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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82052258
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Earl Warren, lawyer, attorney general and governor of California, and chief justice of the United States, were given to the Library of Congress by Warren in 1974.
The papers of Earl Warren were arranged and described in 1984; an earlier version of this register was published in 1985,
Other papers of Earl Warren which relate chiefly to his early years and public service in California are held by the California State Archives in Sacramento.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Earl Warren in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
The papers of Earl Warren are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Government regulations control the use of security classified material in this collection. Manuscript Division staff can furnish information concerning access to and use of classified items.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Earl Warren Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of
Warren rose from prosecutor in
The Personal File contains private and public correspondence as well as subject files and office records. Dating from the nineteenth century only because of a lone ancestral item sent to Warren by a distant relative, this series, like virtually the entire collection, begins basically in 1953. There is much personal material such as dinner invitations, family exchanges, holiday greetings, and political reminiscences and musings, but the focus is principally on Warren's service as chief justice. Various files treat his many trips abroad, daily calendars of his scheduled activities on and off the Court, correspondence regarding social occasions with foreign dignitaries, personal correspondence with the four presidents during whose terms he served, and photographs of Warren, his family, and his associates. Warren received numerous communications from politicians, journalists, legal scholars, entertainment leaders, and ordinary people across the country writing about decisions of the Court or important national and international events. Some of these letters are classified according to such topical categories as congratulations or regrets on eventful personal developments, but the majority can be found in alphabetical files under the writer's name.
The
Supreme Court File
covers nearly every
operational and administrative aspect of the Warren Court, from the chief
justice's jurisdiction over the offices of the
clerk,
the
marshal,
and
the
reporter
to
his recommendations about air-conditioning in the courtroom. Similar materials
exist for the
lower federal
courts,
with these files being generally intact from the mid-1940s and
especially rich in
Judicial Conference
holdings. Located in
the latter subseries are the basic data of the federal legal structure for the
period. There are committee deliberations on appropriations, administrative
procedure, legal ethics, personnel, habeas corpus, retirement of judges,
bankruptcy rules, and congressional legislation as it affected the court
system. Another subseries in the
Lower Courts
File
consists of Warren's papers and records pertaining to
judges.
In
this section are assignment folders, topical files, and correspondence which
Warren exchanged with district court judges and others between 1953 and 1970.
Among those whose correspondence appears frequently are Judges
The
The
Speeches and
Writings file
is the only segment of these papers to deal firsthand with
Warren's career as governor and politician. Consisting mostly of transcripts or
carbons rather than drafts or actual presentation copies, the speeches before
1953 feature three
Another series with information about Warren's public and professional
activities outside the courtroom is the
Organizations
File,
which documents his connections with law schools, legal societies,
philanthropic agencies, his service as an ex officio member on the boards of
the
Prominent and frequent correspondents include Warren's fellow justices
on the
The collection is arranged in seven series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82052258
Correspondence with friends, acquaintances, family, and the general public, including clippings, pamphlets, and photographs.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person, institution, or topic. Letters to and from presidents are organized chronologically under the title "Presidents." The series also contains a daily office calendar of scheduled personal and official activities.
Agendas and assignment charts and books.
Organized chronologically by term, with the assignment books separated by conference date and by justice and therein chronologically.
Transcripts of arguments before the Court during the October 1968 term.
Arranged alphabetically by case.
Conference lists in typed, carbon, or other duplicated form with annotations and occasional notes by Warren or his law clerks.
Arranged chronologically by term.
Bench memoranda prepared by clerks with annotations and emendations by Warren and his law clerks.
Organized chronologically by term and within the term in numerical order under four designations: appellate, miscellaneous, original, and sundry cases.
Incoming and outgoing letters with Warren E. Burger and other associate justices during Warren's tenure as chief justice and in retirement, with appended and related matter.
Arranged alphabetically by name of associate justice. Also, subgroups of sundry memoranda to the Court, general correspondence with the public regarding Court operations and general conduct, and correspondence outside the Court with respect to its decisions. The latter subgroups are organized chronologically.
Court dockets.
Arranged chronologically by term and therein according to three principal categories: opinions handed down which cite cases by the name of the justice rendering the opinion; appellate, which cite them strictly by case number; and miscellaneous-original-sundry, also by case number.
Correspondence, applications and other miscellaneous material relating to the clerks, their responsibilities, and personal ties to Warren.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material, with the applications arranged by term, and the correspondence by name of clerk.
Administrative and financial matter regarding the operation of the clerk's office, including applications, memoranda and orders, fiscal reports, and personnel data.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of activity.
Administrative and financial matter.
Arranged alphabetically according to subject or type of activity.
Administrative files.
Arranged alphabetically according to subject, person, or type of activity.
Case files of opinions written by associate justices, including circulated and annotated briefs in various stages of deliberation, memoranda and notes exchanged between Warren and other justices, and miscellaneous printed and other background material regarding the case.
Arranged chronologically by term and therein alphabetically by case.
Case files of opinions written by Warren, including holograph versions up to the final printed copy, with additional circulated briefs, memoranda and notes exchanged among the justices, and miscellaneous background material.
Arranged chronologically by term and therein alphabetically by case.
Case files of opinions written per curiam in various stages of deliberation up to the final printed copy and with occasional memoranda and background material.
Arranged chronologically by term and therein alphabetically by case. At the end of each term is a miscellaneous file of certiorari and appeals entered on order list.
Topical files of reports, memoranda, committee records, and miscellaneous data regarding amendments to judicial rules.
Arranged alphabetically by court or subject.
Miscellaneous subject files of reports, correspondence, lists, charts, printed matter of all sorts, and other documents.
Arranged alphabetically by topic.
Subject and operational files including correspondence, memoranda, budget materials, personnel data, and other documents.
Arranged alphabetically by subject, person, or type of material.
Correspondence, memoranda, and related material concerning the planning and holding of Circuit Judicial Conferences.
Arranged according to specific circuit court and therein chronologically.
Correspondence, reports, and other committee records pertaining to the creation of the Federal Judicial Center.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
Assignment correspondence, conference reports, general correspondence between Warren and lower court judges with miscellaneous subject files concerning the federal courts.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, subject files, printed matter, committee records, and other documents relating to the operations and policies of the United States Judicial Conference.
Arranged alphabetically by committee, subject, or type of material.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, printed matter, and miscellaneous items concerning professional organizations and institutions of which Warren was a member or participant, including his chairmanship of the commission to investigate the death of John F. Kennedy.
Organized alphabetically by name of organization or institution.
Drafts of speeches, remarks, statements, and writings along with related correspondence, background material, scheduling material, and printed matter.
Speeches given as governor of California, as chief justice, or in retirement arranged under those headings and therein chronologically. Press statements and writings arranged chronologically.
Clippings in scrapbooks organized by Warren's Supreme Court office staff.
Arranged in approximate chronological order.
Classified material consisting mostly of memoranda, letters, and speeches.
Organized and described according to the series, folders, and boxes from which the items were removed.