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Clarence Darrow autograph letter signed regarding Prohibition, which Darrow passionately disagreed with from a legal standpoint. Upon his personal stationery, Darrow writes on 27 September (likely 1930) to Dr. Forrest R. Black, a law professor and like-minded colleague. Letter reads,''My Dear Mr. Black / I have just been reading 'What rights are left' by Henry Allen Johnson a New York lawyer. It is on a phase of the prohibition question indicated by the title. It is a bully-good book which shows a triumph familiarity with the subject and the holdings of all the courts on the various questions that have arisen under the 'fool law'. On page 96 he says: an able & scholarly criticism of the Carroll decision will be found in the Columbia Law Review for December 1929, by Professor Forrest R. Black of Univ. of Kentucky - &c &c &c - / I have been thinking a good deal about your papers. They should be published. I am going to N.Y. Nov. 15th I know one or two good publishers that I think might do something with [them]. If you can do send them back to me I will try. Very truly / Clarence Darrow''. Dr. Black would go on to publish ''Ill-starred Prohibition Cases: A Study in Judicial Pathology'' in 1931. A P.S. is added to the letter, possibly by Darrow's secretary. Single page measures 7.25'' x 10.5''. Minor toning and creasing, overall very good plus condition.
Clarence Darrow Autograph Letter Signed Regarding Prohibition -- Darrow Calls Prohibition ''The Fool Law''
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