Typed Letter, Signed, Regarding the Death of Benjamin Cardozo.
A Poignant Eulogy for Cardozo by One of His Colleagues [Manuscript]. Stone, Harlan Fiske [1872-1946]. [Typed Letter, Signed, Regarding the Death of Benjamin Cardozo, On U.S. Supreme Court Letterhead, October 17, 1938]. Single-sided letter on 10-1/2" x 8" (26.7 x 20.3 cm) sheet, signed "Harlan Stone." Faint horizontal fold lines, a few minor creases to edges, negligible light soiling to upper left corner. $500. * This remarkable letter connects three prominent figures of the mid-twentieth-century American legal landscape. It was sent to Harold Roland Shapiro (1903-1990), a New York lawyer, legal scholar, and co-author of significant works on antitrust legislation during the New Deal. Writing just three months after the passing of Associate Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, Stone delivers a poignant, deeply personal eulogy for his late colleague: "The death of Justice Cardozo was an irreparable loss to his friends, to the Court, and to the country. I could hardly undertake to say how greatly I miss him." Stone and Cardozo, alongside Louis Brandeis, comprised the Court's legendary liberal voting bloc-dubbed the "Three Musketeers"-which frequently defended New Deal legislation against the court's conservative majority. Stone also thanks Shapiro for sending him a "very interesting account" of "Mr. Wellman's book," almost certainly referring to the newly published memoir by the famed New York trial attorney Francis L. Wellman, Luck and Opportunity: Recollections (1938). A superb piece of Supreme Court ephemera documenting a moment of profound transition on the Bench.
Price: $500.00
Book number 70522