TY - GEN AU - Miller,Samuel Freeman AU - Ballinger,William Pitt TI - Samuel Freeman Miller correspondence and diaries, KW - Ballinger, William Pitt, KW - Harlan, John Marshall, KW - Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, KW - Lincoln, Abraham, KW - Tilden, Samuel J. KW - United States KW - Electoral Commission (1877) KW - Supreme Court KW - Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) KW - Constitutional law KW - Courts KW - Officials and employees KW - Justice, Administration of KW - Law KW - Practice of law KW - Texas KW - Galveston KW - Presidents KW - Election KW - 1860 KW - 1876 KW - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) KW - History KW - 1865-1898 KW - Politics and government KW - 19th century KW - Jurists KW - itoamc KW - Lawyers N1 - Open to research; Microfilm edition of typewritten typescripts of the diaries of William Pitt Ballinger held by the University of Texas Library (Austin, Tex.); University of Texas Library; Austin; TX N2 - Letters from Miller to his brother-in-law, William Pitt Ballinger, an attorney of Galveston, Texas, concerning the status of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, nomination of John Marshall Harlan to the Court, judicial appointments, Republican Party politics, Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860, Reconstruction and relations between North and South, and Miller's membership in the Electoral Commission appointed to decide the disputed 1876 presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden. Also includes microfilm edition of Ballinger's diaries (1871-1876) UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008114 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008114.3 ER -