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James Averell, Jr. letter to William Holt Averill
00-2023-41-0
James Averell, Jr. writes from Cooperstown, NY to his son, William Holt Averell, regarding the difficulty of obtaining the amount of money William needs to cover expenses as a student at the Litchfield Law School.
Blakeslee-Foy-Crabtree families papers
2014-54-0
Thomas Flournoy Litchfield Law School Notebook
00-2023-06-0
Law notes of Thomas Flournoy while a student at the Litchfield Law School. Flournoy began the volume with a detailed table of contents. Includes a note on the last page written by Flournoy about his career in 1829.
Grant family papers
1914-15-0
Papers relating to the Grant family of Litchfield, including Hannah Grant (1785-1871) and her children Charles William (1810-1881), David McNeil (1812-1885), Harriet Lucretia (1814-1892), and John Mason (1817-1878). The collection is mostly comprised of family correspondence, but also includes various school lessons and papers, family account records, and real estate records.
Charles Frederick Johnson letter
00-2014-08-0
One letter from Charles Frederick Johnson to Edgar L. Ormbsbee written from Litchfield describing the course of lectures being offered at the Litchfield Law School. Johnson offers to allow Orbsbee to copy his notes.
Julia Henrietta Jones letter to Laura Boardman Lane
00-2023-37-0
Letter from Julia Henrietta Jones to Laura Boardman Lane offering excuses for not writing sooner. Jones details a doctor’s success in treating Mary Deming, also a former Female Academy student, who would die the following month.
Litchfield County Bar Association Records
00-1965-24-0
This single volume record book contains various information pertaining to the Litchfield County Bar Association.
Litchfield Law School collection
1890-10-0
This collection includes materials pertaining to Tapping Reeve, James Gould, the Litchfield Law School, and alumni of the school. It was assembled by the Historical Society over a period of years. Many of the law books used by Reeve and his students are also held by the Society and can be found through the book catalog. The Society's institutional records document the history of the Tapping Reeve House and Litchfield Law School building.
Charles B. Phelps Litchfield Law School notebook
00-2022-22-0
Charles Bartlett Phelps student notes taken while studying at the Litchfield Law School. The volume is 485 pages. The page numbering starts with 501, indicating that there were likely earlier volumes.
Woodruff family collection
1953-02-2-8
The Woodruff Collection primarily documents the personal life and professional career of George Catlin Woodruff, who not only practiced law for several decades in Litchfield but also served as Litchfield's postmaster and held elected positions both locally and in the United States Congress.