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Thayer, James Bradley (1831-1902)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1831 - 1902

Biography

James Bradley Thayer was an American legal theorist and educator. From 1873 to 1883 he was Royall professor of law at Harvard. In 1883 he was transferred to the professorship which after 1893 was known as the Weld professorship and which he held until his death on February 14, 1902. He took a special interest in the historical evolution of law

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Harold D. (Harold Dexter) Hazeltine correspondence

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 6581987
Overview:

The papers consist exclusively of letters addressed to Hazeltine, accompanied by his detailed notes about each of his correspondents. Hazeltine's correspondents were English, American and Continental European legal scholars, historians, members of the bench and bar, and a few other English scholars in other fields, such as economics and philosophy.

Henry Villard business papers

Collection Identifier: Mss:8993 1862-1928 V719
Overview:

Business records, correspondence, and photographs of 19th century railroad and electrical industry financier Henry Villard (1835-1900)

James Bradley Thayer Digital

Item Identifier: HUD 252.716
Scope and Content:

Individual portraits of members of the Harvard College Class of 1852

James Bradley Thayer papers

Collection Identifier: LAW-MMC-093
Overview: This collection includes materials relating chiefly to Thayer's writing and teaching career. Includes research notes and drafts for A Preliminary Treatise on the Law of Evidence at the Common Law (1898) and his biography of John Marshall (1901); papers relating to his participation in the writing of the constitutions of North and South Dakota, 1889, and his chairmanship of a committee concerned with Indian legislation, 1887-1892; diary-like letters to his wife, Sophia Bradford (Ripley)...

Letters to James Bradley Thayer from various correspondents

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 1613
Overview:

Letters to American lawyer and Harvard Law School professor James Bradley Thayer from Ralph Waldo Emerson and others.

Louis Dembitz Brandeis papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601607
Overview:

This is a collection of the Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, Louis Dembitz Brandeis. It consists of chiefly working papers (1916-1939) for cases in which Brandeis wrote an opinion.

Mark De Wolfe Howe research materials relating to life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Collection Identifier: LAW-MMC-239
Overview:

Research materials created or collected by Mark De Wolfe Howe in his capacity as the official biographer of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The John G. Palfrey (1875-1945) collection of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. papers

Collection Identifier: LAW-MMC-240
Overview:

Chiefly correspondence, biographical and family papers, together with drafts of writings, diaries, autographs, clippings, and memorabilia. The bulk of the collection is dated 1861-1935.