The Papers of Edmund M. Morgan, Jr. (1878-1966)
File Listing: Boxes 1-15

Box 1:

Series I -- Biographical and Personal

• Biographical sketches and resumes, 1942, 1946, 1949, 1951-52, 1956, 1961, 1963
• Financial, 1908, c. 1950s
• Legal documents, 1911, 1938, 1952, 1954, 1960, 1963
• Memorabilia
  • Bar associations, nd, 1953-54, 1957-59
  • Cartoons, 1936, 1955, nd
  • Certificates, nd, 1948-49, 1956
  • Clippings, 1957, 1959
  • Harvard Law School, nd, 1954-56
  • Harvard University, nd, 1906, 1927, 1936, 1938, 1949-50, 1953, 1956-57
  • Harvard University -- Tercentenary, 1936
  • Miscellany, nd, 1924, 1926, 1933, 1954
• Photographs, nd

Box 2:

Series II -- Correspondence

• A-Am
• An-Ay
• Ba-Bre
• Ca-Ch
• Ci-Cu
• Casebook correspondence, 4th ed., 1955-56
• Casebook correspondence, 1957-63
• Clark, Charles E., 1949-59
• Columbia University lectures, 1954-56
• Conant, J.B., 1935-36
• D
• E
• F
• Frankfurter, Felix, nd, 1933-63
• Ga-Gi
• Gl-Gu
• Goodrich, Herbert F., 1953-54, 1961-62
• Griswold, Erwin, 1931-62
• Ha
• He-Hu
• Harvard, 1945-64
• Harvard Law School, 1948-52
• Harvard-Yale, re: employment, 1918-50
• Hiss, Alger, Case, 1951-63

Box 3:

Series II -- Correspondence (cont'd)

• I
• J
• K
• La
• LeMann - Levi
• Levin, A. Leo - Lewis, William Draper
• Li-Lu
• Maggs - Maguire
• Maguire - Mayers
• Mc
• Me-Mo
• Mu
• Magazines
• Morgan - Personal, nd, 1950-63 (2f)
• N
• O
• Osborn, Albert S. and Albert D. (son), 1935-40, 1950
• Pa-Pi
• Po-Pu
• Pound, Roscoe, 1928-63
• President's Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights, 1951
• Puerto Rico, 1953-61
• Q
• Ra-Ri
• Ro-Ru
• Recommendations, A-Z (3f)

Box 4:

Series III -- Correspondence (cont'd)

• Retirement congratulations, 1949-50
• Rules, Procedure & Evidence (Advisory committees, etc.), 1958-61
• Sa-Sk
• Sl-Sp
• St-Sw
• Sacco-Vanzetti, 1947-63
• Students, 1960-61
• T
• Texas, Univ. of, nd, 1944-45
• Thurston, Prof. & Mrs. Edward S., 1928-48
• U
• V
• Vanderbilt, Arthur, 1945-57
• Vanderbilt University, nd, 1953-61
• Vanderbilt University -- James Lawson Case and Student Disciplinary Procedure, 1960
• Wa-Wh
• Wi
• Wo-Wy
• Weinstein, Jack B., 1953-62
• Y-Z
• Sender not identified, nd, 1936, 1954-55, 1963
  

Box 5:

Series II -- Correspondence (cont'd)

• Foundation Press -- Authors/Editors
• A
• B
• Ca-Ch
• Co-Cu
• [re] Chafee, et. al.
• D
• E
• F
• Ga-Go
• Gr-Gu
• Hackley - Haskins
• Hanna & MacLachlan
• Hawkland - Honnold
• I-J-K
• L
• Leach
• Ma-Mc
• Me-Mu
• N-O
• P
• R
• Sa-Sc
• Se-So
• St-Su

Box 6:

Series II -- Correspondence (cont'd)

• Foundation Press -- Authors/Editors (cont'd)
  • T
  • V
  • W
• Foundation Press -- General
  • A
  • B
  • Benton, Donald S., June 1957-1960 (2f)
  • C
  • D
  • Darr, Loren, nd, 1933-37, 1939-41, 1948-64 (20f)
  • F
  • G-J
  • K
    

Box 7:

Series II -- Correspondence (cont'd)

• Foundation Press -- General (cont'd)
  • L
  • Levins, Richard T., 1949-56 (3f)
  • M
  • Magill, Roswell, 1933-48
  • Maguire, John M., 1933-51
  • P
  • R
  • Read, M.E., 1933-37 (2f)
  • S
  • T
  • Vogel, F.M., 1937-39
  • W-Y
• Foundation Press -- Miscellany, c. 1942-61 (3f)

Box 8:

Series III -- Writings

• Unidentified notes and fragments, nd
• Untitled, nd
• Untitled:
  • 28 May 1938 - Buffalo, NY
  • 6 May 1939 - Benchers
  • 12 May 1939 - American Law Institute, Washington, D.C.
  • 20 Oct 1939 - Ohio Bar Association
  • 9 Apr 1940 - Boston College Law School Tenth Anniversary
  • ?? Dec 1941 - Lincoln, Nebraska
  • ?? May 1945 - Harvard Club of Houston, TX
  • 20 May 1946 - New Bedford Bar Association
  • 13 Dec 1946 - Mississippi
  • ?? Mar 1949 - Harvard Law School Alumni, Pittsburgh
  • 21 Apr 1949 - Brandeis Society, Philadelphia
  • 10 Oct 1952 - Outline of lectures, Institute for Practicing
  • Lawyers on Current Legal Problems, Vanderbilt
  • Law School, Nashville, TN
  • 24 May 1956 - Annual meeting of the National Conference of
  • Judicial Councils, Washington, D.C.
  • ?? Mar 1958 - South Carolina Institute
  • 1 May 1959 - University of Missouri Law School Law Day
  • 26 Feb 1960 - Tennessee Bar Association, Jackson, TN
  • 18 Sep 1962 - Civitans, Nashville, TN
• Books
  • Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti -- Notes, clippings, miscellany, 1927, 1936, 1947, 1959, nd
  • Evidence: Cases and Materials
• Folder A-C
  • "Admissions," nd (4 separate speeches)
  • "American Law Institute's Code of Evidence," Hershey, PA, 26 Sep 1942
  • "Appeal and Error," nd
  • "Assumed Risks," nd
  • "Code of Evidence," Federal Judicial Conference of the 4th Circuit, Asheville, NC, 21 June 1941 (2 drafts)
  • "Codification of Evidence," Centenary, New York University Law School, 29 Sept 1948
  • "Comments on the Code of Evidence," American Judicature Society, 3 Nov 1943
  • Columbia lectures, 1955
• Folder E-H
  • "Evidence," nd
  • "Exceptions to the Hearsay Rule -- On What Theory?," nd
  • "Fresh Complaint in Rape as Hearsay," nd
  • "Fundamental Assumptions," Vermont Bar Association, 3 Oct 1945
  • "Future Interests Restatement -- Open Letter to the Reporter," Ann Arbor, Michigan, 3 Oct 1933
  • "Future of the Law of Evidence," Texas Law Review, 25 Jan 1951
  • "A Gentleman Departs," [obit of Joseph Warren of Harvard Law School], Harvard Law Review, October 1942
  • "The Hearsay Rule," Columbus, 1941
  • "The Hearsay Rule," Toledo, nd
  • "Hearsay -- What is It?," nd
  • "An Honest Confession May be Good for the Soul, But Not for the FBI," nd
• Folder I-O
  • "Impartial Medical Testimony -- A Report by a Special Committee of the Bar of the City of New York," 1956
  • "International Codification of Evidence," nd
  • "The Judge as a Social Philosopher," nd
  • "Jurisdiction and Venue," nd
  • "The Law and the Average Man," nd
  • "The Lawyer and the Community," nd
  • "Lectures Introductory to the Study of Law," University of Minnesota, nd
  • "The Medical Witness," nd
  • "The Medical Witness," Vanderbilt, April 1959
  • "Outline and Suggestions for Teachers, Cases on Evidence," 1937
• Folder P
  • "Pleading," nd
  • "Preliminary Consideration," Arkansas Bar Association, Hot Springs, 12 May 1944
  • "The President and the Supreme Court," Arlington [Va.?], 30 April 1937
  • "Professional Ethics," [outline], 18 Oct 1946 (2 drafts)
  • "Proposed Reforms in the Law of Evidence," nd (2 drafts)
• Folder R
  • "Recent Legal Developments," Vanderbilt University, 19 Oct 1956
  • "Reform in Procedure and Evidence," nd (2 copies)
  • "Relation Between Pleading Discovery and Pre-Trial Procedure," nd
  • Review -- Some Problems of Equity by Zechariah Chafee, University of Michigan Law Society, 1950
  • "Rule of Reason in Evidence," nd
  • "Rule of Reason in Hearsay," nd
  • "Rules of Evidence -- Substantive or Procedural?," nd
• Folder S-T
  • "A Selection of Cases on Evidence at the Common Law," 1933
  • "Some Needed Reforms in the Law," nd
  • "Some Observations Upon the Rules of Evidence," nd
  • "Some Remarks Upon Legal Ethics," New Haven Bar Association, January 1934
  • "State Law in Federal Courts," Vanderbilt Law Institute, 1 November 1957 (2 copies) [intro to] The Strange Case of Alger Hiss by The Earl Jowitt, nd
  • "Suggested Remedy for Obstructions to Expert Testimony by Rules of Evidence," 1943
  • "That Glorious Mystery -- The Law of Evidence," Louisiana State Bar Institute, May 1957 (2 copies)
• Folder U-W
  • "The Uniform Rules and the Model Code," nd (2 copies)
  • "The Uniform Rules of Evidence," Federation of Insurance Counsel, August 1959
  • "Uniform Rules of Evidence," -- Notes, nd
  • "Uniform Rules of Evidence," -- Mississippi Junior Bar Institute, December 1957
  • "Use of Evidence to Establish Facts in Law," nd
  • "We are Met on Form 1040," nd [taxpayer's parody of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address]
  • "What is Hearsay?," nd
  • "What is Hearsay? -- Hearsay and Non-Hearsay," nd
    

Box 9:

Series IV -- Professional Activities and Service

• American Bar Association, 1943-50, 1954, 1965
• American Law Institute
  • General, 1941-52
  • Basic Problems of Evidence, 1957-63
  • Model Code Institutes, alphabetical by cities or state bar associations, 1941-42 (5f)
• Association of American Law Schools, 1947-50, 1959-60 (2f)
• Consulting, 1947-49
• International Congress of Comparative Law, Paris (1954), 1953
• Military Justice, Uniform Code
  • Correspondence, nd, 1948-50, 1952-54 (4f)
  • Draft manual, nd
  • Miscellany, nd, 1948, 1952
  • Notes, nd
  • Press releases, 1950, 1953
  • Senate and House Bills, 1949
  • Statements, nd, 1949
  • Text, nd
  • Text -- Proposed revisions, nd
• Rules for Civil Procedure, Federal Supreme Court Advisory Committee
  • Clark, Charles E., 1937-46
  • Mitchell, William D., 1937-50
  • 1935-50 (3f)

Box 10:

Series IV -- Professional Activities and Service (cont'd)

• Rules for Civil Procedure, Federal Supreme Court Advisory Committee (cont'd)
  • 1935-50 (2f)
  • 1951 - June 1953
  • July - December 1953
  • January - April 1954
  • May - October 1954
  • November 1-15, 1954
  • November 16-25, 1954
  • November 26-29, 1954
  • November 30 - December 31, 1954
  • January 3 - March 1, 1955
  • March 5 - April 8, 1955
  • April 15, 1955
  • April 16 - May 20, 1955
  • June 1, 1955 - 1956
    

Box 11:

Series IV -- Professional Activities and Service (cont'd)

• Rules for Civil Procedure, Federal Supreme Court Advisory Committee (cont'd)
  • No dates (2f)
• Rules for Civil Procedure, Puerto Rico
  • Draft, nd (2f)
  • Final text, October 1954
  • Notes and misc., nd (2f)
  • Rules of Evidence, Puerto Rico, 1958
• Subcommittee on Practice and Procedure, 1956
• Uniform Rules of Evidence (Committee of the American Law Institute), 1952-53 (2f)
• Uniform Rules of Evidence -- Israel, nd, 1953 (2f)

Box 12:

Series V -- Course Materials

• Civil Procedure, c. 1950-62 (4f)
• Evidence, c. 1951-62 (9f)
• Evidence -- Notes, nd (3f)

Box 13:

Series V -- Course Materials (cont'd)

• Evidence -- Notes for proposed primer, nd
• Harvard Law Exams, 1931-48 (3f)
• Jurisprudence -- Classroom lectures, 1926-27 (2f)
• Legal History [text from medieval England?]
  • Action Upon the Case
  • Assise of Last Presentation
  • Assise of Morte D'Ancestor
  • Assise of Novel Disseisin
  • Assise Utrum
  • Debt
  • Detinue
  • The Tremor
  • Trespass
  • Writ of Covenant
  • Writ of Entry
  • Writ of Right
  • Wrongs
• Legal History -- unidentified, nd (5f)

Box 14:

Series V -- Course Materials (cont'd)

• Misc., c. 1940-60
• Mulvaney v. Lever, nd (3f)
• Systematic Social Science, nd
• Techniques in Legal Argument, 1934 (2f)
• Trial and Appellate Practice, nd (3f)
• Unidentified, nd (2f)
• Vanderbilt Curriculum Committee, 1958-62
  

Series VI -- Cases

• Brookside Theatre Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox, nd (2f)
• Margo Brown v. Pelican State Theatre Corp., nd
• George M. Bryne v. U.S.A., 1952
• Farnsworth (Guam -- Air Force Special Consultant ), 1947-51
• Raymond J. Lamping v. U.S.A., 1942 (2f)
• Lever Brothers, 1943-46, dn (2f)

Box 15:

Series VI -- Cases (cont'd)

• Lever Brothers, 1943-46, nd (1f)
• Alyce Morgan v. The Bulletin Co., 1949
• Florence M. Nuttall v. The REading Co., nd
• United States v. Alger Hiss, 1952
• United States v. Proctor and Gamble, 1942
• United States v. Salvatore Annunziato, 1961

Series VII -- Collected Writings

Articles/Essays (Folder 1 of 2)

• Angell, Walter F. "A Providence Lawyer at the Caillaux Trial," 1914
• Bergdoll case, review of testimony, nd
• Blaustein, Albert P. "NYCLA -- Giant of Bar Associations," nd
• Braverman, Shelley. "Procedure and the Expert Witness," Journal of Forensic Sciences Vol. 7, No. 3, July 1962
• "The Case Method," nd
• Cheatham, Elliott E. "The Inculcation of Professional Standards and the Functions of the Lawyer," Tennessee Law Review June 1951
• Clark, Charles E. "'Clarifying' Amendments to the Federal Rules?" ------------. Foreward to Pittoni's Brief Writing, 1954.
• "Dictum or Decision," c. 1938
• Dienner, John A. "Patent Law Associations," Journal of the Patent Office Society, November 1950
• Goodrich, Herbert F. "The Story of the American Law Institute," Washington University Law Quarterly, June 1951
• Hammelman, H.A. "Hearsay Evidence, A Comparison," The Law Quarterly Review, January 1951
• "How to Teach Law," 1951
• Johnstone, Quentin. "Law School and Legal Aid Clinics," Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 3, 1951

Articles/Essays (Folder 2 of 2)

• Leach, W. Barton, ed. "Langdell Lyrics of 1938," 1938.
• "Libelous Lyrics Written on Several Laughable Occasions," 1938.
• McNaughton, John T. "The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination: Its Constitutional Affectation, Raison d'Etre and Miscellaneous Implications," Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science, Vol. 51, No. 2, July-August 1960.
• Michael, Jerome. "The Basic Rules of Pleading," The Record (Bar Association of New York City), Vol. 5, No. 4, April 1950.
• Morland, John W. "Legal Education in Georgia," Mercer Law Review Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 1951.
• Osborn, Albert S. "Science and the Law and Difficulties in Proving Forgery," Virginia Law Review Vol. XVI, No. 5, March 1930.
• Powell, ?. "Constitutional Metaphors," nd.
• Seasongood, Murray. "Public Service Lawyers in Local Government," Syracuse Law Review, Spring 1951.
• Sims, Cecil. "Taking the Fifth Amendment -- A Case in Civil Rights," nd.
• Smith, Reginald Heber. "Loan Plan for Law Students," Quarterly Report (Conference on Personal Finance Law), Vol. 5, No. 3, Summer 1951.
• "Uniform Commercial Code," June 1951.

Publications

• Legislative Bulletin (Tennessee Bar Association), Jan-March, 1961 (7 issues)
• The Mississippi Lawyer December 6-7, 1957
• The Shingle (published by the Philadelphia Bar Association), Vol. XVII, No. 7, October 1954.
• West Virginia State Bar News, Vol. 1, No. 56, July-August 1959.

Speeches and Addresses

• Caskey, John Fletcher. Remarks before the Evidence Section of the Association of American Law School Teachers, 29 Dec 1953.
• Chadbourn, James H. "Uniform Rules of Evidence," Hollywood (CA) Bar Association, 19 March 1954
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. Remarks at Gettysburg, PA, 19 November ?
• Frankfurter, Felix. "Distribution of Judicial Power Between the Courts of the United States and the Courts of the States," New Jersey Bar Association, 2 June 1928
• ------------------. Remarks at the dinner of the American Law Institute on the occasion of Judge Learned Hand's retirement, Washington, D.C., 18 May 1951
• Freund, Paul A. "The Supreme Court Crisis," Brandeis University, 12 November 1958.
• Hanify, Edward B. Address. (date and occasion unknown)
• Howland, Prof. Address at Yale University on Armistice Day, 11 November 1932.
• Landis, Dean?. "Pre-Legal Education," nd.
• Sims, Cecil. "The Lawyer and the Classics," address before the annual meeting of the Arkansas Bar Association, Hot Springs, 13 May 1954.
• Steele, Thomas M. "Why All the Fuss?" (excerpt), c. 1930.
• Weinstein, Jack. "Some Thoughts on Legislation, Alcohol, and Drivers in the United States," address delivered at the Second International Conference on Alcohol and Road Traffic, Toronto, 12 September 1953.
• Wyzanski, Charles E., Jr. "Constitutionalism -- Limitations and Affirmation," remarks at Marshall Conference, 24 September 1955.
  

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