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Attorney's ledger

Collection

Identifier: MSS-96-2

Scope and Contents

This attorney's ledger contains information about estates, expenses, money transactions, pensions, and insurance.

Dates: 1884 - 1890

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Attorney's ledger

Collection

Identifier: MSS-97-8

Dates: 1871 - 1875

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Scope and Contents Papers of Edward Price Buford, lawyer of Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Va., who practiced alone and in the firms of Buford, Palmer and Hill, and Buford, Palmer and Eggleston. Letter books, daybook and journal containing personal and legal correspondence and accounts, and materials relating to political and economic conditions in Lawrenceville and Southside Virginia, to a hospital fund campaign in Lawrenceville, and to the Lawrenceville Land and Timber Co. of which Buford was an officer....

Dates: 1893 - 1931

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Charles and Thomas Frankland record books

Collection

Identifier: MSS-89-3

Scope and Contents This collection contains two handwritten commonplace books compiled by two generations of lawyers in Bedale, Yorkshire, Charles and Thomas Frankland. Three of the functions of these volumes appear to be: to have available all information relevant to Frankland property (land, debtors, etc.); to have available a wide range of legal information, precedents, cases, forms of words, etc.; and to have available information about important clients and matters affecting the district (tithes,...

Dates: circa 1740 - 1811

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Commission of Assize for the Circuit of Northern Ireland papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-78-10

Scope and Contents

This collection contains one document with a large seal embossed in wax, and two letters. The document was presented to Sir Anthony Babington in the spring of 1944, who then gave it to C. Robert Bard after Bard had visited him and other members of the bar in Northern Ireland in 1951.

Dates: 1944 - 1951

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Donald K. Duvall papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-99-1

Scope and Contents Donald K. Duvall’s papers consist of cases and other materials pertaining to his tenure as an administrative law judge and later as an attorney to Kenyon and Kenyon, working with Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930. The papers are divided in two series:1. Cases where he acted as a judge on section 337 matters.2. Cases where he was an attorney for the plaintiff. The most important case in this section is the DRAMs [Certain Dynamic Random Access Memories Components]....

Dates: 1930 - 1996

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Duke family law firm papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-79-6

Scope and Contents The Duke law firm papers include correspondence, case files, legal, insuarance, and financial records, as well as ledgers. The files provide extensive documentation of a small-town family practice. Since the insurance business and the Dukes's family business affairs were handled in the same office as the law practice, these files had remained with the legal files. The family correspondence found with these papers was transferred to Special Collections in Alderman Library. The...

Dates: circa 1820 - 1959

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Earle K. Shawe papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-08-3

Scope and Contents

The papers of Earle K. Shawe consist primarily of memoranda and case briefs from Shawe & Rosenthal related to labor-management relations, some business and personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks. Also included are some photographs, date books, and an address book.

The addendum to this collection consists of letters and postcards that Shawe sent to his brother while he was a law student at the University of Virginia.

Dates: 1938 - 2003

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Ellen V. Nash papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-98-4

Scope and Contents These papers document Ellen V. Nash's career as a solo practitioner and include case files and law practice ledgers. Her legal work consisted primarily of trust and estates, insurance, divorce, adoptions, and real estate. Although she worked by herself most of her career, but had a partner, Alvin D. Edelson, in the 1970s and worked close to Bernard Chamberlain, lawyer and UVA alumni. Some of these papers suffered extensive water and mildew damage; in fact, a portion of the papers...

Dates: 1928 - 1990

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Ernest L. Folk III papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-90-2

Scope and Contents

The Ernest L. Folk papers is comprised of professional files, working files concerning consulting work; drafts, notes, etc., for articles; and a few folders regarding his home in Ivy. In addition, there are assorted teaching materials concerning law and the arts.

Dates: 1963 - 1989

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Frank T. Glasgow letter to Frank Gilmer

Collection

Identifier: MSS-01-1

Scope and Contents

Letter from Frank T. Glasgow (Law 1878), an attorney from Lexington, VA, to Frank Gilmer (Law 1878), a Charlottesville, VA, attorney.

Dates: 1893-09-22

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Gregory H. Swanson papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2024-01

Scope and Contents This collection contains one part of Gregory H. Swanson's professional papers. They primarily document his thoughts on civil rights and his work in this area during the 1950s. The collection also includes Swanson's class photograph from the Howard University School of Law and several posthumous awards given to his daughter, Karen Swanson.In 2024, the University of Virginia Law Library processed into its collection, MSS-2024-02, a copy of a Virginia General Assembly joint...

Dates: 1948 - 2022

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Homan W. Walsh diaries

Collection

Identifier: MSS-78-5

Scope and Contents

This collection contains thirty-four handwritten diaries written by Homan W. Walsh, a Charlottesville lawyer, spanning the years 1930-1963. These diaries contain Walsh's daily plans and some observations on different topics.

Dates: 1930 - 1963

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Christian S. Hutter miscellany

Collection

Identifier: MSS 15511

Scope and Contents This autograph and miscellany collection created by Christian Sixtus Hutter consists of miscellaneous material ranging from circa 1602 to 1945 and includes autographs, correspondence, government documents, financial and legal documents, military documents, and telegrams, chiefly from the United States and Great Britain, but also including some material from continental Europe. While most of the collection is in the English language, there are a number of documents in French, German, Spanish,...

Dates: circa 1602-1945

Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

J. M. Shugar and A. W. Vaisey papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-88-1

Scope and Contents This collection contains papers from the legal practice of John Merritt Shugar and Arthur William Vaisey, solicitors. Their firm was located in Tring, Hertfordshire, in south central England. The collection documents work from 1850 to 1914, although these papers relate mostly to the period 1875-1900.The Shugar and Vaisey practice was mainly property and probate law. The bulk of the material in this collection consists of conveyances, enfranchisements, indentures, title abstracts,...

Dates: 1832 - 1914

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

John Brazee cash book

Collection

Identifier: MSS-00-5

Scope and Contents

The cash book of John Brazee, an Ohio lawyer, contains simple one line entries of fees (on versos) and expenses (on rectos) with occasional pages given over to detailed summaries of property inventory and debt estimates.

Dates: 1841 - 1844

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

John Douglas Simms law license

Collection

Identifier: MSS-97-7

Scope and Contents

This collection contains the license to practice law issued to John Douglas Simms on 10 October 1808. It was signed by Archibald Stuart, Robert White Jr., and [? Holmes], judges of the General Court of Virginia.

Dates: 1808-10-10

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

John M. Woolsey collection of legal documents

Collection

Identifier: MSS-78-6

Scope and Contents The John M. Woolsey collection is comprised of fifteen historically significant legal documents from 1790 to 1844.The papers contain the records of two cases signed by Samuel Chase, justice of the United States Supreme Court and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. This information was recorded when Justice Chase presided over the Supreme Court of Maryland. Six papers are entirely in James Monroe’s handwriting and form an agreement of arbitration between James Monroe...

Dates: 1790 - 1844

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

John W. Stephenson ledger

Collection

Identifier: MSS-85-8

Scope and Contents

This lawyer's ledger is divided into what appear to be client accounts, and some subdivisions titled: “Commissioner in Chancery,” Cash Account (General), Cash Account (Individual).

Dates: 1874 - 1886

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Lewis Preston Collins papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-85-6

Dates: 1924 - 1952

Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

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Attorney's ledger

Attorney's ledger

Papers of Edward Price Buford

Charles and Thomas Frankland record books

Commission of Assize for the Circuit of Northern Ireland papers

Donald K. Duvall papers

Duke family law firm papers

Earle K. Shawe papers

Ellen V. Nash papers

Ernest L. Folk III papers

Frank T. Glasgow letter to Frank Gilmer

Gregory H. Swanson papers

Homan W. Walsh diaries

Christian S. Hutter miscellany

J. M. Shugar and A. W. Vaisey papers

John Brazee cash book

John Douglas Simms law license

John M. Woolsey collection of legal documents

John W. Stephenson ledger

Lewis Preston Collins papers

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