Series 10: Warren & Brandeis/Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter (WB), 1881-1947

Our final series, series 10, was acquired after filming began from Nutter, McClennen & Fish, successor to Warren & Brandeis/Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter. The law records document the many facets of Brandeis' career as a practicing attorney in Boston, as well as the continuing association with the firm after he joined the court.

These files document Brandeis as an estate and trust attorney in the 1880 - 1910 period; unfortunately, the more important corporate case files, where Brandeis excelled as an attorney, have been destroyed. There is also a substantial body of correspondence relating to personal property, summer cottage inquiries, and the settlement of both the Justice's and Mrs. Brandeis' estates, as well as a file on the Harvard Law School Association. Some headings supplement material filmed in our first series, NMF, reflecting Brandeis as the "people's attorney," and includes, among other things, additional material on the New York Garment Workers' Strike and Arbitration, public utilities, the Boston Elevated, and the West End Improvement Society. Bound volumes of legal diaries, lent to us by Nutter, McClennen and Fish for this microfilm edition, and cash and trial balance ledgers and other financial records from the two law, firms round out this series.

Following a law office procedure which gave an accession number to each folder title created, we have filmed this material in the original accession number order as found on the file folder; a title page identifies each new entry.

Not filmed, but available in the collection are large numbers of Brandeis checks and bank statements. An additional quantity of will and estate material has been restricted by the donor, who may permit access to qualified researchers. Information regarding access to that restricted material, as well as a list of those files, may be obtained from the University of Louisville Archives and Records Center.

Reel 145 Warren & Brandeis ... 1885 - 1891, 1941 - 1945

The reel continues with legal files from the firms, Warren & Brandeis/Brandeis, Dunbar, & Nutter, series 10. Arranged in accession number order, they include inventories of several estates, including Brandeis' own in 1941; correspondence with Albert B. Otis and other lawyers concerning arrangements for settling estates; correspondence and records relating to property management and renovation; and files dealing with Brandeis' role in collecting debts for his clients. (Boxes WB #503, 623, 661, 1070, 1112, 1455, 1459, 1489a/d)

Reel 146 Warren & Brandeis ... 1890 - 1989, 1941

Reel 146 continues the "Banash & Kornfeld-Collections" file, accession #1489. Subsequent files include: correspondence with Samuel D. Warren concerning assessments and taxation on the Boston property of S. D. Warren & Company; correspondence with Alfred L. Darrow, architect, on property renovations; correspondence with Brandeis' brother-in-law Charles Nagel of St. Louis, on investments; legal work done to determine property boundary lines for a client; and title searches. Accession #5033 is a list of securities probated for the Brandeis estate in 1941, and the reel ends with the first of several folders of litigation between the S. D. Warren Estate as stockholders against the Para Rubber Shoe Company of Boston, Massachusetts. (WB #1489e/f, 1503, 1504, 1636, 3059, 4180, 4287, 5033, 6337, 6479)

Reel 147 Warren & Brandeis ... 1887 - 1989

Continued on Reel 147 is accession #6479, the S. D. Warren Estate vs. Para Rubber Shoe Co. Included are drafts of a bill of complaint, copies of letters to other stockholders, drafts of briefs, the defendant's demurrer, notes on legal precedents, and correspondence of several principals in the case, such as: Samuel D. Warren, William Cabel Loring, H. J. Jaquith, George Putnam, and Brandeis. Other accessions found contain Brandeis correspondence on personal investments and mortgages, summer cottage inquiries, and personal letters. Two correspondents of note are his brother, Alfred, and Christopher C. Langdell of Harvard Law School. (WB #6479, 6530, 6608, 7079, 7263)

Reel 148 Warren & Brandeis ... 1880 - 1901

Brandeis' personal correspondence for 1896 - 1898, accession #7263, continues on reel 148. It includes club notices, bills for work done on personal property, and dividend and insurance statements. Other files include letters on Brandeis' personal investments; legal papers and background material concerning a change in management of the New England Mortgage Security Company; correspondence, receipted bills, applications, and mortgage papers on property Brandeis acquired; and legal papers and letters attesting to problems of probate and administration of an estate in which heirs reside outside the United States. The reel ends with personal correspondence, 1898 - 1899. (WB #7263d/f, 7267, 7821, 8176, 8338, 8664, 8676, 8889, 9543a/b)

Reel 149 Warren & Brandeis ... 1890 - 1909

Brandeis' personal correspondence, 1897 - 1900, continues on Reel 149 and includes letters on mortgages, the Harvard Law School Association, and the Associated Charities of Boston. Also found are drafts of proposed amendments to a bill before the Massachusetts legislature creating Boston's Washington Street Subway; drafts of a Brandeis speech, "What Loyalty Demands" given before the New Century Club in October, 1905; additional personal correspondence 1906 - 1908, including letters from Norman Hapgood, Frank W. Tausigg, Alice H. Grady, and a copy of a Charles Nagel letter to Alfred Brandeis; and correspondence on several properties Brandeis owned, discussing repairs and problems of finding suitable tenants. (WB #9543c/e, 9693, 9713, 9840, 14539, 16598, 16853, 16854a/b)

Reel 150 Warren & Brandeis ... 1896 - 1909

Correspondence and expense records on two of Brandeis' rental properties, Guild Street in Roxbury, and the Medford, Mass. property, continue on reel 150. Letters discuss problems involved with property management: rent collection, repairs, and redecorating, and the expense records document the cost of repairs, taxes, and utility charges. There is also correspondence over a fifteen year period with Letitia B. Evans concerning a mortgage that Brandeis held from her. The reel ends with "merger" correspondence, 1907 - 1909, supplementing material found in the original Brandeis Papers at the University of Louisville, filmed on reels 1 through 7. Correspondents include Norman H. White, James S. Harlan, and Joseph B. Eastman. (WB #16854c/f, 16855, 16883, 17720-7a/f)

Reel 151 Warren & Brandeis ... 1898 - 1908

Reel 151 consists entirely of material related to the proposed merger between the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad and the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1907 - 1908. Included among the correspondence is an alphabetical file of cover letters and replies to Brandeis' pamphlet "Financial Condition of the New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad Company and of the Boston and Maine Railroad," sent to concerned and influential citizens (see article from the Boston Evening Transcript January 7, 1908, in Merger III scrapbook, reel 126, frames 1026-1031). There are also briefs, evidence and clippings of a suit brought by the Massachusetts Attorney General against the New Haven railroad's attempt to merge the state's street railways; drafts of proposed state legislation prohibiting railroad mergers; and printed extracts of financial information concerning New England railroads. (WB 17720-79, 17720-14, 17720-15, 17720-26, 17720-27, 17720-38, 17720-40a/e)

Reel 152 Warren & Brandeis ... 1907 - 1909

Correspondence, financial reports, memos, draft computations, and Brandeis' statement before the Massachusetts legislative committee on railroads, May 19, 1909, continue the New England railroad merger material on reel 152. A survey of opinions on the merger, sent out by the Massachusetts state branch of the American Federation of Labor, is also found. Brandeis' household receipts for 1908 - 1909 and personal correspondence, 1909, complete the reel. Correspondents include James J. Storrow, Otto A. Wehle, Alfred Brandeis, Meyer Bloomfield, Frank W. Taussig, Garrett Droppers, Norman H. White, Samuel Merwin, and Norman Hapgood. (WB #17720-40f/g, 17720-47, 17720-54, 17720-60, 17732, 17740, 17769, 17774-13)

Reel 153 Warren & Brandeis ... 1888 - 1911, 1926 - 1929

Reel 153 continues documentation of Brandeis' interest in the New England railroad merger, with copies of 1906 and 1907 annual reports for the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad. This includes penciled financial summaries that Brandeis compiled, as well as tariff rate sheets for eastern railroads. A 1907 codicil to Brandeis' will; folders of correspondence on civic affairs; personal correspondence, 1909 - 1910; and correspondence and legal papers regarding Adolph Brandeis' estate are also found. The reel ends with Brandeis household receipts for such Boston merchants as Jordan Marsh and S. S. Pierce. Correspondents include W. Sumner Coggan of the Malden Universalist Men's Club, Mary Morton Kehew of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Charles Nagel, Louis B. Wehle, Stephen T. Mather, Ray Stannard Baker, Otto Wehle, and Alfred Brandeis. (WB #17774-42, 17774-44, 17774-49, 17778, 17875, 17876, 17877, 17881, 17907, 17908, 17909, 18015, 18066, 18332, 18334a/c)

Reel 154 Warren & Brandeis ... 1898 - 1911

Brandeis' household receipts, 1909 - 1910, continue on reel 154. Also on this reel are drafts of two Brandeis speeches, "Organized Labor and Efficiency" given before the Boston Central Labor Union, April 2, 1911 and "Elimination of Waste--the Key to Prosperity" at the Economic Club of New York, March 27, 1911; correspondence concerning mortgages on property in West Roxbury, Cambridge, and other places; and an index to invitations to speak for 1911. (See also NMF 41-1, Reel 25, Frames 0000-0417.) The reel ends with Brandeis' legal diary slips, January to April, 1911. (WB #18334d/i, 18441, 18880, 19051, 19052, 19061, 19088, 19091, 19092, 19093, 19196, 19362a/b)

Reel 155 Warren & Brandeis ... 1895 - 1915

Brandeis' legal diary slips, May - December, 1911, continue on reel 155. Mortgage applications, correspondence and expense records for improvements made to a variety of mortgaged properties; a 1911 handwritten draft to a codicil to Brandeis' will; and bank deposit material illustrating Brandeis' role as an estate executor are also found. The reel ends with correspondence on the rental and sale of property in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. (WB #19362c/f, 19424, 19452, 19455, 20386, 20387)

Reel 156 Warren & Brandeis ... 1904 - 1916

Reel 156 begins with correspondence outlining Brandeis' legal work on a real estate purchase by his nephew Harry B. Wehle. Other material includes reports and memoranda pertaining to the New York Ladies' Tailors' strike, 1911 - 1912; draft legislation on the incorporation of the Boston Elevated Company, as proposed by the Public Franchise League; and drafts of two Brandeis speeches, "On Hours of Labor" given before the New England branch of the National Civic Federation, January 11, 1906 and "Business--a Profession," the Brown University commencement address of June 19, 1912. The reel ends with household vouchers for 1915. Correspondents include Otto Wehle, Julius Henry Cohen, and William G. Marks. (WB #20393, 204541, 204591, 20544, 205741 221071 22109, 22112, 22116, 22120, 22121. 22122, 22123)

Reel 157 Warren & Brandeis ... 1907 - 1916

Brandeis' role as an estate attorney is illustrated by his correspondence at the beginning of reel 157 with the trustees of the Samuel Watts estate (accession #22158.) The reel also includes handwritten legal diary slips for 1914 - 1915 (broken dating); handwritten and typescript drafts of several Brandeis manuscripts on price fixing, including remarks before the Association of National Advertising Managers, New York, May 14, 1913; and sample announcements, lists of recipients, and incoming correspondence generated by Brandeis' retirement in 1916 from the law firm of Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter to become Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. (WB #22158, 22216, 22274, 22278, 22279, 22585a/e)

Reel 158 Warren & Brandeis ... 1912 - 1916

Lists and correspondence concerning Brandeis' 1916 retirement from the law firm, Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter, continue on reel 158. Initial organizing efforts of Boston's American Jewish Relief Committee, 1914; draft agreements with Small, Maynard & Co. to publish the Brandeis book Business--A Profession; correspondence and published material generated by such 1915 peace groups as the World Peace Foundation, New York Peace Society, American Peace Centenary Committee, and League to Enforce Peace; and handwritten statistical reports on railroads involved in the New England transportation merger are also found. The reel ends with routine business correspondence between Brandeis and his law office staff. Correspondents include Paul U. Kellogg, Charles L. Bernheimer, and Lillian D. Wald. (WB #22585f/i, 22604, 22606, 22609, 22610, 22626, 22628, 22629a)

Reel 159 Warren & Brandeis ... 1909 - 1916

Discussion of bookkeeping matters between Miss Peabody and Miss Grady of the Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter office staff and the Brandeises continue on reel 159. Personal correspondence for 1916 is also found, with letters of note from Gifford Pinchot, Alfred Brandeis, George P. Eustis, Louis B. Wehle, Felix Frankfurter, C. W. Whitney, Charles Henry Dana, Roy W. Howard, John R. Lazenby, Harold Laski, Garrett Droppers, and Walter Lippmann. Requests for charitable contributions, a draft of Brandeis' speech "Interlocking Directorates" given before the Conference of Mayors, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 13, 1914; and handwritten legal diary slips for 1916 end this reel. (WB #22629b/e, 22630, 22631, 22632, 22649, 22651)

Reel 160 Warren & Brandeis ... 1903 - 1916

Reel 160 opens with drafts of two Brandeis speeches: "The Living Law," given before the Chicago Bar Association, January 3, 1916, and "True Americanism," the July 5, 1915 oration at Faneuil Hall, Boston. Other material found is correspondence and reports of the Harvard Law Review Association; correspondence with Felix Frankfurter; Brandeis household vouchers for 1915 - 1916; and correspondence on a variety of transportation issues, including the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen's support of Brandeis' Supreme Court nomination and material on the reorganization of the Eastern Steamship Corporation. Correspondents include Joseph H. Beale, Ezra R. Thayer, Roscoe Pound, Walter E. Weyl, and Jacob Billikopf. (WB #22655, 22656, 22660, 22665, 22667, 22669, 22675, 22677, 22680, 22683, 22686, 22689, 22690, 22698)

Reel 161 Warren & Brandeis ... 1896 - 1917

Personal correspondence files that discuss topics such as vacation plans for the summer of 1911 and proposed renovation of the Brandeis house in Dedham, Massachusetts, begin reel 161. There is also correspondence and legal papers on several outstanding mortgages, and discussion with Samuel Untermyer on the financial outlook for the Wabash and Pittsburgh Terminal Company. The reel ends with letters from Jacob deHaas on the Federation of American Zionists, as well as correspondence concerning Brandeis' personal investments. (WB #22705, 22801, 22802, 22813, 22815, 22816, 22825, 22832, 23408, 23409, 23410, 23494, 23497, 23684)

Reel 162 Warren & Brandeis ... 1889 - 1920

Reel 162 contains examples of Brandeis' interest in mortgaged property in the Boston area. These files include loan applications, legal papers, and correspondence. One mortgaged property was the Boston Bookbinding Company plant, Cambridge, Mass. (Accession #23686) whose treasurer was Norman H. White. White was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1907 - 1909 and aided Brandeis during the legislative battle to set up the Savings Bank Life Insurance program. He also sided with Brandeis against the New Haven-Boston & Maine merger. Also found are the constitution, by-laws, and financial statements of the Harvard Law Review Fund, Brandeis household and personal vouchers, 1916 - 1919, and correspondence with Filene's of Boston concerning the unauthorized use of Brandeis' name for charitable solicitation. (WB #23685, 23686, 23687, 23688, 23689, 23690, 23778, 24166, 24168, 24390, 24586a/c)

Reel 163 Warren & Brandeis ... 1899 - 1921

Brandeis' interest in several pieces of mortgaged property in the Boston area continues on reel 163. Personal and miscellaneous correspondence, 1916 - 1919 is also found. This includes letters between Brandeis and Miss Malloch of the Nutter, McClennen and Fish law office, who handled many of the Justice's financial matters after his appointment, and arrangements for the Brandeises' move to Washington in 1916. Correspondents include Alice G. Brandeis, William H. Dunbar, and Paul Kellogg. (WB #24586d/h, 24600, 24829, 25236, 25238, 34087a

Reel 164 Warren & Brandeis ... 1916 - 1942

Reel 164 continues Brandeis' personal correspondence, 1916 - 1930. This includes requests to supply Brandeis-related pamphlets, letters on personal finances, and letters from family and friends, including Susan and Elizabeth Brandeis, Mary Fels and Elizabeth G. Evans. The reel concludes with correspondence and drafts of Brandeis' will and communications between the trustees and others on disposition of the estate after the Justice's death in October, 1941. Correspondents here include Elizabeth Brandeis Raushenbush, E. Louise Malloch, Robert Cogswell and Louis B. Wehle. (WB #34087b/f, 42401, 44881, 50338-1a/b)

Reel 165 Warren & Brandeis ... 1941 - 1942

Correspondence related to the settlement of Brandeis' estate, 1941 - 1942, is found on reel 165. Arrangements for having the Justice's securities and household contents appraised, continuing financial commitments that Brandeis had made, and notices of memorials planned for the Justice are among the other topics. Correspondents include Elizabeth Brandeis Raushenbush, Alice G. Brandeis, E. Louis Malloch, Susan Brandeis Gilbert, Robert F. Cogswell, Louis B. Wehle, and Paul Kellogg. (WB #50338-1c/g, 50338-2, 50338-3, 50338-4a)

Reel 166 Warren & Brandeis ... 1941 - 1947

Reel 166 contains further correspondence between E. Louise Malloch, Elizabeth Brandeis Raushenbush, Alice G. Brandeis, and Susan Brandeis Gilbert and others concerning settlement of the Justice's estate after his death in October, 1941. Other estate material found includes: questions surrounding payment of Missouri state tax on securities Brandeis held; receipted bills generated by the trustees; and copies of notarized signatures giving offset powers to the trustees to accompany bond maturities. Materials related to the settlement of Mrs. Brandeis' estate, after her death in 1945, are also part of this reel. Included are property inventories, receipted bills, working papers for probate, correspondence, and a final accounting. Of interest are typed copies of remarks made by Felix Frankfurter and Fola LaFollette at Mrs. Brandeis's funeral. (WB #50338-4b/g, 50338-5, 50338-6, 50338-7, 50339-1, 50339-2, 50339-4, 50339-5, 50339-6, 50339-7a) Accession #50339-3 contains cancelled checks and was not filmed.

Reel 167 Warren & Brandeis ... 1878 - 1947

The final accounting for the Alice G. Brandeis Estate, begins reel 167. Five unnumbered records are also found. They are: correspondence, 1934 - 1937, concerned with Brandeis' personal investments; background material, handwritten legal briefs, and a printed plaintiff's brief in Joseph Dromitzer, et al v. the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge Co., heard in the Circuit Court of the U.S. District of Massachusetts, October 1880 term, in which Samuel D. Warren and Louis Brandeis acted as counsel for the plaintiff; additional Brandeis biographical material; correspondence between Alpheus T. Mason and Edward F. McClennen relative to Mason's book on Brandeis; and bills and receipts for repair work on Copley Hall, Boston. The reel ends with the first of the bound volumes representing the financial records of Brandeis' law firms. Their titles are: Petty Cash I, W. & B., 1883 - 1887; Petty Cash, W. & B., 1887 - 1891; and W. & B., Ledger, 1880 - 1884. (WB #50339-7b, 5 unnumbered folders)

Reels 168 through 184 Warren & Brandeis ... Ledgers, Legal Diaries and Other Bound Volumes 1880 - 1916

Reel 168
W. & B., Ledger, 1880-1884, continued from Reel 167.
W. & B., Ledger, 1884-1889.
(W. & B., Ledger) 1884-1891.

Reel 169
W. & B., Ledger, c.1,1890-1894.
W. & B., Ledger, c.2, 1890-1894.
W. & B., Ledger,1896-1899.

Reel 170
Cash), Oct. 1892-Dec. 1895.
Cash, W. & B., January 1896-Nov. 1898.
(Cash), Dec. 1890-March, 1901.
(Cash), April, 1901-Feb., 1903.

Reel 171
Cash, B. D. & N., March, 1903-January, 1906.
Cash, B. D. & N., February, 1906-November, 1908.
(Cash), December, 1908-May, 1911.

Reel 172
(Cash), June, 1911-October, 1913.
Cash, B. D. & N., November, 1913-October, 1916.
(Cash), January, 1892-December, 1896.
(Cash), January, 1897-October, 1899.

Reel 173
Cash, B. D. & N., November, 1899-August, 1902.
Cash, September, 1902-September, 1905.
Cash, B. D. & N., October, 1905-November, 1908.
(Cash), December, 1908-November, 1911.
Cash, B. D. & N., November, 1911-July, 1914.
(Cash), August, 1914-October, 1918.

Reel 174
"Sundries, Expense, Labor," April,1891-June,1891.
"Carpenter," November, 29, 1902.
(Carpenter), April 1, 1903.
(Carpenter), 1904.
(Carpenter), (December 24-February 6) n.d.
(Carpenter), (February 15-December 30) n.d.
(Carpenter), (December 28-Dec. 20) n.d.
Cash, Carpenter, n.d.
(Account Record), 1901-1906.

Reel 175
(Account Record), 1906-1912.
Trial Balance, 1905-1911.
Trial Balance, Comparative Tables, n.d.
Journal, March 15, 1901.
Miscellaneous Accounts, 1901-1902.
Insurance Policy Records, Expiration dates, 1899-1907.
Insurance Policy Records, Expiration dates, 1902-1912.
Securities Listing (old book), n.d.
L.D.B.--Settlement with firm, 1916.
Letterbook, 1940-1941.
State of New Hampshire vs. Walter T. Martin, 1890-1891.

Reel 176
State of New Hampshire vs. Walter T. Martin, 1890-1891.

Reel 177
State of New Hampshire vs. Walter T. Martin, 1890-1891, continued from Reel 176.
Standard Legal Diary, 1892.
Legal Diary, 1894.

Reel 178
Legal Diary, 1895.
Legal Diary, 1896.

Reel 179
Legal Diary, 1897.
Legal Diary, 1898.

Reel 180
Standard Legal Diary, 1899.
Legal Diary, 1902.

Reel 181
Standard Diary, 1903.
Legal Diary, 1903-1904.
Standard Legal Diary, 1904.

Reel 182
Standard Legal Diary, 1904, continued from reel 181.
Standard Legal Diary, 1905-1906.
Standard Legal Diary, JJK, 1910.
Massachusetts Lawyers Diary, JJK, 1911.

Reel 183
Legal Diary, 1911 -1912.
Standard Diary, 1912.
Massachusetts Lawyers Diary, JJK, 1912.
Legal Diary, 1913-1914.

Reel 184
Legal Diary, 1913-1914.