PROLOGUE
1.OWH to CSRS, February 9, 1916, MDHM, 17-39; OWH to NG, February 27, 1913, MDHM, 3-34.
2.Acheson, Memoir, 62.
3.OWH to LE, December 20, 1917, H-E, 157; Biddle, Casual Past, 263; OWH to Kaneko Kentaro, March 12, 1929, Kanda and Gifford, eds., “Kaneko Correspondence,” 425.
4.Curtis, Review of Holmes-Laski, 267.
5.OWH to NG, March 23, 1921, MDHM, 4-3.
6.Bander, Holmes Ex Cathedra, 194.
7.OWH to LE, October 31, 1918, H-E, 173; OWH to HJL, November 1, 1926, H-L, 2:892.
8.OWH to LE, October 31, 1918, H-E, 173.
9.OWH to Patrick Sheehan, September 21, 1908, H-S, 25.
10.Remarks to Second Army Corps Association, March 13, 1903, CW, 3:537.
11.OWH to LE, August 20, 1911, H-E, 63; OWH to ES, August 14, 1914, MDHM, 17-29.
12.OWH to Lucy Clifford, January 21, 1928, MDHM, 14-10.
13.OWH to NG, May 8, 1910, MDHM, 3-32; OWH to LE, October 3, 1920, H-E, 193.
14.Hiss, Laughing Last, 57; Alger Hiss interview, 18–21, JSMP, 1-8; Monagan, Grand Panjandrum, 26.
15.Notes for a Talk on O.W.H., 2, WBLM; Sutherland, “Recollections,” 20–21; Hiss, Laughing Last, 59; OWH to NG, January 4, 1909, MDHM, 3-31; OWH to EC, January 18, 1926, MDHM, 14-23.
16.Leach, Recollections.
17.OWH to NG, September 2, 1895, MDHM, 3-15.
18.Belknap, “Justice Holmes,” 9.
19.Derby, “Recollections,” 347–48.
20.OWH to Melville W. Fuller, February 9, 1909, MDHM, 14-43.
21.OWH to Fuller, February 10, 1908, MDHM, 14-43.
22.OWH to EC, February 24, 1903, MDHM, 14-21; CW, 1:86–87, 124 n. 9.
23.“I should like to decide every case—and write every judgment of the court, but I’m afraid the boys wouldn’t see it”: OWH to CC, February 11, 1897, MDHM, 13-23.
24.Holmes owned three such notebooks during his lifetime. The last and largest was the “Black Book”; it covered the years 1881–1935, and listed 3,475 books read (Monagan, Grand Panjandrum, 105). After Holmes’s death, his executor had a facsimile edition privately printed and presented a copy to each of Holmes’s secretaries (Hiss, Recollections, 32). The original Black Book is now in the Harvard Law School Library; a digital facsimile is accessible on the Web. The two earlier notebooks, covering 1865–66 and 1867–80, list 600 books read; these have been transcribed in Little, “Early Reading of Holmes.”
25.OWH to LE, May 29, 1931, L-E, 325 (Wodehouse); OWH to ES, May 21, 1923, MDHM, 17-29 (Proust); OWH to ASG, February 6, 1910, MDHM, 15-8 (Dante); OWH to ES, July 16, 1908, MDHM, 17-28 (Camoens).
26.Sutherland, “Recollections,” 23; OWH to NG, March 20, 1914, MDHM, 3-35; OWH to LE, June 22, 1914, H-E, 97; Hiss, Laughing Last, 58.
27.James Rowe interview, LJPP, 1-35; Monagan, Grand Panjandrum, 104.
28.OWH to ES, July 30, 1908, MDHM, 17-28; OWH to LE, February 8, 1931, H-E, 321.
29.OWH to EC, March 29, 1926, MDHM, 14-23; OWH to LE, June 1, 1925, H-E, 242; OWH to NG, July 30, 1930, MDHM, 4-25.
30.Meeting of Holmes Secretaries, Notes of Reminiscences, 4, WBLM; OWH to FF, February 11, 1920, H-F, 81–82.
31.Acheson, Memoir, 65.
32.OWH to NG, October 18, 1903, MDHM, 3-23; Belknap diary entry, December 13, 1915, quoted in Messinger, “Holmes and his Clerks,” 49; Biddle, Mr. Justice Holmes, 112.
33.Hiss, Laughing Last, 61; entry for February 21, 1934, Howe, Diary, 26–27.
34.OWH to Patrick Sheehan, December 15, 1912, H-S, 56; OWH to NG, December 2, 1910, MDHM, 3-33.
35.Holmes, Common Law, 1.
36.Posner, Essential Holmes, xi.
37.Holmes, Common Law, 1.
38.LH to Arthur Train, May 29, 1941, Hand, Papers, 81-7.
39.Dissenting opinion, Southern Pacific Company v. Jensen (1917).
40.O’Neill v. Northern Colorado Irrigation Company (1916).
41.McAuliffe v. Mayor and Board of Aldermen of New Bedford, 155 Mass. 216 (1892), rejecting an appeal by a police officer fired for violating a rule against political activity.
42.Spade v. Lynn and Boston Railroad Company, 172 Mass. 488 (1899), at 491, dismissing a lawsuit by a woman who claimed emotional distress when a train conductor jostled her while ejecting a drunk passenger.
43.Chadwick v. Covell, 151 Mass. 190 (1890), at 193.
44.Dissenting opinion, Olmstead v. United States (1928).
45.Dissenting opinion, Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923).
46.Dissenting opinion, United States v. Schwimmer (1929), disagreeing with the government’s denial of citizenship to a pacifist.
47.Dissenting opinion, Gitlow v. New York (1925), opposing a conviction for the distribution of communist literature.
48.OWH to HJL, July 2, 1917, H-L, 1:91; Speech to the Chicago Bar Association, October 21, 1902, CW, 3:533.
49.Schwartz, History of Supreme Court, 197.
50.“Walbridge Abner Field,” Answer to Resolutions of the Bar, November 25, 1899, CW, 3:495; Hale, Table Talk, 15, OWHA, 4-8; OWH to LE, July 11, 1925, H-E, 244; OWH to NG, November 9, 1906, MDHM, 3-29.
51.Hale, Table Talk, 15, OWHA, 4-8.
52.Biddle, Casual Past, 263.
53.CW, 1:87.
54.Palmer, “Holmes and Hitler,” 573; Gregg, “Pragmatism of Holmes,” 294. In a similar vein, see McKinnon, “Secret of Holmes.”
55.Frank, “Learned Hand,” 703–4.
56.Graham, Washington, 190–91.
57.OWH to FF, July 15, 1913, H-F, 12; OWH to LE, June 1, 1905, H-E, 16–17.
58.Alschuler, Law without Values, 49, 180.
59.Gilmore, American Law, 48–49.
60.Novick, Honorable Justice, xvii; White, Justice Holmes, 297, 358, 370, 476–77; White, “Holmes as Correspondent,” 1761.
61.Graves, Assault Heroic, xix–xx.
62.H-P, 1:xxxi.
63.Anna K. Codman to MDH, August 11, 1942, MDHM, 14-11.
64.Codman to OWH, March 6, 1931, OWHP, 15-17.
65.Zobel, “What a Medley,” 12, quoting note by Nina Gray written on envelope of OWH to NG, June 18, 1901, OWHP, 3-19.
66.Acheson to Michael Janeway, May 24, 1960, McLellan and Acheson, eds., Among Friends, 182–83.
67.OWH to FF, December 31, 1915, H-F, 42.
68.OWH to HJL, December 15, 1926, H-L, 2:905.
69.OWH to NG, July 28, 1915, MDHM, 3-37; OWH to ES, November 7, 1909, MDHM, 17-28; OWH to EC, December 30, 1907, MDHM, 14-22.
70.White, “Holmes as Correspondent,” 1761.
71.H. Chapman Rose interview, 12–13, JSMP, 1-14.
72.“Mourns Holmes: Messenger Faithful on Anniversary of Death,” Washington Star, March 6, 1938, A-12, A-15; “Arthur Thomas, Supreme Court Employe, Dies at 80,” WP, April 24, 1943, B-7.
73.OWH to FP, August 30, 1929, H-P, 2:253.
74.Holmes, “Ideals and Doubts,” 3.
75.Gompers v. United States (1914); dissenting opinion, Springer v. Government of the Philippine Islands (1928); Otis v. Parker (1903).
76.Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives, 160 Mass. 586 (1894), at 594.
CHAPTER 1: Dr. Holmes’s Boston
1.Brooks, Indian Summer, 11.
2.LLH, 1:204.
3.Brooks, Indian Summer, 10.
4.Holmes Sr., “Professor’s Story,” 93; Holmes Sr., Autocrat, 125.
5.Hazard, Jonny-Cake Papers, 339; Brooks, Indian Summer, 5n, 23–24.
6.Mackay, Life and Liberty, 1:67.
7.Mark Twain to Pamela Moffett, November 9, 1869, Twain, Letters, 1:168.
8.O’Connor, Athens of America, 117.
9.Brooks, Indian Summer, 83–84.
10.Holmes Sr., Professor at Breakfast-Table, 3–4.
11.O’Connor, Athens of America, 114–15; Goodman, “Ethics and Enterprise,” 444–46.
12.O’Connor, Athens of America, 68–69; Howe, Holmes of Breakfast-Table, 64–65.
13.O’Connor, Athens of America, 30–33.
14.Puelo, City So Grand, 84–85.
15.Adams, Education, 47; Hofstadter, Age of Reform, 205.
16.O’Connor, Athens of America, 10.
17.Ibid., 11.
18.Monagan, Grand Panjandrum, 58.
19.Howe, Unitarian Conscience, 137; Emerson, Journals and Notebooks, 15:244.
20.O’Connor, Athens of America, 38–39, 152.
21.Hale, New England Boyhood, 18–19.
22.Howe, Unitarian Conscience, 23.
23.Adams, Education, 33–34.
24.Report to the Ecclesiastic Council of the First Parish of Cambridge . . . on the controversies & difficulties existing between sd. Parish and the Revd. Doct. Holmes, their Pastor, OWHA, 5-6.
25.LLH, 1:38–39, 46.
26.Holmes Sr., Mortal Antipathy, 26; LLH, 1:45.
27.OWH to Morris R. Cohen, February 5, 1919, Cohen, “Correspondence,” 15.
28.LLH, 1:56.
29.Ibid., 80–81.
30.Ibid., 70.
31.Ibid., 86, 102–3, 108–10.
32.Fitz, “My Dr. Holmes,” 543, 546.
33.Holmes Sr., Puerperal Fever, 47.
34.Ibid., 56–57.
35.Holmes Sr., Homeopathy, iv.
36.Tilton, Amiable Autocrat, 208; Hoyt, Improper Bostonian, 152–53; Holmes Sr., Autocrat, 65. (“You will find that the day you have lectured, something has gone out from you,” Dr. Holmes told his successor at Harvard Medical School: LLH, 1:180).
37.LLH, 1:158–59.
38.Ibid., 159.
39.FF note of conversation with OWH, September 28, 1932, MDHM, 22-26.
40.Fitz, “My Dr. Holmes,” 553; LLH, 1:177–79.
41.LLH, 2:3–10, 280–81.
42.Brooks, Indian Summer, 10; LLH, 1:206, 246; Howe, Holmes of Breakfast-Table, 95.
43.Report of Recitations and Deportments, June 19, 1847, OWHA, 2-1; Charles Eliot to OWH, March 28, 1924, OWHP, 17-15; Edward J. Holmes Jr. to Harlan Fiske Stone, ca. 1944, MDHM, 22-11.
44.Hughes, Autobiographical Notes, 176.
45.Excerpts from JBT Memorandum Book “E,” 111, MDHM, 15-29; Thayer, Letters of John Holmes, 7.
46.Higginson, “Brother’s Brother,” 175–76, 178; Thayer, Letters of John Holmes, 45–46, 237.
47.Thayer, Letters of John Holmes, xiii; entry for February 11, 1934, Howe, Diary, 25; excerpts from JBT Memorandum Book “E,” 115, MDHM, 15-29; Hughes, Autobiographical Notes, 176.
48.Thayer, Letters of John Holmes, 290.
49.LLH, 2:24.
50.Brooks, Indian Summer, 10.
51.LLH, 1:247; Holmes Sr., Autocrat, 5.
52.LLH, 1:211.
53.Emerson, Topical Notebooks, 3:30; Brooks, Indian Summer, 11.
54.Parrington, American Thought, 2:451, 459.
55.Tilton, Amiable Autocrat, 344.
56.OWH to CSRS, July 26, 1914, MDHM, 17-39.
57.OWH to FF, June 26, 1928, H-F, 231; Recollections of a Holmes Secretary, typescript, 6, WBLM.
58.Howe, Holmes of Breakfast-Table, 56; LLH, 1:322.
59.OWH to FF, May 21, 1926, H-F, 202; Donald Hiss in Louchheim, New Deal, 39.
60.OWH to CM, August 29, 1908, MDHM, 19-20.
61.“The Use of Law Schools,” oration before the Harvard Law School Association, November 5, 1886, CW, 3:474; Notes for a Talk on O.W.H., 2, WBLM.
62.Meeting of Holmes’s Secretaries, Notes of Reminiscences, 1, WBLM.
63.WJ to Henry James Sr., March 18, 1873, quoted in Howe, Shaping Years, 18; entry for December 13, 1889, Alice James, Diary, 69; “Mechanism in Thought and Morals,” Address to Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard, Holmes Sr., Pages from Old Volume, 312.
64.Donald Hiss in Louchheim, New Deal, 39; Hiss, Recollections, 50; OWH to HJL, March 27, 1923, H-L, 1:492.
65.OWH to ES, August 22, 1908, MDHM, 17-28.
66.LLH, 1:180.
67.Ibid., 316; Sutherland, “Recollections,” 20.
68.Entry for February 22, 1934, Howe, Diary, 28.
69.Leach, Recollections.
CHAPTER 2: A New England Boyhood
1.Mackay, Life and Liberty, 1:66; Hoyt, Improper Bostonian, 164.
2.Address to Tavern Club Dinner, November 14, 1902, CW, 3:534; OWH to FP, August 2, 1923, H-P, 2:120.
3.Remarks at Dinner of the Alpha Delta Phi Club, September 27, 1912, CW, 3:540; OWH to HJL, March 27, 1921, MDHM, 8-7. In the published version of this letter (H-L, 1:322–24), Mark Howe omitted the quoted passage about the “extra sheets” of his father’s work.
4.Address to Tavern Club Dinner, November 14, 1902, CW, 3:534; Remarks at Dinner of the Alpha Delta Phi Club, September 27, 1912, CW, 3:540.
5.Address to Tavern Club Dinner, November 14, 1902, CW, 3:534–35.
6.OWH to HJL, May 8, 1918, H-L, 1:154; anecdotes of Austin Clark, May 1948, MDHM, 22-27.
7.LLH, 1:171; Tilton, Amiable Autocrat, 161; O’Connor, Athens of America, 13–17.
8.Howe, Shaping Years, 29–30.
9.Alger Hiss interview, 21, JSMP, 1-8; OWH to Morris R. Cohen, February 5, 1919, Cohen, “Correspondence,” 15.
10.LLH, 1:197, 200.
11.Howe, Holmes of Breakfast-Table, 79–81; LLH, 1:200–2.
12.Tilton, Amiable Autocrat, 219; note of letter from John T. Morse Jr, to T. S. Perry, September 13, 1918, MDHM, 22-4.
13.OWH to LE, September 10, 1916, H-E, 139.
14.T. R. Sullivan to E. S. Dixwell, September 29, 1851, OWHA, 2-2; Howe, Shaping Years, 5.
15.Lois Lilley Howe, “The History of Garden Street,” 54, MDHM, 23-2; Howe, Shaping Years, 5.
16.Thayer, Letters of John Holmes, xliii.
17.Howe, Shaping Years, 5–7; E. S. Dixwell to OWH, December 10, 1882, OWHP, 17-11.
18.OWH to NG, July 20, 1891, MDHM, 3-14; OWH to LE, April 26, 1918, H-E, 164.
19.Adams, Education, 53–55.
20.Howe, Shaping Years, 36, 45.
21.Felton, Annual Report, 1859–60, 39; Howe, Shaping Years, 41–42.
22.Entry for January 30, 1934, Howe, Diary, 23.
23.“Books,” Harvard Magazine 4 (December 1858): 408–11, reprinted in CW, 1:139–42.
24.“Notes on Albert Durer,” Harvard Magazine 7 (October 1860): 41–47, reprinted in CW, 1:153–57; “Dr. Huntington,” Harvard Magazine 7 (October 1860): 64–67.
25.“Editor’s Table,” Harvard Magazine 7 (September 1860): 31–33.
26.Cornelius Felton to Holmes Sr., January 17, 1861, quoted in Howe, Shaping Years, 59–60.
27.Menand, Metaphysical Club, 25.
28.Howe, Shaping Years, 48.
29.Remarks at Dinner of the Alpha Delta Phi Club, September 27, 1912, CW, 3:539.
30.Menand, Metaphysical Club, 26.
31.Emerson, “The Transcendentalist,” Essays & Lectures, 203.
32.Chauncey Belknap, Some Words of Justice Holmes, 3, MDHM, 22-26.
33.OWH to Patrick Sheehan, October 27, 1912, H-S, 51.
34.OWH to FP, May 20, 1930, H-P, 2:264; OWH to HJL, January 13, 1923, H-L, 1:474.
35.Howe, Shaping Years, 62, 69.
36.Felton, Annual Report, 1860–61, 18.
37.Howe, Unitarian Conscience, 14; Bowen, Metaphysical Science, 31, 47.
38.Howe, Unitarian Conscience, 81.
39.Bowen, Metaphysical Science, 373.
40.OWH to Morris R. Cohen, February 5, 1919, Cohen, “Correspondence,” 14–15; Little, “Early Reading of Holmes,” 172; Estate of Justice Holmes: The Library, 109, OWHP, 61-3; Channing, Works.
41.Cohen, “Justice Holmes,” 208; Howe, Unitarian Conscience, 110.
42.OWH to James Bryce, December 31, 1882, MDHM, 13-17; Joseph Stevens Buckminster quoted in Howe, Unitarian Conscience, 179; Channing quoted in ibid., 279.
43.OWH to FF, July 15, 1913, H-F, 12; Channing quoted in Howe, Unitarian Conscience, 279.
44.Bowen, Critical Essays, ix–xii.
45.OWH to ES, March 7, 1915, MDHM, 17-29.
46.Holmes, dissenting opinion, Lochner v. New York (1905).
47.Bowen, Critical Ess
ays, 181.
48.Holmes, Common Law, 1.
49.Bowen, Documents of Constitution, v.
50.Gompers v. United States (1914).
51.Bowen, Documents of Constitution, iii, v.
52.Hudson County Water Company v. McCarter (1908).
53.Quoted in Howe, Unitarian Conscience, 127–28.
54.Holmes, “Natural Law,” 42.
55.Bowen, Critical Essays, 352.
56.Howe, Unitarian Conscience, 276, 289, 294.
57.Ibid., 284; Menand, Metaphysical Club, 10, 16.
58.Entry for May 23, 1846, Emerson, Journals, 7:197.
59.Puelo, City So Grand, 15–16, 19.
60.Ibid., 15, 29.
61.Brooks, Indian Summer, 129.
62.Puelo, City So Grand, 33; McPherson, Battle Cry, 119–20.
63.Amos A. Lawrence to Giles Richard, June 1, 1854, quoted in McPherson, Battle Cry, 120.
64.Howe, Holmes of Breakfast-Table, 88–90.
65.OWH to Arthur Garfield Hays, April 20, 1928, MDHM, 15-21; OWH to HJL, November 5, 1926, H-L, 2:893.
66.Menand, Metaphysical Club, 30.
67.R. P. Hallowell to OWH, January 23, 1861, in Howe, Shaping Years, 66; Menand, Metaphysical Club, 30–31.
68.HLA to JA, August 17, 1863, FL, 201; “Memorial Day,” address delivered at Keene, N.H., May 30, 1884, CW, 3:465.
69.OWH to LE, April 17, 1914, H-E, 90.
CHAPTER 3: Harvard’s Regiment
1.Miller, “Brahmins Under Fire,” 75–76 and n. 1; Fox, Regimental Losses, 3; FL, 23.
2.Fox, Regimental Losses, 164, 471.
3.Miller, Harvard’s Civil War, 16–17; Speech to the Class of ’61, June 28, 1911, CW, 3:504.
4.OWH to AJH, May 1, 1861, TWF, 3.
5.FL, 2; HLA to Mrs. Caroline Livermore Abbott, July 11, 1861, FL, 33–34; HLA to JA, May 1861, FL, 32.
6.Henry Ropes to John Codman Ropes, January 28, 1862, Ropes, Civil War Letters; Palfrey, Bartlett, 3.
7.Henry Lee to OWH, June 10, 1884, OWHP, 19-28. In a letter to his father, Abbott describes Holmes as “6 feet high”: HLA to JA, August 17, 1863, FL, 201.
8.Cornelius Felton to Holmes Sr., July 20, 1861, quoted in Howe, Holmes of Breakfast-Table, 101–2.
9.Howe, Shaping Years, 75; Felton to Holmes Sr., June 11, 1861, in Howe, Holmes of Breakfast-Table, 101.
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