Brilliant defense attorney (1857–1938) noted for his role in the Scopes “Monkey” Trial and the Leopold-Loeb thrill-killing case. TLS, two pages, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, July 29, 1931. Letter to a gentleman in Kinsman, Ohio, recollecting about the old church in town. In part, “The old church is associated with all my early life. I supposed that it was the biggest, most wonderful building in the world, and the bell the largest one anywhere. Since then I have been to London and have seen and heard ‘Big Ben’…its musical tones roll out over the great city…I never think of Kinsman without the dim vision of the church floating through my mind. As a boy I used to run past the graveyard that flanked two sides of that great building. I hurried by, fearing the dead would be awakened by my fleeting feet. An older brother who died when I was a little child lies in his grave in the old yard and besides him sleeps my mother whom we placed there one sad endless day when I was fourteen years old.” Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. In fine condition, with light overall toning to pages, and a couple small creases. R&R COA.
