Commonplace Book

File — Box: 3310

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: The collection contains a copy of the Lawyers Common-Place Book with an alphabetical index that includes most of the headings which occur, published in Boston, by Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1836. It is profusely annotated with notes on Alabama statute and case law through 1886. The collection also contains copies of compositions by Crenshaw while a student at the University of Alabama, a speech made at commencement, 1834, and a composition, "Education and Literary Institutions" published in the Greenville Whig, 13 June 1835, and reprinted by the Woodville (Mississippi) Republican, 11 July 1835.

Dates

circa 1835-1886

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