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Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1853.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 18 Folder 40
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court.
- United States.
- Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864. Reports of decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States--1855-1856.
- Taney, Roger Brooke.
- Judicial opinions.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, American.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gift of Mrs. Horace R. Hayday, 1960.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf)
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 18 Folder 40
- Place of Publication:
- 1853.
- Biography/History:
- Roger Taney was Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Summary:
- Letter dated 7 January 1853 to Justice Benjamin R. Curtis, commending him for his plan "to publish an edition of the decisions of the Supreme Court." This probably refers to his Reports of Decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States (Boston: Little, Brown, 1855-1856). Justice Curtis is perhaps best known as the author of the dissenting opinion in the Dred Scott case.
- OCLC:
- 191048726
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