown, copy |
| DS | Document Signed |
| Ds, copies | Documents, copies |
| E | Endorsement, authorship attributed or unknown |
| Es | Endorsements |
| L | Letter, authorship attributed or unknown |
| L, copy | Letter, copy |
| L, draft | Letter, draft |
| L, translation | Letter, English translation |
| L, typed copy | Letter, typed copy |
| LS | Letter Signed |
| LS, copy | Letter Signed, copy |
| Ls, drafts | Letters, drafts |
| N | Note, authorship attributed or unknown |
| NS | Note Signed |
| PC | Published Circular, authorship attributed or unknown |
| PD | Published Document, authorship attributed or unknown |
| PDs | Published Documents |
| PL | Published Letter, authorship attributed or unknown |
| PLs | Published Letters |
| PNs | Published Notes, authorship attributed or unknown |
| Partly printed ACS | Partly printed Autograph Circular Signed |
| Partly printed AL | Partly printed Autograph Letter |
| Partly printed ALS | Partly printed Autograph Letter Signed |
| Partly printed DS | Partly printed Document Signed |
| Partly printed L, telegram | Partly printed Letter, authorship attributed, telegram |
Repository Designations
| CBevSMF | Shapell Manuscript Foundation, Beverly Hills, Calif. |
| Ct | Connecticut State Library, Hartford |
| CtY | Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
| DLC–AJD | Library of Congress, Andrew Jackson Donelson Papers |
| DLC–EB | Library of Congress, Edmund Burke Papers |
| DLC–FP | Library of Congress, Franklin Pierce Papers |
| DLC–JKP | Library of Congress, James K. Polk Papers |
| DLC–JKPor | Library of Congress, John K. Porter Autograph Collection |
| DLC–MVB | Library of Congress, Martin Van Buren Papers |
| DLC–WLM | Library of Congress, William L. Marcy Papers |
| DLC–ZT | Library of Congress, Zachary Taylor Papers |
| DNA–RG 42 | National Archives, Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital |
| DNA–RG 45 | National Archives, Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library |
| DNA–RG 48 | National Archives, Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior |
| DNA–RG 59 | National Archives, General Records of the Department of State |
| DNA–RG 76 | National Archives, Records of Boundary and Claims Commissions and Arbitrations |
| DNA–RG 107 | National Archives, Records of the Office of the Secretary of War |
| IHi | Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, Ill. |
| InU–Li | Indiana University, Bloomington, Lilly Library |
| KyU | University of Kentucky, Lexington |
| MB | Boston Public Library |
| MBU | Boston University |
| MH–H–A | Harvard University, Houghton Library, Autograph File, Cambridge, Mass. |
| MHi | Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston |
| MiU–C | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, William L. Clements Library |
| MnHi–AKF | Minnesota Historical Society, Allyn Kellogg Ford Collection of Historical Manuscripts, St. Paul |
| MoSHi–P | Missouri History Museum, Presidents Collection, St. Louis |
| NHi | New-York Historical Society, New York City |
| NN | New York Public Library |
| Nc–Ar | North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh |
| NcU | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| NjP | Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. |
| NjP–RF | Princeton University, Rush Family Papers, Princeton, N.J. |
| PHi–CF | Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Cadwalader Family Papers, Philadelphia |
| PHi–JB | Historical Society of Pennsylvania, James Buchanan Papers, Philadelphia |
| T–AH | Tennessee State Library and Archives, Adam Huntsman Papers, Nashville |
| ViHi-MF25 | Virginia Historical Society, Mason Family Papers, 1825–1902, Richmond |
Published Sources
| 88YSP | Jimmie Lou Sparkman Claxton, 88 Years with Sarah Polk (New York: Vantage Press, 1972) |
| BP | M. A. DeWolfe Howe, communicator, “Bancroft Papers on the Mecklenburg Declaration, 1775, and on the Annexation of Texas, 1848,” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 43 (October 1909–June 1910) |
| DYF | Rodelle Weintraub and Stanley Weintraub, Dear Young Friend: Letters from American Presidents to Children (Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Stackpole, 2000) |
| EIWO | Frances Fuller Victor, The Early Indian Wars of Oregon Compiled from the Oregon Archives and Other Original Sources with Muster Rolls (Salem, Ore.: Frank C. Baker, 1894) |
| LTT | Lyon Gardiner Tyler, The Letters and Times of the Tylers, vol. 3 (Williamsburg, Va., 1896) |
| MSCP | Anson Nelson and Fanny Nelson, Memorials of Sarah Childress Polk: Wife of the Eleventh President of the United States (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., 1892) |
| PJD–3 | James T. McIntosh, ed., The Papers of Jefferson Davis, vol. 3, July 1846–December 1848 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1981) |
| SCP | John Reed Bumgarner, Sarah Childress Polk: A Biography of the Remarkable First Lady (Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 1997) |
| SL | Statutes at Large |
| TIP–3 | Dorman H. Winfrey, ed., Texas Indian Papers, 1846–1859 (Austin: Texas State Library, 1960) |
| TR | John Robert Irelan, The Republic; or, A History of the United States of America in the Administrations, From the Monarchic Colonial Days to the Present Times, vol. 11 (Chicago: Fairbanks & Palmer, 1888) |
| ULNCP–Ju | Elizabeth Gregory McPherson, ed., “Unpublished Letters from North Carolinians to Polk,” North Carolina Historical Review, 17 (July 1940) |
| WJB–8 | John Bassett Moore, ed., The Works of James Buchanan: Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Private Correspondence, vol. 8, 1848–1853 (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1909) |