James, Ethel, see Scott, Ethel (née James)
James, Garth Wilkinson (“Wilky”), 144, 145
James, Henry
and Chauncey Wright, 149, 151
on Clover Hooper, 139
friendship and jealousy of OWH, 3, 145–46, 147–48, 161, 218–19, 236, 482–83n56, 483n61
literary career, 144
and “Metaphysical Club,” 149, 483n66
and Minny Temple, 146–47
on OWH “choosing success,” 167
at W. James’s funeral, 321
The Ambassadors, 333
Notes of a Son and Brother, 343
“Poor Richard,” 146
James, Henry, Sr., 45–46, 144, 343
James, Mary Walsh (Mrs. Henry James Sr.), 146–47, 165
James, William
and Fanny Holmes, 143, 144, 146, 162, 423
friendship with OWH, 3, 144–46, 148, 161
and Learned Hand, 366
and Minny Temple, 146, 147
observations on OWH’s character, 162–63, 218, 321–22
on OWH’s conflict with father, 45
and OWH’s legal studies, 135–36, 153, 161–62
philosophical disagreements with OWH, 148–50, 154, 321–22
pragmatism, 245, 424
at Shaw Memorial dedication, 247
James River (Va.), 116, 125
Jefferson, Thomas, 344
Jericho Mill (Va.), 116, 121
Jesuits, 14, 326
Jews
in legal profession, 320, 327
OWH’s admiration for and friendships with, 328, 359
possible OWH ancestors, 359
see also anti-Semitism
Jim Crow, see mob-dominated trials; segregation; voting rights
“jobbists,” 137
Johnson, Ed, 416
Johnson, Mrs. Ralph Cross, 273
Johnston, Gen. Joseph E., 91
Jones, Earle H., 311–12
Joyce, James, 7–8
judges
bad writing style of, 12–13
impartiality and prejudices of, 14, 21–22, 223–24, 302
as law makers, 170, 173, 177, 242–43, 341
OWH’s ideal of, 183, 193–94
“Judges’ Bill,” 402
judicial restraint, 223–24, 224–25, 287–88, 293–96, 409, 436
juries
instructions to, 175
intimidation of, 350–51, 418
role of, 234, 432
Keedysville (Md.), 96
Kelly, Sir Fitzroy, 206
Kennaway, Sir John, 142
Kennedy, Frances, 97, 157
Kent, James (chancellor), 163, 166
Kent, James (grandson of chancellor), 163, 166–67, 486n40
Kent, William (son of chancellor), 166, 485–86n40
Kent’s Commentaries (Commentaries on American Law), 47, 153, 163–67, 169, 485–86n40
Kentucky
assessments for road paving, 296
college segregation law, 414
contracts in restraint of trade, 437
tax on out-of-state property, 267
Kew Gardens, 236
Kibel, Dr. Adam S., 491n19
Kimball, Day, 320
King’s Bench, 169, 344
King’s Chapel (Boston), 33, 49
Kipling, Rudyard, 26, 408
Know-Nothing party, 133
Knowlton, Justice Marcus Perrin, 224, 256, 264
La Follette, Sen. Robert, 405
labor and labor law
child labor, 291, 362–63, 458–59
closed shop, 247
justices’ hostility to unions, 297, 302, 353, 404–5
OWH’s meetings with union members, 224, 302–3
recognition of unions, 221, 302, 348, 389, 458, 523n20
strikes, boycotts, and picketing, 221, 241–42, 247, 388, 389, 405, 458–59, 523n20
wage and hour laws, 222–23, 291–92, 357, 361–62, 412, 458–59
workplace safety, 222, 397
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 8
Lafayette Square (Washington, D.C.), 265, 270, 281, 330
laissez-faire, 62, 270, 289, 291, 295, 338, 354
Lamar, Justice Joseph R., 336–37, 349
land tenure, 171
Landau, Lloyd H., 320
Lang, Andrew, 46
Langdell, Christopher Columbus, 169–70
Laski, Harold J., 371, 394
background, early career, and intellect, 371, 372
and Boston police strike, 389
on Brandeis’s lengthy opinions, 411
correspondence with OWH, 15, 212, 371, 372, 395, 512n14, 523n11
and Gandhi, 374
Hand’s skepticism of, 371
Harvard pressured to fire, 388–89, 394
influence on OWH’s free speech decisions, 375–76, 382, 384–85, 387–90, 393
investigated as radical, 387
juror in O’Dwyer libel case, 373
later visits to OWH, 449
at London School of Economics, 372, 395
marriage, 371, 374
mocked by Harvard Lampoon, 394, 394
OWH’s affection for, 371, 374–75, 395
OWH’s observations to: great lessons army taught, 19; lack of comeback to insult made of father, 46; ennui of Boston Sundays, 50; “swagger” from war wound, 128; how coolly one looks back on abolitionism, 130; all causes are despotism, 130; scrimping early in marriage, 161; criticisms made of The Common Law, 177–78; Marx “talked drool,” 223; “puke” test for overruling statutes, 293; dissenting opinions are not “fighting with another cock,” 345; “sinister thought” that young fellows were having him on with flattery, 371; Brandeis throws “harpoon through midriff” with dull reading list, 389; less freedom of speech here than in England, 390; Brandeis “fierce and fine” telling him off about social evils, 396; his job to help country “go to Hell” if it wants, 396; philanthropy prima facie wrong, 398; “animals” who ask him for “autographed photograph,” 421; Frankfurter’s book on Sacco-Vanzetti causing “commotion,” 426; purposely used “short and brutal words” in Virginia sterilization case, 430; modern writers think they discovered sex, 443; asks letters be destroyed, 455–56, 523n11
political views, 375, 388
promotes OWH’s reputation, 15–16, 400
recommends reading to OWH, 376, 406, 443
rents cottage near OWH on North Shore, 371, 374
story about OWH and Lincoln, 479–80n70
tall tales, 372–74, 512n14
urges Chafee to write on free speech, 385
law
adaptive nature of, 10–11, 64, 170–73
as expression of public force, 131, 244, 435
as philosophy, 152–53
as policy, 65, 170, 172–74, 242–43
prediction theory of, 243
and punishment, 233
scientific study of, 136, 169–70
as vengeance, 14, 173
see also admiralty law; commercial law; common law; constitutional law; criminal law; legal theories; natural law; property law; rights; torts and tort law
law clerks, see secretaries (law clerks), OWH’s
law professors
attacks on OWH by, 16–17, 341, 393, 436
and First Amendment, 385, 393
OWH’s opinion of, 16, 63, 183
law reviews, 13 (see also American Law Review; Harvard Law Review; Illinois Law Review)
Lawrence, Abbott, 66
Lawrence, Amos A., 68
Lawrence, D. H., 8
Lawrence family, 65
Lawrence (Mass.), 388
lawyers
as admirers of OWH, 14, 195, 405–6
courtroom verbosity, 194–95
Le Duc, William G., 96
Leach, W. Barton
duties as OWH’s secretary, 5–6, 316, 318
later career, 320
OWH’s comments to: might appreciate his father some day, 47
; why are people afraid to die, 451
papers at Harvard, 466
violates OWH’s rule against marriage, 317
Lee, Col. Henry, Jr., 74
Lee, Robert E., 91, 100, 115, 329
Lee, Col. W. Raymond, 76, 78, 80, 83, 84–85, 89, 91, 100–101, 104
Leesburg (Va.), 81–84
Legal Realism, 11, 245
“legal theologians,” 170, 246
legal theories
balancing tests, 21–22, 246–47, 293–94, 433
formalism, 11, 169–70, 246, 342
realism, 11, 170, 174–75, 198, 245, 293
natural law, 14, 15, 341, 376, 431
originalism, 21, 459–60
textualism, 21, 200, 288, 342
legislation
invalidation by courts, 223, 224–25, 287–88, 293–96, 409–10, 459
and legislative intent, 200
Lerner, Max, 414
Leviathan (Hobbes), 76
liability
and negligence, 175–76, 346
and privilege, 174, 241–42
and social convenience, 173, 431–33
strict, 174
vicarious, 164–65, 397
libel
criminal, 368
and freedom of the press, 368, 378–80
malice and privilege in, 174, 380
seditious, 368, 392
liberalism, 354, 375, 458
“liberty of contract”
as bar to social and economic legislation, 270, 288–89, 291, 302, 337, 409
OWH’s rejection of, 294–95, 348, 411, 412
subsequent refutation by Court, 459
see also Due Process Clause; Fourteenth Amendment
Library of Congress, 454–55
licensing laws, 288, 290, 410
Lincoln, Abraham
and conduct of war, 74, 100, 105, 115
derided by OWH’s fellow soldiers, 70, 78, 101–2
Lord Charnwood’s biography of, 3
OWH sees at Fort Stevens, 2, 125, 316, 479–80n70
OWH’s opinion of, 102
Lippmann, Walter, 354–55, 393, 400, 421, 422
Lloyd George, David, 372
Lochner, Joseph, 292
Lockwood, John E., 203, 318, 319, 441, 442
Lodge, Anna Davis (Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge), 276
Lodge, Sen. Henry Cabot, 59, 254–55, 284, 299, 300, 311
London, OWH’s love of, 138–39, 147, 234, 283, 287, 303 (see also England, OWH’s visits to)
London School of Economics, 372, 395
Long, Gov. John Davis, 180, 181
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 38
Longstreet, Gen. James, 105, 117
Lord, Justice Otis P., 180
Loring, Katherine P., 210
Louisiana, regulatory laws, 289–90, 291
Louisville (Ky.), 414–15, 427
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, 356, 388, 388–89, 394, 426
Lowell, Gen. Charles Russell, 102
Lowell, Francis Cabot, 51
Lowell, Lt. James Jackson, 77, 92
Lowell, James Russell, 38, 40, 41, 77
Lowell family, 26, 65
Lowell Institute, 26, 168, 176–77, 176
Lowell (Mass.), 51, 198, 222
Lurton, Justice Horace H., 335, 337
“Lusiads, The” (Camoens), 8
lynchings, 353, 416–17 (see also mob-dominated trials)
Mackellar’s Hotel, 234
Macy, Lt. George, 89–90, 101, 103, 109
Magnitzky, Gustav, 322
mail censorship, 368–69, 377, 440, 460
Maine, Sir Henry, 159
malice
legal vs. moral meaning, 175
in libel, 380
and privilege, 230
Malthus, Thomas, 398, 431
Manchester (Mass.), 226, 331
Mansfield, William Murray, Lord, 380
margin sales, of stock, 272, 295
Marietta (Ga.), 353
Marshall, Justice John, 344, 367, 421
Marston, George, 352
Marx, Karl, 7, 223
Massachusetts
bar examination, 154
court system, 183–84, 193, 426
divorce law, 187
economic regulation, 224
labor laws, 200, 222–23
public education, 25–26, 161
public spending, 201, 224
referendums, 224–25
restrictions on free speech, 378–80
vaccination law, 294
see also Constitution, Massachusetts; Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 69, 130
Massachusetts Audubon Society, 51
Massachusetts General Hospital, 27–28
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 176
Massachusetts Reports, 488n19
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, see Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 70
Massaponax Church (Va.), 116, 121
Masses, The, 368–69, 371
master-servant rule, 165, 397
Mattapoisett (Mass.), 156, 161, 162, 225
Matterhorn, 141, 142
McCabe, W. Gordon, 238, 274, 344, 466
McCall, Brig. Gen. George A., 81, 83
McClellan, Gen. George B.
as antiabolitionist, 78, 101
and Battle of Ball’s Bluff, 81, 83
overcaution, 91, 92, 100, 114
removed by Lincoln, 100
McKenna, Justice Joseph
background and appearance, 269, 336, 338, 339
and free speech cases, 378, 390, 515n64
retirement, 409, 420
rivalry with OWH, 338, 346–47, 403–4
McPherson, James M., 105
McReynolds, Justice James R., 361, 402
anti-Semitism and racism, 359–61, 419, 426, 511n73
dines at “House of Truth,” 329
and Frankfurter, 361–62, 426
laziness and rudeness, 361, 403–4, 411, 446, 511n73
reactionary views, 397, 412, 419
visits OWH in retirement, 449
and white primary decision, 433
Meade, Gen. George G., 2
medical malpractice, 232–33
Melville, Herman, 2
“Memorial Day” (Holmes), 92, 104, 123, 127
Menand, Louis, 59, 129, 136, 170
Mencken, H. L., 458
Mennonites, 377
“Metaphysical Club,” 150, 424, 483n66
Meyer, Agnes, 15, 204, 277
Michelet, Jules, 162–63
Mill, John Stuart, 140
Millet, Jean-François, 162
minimum wage, 412, 459
mining, 292, 295, 411
Minnesota, milk price law, 410
minstrel shows, 69
mob-dominated trials, 350–51, 417–19, 427–28, 459
Monagan, John S., 239, 466
Mönch, 342
Moncheur, Baroness (Charlotte, née Clayton)
attachment to OWH, 280
dinner guest of Holmeses, 311
OWH’s comments to: “glamour” that a visit to TR always leaves, 299; annoyed at criticism of his going to dinners in London, 304; 1910 a year of “disaster and death,” 320; Fuller died “at just the right moment,” 321; eligible to retire on full salary, 324; Frankfurter’s encouraging tone a “point of conscience with the Jews,” 328; Henry Adams acts the “old cardinal,” 330; “very private assessment” of new Court appointments, 337; dissents a way to “let out a little poison,” 347; time sneaks up on one, 352; surprise seventy-fifth birthday party, 354; “heart aches” at World War, 363; ”disagreeable task” of writing decision against Debs, 383; enjoying nature again after Armistice, 385–86; McKenna’s attack in rent control case, 404; “fight and not worry” in facing old age, 423–24
transcriptions of letters in Harvard archive, 465
Moncheur, Lud
ovic, Baron, 280, 311
monopolies, 297–301, 339–40, 343, 355–56
Montaigne, Michel de, 7, 333
Montgomery (Ala.), 413
Montgomery Place (Boston), 48, 49, 49, 176–77, 225
Moody, Justice William H., 340
morality, in law, 165, 170, 175–76, 232–33, 244–45, 397
Morgan, Charles, 443
Morgan, J. Pierpont, 297, 302, 316, 386
Morrison, Stanley, 320, 515n64
Morse, John T., Jr.
on Holmes Sr., 37, 38, 42
on OWH’s flirtations, 208, 210
and rumor of OWH’s impotence, 207
youthful companion of OWH, 53, 161
Morton, James, 238
Motley, John Lothrop, 88, 106, 132, 137
Mr. Standfast (Buchan), 333
Murray, Olivia (Mrs. Bayard Cutting), 482–83n56
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), 514
Nation, The, 269
National Labor Relations Act of 1935, 459
natural law, 14, 15, 341, 376, 431
“Natural Law” (Holmes), 376, 431
Nature of Peace, The (Veblen), 376
Nebraska, bakery regulation law, 411
negligence, 175–76, 232–33, 346
New Deal, 15, 320, 412, 459
New Hampshire, OWH’s trip to, 146, 147, 482n56
New Haven Railroad, 355–56
New Jersey, water conservation laws, 301, 447
New Orleans (La.), 289
New Republic
founding, 354
on free speech, 384, 385, 442
Laski’s work for, 372, 375
praise of OWH, 15–16, 354–55, 366, 400, 419, 433
profile of OWH in, 422–23
New York City, 132, 333–34
New York Evening Post, 258
New York State
milk price law, 449
regulation of industries, 291–92
ticket scalping law, 410, 449
water disputes, 447
workers’ compensation law, 435
New York Times, 186, 187, 298, 349, 387, 455
New York Tribune, 115
New York World, 422
New Yorker, 442, 479n70
Niagara Falls (N.Y.), 217
Nicely, James, 45
Nicodemus house, 95, 96, 99, 129
Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 133
noncompete agreements, 198–99
North Anna River (Va.), 116, 121
North Conway (N.H.), 146, 147, 482–83n56
North Shore (Mass.), 18, 55, 117, 205, 208, 210, 226 (see also Beverly Farms; Manchester; Rockport)
Northern Securities Company, 297–98
Northwestern University Law School, 259, 341, 393
Norton, Charles Eliot, 26, 38, 149
Notes of a Son and Brother (H. James), 147, 482n56
Novick, Sheldon M., 14, 207, 483n61, 491–92n20, 506n55, 513n40
O’Connor, Thomas H., 27
O’Dwyer, Sir Michael, 373
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