Smith Thompson papers
Publisher: D. Appleton and company
Published: 1883
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Correspondence; Trials, litigation; Cherokee Nation; Indians of North America; United States. Supreme Court; United States; Constitutional law; Law; Cherokee Indians; Legal status, laws; History
Description: Correspondence, legal notes, and other papers relating primarily to various Supreme Court cases and to personal affairs.  Of particular note is Thompson's draft of his dissenting opinion in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831).  Correspondents include Henry Davis, John A. Fort, Jonathan Little, Edward P. Livingston, William Radcliff, Samuel L. Southard, and Robert Williams.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Mrs. Samuel McCullagh, 1931.

Purchase, 1913-1924.

Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. secretary of the navy.

Collection material in English.