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BOX 125-129 Part II: Speeches, 1933-1973
Typed and holographic drafts, printed texts, correspondence, programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, and notes pertaining to speeches and lectures delivered by Cairns.
Arranged chronologically. Lecture series are filed by date of first lecture.
BOX 125 1933, Jan., "Contract," Baltimore City Bar Association, Baltimore, Md.
1940, Nov., "Censorship in Art and Literature," Inquirendo French Club, 1940-1941
1942, Sept., "Money in the War," war bond rally, Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Md.
1946
Apr., "Philosophy as Jurisprudence," Harvard University Law School forum, Cambridge, Mass.
Oct., "The Art Museum and the Great Tradition," American Association of Museums, Washington, D.C.
1947
Feb.-Mar., James Schouler lectures on jurisprudence, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
May, "The Future of Musical Patronage in America," Harvard University symposium on music criticism, Cambridge, Mass., 1945-1951
(4 folders)
Nov., "Jurisprudence as Philosophy," National School of Jurisprudence, Mexico City, Mexico, 1947-1948
BOX 126 1948
Feb., "The Federalist," Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
Oct., "Modern Trends in Jurisprudence," Law Club trial table, Baltimore, Md.
1949
Feb., "Notes on Criticism and Anthologies," Tudor and Stuart Club, Baltimore, Md., 1949-1950
Apr., lecture on censorship, University of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville, Va.
Fall, "Theory of Criticism," lecture series, Fall 1949-Spring 1953, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 1949-1958, undated
(10 folders)
BOX 127 1951, Sept., "The Humanities and the Law," New York University Law School, dedication of law center, New York, N.Y., 1951-1952
(3 folders)
1952, Oct., "Smithsonian Institution and National Gallery of Art," Hamilton Street Club, Baltimore, Md., 1952
1953, Mar., discussion of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
1954, Nov., discussion of James Kent's Commentaries on American Law, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
1955, Feb., remarks at opening of the Kress Collection, M. H. de Young Memorial Gallery, San Francisco, Calif., 1954-1955
1957, Dec., "The Community as the Legal Order," American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, Cambridge, Mass., 1957-1959, undated
(3 folders)
1959, Sept., "The Meaning of Contemporary Art," lecture series, Sept. 1959-Sept. 1961, Foreign Service Institute, Washington, D.C.
Correspondence and background material, 1959-1961
Photographs, 1961
BOX 128 Texts, 1959-1961, undated
(2 folders)
1960, Dec., "Morris R. Cohen," Wranglers Club, Baltimore, Md.
1962, Nov., "Law and Its Premises," Benjamin N. Cardozo lecture, New York City Bar Association, New York, N.Y., 1957-1964, undated
(5 folders)
1963, Nov., "The Art of Law," Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 1962-1964
(2 folders)
1966, July, toast given at graduation luncheon, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland
1969, Nov., "Reflections on Bollingen," Princeton University Press dinner, Century Club, New York, N.Y.
1970, May, "What Is Law," John Randolf Tucker lecture, Washington and Lee University Law School, Lexington, Va., 1969-1970, undated
(3 folders)
BOX 129 1972, Sept., "Mencken, Baltimore and the Critics," Mencken lecture, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Md., 1972-1973, undated
1973, Oct., lecture on the National Gallery of Art, Dare County Library, N.C., 1969-1972, undated
Undated
"Homage to the Minos," Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1963-1965, undated
Law lectures, Hamilton Street Club, Baltimore, Md., undated
National Gallery of Art paintings lecture, undated
"The Necessity of Law," undated
Notes for lectures, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1947-1949, undated
"The Theory of Legal Science," undated
BOX 129-152 Part II: Writings, 1905-1984
Typed and holographic drafts, reprints, correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, notes, and background research files organized into writings by Cairns and by others.
Cairns's writings are arranged by type of publication, with books arranged alphabetically by title and articles and book reviews arranged chronologically. Writings by others are arranged alphabetically by author and therein by title.
BOX 129 By Cairns
Articles
1925-1939
(5 folders)
BOX 130 1940, "The Valuation of Legal Science," 1939-1940, undated
(3 folders)
1942
Feb., "The Popularization of Law"
Mar., "Chess Is a Tough Game"
Nov., "Plato's Theory of Law," 1940-1942, undated
1946
Jan., "Judge for Yourself," 1945-1946
(2 folders)
May, foreword to A Symposium in Juristic Bases for International Law
Undated
"Hobbes' Theory of Law," 1945-1947
"Leibniz' Theory of Law," 1946-1947
(3 folders)
"Sociology and the Social Sciences," 1943-1946
(2 folders)
1947
"Philosophy as Jurisprudence," 1944-1949, undated
(3 folders)
BOX 131 "Robert Briffault," 1945-1948, 1960
1948
Mar., "Composers Must Eat," 1947-1948
Nov., "Spinoza's Theory of Law," 1948-1949, 1963
1950, Jan., "Jurisprudence and Metaphysics, A Triangular Correspondence," 1949-1950
1951
Foreword to Morals and Law: The Growth of Aristotle's Legal Theory, by Max Hamburger, 1951-1952
"Morris R. Cohen," 1950-1951 (obituary notice)
1954, "Legal Theory," 1954-1955
1957, "Symbolism and 'The Language of Jurisprudence,'" 1951-1958
(3 folders)
1960
Dec., "The Legal Theory of Morris R. Cohen," 1960-1963
(3 folders)
Undated
"Comstock, Anthony," 1959-1962
"The Data of Legal Theory," 1959-1963
BOX 132 1961, contribution to "Outstanding Books, 1931-1961"
1962, preface to The Trial and Death of Socrates, 1961
1966, introduction to Two-Story World, by James Kern Feibleman, 1965, undated
1975, "The Quotable Mr. Mencken"
1977
Foreword to The Endangered Phoenix, by Robert Richman
"The Hariot Tradition"
1980, "Mencken of Baltimore"
Correspondence, 1979-1980
Drafts, undated
Notes, undated
(3 folders)
BOX 133 Reviews, 1980
Undated
"Alice Longworth: A Vignette," 1974, undated
"Casanova's Second Love," undated
"Law and the Good Life," undated
"The Uniqueness of Feibleman's Philosophy," 1972-1973, undated
Bibliography of Cairns's writings, circa 1965
Book reviews
1925-1945
(14 folders)
BOX 134 1946-1963, undated
(16 folders)
BOX 135 Books
The Collected Dialogues of Plato (1961)
Miscellany, 1961-1983, undated
Scrapbook, 1961-1964, undated
(3 folders)
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