General Correspondence -- 1973-1975

File — Folder: 3

Identifier: Folder 3

Staff Only

Includes general correspondence, among which: TLS of Stanley Adams, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (bearing holograph reply of Judge Wisdom) to Judge Wisdom and TL (and verse) of Judge Wisdom to Adams on the Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition, and on Herman Finkelstein; Syllabus of the November 1973 Meeting of the University of Chicago Law School Visiting Committee bearing holograph notes of Judge Wisdom; TL (and draft AL) of Judge Wisdom to Mrs. Earl Warren on the death of Chief Justice Warren; TL of Judge Wisdom to Professor Paul Oberst, University of Kentucky College of Law, on Oberst, The Strange Career of Plessy v. Ferguson, 15 Ariz L Rev 389 (1973) and the 1972 Dreyfus Lecture of Judge Wisdom at Tulane University; TL of Judge Wisdom to Professor Frank T. Read, Duke University, on thedecision in Briggs v. Elliot, 98 F.Supp. 529 (D.S.C. 1951), on [Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District, 348 F.2d 729 (5th Cir. 1965)] and on [United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education, 372 F.2d 836 (1966), mod. 380 F.2d 385 (5th Cir. 1967)]; TL (and draft TL bearing holograph revisions of Judge Wisdom) to Professor Meyer Weinberg, Northwestern University, on Weinberg, The Struggle to Learn: A History of Race and Schools in the United States, on certain revisions in the text as appropriate, on the Dred Scott opinion, and on the absence of Black professionals in the south, generally, and in Louisiana, and referring to Louisiana State University Law School, to Tulane University School of Law, and to Southern University Law School; TL of Judge Wisdom to Mrs. William O. Douglas, on Weinberg, The Struggle to Learn, and on Justice Douglas; TL (and draft AL) of Judge Wisdom to the Selection Committee, 1974 New Orleans Times Picayune Loving Cup, on William B. Burkenroad, New Orleans Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra; TL of Judge Wisdom to Judge Hastie (3rd Cir.) referring to the May 1975 Joint Meeting of the Paris Bar Association and the Louisiana Bar Association; TLS of Professor Wex S. Malone, Louisiana State University Law School to Judge Wisdom on the membership of the former in the American Law Institute, and on Professor George Pugh, Louisiana State University Law School; and, TL of Judge Wisdom on Pugh; TLS of Gerald J. Gallinghouse, U.S. Attorney, to Charles E. Dunbar III, attorney, New Orleans, La., on the vacancy on the District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, on the aspirations of the former and the campaign of the latter; TLS of Magistrate Morey L. Sear to James Boyce, Jr., Reserve, La., on the vacancy, TLS of Dunbar, and others, to U.S. Attorney General Levi on Sear; and, TLS of Richard B. Leraann II, New Orleans, La. (bearing holograph notes of Judge Wisdom) to President Ford, on the vacancy and on James M. Burlingame, Hughes de la Vergne, II, Charles E. Dunbar III, Martin L.C. Feldman, Haywood H. Hillyer, Ill, Kenneth Hughes, Thomas Jordan, Harold B. Judell, Hepburn M. Many, Lawrence W. Moon, Jr., Charles Schwartz, Jr., and Sear; and, correspondence of Judge Wisdom on retirement from the Board of Trustees of Washington and Lee University, among which TL of Judge Wisdom to Justice Powell; and, TL of Judge Wisdom to President Robert E.R. Huntley, Washington and Lee University, on Washington and Lee University and the Board of Trustees.