Guide to the Legal Manuscripts in the New Brunswick Museum

Contains 1,352 descriptive entries consisting "largely of correspondence, file copies of documents and other papers used and kept in a law office rather than of the official records of a court." The New Brunswick Museum has "probably the largest and most important holding of lawyers' papers in the Atlantic provinces." The guide "attempts to call attention to those legal manuscripts which illuminate subjects commonly investigated by social historians but which could be located only serendipitously without such a guide." An impressive work of scholarship.