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Warren, Earl. Earl Warren Papers. 1864-1974.

Title: Earl Warren Papers

Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Papers dating chiefly from Warren's appointment as chief justice and relating principally to his activities with the Supreme Court and to the various landmark decisions identified with his tenure (1953-1969) in such areas as civil rights, race relations, criminal procedure, legislative reapportionment, freedom of speech and press, and church-state relations. Includes personal, family, and official correspondence; speeches and writings; Supreme Court files consisting of calendars, docket books, conference lists, bench memoranda, notes, opinions, and correspondence with associate justices; records relating to lower courts; and organizational files, scrapbooks, and other papers.

ArchivalResource: 250,000 items; 846 containers plus 12 oversize plus 1 classified; 340.4 linear feet

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Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Letter : the smart set, 24 West 45th St., New York City, to John B. Biggs, 31 March 1921.

Title: Letter : the smart set, 24 West 45th St., New York City, to John B. Biggs, 31 March 1921.

Expresses regret at having missed Biggs and asks that he call the next time he is in New York. "I hear from Fitz that he is in the South ruining his health with the moonshine liqueurs of those parts."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35550000 View

Sheldon Glueck papers

Title: Sheldon Glueck papers

Includes papers relating to Glueck's literary interests as well as material on Glueck's career in criminology and administration of criminal justice, especially the Harvard Law School Survey of Crime and Criminal Justice in Boston,1926-1933, war crimes and criminals, Glueck's work on the Model Penal Code of the American Law Institute, membership on two advisory committees on Federal rules of criminal procedure (1941-1942,1960-1966), and his study (1926-1938) of the Belgian Ministry of Justice. The bulk of the collection consists of professional correspondence (1920's-1972), chiefly with professional organizations, public and private agencies, and their respective officials.

ArchivalResource: 129 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00073/catalog View

Learned Hand papers

Title: Learned Hand papers

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 Gunther of Stanford Law School and others, of Judge Hand, his family and associates.

ArchivalResource: 116 linear feet linear feet (in 235 boxes and 18 paige boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00059/catalog View

Biggs, John, 1895-1979. John Biggs collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald estate papers, 1936-1978 (bulk 1940-1949).

Title: John Biggs collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald estate papers, 1936-1978 (bulk 1940-1949).

Consists of the correspondence and legal documents of Biggs (Princeton Class of 1918) accumulated as executor and trustee of the estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Princeton Class of 1917).

ArchivalResource: 3.85 cu. ft. (9 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78640447 View

Biggs, John, 1895-1979. Letter, 1941 March 5, to Maxwell Perkins.

Title: Letter, 1941 March 5, to Maxwell Perkins.

John Biggs replies to Perkins and asks for a copy of the manuscript of the recent book and also for copies of the cracked plate articles.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 26.2 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/66901848 View

Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947. Letter, 1941 March 4, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. to John [Biggs].

Title: Letter, 1941 March 4, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. to John [Biggs].

Perkins writes to John Biggs about Fitzgerald's literary estate and the plan to publish a posthumous edition of some of his works. "... Bunny Wilson, whom Scott so deeply trusted, wants to make a sort of miscellaneous book with those terrible crack[ed] plate pieces from 'Esquire' ... I would be mighty interested to know what you thought of those crack[ed] plate articles in 'Esquire' if you read them."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 26.2 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/66901724 View

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Letter : 38 W. 59th St., New York City, to John Biggs, 11 Apri 1921.

Title: Letter : 38 W. 59th St., New York City, to John Biggs, 11 Apri 1921.

Hopes Knopf will accept Biggs's novel. Sharply criticizes one of Biggs's short stories, but offers to take the novel to another publisher before he leaves for Europe, should Knopf turn it down.

ArchivalResource: 1 item [2 p.] ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35549135 View

Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947. Letter : Charles Scribner's Sons, 5th Ave. at 48th St., New York City, to John Biggs, 12 April 1921.

Title: Letter : Charles Scribner's Sons, 5th Ave. at 48th St., New York City, to John Biggs, 12 April 1921.

Rejecting short story "A river idyll." Mentions that he had shown the story to Fitzgerald who would be writing to him about it.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35549198 View

Biddle, Francis, 1886-1968. Francis B. Biddle papers, 1912-1968 (bulk 1940-1966).

Title: Francis B. Biddle papers, 1912-1968 (bulk 1940-1966).

This collection, which is part 2 of the Biddle family papers, consists of the personal papers of former U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle. Of notable interest are the lengthy correspondence files relating to Biddle's appointments as judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1939); U.S. Attorney General (1941); and member-judge of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (1945-46). Notable correspondents include Dean Acheson, Conrad Aiken, Thurman Arnold, Bernard Berenson, Henry Beston, Norman Birkett, Alain Bosquet, Van Wyck Brooks, Stimson Bullitt, Roy Basler, William Rose Benet, Richard Crowder, Agnes de Mille, Gertrude Ely, T.S. Eliot, Abe Fortas, Felix Frankfurter, Learned Hand, Oscar Hammerstein, August Heckscher, J. Edgar Hoover, Cordell Hull, R, Sturgis Ingersoll, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Emmet Lavery, Frieda Lawrence, Robert Lowell, Clare Boothe Luce, Henry McCarter, Archibald MacLeish, Jacques Maritain, Gian Carlo Menotti, Marion Merrell, Nancy Mitford, Henry Morgenthau, Lewis Mumford, L. Quincy Mumford, Charlton Ogburn, Boies Penrose, Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt, A.L. Rowse, Karl Shapiro, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Lisa Sergio, Edward R. Stettinius, Adlai Stevenson, Harry L. Stimson, Leopold and Olga Stokowski, Allen Tate, Virgil Thomson, Lionel Trilling, Harry S. Truman, Robert Wagner, Henry A. Wallace, Herbert Wechsler, Owen Wister, and Mark Van Doren. Also included are correspondence and manuscripts relating to Biddle's major works, including his two-volume autobiography, A casual past (1961), and In brief authority, (1962); two works on Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mr. Justice Holmes (1942), and Justice Holmes, natural law and the Supreme Court (1961); The world's best hope (1949); and The fear of freedom (1952). There are also typescripts and reprints of many articles by Biddle, as well as correspondence and manuscripts relating to a play about William Penn (1644-1718), written by Biddle and adapted for the stage by Richard Waters.

ArchivalResource: 22.25 linear feet (14 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79869834 View

Pond, Fern Nance, 1889-1960. Papers, 1933-1945.

Title: Papers, 1933-1945.

Collection consists of correspondence related to her work with the Old Salem Lincoln League. One folder of papers of John J. Biggs, restorer at New Salem. There are also some research papers on the Rutledge family.

ArchivalResource: .63 linear feet (1 1/2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56434082 View

Towne, Charles Hanson, 1877-1949. Letter : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2 West 45th St., New York City, to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1 February 1921.

Title: Letter : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2 West 45th St., New York City, to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1 February 1921.

Is returning John Biggs's manuscript along with his confidential opinion in the hopes that Biggs's will understand the reasons for refusal. "If he ever starts to write a novel in the ordinary sense of the word, Putnam would like to have a chance at it."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35550254 View

Joseph Berry Keenan Papers, 1942-1947

Title: Joseph Berry Keenan Papers

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.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00155/catalog View

Charles Scribner's Sons. Memorandum of agreement made this ninth day of June 1941 between John Biggs, Jr., as executor of the estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald ... and Charles Scribner's Sons ... of a work entitled The last tycoon : contract.

Title: Memorandum of agreement made this ninth day of June 1941 between John Biggs, Jr., as executor of the estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald ... and Charles Scribner's Sons ... of a work entitled The last tycoon : contract.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ([4] p.) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58720457 View

Biggs, John, 1895-1979. Letter, Wednesday eve, to Es.

Title: Letter, Wednesday eve, to Es. [1920?],

Biggs describes Zelda Fitzgerald.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 s.) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/769953607 View

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Letter : 38 W. 59th St., New York City, to John Biggs, [Fall, 1920?].

Title: Letter : 38 W. 59th St., New York City, to John Biggs, [Fall, 1920?].

Makes suggestions about his novel, especially with regard to length. Includes the word-count in several recent novels, including This side of paradise.

ArchivalResource: 1 item [1 p.] ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35548748 View

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Letter : the Garden of Allah, 8152 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Calif., to John Biggs, [late 1937].

Title: Letter : the Garden of Allah, 8152 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Calif., to John Biggs, [late 1937].

Mentions that he is setting up housekeeping and expects his furniture soon. Is making $1000 per week, with raises expected. Has just finished script of Three comrades and mentions collaborator E.E. Paramore. Has been on the wagon a year, Scottie is at Miss Walker's and Zelda is in Asheville, "no better, no worse." Mentions 1936 as nightmare, with a "long build up to it, a complete depression of spirit."

ArchivalResource: 1 item [1] p. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35548836 View