James Bradley Thayer papers 1787-1902 | WorldCat.org
Correspondence, memoranda, drafts of writings, research and teaching notes, legal documents and moot court briefs, clippings and other printed matter, and other papers, relating chiefly to Thayer's writing and teaching career. Includes research notes and drafts for A Preliminary Treatise on the Law of Evidence at the Common Law (1898) and his biography of John Marshall (1901); papers relating to his participation in the writing of the constitutions of North and South Dakota, 1889, and his chairmanship of a committee concerned with Indian legislation, 1887-1892; diary-like letters to his wife, Sophia Bradford (Ripley) Thayer, written while on a Western journey with Ralph Waldo Emerson; and letters to Emerson relating to Emerson's business affairs