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    <title>Henry White Edgerton papers, 1910-1970 (bulk 1929-1966)</title>
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    <namePart>Edgerton, Henry White</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1888-1970</namePart>
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    <extent>2,000</extent>
    <extent>8</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, memoranda, writings, reports, notes, case files, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating primarily to White's career as a law professor at Cornell University and judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals (District of Columbia Circuit).  Also documents his activities in the Association of American Law Schools.  Subjects include civil liberties, criminology, law school curriculum, the U.S. National Recovery Administration, and the roles of the three branches of government.  Correspondents include Herschel Whitfield Arant, Felix Frankfurter, Archibald Graustein, Rufus C. Harris, Justin Miller, Roscoe Pound, J.J. Robinson, and John Barker Waite.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Jurist, lawyer, and educator.</note>
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  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Arant, Herschel Whitfield</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1887-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Frankfurter, Felix</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1965</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Graustein, Archibald</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harris, Rufus C. (Rufus Carrollton)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1897-1988</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Miller, Justin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1973</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pound, Roscoe</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1870-1964</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Robinson, J. J</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Waite, John Barker</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Court of Appeals (District of Columbia Circuit)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>National Recovery Administration.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Association of American Law Schools.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Cornell University.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Civil rights</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Courts</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Criminology</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Law</topic>
    <topic>Study and teaching</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Law</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Separation of powers</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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    <occupation>Jurists</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Lawyers</occupation>
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