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Call Number: SC0198
Creator:
Osborne, George E. (George Edward),
1893-1977
Title: George E. Osborne papers
Dates: 1911-1977
Physical Description:
8 Linear feet
Summary: These papers largely pertain to his teaching career at Stanford
Law School and include correspondence, memoranda, curriculum materials, Law School
publications and reports, and speeches. Other professional papers include correspondence
with his publishers, 1938-61; and correspondence with legal scholars at Harvard, West
Virginia, Minnesota, Stanford, Duke, Columbia, University of California, Chicago, and
University of Colorado, 1920-51. Correspondents include Henry W. Ballantine, Herbert C.
Jones, Marion R. Kirkwood, Douglas B. Maggs, Cyril C. Means, Justin Miller, Roscoe
Pound, and William L. Prosser. Other items include a diary for 1930 and journals for
1956-1965; correspondence with George Crothers and information on Crothers Hall at
Stanford; correspondence and typescript articles on the history of the Bohemian Grove;
biographical materials; and photographs.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Stanford University. Libraries & Academic Information Resources
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
George E. Osborne Papers (SC0198). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Scholar of mortgage and property law. Osborne received his LLB and JD degrees from
Harvard in 1919 and 1920; before joining the faculty at the Stanford Law School in 1923,
he taught at the Universities of West Virginia and Minnesota. He was appointed to the
William Nelson Cromwell Professorship in 1953, which he held until his retirement in
1958. He died in 1977.
These papers largely pertain to his teaching career at Stanford Law School and include
correspondence, memoranda, curriculum materials, Law School publications and reports,
and speeches. Other professional papers include correspondence with his publishers,
1938-61; and correspondence with legal scholars at Harvard, West Virginia, Minnesota,
Stanford, Duke, Columbia, University of California, Chicago, and University of Colorado,
1920-51. Correspondents include Henry W. Ballantine, Herbert C. Jones, Marion R.
Kirkwood, Douglas B. Maggs, Cyril C. Means, Justin Miller, Roscoe Pound, and William L.
Prosser. Other items include a diary for 1930 and journals for 1956-1965; correspondence
with George Crothers and information on Crothers Hall at Stanford; correspondence and
typescript articles on the history of the Bohemian Grove; biographical materials; and
photographs.
Folders 19-29 contain correspondence; many are congratulatory on his retirement in 1958.
The names noted for the alpha folders are not all-inclusive
Ballantine, Henry Winthrop, 1880-1951.
Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.).
Crothers, George Edward, 1870-1957.
Jones, Herbert C. (Herbert Coffin),
1881-1970.
Kirkwood, Marion Rice, 1887-1978.
Maggs, Douglas Blount, 1899-1962
Means, Cyril C.
Miller, Justin.
Osborne, George E. (George Edward),
1893-1977
Pound, Roscoe.
Prosser, William Lloyd, 1898-
Stanford University. School of Law.
Law --Study and teaching.