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Correspondence, M.B. Watts and Wirt Johnson Turner Carrington, 1923-1926 Box-folder 8-1 to 8-3

Maury B. Watts, Clerk of the Supreme Court of Virginia from 1933 to 1954, was associated with Appeals Press, in Richmond, which published Carrington's book, A History of Halifax County, in 1924. The correspondence pertains to marketing and sales of the book.

  1. Virginia State Law Library, Supreme Court of Virginia
  2. Clerk's Correspondence and other Records, 1918-2006
  3. Clerk's general correspondence, 1929-1981

Correspondence re: closing of the State Law Library at Wytheville, 1946-1947 Box-folder 7-9

Includes lists of books loaned to the Wythe County Circuit Court and transferred to the State Law Library in Richmond; and a copy of the contract, 1902, for rent of the Courthouse at Wytheville.

  1. Virginia State Law Library, Supreme Court of Virginia
  2. Clerk's Correspondence and other Records, 1918-2006
  3. Clerk's general correspondence, 1929-1981

Correspondence regarding court anniversaries, 1979-1980 Box-folder 7-1

Correspondence pertains to plans for celebrating the bicentennial of the court's establishment in 1779 and the court's first session in 1780. Included is a copy of the proceedings of the 1979 celebration, and letter from Justice Lewis Powell with corrected galley proofs of his remarks for publication.

  1. Virginia State Law Library, Supreme Court of Virginia
  2. Clerk's Correspondence and other Records, 1918-2006
  3. Clerk's general correspondence, 1929-1981

Correspondence regarding integration of the Virginia State Bar, 1938-1949 Box-folder 13-3 to 13-8

Contains memos, letters, reports, and proposed legislation pertaining to the integration of the Virginia State Bar. Includes a stenographic report (transcript) of a meeting of the Committee of Forty on Bar Integration at Sweetbriar College, July 1938, and a "meeting before the meeting." Alson contains the printed report of the Committees on Integration of the Virginia State Bar, September 8, 1938; and recommendations and suggestions from members of the bar in response to the report, October 1938.

  1. Virginia State Law Library, Supreme Court of Virginia
  2. Clerk's Correspondence and other Records, 1918-2006
  3. Clerk's general correspondence, 1929-1981

Correspondence regarding management of portraits, 1926-1978 Box-folder 7-2 to 7-3

Correspondence pertains to commissioning of portraits of justices and copies of portraits for the Court, restoration of portraits, loans, gifts and provenance of portraits, and protocol for the commissioning and hanging of portraits.

  1. Virginia State Law Library, Supreme Court of Virginia
  2. Clerk's Correspondence and other Records, 1918-2006
  3. Clerk's general correspondence, 1929-1981

Correspondence with Clerk's office and Library, Staunton 1953-1965 Box-folder 7-4 to 7-8

Primarily correspondence between Howard G. Turner, Clerk, and Margaret Archer, Librarian of the State Law Library in Staunton. Includes an inventory of the furnishings and books in the offices and library of the Supreme Court of Appeals in Staunton, 1953.

  1. Virginia State Law Library, Supreme Court of Virginia
  2. Clerk's Correspondence and other Records, 1918-2006
  3. Clerk's general correspondence, 1929-1981

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