Professional and personal correspondence between Judge Williams and fellow judges, primarily from the Eastern District of Virginia; clerks (“formers” as Judge Williams called his former clerks); family and friends, school children thank-you notes; correspondence with prisoners. Administrative memoranda from the Department of Justice, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia; United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; Judicial Conference of the United States, Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Also included are Judge Williams “memo[s] to the file” written following oral arguments of cases; Report of the Security Committee for the Eastern District of Virginia (4/17/1989), 1988-1989

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