[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Holograph Letter on U.S. Supreme Court letterhead from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

[Charles Agvent]

HOLMES,  Oliver  Wendell,  Jr.   AUTOGRAPH  LETTER  SIGNED  (ALS).
Washington,  D.C.: 7 Jan. 1930. A fine one-page letter of @75 words on
United  States  Supreme  Court 4-7/8" x 7-3/4" stationery  to  William
Preble  Jones, Chief Probation Officer, District Court of  Somerville,
Massachusetts.  Holmes thanks Jones for a pamphlet and talks about the
memories  it brought, briefly quoting from Wordsworth's "The  Solitary
Reaper":  "I recall old, unhappy, far-off things and battles long  ago
and  also  the  old  Dept. of Boston, which it  is  always  moving  to
remember--  I  cannot tell you about the Wendell Phillips  connection.
It  was  through  the mother(?), but I cannot put my hand  on  a  book
about  the  mother's(?) genealogy that might explain it."  Holmes  was
appointed  to  the  U.S. Supreme Court in 1902 by  President  Theodore
Roosevelt,  a  position he held until his retirement in  1932.  Holmes
became    famous  for  his  liberal   interpretations  of   the   U.S.
Constitution  and  was known as the "Great Dissenter" because  of  his
disagreement  with  the  views  of his colleagues on  the  Court.  His
lectures  on  common law at the Lowell Institute in Boston,  collected
as  THE COMMON LAW (1881), are considered a classic of legal  writing.
Together  with  the  original envelope with the Supreme Court  of  the
United  States  printed  return address also filled  out  in  Holmes's
hand.   Vertical  crease  from  mailing,   otherwise  Fine  and   very
frameable.                                                    $1500.00

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