Holdings:
* UM-System
* Columbia
Call Number:
Box 1-073668
(C:12/3/3)
Box 2-073669
Box 3-073670
Box 4-073671
Box 5-073672
Box 6-073673
Box 7-073674
Box 8-073675
Box 9-073676
Box 10-073677
Box 11-073678
Box 12-073679
Box 13-073680
Box 14-073681
Box 15-073682
Box 16-073683
Box 17-015469
Box 18-040262
Box 19-004119
Box 20-004120
Box 21-004167
Box 22-004201
Box 23-045783
Box 24-UMLD1
OSB 1-Ellis
OSF 1-MC
Lieutenant George R. Neblett, J.A.G.D.; Brigadier General Thomas H. Green, Assistant Judge Advocate General; Major William F. Fratcher, J.A.G.D.;10/1947 (Official Signal Corps Photo)
(University Archives, C:12/3/3, Box 22, FF 4)
Record Group: 12 C
Record Sub-Group: 8
Records Title: UMC; School of Law; Faculty; William Franklin Fratcher Papers
Dates: 1644-1996, bulk 1940-1990
Volume: 24 cubic feet, 30 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
(A83-50; A88-07; A89-01; A91-78; A92-103; A93-76; A01-85)
This Record Sub-Group contains general correspondence, including documents from Fratcher's service on tenure committees and library committees; Law School correspondence; typed manuscript articles; off-print copies of articles; papers relative to Fratcher's work as a reporter of the Uniform Probate Code Committee; speeches and addresses; lecture notes; examinations; documents relating to work on ABA special committee on military justice; correspondence, Association of Law Schools; copies of books published; minutes of Law Faculty meetings; and documents relating to military service as member of the Judge Advocate General's staff. This Record Sub-Group also contains family personal papers, including newspapers from the Civil War and World War II; German handbills and a newsletter; a newspaper regarding the civil riots in Detroit; funeral register book; scrapbook; photograph negatives; pocket diaries; diplomas; proclamation; awards; certificates; various memorabilia including photographs, newspaper clippings, personal handwritten and typed letters, invention copyright, publications, investment, retirement, insurance documents, tribute items and correspondence, poetry, religious research, sympathy correspondence, funeral programs, publications, resumes; personal documents such as licenses, wills, yearbooks, etc.
Biographical Note:
William Franklin Fratcher was born in Detroit Michigan, April 4, 1913. He graduated from Wayne State University (1933), University of Michigan (1936,1951,1952), and Command and General Staff School, United States Army, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (1944). His resume includes positions as Judge Advocate (Captain, Major and Lieutenant Colonel), United States Army (1941-1947), including Chief, War Crimes Branch, Legal Division, Office of Military Government for Germany (United States), Berlin; and Colonel, Army of the United States, retired 1973. Fratcher taught at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1947 to 1992. He also held visiting professorships at various American universities, and was an Honorary Member of the Faculty of Laws of King's College, University of London (1963-1964). Fratcher's numerous other positions include Reporter for the Uniform Probate Code (1963-1970) and Reporter for The Missouri Bar projects for revision of Missouri probate, guardianship and trust laws (1973-1983). Fratcher contributed some 85 articles, comments, notes, and book reviews to various law reviews and other periodicals. He was the author of numerous publications, including The Law of Future Interests and The Law of Trusts; and co-author of many publications, including Manual for Courts-Martial, U.S. Army and Introduction to the Law of the United States. William Franklin Fratcher died June 6, 1992.
Series Descriptions:
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into series. The Sub-Group is arranged topically.
Note to Researcher: This collection contains one photocopied article from 1644. There are three American almanacs from the 1700's and several newspapers from the 1800's; however, the vast majority of this collection is dated from the 20th century.
Note to Researcher: Some of the records in this Sub-Group are restricted and cannot be made available to the public (see restrictions note at the end of this page).
Inventory
Box 1
FF 1 - Academic tenure regulations, 1950-1972
FF 2 - Minutes: UMC Tenure Committee (University of Missouri Tenure Committee meeting minutes, correspondence, documents), 1969-1972
FF 3 - Dean's Kudos (Memoranda from the dean's office noting accomplishments of members of the Law faculty), 1977-1978
FF 4 - Law School Schedule Committee (teaching assignments), 1977-1978
FF 5a - Clarence E. Stevens, Jr. tenure case, 1971-1974 [Restricted]
FF 5b - Clarence E. Stevens, Jr. tenure case, 1971-1974 [Restricted]
FF 5c - Clarence E. Stevens, Jr. tenure case, 1971-1974 [Restricted]
FF 6 - Marion W. Clark tenure case, 1972-1973 [Restricted]
FF 7 - Robert J. Crowson and Donna J. Holt tenure case; University Laboratory School, 1973-1974 [Restricted]
FF 8 - Ralph C. Dobbs (tenure case), 1969 [Restricted]
FF 9 - Lawrence C. Kingsland, tenure case, 1970 [Restricted]
FF 10 - Harold O. Norton's case file (educational director of the Delta Area Head Start program), 1972-1973 [Restricted]
FF 11 - Antonia Iglesias Searles tenure status (instructor in Modern Language), 1970-1971 [Restricted]
FF 12 - Patricia Wake tenure status (University Laboratory School) , 1970 [Restricted]
FF 13 - Patrick T. Dougherty, tenure case (decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in the case of Dougherty v. Walker), 1970-1971 [Restricted]
FF 14 - Library Committee - University of Missouri (letters and documents, including documents and constitution of the "Friends of the Library," committee assignments, Book Allocation Fund), 1959-1969
FF 15 - UMC Library Committee (correspondence and memoranda, meeting minutes, reports, budget allocations for books, book purchase requests, responses to changes in the Faculty Loan policy), 1972-1974
FF 16 - UMC Library Committee (correspondence and memoranda, meeting minutes, circulation reports, letters and documents pertaining to the Law Library, copy of Arts and Science faculty journal "Center and Periphery: A Proposed Plan-of-Action for the University of Missouri-Columbia Library," "The University Libraries Now: A Report of Recommendations for Library Development," correspondence relating to appointment of new Director of Libraries), 1975-1978
Box 2
FF 1 - Recommendation letters (copies of letters for former students, friends, and associates), 1948-1983
FF 2 - Rules and regulations - faculty (policy statement relating to employment, policy on private law practice of full time faculty, eligibility standards for admission to Law School), ca. 1958
FF 3 - Law School pre-1961 (copy of a trust agreement [F. Nelson Memorial Fund]; "Alumni Directory University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, 1869-1959;" photographs of "New Students," "Second year" students, and "Seniors"), 1958-1959
FF 4 - Law School (correspondence and memoranda, Constitution of University of Missouri-Columbia Law Student Association, policy statements relating to maintenance of good standing in Law School, "Berryman Henwood Fund" correspondence, regulations regarding examinations, correspondence concerning the Law Library, correspondence concerning books in Lincoln Collection), 1961-1965
FF 5 - Law School (faculty memoranda relating to the Law School's policies and programs; rules on faculty membership, manual on Missouri Law Review policies, long range planning report, 1967, Missouri Law Review instruction manual), 1966-1968
FF 6 - Law School (faculty memoranda, Faculty Committee meeting minutes, Report of the Faculty Council, documents dealing with minority enrollment in the Law School), 1969-1970
FF 7 - Law School (departmental memoranda, letters, minutes, statements of policy relating to faculty and students), 1970-1971
FF 8 - Law School (departmental memoranda, letters, minutes, statements of policy relating to faculty and students), 1972-1973
FF 9 - Law School (departmental memoranda, letters, minutes, statements of policy relating to faculty and students), 1974-1976
FF 10 - Law School (departmental memoranda, letters, minutes, statements of policy relating to faculty and students, "Report on the University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Law," "Report of the Faculty Ad Hoc Committee on Law Buildings Needs"), 1977
FF 11 - Law School (departmental memoranda, letters, statements of policy relating to faculty and students; copy of The Law School Transcript, December 1977/ January 1978), 1978
FF 12 - Law School (memoranda, letters, statements of policy relating to faculty and students), 1979
FF 13 - Law School (memoranda, letters, statements of policy relating to faculty and students),1979
Box 3
FF 1 - Law School (departmental memoranda, letters, statements of policy relating to Law School faculty and students; correspondence relating to new Law School building; accreditation; Student Handbook),1980
FF 2 - Law School (departmental memoranda, letters, statements of policy relating to Law School faculty and students; correspondence relating to the selection of a dean to replace Allen E. Smith), 1981-1982
FF 3 - Law School minutes (Law faculty meeting minutes), 1977-1981
FF 4 - Law School curriculum - secondary files (memoranda relating to planning, revising, and evaluating Law School curriculum; "A Survey of Courses Offered in Law Schools of the United States in International Law and Related Subjects," 1960; "Association of American Law Schools Visitor's Report on the University of Missouri-Columbia school of Law," 1964; syllabi of faculty members' courses, 1966), 1958-1966
FF 5 - Law School Curriculum Committee (meeting minutes, memoranda, report), 1966-1974
FF 6 - Law School Library Committee (documents relating to budget, book purchases, and space in the law library; correspondence relating to the position of Law Librarian, 1969; "University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law: Annual Report of Law Librarian, for the year 1969-1970;" "University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law Librarian, for the year 1970-1971;" "Draft Standards for Law Education, 1971"), 1966-1971
FF 7 - Law School Library Committee (memoranda and letters relating to Law Library budget, Law Library autonomy, correspondence relating to Law Librarian Elizabeth Ellington Parrington), 1972-1978
FF 8 - Law Review Committee (meeting minutes, recommendations for editorial board, proposals for reorganizing the Law Review), 1973-1976
FF 9 - Law School Grading Standard Committee (minutes and memoranda relating to grading policies), 1977
FF 10 - Consultations (letters, documents and notes relating to cases and legal matters about which Professor Fratcher was consulted), 1975-1983
FF 11 - Consultations (letters, documents and notes relating to cases and legal matters about which Professor Fratcher was consulted), 1975-1983
FF 12 - Property I (assignment sheets relating to rights in land), ca. 1963-1976
FF 13 - Teaching materials: Trusts (notes and documents used in teaching course on trust; correspondence; copy of Harvard Law Record, 1960; copies of The Young Lawyer; copy of Law and Liberty, Autumn 1976), ca. 1945-1973
FF 14 - Case Club (copies of cases argued in moot court), 1951-1971
FF 15 - Rosenstiel Fund chair (documents, correspondence and notes relating to the appointment of Dorothy H. Rosenstiel, Professor of Law), 1969-1970
FF 16 - Law School Legal Research and Writing Committee (correspondence), 1977
FF 17 - Law School Bar Review Committee (memoranda relating to preparatory sessions for State Bar Examination), 1977
Box 4
FF 1 - "Bequests of Arts," (manuscript of article submitted for publication to San Diego Law Review; correspondence), 1983
FF 2 - "Commentary for Canada on Statutes of Westminster" (correspondence relating to Professor Fratcher's research on Canadian statutes), 1948
FF 3 - Manual for Courts Martial (correspondence regarding revision of manual for courts martial, with manuscript draft changes suggested by Professor Fratcher), 1948
FF 4 - "Trustor as Sole Trustee and Only Ascertainable Beneficiary" (correspondence relating to submission and publication of article submitted for the Michigan Law Review), 1948-1949
FF 5 - "Negotiating With Soviet Representatives" (carbon copy of brief article), ca. 1950
FF 6 - "A Half Century of Trust Law" (manuscript of article, with correspondence relating to publication), 1954
FF 7 - "Perpetuities and Other Restraints" (source notes relating to Professor Fratcher's book, Perpetuities and Other Restraints; book reviews; correspondence regarding complimentary copies of book), 1954-1955
FF 8 - Fratcher's writings - book reviews (manuscript copies of book reviews written by Professor Fratcher; correspondence), 1950-1970
FF 9 - "The New Law of Land Warfare" (off-print copy of article, which appeared in Missouri Law Review, volume 22; correspondence regarding complimentary copies of the article), 1957
FF 10 - "History - JAGD" (Fratcher's handwritten copy of article, "History of the Judge Advocate General's Department, 1775-1941;" correspondence and notes relating to publication), 1958-1961
FF 11 - Guardianship articles - Prentice-Hall Series (correspondence regarding articles on the law of guardianship), 1959-1972
FF 12 - Presidential Power to Regulate Military Justice (two manuscript copies, one off-print copy of article, "Presidential Power to Regulate Military Justice;" correspondence), 1959
FF 13 - Continuity of Government Amendment (article for the Missouri Constitution entitled "The Proposed Continuity of Government Amendment),1960
FF 14 - "Statutes on Trustees' Powers (correspondence regarding Fratcher's article), 1962
FF 15 - "Trusts and Succession in Missouri" (two copies of a supplemental brief of Amicus Curiae in the case of First National Bank of Kansas City versus Mercantile Bank and Trust Company), 1963-1964
FF 16 - "Legal Protection of the Family Against Disinheritance" (manuscript copy of lecture delivered by Professor Fratcher at the University of London King's College, November, 1963), 1964
FF 17 - Colloquium on Legal Regulation of the Use of Land (documents and correspondence), 1965
FF 18 - "Towards Uniform Succession Legislation" (correspondence regarding complimentary copies of article in New York University Law Review), 1966
FF 19 - Unidroit International Will (documents, papers, and correspondence relating to the subject of the "Draft Convention providing a Uniform law on the form of Wills") 1966-1968
FF 20 - Missouri and the Uniform Probate Code (correspondence; Fratcher's article entitled "What Every Trust Officer Should Know About the Uniform Probate Code") 1966-1971
FF 21 - Uniform Probate Code and the Veterans Administration (correspondence relating to the uniform probate code as it relates to veterans affairs, 1970-1973; correspondence regarding complimentary copies of Fratcher's article, "The Uniform Probate Code and the Veterans Administration," Case Western Reserve Law Review), 1973
FF 22 - "A Modest Proposal," (correspondence relating to publication of article, "A Modest Proposal for Trimming the Claws of Legal Future Interest," Duke Law Journal), 1971-1973
FF 23 - "Bequests for Purposes" (correspondence relating to publication of article, "Bequests for Purposes," Iowa Law Review), 1971-1973
FF 24 - Encyclopedia Britannica (manuscript copy of article, "Law of Mortgages," correspondence relating to publication in Encyclopedia Britannica), 1970-1975
FF 25 - American Assembly on English Probate (four different versions of manuscript article, "The English System: Simplified Probate in a Similar Context"), 1976
FF 26 - Future interest - Simes and Smith (correspondence with West Publishing Company regarding Professor Fratcher's preparation of a supplement to Lewis M. Simes and Allen F. Smith's The Law of Future Interest), 1961-1981
Box 5
FF 1 - College papers (course papers; "Parliamentary Sovereignty in America," "The Ethical Aspects of Bentham's Utilitarianism," "Allusions to Classical Mythology in Hamlet and Julius Caesar," "The Faith of St. Joseph of Navvoo," "Francois Clouet: A Brief Discussion," "The Government of Geneva Under John Calvin"), 1932-1937
FF 2 - Academic Career (correspondence and documents regarding academic career; outline of thesis for degree of Doctor of the Science of Law), 1934-1954
FF 3 - Fratcher Speeches (drafts of speeches made before various organizations and groups), 1932-1954
FF 4 - Fratcher Speeches (drafts of speeches made before various organizations and groups), 1956-1973
FF 5 - Michigan Real Property (manuscript copy of "Lectures on Michigan Real Property Law"), ca. 1941
FF 6 - "Justice in a War-time Army" (copy of manuscript, prepared under the direction of the Judge Advocate General of the Army), ca. 1942
FF 7 - War crimes articles (correspondence regarding complimentary copies of article, "American Organization for Prosecution of German War Criminals," and of Fratcher's review of Telford Taylor's Nuremberg and Vietnam; off-print copy of the review), 1948-1971
FF 8 - "Appellate Review in Military Law" (correspondence regarding complimentary copies of article), 1949
FF 9 - "Review by the Civil Courts of Judgments of Federal Tribunals" (correspondence relating to the composition of article; article on habeas corpus and military justice), 1949-1951
FF 10 - Law Review Invitations (invitations to contribute to such law journals as Indiana Law Journal, Vanderbilt Law Review, Columbia Law Review, New York Law Review, and Harvard Law Review), 1952-1983
FF 11 - "Property in Chains" (correspondence relating to the publication of article, "Legal Servitude as Devices for Imposing Use Restrictions in Michigan"), 1953-1956
FF 12 - "Fiduciary Administration in England" (documents regarding guardianship rights in England; correspondence relating to publication of article, "Fiduciary Administration in England"), 1963-1967
FF 13 - "Differences Between the English and American Rules Against Perpetuities" (galley proofs of article), 1964
FF 14 - Trusts and Estates in England (correspondence relating to publication of Fratcher's book entitled Probate Can Be Quick and Cheap: Trust and Estates in England), 1966-1973
FF 15 - Missouri Perpetuities Act (correspondence regarding Missouri Perpetuities Act; several letters between Fratcher and Governor Warren E. Hearnes; correspondence regarding annual meetings of Association of American Law Schools, 1980; copy of paper delivered at that meeting), 1960-1980
FF 16 - Law Barn (correspondence offering facts and information to be included in the book on the Law School entitled The Law Barn; correspondence regarding complimentary copies of The Law Barn), 1978
Box 6
FF 1 - Hastings Law School (correspondence from Washington and Lee Law School, Hastings College of Law, McGeorge School of Law regarding offer of visiting professorship; correspondence from Hastings College of Law regarding appointment as visiting professor), 1973-1976
FF 2 - Hastings Law School (correspondence received while at Hastings Law School; correspondence regarding American Assembly meeting, December 2-4, 1976; report to the American Assembly meeting titled "Death, Taxes and Family Property;" documents collected for use in courses taught at Hastings), 1976
FF 3 - Hastings Law School (materials related to grading; pamphlets on Hastings Law School), 1977
FF 4 - McCleary's file on W.F. Fratcher (correspondence between Professor Fratcher and Dean Glenn McCleary), 1947-1964
FF 5 - Nelson Chair Committee (correspondence, memoranda, and policy statements relating to the selection and appointment of candidates to the Nelson Chair of Law), 1973-1979
FF 6 - Professional Ethics (documents relating to the subject of professional ethics in the legal profession), ca. 1970
FF 7 - Teaching materials : Legal Profession (notes and documents pertaining to the history of the legal profession), 1948-1971
FF 8 - Law School Curriculum Committee (reports, minutes of committee meetings, memoranda and recommendations regarding the Law School curriculum), 1958-1967
FF 9 - Lecture notes: Insurance (lecture notes for course on insurance), ca. 1947
FF 10 - Lecture notes: Legal Profession (lecture notes for course on legal profession), ca. 1959
Box 7
FF 1 - ABA Special Committee on Military Justice (correspondence, documents, recommendations relating to Professor Fratcher's work as a member of the ABA Special Committee on Military Justice; letter from Leon Jaworski; copies of H.R. 19697, 90th Congress, 2nd session; H.R. 523, 92 Congress, 1st session), 1968-1972
FF 2 - ABA Special Committee on Military Justice (continuation of the above folder; correspondence, documents, and notes), 1968-1972
FF 3 - ABA Committee on Extraterritorial Defense Areas (correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to the problem of extraterritorial defense areas), 1948-1960
FF 4 - ABA Committee on Current Literature Relating to Real Property (correspondence regarding current literature; "Report of the Committee on Current Literature relating to Real Property"), 1954, 1955
FF 5 - ABA Committee on Current Literature Relating to Real Property (correspondence generated in connection with Professor Fratcher's service on the Committee on Current Literature Relating to Real Property), 1957-1983
FF 6 - ABA Committee on Significant Current Literature, Probate and Trust (correspondence generated in connection with Professor Fratcher's service on the Committee on Significant Current Literature, Probate and Trust), 1973-1982
FF 7 - ABA Committee on Significant Probate and Trust Decisions (reports on significant probate and trust decisions; correspondence pertaining to the reports), ca. 1981
FF 8 - ABA Committee on Persons Under Disability (correspondence generated in connection with Professor Fratcher's service on the "Administration of Property of Persons Under Disability Committee," report of the committee), 1964-1966
FF 9 - ABA Committees: Missouri Bar Committee (correspondence relating to ABA committee assignments), 1961-1962
FF 10 - Association of American Law Schools (correspondence regarding law school libraries, generated in connection with Professor Fratcher's service on the Association of American Law Schools' library committee), 1966-1968
FF 11 - Association of American Law Schools (correspondence from member schools of the Association of American Law Schools regarding library standards for members), 1969-1970
FF 12 - Association of American Law Schools (correspondence regarding Round Table Council on Trusts and Estates), 1972
FF 13 - Association of American Law Schools, Property Section (paper delivered at the December, 1973 meeting of the Association of American Law Schools entitled "Property Curricula - Then and Now"), 1974
FF 14 - Current Index to Legal Literature (two indexes of books relating to law), 1968
FF 15 - Missouri Bar Trusts Committee (correspondence commenting on and concerning bills introduced in the Missouri General Assembly pertaining to the common law rules against perpetuities), 1959-1962
FF 16 - Bar Association material - state and local (fact sheets from the Attorney Title Guarantee Company), 1962
FF 17 - International Society of Military Law and the Law of War (correspondence with the International Society of Military Law; paper entitled "Combatant in United States Usage Before 28 February 1910;" paper entitled "A Survey of Roman Legal Education"), 1967-1971
FF 18 - Selden Society (reports of the council, rules of the society), 1952-1981
FF 19 - Selden Society - correspondence (including correspondence with "Scribes," and organization of writers on legal subjects), 1952-1978
FF 20 - Medieval Academy of America (correspondence), 1947-1953
Box 8
FF 1 - Veterinary Jurisprudence (notes for course in veterinary jurisprudence, copies of veterinary jurisprudence examinations), 1951-1968
FF 2 - Veterinary Jurisprudence (case note for course in veterinary jurisprudence), 1951-1968
FF 3 - Simes and Fratcher - Fiduciary Administration (correspondence generated in connection with Fratcher's collaboration with Lewis M. Simes on the second edition of Simes's Casebook on fiduciary administration), 1955-1971
FF 4 - Master of Arts Thesis (carbon manuscript copy of Fratcher's master's thesis entitled "A Commentary for Canada on the Statute of Westminster, 1931"), 1938
FF 5 - Luncheon guest correspondence (correspondence generated in connection with the publication of Professor Fratcher's book, Luncheon Guest), 1975-1980
FF 6 - Luncheon Guest MS. (typed manuscript copy of Luncheon Guest), 1975
FF 7 - McCleary's file (bookshop catalogues and prints of paintings of notable legal figures), 1937-1947
FF 8 - McCleary's file (lecture notes for course on "Rights in Law"), n.d.
FF 9 - McCleary's file (lecture notes for "Property II" course), n.d.
FF 10 - McCleary's file (lecture notes for "Property II" course), n.d.
FF 11 - McCleary's file (copies of examinations for "Property II" course), n.d.
Box 9
FF 1 - Copies of uniform and model laws (type script copies of uniform codes going back to 1922), 1964
FF 2 - Model Uniform Probate Code - travel data (correspondence and data pertaining to travel expenses incurred in connection with Professor Fratcher's work as reporter for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws), 1964-1969
FF 3 - Uniform Probate Code (ABA [American Bar Association] correspondence regarding foreign domiciliary; article by Richard V. Wellman entitled "The Uniform Probate Code: Blueprint for Reform in the '70's"), 1967-1969
FF 4 - Model uniform probate code, correspondence (correspondence regarding uniform probate code; reports, comments, and memoranda pertaining to the first draft of the Uniform Probate Code), 1967
FF 5 - Uniform Probate Code - 1967 Drafts - A (typescript drafts of the probate code), 1967
FF 6 - Uniform Probate Code, 1967 Boulder Draft (copy of the Uniform Probate Code considered at the Boulder, Colorado meeting of the reporters of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws), 1967
FF 7 - Uniform Probate Code - 1968, correspondence (including drafts and comments), 1968
FF 8 - Committee proceedings: Uniform Probate Code (manuscript copy of the proceedings of meeting), 1968
FF 9 - Uniform Probate Code - correspondence (including drafts), 1969
FF 10 - Uniform Probate Code (notes and comments), 1969
FF 11 - Uniform Probate Code (manuscript copy), 1969
FF 12 - State probate codes (copy of proposed probate codes for Indiana, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and California), 1971-1973
FF 13 - Uniform Probate Code (bound copies), 1967-1968
FF 14 - Model-Uniform Probate Code - 1963 Studies (studies of work done in the area of Uniform Probate Code before 1963), 1963
Box 10
FF 1 - Model-Uniform Probate Code - 1963, minutes and correspondence (correspondence, memoranda, and reports pertaining to the formation of the special committee to revise the model probate code), 1963
FF 2 - Model-Uniform Probate Code - 1964, correspondence (general correspondence relating to Fratcher's work as one of the reporters of the committee to revise the Uniform Probate Code), 1964
FF 3 - Model-Uniform Probate Code - 1965, minutes and correspondence (including notes of meetings of reporting staff-model probate project), 1965
FF 4 - Model-Uniform Probate Code - Memoranda (working papers of the tentative outline of the Uniform Probate Code), 1965-1968
FF 5 - Model-Uniform Probate Code - 1966, Minutes and Correspondence (correspondence of reporting staff of the National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws; minutes of the meeting of reporters of committee on Uniform Probate Code), 1966
FF 6 - Model-Uniform Probate Code (tabulation of the results of the questionnaire circulated in 1963 regarding model probate code), 1963
FF 7 - Uniform Probate Code - pre-1966 drafts (working copies of drafts of model probate code), ca. 1965
FF 8 - Uniform Probate Code - 1966 drafts (working copies of the 1966 draft of the model probate code), 1966
FF 9 - Uniform Probate Code - 1967 draft B (working copies of the 1967 draft of the model probate code), 1967
FF 10 - Uniform Probate Code - 1967 draft C (working copies of the 1967 draft C of the model probate code), 1967
FF 11 - Uniform Probate Code - 1968 draft (working copy of 1968 draft code), 1968
FF 12 - Uniform Probate Code (working papers of the draft reporters of the Uniform Probate Code), 1969
Box 11
FF 1 - Law books (correspondence with book dealers for often rare or out of print law books), 1951-1982
FF 2 - Law book catalogues (catalogues of law books published or reprinted), n.d.
FF 3 - Curriculum Committee: Association of American Law Schools (correspondence relating to the work of the curriculum committee of the Association of American Law Schools), 1960-1961
FF 4 - Liaison (correspondence with JAGC regarding liaison with and assistance to lawyers on active duty in military service stationed in Missouri), 1967
FF 5 - Missouri Bar Headquarters (correspondence and "Committee Officer's Manual"), 1967-1968
FF 6 - Minutes, reports and agenda (minutes, reports, and agenda of the Missouri Bar Military Law Committee, Professor Fratcher chairman), 1967-1968
FF 7 - Membership, Missouri Bar (correspondence of the President of the Missouri Bar regarding membership on the Military Law Committee), 1967-1968
FF 8 - Legal Assistance (correspondence pertaining to Military Law Committee), 1967-1968
FF 9 - Missouri State Military Justice Code (correspondence; "AG Mo Regulation: Military Justice"), 1968
FF 10 - Luncheon (correspondence relating to luncheon speakers for meetings of the Missouri Bar Committee on Military Law), 1968
FF 11 - Legislation (correspondence pertaining to legislation affecting the military in Missouri), 1968
FF 12 - SPTL Dues (correspondence regarding the dues of members of Society of Public Teachers of Law), 1978-1983
FF 13 - Bordwell (correspondence regarding Professor Fratcher undertaking to edit the works of Percy Bordwell), 1976-1977
FF 14 - Bordwell, A Preliminary Historical Treatise on the Law of Property (introduction and chapter one manuscript copy of Fratcher's edit of Bordwell's work), n.d.
FF 15 - Bordwell, A Preliminary Historical Treatise on the Law of Property (chapters 2-6), n.d.
FF 16 - Bordwell, A Preliminary Historical Treatise on the Law of Property (chapters 7-11), n.d.
FF 17 - Bordwell, A Preliminary Historical Treatise on the Law of Property (chapters 12-18), n.d.
FF 18 - Bordwell, A Preliminary Historical Treatise on the Law of Property (chapters 19-21), n.d.
FF 18a - Bordwell - reprints, 1935-1970
FF 19 - Uniform Trustees' Power Act (correspondence pertaining to Uniform Trustees' Power Act; draft copies of Trustees' Power Act), 1962-1967
Box 12
FF 1 - IECL miscellaneous correspondence (correspondence generated in connection with preparation of article on "Property and Trust" for the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law; correspondence regarding complimentary copies of article on "Property and Trust"), 1968-1982
FF 2 - IECL correspondence - Rheinstein (correspondence with Max Rheinstein regarding article on "Property and Trust"), 1967-1969
FF 3 - IECL correspondence - Hamburg (correspondence with various international scholars regarding article on "Property and Trust"), 1966-1974
FF 4 - IECL regulations (copies of regulations governing the preparation of articles to be included in the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, with lists of international scholars who could be consulted in the preparation of articles), 1967-1973
FF 5 - IECL outlines (samples of outlines for articles supplied by the editors of the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law; Fratcher's outline for trust article), 1969
FF 6 - IECL trust notes (handwritten notes compiled while researching the article on "Property and Trusts"), 1969
FF 7 - IECL trust drafts (working copies of sections of the trust article), 1970
FF 8 - IECL superseded drafts (handwritten draft of sections of article on trusts), 1968
FF 9 - IECL superseded drafts (typed pages of text and notes of article), 1972
FF 10 - IECL, "Property and Trust" (pages i-155 of manuscript of article), 1972
FF 11 - IECL, "Property and Trust" (pages 156-235 of manuscript of article), 1972
FF 12 - IECL, "Property and Trust" (footnotes to manuscript, pages 1-154), 1972
FF 13 - IECL, "Property and Trust" (final draft of the manuscript of the article), 1972
FF 14 - IECL, "Property and Trust" (galley proof of article), 1972
FF 14a - IECL, Correspondence, F. Harry Lawson regarding trust chapter, etc., 1966-1976
FF 15 - "The Islamic Wapf" (correspondence generated in connection with the publication of article), 1969-1971
Box 13
FF 1 - Trusts and Succession I (copies of course examinations), 1948-1982
FF 2 - Trusts and Succession II (copies of course examinations), 1958-1981
FF 3 - Property I - Trial (copies of course examinations), 1948-1982
FF 4 - Property I - Finals (copies of course final examinations), 1951-1981
FF 5 - Examinations - Legal History (copies of course final examinations), 1965-1982
FF 6 - Examinations - Agency (copies of course final examinations), 1948-1951
FF 7 - Examinations - Insurance (copies of course examinations), 1941-1957
FF 8 - Examinations - Legal Profession (copies of course examinations), 1948-1977
FF 9 - Future Interests - final exams (copies of course final examinations), 1970-1982
FF 10 - Examinations - miscellaneous (copies of course examinations for courses Fratcher taught as visiting professor), 1952-1958
FF 11 - Fifth British Legal History Conference (correspondence; copies of papers delivered at the conference), 1981
Box 14
FF 1 - Ph.D. committee (papers relating to Ph.D. committees of which Fratcher was a member), 1975-1979
FF 2 - Civil Defense Committee personal file (minutes, memoranda, and pamphlet relating to University of Missouri-Columbia disaster plan; copy of the disaster plan), 1957-1962
FF 3 - Tenure regulations (memoranda and correspondence; draft copies of proposed changes), 1966-1969
FF 4 - Tenure regulations (correspondence and memoranda relating to tenure regulations; copies of drafts proposing changes in tenure regulations), 1970
FF 5 - Tenure regulations (draft copies of proposed changes), 1972
FF 6 - Tenure regulations (draft copies of proposed changes), 1972
FF 7 - UMC Honorary Degree Committee (correspondence and documents relating to the selection of recipients of honorary degrees), 1977-1980
FF 8 - Jefferson Club (correspondence pertaining to membership), 1974-1978
FF 9 - M.U. - rules and regulations (copies of academic and administrative rules for faculty and staff, University of Missouri), 1956-1982
FF 10 - Faculty Council (copies of Faculty Bulletin), 1972-1980
FF 11 - Faculty handbook (copy of handbook designed to acquaint faculty members with the university system), 1976
FF 12 - President's Bulletin (copies of the President's Bulletin; copies of the draft reports of the Academic Planning Council), 1971-1975
FF 13 - Academic Plan (copies of the reports of reappraisal of academic program), 1974-1976
FF 14 - Law school faculty (meeting minutes), 1965-1979
FF 15 - Law school faculty (meeting minutes), 1978
FF 16 - Law school faculty (meeting minutes), 1979-1981
FF 17 - Law school faculty (meeting minutes), 1982-1983
FF 18 - Regulations (copies of by-laws and regulations relating to university policy), n.d.
Box 15
FF 1 - Honors College (correspondence relating to honors course on the culture of the High Middle Ages), 1980-1982
FF 2 - Resume - William F. Fratcher (copies of curriculum vitae), n.d.
FF 3 - Off-prints (off-print copies of articles written by Professor Fratcher), 1949-1980
FF 4 - Books written by W.F. Fratcher (copies of the following works: Restraints on Alienation of Michigan Property; "The English System: Simplified Probate in a Similar Context," in Halbach, Death, Taxes and Family Property; Property and Trust; The Luncheon Guest), 1952-1979
FF 5 - Cases and Materials of the Law of Fiduciary Administration (edited by Lewis M. Simes and William F. Fratcher), n.d.
FF 6 - Thesis (notes for S.J.D. thesis), 1941
Box 16
FF 1 - Military records (function description and organization of branches of Judge Advocate General; changes and corrections to manuals; project reports; military and civilian personnel and equipment; writing of administrative histories; manuscript of articles to be published ["Justice in a War-Time Army," etc.] by various authors; Annual Report 1942; report on survey and recommendations regarding Judge Advocate General's School; awards of Legion of Merit; "Report on the Research Facilities of the Office of the Judge..." 1942; Office Memoranda; printed copy Military Law Review 04/1959 with copy Fratcher article "History of the Judge Advocate General's Corps, US Army;" printed copy "Report of War Department Advisory Committee on Military Justice" 12/1946), 1942-1946, 1949-1960
FF 2 - Code of Conduct (Code of Conduct for Member of the Armed Forces of the US; training circulars; Code of Conduct Training Reports; WFF Lesson Plan, handwritten "Code of Conduct, including Evasion and Escape Training"), 1957
FF 3 - Military Records (printed copy "Outline of Instruction; Army Role in Civil Emergencies in the US" Lesson Outlines for Martial Law Instruction; mimeographed copies of lessons used by WFF for UMC Army ROTC), 1956
FF 4 - Courts Martial Records 1947 (photocopy of trial review of case against Kathleen B. Nash Durant, trial in connection with theft of jewelry from Kronberg Castle/ Prince Wolfgang of Hesse [see also FF 9]), 1947
FF 5 - Brigadier General Charles L. Decker (contains correspondence regarding Civilian Publications on Military Justice Program, WFF Program Coordinator), 1957-1963
FF 6 - Opinions and documents drafted by Fratcher while executive to Brigadier General Fred W. Llewellyn ("Colonel William Winthrop" biographical sketch; "Notes on the History of the Judge Advocate General's Department;" recommendations for Legion of Merit, etc.; "Proof of value in larceny cases;" "Address to the Graduating Classes, Judge Advocate General's School and Officer Candidate School;" "Suitable title for Military Governor of Hawaii;" material for Biennial Report 1941-1943; "Tenure of Office of Chief of Staff and Chiefs of Branches;" "Status of civilian employees of governmental agencies in North Africa;" "Punishment for fellatio;" "American Military Justice;" etc.), 1943
FF 7 - Army role in civil emergencies in the US (Fratcher correspondence, lesson plans, etc. regarding instructing this subject [see also FF 3]), 1957
FF 8 - Opinions prepared by Fratcher in Military Affairs Division (partial listing of opinions prepared and copies of some handwritten or typed opinions - "Appointment of Federal Judges in the Army of the US;" "Repatriation of dependents of personnel stationed at outlying defense bases;" "Minimum age for appointment as commissioned officer;" "Induction of dishonorably discharged soldier under Selective Training and Service Act of 1940;" Local 783 International Hod Carriers Building and Construction Labor Union offering $1,000 defense bond to first American aviator to bomb Tokyo; enlistment of noncitizens; "Posthumous appointments in the Army;" whether death benefits should be paid if death due to misconduct; civil and criminal jurisdiction over employees of contractors constructing US base in Masawa Italian Eritrea; "Statutes suspended or made operative by a declaration of war;" etc.), 1941-1942
FF 9 - Theft of jewelry from Kronberg Castle/ Prince Wolfgang of Hesse (material regarding case of Colonel Jack W. Durant [see also FF 4 for photocopy of review of case against his wife, Captain Kathleen B. Nash Durant, Major David F. Watson and T/4 Roy Carlton]; Fratcher wrote Judge Advocate review of cases), 1947
FF 10 - Staff Judge Advocate's case reviews (typed copies of Fratcher's reviews of various courts martial cases), 1946-1947
FF 11 - Course of Instruction in Military Law (mimeographed lessons, Headquarters Command US Forces European Theater; Fratcher gave instruction on: The Articles of War; Proper administration of Company Punishment; Proper charges of offenses and proof required), 1946
FF 12 - Allied Control - Authority Control Council (minutes of 27th meeting held 04/29/1946 regarding trade unions, confiscation of literature and material of a nazi and militarist nature, etc.; "Documents Constituting Basic Authority of Control Council," mimeographed compilation of documents 02/1945 - 08/1945 relating to meetings concerning occupation and control of Germany after World War II), 1945-1946
Box 17
FF 1 - Prolegomena to Anglo-American History..., 1983
FF 2 - Miscellaneous correspondence between President Middlebush and Law School, 1936-1943
FF 3 - University of Missouri School of Law, Report of Curriculum Committee, 05/09/1960
FF 4 - Francis M. Hanna, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, 1981-1987
FF 5 - University of Missouri-Columbia - disaster plan, promulgated 06/17/1959
FF 6 - "Professional Training in Law at the University of Missouri, 1877-1958," by G.A. McCleary and P.A. Hogan (unpublished manuscript, history of School of Law), 1961
FF 7 - Former faculty (correspondence, Board recommendations and actions regarding staff employment, salaries; correspondence regarding courses to be taught and by what faculty member), 1919-1941
FF 8 - Law School Foundation Banquet (correspondence and program), 1936
FF 9 - Law School Foundation Banquet (correspondence and program), 1937
FF 10 - Law School Foundation Banquet (correspondence and program), 1938
FF 11 - Law School Foundation Banquet programs, 1936-1942
FF 12 - Law School Foundation check stubs of expenditures, 1937-1959
FF 13 - Listing - honors, scholarships, awards, prizes (including: Editorial Board of Law Series; Editorial Board - Missouri Law Review; scholarships - Rollins, Adele Overall Black, Curators', Omar E. Robinson, etc.; prizes - John D. Lawson, Alexander Martin, City National Bank and Trust Company, of Kansas City, etc.), 1909-1968
FF 14 - Correspondence regarding gifts (portraits, photographs), 1937-1967
FF 15 - "The Mill" (copies of publication by SBA - issues: volume 1, number 2, 11/1972; volume 3, number 1, 11/1973; 11/1975; 04/1977), 1972-1977
FF 16 - The Law Barn, second edition (correspondence, support materials, list of photographs in Law Building), 1988
FF 17 - The Law Barn, second edition (revisions and corrections), 1988
FF 18 - Law Department Mid Year Examinations (2 published booklets), 1904-1906
FF 19 - Law School (course lists, committee appointments, faculty meeting minutes, budget review and recommendations, retirement recognition dinner for Fratcher program, correspondence and memoranda regarding analysis of new grading system, award to fratcher of Distinguished Non-Alumni Award at Law Day, budget, etc.), 1982-1983
FF 20 - Promotion and tenure (class visitation reviews, regulation revision, etc.), 1977-1983 [Restricted]
FF 21 - Standards Committee (regarding student admissions, etc.), 1982-1983 [Restricted]
FF 22 - University of Missouri Law Wives Association scrapbook (programs, photographs, etc.), 1973-1974
FF 23 - New Law Building (dedication program, list of room plaques with text, The Law Building brochure, The Lawson Collection of Trials brochure), 1988
FF 24 - Consultations, 1985-1990
FF 25 - Consultations, 1985-1990
FF 26 - SPTL/ Society of Public Teachers of Law (an international association - Fratcher State Correspondent for Missouri; correspondence regarding collection/ payment of dues, etc.), 1984-1986
FF 27 - Missouri Bar Association (committees and subcommittees of which Fratcher was a member, activities sponsored by association), 1982-1988
FF 28 - Equity Symposium, University of Victoria (International Symposium on Trusts, Equity and Fiduciary Relationships - Fratcher presented paper, "New Directions in the Employment of Equitable Doctrines: Home Purchase Developments"), 02/14/1988-02/17/1988
FF 29 - Exeter conferences and trip (includes United Kingdom National Committee of Comparative Law Colloquium on Trusts - Fratcher presented paper, "Trusts in the USA;" Society of Public Teachers of Law annual conference), 1975
Box 18
FF 1 - Sabbatical leave (applications to fellowships, correspondence, etc.; Fratcher: Ford Foundation Law Faculty Fellow in International Legal Studies at Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, and a Fullbright grant for research in England), 1963-1964
FF 2 - Fratcher speeches, 1985
FF 3 - Course material: Decedent's Estates and Trusts, 1980-1983
FF 4 - Course material: Decedent's Estates, and Trusts; University of Missouri,1980-1983
FF 5 - Course material: Estate and Trust Administration; University of Missouri, 1982
FF 6 - Course material: Legal History; University of Missouri, 1981-1983
FF 7 - Course material: Property I; University of Missouri, 1980-1982
FF 8 - Course material: Trusts and Succession I; University of Missouri, 1971-1978
FF 9 - Course material: Future Interests; University of California, Hastings College of the Law, 1976; University of Missouri, 1982
FF 10 - Course material: Law of Fiduciary Administration; University of California, 1976
FF 11 - Course material: Trusts and Estates; University of California, 1976
FF 12 - Course material: Summer Workshop in Trust Law; New York University School of Law, 1965
FF 13 - Course material: Trusts and Estates; Western New England College, 1986-1987
FF 14 - Course material: Property; Western New England College, 1986-1987
FF 15 - Course material: Estate Administration; Western New England College, 1987
FF 16 - Course material: Property; Western New England College, 1983-1985
FF 17 - Course material: Trusts and Estates; University of Puget Sound, 1983-1985
FF 18 - Course material: Trusts and Estates; University of Puget Sound, 1983-1985
FF 19 - Rachel M. Jennings master thesis (Fratcher on thesis committee), 1991
Item 1 - The Law of Trusts (Scott on Trusts on spine - See note concerning original author, Professor Austin W. Scott, in 1986 supplement), supplements by Fratcher; Little, Brown and Company; supplement 1986
Item 2 - The Law of Trusts, supplements by Fratcher; Little, Brown and Company; supplement 1987
Item 3 - The Law of Trusts, supplements by Fratcher; Little, Brown and Company; supplement 1988
Item 4 - The Law of Trusts, supplements by Fratcher; Little, Brown and Company; supplement 1989
Box 19
Item 1 - The Law of Trusts/ Scott on Trusts, supplement by Fratcher, 1990
Item 2 - Probate Can Be Quick and Cheap, Fratcher, Pageant Press, 1968
Item 3 - The Law Barn, Fratcher, second edition, 1988
Item 4 - International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law; Property and Trust, "Chapter 11 - Trust," Fratcher, J.C.B. Mohr, 1973
FF 1 - Missouri Law Review, "Independence of the Judiciary Under the Constitution of 1787," Fratcher, 1988
FF 2 - "Legal Terms Women Should Know," Fratcher (prepared for University Dames), mimeograph, 2 pages; 1959
FF 3 - "A Half Century of Trust Law," Fratcher (mimeograph, 18 pages, originally published in Trusts and Estates Magazine, 03/1954), 1954
FF 4 - "Examining the Mystery Behind...Provisions of Section 7 of Uniform Trustees Powers Act...," Peter T. Wendel (Fratcher read draft and made suggestions), 1990
FF 5 - Bibliographies, Fratcher writings, ca. 1957-1980 [see also: Box 22, Biographical data]
FF 6 - "Class Gifts to 'Heirs,' 'Issue,' and Like Groups," by Fratcher for Symposium on Uniform Probate Code sponsored by Albany Law Review, 1991-1992
FF 7 - Introduction to the Law of the United States (Fratcher chapter), 1990-1991
FF 8 - Scott on Trusts/The Law of Trusts, Austin W. Scott correspondence, 1980
FF 9 - Scott on Trusts/The Law of Trusts, Little, Brown, and Company correspondence (contracts, draft correction, reviews, other work by Fratcher for company), 1979-1988
FF 10 - Scott on Trusts/The Law of Trusts, Little, Brown, and Company correspondence (contracts, draft correction, reviews, other work by Fratcher for company), 1979-1988
FF 11 - Scott on Trusts/The Law of Trusts, Little, Brown, and Company correspondence (contracts, draft correction, reviews, other work by Fratcher for company), 1979-1988
FF 12 - Scott on Trusts/The Law of Trusts, Correspondence with third parties, 1981-1988
FF 13 - Scott on Trusts/The Law of Trusts, fourth edition volume 3 (manuscript, proof sheets), 1987
FF 14 - Scott on Trusts/The Law of Trusts, fourth edition volume 3 and 3A (manuscript, proof sheets), 1987
FF 15 - Scott on Trusts/The Law of Trusts, fourth edition volume 3 and 3A (manuscript, proof sheets), 1987
FF 16 - Scott on Trusts/The Law of Trusts, fourth edition volume 3A (manuscript, proof sheets), 1987
FF 17 - Scott on Trusts/The Law of Trusts, fourth edition volume 3A (manuscript, proof sheets), 1987
FF 18 - Scott on Trusts/The Law of Trusts, supplement, 1988
FF 19 - Scott on Trusts/The Law of Trusts, supplement, 1989
FF 20 - Scott on Trusts/The Law of Trusts, supplement, 1990
FF 21 - Scott on Trusts/The Law of Trusts, supplement, 1992
FF 22 - Laws of Future Interests, Pocket Parts, Fratcher, 1982-1991
FF 23 - Laws of Future Interests, Pocket Parts, Fratcher, 1982-1991
FF 24 - "Prolegomena to Anglo-American Legal History: Thirteen Lectures on the Legal Systems...," Fratcher, typed manuscript, 131 pages, 1983
FF 25 - The Luncheon Guest (also includes manuscript published under pseudonym, Franklin F. Thomas), 1979
FF 26 - "Property Bound," Fratcher (possibly second copy of manuscript), n.d.
Box 20
FF 1 - Courses Taught - University of Missouri-Columbia, Honors College, "Culture of the High Middle Ages, 1050-1350," 1987-1991
FF 2 - Courses Taught - University of Missouri-Columbia, Legal History, "Materials for the Course in Legal History Taught by Professor Willliam F. Fratcher" (mimeographed, 378 pages with handwritten notes and revisions, lecture notes), 1990
FF 3 - Courses Taught - University of Missouri-Columbia, 389L Legal History, handouts and assignments, 1986-1988
FF 4 - Courses Taught - University of Missouri-Columbia, 389L Legal History, "Readings in Legal History," William W. Blume (mimeographed, 203 pages, additions, correspondence), 1960
FF 5 - Courses Taught - University of Missouri-Columbia, 389L Legal History, miscellaneous correspondence, etc. (notes, student paper, quotations, correspondence regarding setting up course, etc.), 1962-1976
FF 6 - Courses Taught - University of Missouri-Columbia, 389L Legal History, examinations, 1972-1991
FF 7 - Courses Taught - University of Missouri-Columbia, 389L Legal History, examinations, 1972-1991
FF 8 - Courses Taught - Western New England College, Property, 1985-1987
Item 1 - Courses Taught - Albany Law School, University Probate Code (VHS tape, 114 minutes),1992
FF 9 - Courses Taught - University of Puget Sound, English Legal History, Property, Trusts and Estates, Trust and Estate Administration, 1983-1985
FF 10 - Courses Taught - University of Puget Sound, English Legal History, Property, Trusts and Estates, Trust and Estate Administration, 1983-1985
FF 11 - Courses Taught - University of Puget Sound, English Legal History, Property, Trusts and Estates, Trust and Estate Administration, 1983-1985
FF 12 - Courses Taught - New York University School of Law, special seminar in the Anglo-American Law of Property, 1954-1955
FF 13 - Courses Taught - New York University School of Law, Model Probate Code, 1963
FF 14 - Courses Taught - New York University School of Law, Summer Workshop in Trust Law, 1965
FF 15 - Correspondence - University of London (research, honorary member Faculty of Laws, King's College; announcements of public lectures given), 1963-1964
FF 16 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1933-1951
FF 17 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1952-1954
FF 18 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1955-1956
FF 19 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1957-1958
FF 20 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1959-1961
FF 21 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1962-1963
FF 22 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1964-1965
FF 23 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1966
Box 21
FF 1 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1967-1968
FF 2 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1969-1970
FF 3 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1971-1972
FF 4 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1973
FF 5 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1974-1975
FF 6 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1976-1977
FF 7 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1978-1979
FF 8 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1980-1981
FF 9 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1982
FF 10 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1983
FF 11 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1984
FF 12 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1985
FF 13 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1986
FF 14 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1987
FF 15 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1988
FF 16 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1989
FF 17 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1990
FF 18 - Correspondence - Chronological, 1991-1992
FF 19 - Fratcher's education (application for Rhodes Scholarship, transcripts of grades, courses, handwritten correspondence, etc.; typed The Government of Geneva Under John Calvin), 1933-1949
FF 20 - Fratcher's enrollment, State Bar, 1957-1958
FF 21 - News releases and clippings, 1950-1987
FF 22 - News releases and clippings, 1950-1985
FF 23 - News releases and clippings, 1950-1985
Box 22
FF 1 - Fratcher biographical data (faculty activity/annual reports; bibliography of publications; resume and resume updates; service to university; special projects and research), 1947-1991
FF 2 - Fratcher biographical data (faculty activity/ annual reports; bibliography of publications; resume and resume updates; service to university; special projects and research), 1947-1991
FF 3 - Biographical directories (correspondence and proofs of Fratcher's entries in such directories as: Who's Who in the Midwest, Who's Who in America, Contemporary Authors, Who's Who in American Law, Men of Achievement, etc.), 1949-1992
FF 4 - Photographs (includes prints of Fratcher in military uniform, graduating classes and faculty at University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, other individuals/officers of Judge Advocate General's Office), ca. 1884-1982
FF 5 - American Law Institute (Fratcher's work as Adviser for Restatement of the Law Third, Trusts - Prudent Investor Rule), 1984-1991
FF 6 - Supreme Court of Missouri Historical Society, 1984-1991
FF 7 - Missouri Bar Probate and Trusts Committee/Subcommittee for Revision of Missouri Trust Law (typed manuscript, 92 pages, reported by Fratcher), 1982
FF 8 - Retirement congratulations, 1983
FF 9 - Awards, certificates, and honors (fraternity memberships, bar association memberships, various society and association memberships, certificates of appreciation or recognition, R.B. Price Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Law, copy of Congressional Record page in "In Memory of William F. Fratcher," etc. [See also - Oversize and folders on military service]), ca. 1934-1992
FF 10 - National College of Probate Judges Treat Award for Excellence (award not given - Fratcher died 06/24/1992), 1992
FF 11 - Correspondence - Military Service, ROTC and Cavalry Service (includes duty at Civilian Conservation Corps, Camp Huron-Hayes, Clinton, Michigan), 1929-1941
FF 12 - Correspondence - Military Service, Judge Advocate General's Department Application for Appointment (Fratcher's application and related correspondence; [Reserve officer 1933-1943, active duty from 04/1941]}, 1941-1943
FF 13 - Military Service - Judge Advocate General's Department, 1941-1945
FF 14 - Correspondence - Military Service, Chief War Crimes Branch (includes description of duties and activities; reports of conferences; transcripts, procedures, allegations, various cases; commendations and promotion; drafts of laws and opinions by Fratcher; etc.), 07/1945-05/1946
FF 15 - Correspondence - Military Service, Staff Judge Advocate/Assistant Staff Judge Advocate (includes charges, papers relating to various cases, correspondence regarding Fratcher's duties, commendations, orders, etc.), 06/1946-07/1947
FF 16 - Correspondence - Military Service, Reserve/Retired (includes periods of active duty), 1947-1972
FF 17 - Correspondence - Military Service, Medical Data Questionnaires, 1948-1961 [Restricted]
FF 18 - Correspondence - Military Service, Army Extension Courses (certificates of course completion, correspondence, etc.), 1933-1963
FF 19 - The Law Barn (handwritten manuscript and supporting material/notes), 1978
FF 20 - Consultation correspondence, 1987-1989
FF 21 - Letters of condolence (upon death of Fratcher), 1992
Box 23
FF 1 - Award certificates, 04/27/1983
FF 2 - Books collected by Fratcher, 1979-1980
FF 3 - Convocation, award, honor ceremony and dinner programs; certificates; invitations; memberships; 12/30/1929-05/18/1956
FF 4 - Convocation, award, honor ceremony and dinner programs; certificates; invitations; memberships; 11/25/1963-12/18/1982
FF 5 - Convocation, award, honor ceremony and dinner programs; certificates; invitations; memberships; 04/29/1983-04/19/1996
FF 6 - Farmers almanacs, 1751, 1767, 1773
FF 7 - Fratcher's instantaneous calculator documentation, 1912-1948
FF 8 - Insurance, retirement, and miscellaneous governmental documentation, 1941-1990
FF 9 - Investment documentation, 1944-1945 and 1960-1978
FF 10 - Law, military, and other professional correspondence, 05/10/1929-04/17/1996
FF 11 - Michigan Stamp and Coin Company, n.d.
FF 12 - Military related materials, 1943-1947
FF 13 - Newspaper clippings and photocopies of newspaper articles, 1933-1992
FF 14 - Personal letters by various authors to various recipients, stamps, miscellaneous notes, 1891-1992
FF 15 - Personal letters to and from William Frederick Fratcher (William Franklin Fratcher's grandfather), 07/02/1927-11/13/1947)
FF 16 - Personal letters to Vernon C. Fratcher (William Franklin Fratcher's father), 08/07/1939-09/08/1939 and 11/12/1941-12/09/1944
FF 17 - Personal letters to Vernon C. Fratcher (William Franklin Fratcher's father), 01/21/1945-12/31/1945
FF 18 - Personal letters to Vernon C. Fratcher (William Franklin Fratcher's father), 01/09/1946-11/25/1946
FF 19 - Personal letters to and from Vernon C. Fratcher (William Franklin Fratcher's father), 01/01/1947-12/07/1947, 1956, 1964
FF 20 - Personal letters of William Franklin Fratcher and Florene Briscoe Fratcher to each other, 03/19/1941-10/24/1978
FF 21 - Personal letter from Agnes Ann Fratcher to her parents, William and Florene Fratcher, 06/02/1971-06/28/1972
FF 22 - Personal notes, documents, cards, and poetry, 1913-1985
FF 23 - Photographs, 1930-1983
FF 24 - Law publications written by Fratcher, other essays, and bibliographies, 1945-1990
Box 24
FF 1 - Religious documentation, essays, correspondence, and notes, 1954-1982 and Directory for Public Worship publication, 1644
FF 2 - Various forms of tribute to Fratcher concerning his decease, 1992
FF 3 - Various publications (or photocopies of), essays, and outlines collected by Fratcher, 1847-1990
FF 4 - Resumes and other biographical documents, ca. 1946-1992
FF 5 - Wills and estate documentation (3 Fratcher generations), 1943-1972
FF 6 - Yearbooks: The Centralite, 1930 and The Sentinel, 1931
FF 7 - Copyrights, 1971-1988
OSB 1
Item 1 - Funeral home register and sympathy cards, 1992
Item 2 - Scrapbook/ photograph album, n.d.
Item 3 - Negatives, n.d.
Item 4 - Lawyer pocket diaries, 1939, 1954, 1962-1992
Item 5 - Proclamation from students, 07/01/1983
Item 6 - Diplomas, 10/02/1936-09/01/1951
FF 1 - Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, Vol.VI.-No.305, 11/01/1862
FF 2 - Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, Vol.VI.-No.310, 12/06/1862
FF 3 - Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, Vol.VIII.-No.381, 04/16/1864
FF 4 - Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, Vol.VIII.-No.397, 08/06/1864
FF 5 - Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, Vol.IX-No.466, 12/02/1865
FF 6 - Daily Mail Continental Edition: The Newspaper for the Allied Troops, 05/08/1945
FF 7 - l'Aube: French newspaper, 05/08/1945
FF 8 - Le Figaro: French newspaper, 05/09/1945
FF 9 - The Stars and Stripes: Paris edition of the daily newspaper of United States Armed Forces, 05/09/1945
FF 10 - Allgemeine Zeitung: German newspaper, 08/29/1945
FF 11 - Neue Zeit: German newspaper, 08/29/1945
FF 12 - Tagliche Rundschau: German newspaper, 08/29/1945
FF 13 - News of Germany: Information Control Division - Office of Military Government Publication, 12/27/1945
FF 14 - Winternilswerk des Deutchen Volkes: German handbills, 1940-1941
FF 15 - Osterrich-Verboten: German newsletter, 06/1937
FF 16 - The Detroit News Special Report entitled A Time of Tragedy, 08/11/1967
OSF 1 - Awards, diplomas, certificates and honors (includes military appointments/promotions/honors, undergraduate, graduate and law degree diplomas, memberships in The Order of the Coif, certificates of admission to bar, resolutions in his honor, etc.), ca. 1933-1983
Restrictions Note: The Archives of the University of Missouri-Columbia is required by law and Board of Curator's policy to restrict access to some files and information. Student records are held as confidential under the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 and by University policy. Faculty promotion and tenure records and Academic Personnel files are restricted for 75 years, or the lifetime of the individual. All grievance, disciplinary, and medical records are treated as confidential files. Consultations with legal counsel, both in-house and external, are protected by the attorney/client privilege and will not be released.
