John W. Stevenson’s notes on assault and burglary from John A.G. Davis’ 1832-1833 class. Stevenson included textual references to each of the main points he outlined.

Student notebooks typically contain financial notes at the very end that reference personal accounts. Occasionally, students used the last few pages of their notebook to keep track of tuition fees and book costs.

Doodles and sketches can be found in many student notebooks. While these sketches are often at the very beginning and end of a notebook, they are sometimes scattered throughout lectures and other notes. As with James Marshall Hanger’s 1853-1854 notebook, it is possible some of these sketches were added by a later owner and/or that pencil was used with the intention of erasing.

G.W. Blatterman’s notes from John A.G. Davis’ 1838-1839 senior law class. Here, Professor John A.G. Davis discusses the recognition of slavery in Virginia state law despite William Blackstone’s adamant rejection of its legality in his Commentaries on the Laws of England. Davis admitted that Blackstone was right: slavery could not be reconciled with natural law.

G.W. Blatterman included a few pages of “idiomatic phrases” at the very end of his law notebook from 1838-1839. This section does not seem to pertain Blatterman’s law notes and was likely for another class or personal use.