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Finding Aid for the John Lord O'Brian Papers,
1892-1973
Law Spec. Coll. 05
Charles B. Sears Law Library
O'Brian HallUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New
YorkBuffalo, New York 14260-1110United SatesPhone: 716 645-2047Fax: 716 645-3860Email:
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University of New York at Buffalo. All rights reserved.
Title: John Lord O'Brian Papers
1892-1973
Extent: 62
manuscript boxes, 12 oversize boxes; Approximately 37 linear feet.
Repository:
Charles B. Sears Law Library, State University of New York at Buffalo
Abstract: Personal papers of
John Lord O'Brian, prominent lawyer and public servant, including
correspondence, speeches, notes, legal opinions and records,
articles.
Preferred Citation
[Specified item], Box/ Folder, Law Spec. Coll. 05, John Lord O'Brian Papers, 1892-1973, Charles B. Sears Law Library, The
State University of New York at Buffalo.
Acquisition Information
Materials were donated by Mr. O'Brian's family in 1973-74.
Terms of Access & Use
Materials can be examined by qualified researchers in the Law
Library during hours of operation during which Law Reference Librarians are
present. In order to insure access, researchers are advised to contact the Law
Library in advance of visits.
Copyright
Copyright for the materials in the collection does not reside with
the Law Library. Therefore, patrons wishing to publish any item, or part of an
item from this collection for any purpose, are responsible for securing
requisite permissions. Copies may be made only by library personnel.
Processing Information
Processed by Louise Tucker in 1975; additional materials processed
by Karen Spencer, November 2009.
Accruals & Additions
Additional books owned by John Lord O'Brian were received in
November 2009 from the Harvard Divinity School originally donated by his
granddaughter, Sally Lord. No further accruals are expected to this collection.
O'Brian was born in Buffalo, New York in 1874. He received the A.B.
degree from Harvard College in 1896 and the L.L.B. degree from Buffalo Law
School in 1898. In February 1909, O'Brian was appointed by President Theodore
Roosevelt to serve as United States Attorney for the Western District of New York. He
continued to serve in this position through the administrations of President
Taft and President Wilson. During World War I, O'Brian served as Head of the
War Emergency Division in the United States Dept. of Justice where he was responsible
for prosecuting cases of espionage and sabotage. At the end of World War I,
O'Brian returned to Buffalo to practice law. In 1929, President Hoover
appointed O'Brian to serve as Assistant Attorney General of the Anti-Trust
Division at the United States Department of Justice where he was responsible for arguing
more than 15 cases before the United States Supreme Court. He was retained by the
Tennessee Valley Authority in 1935, eventually winning the case that challenged
the creation of the Authority. In 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt appointed
O'Brian to serve as General Counsel of the War Production Board. From 1945
until his death, at age 98, O'Brian practiced law in Washington, D.C.
O'Brian's service to the University at Buffalo Law School began soon
after his graduation in 1898. From 1907 through 1921, O'Brian was a volunteer
instructor in Insurance Law. From 1931 and continuing for the next seventeen
years, O'Brian served as member of the Board of Regents of the University of
the State of New York. O'Brian served the Law School in many capacities and was
the principal speaker at the October 21, 1949 dedication of 77 West Eagle
Street, a former home of the UB Law School. On May 6, 1963, O'Brian received
the Law School's first Distinguished Alumnus Award for Public Service. At the
formal dedication of O'Brian Hall in April 1974, a portrait of O'Brian, painted
by Virginia Cuthbert, was presented to the Law School by Manly Fleischmann, a
SUNY trustee and Mrs. Kellogg Mann, the eldest daughter of O'Brian. This
portrait currently hangs on the second floor of the Law School Library.
As recognition of his public service and service to the Law School,
the home of the U.B. Law School, "O'Brian Hall", was named in his honor in 1973
when it first opened on the Amherst campus.
Information excerpted from: Schaus, Robert and
James Arnone, "University at Buffalo Law School, 100 Years 1887-1987, A
History" John Lord
John Lord O'Brian was a University at Buffalo Law School graduate, a
distinguished lawyer, and a prominent public servant for whom the Law School
building is named. Chronicling O'Brian's long and productive life from 1874 to
1973, the papers span the years of his legal career and public service
activities. The papers include legal memoranda, opinion letters, personal
notes, personal correspondence, published articles, photographs, honorary
medals and other memorabilia. They are organized according to some of the major
activities in which O'Brian was involved.
Also included are correspondence between O'Brian and other notable
historical figures from the first seventy-five years of the twentieth century.
The collection includes the two volumes, Reminiscences of
John Lord O'Brian, an oral history conducted in 1952 as part of the
Columbia University Oral History Project. In addition, there are three reels of
microfilm that reproduce the collection of O'Brian papers in the Hoover
Institution at Stanford University.
The collection is arranged in thirteen series:
I. Correspondence
II. World War I
III. United States Department of Justice
IV.
World War II
V.
Harvard Divinity School
VI. Harvard University
VII. University at Buffalo
VIII. Other Activities
IX. Personal and Autobiographical
X. Autograph Letters and Documents
XI. Miscellaneous Materials
XII. Speeches, Articles and Tributes by O'Brian
XIII. Memorabilia
XIV. Oversize Materials
XV. Collection File
I is arranged aphabetically. Remaining series are mostly
organized chronologically.
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| Box-folder |
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Contents |
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| 1.0 |
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Biographical folder: photocopies of
Who's Who and obituaries from the
New York Times, Washington
Post, Buffalo Evening News; letter from
Douglas Hunt; article on Covington and Burling from Juris
Doctor, April 1975
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| 1.1 |
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"A" Misc.
1944-1971:
Acheson, Dean
Ala, Hussein --
Iranian Ambassador and Prime Minister
Alden, Carlos
Ali, Mohammed -- Prime Minister Pakistan
Allen, Florence -- United States Court of Appeals judge (Ohio)
Allen, Joseph Dana
Aram, Abbas --
Iranian Ambassador
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| 1.2 |
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American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, elected Fellow
May 14, 1947
(1947-1972); correspondence relating to
activities of Academy and nominations made by O'Brian
|
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| 1.3-1.6 |
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American Bar Association,
Erie
County Bar Association,
Washington, D.C. Bar Association,
New York State Bar Association,
Association of the Bar
of the City of New York,
1946-1973; correspondence relating to activities
of these bar associations, interfiled and arranged chronologically; nominations
by O'Brian of new members
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| 1.7 |
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American Bar Foundation Fellows
Award
February 20, 1960
(1956-1964); notification and congratulatory
letters
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| 2.1-2.4 |
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American
Law Institute
(1947-1973); correspondence relating to
activities of ALI; nominations of by O'Brian of new members; pamplets, ALI
history, 48th Annual Dinner
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| 2.5-2.6 |
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"B" Misc.
1943-1972:
Babcock, Louis L.
Ballantine, Arthur A.
Barlow, Joel
Batt, William
Biddle, Francis
Blaine,
Graham B.
Boeschenstein, Harold -- President, Owens
Corning Fiberglas Corp.
Boulware, Lemuel
Bowles, Chester
Branche,
Claude R.
Brennan, Justice William
Bruggman,
Charles
Bunge, Julius
Bunge,
Julius H. O.-- of Surrey, England regarding Indonesia
Burger, Chief Justice Warren
Earl
Burlingham, Charles
C.
Burton, Harold H. -- judge
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| 2.7 |
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Brandon,
Henry - correspospondence and transcript of tape recorded interview
by Henry Brandon of the Sunday Times of London
(1968); Four
copies of interview made in 1968, later rejected by The
Times for publication; also clippings and letter on Arthur Krock's book,
Memoirs: Sixty Years on the Firing Line and
O'Brian's contribution.
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| 3.1 |
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Bricker Amendment
(1953-1956); Marked "keep" and "destroy at my
death"; correspondence relating to Committee for Defense of the Constitution by
Preserving the Treaty Power, O'Brian a sponsor.
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| 3.2 |
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Brown
University, LL.D. conferred
February 25, 1945
(1945-1952); correspondence with
Henry Wriston (President)
Claude R. Branch
Herbert N. Couch
A. Bruce
Bielaski
Eleanor
Spicer and associated alumni of Brown University.
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Note: Some items in poor condition. Citations from Brown and
Brooklyn Polytechnic removed from file and placed with Oversize Materials.
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| 3.3 |
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Buffalo Club
(1945-1972); correspondence relating to
activities of the Buffalo Club; original manuscript of speech "Dedication of
Memorial Tablet -- William Howard Taft" made by O'Brian on
October 11, 1953;
includes booklets on Dedication of Tablets for Millard Fillmore and Grover
Cleveland,
1925; Program of 1958 past
presidents;
1973 list of
members.
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| 3.4 |
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Buffalo-
Harvard
Club--Man of the year Award,
March 13, 1965
(1964-1965)
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| 3.5-3.6 |
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Burling, Edward B., Sr. of
Covington and Burling (
1920-1955,
1966-[1970]); personal recollection of E.B.
Burling,
May 12,
1969 by O'Brian; tributes and remarks on Burling by O'Brian; pack of
undated letters from Burling in front.
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| 3.7-4.1 |
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"C" Misc.
1941-1973:
Chase, George
H. -- Dean of Harvard University
Clark,
Alfred Hull
Clark, Henry
Clark, Tom C.
Claytor, W.Graham, Jr.
Coleman,
William C. -- judge
Corning
Glass Museum -- O'Brian a trustee
Cox,
Gardner
Cox,
Hugh B.
Crowther,
Bosley
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| 4.2-4.3 |
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Century Association
(1945-1973); Primarily endorsements of new
members
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| 4.4 |
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Cisler, Walker Lee
(1958-1972); Chairman of the Board, Detroit
Edison Co.
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| 4.5 |
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Clark,
Glenville
(1951-1973); Personal correspondence and
solicitations for Glenville Clark Fund
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| 4.6 |
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Columbia Historical
Society, Elected Member April 20, 1960
(1960-1968)
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| 4.7-4.8 |
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Columbia
University (Memoirs); Columbia Universitiy Broadcast Lecture (Law
and Freedom)
(1952-1971); Correspondence relating to
Reminiscences of O'Brian recorded by
Columbia University
Oral History Research Office and updating made October 1, 1956;
Correspondence and copy of broadcast lecture "Law and Freedom" plus working
papers; Reminiscences (2 volumes) located at end
of the collection with books.
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| 5.1 |
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Conant, James B., President of
Harvard
(1940-1963); Correspondence primarily on
Harvard
Divinity School and Board of Overseers
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| 5.2-5.3 |
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National Conference of
Christians and Jews, Brotherhood Award, Address at Buffalo,
November 18,
1963; Correspondence relating to organization and awards; copies of
address; newspaper clippings on address; Address entitled "Brotherhood and
Freedom"
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| 5.4 |
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Corcoran,
Thomas G.
(1964-1973) ; Correspondence relating to
Corcoran's 70th birthday dinner held January 22, 1971
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| 5.5 |
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Cruise on S.S. Talamanca of United Fruit Line, February
18-March 7, 1949
(1949-1950)
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| 5.6 |
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"D" Misc.
1942-1972:
Dembitz,
Nanette -- judge
Dewey, Thomas
E.
Dodge, Marcellus
Hartley
Dulski, Thaddeus --
Congressman
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| 5.7 |
|
Donovan, William
J.
(1959-1970); Original letters of Donovan from
W.W.I. and correspondence about Donovan
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| 5.8 |
|
"E" Misc.
1943-1972:
Ecker,
Frederic W.
Edgerton, Henry W. --
judge
Ellison,
Newell W.
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| 5.9 |
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Eaton,
Frederick M.
(1943-1972)
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| 5.10 |
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Emory
University, Graduation Address
(1946-1947); correspondence relating to
graduation address made by O'Brian and copy of speech
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| 6.1 |
|
Equitable Life
Assurance Society of the United States
(1950-1969); O'Brian served as member of Board of
Directors; Resignation letter dated December 18, 1958, effective January 1,
1959
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| 6.2 |
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"F" Misc.
1944-1972:
Fay, Sidney B.
Fly,
Lawrence
Fortas,
Abe
Freund, Paul A.
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| 6.3-6.5 |
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Fleischmann,
Manly
(1943-1973)
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|
| 6.6 |
|
Fleischmann Report on Education in N.Y.
(1971-1973); Primarily newspaper clipplings, some
correspondence; copy of article by Fleischmann entitled the "Re-education of
Manly Fleischmann"
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| 6.7 |
|
Fowler, Henry H. "Joe"
(1946-1970)
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| 7.1 |
|
Freeman, Douglas Southall
(1949-1953); Correspondence and testimonial
prepared by O'Brian at Freeman's death in 1953
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|
| 7.2-7.3 |
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"G" Misc.
1945-1973:
Garrison, Lloyd
K.
Gesell, Gerhard A. -- judge
Gignoux,
Edward T. -- judge
Griswold, Erwin
N.
Greene, Jerome
D.
Grew, Joseph C.
Gruenther, Alfred
M.
|
|
| 7.4 |
|
General Electric Company --
Crotonville Speech,
September 29,
1961; Speech given for G.E.'s legal organization; notes for speech
and correspondence
|
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| 7.5 |
|
Godkin Lectures --
Harvard
University, April 27-28, 1955
(1955-1956); Press releases and congratulatory
letters, including
Earl
Warren and
James
Reston; title of speech "National Security and Individual Freedom",
appeared later in book form. Marked "keep."
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| 7.6 |
|
"H" Misc.
1945-1973:
Hagedorn,
Hermann
Hand,
Augustus N.
Harlan, John -- Supreme Court justice
Harrison,
William H.
Hoover, Herbert
Hoover, J. Edgar(also clippings
on Hoover's death, May 3, 1972);
Houghton,
Amory
Hope, Walter
E.
Howe, Mark A. DeWolfe
|
|
| 7.7-7.8 |
|
Hand, Learned - Remarks in Honor of Judge Hand, April
10, 1959
(1942-1972); Material and letters about Hand
including "Remarks..."; Working papers: articles and clippings for speech and
extra copies of speech
|
|
| 7.9 |
|
Harvard
Clubs (Buffalo and Washington)
(1957-1972); Includes address to
Associated Harvard Clubs, May 4,
1957
|
|
| 7.10 |
|
Henderson, Loy W.
(1948-1972); Birthday correspondence; June 28,
1967, 75th birthday and June 28, 1972, 80th birthday plus copy of remarks made
by Henderson at
Washington
Institute of Foreign Affairs, June 28, 1967
|
|
| 7.11 |
|
Holmes Project --
New York University Hall of Fame
(1969-1970)
|
|
| 8.1-8.5 |
|
Hughes, Charles Evans
(1907-1962); Newspaper clippings on Hughes,
campaign literature, Republican National Convention of 1916 and 1920, Hughes
Report on Reorganized State Government, 1926, Legislative Directory of New York
1907; Memorial exercises at Supreme Court, November 4, 1949: information about
Hughes and correspondence, copy of O'Brian's speech congratulatory letters,
marked "keep"; Articles on Hughes, O'Brian's article in the ABA Journal,
Manuscript by F. Davenport, "How and Why Charles E. Hughes Lost California and
the Presidency in 1916", ABA Journal article
appeared July 1941 entitled "Charles Evans Hughes as Governor"; Colgate
University, Charles Evans Hughes Chair 1955-1962
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Campaign buttons removed to box 64
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| 8.6 |
|
"J" Misc.
1947-1971:
Jones,
Boisfeuillet
Jones, Harold
A.
Jones, Howard
P. -- ambassador
Jones,
William B. -- United States District Judge
|
|
| 8.7-9.2 |
|
Jackson, Robert H., Memorial Exercises, April 4, 1955
(1942-1972); Some corresondence with Jackson but
primarily material on Memorial Exercises (died October 9, 1954); O'Brian
prepared remarks, working papers, information about Jackson for Memorial. (3
folders)
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|
| 9.3-9.4 |
|
"K" Misc.
1939-1973:
Kane,
Amanda
Kauffmann, Samuel Hay
Kayan,
Betty
Kirchhofer,
Alfred
Knox, John
Clark -- judge
Krock, Arthur
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|
| 9.5-9.6 |
|
Katz, Mr.
and Mrs. Milton
(1944-1972)
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|
| 9.7 |
|
Kerr, Dr.
Harry H.-- Exercises in His Memory at Washington Hospital Center,
September 19,
1963
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|
| 10.1 |
|
Knight,
John (Judge)-- Memorial Exercises at Buffalo,
May 11,
1956; Includes address of
Simon E. Sobeloff,
Solicitor General of United States honoring O'Brian
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|
| 10.2 |
|
Krug, Mr. and Mrs. Julius
(1943-1962); Chairman, War Production Board and
Secretary of the Interior
|
|
| 10.3-10.4 |
|
"L" Misc.
1943-1973:
Lasseter, Dillard B.
Lemann, Monte M.
Levis,
William E.
Leland, Waldo
Lumbard, J. Edward -- Chief
Judge United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
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|
| 10.5 |
|
Law Day Address, May 1, 1958 and
New York State Bar
Association, Young Lawyers Section, May 3, 1958
(1958-1960); Address, notes and congratulatory
letters
|
|
| 10.6-10.7 |
|
Lawyers Committee for
Civil Rights Under Law
(1963-1965); Committee formed at request of J.F.
Kennedy; telegram from J.F.K. and note from
Robert F. Kennedy; O'Brian
served on Board of Directors
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|
| 11.1-11.4 |
|
Legal Division, War Production Board
(1944-1973); Correspondence with members and
about the annual WPB dinner; Dec. 1944-1966 marked "Please keep"
|
|
| 11.5-11.6 |
|
Lilienthal, David E., Chairman Atomic Energy
Commission
(1946-1953); General correspondene; Defense of
Lilienthal and
Herbert S. Marks before Joint Congressional Committee
in 1947; marked "keep"; miscellaneous material includes statements on O'Brian
and record of fees paid for
Tennessee Valley Authority services
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|
| 12.1-12.5 |
|
The Literary Society
(1952-1967)"A Forgotten President" -- essay on
Millard Fillmore delivered November 22, 1952, correspondence with Encyclopaedia
Britannica for article on Fillmore in 1959, working papers at end of file;
"Lost Values and Plutarch" delivered March 8, 1958 (2 copies); "The Hoosier
Kid" delivered February 8, 1960; "Some Footnotes to History" delivered March
10, 1962 (2 copies); "Challenge of Adversity" delivered February 18, 1967 (2
copies)
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|
| 12.6-12.8 |
|
Loyalty File -- "Loyalty Tests: Guilt by Association"
(1947-1957); Speech delivered at
New York State Bar Association
in NYC on January 23, 1948 entitled "Loyalty Tests and National
Unity" later appeared in Harvard Law Review as
"Loyalty Tests and Guilt by Association"; includes correspondence,
congratulatory letters, newspaper clippings; one item dated 1920
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One file of miscellaneous material now interfiled with main
folder on Loyalty.
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| 13.1 |
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"M" Misc.
1942-1972:
Macleish, Archibald
Maguire, John M.
Meigs,
Merrill C.
Mitchell, William D.
Moot, Welles
V.
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|
| 13.2 |
|
John Marshall Bicentennial, September 22-24, 1955
(1954-1958); Address by O'Brian on the "Value of
Constitutionalism Today"; Proceedings of conference embodied in Government
Under Law (copy located in working papers in back of folder)
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|
| 13.3 |
|
Metropolitan Club (Washington, D.C.) -- "The Table",
October 10, 1963
(1955-1966); Drafts of manuscript, original
papers belonging to
Charles Warren, congratulatory letters
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| 13.4 |
|
Meyer,
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene, Publisher Washington Post
(1945-1970); Personal correspondence, remarks by
O'Brian at birthday dinner for Mrs.
(Agnes) Meyer, newspaper clippings of death of Eugene
Meyer
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| 13.5 |
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"Mc" Misc.
1957-1971:
McArdle, Paul
F. -- judge
McCarthy, Richard D.
McCord, David
McKenna, Marian
McKelway, Benjamin M.
McReynolds, James (Justice)
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| 13.6 |
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"N" Misc.
1962-1973:
National Conference of Judicial Councils
Nef,
John U.
Neill,
Elizabeth
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| 13.7 |
|
National Institute of Social Sciences, Elected to
membership February 3, 1949
(1948-1954)
|
|
| 13.8 |
|
Nelson, Donald M. and
Noyles, David
M.
(1943-1949)
|
|
| 13.9 |
|
New York State Bar Association -- Award of Medal for
Distinguished Services
(1956-1958); Primarily congratulatory letters
|
|
| 13.10 |
|
New York Times Youth Forum,
1957;
Broadcast December 15, 1957; extracts on Constitution at end of
file
|
|
| 14.1 |
|
"O" Misc.
1944-1972:
O'Brien, Louise
(Mrs. Matthew)
O'Brien, Robert Lincoln
Olmsted,
Harold L.
Oppenheimer, Robert
Orr,
William
Osborn, Alex F.
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| 14.2 |
|
O'Brian, J. L. -- Personal,
May 12,
1966, Address at
Metropolitan Club to
members of Covington and Burling
|
|
| 14.3 |
|
"P" Misc.
1934-1972:
Park,
Julian
Patterson,
Richard C. -- ambassador
Patterson, Robert P. -- judge
Pepper, George Wharton
Phillips, Orie L. -- United States Court of Appeals 10th
Circuit
Plimpton,
Francis T.P.
Pratt, Frederick H.
Pratt, John
H.
Pusey, Nathan M.
Pyne,
Frederick S.; marked "Selected for preservation in Oct.
1968"
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| 14.4-14.6 |
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O'Brian, J.L. -- Political
(1920-1926); State Reorganization Committee, 1926
- served on Committee;
Republican National Convention
1920 (delegates and alternates), speeches of
Alfred E. Smith and
Charles E. Hughes,
Stimson letters from the New York Times; Expulsion
of Socialists - articles and newspaper clippings especially of nomination of
Harding for President in 1920
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| 14.8 |
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"R" Misc.
1943-1969:
Rahim, Kamil
Abdul -- Ambassador of Egypt
Reed, Phillip
Reed, Stanley -- United States Supreme Court judge
Rhyne, Charles S.
Rice, Ethel (Mrs. John P.)
Roberts, Owen -- judge
Roe,
Frederick
Rublee,
George; marked "Selected b J.L.O'B for preservation Oct. 1968"
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| 14.9 |
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Red Jacket Award,
Buffalo Historical
Society,
October 13,
1959
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| 14.10 |
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Regents -- University of the State of New York, State Education
Department
(1956-1973); Corrrespondence relating to SUNY
annual convocations, members of the Board of Regents and gift by O'Brian to the
State Library of papers of
Judge Nathan Sanford
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| 15.1 |
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"S" Misc.
1942-1973:
St. John,
Fordyce B.
Staltonstall, Leverett
Schoellkopf, Norton
Sears,
Charles Brown
Seymour, Whitney North
Spencer, Samuel
Stevenson, Adlai
E.
Storey,
Charles M.
Sullivan, Mark
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| 15.2-15.3 |
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Supreme Court -- Defense by
Members of the Bar
(1956-1970); Originally file reflected members'
concern for attacks on Supreme Court precipitated by the school desegregation
decisions, later years deal with protection of Supreme Court jurisdiction,
attacks by Goldwater of Supreme Court, appointment proposal of Judge Carswell
plus report on presidential disability by Association of the Bar of the City of
New York and internal security v. constitutional rights.
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| 15.4 |
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Supreme Court -- O'Brian's 50th Anniversary of
Admission,
April 2,
1962; "Congratulatory letters received in April 1962 on the occasion
of J.L. O'Brian's fiftieth anniversary of admission to the United States Supreme Court"
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| 15.5 |
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Sweet Briar College -- Lucy Shepard Crawford Chair
(1958-1973); assisted in fundraising for Chair of
Philosophy and donated books to the Sweet Brian Library
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| 15.6 |
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"T" Misc.
1944-1972:
Taft, Charles P.
Thacher,
Thomas D. (Jr.)
Thaxter,
Sidney St. F.
Thom, Corcoran
(Jr.)
Train, Russell
Trumbull,
Walter H.
Tweed, Harrison
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| 15.7 |
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Tennesee Valley Authority
(1969-1970); Interview by
Memphis
State University, Oral History Research Office Project on January
10, 1970 with O'Brian (old TVA file destroyed and this file opened in Feb. 1969
- marked)
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| 15.8 |
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Thursday Club (Buffalo, N.Y.)
(1946-1966); Correspondence re Buffalo meeting
February 11, 1960; copies of programs from 1903-1967 (not complete) and program
for 50th anniversary dinner 1933
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| 15.9-16.3 |
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Tucker Foundation Lectures,
Washington and Lee University, May 6-7, 1952
(1951-1967); Copies of series of three lectures;
adapted by Harvard Law Review as "New
Encroachments on Individual Freedom"; final lecture reprinted in
Washington and Lee Law Review, "Changing Attitudes
Toward Freedom" (1952, 1 copy); other two lectures appear as reprints by
Washing and Lee University (4 folders)
|
|
| 16.4 |
|
"U" Misc.
1945-1962:
Ulsh, James
Ralph
Underwood,
E. Marvin
|
|
| 16.5 |
|
"V" Misc.
1946-1973:
Van Kleffen, Eelco N. -- ambassador
Van Sickle,
John
Voorhees, Tracy S.
|
|
| 16.6 |
|
University of Virginia, Address at Final Exercises, June
13, 1955
(1955-1956); copy of speech and correspondence
|
|
| 16.7 |
|
"W" Misc.
1944-1973:
Wadsworth,
Eliot
Warren, Charles
Warren, Chief Justice Earl
Webb, James E.
Weinberg, Sidney J.
Wiener, Frederick Bernays
Wyzanski, Charles E. -- judge
|
|
| 16.8 |
|
"X-Y-Z" Misc.
1944-1962:
Yates, Eugene
A.
Young,
Owen D.
Youngquist, G. Aaron
Zabriskie, Alexander C.
Zirm, Konrad
|
|
| 16.9 |
|
Yale
University, Awarded LL.D. June 22, 1948
(1948-1962); General correspondence with
University, congratulatory letters, copy of citation and newspaper clippings
|
|
|
II. World War I |
|
Materials collected during or regarding O'Brian's tenure as Head
of the War Emergency Division, Department of Justice, from 1917-1919.
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 17.1-17.6 |
|
Memoranda
|
|
| 18.1-18.4 |
|
Personal and Confidential Files of O'Brian (2 vol.);
Vol. 1, #35-278, Vol. 2; includes duplicates of Vol. 1; marked "Notebook of
World War One Personal and Confidential Files of John Lord O'Brian, Head of
War Emergency Division
1917-1919"
|
|
| 18.5-18.7 |
|
Miscellaneous Correspondence (
1917-1966) - marked "Misc. correspondence
relating to Mr. O'Brian's work as head of Emergency Division of the Dept. of
Justice, selected by him for preservation and marked 'of unusual importance'" ;
-- Zimmerman Telegram
(1952-1967) - correspondence of J.L. O'Brian to
Charles M.
Storey and
Bruce
Bielaski; -- Debs Case
(1918-1956)
|
|
| 18.8 |
|
Memoranda of Law; Amendment of Espionage Act; Military
Tribunals (1918); interfiled and arranged chronologically
|
|
| 19.1 |
|
Secret Service 1917-1918; Handwritten notes by
O'Brian
|
|
| 19.2 |
|
Registration of German Alien Enemies, Registration
Forms; packet contains rules, regulations and forms
|
|
| 19.3 |
|
Newspaper clippings on the War (United States and foreign
papers)
|
|
| 19.4 |
|
Sulgrave Club Address: "Some Episodes of War
Intrigue - 1917", delivered
November 4,
1958
|
|
| 19.5 |
|
Evening Post, 27th's
Fighting Record,
March 25,
1919
|
|
| 19.6 |
|
Miscellaneous Material: Maps, Handwritten Notes,
Correspondence, Press Releases; contains memo of "Review of Activities of
G-2(b)", Adv. GHQ G-2(b) section organized in 1918 for contra-espionage work in
Treves area (
Germany)
|
|
| 19.7-19.9 |
|
Briefs, Hearings and Transcripts: includes typewritten
manuscript of United States v. Buchanan and others; Charges
against H. Snowden Marshall; Fowler v. Splain,
Appellee's brief (4 copies); Martin, Fowler, Schulteis v.
Splain, Appellants brief; Lamar v. Palmer,
Appellees brief; Schulteis v. Splain, Transcript;
United States v. Robinson, Indictment;
Labor's National Peace Council
pamphlet.
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 20.1-20.3 |
|
Opinions and Misc. data; Speeches primarily by
William D. Mitchell, Attorney General: originally in
three green ringed notebooks; no specific arrangement, numbered in
pencil.
|
|
| 20.4 |
|
Misc. Correspondence, Head of Antritrust Division
(contents range
1921-1966); Appalachian Coal Case,
1932;
resignation letter as Assistant Attorney General marked "Preserve
this"
|
|
| 20.5 |
|
Correspondence in United States v. Radio
Corp. of America, et al.
1928-1957); marked "Selected by O'Brian for
preservation when he withdrew from his Buffalo office in 1946"; one folder
marked "Important Papers. Please Keep in Separate File"
|
|
|
IV. World War II |
|
Materials collected while O'Brian served as General Counsel to the
War Production Board, 1941-1944
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 21.1-22.5 |
|
Legal Opinions
(1940-1944): originally in six notebooks, index
included in last two folders (11 folders)
|
|
| 22.6 |
|
Compilation of Legal Memoranda: indexed and arranged
numerically, missing pp. 298-305
|
|
| 23.1 |
|
Compilation of Legal Memoranda: indexed and arranged
numerically, missing pp. 298-305
|
|
| 23.1 |
|
Legal Opinions: duplicates in back of file, several
marked "confidential"
|
|
| 23.2 |
|
Miscellaneous addresses, official statements,
conferences: originally in black 3 ringed notebook; marked "very
important"
|
|
| 23.3-23.4 |
|
Personal Notebooks (2 vols.): originally in green
notebooks
|
|
| 23.5 |
|
Executive Orders: tabbed by subject
|
|
| 24.1 |
|
Dollar-A-Year Employees of W.P.B. and O.P.M.; W.P.B.
Policy; includes confidential correspondence; originally in one folder with
folders 24.2 and 24.3
|
|
| 24.2 |
|
Anti-trust arrangements with the Dept. of Justice;
confidential correspondence; originally in one folder with folders 24.1 and
24.3
|
|
| 24.3 |
|
Electric Power File
(1941-1946): confidential correspondence;
originally in one folder with folders 24.1 and 24.2
|
|
| 24.4 |
|
Miscellaneous material: reports, W.P.B. publications,
articles
|
|
| 24.5 |
|
Editorials on O'Brian from legal staff of W.P.B.
(1945):
booklet of editorials, photocopy of letter from
Pres. Roosevelt and letter from
Donald Nelson expressing appreciation for
job by Legal Division of W.P.B.. prepared and presented by staff of Legal
Division
|
|
| 24.6 |
|
Booklet: Chronology of War Production Board and
Predecessor Agencies,
August
1939-November 1945
|
|
| 24.7 |
|
Correspondence on the article in the George Washington
Law Review titled The War Production Board Administrative
Policies and Procedures,
1944-1952
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 25.1-32.4 |
|
Correspondence
(1946-1973) (40 folders); includes letter from
J. Foster Dulles, March 31, 1952 in 28.4 regarding
setting up of New York office at 40 Wall St. under
Graham B.
Blaine
|
|
| 32.5 |
|
Notes of conversations prior to appointment of
Commission; removed from brown notebook.
|
|
| 32.6 |
|
Notes, letters, articles primarily from
1946-1947;(background material on Harvard
Divinity School?) left in black notebook
|
|
| 33.1 |
|
Early correspondence, memoranda
(1947) ;
removed from light green notebook
|
|
| 33.2 |
|
Committee on Plans and Development, 1st meeting
February 10,
1949, Harvard Club, N.Y.C.; removed from blue folder
|
|
| 33.3 |
|
Mailing List and Classification of Responses to
President Conant's letter of
November 29,
1949, re the Proposed New Center of Religious Learning at Harvard
(carbons)
|
|
| 33.4 |
|
Abstract of Replies Made to Letter of President Conant
under Date of
November 29,
1949
|
|
| 33.5 |
|
Analysis of Letters of Acceptance from Sponsors of
Inquiry re Proposed Harvard School of Religious Learning
1949 (re use
of name on brochure as sponsor August-October 1949)
|
|
| 33.6-33.8 |
|
Replies to Letter of December 6, 1940; arranged
alphabetically together with acknowledgement of each response
|
|
| 33.9 |
|
Budget memoranda, misc. Information
|
|
| 34.1 |
|
Original votes taken by Harvard trustees, certified by
Secretary,
1948-1957
|
|
| 34.2 |
|
Confidential memoranda
(1947-1951); removed from brown
folder
|
|
| 34.3 |
|
Isaac
Witkin-
Harvard Pres. James B. Conant Correspondence,
1952;
Nathan Pusey-O'Brian Correspondence,
1955
|
|
| 34.4 |
|
Outline of development of plan and major memoranda
(1950-1951)
|
|
| 34.5 |
|
Responses to Interim Report
October 28,
1954; includes signed letter from
Felix Frankfurter and
Christian A.
Herter (Gov. of Massachusetts)
|
|
| 34.6 |
|
List of prospects and mailing lists
|
|
| 34.7-34.9 |
|
Press releases, reports
(1947-1971)
|
|
| 35.1-35.3 |
|
O'Brian Chair at Harvard Divinity School and
announcement dinner, April 23, 1956
(1955-1960); includes replies to
Dinner
|
|
| 35.4 |
|
A Program for Harvard 1956-1957: includes correspondence
and two copies of "A College in a Yard" containing article by O'Brian; project
to raise money for Harvard
|
|
| 35.5-36.3 |
|
Books, pamphlets: A New Center of
Religious Learning at Harvard (4 copies), Harvard Alumni Bulletins (5
folders)
|
|
| 36.4-36.6 |
|
Report of the Commission to Study and Make
Recommendations with Respect to Harvard Divinity School
|
|
| 36.7 |
|
Miscellaneous pamphlets on Harvard Divinity
School
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 37.1-37.2 |
|
Harvard Alumni Association
(1945-1969); O'Brian President
1945-1946
|
|
| 37.3-37.5 |
|
Reunions of Class of 1896: 75th Anniversary,
June 17,
1971; Commencement 1971 (assorted pictures from newspapers and
magazines); 50th Anniversary and others
(1921-1967)
|
|
| 37.6 |
|
Commencement Material--programs, invitations; especially
1943-1945
|
|
| 37.7 |
|
Harvard University Press Faculty Prize Committee;
O'Brian served as member of Committee to select best manuscript to Harvard
University Press from faculty members
|
|
| 38.1 |
|
General Files
(1943-1971)--correspondence
|
|
| 38.2 |
|
Harvard Campaign
(1956-1960)
|
|
| 38.3 |
|
Award of LL.D.,
June 6,
1946
|
|
| 38.4 |
|
Board of Overseers--reports, committee assignments
and schedule of meetings
(1939-1944)
|
| |
|
Citation from William and Mary to Harvard removed.
|
|
| 38.5 |
|
Miscellaneous material--student unrest at Harvard,
1969;
articles on
Nathan Pusey; honorary degree received by
Winston Churchill in
1943;
Commencement programs
1943-
1944; newspaper clippings
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 39.1-39.3 |
|
Correspondence
(1905-1973)
|
|
| 39.4 |
|
John Lord O'Brian Hall,
December
1972
|
|
| 39.5 |
|
J.L. O'Brian Fund established in 1964 by members of the
Legal Division, War Production Board who worked under O'Brian for the benefit
of the Law School (1964-1969)
|
|
| 39.6 |
|
Chancellor's Medal 1940
|
| |
|
Medal removed to Box 64
|
|
| 39.7 |
|
Extension Movement
1906 -- group
organized to "increase public opinion in support of the foundation of the
Collegiate Department"; O'Brian served as treasurer and general
manager
|
|
| 39.8 |
|
Miscellaneous material -- clippings, programs, alumni
bulletins
|
|
| 39.9 |
|
Miscellaneous pamphlets and periodicals on U.B. --
Ordinances and Charter of U.B., Niagara Frontier
Journal with articles on U.B., Buffalo Studies
issue on Samuel Capen
|
|
| 39.10-40.3 |
|
Minutes of Council Meetings (
1923-29,
1957) and
Committee on General Administration
(1921-1929)(4 folders)
|
|
VIII.A Early Professional Career
|
| Materials on O'Brian's early professional career as United States
Attorney and N.Y. legislator. |
| |
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 40.4 |
|
Award of Clinton Scholarship on graduation from Law
School; note from
Adelbert Moot on opening of office in
1900
|
|
| 40.5 |
|
Letters from period when O'Brian served as United States
District Attorney, Western District,
1909-1914
|
|
| 40.6 |
|
Correspondence relating to settlement of
United States v. Eastman Kodak Co.; action brought by
O'Brian in
1913 for
violation of Sherman Act
|
|
| 40.7-41.1 |
|
Legal Documents prepared as United States Attorney, Western
District,
1909-1914 including materials on:United States v. Mutual Transit, United States v. Buffalo Pitts Co., Lehigh Valey
Railroad Co. v. United States, N.Y. Central and Hudson River Railroad v. United States, United States v.
Sterling Salt Co., John O'Hare v. United States, United States v. New Departure Manufacturing
Co., Erie Railroad v. United States, Grand Trunk Railroad Co. of Canada v. United States
(3 folders)
|
|
| 41.2 |
|
Miscellaneous correspondence as Legislator,
1907-1909, includes letter from 1911
|
|
VIII.B
Committee on the Present Danger
(1950-1959)
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 41.3-41.6 |
|
1950-1959
|
|
| 42.1 |
|
Articles, Committee statements, newspaper
clippings
|
|
| 42.2 |
|
Acknowledgements of contributions to C.P.D. as
treasurer of Committee (arranged alphabetically,
1951)
|
|
| 42.3 |
|
Acknowledgements of speeches of Messrs. Conant, Bush,
Baxter, and Hoffman sent by O'Brian
|
|
| 42.4 |
|
Letters received by O'Brian in response to circular
letter of
January 25, 1951
enclosing C.P.D. Statements
|
|
VIII.C
Atomic Energy Board of Inquiry -- Oak Ridge
Dispute
(1948)
|
| Materials collected by O'Brian while he served as member of the
Board of Inquiry. |
| |
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 42.5 |
|
Correspondence May-Sept. 1948 (removed Truman letter,
located in 55.10)
|
|
| 42.6 |
|
Report to President March 15, 1948 and Second Report
to President May 18, 1948
|
|
| 42.7-43.1 |
|
Documents #1-8, 10, 11, 13-15, 17-19, 24, 25 (3
folders)
|
|
| 43.4 |
|
Minutes and Transcript of March 11 and May 17,
1948
|
|
| 43.5 |
|
Position papers of
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp.
|
|
| 44.1 |
|
Position papers of
Atomic Trades and Labor Council, A.F.L.
|
|
| 44.2 |
|
Government documents relating to dispute
|
|
| 44.3 |
|
Misc. papers including Contract Proposal by Carbide
and Carbon Chemicals
|
|
VIII.D
Flying Pay Board
(1947-1949)
|
| O'Brian served as Chairman of the Board which was established by
President Truman to investigate the necessity of officers receiving extra pay
for hazardous duty |
| |
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 44.4-44.5 |
|
Correspondence, proceedings, and notes
(January
1947-January 1949)
|
|
| 44.6 |
|
Proceedings of Board to Consider Flight Pay, May 1-2,
1947 (in notebook)
|
|
| 45.1 |
|
Memoranda; Report of Board, December 10, 1947 (marked
"File No.2" amd "Destroy at my death"
|
|
| 45.2 |
|
Booklets on Extra Hazard Pay
|
|
VIII.E Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs
(1961-1972)
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 45.3-45.4 |
|
Correspondence, Board of Director meeting minutes, and
pamphlets on organization
|
|
VIII.F
Washington National Monument Society
(1944-1973)
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 45.5-46.3 |
|
Correspondence, meeting minutes; 1944-1963 marked
"Destroy at my Death" (4 folders)
|
|
| 46.4 |
|
Articles and pamphlets marked "keep"
|
|
| 46.5 |
|
Printed material on Monument and Society
|
|
VIII.G New York State Regent -- Proceedings, Schedule of
Meetings
(1930-1947)
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 47.1 |
|
Proceedings of the
University of
the State of New York. Board of Regents., 1930-33, 1935-36, 1938-39,
1941, 1944; History of the State Education Department; meeting schedule
1944-47
|
|
IX.A Autobiographical Memoranda
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 47.2 |
|
Outline of Professional Career and Other Activities
1892-1951 (3 copies); ;
|
|
| 47.3 |
|
Outline of Activities 1951-1956
|
|
| 47.4 |
|
Autobiographical material sent to family (carbon
copies and handwritten notes)
|
|
| 47.5 |
|
Miscellaneous autobiographical material including
final update 1957-1969
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 47.6 |
|
Harvard, Buffalo Law School - grades, commencement
material, English theme papersConstitution
|
|
| 47.7 |
|
Youth - commencement oration from high school 1892,
"Boys Own Club"
|
|
| 47.8 |
|
Honorary Degrees - Articles on honorary degrees from
Yale and
Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn (Yale Alumni Bulletin 1948 (2 copies), p.5; Misc. items on
O'Brian; Harvard Alumni material removed to Harvard University files and
Overseer files)
|
|
| 47.9 |
|
Misc. memorabilia pertaining to O'Brian - programs,
clippings (Literary Society schedule, program from dinner in honor of O'Brian
in 1913)
|
|
IX.C Congratulatory Letters
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 48.1 |
|
Received on appointment as Head of Antitrust Division
of Dept. of Justice (marked "answered")
|
|
| 48.2 |
|
Received on appointment as as Head of Antitrust
Division of Dept. of Justice
|
|
| 48.3 |
|
Retirement as Assistant to Attorney General,
1932
|
|
| 48.4 |
|
Letters and telegram received in 1936 on victory in
Supreme Court in Ashwander v. T.V.A.
|
|
| 48.5 |
|
"Spirit of Remonstrance", 1940 (address before the
N.Y.S. Bar Association, January 1940, later published
in full in N.Y. Herald Tribune and reported in
Harvard Bulletin, marked "keep")
|
|
| 48.6 |
|
Received on being elected
Regent of the New York State Education
Department
|
|
IX.D Personal Correspondence
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 48.7 |
|
Misc. non-professional
(1908-1919)
|
|
| 48.8 |
|
Regarding election of O'Brian to Century Club
(1926-1927)
|
|
| 48.9 |
|
Judge
William Hitz in
1920's and
1930's
|
|
| 48.10 |
|
Regrets to dinner for O'Brian by
Erie
County Bar Association,
1930
|
|
| 48.12-49.1 |
|
Miscellaneous correspondence for
1920's
(2 folders)
|
|
| 49.2-49.3 |
|
Miscellaneous correspondence for
1930's
|
|
| 49.4 |
|
Miscellaneous correspondence for
January 1940 to
December 1944 (date of resignation from War Production Board
selected by O'Brian for preservation)
|
|
|
|
| Original 22 volumes and index in 25 folders. Contain primarily
extracts, quotes, essays. Some notebooks have pages numbered, those unnumbered
were supplied with numbers. Unnumbered and some duplicates placed in front of
files. Indexes with early notebooks. |
| |
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 49.5 |
|
Notebook 1 (missing 201-202)
|
|
| 49.6 |
|
Notebook 2 (missing 21-23, 70-71)
|
|
| 50.1 |
|
Notebook 3 (missing 53)
|
|
| 50.2 |
|
Notebook 4 (missing 39-40, 170-185)
|
|
| 50.4 |
|
Notebook 6 (missing 56-58, 63-111) -- early history of
Buffalo Club
|
|
| 50.5 |
|
Notebook 7 (missing 113-23, 48-42) -- primarily
addresses by O'Brian; List of cases argue in Supreme Court 1929-32, 1935,
1938-39, 1944-46; sedition cases; cases argued as United States Attorney General;
address by O'Brian to
Pan
American Union, August 26, 1930; Attorney General's Dinner in honor
of English, French, Irish and Canadian guests of A.B.A.; description of
Office of Production
Management
|
|
| 50.6 |
|
Notebook 8 (missing 5-6, 56, 112-115)
|
|
| 51.1 |
|
Notebook 9 (missing 1, 28, 79
|
|
| 51.2 |
|
Notebook 10 -- Index for notebooks 1 to 9, name index
and more.
|
|
| 51.3 |
|
Notebook 10 (missing 45-75) -- addresses by
O'Brian
|
|
| 51.4 |
|
Notebook 11 -- marked "Memorabilia chiefly
historical", recollections of people and events; p. 100 marked
"secret"
|
|
| 51.5 |
|
Notebook 12 (missing 2-3, 20-37, 63, 65-66,
116-122)
|
|
| 52.1 |
|
Notebook 14 -- speeches by O'Brian, numbers supplied,
no index
|
|
| 52.2 |
|
Notebook 15 -- marked "Addresses and Essays", numbers
supplied, no index
|
|
| 52.3 |
|
Notebook 16 -- numbers supplied, no index
|
|
| 52.4 |
|
Notebook 17 -- marked "Memorabilia: chiefly
historical"
|
|
| 52.5 |
|
Notebook 18 -- Tucker Lectures I-III
|
|
| 52.6 |
|
Notebook 19 -- marked "addresses" and "contains
Thursday Club Addresses?", numbers supplied, no index
|
|
| 53.1 |
|
Notebook 20 -- "Old Supreme Court Building", signed
letter
Eleanor
Roosevelt
|
|
| 53.2 |
|
Notebook 21 -- "Record of Important Conversations re:
United States Supreme Court, Hughes,
Brandeis, Cardozo, Stimson, etc. Confidential", inside marked
"Memorabilia--Important, Personal--Please Keep"
|
|
| 53.3 |
|
Notebook 22 -- numbers supplied, no index
|
|
| 53.4-53.5 |
|
Carbon copies of material placed in original black
notebooks
|
|
X.A Signatures of Public Men
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 53.6 |
|
Misc. 1897-1932: Attorneys General
Mitchell Palmer,
J.C. McReynolds,
T.W. Gregory;
Benjamin
Cardozo;
Elihu
Root
|
|
| 53.7 |
|
Charles Evans
Hughes
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 54.1 |
|
1916-1965
|
|
| 54.3 |
|
Clippings, pamphlets and articles about Frankfurter, 5
items signed
|
|
X.C Correspondence of Unusual Importance
|
| Material contained in large brown folder marked "Correspondence
of Unusual Importance" selected by O'Brian when he withdrew from his Buffalo
office (with some recent additions) then lists names. |
| |
| Letters in large envelope interfiled and marked "Letters
selected by Mr. O'Brian for preservation, placed in this envelope and marked
'especially important'" from: C.E. Hughes, Elihu Root, William Knudsen,
President Truman, Learned Hand, Walter Hampden, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Alfred E. Smith, President Herbert Hoover, Homer Cummings; Lyndon B.
Johnson |
| |
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 54.4 |
|
Burlingham, C.C.
(1926-1948)
|
|
| 54.5 |
|
Cummings,
Homer
(1935-1936)
|
|
| 54.6 |
|
Dewey, Thomas
E.
(1939-1959)
|
|
| 54.7 |
|
Gregory, T.W.
(1917-1927)
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| 54.8 |
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Hampden, Walter
(1925-1957)
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| 54.9 |
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Hand, Learned (Judge)
(1942-1957)
|
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| 54.10 |
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Hitz, William
(1920-1921);
Walsh, Thomas J.
(1932)
|
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| 54.11 |
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Hoover, Herbert
(1929-1930)
|
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| 54.12 |
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Hoover , J.
Edgar
(1919-1969)
|
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| 54.13 |
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Hughes, Charles Evans
(1918-1931)
|
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| 54.14 |
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Hull, Cordell
(1941)
|
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| 54.15 |
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Jackson, Robert H.
(1931-1941)
|
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| 54.16 |
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Johnson, Lyndon B.
(1964);
photocopy of telegram
|
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| 54.17 |
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Knudsen, William S.
(1944-1946)
|
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| 54.18 |
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Miller, Nathan L. and
Mills, Ogden L.
(1920-1934)
|
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| 54.19 |
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Mitchell, William D.
(1929-1932)
|
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| 54.20 |
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Parsons, Herbert
(1916-1925)
|
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| 54.21 |
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Pound, Roscoe
(1950)
|
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| 54.22 |
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Reed, Stanley
(1935-1938)
|
|
| 55.1 |
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Roberts, Owen
J.
(1932-1950)
|
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| 55.2 |
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Roosevelt,
Franklin D. (1932-1940); 3 letters
|
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| 55.3 |
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Roosevelt, Theodore
(1895-1924); 5 letters
|
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| 55.4 |
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Root,
Elihu
(1908-1935)
|
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| 55.5 |
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Smith, Alfred E.
(1930)
|
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| 55.6 |
|
Stettinius, Edward R.
Jr.
(1944-1946)
|
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| 55.7 |
|
Stevenson, Adlai E.
(1945-1949)
|
|
| 55.8 |
|
Stimson, Henry
(1916-1950)
|
|
| 55.9 |
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Stone, Harlan
(1924-1930)
|
|
| 55.10 |
|
Truman, Harry
(1948-1957); 3 letters, 2 from White
House
|
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| 55.11 |
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Wickersham, George
W.
(1920-1935)
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| 55.12 |
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Misc.:
Donovan, William;
Baker, Newton;
Cotton,
Joseph;
Jowitt, Sir
William;
Sullivan, Mark;
Masefield,
John;
Briggs, L.R.;
Jones, Jesse H. ;
Norton, C.E.;
Patterson, Robert P.;
Jusserand,
J. J.;
Lindsay,
Sir Ronald C.--ambassador;
Tuttle, Charles
H.;
Ballantine,
Arthur;
Warren, Charles;
Davis, John W. ;
Bowes-Lyon, Rachel
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| 55.13 |
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Misc.:
Burger, Warren E.;
Lehman,
Herbert;
Bundy,
McGeorge;
Dulles, John Foster;
Vinson, Fred M.;
Cardozo,
Benjamin;
Frankfurter, Felix;
Brandeis, Louis D.;
Acheson, Dean G.;
Brennan,
W.L.(?)
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XI. Miscellaneous Materials |
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Items in Boxes 69-72, processed in November 2009, were originally
housed in wooden containers with table of contents pasted to the side. The
contents lists were photocopied and placed at the front of Boxes 69 and 72. Not
all items on the contents lists were in the containers. Items were separated
into article reprints or speeches, then filed by author.
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| Box-folder |
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Contents |
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| 55.14-55.16 |
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Articles on miscellaneous subjects; arranged
alphabetically by author
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| |
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Label marked "Articles on Miscellaneous Subjects written by:
Dean Acheson, Frederick A. Ballard, Harold Boeschenstein, Prescott Bush,
Glenville Clark, W. Graham Claytor, Jr., Nanette Dembitz, Roger Fisher, Paul A.
Freund, Katharine Graham, Erwin Griswold, Francis C. Huntington, Robert H.
Jackson, Milton Katz (unable to locate Katz article), Ernest A. Gould (on Harry
Hyland Kerr), Arthur Krock, Marx Leva, Eugene Meyer, III, Hans J. Morgenthau,
F.A. Morse, Winfred Overholser, William D. Phelan, Jr."
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|
| 56.1 |
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Articles on miscellaneous subjects - no
authors
|
|
| 56.2 |
|
Williamsburg--Reminiscences on
Dr.
W.A.R.Goodwin, June 1972: Handwritten notes, transcript and
pamphlets on restoration of Williamsburg by Goodwin and Rockefeller,
Jr.
|
|
| 56.3-56.4 |
|
Clippings, programs, letters, and pamphlets having
unclear relationship to O'Brian.
|
|
| 69-71 |
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Journal and law review articles
|
|
XII.A Handwritten Notes Used in Speeches
(1914-1970)
|
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| Box-folder |
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Contents |
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| 56.5 |
|
1961-1970 (and undated)
|
|
| 56.9(a) |
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Transcription of "jottings" by O'Brian created by his
daughter, Alison (Sally) Lord O'Brian Boylston,
1975
|
|
| 57.3 |
|
Handwritten notes, quotes on 3"x 5" cards
|
|
| 57.8 |
|
Addresses, Law and Politics
(1916-1952)
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|
|
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| Many manuscripts lacked official title thus titles were provided
to indicate general subject matter. |
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| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
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| 57.5 |
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Nomination of
Cuthbert W.
Pound as Judge of Court of Appeals; Thursday Club Papers--Misc.
addresses: "The Lawyer and the Public", "The Menace of Administrative Law"
(1920), "On
the Department of Justice", "Our Changing Government"
|
|
| 57.6 |
|
"
Edward Burnham Burling - A Personal Recollection",
May 12,
1969
|
|
| 57.7 |
|
"
William S. Knudsen - A Personal Recollection",
June 26,
1967
|
|
| 57.8 |
|
"The Challenge of Adversity,"
The Literary Society,
February 18,
1967
|
|
| 57.9 |
|
"The Place of the Lawyer in Public Life,"
Metropolitan Club, Washington,
May 12,
1966
|
|
| 58.1 |
|
"
Dr. Harry H. Kerr,"
Washington Hospital Center,
September 19,
1963
|
|
| 58.2 |
|
Remarks to Fellows and Overseers of
Harvard College, Dumbarton Oaks,
May 13,
1963
|
|
| 58.3 |
|
"The Hoosier Kid,"
The Literary Society,
February 8,
1960
|
|
| 58.4 |
|
"The Colt Case,"
September 29,
1959
|
|
| 58.5 |
|
Remarks at Exercise Celebrating the Fiftieth
Anniversary of the Appointment of
Judge Learned Hand to the Federal Bench,
April 10,
1959
|
|
| 58.6 |
|
"Some Episodes of War Intrigue,"
Sulgrave
Club, Washington,
November 4,
1958
|
|
| 58.7 |
|
Law Day Address, United States Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit,
May 1,
1958
|
|
| 58.8 |
|
"Lost Value--And Plutarch,"
The Literary Society,
March 8,
1958
|
|
| 58.9 |
|
Fiftieth Anniversary Dinner of
National Washington Cathedral,
September 28,
1957
|
|
| 58.10 |
|
Remarks at Birthday Dinner of
Mrs. Eugene Meyer,
January 5,
1957
|
|
| 58.11 |
|
Address at the Presentation of the Portrait of
Judge
John Knight to the United States District Court, Buffalo,
May 11,
1956
|
|
| 58.12 |
|
"The Value of Constitutionalism Today,"
September
1955
|
|
| 58.13 |
|
John Marshall Memorial Exercises,
Harvard University,
September 24,
1955
|
|
| 58.14 |
|
University of Virginia Final Day,
1955
|
|
| 58.15 |
|
"Law and Freedom,"
Columbia
University Broadcast Lecture,
1954
|
|
| 58.16 |
|
Acceptance of Award from
National Conference of
Christians and Jews, Buffalo,
November 18,
1953
|
|
| 58.17 |
|
Dedication of Memorial Tablet to
William
Howard Taft,
Buffalo Club,
October 11,
1953
|
|
| 59.1 |
|
Memorial to
Douglas Southall
Freeman,
July 16,
1953
|
|
| 59.2 |
|
"A Forgotten President,"
The Literary Society,
November 22,
1952
|
|
| 59.3 |
|
"Survival of Moral and Spiritual Values,"
University of Buffalo,
December 7,
1951
|
|
| 59.4 |
|
"The Growth of Secrecy in Governmental Procedures,"
Judicial
Conference, Fourth Circuit, Asheville, N.C.,
June 23,
1950
|
|
| 59.5 |
|
Exercises in Memory of Chief Justice
Charles Evans Hughes,
Bar of Supreme Court, Washington,
November 4,
1949
|
|
| 59.6 |
|
"
G. Carroll Todd,"
April 27,
1948
|
|
| 59.7 |
|
Address at
Trinity Church, Brooklyn,
April 23,
1947
|
|
| 59.8 |
|
"The University," Buffalo,
October 3,
1946
|
|
| 59.9 |
|
"The Harvard Faith,"
Harvard,
June 6,
1946, reprinted College in a
Yard
|
|
| 59.10 |
|
Remarks at Class Dinner (
Harvard),
June 5,
1946
|
|
| 59.11 |
|
Remarks at
Harvard Dinner, Washington,
February 27,
1946
|
|
| 59.12 |
|
"The Work and the Place of the American Lawyer in the
War,"
American Bar Association,
December 7,
1942
|
|
| 59.13 |
|
Address to Labor-Management Meeting Sponsored by Erie
County War Savings Committee, Buffalo,
September 25,
1942
|
|
| 59.14 |
|
"The
Office
of Production Management,"
Association of Harvard Clubs,
Baltimore,
May 17,
1941
|
|
| 59.15 |
|
"Facing Present Day Realities,"
New York County Lawyers' Association,
December
1940
|
|
| 59.16 |
|
Introduction of
M. Paul
Reynard ,
Federal Bar Association, Washington,
October 11,
1932
|
|
| 59.17 |
|
Nomination of Hon.
Charles
B. Sears for Justice of the Supreme Court, Republican Judicial
Convention, Buffalo,
September 26,
1931
|
|
| 59.18 |
|
"The Scope of Federal Jurisdiction,"
Rhode Island Bar Association,
February 24,
1931
|
|
| 59.19 |
|
"Industry and the Federal Laws,"
Association Industries of New York State, Syracuse,
June 4,
1930
|
|
| 59.20 |
|
Remarks at Cornersone Laying, City Hall, Buffalo,
May 14,
1930
|
|
| 59.21 |
|
Address before the
United States Chamber of Commerce,
May 1,
1930
|
|
| 59.22 |
|
"The War Division of Department of Justice,"
University of Buffalo Lecture, Notes,
October
1925
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 59.23 |
|
Letchworth Memorial Association
|
|
| 59.24 |
|
"In Memoriam,
Edward B. Burling (1870-
1966) (10
copies)
|
|
| 59.25 |
|
"The Table, 1925-1958"
(1965)
|
|
| 59.26 |
|
"Honourable
Learned Hand - Fifty Years of
Federal Judicial Service," United States Courthouse, New York,
April 10,
1959
|
|
| 59.27 |
|
"New Encroachments on Individual Freedom,"
Introduction to Law,
1957
|
|
| 60.1 |
|
Address at
New York State Bar Association 80th Annual Meeting,
January 26,
1957, p. 66
|
|
| 60.2 |
|
Robert Houghwout Jackson,
1892-1954,
April 4,
1955, Remarks at Exercises in Memory of
Justice Robert H.
Jackson
|
|
| 60.3 |
|
"Law and Freedom," Man's Right
to Knowledge, 2d series, 1955, p. 43 (2 copies)
|
|
| 60.4 |
|
"A Forgotten President," Niagara
Frontier,
Winter
1953 (4 copies); "The Government and Civil Liberties: World War I
and After,"
1952 (3
copies)
|
|
| 60.5 |
|
Address at the Presentation of the Portrait of Hon.
Duncan
Groner to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit,
November 10,
1952
|
|
| 60.6 |
|
"New Dangers and Contemporary Governmental
Activities,"
1952
|
|
| 60.7 |
|
"Changing Attitudes Toward Freedom," 9
Washington and Lee Law Review 157 (
1952) (5
copies); Also in Box 60, not in folder is "National Security and Individual
Freedom,"
1955 (4
copies)
|
|
| 61.1 |
|
"New Encroachments on Individual Freedom," 66
Harvard law Review 1 (
1952) (10
copies)
|
|
| 61.2 |
|
"What Future for Our Divinity School?" Harvard Alumni
Bulletin,
February 9,
1952
|
|
| 61.3 |
|
"Loyalty Tests and Guilt by Association," 61
Harvard Law Review 592 (1948) (22 copies); Also in
box 61, not in folder, "The War Production Board Administrative Policies and
Procedures," 13 George Washington Law Review 1 (
1944) (25
copies)
|
|
| 62.1 |
|
"Antitrust Attitude toward Industry Actions in Relatin
to Defense,"
American Trade Association Executives, Hershey, Pa.,
September 11-13, 1941
|
|
| 62.2 |
|
"Restraints upon Individual Freedom in Times of
National Emergency," 26 Cornell Law Quarterly 523
(1941) (2 copies)
|
|
| 62.3 |
|
"
Augustus H. Shearer and His City," Grosvernor Library
Bulletin,
June
1941
|
|
| 62.4 |
|
Remarks at the Federal-State Conference on Law
Enforcement Problems of National Defense, Washington,
August
5-6, 1940, p.14 (2 copies)
|
|
| 62.5 |
|
"The Spirit of Remonstrance,"
New York State Bar
Association,
January 27, 1940
(2 copies)
|
|
| 62.6 |
|
"The Government and the Enemy Alien,"
New York Herald-Tribune Forum,
October 24,
1939 (25 copies)
|
|
| 62.7 |
|
"Glowing Tribute to
Justice Cardozo Paid by O'Brian,"
Buffalo Daily Law Journal,
December 24,
1938, p.1, Cardozo Exercises, 1938 (74 copies)
|
|
| 62.8 |
|
Address before the
Pan
American Union,
August 26,
1930 (6 copies)
|
|
| 62.9 |
|
"Civil Libery in War Time,"
New York State Bar Association,
January 17-18, 1919 (5
copies)
|
|
| 62.10 |
|
"Idealism and Democracy,"
Hobart
College,
June 15,
1916 (2 copies)
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 63 |
|
Brown
University;
Encyclopaedia Britannica;
American Bar Association-- 50 Year Award;
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States;
Yale
University;
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
|
|
XIII.B Medals, Campaign Buttons, College Reunion
Pins
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 64 |
|
Belgian Medal; Buffalo Committee in Honor of
King and Queen of
Belgians Medal,
1919;
Harvard
University - 50th Reunion Tag and Ribbon;
Harvard College Class of 1896 Medal; Order of Coif
Key
1952;
Republican National Convention N.Y.S. Delegation Medal,
1916;
N.Y. S. Bar Association Medal;
War Production Board; Hughes Ribbon and Button;
Harvard
University - 60th Reunion Tag (ribbon missing); O'Brian for
Mayor--Pin and Ribbon; Chancellors Medal (in original box);
S.U.N.Y. Board of Regents Medal (in original
box)
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 65 |
|
Constitutional Convention 1915--Scrapbook and
personal copy of Constitution
|
|
| 66 |
|
College scrapbook -
Harvard
University
|
|
| 67 |
|
Photographs of O'Brian and others
|
|
| 68.1-68.5 |
|
Misc. Items--
Charles Evans Hughes Campaign buttons, ribbons,
"Hughes Workers" literature; --O'Brian for Mayor ribbons and broom; --Belgian
Medal, Letters regarding medal and certificate program: "In Commemoration of
the Visit of the
King and
Queen of the Belgians, Buffalo, N.Y. ,
October 6,
1919" ; materials donated by Nancy Noel, Canisius College Archives
including photograph and article (2 folders); --Resolution of the
Board of Regents in Memory of O'Brian; also in box:
desk calendar Niagara Frontier Convocation,
December 7-8, 1951.
|
|
|
|
Contents |
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| |
|
--Order of the Coif; --Reception by the Corporation of
the City of London of the American and Canadian Bar Councils, 1924; --Board of
Overseers of Harvard College visit to William and Mary welcoming decree, 1941;
--University of State of New York, Buffalo High School Diplomja 1892 (not in
box); --Capen Award; --Hobart Honorary Degree (framed); --Syracuse Honorary
Degree (framed); --Harvard Honorary Degree; --Scrapbook, primarily newspaper
clippings from 1940's; --Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn Honorary Degree;
Admiral of the Flagship Fleet-American Airlines; D.C. Bar Association
Membership; Picures: O'Brian in Senate (framed), O'Brian, American Law
Institute, Henry K. Smith, Henry Stimson (signed?), Dr. Henry R. Hopkins, Fred
Greiner, Constitution Convention reunion, 1926; --Harvard Award; Brown
University
|
|
| Box-folder |
|
Contents |
|
| 1 |
|
J. L. O'Brian Collection Papers - article in Buffalo Law
Review, Commemorative Issue 1974; --Inventory of Material Received in boxes
September 1973; -- Gimelson appraisal of collection; -- List of other material
not included in Gimelson appraisal; --Donated materials, medals and awards,
June 1974; --Material re: procedures maual for manuscript divisions. In
unnumbered folder in front of box. -- List of pictures of J.L.O'Brian at the
Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress received from Daniel
Ernst, July 2007
|
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the Library's online catalog.
Harvard Divinity School
Harvard University
Tennesee Valley Authority
United States--Politics and government
United States. Dept. of Justice. War Emergency Division.
United States. War Production Board
World War, 1914-1918--United States
World War, 1939-1945--United States
Awards
Clippings
Diplomas
Federal government records
Legal documents
Letters (correspondence)
Medals
Photographs
Speeches
Separated Material
Books and legal documents accompanying the O'Brian papers are
shelved at the end of the collection and not yet cataloged.
Related Resources
Reminiscences of John Lord O'Brian,
Columbia University Oral History Project 1952 (2 vol.) shelved at the end of
the collection
John Lord O'Brian Papers, Hoover
Institution Microfilms (3 reels 35 mm positive) with paper register in separate
box at end of the collection:
Online finding aid
