Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Most of the items in this collection of the papers of John Marshall, lawyer and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, were donated to the Library of Congress by Catherine Eddy Beveridge in 1932 or copied by the Library in that year from papers that she retained. Other items have come to the Library by gift, exchange, and purchase, 1908-1982.
Processing History
The Albert J. Beveridge Collection of John Marshall Papers was arranged and described in 1979. The finding aid was revised in 1996 and by Joseph Burns in 2008. The finding aid was updated in 2023 by Maria Farmer as part of a division-wide remediation project by the Inclusive Description Working Group.
Related Materials
Other material relating to John Marshall is in the Manuscript Division's collections of papers of his contemporaries. Other collections of his papers are available at the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, and the American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia, Pa.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Albert J. Beveridge Collection of John Marshall Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.