Nineteenth-century legal manuscriptsMSS.89.2Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections
Arthur J. Morris Law Library580 Massie RoadUniversity of VirginiaCharlottesville, Virginia 22903archives@law.virginia.eduURL: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-08-01 00:00:22 +0000.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content StandardArthur J. Morris Law Library Special CollectionsNineteenth-century legal manuscriptsMSS.89.2Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/resources/67620 items1820-1859English1
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents - mostly letters - from a variety of Virginia and Maryland judges, Supreme Court personalities from the nineteenth century.
Judgesletters (correspondence)Manuscripts (documents)Maryland -- HistoryVirginia -- History -- 19th CenturyBarbour, Philip P., 1783-1841Bocock, Willis P., 1806-1887Bouldin, Thomas T., 1781-1834Brockenbrough, William, 1778-1838Brooke, Francis T., 1763-1851Carter, Charles L., 1733-1796Coleman, Richard H.Daniel, William, Jr., 1806-1873Giles, William F., 1807-1879Green, J. W.Halyburton, James D., 1803-1879Hening, William W., 1768-1828Lomax, John Tayloe, 1781-1862Marshall, John, 1755-1835Peters, Richard, 1781-1848Robertson, JohnRandolph, Peyton, 1721-1775Spotswood, Alexander, 1676-1740Stanard, Robert, 1781-1846Tucker, Henry St. George, 1780-1848Waller, Benjamin, 1716-1786Wayne, James M., 1790-1867Wellford, Robert, 1753-1823ALS, Thomas T. Bouldin to Dr. Robert Wellford, telling him that the case of Haxall v. Jones had been decided in his favorArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/755031820 March 13MSS 89-2ALS, Robert Stanard to "Dr Sir," regarding sums received by [Mrs.?] Stanard from the estate of Wm. StanardArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/755041821 April 3MSS 89-2ALS, 2 pp., P[hilip] P. Barbour, member of Congress and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1836-41, to "Dear Sir," regarding his inability to attend the hearing of a case because he needed to be in Congress for an important tariff voteArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/755051824 May 10MSS 89-2ALS, William Brockenbrough to "Dear Sir," directing him to send the enclosed letter from Judge Lomax on to the proper post officeArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/755061831 April 21MSS 89-2MSS by J.S.; outlines the family history of Chief Justice John MarshallArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/755071838 May 22MSS 89-2ALS, 4 pp., R[ichard] Peters, Reporter to the U.S. Supreme Court, 1828-42, to "Dear Sir," regarding a bankruptcy caseArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/755081839 September 29MSS 89-2ALS, Francis T. Brooke, Judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, 1811-1851, to "My Dear Doctor," enclosing a checkArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/755091847 April 2MSS 89-2ALS, John Tayloe Lomax, Professor of Law at Virginia, 1826-30, and Judge, Fifth Circuit of Virginia, 1830-57, to Messrs. J. M. Forbes, E. Conway, and R. B. Semple turning down an invitation to meet "the worthy guest from Cincinnati"Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/755111849 September 28MSS 89-2ALS, James M. Wayne, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, 1835-67, to B. R. Wellford, Jr., regarding a free black man of Savannah named Charles Middleton
Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/755121852 March 18MSS 89-2ALS, William F. Giles to Stevenson Archer, sending a note for collectionArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/755131852 July 14MSS 89-2ALS, 2 pp., W[illis] P. Bocock, attorney general of Virginia, to "Messrs. Eustau Conway & others," praising the recent nomination of Franklin PierceArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/755141852 November 22MSS 89-2ALS, Richard H. Coleman to B. R. Wellford, regarding the delivery of a bondArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/755161859 February 12MSS 89-2ALS, W[illiam] Daniel, Jr. to "Dear Sir," regarding granting an appeal in the case of T[echenor?] v. AllenArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/755181857 June 5MSS 89-2ALS, James D. Halyburton to "Dear Sir," regarding the Gibson caseArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/75519February 10MSS 89-2AMs, 2 pp.; opinion regarding General Spotswood's will by Benjamin WallerArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/75520n.d.MSS 89-2ALS, William W. Hening, legislative historian and Clerk of Chancery Court for Richmond district, to "Dear Sir," regarding the payment of a debtArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/75521n.d.MSS 89-2ALS, Peyton Randolph to Charles L. Carter; brief note accompanying a packageArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/75523n.d.MSS 89-2AL[S?], [St. George Tucker], Judge of Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, 1803-11, Judge, Federal District Court of Virginia, 1813-1827, to "Doctor Welford," thanking him for "friendly attention to his feelings the last evening"Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/75524n.d.MSS 89-2fragment, signed by J. W. Green regarding the weather and a visitArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/75525n.d.MSS 89-2two line quotation in French signed by John RobertsonArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/75526n.d.MSS 89-2