Yesterday, I had the privilege of taking some Rice students to the law offices of Baker Botts LLP, where we were given a tour of the firm’s historic records by senior partner Bill Kroger.

One of the fascinating things we saw was this law book belonging to firm co-founder Peter W. Gray, into which Gray had apparently cut and pasted General Gordon Granger’s Juneteenth orders from 1865, before a section on the Reconstruction amendments.