Morrison R. Waite papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20000
Subjects: Correspondence; Circuit courts; Judges; Law; Constitutional law; Courts; Judicial opinions; United States; United States. Supreme Court
Description: Correspondence, letter books, speeches, remarks, Supreme Court docket books, manuscripts and proofs of Circuit Court and Supreme Court opinions, Supreme Court assignments, obituary file, family papers, financial and legal records, printed matter, clippings, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Waite's service as U.S. Supreme Court chief justice.  Correspondents include Benjamin Harris Brewster, Zachariah Chandler, Nathan Clifford, Roscoe Conkling, J.C. Bancroft Davis, Charles Devens, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, William Greene, Hamilton Fish, John Marshall Harlan, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Robert Todd Lincoln, Stanley Matthews, John G. Nicolay, Alexander Ramsey, and William T. Sherman.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

Gift, Morrison R. Waite and others, 1945-1960.

Purchase, 1941-1958.

Chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, jurist, and lawyer.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.

Finding aid published by the Library of Congress, 1959.