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Copyright statement
Copyright (c) 2001. The University of Tennessee Libraries. All Rights Reserved. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute these materials for educational, research, and not-for-profit purposes, without fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph appear in all copies, modifications, and distributions. For commercial license to use contact, University of Tennessee Libraries, Office of the Dean, Permissions, 1015 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996-1000.

Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Metcalfe, Westmoreland Heights, Knoxville, donated this material to Dean Wicker for the Law Library, together with a gavel and robes belonging to the late Edward Terry Sanford, former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Metcalfe is the grandson of Justice Edward T. Sanford. The gavel and robes will be used in our Moot Court.

Scope and Content Note
The collection includes autographed photographs and letters from famous personages. Although Mrs. Metcalfe believes that she will have no further use for these items, she, her husband and daughter wish to reserve the right to withdraw any or all of such autographs from the collection at any time.

Container List

Autographs envelope:

- Crossword puzzle or acrostic.
- Announcement of Memorial services for Warren G. Harding.
- Invitation to Memorial services for Warren G. Harding.
- Program for Memorial services for Warren G. Harding.
- Certificate of membership in Harding Memorial Association.
- Certificate of honorary membership in Sanford Law Club (Harvard).
- Telegram -- James C. McReynolds, May 15, 1908.
- Letter -- Frank B. Kellogg.

-- W.H. Wilmer, M.D., Jan. 28, 1925.
-- George Sutherland, July 13, 1928.
-- George Sutherland, May 18, 1928.
-- William H. Taft, Sept. 1, 1923.
-- William H. Taft, Feb. 24, 1924.
-- William H. Taft, Dec. 24, 1924.
-- William H. Taft, Sept. 15, 1929.
-- William H. Taft, July 26, 1923.
-- William H. Taft, April 1, 1926.
-- William H. Taft, Feb. 5, 1926.
-- W.H.T., undated.
-- W.H.T., undated.
-- Walter H. Page, April 23, 1913.
-- Walter H. Page, April 11, 1910.
-- A. Lawrence Lowell, Feb. 7, 1928.
-- A. Lawrence Lowell, Feb. 26, 1924.
-- Adolph Lewisohn, Aug. 15, 1924.
-- L.D. Tyson, Nov. 13, 1924.
-- Charles W. Eliot, May 26, 1924.
-- James J. Davis, Jan. 23, 1925.
-- Herbert Hoover, July 23, 1926.
-- Helen H. Taft, Jan. 2.
-- Alton B. Parker, May 16, 1924.
-- Charles E. Hughes, Feb. 16, 1930.
-- Charles E. Hughes, Oct. 27, 1923.
-- Charles E. Hughes, March 12, 1930.
-- William D. Mitchell, undated.
-- Charles Mac Veagh, Sept. 28, 1925.
-- Helen Keller, Jan. 15, 1926.
-- Elihu Root, George W. Wickersham, William Draper Lewis, Dec. 19, 1928.
-- Oliver W. Holmes, Jan. 1, 1925.
-- Oliver W. Holmes, undated.
-- J.C. McReynolds, March 14, 1914.
-- William A. Sunday, Feb. 17, 1923.
-- C.C. Langden, July 21, 1887.
-- Horace H. Lurton, Sept. 24, 1909.
-- Horace H. Lurton, May 20, 1908.
-- K.W.B., Sept. 13, 1929.
-- K.W.B., June 27, 1928.
-- M.E. Jackson, Jan. 22, 1883.
-- Calvin Coolidge, Nov. 11, 1924.
-- Shaw, July 16, 1924.
-- Gladys Szichiney, undated.

Addresses envelope:

- Monsieur and Madame Jusserand.
- Boys School.
- George Peabody College for Teachers. (2)
- Tennessee Centennial, Nashville, June 17, 1897.
- Welcome to Governor Robert Taylor, Knoxville Carnival, Oct. 14, 1897.
- Harvard Alumni Association, June 19, 1924.
- Charles W. Eliot's 90th birthday.
- Tennessee Bar Association, May 26, 1911.
- Tennessee Bar Association, June or July 1923.
- U.T. Alumni address, June 12, 1894.
- U.T. Alumni address, June 16, 1903.

Addresses and materials for addresses envelope:

- Establishment of federal judicial system -- summary of address at Mobile and Cincinnati. (2 copies)
- Establishment of federal Judiciary, Grand Rapids, Sept. 7, 1923.
- The convention that made the Nation, Grant University, about 1904.
- Notes, articles, parts of speeches, etc.

Law memos and 1 opinion envelope:

- Whitney vs. People of state of California.
- Note to Knoxville Office Company $1241.00.
- Memorandum as to stay of execution in Alaska Habeas Corpus matter.
- Memo: Infamy at common law creating incompetency as witness.
- Memo: Upon liability of owner of a vessel for a conspiracy with the master whereby the latter departs for a foreign port in violation of Rev. Sts. sec. 4197.

Portraits: (in oversize folders)

- Charles J. Bonaparte (autographed).
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (autographed).
- Horace W. Lurton (autographed).
- Harlan F. Stone (autographed).
- George Sutherland (autographed).
- Supreme Court [McReynolds, Holmes, Taft, Van Devanter, Brendeis, Sanford, Sutherland, Butler, Stone (autographs)].
- William H. Moody (autographed).
- Oil portrait: Sanford.

Diplomas: (of Edward T. Sanford) (in oversize folders)

- Edward T. Sanford -- admitted to practice law in U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal -- 6th.
- Edward T. Sanford admitted and qualified as attorney and counsellor of Supreme Court of United States.
- Harvard diploma -- B.A.
- Harvard diploma -- M.A.
- Harvard diploma -- Law.
- Associate Justice of Supreme Court appointment.

Edward T. Sanford license to practice (mounted on cardboard).