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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Culp Burlingham papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601600
Overview:

Papers relating to Charles C. Burlingham's personal and professional affairs, cultural affairs in New York City, efforts on behalf of civic and judicial reform, alumni activities with Harvard College and Columbia University Law School, espousal of civil liberties causes, and work on behalf of the Episcopal Church.

Edward J. Holmes collection of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. materials

Collection Identifier: LAW-MMC-243
Overview:

Edward Holmes was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr's nephew. The Edward J. Holmes collection of materials relating to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and his family consists of correspondence, estate matters, and various family documents.

Family Planning Oral History Project Interviews, 1973-1977

Collection Identifier: OH-1: T-25: M-138: A1-3
Overview:

Tapes and transcripts of 24 oral histories of the Family Planning Oral History Project, an oral history project of the Schlesinger Library, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

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)...

Joseph Berry Keenan papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601634
Overview:

The Joseph Berry Keenan Papers (1942-1947) consists of personal and business correspondence, documents, and memos, as well as newspaper clippings and photographs. The bulk of the papers concern Keenan's work as Chief Counsel in the International Prosecution Section (IPS) of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) for the Japanese War Crime Trials following World War II.

Learned Hand papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601605
Overview: Materials relating to Hand's private and public life, his activities as an alumnus of Harvard University, his friendship with Felix Frankfurter, and to the Hand family. Includes material on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, New York City; information on the Progressive movement (1909-1914) and the beginnings of the New Republic and its early staff; and transcripts of oral-history interviews conducted by Gerald...

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. addenda

Collection Identifier: LAW-MMC-256
Overview:

The Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Addenda consists of items regarding Holmes's life, family, and work, which were donated to the library by various parties after the primary collection of his papers was made available to the public. The collection includes correspondence, scrapbooks and diaries, clippings, reprints, and family papers dating to the mid-nineteenth century.

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.

Thomas Reed Powell papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601714
Overview:

Collection consists of papers relating to Powell's career as law teacher and legal scholar, consultant and mediator in legal cases involving tax, insurance, and railroad matters, and as president of the American Political Science Association. It also includes mss. of his humorous prose and verse.

Zechariah Chafee papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS601667
Overview:

This collection includes materials relating to Chafee's activities as law teacher, legal scholar, historian, and defender of civil liberties. Includes research material for drafts of the Federal Interpleader Act of 1936.