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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79036087
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 P. Phillips, lawyer, state legislator, and United States representative from Alabama; his son, W. Hallett Phillips, lawyer; and other members of the Levy and Phillips families were obtained by gift, deposit, and purchase between 1900 and 1917 from P. Lee Phillips of Washington, D.C. In 1945 the remaining deposits were converted to a gift.
The papers of the P. Phillips family were described and arranged in 1962. The finding aid was revised in 2011.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of the P. Phillips family is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of the P. Phillips family 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.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, P. Phillips Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of the P. Phillips family span the period 1832 1914. The papers include the writings of Eugenia Levy Phillips and her parents, Jacob Clavius Levy and Fanny Yates Levy, but the bulk of the material relates to the law practice of her husband, P. Phillips (1807-1884), and his son, W. Hallett Phillips, prominent lawyers before the United States Supreme Court. Material concerning their practice is found primarily in the letterbooks, in the dockets, and in the legal record books. The collection is organized in eight series: Journal; General Correspondence, Letterbooks; Subject File; Autobiography, Speeches, and Writings; Legal File; Financial Papers; and Miscellany.
Although Eugenia Levy Phillips was an ardent Southerner, as shown in her journal written during her internment, P. Phillips apparently played an inactive role in the Civil War. There is a gap in the otherwise inclusive series of letterbooks for the period 1862 to 1867, but the period is scanned in his autobiography. Both P. Phillips and his son were champions of the disadvantaged. The elder Phillips was interested in California and the United States and Mexican Claims Commission, Key West and the slave trade, judicial reform, and in securing the repeal of the Missouri Compromise with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
There is little biographical material on W. Hallett Phillips, but something of his character can be gleaned from his notebooks, translations and miscellaneous writings. His idealism is shown in material on the preservation of Yellowstone National Park, support of the Cuban revolution, investigation of a lynching at Hahnville, Louisiana, and the defense of the rights of the Moki (Hopi) Indians of Arizona.
Correspondence is generally on legal matters and includes James B. Campbell, Edmund Strother Dargan, John Forsyth, George Wilkins Guthrie, John Marshall Harlan, William R. King, William A. Maury, Medill McCormick, Moses Cohen Mordecai, Richard Olney, Hoke Smith, Edwin McMasters Stanton, A. B. Stickney, and William Yerger.
This collection is arranged in eight series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79036087
Holograph transcript and typed transcript of the journal of Eugenia Levy Phillips.
Letters sent and received.
Arranged chronologically.
Washington, D. C. law office letterbooks of Philip Phillips; Phillips, Maury, & Phillips; W. Hallett Phillips; and Phillips & Phillips. There is some overlapping between volumes and a gap in the records of Philip Phillips for the period 1862-1867.
Arranged by name of firm and chronologically thereunder.
Correspondence, reports, and printed matter.
Arranged by subject or type of material.
Autobiography, printed speeches and statements, and "In Memoriam," of P. Phillips, and miscellaneous writings and translations of W. Hallett Phillips.
Arranged by type of material.
Deeds, will, Supreme Court brief, dockets, legal notebooks, and record books of Philip Phillips; Phillips, Maury, & Phillips; and W. Hallett Phillips.
Arranged by type of material.
Ledger, account books, receipt books, cancelled checks, and fee memorandum.
Arranged by type of material.
Commonplace books, receipt books, scrapbooks and notebooks, a copy of "Vindiciae Judaeorum," a book of quotations, notes and invitations, memorabilia, photographs, and printed matter.
Arranged by type of material.