James Bradley Thayer papers

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James Bradley Thayer papers

Date

1787-1902

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00093/catalog

Abstract

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) Thayer, written while on a Western journey with Ralph Waldo Emerson; and letters to Emerson relating to Emerson's business affairs.

Extent

31 boxes, 6 Paige boxes

Languages

eng, Latn

Holding Repository

Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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SNAC Resource ID: 6385752

Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Williston, Samuel, 1861-1963

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Professor of law. A.B., Harvard College 1882; L.L.B. Harvard Law School (1888); professor, Harvard Law School (1890-1963). From the description of Certificates and appointments, 1888-1919. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235928448 Attorney, law teacher. A.M. 1882, Harvard College; LL.B. 1888, Harvard Law School; LL.D., Harvard, 1910; Amherst, 1923; Yale, 1926. Prof. law, Harv. Law School, 1890-1938. From the description of Letter to Erwin N. Gri...

Susan B. Thayer.

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James, Henry

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x00012f Epithet: Baron James of Hereford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x000331 Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F234 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x000361 Epithet: Capta...

Stephen, James Fitzjames, 1829-1894

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English judge. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to William Makepeace Thackeray, 1860 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270854480 English jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Yates Thompson, 1890 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872302 Epithet: judge and writer Title: 1st Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : ...

Sandford, Edward

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Samuel Williston

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Harv. Univ.

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Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882

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Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897

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Landscape architect. Educated at Harvard College (A.B. 1882). Eliot was instrumental in the development of the Boston Metropolitan Park system. Later, his ideas set the pattern for most American metropolitan parks. In 1892, Eliot was hired as landscape architect by the new Metropolitan Park Commission, which he had been instrumental in creating. In following years, the state legislature established a permanent commission, and implemented Eliot's recommendations for the development of a regional ...

Thorndike, Samuel Lothrop, 1829-1911.

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Born Beverly, Mass. Dec. 28, 1829; died Weston, Mass. June 18, 1911. Harvard, class of 1852; long time resident of Cambridge, Mass.; lawyer; director of numerous corporations, including Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, Boston and Roxbury Mill Corp., etc.; trustee of Suffolk Savings Bank, Perkins Institute, etc.; choir master at Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass.; member of the Chorus Club of the Handel and Haydn,; president of the Cecila Society; president and treasurer of the Harvard Music...

President James Walker

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Bigelow, Melville

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Lawrence, William, 1850-1941

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7th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. From the description of William Lawrence letter to Mrs. Forbes [manuscript], 1930 Apr 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 256490554 Bishop of Massachusetts. From the description of Draft petition to Governor Fuller, 1927 April 11-12. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 67836461 ...

Garrison, Lloyd McK.

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Baldwin, Simion E.

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Kaneko, Kentarō, 1853-1942

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American Society of Miniature Painters.

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C. C. Everett.

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Ellen Emerson, daughter of TWE.

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Adams, Edward B.

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Theodora W. Thayer

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attorney Charles Hale

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Langdell, C. C. (Christopher Columbus), 1826-1906

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Attorney, legal scholar. Dane Prof. of Law, 1870-1900, Harv. L.S.; Dean, 1870-1895; Dane Prof. Emeritus, 1900-1906. From the description of Research notes and correspondence, 1870-1900 (inclusive). (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 713338600 Langdell graduated from Harvard College with an AB in 1851, he earned a Harvard Law School LL.B. in 1853. He taught law and was Dean of the Harvard Law School. From the description of General information about...

Wigmore, John H.

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Chamberlayne, Charles Frederic, 1855-1913

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Whittier, C. B.

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Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904

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U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. From the description of George Frisbie Hoar letter to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1894 January 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 694733616 George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) was a Republican Senator from Massachusetts (1877-1904). From the description of Autograph collection, 1598-1945. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122405022 From the guide to the George Frisbie Hoar autograph collection, 1598-194...

Carter, J. C.

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Eliot, Charles W.

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Chase, George

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Thayer and Ripley families;

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Storey, Moorfield, 1845-1929

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Author, civil rights leader, and lawyer. From the description of Papers of Moorfield Storey, 1876-1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79899439 American lawyer, author, publicist. From the description of Letter to H.O. Houghton & Company, 1882 July 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53807486 Moorfield Storey received his A.B. from Harvard in 1866. From the description of Composition : [for English?] , c. 1865. (Harvard Unive...

Detroit Bar Association

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Hand, Augustus Noble, 1869-1954

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Thompson, William G.

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Abbot, Lyman (Dr.)

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Edith Forbes

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Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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Booker T. Washington was an African American educator and public figure. Born a slave on a small farm in Hale's Ford, Virginia, he worked his way through the Hampton Institute and became an instructor there. He was the first principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and under his management it became a successful center for practical education. A forceful and charismatic personality, he became a national figure through his books and lectures. Although his conservative views concerned many critics, he...

Villard, Henry

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Faxon, Walter, 1848-1920

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Brown, Henry B., U. S. Supreme Court Justice

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Tudor, Robert B.

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E. W. Huffert

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Ladd, Fletcher

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Gray, Horace, U. S. Supreme Court Justice

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Ojeda, Tomas Thayer.

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Baker, Voorhis & Co.

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Harvard Law School

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Sidney, William

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Graves, C. A.

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Ripley, Christopher Gore

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Ojeda, Luis Thayer.

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Maitland, Frederic William, 1850-1906

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Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906), son of John Gorham Maitland, was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the moral sciences tripos (B.A., 1873; M.A. 1876). He was called to the bar in 1876, and thereafter became reader in English law at Cambridge in 1884, and Downing professor, 1888-1906. He was the founder of the Selden Society, which sought to encourage the study of the history of English law, and served as its literary director in 1895. He became Ford's lecturer ...

Long, John D.

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Knickerbocker, Frances W.

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Association of American law schools

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U.S. District Court

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JBT's father, Abijah W.

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sister Sarah B. Thayer (Sally)

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Darwin, Charles Ben, 1822-1901

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Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin of Lichfield and Josiah Wedgwood. He entered the University of Edinburgh in 1825 to study medicine, intending to follow his father Robert's career as a doctor. However, Darwin found himself unenthusiastic about his studies, including that of geology, and left Edinburgh without graduating in 1827. Forming the intention of entering the church, Darwin came up to Cambridge in 1828, and though not finding the formal studies any more...

Nichols, Edgar

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Gray, John Chipman, 1793-1881

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Miss Theodora Thayer

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McClain, Emlin, 1851-1915

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Emlin McClain was born in Salem, Ohio in 1851 and moved to Tipton, Iowa with his parents in 1855. He graduated from the State University of Iowa's Law Department in 1873. In 1879 he married Ellen Griffiths. McClain continued his legal studies with Judge George G. Wright of Des Moines, becoming his private secretary after Wright was elected to the U.S. Senate. McClain began practicing law in 1877, continuing until 1887 when he became Vice-Chancellor of the Law Department at the State University o...

Browne, Irving

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Commencement Part Committee

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Hastie Pudding Club

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Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941

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Louis Brandeis (b. November 13, 1856, Louisville, Kentucky – d. October 5, 1941, Washington D.C.) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1916 until 1939. Brandeis was the Court’s 67th justice and its first Jewish-American justice. He was the son of immigrants from Bohemia, who came to Kentucky from Prague, then part of the Austrian Empire. He received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1877, and before becoming a judge, served as a lawyer at Warren & B...

Dunphy, James G.

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Washington & Lee University

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Peck, A. Perry

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Morris, Homer

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Thayer, Sophia Bradford Ripley.

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Kaneko, Kentaro (Viscount)

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The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

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John Eldredge Hudson

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Keely, Joseph

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Simmons, George F. (George Frederick), 1814-1855

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Clergyman in Waltham, Mass., Springfield, Mass., and Albany, N.Y. Born 1814 at Boston to William and Lucia Hammett Simmons; died Concord, Mass., 1855. Married Mary Emerson Ripley, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley. George and Mary Simmons had four children, one of them Edward, the artist. Rev. Samuel Ripley--son of Ezra Ripley, half-brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson's father William, and father-in-law of George Simmons--was Simmons' predecessor at the Independent Congr...