Severn Teackle Wallis (1816 – 1894) was an American lawyer and politician as well as a promoter of the Maryland Historical Society. The collection consists of three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings ranging in date from 1867 to 1894. The clippings were collected by Charles Morris Howard, a Baltimore lawyer.

Francis D. Murnaghan Jr. (1920–2000) was a United States federal judge based in Baltimore, Maryland. This collection consists of materials dating from 1946 to 2000, including appellate briefs authored while a practicing attorney, judicial decision files, papers reflecting his role of a Trustee of both the Johns Hopkins University and The Walters Art Gallery, appointment books, and a limited amount of personal correspondence.

John McGill was a lawyer in Urbana, Virginia (in Middlesex County), and flourished between 1827 and 1848. The collection consists of incoming letters, financial records, records of the William Shepherd estate, and J. Hopkins Brothers and Company records all ranging in date from 1827 to 1849. The bulk of the incoming letters are from Baltimore merchants.