Adrienne deVergie and Mary Kate Kell, Location Guide to the Manuscripts of Supreme Court Justices (Tarlton Law Library Legal Bibliography Series Number 24, Revised Ed. June, 1981).

Alexandra K. Wigdor, The Personal Papers of the Supreme Court Justices: A Descriptive Guide (Garland Publishing 1986).

Lee Epstein et al., The Supreme Court Compendium: Data Decisions & Developments, 353-375 (2^nd ed. Congressional Quarterly 1996) (1994) (Tables 5-11 and 5-12).

Individual Schools and Universities.

The Location Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Supreme Court Justices ("Location Guide") represents a particularly useful resource for finding information about a Justice’s papers. The Location Guide not only indicates where one can find a particular Justice’s papers, but it also identifies other collections of personal papers that hold correspondence from that Justice. For example, the Location Guide indicates that one can find Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes’ papers in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. However, the Location Guide also reveals that one can find correspondence from the Chief Justice at the Yale University Library in the papers of lawyer and diplomat John William Davis.

The Location Guide includes information about a Justice’s papers and manuscripts, "including correspondence, business papers and official records." [14] Each entry in the guide lists the repository holding the particular collection and provides the inclusive dates of the materials. [15] The authors of the Location Guide compiled the information using the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections. [16] The authors also provide a brief analytical note when a collection houses papers of a special nature. [17]

The most comprehensive source of information about the papers of the Supreme Court Justices is Alexandra K. Wigdor’s The Personal Papers of the Supreme Court Justices: A Descriptive Guide ("The Personal Papers"). The Personal Papers was originally prepared for the National Study Commission on Records and Documents of Federal Officials, also known as the Public Documents Commission. [18] Wigdor divides The Personal Papers into three parts. [19] The third part, the guide to Supreme Court collections, lists the Justices’ names alphabetically and provides information about the collections. [20] Each entry in the guide identifies the location, size, access policy, and description of the Justice’s manuscript collection. [21] The collection descriptions may be particularly helpful for determining the quality of the information found in each collection, while the collection size information may be useful for estimating where to start one’s research.

A third source of information about the Supreme Court Justices’ papers is The Supreme Court Compendium. Table 5-11, "Location of Justices’ Personal Papers," lists the Justices in alphabetical order, followed by the Justice’s appointment number, [22] the size of the collection, [23] and the location of the collection. [24] The Supreme Court Compendium is a valuable source for gaining basic information about a particular Justice’s papers.

In addition to the resources mentioned, individual schools and universities may also provide information about the collections that they house. For example, the University of Louisville has a collection of Justice Louis Brandeis’ papers, and the University provides a searchable guide to this collection on the University of Louisville Web site. [25]