Description
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.
Background
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.
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