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Rogers Memorial Collection: Henry Munroe Rogers papers, 1812-1937 (inclusive), 1862-1937 (bulk).

Title: Rogers Memorial Collection: Henry Munroe Rogers papers, 1812-1937 (inclusive), 1862-1937 (bulk).

Correspondence, compositions, and other papers of Boston lawyer Henry M. Rogers, with an emphasis on the theater and the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 21.5 linear feet (39 boxes, 2 portfolio boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01508/catalog View

John Chipman Gray correspondence

Title: John Chipman Gray correspondence

Correspondence of Harvard professor and lawyer John Chipman Gray. Consists chiefly of letters written to Gray and his wife, Anna Lyman Mason Gray, many of which are RSVPs to social engagements from notable Boston and Harvard figures. Other topics include John Gray's legal writings and lectures and Anna Gray's poetry. Includes two autograph letters of Daniel Webster (addressed to others), and several letters of condolence from acquaintances such as Abbott Lawrence Lowell on the occasion of John Gray's death. The collection also includes letters to other members of the Gray family and some Gray family ephemera, such as stock certificates. Items concerning Japan include a letter from Isabella Stewart Gardner describing her impressions of Japanese culture and society, a letter from Fanny MacVeagh, wife of the American ambassador to Japan, describing the landscape and culture, and a collection of letters from John Gray's former student Kentaro Kanako, a Japanese noble and diplomat, whose letters describe the politics, government, and society of Japan and express great nostalgia for Boston society. He also discusses newly published political science works and his translations of many such works. Kanako visited the United States several times and wrote to the Grays from both Japan and the United States.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet (2 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01090/catalog View

Knowlton, Marcus Perrin, 1839-1918. Papers, 1828-1957.

Title: Papers, 1828-1957.

Papers of Marcus P. Knowlton, Chief Justice of the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court, contain correspondence, writings, a scrapbook, and a few misc. papers related to Knowlton's career as an attorney and judge. Letters to Knowlton concern his appointment to the court (1881), a speech made at Yale (1901-02), his appointment as chief justice (1902) and his resignation from the court due to an eye condition, including the re-assignment of his cases (1911). The remainder of the letters are to Knowlton's wife upon his death and regarding her published memorial of him (1918-19). Among the correspondents are John W. Hammond, Arthur P. Rugg, William Schofield, Moorfield Storey, and Marcus Morton. (Cont'd) Knowlton's writings include student papers, speeches, essays, and other papers on law, government and other topics. The scrapbook contains clippings and letters to Knowlton upon his resignation (1911) and to his wife upon his death (1918). Other papers include a few misc. papers related to Mother Goose and the temperance movement and compositions of Florence L. Clarke of Northampton, Mass., corrected by Rose L. Knowlton.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22534981 View

Rugg, Arthur Prentice, 1862-1938. Letters to Edwin Hale Abbott, 1920, 1923.

Title: Letters to Edwin Hale Abbott, 1920, 1923.

Two items, one (1920) a brief note acknowledging the receipt of briefs in the case of Knights v. Burrell; the other (1923) a letter regarding Judge Lemuel Shaw. The latter was originally accompanied by a letter of Shaw's, sent as a gift to Abbott.

ArchivalResource: 2 folded sheets (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234339794 View

Franklin, Mitchell, 1902-1986. Mitchell Franklin papers, 1922-1986.

Title: Mitchell Franklin papers, 1922-1986.

The papers of Mitchell Franklin consist of his studies, research, writings,correspondence, and teachings. The materials reflect his career as a lawyer, professor, legal advisor, and philosopher and his work on contract, Roman and international law. Included are also photographs of his European travels and clippings about him and his work.

ArchivalResource: 26 boxes (10.63 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/65649429 View

Rugg, Arthur Prentice, 1862-1938. Papers, 1815-1938.

Title: Papers, 1815-1938.

Papers of Arthur P. Rugg of Sterling, Mass., lawyer, city solicitor for Worcester, Mass. (1897-1906), associate justice (1906-11) and chief justice (1911-38) of the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court. The papers contain correspondence, legal case files, notes, speeches, articles, papers relating to his personal and professional involvements, letterbooks, diaries (1875-1936, with gaps), personal account books, financial journals documenting his law partnership with John R. Thayer (1895-1903) in Worcester, and scrapbooks of his articles and on various subjects. The collection also includes correspondence with his wife, Florence May (Belcher) Rugg, and her diary of a trip to England and Scotland in 1914, as well as papers of other family members, including Francis W. Chandler, Henry Daland, and Alice Daland Chandler. Also, a collection of autograph letters addressed to Rugg; correspondents include Calvin Coolidge, William Cardinal O'Connell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.

ArchivalResource: 83 boxes, 94 v., 8 folders, and 1 rolled container. Unprocessed collection.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32839529 View

Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933. Papers, 1918-1933.

Title: Papers, 1918-1933.

This collection contains letters written by Coolidge, letters written about Coolidge after his death, a speech and bibliography on Coolidge, and postcards relating to Coolidge and his hometown of Plymouth, Vt. Letters written by Coolidge represent various periods in his political career and usually express thanks for political support of personal favors. Charles Henry Taylor (1867-1941) is the most frequent recipient. Several letters to Arthur Prentice Rugg (1862-1938) discuss Rugg's participation in commemorative ceremonies for Coolidge after his death. Also included are a few Coolidge family manuscripts sent to the AAS by Coolidge shortly before his death. There is a copy of a speech given by Clarence Saunders Brigham (1877-1963) to the Worcester Fire Society on the wit of Coolidge, and a bibliography of publications on Coolidge, 1921-1932. Seventeen postcards depict scenes, landmarks, and people of Plymouth, Vt., ca. 1923.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders (51 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191259264 View

Roscoe Pound Papers

Title: Roscoe Pound Papers

Correspondence, writings, speeches, lectures, teaching notes, reports, minutes of meetings, legal briefs, scientific drawings, pamphlets and other printed material, newspaper clippings, maps, photos, memorabilie, miscellaneous honorary degrees, and other papers, chiefly 1910-1964. Includes material pertaining to Pound's participation in the Boston and Cleveland crime surveys (1920's), as a member of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement or Wickersham Commission (1929-1931), as a member of the American Bar Association and with various Masonic chapters, and as advisor to the Ministry of Justice in Nanking, China (1940's). Also two typed, bound journals recounting camping trips in West Virginia and to Civil War battlefields (1898, 1912-1917).

ArchivalResource: 1 collection (257 Boxes, 14 Paige boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990006015990203941/catalog View

Anderson, William Franklin, 1860-1944. William F. Anderson collection, 1923-1926.

Title: William F. Anderson collection, 1923-1926.

Correspondence, subject files, and printed material.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70976882 View

Gray, Roland, 1874-1957,. Autograph collection, 1798-1864.

Title: Autograph collection, 1798-1864.

Contains autographs from Gray's legal autograph collection and clippings about prominent legal figures. Includes a few full letters and several legal document, but the bulk of the collection consists of signatures of 19th century British lawyers.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (25 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/235928484 View

Rugg, Arthur Prentice, 1862-1938. [A collection of printed material pertaining to the salaries of Massachusetts judges in the 1920s].

Title: [A collection of printed material pertaining to the salaries of Massachusetts judges in the 1920s]. [1920]

ArchivalResource: 2 pieces ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/277237734 View

Robert Grant papers

Title: Robert Grant papers

Papers of Robert Grant (Harvard AB 1873), an American novelist and lawyer.

ArchivalResource: 18 boxes and 7 volumes (7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00080/catalog View

Materials Concerning President Alexander Meiklejohn MA. 00086., 1923-1948

Title: Materials Concerning President Alexander Meiklejohn 1923-1948

Materials generated by the Board of Trustees of Amherst College relative to the presidency (1912-1924) and resignation of Alexander Meiklejohn.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear foot, 2 archives boxes; (1 linear ft.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma86.html View

Cushing, William, 1732-1810. Scrapbook, 1919.

Title: Scrapbook, 1919.

Scrapbook of Arthur Prentice Rugg containing pamphlets, letters, articles and addresses, and copies of manuscripts relating to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Cushing and the Cushing family. Included are ms. addresses by Grafton Dulaney Cushing and Harvey Hunter Pratt. Many of the items relate to the erection of a tablet to William Cushing in 1919 by the Scituate (Mass.) Historical Society.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16912804 View