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Series II: Papers

Benjamin N. Cardozo papers, 1885-1940

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Series I: Correspondence

Subseries I.1: Cataloged Correspondence


Box 1 Bliss, Mildred Barnes (Mrs. Robert W.)

Box 1 Broun, Heyward

Box 1 Burlingham, Charles Culp

Box 1 Butler, Nicholas Murray

Box 1 Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan, 1907-1932, undated


Box 1A Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan, 1933-1935


Box 1B Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan, 1936-1937

Box 1B Cardozo, Michael Hart

Box 1B Chanler, Margaret Terry (Mrs. Winthrop) Cohn, Alfred Einstein

Box 1B Crater, Joseph Force

Box 1B Edman, Irwin

Box 1B Feis, Herbert

Box 1B Frankfurter, Felix

Box 1B Gilder, Rodman

Box 1B Gildersleeve, Virginia C.

Box 1B Hand, Learned

Box 1B Hellman, George Sidney

Box 1B Hughes, Charles Evans

Box 1B Hurst, Fannie

Box 1B Kallen, Horace Meyer

Box 1B Laski, Harold Joseph

Box 1B Lehman, Herbert Henry

Box 1B Lehman, Sissie Straus (Mrs. Irving)

Box 1B Meyer, Annie Nathan

Box 1B Meyer, Eugene

Box 1B Nathan, Maud Nathan

Box 1B Ochs, Adolph Simon

Box 1B Odell, George Clinton Densmore

Box 1B Parsons, Geoffrey

Box 1B Phelps, William Lyon

Box 1B Pound, Roscoe

Box 1B Powell, Thomas Reed

Box 1B Rauh, Joseph, Jr.

Box 1B Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Box 1B Rosenthal, Lessing

Box 1B Seabury, Samuel

Box 1B Seligman, Eustace

Box 1B Smith, Alfred Emanuel

Box 1B Solis-Cohen, Solomon

Box 1B Stokes, Anson Phelps

Box 1B Stone, Harlan Fiske

Box 1B Straus, Helen Sachs (Mrs. Nathan)

Box 1B Sulzberger, Arthur Hays

Box 1B Thomas, Norman Mattoon

Box 1B Villard, Oswald Garrison

Box 1B Wagner, Robert Ferdinand

Box 1B Whitman, Charles Seymour

Box 1B Wickser, Philip John

Box 1B Wise, Stephen Samuel

Box 1B Young, Owen D.

Subseries I.2: Arranged Correspondence


Box 14 Arranged Correspondence, 1918-1938

Series II: Papers


Box 2 Articles About Cardozo


Box 3 Columbia Lecture Notes--Notebooks, 1 folders

One folder containing four notebooks. These notebooks were not filmed and are not available on microfilm.

Box 3 Columbia Lecture Notes

Originals are fragile and reader must use microfilm: detailed list follows.


Box 3A Columbia Lecture Notes

Originals are fragile and reader must use microfilm: detailed list follows.


Box 4 Columbia Lecture Notes

Originals are fragile and reader must use microfilm: detailed list follows.


Microfilm Cardozo Columbia Lecture Notes on Microfilm, 1 Reels

All Columbia Lecture Notes from Boxes 3, 3A, and 4 (7 volumes and 1 folder of unbound notes) are available on a single reel of microfilm. These contain Columbia Lecture Notes taken by Cardozo while a student at Columbia College 1889-1890.

Volume 1

A lecture on modern national codes

Lectures on administrative law

Volume 2

Lectures on the history of philosophy by Prof. Archibald Alexander

Volume 3

Lectures on political economy, historical, radical, and statistical by Prof. Richmond M. Smith

Volume 4

Lectures on political economy, historical, practical, and statistical by Prof. Richmond M. Smith (continued)

A lecture on social science by Prof. Richmond M. Smith (Comte, Spencer, Schaiffle)

Lectures on political science and comparative constitutional law by Prof. John W. Burgess

Volume 5

Lectures on the history of philosophy by Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler

Lectures on ethics by Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler

Psychological lectures by Prof. Archibald Alexander

Volume 6

Psychological lectures (continued) by Prof. Archibald Alexander

Psychological lectures by Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler

Lectures on history of English ethics by Prof. Archibald Alexander

Lectures on political economy, historical, practical, and statistical by Prof. Richmond M. Smith

Volume 7

Lectures on political science and comparative constitutional law by Prof. John W. Burgess (continued)

Lectures on the comparative constitutional law of the Commonwealth by Dr. A. le Bernheim

Lectures on the history of European jurisprudence by Prof. Monroe Smith

Folder of Unbound Notes

A paper: "The moral element in Matthew Arnold"

Some notes on George Eliot

Newspaper clippings on Justice Cardozo's will

Cardozo, Hon. Benjamin N., LL.D. "An address delivered inChancellors Hall, State Education Building, Albany, NewYork". (Albany?): Union University, Dept. of Law, Albany Law School,, 1925 June 10

Copy of an address.


Box 4 Columbia Miscellaneous


Box 5 Commonplace Books, 1924 October 27 - 1928 November

Commonplace Book: 1924 October 27-1928 November 11, circa 86 p., contains magazine and newspaper clippings - is also available on micrfilm. See MN# Cardozo.

Box 5 Editorials, 1938

Gift of George S. Hellman '99


Box 6 Editorials, 1938

Gift of George S. Hellman '99

Material Related to George Hellman's Biography of Cardozo

Gift of George S. Hellman

Box 6 Material Related to Biography

Box 6 George S. Hellman Correspondence


Box 7 Final manuscript of Hellman's biography of Cardozo

Box 7 Hellman Notebooks


Box 8 Drafts and Proofs of Hellman's biography of Cardozo

Box 8 Hellman's Notes


Box 9 Hellman's Notes


Box 10 Writings of Cardozo--"The Earl of Beaconfield: A Jew as Prime Minister"

Original item is missing as of 2023 August 3.

Also available on microfilm. See MN# 93-2003-1.

Box 10 Benjamin N. Cardozo Columbia University A.B. thesis, "Communism", 1889

Box 10 "The Judicial Power in de Tocqueville" by Benjamin N. Cardozo, Justice of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, circa 1925

Box 10 Published writings of Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1923-1930

Box 10 Benjamin N. Cardozo Columbia College Commencement speech and list of addresses, memorials, and [judicial] opinions by Cardozo, 1915, circa 1932

Box 10 Diplomas and awards (photostats), 1887-1936

Box 10 George Washington Bicentennial pins, 1932

Box 10 Copies of letters to Annie Nathan Meyer, 1924-1937

Box 10 Newspaper clippings, circa 1927-1932

Box 10 Names of Cardozo's law firm, 1878-1913

Box 10 Photocopied letters from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Benjamin N. Cardozo, clipping of magazine profile of Cardozo, and business card of Frederic S. Nathan, 1931-1932, 1938, undated


Box 10A Photographs of family and friends, 3 folders


Box 11 Newspaper clippings

Box 11 Miscellaneous

Gift of George S. Hellman

Photocopies of Letters and Manuscripts in the Benjamin Cardozo Papers, Cardozo School of Law, New York


Box 12 Letters, Vol. 1, 1916-1924

Box 12 Letters, Vol. 2, 1925-1937

Box 12 Manuscripts, Addresses, and Essays, Vol. 1


Box 13 Manuscripts, Addresses, and Essays, Vol. 2-3

Box 13 Notes on Petitions for Writs of Certiorari, U.S. Supreme Court, October Term, 1932, 1 Volumes

Box 13 Notebook: Constitutional History of England, Vol. 3, Second Term, 1889

Law School notes, Spring Semester, 1889


Box 15 Files of the Estate of B.N. Cardozo, 1938-1940


Box 16 Miscellaneous financial records

Box 16 Obituaries & Memorials

Box 16 Photographs


Mapcase 14-P-3 Supreme Court Photograph, autographed

Accompanied by note "PRD to make a copy and return to donor, Frererick Nathan"


Box 16 Printed materials

Schulson Gift


Box 17 Correspondence--Condolence, 1938

Box 17 Correspondence--Miscellaneous

Box 17 Memorials, obituaries, and funeral materials

Box 17 Nathan, Edgar J., Jr.--Documents


Mapcase 14-P-3 Nathan, Edgar J., Jr.--Documents

Mapcase 14-P-3 Printed Material, 1925-1988, undated

Includes Artwork--Rose, W.E. "Justice Cardozo"