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Holmes's wartime letters and diary entries have attracted students
of war as well as biographers of Holmes as rare glimpses into the
mind and heart of a soldier who withstood the great slaughter.
This fine collection is accompanied by an essay by Sir John Pollock
that skillfully places the writers' ideas in the perspective of
recent experience. A crucial document for lawyers, the letters are
also delightful reading.
The celebrated jurists Sir Frederick Pollock (1845-1937) and Oliver
Wendell Holmes Jr (1841-1935) maintained a regular trans-Atlantic
correspondence between 1874 and 1932, in which they discussed many
points of law, as well as more personal matters. After Holmes's
death, his papers were donated to Harvard Law School, and in 1942
this two-volume collection of his correspondence with Pollock was
published, edited by Harvard alumnus Mark DeWolfe Howe. Volume one
contains the letters dated between 1874 and 1918 and includes their
discussion of topics such as the American Civil War and World War
One, as well as legal decisions made by Holmes in his capacity as a
judge of the United States Supreme Court. This book will be of
value to anyone with an interest in legal history and the
relationship between American and English law.
The celebrated jurists Sir Frederick Pollock (1845-1937) and Oliver
Wendell Holmes Jr (1841-1935) maintained a regular trans-Atlantic
correspondence between 1874 and 1932, in which they discussed many
points of law, as well as more personal matters. After Holmes's
death, his papers were donated to Harvard Law School, and in 1942
this two-volume collection of his correspondence with Pollock was
published, edited by Harvard alumnus Mark DeWolfe Howe. Volume two
contains the letters dated between 1919 and 1932 and includes their
discussion of topics such as ancient history and Latin literature,
as well as legal decisions made by Holmes in his capacity as a
judge of the United States Supreme Court. This book will be of
value to anyone with an interest in legal history and the
relationship between American and English law.
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