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    <title>Morrison R. Waite papers, 1818-1933 (bulk 1874-1888)</title>
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    <namePart>Waite, Morrison R. (Morrison Remick)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1816-1888</namePart>
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    <extent>51</extent>
    <extent>20.4</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, letterbooks, speeches, remarks, Supreme Court docket books, manuscripts and proofs of Circuit Court and Supreme Court opinions, Supreme Court assignments, obituary file, family papers, financial and legal records, printed matter, clippings, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Waite's service as U.S. Supreme Court chief justice.  Correspondents include Benjamin Harris Brewster, Zachariah Chandler, Nathan Clifford, Roscoe Conkling, J.C. Bancroft Davis, Charles Devens, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, William Greene, Hamilton Fish, John Marshall Harlan, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Robert Todd Lincoln, Stanley Matthews, John G. Nicolay, Alexander Ramsey, and William T. Sherman.</abstract>
  <note>Restrictions apply.</note>
  <note>Chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, jurist, and lawyer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Brewster, Benjamin Harris</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1888</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chandler, Zachariah</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1813-1879</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Clifford, Nathan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1803-1881</namePart>
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      <namePart>Conkling, Roscoe</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1888</namePart>
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      <namePart>Davis, J. C. Bancroft (John Chandler Bancroft)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1907</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Devens, Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1891</namePart>
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      <namePart>Frelinghuysen, Frederick T. (Frederick Theodore)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1817-1885</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Greene, William</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fish, Hamilton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1893</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harlan, John Marshall</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1911</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hayes, Rutherford Birchard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1893</namePart>
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      <namePart>Lincoln, Robert Todd</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1843-1926</namePart>
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      <namePart>Matthews, Stanley</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1889</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nicolay, John G. (John George)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1832-1901</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Ramsey, Alexander</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1903</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1891</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Waite family</namePart>
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    <topic>Circuit courts</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Constitutional law</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Judicial opinions</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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