Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, notes, legal files, biographical material, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Sutherland's service as U.S. congressman and senator from Utah and U.S. Supreme Court associate justice. Subjects include his affiliation with the American Bar Association, presidential campaign of 1920, appointment of Sutherland to the bench in 1922, Supreme Court packing fight of 1937, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and Utah politics. Correspondents include William Edgar Borah, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Tom Connally, Carter Glass, Warren G. Harding, Charles Evans Hughes, Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William H. Taft, and John Sharp Williams.