John MacArthur Maguire papers

The 12,000 items in the Papers of John MacArthur Maguire (1888-1978), attorney, educator and legal scholar, span the years 1924 to 1973. The collection includes correspondence; memoranda; minutes of meetings; reports; research notes; legal documents; holograph drafts and typed manuscripts of writings; lecture notes; bibliographies; lists; tabulations; printed items; student papers.

The bulk of the Maguire Papers relates to Professor Maguire's professional life as law teacher and legal scholar. This group contains correspondence with colleagues at Harvard and other institutions, students, alumni, law review editors, publishers, and journalists; teaching notes for his courses and seminars in evidence and taxation; subject files in the field of taxation; detailed evaluations of papers handed in by students in his Taxation seminars; files concerning his participation in professional organizations and their committees such as the American Association of Law Libraries, American Association of University Professors, American Bar Association, and American Law Institute. Other folders reflect his contributions to the drafting of the Evidence Bill for Israel and his critique of the revised rules of Evidence as proposed by a special commission called by the State of New Jersey.

Among Professor Maguire's professional correspondents were: Archibald Cox; Felix Frankfurter; Erwin Nathaniel Griswold; William Draper Lewis; Edmund Morris Morgan; Clarence Morris; Roscoe Pound; Reginald Heber Smith; Roger J. Traynor; Hermann Weitnauer; Joseph N. Welch.

A certain amount of Professor Maguire's correspondence is of a personal nature, with friends of his Colorado College days, family friends in the East Coast area, owners of camps and resorts which the Maguires visited in the Adirondacks, in the West and in Canada during summer vacations, with suppliers of equipment for his favorite hobbies, fishing and photography, and with former employees in his office and in his household. A group of Harvard and biographical miscellany relates to Maguire's association with various student, alumni and other non-teaching activities of Colorado College and Harvard University; this group also includes some genealogical material.