Bergeron, Paul H. "All in the Family: President Polk in the White
House." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 46 (Spring 1987): 10-20.
Notes how Sarah Polk managed the "comings and goings" of a wide variety of
relatives who visited, or even took up residence, at the White House.
Reproductions of a photograph of Sarah and James Polk, and of a portrait
of Sarah Polk, are also included.
Caroli, Betty Boyd. "Three Exceptions: Sarah Childress Polk, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Julia Dent Grant." In First Ladies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
"First Ladies of the United States of America." Online. Available
from http://www1.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/firstladies/html/firstladies.html. Internet.
Includes a color portrait and biographical sketch.
Paine, Ophelia. "Who's Who in Nashville's History." Online. Available from http://www.nashv.lib.tn.us/who.html]. January, 1996.
Wallace, Sarah Agnes, ed. "Letters of Mrs. James K. Polk to Her
Husband." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 11 (1952): 180-91,
282-88.
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