Democratic Justice, page 105
37
“There is”: FF to HLS, 5/11/1911, at 2, HLSP, Reel 24, Page 406.
37
Justice Department: HLS to FF, 6/30/1911, at 1–3, FFLC, Box 103; HLS to FF, 7/1/1911, at 2, id.; FF to Wickersham, 7/2/1911 tel., HLSP, Reel 25; Wickersham to FF, 7/13/1911, at 1–2, FFLC, Box 111.
37
law officer: HLS to FF, 7/3/1911, FFLC, Box 103.
37
“junior”: FFR, 56.
37
“Faithful”: HLS to Lewis Stimson, 8/3/1911, at 6, HLSP, Reel 25, Page 611.
37
many meals: FF to ERB, 9/26/1911, at 3–5, FFLC, Box 30.
37
walked: FFR, 57–58.
38
“collects”: HJL to OWH, 7/20/1925, 1 HLL at 766.
38
“I assume” & “faith in democracy” & “old laissez-faire” & “problems”: FF to HLS, 9/9/1911, at 1–6, HLSP, Reel 26, Pages 189–94.
38
Supreme Court: United States v. E. C. Knight Co., 156 U.S. 1 (1895); Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1911); United States v. American Tobacco Co., 221 U.S. 106 (1911).
39
longhand: HLSD, Reel 1, Vol. 2, Pages 54–58; HLS to WHT, 9/13/1911, at 1, HLSP, Reel 26, Page 292; HLS to Mabel Stimson, 9/21/1911, at 3, id., Page 473.
39
preconceived: DFF, 10/23/1911, at 107.
39
Louis Brandeis: Snyder, The House of Truth, 20–22 (2017).
39
“[p]erfectly”: DFF, 10/20/1911, at 104.
39
“doesn’t care” & “has no”: DFF, 10/26/1911, at 112.
39
“patience” & “very big”: DFF, 10/20/1911, at 104.
40
“how to deal”: DFF, 10/22/1911, at 105.
40
Detroit: CT, 9/19/1911, at 1, 4.
40
pleaded: DFF, 10/23/1911, at 106; id., 10/24/1911, at 108–9.
40
“I think”: Speech at 24, WHTP, Reel 361, Series 6, CF42, at 10657.
40
circulated: DFF, 10/27/1911, at 112; id., 10/28/1911, at 114; id., 10/29/1911, at 114.
40
“I am very”: Nagel to HLS, 10/31/1911, at 2, HLSP, Reel 26, Page 791.
40
permission: HLS to Lewis Stimson, 11/7/1911, at 1–3, HLSP, Reel 26, Pages 891–93; HLSD, Reel 1, Pages 57–58.
40
Panama: WHT to HLS, 11/2/1911, HLSP, Reel 26, Page 824.
41
“stillborn” & “I’d give”: DFF, 11/3/1911, at 115–16 & id., 11/6/1911, at 118. See Snyder, House of Truth, 13–16.
41
“left” & “amiable” & “vision”: DFF, 11/3/1911, at 116.
41
Wambaugh: Joseph Beale to FF, 11/15/1911, MRCP, Box 5, Folder 12.
41
Pound: FF to Beale, 11/16/1911, at 2, id.; ERB to FF, circa 11/18/1911, FFLC, Box 110; RP to ERB, 11/20/1911, at 1–2, FFLC, Box 30; Arthur E. Sutherland, Jr., “One Man in His Time,” 78 Harv. L. Rev. 7, 17 n.15 (1964) (FF on “Liberty of Contract” article and Pound’s hiring).
41
“a conservative” & “failed” & “selfish”: DFF, 10/27/1911, at 113.
42
“I have”: OWH to HJL, 3/4/1920, 1 HLL, at 249. Cf. OWH to FF, 3/24/1914, H-FF Corr., at 19 (“a law should be called good if it reflects the will of the dominant forces of the community even if it will take us to hell”).
42
“Dear Judge”: JCG to OWH, 11/17/1911, NARA, Bureau of Insular Affairs, RG 350, Series 5A, Box 666, #12603.
43
second-floor study: “Residence of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1720 I Street,” 14 photographs circa 1935, Lot 10304 (G), LC P&P; “Study of Justice and Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Washington, D.C. residence,” 4/9/1905, Harvard Law School, olvwork392139.
43
talking: FFR, 58.
43
“I came”: FF to JCG, 11/27/1911, NARA, Bureau of Insular Affairs, RG 350, Series 5A, Box 666, #12603.
43
For years: Snyder, House of Truth, 305–16.
44
“a foolish”: OWH to HJL, 3/4/1920, 1 HLL, at 249.
44
relative obscurity: Snyder, House of Truth, 316–18.
44
customs: NYTrib, 1/30/1910, at 7.
44
Denison was listed: Snyder, House of Truth, 18–19.
44
“that damn”: FFR, 108.
44
Baker: DFF, 11/21/1911, at 120–21.
45
Valentine: Snyder, House of Truth, 26–33.
45
Sophie: SFV Diary 1910 (misdated), 11/2/1911, RGVP, Carton 16, Folder 3; SFV to RGV, 11/3/1911, at 2, id., Carton 7, Folder 54 (FF visit).
45
“very realest”: FF to ERB, 12/26/1911, at 2, FFLC, Box 30 (emphasis in original).
45
Mayer: Mayer to HLS, 12/7/1911, at 1–3, HLSP, Reel 27, Pages 338–40; Lloyd Griscom to Root, 12/12/1911, at 1, id., Page 410; CCB to HLS, 12/29/1912, at 1–2, id., Pages 648–49; Augustus Hand to HLS, 1/2/1912, id., Page 704; LH to HLS, 1/24/1912, at 1–3, id., at Pages 1032–34; NYT, 1/23/1912, at 3.
45
insisted: FF to Herbert Brownell, 3/19/1957, at 2, FFLC, Box 30; FF to ERB, 2/6/1932, at 2, FFLC, Box 206; FFR, 279.
46
“The thing”: FF to ERB, 1/6/1912, at 5, FFLC, Box 30.
46
“We Progressives” & “to free” & “in the hands” & “responsible”: TR, “A Charter of Democracy,” 2/21/1912, Columbus, Ohio, in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Vol. 17, 120 (Hermann Hagedorn, ed. 1926).
46
recall: id. at 135–39, 143–47 (discussing Ives v. South Buffalo Ry. Co., 201 N.Y. 271, (1911)).
46
on notice: TR to HLS, 2/5/1912, at 3–4, HLSP, Reel 28, Page 190.
46
“I may”: TNR, 10/1/1924, at 113.
46
“My hat”: NYT, 2/22/1912, at 1.
47
“prepossessions” & “textual”: FF to ERB, 3/4/1912, at 2–4, FFLC, Box 30.
47
“keen” & “moral” & “more disciplined” & “his party’s” & “the Republican Party”: Id. at 4–6.
47
“Oh,”: FFR, 53–54.
48
“carried out”: HLS, “The Progressive Character of President Taft’s Administration,” 3/5/1912, at 1, HLSP, Reel 130, Page 76.
48
“great mistake”: HLS to Lewis Stimson, 2/26/1912, at 2–3, id., Reel 28, Pages 490–91.
48
poor leadership: “Personal Reminiscences, 1911–1912,” HLSD, Reel 1, Vol. 2, Pages 32–35.
48
honest conversations: FF to ERB, 3/4/1912, at 7–8; FF to HLS, 4/30/1912, at 1–3, HLSP, Reel 29, Pages 279–81; FFR, 54.
48
religious garb: RGV to Superintendents in Charge of Indian Schools, 1/27/1912, WHTP, Series 6, No. 515C, Reel 397, Page 56765; WHT to Walter L. Fisher, 2/3/1912, at 1–2, id. at Pages 56775–76; Snyder, House of Truth, 27.
48
invited: Snyder, House of Truth, 33.
48
Christie: Snyder, House of Truth, 34
48
“friends”: LCC to FF, 2/25/1911, at 2–3, FFLC, Box 43.
48
“an attractive”: DFF, 10/29/1911, at 114.
48
Percy: Snyder, House of Truth, 34–35.
49
“much more of”: FFR, 105.
49
“The days”: FF to ERB, 4/20/1912 at 7, FFLC, Box 30.
49
Holmes: RGV to SFV, 5/22/1912, at 2, RGVP, Carton 7, Folder 61.
49
“the system” & “the majority”: OWH, “Natural Law,” 32 Harv. L. Rev. 40, 40 (1918).
49
naming: OWH to NCG, 11/6/1919, at 2–3, OWHP, Reel 23, Page 684, Box 32, Folder 12 (attributing name to Denison).
49
“How or why”: FFR, 106.
49
“a Roosevelt”: FB, A Casual Past, 265–71 (1961).
49
Biddle’s boss: OWH to FB, 7/17/1912, at 2, FBP-GU, Box 2, Folder 31; Snyder, House of Truth, 48–49.
50
“if they could”: OWH to LE, 10/28/1912, H-E Letters, at 74.
50
“the undisciplined”: FF to FH, 5/24/1912, H-FF Corr., at 7.
50
“the movement”: Robert M. La Follette, “Introduction” (March 1912), in Gilbert E. Roe, Our Judiciary Oligarchy, v (1912).
50
counterproductive: LDB to George Rublee, 3/16/1912, 2 LLDB, at 568–69; LDB to Walter Pollak, 4/9/1912, id. at 577; LDB to Alfred Brandeis, 4/30/1912, id. at 611.
50
“class hatred”: FF to ERB, 4/20/1912, at 3–4.
50
made the rounds: RGV to SFV, n.d. 1912, at 1, RGVP, Carton 7, Folder 56.
51
“I don’t see”: LCC to FF, 6/20/1912, at 1–3, FFLC, Box 43.
51
“big bosses,” & “great crooked” & “good of mankind” & “We fight”: TR, “The Case against the Reactionaries,” 6/17/1912, in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Vol. 17, 209, 231.
51
“Fine!”: NYT, 5/29/1912, at 4.
51
early July: HLS to mother, 7/10/1912, at 3, HLSP, Reel 29, Page 945.
51
Brandeis advised: LDB to FF, 7/12/1912, HBHS, at 20.
51
“you would”: TR to Paul A. Ewert, 7/5/1912, 7 Letters of TR at 572.
51
“here I am”: FF to Sofy Buckner, 7/17/1912, at 2, FFLC, Box 30.
52
“more like”: Herbert Knox Smith to RGV, 8/10/1912, RGVP, Carton 8, Folder 84.
52
“the difference”: FFR, 85.
52
front page: NYT, 9/11/1912, at 1.
52
Privately: RGV to Robert P. Bass, 9/10/1912, at 1, RGVP, Carton 23, transcript R27.
52
“the high tide” & “deep blemishes” & “open-mindedness” & “very much”: FF to SFV, 8/28/1912, at 1–5, RGVP, Carton 15, Folder 68.
52
“I find”: FF to HLS, 9/10/1912, at 1, FFLC, Box 103.
52
“real work”: HLS to FF, 9/19/1912, at 1–2, id.
53
promised: FF to HLS, 9/26/1912, id.
53
“If you haven’t” & “I return”: RGV to FF, 9/22/1912, RGVP, Carton 9, Folder 68.
53
“real job” & “with the Colonel”: RGV to FF, 9/28/1912, at 1, id.
53
“[A]fter”: FF to LH, 8/26/1912, at 2, LHP, Box 104A, Folder 104-1.
53
three-member commission: WHT to WTD, 8/21/1912, at 1, WHTP, Reel 361, Series 41J at 9930; WHT to WTD, 10/19/1912, id. at 9965; FF to WHT, 10/19/1912, id. at 9966.
53
“It takes”: BaltSun, 10/15/1912, at 1.
54
“inquiries”: FF to TR, 12/18/1912, TRP, Reel 161, Series 1, Image 824.
54
Panama Canal: “Panama Trip,” HLSD, Reel 1, Vol. 2, Pages 119–20; WP, 11/13/1912, at 7.
54
review: FF and Capt. George H. Shelton, “Secretary Stimson’s Administration of the War Department: A Review,” HLSP, Reel 140, Page 590; BET, 3/12/1913, §2, at 2.
54
grateful: FF to HLS, 3/3/1913, FFLC, Box 103.
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55
four-page memorandum: FF, Memorandum, 7/5/1913, FFR, 80–84.
55
“industrial counselor”: Henry P. Kendall, “The First Industrial Counselor—Robert G. Valentine, 1871–1916,” The Survey, 11/25/1916, at 189.
55
“We have discovered”: RGV to FF, circa 12/1912, at 1–2, RGVP, Carton 9, Folder 69.
56
“Government”: FF & RGV, “A Tentative Social Program,” at 1, 8, RGVP, Carton 9, Folder 67 & FFLC, Box 216.
56
“worked out”: RGV to SFV, 7/16/1912, at 2, RGVP, Carton 7, Folder 66.
56
“Dear Pardner”: FF to RGV, circa 12/1912, at 1–2, RGVP, Carton 9, Folder 69.
56
prospectus: Office of Robert G. Valentine Counsellor of Industrial Relations, 1/3/1913, id., Carton 13, Folder 26.
56
dinner & Borglum: RGV to SFV, 1/14/1913, at 1, RGVP, Carton 7, Folder 75.
56
“going”: FF to RGV, 1/7/1913, at 1, id., Carton 9, Folder 70.
56
“The silence”: FF to RGV, 2/10/1913 tel., id.
57
“as the biggest”: FF, “The Zeitgeist and the Judiciary,” The Survey, 1/25/1913, at 542–43, FFLC, Box 194.
57
investigation & fired: Report, 2/15/1913, at 18, FFLC, Box 51; NYT, 3/4/1913, at 4.
57
Supreme Court: Porto Rico v. Rosaly, 227 U.S. 270 (1913); Tiaco v. Forbes, 228 U.S. 549, 558 (1913); WTD to SFV, 6/13/1913, at 2–3, RGVP, Box 15, Folder 58 (recalling Justice Joseph Rucker Lamar’s praise for FF’s argument in the Philippines case).
57
going-away party: WES, 3/28/1913, at 7.
57
“I hope you” & “You mix”: FFR, 109. Cf. ERB to FF, 4/16/1914, at 1, FFLC, Box 30, (hearing it was Chief Justice White, not Lurton).
57
“Felix keeps”: WTD to Emma Frankfurter, 10/26/1912, at 2, FFLC Box 51.
57
“You are right”: LDB to AGB, 11/24/1913, FLLDB, at 224.
58
children’s party: FF to RGV, 5/18/1913, at 4, RGVP, Carton 9, Folder 71.
58
pie & monkey: WTD to SFV, 5/20/1919, at 6–7, id., Carton 15, Folder 64.
58
“Truth”: FF to FH, circa 1913, OWHP, Reel 61, Page 440, Box 79, Folder 11.
58
broached: WTD to Edward Warren, 6/12/1913, FFLC, Box 51.
58
“To a man”: Warren to Denison, 6/16/1913, id.
58
“I would let”: FFR, 78.
58
“jurisprudence” & “the great”: FF, Memorandum, 7/5/1913, in FFR, 81–82.
58
“the Valentine” & “inscrutable” & “Southern-Democrat” & “party” & “first-class” & “citizen-lawyer” & “best five”: Id. at 83–84.
59
“greatest faculty” & “at the center” & “side track”: HLS to FF, 6/28/1913, at 2–4, FFLC, Box 103.
59
Frankfurter replied: FF to HLS, 7/7/1913, at 3–5, id.; FF to LH, 6/28/1913, at 1, LHP, Box 104A, Folder 104-2.
59
“have to adjust” & “be content”: FFR, 79.
59
“What does”: LH to FF, 7/3/1913, at 2, LHP, Box 104A, Folder 104-2.
59
five-year tryout: FF to OWH, 7/4/1913, H-FF Corr., at 10–11.
59
“more nourishment” & “academic life”: OWH to FF, 7/15/1913, id., at 12–13.
60
“saddened”: FF to RGV, 8/26/1913, at 1, RGVP, Carton 9, Folder 71.
60
Phi Betta Kappa: 1912 Smith College Yearbook, at 67.
60
president: CSM, 10/1/1910, at 13.
60
Luina: OWH to LH, 4/19/1918, OWHP, Reel 26, Page 477, Box 36, Folder 3; OWH to HJL, 1/15/1920, 1 HLL, at 234.
60
5'7": MD Passport Application, 5/3/1918, at 2, NARA, U.S. Passport Applications, M1490, Roll 511, Certificate #15869.
60
The Reef: FF to MD, 6/11/1913, FFLC, Box 5; FF to MD, 7/15/1913, at 1, id.; Liva Baker, Felix Frankfurter 40–41 (1969).
60
angrily refused: FFR, 79.
60
Only one: FFR, 86.
61
accept the offer: FF to Ezra Thayer, 7/30/1913, Harvard Law School Dean’s Office, Box 1, Folder “Frankfurter, Felix.”
61
$1000: LDB to Thayer, 11/4/1913, id.; Felix Warburg to Thayer, 11/17/1913, id.; Thayer to LH, 11/13/1913, id.; Thayer to OWH, 11/25/1913, id.; JWM to Thayer, 11/29/1913, id.
61
Wyman: FFR, 80; Cornell Daily Sun, 1/6/1914, at 3.
61
Herbert Croly: WL, “Notes for a Biography,” TNR, 7/16/1930, at 250.
61
“philosopher” & 7500: FF, “Herbert Croly and American Political Opinion,” TNR, 7/16/1930, at 247.
61
Roosevelt: Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life, 168–71 (1909).
