Papers, 1826 – 1862. 3 Files. This collection contains five letters from Pickens to various correspondents, a letter dated Sept. 29, 1845 to John C. Calhoun urging the latter to be a candidate for the U.S. Senate, three letters to Mrs. Pickens, and a legal document. Chiefly correspondence to Pickens's wife, Lucy Petaway Holcombe Pickens, and to John C. Calhoun; together with account of his diplomatic career in Russia, legal documents, and estate inventory of Pickens's uncle, Ezekiel Pickens. Finding aid available: https://www.archivesspace.wlu.edu/repositories/5/resources/414