A Guide to the Papers of Homer Stille Cummings 1936-1974(1936-1955)
A Collection in
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 9973-e
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Preferred Citation
Papers of Homer Stille Cummings, Accession #9973-e , Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This collection was a gift to the Library from Mrs. Carl McFarland, Charlottesville, Virginia, on September 17, 1986.
Scope and Content Information
The papers contain the correspondence of Cummings with Assistant Attorney-General Carl McFarland. They discuss Cummings' accomplishments, retirement, disposition of papers and personal news.
There are frequent memoranda prepared by McFarland for Cummings, newsclippings documenting his career, a memorandum for Franklin D. Roosevelt re the reorganization of the federal judiciary between 1937 and 1939, a tribute to Benjamin N. Cardozo, and an article "The New Criminal Rules - Another Rriumph of the Democratic Process."
Alben W. Barkley and Franklin D. Roosevelt are correspondents.