Most of the correspondence deals with the issues and decisions before the Supreme Court. It reflects the varied and unusual comments of the public. The judicial policy of the court was to refrain from replying to this type of mail. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically within the chronological divisions. Subjects such as proposed rule changes for the Supreme Court, correspondence between the Chief Justice and Associate Justices, applications for Law Clerks, papers of the Marshall's Office, and proceedings of the National Gallery of Art and Smithsonian Institution of which Justice Vinson was a trustee appear in this file.
All material is arranged alphabetically by topic and then chronologically within the topic.
The Supreme Court Opinions Section consists of box numbers 227-298. From boxes 227 through 290 opinions of the Chief Justice and associate Justices are arranged by year and alphabetically by case file within the year. In boxes 291 through 297 there are printed copies arranged in numerical order of the court's opinions from 1946 to 1952. In box 298 there is a bound volume of the Supreme Court Opinions Record, 1951-1953. Box 299 contains a log of the Chief Justice's daily activities from January 1949 to September 1953.