Letters to Andrew Inglis Clark Hobart, Tasmania from O.W. Holmes, Boston, U.S.A. 1898-1901, regarding Holmes career, lifestyle, reading of classical literature, law works, references to cycling, friends fom the Confederate Army. C4/C207, C4/C208, C4/C209, C4/C21

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Dear Judge rinted heading: J Comr:;onwealth of Eassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Court House, Boston a rch 1901 I hope I shall find your book avIai t i Dg me on my return from England to 1,oThi ch pleasing centre of Evil doing I purpose to turn my d vleary steps on the 22- . for a short vaca tion. I have been pretty hard a t work since Sept. 1, the beginning of our Judid al year and shall be glad to f orget law and all the frets of da ily life in the wash of t he ocea n and the whirl of London. I have done little outside of the law. A little - very litt. e -touch of the latin Classic s now then - a t ribute to advancing time a s I shouldn 't ha ve wished t o die wi thout having read Lucretius or ui te as i gnorant of Horace as I was. I actualJy recurred a day or t wo a go to t he Aeneid, after 50 years, and read some of it t his mor ning bef ore coming here to my shop. I even found myself' enjoyin ' it - I ha ve always suspected people of Cant \.]ho said they did and thi s is my unishment. I do· . 't remember whether I sent you a litt le introduction trlB. t I wrote t o an Edition of Hontesquieuls Esprit Des Lois - it was written a yea r I *rs ago and had a very fevl extra copies with too preten;ious t i tle page for which I am not res onsible. I send one by thi s mail. I don I t t h ink of any event in whi ch I have taken pa rt that. ,-Iould i nter est you except perhaps the unive r sal difficultie s of Marvhall on Feb . 4. Fr om one point of view r i ght enough - but in the personal e s t imate r a t her i ndi scriminate - I hope \.Jhen you write Constitutional decisions you will not emulate s ome of our judges who having only half a page to say take 50 pages to say it in - I was remnrking yeste rda y to one of my brethren that we appreciate the boa constrictor but not - 2 -t he asp here. For my part I prefer an unpretemi..ous. l' ttle thing v'.rulent with originality a nd insight to these swelling discourses padded wit h quotations from every accessible source. - Hm.Jeve r I must go to work. -Ie a l ways recall tl:Je visit of you and Mrs Cla rk wi th grea t pleasure and hope that some day it may be repeat~d. Si nee rely Yours o. ~I. Holmes Envelope addressed to "Hon. A. Inglis Clark, Hobart, Tasmaui a" From: Jthe:~Chief Justice Holmes, Surreme Judicial Court, Court Huuse, Boston, U.S.A. Potmarked Beverly Fa rms Ma ss. Sep. 3 1900 University of T§:smania: A . I. C~ark papers, C.4 HoImes to Clark 19(11 

Letters to Andrew Inglis Clark Hobart, Tasmania from O.W. Holmes, Boston, U.S.A. 1898-1901

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Letters to Andrew Inglis Clark Hobart, Tasmania from O.W. Holmes, Boston, U.S.A. 1898-1901

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