Subseries B. Civil Cases are divided into correspondence, case notes, case documents, account books, and financial papers. Correspondence contains letters from associates (including Daniel Webster, Joseph G. Waters, Larkin Thorndike, Leverett Saltonstall, and Benjamin L. Oliver Jr.), correspondence from prisoners appealing for legal aid or applying for pardons, letters from the Treasury Department regarding the collection of revenues and the relief of insolvent debtors, and correspondence regarding court cases. These civil cases deal with a wide variety of subjects, including: debt, murder, assault, estate settlements, forgery, robbery, fraud, defamation of character, performing without a license, tampering with the U.S. mail, embezzlement, perjury, and counterfeiting. The civil case notes and notebooks come from a various civil and marine cases, and include Andrew's notes and copy of a speech made by Daniel Webster as the defense attorney in an 1816 robbery trial. Case documents contain powers of attorney, summons, writs, testimony, memorials, a list of traverse jurors for 1834, a copy of Dr. Bentley's will (1819), and contemporary and older legal documents, including an 1814 patent for a plough. The financial papers, consisting of account books, accounts, bills, and receipts, include administrative costs, such as attorney's fees, office rent, employees' wages, and costs of serving writs or taking depositions; debts collected or financial business conducted for clients; and the financial outcome of trials, including court costs and settlements.