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CoUection: CLARK, WALTER, Papers
Raleigh, North Carolina
1693, 1783-1920, n.d. .
pfi, 8.1 - 8. 20
Physical Description: _c. 4000 items (5 bound volumes, 15 black boxes); letters,
arguments and briefs, accounts, affidavits, notes, commissions and appointment
muster roll, ^sketches, licenses, certificate.
Acquisition: March 11, 1911. received from Walter Clark, 54 letters from Swain
• collection including letters of Z. B. Vance, J. L. Petigru, P. C. Cameron, and
Thomas Ruffin; March 31. 19H. from Clark, 11 manuscripts from Swain collectioi
including letters from Z. B. Vance, J. L. Petigru, and W. T. Sherman; January
27. 1913. from Clark, 36 letters and other manuscripts relating to suit of
Granville heirs to recover Granville tract of land in North Carolina, part of
Swain collection; also 2 letters from W. J. Bryan to Clark, 2 letters from
Gen. F. C. Ainsworth to Gen. Stephen D. Lee, and 1 letter from Gen. Lee to
Gen. Ainsworth; February 10. 1913. from Clark, 19 letters originally part of
Swain collection; February 20, 1914. from Clark, 6 addresses, 1903-1914, and 1
opinion; June. 1916. from Clark, a letter of R. M. Saunders, 1824,
to [Swain?] and letter of Z. B. Vance, 1864, to [Swain?]; December 14. 1916.
from Clark, letter of John H. Reagan to Clark; December 29, 1916. from Clark,
13 letters to Clark from David Dudley Field, M. Romero, Herbert M; Hopkins,
Edw, A. Moseley, Florian Cajori, S. B. Weeks, Theodore Roosevelt, Wm. H. Taft,
Josephus Daniels, David J. Lewis, Roger Foster, J. C. Pritchard, and R. B.-
Glenn:- June 6-7. 1918. from Clark, 742 letters, personal correspondence;
June 10. 1918, from Clark, 168 letters; December 13. 1918. from Clark, 171
letters for his papers; March 14. 1919. from Clark, 177 letters for personal
collection; March 17. 1919. from Clark, 162 letters;
From Biennial Reports: 1918-1920. 2,770 pieces added by Chief Justice
Clark to personal papers; 1920-1922 . 569 pieces added by Clark .to collection
of manuscripts; 1,063 pieces added to personal papers; 1922-1924. 100
miscellaneous pieces added to papers by Clark. -
Description: Walter Clark (b. Halifax County, N. C., 1846; d. 1924), Con¬
federate soldier, jurist, editor, and historian. Judge, North Carolina Superic
Court, 1885-1888; Supreme Court, 1889-1924, of which Chief Justice, 1902-1924.
For detailed information, see Samuel A. Ashe and others (eds.), Biographical •
‘History of North Carolina. VII, 67-76; Dictionary of American Biography, IV, 4
140-141; and Aubrey Lee Brooks, Walter Clark, Fighting Judge, all of which are
available in the Search Room.
The Walter Clark collection is divided into two groups, the Walter Clark’ Manu¬
scripts, 1783-1913, n.d., and the Walter Clark Papers, 1693, 1858-1920, n.d.
Some of the papers in both the Walter Clark Manuscripts and the Walter Clark
Papers were collected by David L. Swain as president of the Historical Society
of the University of North Carolina,. 1844-1868, and were acquired by Clark as
executor of the estate of Swain's widow, Mrs. Eleanor H. Swain. Other
