Harlan Fiske Stone papers, 1911-1924

Creator:: Stone, Harlan Fiske, 1872-1946
Extent:: 33500 items 67 boxes 2 flat boxes
Language:: English .
Scope and content:: Office files of Stone. Most of the correspondence is with students, faculty members, and lawyers throughout the country and deals with recommendations for positions, lectureships and appointments, alumni affairs, student affairs, the COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW, the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Association of American Law Schools. Also, reports of school activities and notes and typescripts of Stone's lectures, as well as photographs.
Biographical / historical:: Dean of the Columbia University School of Law, 1910-1923, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1925-1946.

Acquisition information:: Source of acquisition--Law School. Method of acquisition--Transfer; Date of acquisition--1964. Accession number--M-64.
Processing information:: Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 09/--/89.
Accruals:: Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Rules or conventions:: appm
Related material:: Harlan Stone's papers from the period of his service as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1925-1946, are in the Library of Congress.

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