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    <title>Benjamin Robbins Curtis papers, 1831-1879</title>
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    <namePart>Curtis, Benjamin Robbins</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1809-1874</namePart>
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  <abstract>Three volumes containing correspondence and several legal papers dealing primarily with legal and judicial matters during his service as U.S. Supreme Court justice and his practice of law in Massachusetts.  Subjects include the Dred Scott case and political affairs.  Correspondents include Roger S. Baldwin, Charles Henry Bell, John Archibald Campbell, George Ticknor Curtis, William W. Greenough, Samuel Nelson, Roger Brooke Taney, George Ticknor, and Daniel Webster.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Lawyer and jurist.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Baldwin, Roger S. (Roger Sherman)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1793-1863</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bell, Charles Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1893</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Campbell, John Archibald</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1889</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Curtis, George Ticknor</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1812-1894</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Greenough, William W. (William Whitwell)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1899</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nelson, Samuel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1792-1873</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Scott, Dred</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1858</namePart>
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    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Taney, Roger Brooke</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1777-1864</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ticknor, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1791-1871</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Webster, Daniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1852</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Supreme Court.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Practice of law</topic>
    <geographic>Massachusetts</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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    <occupation>Jurists</occupation>
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    <occupation>Lawyers</occupation>
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