Benjamin Robbins Curtis papers
Language: eng
Subjects: Correspondence; Practice of law; Trials, litigation; Politics and government; United States. Supreme Court; United States
Description: Three volumes containing correspondence and several legal papers dealing primarily with legal and judicial matters during his service as U.S. Supreme Court justice and his practice of law in Massachusetts.  Subjects include the Dred Scott case and political affairs.  Correspondents include Roger S. Baldwin, Charles Henry Bell, John Archibald Campbell, George Ticknor Curtis, William W. Greenough, Samuel Nelson, Roger Brooke Taney, George Ticknor, and Daniel Webster.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Elizabeth S. Stevens, 1917.

Purchase, 1920.

Lawyer and jurist.

Collection material in English.