History of the Federal Judiciary


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Research Collections

Mason, John Young

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia (1841-1844)

Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.

Papers, 1830-1971.
27 items; correspondence and other material relating to Mason?s work as a U.S. attorney
and Secretary of the Navy; collection is a part of the Miscellaneous Manuscripts
collection.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Southern Historical Collection
Chapel Hill, N.C.

Papers, 1843-1898.
1,500 items; finding aid; collection contains family and professional correspondence, and
miscellaneous papers.

Virginia Historical Society
Richmond, Va.

Family papers, 1789-1965.
9,967 items; finding aid; collection contains Mason?s correspondence (1817-1859),
accounts (1819-1859), notes, and legal and official documents.

Letter books, 1853-1859.
17 vols.; finding aid; miscellaneous correspondence.

American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia, Pa.

Richard Dale miscellaneous letters and papers, 1780-1845; 1 microfilm reel; finding aid;
letters; originals are a part of the Edward C. Dale Estate.

University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, Cal.

Thomas Oliver Larkin papers, 1831-1859; 1 microfilm reel; correspondence; originals
held by the Huntington Library, University of California at Los Angeles, and the National
Archives.

University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Cal.

Archibald Hamilton Gillespie papers, 1845-1860; ca. 1,000 items; represented.

Duke University
Durham, N.C.

William Hines correspondence, 1781-1836; 7 items; correspondence.

Papers of the Munford and Ellis families, 1777-1942; 12,497 items and 21 vols.;
correspondence.

James Henry Rochelle papers, 1781-1907; 965 items; finding aid; correspondence
concerning Virginia politics and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
Virginia.

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Md.

Edward M. Greenway collection, 1737-1876; 1.25 linear ft.; finding aid; represented.

Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.

Charles Boarman letter book, 1838-1858; 1 vol.; correspondence; collection is a part of
the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.

John Gwinn papers, 1815-1864; 2 ft. (900 items); finding aid; correspondence.

William Learned Marcy papers, 1786-1896; 20 linear ft. (15,000 items); finding aid;
correspondence.

Louis McLane papers, 1795-1894; 600 items; finding aid; correspondence.

William Medill papers, 1834-1864; 3,300 items; correspondence.

Sommerville Nicholson papers, 1839-1881; 70 items; correspondence; collection is a part
of the Naval Historical Foundation collection.

James Knox Polk papers, 1775-1891; 39 linear ft. (20,500 items); finding aid;
correspondence.

Horace Bucklin Sawyer papers, 1812-1950; 1 ft. (900 items); finding aid;
correspondence; collection is a part of the Naval Historical Foundation collection.

Stevens family papers, 1810-1952; 35 items; correspondence.

Mississippi State Department of Archives and History
Jackson, Miss.

William F. Shields papers, 1821-1870; 280 items and 8 vols.; correspondence.

Syracuse University
Department of Special Collections
Syracuse, N.Y.

John Adams Dix collection, 1831-1879; 0.75 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

U.S. Military Academy
West Point, N.Y.

Richard Delafield papers, 1838-1864; 1 box; correspondence.

Virginia Historical Society
Richmond, Va.

Simon Fraser Blunt papers, 1833-1921; 40 items; finding aid; correspondence.

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Va.

Key, Cutts, and Turner family papers, 1790-1859; ca. 200 items on 1 microfilm reel;
finding aid; correspondence.

Socrates Maupin papers, 1831-1870; ca. 400 items; correspondence.

Correspondence of Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1837-1888; 100 items; finding aid;
correspondence.

Washington State Historical Society
Tacoma, Wash.

William Burr papers, 1834-1903; 258 items; correspondence.

Yale University
Sterling Memorial Library
New Haven, Conn.

Benajah Ticknor papers, 1818-1852; 1.5 linear ft.; finding aid; represented.

 

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