E. Barrett Prettyman papers, 1901-1971 (bulk 1945-1965) | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Correspondence, diaries, writings, subject and case files, and other papers relating primarily to Prettyman's judicial career including his work as corporation counsel of the District of Columbia, general counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, private attorney, and professor of law at Georgetown University as well as to personal affairs. Includes Prettyman's unpublished autobiography titled The Autobiography of an Obscure Man at Forty, written in 1931 with additions in 1966 and 1967; diaries recording his experiences as a rifle instructor at Camp Meade (Fort George G. Meade), Maryland, during World War I; and papers (1873-1945) relating to the ministerial career of his father, Forrest Johnston Prettyman, especially the ecclesiastical trial of Methodist Episcopal Bishop James Cannon Jr