| CONTAINER | CONTENTS | DATES | |
| 1-94 | I. Edward Livingston: 1764-1836 | 1781-1877
Bulk dates: 1781-1836 | |
| 1-56 | A. Correspondence | 1784-1836 | |
| 1-45 | 1. General | ||
| a. A-Z, interspersed with a general folder for each letter as needed | |||
| 1 | Abat - A Unidentified | ||
| 2 | Bach - Baynham | ||
| 3 | Beasley - Blunt | ||
| 4 | Bogart - Brent, D. | ||
| 5 | Brent, L.L. - Burr | ||
| 6 | Bushnell - Chase | ||
| 7 | Chateaubriand - Clinton | ||
| 8 | Clouet - Cowper | ||
| 9 | Cox, John, Jr. | ||
| 10 | Cox, N. - Dallas, A.J. | ||
| 11 | Dallas, G.M. - De Zeng | ||
| 12 | Deabbate - Du Bourg | ||
| 13-14 | Du Ponceau, Peter | ||
| 15 | DuPont - Elmendorf, L. | ||
| 16 | Elmendorf, P. - Flower & Faulkner | ||
| 17 | Foelix - Garcia | ||
| 18 | Gardner - Gordon | ||
| 19 | Gouge - Gurley | ||
| 20 | Hackelhorst? - Harrison | ||
| 21 | Harrod & Ogdens - Hobrow | ||
| 22 | Hodge - Hunt | ||
| 23 | Hunter - Jefferson | ||
| 24 | Jeffries - Kemper | ||
| 25 | Kendall - Lafayette | ||
| 26 | Lafitte - Le Monnier | ||
| 27 | Leaumont - Low, J. | ||
| 28 | Low, N. - Marsh | ||
| 29 | Marshall - Metcalfe | ||
| 30 | Metoyer - Morris | ||
| 31 | Morse - Ogden | ||
| 32 | Ogilvie - Piernas | ||
| 33 | Pieros - Prevost | ||
| 34 | Price - Rhind | ||
| 35 | Riano - Romayne | ||
| 36 | Roosa - Sayre | ||
| 37 | Scheffar - Slosson | ||
| 38 | Smith - Stevens | ||
| 39 | Stevenson - Thomson | ||
| 40 | Thorn - Van Benthuysen | ||
| 41 | Van Buren - Vaux | ||
| 42 | Verplanck - Webster | ||
| 43 | Weems - Willis | ||
| 44 | Williston - W Unidentified | ||
| 45 | Yates - Zavala | ||
| 45 | b. Unidentified | ||
| 1. Sent | |||
| 2. Received | |||
| c. Miscellaneous enclosures and copies | |||
| 46-56 | 2. Family (Alpha) | ||
| 46 | Armstrong, Alida to Armstrong, Robert L. | ||
| 47 | Barton, Coralie (Livingston) to Barton, Thomas Pennant | ||
| 48 | Davezac, Armand to Davezac de Castera, Mrs. Garrettson, | ||
| 49 | Catherine (Livingston) to Livingston, John (of Oak Hill) | ||
| 50 | Livingston, John R. and Elizato Livingston, John R., Jr. | ||
| 51 | Livingston, Julia to Livingston, Lewis | ||
| 52-53 | Livingston, Louise | ||
| 54 | Livingston, Margaret Beekman to McEvers, James and John | ||
| 55 | Montgomery, Janet | ||
| 56 | Niemcewicz, Julian and Susan to Tillotson, Thomas | ||
| 57-71 | B. Papers Relating to Public Office/Public Life | 1795-1836 | |
| 57 | 1. Representative to Congress for New York City | 1795-1801 | |
| a. Papers relating to Committee of Commerce and Manufacture | 1796 and undated | ||
| b. Papers relating to protection of American seamen | ca. 1796-1797 | ||
| c. Drafts of letters regarding state debts | 1796 | ||
| d. Notes on a bill for establishing a navy | ca. 1798 | ||
| e. Notes on the Alien and Sedition Bills | ca. 1798 | ||
| f. Notes on the Foreign Intercourse Bill | n.d. | ||
| g. Notes pertaining to the Jonathan Robbins incident | ca. 1800 | ||
| h. Miscellaneous speech and address notes | n.d. | ||
| i. Resolutions | 1795-1798 | ||
| j. Papers regarding blockade and privateer activity at Bermuda | 1796 | ||
| k. Miscellaneous | n.d. | ||
| 58-61 | 2. U.S. District Attorney/Mayor, New York City | 1796-1803
Bulk dates: 1801-1803 | |
| 58-60 | a. U.S. District Attorney | 1796-1803
Bulk dates: 1801-1803 | |
| 58-59 | 1. Casefiles | ||
| 58 | a. By defendant (Alpha) | ||
| 59 | b. By vessel (Alpha) | ||
| c. By merchandise | |||
| 60 | 2. Correspondence (Alpha) | ||
| 3. Bond records | |||
| 4. Miscellaneous accounts | |||
| a. Accounts of Richard Harison | |||
| b. Miscellaneous Accounts | |||
| 5. Miscellaneous papers and notes | |||
| 61 | b. Mayor, New York City | 1801-1803 | |
| 1. Writings concerning yellow fever | |||
| 2. Papers relating to a case of murder on board the ship Dolphin | |||
| 3. Papers relating to the state prison | |||
| 4. Miscellaneous | |||
| 62 | 3. Early Years in Louisiana | 1803-1816 | |
| a. Writings/Works | 1804-1815 | ||
| 1. Journal fragment: "A voyageto New Orleans | (1804?) | ||
| 2. (The Louisiana Memorial) (Drafts) | 1804 | ||
| 3. Political draft | ca. 1806 | ||
| 4. "To the public" (Broadside re: the Batture) | 1810 | ||
| 5. "An answer to Mr. Jefferson's justification of his conduct in the case of the New Orleans Batture" (Draft) | 1813 | ||
| 6. (General Jackson's tribute to the troops) (Draft) | (1815) | ||
| 7. Address to soldiers (Draft) | ca. 1815 | ||
| 8. Account of military operations terminating with the Battle of New Orleans | 1815 or later | ||
| 9. Petitions | n.d. | ||
| 10. Translation of Derbigny's Address | n.d. | ||
| b. Miscellaneous Papers | 1804-1816 | ||
| 1. Minutes of the first meeting st Fortins | May 31, 1804 | ||
| 2. Papers relating to the War of 1812 and the Committee of Public Defense | 1813-1815 | ||
| 62 | 3. Papers relating to the capture of the Essex by Phoebe and Cherub (March 28, 1813) and its aftermath | 1814-1816 | |
| c. Printed Matter | 1803-1812 | ||
| 1. Claiborne's ordinance | 1803 | ||
| 2. Rules of the Superior Court of New Orleans | n.d. | ||
| 3. Newspaper clippings and broadside | 1807-1812 | ||
| 4. Louisiana Legislator | 1820-ca.1822 | ||
| a. "An act to preserve trial by jury" (Drafts) | 1820-1821 | ||
| b. Miscellaneous papers | ca. 1820-ca. 1822 | ||
| 63 | 5. Representative to Congress for New Orleans District | 1823-1829 | |
| a. Writings | 1824-1828 | ||
| 1. An Amendment to the Constitution (Draft) | 1824 | ||
| 2. "Aux electeurs du premier district de l'etat de la Louisiane" (Published copy) | 1825 | ||
| 3. "Letter to the constituents of the First Congressional District of Louisiana" (Draft) | 1826 | ||
| 4. "Letter to the constituents" (Draft) | 1828 | ||
| 5. Miscellaneous writings (Including: "Advice to legislators of a great nation") | |||
| 6. Notes | |||
| b. Miscellaneous Papers | |||
| 1. Papers relating to the survey of sites for light beacons in the Florida Channel | 1824-1826 | ||
| 2. Papers regarding aid to Greeks | 1827 | ||
| 3. Miscellaneous | 1823-1828 | ||
| c. Printed Matter | 1823-1829 | ||
| 1. Memorials, resolutions and speeches | 1823-1829 | ||
| 2. U.S. Constitution and Rules of the House of Representatives | 1824 | ||
| 3. Broadsides relating to Jackson's campaign | 1827 | ||
| 4. Newspaper and journal clippings relating to Jackson's campaign | 1828 | ||
| 5. Miscellaneous newspaper clippings | ca. 1828 | ||
| 64 | 6. Senator from Louisiana | 1829-1831 | |
| a. Writings | |||
| b. Miscellaneous Papers | |||
| 65-68 | 7. Secretary of State | 1829-1833
Bulk dates: 1831-1833 | |
| 65-67 | a. Diplomatic letters | 1831-1833 | |
| 65 | 1. To the President of the U.S. (chrono) | ||
| 2. To Congress and Chairmen of both houses (chrono) | |||
| 66 | 3. To U.S. Ministers and Charge d'Affaires (alpha by locale, subdivided by correspondent, if necessary) | ||
| 67 | 4. To U.S. Consuls (alpha by locale) | ||
| 5. To Foreign Diplomats (alpha by locale) | |||
| 68 | b. Correspondence relating to issues | 1831-1832 | |
| 1. Northwest Boundary Dispute | |||
| 2. Falkland Islands Crisis | |||
| 3. Trade mission to the Far East | |||
| 4. Trade with other countries (by locale) | |||
| c. Writings | 1831-1832 | ||
| 1. Journal entries | 1831-1832 | ||
| 2. Jackson's Proclamation Against Nullification | 1832 | ||
| 3. An act concerning tonnage duty on Spanish vessels | 1832 | ||
| 4. An act regarding trade with Cochin China | |||
| 5. "Message" | 1832 | ||
| 6. "Message" | 1832? | ||
| 7. Opinion on the case of the Princess of Orange's jewels | (1832) | ||
| d. Miscellaneous Papers | 1831-1832 | ||
| e. Printed Matter | 1832-1833 | ||
| 1. South Carolina Ordinance | 1832 | ||
| 2. Jackson's Proclamation against Nullification | 1832 | ||
| 3. Jackson's Proclamation against Nullification (Printed on silk) | 1832 | ||
| 68a (oversized) | 4. Jackson's Proclamation against Nullification (signed by Andrew Jackson, Jan. 19, 1833) | 1833 | |
| 68 | 5. Acts of the second session of the 23rd Congress of the U.S. | 1833 | |
| 6. Circulars | 1832 | ||
| 69-71 | 8. Minister to France | 1832-1836
Bulk dates: 1833-1835 | |
| 69-70 | a. Diplomatic Correspondence | 1833-1835 | |
| 69 | 1. Letters sent: General (chrono) | ||
| 69 | 2. Letters sent to the French Ministers of Foreign Affairs (chrono) | ||
| 70 | 3. Dispatches to the U.S. Secretary of State (chrono) | ||
| 4. Passports and letters of introduction | |||
| 5. Invitations, birth and death announcements | |||
| 71 | b. Writings | 1832-1836 | |
| 1. Journal entries | |||
| 2. "France and the United States" | |||
| 3. Draft of a bill re: French spoilations claims | |||
| 4. "Short reasons for paying the American debt" | |||
| 5. Certificate of Marriage for Miss Langdon and Mr. Boreil | 1834 | ||
| 6. Message | January, 1836 | ||
| 7. Miscellaneous notes, mostly concering French spoilations claims | |||
| c. Accounts | 1833-1835 | ||
| 1. Consideration of salary | |||
| 2. Dispatches from Treasury Department (S. Pleasanton) re: settlement of accounts | |||
| 3. Correspondence from banking houses (Rothschild and Hottinguer) | |||
| 4. Disbursement Account for U.S. Legation | |||
| 5. Miscellaneous | |||
| d. Miscellaneous Papers | 1832?-1836 | ||
| 1. Translations and extracts | |||
| 2. Papers relating to a case concerning the estate of Samuel Burley | |||
| 3. Papers relating to damages awarded to a man injured by Edward Livingston's carriage in Paris | |||
| 4. Miscellaneous | |||
| 72-79 | C. Papers Relating to the Penal Code, Criminal Jurisprudence, and Related Topics | 1784-1873
Bulk dates: 1820-1836 | |
| 72-74 | 1. Correspondence | 1784-1836
Bulk dates: 1820-1836 | |
| a. Edward Livingston's Circulars | 1821-1824 | ||
| 72 | b. General Correspondence (Alpha) | 1820-1836 | |
| 1. Adams, John - Jefferson, Thomas | |||
| 73 | 2. Johnson, Henry - San Martin, Jose | ||
| 74 | 3. Scott, Joel - Unidentified | ||
| c. Tables and Data Relating to Prisons, Prisoners and Crimes | 1784-1834 | ||
| d. Mailing list | n.d. | ||
| e. List of Correspondence relating to Edward Livingston's Code compiled by Thomas Pennant Barton | n.d. | ||
| 75-76 | 2. Writings | 1822-1825 | |
| (Includes partial drafts of the Code and their Introductory Reports, legislative acts relating to prisons and penal law, the civil code, laws relating to contracts and forgery, capital punishment, and miscellaneous writings and notes.) | |||
| 77 | 3. Miscellaneous | ||
| a. Extracts and articles relating to the Penal Code | |||
| b. Observations relating to penal laws | |||
| c. Miscellaneous | |||
| 4. Printed Works by Edward Livingston | 1822-1872 | ||
| a. Rapport fait a l'Assembly General de l'etat de la Louisiane...d'un Code Penal | 1822 | ||
| b. A l'honorable Senat et a la Chambre des Representans de l'etat de la Louisiane | 1823 | ||
| c. Etraits du Code Penal Projete... | 1823 | ||
| d. (A system of penal law): Code of procedure, corrections and definitions | 1825 | ||
| e. Letter from Edward Livingston to Roberts Vaux on the advantages of the Pennsylvania system of prison discipline | 1828 | ||
| f. Remarks on the expediency of abolishing the punishment of death | 1831 | ||
| g. Expose d'un systeme de legislation criminelle pour l'etat de la Louisiane | 1872 | ||
| 78-79 | 5. Works by Others | 1823-1873 | |
| 78 | a. Bentham, Jeremy: Leading principles of a constitutional code | 1823 | |
| b. Hardie, James: History of the treadmill... | 1824 | ||
| c. Lewis, Seth: Structures on Dr. Livingston's system of penal laws | 1825 | ||
| d. Report from the committee appointed to visit the state prisons | 1825 | ||
| 78 | e. Report of the commissioners for building a state prison at Mount Pleasant | 1826 | |
| f. Speech of Mr. Thomson... | 1826 | ||
| g. Lucas, Charles: Du systeme penitentiaire en Europe | 1828 | ||
| h. The second annual report of the House of Refuge... | 1830 | ||
| i. A view and description of the eastern pennitentiary of Pennsylvania | 1830 | ||
| j. Mittermaier, Prof.: Considerationssur la penitencier de Geneve | (ca. 1830) | ||
| k. Report of the Honorable S.M. Stilwell...on the abolition of capital punishment | 1832 | ||
| l. Gilpin, Henry Dilworth: (Review of Edward Livingston's "System of penal law") (mss.) | ca. 1833 | ||
| m. Ducpetiaux, Ed.: Statistiques de la peine de mort... | ca. 1835 | ||
| n. Report relating to capital punishment | 1836 | ||
| o. Lucas, Charles: Appendice a la theorie de l'emprisonnement... | 1838 | ||
| p. Sarrut, G. and B. Saint Edme: Biographie des hommes du jour (a biography of Charles Lucas) | 1839 | ||
| q. Report in favor of the abolition of capital punishment made to the Legislature of the State of New York | April 14, 1841 | ||
| 79 | r. Hello, (J.): Notice sur la colonie agricole d'essai du Val d'Yevre | 1850 | |
| s. A charge delivered by the Recorder at the quarter sessions for Birmingham | 1855 | ||
| t. Hello, J.: Des colonies agricoles penitentiaires... | 1865 | ||
| u. Compte rendu par M. Hello...de l'ouvrage de M. Mittermaier sur la peine de mort... | 1866 | ||
| v. Hello, (J.): Notice presentant par ordre chronologique le releve et la designation des personnes et des associations qui ont pris la part la plus notable au mouvement abolitioniste de la peine de mort... | 1867 | ||
| w. Lucas, Charles: La colonie du Val-d'Yevre et la petition au senat contre sa production horticole | 1868 | ||
| x. Societe de patronage des jeunes detenus et des jeunes liberes du department de la Seine... | 1868 | ||
| y. Lucas, Charles: Rapport verbal sur les travaux de M. Mittermaier relatifs a la procedure criminelle, au droit penal et a la peine de mort... | 1869 | ||
| z. Lucas, Charles: De l'abolition de la peine de mort en Saxe | 1869 | ||
| aa. Lucas, Charles: De l'abolition de la peine de mort en Portugal | 1869 | ||
| bb. Observations presentees a la seance du 23 Avril 1870 par M. Lucas... | 1870 | ||
| 79 | cc. Lucas, Charles: Lettre a M. Leonhardt... Relaive a La Troisieme Lecture du project de code penal | 1870 | |
| dd. Lucas, Charles: Lettre a Son Excellence M. Le Compte de Bismarck...sur l'abolition de la peine de mort | 1870 | ||
| ee. Lettre de M. Ch. Lucas...a M. Van Lilaar...a l'occasion du project de loi d'abolition de la peine de mort... | 1870 | ||
| ff. Reforme penitentiaire. Congress International... | 1872 | ||
| gg. Lucas, Charles: Observations relatives au congres penitentiaire de Londres... | 1872 | ||
| hh. Annual circular of the Law Department of the University of Louisiana... | 1873 | ||
| ii. An act to amend several provisions of the Black Code | n.d. | ||
| zz. Notes found with the post-1836 works by others | |||
| 6. Newspaper and Journal Clippings | 1825-1872 | ||
| 80 | D. Writings (Miscellaneous) | 1792-1836 | |
| 1. Writings (Alpha by folder heading) | |||
| a. Address on the dedication of St. Johns Lodge (Masons) | |||
| b. Address on the installation of the officers of Erin Lodge (Masons) | 1802 | ||
| c. Address to the German Society | |||
| d. Address to the Louisiana Lodge (Masons) | ca. 1805 | ||
| e. Address to the public on the Academy of Arts | 1803 | ||
| f. (Autobiographical Jottings) | |||
| g. Case of the OTSEGO vote | (1792) | ||
| h. Deposition and letters re: Aaron Burr | 1803 and undated | ||
| i. Experiments with the steam engine | |||
| j. Report on a professorship of legislation | |||
| k. "Some pages of a novel..." | |||
| l. Story called "Hans Menhaden" (incomplete) | ca. 1806? | ||
| m. Tammany letters to the Daily Advertiser | ca. 1794? | ||
| n. "To the independent electors of the city of New York" | |||
| o. "To the independent electors of the state of New York" | (1792) | ||
| p. Translation of Justinian | |||
| q. Translations from Cicero | |||
| r. Translation of the first chapter of Burlemaqui | |||
| s. Translation? on the death of Claudius | |||
| t. Miscellaneous | |||
| 2. Notes and Notebooks | |||
| 81-86 | E. Legal Records | 1785-1842 | |
| 81 | 1. Personal Legal Matters (alpha by opposing litigant) | 1803-1842 | |
| 82 | 2. General Wilkinson Matter | 1804-1809 | |
| a. Archivists note | |||
| b. Letter of Wilkinson to Edward Livingston | 1804-1805 | ||
| c. Correspondence | 1806-1807 | ||
| d. Legal judgement and Burr letter | 1805-1806 | ||
| e. Copy of letter of Burr to Wilkinson (in hand of Edward Livingston) | 1806 | ||
| f. Edward Livingston's address to the public (draft and copy) | Dec., 1806 | ||
| g. Edward Livingston's memorial to the Legislature of New Orleans (draft) | Jan., 1807 | ||
| h. Affidavit of Edward Livingston | 1806 | ||
| i. Note (in hand of Edward Livingston) | ca. 1806 or 1807 | ||
| j. Legal documents (Proceedings, extracts, affidavits) | 1806-1807 | ||
| k. Legal notes | ca. 1808 or 1809 | ||
| l. Printed items | 1808-1809 | ||
| m. Miscellaneous | |||
| 83-86 | 3. Legal Files (Miscellaneous) | 1785-1842 | |
| 83-85 | a. A-W Files (Alpha by case, client, or A-miscellaneous, B-miscellaneous, etc.) | ||
| 83 | 1. Allard - Cornell | ||
| 84 | 2. C-miscellaneous - M-miscellaneous | ||
| 85 | 3. New Orleans Navigation Co. - W-miscellaneous | ||
| b. Agenda | |||
| c. Notebook | |||
| d. Miscellaneous | |||
| 85-86 | e. Ledgers | ||
| 87-88 | F. Financial Records | 1783-1839 | |
| 1. Accounts: General (Chrono) | 1783-1839 | ||
| 88 | 2. Bonds | 1794-1823 | |
| 3. Mortgages | 1798-1838 | ||
| 4. Checkbook | 1836 | ||
| 5. "Documents relative to my debts at New York" | 1797-1808 | ||
| G. Wills, Inventories and Miscellaneous Estate Papers | 1803-1836 | ||
| 1. Wills | 1828-1835 | ||
| 2. Inventories | 1819-1836 | ||
| 3. Miscellaneous | 1803-1836 | ||
| 89-89a | H. Certificates, Awards, Degrees, Honors, and Official Documents | 1781-1836 | |
| 1. Certificates, awards, etc. (Chrono by year) | 1781-1836 | ||
| 2. Invitations to public dinnersand requests for speeches, etc. (Alpha by organization) | 1799-1836 | ||
| 90 | I. Miscellaneous | 1796-1834 | |
| 1. Manuscript | |||
| 2. Memorabilia | |||
| 91 | J. Writings by Others (About Edward Livingston) | 1830-1877 | |
| 1. Gilpin, Henry D.: Biographical Writings (draft) | 1830-1836 | ||
| 2. Epitaph | 1836 | ||
| 3. "On a bust of the late Edward Livingston" (Poem) | 1837 | ||
| 4. Letter from William Drayton to C.C. Cambreleng on Edward Livingston's character | 1838 | ||
| 5. Biography of Edward Livingston (draft, in French) | 1836 or later | ||
| 6. Deming, Lucius P.: "Edward Livingston as law reformer" | 1877 | ||
| 7. Carleton, Henry: An account of Edward Livingston | n.d. | ||
| 8. "Notes" on the last days of Edward Livingston | n.d. | ||
| 9. "Notes" on the life of Edward Livingston | n.d. | ||
| 10. Miscellaneous printed items (includes death notices) | 1836-1838 | ||
| 92-93 (oversized) | K. Newspapers | 1807-1840 | |
| 94 | L. Miscellaneous Printed Matter | 1804-1836 | |
| 1. Unbound books and pamphlets | |||
| a. Lislet, L. Moreau: Digest General des Actes de la Legislature de la Louisiane, passes depuis l'annee 1804 jusqu'en 1827 inclusivement. Vol. II | 1828 | ||
| b. Remarks, critical and historical on an article in the forty-seventh number of the North American Review relating to Count Pulaski... | 1825 | ||
| 2. Miscellaneous | 1804-1836 | ||
| 3. Maps: See the list of oversized maps located in the Dulles Vault drawers. | |||