TLS, one page, 5.25 x 8, Law School of Harvard University letterhead, January 24, 1939. Letter to journalist Joseph Leib, in full: "You were kind to write me and I fully appreciate your good wishes for the duties that lie ahead. Of course, it gives me heart to know that in the heavy road before me I have the confidence of my own profession, not as a person, but as a representative of standards that we all cherish." A newspaper clipping is affixed to the lower right corner. In fine condition, with stale holes along the left edge, and light show-through from a clipping attached to the back. President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Frankfurter on January 5, 1939, to fill the seat on the Supreme Court vacated by Benjamin Cardozo. Frankfurter was one of the first nominees to appear at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee and he was approved by the full Senate on January 17, 1939.
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