ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.75 x 7.75, Supreme Court of the United States letterhead, July 23, 1922. Letter to eminent historian Samuel Eliot Morison, praising his recently-published Maritime History of Massachusetts. In part: “I experience again the thrills of Elizabethan seamen and the joys of the days when the world was young. Research, directed and illumined by historic imagination has uncovered rich treasures. The new-old tale—what courage, resourcefulness and perseverance may achieve—is presented in a style happy and appropriate. No worthier memorial could be erected to the Massachusetts that was. Her people—and preeminently her statesmen, if there be such—should find in this book both suggestion and inspiration. If Massachusetts is to experience the longed-for rebirth, it will come again from the sea; this time I fancy through coastwise commerce.” In fine condition, with light toning and wrinkling. Brandeis had strong ties to Massachusetts, as he had practiced law in Boston for over thirty-five years before his appointment to the Supreme Court. RR Auction COA.
