Letters to Edwin Hale Abbott, 1920, 1923.

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Letters to Edwin Hale Abbott, 1920, 1923.

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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.

2 folded sheets (2 p.)

Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Abbot, Edwin Hale, 1834-1927

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Edwin Hale Abbot was born in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1834. He received the A.B. (1855), the A.M. (1858) and the LL.B. (1862) from Harvard. In 1859 Abbot married Mary Carter, who died the following year. His marriage to Martha T. Steele in 1866 produced two sons, Philip Stanley and Edwin Hale, Jr., and an adopted daughter, Constance. Abbot practiced law in Boston from 1862-1876. After 1876 railroad and corporate litigation and affairs in the midwestern United States dominated his legal practice...

Rugg, Arthur Prentice, 1862-1938

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Rugg, a 1883 graduate of Amherst College, was appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1906, and became chief justice in 1911. Abbott was an assistant attorney general of Massachusetts. From the description of Letters to Edwin Hale Abbott, 1920, 1923. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339794 ...

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Shaw, Lemuel, 1781-1861

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