Series II. Benjamin Pickman (1763-1843) Business and Personal Papers, 1784-1842, contains correspondence, legal, and financial papers reflecting Benjamin's political and domestic concerns. Of interest in the family correspondence are letters from the Routh family (Benjamin's British relatives by his cousin Abigail [Gardiner] Routh) that describe the general political situation in Great Britain as well as England's war with France; Benjamin's letters to his mother, Mary (Toppan) Pickman, written during his 1784 visit with his exiled father in London; Benjamin's eulogy composed upon the death of his mother in 1787; and his 1843 will. Of special note in the miscellaneous correspondence is a letter from Captain Baker concerning Napoleon's return from Elba (1815), an 1826 note from Lafayette thanking Benjamin for a copy of his oration given on George Washington's birthday in 1797, and correspondence with John Quincy Adams. The Adams/Pickman correspondence is comprised of certified copies of correspondence and original letters written in 1825, 1827, and 1834. The 1834 correspondence is of special note, discussing the death of Adams' son John, America's worsening relations with France over the spoliation claims made during the War of 1812, and the 1814 New England Federalist attempt to secede from the United States in order to unite with Great Britain. The civic papers include donations to charities, shares in town projects, and certificates for political and civic organizations. Accounts and legal papers for Temple Place document the house Benjamin bought in Boston in 1838. The 1807 travel journal records only a fragment of Benjamin's journey to New York.