[Rarebooks] FS: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. SIGNED HOLOGRAPH LETTER on U.S. Supreme Court stationery quoting William Wordsworth

[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. (#010490)        $1,500.00

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