Nineteenth-century legal manuscripts

Location of collection:

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

University of Virginia

P.O. Box 400110

160 McCormick Rd

Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110

Contact for questions and access:

POC: Brenda Gunn

Email: bg9ba@virginia.edu

Phone: (434) 924-1037

Phone: (434) 243-1776

Fax: (434) 924-4968

Web: library.virginia.edu/special-collections

Web: library.virginia.edu/special-collections/services/reference-request

Summary

Extent:

20 items

Language:

English

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains documents - mostly letters - from a variety of Virginia and Maryland judges, Supreme Court personalities from the nineteenth century.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Judges
letters (correspondence)
Manuscripts (documents)

Names:

Barbour, Philip P., 1783-1841
Bocock, Willis P., 1806-1887
Bouldin, Thomas T., 1781-1834
Brockenbrough, William, 1778-1838
Brooke, Francis T., 1763-1851
Carter, Charles L., 1733-1796
Coleman, Richard H.
Daniel, William, Jr., 1806-1873
Giles, William F., 1807-1879
Green, J. W.
Halyburton, James D., 1803-1879
Hening, William W., 1768-1828
Lomax, John Tayloe, 1781-1862
Marshall, John, 1755-1835
Peters, Richard, 1781-1848
Robertson, John
Randolph, Peyton, 1721-1775
Spotswood, Alexander, 1676-1740
Stanard, Robert, 1781-1846
Tucker, Henry St. George, 1780-1848
Waller, Benjamin, 1716-1786
Wayne, James M., 1790-1867
Wellford, Robert, 1753-1823

Places:

Maryland -- History
Virginia -- History -- 19th Century