Letters of Supreme Court Justices, Letters to Fred Rodell (A-E)

Letters of Supreme Court Justices.

(All letters are listed.)

Black, Hugo. 1944 6/15. [surprised that Readers' Digest published Rodell's complimentary article about him.]

Black, Hugo L. 1966 12/31. [responds to Rodell's Christmas art work; looks forward to his book on the Supreme Court.]

Black, Hugo L. 1968 2/6.

Brennan, William J. to Janet Rodell. 1980 6. [Rodell remembered.]

Douglas, William O. 1946 4/17. [about placing Yale Law School as clerks.]

Douglas, William O. 1955 2/2. [has written (Harry?) Shulman emphasizing aspect of academic freedom; refers to the possibility of getting Shulman, Dean of Yale Law School, fired.]

Douglas, William O. [1955] 3/2.

Douglas, William O. 1957 3/2. [agrees with Rodell's analysis of Eisenhower's standard for choosing Supreme Court justices, but that he is wrong about Brennan whom Douglas considers excellent.]

Douglas, William O. [n.y.] 1/18.

Fortas, Abe, (Under Secretary of Department of Interior). 1944 8/31. [re possible position for Rodell in New Mexico, including for Indian Office.]

Fortas, Abe. [n.y.] 9/19.

Fortas, Abe. 1966.

Fortas, Abe. 1966 1/6. See also letter from Fortas in Letters To (1958).

See letter from Arthur J. Goldberg in Letters To (1937).

Stewart, Potter. 1966 3/7. [took law course in "Procedure" from Charlie Clark, in which he received his best mark.]

Stewart, Potter. 1968 6/21. [re clerkship for Hugh Crossland.]

Letters to Rodell

(Letters were selected for listing based on contents and/or prominence of the author).

Abrams, Floyd. 1960 4/15. [re Adlai Stevenson, Lewis review in the New York Times and Rodell response to it and other topics.]

Allen, Arthur W. 1940 1/23. [long response to Rodell's Woe Unto You, Lawyers.]

Allison, Robert. 1944 9/29. [sends check for Rodell's CBS radio participation in the People's Platform.]

American Arbitration Assoc. 1948 8/11. [sends check for Rodell's services as arbitrator in Waterbury Brass Workers vs. American Brass Company.]

American Mercury. (Eugene Lyons, editor). 1940 1/4. [would Rodell write a piece on the abolition of lawyers.]

American Mercury. (Laurence Spivak, publisher) 1944 3-1948 7. [re Rodell's articles for them and other magazines.]

Arendt, F.J., 1944 12. [re Rodell's article on Hugo Black.]

Arnold and Fortas. (Marguerite O'Brien). 1946 6/8. [sends check for services in connection with Poyntes case.]

Bailey, Mrs. George. [1946]. [angered by Rodell's broadcasted political remarks.] Rodell responds: [indicates sources of his information.]

Baker, Josephine. 4 letters. 1960s. (some in French.) [thanks Rodell for hospitality, etc.; sends on letters written to her by her adopted children.]

Baker, Josephine. La Tribu Arc-en-ciel. Josephine Baker. 1957. Inscribed to "nos amis" (Fred & Janet Rodell) in 1959. Two T.LS. S. by Baker. 1961, 1964. [conferences held at Les Milandes, new show in Paris.] Laid in are a theatre program starring Baker and 3 newspaper clippings about her art and her children.

Baker, Josephine. 1964 4/21. [sends booklets, (stating her vision and purpose of Les Milandes, her home in France, where she resides with her racially-mixed adopted children; two items in French, " L'ideale de la Fraternite aux Milandes vu par Josephine Baker 1964 Suite' and "...Suite 4", signed).]

Baker, Josephine. (to Pope Paul IV). 1964 9. copy. [relates incident in which she was turned away from a church near her home in Dordogne by the curate.] In French. 5 pages. Also program. "Josephine Baker dans 'Paris Mes Amours'"[ 1950s. ]

Baldwin, Roger. 1962.

Barkley, Alben W. (Senator of Kentucky, Vice-President under Truman). 1944 3/23. [re his Senate address against the president's veto of the tax bills.]

Barnes, Harry Elmer. 1944-1945. [Appreciative comments re Rodell's articles.]

Beard, Charles A. 1945 10/19. [re Rodell's articles on Morris (Ernst?)]

Bell, Daniel. 1944 2/29. [political commentary.] Rodell responds: [a neat parallel between Italy and Germany of the 20s and 30s and United States today cannot be made.]

Bender, John T. 1945 10/1. [ question whether Rodell has incorporated copyrighted material in support of his article in LIFE magazine.] Rodell responds.

Beston, Henry. 1945 10/31. [appreciative comments re Rodell's article on England.]

Brodbar, Harry. (Assistant D.A., Kings County, New York). 1968 7/3. [was opposing counsel in the Tropic of Cancer obscenity case; other cases in which he is involved.]

Bone, Homer T. (Senator, Washington). 1944 5/11. [enjoys Rodell's articles in The Progressive; gives a short autobiography and opinions on several subjects.] Rodell responds: [would like to write an article about Bone.]

Brown, Harold. 6 items. 1940-1941. [letters from a prisoner at Maryland State Penal Farm.]

Burell, David M. 1939 12/1. [Kudos for Rodell's book and the need for it by lawyers.]

Burson, Harold. 1968 7/31. [congratulates Rodell on perceptive article on Abe Fortas, and mentions two other Fortas qualities.]

Byers, J. Harold. 4 letters. 1940-1941. [positive response and questions generated from reading Rodell's Woe Unto You, Lawyers.]

Capp, Al.1945 4. [discredits statistics Rodell received to write his article on ten most-read comic strips which did not include "Li'l Abner".] Rodell responds: [relays the real method he used to acquire statistics.]

Cassidy, Lewis C. 1945 12/3. [on William O. Douglas, Roosevelt and Pinchot.] Rodell responds: [names labor leaders for and against William O. Douglas.]

Cavers, David. 1939 12/5. [likes and dislikes Rodell's Book, Woe Unto You, Lawyers: likes because it is heretical,-- "your urge to debunk is so irresistible and the process so satisfying that you attach just about as much importance to the practice of theology (read: law) as the practitioners themselves.]

Cerf, Bennett. 1954 10/13. [thinks Rodell's manuscript on the Supreme Court is the best work he has ever done, and if maintained, would be the best book ever written about the Supreme Court.]

Cherry, Fred. 1968. [on his fears of the spread of homosexuality in America stating that Abe Fortas has a "blatant, pro-homosexual judicial bias".]

Civil Rights Congress. (William L. Patterson) 1951 8. [though Rodell's article on "Our Not So Supreme Supreme Court." was provocative, it has a partisan slant.] Rodell responds: [pronouncements and activities of the Civil Rights Congress are intellectually dishonest.] Patterson responds: [tells nature of Civil Rights Congress work.] Rodell responds: [what real civil liberties should include as represented by American Civil Liberty Union.]

Clynes, Edward. 1968-1970. [Correspondence with Rodell about various Supreme Court justices.]

Clynes, Edmund. 1970 2/6. [has Rodell ever written an article about how William O. Douglas turned down Truman's offer to run as vice-presidential candidate.] Rodell responds: [William O. Douglas would not support some of Truman's practices and policies.]

Coleman, John. 1970 5/8. [thanks for support of the college's stand in the PHEAA controversy.]

Collett, Jon. 1960.

Comfort, W.W.

Conant, Michael. 1960 6/10. [about Justice Black's opinion on 14th amendment and Bill of Rights, etc.] Rodell responds.

Curtis, John T. 1929 12/8. [as chairman of the committee on public relations of the Connecticut State Bar Association, discusses Rodell's book Woe Unto You, Lawyers.]

The Daily Telegraph of London. 1968 6/18. [explains Rodell's prospective article's purpose for English reading public.]

The Daily Telegraph of London. 1968 7/12. [Rodell's article on the Supreme Court has been sent on to London.]

The Daily Telegraph of London. 1968 8/14. [Rodell's article on Supreme Court carried in the papers.]

Darrell, Norris. 1943 5/19. [differs with Rodell's review of book by Magill.] Rodell responds.

Dilliard, Irving. 1966 4/3. [praise for Warren Court article.]

Dilliard, Irving. 1970 12/18. [praises Rodell for his courage in his review of Alexander Bickel's book.]

Doubleday, Doran and Company, (John McCaffery). 1945 4/27. [refusal of Katherine Rodell's book on grounds of poor sales possibilities.] Rodell responds: [annoyance at methods of Doubleday.]

Doubleday and Company, (Donald Friede). 1964 10/22. [proposes that Rodell should write a book on the Warren Court.] Rodell responds: [while he had previously decided not to write any more books, is not refusing to consider so tempting a possibility.] Rodell soon after became ill and the book was not written.

Doubleday and Company (Donald Friede). 1965 3/15. [contract for publication tentatively entitled 36 Women.]

Durr, Clifford. 1960 6/15. [Government of Alabama in a wave of McCarthyism has just fired a black professor at the state college for "Communist" ties.]

Edgerton, Franklin. 1945 11/20. [compliments to Rodell on Sumner Welles article.]

[Ernst, Morris] (correspondence with Life and Katherine Rodell.) 1944. 6 Items. [re article Rodell wrote about Ernst with which the latter found fault.]

Erskine, John. 1927 12/2. [glad Rodell joined Century Co.]

Ephron, Nora. See Greenburg.