Typed Letter, signed by BRANDEIS Louis D

,1892.. 4to, 1 page on the Harvard Law School Association letterhead. Written as Secretary of the Harvard Law School Association to Philip S. Abbot asking him to accept the position of local secretary for the Law School of the Harvard Law School Association There is an amusing current correction in BrandeisÕ hand: Òthe efficiency with which you have filled the office of the Treasurer [ink above deleted ÒSecretaryÓ] of the Harvard Law Review,Ó which possibly shows the stress this busy young lawyer was under. Brandeis was one of the early founders of the Harvard Law Review in 1887. He stayed with the Review until 1916 when he became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Signed letters are uncommon in trade.The recipient was Philip Stanley Abbot (1866Ð1896). He graduated in 1893 and worked for Warren & Brandeis for a year. He was killed mountain climbing in Western Canada.