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The Justice Tom C. Clark Collection
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We are privileged to offer the
personal autograph collection of Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark.
Justice Clark served as Attorney General of the United States from 1945
to 1949, when President Harry S. Truman appointed him as an Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Shortly after
he arrived at the Court, Justice Clark began assembling a collection of
autographs of Supreme Court Justices that included those of his
colleagues and extended back into the 19th Century. The collection
includes personal letters that Justice Clark received from other
Justices, including those congratulating him on his appointment to the
Court, and internal Supreme Court memoranda among the Justices—material
that is extremely rare on the autograph market. None of this
material has ever been offered for sale before:
Harold H. Burton and Tom C. Clark - extraordinarily
rare internal memorandum from Justice Burton to Justice Clark, asking
him to cast Burton’s vote on a loyalty case during the era of
McCarthyism, April 1951, with Clark’s autographed note of explanation,
unframed
Tom C. Clark and Stanley F. Reed - rare internal
correspondence between the Justices regarding a 1951 case—an autograph
note by Clark and an autograph note signed by Reed, unframed
Charles Evans Hughes - autograph note signed by Hughes, on his
personal calling card, asking the marshal to seat friends in the
courtroom, unframed
Joseph R. Lamar - scarce fountain pen signature of Justice
Lamar, from the personal collection of Justice Tom C. Clark, unframed
James C. McReynolds - autograph note directing the Supreme
Court marshal to take care of friends, unframed
James C. McReynolds - fine signature of Justice McReynolds
clipped from a letter, unframed
Stanley F. Reed - superb autograph letter signed to Tom C.
Clark congratulating him on his appointment as an Associate Justice,
8-1-1949, unframed
Willis Van Devanter - official Supreme Court certification
attesting to the genuineness of the clerk’s signature on a document,
6-9-1933, unframed
Fred M. Vinson - typed letter signed from the Chief Justice thanking
Justice Tom C. Clark for a “novel” birthday gift, 1-27-1950, unframed
Fred M. Vinson - typed letter signed by the Chief Justice to Justice
and Mrs. Tom C. Clark, thanking them for a Christmas gift, 1-4-1950, unframed
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The Entire Court
United States Supreme Court, 1954 - complete set of engraved
Supreme Court cards signed by the Justices of the Warren Court who
unanimously decided Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark school
desegregation case, in 1954, unframed
Chief Justices
Oliver Ellsworth (and Jesse Root) - excellent association
autograph document signed authorizing reimbursement to Root for volunteer
soldiers’ wages two days after Washingtonʼs surprise victory at Trenton, New
Jersey, 12-28-1776, unframed
Oliver Ellsworth and Lt. David Smith - Connecticut pay
warrant with excellent Revolutionary War content referring to service at
Peekskill, New York, and signed by both Ellsworth and the soldier, 8-5-1777,
unframed
Oliver Ellsworth - outstanding association autograph document
signed, a warrant to pay a seven-year veteran Connecticut soldier who served
in several important campaigns, including the Siege of Yorktown, 5-18-1778,
unframed
Oliver Ellsworth - Revolutionary War-dated Connecticut pay warrant
authorizing payment to a doctor for treating a sick soldier, 5-16-1777,
unframed
Roger Brooke Taney -
early partially printed autograph document signed in which Taney, as
a young lawyer, files suit to collect a debt owed to his client, circa 1807,
unframed
Salmon P. Chase -
autograph letter signed in which the Chief
Justice sends
“real regret that I found
myself obliged to remain in Wash[ington],” perhaps because
of the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, 6-24-1868, unframed
Melville W. Fuller - poignant black-bordered letter in which the
Chief Justice sends thanks for condolences on the death of his wife,
9-20-1904, unframed
Harlan Fiske Stone - an unusual item
for a Supreme Court Justice—Stone inscribes “Yours for Victory” along with his signature,
an obvious nod to American participation in World War II, but a statement
that might give the appearance of partisanship, ca. 1941–1945, unframed
Warren E. Burger - the Chief Justice challenges Harvard law
students to surpass their colleagues while congratulating them upon
establishment of a Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity chapter at Harvard,
11-10-1981, unframed
Associate Justices
Harry A. Blackmun - Justice Blackmun
recounts his experiences with scouting, concluding, “We need so
much of this kind of thing these days,” 3-17-1981, unframed
Louis D. Brandeis - large manila envelope hand addressed by
Justice Brandeis to send a signed photograph (not present), 12-27-1937,
unframed
William J. Brennan, Jr. -
extremely nice 8” x 10” embossed panel
portrait of Justice Brennan seated at his desk, unframed
William J. Brennan, Jr. - typed letter signed in which Justice
Brennan agrees to arrange for a fully-signed Supreme Court photo, 1-5-1973,
unframed
Harold H. Burton - nice inscribed, signed photograph of Burton
dated a month into his term as Senator from Ohio, unframed
James F. Byrnes - scarce signed photograph of Byrnes, as governor
of South Carolina, unframed
Tom C. Clark - typed letter signed,
with three-line holograph postscript, identifying possible Washington, D.C., leaders
for the American Judicature Society’s annual membership
drive,4-17-1968, unframed
William O. Douglas - 8” x 10” black-and-white photo of Douglas signed,
but not inscribed, beneath the image, unframed
Felix Frankfurter - superb, scarce large-format portrait of
Justice Frankfurter by Harris & Ewing, inscribed generically and signed,
5-19-1950, unframed
John Marshall Harlan
(1899–1971) - infrequently found typed letter signed by the
leader of the Warren Court’s conservatives, 9-23-1961, unframed
Ward Hunt - very scarce autograph letter signed in which Hunt,
then a New York state appeals commissioner, questions why he received ten
copies the state statutes, 12-29-1871, unframed
Howell
E. Jackson - extremely rare
handwritten letter—one of only three we have found—sending his
regrets for his inability to obtain a job appointment for a friend’s son, 12-7-1885, unframed
Howell E. Jackson - beautiful, scarce signature of Justice Jackson,
as Senator from Tennessee, hand dated on an album page, 8-1-1882, unframed
John McLean -
on the cusp of the Civil War, the
anti-slavery Supreme Court Justice replies to a Massachusetts lawyer,
5-7-1860, unframed
Sherman Minton - superb name-dropping autographed letter signed,
as United States Senator, regaling a former colleague with tales of the
Senate, 4-25-1939, unframed
Sherman Minton - autographed letter signed regarding a Christmas
gift, 12-14-1939, unframed
Frank Murphy - nice bust portrait of Murphy, taken as Associate
Justice, inscribed and signed to noted manuscript collector King V. Hostick,
unframed
Owen J. Roberts - nice Supreme Court card signed by the FDR
appointee, unframed
Sonia Sotomayor - beautiful typed
letter signed by the first Hispanic and Latina Justice, expressing how she
is “moved by the chord my life experiences have struck in so many,” 12-11-2014, unframed
Byron R. White -
formal portrait photograph inscribed and
signed to a Supreme Court police officer, matted
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