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This list gives the collection name, date range and number of items in a collection followed by a very brief description of the contents of the collection. All of these collections are related to law.
APPLETON-CENTURY MSS.- DATE RANGE: 1846-1962
- ITEM COUNT: 6,249 items
- Papers consist of legal contracts with authors for the publication of their works, dramatizations, motion picture rights, foreign editions, and translations.
- DATE RANGE: 1688-1748
- Various items which relate to the history of Great Britain. Of particular interest is the 1688-1689 proceedings of the Convention which made the Prince of Orange, King of England. Contact the Manuscripts Department for further information.
- DATE RANGE: 1862-1916
- ITEM COUNT: 63,964 items
- Papers of the Indianapolis, Indiana, law firm of that name, its predecessors, and its successor, Baker and Daniels.
- DATE RANGE: 1539-1710
- ITEM COUNT: 4 items
- Primarily legal documents, of interest is: Das lieflandische ritterrecht...von 1539 and a July 20, 1634, (copy) Courland, Ritterbank. Ritter-buch.... Contact the Manuscripts Department for further information.
- DATE RANGE: 1828-1881
- ITEM COUNT: 37 items
- Papers of George Augustus Bicknell, professor of law at Indiana University. Included is a treatise on privity in all its branches dated 1838.
- DATE RANGE: 1885-1957
- ITEM COUNT: 131,056 items
- Papers of The Bobbs-Merrill publishing company of Indianapolis. Legal materials present in files for Bertita Harding, John Erskine, Eugene Lyons, and Herbert O. Yardley.
- DATE RANGE: 1937-1980
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 250,000 items
- Files of British publishing firm of Calder and Boyars. Includes materials on their prosecution for obscenity for the publication of Hubert Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn.
- DATE RANGE: 1812-1849
- ITEM COUNT: 292 items
- Collection of political letters of Henry Clay, congressman, U.S. senator and secretary of state. Contact the Manuscripts Department for further information.
- DATE RANGE: 1869-1920
- ITEM COUNT: 3,532 items
- Papers of Edward Daniels, lawyer. Includes an 1880 casebook and correspondence and documents concerned with lawsuits, 1899-1919, referring to railroads, gas companies and tool companies.
- DATE RANGE: 1826-1871
- ITEM COUNT: 37 items
- Nine volumes of court dockets and miscellaneous papers.
- DATE RANGE: 1831-1864
- ITEM COUNT: 1,483 items
- Papers of George Grundy Dunn, lawyer and congressman of Bedford, Indiana. Includes law office correspondence on claims and collections and cases ranging from property suits to murder.
- DATE RANGE: 1279-1858
- ITEM COUNT: 137 items
- Mortgages, deeds, indentures, wills, leases, marriage settlements, contracts, and powers of attorney. Includes a bill of sale, a lawsuit, manorial documents, agreements, receipts, taxes, accounts. Contact the Manuscripts Department for further information.
- DATE RANGE: 1900-1949
- ITEM COUNT: 2,451 items
- Letters and papers of Frank Albert Fetter, economist and professor at Indiana University, 1895-1898. Included among the printed materials are briefs of court cases and Federal Trade Commission hearings.
- DATE RANGE: 1920-1979
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 46,000 items
- Correspondence, professional and teaching files, and writings of Ralph Follen Fuchs, Indiana University Professor Emeritus of Law.
- DATE RANGE: 1675-1747
- ITEM COUNT: 50 items
- Negative photostats of legal records from the Chancery masters exhibits in the Public Record Office, London, which relate mainly to cases involving booksellers and printers.
- DATE RANGE: 1797-1862
- ITEM COUNT: 28 items
- Papers of Samuel Hall, judge and member of the board of Visitors of Indiana University. Includes legal documents, 1819-1846.
- DATE RANGE: 1841-1927
- ITEM COUNT: 707 items
- Letters and papers of Alvin Peterson Hovey, governor of Indiana. The letters were written principally from the Indiana State Constitutional Convention, to which he was a delegate and also from towns on Hovey's judicial circuits and from Indianapolis where Hovey served as a judge of the state Supreme Court.
- DATE RANGE: 1833-1888
- ITEM COUNT: 7,780 items
- Legal papers of the law firm of Hughes, Denver and Peck, Washington, D.C. The partners were James Hughes, lawyer, congressman from Indiana and professor of law at Indiana University; James William Denver, lawyer, general, congressman from California, and governor of Kansas Territory and Charles F. Peck, lawyer from Illinois. The papers relate mainly to cases before the U.S. Court of Claims dealing with Confederate claims for the return or reimbursement for cotton, real estate, and also western land claims, Indian claims, Texas bonds, railroads, and pardons.
- DATE RANGE: 1841-1862
- ITEM COUNT: 166 items
- Papers of Elisha Mills Huntington, lawyer and judge of the U.S. District Court of Indiana. Correspondence includes references to cases being tried before Judge Huntington and the Butler Bill of 1847.
- ITEM COUNT: 594 items
- Of particular interest:
- July 7, 1790: Warrant for the arrest of John Ellis.
- June 29, 1816: photostat of the Constitution of the state of Indiana.
- Jan. 11-Aug. 2, 1819: Papers relating to William Hunt's trial in Wayne County, Indiana.
- 1853-1856: Documents related to the legal career of Oliver Perry Morton in Wayne County, Indiana.
- Apr. 11-Aug. 29, 1864: Diary of Jabez Thomas Cox, lawyer and judge.
- May 1868: Complaint-Lambdin P. Milligan vs. James R. Slack and others in the Court of Common Pleas, Huntington County, Indiana.
- 1876-1885: Docket No. One for Westchester Township, Porter County, Indiana written by John Gondring, justice of the peace.
- 1912-1915: Reading notes concerning wills and legal provisions written by Benjamin Blumber, lawyer of Terre Haute, Indiana. undated: manuscripts decisions written by David Demaree Banta, dean of Indiana University Law School.
- undated: "Youthful Studies: Law Notes" written by lawyer Stephen C. Stevens.
- Contact the Manuscripts Department for further information.
- DATE RANGE: 1781-1832
- ITEM COUNT: 143 items
- Letters and papers of John George Jackson, U.S. congressman and jurist. Includes correspondence relating to the Virginia courts, some of Jackson's law office papers and a page of notes of testimony in Aaron Burr's trial.
- DATE RANGE: 1787-1927
- ITEM COUNT: 951 items
- Papers of Samuel Judah, lawyer of Vincennes, Indiana. Includes law office correspondence.
- These manuscripts are arranged by country. There is a large quantity of legal material pertaining to Latin America in these collections. Royal and viceregal decrees, both de oficio and de parte, are especially numerous. Areas of particular strength are Mexico and Peru. For more information contact the Manuscripts Department.
- >ITEM COUNT: 352 items
- Various legal documents and court cases in which Abraham Lincoln
served as an attorney jointly with Samuel Trigg Logan or William
Henry Herndon, or both, occasionally the papers are in Lincoln's
hand.
- Aug. 7, 1841: Decision of court in case of Zachariah Peter versus the heirs of Thomas Smith, deceased. Written in Abraham Lincoln's handwriting.
- Dec. 4, 1884: Copy of bond of Washington T. Beebee...in Lincoln's handwriting.
- Nov. 12, 1845: Case in debt of Willis Northcut. In Lincoln's handwriting.
- Mar. 1853: Statement that Reuben Radford and others set and operated saw mill... in Lincoln's handwriting.
- Many cases are signed Logan & Lincoln or Lincoln & Herndon.
- Contact the Manuscripts Department for further information.
- DATE RANGE: 1927-1935
- ITEM COUNT: 62 items
- Papers of Oliver Cary Lockhart, economist. Many of the papers are concerned with projects to reform the monetary laws of Ecuador, agricultural contracts, the budget, rural property taxes, accounting and auditing laws and regulations in Ecuador, Bolivia and China.
- DATE RANGE: 1858-1935
- ITEM COUNT: 287 items
- Papers of John Henry Louden and his son, Theodore James Louden, both of whom were lawyers in Bloomington, Indiana. Among the papers are various Monroe County, Indiana, Circuit Court Bar Dockets and a legal notebook dated 1871-1898 and 1837-1939 and an undated volume of notes on law cases by Pauline M. Siebenthal.
- DATE RANGE: 1898-1948
- ITEM COUNT: 8,355 items
- Papers of Louis Leon Ludlow, journalist and congressman from Indiana. Among the papers are letters and petitions on the Peace Amendment which proposed to amend the Constitution of the United States to provide for a referendum vote on war and to take the profit out of war, 1935-1940.
- DATE RANGE: 1893-1952
- ITEM COUNT: 175 items
- Papers concerned with the operations of McClure's Magazine and several legal cases in relation to the magazine, mainly libel, 1906-1911.
- DATE RANGE: 1899-1955
- ITEM COUNT: 31,922 items
- Papers of Paul Vories McNutt, lawyer, governor of Indiana. Among the papers are those as professor and dean of the Indiana University School of law, 1917-1933, including manuscripts of his law lectures.
- DATE RANGE: 1899-1934
- ITEM COUNT: 3 items
- Two financial ledgers of the law firm of Renner and McNutt, Martinsville, Indiana, and one ledger of the land company of Shireman & Co., and the farm and pond operation of McNutt and Krammer, Martinsville. John Crittenden McNutt, lawyer, was the father of Paul Vories McNutt, governor of Indiana.
- DATE RANGE: 1904-1973
- ITEM COUNT: 1,696 items
- Contracts and correspondence about contracts for works by William Somerset Maugham, English playwright and novelist.
- ITEM COUNT: 673 items
- Of particular interest:
- Apr. 13, 1640-Mar. 28, 1681: Great Britain, Parliament, House of Commons, Journals.
- Oct. 21-Dec. 30, 1678. Great Britain, Parliament. House of Commons. Journal Book of the House of Commons for the Sessions of Parliament begun at Westminster...
- 1723. Majmuai fetawa (Legal decisions) written by 'Ali ibn Mustafþ.
- 18th cent. Huccatlar (Legal opinions of judges on land tenure law in Turkey).
- Contact the Manuscripts Department for further information.
- Of particular interest:
- Jan 25, 1830-Apr. 8, 1835: Record of cases brought before David Byers, justice of the peace.
- Mar. 7, 1831: State of Indiana vs. Reuben Fullin.
- 1899-1901. Monroe Circuit Court, Bar Docket.
- Contact the Manuscripts Department for further information.
- DATE RANGE: 1920-1941
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 200,000 items
- Papers of John Joseph O'Connor, congressman from New York. Papers include those relating to law cases.
- Of particular interest:
- Papeles de Tagalos dated 1650-1733, a collection of documents on land owned by the Augustinians in Luzon, including title-deeds, grants, donations, transfers, litigation over the same, and demarcation of boundaries.
- 1721 transcript of the official papers connected with the judicial inquiry held into the administration of the interim governors, Martin de Ursua y Arismendi, conde de Lizaerraga, and Josede Torralba.
- 1745: Transcript of official papers connected with and of evidence given at the court of inquiry headed by Pedro Calderon Enriquez into a native revolt on the island of Luzon.
- In Philippine mss. II is a copy dated 1790-1806 of the will of Charles Connelly which contains information about Connelly's brother Thomas, an Irish Dominican who was the confessor of the Spanish king.
- Contact the Manuscripts Department for further information.
- DATE RANGE: 1733-1755
- ITEM COUNT: 30 items
- Papers from the law office of John Sharpe, legal representative of the "Sugar Planters and Merchants Trading to and Interested in His Majesty's Sugar Colonies, relating to the enforcement of the 'Molasses Act' of 1733." The collection is divided into two groups: 1) relating to the proceedings in 1750-1751 before the Board of Trade concerning the virtual nullification by the American colonists of the `Molasses Act'..., 2) dealing with the efforts of the English merchants and planters to obtain remedy for their grievances against the Northern Colonies by the passage of an Act of Parliament which would have totally forbidden dealings in molasses, sugar and Rum between them and the French Islands.
- ITEM COUNT: 123 items
- Of particular interest:
- 1484-1485. Protocollo o cabreu de los actos contractos de la Ciudat de Teruel recibidos e testifecados por francisco loppez de montreal. A daily registry of the public acts of the city of Teruel and activities of the Inquisition.
- 1614, Jan. 3-1615, Dec. 27. Minutes of the meetings of the Consejo de las Indias. Contains the Minutes of the Council of the Indies submitted to Felipe III, king of Spain.
- Consult the Manuscripts catalog for further information.
- DATE RANGE: 1824-1845
- ITEM COUNT: 198 items
- Correspondence of Charles H. Test, judge, member of Indiana General Assembly, and secretary of state of Indiana. Among the correspondence are letters which deal with his experiences as a member of the Indiana General Assembly and as a judge on the 6th Indiana circuit.
- DATE RANGE: 1837-1899
- ITEM COUNT: 375 items
- Letters and papers of Richard Wigginton Thompson, lawyer, judge, Indiana state legislator, U.S. congressman, U.S. secretary of navy. Some of the letters relate to his law cases.
- DATE RANGE: 1878-1941
- ITEM COUNT: 1,337 items
- Letters and papers of Walter Emanuel Treanor, judge and Indiana University law school professor, 1922-1930. Materials include letters from Treanor to his wife April-August, 1920, while he was a student in the Indiana University law school; mimeographed and typewritten material for classes in Roman law, 1926-1927, legal history, 1926-1928; jurisprudence, and the law of persons, property, and obligations, presumably from the Harvard University Law School; other law school outlines, notes, etc.; Indiana University Law School and Indiana Law Journal correspondence, chiefly for 1928-1930.
- 1742-May 15, 1786: Legal documents pertaining to Pennsylvania. 1791, Feb. 23: Alexander Hamilton. On the Constitutionality of the bill for establishing a National Bank.
- 1805, Jan. 5: Case of Samuel Young vs. John Shlife. 1829, Oct. 13: Declaration in St. Lawrence County, New York, Court of Common Pleas in support of a claim to a pension for Revolutionary war service.
- 1865, Feb. 1 Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Charles Sumner-James Wormley copy signed by Hannibal Hamlin, Schuyler Colfax, John W. Forney, Edward McPherson, 33 Senators, and 114 Representatives.
- 1892, May 2: The criminal code of the Northwest Territory written by David Demaree Banta.
- n.d. The Earl of Bellomont's case. Consists of a defense and a complete summary of the case against Bellomont, the precedents of the supremacy of the Port of New York, Basse's opposition thereto and the vindication of the former's conduct...
- n.d. From Hughes, Denver & Peck, lawyers to A.W. Rixon regarding the Quin case.
- n.d. From Chief Justice Frederic Moore Vinson to Duncan Lawrence Groner, refers to the Glass-Ickes case.
- DATE RANGE: 1942-1945
- ITEM COUNT: 67 items
- Letters and documents of Hugh Evander Willis, professor of law at Indiana University dealing with his plan for achieving lasting peace through a federation of the world and with his proposals for the constitution of the United Nations.