Papers of John Armstrong Chaloner.

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Papers of John Armstrong Chaloner.

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The collection Chaloner's correspondence chiefly regarding his law suits, with some on charitable and business matters. There are fragments of briefs from his law suits and Chaloner's notes on them. Prominent among them are "Washington Post vs. Chaloner, 1917; and Chaloner vs. Sherman and related property restitution trials, 1908-16. There are also manuscript or galleys for "Robbery under law," "A brief for the defense." "The serpent of the Old Nile, " "The infernal comedy--Hell per a spirit message therefrom, " "An answer to Omar Khayyam, " and "Scorpio, " copies of "The Confederacy and the solid south, "and "The x-faculty, " as well as reviews and notes for "Lunancy law of the world." There are also papers re the "J. A. Chaloner Paris prize foundation, the McCormick-Chaloner eclipse expedition, 1927, his program to bring movies to rural America, and the "Lost city of Nevada" pageant he sponsored. The collection also contains a 1913 letter to William H. Taft requesting safe conduct to Washington D.C. to impeach district court of New York Judge George Chandler Holt and clippings re Chaloner and the Merry Mills and a photograph of a document signed by Napoleon that was owned by Chaloner. Other correspondents include Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, John W. Fishburne, Armistead Churchill Gordon, John Henry Ingram, George Perkins, and Anselm Phelps.

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